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Speaker 4: All right, good morning ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, Grandpa's
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Speaker 4: We appreciate you tuning in for this Friday edition of
Speaker 4: Kentucky Sports Radio. April fourth, Ryan Lemondrew Franklin, Shannon the
Speaker 4: Dude has always take a sports radio sponsored by the TJ.
Speaker 4: Smith Law Office called t J. Shannon, What's you do?
Speaker 2: He'll make them pay.
Speaker 4: He'll make them pay. We got our Avision Glass text machine.
Speaker 4: It's in Amsterdam, So if you want to try it,
Speaker 4: he'll get the to Amsterdam. But I do have my
Speaker 4: cell phone. We'll take some texts that come in as
Speaker 4: well on the Avias and Glass text machine. Whoever our
Speaker 4: whiskey thief call the day which we forgot to award yesterday.
Speaker 4: So it's probably about Cassidy, probably about CASTI Row first
Speaker 4: call to the pregame show pre show channing. What was it?
Speaker 4: Cassidy Row? It's not going away anytime soon, I don't think.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: Another horrible night of storms last night across Kentucky and
Speaker 4: there's more coming. That's what's you'd think, you know, after
Speaker 4: the one band goes through, we'd be good. Nope, another
Speaker 4: one last night and more coming I think Saturday. So
Speaker 4: now we got to worry about the flooding. That's you know,
Speaker 4: our state was devastated with loving flooding not long ago.
Speaker 4: I hope and pray they don't have to go through
Speaker 4: that again. But Drew, I mean, when's it gonna stop? Raining?
Speaker 6: Like I said, doesn't seem like he's gonna stop anytime soon.
Speaker 6: Rain non stop where I live. I've been fortunate to
Speaker 6: not have any damage, but I saw it was like
Speaker 6: a state of an emergency in Louisville yesterday. Got some
Speaker 6: friends that have some some flooding around their neighborhoods, and
Speaker 6: it's just going to continue to come. I mean, the
Speaker 6: state's had enough the last four or five years, and
Speaker 6: hopefully this one doesn't get as bad as some we've
Speaker 6: seen in the past. But the forecast is awful for
Speaker 6: this weekend.
Speaker 4: That is, UK Baseball hosting ninth ranked Ole Miss this
Speaker 4: weekend over Kentucky Prowt Park. They postponed the game last night,
Speaker 4: gonna try a double header today and it looks like
Speaker 4: they're gonna get a little break this afternoon where maybe
Speaker 4: they could squeeze at least maybe one game in the
Speaker 4: time it perfectly, But then Saturday they're supposed to play
Speaker 4: it two and it's supposed to be awful here on Saturday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was looking forward to, you know, before the forecast,
Speaker 6: of getting out there and seeing some SEC baseball. I
Speaker 6: went to some of the non conference games, but it's
Speaker 6: been a while since I've gotten out there. But after
Speaker 6: what you see on the radar, I don't know that
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get my hopes up to watch a lot
Speaker 6: of Kentucky versus Old Miss this weekend. But maybe they
Speaker 6: can sneak in part of that doubleheader. The stalling they
Speaker 6: did in Texas, A and M have to go the
Speaker 6: other direction and just play speed baseball this weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, supposed to start the double header at three o'clock
Speaker 4: today and they're gonna play two nine inning games. Fingers crossed.
Speaker 4: Try to get it in and we have to wait
Speaker 4: and see about Saturday. But you know, the storms have
Speaker 4: messed up the spring baseball schedules all across the state.
Speaker 4: I saw McCracken County High School had a lot of damage.
Speaker 4: Their baseball field I think got damage. So I don't
Speaker 4: know what they're going to do over there. So it's
Speaker 4: kind of playing havoc with a lot of stuff, including Keenland,
Speaker 4: which they were supposed to open today, move their opening
Speaker 4: day to Sunday. Bluegrass Staks are supposed to be tomorrow,
Speaker 4: that's their Kentucky Derby. It's been moved to Tuesday. So
Speaker 4: people trying to adjust about what Mother Nature is putting
Speaker 4: out on us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, there's a lot more important than
Speaker 6: having fun at Keenland, But that's got to be a
Speaker 6: big logistical nightmare for people that were planning to go
Speaker 6: to that opening weekend. That's always such a big event.
Speaker 6: People travel in, you got hotels, spending lots of money,
Speaker 6: and you know, throwing it off, moving it to the
Speaker 6: early weekdays. Maybe being spring break, that can other people
Speaker 6: can take advantage of it. But just everything's thrown off
Speaker 6: right now with Mother Nature throwing everything she has.
Speaker 4: At Shannon speaking of Keenland, Like I tell you, there's
Speaker 4: a horse running first of all today is four to four.
Speaker 4: It's Kobe Bray a day okay, Kobe b w double
Speaker 4: Kobe break four Shannon On Thursday at Keenland, the number
Speaker 4: four horse is Brea from three.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, did you not put a little money down
Speaker 2: on that?
Speaker 4: What I'm saying? First race, first race Thursday, The four
Speaker 4: horse is Brea from three? Is this a tip?
Speaker 6: Are you giving a tip? Are you like big Hair here?
Speaker 6: Big Head? What's his name?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I think I could pick horses about as good as
Speaker 4: he does.
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 6: That is a cool name, though, I bet gets a
Speaker 6: few more wagers than it when if it's just been
Speaker 6: a regular name, anonymous.
Speaker 4: Name Keaenland and Lexington. Absolutely, that's the horse is gonna
Speaker 4: get a lot of action.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be good. It can't finish the last and
Speaker 3: embarrass us all.
Speaker 4: It's true. We need Kobe Braa versus Tennessee, not Kobe
Speaker 4: Bray of the games he struggled.
Speaker 6: For four to four. You've made it Brea and Brea.
Speaker 6: Usually you kind of combined to cauld. We make it
Speaker 6: like Nick Richard's Kobe Brea day. He's my favorite. Number
Speaker 6: four is a Cylin macys, Kyle Macy day, or just
Speaker 6: Nick Richards Nick Richard's day. That'd be good with me.
Speaker 4: A Gerald Fitch worn number four? Who else worn number four?
Speaker 6: I'm usually good at this game, but the number four
Speaker 6: was John Hood number four. I think John Hood was
Speaker 6: number four.
Speaker 4: Well, he was here for fourteen years.
Speaker 6: He was number four.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4: So we've got a big show schedule today coming up
Speaker 4: at ten thirty. The new head women's basketball coach at Houston,
Speaker 4: a guy by the name of Matthew Mitchell, is going
Speaker 4: to join us. Uh. He had his introductory news conference
Speaker 4: down there, and like we said yesterday, it's kind of
Speaker 4: weird to see him in red, but I thought it
Speaker 4: was a good chance to get him on give him
Speaker 4: his flowers and one of our favorite co hosts and
Speaker 4: Sega goodbyes. I guess it.
Speaker 6: Normally be awkward to have a coach of another team
Speaker 6: on the show, but you know he's he's especially to
Speaker 6: you just as much of a friend as he was
Speaker 6: a basketball coach here. I mean, he's hosted this show
Speaker 6: it feels like every summer going back forever. So it's
Speaker 6: it's fitting to have him on as he moves away,
Speaker 6: and it would be good to hear from him what
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a Cougars fan. I'll be cheering for him.
Speaker 4: Every game as long as you're not playing Kentucky.
Speaker 6: Kentucky's still number one by far, but I'm wish him
Speaker 6: well down there in Houston.
Speaker 4: Shannon is Matthew Mitchell hos co hosted this show more
Speaker 4: than any other celebrity.
Speaker 3: Trying to think of who else would even be close.
Speaker 3: I mean when we get you know, like the Barstool
Speaker 3: Sports guys every year, but I feel like Matthew Mitchell
Speaker 3: was doing that before we even had the Barstool Sports
Speaker 3: guy it was, so I think that's probably right.
Speaker 4: He has hosted out of outside the four or five
Speaker 4: of us with Milliar six with Mario. He's probably Matthew
Speaker 4: Mitchell privately on the show more than anybody as a
Speaker 4: co host.
Speaker 6: And even though it's a phone interview, I assume it's
Speaker 6: phone interview. You didn't get him to fly here, did you?
Speaker 4: The personal My personal jet is not working today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've heard you have one, but no, I think
Speaker 6: we should count this as a guest hosting and just
Speaker 6: another tally for him, just in case he comes back
Speaker 6: on down the road. We'll keep the record going.
Speaker 4: So that's at ten thirty. Then at eleven o'clock, Malachai
Speaker 4: Marino is going to join us. He's on spring break,
Speaker 4: so he's not gonna miss class right thing. But he's
Speaker 4: had a very eventful couple of weeks. Mister basketball won
Speaker 4: the state title, MVP the state tournament, McDonald's All American Game.
Speaker 4: Now he's got attention focused on joining Kentucky. So I'm
Speaker 4: excited to kind of catch up with him a little bit.
Speaker 6: I have to commend you, these are two big gets
Speaker 6: people that are kind of very busy right now. May
Speaker 6: you can tell me it's a spring break. I would
Speaker 6: have told you. I'm I'm tired from flying around the
Speaker 6: country and playing basketball. I'm gonna relax, but he's going
Speaker 6: to be hopping on. I'm sure Coach Mitchell's got his
Speaker 6: hands full getting acclimated at Houston. So well done, Royn Lemon.
Speaker 4: Show prep. It's all about the show prep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Shannon, what about since I said something about the
Speaker 6: show prep yesterday? What about last night's show prep? We
Speaker 6: even got like Tom Stamps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he broke it down per segment what we were
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: And I've never seen anything. I mean, like maybe Tom.
Speaker 3: Leech when he does this show to le does he
Speaker 3: does me the lead report run down and I know
Speaker 3: who's coming on at what time. Ryan Lemon broke it
Speaker 3: down by the quarter hour, like every fifteen minutes. We
Speaker 3: know what we're doing on this show. We've never done
Speaker 3: that before. Usually we just come in here. We don't
Speaker 3: have a clue what we're talking about today. I feel
Speaker 3: like we're prepared more than ever. So this is going
Speaker 3: to be the best show that we've ever done.
Speaker 4: Well, this is why I did it that way. You know,
Speaker 4: I gave you guys an our homework assignment. You had
Speaker 4: to come up with five fun facts for each of
Speaker 4: the final four teams. Yep, So we had to spread
Speaker 4: it out. I wanted you to know where you're going
Speaker 4: to be going. I figured most of you probably didn't
Speaker 4: do your homework as.
Speaker 6: Oh, come on, you know I did it.
Speaker 4: Mario would be probably doing it right now trying to
Speaker 4: get Mario was watching Billy in the in the second hour,
Speaker 4: because you know Billy didn't do his. He's doing it
Speaker 4: right now. Shannon, did you do yours?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm frantically googling as we speak, so.
Speaker 4: You know what you're coming on? Forty five is Auburn.
Speaker 6: So since I'm first in the in the line up
Speaker 6: according to your timeline, you said, does that mean you
Speaker 6: had the most faith in me? Am I the most responsible?
Speaker 4: Actually, you're at one hundred percent correct. I though Drew
Speaker 4: will probably get it done, thank you. I figured, and
Speaker 4: everybody else will be doing it during the course of
Speaker 4: the show, trying to scramble and do their your five
Speaker 4: fun facts. But you know, we stole this straight off
Speaker 4: pf Tea and Big Cat because they did it was
Speaker 4: the Sweet sixteenth, and it was funny. It was really good.
Speaker 4: So I have high hopes for you guys.
Speaker 6: I almost forgot I was on my third episode of
Speaker 6: the new season of righteous Gymstones last night, which that's
Speaker 6: a conversation in itself. This season is off the rails,
Speaker 6: but it's hilarious. But it registered right around nine o'clock
Speaker 6: and I dropped everything I was doing and got into
Speaker 6: the lab basically went to Houston in my brain to
Speaker 6: get ready for these facts.
Speaker 4: Speaking of right to Jimstones. A lot of male nunity
Speaker 4: in this season, a lot of male Newtony.
Speaker 6: I've seen more of Walt Goggins this week.
Speaker 4: Than Sid I ever want to see ever again.
Speaker 6: It is hilarious, though not for everyone. You know, I
Speaker 6: encourage you to watch it if you're into that kind
Speaker 6: of thing. I wouldn't say everyone should go tune into
Speaker 6: this season of Riches Jimstones, but they've lost their minds.
Speaker 6: This is beyond silly.
Speaker 4: So that's what's kind of planned for today. So it's
Speaker 4: a different show. I won't be able to take a
Speaker 4: whole lot of phone calls. We'll try to squeeze something
Speaker 4: as we go along, but kind of I'm anxious to
Speaker 4: hear what you guys have to say with your homework assignment.
Speaker 4: At least you don't have to worry about your Atlanta Breid.
Speaker 4: They didn't play last night.
Speaker 2: They didn't lose.
Speaker 4: Though they didn't lose, they congratulations Braves didn't lose. Still
Speaker 4: one to seven.
Speaker 2: Braves or Reds didn't win either.
Speaker 6: I did see a meme someone photoshopped a box score
Speaker 6: of the Braves playing. It was just an airplane and
Speaker 6: it says, oh wow, the Braves lose the travel day
Speaker 6: to go to o to eight. So even though we
Speaker 6: had a day off, the internet was still having fun
Speaker 6: making fun of the Braves.
Speaker 4: I do want to talk about one story before we
Speaker 4: get out of time. Coastal Carolina is trying something different
Speaker 4: this year at the college football season. They're gonna have
Speaker 4: free concessions for anybody inside the stadium. So if you
Speaker 4: buy a ticket or if you're there at the game
Speaker 4: free concessions, you can come back as many times as
Speaker 4: you want. How do you think this is gonna go over?
Speaker 4: And is it a good idea?
Speaker 6: I think it's a pretty good marketing idea. I don't
Speaker 6: think it'll get abused as much as people might think
Speaker 6: it is. When you first hear that, like who really
Speaker 6: gets popcorn hot dog in a drink at a football game?
Speaker 6: And they're watching them like, you know what? I need
Speaker 6: another big box of popcorn, another hot dog. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: go get in line again for this now some people will,
Speaker 6: but I doubt it's as many as it seems. Just
Speaker 6: on the surface of free concessions. I'm fine with a
Speaker 6: hot dog and a popcorn, so and that can't cost
Speaker 6: them more than a buck or two to make that stuff,
Speaker 6: especially the popcorn. So I think just the fact that
Speaker 6: everyone's talking about it, they'll probably sell a few more
Speaker 6: tickets with excitement.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 6: Called They've probably even factored in that five six bucks
Speaker 6: in the ticket prices. I think it's a good marketing idea.
Speaker 3: Shant you say, who loads up at a concession stand?
Speaker 3: You got two of the guys on the show. You
Speaker 3: should have seen it. Well, you did see us at
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Tennessee game in the NCAA tournament. We will
Speaker 3: we get like a twenty dollars allowance, and.
Speaker 4: We were up there with us every.
Speaker 3: Penny oversized putzel. I think I got some chili, cheese dog, chili. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you did it with the Najos. The chili, the cheese dog,
Speaker 3: the pretzel. I think I got some peanuts. What else
Speaker 3: did you get? Like we were loading it up?
Speaker 6: So, but you did one trip? Are you gonna keep
Speaker 6: going to your seat at a football game and going
Speaker 6: getting back in line just for another thing? Upopcorn will
Speaker 6: have to because he will already spilled his all over them.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I probably would.
Speaker 6: You're probably banned from Coastal Carolina games. They probably have
Speaker 6: you on a list knowing you could take them down.
Speaker 4: Well, I think this is a great idea, of course,
Speaker 4: you know, not non SEC schools or non big ten
Speaker 4: skulls where crowds. Maybe they're trying to get more people there.
Speaker 4: So at Coastal Carolina or maybe Murray State or e
Speaker 4: KU or someplace like that, I can see them trying
Speaker 4: that because I think that is a little bit of
Speaker 4: a hook to get people to go to the game.
Speaker 6: It reminds me of something you you can remember remember
Speaker 6: when Holiday World did free free drinks, free soft drink,
Speaker 6: free sunscreen.
Speaker 4: Do you think they still do it?
Speaker 6: But when they announced that, it was like how could
Speaker 6: they possibly do that?
Speaker 4: And you couldn't get enough of it?
Speaker 6: He kept drinking and how much does a soft drink
Speaker 6: really cost? That still pops in my brain twenty years later.
Speaker 6: So I think it word idea. I don't think he'll
Speaker 6: hurt him too bad in it, like it's probably factored
Speaker 6: into the cost anyway.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take our break. We come back. Drew
Speaker 4: is on the clock. He has the Houston Fun Facts
Speaker 4: Round one or our Final four Trivia not trivia fun
Speaker 4: Fact day. Are you ready?
Speaker 6: I'm as ready as I'm gonna get.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take our break. Come back, Ryan Drew
Speaker 4: and Shannon here, Kentucky's Ports Radio. Welcome back, Ryan Drew
Speaker 4: and Shannon here, Kentucky's Ports Radio. Before we hand it
Speaker 4: over to Drew, one note from the Avision Glass text machine.
Speaker 4: Britt says they've closed the Second Street floodgate in Louisville
Speaker 4: for the first time in its twenty eighteen and there's
Speaker 4: more rain coming, so just get used to that. I again.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna turn it over to Drew. Drew,
Speaker 4: you have the floor, all right.
Speaker 6: I wasn't sure what direction you won with the facts.
Speaker 6: So I have a few basketball some that are kind
Speaker 6: of known, then some few just university things. Yeah, is
Speaker 6: that core?
Speaker 4: Did you warn all basketball fun facts about Houston?
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna start with a little bit of tournament
Speaker 6: statistics for you. All right, they have the nation's longest
Speaker 6: streak of Sweet sixteen appearances. Are you aware of that?
Speaker 4: I was not aware.
Speaker 6: They've been knocking on the door for a while. Houston
Speaker 6: s obviously they've made it to the final four this year,
Speaker 6: but they've been in the Sweet sixteen going back to
Speaker 6: twenty nineteen, and that is a relative to us because
Speaker 6: they lost to the Kentucky Wildcats where PJ. Washington added
Speaker 6: whatever his name was. Tyler Hero gets the rebound down
Speaker 6: one I believe, yeah, down one, goes the other way,
Speaker 6: passes it to Keldon Johnson. Keldon Johnson passes it right
Speaker 6: back to him, and Hero hits one of the biggest
Speaker 6: shots in recent Kentucky n CUAA history. There. Uh, after
Speaker 6: that game, we win. I think Hero iiced to with
Speaker 6: two more free throws. But after that game is when
Speaker 6: I had my press conference where I made Cal very
Speaker 6: uncomfortable and you know, you have to introduce yourself. Drew
Speaker 6: Franklin Tekey Sports Radio. This questions for the bucket is
Speaker 6: how Cal the look on his face and he put
Speaker 6: his hand and put his face in his hands and
Speaker 6: looked away because he's like, I can't believe this idiot
Speaker 6: has a microphone in our press conference. But it got
Speaker 6: a good laugh from hero PJ. Reed, Travis, all those
Speaker 6: guys on the stage. So a KSR memory tied into
Speaker 6: Houston's sweet sixty.
Speaker 4: Remember that? Very good?
Speaker 6: So is that a good one? That one us our
Speaker 6: older listeners which will surely know this one, but maybe
Speaker 6: some young people need to learn about the history of
Speaker 6: college basketball. But they went to three straight final fours
Speaker 6: in the eighties with you know the name, the Cheam,
Speaker 6: the Dream five Slamma Jama Drexel known as Texas tallest fraternity.
Speaker 6: They were playing fast paced, they were dunking. No one
Speaker 6: did that at the time. John Wooden thought it was crazy,
Speaker 6: thought it was unacceptable you could run and dunk like that.
Speaker 6: They beat Louisville in the semis in their first final four,
Speaker 6: never won the championship, had a tough loss, but one
Speaker 6: of the more famous teams or eras of college basketball
Speaker 6: history was Houston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you say five Slamma Jamat everybody are my age?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 4: You know it's exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 6: Another example of knocking on the door. Three straight final fours.
Speaker 6: Haven't gotten one yet?
Speaker 4: Very good? All right?
Speaker 6: One more basketball one. Also going back in time. On
Speaker 6: January twentieth, nineteen sixty eight, undefeated Houston played undefeated UCLA
Speaker 6: in the Astrodome. Known as the Game of the Century.
Speaker 6: It was the first regular season college basketball game ever
Speaker 6: broadcast nationwide in prime time, and they say it paved
Speaker 6: the way for March Madness.
Speaker 4: Maybe the most famous game ever played ever of the
Speaker 4: century of the century. That game, I mean, I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I was too young to remember, but I know the
Speaker 4: history of it.
Speaker 6: Came down to the very end. It lived up to
Speaker 6: the hype. Houston one by two U c l A
Speaker 6: had a guy open on the wing, their best player.
Speaker 6: They threw it to him and another player kind of
Speaker 6: deflected it thinking it was for him, goes out of bounds.
Speaker 6: Houston wins.
Speaker 4: Very cool.
Speaker 6: So that's enough about Astrodome. Let's do some notable alums.
Speaker 6: This is my favorite game to play. They have a
Speaker 6: lot there. Started with Jim Nance I say, you got
Speaker 6: you know, we've only got eleven years of him left
Speaker 6: in the Masters. He doesn't do March Madness anymore, but
Speaker 6: everybody knows if you've watched March Madness for years with
Speaker 6: Jim Nancy, he likes his Houston Cougar's Uh Lizzo Lizzo, Yep,
Speaker 6: she played the flute in the band there before her
Speaker 6: her career. Really, I know you're a big Lizzo fan.
Speaker 6: Kenny Rogers.
Speaker 4: I thought I always thought he was to such a
Speaker 4: big Georgia supporter. He went to Georgia, he attended Houston.
Speaker 6: I even double checked Wikipedia, because sometimes they'll just people
Speaker 6: get an honorary degree and throw that in there. How
Speaker 6: about Dennis Quaid, Dennis Quay. You got a favorite Dennis
Speaker 6: Quaid movie? No, what about a Randy Quaid movie? I
Speaker 6: think he went there too.
Speaker 4: American National Lampoon Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 2: You don't know a Randy Quaid movie?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: He was what was the base mcgoki. Yes, that's the best.
Speaker 6: Tennis right, Randy's the one that's.
Speaker 4: A little wacko.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Dan Rather, who you've modeled your career after we met.
Speaker 4: Dan Rather at the Republican Convention that that.
Speaker 6: Year, another KSR connection. We have a picture with him.
Speaker 4: I think that we do have a picture of Dan Rather.
Speaker 6: And then master P master P master P went to
Speaker 6: Houston on a basketball scholarship, dropped out, which panned out
Speaker 6: because he soon made them say uh with no limit records,
Speaker 6: great great, uh hip hop artist from from my youth.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty good roster. You dug up there.
Speaker 6: I could keep going. It's a long list. I feel
Speaker 6: like that's plenty. And then my last one I found
Speaker 6: to be the most interesting. Houston has a hand gesture.
Speaker 4: It's this, Yes, what is that?
Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of inappropriate, to be honest. Uh huh,
Speaker 6: how would you describe you take your ring? We can't
Speaker 6: say that, right, yeah, but we can't say what I'm
Speaker 6: doing right. Well, let me just set up the story. Then,
Speaker 6: in eight or nineteen fifty three, they had a live mascot,
Speaker 6: Shasta the Cougar, Shasta the Cougar, and it had the
Speaker 6: cougar guard that would take it around in cage. They
Speaker 6: don't do this anymore now. They just have the fuzzy
Speaker 6: one with some college kid, some sweaty kid in it.
Speaker 6: But they had a live one for many years and
Speaker 6: they were going to play Texas and Austin, and the
Speaker 6: cougar guard severed Shasta's toe or finger, Paul, whatever that
Speaker 6: would be.
Speaker 4: Is it a toe?
Speaker 6: It's a toe?
Speaker 4: A toe?
Speaker 6: I guess yes, took it completely off in the cage
Speaker 6: door on the way to Austin. So now the hand
Speaker 6: gesture is is I wish I knew how to describe that,
Speaker 6: but you're putting one finger down.
Speaker 4: It's a it's your ring finger. The one you're down
Speaker 4: your thumb.
Speaker 6: You put it with your thumb and then your other
Speaker 6: three fingers are straight up in the air. As a
Speaker 6: high schooler, we did it, admit something else as a
Speaker 6: joke inappropriate. But if you look at their crown, they
Speaker 6: all hold it up. And that's because Shasta the Cougar
Speaker 6: lost a toe on their way to Austin in the
Speaker 6: shutting the cage door.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Matthew Mitchell's coming up the next segment
Speaker 4: and he was doing the signal the hand gestures.
Speaker 6: With all these pictures I had seen it. They even
Speaker 6: have it on like posters. I never knew the backstory,
Speaker 6: but it is because the cougar guard, poor Shasta just
Speaker 6: losing a finger on the way or a toe. So
Speaker 6: there you go. Those are my five very good wells.
Speaker 6: In fact, good John Houston is also going to win
Speaker 6: the national championship. That's my sixth Fack.
Speaker 4: They're an undergall underdog to Duke. Right.
Speaker 6: Uh, sure, I haven't looked at the spreads because I've
Speaker 6: kind of I'm like everyone else. I'm not ready to
Speaker 6: get into March madness with my team ount. I will
Speaker 6: buy tomorrow, but I've this week I watched the Crown
Speaker 6: in Vegas, other boring sports like baseball. I haven't fully
Speaker 6: gotten into the spirit of the tournament since we've been.
Speaker 2: Out five and a half point dog.
Speaker 6: Oh, they're covering that and winning.
Speaker 4: Houston covers and wins.
Speaker 6: Houston's winning the national championship.
Speaker 4: Shanaway, you think.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say Houston is going to win,
Speaker 2: but I think they'll cover the five and a half.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be close.
Speaker 4: I would probably pick Duke to cover.
Speaker 6: I admit that I've been against Duke. I had them
Speaker 6: losing to Baylor in the second round. So part of
Speaker 6: it is, uh, I just wanted to be right that
Speaker 6: they're going to be out. Yeah, it's a lot of
Speaker 6: hate in my heart for Duke, like many people listening.
Speaker 6: That's why I'm picking them. But they have looked pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: All right, well done, good job, eight two eight seven,
Speaker 4: that's our cards phone numbers.
Speaker 6: Did I understand this?
Speaker 4: Who understood the assignment. Yes you did. You have to
Speaker 4: go hang a banner. It's all about hanging number nine.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get a phone call for we go
Speaker 4: to our break. Who we got chanting?
Speaker 7: Mike?
Speaker 4: Mike, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, I just wanted to let you know we
Speaker 5: had a Kentucky athlete to make history this last weekend.
Speaker 5: Kerwin Hackey from Lexington, Kentucky is a senior at the
Speaker 5: University Arizona and his college's wheelchair basketball team won the
Speaker 5: national championships this last weekend. Very excited for him. Uh
Speaker 5: so the history part is Kerwin's. It was only Kentucky player.
Speaker 5: He won a high school national wheelchair basketball championship and
Speaker 5: won in college also, So we're very excited, very proud
Speaker 5: of him.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, And I'm so glad you said that.
Speaker 4: We know Kerwin. Kerwin's been here to the restaurant. I've
Speaker 4: known Kerwin since he was at Brian Station Middle School.
Speaker 4: He was good friends with my son Hanger, you know,
Speaker 4: all the classmates together. A great, great person. That's a
Speaker 4: great family that had adopted him and took care of him.
Speaker 4: And I'm so proud of him. Like you said, won
Speaker 4: a high school state title wheelchair basketball. Now he's at Arizona.
Speaker 4: How do we let him out of Kentucky? Wow? Will
Speaker 4: chair national champion at Arizona.
Speaker 6: Very very cool. Met him in a few times. Like
Speaker 6: you said, I serve as car.
Speaker 5: There, so we have I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 5: people out there that have kids with disabilities or you
Speaker 5: may know one, and Kerwin had a lot of opportunities
Speaker 5: to play, and a lot of times the families don't
Speaker 5: know about those opportunities. So if you know or have
Speaker 5: a kid with the disability, absolutely they can visit Cincinnati
Speaker 5: Dragon and fill out of contact form and we'll help
Speaker 5: them find the closest.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: I'd like to see lots more kids like Kerwin be
Speaker 5: able to have those opportunities compete in sports. So appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. He's exactly right, one hundred percent
Speaker 4: since and ay Dragon that's his team. He plays all
Speaker 4: the day. Already call the day. That is our whiskey thief.
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Speaker 4: Well, the only time we play Kelly Clarkson is when
Speaker 4: this guy's coming on the show. He's been on the
Speaker 4: show more than any other guest host we think we've
Speaker 4: ever had. Now he's leaving us saying goodbye, going to Houston.
Speaker 4: The number one Kelly Clarkson fan ever in the history
Speaker 4: of Kentucky. Matthew Mitchell, Hello, Coach Mitchell.
Speaker 7: It can only mean one thing when Kelly comes on.
Speaker 7: Coach Mitchell is just around the corner. So how many
Speaker 7: times have we played that? One of the great songs
Speaker 7: of all time, of all time?
Speaker 4: But Shannon has nothing else to play, he plays that song.
Speaker 4: I think that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 7: It always puzzles me when I'm listening to the show
Speaker 7: that there's not more Kelly Parkson. Well, just a suggestion,
Speaker 7: just a suggestion.
Speaker 4: Hey man, Look, you know you guys. You and I
Speaker 4: have texted, but we've not really talked because congratulations. I mean,
Speaker 4: I was super happy to see the news. Proud of you.
Speaker 4: I know you gotta be excited to kind of get
Speaker 4: back into the coaching realm W and you're doing it
Speaker 4: at Houston. How'd that all play out?
Speaker 7: Well? I had been getting beaten so bad in the
Speaker 7: Lexington Parochial League. I mean it was so tough to
Speaker 7: get a win. Uh some of the great coaches in
Speaker 7: the area, and Glendover League. Also Glendover League. I couldn't
Speaker 7: get any wins. Uh and and and then the Parochial league.
Speaker 7: And so I've been coaching the elections in school and
Speaker 7: uh and in the Glendover League. And Brian I said,
Speaker 7: if I'm gonna win, I got to get back into
Speaker 7: college basketball. Pretty simple. I got to get back in
Speaker 7: college basketball because I want to punch in college basketball.
Speaker 7: I could get no wins in the parochial league. So
Speaker 7: we had been, you know, talking as a family and
Speaker 7: wanting to get back at it and and give it
Speaker 7: a whirl. And this thing at Houston reminds me so
Speaker 7: much of when we first arrived at Kentucky. And you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's a great challenge, it's a great opportunity they have.
Speaker 7: It's a it's a great basketball city and they are
Speaker 7: hungry for some good women's basketball, and we just believe
Speaker 7: we can have another great run here. So God's really
Speaker 7: blessed us with a great opportunity and we feel grateful
Speaker 7: for it. I tell you we are. You know, well,
Speaker 7: well we'll never ever leave Lexington with our hearts and
Speaker 7: we have so many friends there, and the Kentucky fans
Speaker 7: have just treated us unbelievably well and supported us all
Speaker 7: those years and they still do. They everywhere I go
Speaker 7: in town, just just have so much love expressed toward me.
Speaker 7: So we will always forever be connected to that community
Speaker 7: and connected to that city and the university, and we're
Speaker 7: so grateful for our time there. So this is just
Speaker 7: another it's just a little, you know, big tour on
Speaker 7: life's path and you never know where it's going to go.
Speaker 7: But we are thrilled with this opportunity and excited for
Speaker 7: a new adventure in Houston.
Speaker 6: Listen to you in that answer, you're saying we and
Speaker 6: you mentioned your family. It sounds like, you know, sometimes
Speaker 6: you got to get the Jenna approval if you've mentioned
Speaker 6: on this show a few times past and past summer
Speaker 6: hosting duties. So Jenna and the family, they're all in
Speaker 6: on heading to Houston and being full supporters of the Cougars.
Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely all in Jenna, I said Tuesday when when
Speaker 7: we you know, had the press conference. Jenna, you know,
Speaker 7: never let me forget of what I could do well
Speaker 7: in college basketball. And I've really I've been immersed in
Speaker 7: building my company the last four years, and that's been
Speaker 7: I think I already have noticed in the first few
Speaker 7: days that was a very beneficial part of the journey
Speaker 7: for me. I learned a lot, learned a lot about myself,
Speaker 7: learned a lot about leadership. But Jenna never let me
Speaker 7: forget that what I've done the most and accomplished the
Speaker 7: most and done the best in my professional careers coach
Speaker 7: Hoss basketball. So she's she's absolutely thrilled, absolutely supportive incomes me.
Speaker 7: Any time there was, you know, a possible opportunity. She
Speaker 7: always kept that front and center. And so I owe
Speaker 7: a lot to her. And you know, she and I
Speaker 7: were a great partner of great partnership of Kentucky, and
Speaker 7: I know we're gonna be able to work together here
Speaker 7: to get Houston to the spot they deserve to be in.
Speaker 4: I think what I'm hearing you say, Drew, is that
Speaker 4: Jenna tired of him hanging around the house and said
Speaker 4: kicked him out and go get a job. Get out
Speaker 4: of the house, Matthew, go get a job.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean that that lasted that that actually didn't
Speaker 7: last very long. I've been out of the house. I
Speaker 7: have I have been an office over Wintersburg Road.
Speaker 5: Ryan.
Speaker 7: I do go to work every I have been going
Speaker 7: to work every day. I have written two books, two
Speaker 7: best selling books.
Speaker 4: Ryan.
Speaker 7: I've not been I've not been retired. I've been working
Speaker 7: really really hard. So leave it to you to try
Speaker 7: to go negative here. Leave it to you. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 7: You always find a way. You always find a way, Ryan.
Speaker 4: That's part of it.
Speaker 6: You mentioned no question. You mentioned how Kentucky will always
Speaker 6: be home to you. I mean, you spent over twenty
Speaker 6: years here between Morehead and Kentucky. Outside of you know,
Speaker 6: the basketball and coaching. What will you miss most about
Speaker 6: the Bluegrass anything in particular that you're really close to
Speaker 6: here and you'll miss as you head to Texas.
Speaker 7: Well. We you're right, Drew, twel over twenty years there.
Speaker 7: Came to came to Kentucky as an assistant twenty two
Speaker 7: years ago, and we never you know, never left here
Speaker 7: in that time and even even during our two years
Speaker 7: at Moorhead State, which were incredible for me in my development.
Speaker 7: Jenna was working in town, so so we've been there
Speaker 7: a long time, so with so many relationships. I mentioned
Speaker 7: the Lexington School where our kids go to school, and
Speaker 7: we're going to miss that. Great people there. I wanted
Speaker 7: to on Tuesday and I forgot. I'm so glad I
Speaker 7: have an opportunity seriously. Coaching over there the last two
Speaker 7: years was just some some great people who are given
Speaker 7: their time to kids. And we coached this sixth, seventh,
Speaker 7: and eighth graders and those coaches at the Lexington School
Speaker 7: really helped me stay connected to my passion about teaching
Speaker 7: the game and and and you know, it's sort of
Speaker 7: full circle for me as I start it out as
Speaker 7: a junior high and high school coach. To be back
Speaker 7: into a school setting and get to work with those
Speaker 7: kids and and those coaches really are were inspiring to me.
Speaker 7: So so I miss I missed the school, and I
Speaker 7: missed that opportunity all of the friendships that we have.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm banned from the show now,
Speaker 7: I will definitely miss coming on the show. If I
Speaker 7: get banned, that's possible that I could possibly be banned.
Speaker 7: But I don't know why I couldn't come back in
Speaker 7: guest host every now and then during the summertime, during
Speaker 7: the dark days of summer. I don't know why I
Speaker 7: wouldn't be able to do that. But maybe I'll miss
Speaker 7: that if that's out. Uh, I'll miss Keenland. I'll miss uh,
Speaker 7: you know, going to watch Coach Stoops and the Cats
Speaker 7: on Saturdays. I mean, there's just so many things that
Speaker 7: that are unique about Central Kentucky and unique about Lexington,
Speaker 7: and uh, we love it, and uh, I don't know
Speaker 7: how it would be possible for us to ever, you know,
Speaker 7: fully depart. We will be back several times a year,
Speaker 7: and you know, I'm sure every April of October for
Speaker 7: Keenland and stuff like that. But we're just so many
Speaker 7: great relationships and we will miss that. But hoping that
Speaker 7: when people have a chance, they'll pop down to Houston
Speaker 7: every now and then, a lot of flights a lot
Speaker 7: of flights down to Houston.
Speaker 4: It's obvious how much this place means to you because
Speaker 4: one of your daughters named is middle name is Blue. Right,
Speaker 4: you named your daughter Blue.
Speaker 7: For crying out loud, that was a great It's a
Speaker 7: great story, if you'll allow me to tell it. We
Speaker 7: had had finally got it rolling and had won the
Speaker 7: twenty twelve SEC Championship, and then we won thirty games
Speaker 7: in twenty thirteen, and there were rumblings that I was
Speaker 7: going to go to Tennessee, and there were some, you know,
Speaker 7: some rumblings about that, and so I started going around
Speaker 7: town and everybody's like, Coach, please don't go to Sueston,
Speaker 7: Please don't go to see And I said, I'm not
Speaker 7: going to Tennessee. You don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 7: And so I just told Jenna. I said, Jenna, I
Speaker 7: wouldn't it be cool if we just let everybody know
Speaker 7: how much we love Kentucky and we uh. And I
Speaker 7: didn't think she'd go for this in a million years.
Speaker 7: I didn't remember when we had the the contest the
Speaker 7: named Jenna for her grandmother name. When when when lady
Speaker 7: Mammy Jay Mammy j was the winner. We did that
Speaker 7: was a great show. Anyhow, I didn't think, you know,
Speaker 7: Jenna didn't like Mammy j. But I said, why don't
Speaker 7: we make her middle name blue to let everybody know
Speaker 7: we're staying here and this is this is where we're
Speaker 7: going to be And so that's how Presley Blue got
Speaker 7: her middle name. And it absolutely signifies how much we
Speaker 7: love Kentucky and we do, we do and always will.
Speaker 4: Well, dude, we're super happy for you, proud of you,
Speaker 4: wish you not but the best. We will probay root
Speaker 4: against you. If you end up playing Kentucky in the
Speaker 4: final four, we'll probably root against you.
Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, what's Ryan? What your T shirt size?
Speaker 6: We need some. We'll take some Houston garret when you know,
Speaker 6: we'll watch you get moved in first, get your team
Speaker 6: get settled. But you know we're gonna be Houston fans
Speaker 6: from Lex and I don't know how many games we
Speaker 6: can attend, but our mister free T shirt over here.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna put you on the spot and make sure
Speaker 6: Ryan gets a T shirt.
Speaker 7: I love that it's on the way. It's on the way, fellas,
Speaker 7: And this is listen, this is not goodbye, guys, this
Speaker 7: is just so long farewell just for a bit, and uh,
Speaker 7: it's gonna be a lot of fun. And I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: And listen, in all seriousness, I appreciate Matt and you guys.
Speaker 7: When I was building the program and trying to get
Speaker 7: it going. You really gave me so much a platform
Speaker 7: to get on and talk about it and and just
Speaker 7: really helped our program get to the fans and create
Speaker 7: a fan base and create the passion that that's there
Speaker 7: now for women's basketball. And you all were a huge
Speaker 7: part of that. And we'll never forget the Big Blue
Speaker 7: Madness skit when I was able to choke Ryan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't had that actually, Uh.
Speaker 7: That was that was another great moment. But but I
Speaker 7: really I appreciate Kentucky Sports Radio. Uh always will be
Speaker 7: a fan and always be appreciative of what y'all done.
Speaker 7: And if you ever need a guest host, just you
Speaker 7: know where to come.
Speaker 4: We'll be calling you. We'll be calling you. We just
Speaker 4: kind of wanted to give your flowers today, wish the
Speaker 4: best of luck and uh say oah goodbye is kind
Speaker 4: of say our goodbyes a little bit. But yeah, we
Speaker 4: would love to have you back whenever you can, so coach, congratulations,
Speaker 4: best of luck to you down there in Houston.
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks you guys, and thanks to all the Big
Speaker 7: Blue Nation. UH love love them, and uh appreciate everything
Speaker 7: you guys done, and we will we will, we will
Speaker 7: be around all right, all.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, go coops, Matthew, bet you guys. We're
Speaker 4: in Red now and the new head coach down at Houston. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna miss him because you know, I consider
Speaker 4: him a friend and he's always great. When he did
Speaker 4: the show, he had some great shows he did when
Speaker 4: he hosted the show. Of course, all of his midnight
Speaker 4: Madness dance routines were legendary. It was the best thing
Speaker 4: about Madness for many years, was his dance.
Speaker 6: I wonder if he'll be taking that to Uston. Should
Speaker 6: ask him if the dance tradition will carry on, But no,
Speaker 6: I'll be rooting for him. You mentioned like almost going
Speaker 6: to Tennessee or being roomed to go to Tennessee. That
Speaker 6: would have been a different story if you're going to arrival,
Speaker 6: that's true. Houston's far enough away. I will happily be
Speaker 6: a Cougar's fan. Unlikely we ever run into him, but yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll be rooting for him to have a lot of success.
Speaker 4: All right, Shannon's on the clock. We come back. Shannon
Speaker 4: the Dude's five thun Pack Facts about Auburt Five fun
Speaker 4: backs about Auburn. Shannon, Are you're ready?
Speaker 2: I'm ready, let's go.
Speaker 4: All right, We'll be right back, Ryan Drew and Shannon here,
Speaker 4: Kentucky's Ports Radio. All right, welcome back, Ryan Drew and
Speaker 4: Stanning here, Kentucky's Ports Radio. Was so nice for Matthew
Speaker 4: to Mitchell to join us on JT's phone for that interview.
Speaker 3: I was waiting to see if you were gonna say
Speaker 3: anything about that. We could have called him back maybe.
Speaker 4: Well, was it that bad? You and I? We was
Speaker 4: crackling a lot on our Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't notice it, like when I talked to him
Speaker 2: off the air. Then as soon as we get on.
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Speaker 4: There you go. Yeah, all right, Auburn Tigers. What do
Speaker 4: you got for us?
Speaker 2: Well, Auburn is a really old school.
Speaker 3: Did you realize that Auburn goes all the way back
Speaker 3: to the Civil War days?
Speaker 2: Duel is not.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, during the Civil War, Auburn
Speaker 3: originally named East Alabama mal College. They suspended operations to
Speaker 3: become a hospital while it's campus served as a training
Speaker 3: ground for the Confederate Army.
Speaker 2: So Auburn, Yeah, Auburn's a really old school.
Speaker 4: Have a good little fun fact.
Speaker 2: Here's one with a little Kittuck tie in. They're a
Speaker 2: longtime lead trainer.
Speaker 3: Clark Pearson is a graduate of Franklin Simpson High School,
Speaker 3: really in Franklin, Kentucky territory.
Speaker 2: There you go. Abby is the name of the mascot,
Speaker 2: and he is an eleven time U see a national
Speaker 2: mascot champion. Didn't even know they had mascot championships, but
Speaker 2: he's an eleven time winner. Nice Abby, Abby.
Speaker 6: Bobby has he ever gotten his Paul stuck in a cage?
Speaker 2: I cannot find any evidence of that. Jordan Hare Stadium,
Speaker 2: you know that's the name of their football stadium, right,
Speaker 2: big Stadium yes, all right, Well do you know how
Speaker 2: it got its name.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 3: Jordan Hare Stadium is named after a motorcycle race between
Speaker 3: head coach Chug Jordan and a famous circus animal named
Speaker 3: Bobby the Wiley Hare. So I guess the coach had
Speaker 3: a motorcycle race against the hair and they named it
Speaker 3: Jordan Hare Stadium. Interesting, doesn't doesn't say who won. I
Speaker 3: would think that a guy in a motorcycle could beat
Speaker 3: a hair.
Speaker 6: So we have a grocery store and they have a
Speaker 6: motorcycle race.
Speaker 2: That's right. Interesting yep. Here's another one.
Speaker 3: A stretch of road on campus called South Dona Hugh
Speaker 3: Drive is known as War Eagle Road because it plays
Speaker 3: the first seven notes of War Eagle's fight song when
Speaker 3: you drive over it. You know, like when we're on
Speaker 3: road trips and Matt hits those rumble strips. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: if he did that, plays this song.
Speaker 2: I play this song.
Speaker 3: And speaking of War Eagle, you probably want to know, like,
Speaker 3: where did War Eagle come from?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: The most popular legend about the battle cry dates back
Speaker 3: to the first time Auburn met Georgia on the football
Speaker 3: field and eighteen ninety two in centers around a spectator
Speaker 3: who was a Civil War veteran. In the stands with
Speaker 3: him that day was an eagle the old soldier had
Speaker 3: found on a battlefield during the war.
Speaker 2: He had kept it as a pet for almost thirty years.
Speaker 4: My goodness.
Speaker 3: According to witnesses, the eagle suddenly broke free and began
Speaker 3: majestically circling the playing field as the eagle sword. Auburn
Speaker 3: began a steady march towards Georgia's end zone. Towards the
Speaker 3: Georgia en zone for a thrilling victory. Elated at the
Speaker 3: team's play and talking or taking the bird's presence as
Speaker 3: an omen of success, Auburn students and fans began to
Speaker 3: yell war eagle to spur on their team. As the
Speaker 3: game ended, the eagle took a sudden dive and crashed
Speaker 3: into the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh and died.
Speaker 4: No, it didn't.
Speaker 3: The Eagle committee is a true story. Kamikaze eagle it
Speaker 3: killed itself?
Speaker 4: Is this a true story? You made this up?
Speaker 2: This is on Auburn dot edu.
Speaker 4: Was is all?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 3: The eagle killed itself after Auburn came back to beat Georgia,
Speaker 3: And that's why they say war Eagle because.
Speaker 4: Of the Auburn Tigers. I never knew whether they said
Speaker 4: war Eagle. Now you know, I'll be suicide.
Speaker 2: That's right, you.
Speaker 4: Very good.
Speaker 6: I like the rumble strips the best. I want to
Speaker 6: go drive on that. I want to know how that
Speaker 6: works out. I don't have a fun fact about Auburn,
Speaker 6: but I would like to add, and we've said this
Speaker 6: many times, their basketball arena is pretty oft. It is
Speaker 6: pretty odd. I don't like to give other SEC schools
Speaker 6: credit for anything. I think they're all the worst. But
Speaker 6: I've been to that arena more than any opposing arena,
Speaker 6: and every time I'm in there, I'm like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is pretty cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They have a good student section along the sidelines. They
Speaker 6: line up early. That's mostly because I'm there for Kentucky games.
Speaker 6: Maybe against Vandy that's not the case. But they're one
Speaker 6: of the places that said, hey, we don't need this big,
Speaker 6: massive facility. I think it holds eight or nine thousand,
Speaker 6: but it's really nice inside. If anyone is ever looking
Speaker 6: for an SEC basketball road trip, I highly recommend never.
Speaker 2: I'm not finished. I got one more.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought that was fine.
Speaker 7: Bad?
Speaker 3: Maybe seven, I don't know, but I want to throw
Speaker 3: this in here because Bruce Pearl apparently is a huge
Speaker 3: fan of the pancake pantry. And I know this because
Speaker 3: my paparazzi friend Stacy has sent me not one, but
Speaker 3: two different pictures of Bruce eating at the pancake pantry.
Speaker 2: The one in Gallenberg, assume it's one in in Auburn.
Speaker 4: Oh, they've got a pantry. I thought you met the
Speaker 4: famous pancake pantry in Gatlinburg.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is that is that a chain or is.
Speaker 6: It's famous in Nashville too, Yeah, it is a change.
Speaker 4: They got one probably down in Auburn, Alabama.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if you go to the pancake pantry in Auburn,
Speaker 3: there's a good chance you may see Bruce Pearl.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: That's where Bruce and I differ. I think that's the
Speaker 6: most overrated place in America.
Speaker 4: There's always a line.
Speaker 6: Always, and it's good. But I can get pancakes, not
Speaker 6: a line at other places.
Speaker 4: But there's something about that one in Gatlinburg that's really good.
Speaker 6: I haven't done just the Nashville when they're always even
Speaker 6: the sec they're lying around the corner.
Speaker 4: All right, Well take a break. Well done, Shannon, good.
Speaker 2: Job, great job, thank you.
Speaker 4: We'll take a break, come back, and Malachai Marino will
Speaker 4: join us live from the spring break. We come Back,
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