Full Transcript for 2026-11-09- KSR - Hour 1

beat Ohio State, he would eat 10 peeps for every point they scored, and they scored 41. So it's 410 peeps. Oh, no. And he looks like it, actually. He looked a little tired. 00:03:09 Speaker 5: I like Tate, but he actually made me feel better about myself when I walked in because he looks like he's struggling. 00:03:14 Speaker 2: Sorry, I got Bobby, former KSR writer here. Former KSR writer, writes for Barstool, Bobby Reagan. So got to see him this morning. So anyway, we'll have some of those guys on probably tomorrow. So, Billy, we're going to talk. the games first. We'll probably talk a little bit about this trip in the second hour, but I do think this trip so far, 48 hours in, is kind of the trip of Billy. Oh, absolutely. Wouldn't you say? Yeah. 00:03:40 Speaker 5: We knew it would be because we're on the Bucs tour. We just go to Bucs games for NFL Cover Zero, but also getting him out of the studio where he's locked in every weekend. We knew there was Billy potential, but I didn't see it being like this. 00:03:51 Speaker 2: Big Billy day yesterday. I mean, dressed up. put on some very, very nice clothes, very nice shoes. Shannon, we ended up taking 20,000 steps in his dress shoes, so he was playing the old man with his feet. And then he was so Billy, you know, asking for jobs, and we'll talk more about that. But, Billy, have you had a good time? I mean, literally, like you were cheating on us in front of us. Yeah. Have you had a good 48 hours? 00:04:18 Speaker 6: I have had a great 48 hours. It feels like it's been two weeks since the James Madison game. I guess we'll have to talk about it at some point today. 00:04:25 Speaker 2: We will. 00:04:25 Speaker 6: I really like these trips with you guys, getting to know you guys a little bit more. The dress shoes was a complete mistake. I'm going to pay for that for weeks to come. 00:04:32 Speaker 2: You kind of look like Tate, I just realized. I look like Tate? I see it. Do you see it? 00:04:38 Speaker 5: Maybe you can eat some of the peeps for him. 00:04:40 Speaker 2: Help him out a little bit. You look a little bit like him now that you're in that hat. 00:04:45 Speaker 6: I respect his content game, so that's a compliment to me. 00:04:48 Speaker 2: We'll talk in the second hour, Shannon. But we had an all-time Billy blow-up last night that is worth getting into. Are you calmed down? 00:05:01 Speaker 6: I don't know if blow-up's the right word for it. 00:05:03 Speaker 2: Mario, was it a blow-up? It was a blow-up. There was a blow-up, so we'll get to that. But let's start, I guess, with the football game. since it was the biggest piece of news, Kentucky loses to Tennessee 34 to six score a little bit like the Alabama game, you know, score probably not indicative of the actual game, but the score is what it is. I was looking at ESPN puts out every week, the, how much did you get beat by? And it's basically like, if you just look at quality of play stats, et cetera, how much you get beat by and it's a

huge range. For instance, Georgia beat Ole Miss worse than any other team in Division I in terms of stats. We were close to average, meaning we, if you look at our stats, were almost even with Tennessee. They actually, by that metric, didn't beat us by much. The problem is that they keep score, and by that metric, they beat us by a lot. 00:06:01 Speaker 5: Yeah, yards, they're right there together. I think 15 to 20 separated them. Kentucky had four or five more first downs. Kentucky had more offense than any teams had on a Tennessee defense yet, but just couldn't get in the end zone and made some costly mistakes that ultimately were the big difference maker. 00:06:16 Speaker 2: And ultimately we lost because the two things we've been so good at this year, not having turnovers and not making penalties, we did both. and two interceptions for Menchie. I got to watch my quarterbacks this weekend throw six interceptions. Just, you know, we kind of wondered, I said on the show, will there be a clunker this year? 00:06:41 Speaker 5: I'm hoping that's the clunker. Yeah, the Barnes fumble was bad. Had a good run set up there. Even like picking up a third and long to have a holding pull it back. It's just like, Even though Kentucky can move the ball a lot, they just keep beating themselves up, never put the points on the board. 00:06:55 Speaker 2: And an offensive line that's been rock solid, Billy, was it showed holes. Really, for the first time this season, showed holes, mistakes, holds. It just caught up to them. 00:07:09 Speaker 6: A lot of false starts. The team beat themselves last night, selling for field goals in the red zone instead of touchdowns. Everything that Kentucky hasn't been doing all year, reared its ugly head in that Tennessee game. 00:07:18 Speaker 2: Well, even in the, you know, you get to the one or two to the point you probably would have gone for it on fourth down, and then you get a false start. And so then, you know, you end up backing up to the seven where they don't feel like they can go for it. It was just kind of stuff just piled up all night. 00:07:33 Speaker 5: And a lot of it was that crowd. I had friends there, and they told me before the game even started or a little early in the first quarter, they were like, I don't know how any team could win in this environment. So some of it you have to tip your cap to Tennessee. I'd like to get them outside of Knoxville, see how we stack up. But a big part of that pre-snap penalties and mistakes was just that atmosphere getting to them also. 00:07:51 Speaker 2: I mean, Kentucky is reaching that part of a level where we're kind of getting into the we're going to play on ESPN at 7 o'clock every game. You know, they're going to put the best game on ABC. So they're going to put the traditional powers most of the time. But we used to be like, oh, okay, we can play at noon or 3.30. Now we're in that middle slot where they're like, all right, you're ESPN. I mean, we're doing it again next

week, playing Florida at 6.15 again on ESPN. 00:08:17 Speaker 5: 6.15 is such a weird time. Not to look ahead, but I'm really looking forward to getting back on track. That stunk a lot on Saturday, but I said this on the postgame show. What made it stunk the most was that it had a Tennessee logo on their helmet. 00:08:29 Speaker 2: I'm trying to remind. 00:08:29 Speaker 5: Myself this is a 7-2 football team that is still playing to potentially be in the playoff. And if you told me that in September, I would not have imagined it possible. So I'm trying to zoom out and appreciate everything going on. 00:08:40 Speaker 2: It is a key thing to zoom out because we went over the game in detail on the post-game show Saturday night, and you can hear it. But it is important to zoom out. We are 7-2. We are ranked 13th in the AP. If you look at the projections that are coming out, and we'll find out what the actual ones are Tuesday, We're projecting anywhere from 11th to 13th, 10th in a couple places, really 10 to 13. There are some projections that have us still in the playoff. There are some that have us as the first or second team out. But either way, I think we're going to be, we'll find out when the committee comes, but we're likely to be high enough to where we could still get in without needing help. So if that's the case, then, Bill, you control your own destiny. I think most seasons of Kentucky football, If you told us that if we beat Florida, Missouri, and Louisville, we're in the playoff, I think most seasons of Kentucky football, you would take that immediately, and now it's here right before you. 00:09:41 Speaker 6: And how excited would you be if I told you you'd be 7-2 and with only. 00:09:44 Speaker 2: Three games left for those teams in the summer? 00:09:46 Speaker 6: I'd be insanely excited. That's exactly right. It's good perspective to have after a brutal loss like that. Do you think they can still make the playoffs with a loss? Do you think they'd have to win all four? 00:09:55 Speaker 2: No, I think the game Saturday means that we, because there's going to be at least one, maybe two, nine and three teams that will make it. I think the loss Saturday ensured that we can't be one of them, in part because we lose Ty Burrell. Everything bad that could have happened to us happened. LSU lost, Missouri lost, the But both those things were big for us because now it will make those games, even if we beat Missouri, not look as good. And then Tennessee won, and they're going to have that tiebreaker. Texas won. We didn't get the results we needed to get. But you have two or three are at home. You're already a favorite in the Florida game. Probably going to be a favorite against Louisville. Missouri, we'll see. 00:10:40 Speaker 5: But, I mean, it's still right there in front of you. You've got to make sure you don't let that linger because it was not a good game. I mean, a lot of mistakes. Will got outcoached. Put that behind you and get excited about the last night game. You think Will got outcoached? Yeah, they should have made a few more adjustments. I knew why they were throwing the screens because Tennessee's interior defense is so good. You want to get them outside and get them in space. But, I mean, to their credit, they were making the tackles. I mean, Kenny Minchie had a million completions. The guys were just immediately getting wrapped up. So they needed to adjust and maybe try to go deep. 00:11:07 Speaker 2: I feel like they were third and one, third and two, fourth and one, fourth and two. Every game this year, they felt pretty sure that they could either run it up the middle or keep protection to get the tight end open. And I guess they just didn't think they could. Because every time they got the ball out so quickly, and then if a receiver missed a block, you're tackled in the backfield. It just felt like Will didn't have the confidence that we could just run it down and get a yard or two, which we've done all season long. 00:11:38 Speaker 5: And even in throwing, clearly that right side of the line was getting blown off. Probably should have gotten a little more help, maybe bring a tight end as a blocker or just something else. But it just seemed like we just keep watching the defense. The right end of the offensive line was not good. And then, you know, you give up a couple big plays. But I'm with you, Billy. 00:11:55 Speaker 2: I mean, a big picture perspective is still, like, this has been pretty good. And big picture perspective is important, such as when you flipped out last night. 00:12:07 Speaker 6: I was more disappointed in myself than I was anybody else. 00:12:10 Speaker 2: Shannon, I've never seen him like he was. 00:12:12 Speaker 4: So what happened? 00:12:14 Speaker 2: So when the game was over, we tried to set up to do the podcast. The Bears gave us a suite, which was so nice. The Bears game was ludicrous. I don't know if you watched it, Shannon. There were like 73 turnovers in the game. And it came down to a final kick, which led to me breaking my glasses, which led to a lot of insanity. But when it was over, it was time to tape the podcast, and the Bears gave us a suite to tape it in. And Billy couldn't get the equipment to work. Now, Shannon, I actually don't blame Billy for this. This equipment sucks. 00:12:49 Speaker 4: It either works or it doesn't. Yeah, I mean, as long as it's not user error. 00:12:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, this was not user error. But Billy, and this is partially, I will say why I love Billy, he is a perfectionist. And he wants things to work. But he became very angry. And you have to picture, he's dressed up. He's got a dress shirt, dress pants, and dress shoes. And it all starts to come undone. He's got one side of his shirt tail out, Shannon. His hair was standing up. His hair had started standing up. And he just started, like, throwing things around. 00:13:27 Speaker 4: It's not good for your future employers to see that, Billy.

00:13:30 Speaker 2: And I was like, hey. I said, hey, hey, hey, Billy. It's fine. Nobody's mad at you. And he was like, and I said, listen, no one's mad. It'll be fine. I'm good. And then he just goes, I'm mad at myself. And throws a water bottle. And Mario, of course, Mario is the worst in America at diffusing situations. He smelled blood. Because Mario just laughs. Which is exactly what Shannon would do. Yeah, he played the role of Shannon last night. Me and Drew were trying to calm him down. And Mario's just laughing at him. Which only makes Billy madder. 00:14:06 Speaker 5: I had to tell Mario, come on, just. 00:14:09 Speaker 2: I had to look at Mario and go, shh. So Mario just walked outside and started laughing, and you could hear him laughing through the door. 00:14:16 Speaker 4: I'm a little disappointed Mario didn't film it. 00:14:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, Mario, I think he wanted to film it, and I was like, no. Because sometimes Billy needs a moment. But on the one hand, Billy, it was nice that you're such a perfectionist, but I've never seen you get that mad. 00:14:30 Speaker 6: Well, it's my job to get that to work. All the, you know, Connecting with the Bears, getting the suite ready, testing the equipment all week to make sure that we can record immediately after the game to get a raw reaction. And I couldn't do it. 00:14:45 Speaker 2: But it was the equipment. 00:14:47 Speaker 5: You did everything right. 00:14:48 Speaker 2: Billy did a great job. Look, if you knew more about the equipment, then that would be one thing. It's okay if you have a little bit of dysfunction. Yeah, so you did. He had equipment tile dysfunction. 00:15:00 Speaker 6: I told you guys, the standard for myself is higher than the expectations you have. 00:15:04 Speaker 2: It's okay, Bill. You have ED. It's fine. If you just go to the doctor and go and they will fix it. The NFL, just because the NFL was waiting up at night waiting to get this podcast and you weren't able to give it to them, you shouldn't feel bad about that. 00:15:18 Speaker 6: I promise you I tested that crap three times before we went on this trip. 00:15:23 Speaker 5: With how the game ended and you breaking your glasses, we were in that slap-happy mood. 00:15:27 Speaker 2: We were. 00:15:28 Speaker 5: I mean, it's still going to be a great episode. We have to do it after this. But we did lose the energy. 00:15:32 Speaker 2: We had at the moment. Because Billy was... Mad Billy has now become one of my favorite characteristics. And he did drop Shannon everywhere we went. I worked for the NFL. And she'd be like... Do you want a large or a medium? 00:15:51 Speaker 4: Scan this. 00:15:54 Speaker 2: QR code first. 5-9-2-8-0-22-87. We'll talk some more about the football game. James Madison basketball game didn't go great either. I've got to be honest. 00:16:04 Speaker 5: When you said we're going to talk about that game, I forgot that there hasn't been a show since that game. 00:16:09 Speaker 2: That's how long it's been. We'll take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. 859-280-2287. We can take your calls. Text machine is 772-774-5254. Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, and Billy are sports. One person writes, Matt, it feels like Billy dressed up for the game last year. What do you think is the common theme? The common theme is he's looking to make connections. And we argue, look for another job. But I'm not going to say that's true or not. 00:16:45 Speaker 5: Highlight of the night, at least with Billy and looking for jobs, was we met the guy in charge of the tablets on the sideline, and Billy asked him for an internship. And I'm thinking, Billy, you have your own show, but you'd rather. 00:16:57 Speaker 2: Be an intern than a tablet guy. He asked a man for the NFL for an internship, and the man is in charge of the tablets. 00:17:06 Speaker 5: But then at halftime, this was hours before the game when Billy asked, at halftime we saw him again, and he went out of his way to ask Billy if he's found a job yet. So even the NFL was making fun of Billy for asking for random jobs. 00:17:18 Speaker 3: Billy, you'd rather work the iPads on the sideline than work with me on the preschool? 00:17:21 Speaker 6: I didn't know what he did. He just had a very chic NFL purple hat on. 00:17:25 Speaker 2: He did? 00:17:25 Speaker 5: He had a purple hat? 00:17:26 Speaker 6: And I was actually a little louder than I thought I was in the team store. 00:17:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think the whole team store heard you. It's the difference between me and you. It's the difference between me and you. You know, I bought a lot of merchandise. And I went up to the front, and she said, if you work for the NFL, you get 50% off. And I said, well, I mean, I kind of work for the NFL, but not really. And she goes, well, show me something that says NFL on it. And I was like, you know, it's fine. Billy would ask when he got nachos, Shannon, tell him he worked for the NFL. 00:18:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, you want a discount on your nachos? 00:18:06 Speaker 2: Well, she said I needed a QR code, and I didn't know what that was, so I was like, it's fine. 00:18:10 Speaker 4: That's the thing on Billy's digital business card. 00:18:13 Speaker 2: Yes, but nevertheless, I liked watching you. He goes up to people at the press box and is like, Billy Rutland, it's nice to meet you. What do you do? 00:18:22 Speaker 5: Oh, he and I were in line for food. It was just the two of us. I thought, you know, we talk about the game. He met someone from the Bucs behind him, and suddenly I didn't exist anymore. I was just the random dude. 00:18:30 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny. When I introduce him to people that could help him, he's kind of rude to them. Like, I introduced him to the head, Shannon, of ESPN Chicago. And he's like, yeah, man, I got to go. Tablet guys over there. Tablet guys over there. 00:18:45 Speaker 3: Sounds like you're making the wrong connections. 00:18:50

Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't get it. 00:18:52 Speaker 6: Reconnected with a couple beat writers in the press box and a couple workers for the bucks. I mean, if you didn't, I've got the logo on right now. 00:18:57 Speaker 2: You do. But you wouldn't talk to people who could actually help you get the job. One person writes, Matt, we only had. One interception, two fumbles. I feel like we weren't that far away from being in that game. I agree with that, but nevertheless, we weren't in the game. I don't think we were that far, but I also think we were not there. At halftime, not just being. 00:19:22 Speaker 5: The optimistic Kentucky fan, I genuinely thought Kentucky could win that game because Tennessee had one long run that just Kentucky's defense broken up, the bad blitz, could have made a tackle. So that's really Tennessee's whole offense. And Kentucky had the two turnovers and the cheating on the pass interference. And they're only down by four. So let's talk about that one. I'm thinking it's right in front of us. How egregious do you think that was, was that no call? I don't want it to be spun as Drew's blaming the refs because Kentucky got beat. But that was a horrible no-call. 00:19:51 Speaker 2: That was a... The. 00:19:53 Speaker 5: Tom and everyone in the booth were talking about it. Then when they went to the studio, they were all in agreement on how bad it was. So I think everyone knows that that was an awful no-call. But at the same time, Kentucky still needs to get in the end zone. 00:20:03 Speaker 6: No, keep that energy. That was a terrible call, and then there was a missed offside late in the game. Those two things completely changed the game. I know they lost by 27 or whatever it was, but that doesn't mean those didn't have a huge impact on what happened there. 00:20:15 Speaker 2: So you think they were huge? Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, they're definitely cheaters. 00:20:19 Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. I got my cheater shirt. 00:20:20 Speaker 2: On right now. I do. I do have the cheater shirt on. Look, they cost us four points with the pass interference. I mean, that was certainly a pass interference. But that still makes it tied at half time. I mean, the offsides, we were already down by 14. Like, both those calls are terrible. But I'm sort of more upset at ourselves. I'm more upset at those holds. I'm more upset at those false starts. And I also think, listen, we'll... Will is going to be a superstar here, but I do think he got outcoached a little bit. I think Hypo beat him. I mean, and now, you know, and I talked a lot of trash about how Hypo wasn't on Stein's level. Hypo had a good game plan. They were coming off a bye, so they clearly worked on stuff too. And their quarterback took a big step forward. Their fans are excited. Quarterback had been shaky there. He had a good game. 00:21:13 Speaker 5: And, you know, we'd love to live in a world where refs, it's fair, but you kind of got to know going into Neyland at night, you're going to need to be even better because the refs are going to be on their side. 00:21:23 Speaker 2: And he's going to, I mean, you're going to have, I was surprised how easily Tennessee got to our quarterback. 00:21:32 Speaker 7: Right? 00:21:33 Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought we would do a better job of protection. I'm not sure if we just didn't pick up the blitzes, but I thought we would do a lot better job of giving Minchie time, and we just didn't. 00:21:43 Speaker 5: Yeah, we knew that was their strength. They lead the country in sacks, but it felt like he could have made some adjustments to get some better protection in there once it was obvious that they were just wrecking Minchie and getting in the backfield. 00:21:53 Speaker 6: And this is a good Tennessee team. I mean, they kicked Alabama's butt a couple weeks ago, and that was a team Kentucky struggled with. So not a reason to get down on yourself for the rest of the season because you lost to a good team on the road. 00:22:03 Speaker 2: It was 13-6 in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I totally agree with you. But again, we'll see, right? We'll see what happens. We'll see how it goes over the next little bit. 859-280-2287. Any bright spots you take from the game? 00:22:21 Speaker 5: Are we healthy? I think we're pretty healthy. Darby looked good. Darby looked good. Yeah, I think we're mostly healthy. I mean, we didn't move the ball. I know we didn't get in the end zone. We had mistakes. Like I said, it was the most yards anyone's put on Tennessee. We did move the ball. We moved the ball quite extensively. That's a moral victory. So mostly it was a rough night. 00:22:39 Speaker 2: Yeah. My only positive is I got to hear Dari Noka for 10 minutes with his mic on, and he didn't know it. Shannon, which was quite– could you hear– No, no. 00:22:49 Speaker 4: We were at that watch party, so we couldn't even tell. 00:22:51 Speaker 2: I thought, honestly, I had direct visions in my head. 00:22:54 Speaker 5: Your watch party looked awesome, too, Shannon. 00:22:57 Speaker 2: Oh, wait, but that was the basketball. That was basketball. Oh, well, either way. We'll take a break. Take your calls right after this here at Barstool's Kentucky Sports Radio. 00:23:06 Speaker 4: TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. 00:23:08 Speaker 2: Call TJ. 00:23:09 Speaker 6: He'll make them pay. 00:23:10 Speaker 3: Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. 00:23:14 Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones. 00:23:15 Speaker 2: Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Tom Hart was back on the game. Yeah, love a good Tom Hart game. Been a while. Although fans were mad. I don't think fans are used to Tom Hart doing a non-UK basketball game. They all thought he was biased for Tennessee. 00:23:31 Speaker 5: You know, we didn't get to hear a lot of the second half because we were out at a restaurant, so I didn't catch much of that. But we got a few KSR nuggets in there. I enjoyed what I heard of it. 00:23:38

Speaker 2: A little mishap. I had a little mishap. So we got that. I enjoyed that. Shannon, I heard you all had a huge crowd at the Louisville Watch Park. 00:23:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, we had 300 people, RSVP, and then a bunch walk in. So it was probably close to 400 people there for the watch party. 00:23:56 Speaker 2: Had a lot of fun. Was it fun? 00:23:58 Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it was great. They had a massive setup at David Buster's. 00:24:02 Speaker 3: I didn't even know that was there, but they have these giant, almost like movie theater-sized screens there. So, definitely a success, I would say. 00:24:10 Speaker 2: Well, good. I'm glad you did it. I've been dealing with this crew, Shannon, has been falling apart a little bit. What's wrong? Drew's been spitting everywhere. Spitting is snotty. Drew is like a, he's not, using tobacco, but it's like he did everywhere we go, Drew Smith. 00:24:28 Speaker 5: I'm doing saline spray, which opens me, so I just keep having to spit a lot, clearing myself out. 00:24:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, I love it. He's Drew the Spitter. 00:24:40 Speaker 5: Thank you for that. 00:24:43 Speaker 2: And then, you know, Billy's been doing his thing. Billy's got new habits, and it's exciting to watch him. 00:24:50 Speaker 6: Do you enjoy me on the road trips, or am I. 00:24:52 Speaker 2: Completely like Shannon? Listen, I enjoy you on the road trips, but you're not like Shannon, but you're your own thing. So, Shannon, I'm going to have to say one thing about him. Okay. I did get mad at him because he refused to pump gas when we first got here. Oh, yeah, there was a moment. You know Shannon. 00:25:10 Speaker 4: Everybody pumps gas. 00:25:12 Speaker 2: Everybody pumps gas. So, the rule is when we have to stop for gas a lot, we rotate. Right? And everybody takes a turn pumping gas. They use my card. I give them the area code. They pump it. They get the receipt. Shannon, you've been on these trips. That's what we do. 00:25:28 Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah, we take turns. 00:25:29 Speaker 2: So Billy, newbie, he goes first. We get in, and I could see on his face, his little whiny face, that he, I said, Billy, you're up for gas. And he looked offended. Did he not, Drew? He did. Do you not pump gas? 00:25:45 Speaker 5: Does Marissa pump your gas? 00:25:46 Speaker 2: No. No, I pump gas. 00:25:48 Speaker 5: Okay. 00:25:48 Speaker 6: But, Shannon, you know how this goes. Matt plays it up into a story when it really wasn't anything. 00:25:52 Speaker 2: May I ask you if you wanted to pump gas? No, I was fine with pumping gas. Are you telling me you did not pout? 00:25:57 Speaker 6: I think I was a little like, whoa, you're asking me to pump gas. 00:26:00 Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. I'll go pump gas. But who else in the car did you think was going to? I mean, we don't have a servant. It's four of us. Well, that's fine. One of the four of us has to pump gas. Yes, and you were up first. 00:26:13 Speaker 6: Then you ripped the card out of my hand when you came back, and you were like, I'll just do it. 00:26:16 Speaker 2: Because Shannon, he hadn't even started it yet. I went in, used the restroom, got something to drink, and I come out, and Billy's still sitting in the same chair sulking. 00:26:28 Speaker 4: You asked Sir William III to pump gas. 00:26:30 Speaker 2: How dare you? That's how he acted. Everyone else pumps gas. Drew, how much gas have you pumped? The number doesn't exist. It's been so much gas. Mario pumps, Ryan pumps. You don't really have to do anything. 00:26:40 Speaker 4: You just kind of hold it down and click a little button there. 00:26:42 Speaker 2: Well, Billy did not think he needed to pump gas. And so I was like, you know what? Just give me that stupid car, and I'll pump my own gas. 00:26:50 Speaker 5: Could have been because he was the nicest dressed. I probably looked first like I should have been pumping the gas. 00:26:54 Speaker 2: It was Billy R. Sheik. 00:26:55 Speaker 5: He had on his Dick Van Dyke shoes. 00:26:57 Speaker 2: We really made this whole thing about it got in his head, Shannon. 00:27:03 Speaker 7: Mm-hmm. 00:27:05 Speaker 2: The woman I've been seeing in New York made the mistake of telling Billy his bag was chic. And we're never going to hear the end of it. So now he's like, oh, I'm chic. I'm Billy R. Chic. 00:27:19 Speaker 4: He probably has an electric car. Does that car run off electric, Billy? 00:27:22 Speaker 6: No, no, I still got the charger. But you can tell your lady friend that the duffel bag is Buffalo leather. It's not just the standard. 00:27:30 Speaker 2: Is Buffalo leather good leather? 00:27:32 Speaker 6: I don't know, but that's what it is. 00:27:34 Speaker 2: Isn't that an endangered species? You sent her the link, and now she's already bought it for one of her. She bought it. She bought it, yes. 00:27:42 Speaker 6: She's got good taste. 00:27:46 Speaker 2: Your head is way too big about that. Who's up next? 00:27:49 Speaker 4: Let's go to Doug. 00:27:50 Speaker 2: Doug, go ahead, Doug. 00:27:52 Speaker 7: Yeah, Matt, I want to give some kudos to KSR. I don't know if you listened to Mark Pope's post-game show after the last game. Yeah, I missed it. Okay, he thanked the fans for their support of Zoom, and I'm wanting to get on the phone and say, Mark, you've got to thank KSR for that, because they stressed the people supporting Zoom. 00:28:21 Speaker 2: Well, that's very nice. I mean, I'm sure we weren't the only ones, but we did encourage that, and... The folks that don't listen will never acknowledge that we encourage that, but I appreciate you doing that. Thank you. Appreciate the call. It did clearly have an advantage. I mean, Zoom played. I guess we can go to the James Madison game for a minute. Zoom, I thought, played really well, 16 points. Ended up not playing the last 15 minutes, which was a little odd, but still played really well. That's now two games in a row where Zoom's played well, and I think

it's clear the fan support certainly played some role in that. 00:29:02 Speaker 5: It did, and I think Jack told us on Friday that he told Zoom to smile, and I was kind of looking for that. Zoom was smiling a lot the whole game. First half, the offense really wasn't working. He was keeping a minute in those 16 points. The second half, You know, he got popped in the face like twice, and Mason Williams playing well, so maybe that's why Pope didn't play him as much. We didn't get a full explanation, but he was a big part of why they were in it in the first half. I hate even saying that against James Madison, but that was the case. 00:29:27 Speaker 6: He's got to be good for Kentucky to be good this year. Justin McBride, a good game versus his old team. You know, how big of an impact is he going to be on this team this year? 00:29:36 Speaker 2: Uh, I think he's going to be, if he does that, he's going to be good. Obviously, if you make four threes, you're going to be good, but it wasn't just the four threes for me. It was a rebounds. That's the big thing to me is he rebounded and he rebounded with, we have a lot of guys on this team who try to rebound with length. So they try to reach up and tap it to themselves, and they do all this. He rebounds with girth, and girth beats length sometimes. And he was able to get position, get the ball, and use the girth to kind of establish positivity. and so because of that, we don't have a lot of that this year. Frank's really the only other guy that does that. All the rest of them, and we've been seeing these guys, when you tip it, you can get it, but you also can get it taken from you. You also can tip it too far, and then we gave a bunch of offensive rebounds with guys like Njai and Malachi doing that. When McBride gets his hands on the ball, he's going to keep it. 00:30:39 Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple times Malachi and Hawthorne just had the ball ripped from them. That wasn't the case with McBride, and that four spot, I don't even care who it is. One of those two guys needs to be good this year because right now it's still kind of, eh, what's it going to be there? And that was a big step forward for McBride making his case. 00:30:54 Speaker 2: Yes. So good games for Zoom and McBride. Wilkins had a few good moments. And, of course, Mason Williams. Has Mason Williams been our most consistent player? 00:31:03 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:31:03 Speaker 2: It's amazing. 00:31:04 Speaker 5: His, like, shooting percentage is insane. Barely has any turnovers. He can guard. Throughout the summer, everybody talks about he's going to be a surprise, but I didn't think he'd be this good. I mean, he looks like a veteran. He has, without question, been our most consistent player. 00:31:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Which I think nobody had on their bingo card going into the season. Who's next, Shannon? Blake. Blake. Go ahead, Blake. Hey, what's up? 00:31:29 Speaker 8: You all right? Blake, what was happening right there? 00:31:35 Speaker 2: Blake, what was happening right there? 00:31:39 Speaker 8: I have to admit I'm hiding in the bathroom at work to be able to call you all today, so I had to scramble in here real quick. 00:31:45 Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take it if that's good. 00:31:49 Speaker 8: Yes, sir, but I was at the game Saturday night. Atmosphere was amazing, but I do have to say on my bingo card today, Gertz versus Lynx was not on my bingo card. 00:31:58 Speaker 2: Well, you need a new card. 00:32:00 Speaker 5: He was talking about it. 00:32:02 Speaker 8: I know, but I was at the game the other night. The atmosphere was electric. Y'all make kneeling sound like we're going into Baghdad. I had a pretty pleasant experience. I was getting chirped at by a big lady at the bar strip. 00:32:15 Speaker 4: They had down there. 00:32:15 Speaker 8: She kept asking me if I was okay, but she walked away too soon. I was going to ask if she was okay because she looked like she was part of the O-line. 00:32:22 Speaker 2: Don't do that. That would be mean. 00:32:26 Speaker 8: I know, but the atmosphere was amazing. It was really loud down there, but that's part– apparently their seats are five inches too small so they can cram more people in the stadium. Just found out about that. But game was good. The team's fine. I think everyone's more tore up about where we are versus where we were. We have to remember this team is so much better than they were last year, and it's only going to get better. There's a little bump in the road, but Will Stein's going to fight back. 00:32:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, I– I'm good with it. I mean, I appreciate the call. I hate losing to Tennessee. I hate losing like that. But everything is still in front of you. You've got three games to go. You can win all three. You'll be a favorite in two of them. And depending on what happens next week, could even be maybe a favorite in the third. Certainly be right there. So, you know, didn't go how we wanted. But what really matters is what happens in Lexington this coming Saturday. Being a homeowner is a whole different ball game. I'm learning that firsthand. 00:33:28 Speaker 5: A lot going on. 00:33:29 Speaker 2: Lots happening. Maybe you have windows. You need to get them fixed. Or maybe you don't think they look good anymore. But you know our friends at CRC Roofing and Renovations do roofing, but they also do replacement windows. How about that? If you've been taking care of your home in Lexington and Central Kentucky for 26 years, it is CRC roofing, but new windows can make a difference as well. Go to crccompany.com slash KSR and learn more about their replacement windows. crccompany.com slash KSR. Get your roof looked at or your windows with CRC Roofing. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-774-5254. One person writes, Matt, I hate your argument when you say the past interference was a bad call, but we lost by

27. Yes, you are correct. but momentum is a viable driver of the game. It's insane to think these calls might not have changed things. You can't say they didn't ultimately lead to us losing because we will never know. You cannot make a connection with the end result as you always do. It's a bad argument, and a debater like you knows that. Well, no. Look, those calls were bad, but I think respectfully– You sound like an insane person when you lose 34-6 and blame two calls. I will stand up to complaining about refs and saying they lost us games as much as anyone. I'm probably the only person that's listening to this show who's been to federal court to defend the ability to say we lost a game because of officials. But we can't do it all the time. Yes, I think the calls went against us more than them. They had some calls that went our way, too. I mean, there were a couple times where they could have called pass interference on us, and they did not. Do I think those calls mattered? Yes. But the most egregious call to me was the pass interference in the end zone. And even if they gave it to us, the game was tied at halftime. At halftime, all that momentum, all that stuff's out the door, right? They kicked a field goal on their opening drive. We had the ball, 13-6, with a chance to tie it. I think that happened two or three times, and we didn't do it. It's on us. 00:35:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, if we had lost, you know, 17-6 or something, I'd be a little more interested in complaining, but it is a bit of a loser mentality when you give up 21 in the fourth quarter. It was 13-6 going into the fourth quarter. 00:36:07 Speaker 2: You sound insane if you go out there when you lose 34-6 and go, Yeah, we lose refs. If it had been closer, I would join you. Yeah, if it's close, I'm with you. You can lose because of refs. But we didn't lose Saturday. We had three turnovers. Is that on the refs? You know, Javante Barnes' fumble was a bad fumble. We did have some momentum going right there. Immediately fumbled it right back to him. 00:36:34 Speaker 5: And on the first drive, you're moving the ball, pick up a big first down, and Holding pulls it back. So there's a lot of self-inflicted stuff. 00:36:40 Speaker 6: Kentucky didn't play their brand of football. That's gotten them to seven. 00:36:43 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. I think that's a really good way to put it. I don't think they played their brand of football. One person writes, Matt, my friend and I are having a huge argument this morning at work about whether or not we like Billy. Oh, man. I was always on the side with my friend that Billy was the worst. But Billy has won me over recently. And now I'm pro-Billy. I'm trying to convince him to be pro-Billy. Are you all pro-Billy? Well, I've completely flipped. When I first met Billy, I was like, this dude. It was like the guy we walked out with in the stadium who came out and go, why didn't anybody here pick me up? And I wanted to be like, you are the worst. But

now I'm very pro-Billy. First of all, he's the most organized person involved with KSR. And the fact that he got so upset the equipment wouldn't work is part of why I love him, because he really cares. But he's also a lot. And I think that combination now amuses me. Billy's been great for KSR. I love Billy. 00:37:53 Speaker 5: He's been fun on road trips. I wish he could do more of them. But how many times... Do someone watch their employee ask for other jobs in. 00:38:02 Speaker 2: Front of them? And then he acts like he's not. So that's why we get to make fun of him. He acts like he doesn't. 00:38:05 Speaker 5: So we've got to needle him a little bit for that. 00:38:06 Speaker 2: He acts like he doesn't want to leave us. I mean, he's here, Shannon, at Barstool. And I'm going to keep my eye on him the whole time. Because I know he's going to be slipping business cards. 00:38:19 Speaker 5: I think he's a little too buttoned up for this operation. 00:38:21 Speaker 2: Although he did. What do you got on? He wore nice shoes today. Nice shoes, yeah. I mean, am I wrong that there's a part of you that's always, like, networking? Well, I'm hungry. You'd leave us, right? 00:38:33 Speaker 6: Well, you don't put it like that, Drew. 00:38:35 Speaker 2: Like, I mean. Just say it. 00:38:38 Speaker 6: Like, I'm 31, and these opportunities that have been presented to me have been incredible. Like, we're here at Barstool Chicago going to the Bears-Bucks game, going to the Champions Classic. 00:38:49 Speaker 2: You work for the NFL, as you remind people all the time. 00:38:51 Speaker 6: Helping with ESPN radio and stuff. Like, I am so blessed. 00:38:54 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:38:56 Speaker 6: But that doesn't mean my journey stops here. Ultimately, who knows where I'm going to end up. Do I rub people the wrong way when I first meet them? Seems like you had to get to know me and like me. 00:39:06 Speaker 2: No, no, no. Well, that's true. But I don't think you rub people. I think you were a lot when you first came in. Don't you? Well, yeah. 00:39:16 Speaker 6: I was trying to make a name for myself. 00:39:18 Speaker 2: Remember you said you were going to change radio. 00:39:19 Speaker 6: I could get Jennifer Lawrence's number. You sent. 00:39:22 Speaker 2: Let's talk about that. Shannon, we learned something yesterday we didn't know. You don't need to say that. I was going to leave it at that. There's another radio host in town. whose name is Andy Sweeney. And we learned yesterday that you sent Andy Sweeney a letter. By the way, you didn't send me this letter. I found that interesting. You didn't send me this email. You sent Andy Sweeney an email when you were in college. And what did the email say? 00:39:49 Speaker 6: I am the next big thing in radio. 00:39:52 Speaker 4: I've heard this story. He's told me this. 00:39:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've told this. So you wrote Andy Sweeney and said, I'm the next big thing in radio. 00:39:58 Speaker 6: Well, it was a couple stations. 00:39:59 Speaker 2: It wasn't just Andy Sweeney. But you didn't send it to me. 00:40:01 Speaker 6: I think I sent it to iHeart. 00:40:03 Speaker 2: But did you not think, like, you didn't think that maybe the one show that is really big, maybe write that one? 00:40:10 Speaker 6: No, I didn't think about that. 00:40:11 Speaker 2: So you said, I'm the next big thing in radio. What else did you say? Um. 00:40:16 Speaker 6: I'm ready to change the game. I promise. I didn't say I promise, but I guarantee that I'll change. 00:40:23 Speaker 2: You said you were going to guarantee you'd change the game. 00:40:26 Speaker 6: I had to go back and read the message. Maybe Andy still has it. But he messaged me six months later and was like, this is great. We've got a job opportunity available for you. But it was pretty much the same thing I was doing at iHeart. 00:40:37 Speaker 2: So what made you say, I'm the next big thing in radio. I'm going to change the game. 00:40:43 Speaker 6: The same thing that made me say I could get Jennifer Lawrence's phone number. 00:40:46 Speaker 2: Billy Confidence. 00:40:47 Speaker 6: Billy Confidence. You have to be your own number one fan, because nobody else is going to be it for you. 00:40:52 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:40:52 Speaker 6: And if you're going to make it in an industry like this, where you have to talk for a living, I'm not going to do it like, oh, give me a job, please. 00:40:59 Speaker 2: Okay, so when I introduced you, though, to ESPN Chicago, the head of ESPN Chicago, who also runs ESPN Milwaukee and ESPN Miami, you just said hello and walked away. 00:41:14 Speaker 6: No, I didn't walk away. 00:41:14 Speaker 2: I was respectful. 00:41:15 Speaker 6: And I was letting you have the conversation. I didn't want to embarrass you with one of my Billy Confidence comments while you're talking to this important guy with ESPN Radio. Let me do that on my own time. 00:41:25 Speaker 2: So you wanted to wait until I walked away, then you'd sneak in. 00:41:28 Speaker 6: I don't want you to look poorly if I were to say something like, I'm here to change ESPN Chicago. 00:41:34 Speaker 2: Would you have said that to him? 00:41:35 Speaker 6: Oh, I could change ESPN Chicago. 00:41:36 Speaker 2: I love it. Come on. You could say to these folks, That you could change Barstool. 00:41:46 Speaker 6: I'm a little worried about Barstool. 00:41:48 Speaker 2: What are you worried about? 00:41:49 Speaker 6: If I were to get hired at Barstool, they do a lot of on-screen content, a lot of picking on each other, stuff like that. You guys do that too, but I feel like it's another level here. 00:41:59 Speaker 2: So you don't think this is the place for you? 00:42:01 Speaker 6: Probably not, but if they want to scan my car, do you want to talk, get lunch later? 00:42:05 Speaker 2: I'd love to talk. 00:42:07 Speaker 6: You know, it's about who you know, not what you know, Matt. I've been saying that all weekend. 00:42:11 Speaker 2: You know us. I do. 00:42:13 Speaker 5: Also, you just said the show has taken you to these big heights, and now you want to leave it. 00:42:17 Speaker 2: Don't you want to keep going? Yeah. Keep going up. We're not done. 00:42:20 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:42:21 Speaker 2: We're not going anywhere. Just getting started, bro. Yeah, I don't know. I love you guys. We love you, too. That's a bye. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, KSR.