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4:23I'm just giving him more. Excuse me. One person writes, Matt, I know a guy who got a arrested Saturday night for stealing a chair from the LSU bench. The officer wrote the citation that he was guarding the LSU bench and he picked up the chair and tried to walk away with it. The officer told him to stop. He did not. The officer tackled him. I like just stealing the chair from LSU's bench. Lots of souvenirs for taking. It's just his officer told you to stop. You better stop. Good thing the bullet county guy's got the guys. Allegedly got the basketball out before that. That's true. In the video, do you actually see them take a different people? I don't think the guy that dunked is the guy or the guy who took the basketball out. I've seen a video of the guy with the ball not in the stadium and he's recreating. Can he miss? He's run. He even holds it out and smiles. So he's doing that. Yeah. That's good. A couple of things for we get back to the phones. A and M. The saga A and M's amazing. After they lose on Saturday, Mike Elco, the coach at A&M goes in the post game press conference

5:26and says, look, I know the A&M fans are behind this. You got those people out on Jerry's cesspool. Was it Jerry? Billy cesspool. Billy cesspool. And there, but the real fans are with us. Well for Billy's cesspool is techsags.com. And just for a little context, techsags.com is the only site in America that at all competes with KSR and traffic. Used to be back when you, when I would follow it regularly, like we would have more traffic during basketball season in the summer and then they would have more traffic during football season. But KSR and techsags are the two biggest websites in college sports with the team. And there are website. Most of the traffic is people reading articles. Now we have a message board, but we didn't for many, many years. Teachers is always message board based. So like where is KSR is often associated with me or Drew or Tyler or whoever. Techsags is really a fan site that God Billy runs it, but like it's not really known

6:30for personality. It's known for the message board. So essentially he's just attacking the fans. Not a good thing to do. Just a terrible idea. He is since apologized. The number one downfall you know a coach is on their way out when they start attacking the media. It always works. It is you get bonus points when you attack the media sometimes, but it always means you're struggling always always always always always. And in this case, he not only is attacking the media, he was attacking the fans. There's no way Michael works. No way. I mean, I think you want 11 games. You're done matter. Are you going to work? Once you do that, you're coming back from that. You already got one foot out the door and we'll end up seeing that Will Stein maybe got two coaches fired. Shame be my friend Mike Alco when it's all sitting. Yeah, you're right. Techsags is huge and Billy is like beloved around there. Everyone likes that guy. Yeah, he's so when they called it Billy's cesspool, man, you might as well just head on

7:33out. He's kind of like Tom Leach in the sense of like like I'm kind of a controversial personality sometimes, at least to some people in the fan base for a variety of reasons ranging from me just being loud to political, whatever. He is like almost like neutral. Like he doesn't really give opinions. So he's like Tom Leach in the sense that like nobody dislikes him. So it's even Dumber that they did that once you do it. Like a minute I saw that I was like, that's not going to. Alco is not going to work. It's just not very does a sentence. I'm very familiar with what happened here with our basketball coach. It was Cal, but at least with Cal, Cal had one thing. True. You know, Alco hadn't even won anything. Remind me, remember at Florida, a few years ago when Napier has talked about everybody in their basement, blogging and message board. Yep. He never recovered today. He never will. He was signed in yesterday though. Will Stimes on a show with Andy and Ari and they brought up that thing and I think Andy Staples was kin with him and said something like, you know, Will don't ever say anything

8:36about KSR like the ticks and he and Will goes, I love all the meat. He's like, they do a great job and they all work hard. And he didn't seem like he was sarcastic. You know, I think Will knows like, Will's just, he's also good at PR. He's a great like coach, but he also understands this. It just feels like we went from the antiquated area like era to the modern area, era almost overnight in fan experience, play calling, dealing with the media. It's just fascinating to watch so quick. I've said this before, but I feel like Will Stein is like, hey, Kentucky, I love you, but I need to show you kind of how college football works. Like having been at Oregon. Yeah. I see how a good program runs. We need this. We need that. This needs to be over here. And that's why we're seeing all these new upgrades in the new uniforms. It's like he's holding our hand and walking us into big boy college football. Totally agree. Now, I do want to say. I was about to say the contrast of what we do in football versus what we do in basketball.

9:40But I want to say something positive for a second about something that happened at the game with the basketball players. Mario was there for some of this. So the basketball team was all on the field before the game. The only player on the basketball team I know to speak to is Malacock. Sure. He's the only one I really know. Trent Noah was not there. So I know Trent, but he was not. He was not there. At least I didn't see. I've gotten to know Frank a little bit from the media madness to say hello. But otherwise, I don't know the guys. And I don't know that they know who I am. We mean they know who I know. You don't know. How do you know they all pay attention more than we think? I don't know. I don't know how they don't know who I am. They know you are. They know they know Drew. They know Matt and Orion too. They know you guys are. I've learned that they pay more attention to this stuff in social media than we then we thought they know. I don't know them. They're aware. But I met Milan. So Milan like kind of comes up to me and I meet me.

10:43And he and I taught for a couple of minutes. What a likable guy. He seems like a funny dude. Like a likable guy. Like really likable. He was kind of like he was kind of giving me a hard time about not having a Kentucky jacket on. And that was kind of neat because I had not talked to him before. But this is what I want to say. Sometimes it's easy to forget that these dudes are on some level kids. Yes, they're making a lot of money, but they are kids. So they're on the field and I'm standing with them as the team is coming out. So the intro, the bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, that's almost exactly. I don't know. I'm kind of sitting right there. Walks with me. That's very sassy. First of all, it's young and restless. Very sassy, Mr. matching sweatsuit. Almost more today. It's too high. I was planning on it. So I'm standing there with them and they put this rope so that we can't like getting their way.

11:44Getting the rope up and against the rope is like me and the basketball. I will say this was very cool. Those dudes, at least the ones that were there and they were like seven or eight of them. They were into it. And I don't mean kind of into it. They were really into it. They were like bopping up and down to the beat. Cam Williams comes over. He grabs a couple of players like by the neck and just screams out, K. Y. Till I die. I swear he said that. And I was like, I almost thought he's being sarcastic, but he was into it. And then Mela looks up and goes, this is amazing. No, that's my Mela impersonation. Not bad. This is amazing. And they all are like, this is so high and they're going crazy. And who always there, Mario? Because I don't know. Get on. I was Madalachia Frank.

12:46Cam Milan. Who else was broad? McBride. McBride. Okay. I don't know if Alex was there. I didn't see Alex. I was made some Williams there. I felt like he might have been there. I didn't see him. Okay. It was like seven up. Yeah. But do you agree with me? Who's was there? Who's was there? Do you agree with me that they just seemed like ultra high? Yeah. Yeah, they love Kentucky. And the football players came over during the warmups and they were all like hugging each. Yeah. Family man. It did seem like the football and basketball players and that has not always been the case. It wasn't the case last year. Sometimes it was almost like they didn't even like each other. I mean, I'm even going back years ago. It was almost like it was two completely distinct groups of people. But you were there, Mario. They were like, I'm just like a family man. I love it. I love to see it. I did too. Maybe I'm just old and sentimental. I just thought it was really cool. Is it not? I've always been like that. No. No. It has not. It's not been that they necessarily dislike each other. It's just like that they live in two separate worlds.

13:48But they seem to like really know each other and be connected. It is love. That's right. Yeah. There's a point during the case. And what was it? It was love. It was love. Yes. There was one point during the game. I don't know what the song was. Soldier Boy or some song. And Cam Williams was dancing. They found him and kept him up on the jumbo tron for like 20 seconds and he was getting it. Man, he was hitting it hard. One more thing, Mario, come back for a second. Do you, how tall was that recruit? Tall the sky. I've never seen a tall person. If there's a taller person in the world, I do not believe it. I stood next to him. Mario tried to take pictures so people could get a sense and then like they kept, they didn't really, couldn't really get it. He was so tall. He was so tall. That guy, if he comes here, he'll score every day. What I don't know what that means, but he'll score every time he gets the ball. I hope so. I hope so. But did you agree that was tall's person? It's ever existed on the planet. Taco, Taco Fall tall. Yeah. So anyway, I just thought it was nice.

14:49Drew that the play like getting to see, especially Cam. Cam was so hype was just really neat. It was fun, different event, but it was fun watching them in the summer at TBT to, you know, that those crowds were fun. The basketball players were leading a lot of it. You're right about that. They set courtside, jawline with the other teams, high five and fans hanging around with fans after, you know, I've not been shy about my concerns about this year, but just for liking these guys, I love them. Matt, when we were new to this, we knew a lot of the players. It's hadn't been that way in a long time. I know a lot of the parents, some of these guys, more than I've been connected in a long time. So I'm rooting for hard for them and the stuff are saying about Saturday night, don't surprise me whatsoever. So that was a really cool thing and now at least no two players, which I'm good. Cadence, go ahead, Cadence. So if you were paying attention to social media on Sunday, you saw a video of a fan going

15:51over the wall, CBS courts posted it. It was them like someone checked on this Kentucky fan or something. So I was actually with that guy. Like I was my buddy. We came to the game together and he got pushed off by some drunk dude that and running down the stairs. They came flying down the stairs and like shoved him off with hilarious. I thought you were going to be like, man, you thought it was hilarious. No, it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Was he okay? Yeah, he was fine. He just like, I like a bruised hip, but I was about it. I got it. Yeah, we got, I understand what he bruised. So he's alright though. Yeah, he's he's gone 100%. Okay. But we saw it at like three in the morning of the funniest video. Oh, he was everywhere. That guy was everywhere. He took a shot. I appreciate the colleagues. One of the first people on the field, Mary, go ahead, Mary. Hey guys, I've got a funny story for you.

16:54First of all, I'm a wild cat fan by marriage, but I've been married for about 16 years. So I've picked up on the like superstition of it all of the pregame. Yes. So this began, we decided to pack our family in the car. We live in Connecticut and road trip down for the game. Okay. Just go like a minute. Go ahead. Yeah. On the way to take advantage of the time I was putting together some crafts to do in the car. And I have these like little felt birds that I make. And the first one was all blue, perfect. I was like, yes, we're doing this. And then I look in my box of pieces. And the next one I have to make is purple and yellow. And I was like, oh no, what did I do? And I look at my husband. And I'm like, I'm not making that bird until we get back, until we're like headed back home. And he's like, no, no, you need to make it now. And then put little X's over the eyes and make it a dead bird. And so I did. And then we had it upside down on our dash the whole way and it worked.

17:55So I just wanted to share that with you guys. You made a dead LSU bird, Mary, and that to me. I did. That's why we won. I appreciate the call, Mary. That, that, that, that you make a dead bird. I thought it was the two point conversion. Nope. Nope. Mary's dead bird. Mary's dead bird. That's how it works. I like it. It takes all of us. Clark's body does. You are part Clark's puppet shop football. See, is this you're saying the guy with the tattoo is on the phone? Yeah. Yeah, the guy was patting his middle. It's a poor old guy. Patting his arm. Yeah. Well, dad going right. He'll be on next return refresh refuel at Clark's puppet shop. Members receive a fuel discount every time they fill up. Earn points on qualifying purchases. It's Clark's puppet shop. And remember every Friday from now until the end of October free coffee. That's right. Clark's reward members. It's there for you free coffee. Friday from now until October 30th, Clark's puppet shop. Return refresh refuel at Clark's puppet shop. We'll take a break. Be right back. Okay. To honor our country on its 250th birthday.

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22:58He called it a top 10 moment. Epic Knight, Kentucky fan. Everyone was so nice and he'll see us at the Champions Classic. That's great. So he stormed the field. Stormed the field. That dude sits behind home plate at Postseason Baseball, courts out at NBA. He said next to Doa Leapah at the Yankees game the other night. And this was better. It was better. Well, maybe we'll help it come on Kentucky fan. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, yeah. Yeah, I think it's, that goes up there. Top 5-7 Kentucky environments of all time. Oh, there's no doubt. I was thinking about just since I've been here. It is definitely one of the top four. I think when you include everything, maybe there's been bigger wins, but just calling it a night. Yeah. That's tough to beat with the lingering on the field. All the stuff they've added to the experience. Yeah, it's got, they, I agree with you. If you throw in the whole night, that's tough to beat. And then Mario on the roof with his shirt off and like, state street burning couch. You go with burning couches?

23:59Not really. I like it. So if you burn anything, you burn a couch anywhere else in the city, you're going to get a citation. All right, old man. My friend owns a lot of those houses there on state streets. Well, they're not burning the houses. They're burning the couches. Yeah. Also take a citation. Yeah, but what's, I don't understand what your friend owned in the house. What's that have to do with it? It kind of there's a lot of trash and vandalism goes on while all those people are around. They shouldn't do vandalism, but just the act of burning the couch. Yeah. I actually kind of like our tradition of doing it, but it's just weird that the police will stand back and let you do it. But if you did it in mattress and station, you're going to get arrested. But that's what policing should be. Like policing is not just about law and order. It's part of it. But part of it is like creating a community that people want to live in. And if all you're doing is like not allowing people to have any fun, then I don't know that that's helping the community. Like I think it's actually, when I see the pictures of the police, like with the students imposing, I think that helps community relations.

25:02It makes people see the police as like human beings. And not just as like these awful enforcers, which is a lot of times what the media wants to say they are. And so when they are showing that they're actually just people and they're letting people have fun, I actually think that's good. As long as obviously you don't want vandalism and all that. So put that to the side. But I actually think having the police show their humanity is good. It's the whole notion of this idea that started of community policing. You don't want to see the police as outsiders. You want to see the police as like one of you. Yeah. Right? I like it, but I have to kind of stand up for my friend. There was a cool moment I watched last night where, so there's three minutes left in the game and they bring out all the police to line the field. Yeah. As they're coming through the tunnel, every single one of them in a straight line, high fives, all they can tuck you fans in the crowd. All the fans are leaned over the rail, high fives, the police comes in. I love that. All right. Rick, Rick, you're the guy with the tattoo.

26:03You're the guy with the tattoo from Middlesbrough, right? Yes, sir. You, do you feel like a celebrity? And they hit me yet, man. I enjoy it. You know, it's fun. I'm too old to be a celebrity. Why are you too old? You got a heck of a tattoo. I love Kentucky, man. So you did you go to the game? Yes, sir. I went to the game and let me tell you something. Crowder Field was rocking. The whole stadium was vibrating. The coolest thing I've seen was everybody singing the national anthem. And then at the end of the game storming the field. And even the Lexington police was helping people over the wall. So they wouldn't get hurt. I'm a nice of them, Rick. Yes, I'm 64 years old. I weigh 300 pounds. And my big butt went over that wall.

27:05Yeah. So you did go over. Was it hard for you to get over the wall? No, my son and the Lexington police helped me. That's good. I like that. I did that video of you, Rick. And like, do you realize it was on like Fox sports? And it was on like pardon my take. And it was everywhere. And Drew's got it on his too. That's the biggest one. That's the biggest one. I got you all my friends. How my friends takes me let me know and I've been saving everything. I'm just so glad to be back. Thank you so much. Well, of course, and I like seeing the good men. Go ahead. The time that me and my son had the women in the field and I've been at the video. And even we have a negative commentator.

28:07They don't bother me. Well, don't worry about the negative comments. You got a memory with your son forever. And how about Middlesboro? We got a lot of attention in our town. Yeah, they don't contact me. They're going to put my name under yours out on the highway. Thank you, Rick. Thank you, sir. Well, I love you, buddy. You take care. You too. Thank you, man. That was nice. I love. Rick, he got on the field. That's good stuff. Jackie, go ahead, Jackie. Hey, when you got when you got Rick in your corner, I mean, how could you go wrong? That's exactly right. First and foremost, first and foremost, I want to say congratulations to Larry. That is great news. And that is also my know we've all been praying for him. But along with Rick, my son, and my story is that my son went to the game with a friend the other day. We lived two and a half hours south, so I didn't go. And apparently his phone died. The reception's awful.

29:07The Wi-Fi's bad. But we couldn't really get in touch with him. And his mom was beginning to panic a little bit. I had to get away from mom because I was really excited. And I was outside doing my thing. And about 12 o'clock, about 12 o'clock, 1230, mom sent me a text and said, is this our son? And I watched the video, and my son is dancing at midfield with Kenny Darby. He's a little bit of a video with Kenny Darby. Well, that's how you knew he was okay. I said, well, he's okay. There he is. But come to find out the next day after I talked to him, he said he was dancing with Kenny Darby, and Kenny Darby's dad was dancing with him. Love it. That's how you know the guy in the video to the right that you can barely see was Kenny Darby's dad. And I joke and told my son, I said, well, you all got $500,000. And you're going to have to pay some money to get on that. And he said, oh, no, we don't have to. The lady with the microphone told everybody to come on cats,

30:07get on the field after the game was over. Oh, wow. Now we learn more every day. Thank you, sir. That's great. Where's my son? He's on the field with Kenny Darby. Love it. We'll take a break. Very back. KSR. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make him pay. Now, more Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. A lot of you were at right me asking, like, talk about the playoff or the Oklahoma game. That's what we'll be doing the next three days. I think, because there is a path to playoff. And of course, there's the Oklahoma game where we're a seven-half point underdog. So like, we just continue. The underdog train just continues. It is kind of considered bracketology graphics and Kentucky's up there. There was one that has us hosting BYU in an eight and nine game. Who would mark Pope Chafel? How weird would that be for one? We just can't get away from BYU. It's like us and BYU all the time. Winner gets the blue uniforms. Yeah. No, I mean, for me, like, we'll talk more about this.

31:08But like, for me, those thoughts really kick in if we win this. Sure. You're absolutely in the conversation. I mean, we're still... We're still in the... Even if you lose Saturday, you got a chance. But like, if you win Saturday, like, it starts to become... Oh my goodness. Real. Like, it starts to become real real. Because then you're like, got five games you win for, you're good. You should be favored against Vandy. And then it's like three or four. Three or four? That's not crazy. That's what all it takes, three or four. So, you know, can't help but... Can't help but think about it. One person says, is this the most fun the fan base has had collectively since win? Good question. Hmm. The most fun the fan base has had collectively... We talked about football fan base. Just in... No, just UK sports. Okay. Well, the 96 basketball title. That's a long time ago. We've had some good times since then. I think we've had... There've been some good experiences since 96.

32:10Um... That was gotta be shitty, don't they? Whoa. Did you just... Oh, you gotta dump that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I hope you got it. What are you doing, man? Did you just... I did. What are you doing? I wasn't thinking. I thought I was just talking to Mario. At least looking like he and I were talking to Mario. I thought you were just talking to Mario. We're on the radio. Yeah. You just... Did you just... I did. Have you ever cost on this show before? That's my second time. To say that? But that was like blatant. Yeah. And that was it like... I had to hit the dump button twice just to make sure I got that one. That's a good one. Yeah, it was directed at us. What was that? Yeah. You guys were being a little snottie. I don't know. That's not the word you used. No, that's where I should have used. I don't know, 1996 is a funny answer. Put him in time out. Put him in time out. You got the control over there on your end. I don't know which one I am. What microphone? You listen. That was blatant, Ryan.

33:10We didn't put anybody else in time out when they could say a bad word. But you said it about us. Well, because you guys deserved it. 1996 is a jacked wheelie of funny answer. That's objectively like a horror boy answer. That's the number one answer for the fan base. But the question of wins the last time we've been this fun. And you said 96. I'm telling you that's the number one. Everything else falls in comparison to that. So we're trying to find one since. And then you just started cussing like Andrew Dice Clay. Over here on the radio. I did. I personally have had more fun since 1996. It has been a while. I'm actually trying to think of the answer. The question though, when is the last time we've had this much fun? We're going to leave. We're going to give Ryan a little time to rest up. He's worked up over there just dropping bombs on the radio. It's not even lunchtime yet. How about the first 10 when season back in 2018? The basketball team was still good then, right? I, but as good as that was. And there were some good moments in that season.

34:12I don't know that there was a moment moment. Like this one. I think I'm going to say the last time the fan base collectively had had this run of happiness. Is 2015. I think that we, because that lasted so long and it looked like we had a chance to be undefeated for so long. The high this fan base was on during that was just like a collective excitement. And then before that, the year before the tournament run was like a three week drew period of that. And then 2012, the tournament run was one of those. And then 20, the closest thing I can analogize these last few weeks is 20 to. Because 2010, there was the combination of getting this, but also nooness. You know, we just had never really experienced what we were experiencing in that moment.

35:16Now that team had big personalities that galvanize people, Cal, wall, cousins. This isn't quite that. But this has been since the A&M game, just like a four week high that has continued. And that reminds me of kind of what we did in 2010. Does that make sense? Yeah, but I'm going to add a football year. When we went to A&M ranked 13th in the country and took him over time. We were dreaming big dreams in. It was a little different because the coach wasn't brand new. Did we have a particular win that year that was like, oh yeah, at Florida. That's true now. No, no, no, no. We're 13th in the country. It's almost B.A.N.M. at A&M, which would miles miss the kick. Yes. So actually, we're in that spot right now, right? Why aren't we five and one going to A&M? Now we're five and one going to Oklahoma. We were 13th. Now we're 15th. Good call. That's true. I don't, I don't, I don't have the moment at home like we just had. We didn't have the moment at home.

36:16That was the only thing about the stupes air. We never got the home win. We would get big wins on the road. That was the KS bar game. That was the KS bar game. So you got big wins at Florida. You got a big win at Ole Miss. We got wins at South. We didn't really get except for the Florida game in 2021. We didn't really get the home win that gave us that. You're right, though. 2018 was kind of like that. We were dreaming. I do think there's something about this group. It just reminds, if they win this week, I think the 2010 comparison start to really hit because I think if they win this week, they're the, it's we're the biggest story in college football right now. We weren't that in 2018. Yeah, you can't retrate a new coach who has proven like proof of concept because they go into the cows first year. I mean, we were pretty confident, but you didn't know till you actually played. And you say we're... Same with Stein. Now we, even though there's a lot of football left, I think we're all pretty set on he's the guy.

37:17And you can't recreate like a cocky coach. You know what coach that is? You know? So, but it's odd like he's cocky, but everyone still seems still like him. Like most of the time a cocky coach comes in and people have to people hate him like laying kiffin like cow. Everybody seems to like will. It's interesting. Part of it, I think he's cocky, the lovable loser. So everyone's like, whoa, no one's done this before. Yeah, that's probably fans are sticking their chest out more than they ever have right now. Kind of riding his wave. I mean, we'll look back the because of me quote has a potential to be like one of the, I mean, Google me is probably the best, but this has a chance to be all right like that. You'll be back. I like the same thing. You're gonna be back next segment. Can you not cause? All because I really like the 2010 comparison because Calibri made us cool again in basketball and Will Stein. I knew for a coach making us cool again in football. Yeah. I can't believe you were able to do that without just drop that sand bed word.

38:20I got three women on here. I'm gonna go back to back to back women. You each have a minute. Sue, go. Hello, Matt. I listen every single day, but I've been scared to call because of my Corbin accent. I also have been to many live shows. I love your Corbin. I have a story. Well, thank you, honey. I turned 80 this summer. We let our tickets go about three years ago because it's, you know, a long walk. I have two grandsons who graduated from LSU. We've been to Death Valley. So we decided this summer we were gonna go one more time. Yes. We were worried that we couldn't walk up there, but we, because I had hip surgery this year too. Anyway, we got up there. It was a whole section of young men with a beer in each hand. I said to my husband, we'll have to stand the whole game. It'll be hard, but we will. So we had a ball and my poor grandson was over in the other section, getting picked on.

39:28And then when we started to go home, one of the UK kind of red necked his fans in overall started picking on my grandson. So I had to step in. Why were they picking on your grandson? Well, you know, he had on his LSU gear. Oh, because he was LSU fan, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that. Yeah. Well, you stood up for him. Got you. I stood up for him. I sure did. And I want to say on that last question, we have been fans. Well, you know, I said I was 80. Don't tell anybody it's me. But anyway, that was the absolute most fun we have ever had at a game. It was out of this world fun. And I just want to say that was the best game ever. And I've been to many, many. I love it. Thank you, Sue. Appreciate it. That's good stuff. I love your show. I love your show. Okay. And I love all you guys.

40:30Thank you very much. Camilla, go ahead, Camilla. Hi. Hi, it's actually Amelia. Amelia. But yes, I was the one that Will Stein talked about yesterday. Yes. So you made the invitation to your baby's second birth or kid child's second birthday and put Will Stein with the two on it. Yes. Yes. I was learning to November 11th. And our original party theme was welcome to Jack. I don't know if I can say that on the radio, but Jack, but like the show. It was right on here. You say anything. That is true. Yeah. No way. That is true. But anyways, after the game Saturday, after I was on crying on the floor because I was so happy. But my husband said, maybe we should change his party theme to Gunner is going for two days. I was so happy to see him and put the picture of Will Stein holding up the two on the invitation. So that is what I did. And I decided to send it to his wife Darby on Instagram just to see what would happen.

41:36And she responded to me and said, I just showed it to Will and had no idea he was going to talk about it yesterday. But he did. That's great. That's very cool. That was cool. I enjoyed the second birthday. And I was about to post it. And then I realized your address was on it. I decided not to post it, but I appreciate it. Thank you, Amelia. Let's go to Leah real quick. Leah, go ahead. Hey, guys. I'm a third generation UK grad who's never actually lived in Kentucky. I'm raising two boys in Atlanta. Deep with all that Georgia football has been doing. And I have just heard from my kids for the past few years that Kentucky football is stinky. They want to cheer for Georgia. They've got all these friends pulling them in this different direction with just towards students that are winning. And I just, a deep thanks will sign for actually showing the next generation of kids who aren't in Kentucky and don't have that built in love for the university and all around them. That Kentucky football is fun. It is cool. It is worth cheering for. And just real quick on Saturday night,

42:37all those people on the field. They had a great time. But me and my youngest did the silence stream at about 11 o'clock at night when we got in line and over time because the rest of our house was asleep. So it's just been a fun season. And it's been awesome to share it with our future. And I'm hopeful and raised in fourth generation cat. So thank you, guys, for all you do. Appreciate the call. I think there's, I've heard a lot of that of people who their kids like this has helped them become fans. 25 years long time, where were you 25 years ago? Ryan was still dreaming about 1996. Think about Kentucky basketball. Like it happened in 25 years. CRC Roofing has had a roofing business for more than 25 years. The local company that's going to be here when you need them. CRC is doing something special for KSR listeners. The standard workmanship warranty is five years. But for KSR listeners, if you get a new roof from CRC, 25 year shingle coverage, plus a 10 year workmanship warranty, no additional cost. All you gotta do is mention KSR. CRCRoofing.com slash KSR.

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47:47Welcome back, Tuggy Sports Radio. 8-5-9-282-2-87. OK, by the way, a couple of you have asked for some of you have asked. We were not on the Disney and ESPN plus app, you should have met Mar and they've just completely changed the entire way they're doing that. And it'll take a couple of weeks for them to implement and then we'll be back. So right now they have us filming for social media the clips on Zoom, which my iPad is like from a different generation. So I look like I'm, I just figured out the old system. I just, we just had it looking good, Mario and I. And then now they immediately are changing to a news. They sent me $10,000 worth of equipment. And now they're like, yeah, we're not going to use it. Oh my. It's been like a month. Just a couple of months. Well, they just decided to like, they're doing everything. All remote stuff. They're essentially switching from doing it over like TVU satellite to doing it over like podcast apps, which is probably, which I understand, but like now I have all this television equipment.

48:51And they're I'm like, well, what do you want me to do with this? Or I just keep it. What are you going to do with this? I don't know. I'm just, hey, everyone to go live. You can just bust in on television somewhere. Yeah. Just call in. Hey, public access. How you doing? But like I have all the stuff in my house now that like I don't need any of it. So just going to be starting now. It's just going to be me on a laptop with a camera on top of it. I got it. Which honestly is kind of what I thought it should have been to begin with. I didn't understand why they were sending me all this stuff. So now I've got all this stuff in my house. And they don't want you to give it back. How about Facebook marketplace? You probably don't know. I'm not selling these for that. I'm not selling them. So is there no video of Hermann? Were you ranked yesterday? Yeah, there's video. It's just it's but Hermann were just today. Incredible. If you haven't heard it, our two of the Matt Miron podcast, just go listen to it. Hermann was just yelling about how we're on the radio and we don't have any lives. And he's like going at Miron. Like if you want to hear somebody give, like people sometimes say, well, your co-host

49:51don't give you a hard time. We'll go listen to her. Yeah. He unloaded. You're going to believe this. You're smarter than this. Both of you are smarter than him. You don't even believe what you're saying. Get out of your cave. He threw me into it. It was Miron. And he was talking about it. But I just had to sit there and take it. Miron did have an objectively bad take. I wanted to side with Miron. Miron, but Herm was giving it to him pretty good. Herm has become like my favorite person. I think he's the funniest dude. I love having him on. He's getting worked up. I couldn't get him both to shut up. Again, you always think I sort of control every show. I had no control over that show. Even when you turn and on, we're just screaming at each other. And I could not shan't get either one of them to stop. Well, that's where you just sit back and just do that. I did. And I just let him do it. Well, fine bomb and just let him go at it. I just let him go at it. Nothing I could do. What's it called? Tackle football. Maybe throwing it, you know, instigated a little bit. Yeah. Well, no, I like doing that with him. Because the two of them are like an uncle and a nephew just yelling at each other all

50:55the time. But you can go to the Matt Meyer and podcast. If you haven't yet, subscribe to it. But it, there was quite an episode. And then we did cover zero yesterday. And at the end of it, I told a story that I never thought I would say. I was quite knowing the story because I was there. You were very surprised. I could tell you. You had to look like you really want to go into this. I wouldn't have stopped you. But I didn't think that one would ever make it to it. So first of all, I can't, you know, we send it to the NFL and they approve it. I kind of expected they would cut that part out. They didn't. Well, I don't know. I'm going to assume they didn't because I think I would have heard. Usually they tell us if they cut a part out. And it was like a 10 minute story. So the podcast would get shortened quite a bit if that was taken out. So I will say that it would only be for hardcore KSR fans. This is I don't know. It didn't have anything to do with the NFL. I told a story from the 2014 final four that I can't believe I told. So you might want to do some good if you want other things to listen to. Actually, no, I don't think I don't know how that came up at all.

51:57I think we were talking about the Jaguar and I just decided. I just told a story about something that happened to me at the 2014 final four. I know one thing that happened. That's what I told you told that story. I told that. I didn't give names. I didn't say who the other people were. Yeah. I intentionally did not say names. Do you run that's the face I made? Well, he started doing it. Yeah, that's what I thought would go to the KSR. You know, you get all over your just like why not? Yeah. You know, why not? Draff kings from what co KSR bet five you get up to $250 and bonus bets. You can do baseball. The NBA is about to start. You got hockey, got college football. Game two, I guess guardians and race. I don't know who won game one. I guess guardians. Guardians won last night. They did. Yeah. Brewers are up to. I saw that the dude that played for the Reds Nate Lowe. Remember I said there was a fat accountant on the Reds post the year. Now he plays for the guardians. He got the game winning hit. I guess it looks like. Mm. Of course we train our fat accountants and they end up in the world series.

52:58Who you got? I'll go with your fat accountant. Okay, you're going to go with the guardians. I think I'm a dream. I'm a big fan of the fat accountant. I'm going to take raise to win game two, Shannon. Yeah, two games at Tampa Bay. I think they at least split. So give me the raise. I did turn on and see that the stadium was full. I've never seen that stadium for a Tampa Bay rise game ever. It was packed. That's good because when we got this matchup, I'm giving off. Brewers raise got to be like if they get that the worst. But neither one of them ever wants to. He was the thing about bench and show. Yeah, they're talking about this morning. That's crazy. You know what? You pay that much money in Bench. You can't, Bench. I don't know how bad he's here. You can't, Bench. We'll see you tomorrow from Evansville. It's KSR. Strong hands built America. It's kept running for 250 years. Strong hands also keep Copenhagen moving today. Here's to the bravery of linemen, the endurance of truckers, the skills of welders, the traditions upheld by farmers, and all American tradesmen sharing in our work ethic.

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