February 19, 2024 • 42 mins
Billy Rutledge and Shannon The Dude host the show and take Kentucky's big win at Auburn over the weekend and give you presidential facts for Presidents' Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, February nineteenth. It
is President's Day in a company holiday for many. Some
want to sleep in, some are taking the day off,
not us. The two hardest working men in radio. It's
Billy Rutlige and Shannon the Dude. It's a Caser pre
show takeover day on Kentucky Sports Radio. And you can
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That's eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven.
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text machine. It's gonna be the KSR pre Show text
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four And this edition is sponsored by the TJ.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Smith Law Office. You call TJ.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
He'll make them pay. It's really hour two here for
myself and Shannon the dude. Good morning again, Shannon. What's
going on?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man? Did I hear it right? You just called yourself
one of the hardest working men in radio. I did.
I absolutely did. I thought, are you going to challenge
me on that? Or what?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm gonna challenge you. I mean today you're actually working
three hours. Normally, you get the pre show, you get
your one hour in and then boom, you're out the
rest of the day unless there's a game that day.
Today you got to work two extra hours, and on
a holiday for that matter. And first of all, let
me get this out of the way too. Since it's
President's Day, I feel like I have to play this
drop hello miss the President, Marcus Coon. There you go,
(01:51):
DeMarcus Cousins choking in for President's Day. Yes, but yeah
so Matt Ryan Drew taking the day off. You and
I here for the next two hours. A little hostility
for me to start the show.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I do have to work the John Caliperry call in
show later today, Shannon, So miss me with that dude
that ought to be must listen to radio Hey and
and he's coming into the studio today. I believe since
it's a holiday, he's not gonna be up malone. So,
you know, shake the guy's hand and say a great
win this weekend. But Shannon, it's good to be alongside
(02:23):
you again. Ready for another two hours. I do want
to ask you something before we start. How do you
feel about eight guys in a hot tub at one time?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, I don't know if I've ever been in that
situation before. I have a hot tub, I usually like
to mix up the ratio a little bit better than
eight guys to zero women.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So you never invite the boys over and just have
eight dudes in a hot tub?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Sometimes no, no, no, not ever eight. It feels like
it's a lot of sausage for a tubs. So no, okay,
I mean, look, if you want to do it, you
do you. It's not my cup of tea necessarily, maybe
a couple of guys. I feel like eight is too many.
It also depends on what size of hot tub are
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we talking about? True? True. If we're packing eight dudes
into a four person hot tub and people are sitting
on laps, that's even more awkward, all right. But if
it's like one of these large, fifteen person hot tubs
and you got eight people in there and everybody's got
elbow room and space, it's all right. I know Matt Jones,
by the way, would tell you that hot tubs are
the most absolutely disgusting thing to begin with. But you know,
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it's to me no different than swimming in a pool.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Right Listen, I'm going to Gatlinburg with the fiance. First
thing we're looking for is if it's got a hot
tub or not. It's just it's kind of our thing.
We like the hot tub. But I want to shout
out Edward. He was the first caller on the KSR
post game show after the Auburn game on Saturday. It's
calling from a hot tub with seven other guys in it, Shanton.
I mean, the dudes were just partying in Gatlinburg. Eight
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guys in the hot tub, celebrating the Kentucky Auburn win.
It was a great way to kick off a elevatory
post game show on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Night. So I just wanted to know if it passed
the Shannon the Dude vibe check before we went any firs.
I wouldn't be my first option. No, you know, if
it were up to me, if I was hanging out
with seven other guys, I probably would not get into
the hot tub by take turns. At the same time,
Was it a bachelor party or what's going on here?
Because I think that also is is important to know
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why we have eight dudes hanging out.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I mean not though there's anything wrong with bro time, right,
but why were eight guys hanging out in Gatlinburg to
begin with? Because I feel like when you go to Gatlinburg,
that's the thing you do with your your significant other,
your spouse, right your family. I don't really think that,
you know, if I'm going to call up seven of
my buddies, we're not going to Gatlinburg. That's not our
first option. So why were they there? Was it a
bachelor party?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I don't remember, Honestly, I wish I gave you the answer.
It was a it was kind of a crazy night
after that Auburn win, And it's just the first guy
was had eight dudes in the hot tub and they
were celebrating. The last call of the night was his
brother to confirm that, yes, that was happening, that there
were eight guys in a high.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So we had two calls from the Gatlinburg hot tub
and the same show.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I don't think the guy, second guy, his brother was
at the hot tub. I think he was just aware
that his brother had all the boys over.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Okay what I mean?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, Well, it sounds like it was a rowdy postgame
show and rightfully so, man, I mean, what a great
win that was. Yeah, and let's get into it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven
If you'd like to give us a call today and
react to the cats big victory versus Auburn seventy to
fifty nine. The Cats go into the Jungle, a place
where Auburn had not lost for sixteen straight games, and
Kentucky holds the Tigers to their lowest home field goal
percentage in eight years thirty one percent. Kentucky basketball team
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that we've been critical about their defense as of late,
and Shannon, they've played two great defensive games back to
back Ole Miss. They allowed sixty three points, they only
allow fifty nine to Auburn in a game where I
don't think many people expect Kentucky to have a chance,
let alone never trail the entire game. It could be
the statement win that Kentucky needed this season. What were
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some of your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh, yeah, that was definitely a statement win. And I'll
go ahead and say it, go back and play the
audio on Friday, I picked Kentucky to lose. I didn't
think that they would win. I didn't give them much
of a chance. But that was the most impressive win
of the entire year. You know, we talked about when
they lost three in a row. You're in February, you're
trending the wrong direction to be losing three games at
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home for the first time in Rupp Arena history. But
then you come back and win a game that a
lot of people didn't give you a lot of chance
to win. And as I've said, though, I mean, isn't
this sort of what Kentucky basketball has been the last
few years? You look back at, you know, Kentucky last
year going on the road and winning at Tennessee and
then the Arkansas game. So just for you think John
Calla Perry's team is down and out, they have proven
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several years, back to back to back years in this case,
that they can win the games that you don't expect
them to win, and now that flips everything upside down.
I mean, this is a big win for NCAA tournament,
implications for the SEC tournament now all of a sudden,
a game that a team that looked like they weren't
going to be able to play their way into Friday
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of the SEC Tournament, now that's very much on the table.
So it was a big win in a lot of
different ways for this Kentucky program.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, you mentioned those road games that the Cats have
won in the past. They had a big win versus
Tennessee last year, I believe, thirty seven points from Reeves
versus Arkansas. He does it again to a degree, only
scoring twenty two points in this game, but I mean
he led Kentucky in points and just was a dog
in a game where Kentucky aloly seventy.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Only twenty two. I mean, yeah, he's a shoe in
for twenty every game. And it's so quiet too. I
Mean you'll look up and he's already got seventeen points.
He's carrying this team not having to shoot three pointers.
This team only was four to thirteen from three in
this game, so they did it in a number of
different ways. Shout out to Yugana on Yen's who played
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thirty six minutes in this game. You know, we've talked
a lot about tightening that rotation and the seven footers
making them worse on defense. Aaron Bratcha only played three minutes.
I think Big Z may have played thirty seconds, Shannon.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean the guy was in for maybe a play
and then Cal called him back out. But you Gotta
man eleven rebounds, seven points, a couple of blocks to
his name. That guy has really grown up in front
of our.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Eye's been very impressive. I mean, if you want to
talk about like the surprise player of the year, to me,
there's probably I mean two answers going into the season.
I think Reed Shepherd has been way better than a
lot of people above expectations. Wait wait yeah, and then
you gotta has been incredible. I mean, especially defensively, what
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he gives you, he offers something that nobody else on
the team can do, right Arim protector, a guy that
can block a lot of shots for you when you
need them. I mean, he's been impressed So I mean,
if I told you, Billy, you had to pick one
or the other, who's been the most surprising. Is it
Onienzo or is it Reed Shepard.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I think it's gonna be Read because, honestly, Read might
be a top ten draft pick in the NBA. And
I think many people wanted him to stay for more
than one year at Kentucky. And I mean, some of
the things that he is doing is just incredible, even
though his off on ball defense.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Can be wanting you, earning you for wanting more.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I feel like this guy does so many things right
that it has been surprising. But you know, they just
kind of flipped the script in this game, Shannon. They
got off to a great start. You know, these kids
that have been camping for three days for this game.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I love.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I didn't even get into the game because Kentucky played
so well that their fans were so chesty. They were
talking so much trash about Kentucky. They slept on the
ground for three days to watch their team score fifty
none points in a game that they thought they were
just gonna run over Kentucky. But yeah, you're right. I mean,
Kentucky came in and right away got out to a lead,
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didn't allow Auburn to get into the game, didn't allow
their fan base to get it to the game really
at all. They tried plus their heart, but it didn't
happen for them, and Kentucky just dominated the entire game
from the very beginning. And that's what you have to
do when you go on the road like that, right
in a hostile environment. You have to jump up to
a big lead early, make a statement, and then don't
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let the crowd become a factor. And they really didn't
for most of the game. You're now eighteen and seven
on the year.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You've got six games remaining, including games at home versus Arkansas,
at home versus Vanderbilt for Senior Night. And you mentioned it, Shannon,
I mean, this kind of takes a few things out
of the equation. It looks like this really guarantees a
Kentucky a birth into the NCAA Tournament. There's a chance
that the double buy opens back up for you. Maybe
you don't have to play on Thursday at the SEC tournament.
(10:44):
That's a logjam right now, like all the way from
one to six. But yeah, I mean it's very much
in play.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I mean, you go back just what a week ago
it looked like, well, here we go, we're gonna be
playing on Thursday. And maybe they still do, but now
you to some degree at least control your destiny as
to whether or not you play on Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And while we're mentioning guys, let's mention a Duke Theero.
My god, that guy is becoming not only maybe Kentucky's
best on ball defender, but may have had one of
the best dunks I've seen in my time working with
the UK Sports Network and doing these games.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
For the radio. Shannon Is he got up on that dunk.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, and it started with a pretty crafty steal from
Reed Shepherd, poking it out from behind. So, I mean,
these guys were doing it all and in a Duke
the Era, who's you know, he's got a lot to
prove and he's been still fighting through that back injury.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You ever had a bad back injury, shann I mean
that is debilitating, Yeah, and this guy's going out there
doing something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, I can't claim to have a back injury like
anything that he's dealing with right now. But going back
to like that that I do dunk though, I mean
when somebody dunks on you like that, that just takes
all the air out of the arena, right, I mean
you want to talk about momentum changing and just just
sucking the air out of the building. I feel like
that dunk right there just kind of everybody's like, oh,
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you know, everybody kind of just duck their head down
after that one.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
So yeah, if you're an Auburn fan, after that dunk,
you're talking about most unenjoyable experiences of your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We were talking about that in the first hour a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
With Rick Yeah, which we'll get to I'm sure again, right, Yeah,
we might get back into Ricky Peas comments. John Calb
Harry had a hell of a post game show. I've
got some oh from that Swaggy Kwa is back, and
I think you're gonna if you have not heard this yet,
you're gonna love what John had to say after the game.
We also had an eventful weekend when it came to
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Kentucky players in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The All Star Game was this weekend, Shannon, But I'll
be honest that I kind of checked out. I don't
know if that's my cup of tea. Yeah, yeah, I
mean I try to watch the game. I watched it.
I mean, like, the scores are ridiculous, right, what was
the final one to eleven to six?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Is that a slap in the face to basketball? When
you're scoring two hundred and eleven?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I mean we kind of expect that, right, we know
that's gonna be high scoring. But are we just gonna
try to break a record every single year? I guess
there're gonna be a point to now wh where we
get up to like three hundred points to it's gonna
be three hundred to two hundred and ninety the final score.
It feels like that's what it is with the NBA
All Star Game I played with the nerf ball. I
mean it's kind of unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I mean, Damian Lillard I think won the MVP. I
think he shot sixty times.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Jeez. See in the game, I watched the first quarter
that I'm like, this is ridiculous. I think, didn't they
have like one hundred points at halftime? Yes? They did,
And I was like, I'm not watching anymore of this,
and I turned on Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
That's what I did at halftime. I still have not
seen that movie. I realized it came out like eight
(13:43):
months ago. Was that the last one? The last Indiana Jones?
Because I've heard that's not bad? Well, it heard I
fell asleep, But when I saw if it's not, that's tough.
I'm the worst. I can't get through movies. I fall
asleep every time I try to start a movie. But
that's gonna be the last Indiana Jones, right, I mean
there's only so much ability I can have in an
eighty three year old man running around kicking people's butts, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And I think Harrison Ford's done with it too. The
last Indiana Jones movie I watched was The Crystal Skull,
one about the aliens, right, And I went to the
theater with my dad, and he had never been more disappointed,
I think, in a movie in his life, just as
somebody that had grown up watching Indiana Jones. And then
you get that alien storyline with it all?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What was the best one? Have you seen them all?
Have you seen all the Indiana Jones? Yeah? Yeah, I
think Raiders of the Lost Arc is that your game?
Is that your pick? You know? That's one that was
the that was the first one, Yeah, the one where
they all the souls escape out at the end of
the Yeah, I'm more of a Temple of Doom guy.
Temple of Doom. Yeah, I think that was the best one.
Is that the Boulder coming at you? Or was that
(14:43):
a yeah? Yeah, I think it was. It's been a
long time since I've seen that, but but yeah, Doll
of Destiny, as far as I can tell you, it's
it's a decent movie. I've watched the first forty five
minutes of it. Fell asleep. Funny you watch the movie.
I watched Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's now on Peacock able to stream now, and it
was like I was running a marathon. I mean I
went twenty six point two miles watching that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Shane had to.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Stop three or four times, just because I was in school.
It was like back I was in a college class.
So you got to be mentally prepared to watch something
like this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Jones. Yeah, maybe a little different. Isn't that movie like
four hours long or something? Three hours? I believe it.
See that's way too much. There should be a rule
like every movie is an hour and a half or less.
Cause I I don't know if it's just me being
an old man, but I cannot stay awake for any
longer than that two three hours forget about it, man.
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And I've always been like that too, even when I
was younger. I can remember going to movies in college,
and if it was a long movie, I mean, it's
so dark and seats comfortable kind of kicked back a
little bit, I'd be falling asleep. But in a movie,
I'm like, why did I just pay twenty bucks to
come watch a movie? To fall asleep too?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So I love this because you know, most people have
short attention spans and they can't sit there for three hours.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Shannon's the opposite. He falls asleep.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
No, he actually, it's not like he's not paying attention.
He just falls asleep because he's getting sold.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Wait now, at my house, have like like a gauge,
and the gauge is, am I intrigued enough by the
movie to not fall asleep? And so if I actually
make it through an entire movie without falling asleep, it
gets two thumbs up for me, right, it gets like
a high rating because I keep track of all the
movies that I've watched on IMDb you can rate them.
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So if I can get through the entire movie in
the first sitting without falling asleep. That at least gets
an eight out of ten.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Well, it'll be when movies start instituting replay reviews in
the middle of it and making us waste another ten
minutes of our time.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's when I'm gonna check out.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But hey, glad you're alongside with this here for this
President's Day of Kentucky Sports Radio, we got a fun
show planned out for you. We'll continue to recap the
sports weekend. We're gonna have Reggie Hanson on a little
later in the show at eleven am, talk a little
Kentucky basketball about this year's team and maybe his time
at Kentucky. Since I'm so well uninformed about Reggie Hanson's career,
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and you know, just sit back, relax, maybe sleep in
a little bit and enjoy the President Edition.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Sleep in, you gotta listen to us. If you sleep in,
you're not listen. Don't fall asleep like me during the
Indiana Jones movie. You gotta wake up. We need some callers.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Okay, you're rest, You're right, don't fall asleep on give
us call eight five nine two eight oh two two
eight seven. That's our Clark's Pumping Shop phone line. Let's
have some fun and Shannon the Dude and Billy Reutlige
will be right back. Man, it feels like I'm in
the movie right now, Billy Retligi and Shannon the Dude.
It's a Monday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Another one was The Holy Grail, right, dude. That was
another good Indiana Jones movie.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It wasn't called the Holy Grail, was it. I don't
know if it was called that. It was. That was
the whole thing though, You got to go find the
Holy Grail. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've
seen some of those movies. So you have the The
Crystal Skull, Dollar of Destiny, Riders of the Loust, darc
Timple of Dudes, and The Last Crusade.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I think I nailed all five of them there. Well,
it's your time frame, so I'm glad that you got
it right. I was just thinking you and I we've
hosted KSR what once before? Right, and didn't we do once?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And we did a bracket and it was TV show
theme songs.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You had some terrible take. I forget what it was.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I think I chose the Flintstones over the Andy Griffith show,
and this fan base reacted like you thought it might,
and it was our collar that had to settle the debate.
And he chose the flintstones as well, So I'm not
It's not all on me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
What a terrible take. Hey, you know, today is President's Day, Billy,
and I thought that I would get for you since
it's President's Day. Some interesting facts about some of our
former presidents. Oh, if you wouldn't mind me laying a
couple on you, Yeah, let's do it all right. Our
fourth president, James Madison, was the shortest president ever. Do
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you know how tall he was? I'm going to guess
like five to two short King's stand up. He was little,
but he's a little bit bigger than that. Okay. He
was five 't four and weighed barely over one hundred pounds,
barely over one hundred. Now, in the day and age
of TV, there's no way that voters would vote for
somebody who's five foot four and one hundred pounds, right,
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because so much of what we vote for, I mean,
just you have to admit it is visualization, right, Like,
you can't you can't vote in somebody five foot four
and one hundred pounds, right, Some guy. Well, we're still strong, right, We've.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We've voted in some questionable characters recently. You know, one
president's asleep, another one's got an orange hair. So I
mean maybe five four did you say, fred, hundred pounds?
The white thing's getting to me a little bit more
than the five to four thing. You can't help the
five four, you can help thee hundred pounds. I don't
know if he's just walking it off every day or what.
But little dude, I'll save.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
The other ones for later. We'll sprinkle those in as
we go. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I like that a little Uh Shannon the dude doing
a little show prep. Nice uh, nice change of pace here.
Let's uh, let's take our first call though, this is
a show for you. Eight five to nine two eight
h two two eight seven? What's our phones like?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Lines? Looking right?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Let's go to Samuel. What's up Samuel? Hey Samuel, Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I almost say afternoon since I've been on hole since
the last show. But anyway, I love you all. You
all are renaissance man. In the last show, we had
advice for the love Lauren and and advice about how
many men are allowed in the hot tub. This hour
we get movie reviews and presidential trivia. Uh do you
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know they interviewed missus Lincoln right after her husband met
an unfortunate end at Ford's Theater and the first question
to Mary Todd was, other than that, Missus Lincoln, how
did you like.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The play that you cut out? Anyway, that's probably for
a good reason. That's okay, No.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Other other than that, Missus Lincoln, how did you like
the play?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Did they really ask her that?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Okay, that's a horrible joke. Okay, thank you, Samuel.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We appreciate the calling, your attempt at comedy, not even
about the Auburn game. But we did see mister Lincoln
when we were at the State Capitol on Friday, Shannon,
I thought that was very cool honor for ovw A's
own day.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That was a lot of fun, it really was. And
it was a really bizarre scene to see wrestlers in
their gear walking into the rotunda and then what do
you call like the area?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Is that the chamber? What do you call that? What
are you talking about? Holy chamber? Where we were sitting
like up the gallery. I think it's what you call
it the gallery, but it was. It was. It was awesome.
And then he had Senator Yates, a senator, imagine this
actually asking cash flow to chop him.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I mean, that's a guy chasing some votes, I think, Shannon.
I mean, honestly, I think it's a pretty good idea
if you want to relate to the people.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But he did kind of lean out of it. Oh,
he absolutely leaned out of it. He only got about
half the force from that chop. I think if he had,
you know, just stayed there and not moved, he may
have been taken a day off the day himself. If
he us he's already off, he probably would have been
taking the rest of Friday off if he had actually
gotten the full force of that chop. But yeah, it
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was a lot of fun and great honor and uh,
you know, I'm glad that we got to experience that. Yeah,
we learned about the guy taking out a tumor.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
He got the tumor. Uh you know, he got a
statue of the tumor next to him as well. I
didn't think he probably didn't think that was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What he was going to be known for in his life.
But you know, they must be just given days to anybody.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
St D day after his walk, ov W gets a
days where's my day for working three hours today?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Shane?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I think that's I think that's what we should be.
At least just showed up though on President's Day. That's
more than some people can say, right, So that's at
least you got that. But you know what that means though?
What com days?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's why we're doing this, and get an extra day
off in June or July or August, a day of
our choosing when it's not a lot nicer weather than
a random February. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky
Sports Radio. T J Smith personal and attorney called TJ.
He'll make them pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio
present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. You know
(23:10):
who this is, right, I know why you're playing this? Yeah, yeah,
I do. You and I were having a conversation a
couple of days ago on the air, and I was
reading off to you the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame nominees, cooling, the Gang being one right, and what
you came back with, Oh yeah, rappers delight right, And
I either didn't hear you or just wasn't paying attention
(23:33):
because I completely glossed over that Rappers Delight Billy was
not cool in the gang.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
No, now I mixed my gang sugar Hill sugar Hill,
yeah gang. Right, Okay, now getting that mixed up again.
But I did do Rappers Delight at a talent show
many years ago. But that is not the same same
gang that we're honoring in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So how do we clear that up? Do you have
any of that left in you from the talent show?
Do you remember how you did it?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Or do I really want to do this on the
biggest radio station radio show in the state.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I mean, why not? Right?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I mean show Friends has to eat and the food
just ain't no good. I mean the macaroni soggi, the
peas on mush and the chicken taste like wood. Come on,
all right, let me go. I'll let you use your
imagination for the rest of it. But we're having a
good time. Didn't know I'd be wrapping a little bit.
Do you have another President's Day fact? Before I get
(24:29):
to this audio, because I kind of enjoyed the first one.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Actually, I do a second I do here. This is
from our thirty eighth president Gerald Ford. Okay, did you know,
Billy that Gerald Ford was a star football player at
the University of Michigan and actually turned down offers from
both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. This
guy could have been an NFL player, but decided to
pursue a career in politics and stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Wow, higher calling, I guess you didn't make the money
that you did today when you go into the NFL, right,
or professional football, it's almost just like, hey, let's go
get a concussion and wear these leather helmets back in
the day, but turn down the lines and the Packers
for a career in politics.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So now you'll never look at Gerald Ford ever the
same again, right, because I'm sure do you have strong
thoughts on Gerald Ford?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I don't, you know a little before my time, but
you know, we're celebrating all the presidents today. It used
to just be George Washington's birthday. This is what this
holiday was. And then we wanted to give a you know,
we wanted to give federal workers a three day waken
so they kind of moved it to the Monday, like,
I don't know, the third Monday in February. So that's
where we're at today. Somebody that had a great weekend
(25:37):
was John Calipari proven a lot of the doubters wrong,
and Swaggy Cow returned in his postgame press conference. You know,
somebody just sent us some audio of Bruce Pearl, who
was screaming at his players before the game. He was
a little rattled, you know what I mean, Like he was.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Like, all right, gods, we're going out there, We're gonna fight.
I don't know if we're gonna win the SEC regular
season championship, but we're we're gonna try. This is what
it felt like he was doing. Like it was really
I mean, he was fired up. I'll give him that, right.
I mean, if only every coach was that fired up,
I'm sure a lot of fan bases would be happy.
But I'm not sure his message was all that great.
(26:14):
He was a little juiced up for this game, and.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, ended up being a big victory for the Cats,
a game in which they never trailed, and John Calipari
acted like it in his postgame press conference. I cut
up some of the audio for this because if you
missed it, I mean, it's just this is why you're
a fan of John Caliperry Kentucky. I mean, this is
before anybody has even asked a question in the press conference.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
We're hoping to see something different. We have some people
here that are there for a reason.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
We're going to make this out.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
To be.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Please just lead my players, Let them be young and learn,
and keep attacking me. I may be the worst in
the country. Just attack me and leave these kids along. Okay,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Before press conference has even started. Shitne he's even sat
down in his chair, he comes out from behind the
curtain cutting a wrestling type promo on the media, which,
by the way, the Auburn media probably didn't know what
in the world he was even talking about or referring to.
Of course, Kentucky media knew what he was talking about,
(27:17):
but the Auburn media, I'm sure it was like what
is with this guy?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Jaw on the floor from some of the media members.
I'm sure Cal went on to remind people that he
did play zone in this game a little bit.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Held a top ten team to thirty and eighteen. I
don't know. I guess we could do better. Did you
see I went zone one possession.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Just to do it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I said, how about we go zone one time? Let's
just try it.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
We got nine stops in a row.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Coach, I said, stop, let's just try it. You guys
want to try it?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, go zone.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
And the reason it works we don't know what we're doing,
So how the hell can you prepare for something that
we don't even know where we're going to go.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
He's got a point, how the hell are you going
to against something that? Or the hell are you gonna
play offense against somebody that they don't even know what
they're doing when they come out.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
T He's also on this big kick now where you're
saying I'm the worst, go ahead and say it. Nobody's
saying you're the worst. They've been critical of you, attack me,
not the players. Yeah, but I don't think anybody ever
was really attacking the players, not anybody that I've heard.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I think if we've been critical of guys, especially five
star athletes that I think we expected more from. But
everybody's doing their part, and you know, a good barometer
of where this team is. Aaron Bradshall play three minutes
in the game last night. He's still smiling, you know
what I mean, He's still supporting his guys. I mean
that could have easily been the opposite with a guy
that should have been, you know, your best recruit out
(28:42):
of this stacked class, and you know, if he's not
gonna get a ton of playing time, I still have
confidence that he is still going to be there to
support his guys. John Caliperry also asking the question that
I think that we're all asking is how are they
so how are they so much better on the road
than they are at home?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now we go on the road again, we're pretty good.
For some reason, we're better on the road than we
are at home. I don't have the answer, but we are.
And it's probably maybe at home we're expected to win
every game because we've won ninety some percent of our
home games, so we're expected, and the crowds have been
(29:20):
off the charts. So now you go on the road
and you got no chance of winning, and now.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
They play looser.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Maybe I don't know, but we seem to be better
on the road than.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We are at home. Shannon, you may have some insight
into this.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Do you kind of relish it when you're feeling the
booze when you're handing out toothbrushes at OBW Is it
kind of make things a little easier when you don't
have expectations like maybe they do at home.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Of course, I love booze. That's like the best sound
right when you walk out there for an OVW show, which, oh,
by the way, coming up this Friday, we're going to
be in Lexington at Manchester Music Hall. Get your tickets
while you can, going back ovwrestling dot Com. But yeah,
I mean, I think there probably is a little something
to that, you know, because the expectation is you do
do not lose at home. You go on the road,
(30:03):
you're the underdog. Nobody's expecting you to win. And I
think maybe there is a lot of truth to that.
You could go out there and play a lot looser,
and I think we've seen that for the most part
with this team on the road this year. Yep.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Kentucky's next game is at LSU. It's another nine pm start.
But then this weekend, Saturday, February twenty fourth, it's Kentucky
versus Alabama in a game that I think we've been
saying all year that these two teams could both score
one hundred points in this one.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I think it's going to be like the NBA All Start,
All Star Game, two eleven to one. Eighty six. The
final for that one, I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And to that point, our final clip, this one maybe
the longest of the four that we've played. John Calipari
had a little swag to talk about the All Star
weekend too, and the performance of Antonio Reeves.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
I mean, come on, five rebounds and he's a knockdown
shooter and make free throws. He's made himself a pro
is what he's made. He's going to have an opportunity
like the six guys one that I'm gonna go watch tomorrow.
I am flying to Indianapolis, hopefully get together with the
families and then go enjoy seven guys in the All
(31:11):
Star Game. You don't care about basketball? Why he go
up there?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Do you understand? It's a record. Julius is getting trained,
his shoulder work on, so he's not going to be there.
But the most ever from one school in an All
Star Game was four.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's by us, but.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It was four. So we got seven without Jamal, without
Daron Fox. So all of a sudden, you're talking about,
let's get half the guys in that game.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Maybe one day they'll get half the guys in the day.
But it's just when he goes into the voice of
the show.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, is when you know that he is. He's definitely
fas clearly a guy that does not listen to the clutter.
I'll give him that he does not. I mean, at
least he's told about every all the clutter. That was sarcasm.
I get it, I get it. I was trying to.
I love it though. Look I'm look. I love it.
Kentucky wins Kla Swaggy do it cal I love it.
(32:15):
I'm not mad about it at all.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
I did.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
And while we're playing audio, let's hear Tom Lee just
called that a duke theero dunk.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
It's it's worth it, come on fine zero down the
left side. It's knocked away and stolen by Auburn, and
then Shepherd steals it from behind in the other end
of the court, throws it ahead to Reeves. Reeves floats
it up.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
With one hand by Viero and he's got foul.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh wow. I was already saying, turnover, goe the other way.
I don't know how in the world he got up
that high.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's favorite moment of the game by far from me.
And do theuerro another guy we've just seen progress and progress.
He's still growing, according to some of these doctors. Yeah,
I mean he he plays so aggressively too. He's sort
of really turned it on the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But a guy that goes out there and I think
leads by example with the way that he plays, fighting
for rebounds and going after loose balls. So yeah, he's
really turned it up, and apparently so as the rest
of the team.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Well, seventy to fifty nine, it's a big win for
the Cats, and now I think you've got to be
optimistic looking at the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's let's take a call before we take our next break. Dude,
who got anybody in the labe? All right, yes we do.
Let's go to Nick Hey. Hey, good morning, Nick.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Hey, guys, how you all go this morning?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
All right? Man, good hey.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
A couple of things that real quick. First of all,
that Bruce Pearl pre game, I don't know what you
call it, but got there's a little meme of the
head exploding. That's exactly what his head looked like getting
ready to do. I was ready for his head to
just explode it in a moment, and well, me and
(33:54):
my wife was just sitting there and laughing at his
You know, it's good to be you know, get on
your team, getting hyped up. But that was overly ridiculous.
As already talking about the SEC championship and this and that,
you don't throw all that into your players. All you're
doing is putting pressure on them. Now, that's all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, pressure, I'm it was off the charts, off.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
The charts, but oh absolutely, But I'm telling you what
Sierro on that dunk, that would that was that was
that would? That just kills Auburn's whole woman because if
you see the players after he dunked, the players turn around,
just put their hands down and just started looking at
the ground shaking their heads. So so I think that
(34:44):
was a turning point in that game where they just
knew at that point that they had their hands full. Anyway,
it was a great game. Thanks guys, Thanks for the
thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, talk about brew Pearl's head turning into a tomato
at that pregame speech.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I mean, here's a little of it. Play hard, every.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I know it's gonna be the SCC, but play I
don't know if I'm gonna win, all right, hard to
win this championship.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I don't know if we're gonna win it, but the
championship goes through Auburn. It was like a really passionate
but not confident speech from your coach.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
It's like a little old James Madison came up and
talked to the team before the game started with Bruce Pearl.
But uh A five nine two eight oh two two
eight seven. It is a k s R pre show
takeover of there is a joke.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is a joke, not a joke. Today is Kentucky
beats Auburn. We're gonna take a break.
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I'll tell you lane assistance is both awesome and terrifying
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Speaker 8 (38:11):
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Of course nobody else was on the road, so I
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That's the future. Ye know, thirty years from now, it'll
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Speaker 8 (38:21):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
On the pre show this morning, I think the stat
was twenty five percent of sixteen year olds today have
their driver's license, that's correct. Yeah, and uh, people were
making a good point on the text line, which today
is five oh two four one four one seven two four,
is that in Kentucky you can only get your permit
at sixteen, and then you've got to go six months
and then you can only get your restricted license. And
so really it's only until you're about seventeen where you
(38:42):
can get your driver's license. So thinks, okay, well this
was things have all changed over the years, I guess. Yeah,
but that's just Kentucky, I'm assuming, right, so.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, well yeah, but it's different by state. Yeah yeah,
so this was like just nationwide, not just incasion. Well
I still thought that was crazy, only twenty five percent
of sixteen year old to o their license, not driving
like they used to.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Dude, I'll just get a Tesla one of these days
and just Laine assist all the way to where they
need to go. Let's take a couple of calls a
reminder Reggie Hansen is going to be joining us at
eleven am to talk about the current Cats and his
time as a Wildcat.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Who we got first? All right, stuff? What's up? Stuff?
Hey Steph?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Hey guys, Hey guys. I think good morning. I didn't
get to I didn't get to watch the game much
because I was in the process of moving, but I
did see. I peeked in on some of it. It
looked pretty good. I guess the defense is really stepping up.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Defense is stepping up, Steph. It was a I can't
believe you missed that game. Yeah, go back and watch it. Yeah,
that was a good one.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Yeah. Also, my basketball season's over. We lost our tournament
yesterday Saturday.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Well, we're sorry to hear that, Steph. We know we've
been following along for a while.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
We won our first game, sorry to eighteen, and then
they lost our second game by like at ten points.
I think the other team was really well, they were
pushing all the time, and they were kicking the ball
out of our hands.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Oh, they were bullying, you know, Okay, yeah, kind of
like Tennessee. It's I think you're playing the Tennessee of
your league. All right, Steph, we're sorry that you you
didn't win and you're out of the tournament, but you
should go back and watch it because you missed the
game of the year for Kentucky. So thanks for your call. Yep,
all right, there you go, Steph.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
And you know, Shannon, I'd still probably want to watch
that thirty to eighteen game more than I would the
two hundred and eleven to one hundred and eighty six
all start.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, at least there were some defense there more bad shooting.
I don't know, hell, I thought Jacob topping got robbed
a little bit, dude. I don't know if you saw
what he did he got I mean between the legs
three sixty, Yeah, you got robbed.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I think he made it look so effortless that the
judges just didn't give him the praise that he deserved.
Matt McClung gets the slam dunk contest win, uh and
Jacob Toppin does not, but he did represent Kentucky very well.
And then also Jalen Brown wearing Terrence Clark's high school
jersey and Terrence Clark kind of coming on that led
(41:19):
floor that they got.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
That was a very cool moment. And there's no doubt.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
One person said, we don't have to worry about that
la Ed floor coming to Kentucky. We can't even get
the new floor.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
And I thought that was going to be like a
temporary replacement, and now it's well, temporaries turned into what
two months.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Well it was the new new floor was broken. I
mean that's why the Cats lost that game. Yeah, honestly
did pretty well.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, I guess they're used to playing on broken floor.
They used to the broken floor. They don't have the
same budget we have. That's exactly right, broken floor.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Uh so maybe a while until we see the la
Ed floors. Just what thirty seconds left for we gotta
go to break dudes, and enough time for a call.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
No, we'll take some calls coming up next, so hang
on the line. We got to hang on the line.
We'll have Reggie Hansen coming on.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
We talk a little bit about his time as a
Kentucky Wildcat and also what he thinks of the current team.
And I hope Shan's got more president facts because that's
been fun too. Yes, I've got more lined up to go.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
So okay, well, good, Well.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
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Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, February nineteenth. It
is President's Day in a company holiday for many. Some
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Speaker 4 (01:16):
He'll make them pay. It's really hour two here for
myself and Shannon the dude. Good morning again, Shannon. What's
going on?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man? Did I hear it right? You just called yourself
one of the hardest working men in radio. I did.
I absolutely did. I thought, are you going to challenge
me on that? Or what?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm gonna challenge you. I mean today you're actually working
three hours. Normally, you get the pre show, you get
your one hour in and then boom, you're out the
rest of the day unless there's a game that day.
Today you got to work two extra hours, and on
a holiday for that matter. And first of all, let
me get this out of the way too. Since it's
President's Day, I feel like I have to play this
drop hello miss the President, Marcus Coon. There you go,
(01:51):
DeMarcus Cousins choking in for President's Day. Yes, but yeah
so Matt Ryan Drew taking the day off. You and
I here for the next two hours. A little hostility
for me to start the show.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I do have to work the John Caliperry call in
show later today, Shannon, So miss me with that dude
that ought to be must listen to radio Hey and
and he's coming into the studio today. I believe since
it's a holiday, he's not gonna be up malone. So,
you know, shake the guy's hand and say a great
win this weekend. But Shannon, it's good to be alongside
(02:23):
you again. Ready for another two hours. I do want
to ask you something before we start. How do you
feel about eight guys in a hot tub at one time?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, I don't know if I've ever been in that
situation before. I have a hot tub, I usually like
to mix up the ratio a little bit better than
eight guys to zero women.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So you never invite the boys over and just have
eight dudes in a hot tub?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Sometimes no, no, no, not ever eight. It feels like
it's a lot of sausage for a tubs. So no, okay,
I mean, look, if you want to do it, you
do you. It's not my cup of tea necessarily, maybe
a couple of guys. I feel like eight is too many.
It also depends on what size of hot tub are
(03:09):
we talking about? True? True. If we're packing eight dudes
into a four person hot tub and people are sitting
on laps, that's even more awkward, all right. But if
it's like one of these large, fifteen person hot tubs
and you got eight people in there and everybody's got
elbow room and space, it's all right. I know Matt Jones,
by the way, would tell you that hot tubs are
the most absolutely disgusting thing to begin with. But you know,
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it's to me no different than swimming in a pool.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Right Listen, I'm going to Gatlinburg with the fiance. First
thing we're looking for is if it's got a hot
tub or not. It's just it's kind of our thing.
We like the hot tub. But I want to shout
out Edward. He was the first caller on the KSR
post game show after the Auburn game on Saturday. It's
calling from a hot tub with seven other guys in it, Shanton.
I mean, the dudes were just partying in Gatlinburg. Eight
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guys in the hot tub, celebrating the Kentucky Auburn win.
It was a great way to kick off a elevatory
post game show on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Night. So I just wanted to know if it passed
the Shannon the Dude vibe check before we went any firs.
I wouldn't be my first option. No, you know, if
it were up to me, if I was hanging out
with seven other guys, I probably would not get into
the hot tub by take turns. At the same time,
Was it a bachelor party or what's going on here?
Because I think that also is is important to know
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why we have eight dudes hanging out.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I mean not though there's anything wrong with bro time, right,
but why were eight guys hanging out in Gatlinburg to
begin with? Because I feel like when you go to Gatlinburg,
that's the thing you do with your your significant other,
your spouse, right your family. I don't really think that,
you know, if I'm going to call up seven of
my buddies, we're not going to Gatlinburg. That's not our
first option. So why were they there? Was it a
bachelor party?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I don't remember, Honestly, I wish I gave you the answer.
It was a it was kind of a crazy night
after that Auburn win, And it's just the first guy
was had eight dudes in the hot tub and they
were celebrating. The last call of the night was his
brother to confirm that, yes, that was happening, that there
were eight guys in a high.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So we had two calls from the Gatlinburg hot tub
and the same show.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I don't think the guy, second guy, his brother was
at the hot tub. I think he was just aware
that his brother had all the boys over.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Okay what I mean?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, Well, it sounds like it was a rowdy postgame
show and rightfully so, man, I mean, what a great
win that was. Yeah, and let's get into it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven
If you'd like to give us a call today and
react to the cats big victory versus Auburn seventy to
fifty nine. The Cats go into the Jungle, a place
where Auburn had not lost for sixteen straight games, and
Kentucky holds the Tigers to their lowest home field goal
percentage in eight years thirty one percent. Kentucky basketball team
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that we've been critical about their defense as of late,
and Shannon, they've played two great defensive games back to
back Ole Miss. They allowed sixty three points, they only
allow fifty nine to Auburn in a game where I
don't think many people expect Kentucky to have a chance,
let alone never trail the entire game. It could be
the statement win that Kentucky needed this season. What were
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some of your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh, yeah, that was definitely a statement win. And I'll
go ahead and say it, go back and play the
audio on Friday, I picked Kentucky to lose. I didn't
think that they would win. I didn't give them much
of a chance. But that was the most impressive win
of the entire year. You know, we talked about when
they lost three in a row. You're in February, you're
trending the wrong direction to be losing three games at
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home for the first time in Rupp Arena history. But
then you come back and win a game that a
lot of people didn't give you a lot of chance
to win. And as I've said, though, I mean, isn't
this sort of what Kentucky basketball has been the last
few years? You look back at, you know, Kentucky last
year going on the road and winning at Tennessee and
then the Arkansas game. So just for you think John
Calla Perry's team is down and out, they have proven
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several years, back to back to back years in this case,
that they can win the games that you don't expect
them to win, and now that flips everything upside down.
I mean, this is a big win for NCAA tournament,
implications for the SEC tournament now all of a sudden,
a game that a team that looked like they weren't
going to be able to play their way into Friday
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of the SEC Tournament, now that's very much on the table.
So it was a big win in a lot of
different ways for this Kentucky program.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, you mentioned those road games that the Cats have
won in the past. They had a big win versus
Tennessee last year, I believe, thirty seven points from Reeves
versus Arkansas. He does it again to a degree, only
scoring twenty two points in this game, but I mean
he led Kentucky in points and just was a dog
in a game where Kentucky aloly seventy.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Only twenty two. I mean, yeah, he's a shoe in
for twenty every game. And it's so quiet too. I
Mean you'll look up and he's already got seventeen points.
He's carrying this team not having to shoot three pointers.
This team only was four to thirteen from three in
this game, so they did it in a number of
different ways. Shout out to Yugana on Yen's who played
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thirty six minutes in this game. You know, we've talked
a lot about tightening that rotation and the seven footers
making them worse on defense. Aaron Bratcha only played three minutes.
I think Big Z may have played thirty seconds, Shannon.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean the guy was in for maybe a play
and then Cal called him back out. But you Gotta
man eleven rebounds, seven points, a couple of blocks to
his name. That guy has really grown up in front
of our.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Eye's been very impressive. I mean, if you want to
talk about like the surprise player of the year, to me,
there's probably I mean two answers going into the season.
I think Reed Shepherd has been way better than a
lot of people above expectations. Wait wait yeah, and then
you gotta has been incredible. I mean, especially defensively, what
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he gives you, he offers something that nobody else on
the team can do, right Arim protector, a guy that
can block a lot of shots for you when you
need them. I mean, he's been impressed So I mean,
if I told you, Billy, you had to pick one
or the other, who's been the most surprising. Is it
Onienzo or is it Reed Shepard.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I think it's gonna be Read because, honestly, Read might
be a top ten draft pick in the NBA. And
I think many people wanted him to stay for more
than one year at Kentucky. And I mean, some of
the things that he is doing is just incredible, even
though his off on ball defense.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Can be wanting you, earning you for wanting more.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I feel like this guy does so many things right
that it has been surprising. But you know, they just
kind of flipped the script in this game, Shannon. They
got off to a great start. You know, these kids
that have been camping for three days for this game.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I love.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I didn't even get into the game because Kentucky played
so well that their fans were so chesty. They were
talking so much trash about Kentucky. They slept on the
ground for three days to watch their team score fifty
none points in a game that they thought they were
just gonna run over Kentucky. But yeah, you're right. I mean,
Kentucky came in and right away got out to a lead,
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didn't allow Auburn to get into the game, didn't allow
their fan base to get it to the game really
at all. They tried plus their heart, but it didn't
happen for them, and Kentucky just dominated the entire game
from the very beginning. And that's what you have to
do when you go on the road like that, right
in a hostile environment. You have to jump up to
a big lead early, make a statement, and then don't
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let the crowd become a factor. And they really didn't
for most of the game. You're now eighteen and seven
on the year.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You've got six games remaining, including games at home versus Arkansas,
at home versus Vanderbilt for Senior Night. And you mentioned it, Shannon,
I mean, this kind of takes a few things out
of the equation. It looks like this really guarantees a
Kentucky a birth into the NCAA Tournament. There's a chance
that the double buy opens back up for you. Maybe
you don't have to play on Thursday at the SEC tournament.
(10:44):
That's a logjam right now, like all the way from
one to six. But yeah, I mean it's very much
in play.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I mean, you go back just what a week ago
it looked like, well, here we go, we're gonna be
playing on Thursday. And maybe they still do, but now
you to some degree at least control your destiny as
to whether or not you play on Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And while we're mentioning guys, let's mention a Duke Theero.
My god, that guy is becoming not only maybe Kentucky's
best on ball defender, but may have had one of
the best dunks I've seen in my time working with
the UK Sports Network and doing these games.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
For the radio. Shannon Is he got up on that dunk.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, and it started with a pretty crafty steal from
Reed Shepherd, poking it out from behind. So, I mean,
these guys were doing it all and in a Duke
the Era, who's you know, he's got a lot to
prove and he's been still fighting through that back injury.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You ever had a bad back injury, shann I mean
that is debilitating, Yeah, and this guy's going out there
doing something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, I can't claim to have a back injury like
anything that he's dealing with right now. But going back
to like that that I do dunk though, I mean
when somebody dunks on you like that, that just takes
all the air out of the arena, right, I mean
you want to talk about momentum changing and just just
sucking the air out of the building. I feel like
that dunk right there just kind of everybody's like, oh,
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you know, everybody kind of just duck their head down
after that one.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
So yeah, if you're an Auburn fan, after that dunk,
you're talking about most unenjoyable experiences of your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We were talking about that in the first hour a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
With Rick Yeah, which we'll get to I'm sure again, right, Yeah,
we might get back into Ricky Peas comments. John Calb
Harry had a hell of a post game show. I've
got some oh from that Swaggy Kwa is back, and
I think you're gonna if you have not heard this yet,
you're gonna love what John had to say after the game.
We also had an eventful weekend when it came to
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Kentucky players in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The All Star Game was this weekend, Shannon, But I'll
be honest that I kind of checked out. I don't
know if that's my cup of tea. Yeah, yeah, I
mean I try to watch the game. I watched it.
I mean, like, the scores are ridiculous, right, what was
the final one to eleven to six?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Is that a slap in the face to basketball? When
you're scoring two hundred and eleven?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I mean we kind of expect that, right, we know
that's gonna be high scoring. But are we just gonna
try to break a record every single year? I guess
there're gonna be a point to now wh where we
get up to like three hundred points to it's gonna
be three hundred to two hundred and ninety the final score.
It feels like that's what it is with the NBA
All Star Game I played with the nerf ball. I
mean it's kind of unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I mean, Damian Lillard I think won the MVP. I
think he shot sixty times.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Jeez. See in the game, I watched the first quarter
that I'm like, this is ridiculous. I think, didn't they
have like one hundred points at halftime? Yes? They did,
And I was like, I'm not watching anymore of this,
and I turned on Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
That's what I did at halftime. I still have not
seen that movie. I realized it came out like eight
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months ago. Was that the last one? The last Indiana Jones?
Because I've heard that's not bad? Well, it heard I
fell asleep, But when I saw if it's not, that's tough.
I'm the worst. I can't get through movies. I fall
asleep every time I try to start a movie. But
that's gonna be the last Indiana Jones, right, I mean
there's only so much ability I can have in an
eighty three year old man running around kicking people's butts, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And I think Harrison Ford's done with it too. The
last Indiana Jones movie I watched was The Crystal Skull,
one about the aliens, right, And I went to the
theater with my dad, and he had never been more disappointed,
I think, in a movie in his life, just as
somebody that had grown up watching Indiana Jones. And then
you get that alien storyline with it all?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What was the best one? Have you seen them all?
Have you seen all the Indiana Jones? Yeah? Yeah, I
think Raiders of the Lost Arc is that your game?
Is that your pick? You know? That's one that was
the that was the first one, Yeah, the one where
they all the souls escape out at the end of
the Yeah, I'm more of a Temple of Doom guy.
Temple of Doom. Yeah, I think that was the best one.
Is that the Boulder coming at you? Or was that
(14:43):
a yeah? Yeah, I think it was. It's been a
long time since I've seen that, but but yeah, Doll
of Destiny, as far as I can tell you, it's
it's a decent movie. I've watched the first forty five
minutes of it. Fell asleep. Funny you watch the movie.
I watched Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's now on Peacock able to stream now, and it
was like I was running a marathon. I mean I
went twenty six point two miles watching that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Shane had to.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Stop three or four times, just because I was in school.
It was like back I was in a college class.
So you got to be mentally prepared to watch something
like this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Jones. Yeah, maybe a little different. Isn't that movie like
four hours long or something? Three hours? I believe it.
See that's way too much. There should be a rule
like every movie is an hour and a half or less.
Cause I I don't know if it's just me being
an old man, but I cannot stay awake for any
longer than that two three hours forget about it, man.
(15:34):
And I've always been like that too, even when I
was younger. I can remember going to movies in college,
and if it was a long movie, I mean, it's
so dark and seats comfortable kind of kicked back a
little bit, I'd be falling asleep. But in a movie,
I'm like, why did I just pay twenty bucks to
come watch a movie? To fall asleep too?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So I love this because you know, most people have
short attention spans and they can't sit there for three hours.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Shannon's the opposite. He falls asleep.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
No, he actually, it's not like he's not paying attention.
He just falls asleep because he's getting sold.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Wait now, at my house, have like like a gauge,
and the gauge is, am I intrigued enough by the
movie to not fall asleep? And so if I actually
make it through an entire movie without falling asleep, it
gets two thumbs up for me, right, it gets like
a high rating because I keep track of all the
movies that I've watched on IMDb you can rate them.
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So if I can get through the entire movie in
the first sitting without falling asleep. That at least gets
an eight out of ten.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Well, it'll be when movies start instituting replay reviews in
the middle of it and making us waste another ten
minutes of our time.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's when I'm gonna check out.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But hey, glad you're alongside with this here for this
President's Day of Kentucky Sports Radio, we got a fun
show planned out for you. We'll continue to recap the
sports weekend. We're gonna have Reggie Hanson on a little
later in the show at eleven am, talk a little
Kentucky basketball about this year's team and maybe his time
at Kentucky. Since I'm so well uninformed about Reggie Hanson's career,
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and you know, just sit back, relax, maybe sleep in
a little bit and enjoy the President Edition.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Sleep in, you gotta listen to us. If you sleep in,
you're not listen. Don't fall asleep like me during the
Indiana Jones movie. You gotta wake up. We need some callers.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Okay, you're rest, You're right, don't fall asleep on give
us call eight five nine two eight oh two two
eight seven. That's our Clark's Pumping Shop phone line. Let's
have some fun and Shannon the Dude and Billy Reutlige
will be right back. Man, it feels like I'm in
the movie right now, Billy Retligi and Shannon the Dude.
It's a Monday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Another one was The Holy Grail, right, dude. That was
another good Indiana Jones movie.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It wasn't called the Holy Grail, was it. I don't
know if it was called that. It was. That was
the whole thing though, You got to go find the
Holy Grail. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've
seen some of those movies. So you have the The
Crystal Skull, Dollar of Destiny, Riders of the Loust, darc
Timple of Dudes, and The Last Crusade.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I think I nailed all five of them there. Well,
it's your time frame, so I'm glad that you got
it right. I was just thinking you and I we've
hosted KSR what once before? Right, and didn't we do once?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And we did a bracket and it was TV show
theme songs.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You had some terrible take. I forget what it was.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I think I chose the Flintstones over the Andy Griffith show,
and this fan base reacted like you thought it might,
and it was our collar that had to settle the debate.
And he chose the flintstones as well, So I'm not
It's not all on me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
What a terrible take. Hey, you know, today is President's Day, Billy,
and I thought that I would get for you since
it's President's Day. Some interesting facts about some of our
former presidents. Oh, if you wouldn't mind me laying a
couple on you, Yeah, let's do it all right. Our
fourth president, James Madison, was the shortest president ever. Do
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you know how tall he was? I'm going to guess
like five to two short King's stand up. He was little,
but he's a little bit bigger than that. Okay. He
was five 't four and weighed barely over one hundred pounds,
barely over one hundred. Now, in the day and age
of TV, there's no way that voters would vote for
somebody who's five foot four and one hundred pounds, right,
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because so much of what we vote for, I mean,
just you have to admit it is visualization, right, Like,
you can't you can't vote in somebody five foot four
and one hundred pounds, right, Some guy. Well, we're still strong, right, We've.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We've voted in some questionable characters recently. You know, one
president's asleep, another one's got an orange hair. So I
mean maybe five four did you say, fred, hundred pounds?
The white thing's getting to me a little bit more
than the five to four thing. You can't help the
five four, you can help thee hundred pounds. I don't
know if he's just walking it off every day or what.
But little dude, I'll save.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
The other ones for later. We'll sprinkle those in as
we go. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I like that a little Uh Shannon the dude doing
a little show prep. Nice uh, nice change of pace here.
Let's uh, let's take our first call though, this is
a show for you. Eight five to nine two eight
h two two eight seven? What's our phones like?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Lines? Looking right?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Let's go to Samuel. What's up Samuel? Hey Samuel, Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I almost say afternoon since I've been on hole since
the last show. But anyway, I love you all. You
all are renaissance man. In the last show, we had
advice for the love Lauren and and advice about how
many men are allowed in the hot tub. This hour
we get movie reviews and presidential trivia. Uh do you
(20:25):
know they interviewed missus Lincoln right after her husband met
an unfortunate end at Ford's Theater and the first question
to Mary Todd was, other than that, Missus Lincoln, how
did you like.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The play that you cut out? Anyway, that's probably for
a good reason. That's okay, No.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Other other than that, Missus Lincoln, how did you like
the play?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Did they really ask her that?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Okay, that's a horrible joke. Okay, thank you, Samuel.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We appreciate the calling, your attempt at comedy, not even
about the Auburn game. But we did see mister Lincoln
when we were at the State Capitol on Friday, Shannon,
I thought that was very cool honor for ovw A's
own day.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That was a lot of fun, it really was. And
it was a really bizarre scene to see wrestlers in
their gear walking into the rotunda and then what do
you call like the area?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Is that the chamber? What do you call that? What
are you talking about? Holy chamber? Where we were sitting
like up the gallery. I think it's what you call
it the gallery, but it was. It was. It was awesome.
And then he had Senator Yates, a senator, imagine this
actually asking cash flow to chop him.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I mean, that's a guy chasing some votes, I think, Shannon.
I mean, honestly, I think it's a pretty good idea
if you want to relate to the people.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But he did kind of lean out of it. Oh,
he absolutely leaned out of it. He only got about
half the force from that chop. I think if he had,
you know, just stayed there and not moved, he may
have been taken a day off the day himself. If
he us he's already off, he probably would have been
taking the rest of Friday off if he had actually
gotten the full force of that chop. But yeah, it
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was a lot of fun and great honor and uh,
you know, I'm glad that we got to experience that. Yeah,
we learned about the guy taking out a tumor.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
He got the tumor. Uh you know, he got a
statue of the tumor next to him as well. I
didn't think he probably didn't think that was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What he was going to be known for in his life.
But you know, they must be just given days to anybody.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
St D day after his walk, ov W gets a
days where's my day for working three hours today?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Shane?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I think that's I think that's what we should be.
At least just showed up though on President's Day. That's
more than some people can say, right, So that's at
least you got that. But you know what that means though?
What com days?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's why we're doing this, and get an extra day
off in June or July or August, a day of
our choosing when it's not a lot nicer weather than
a random February. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky
Sports Radio. T J Smith personal and attorney called TJ.
He'll make them pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio
present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. You know
(23:10):
who this is, right, I know why you're playing this? Yeah, yeah,
I do. You and I were having a conversation a
couple of days ago on the air, and I was
reading off to you the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame nominees, cooling, the Gang being one right, and what
you came back with, Oh yeah, rappers delight right, And
I either didn't hear you or just wasn't paying attention
(23:33):
because I completely glossed over that Rappers Delight Billy was
not cool in the gang.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
No, now I mixed my gang sugar Hill sugar Hill,
yeah gang. Right, Okay, now getting that mixed up again.
But I did do Rappers Delight at a talent show
many years ago. But that is not the same same
gang that we're honoring in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So how do we clear that up? Do you have
any of that left in you from the talent show?
Do you remember how you did it?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Or do I really want to do this on the
biggest radio station radio show in the state.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I mean, why not? Right?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I mean show Friends has to eat and the food
just ain't no good. I mean the macaroni soggi, the
peas on mush and the chicken taste like wood. Come on,
all right, let me go. I'll let you use your
imagination for the rest of it. But we're having a
good time. Didn't know I'd be wrapping a little bit.
Do you have another President's Day fact? Before I get
(24:29):
to this audio, because I kind of enjoyed the first one.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Actually, I do a second I do here. This is
from our thirty eighth president Gerald Ford. Okay, did you know,
Billy that Gerald Ford was a star football player at
the University of Michigan and actually turned down offers from
both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. This
guy could have been an NFL player, but decided to
pursue a career in politics and stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Wow, higher calling, I guess you didn't make the money
that you did today when you go into the NFL, right,
or professional football, it's almost just like, hey, let's go
get a concussion and wear these leather helmets back in
the day, but turn down the lines and the Packers
for a career in politics.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So now you'll never look at Gerald Ford ever the
same again, right, because I'm sure do you have strong
thoughts on Gerald Ford?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I don't, you know a little before my time, but
you know, we're celebrating all the presidents today. It used
to just be George Washington's birthday. This is what this
holiday was. And then we wanted to give a you know,
we wanted to give federal workers a three day waken
so they kind of moved it to the Monday, like,
I don't know, the third Monday in February. So that's
where we're at today. Somebody that had a great weekend
(25:37):
was John Calipari proven a lot of the doubters wrong,
and Swaggy Cow returned in his postgame press conference. You know,
somebody just sent us some audio of Bruce Pearl, who
was screaming at his players before the game. He was
a little rattled, you know what I mean, Like he was.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Like, all right, gods, we're going out there, We're gonna fight.
I don't know if we're gonna win the SEC regular
season championship, but we're we're gonna try. This is what
it felt like he was doing. Like it was really
I mean, he was fired up. I'll give him that, right.
I mean, if only every coach was that fired up,
I'm sure a lot of fan bases would be happy.
But I'm not sure his message was all that great.
(26:14):
He was a little juiced up for this game, and.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, ended up being a big victory for the Cats,
a game in which they never trailed, and John Calipari
acted like it in his postgame press conference. I cut
up some of the audio for this because if you
missed it, I mean, it's just this is why you're
a fan of John Caliperry Kentucky. I mean, this is
before anybody has even asked a question in the press conference.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
We're hoping to see something different. We have some people
here that are there for a reason.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
We're going to make this out.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
To be.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Please just lead my players, Let them be young and learn,
and keep attacking me. I may be the worst in
the country. Just attack me and leave these kids along. Okay,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Before press conference has even started. Shitne he's even sat
down in his chair, he comes out from behind the
curtain cutting a wrestling type promo on the media, which,
by the way, the Auburn media probably didn't know what
in the world he was even talking about or referring to.
Of course, Kentucky media knew what he was talking about,
(27:17):
but the Auburn media, I'm sure it was like what
is with this guy?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Jaw on the floor from some of the media members.
I'm sure Cal went on to remind people that he
did play zone in this game a little bit.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Held a top ten team to thirty and eighteen. I
don't know. I guess we could do better. Did you
see I went zone one possession.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Just to do it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I said, how about we go zone one time? Let's
just try it.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
We got nine stops in a row.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Coach, I said, stop, let's just try it. You guys
want to try it?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, go zone.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
And the reason it works we don't know what we're doing,
So how the hell can you prepare for something that
we don't even know where we're going to go.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
He's got a point, how the hell are you going
to against something that? Or the hell are you gonna
play offense against somebody that they don't even know what
they're doing when they come out.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
T He's also on this big kick now where you're
saying I'm the worst, go ahead and say it. Nobody's
saying you're the worst. They've been critical of you, attack me,
not the players. Yeah, but I don't think anybody ever
was really attacking the players, not anybody that I've heard.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I think if we've been critical of guys, especially five
star athletes that I think we expected more from. But
everybody's doing their part, and you know, a good barometer
of where this team is. Aaron Bradshall play three minutes
in the game last night. He's still smiling, you know
what I mean, He's still supporting his guys. I mean
that could have easily been the opposite with a guy
that should have been, you know, your best recruit out
(28:42):
of this stacked class, and you know, if he's not
gonna get a ton of playing time, I still have
confidence that he is still going to be there to
support his guys. John Caliperry also asking the question that
I think that we're all asking is how are they
so how are they so much better on the road
than they are at home?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now we go on the road again, we're pretty good.
For some reason, we're better on the road than we
are at home. I don't have the answer, but we are.
And it's probably maybe at home we're expected to win
every game because we've won ninety some percent of our
home games, so we're expected, and the crowds have been
(29:20):
off the charts. So now you go on the road
and you got no chance of winning, and now.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
They play looser.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Maybe I don't know, but we seem to be better
on the road than.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We are at home. Shannon, you may have some insight
into this.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Do you kind of relish it when you're feeling the
booze when you're handing out toothbrushes at OBW Is it
kind of make things a little easier when you don't
have expectations like maybe they do at home.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Of course, I love booze. That's like the best sound
right when you walk out there for an OVW show, which, oh,
by the way, coming up this Friday, we're going to
be in Lexington at Manchester Music Hall. Get your tickets
while you can, going back ovwrestling dot Com. But yeah,
I mean, I think there probably is a little something
to that, you know, because the expectation is you do
do not lose at home. You go on the road,
(30:03):
you're the underdog. Nobody's expecting you to win. And I
think maybe there is a lot of truth to that.
You could go out there and play a lot looser,
and I think we've seen that for the most part
with this team on the road this year. Yep.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Kentucky's next game is at LSU. It's another nine pm start.
But then this weekend, Saturday, February twenty fourth, it's Kentucky
versus Alabama in a game that I think we've been
saying all year that these two teams could both score
one hundred points in this one.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I think it's going to be like the NBA All Start,
All Star Game, two eleven to one. Eighty six. The
final for that one, I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And to that point, our final clip, this one maybe
the longest of the four that we've played. John Calipari
had a little swag to talk about the All Star
weekend too, and the performance of Antonio Reeves.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
I mean, come on, five rebounds and he's a knockdown
shooter and make free throws. He's made himself a pro
is what he's made. He's going to have an opportunity
like the six guys one that I'm gonna go watch tomorrow.
I am flying to Indianapolis, hopefully get together with the
families and then go enjoy seven guys in the All
(31:11):
Star Game. You don't care about basketball? Why he go
up there?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Do you understand? It's a record. Julius is getting trained,
his shoulder work on, so he's not going to be there.
But the most ever from one school in an All
Star Game was four.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's by us, but.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It was four. So we got seven without Jamal, without
Daron Fox. So all of a sudden, you're talking about,
let's get half the guys in that game.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Maybe one day they'll get half the guys in the day.
But it's just when he goes into the voice of
the show.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, is when you know that he is. He's definitely
fas clearly a guy that does not listen to the clutter.
I'll give him that he does not. I mean, at
least he's told about every all the clutter. That was sarcasm.
I get it, I get it. I was trying to.
I love it though. Look I'm look. I love it.
Kentucky wins Kla Swaggy do it cal I love it.
(32:15):
I'm not mad about it at all.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
I did.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
And while we're playing audio, let's hear Tom Lee just
called that a duke theero dunk.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
It's it's worth it, come on fine zero down the
left side. It's knocked away and stolen by Auburn, and
then Shepherd steals it from behind in the other end
of the court, throws it ahead to Reeves. Reeves floats
it up.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
With one hand by Viero and he's got foul.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh wow. I was already saying, turnover, goe the other way.
I don't know how in the world he got up
that high.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's favorite moment of the game by far from me.
And do theuerro another guy we've just seen progress and progress.
He's still growing, according to some of these doctors. Yeah,
I mean he he plays so aggressively too. He's sort
of really turned it on the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But a guy that goes out there and I think
leads by example with the way that he plays, fighting
for rebounds and going after loose balls. So yeah, he's
really turned it up, and apparently so as the rest
of the team.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Well, seventy to fifty nine, it's a big win for
the Cats, and now I think you've got to be
optimistic looking at the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's let's take a call before we take our next break. Dude,
who got anybody in the labe? All right, yes we do.
Let's go to Nick Hey. Hey, good morning, Nick.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Hey, guys, how you all go this morning?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
All right? Man, good hey.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
A couple of things that real quick. First of all,
that Bruce Pearl pre game, I don't know what you
call it, but got there's a little meme of the
head exploding. That's exactly what his head looked like getting
ready to do. I was ready for his head to
just explode it in a moment, and well, me and
(33:54):
my wife was just sitting there and laughing at his
You know, it's good to be you know, get on
your team, getting hyped up. But that was overly ridiculous.
As already talking about the SEC championship and this and that,
you don't throw all that into your players. All you're
doing is putting pressure on them. Now, that's all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, pressure, I'm it was off the charts, off.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
The charts, but oh absolutely, But I'm telling you what
Sierro on that dunk, that would that was that was
that would? That just kills Auburn's whole woman because if
you see the players after he dunked, the players turn around,
just put their hands down and just started looking at
the ground shaking their heads. So so I think that
(34:44):
was a turning point in that game where they just
knew at that point that they had their hands full. Anyway,
it was a great game. Thanks guys, Thanks for the
thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, talk about brew Pearl's head turning into a tomato
at that pregame speech.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I mean, here's a little of it. Play hard, every.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I know it's gonna be the SCC, but play I
don't know if I'm gonna win, all right, hard to
win this championship.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I don't know if we're gonna win it, but the
championship goes through Auburn. It was like a really passionate
but not confident speech from your coach.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
It's like a little old James Madison came up and
talked to the team before the game started with Bruce Pearl.
But uh A five nine two eight oh two two
eight seven. It is a k s R pre show
takeover of there is a joke.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is a joke, not a joke. Today is Kentucky
beats Auburn. We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
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Speaker 8 (38:21):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
On the pre show this morning, I think the stat
was twenty five percent of sixteen year olds today have
their driver's license, that's correct. Yeah, and uh, people were
making a good point on the text line, which today
is five oh two four one four one seven two four,
is that in Kentucky you can only get your permit
at sixteen, and then you've got to go six months
and then you can only get your restricted license. And
so really it's only until you're about seventeen where you
(38:42):
can get your driver's license. So thinks, okay, well this
was things have all changed over the years, I guess. Yeah,
but that's just Kentucky, I'm assuming, right, so.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, well yeah, but it's different by state. Yeah yeah,
so this was like just nationwide, not just incasion. Well
I still thought that was crazy, only twenty five percent
of sixteen year old to o their license, not driving
like they used to.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Dude, I'll just get a Tesla one of these days
and just Laine assist all the way to where they
need to go. Let's take a couple of calls a
reminder Reggie Hansen is going to be joining us at
eleven am to talk about the current Cats and his
time as a Wildcat.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Who we got first? All right, stuff? What's up? Stuff?
Hey Steph?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Hey guys, Hey guys. I think good morning. I didn't
get to I didn't get to watch the game much
because I was in the process of moving, but I
did see. I peeked in on some of it. It
looked pretty good. I guess the defense is really stepping up.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Defense is stepping up, Steph. It was a I can't
believe you missed that game. Yeah, go back and watch it. Yeah,
that was a good one.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Yeah. Also, my basketball season's over. We lost our tournament
yesterday Saturday.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Well, we're sorry to hear that, Steph. We know we've
been following along for a while.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
We won our first game, sorry to eighteen, and then
they lost our second game by like at ten points.
I think the other team was really well, they were
pushing all the time, and they were kicking the ball
out of our hands.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Oh, they were bullying, you know, Okay, yeah, kind of
like Tennessee. It's I think you're playing the Tennessee of
your league. All right, Steph, we're sorry that you you
didn't win and you're out of the tournament, but you
should go back and watch it because you missed the
game of the year for Kentucky. So thanks for your call. Yep,
all right, there you go, Steph.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
And you know, Shannon, I'd still probably want to watch
that thirty to eighteen game more than I would the
two hundred and eleven to one hundred and eighty six
all start.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, at least there were some defense there more bad shooting.
I don't know, hell, I thought Jacob topping got robbed
a little bit, dude. I don't know if you saw
what he did he got I mean between the legs
three sixty, Yeah, you got robbed.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I think he made it look so effortless that the
judges just didn't give him the praise that he deserved.
Matt McClung gets the slam dunk contest win, uh and
Jacob Toppin does not, but he did represent Kentucky very well.
And then also Jalen Brown wearing Terrence Clark's high school
jersey and Terrence Clark kind of coming on that led
(41:19):
floor that they got.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
That was a very cool moment. And there's no doubt.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
One person said, we don't have to worry about that
la Ed floor coming to Kentucky. We can't even get
the new floor.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
And I thought that was going to be like a
temporary replacement, and now it's well, temporaries turned into what
two months.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Well it was the new new floor was broken. I
mean that's why the Cats lost that game. Yeah, honestly
did pretty well.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, I guess they're used to playing on broken floor.
They used to the broken floor. They don't have the
same budget we have. That's exactly right, broken floor.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Uh so maybe a while until we see the la
Ed floors. Just what thirty seconds left for we gotta
go to break dudes, and enough time for a call.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
No, we'll take some calls coming up next, so hang
on the line. We got to hang on the line.
We'll have Reggie Hansen coming on.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
We talk a little bit about his time as a
Kentucky Wildcat and also what he thinks of the current team.
And I hope Shan's got more president facts because that's
been fun too. Yes, I've got more lined up to go.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
So okay, well, good, Well.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Some people aren't working, some people are. Hopefully you'll join
us it's Billy Reutligion. Shannon Dude here on this Monday
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