January 29, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, January the
twenty ninth. I'm Matt Jones here on my last day
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In this disition sponsored by the TJ. Smith LOWFS you
call Tj'll make them pay. First of all, you know,
there's obviously a big thing happened in Saturday, but we
gotta take a lot of time today, if not most
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of the time, to talk about what happened last night.
Kentucky wins in Knoxville seventy eight to seventy three, in
a game that makes the third straight year that Kentucky
has gone into Knoxville as a double digit underdog, double
digit underdog, and one on the road. Drew, I don't know,
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you know, I don't know the records against the spread
in every college basketball game ever, but I bet you
that one team has not beaten another team three straight
years on the road as a double digit underdog, Drew.
I bet that's never happened in the history of college basketball.
It's just a guess, but I bet it hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I can't imagine a time that gonna happen, and even
twice seems very unlikely. So to do it three straight
years as an eleven and a half point doll ten
and a half point dog, ten and a half point dog,
that I'm gonna agree with you. I don't think that
could ever happen at this point, Yeah, and I feel
like this point, Kentucky just keep making us the underdog.
Why not, It's fun to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I would be shocked if that's ever happened and they
get the victory. It is now five out of last
six in Knoxville. We've gone ahead, and we got Shannon
a timeshare on Rocky Top. Now, as a matter of fact,
I think we own the majority of it. After a
win that I think is as impressive a coaching job
as we'll see, Mark Pope goes in without his point guard,
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Lamont Butler starting power forward, Andrew Carr plays one minute
basically and then can't go. And he essentially plays five
guys and then brings in four people roding off the bench,
really only two of them that play significant minutes, and
then finds a way to get a victory. I said
on the postgame show last night, Drew, I think you know,
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no offense to Brandon Garrison and Travis Perry, who played,
but their contributions were a little more minimal. But seven
dudes like each gave a big contribution, and the five
starters were unbelievable. I mean, all five guys. You don't
win without any of them. Playing well, all five in
double digits. D I mean, that was almost the epitome
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of a team win where five guys went in said
look it's us and basically each of them did what
they had to do to get the victory.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's crazy, and not just any five guys. These are
five guys from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Guys that a lot
of people outside of Kentucky were saying aren't talented enough,
Kentucky's gonna fall. Those five went in with a bench
of two kids that were in the Sweet sixteen last
year and beat a very good Tennessee team in an
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environment where Voss fans thought all day they were winning.
They went in celebrating before tip off because they thought
that game was over, and to have the performance they
did with Kentucky just jump on them right away. That
was amazing. It's one of my favorite games in a
long time.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, let's just focus on that for a second. Think
about the people that went on the floor last night.
Starting lineup from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Fairleigh, Dickinson, and Drexel,
and the bench Oklahoma State, a guy that was on
a Mormon mission, and two kids from the Kentucky Sweet
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sixteen high school. I mean, that's who won the game
last night. That's who went and beat a Tennessee team
that was pre season number two or three, the number
one defensive team in the country going in, by the way,
by the way, they were number two coming out because
we scored seventy eight points on them, and you go
and win there. That's just an absolutely amazing job. And
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they had a bunch of different times during the game
that they could have given it up. You know, they
were up eight in the first half, Shannon, they come
back terrible last three minutes the first half, were losing
by three at halftime. Once again, start the second half. Great,
go from down three to up six in the first
segment of the second half, and then the league kind
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of would go up to eight or nine, come back
to three, go up to eight or nine, come back
to three. But Shannon, they would always make the plays
they had to make. And then after a terrible sweet
sequence where they get three offensive rebounds, they get four
shots at it, they finally make a three. We're only
up one and it looks like we're gonna collapse. They
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go and hit a free throw or hit two free throws,
play great defense, on the next play and get the
win them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean, that is, without a doubt, in my mind,
the most impressive win of the entire season. I know
they played without Creasing, without Butler in the Gonzaga game,
but that wasn't for the entire forty minutes. And to
be able to go on the road in a tough
environment like that and do that against Tennessee, I mean,
come on, man, how does that not get you excited
about the rest of the season moving forward?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Even if you don't have Butler.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They do need them going forward, but this shows you
they can win if they I don't have him for
the next couple of games.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And on Brandon Garrison's expletive Leyden postgame postgame locker room video,
Lamar Butler says he'll be back soon, So that makes
me feel better. But you know, we're probably gonna have
some games where we don't have him, and you know,
they played Jackson Robinson at the point guard. They played
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a Maury Williams some at the point guard, which made
Drew my heart kind of flutter a little bit, like
what are we doing? But he did an awesome job
doing it. Omari had fifteen rebounds, Jackson, Robinson seventeen points,
Kobe Braa eighteen points, and a diversity of game that
we haven't seen going to the basket. Some he had set.
You know, Drew, we've talked about he had ten free
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throws on the year. He had seven free throws last night.
He had as many for almost as many free throws
last night, Drew as he shot the entire season. Leading
into the game.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I think he was listening to KSR if we called
him out on that day of the game. But I think,
you know, you want Butler back. I want him back imediately.
The same with Carr. But I almost think the offense
just had their backs against the Wallers, like, well, there's
not much of a bench. We gotta do something, and
maybe they found confidence in that. I think, you know, Robinson,
I don't want him to be the point guard, but
he's now done it in the second half against Gonzaga
did well last night. You don't want to do it forever.
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But it seems like this group, when they get pretty limited,
they play well together offensively, and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We even beat the Banked in three curse troop. We
thought that would do us in, but we even beat
the Banked in three curse, they hit a banked in three,
we still would, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So let's talk about that, because right before the banked
in three, you couldn't convince me Tennessee was gonna win
that game. I mean pretty early in the second half,
I was feeling great. I was already talking my talk
with friends. But then when that banked in three happened,
I considered turning off the TV and going to bed.
I genuinely thought the banked in three has that much
of a curse, that that was the final moment. So
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maybe earlier in the game Brea had won Rattle and
kind of bank in, maybe that canceled it out. But
to have it a sixth time now, I thought that
was the end.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know how that's possible that you could make
it six threes in games. But we won this one,
and that's ultimately the most important thing I will tell you, Shannon. So,
I was at the Carolina Hurricanes were playing here in
New York, right, So I went to the game and
the plan was to watch it on my phone, and
I was gonna have I was gonna watch it, but
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you know, I thought, to be honest with me, I
thought we were gonna lose, so I was like, I'm gonna
keep track of it, but whatever. Well, of course, obviously
when we're winning, you know what happens to me. Right,
Let yeah start. I'm literally in the middle of Madison
Square Garden like.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Pacing did you find the showers in the locker round?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And I nearly went in and knocked Sebastianaho out of
there and said, look, I gotta be in the shower.
I'm standing in the aisle at the end of the game,
like pacing back and forth. The Canes destroyed the Rangers,
so I got a double dip of wins. But I
was freaking out and I'm sitting there, and you know
how it is when you're like in an arena. The
service would go in and out, especially on streaming video.
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And at one point the three that Kobe Braya hit
right after they had banked in the three drew, it
froze with the ball in the air, right, So so no,
Kobe Bray shoots a three, and I don't know whether
or not it's gone in, And I remember thinking sitting there,
if that ball goes in, I think we're winning. If
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it doesn't, I think we might lose. And then when
I finally when it thirty seconds later restarted it, it
got in. And I actually think that the two most
important plays of the game. I said this last night.
I think we're Trent Noah on the loose ball being
a Kentucky player to finally go get a loose ball
put in the basket because they were on a run
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that stopped it. And then I think Kobe Bray is
three right after the banked in three. You know when
that but three went banked in, all Kentucky fans probably thought, well,
there we go. We're gonna lose. And then on the
next play he hits the the three. For me, it
froze in the air for a minute, but I thought, actually,
those were the two biggest buckets of the game.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, the immediate in response to the bank was awesome.
It's so good to see Bray get going not missing
a shot. But honestly, my favorite play of the game
was Trent Noah pulling up from the e a shot
he should not have taken, yeah, and drilling it. I mean,
you gotta think about that's right. I heard you say
on the show. Loved the Mountain Mamba nickname, but you
got that kid not even this time last year, didn't
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have a thought of playing for Kentucky. He was going
to South Carolina, didn't have an offer to pull up
from the e on Tennessee's court. What two hours from
your high school? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
This kid is not afraid at all. And I love
the effort on the loose balls too. I kind of downplayed,
no I needed to play more because I thought it
was a Kentucky thing. But the effort he's shown and
the willingness to just shoot with confidence, I think he
does need more minute.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But do you like the name Shannon Mountain Mamba? That
was some guy on Chaos Board. Sorry, I don't know
which one it is, or I would give you credit.
I think it's a perfect name. I think it hits.
It hits a perfect combination. I think people will like it.
Are you Shanning pro mountain Mamba? I am? I think
most people seem to be.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I was telling Billy during the pre show, maybe too
many syllables mountain Mamba. It's almost the song, right, you
get the song? And yeah, here's the thing. If you're
trenton Nowhere, though, why not shoot that shot? You're playing
with house money? What's gonna happen. If you miss it,
you're gonna get benched. I mean, you've been on the
bench of the entire season, so why not shoot your shot.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm glad he took that one.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We've got a nickname Drama.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We've got nickname Drama.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I like Mountain Mamba. But a woman at the games
from Harlan Cara, she's been workshopping a nickname all season
and I told her needs a it's a rough draft.
But she's been calling him sweet and sweet Mountain angel
baby all season. I her that that needs a little work.
I think Mountain Mamba is the one. I think we
put Mountain Angel Baby to the side, and Mountain Mamba
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is it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's the woman's name.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
She texted me last night, Sweet Mountain.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm sure I'm not calling another man sweet Mountain Angels.
You know I'm not. I'm gonna calling Mountain. But he
looks twelve years old. He does. There's never been a
player who looked younger than Trent Noah. But I did
this last night. But I just want to go through
quickly the players, and because I think they all deserve
a shout out. Maybe Drew Amari Williams's best game as
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a cat. Fifteen beautifuay, twenty four minutes, twenty four minutes,
fifteen rebounds. I think, what ten points, twelve points something
like that. Played excellent, had to bring the ball up
for a little bit. I mean, that's got to be
a Mari's best game he's had, right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, two quick fouls got him early in the half,
and then at halftime he played ten minutes and he
still had seven rebounds and two assists. I mean, in
limited minutes, he still found a way to really help
out on the boards.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And they don't.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You know, we're focusing on the threes and guys stepping up,
but they don't win that game without Mario getting rebounds. Overall,
they still sucked at rebounding, but Amrio was big and
open out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I thought Jackson Robinson was great. Obviously had seventeen points,
hit the four threes. Thought he played pretty good defense
out on the perimeter. You know, he had to play points.
Some he set up. If you go look at Bray,
he's in Almanor's threes and even Noah's three. A lot
of times the play was set up by Robinson to
get those guys looks that I thought he had an excellent,
excellent game. Almanor hits the four threes. My man struggles
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at rebounding the defense. But if you make four threes,
then you can play through that, and he ended up
doing it. Kobe Braya, you know, his seven to three
game at Florida. Against Florida is obviously a bigger scoring game,
but in terms of his overall impact on the game,
this was his best game in my opinion, scoring eighteen points,
but only three of them on threes. He got to
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the line we talked about, I think he got a
dunk at one point. Oh way, I thought played well.
Little nerve wracking sometimes when he handles the ball, but
he hit the four big free throws at the end
that were important. And then we mentioned noah, but let
me throw Colin Chandler in there. Yeah, his stat line
is nothing. He didn't score, but he played fifteen minutes.
It was fifteen minutes. True that unlike some of his
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other minutes where it's stuck out that he's out there
and you're like, oh no. I actually thought he did
pretty well and surprisingly, I thought he played pretty good defense,
which is why I think he played fifteen minutes. Last night.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Uh, I actually owe the Chandler's calling anyone listening an apology.
Even last night, I yelled at my TV a few times,
why is he in the game? And he shut me up.
Just about every time he had a great stop in
the first half, they could have called a walk or
three seconds. The guy did both. With Chandler definiting, I
mean out scoring, but it's nothing that shows up in
the box score there. But Chandler played great defense, had
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a big deflection in the second half. I just he
had that open three. I wanted him to make so
bad at that you go in. But otherwise he played.
He played well and when a lot of people myself included,
were wondering if you could play in that game.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, great night to beat Tennessee like that the go
big blue chant at the end, like what if you're
a Kentucky face, especially if you're a Kentucky fan from
the Mountain. I mean, for those of us in the
thirteenth region, there's not gonna be too many wins we
like more than that winning at Knoxville. That was the
game I always got to go to. I never got
to go to get games at RUP. But my grandfather
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would take me my mom then later would take me
at Knoxville to the Kentucky game. We usually lost, but
I always loved going there. To win at Knoxville and
to have a kid from the thirteenth Region make big plays,
that was that's gotta be one of the best Thirteenth
Region Kentucky wins of all time. And then again Mark
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Pope Man, I mean, that is a coaching win. Those
players all played well. They deserve all the accolades. But
to drop up a game plan. Tennessee had only allowed
more than seventy points once and it was seventy one
and we scored seventy eight. That's the game right there.
And to set up a defensive game plan where you
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make Tennessee take forty five threes, which is not what
they want to do. They took forty five threes. Dude,
you can't ask for a better result. If I'm nine,
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we're gonna take
your calls. First hour, I'm gonna one it two be
mostly Tennessee. We will switch in the second hour and
talk about what's coming Saturday, because there's actually news on
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all that and the debate about well, what should we do?
I have strong thoughts about it, but let's talk Kentucky, Tennessee. First.
We'll take a break and right back this case.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Sweet Mountain Angel baby say it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Come on, Matt so no, come on, no, welcome back.
I'm not calling him that shit. I'm sorry. Come on,
but Mount mom is a good name, and those of
you trying to say something else, no, that's the one.
I'll give some positive march to the Harlan Hammer. I
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like that. The Harlan Hammer I do like. But I'm
still gonna go with Mount Mamba. I think it's I
think it's the best one. One person rides Matt. Is
there any chance you think Jackson Robinson should be our
starting point guard? No? But here's what I like about
having Jackson Robinson as a point guard Drew is that
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he is he's not scared to shoot an initiate offense,
and Butler, I have felt like in the last few games,
and it may be a product of his injury, has
been very hesitant to shoot, especially from the outside, which
makes him force it to the basket too much. Oway
doesn't seem confident in his shot, and when you're a
team that's gonna shoot a lot of threes. You can't
have your two guards not shooting. The good thing about
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having Robinson is he'll shoot. Then you get Oway and
then you get Bray at the three, and all of
a sudden, you got guys out on the perimeter who
are their first look is to shoot threes. And with
with Butler not shooting and Oway not looking confident, we
haven't had that. So I do think Robinson maybe should
slide into that backup role now.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, I think we'll see more of it. I also
just think he as a player turned the quarter. Since
that Georgia game, he looks like a completely different.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I agree person.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I agree he almost or may have been a little
broken after that game. Pope even talked about how they
got a build him back up, and then he turns
around and what do he have? Like twenty seven at
Mississippi State the next game he said twenty two? Since then,
he said seventeen since then, I think he has just
found his spot now that SEC play is rolling, and
I think we're gonna get more good Robinson games moving forward.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
If you go back and look at when we were
rolling making threes, Butler and old Way both would just
pull as soon as they were open, and neither guy
has looked like he's felt like he could do that,
which I think has led to some of our offensive
slogs at points. With Robinson, I think you're back to
everybody feeling like they can be free, and I think
that there is some advantage to that. But you do
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miss Butler's defense, you do. I mean, we were fortunate
that the guards for Tennessee went four for twenty one
from three, but that won't happen every single game. A five, nine,
two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first, Brent? Brent,
go ahead, Brent?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Uh Man? I was just there's a way that Jack
give his talks to those players after the game that
that kind of goes unnoticed. What I think he goes
a long way. When Robinson started the game out yesterday,
it took me back to the talk that Goose had
with him after the Vandy game, And when I saw
him come out like that, I felt real good. Second
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thing is, anybody knows me knows I love bacon, and
Fryan is baking this week is gonna mean something different.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To me, and I'll hang up appreciate it. Let me
say something about the postgame radio, So you know, shendon
for a long time. The game ends, we have like
an hour to hour and fifteen minutes, and then my
post game comes on. And I used to kind of
dread that hour to hour and fifteen minutes. I'm gonna
be honest with you, I didn't think the show was
the most exciting thing in the world. And then Cal
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was Cal and those interviews I think that hour and
fifteen minutes now is for the most part, really good
because he's right Jack Givens. They've given Jack more time
to talk, which I think he does a great job with.
Then when he interviews the players, it's it's like Drew
an uncle or a grandfather talking to the kids. Like
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I love it, Like I love the way he talks
to the players. He pumps them up, like I just
think he does such a great job with those interviews.
And then Pope is so good to listen to. It's
better at home than on the road because he's always
kind of in a hurry on the road. But like
you get a real breakdown of the game. And I actually,
you know, for people who watch it home, I'm you know,
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over the years. I haven't had the greatest relationship in
the last few years with Jami, but I would say,
actually turn that show on when the game's over while
you're waiting for us to come on, because I actually
think it really is the way Jack and Tom and
and Pope, the way they're doing it this year, I
think makes it a really fun experience leading into our
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car show after.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, and Pope has been detailed about basketball. Anytime we
hear from him, it's really awesome to know, like, oh,
this is precisely what they're working on for the next
game because this team does X and we need to
do why. So I love hearing Pope any more what
we get. But you're especially correct on the Jack Gibbons saying,
like last night he had Kobe Brea and he said
something like, I don't even know if I should say
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this to you, but I just want to say I'm
very proud of you and Kobe.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, I means so much.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And it was really sweet, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
A really sweet. It's really sweet the way he talks
to the guys, especially on this team. I'm not sure
what it is, maybe that he's connected more with these guys,
but the way he talks to these guys. I just
think is really really the sweet is the best word
I can use, and I I really look forward to it.
I commend those guys for you know, this is not
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we've talked over. This is not the most talented team
in the world, but it seems like a family of
guys that are really going you know what, if we
collectively pull each other up, we can hit a higher mark.
And I just there's something really kind of nice and
sweet about it. Who's next, Tody, Cody, go ahead, Cody.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Hey, Matt in the Gang things, rap me on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, we just got like a minute going.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I don't know about you guys. Yeah, I'll be quick.
I'm gonna have to restock my bourbon cabinet after the
game last night, both from celebration and just stress. My goodness,
just the rebound in those last two minutes, Oh my goodness.
So I wonder, you know, the fan earlier this season
that gave Kobe Bray of their baby to like carry
around the court. I wonder if they're looking back on
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that thing, you know, I was, I was maybe not
a good move.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He can drop. That was a tough drop he had
at the end, and you know that's if it was
in his hands and it fell out of bounds. But
they fought through that. But I thought to myself, and
I appreciate the call. There was a play Amari had
at Vandy where he was right under the goal he
dropped it. I thought it was a key play. We
ended up losing when Kobe dropped that win. I wondered
if it was the same thing. But they held on
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and got the win. We're gonna take a break, be
right back. Cats. Huge win over the Balls's k tuck
you sports Radio. Great win in Knoxville last night. Five
to the last six. I mean, there's probably not been
many times in UK history we've won five the last six.
Like I said, I bet there's no time in college
basketball a double digit road dog has won three straight
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games in three straight years against the team. I bet
that's never happened. I mean, not many teams play each
other twice anymore in the modern day. And I just
bet that hasn't happened because first of all, you'd have
to be good to win, but then you also have
to have been like thought of to not win to
be a double digit underdog. So I don't think that's
happened very much. I'm telling you yesterday, Shannon, you should
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have seen me there at the garden. I mean I
went there to watch the Canes. I'm standing there in
the middle of the aisle. I tried to buy seats
on the end of the rows, but I was right
in the middle, so I was in front of everybody,
so I had to walk over them to then pace
in the aisle. And the Canes were winning by a
lot at the end, so it didn't matter. But like
everybody had to be looking at me, like this game,
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why this game is four? Oh Carolina, why are you pacing?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Like this guy looks like he wants to be anywhere
but here right now, not even like.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
He must have a bet on him. What's he doing?
And I'm standing there on my phone. We tried to like,
you know.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Probably the only person in Madison Square Garden watching the
Kentucky game.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, I had to be the only person that cared.
But I did care and got a double dip on
those victories. We didn't get the KSR parlay. What because
Owai didn't hit a three drew. I think we hit
everything else, didn't we?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, I really wanted Kobe Braa props, but they weren't
on there. The O Way three. I think it's been
a long time since he had.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, I worry he seems nervous to shoot now. Granted
he takes it to the basket and he drew fouls
last yesterday, but he doesn't seem like he wants.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
To shoo Jackson Robinson had two in the first three minutes.
I'm going and he's gonna hit that over three threes.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, and then I think I think we hit it
all except the O Way three.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Uh oh way and double digits every game. Still very
impressive for him though, every.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Game said double digits in every single game, and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I think it's even like more than twelve every game.
It's not even that's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You got to give that kid a lot of credit,
I tweeted out. So there's a new show Shannon on
on Hulu called Paradise. I have not seen it. I
don't know if it's good, don't know anything about it.
But James Marsden plays the president. Now you remember who
James Marsden is. Yeah, insanely handsome dude. Uh. He's everybody listening,
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even if you don't know the name. If you look
up his face. You've seen him in something he was
in like Sonic the Hedgehog. He was in the show
with Christina Applegate on Netflix. What else he been in? Yes,
he's been in everything, the Notebook, James mars Yeah, a
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lot of people know, all right, So James Marsden. I've
met James Marsden a number of times. He's like best
friends with Josh Hopkins, the Kentucky fan. They both live
in Austin, Texas, their buddies. When I used to go
to Austin and see Josh, he'd be there, nicest guy
in the world. He was also in the show You
and I like Drew so much Jury Duty, right, Jerry
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the Amazon show Anyway plays the president. In this show,
they have a scene where the president is a Kentucky fan, which,
by the way, well let's play the scene. This is
a scene from the new show on I think it's Hulu.
Is it Hulu or Amazon Hulu? This is the new
show from Hulu. This is James Marsden, who is a
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UK fan on the show talking than Christian Laden.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I don't off do this to name Christian ladan duke
that he made the most famous college basketball shot of
all time against us in the tournament single handedly killed
me in every other.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Kentucky Wildcat fan that day.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Yeah, I thought i'd been lighter.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He says he thought he had been lightered. And he
says he killed at me and every other Kentucky Wildcat fan.
So I mean crazy he to not only say he's
a Kentucky fan to bring up the Lightner shot, say
it broke his heart. So I knew Drew Josh Hopkins
had to have a roll with this. I knew he did.
There's no way that it would be that specific. He'd
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be a Kentucky fan. And I texted Josh and Josh
didn't say what, but he had some role in getting
that in there. But it's kind of cool that this
character is playing a Kentucky fan on this show. That's
out right now, isn't it. It is?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And that definitely has Josh Hopkins all over it, whether
it's Mars controlling him as a good buddy, or you know,
Josh threw it out there. You know, Marstin's been on
this show talking about Kentucky too. He's called in before to.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Talk about you remember that, Yeah, but I was gone,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So that's the first I've heard of that show. I
watch it though, I like his stuff. And now you
got to Kentucky and't go why not check it out?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
So very cool Kentucky. I mean, I wish it wasn't Lightner.
But if he brings up Richie Farmer in season two, shame.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
That he's well know he's writing the script for that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Exactly right, Hopkins must get a writing credit on it.
Who's up next, Kara, Kara, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Kara, Hey, guys, I'm Greace Freda.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I'm the one that came up with Sweet Mountain Angel Baby,
and I just wanted to thank you, thank you. I'm
I'm gonna make some shirts and I but you understand.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I can't understand, Kara. I can't call him sweet Mountain
angel baby. You understand. I think I think the baby.
I don't.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
Okay, would it be better if it was sweet Mountain
Angel man.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
No, I don't think I can say sweet. I don't
think I can say angel. I just can't call another
man a sweet angel baby. I can say mountain, but
I think the rest of it's probably not.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Well, he's just a great guy. His family's awesome. He
was being down on a little cloud from God himself
and all of us mountains.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I just love it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Did she say it was beamed down from God himself?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
On a cloud Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
In the shirt he'll he'll be on a cloud.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Are you from Harlan, I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
Actually from Clay County, but I've done some work with
him on some things and his family, and I just
adore them.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
They're great people.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
They're great.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We adopt everyone in the thirteenth region. Sometimes we're not
sure about Laurel County, but everywhere else is part of
our understand So I appreciate it. Thank you very much,
and for you one sweet mountain angel. Baby. That's all
you get from now.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And we actually have another birthday shout out to give.
Did you see Twitter the one hundred year old birthday Boo?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
She just turned one hundred and she stayed up for
the whole game last night. There's a picture of her
with her balloons. So Boo in Northern Kentucky turning one
hundred today, I think is worth a second birthday shout
on the show tagged in it too, But there's a
cool picture of her.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Another person wrote me and said, Shannon. They that their
eleven year old daughter had to go to the hospital
for some emergency and was about to go into the
emergency room, like into a little patient thing, and and
was like and tried to get the doctors to wait
so she could watch in the lobby the last minute
of the game. The doctors were like, no, you need
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to come now, and the eleven year old was like,
I want to see it. Apparently she's okay, So they
told me I can tell his story because apparently she's okay.
But she was like, I don't even want an emergency room.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Case shows you how base is so special compared.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
To every other Right, that's exactly right. Who's next? Ryan? Ryan?
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Go ahead, right, Hey, Matt, you gotta turn on the
Tony Basilio show from last night. Eight minutes in the
first call, what is that guy?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I've heard the call. I wanted to play it on
the air, but there's there's some cuss words and it's
it's like impossible to hear the man. Just this is
Tony Basilio. That's the Tennessee postgame show. It seemed like
he was just losing his mind on the air.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
The caller, right, he screamed for like three minutes, and
when he gets done, it's quiet for a second and
Tony goes gonna be all all night.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I will give Tony credit. He lets that stuff go
more than I can, and sometimes he gets gold out
of it. So it did seem like that last night.
Speaker 11 (31:21):
And second thing, could you give a birthday shout out?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I appreciate call Annabel got the one of the day, Annabel,
and boo, that's it. Twenty two eighty seven. Let's talk
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two twenty two eighty seven more on the big win
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in Knoxville. It's KSR. Welcome back. By the way, that
Paradise show. Two things One, James Marsden's secret service name,
Drew is Wildcat. How about that?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh, this is all intentional, gotta be.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Gotta be secret service name is Wildcat? What? By the way,
what are what? What? What's Trump's secret service name? Shannon?
Do we know?
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I don't know? Do we know what was Biden's sleepy?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
No, A good one, I'd be a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
What Obama's had? How do I not know any of
these people? Because like, we know that's a thing, But
do we know what they are? I feel like at
some point I heard what Obama's was.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Like if we know, like the if we know the
current president's secret name, I don't I feel like that
would be a security breach.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I found a list of past presidents.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, so read me the ones there are.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh man, these are awesome. Uh, let's see Biden had a.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Couple start with the most recent people.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, this is just on Wikipedia, so I'm just reading
off that says secret Service code names presidents. I'm gonna
trust it. Joe Biden was Celtic, Donald Trump was mogul,
Donald Trump Junior was mountaineer.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Why does Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, Jill and Hunter, Yeah, they're on there too. I
wasn't gonna read all all the families. I mean all
there's was Captain, Jill was Capri. Jared Kushner is the mechanic.
Uh Obama was renegade. Renegade.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh, that's right, because his book, his book's name is Renegade.
That's right. Okay, I knew that. What was that?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
George Bush was Tumblr? I like Tumblr? Sorry, which one
did you just ask?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I would? George W. Bush was Tumblr? Yep? Who?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I got the whole list? Just throw me a present.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Keep going. What's Clinton?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Clinton was Eagle? Hillary was ever Green?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay, well that's good, good stuff. I don't that's I had.
I don't know that I've ever even heard the other one.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Trying to find like the worst one on here, Like
there's gonna be some real stupid ones.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't like who was Tumblr. I think that's a
bad one. Who had Tumblr? That was w Right? Yeah,
that was George W.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Woodrow.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Wilson's wife had Grandma as the name Grandma. That was
is why Edith Wilson's secret name was You.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Don't want to be Grandma as your as your Tumblr
as your secret service name was Nixon's.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You're gonna have to reset. Get somebody to reset you.
You're like three or four seconds behind.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh boy, I don't This is a lot of buttons
in front of me.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
All right, get Billy, because I this like Shandon, Why
does this keep happening?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Like because we're in three different cities.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I know, but like I'm on a piece of machinery
from the twenties and you and I are connected, and
they are in a state of the art studio in
three seconds behind us.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
More importantly, what would be feathers?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, it would not be feathers, you jerk. I'm not
gonna go by feathers.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Would That's obvious?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Dude? No, yours? You definitely should be dude. Yeah, that's
a good one, because I want mine? Did like sound tough?
Law dog, law dog?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
All right? I like that Billy.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, he used to call me law Dog. So for
Billy Gillespie can name my secret service name, I'll go
with law Dog. Who's next, Brad, Brad? Go ahead, Brad?
Speaker 9 (36:01):
Yes, I was hoping i'd be on in the second
hour because I wanted to talk about Booing Calip Perry.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
All right, well, why don't you hang on man? Why
don't you hang on Brad? Because I don't want to
get to that yet. Can I come back to you
in the second.
Speaker 12 (36:13):
Hour then, yeah, I've been hanging out all right.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Hang on, Brad, I'll come back. I'll come back to you.
Who's next?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Shit, Sarah?
Speaker 12 (36:19):
Sarah?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Go ahead, Sarah.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
Well, boys and law Dog? How fun is it to
silence that ridiculous song? Like the Boys did so good
last night? It was really fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I love it. I love that they still play it
at the end even when they lose, because Tom Leach
made right now. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
Great, so ridiculous, so ridiculous. You think that would finally
shut them up. But I just think everybody could learn
something from the way that Mark Pope talks about not
only his players, but just you know, everybody, Like it's
so uplifting just to even watch him talk about his
players the way he did last night, even the way
he does like.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
When we lose.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
And so I think, I don't know. I just think
that maybe we're not realizing just how special he is
as a coach, and I think he's actually going to
make a big difference in the sport and the coaching
occupation going forward. I just think we're really lucky.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
He has relentless positivity. Rights he somebody compared him earlier
in the year to Ted Lasso, and I think there's
a lot of truth in that, Like he has relentless positivity.
I heard a guy Sarah on the field of sixty eight.
You know, they do a show every night after the game. Yeah,
sometimes I turned it on. Some don't, but when Kentucky wins,
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I'll watch it. And there was a guy on there
who I don't even know who he was, honestly, because
they never said his name. Here's a little tidbit. You
all should put the names of the people up there
on there, because like some of these people, I don't know.
But he had this guy and he said something I
thought was really good. He said, you know, Kentucky fans
love of Mark Pope is actually about more than basketball.
And the guy said, I think, let's say in five
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or six years, it doesn't work out with Pope, he
doesn't win enough whatever. He was like, I think Kentucky
fans will still love Mark Pope no matter what, even
if things don't work out, just because of what kind
of person he is. Now if they work out, like
he'll be a hero unlike anyone we've had. And I
kind of agree with that, Sarah. I don't see a
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messy ending ever with Mark Pope because I think like
if it didn't work out, we'd all be sad, but
we'd still really like him for the reason that you're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (38:24):
It's so interesting that you that you brought that up,
because I actually had that thought as I was watching
the interviews last night, and I'm like, gosh, he could
suck next year and we would all still love him
just because of the person that he is. And it's like,
you know, at first, nobody knew what to do. We
don't know if he's gonna win, we don't know how
it's gonna go, but like he's not turning back into
a pumpkin. This is who he is, you know, and
it's really great to watch it, and maybe people will
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learn from that, you know, I mean, he'll.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Have to win. I appreciate the call Drew. I think
Drew's back. He'll have to win, but I think like
the way he is as a person has made him
get a grace certainly with me, and I think it'll
be with most people. That like is pretty astounding in
this job if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah, And when he first got hired, before I had
any clue if it would work, I was even skeptical.
I said, if it does work, but if it does work,
it will be better than it could be with anyone
else if it does work. With his history UK, we
already have a little bit of an idea what a
guy was. We didn't really know till he got here.
But there was no name on the list that could
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reach a level that Mark Pope could reach, just because
he already had that built in with the connection with
the fan base and how he is as a person.
And now that he's got what six or seven quad
win wins, he has more than Hurley, Scott Drew, all
those guys combined that we were all shopping for last year.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
More than Hurley Scott Drew and cal combined. Think about
that sham quad one wins than Hurley, Scott, Drew and
Cal combined. I like he could be the guy that
is sitting in Joby Hall's seat in thirty years, no doubt,
no doubt that like he can be that guy if
he Even if he doesn't win, I think people are
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gonna lie. But if he wins, there'll be a specialness
that he can hit that I'm not sure any of
these coaches could hit. Who's next, Joe, Joe, what's up? Joe?
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Quickly? Matt, Thank you Cass Daniels for not going to
South Carolina and thank you Trent Noa for not going
to South Carolina. I just couldn't imagine neither one of
those young men in the Carolina uniform. And secondly, the
big basket that Trent had, the two point basket, Mad,
that might have been bigger than that three point shot
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that he hit because at the time we was really
it was really going bad for.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
The crowd was into it. They were wrong. I think
next to the bray of three, which I think was
the biggest shot, I think it was the second biggest
shot in the game.
Speaker 12 (40:48):
And lastly, Mad, they almost banked in a troup pointy
shot in the first half from the corner. I don't know,
I forget who it was, but man, you don't see
him from the corner of Very alphin By, but they
almost had one. And so that's a gentleman. Y'all have
a great day. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, we gotta appreciate the call. We gotta have the
worst luck on earth, but we overcame it and got
the victory. All right. When we come back, we can
do more on Kentucky, Tennessee, but we got to start
talking about what's happening this week. I have some strong
feelings about the stories and everything coming out with the
cow and whether they boo all that. We'll deal with
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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In this disition sponsored by the TJ. Smith LOWFS you
call Tj'll make them pay. First of all, you know,
there's obviously a big thing happened in Saturday, but we
gotta take a lot of time today, if not most
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of the time, to talk about what happened last night.
Kentucky wins in Knoxville seventy eight to seventy three, in
a game that makes the third straight year that Kentucky
has gone into Knoxville as a double digit underdog, double
digit underdog, and one on the road. Drew, I don't know,
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you know, I don't know the records against the spread
in every college basketball game ever, but I bet you
that one team has not beaten another team three straight
years on the road as a double digit underdog, Drew.
I bet that's never happened in the history of college basketball.
It's just a guess, but I bet it hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I can't imagine a time that gonna happen, and even
twice seems very unlikely. So to do it three straight
years as an eleven and a half point doll ten
and a half point dog, ten and a half point dog,
that I'm gonna agree with you. I don't think that
could ever happen at this point, Yeah, and I feel
like this point, Kentucky just keep making us the underdog.
Why not, It's fun to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I would be shocked if that's ever happened and they
get the victory. It is now five out of last
six in Knoxville. We've gone ahead, and we got Shannon
a timeshare on Rocky Top. Now, as a matter of fact,
I think we own the majority of it. After a
win that I think is as impressive a coaching job
as we'll see, Mark Pope goes in without his point guard,
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Lamont Butler starting power forward, Andrew Carr plays one minute
basically and then can't go. And he essentially plays five
guys and then brings in four people roding off the bench,
really only two of them that play significant minutes, and
then finds a way to get a victory. I said
on the postgame show last night, Drew, I think you know,
(02:57):
no offense to Brandon Garrison and Travis Perry, who played,
but their contributions were a little more minimal. But seven
dudes like each gave a big contribution, and the five
starters were unbelievable. I mean, all five guys. You don't
win without any of them. Playing well, all five in
double digits. D I mean, that was almost the epitome
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of a team win where five guys went in said
look it's us and basically each of them did what
they had to do to get the victory.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's crazy, and not just any five guys. These are
five guys from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Guys that a lot
of people outside of Kentucky were saying aren't talented enough,
Kentucky's gonna fall. Those five went in with a bench
of two kids that were in the Sweet sixteen last
year and beat a very good Tennessee team in an
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environment where Voss fans thought all day they were winning.
They went in celebrating before tip off because they thought
that game was over, and to have the performance they
did with Kentucky just jump on them right away. That
was amazing. It's one of my favorite games in a
long time.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, let's just focus on that for a second. Think
about the people that went on the floor last night.
Starting lineup from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Fairleigh, Dickinson, and Drexel,
and the bench Oklahoma State, a guy that was on
a Mormon mission, and two kids from the Kentucky Sweet
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sixteen high school. I mean, that's who won the game
last night. That's who went and beat a Tennessee team
that was pre season number two or three, the number
one defensive team in the country going in, by the way,
by the way, they were number two coming out because
we scored seventy eight points on them, and you go
and win there. That's just an absolutely amazing job. And
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they had a bunch of different times during the game
that they could have given it up. You know, they
were up eight in the first half, Shannon, they come
back terrible last three minutes the first half, were losing
by three at halftime. Once again, start the second half. Great,
go from down three to up six in the first
segment of the second half, and then the league kind
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of would go up to eight or nine, come back
to three, go up to eight or nine, come back
to three. But Shannon, they would always make the plays
they had to make. And then after a terrible sweet
sequence where they get three offensive rebounds, they get four
shots at it, they finally make a three. We're only
up one and it looks like we're gonna collapse. They
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go and hit a free throw or hit two free throws,
play great defense, on the next play and get the
win them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean, that is, without a doubt, in my mind,
the most impressive win of the entire season. I know
they played without Creasing, without Butler in the Gonzaga game,
but that wasn't for the entire forty minutes. And to
be able to go on the road in a tough
environment like that and do that against Tennessee, I mean,
come on, man, how does that not get you excited
about the rest of the season moving forward?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Even if you don't have Butler.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They do need them going forward, but this shows you
they can win if they I don't have him for
the next couple of games.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And on Brandon Garrison's expletive Leyden postgame postgame locker room video,
Lamar Butler says he'll be back soon, So that makes
me feel better. But you know, we're probably gonna have
some games where we don't have him, and you know,
they played Jackson Robinson at the point guard. They played
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a Maury Williams some at the point guard, which made
Drew my heart kind of flutter a little bit, like
what are we doing? But he did an awesome job
doing it. Omari had fifteen rebounds, Jackson, Robinson seventeen points,
Kobe Braa eighteen points, and a diversity of game that
we haven't seen going to the basket. Some he had set.
You know, Drew, we've talked about he had ten free
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throws on the year. He had seven free throws last night.
He had as many for almost as many free throws
last night, Drew as he shot the entire season. Leading
into the game.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I think he was listening to KSR if we called
him out on that day of the game. But I think,
you know, you want Butler back. I want him back imediately.
The same with Carr. But I almost think the offense
just had their backs against the Wallers, like, well, there's
not much of a bench. We gotta do something, and
maybe they found confidence in that. I think, you know, Robinson,
I don't want him to be the point guard, but
he's now done it in the second half against Gonzaga
did well last night. You don't want to do it forever.
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But it seems like this group, when they get pretty limited,
they play well together offensively, and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We even beat the Banked in three curse troop. We
thought that would do us in, but we even beat
the Banked in three curse, they hit a banked in three,
we still would, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So let's talk about that, because right before the banked
in three, you couldn't convince me Tennessee was gonna win
that game. I mean pretty early in the second half,
I was feeling great. I was already talking my talk
with friends. But then when that banked in three happened,
I considered turning off the TV and going to bed.
I genuinely thought the banked in three has that much
of a curse, that that was the final moment. So
(07:50):
maybe earlier in the game Brea had won Rattle and
kind of bank in, maybe that canceled it out. But
to have it a sixth time now, I thought that
was the end.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know how that's possible that you could make
it six threes in games. But we won this one,
and that's ultimately the most important thing I will tell you, Shannon. So,
I was at the Carolina Hurricanes were playing here in
New York, right, So I went to the game and
the plan was to watch it on my phone, and
I was gonna have I was gonna watch it, but
(08:20):
you know, I thought, to be honest with me, I
thought we were gonna lose, so I was like, I'm gonna
keep track of it, but whatever. Well, of course, obviously
when we're winning, you know what happens to me. Right,
Let yeah start. I'm literally in the middle of Madison
Square Garden like.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Pacing did you find the showers in the locker round?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And I nearly went in and knocked Sebastianaho out of
there and said, look, I gotta be in the shower.
I'm standing in the aisle at the end of the game,
like pacing back and forth. The Canes destroyed the Rangers,
so I got a double dip of wins. But I
was freaking out and I'm sitting there, and you know
how it is when you're like in an arena. The
service would go in and out, especially on streaming video.
(08:58):
And at one point the three that Kobe Braya hit
right after they had banked in the three drew, it
froze with the ball in the air, right, So so no,
Kobe Bray shoots a three, and I don't know whether
or not it's gone in, And I remember thinking sitting there,
if that ball goes in, I think we're winning. If
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it doesn't, I think we might lose. And then when
I finally when it thirty seconds later restarted it, it
got in. And I actually think that the two most
important plays of the game. I said this last night.
I think we're Trent Noah on the loose ball being
a Kentucky player to finally go get a loose ball
put in the basket because they were on a run
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that stopped it. And then I think Kobe Bray is
three right after the banked in three. You know when
that but three went banked in, all Kentucky fans probably thought, well,
there we go. We're gonna lose. And then on the
next play he hits the the three. For me, it
froze in the air for a minute, but I thought, actually,
those were the two biggest buckets of the game.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, the immediate in response to the bank was awesome.
It's so good to see Bray get going not missing
a shot. But honestly, my favorite play of the game
was Trent Noah pulling up from the e a shot
he should not have taken, yeah, and drilling it. I mean,
you gotta think about that's right. I heard you say
on the show. Loved the Mountain Mamba nickname, but you
got that kid not even this time last year, didn't
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have a thought of playing for Kentucky. He was going
to South Carolina, didn't have an offer to pull up
from the e on Tennessee's court. What two hours from
your high school? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
This kid is not afraid at all. And I love
the effort on the loose balls too. I kind of downplayed,
no I needed to play more because I thought it
was a Kentucky thing. But the effort he's shown and
the willingness to just shoot with confidence, I think he
does need more minute.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But do you like the name Shannon Mountain Mamba? That
was some guy on Chaos Board. Sorry, I don't know
which one it is, or I would give you credit.
I think it's a perfect name. I think it hits.
It hits a perfect combination. I think people will like it.
Are you Shanning pro mountain Mamba? I am? I think
most people seem to be.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I was telling Billy during the pre show, maybe too
many syllables mountain Mamba. It's almost the song, right, you
get the song? And yeah, here's the thing. If you're
trenton Nowhere, though, why not shoot that shot? You're playing
with house money? What's gonna happen. If you miss it,
you're gonna get benched. I mean, you've been on the
bench of the entire season, so why not shoot your shot.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm glad he took that one.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We've got a nickname Drama.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We've got nickname Drama.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I like Mountain Mamba. But a woman at the games
from Harlan Cara, she's been workshopping a nickname all season
and I told her needs a it's a rough draft.
But she's been calling him sweet and sweet Mountain angel
baby all season. I her that that needs a little work.
I think Mountain Mamba is the one. I think we
put Mountain Angel Baby to the side, and Mountain Mamba
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is it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's the woman's name.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
She texted me last night, Sweet Mountain.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm sure I'm not calling another man sweet Mountain Angels.
You know I'm not. I'm gonna calling Mountain. But he
looks twelve years old. He does. There's never been a
player who looked younger than Trent Noah. But I did
this last night. But I just want to go through
quickly the players, and because I think they all deserve
a shout out. Maybe Drew Amari Williams's best game as
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a cat. Fifteen beautifuay, twenty four minutes, twenty four minutes,
fifteen rebounds. I think, what ten points, twelve points something
like that. Played excellent, had to bring the ball up
for a little bit. I mean, that's got to be
a Mari's best game he's had, right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, two quick fouls got him early in the half,
and then at halftime he played ten minutes and he
still had seven rebounds and two assists. I mean, in
limited minutes, he still found a way to really help
out on the boards.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And they don't.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You know, we're focusing on the threes and guys stepping up,
but they don't win that game without Mario getting rebounds. Overall,
they still sucked at rebounding, but Amrio was big and
open out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I thought Jackson Robinson was great. Obviously had seventeen points,
hit the four threes. Thought he played pretty good defense
out on the perimeter. You know, he had to play points.
Some he set up. If you go look at Bray,
he's in Almanor's threes and even Noah's three. A lot
of times the play was set up by Robinson to
get those guys looks that I thought he had an excellent,
excellent game. Almanor hits the four threes. My man struggles
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at rebounding the defense. But if you make four threes,
then you can play through that, and he ended up
doing it. Kobe Braya, you know, his seven to three
game at Florida. Against Florida is obviously a bigger scoring game,
but in terms of his overall impact on the game,
this was his best game in my opinion, scoring eighteen points,
but only three of them on threes. He got to
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the line we talked about, I think he got a
dunk at one point. Oh way, I thought played well.
Little nerve wracking sometimes when he handles the ball, but
he hit the four big free throws at the end
that were important. And then we mentioned noah, but let
me throw Colin Chandler in there. Yeah, his stat line
is nothing. He didn't score, but he played fifteen minutes.
It was fifteen minutes. True that unlike some of his
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other minutes where it's stuck out that he's out there
and you're like, oh no. I actually thought he did
pretty well and surprisingly, I thought he played pretty good defense,
which is why I think he played fifteen minutes. Last night.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Uh, I actually owe the Chandler's calling anyone listening an apology.
Even last night, I yelled at my TV a few times,
why is he in the game? And he shut me up.
Just about every time he had a great stop in
the first half, they could have called a walk or
three seconds. The guy did both. With Chandler definiting, I
mean out scoring, but it's nothing that shows up in
the box score there. But Chandler played great defense, had
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a big deflection in the second half. I just he
had that open three. I wanted him to make so
bad at that you go in. But otherwise he played.
He played well and when a lot of people myself included,
were wondering if you could play in that game.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, great night to beat Tennessee like that the go
big blue chant at the end, like what if you're
a Kentucky face, especially if you're a Kentucky fan from
the Mountain. I mean, for those of us in the
thirteenth region, there's not gonna be too many wins we
like more than that winning at Knoxville. That was the
game I always got to go to. I never got
to go to get games at RUP. But my grandfather
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would take me my mom then later would take me
at Knoxville to the Kentucky game. We usually lost, but
I always loved going there. To win at Knoxville and
to have a kid from the thirteenth Region make big plays,
that was that's gotta be one of the best Thirteenth
Region Kentucky wins of all time. And then again Mark
(15:22):
Pope Man, I mean, that is a coaching win. Those
players all played well. They deserve all the accolades. But
to drop up a game plan. Tennessee had only allowed
more than seventy points once and it was seventy one
and we scored seventy eight. That's the game right there.
And to set up a defensive game plan where you
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make Tennessee take forty five threes, which is not what
they want to do. They took forty five threes. Dude,
you can't ask for a better result. If I'm nine,
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we're gonna take
your calls. First hour, I'm gonna one it two be
mostly Tennessee. We will switch in the second hour and
talk about what's coming Saturday, because there's actually news on
(16:06):
all that and the debate about well, what should we do?
I have strong thoughts about it, but let's talk Kentucky, Tennessee. First.
We'll take a break and right back this case.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Sweet Mountain Angel baby say it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Come on, Matt so no, come on, no, welcome back.
I'm not calling him that shit. I'm sorry. Come on,
but Mount mom is a good name, and those of
you trying to say something else, no, that's the one.
I'll give some positive march to the Harlan Hammer. I
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like that. The Harlan Hammer I do like. But I'm
still gonna go with Mount Mamba. I think it's I
think it's the best one. One person rides Matt. Is
there any chance you think Jackson Robinson should be our
starting point guard? No? But here's what I like about
having Jackson Robinson as a point guard Drew is that
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he is he's not scared to shoot an initiate offense,
and Butler, I have felt like in the last few games,
and it may be a product of his injury, has
been very hesitant to shoot, especially from the outside, which
makes him force it to the basket too much. Oway
doesn't seem confident in his shot, and when you're a
team that's gonna shoot a lot of threes. You can't
have your two guards not shooting. The good thing about
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having Robinson is he'll shoot. Then you get Oway and
then you get Bray at the three, and all of
a sudden, you got guys out on the perimeter who
are their first look is to shoot threes. And with
with Butler not shooting and Oway not looking confident, we
haven't had that. So I do think Robinson maybe should
slide into that backup role now.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, I think we'll see more of it. I also
just think he as a player turned the quarter. Since
that Georgia game, he looks like a completely different.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I agree person.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I agree he almost or may have been a little
broken after that game. Pope even talked about how they
got a build him back up, and then he turns
around and what do he have? Like twenty seven at
Mississippi State the next game he said twenty two? Since then,
he said seventeen since then, I think he has just
found his spot now that SEC play is rolling, and
I think we're gonna get more good Robinson games moving forward.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
If you go back and look at when we were
rolling making threes, Butler and old Way both would just
pull as soon as they were open, and neither guy
has looked like he's felt like he could do that,
which I think has led to some of our offensive
slogs at points. With Robinson, I think you're back to
everybody feeling like they can be free, and I think
that there is some advantage to that. But you do
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miss Butler's defense, you do. I mean, we were fortunate
that the guards for Tennessee went four for twenty one
from three, but that won't happen every single game. A five, nine,
two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first, Brent? Brent,
go ahead, Brent?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Uh Man? I was just there's a way that Jack
give his talks to those players after the game that
that kind of goes unnoticed. What I think he goes
a long way. When Robinson started the game out yesterday,
it took me back to the talk that Goose had
with him after the Vandy game, And when I saw
him come out like that, I felt real good. Second
(19:14):
thing is, anybody knows me knows I love bacon, and
Fryan is baking this week is gonna mean something different.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To me, and I'll hang up appreciate it. Let me
say something about the postgame radio, So you know, shendon
for a long time. The game ends, we have like
an hour to hour and fifteen minutes, and then my
post game comes on. And I used to kind of
dread that hour to hour and fifteen minutes. I'm gonna
be honest with you, I didn't think the show was
the most exciting thing in the world. And then Cal
(19:42):
was Cal and those interviews I think that hour and
fifteen minutes now is for the most part, really good
because he's right Jack Givens. They've given Jack more time
to talk, which I think he does a great job with.
Then when he interviews the players, it's it's like Drew
an uncle or a grandfather talking to the kids. Like
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I love it, Like I love the way he talks
to the players. He pumps them up, like I just
think he does such a great job with those interviews.
And then Pope is so good to listen to. It's
better at home than on the road because he's always
kind of in a hurry on the road. But like
you get a real breakdown of the game. And I actually,
you know, for people who watch it home, I'm you know,
(20:25):
over the years. I haven't had the greatest relationship in
the last few years with Jami, but I would say,
actually turn that show on when the game's over while
you're waiting for us to come on, because I actually
think it really is the way Jack and Tom and
and Pope, the way they're doing it this year, I
think makes it a really fun experience leading into our
(20:45):
car show after.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, and Pope has been detailed about basketball. Anytime we
hear from him, it's really awesome to know, like, oh,
this is precisely what they're working on for the next
game because this team does X and we need to
do why. So I love hearing Pope any more what
we get. But you're especially correct on the Jack Gibbons saying,
like last night he had Kobe Brea and he said
something like, I don't even know if I should say
(21:08):
this to you, but I just want to say I'm
very proud of you and Kobe.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, I means so much.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And it was really sweet, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
A really sweet. It's really sweet the way he talks
to the guys, especially on this team. I'm not sure
what it is, maybe that he's connected more with these guys,
but the way he talks to these guys. I just
think is really really the sweet is the best word
I can use, and I I really look forward to it.
I commend those guys for you know, this is not
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we've talked over. This is not the most talented team
in the world, but it seems like a family of
guys that are really going you know what, if we
collectively pull each other up, we can hit a higher mark.
And I just there's something really kind of nice and
sweet about it. Who's next, Tody, Cody, go ahead, Cody.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Hey, Matt in the Gang things, rap me on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, we just got like a minute going.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I don't know about you guys. Yeah, I'll be quick.
I'm gonna have to restock my bourbon cabinet after the
game last night, both from celebration and just stress. My goodness,
just the rebound in those last two minutes, Oh my goodness.
So I wonder, you know, the fan earlier this season
that gave Kobe Bray of their baby to like carry
around the court. I wonder if they're looking back on
(22:22):
that thing, you know, I was, I was maybe not
a good move.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He can drop. That was a tough drop he had
at the end, and you know that's if it was
in his hands and it fell out of bounds. But
they fought through that. But I thought to myself, and
I appreciate the call. There was a play Amari had
at Vandy where he was right under the goal he
dropped it. I thought it was a key play. We
ended up losing when Kobe dropped that win. I wondered
if it was the same thing. But they held on
(22:49):
and got the win. We're gonna take a break, be
right back. Cats. Huge win over the Balls's k tuck
you sports Radio. Great win in Knoxville last night. Five
to the last six. I mean, there's probably not been
many times in UK history we've won five the last six.
Like I said, I bet there's no time in college
basketball a double digit road dog has won three straight
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games in three straight years against the team. I bet
that's never happened. I mean, not many teams play each
other twice anymore in the modern day. And I just
bet that hasn't happened because first of all, you'd have
to be good to win, but then you also have
to have been like thought of to not win to
be a double digit underdog. So I don't think that's
happened very much. I'm telling you yesterday, Shannon, you should
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have seen me there at the garden. I mean I
went there to watch the Canes. I'm standing there in
the middle of the aisle. I tried to buy seats
on the end of the rows, but I was right
in the middle, so I was in front of everybody,
so I had to walk over them to then pace
in the aisle. And the Canes were winning by a
lot at the end, so it didn't matter. But like
everybody had to be looking at me, like this game,
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why this game is four? Oh Carolina, why are you pacing?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Like this guy looks like he wants to be anywhere
but here right now, not even like.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
He must have a bet on him. What's he doing?
And I'm standing there on my phone. We tried to like,
you know.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Probably the only person in Madison Square Garden watching the
Kentucky game.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, I had to be the only person that cared.
But I did care and got a double dip on
those victories. We didn't get the KSR parlay. What because
Owai didn't hit a three drew. I think we hit
everything else, didn't we?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, I really wanted Kobe Braa props, but they weren't
on there. The O Way three. I think it's been
a long time since he had.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, I worry he seems nervous to shoot now. Granted
he takes it to the basket and he drew fouls
last yesterday, but he doesn't seem like he wants.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
To shoo Jackson Robinson had two in the first three minutes.
I'm going and he's gonna hit that over three threes.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, and then I think I think we hit it
all except the O Way three.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Uh oh way and double digits every game. Still very
impressive for him though, every.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Game said double digits in every single game, and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I think it's even like more than twelve every game.
It's not even that's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You got to give that kid a lot of credit,
I tweeted out. So there's a new show Shannon on
on Hulu called Paradise. I have not seen it. I
don't know if it's good, don't know anything about it.
But James Marsden plays the president. Now you remember who
James Marsden is. Yeah, insanely handsome dude. Uh. He's everybody listening,
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even if you don't know the name. If you look
up his face. You've seen him in something he was
in like Sonic the Hedgehog. He was in the show
with Christina Applegate on Netflix. What else he been in? Yes,
he's been in everything, the Notebook, James mars Yeah, a
(25:42):
lot of people know, all right, So James Marsden. I've
met James Marsden a number of times. He's like best
friends with Josh Hopkins, the Kentucky fan. They both live
in Austin, Texas, their buddies. When I used to go
to Austin and see Josh, he'd be there, nicest guy
in the world. He was also in the show You
and I like Drew so much Jury Duty, right, Jerry
(26:04):
the Amazon show Anyway plays the president. In this show,
they have a scene where the president is a Kentucky fan, which,
by the way, well let's play the scene. This is
a scene from the new show on I think it's Hulu.
Is it Hulu or Amazon Hulu? This is the new
show from Hulu. This is James Marsden, who is a
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UK fan on the show talking than Christian Laden.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I don't off do this to name Christian ladan duke
that he made the most famous college basketball shot of
all time against us in the tournament single handedly killed
me in every other.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Kentucky Wildcat fan that day.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Yeah, I thought i'd been lighter.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He says he thought he had been lightered. And he
says he killed at me and every other Kentucky Wildcat fan.
So I mean crazy he to not only say he's
a Kentucky fan to bring up the Lightner shot, say
it broke his heart. So I knew Drew Josh Hopkins
had to have a roll with this. I knew he did.
There's no way that it would be that specific. He'd
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be a Kentucky fan. And I texted Josh and Josh
didn't say what, but he had some role in getting
that in there. But it's kind of cool that this
character is playing a Kentucky fan on this show. That's
out right now, isn't it. It is?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And that definitely has Josh Hopkins all over it, whether
it's Mars controlling him as a good buddy, or you know,
Josh threw it out there. You know, Marstin's been on
this show talking about Kentucky too. He's called in before to.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Talk about you remember that, Yeah, but I was gone,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So that's the first I've heard of that show. I
watch it though, I like his stuff. And now you
got to Kentucky and't go why not check it out?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
So very cool Kentucky. I mean, I wish it wasn't Lightner.
But if he brings up Richie Farmer in season two, shame.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
That he's well know he's writing the script for that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Exactly right, Hopkins must get a writing credit on it.
Who's up next, Kara, Kara, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Kara, Hey, guys, I'm Greace Freda.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I'm the one that came up with Sweet Mountain Angel Baby,
and I just wanted to thank you, thank you. I'm
I'm gonna make some shirts and I but you understand.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I can't understand, Kara. I can't call him sweet Mountain
angel baby. You understand. I think I think the baby.
I don't.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
Okay, would it be better if it was sweet Mountain
Angel man.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
No, I don't think I can say sweet. I don't
think I can say angel. I just can't call another
man a sweet angel baby. I can say mountain, but
I think the rest of it's probably not.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Well, he's just a great guy. His family's awesome. He
was being down on a little cloud from God himself
and all of us mountains.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I just love it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Did she say it was beamed down from God himself?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
On a cloud Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
In the shirt he'll he'll be on a cloud.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Are you from Harlan, I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
Actually from Clay County, but I've done some work with
him on some things and his family, and I just
adore them.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
They're great people.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
They're great.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We adopt everyone in the thirteenth region. Sometimes we're not
sure about Laurel County, but everywhere else is part of
our understand So I appreciate it. Thank you very much,
and for you one sweet mountain angel. Baby. That's all
you get from now.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And we actually have another birthday shout out to give.
Did you see Twitter the one hundred year old birthday Boo?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
She just turned one hundred and she stayed up for
the whole game last night. There's a picture of her
with her balloons. So Boo in Northern Kentucky turning one
hundred today, I think is worth a second birthday shout
on the show tagged in it too, But there's a
cool picture of her.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Another person wrote me and said, Shannon. They that their
eleven year old daughter had to go to the hospital
for some emergency and was about to go into the
emergency room, like into a little patient thing, and and
was like and tried to get the doctors to wait
so she could watch in the lobby the last minute
of the game. The doctors were like, no, you need
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to come now, and the eleven year old was like,
I want to see it. Apparently she's okay, So they
told me I can tell his story because apparently she's okay.
But she was like, I don't even want an emergency room.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Case shows you how base is so special compared.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
To every other Right, that's exactly right. Who's next? Ryan? Ryan?
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Go ahead, right, Hey, Matt, you gotta turn on the
Tony Basilio show from last night. Eight minutes in the
first call, what is that guy?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I've heard the call. I wanted to play it on
the air, but there's there's some cuss words and it's
it's like impossible to hear the man. Just this is
Tony Basilio. That's the Tennessee postgame show. It seemed like
he was just losing his mind on the air.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
The caller, right, he screamed for like three minutes, and
when he gets done, it's quiet for a second and
Tony goes gonna be all all night.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I will give Tony credit. He lets that stuff go
more than I can, and sometimes he gets gold out
of it. So it did seem like that last night.
Speaker 11 (31:21):
And second thing, could you give a birthday shout out?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I appreciate call Annabel got the one of the day, Annabel,
and boo, that's it. Twenty two eighty seven. Let's talk
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two twenty two eighty seven more on the big win
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in Knoxville. It's KSR. Welcome back. By the way, that
Paradise show. Two things One, James Marsden's secret service name,
Drew is Wildcat. How about that?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh, this is all intentional, gotta be.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Gotta be secret service name is Wildcat? What? By the way,
what are what? What? What's Trump's secret service name? Shannon?
Do we know?
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I don't know? Do we know what was Biden's sleepy?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
No, A good one, I'd be a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
What Obama's had? How do I not know any of
these people? Because like, we know that's a thing, But
do we know what they are? I feel like at
some point I heard what Obama's was.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Like if we know, like the if we know the
current president's secret name, I don't I feel like that
would be a security breach.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I found a list of past presidents.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, so read me the ones there are.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh man, these are awesome. Uh, let's see Biden had a.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Couple start with the most recent people.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, this is just on Wikipedia, so I'm just reading
off that says secret Service code names presidents. I'm gonna
trust it. Joe Biden was Celtic, Donald Trump was mogul,
Donald Trump Junior was mountaineer.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Why does Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, Jill and Hunter, Yeah, they're on there too. I
wasn't gonna read all all the families. I mean all
there's was Captain, Jill was Capri. Jared Kushner is the mechanic.
Uh Obama was renegade. Renegade.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh, that's right, because his book, his book's name is Renegade.
That's right. Okay, I knew that. What was that?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
George Bush was Tumblr? I like Tumblr? Sorry, which one
did you just ask?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I would? George W. Bush was Tumblr? Yep? Who?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I got the whole list? Just throw me a present.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Keep going. What's Clinton?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Clinton was Eagle? Hillary was ever Green?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay, well that's good, good stuff. I don't that's I had.
I don't know that I've ever even heard the other one.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Trying to find like the worst one on here, Like
there's gonna be some real stupid ones.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't like who was Tumblr. I think that's a
bad one. Who had Tumblr? That was w Right? Yeah,
that was George W.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Woodrow.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Wilson's wife had Grandma as the name Grandma. That was
is why Edith Wilson's secret name was You.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Don't want to be Grandma as your as your Tumblr
as your secret service name was Nixon's.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You're gonna have to reset. Get somebody to reset you.
You're like three or four seconds behind.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh boy, I don't This is a lot of buttons
in front of me.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
All right, get Billy, because I this like Shandon, Why
does this keep happening?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Like because we're in three different cities.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I know, but like I'm on a piece of machinery
from the twenties and you and I are connected, and
they are in a state of the art studio in
three seconds behind us.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
More importantly, what would be feathers?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, it would not be feathers, you jerk. I'm not
gonna go by feathers.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Would That's obvious?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Dude? No, yours? You definitely should be dude. Yeah, that's
a good one, because I want mine? Did like sound tough?
Law dog, law dog?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
All right? I like that Billy.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, he used to call me law Dog. So for
Billy Gillespie can name my secret service name, I'll go
with law Dog. Who's next, Brad, Brad? Go ahead, Brad?
Speaker 9 (36:01):
Yes, I was hoping i'd be on in the second
hour because I wanted to talk about Booing Calip Perry.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
All right, well, why don't you hang on man? Why
don't you hang on Brad? Because I don't want to
get to that yet. Can I come back to you
in the second.
Speaker 12 (36:13):
Hour then, yeah, I've been hanging out all right.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Hang on, Brad, I'll come back. I'll come back to you.
Who's next?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Shit, Sarah?
Speaker 12 (36:19):
Sarah?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Go ahead, Sarah.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
Well, boys and law Dog? How fun is it to
silence that ridiculous song? Like the Boys did so good
last night? It was really fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I love it. I love that they still play it
at the end even when they lose, because Tom Leach
made right now. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
Great, so ridiculous, so ridiculous. You think that would finally
shut them up. But I just think everybody could learn
something from the way that Mark Pope talks about not
only his players, but just you know, everybody, Like it's
so uplifting just to even watch him talk about his
players the way he did last night, even the way
he does like.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
When we lose.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
And so I think, I don't know. I just think
that maybe we're not realizing just how special he is
as a coach, and I think he's actually going to
make a big difference in the sport and the coaching
occupation going forward. I just think we're really lucky.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
He has relentless positivity. Rights he somebody compared him earlier
in the year to Ted Lasso, and I think there's
a lot of truth in that, Like he has relentless positivity.
I heard a guy Sarah on the field of sixty eight.
You know, they do a show every night after the game. Yeah,
sometimes I turned it on. Some don't, but when Kentucky wins,
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I'll watch it. And there was a guy on there
who I don't even know who he was, honestly, because
they never said his name. Here's a little tidbit. You
all should put the names of the people up there
on there, because like some of these people, I don't know.
But he had this guy and he said something I
thought was really good. He said, you know, Kentucky fans
love of Mark Pope is actually about more than basketball.
And the guy said, I think, let's say in five
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or six years, it doesn't work out with Pope, he
doesn't win enough whatever. He was like, I think Kentucky
fans will still love Mark Pope no matter what, even
if things don't work out, just because of what kind
of person he is. Now if they work out, like
he'll be a hero unlike anyone we've had. And I
kind of agree with that, Sarah. I don't see a
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messy ending ever with Mark Pope because I think like
if it didn't work out, we'd all be sad, but
we'd still really like him for the reason that you're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (38:24):
It's so interesting that you that you brought that up,
because I actually had that thought as I was watching
the interviews last night, and I'm like, gosh, he could
suck next year and we would all still love him
just because of the person that he is. And it's like,
you know, at first, nobody knew what to do. We
don't know if he's gonna win, we don't know how
it's gonna go, but like he's not turning back into
a pumpkin. This is who he is, you know, and
it's really great to watch it, and maybe people will
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learn from that, you know, I mean, he'll.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Have to win. I appreciate the call Drew. I think
Drew's back. He'll have to win, but I think like
the way he is as a person has made him
get a grace certainly with me, and I think it'll
be with most people. That like is pretty astounding in
this job if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah, And when he first got hired, before I had
any clue if it would work, I was even skeptical.
I said, if it does work, but if it does work,
it will be better than it could be with anyone
else if it does work. With his history UK, we
already have a little bit of an idea what a
guy was. We didn't really know till he got here.
But there was no name on the list that could
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reach a level that Mark Pope could reach, just because
he already had that built in with the connection with
the fan base and how he is as a person.
And now that he's got what six or seven quad
win wins, he has more than Hurley, Scott Drew, all
those guys combined that we were all shopping for last year.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
More than Hurley Scott Drew and cal combined. Think about
that sham quad one wins than Hurley, Scott, Drew and
Cal combined. I like he could be the guy that
is sitting in Joby Hall's seat in thirty years, no doubt,
no doubt that like he can be that guy if
he Even if he doesn't win, I think people are
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gonna lie. But if he wins, there'll be a specialness
that he can hit that I'm not sure any of
these coaches could hit. Who's next, Joe, Joe, what's up? Joe?
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Quickly? Matt, Thank you Cass Daniels for not going to
South Carolina and thank you Trent Noa for not going
to South Carolina. I just couldn't imagine neither one of
those young men in the Carolina uniform. And secondly, the
big basket that Trent had, the two point basket, Mad,
that might have been bigger than that three point shot
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that he hit because at the time we was really
it was really going bad for.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
The crowd was into it. They were wrong. I think
next to the bray of three, which I think was
the biggest shot, I think it was the second biggest
shot in the game.
Speaker 12 (40:48):
And lastly, Mad, they almost banked in a troup pointy
shot in the first half from the corner. I don't know,
I forget who it was, but man, you don't see
him from the corner of Very alphin By, but they
almost had one. And so that's a gentleman. Y'all have
a great day. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, we gotta appreciate the call. We gotta have the
worst luck on earth, but we overcame it and got
the victory. All right. When we come back, we can
do more on Kentucky, Tennessee, but we got to start
talking about what's happening this week. I have some strong
feelings about the stories and everything coming out with the
cow and whether they boo all that. We'll deal with
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that at the top of the hour. It's KSR.
Host
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