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Speaker 2 (01:00):
Welcome back. It is our number two Tucky Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four k S Bar is opening. I remember our
pregame show is at four thirty today, so we'll be here.
Come on and come see us before the game. I'm
gonna have some tickets to give away fans. If you're
not using your tickets, send them to me. Let me
give them to people who don't usually get to go. Absolutely,

(01:24):
Matt dot Jones at Kentucky Sports Radio. Two of you
already sent me. So I have four tickets right now.
I'm i just am away to pass them on to
people who don't usually go. So if you want him
send them, I'd be glad to take them off your hands.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Don't let them go unused.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Right right, I had a couple yesterday. I've already found
somebody to use them. So yeah, we'll get We'll put
them in the right people's hand, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
A couple of important news stories.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Have you heard about the woman who got nailed the
wrong thing in Hopkinsville?

Speaker 5 (01:51):
No, but I kind of like where this is going.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh I didn't see this one.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
This is this is this is a rat. It's a
bad story. Well, I mean it's funny, but it probably
was bad. For her little old lady in Hopkinsville. She
orders her medication online.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Not you, maam. I didn't call you a little old
lady yesterday. That was wrong. I would not say I mean,
I did not say it.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
He said it. I said you are a wonderful uh
woman in Hopkinsville. She she she tries to get her
medication sent she got the wrong package. Instead of in
in the box? Do you instead of the medication? Do
you know what was in there?

Speaker 5 (02:32):
A sex toy?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't know. That's why? Where? Why?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's where your mind went to that. That's not even
close to the answer. That's what.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
If you're gonna guess, you better know this not the school.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's gonna be a bad look. You gotta know that's right,
or it just sounds creepy, says more about you. What
you were wrong?

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
So you can you can steal in that.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
What actually was in there was who disembodied hands and fingers?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
What?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yes, she got a box instead of her medication. She
got a box full of body parts, two hands and
four fingers that were not on the hand. First of all,
I didn't know they mailed that stuff. I didn't know
they mailed it. I didn't know they mailed it from
the same place that they mailed the medicine. Should be different.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I thought those are different places.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
So, I mean, I do want you to put yourself
in the in the shoes of the woman in Hopkinsville.
She opens her package up and she's like, oh, hopefully
this is my blood pressure medication, and there's just a
hand and fingers sitting there looking at her.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Where were they headed to start with? How can they Well,
they did somebody order it?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, I don't think you can order a hand online.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
So where were they going.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
I'm on Amazon right now for Halloween costumes. Hands off such.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Sure, I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
I mean my guess is they were going to a
facility where you're allowed to deal in hands and fingers,
probably a medical facility. I don't think you can just
order online. Please give me a pinky finger.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Some weel out there. I would take that as a threat.
Maybe I've watched too much Mafia, Sopranos, all that stuff, but.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I would I would take that as someone to send
me a message.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Now, maybe not for this nice elderly woman who just
needed her medicine.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, poor woman in Hopkinsville.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I do feel like this has to be lighting up
the Hopkinsville streets, my Hopkinsville friends.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I need to know details of who this.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Was and if the woman is I want an update now.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, next day.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
You know, over the years we've talked about the U
of L radio guy, the share, the share, right, So
just you know, when I started in my crew, I
really enjoyed radio feuds, you know, I really enjoyed them.
Captain Suntan. Think about all the fun we had over
the years with Captain Suntan, right, Yeah, that had bowled

(05:01):
over to the press threatened to punch me at a
uk u of L football game, and I was like, sir,
we are grown men and we are standing in a
press box. We are not going to get in a fight.
But you know, we've talked about over the years, it's
become harder to do this because the rest of the
shows just aren't quite as relevant. But U of L Sheriff.

(05:23):
I mean, if you were to create in a lab
an overly self important.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
What are you laughing at?

Speaker 4 (05:37):
I like this, an overly like self important Twitter dork,
you probably would would create U of L Sheriff. Not
trying to be rude, but all you got to do
is look at his account, it's like U of L.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
First of all, the name U of L Sheriff.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I mean, come on, like, really you're the sheriff of
U of L. I mean your name is Mark blanken Baker.
You have a major road in Louisville that shares your name.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Just go with like, you know, the Blanket Baker something
U of L Sheriff Treue. That's a lot, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
I think Mark would be fun.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Just go Mark Blankenbaker, u ks L or LSR.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Instead he goes U of L Sheriff whatever. He really
doesn't like us, that's fine. He I get messages of
people saying he talks best. But you know he's on
Drew Diner's show. Now, we like Drew Deiner, we do, right,
trancy guy, Drew Dene's a trancy guy. Used to be
a UK guy, named his kid after Kawood Lefford and
then became a U of L person. Not sure how

(06:41):
that happens, but nevertheless we like Drew.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Dener right, Yes, met him several times.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I will also say Drew Dene is very talented, good
radio host. I don't get to listen to him, but
he's he's good but he has the sheriff on the
show Worst Decision.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Drew Dena said, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I don't know if blame, I don't know if the
sheriff has incriminating photos.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I don't know why he's.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
On there, but he is okay, but he likes to
take shots at us, and so he takes shots at me,
and he took a shot at me online. And I
said something like, I can't remember what the exact words,
but I said something like, there were more there were
fifty times more people listening to me at one am
than have ever.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Listened to one of your shows, which was both mean, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm sorry it was mean, but it was also true,
you know, so like it was mean, but it was true.
And he said, that's not true. Our ratings are murmur
murmur murrh. So I just said, show me, okay, just
just just show me, show.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Me some.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
More you know, particle of truth that that could be,
even if it's just a survey, yeah, even if it's
like even if your mom just wrote a report for
the teacher, Just show me something that would qualifies evidence,
because he's he's lying.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, he of course didn't have one, so I guess.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Then Drew Deaner, because Drew's a good radio host, he
brings it up to him to kind of pick at
him about Okay, all right, now this is sent to me.
This is the AI transcript of the show. Okay, So
Deaner says, they're they're sort of talking about the rating,
and then and then sort of acknowledging that maybe what
the sheriff said about.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
The rating wasn't true.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
And then Deaner makes the point the only thing that
matters is did you get a renewal in your advertiser,
not the rating, which Trew's not wrong. But so he
says that, and then this is the quote from the sheriff.
And this is presumably not just about me, This is
about you all, the listener. This is about the UK
fan base. He says, Yeah, I mean, I guess Matt

(09:01):
Jones has a lot of penniless blank gaggers listening to
his show and they don't matter at all.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That was his fool.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
And these are taxpayers in Louisville that he's talking about.
These are the people that fund also know.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
I think the sheriff might have a job with the
University of Louisville. I'm not certain about that. I know
he at one point did I think he still does.
So I'm just gonna say I don't like radio wars.
I don't want to punch down. You could call me anything.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
You can't go after the audience.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
So I've got to say, I've got to figure out
exactly how I'm going to handle this because I can't
have the sheriff going around crushing First of all, how
obnoxious to talk about penniless burber Berr. I'm not gonna
do that to their fans. Their fans don't deserve it.
I'm just going to say that the sheriff is the

(10:00):
most interminable dork that has ever walked the streets of
the state of Kentucky. All you gotta do is go
look him up. I mean, in his Twitter profile picture, folks,
he has on a scarf.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
And it is getting chilli outside.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
He has a scarf. I think it's silk so true.
What are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
I get a little nervous when we do this because
you live in that city. I mean, his radar gun
can land on you on the water cent at any moment.
There are several ways he could get back at you
beyond the radio, So I worry about that. He is
a sheriff, parking tickets, you know, there's all kinds of
things he can pull out of his bag in this scenario.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, he wrote the Louisville Man thing back, so you.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
May remember he famously wrote, do you remember the Louisville Man?

Speaker 7 (10:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now he's asked me over the years to stop reading
because I think he's embarrassed about it, and I kind
of have, but I'm gonna have to pull it back
out at some point. You're gonna keep doing this, sheriff,
I might have to read what is the most on
an internet full of cringe. It's the cringiest thing that's

(11:08):
ever been written.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
And they proceeded to get like seven more scandals after
he wrote it. When they were trying to polish everything
up over there, powerwash.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Everything, those movies. Somebody else send it to me. It's
you know, it's he.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
He got it deleted off the internet, like if you
try to find it now, but some some in one.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Of our people will find it and I'm gonna read
it again.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah, a lot of new listeners have never have you
ever heard the Louisville Man?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, so he wrote it I think this was in
between the Italian restaurant scandal, but before the stripper scan.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Again, you have throw calendar line of Louisville.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Sex scandals and figuring out which one is which is
not always easy.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
It was definitely before the coach wore the wire against
his own friend, cases, before before.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
The FBI trial, but I think it was after the
Italian restaurant scandal, and the premise of it was that
Louisville men are classy, and they don't and they don't
do things that other people don't. This was a year
or so before they hired prostitutes for the recruits. But
maybe maybe we should read that one from the vault

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so somebody can find it. Let me they will, They'll
send it to A five.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Nine, two eighty seven. Who's up next? Sean is up next? Sean?
Go ahead, Sean.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
Man, listen, listen to that just now. I mean, tell
me you didn't get your name in the paper enough
growing up? Without telling me you didn't get your name
in the paper enough growing up? If you call yourself
the sheriff, I mean, I'm with you. Transition real quick.
You talked all ago about about Mark Pope drawing up
a plate. Yes, and I think one of the things
we're going to see overtime. Great coaches three things that

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make them great recruiting, motivating, and their tactical abilities. Yes,
the separator is the tactical abilities. Cal had two of
those three, Bruce p two of those three. A lot
of motivators and recruiters were great at two of those.
The third one alluded to them and that's why they
didn't win one or more championships. So I think the
separator for us is going to be Mark Pope is
a great tactical guy as well.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well, that's an interesting point. Let me take your premise.
I appreciate the cause being correct. If coaching has three
major parts recruiting, motivating, and uh uh, you know, drawing
up plays or essentially in game coaching, I agree with
you that really really good coaches sometimes have two of them.
I think Cal was maybe the best recruiter of all time.

(13:34):
I think Cal was a really really good motivator. I
don't think he was a great tactician, right. I think
it's very clear to me that tactician and motivating.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think we've got a great coach in Mark Pope. Yep.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
I still think there's a little bit of the recruiting
thing that that's at least a little bit of a
question to me. I'm still waiting for the get. Is
the big high school get.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's not from Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I still think it's gonna happen, but it hasn't happened yet, Drew,
So that's like the one thing I'm waiting to see.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, and recruiting, you know, Kyle was selling the NBA
and million dollar contracts and even though we love it,
Pope's selling Kentucky on the front. That's just not gonna
go over with every living room he goes in. So
we're still have to see if that works out. I
love that he's trying it, but also I want to see,
you know, Pope's got a lot of guys at one
minutes this year. That's another thing Cal did well as

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he was able to manage some of that, and this
I think this will be the first time we'll see
with Pope how he has to do that.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Hope said, this is the deepest team he's ever had,
and it's the only team he's ever had where he
thinks actually figuring out minutes is going to be an issue.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
He brought that up. Yesterday.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
We saw that, you know, in the scrimmage the blue
team and the white team, they were equal, went to
the final second. I'm sure they do that every single
day because that's how talented this whole team is.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I mean, in some ways, he might have been a
little fortunate in the first game because he's had players
out so he hasn't had to worry about it. But
when everybody's healthy, Yeah, there are gonna be dudes who
came here to play that are not going to get
the play and it'll be interesting to see how he
handles that, right.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Yeah, And I don't get from you know, we barely
know a lot of them. It doesn't seem like there's
gonna be any personalities that would be problematic. But all
of them are talented enough to get more minutes than
they're probably actually gonna get.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, I think you're right.

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Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'm sitting here looking at this Louisville Man thing like
like you almost you would think it's a parody. I
think you can't even you can't even believe it. People
are telling me that Deaner's producer is the guy that punched.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
You at the TBT game. Is that right?

Speaker 6 (16:06):
I have no idea who produces Drew Diner's show, but
I mean that's a fun fact.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
If it is. That was when I was in Europe.
I cannot believe you got.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Boxed if he is the producer of that show. Added
to the list of reasons we should be disappointed. Louis
Law Enforcement. He's right there. I mean, just get him.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
He's in the room right there. How is he still
running free? Open and shut case?

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Mark, Just grab him, nab him.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I got video. Here we go.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
This is the start of It's a louisvill Man. I'm
not gonna read the whole thing because it's very long, Bryan,
are you ready before?

Speaker 5 (16:39):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
You know, we've all heard it before. What it means
to be a Louisville man, Ryan limit, It's a source
of pride, a source of pride.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
A Louisville man does the right thing.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
He's honest, he's goodn't keep he does what he needs
to do. He loves his family, he takes pride in
his work. He attempts to make himself better Mario. Every day,
a Louisville man displays his integrity, his ethics. He is honorable.

(17:16):
He may not be perfect, but he strives to be.
And being a Louisville man, Ryan means when you mess up, you.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Pay up, pay up.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Louisville's fan base is not win at all costs, of
course not.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
In fact, we are quite patient as a group.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Obviously, another quality of a Louisville man is we do
not live in a microwave society. As an alumnus of Louisville,
we don't deserve this, but sometimes bad things happen, People
make bad decisions. People we love sometimes disappointment us. But Ryan,
we aren't Louisville men without forgiveness and the ability to

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evolve and learn.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
This is my favorite part.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
We've been here since seventeen ninety eight, and god willing
will be here another two hundred and seventeen years better
than ever.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Wow, this is ours.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
We'll misty by the way, there's a lot more than that.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
And he wrote it seriously.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Something And this was after the this is after this,
the fifteen seconds.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Before the prostitutes. Yeah, so good memory from the past.
Who's next? Noah, Noah, go ahead and Noah.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
Hey Matt, So I'm gonna be at the game or
tonight versus Ars sound for I'm really excited to see
these guys hoop again. And I don't know if this
is just for me and my own perspective, but I
feel like for this team, I feel really excited because
for the first time in a while, even with having
so many players who are obviously competing hard, hard for

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minutes in every way, it still feels like these guys
know one common goal, and that's to reach number nine
and they are going to do whatever it takes.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
To get there.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
Even aside with the fact we got potential draft picks,
I mean line up like we have people, it just
feels more.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Of like, well, you know, I think the I appreciate
the call.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
I think one of the things that was cows real
he was really good at is he would get all
these guys with individual goals to come here, they would
play together, they would be a team. I don't think
cows players were selfish. I actually think he did really
a masterful job at taking guys who were kind of
all here for a goal for themselves and creating a

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team where they were close. With that said, I don't
think it's unfair to say this group and the last
year's group was like this too, is much more focused
on being here for the sake drew of being here.
It's not just a stop along the way. It is
a destination in and of itself. And I think that

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that has kind of been cool and valuable to see.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yeah, I said this last season. Nothing against those guys,
but Kentucky was a step on their ladder. They loved
the step and they loved to be in here for
a year, but their goal was a little higher up.
These guys their goal and it's a lot of post
messaging when he started recruiting them is like, when are
we putting that banner up there? I mean that number
nine is all over the facility.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Everywhere. It's everywhere.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
I mean that, if you go to the facility, the
number nine is all over the place. And I think
that's I think, honestly, Ryan, that's what fans want the
goal to be.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
I think that's how he sold Aberdeen, who won a
national title last year at Florida, Diabatee, who was in
the final four last year with Alabama. I think that's
how he sold it. You know, come and we're gonna
win a banner. Be a part of this, and they
want to do it.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's just it's a I think both groups were cohesive,
but this is a group cohesive around I think it
would be fair to say that in the last regime
it was cohesive, cohesive around the idea of law Familia.
It was kind of cohesive around the idea of Caliperry
and this thing we've created over the years, this bond

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of I mean he literally called it law Familia. I
think now it's cohesive around the idea of Kentucky, big
blue nation. Caliperry. He enunciated it better than himself than
I could. When he went to Arkansas, he said, the
train keeps going.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
The stop has just moved. He sort of sees.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
The entire thing as a progression that started at Memphis,
or excuse me, started at UMass, went to Memphis, went
to Kentucky, and now to Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's all one big thing to him.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Pope's I mean, I think Pope. I'm sure he loves
his players at BYU, but Pope's not talking about what
happened to be one, you know what I mean. Pope
doesn't say we and refer what happened in his four
years at BYU or his three years at Utah Valley.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I think that's a difference, Drew, do you know what
I mean? Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (22:09):
And you said to start the show, we can say
things are different. We're not trying to be critical of
one of the other. I mean, I had as much
fun with Cal as I'll ever have watching basketball in
the beginning, and I was all in on the NBA
messaging and it was working. So I'm not just trying
to trash that. But it is like somebody flipped a
switch and it is completely different, different how it was.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
I mean, remember Cal would try to convince us that
like Marcus Canby went here.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Derek Rows is coming to past.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, I mean he would say, oh man, it's awesome
to see PJ. Harvey or whatever. Like it's like, well,
I mean that's good for you, but that's not us.
And I think Mark Pope again, I'm sure he loves
his old guys, but you have you heard of any
and he doesn't talk about the other guys. No, No,
it's about here, right, And I think that is that

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is something And he talks about Tayshawn Prince or or
Tyrese Maxi because that Ryan is us.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
He gets it. He knows this program. I think we
feel like we got our program back because he gets it.
It is our fan program. Nice okay program. Yes, way,
I had a thought. Uh it was law familia.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Now we literally had a family day with like kids
running around.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
It was that family. Now it's like everybody's family.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah, we'll take a break. Come right back here at
ks Bars, Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio.
If I'm not two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
one person rights, Matt, does it make you upset that
every time national people talk about Kentucky now it seems
like they're just talking about how much they paid we
paid for our roster. Do you think We're gonna deal
with that all year. Yes, that's gonna be something people

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say all year when we have success. Well, they paid
the most money, so blah blah blah, that's gonna happen.
And you know, I think that's I think that's it's important.
But it's also a little bit of nonsense. I mean,
it's not like we went and bought the best player.
A lot of our guys returned. Are recruiting class was
not ranked number one, it was what fourth or something

(24:04):
like that, And we got good transfers, but we didn't
get all transfers we wanted. I mean, probably the guy
they wanted more than anybody didn't come here. Donovan did
that went to uh UCLA. So yes, I mean there's
no doubt that, like we we may have spent the
most money, and but that I don't think.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
You know, part probably the reason we spent the most
money is.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
We got and we bought a lot. We got a
lot of dudes. But like our top level talent, it's
not like it's crazy better than everybody else's.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
We lost to Yaxle, to Michigan too, they loaded up. Yeah,
people don't talk enough about how Michigan Michigan had a
big transfer year, spending a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, it's not like like the Dodgers went and
got Mookie Bats and they got Shoheo Tani and they
basically got like everybody good. We didn't really do that.
I mean, our best players returning. Ryan, Right, that's the narrative.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Though, You're right the whole season it's gonna be well,
they spent twenty two million, they should be winning these games.
They should be a number one seed.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yeah, I'll fight back against that. I don't think that's
completely fair. One person rights, Matt. Do you think we're
underrated at number nine in the country, Yes, I do, definitely.
I don't know for the best team because I haven't
seen everybody. I'd probably put Houston number one, just because
they got dudes returning and because Kevin Sampson's done this.

(25:18):
I mean, I know they haven't won a title, but
you could argue they've been the best team in the
last five years consistently. So I'd probably put Houston one.
But I don't know why we wouldn't be two, right,
I mean, why not when.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
They're A poll from the Athletic came out, I said
Houston one Kentucky two.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Since everybody's been updating their polls and moving Kentucky to
I mean, nun's crazy.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
John Rostein still has this like thirteenth and I like John,
But come on, man, like, are you serious?

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Did you watch that game?

Speaker 4 (25:44):
I mean you think produce the worst team in the country,
Like are they twenty ninth? I mean we ran them
off the court. That doesn't mean we won't lose. That
doesn't mean we won't lose at Louisville in a couple
of weeks like it could happen. But if you're just
asking me, yeah, we're better than the ninth team in
the country.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Perdue was everybody's pick for number one. We didn't have
two of our better players, and we didn't shoot the
ball very well and still beat him by double digits and.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Didn't even play our like Away played seventeen minutes there,
guys all played thirty. I just you don't have to
listen to me. Just listen to what Matt Painter said.
Drew Matt Paynter said all this. He was amazingly gracious,
he said it.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's what's been fun in all this.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
I mean, Kentucky fans, we overreact and we start fueling
each other and yeah, we're going forty to Oh but
these are people outside of Kentucky and the opposing head
coach who were just kind of in disbelief of how
good Kentucky look. Friday night, all the media public at
you name a website that covers college basketball, and they've
moved Kentucky up in their preseason polls since last Roundays.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
You see Meyern Metcalf, my host on Sunday Morning, picks
us to.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Win the title, and a boy, he's a smart man.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
He picked Kentucky to win the title. He picked mart
Pope to be National Coach of the Year, and he
picked which if we win the title, he will be
and he picked Otaga away. I think second team All American.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
But I already even use it as an opportunity to
change the bracketology. We're two now, you know, you give
Joe a chance to make an adjustment and put something
else on ESPN, He'll do it.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
So that got updated too. Yeah, who's up there?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh wait, before we do that, I want to give
one shout out, well, actually two things. One I want
to give a shout out to and I don't know
the name of the restaurant and if someone will send
it to me, I'd like to praise this person publicly
today or tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I saw a story about in Benton, Kentucky. Have you
seen this story?

Speaker 5 (27:30):
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
There's a small, locally owned restaurant in Bitton, Kentucky, as
you know, a big chunk a lot of America twelve percent,
And in Kentucky, I think this number is like nineteen
percent of people may lose their Snap benefits starting this
weekend because the government shut down. I'm not we don't
need a debate whose fault that is. It just may happen,

(27:53):
and regardless of whose fault it is, that's going to
have a strong effect on people's lives, especially people.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
In rural Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
And in Benton, Kentucky, there's a restaurant there who has
said that if that happens, starting that day, they will
be providing free meals to the community. Wow, in Bitten
to people, if you have a snap card, you can
come in and they will basically honor it like it's
a snap card.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
This is just a private restaurant. Awesome. How nice is that?
And then I saw the restaurant you like taco John's.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Taco John's is doing that at I don't know if
it's all its locations, but it's quite a few of them.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, a group that owns a bunch in Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, so it may not be all of them, so
I don't want to put but like a group that
owns a bunch of them is doing the same thing.
They're basically providing a meal that if this happens, and
I think at Taco John's they're like, even if you
don't have the snap.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Benefits where you just ordered the I think they call
it the community meal. That's all I have to say.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
That is like, that's the best of places.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Not everybody could do that, you know, I understand that,
but in these small towns like that's gonna be wildly beneficial.
And I just wanted to give a big shout out
to those places. And if Tackle John's is one, if
the place had bent, and if somebody sends me the name,
I'm glad to mention it as well.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
So many stories we get are just you know, gloom
and doom stories. Then you get one like this makes
you restore your faith in humanity a little bit. How
awesome is that those people in Ben. I think I
say one more thing about Ben. Today is Harold's wife's
birthday today. Our friend Harold that passed away, it's his
wife's birthday, so I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay, Well, happy birthday to Harold's wife.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
And thank you for remembering that. Who's up next? Tracy
is up there, Tracy, go ahead, Tracy.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
Hey, guys, I'm kind of glad I had to be
on hold a little bit. At least it gave me
time to rinse my mouth out after that article you read.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Understandable.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
Yeah, I don't think I could have gone on right
after that. I had chunks and everything. This game to
night against Georgetown. It's been a long time coming, even
though it's exhibition. I was twenty four whenever they bullied
us in the final four, and they just one thing

(30:02):
I hated about that game, not only the loss, but
that that's what a lot of people, I believe, probably
at least that time thought about Joe B.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Hall.

Speaker 10 (30:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I think that loss did that loss did stick to
Joe Be quite a bit. I think for a lot
of people that was kind of that. The seventy eight
title was the perfect memory. But then people kind of
remember that one it's sort of towards the end.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Yeah, and that's stunk. I mean, they they definitely bullied us.
They're in my top five of most haated teams, behind Lousyville,
Duke Ucla, then Georgetown and then the border schools Tennessee
and Indiana. Yeah, my first four kept us away from
we should already have number nine or ten.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
And so I was saying, and I appreciate the call
I was saying yesterday if you're a little bit older
than me, so if you're in your like fifties, Ryan,
kind of your age, Georgetown, there are people who still
they look at that game like probably we look at
maybe Wisconsin's a little harsh, but like the West Virginia game, right,
like if you remember the West in twenty ten, you

(31:09):
got the West Virginia. But that's a game that sticks
in my craw because we were better than them and
we should have beaten them, and they kind of dominated us,
and it's unforl Like, it just annoys me. I think
a lot of people that are older than me feel
that way about that. Georgetown.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah, yeah, because it was in the final four. You know,
it was a big deal. We were back in the
final four, had a chance to win it and just
could not hit a bucket. I mean, the one thing
you play your whole life for him, he could not
hit a bucket.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Part of the reason I hate the Celtics now, I
hated him before, But the part of it is that
Joe Miszula is the coach from that twenty ten team.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, he killed us in that game. He was
the whole problem.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
I think about that game every time I'm watching the
Celtics and his mug is on TV.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
It takes me back to that place. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
If you ever we hear John and DeMarcus talk about it,
they're still mad about it too.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
They were doing the John Wall dance. Yeah, celebrating stupid
West Virginia.

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in the NBA. Dillian Ham starting to get real minutes.
Watched him last night against the Lakers, playing a little
bit better. Didn't have the best game, but playing a
little better. And then Shepard has finally had a couple
games where he's made shots. I like red he was.

(32:49):
He was bad in the first couple of games. They've
put him in the second unit. Now he's not starting,
and like it seems like you've may a little more
comfortable running with those guys than he was playing with Durant.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
We always know he can hit the shot. He's just
gonna have to learn to play better defense because when
he goes out there, they go right at him most teams.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
But I think when he's playing with that second unit,
he kind of controls the offense a little more. He
just seems more comfortable watching that opening That was a
tough watch in that opening game for him because the
whole country was roasting him and it wasn't fun to see.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Twitter was ugly that night. I wanted him to be
the guy, like the one that's teaming up with Durant
lead Houston. I don't think he'll be that, but he's
still gonna play a lot. Just gotta figure out that defense. Yeah,
and we had Lamont with the torn ACL Butler yesterday.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's terrible news.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Terrible news after we even talked about him.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
To tours ACL. It will be out for the year.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
He was playing for the I think the Hawks G
League team. He's had tough lint Man with injuries. Just
it's been one thing after another unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
So but when he's played in the briefly in the
summer league and with little opportunities he's had, he's looked good.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
But he's just been so hurt.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, we'll take a break, be right back to Kentucky
Sports Radio. Welcome back, final segment here to Kentucky Sports Radio.
Remember four thirty today, the pregame show.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
We'll be right here.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Come on out, before the game and see us get
some wonderful food.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Thanks the folks who made it. Where are you guys from?
Right here? You're in West Virginia. Where are you from?
Henry County?

Speaker 10 (34:12):
All right?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I think like you've been here before, Henry County? What
bet you?

Speaker 4 (34:15):
What about you guys, Shelby County, Scott County, all right,
and you've been here Oldham County.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Well, nice to have all of you.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
The name of the restaurant, it's in Harden, Kentucky, which
is just outside of Benton, is called the Hot Pig.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Sounds like a shout out to the to the Hot Pig.
If I live there, I.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Would go eat and pay at the Hot Pig because
that would be good. Because I know that would owning
a restaurant myself. I know that would be very hard
to do what they're doing, so so kudos to them.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
In an area like Benton.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
If I'm driving through and I see a place called
Hot Pig, that's all I need to know going straight
there if I'm hungry, I.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Kind of agree with you. That would be uh.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Keep your chain restaurants, keep your fast food places.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
Give me the Hot Pig, Give me the Hot Pig.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
All day. Yeah, don't cut that, that's right.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
What person rights, Matt, How's your opinion going to change
about the team if we lose tonight?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's a great question. Would it change anything to you?
If we lost.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Tonight, it would not change my mind whatsoever. We saw
the team up close and personal yesterday. This team is awesome.
Wouldn't change my mind.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Probably wouldn't change mine either, you know.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
I mean that'd be a little bummed out, but like
long term, doesn't change anything.

Speaker 6 (35:25):
Nope, I'm bracing myself for a little come down tonight.
I don't think that'll be a loss. But you know,
we mentioned Aberdeen didn't practice yesterday. I don't think that's
anything long term. But you know, if you may not play, Yeah,
so if you don't have Aberdeen or Low, they've got
a good back court. They've got to all conference guards.
I don't think Kentucky will lose the.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Stringing on third string point guard this year. I mean
we did that last year right here in front of us.
But I still expect a fun night. I'm really interested
to see if Jasper if that was a preview of
what's really ahead, how well he played on Friday, or
if that was just a special special debut Ryan as
someone who himself has painted his head. Uh, what did you?

(36:08):
What do you think of the Jayalen Brown head paint thing?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Have you seen that?

Speaker 5 (36:12):
I felt his pain. I mean when you guys painted
my head and we're on the elevator and those women
standing behind me, you're laughing at me because they saw
the paint dripping down my head. I felt for him.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
But you would think Jalen Brown would have the money
to not rub off on people's uniforms, not just one night,
but tuned games.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
In a row.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
You have your one game, you go okay, can't do
this again? Right?

Speaker 6 (36:37):
And I know they're celebrities, they have the whole world.
They don't want to be bald, but you need to
understand how much worse sharpie in your head looks than
just being bald. Yep, Like, these guys know that there
are one hundred cameras in the building and Twitter is
just waiting for something to latch onto, and he still
dipped his head in black paint and walked out there
and played basketball.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Yeah it's a look, I mean the like And you
gotta think he just didn't start doing this like that
wasn't the first game.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well, and it was a big spot Jersey too.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
I mean the inside the NBA guys Shaq and Charles
they were just killing I mean they were absolutely killing him.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
And like Jalen Brown is a big star, he's the.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
He's their main star right now.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
But I have to think, so here's what I would
have to think this you had him Remember Carlos Boozer
had that shoe polish.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
On his head many years ago.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
I have to think there's a lot of people doing it, Like,
don't you think there's probably a lot of people doing it,
but they just like doesn't rub off.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Right, they get a bad job.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
I think a lot of people are doing it and
they just got the bad version. Because those are two
very high profile players.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Who both have had this happen to them over the years.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Well, there's a clip of Jaylen Brown calling Lebron for
advice about his hairline a while back on a podcast.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, so maybe Lebron's getting the good one.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Their line thing happens like I'm you know, I've got it.
I understand, I get it, and you try to figure
out it. What are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I understand that, but like there the answer can never
be paint. It is why you're sweating.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
I mean basketball game the answer okay, I even think,
like you know you get a okay, a transplant, Ryan,
I think is what that's worked well for you?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah? Uh, you know? Or you can't paint it.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
It's not even the act of doing it. It's the
situational awareness or the lack of it. You're you're running
up and down in the NBA sweating with everyone watching you.
I don't know if that's the moment he should have
attempted it.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
When we think about Rudy Judy Giuliani, I that's my
first thought, is that stuff just dripping down his face?

Speaker 4 (38:45):
That happened too. I forgot about that. It's a lot
of famous paint heads.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
I mean, there's a.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Very famous sports writer that has a very bad to
pay and every time we see it it gets much
worse because it's crooked and sometimes it's like hanging down
on his cheek and like it.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Doesn't I mean, maam, it doesn't look good. At the
same time, I'd rather have that than the paint.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, well, it's at least plausible deniability with that.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
I mean, the paint was on a white jersey, like
I think of how hard I laughed at Ryan at
that pizza place when he leaned back on the wall
and left a little black stamp. I mean, that's the
harvest have laughed in my life. And Jalen Brown did
it in a game.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I think it was we forced Ryan to do it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
By the way, that's in contention for the top twenty shows.
It has to be Ryan getting his head painted in
College Station, Pennsylvania while the Department Homely ob Security called
for him running the bases at the Little League World
Series like that.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's in the contention. You O were there.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
It was six hours later and I could not stop laughing.
I couldn't order it dinner because I was still laughing.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
Well, I left a little spot in your car too,
my head car.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
If you were to get my car right now, on
the top on the felt, there's a little black spot
that is Rhyan's head paint where he leaned back. Who's next,
Matt is up next, Matt? Go ahead, Matt.

Speaker 10 (40:11):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (40:11):
I was at the eighty five Final four and Rump Arena, Yes,
And we randomly got tickets in the Villanova section and
Dick Valtel sat in the.

Speaker 10 (40:21):
Row right behind us.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Can you remember for that Villanova Georgetown game? How much
did your tickets cost? I'm curious for the Final four
National Championship.

Speaker 10 (40:32):
I was a student of the UK and they had
a lottery, so many tickets went to students and it
was eighty dollars for both sessions.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Well that's pretty good. Wow, eighty dollars to get the
Final four and the championship game.

Speaker 10 (40:48):
Yeah. Yeah, and I've been to the World Series and
Final Four. I guess the next thing is the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, you need to do that. Well, I appreciate the call.
Was that a park at the Final four for eighty dollars?

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Now that's true? Was that the last game? And at
that size? Final four?

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I mean, well, now, wait didn't we when we won
the title in ninety six? Wasn't that in an arena
in uh New Dreads in the meadowlands?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
But it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
That was the Medalands arena though it wasn't the stadium.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah, wasn't that? I think that was just in an arena?
Or am I wrong about it? Were you there?

Speaker 5 (41:27):
I was there, I was out in the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
So where if you were there? Then what was it?
An arena or state? You were there?

Speaker 5 (41:33):
It wasn't a big stick stadium. It was like an arena.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Okay, so then eighty five wasn't the last arena. It
might have been the last on campus or like you
know arena.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
That's maybe that's what I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Repsnot I don't know considered on campus, but it may
be the last one of those kind of home teams
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Speaker 5 (42:33):
Yep, I'm picking it up this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
I'm gonna find one after the game tonight. You see,
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Speaker 2 (42:45):
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Speaker 4 (42:45):
I used to remember when I dressed up as a
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This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.