Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of the KASR Pre Show.
Speaker 1: I Am Billy Religion. Today is Wednesday, April ninth. You
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Speaker 1: here in Lexington on Main Street in the city Center,
Speaker 1: where I am in studio today with another special guests,
Speaker 1: we approach day three of Drewapalooza. We've had many guests
Speaker 1: on the pre show so far, including Jacob Polachek and
Speaker 1: the former college basketball coach Tom Creen, but none of
Speaker 1: them can top our next guest, that is Maggie Davis,
Speaker 1: another frequent KSR pre show co host.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Maggie, how are you?
Speaker 3: Good morning? Wow? What an introduction Billy Palooza.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, Well, Billy Paluza, I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: just another week without Shannon the Dude and all his vacation.
Speaker 1: It's it's Drew that's been calling on KSR over these
Speaker 1: last couple days, and with all the news dropping yesterday,
Speaker 1: he had plenty to talk about. But it's good to
Speaker 1: see you, Maggie. How have you been. How has this
Speaker 1: busy season been for you?
Speaker 3: It's been amazing. I mean it's tough to follow Tom Crean.
Speaker 3: I think he had a heck of a season with ESPN,
Speaker 3: and I saw him killing it in Milwaukee. He was
Speaker 3: great on your show yesterday. Great get as always buy
Speaker 3: a Bilir Sports. But no, our season was great. I
Speaker 3: mean you were asking me right before we came on
Speaker 3: about if this is a little bit of a less
Speaker 3: busy time. It is just because we're not running around
Speaker 3: to so many games and extra things that come with
Speaker 3: basketball and interviews and practices and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: But in general, there's still a lot going on. We're
Speaker 3: gearing up for the Derby obviously Lax eighteen that's a
Speaker 3: huge deal for us. So it's still a busy time
Speaker 3: of the year, still plenty to talk about.
Speaker 1: Enjoyed your trips to Milwaukee though recently, and I did,
Speaker 1: maybe not India as much, but fun to traveling.
Speaker 3: I Withdrew on this. I would love to never go
Speaker 3: back to Indianapolis, if only because I've never seen a
Speaker 3: win there. I'm starting to think I'm the problem. But
Speaker 3: I did like Milwaukee. The joke I've made like forty
Speaker 3: five times is if it was in Georgia, I might
Speaker 3: want to live there. It's too cold for me. But
Speaker 3: it was a very cool town and we had a
Speaker 3: good time in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1: But it is an interesting time of year, just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on, right, I mean, with
Speaker 1: the transfer portal and the changes in recruiting. I mean
Speaker 1: you could have good information one day and then an
Speaker 1: hour later it could change. And we kind of talked
Speaker 1: to Jacob about that, right, I mean, it's just a
Speaker 1: strange time of year. And you are the co host
Speaker 1: of BBN Tonight, which runs every weekday at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: I caught the episode last night. I did my show prep. Maggie,
Speaker 1: don't you worry? You know, how has it been covering
Speaker 1: this transfer portal and recruiting season for you?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a lot of fun. Obviously. I take the
Speaker 3: perspective that I can't get my feelings hurt over the
Speaker 3: transfer portal too much. I know that everybody has different
Speaker 3: thoughts and sometimes it's a little fun to ride the
Speaker 3: emotional rollercoaster of oh my gosh, Pope hasn't signed anybody.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, now he signed six people. We don't
Speaker 3: have any room on the roster or nobody else could
Speaker 3: enter the portal. There's no other good players out there.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, three new guys just entered. Which one
Speaker 3: would we pick? You know, like there's it really does
Speaker 3: change so fast. As you mentioned, it is a lot
Speaker 3: to keep up with. I'm a little bit or maybe
Speaker 3: a lot type a. So for me, like I like
Speaker 3: to have my spreadsheet going where I have the player,
Speaker 3: the position, where he's what school he's coming from.
Speaker 2: Organized.
Speaker 3: I'm very organized, but a lot of it I can't
Speaker 3: actually use because on BB and Tonight is the official
Speaker 3: UK station partnership, et cetera. We actually don't talk about
Speaker 3: guys in any sport, basketball or otherwise until they sign
Speaker 3: on the dot all.
Speaker 2: So similar to the recruiting thing in high school.
Speaker 1: Coaches can't mention it, so the official station can't mention it.
Speaker 3: Correct we allow the same rules. So basically we are
Speaker 3: on the coaching staff no, but we we can't talk
Speaker 3: about people till they're official, So for me, it's mostly
Speaker 3: just about prep in terms of whenever they do become official.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be like, wait, do you Bonde
Speaker 3: I've heard that name before, you know, like I want
Speaker 3: to I want to know what I'm going to talk
Speaker 3: about whatever, because we really don't know when they will
Speaker 3: sign and when we will be able to talk about
Speaker 3: it. It could happen kind of fast. Plus I like coming
Speaker 3: on radio shows and talking about it. I'm happy to
Speaker 3: do that, of course, and at the same time, I'm
Speaker 3: still a fan, so I like keeping up with it
Speaker 3: for personal reasons as well. Well.
Speaker 2: It feels like I'm the opposite Maggie.
Speaker 1: And despite being a part of the UK network and
Speaker 1: being on the radio broadcast for each game, sometimes we
Speaker 1: just come on here and speculate about who's going to
Speaker 1: be on the roster and who could be a good
Speaker 1: fit for pope system. Last week was the week people
Speaker 1: were losing their mind panic where Kentucky was not getting
Speaker 1: the recruits, Louisville was getting a ton of them, so
Speaker 1: the sky was falling, Maggie. But as we have seen
Speaker 1: in the last week, Patients as a virtue, Mark Pope
Speaker 1: has brought in a lot of guys, including just recently
Speaker 1: the forward from Alabama Diabaatee, and then just yesterday we
Speaker 1: didn't even get to talk about it on the pre show.
Speaker 1: Jaden Quainton's the former Kentucky commit commits again to Kentucky
Speaker 1: after a year at Arizona State. And the way that
Speaker 1: this roster is filling out, Maggie, if there are no
Speaker 1: departures from an Otega Oway or Brandon Garrison, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to buy in a little bit.
Speaker 2: What have you seen so far? If you can comment, oh,
Speaker 2: I can comment.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is Maggie personally. It's not in any official capacity.
Speaker 3: We're just friends here, right, Yeah, you can just talk
Speaker 3: about it. But I'm excited about this roster. I don't
Speaker 3: know how you cannot be. I was honestly pretty excited
Speaker 3: about the roster before he went into the portal. That's
Speaker 3: why I wasn't in full panic mode last week when
Speaker 3: so many people were, because last year he literally had
Speaker 3: zero people on the roster, and so it was a
Speaker 3: little easier to panic and feel that time crunch of
Speaker 3: there are only so many players out there and you
Speaker 3: do need so many of them. This year, I never
Speaker 3: felt like Wow, it's an overwhelming need for this team. Obviously,
Speaker 3: there are positions you want to replace, positions you have
Speaker 3: to replace. Point Guard was a very important one for
Speaker 3: me to see filled another starting center. Hopefully Brandon Garrison
Speaker 3: comes back to have somebody to compliment him in that role.
Speaker 3: So for me, there were a couple that I was
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit more locked in on than others.
Speaker 3: But it is so, so, so important, I think to
Speaker 3: keep Otaga away and some of these returning guys who
Speaker 3: will be going into their sophomore year's Colin Chandler. I'm
Speaker 3: excited about seeing what jump he makes. Oh yeah, And
Speaker 3: I'm excited about the freshman I think this ushman class
Speaker 3: is really good. And you know, we've gotten to see
Speaker 3: Malachi a lot here recently with the state tournament, winning
Speaker 3: the title obviously with great crossing, and then going to
Speaker 3: the McDonald's All American Game and getting to see him
Speaker 3: against the best of the best in his class. So
Speaker 3: I think he's gotten a lot of shine and I'm
Speaker 3: excited about him absolutely. I think some of these other guys,
Speaker 3: I mean, you have Jasper Johnson. I had the chance
Speaker 3: to sit down with him earlier in the season in
Speaker 3: Atlanta and he was great. I'm really excited to see
Speaker 3: him in the blue and white and then Akad Lewis.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's probably the one I've seen play
Speaker 3: the least. I don't know if other Kentucky fans feel
Speaker 3: that way or not, but he's one that's more of
Speaker 3: a little wild card for me, and I can't wait
Speaker 3: to see how he fits in with some of the
Speaker 3: older veteran players popes getting around him.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: If if in the past it's been I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get to the NBA, this is going to get
Speaker 1: me there, it feels like that's changed to oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get to play at Kentucky. And it's
Speaker 1: been like that for many years. It changed a little
Speaker 1: bit during the Cal years, I think. But I say
Speaker 1: that because of a Jasper Johnson, who has been actively
Speaker 1: recruiting everybody in the portal to come to Kentucky. I
Speaker 1: say that because of Quaintans and his dad in some
Speaker 1: of the comments he made in an interview recently where
Speaker 1: he said, you know, we always loved Kentucky. We wanted
Speaker 1: Mark Pope to recruit us even when Cal left, and
Speaker 1: despite that, there was some time away Pope came back
Speaker 1: and sold us on the vision of what Amari Williams
Speaker 1: was last year. So I think the perception of Kentucky
Speaker 1: right now is very interesting because while they're still able
Speaker 1: to get some of the best of the best recruits,
Speaker 1: they're coming for different reasons.
Speaker 2: Would you agree for that.
Speaker 3: I agree with that for the most part. I also
Speaker 3: think they're coming now because they've seen it happen. There's
Speaker 3: a certain level of almost salesmanship. I don't say that
Speaker 3: with a negative connotation, but you do have to sell
Speaker 3: an idea of what Mark Pope at Kentucky will look like.
Speaker 3: Of course, last year, when he was going to living
Speaker 3: rooms all across the country and begging guys in the
Speaker 3: portal to come to Kentucky, he had to sell, well,
Speaker 3: this is what I did at BUYU, I promise it'll
Speaker 3: be the same at Kentucky, or this is what we
Speaker 3: want to do. But nobody had seen him actually do
Speaker 3: it because he just hadn't yet he had just gotten
Speaker 3: the job. And so now that you've seen his system
Speaker 3: actually translate into the SEC obviously we knew how many
Speaker 3: threes his team took at BYU. We know generally what
Speaker 3: kind of offense he was running there, but to see
Speaker 3: it actually adjust for this program and defensively too, and
Speaker 3: from a staff perspective, just to have another year with
Speaker 3: these assistants. And I think all of that plays into
Speaker 3: the fact that if you're a recruit, whether you're in
Speaker 3: the portal or you're a true freshman coming into college,
Speaker 3: you can actually watch what Kentucky did this year, the
Speaker 3: style they played with, the emotion they played with. You
Speaker 3: talked about the jersey and playing for the front. Of course,
Speaker 3: I think that first group of Cats we had this
Speaker 3: past year really laid the foundation in that way, and
Speaker 3: I think all of that cumulatively is what they can
Speaker 3: quote unquote sell this year, which to me is an
Speaker 3: easier buy. Then we think this is what we're gonna do,
Speaker 3: and we hope it's going to look like this.
Speaker 1: Mark Pope driving stick shift in South America, trying to
Speaker 1: meet recruits, or picking up Andrew Carr and bowling Green
Speaker 1: after playing issues and things like that.
Speaker 3: That was an awesome story. I'm sure we will get
Speaker 3: some stories that once this portal class is done.
Speaker 1: You know, kind of what were some of your takeaways
Speaker 1: from the season. You're somebody that is always interviewing players.
Speaker 1: You got to sit down with some players, you're asking
Speaker 1: the coaching staff questions as an unofficial member of the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, I mean, what were you struck by besides
Speaker 1: the weed of bis craze this season?
Speaker 2: I mean, wasn't an interview?
Speaker 1: Was it a I don't know, somebody being personable with
Speaker 1: you during a sad moment.
Speaker 2: What are some highlights from Maggie's That's.
Speaker 3: A great question. I think it reminds me of what
Speaker 3: I thought, mostly at the end of that final game.
Speaker 3: Of course, with their season over and for so many
Speaker 3: of the guys, their collegiate careers having just come to
Speaker 3: a close in such a tough game against Tennessee, and
Speaker 3: there'd been so much build up, and everybody in that
Speaker 3: locker room after the game is just so upset obviously
Speaker 3: that the year's over and they haven't hung number nine.
Speaker 3: This is a team that did not shy away from
Speaker 3: that expectation from day one until the last day of
Speaker 3: the season. So I think for them, sort of grappling
Speaker 3: with that was tough in that moment. But I left
Speaker 3: the locker room really struck by the perspective, and I
Speaker 3: think that is thing that comes with age, not that
Speaker 3: a freshman can't you take himself out of it in
Speaker 3: that moment, but it takes a really special player to,
Speaker 3: within fifteen to twenty minutes of your collegiate career career
Speaker 3: coming to an end, to sit there and really say, like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm heartbroken that we didn't get this done, but I
Speaker 3: am so proud of what we did this year. I
Speaker 3: had the best time of my life playing with these
Speaker 3: guys and playing for Mark Pope and playing for this
Speaker 3: fan base, and so for me, that spirit they really
Speaker 3: embodied it the entire season. But to see them sort
Speaker 3: of wrap it up in that bow, even in such
Speaker 3: a tough, sad moment, disappointing moment after they lost in
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, really speaks I think, to the maturity
Speaker 3: that was on this team, as well as how close
Speaker 3: this team was. One of my favorite things we did
Speaker 3: all year was ahead of Senior Night, we found one
Speaker 3: or one member or one family that was really impacted
Speaker 3: by each of the seven seniors. Obviously Kerkrisa had more eligibility,
Speaker 3: but we included him in this just from a senior standpoint,
Speaker 3: and it was amazing to me to see all the
Speaker 3: people who were touched specific by one senior or another. Right,
Speaker 3: so many of us fell in love with the whole team.
Speaker 3: But to find a kid who had Amari Williams come
Speaker 3: read to his class was awesome. Or a family that
Speaker 3: bonded over Kobe Brea because they're from New York and
Speaker 3: they never thought they'd get to see this New Yorker,
Speaker 3: you know, shouting out New York and BBN at the
Speaker 3: same time for the Wildcats in this way. So there
Speaker 3: just were so many stories. A little girl who had
Speaker 3: Andrew Carr visit her in the children's hospital, Like, there
Speaker 3: were so many stories like that that we didn't know
Speaker 3: and didn't hear about during the year. And to get
Speaker 3: to tell those stories of how this group actually went
Speaker 3: out and sort of touched the fan base. They didn't
Speaker 3: just talk the talk in terms of representing BBN and
Speaker 3: being a part of this community, but they actually went
Speaker 3: to Hazard and built a house for somebody, and they
Speaker 3: actually went out in the community and got to know
Speaker 3: these people one on one specifically. So telling those stories
Speaker 3: was really important and fulfilling for me this year.
Speaker 1: You Know, one I think about was Kobe Braa, one
Speaker 1: that was shared on the radio. He got done with
Speaker 1: an event, but somebody came up to him and said, hey,
Speaker 1: my mom lived a couple doors down. Yes, she's your
Speaker 1: big Vegas fan. Will you come say hi? And there
Speaker 1: was no thought process to it. He just goes and
Speaker 1: immediately does it and makes this woman's day part of
Speaker 1: the you know, kind of what we were alluding to.
Speaker 1: You understand what it means to wear that jersey and
Speaker 1: how it impacts the people around you. And that's why
Speaker 1: so many are so fiercely passionate about their own and
Speaker 1: their own getting playing times on these teams. Maggie, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, sometimes players can be bad interviews.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it can be like pulling teeth to get information
Speaker 1: out of these guys.
Speaker 2: Is that something that.
Speaker 1: Improves as the year goes on, They kind of you know,
Speaker 1: they start to trust you, they see you every day,
Speaker 1: they open up a little bit more. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: had times where it's it is like pulling teeth trying
Speaker 1: to interview so much players.
Speaker 3: Definitely that happens over the course of a year, and
Speaker 3: not just with basketball. I mean that's with any sport.
Speaker 3: We talk to every athlete on every team on UK's campus.
Speaker 3: On BBN Tonight, which is probably my favorite part of
Speaker 3: the job. Like we cover basketball so intensely, but we
Speaker 3: also spend so much time with gymnastics and softball and
Speaker 3: track and all of these other sports that deserves some
Speaker 3: shine as well. So absolutely every team has guys that
Speaker 3: are quieter and guys that are more outgoing. I mean,
Speaker 3: even on this current team, Amari Williams was very quiet,
Speaker 3: especially early on, but he was never, like you said,
Speaker 3: pulling teeth because he just was so open, transparent. He'd
Speaker 3: have a great conversation with you. But he has a
Speaker 3: totally different demeanor than a Kerk Crisa or a Lamont Butler, right,
Speaker 3: or any of those guys on this team who were
Speaker 3: so outspoken. I mean Andrew Carr. Talking to Andrew Carr
Speaker 3: half the time felt like I was talking to Mark Pope,
Speaker 3: like he was a little mini coach out there, if
Speaker 3: you can call a six' Ten Andrew carr, Mini but
Speaker 3: it felt LIKE i was talking to a coach on the.
Speaker 3: Staff and that was truly one of my favorite parts
Speaker 3: about this. Team there was no one on this team
Speaker 3: who was a challenge in any capacity to work, with
Speaker 3: to talk to, you to do an interview. With they
Speaker 3: were so great all, year and not just with, us
Speaker 3: but with. Everybody like you, said you just see them so.
Speaker 3: MUCH i don't think people, understand, like not that we
Speaker 3: know them, personally were hanging out all the, time but
Speaker 3: we do go to probably three press conferences a, week two,
Speaker 3: games talk to him pre seeum at warm, ups talk
Speaker 3: to him post game like it does add up over
Speaker 3: the course of a, season and then those little kind
Speaker 3: of side stories we get to tell along the way
Speaker 3: make a big impact in that way.
Speaker 2: Too i'm still frustrated we didn't get a full season
Speaker 2: Of Coro. Crisa it would have been.
Speaker 1: FUN i mean just we were a few games in
Speaker 1: and he was already doing the mustache thing after a
Speaker 1: big stop and clapping in people's, faces trying to call
Speaker 1: time out for the other, team just going over and
Speaker 1: walking into their huddle and seeing how long he can
Speaker 1: stay over. There it's like that was just the ANTICS i,
Speaker 1: loved AND i wish him the best At. Cincinnati but
Speaker 1: these are one year rentals at, times, Right and if
Speaker 1: it was the one and done in years, past it's
Speaker 1: one and done in a different. Way and that's Why
Speaker 1: i'm so excited to see these guys would be retained
Speaker 1: In pope system like you mentioned To Colin chandler or
Speaker 1: A Brandon garrison if otake a always, Days, Maggie, PLEASE
Speaker 1: i don't think this is hyperbole to say that he
Speaker 1: could be on the first TEAM sec next.
Speaker 3: Year, OH i think so. Absolutely i'm a little my
Speaker 3: feelings were hurt a little bit That Lamont butler didn't
Speaker 3: get any of that recognition this. Year and of course
Speaker 3: it was because he was injured on and off so
Speaker 3: much throughout the regular, season specifically in the se, season
Speaker 3: But Lamt butler deserved to be on one of those.
Speaker 3: TEAMS i hated that he didn't get, even you, know
Speaker 3: any sort of defensive. Nods AND i think it's just
Speaker 3: because he didn't have enough, games just having to miss
Speaker 3: so many with that shoulder. Injury but coming back for another,
Speaker 3: Year otaga away would absolutely be in that. Conversation for,
Speaker 3: Me i'm hoping it's the. CASE i know it's been pretty.
Speaker 3: Quiet i'm hoping it's the. Case it's do you remember
Speaker 3: a few years Ago lance where nobody knew If lance
Speaker 3: was coming, back et. Cetera and it was kind of
Speaker 3: when we were all starting to freak, out like Is
Speaker 3: lance coming, back like that'd be a good piece to.
Speaker 3: Have we could use the. Enforcer and finally he posted
Speaker 3: something On, instagram just like a picture of his. CAR
Speaker 3: i was, like why are people asking me What i'm?
Speaker 3: Doing why WOULD i not be coming? Back where else
Speaker 3: AM i? Going Obviously i'm coming? Back AND i REMEMBER
Speaker 3: i interviewed him right after he posted, that maybe a
Speaker 3: week or so, later and sort of asked him about.
Speaker 3: It he was, like it was so bizarre to. ME
Speaker 3: i didn't KNOW i had to make an announcement THAT
Speaker 3: i wasn't. Leaving but we are in an era now
Speaker 3: where you do kind of expect, that and so you,
Speaker 3: Know i'm one of those little. PSYCHOS i have my
Speaker 3: otaga away notifications turned on AND i hope he posts something.
Speaker 3: Soon but even if it's just An instagram story of, like,
Speaker 3: man why are people asking me Where i'm? Going Obviously
Speaker 3: i'm coming. Back that would be. GREAT i would take.
Speaker 1: That, YEAH i mean people ask me all the, time
Speaker 1: how do you still work WITH? KSR i mean you are.
Speaker 1: Terrible SO i do have to update people every now and, Then,
Speaker 1: maggie but that is just a it's a new, world
Speaker 1: and Lance, WARE i think is.
Speaker 2: An all conference player now at his new. School so
Speaker 2: how About, lance he's doing his. Thing how About? Lance
Speaker 2: how About?
Speaker 1: Lance he'd get a technical draw and that'd be what
Speaker 1: he was good. For but, hey eight five nine two
Speaker 1: eight oh two two eight, seven give us a call
Speaker 1: if you've have any questions for me Or Maggie.
Speaker 2: Davis maggie covers all of THE uk.
Speaker 1: Teams as she, mentioned you, know we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about some random Nonsense maggie as we get closer
Speaker 1: to these summer. Shows, yes you, know we've got animals
Speaker 1: being resurrected from. Extinction we'll talk about some, perspective many
Speaker 1: things on the way With Maggie.
Speaker 2: Davis thanks for.
Speaker 1: Listening join the. Show we'll be right back here on
Speaker 1: the ks. Apprecio all, right welcome.
Speaker 2: Back it is A wednesday at the edition of the
Speaker 2: Cas our pre. Show Billy.
Speaker 1: Retligion Maggie davis joins us FROM Bbn tonight And lex.
Speaker 2: Eighteen she always does a great. Job.
Speaker 1: Maggie i'm gonna put you on the spot, now, okay
Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of debate about journalism in.
Speaker 1: Sports oh, okay, Wait i've got two questions for. You
Speaker 1: we'll start with the. First it's been a little bit
Speaker 1: of a. Debate would you ever WEAR uk gear on
Speaker 1: press row while you covered a?
Speaker 3: Game, PERSONALLY i would. Not that's just a personal choice of.
Speaker 3: MINE i do THINK i kind of fall in a
Speaker 3: weird spot on this vin diagram BECAUSE i do work
Speaker 3: for the OFFICIAL uk ex, yes SO i don't think
Speaker 3: it would be necessarily frowned upon IF i. Did but for,
Speaker 3: me that's not SOMETHING I i would ever. DO i
Speaker 3: do wear, BLUE i think at home games on and.
Speaker 3: OFF i did not for several, years even WHEN i
Speaker 3: was working FOR ksr as a. STUDENT i was being
Speaker 3: really kind of weird about. That but you, know at that,
Speaker 3: POINT i was a journalism student AT uk and they're
Speaker 3: just preaching like this is what you, do this is
Speaker 3: what you don't, do and those are sort of the
Speaker 3: RULES i was learning at that point in my life
Speaker 3: and my. Career SO i WAS i was pretty type
Speaker 3: a about at that, point which surprises no one who knows.
Speaker 3: Me and then now you, Know i'm a little more
Speaker 3: flexible with it because of my. JOB i, mean, HECK
Speaker 3: i host a show CALLED Bbn The.
Speaker 2: Height yeah, right it's not.
Speaker 3: Exactly an unbiased, show SO i am, okay wearing blue
Speaker 3: you know here and there at, games especially home, games
Speaker 3: BUT i don't Wear kentucky gear at work.
Speaker 1: Typically, Well i've been made fun of, this but this
Speaker 1: Clastering i've had on over the past couple of, days
Speaker 1: it's for graduating The school Of Broadcast, Journalism. Maggie so
Speaker 1: two people that are heavily involved WITH ksr now and
Speaker 1: in the. PAST i think we're in the same boat.
Speaker 1: HERE i mean, it it's just something you don't do.
Speaker 1: Now the other part of this is a female reporter
Speaker 1: with The university Of. FLORIDA i think she is still a,
Speaker 1: student but she has made waves online over the last
Speaker 1: week or so covering The gators in some odd, ways
Speaker 1: one being maybe a little, inappropriate very close up in
Speaker 1: interviews in the locker, room and then second when she
Speaker 1: filmed HERSELF i guess semi celebrating on press row as
Speaker 1: The gators won The National. Chamchampionship does stuff like that
Speaker 1: make you cringe or is that just the new way
Speaker 1: that journalism and covering teams.
Speaker 3: Is, NO i think it's the new. WAY i, mean
Speaker 3: it's to each their. Own it's not SOMETHING i would,
Speaker 3: do you. Know i'm a little old SCHOOL i guess
Speaker 3: in that, way and obviously in my heart of, hearts
Speaker 3: the Seam i'm covering is the. School it's WHERE i
Speaker 3: went to. SCHOOL i grew up In, LEXINGTON i went TO,
Speaker 3: UK i live In lexington. NOW i work for a
Speaker 3: show CALLED Bbn. TONIGHT i don't think there's any question
Speaker 3: in terms of Who i'm rooting for on the. Inside
Speaker 3: but at the end of the, Day i'm doing my,
Speaker 3: job which is to cover a. Game and so for,
Speaker 3: me that's something THAT i probably wouldn't do in that.
Speaker 3: Scenario BUT i do think that journalism is changing so
Speaker 3: much and there are some pretty blurry lines right now
Speaker 3: in terms of journal what's journalism and what's content creation
Speaker 3: and almost influencing to an, extent and a lot of
Speaker 3: people are blurring those lines more than. Others and AGAIN
Speaker 3: i think it depends on your. Job like there are
Speaker 3: absolutely jobs where that would be great and fine and
Speaker 3: it would be, helpful and your boss would probably say
Speaker 3: great engagement on social, media right you're making us money on,
Speaker 3: TikTok that's. Great and there are other jobs that would
Speaker 3: frown on that and would, say, wow that's really. Unprofessional
Speaker 3: and SO i think for, me it totally depends on
Speaker 3: what your job, is who your boss, is and what
Speaker 3: your audience. Is and for, ME i mean she's a
Speaker 3: student At. Florida it's it's a very similar situation to
Speaker 3: an extent of me and my. Job there's no question
Speaker 3: who the student At florida is rooting for in the
Speaker 3: national championship. GAME i have no problem with. THAT i
Speaker 3: think it's a little odd maybe to visibly, cheer BUT
Speaker 3: i actually think in the video she was really trying.
Speaker 1: Not to and sometimes trying not to cheer while your
Speaker 1: team wins the. Tournament BUT i kind of see both
Speaker 1: sides as.
Speaker 3: Well and for the locker, ROOM i will, Say i'm
Speaker 3: sorry to cut you. Off the need to say this
Speaker 3: to ask someone who's been in those locker. Rooms it
Speaker 3: is very tight. Quarters it is uncomfortably. Close i've been
Speaker 3: in positions WHERE i feel uncomfortable Because i'm so close to,
Speaker 3: people but there's so many people kind of around, you
Speaker 3: almost pushing you towards. It and for someone like, her
Speaker 3: with she has a mic and someone else has a,
Speaker 3: camera she has to in in a way where she
Speaker 3: can reach him with the, microphone and the camera has
Speaker 3: to see, him and she can't be blocking the camera,
Speaker 3: Right so there's a little geometry involved in this. Too
Speaker 3: again that's probably not exactly HOW i would, stand but
Speaker 3: at the end of the, day it does get crowded in,
Speaker 3: there and those locker rooms are smaller than any LOCKER
Speaker 3: i don't know how they find these locker rooms for
Speaker 3: THE ncaa. Tournaments they are significantly smaller than the ones
Speaker 3: That i've seen At ropperina And Joe. Kraft even in.
Speaker 1: Terms of, well it's the biggest e end of the,
Speaker 1: year you got to make it the smallest locker.
Speaker 3: Room you have to make it as cramped as. Possible
Speaker 3: AND i think they almost play games with. Us like
Speaker 3: THE uk locker rooms and even The illinois locker, room
Speaker 3: they put these giant tables in the middle so you
Speaker 3: couldn't just crisscross across the. Room you had to like
Speaker 3: walk around the perimeter where the players were set. Up
Speaker 3: and then some players start at the, podium, right and
Speaker 3: then they get brought in and maybe the three players
Speaker 3: at the podium have three little lockers all next to
Speaker 3: each other in the. Corner so we're all standing there
Speaker 3: waiting to Get, Butler brea And, carr three great, speakers
Speaker 3: three great people you want to hear from on this.
Speaker 3: Team they come in eight minutes into this locker room
Speaker 3: availability and all of a, sudden we are all rushing
Speaker 3: to that one corner where they all randomly.
Speaker 1: Sit and was It Oscar sheibwey who turned his back
Speaker 1: to the media for like.
Speaker 3: Ten, RANCE i, THINK i, MEAN i have no problem with.
Speaker 3: That after the last game of the, year, man emotions
Speaker 3: are so. HIGH i saw some stuff about The houston locker. Room.
Speaker 2: Obviously oh it's a tough, place.
Speaker 3: Devastating it's. Awful it's, awful but it is something we
Speaker 3: have to cover. PROFESSIONALLY i mean.
Speaker 1: There's some locker, Rooms Mark pope's breaking. FURNITURE i, mean
Speaker 1: so it could be a dangerous place to. Be we'll
Speaker 1: take a break and be back with. More Maggie davis
Speaker 1: here on the Ksrpre. Show welcome Back Billy rutledge And
Speaker 1: Maggie davis this morning here on THE ksr Pre show
Speaker 1: WHERE i was just talking To maggie off air and
Speaker 1: she would ask players if they have a good side
Speaker 1: before she puts the camera in their.
Speaker 2: Face that's very nice of, you.
Speaker 3: Man, Well i'm nothing if not consider.
Speaker 2: It see on, radio there is no good. Side that's
Speaker 2: WHY i love.
Speaker 1: Radio just come in in pajama pants and nobody will
Speaker 1: know the, difference, right who?
Speaker 3: Knows, YEAH i guess who. Knows but although you did
Speaker 3: normally take pictures in tweet them, out SO i do
Speaker 3: try to.
Speaker 2: Dress that's.
Speaker 1: TRUE i do expose my guests with a picture On
Speaker 1: twitter dot. Com, Also mario is ruining the radio theater
Speaker 1: of the mind experience as, well because he comes in
Speaker 1: and posts pictures of my facial hair in my class,
Speaker 1: rings things like. That, maggie you Got corey price in
Speaker 1: our guests always do here on the pre. Show but
Speaker 1: we also got a little bit of some details in
Speaker 1: fourth grade getting first medal in chemistry at the two
Speaker 1: thousand and Eight Kentucky American Water Fayette County Public School Science.
Speaker 3: FAIR i can't believe you found this. First of all
Speaker 3: two funny parts of the story is number. ONE i
Speaker 3: was fourth, grade a very serious, swimmer, obviously so my
Speaker 3: experiment was something along the lines OF i don't, know
Speaker 3: it's a long, story but it involved swimming and. Water
Speaker 3: SO i always kind of thought maybe the fix was.
Speaker 3: IN i didn't do it, intentionally but who knew that
Speaker 3: it was? Sponsored by a water company in. Town SO
Speaker 3: i felt like they liked.
Speaker 2: IT i did a water, experiment catered to your audience in.
Speaker 3: A smart SO i, mean right, off there you. GO
Speaker 3: i also won a printer because of. That that's the
Speaker 3: number one MEMORY i have of, that and it's the
Speaker 3: PRINTER i used through, college all the way.
Speaker 2: Through oh so you used. It it was a great.
Speaker 3: Printer, no so shout out the what was? It a
Speaker 3: mirror the The Kentucky American Water Fayette County Public. Schools,
Speaker 3: yeah there we.
Speaker 2: Go it's a, mouthful the.
Speaker 3: Printer it's a.
Speaker 1: Mouthful But, maggie congratulations on your medal in two thousand and.
Speaker 2: Eight since you're such a science.
Speaker 1: Whiz you're gonna have to explain to me the news
Speaker 1: about the return of the dire. WOLF i don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen. This did you Watch game Of thrones
Speaker 1: back in the.
Speaker 2: DAY i did.
Speaker 3: Not, UNFORTUNATELY i think that's a boys.
Speaker 1: Show, WELL i think part of the reason why we're
Speaker 1: seeing this is because of THE tv Show game Of
Speaker 1: thrones and the rise to prominence of dire. Wolves, again
Speaker 1: dire wolves haven't existed for over ten thousand, years but,
Speaker 1: scientists according to The New time cover article claim that
Speaker 1: the dire wolf is. Back they're the first to exist
Speaker 1: in ten thousand. Years they've made three of. Them they
Speaker 1: de extracted and ANIMAL dna from. FOSSILS i guess the
Speaker 1: dire WOLF dna and combined it with the genes of
Speaker 1: a gray, wolf the closest cousin of the dire. Wolf and, Now,
Speaker 1: maggie just Like Jurassic, park we've got dire wolves.
Speaker 3: Again was there a dire need for? This i'm. Confused
Speaker 3: why are we doing? This were we missing them in
Speaker 3: the ecosystem because we?
Speaker 1: Can and there was a POPULAR tv show that made
Speaker 1: people want to see dire.
Speaker 3: Wolves so dire wolves were In game Of. Thrones, YES
Speaker 3: i MEAN i feel like there's a lot In game Of.
Speaker 3: Thrones as someone who has not seen the, SHOW i
Speaker 3: feel like a lot was happening in that. Show we
Speaker 3: don't need to bring back.
Speaker 2: Dragons one of them probably one that we should not bring.
Speaker 2: Back if they ever existed?
Speaker 3: Again did you just say if they ever?
Speaker 1: Existed, yes if they ever, Existed, Okay, maggie It's i'm
Speaker 1: leaving it. Ambiguous you, know some people might think that
Speaker 1: they existed out.
Speaker 3: THERE i feel like we had like.
Speaker 1: Dinosaurs, well this comes straight out Of Jurassic. PARK i
Speaker 1: mean it seems like exactly how they've done. It the
Speaker 1: company that has done, This, biosciences The Colossal biosciences is
Speaker 1: their name has says that the wooly, mammoth the, dodo
Speaker 1: and The tasmanian tiger are.
Speaker 3: Next, okay do we need any of? That? WHY i
Speaker 3: just feel like there's a lot going, on not to
Speaker 3: not to make it like, This there's a lot going
Speaker 3: on we could be focused on other than The tasmanian
Speaker 3: devils of the, World like do we need to assert
Speaker 3: all of our, focus attention and resources to The tasmanian
Speaker 3: devils just because you?
Speaker 1: Can shouldn't mean that you, should, Right i'm with, You
Speaker 1: BUT i would like a little wooly mammoth as a.
Speaker 2: Pet maggie is the? Future like sometimes.
Speaker 3: You know when people breed dogs so much and then
Speaker 3: they start making like the mini, version like people who
Speaker 3: have like the little tiny mini gold retrie, version a
Speaker 3: little mini food. Mixes, yeah, whatever what if you just
Speaker 3: made a little mini wooly mammoth and then it was
Speaker 3: like a little rabbit in your, house like a bunny
Speaker 3: size wooly.
Speaker 2: Mammoth but where do we, Stop? Maggie are we going
Speaker 2: to bring back every?
Speaker 1: Species should have species that you know went out on their.
Speaker 1: Own there are some that were hunted, into you, know.
Speaker 3: Extinctions these are big, questions these.
Speaker 2: Are Big your first place in The Science fair, answer.
Speaker 3: The water company did not prepare me for. THIS i,
Speaker 3: YEAH i don't Think i'm into. THIS i can't explain,
Speaker 3: it BUT i don't like.
Speaker 2: It it's a slippery. Slope if you ask.
Speaker 3: Me if they could clone, you would they let? You
Speaker 3: would you let them clone? You?
Speaker 2: NO i don't like.
Speaker 1: Clones but if you want to make a hologram of,
Speaker 1: me that can you, Know sarah And, ayede you on
Speaker 1: your birthday one, year or you, know just be a
Speaker 1: voice to my grandchildren one. DAY i think AFTER i,
Speaker 1: DIE i think holograms are a huge thing in our
Speaker 1: society one hundred years from.
Speaker 3: Now so the case our pre show can live.
Speaker 1: On our pre show will live on With shannon And
Speaker 1: i's holograms and OUR ai just making up random.
Speaker 2: Nonsense, WELL i.
Speaker 3: Hope my hologram still gets to come fill in with you,
Speaker 3: guys that.
Speaker 1: Would be we'd love for your hologram to come in
Speaker 1: Because shannon's hologram will still have vacation.
Speaker 2: Days he will still need.
Speaker 3: Time on so many comp days for the hologram.
Speaker 1: EIGHT o two Two. Eightsvan let's go to the phone.
Speaker 1: Lines joe is on the. Line good, Morning, joe what's?
Speaker 4: Up, Hey i'm doing really. GOOD i hope you're all
Speaker 4: having a great. Day, Quickly, MAGGIE i know you follow.
Speaker 4: GYMNASTICS i want to give a shout out to our
Speaker 4: coach and. STAFF i just think they do a tremendous.
Speaker 4: JOB i THINK Sec gymnastics might be the most cutthroat
Speaker 4: of all that lake events in THE. Sec i've never
Speaker 4: seen how one girl can go from a nine eight
Speaker 4: and then the next dog will, say, well maybe not
Speaker 4: that nine, eight but something. Else but it is what it.
Speaker 4: Is and, then, Secondly, maggie everybody wants to know about
Speaker 4: the men's transferred. Portal BUT i just am really wondering
Speaker 4: when you Think Coach brooks is going to go in
Speaker 4: a transferred. PORTAL i know we need a big AND
Speaker 4: i know we need a point. Guard what is your
Speaker 4: feelings on the ladies transferred? Portal thanks a, lot, Goodbye Thank.
Speaker 3: Joe great. Question first of, all let's talk about scoring
Speaker 3: controversies in college gymnastics right. NOW i love that call
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i do follow. Gynastics actually called the gymnastics meets
Speaker 3: FOR sec plus this year For, kentucky SO i called
Speaker 3: four or five. Meets they were, Amazing and like he,
Speaker 3: SAID sec gymnastics is the most CUTTHROAT i think out
Speaker 3: of all of the, sports and the way that THE
Speaker 3: sec stacks up is. Crazy there are oh, gosh, oh
Speaker 3: one team got left out of THE Sec championships this
Speaker 3: year in, gymnastics just like they do in. Baseball so
Speaker 3: there's nine teams in THE, sec only eight made it
Speaker 3: TO Sec. Championships that ninth team that got left out Was.
Speaker 3: Arkansas and then in the national, tournament the format that
Speaker 3: started after THE sec, competition they made it all the
Speaker 3: way to the sweet sixteen W they were ranked top
Speaker 3: fifteen in the country going into THE Sec championships and
Speaker 3: they didn't get to, compete which is crazy because it's
Speaker 3: all you average the scoring so much to come up
Speaker 3: with your scoring options for, nationals And arkansas got left
Speaker 3: out of that, conversation it's.
Speaker 2: GYMNASTICS i get so fired up about.
Speaker 3: THIS i think that'll change in the coming. Years but,
Speaker 3: yeah shout out To Kentucky gymnastics because they had an
Speaker 3: incredible season this year and two of their gymnasts will
Speaker 3: get to compete for national championships and individual. Titles Kresln
Speaker 3: brose on the, Floor isabelle And magnelli on the, Beam
Speaker 3: so good luck to those. Gymnasts in terms of the
Speaker 3: women's basketball transfer, portal have to be honest With joe
Speaker 3: and everybody else out, THERE i don't know for. SURE
Speaker 3: i haven't. Heard i've been Following phoenix with ksr as
Speaker 3: so many people probably have. Been i'm right there with.
Speaker 3: THEM i think point guard's most important and another big
Speaker 3: especially With silva going TO tcu and just needing some
Speaker 3: more depth there than we. HAD i am. EXCITED i
Speaker 3: hope that he's able to hang on to those two
Speaker 3: girls who weren't able to play this past year In
Speaker 3: parova and.
Speaker 2: Jordan ow once injured before the season even.
Speaker 3: Started, yes BECAUSE i think those two women were penciled
Speaker 3: in to be major contributors on last year's, team and
Speaker 3: so for them and last years team obviously struggled a
Speaker 3: little bit with depth to an extend and bench. Production
Speaker 3: so to have them come back and see what kind
Speaker 3: of role they would each play would be really interesting to.
Speaker 3: Me other than, THAT i think something that's important to
Speaker 3: remember here it's the women's. Team this year was vastly
Speaker 3: different from the men's, team even though they get compared a,
Speaker 3: lot because they did have new coaches and a full new,
Speaker 3: roster et. Cetera Kenny brooks did not bring in all
Speaker 3: seniors with one year of eligibility. Left he's not losing
Speaker 3: seven people off that. Roster Amelia hassett can come, Back
Speaker 3: clara strat can come. Back, obviously it's impossible to fully
Speaker 3: Replace George. Aymore it's gonna go top ten in THE
Speaker 3: Wnba draft Next monday, night and just everything she did
Speaker 3: for this. Program but at the same, time there's not
Speaker 3: as much to. Replace SO i think that's why we're
Speaker 3: not hearing as much about the. Portal it kind of
Speaker 3: goes back to our earlier. Conversation you're not trying to
Speaker 3: sign twelve. Players he probably needs three and that'll be.
Speaker 3: Enough So i'm interested in, it BUT i don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of intel on.
Speaker 1: It they recently got the guard From Western. Kentucky we
Speaker 1: talked about that a little bit. Yesterday Tianik he was
Speaker 1: ON ksr yesterday along with for another.
Speaker 3: Year Of Tianni key because shout out To tianiky personally
Speaker 3: just her work ethic and how we saw her growth
Speaker 3: throughout the. Year BUT i also want to give a
Speaker 3: shout out to the staff in this way because she
Speaker 3: spent two years At North carolina AND i think she
Speaker 3: started fewer than ten. Games she averaged like three minutes a,
Speaker 3: night like she was not a contributor for the Tar heels,
Speaker 3: really and they saw something in such limited, minutes such
Speaker 3: limited production that they felt would fit in the, system
Speaker 3: which is amazing to me because how could you know
Speaker 3: she barely got to play, there and she barely got
Speaker 3: to produce there and they had seen something whether it
Speaker 3: goes back to recruiting or whether they had seen just
Speaker 3: enough and what she did get With North carolina to
Speaker 3: make sure that they knew Man sianni could be a
Speaker 3: great piece here and she can work in this, system
Speaker 3: and we saw her really grow in the system throughout the.
Speaker 3: Year so to get her back for another, YEAR i
Speaker 3: think is a really undervalued part of this.
Speaker 2: Team, well she was a good.
Speaker 1: Interview she was also, confident saying she wants a, ring
Speaker 1: whether it BE sec or national, title that's her goals
Speaker 1: and aspirations for this next. Year we mentioned. Gymnastics they finished,
Speaker 1: THIRD i believe in the regional final that just took.
Speaker 3: Place, yes it's crushing because four teams compete in the
Speaker 3: final too, advance and it's the second year in a
Speaker 3: Row kentucky finished.
Speaker 2: Third really second year in a, row just out of the.
Speaker 3: Money it kills. Me, oh but gymnastics is interesting in
Speaker 3: the way that if the whole team doesn't, advance certain
Speaker 3: individuals can still. Advance so that's How Cresln brose And
Speaker 3: Isabella magnelly still get to go on to nationals as.
Speaker 1: Individuals and tell me if this is true as somebody
Speaker 1: that interviews all of the schools on, campus is that
Speaker 1: maybe those secondary sports are very grateful when they do
Speaker 1: get the coverage and so they can be very open
Speaker 1: and you, know maybe it's an easier interview than maybe
Speaker 1: at times trying to pull teeth that other.
Speaker 3: Places, YEAH i wouldn't necessarily say, that BUT i do
Speaker 3: think there's definitely a level of excitement of oh, wow
Speaker 3: this is ON. Tv you, know it's a little, different
Speaker 3: AND i think that's what makes our show so fun
Speaker 3: because very rarely not just In, kentucky but across the entire,
Speaker 3: country is there A tv station that gets to talk
Speaker 3: about sports for thirty minutes a, night six days a
Speaker 3: week and it just doesn't. Happen you think about the
Speaker 3: typical local news, format you get about three, minutes and
Speaker 3: the six o'clock, news you get about three, minutes and
Speaker 3: the eleven o'clock, News and when that's all the time you,
Speaker 3: have it makes sense you focus your energy on certain
Speaker 3: sports and certain athletes and certain, narratives and you can
Speaker 3: kind of pigeonhole yourself in that. Way for, us we
Speaker 3: have so much more free rein because we have so
Speaker 3: much more time to work, with which allows us to
Speaker 3: give more time to sports like. GYMNASTICS i did a
Speaker 3: five and a half minute interview yesterday with two women
Speaker 3: on the softball team who are having fantastic years For
Speaker 3: Rachel lawson. Squad SO i think that's awesome and well,
Speaker 3: deserved BECAUSE i, mean the two GIRLS i talked to
Speaker 3: a softball yesterday are having great seasons AND i don't
Speaker 3: know that they've had the chance to be on anywhere
Speaker 3: else because, they to no fault of their, own only
Speaker 3: have three. Minutes we have. Thirty it's so much. Fun
Speaker 3: so that's WHY i LOVE bba.
Speaker 2: Tonight, well you guys do a great.
Speaker 1: Job makes me think of back of my high school
Speaker 1: days where the locals, paper the Oldam, era once published
Speaker 1: my picture and my name and it was, Like, Mom
Speaker 1: i'm in the.
Speaker 2: NEWSPAPER i, mean that's. Unbelievable, corey get on.
Speaker 3: This billy was a race.
Speaker 1: Paper, now if you're A kentucky basketball, player it's, like,
Speaker 1: look this is the.
Speaker 2: Spotlight kentucky's not for.
Speaker 1: Everyone it comes with this added pressure of the entire
Speaker 1: commonwealth being behind you and national attention FROM espns and
Speaker 1: The Tom creans of the, world so they Expected i'm.
Speaker 1: Sure so an interesting dynamic when it comes to who
Speaker 1: you interview on a nightly basis, well and it's interesting to.
Speaker 3: It it reminds me of when we were covering THE ncaa, tournament.
Speaker 3: Right we get so used to The kentucky media and
Speaker 3: you have so many of us on your, show WHICH
Speaker 3: i know everyone is very grateful. For but there's probably
Speaker 3: fifty people who travel With kentucky basketball when they're on the,
Speaker 3: road especially in the.
Speaker 2: Tournament at fifty it FELT i mean.
Speaker 3: In that tiny locker, room like we, said it felt
Speaker 3: like FIFTY i don't that's just a rough, guess but
Speaker 3: it feels like that many, truly because EVERY tv station
Speaker 3: sends three or, four every, blog, website, podcast you, know
Speaker 3: there's student. Reporters there's so many people who go and
Speaker 3: we roll up into The troy locker room after their
Speaker 3: practice before that first, game and man, like the looks
Speaker 3: on their faces were just, like you guys all cover one,
Speaker 3: team WHICH i think we lose sight of a little
Speaker 3: bit because we work in a fan base and with
Speaker 3: a program that does get so much, attention and we
Speaker 3: can give so much coverage because the fan base wants that.
Speaker 3: Much you can't post a report too much On kentucky
Speaker 3: basketball because people care about everything that, happens which is,
Speaker 3: great it's a. Blessing but you really intimidate Some troy
Speaker 3: players when you roll in fifty deep into their little locker,
Speaker 3: room AND i think they were a little.
Speaker 1: Overwhelmed so that's a funny mental image of The troy
Speaker 1: players going, whoa.
Speaker 3: Whoa, right, absolutely and it made me THINK i was
Speaker 3: a little less nervous for The troy game than The
Speaker 3: oakland game because that The oakland locker room was the
Speaker 3: same situation and they loved. It they thought it was.
Speaker 3: Hilarious they couldn't wait to talk to all of. Us
Speaker 3: so there was a little difference in. ATTITUDE i would
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 1: Hurts, sorry bad memories this. Morning but this has been
Speaker 1: great so. Far but we need to take a. Break
Speaker 1: we've got one segment to. Go we'll take a couple
Speaker 1: more calls in our final segment eight five nine two
Speaker 1: eight h two two eight, seven and then we'll hand
Speaker 1: it off To Drew franklin And Drew Palooza day three
Speaker 1: at The, Bar so looking forward to.
Speaker 2: That we'll be right back here on the. Show before the,
Speaker 2: show the Ksrpre.
Speaker 3: Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 1: Back it's THE ksr Pre Show billy And maggie this.
Speaker 1: Morning big thanks To Rick ryder back in the studio
Speaker 1: getting us in and out of the. Breaks always does
Speaker 1: a great. Job maggie's mom listening and. Retweeting, Yes Corey
Speaker 1: price's photo of shout out for fourth Grade, Maggie so
Speaker 1: shout out To maggi's. Mom you can Also texas five
Speaker 1: h two two six five six six five, six where
Speaker 1: one person asks Asked maggie her favorite player from this
Speaker 1: year's men's basketball to watch or to.
Speaker 3: Interview that's up to. You, OKAY a couple. Things, ALSO
Speaker 3: i can't answer a question directly, CLEARLY i would Say
Speaker 3: Lamont butler was my. Favorites actually watched That lovell GAME
Speaker 3: i think will probably be one of my favorite memories
Speaker 3: from the. Season, obviously there were so many big, wins
Speaker 3: all those quad one wins we've talked, about and and
Speaker 3: That oklahoma. Game, obviously THE sec tournament was, awesome So
Speaker 3: tega is great for, that and we saw so many great. Moments,
Speaker 3: Heck Maury williams had a triple. Double but for, ME
Speaker 3: i loved the Way lamont. PLAYED i love the way
Speaker 3: he shared the. BALL i love the way he was
Speaker 3: just really like the driving force behind this offense and obviously.
Speaker 3: Defense so for, Me i'll definitely miss him being point
Speaker 3: guard At. KENTUCKY i wish we had him for. Longer
Speaker 3: we talked about this at THE ncaa tournament AND i was, like,
Speaker 3: MAN i would just wish we got him as long
Speaker 3: As tennessee Got Zekai, Ziegler like, no so. Great, Yeah
Speaker 3: So i'll miss him and probably the most in terms
Speaker 3: of players to, Watch Kobe braya probably a close second
Speaker 3: because how much fun was In. Fuego but one of
Speaker 3: my favorites to INTERVIEW i don't think he gets talked
Speaker 3: about enough Was Ansley. ALMANOR i had the best conversations with.
Speaker 3: Him we talked so much about laying the foundation and
Speaker 3: playing for the name on the. Front nobody and body
Speaker 3: that more Than. Ansley and you, KNOW i mentioned my
Speaker 3: stories earlier with fans who had been impacted by each
Speaker 3: senior and the man that we interviewed who had been
Speaker 3: touched By amari or excuse me By ansley goes to
Speaker 3: a church here in, Town christ The. King and had
Speaker 3: never talked To, ansley but had seen him at, mass
Speaker 3: like a handful of, times like the morning after big,
Speaker 3: games he'd be like late, games travel, Games he'd always be.
Speaker 3: There i'd never wanted to approach. HIM i didn't want
Speaker 3: to bother, him you, KNOW i didn't want to take
Speaker 3: him out of His sunday morning. Routine BUT i just
Speaker 3: really respected that he was. There AND i always pointed
Speaker 3: him out to my, grandkids, like, look he made. Time
Speaker 3: he chose to be. Here he didn't just get put
Speaker 3: in his parents' car and driven to, church right, like
Speaker 3: he chose to come and do. This and so we
Speaker 3: did sort of that story with Without ansley, knowing and
Speaker 3: then had the chance to share that with him toward
Speaker 3: the end of the, season and he just kind of
Speaker 3: got emotional about how much that meant to him that
Speaker 3: people even paid attention to him in that. Way he'd
Speaker 3: never been in a position like that, before up on
Speaker 3: a pedestal like, that even without knowing. It obviously he
Speaker 3: thinks about himself in terms of the basketball context here
Speaker 3: and what he's meant to fans in that. Way BUT
Speaker 3: i think for these guys to realize the impact they
Speaker 3: have off the, court even in something simple like going
Speaker 3: to church once a, week it was really cool to
Speaker 3: See ansley sort of realized that in real, time and
Speaker 3: he was. Awesome he was, LIKE i want to meet this.
Speaker 3: Guy can you connect me with this? GUY i want
Speaker 3: to introduce myself to his granddaughters and all this, stuff
Speaker 3: and he was just truly a joy to be. Around
Speaker 3: so he's one of those. GUYS i don't know what's
Speaker 3: next for him with his college basketball career behind, him
Speaker 3: BUT i obviously wish him the. BEST i hope he's
Speaker 3: one of those guys who comes back To, lexington because
Speaker 3: he seemed to really love.
Speaker 1: It, yeah he was so grateful just to be. Involved
Speaker 1: and that's awesome to. HEAR i missed that. Story i'm
Speaker 1: going to have to go back and find. It and
Speaker 1: the Lamant butler the music video didn't hurt, either, RIGHT i,
Speaker 1: PUMP i SHALL i?
Speaker 3: Pump and the Rapt Big wood. Madness, right that's.
Speaker 1: Right oh yeah he was rapping as. Well john is
Speaker 1: on the phone. Line, john you gotta be. Quick we've
Speaker 1: just got a. Couple it's what's? Up Oh, john are you?
Speaker 1: THERE i think he left them, Speechless maggie with your, Sorry,
Speaker 1: no it's. Okay thanks for calling in, Anyway, JOHN i
Speaker 1: will ask you BEFORE i let you.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 1: Maggie we like to have a little. Fun we do
Speaker 1: these random. Topics there's something in the NEWS i want
Speaker 1: to get your opinion. On we LOVE kfc around, here,
Speaker 1: RIGHT i mean it's Got kentucky in the. Name, yeah
Speaker 1: big part of. It even though they're moving their headquarters
Speaker 1: to a new state. Soon BUT kfc revealed they've Created
Speaker 1: Kentucky fried flavored.
Speaker 2: Toothpaste.
Speaker 1: Oh originally an internet, meme they liked it so much
Speaker 1: they made it a real, product and so for thirteen
Speaker 1: dollars you can have one case of the Eleven Herb
Speaker 1: blend toothpaste FROM.
Speaker 3: Kfc what does it say about me That i'm most
Speaker 3: taken aback by the price thirteen dollars for a tube of?
Speaker 1: Toothpaste inflation, Inflation, maggie everything's more.
Speaker 3: Expensive go to the, dentist get a free. Tube you'll be.
Speaker 1: Fine it's florid free, though so if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a you, know maybe you don't want the floor ride
Speaker 1: in your.
Speaker 2: Toothpaste it's not even about.
Speaker 3: THAT i don't want it to taste like fried. CHICKEN
Speaker 3: i brush my teeth AFTER i eat fried chicken like it's,
Speaker 3: great and then it's then it's. Done let's move.
Speaker 2: ON i also got to have the mashed potatoes And.
Speaker 2: Fixin's that's the.
Speaker 3: Mouthwash it is sold. Separately that's actually fifteen.
Speaker 1: Dollars stop, it stop. It mashed potato. Mouthwashed, okay see
Speaker 1: that would be the. Day but you never, know you never.
Speaker 1: Know they o us, money you, think.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was our. Idea you heard it here first, People.
Speaker 1: Maggie big thank you for coming on. Again thank you
Speaker 1: so much for having. ME i always have a great
Speaker 1: time with. You you do a great job WITH bbn, tonight
Speaker 1: and now what's next for? You what DOES Bbn tonight
Speaker 1: have on on deck for tonight or really the next.
Speaker 2: Week you'll just.
Speaker 3: Have to watch and find Out weeknight seven thirty L ex.
Speaker 3: Eighteen but we're syndicated all over the. State you can
Speaker 3: catch us In louisville And Bowling, Green Eastern, Kentucky Northern.
Speaker 3: Kentucky we're all over the. Place check us out or
Speaker 3: look on bbntnight dot. Com but this time of the,
Speaker 3: year obviously, baseball, softball transfer portal.
Speaker 1: Stuff we didn't talk about the heartbreak of the baseball
Speaker 1: team last.
Speaker 2: Nights you'll have to tune in. Tonight straight one, loss
Speaker 2: one run. Losses we're supposed to go out on a high.
Speaker 2: Note all, right that's it for us For maggie Un
Speaker 2: billy and drew his next ON. Kosr