2026-02-25- KSR - Hour 1

I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it, all I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King Sr. It's the true story of protest and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Menelik Lumumba. Listen to The A-Building on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. From Netflix and Hulu, comedy off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Ashley Gavin, February 27th and 28th. Then from TV and the movies, he's one of the kings of comedy. Catch D.L. Hughley March 6th through the 8th. And from the Nate Land Podcast and the Grand Ole Opry, don't miss Aaron Weber. March 12th through the 14th. For tickets to all Comedy Off-Broadway shows, call 859-271-JOKE or visit ComedyOffBroadway.com. Comedy Off-Broadway. This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. All right, let's do this. Wednesday, February the 25th, I am Matt Jones. Still a little voice struggling. It sounded a little better than yesterday. Yeah, I did not have a voice last night. It was gone. And now a little better today. Hopefully I'm doing a steroid treatment tomorrow. You know, I've diagnosed myself. Yeah, we heard this. First, the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line is 859-280-2287. 8-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-774-5254. And this edition is sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, I'll make them pay. I believe, Ryan, you have two vocal cords. Am I right about that? I'm not aware. Are you a doctor, ma'am? You work for a doctor, so she's basically a doctor. She can confirm. I think my right one is working. Okay. My left one is weak. The left one is letting you down. And the left one, I think, does my high volume. Like the high pitch. And the right one does the low volume. So the right one is working. But then when I try – this is how it works, man. You may not – you weren't there that day when they taught this. And then the left one, when I try to go, well, then it doesn't work. Your left cord is your Doofenshmirtz cord. Yeah, that's my Doofenshmirtz cord. And it's not working right now, and so it's only the other one. So Doofenshmirtz on the IR today. Yeah. Keep a low voice. So this is going to be like, you know, late. Deep, sexy voice, Matt. I didn't ask you. This is going to be like, you know, late night with Matt Jones for today. Well, good. Looking forward to hearing it. You do sound much better. Even though it's still got a little ways to go, there's progress. Well, it's deep. You know, this is kind of how I talk in life. Is it? Well, I think people think sometimes I'll meet somebody, and then they'll hear my show and they go, that doesn't sound like you. But it's because it's like, meh. But I'm not going to be able to meh today. But you feel fine. It's just your voice is messed up. Yeah, I'm a little congested, but I feel fine. I'm not sick. It's weird. Like last night, you know, the game's going on and I'm wanting, I'm like, you know, you feel like you could do the shows because I feel fine, but when you can't talk, you can't talk. Like I said, I'm taking a steroid, doing like my Mark McGuire tonight. Okay. And hopefully tomorrow. Because, you know, if it's like this, I couldn't do the show in Madisonville Friday, which we're, of course, going to your hometown. That's right. Very excited about going to my hometown. We'll get you back. That steroid sounds like it'll help. I mean, you know that's fulfilled well. Yeah, I do this about once a year. Again, ma'am, I mean, I can help you. Left vocal cord right. And the left one needs some work. The left one is the high voice vocal cord. according to you. It's science. Okay. No, no, no. Listen. I don't need your facts. I did my own research. I learned from RFK. You do your own research. But you did learn last time or two times, do not drink a lot of water to help. No, no, no. I mean, don't flood yourself. I've been drinking water because you need to do that. But don't flood yourself like I did a few years ago. Cats win last night. What was the final score? 73-64? 72-63. 72-63. you know, not the prettiest basketball game in the world, but the key thing, Ryan, was to win, and we did that. Yeah, it was an ugly game, hard to watch, especially that first half. First half, both teams were pretty bad, but they had to win it, had to, had to, had to. I don't care how ugly it was. They walked out of there with a win, which is desperately what they needed, our fan base needed, as we head down these last three games of the year. Yeah, that was an ugly game, but before I just said, as Ryan just said, get out of there with a win. I don't care what it looks like. I even predicted it being closer than it was, so I can't switch up and nitpick. I'm just glad they got out of that losing funk and got out of the bubble talk just by getting the victory, and then we'll worry about what needs to still get fixed moving forward. That's the key. The key is now they're in the tournament, right? Like now I think they could lose every game, and they would be in the tournament. They needed that one. And I think it's important you won, Ryan, without, oh, wait, really playing well. I mean, Elway played bad, and they still won. And I don't know if that would have happened a month ago. You're right. Yeah, with Elway only scoring eight points, you found a way to win without – South Carolina did a good job on him, shutting him down and keeping him away. But Aberdeen stepped up. Diabate, his best game he's played in a long time, he stepped up. They had some guys step up. We still had some guys that struggled, but some guys – Chandler hit another big shot. I mean, he hit like two threes, the first three of the game and then the big shot at the end of the game. So Aberdeen and Diabate, to me, won them the game. They did. Aberdeen hit the threes in the first half when we just could not score. And then Diabate in the last six or eight minutes making big plays. And then Chandler obviously hits the big shot. He didn't play great, but he hit the shot at the beginning of the game and the one at the end of the game that I thought were big. Yeah, Aberdeen and Chandler helped make up for O-Way, Aberdeen especially. But I thought the big difference was they finally got help from the four with Yellovich more so in the first half than Diabate in the second. They combined for like 23, 24 points. I think that was a big help. And if they're going to put together any kind of run, they're going to need more of that from those guys because the guards just need help, and they finally got it last night. Did you ever think we were going to lose? I felt like South Carolina was so bad. There's no way they're going to lose the game. I mean, it was uncomfortably close for a while, and we struggled. but I thought South Carolina is just a bad basketball team. So, no, Andrew Crouch. I mean, they did not play well. No. I mean, South Carolina. First of all, Shannon, there was a little child on South Carolina. Yeah, there was. And people tell me that guy's famous. Did you know that? What's he famous for? Being a little child. He – what was his name? Ellis? Ellis, that's who you're talking about, that guy. Why is he famous? I didn't know he was famous. I just couldn't believe he was in the SEC. When I tweeted about – I didn't even mention his name. But there were people like, put respect on Eli. Is that his name? Eli Ellis? I think that sounds right. Put respect on his name. He's famous. But then I looked him up, and I couldn't find him. So is he famous, Mario? For what? No. It's probably TikToks. It's TikToks? Well, anyway, he looks like a child. I honestly thought that, like, somebody – you know how, like, rich donors, their kids will get to clean the floor and stuff during games. I thought that's what happened. I thought they had a donor who they decided would let a 14-year-old play. Their whole team. I mean, I don't say this to be rude to them because they almost beat us. It looked like the team from Teen Wolf. Have you seen Teen Wolf? Of course. There's one guy whose jersey's a little too tight and is big. A little chunky. They had that guy. Yeah, he kind of ate us up for a couple minutes. Yeah, he did. They had, like, kids. They had a guy from the science fair. That's kind of what they look like. A buddy of mine texted and said, is South Carolina's NIL group on? Because it did look like kind of a Teen Wolf group. I was trying to stay excited about the win and not downplay Kentucky winning on the road in the SEC because that's hard. But South Carolina is really bad. I know that guy, Elijah. How did they win three? I don't know. That Elijah Strong, he had a little run where he scored like seven points. But outside of that, he was 0 for 7 from three. He and that Capuch, or however you say his name, they had ten feet of space. We're taking open threes and just bricking them one after another. Now, Kentucky was doing a little bit of that too. But both teams had wide open shots from deep and could not make them. South Carolina hit four to start the game and finished with eight for the game. They just went absolutely cold. I'd like to do like a player-by-player, not just this game, because I don't know how much there is to analyze this game, but just in general, state of the players. Okay. All right. O.A. did not play well, but has been great this year. Would you agree? And, you know, even though he didn't play well offensively, he still was guarding Meachie Johnson a lot of the game. He did. Did a good job. Did a good job in locking him up, and I think he had five steals. Five steals. Yeah, last night. So the defensive end for O.A. was good. Offensive end, they just shut him down. He once or twice a game just dribbles into three people and loses the ball. Like, that's going to happen. You just have to accept it. But, good. Aberdeen is my – he is my MVP of the SEC play. Not because he's been our best player. Always. But Aberdeen, the reason we don't stink is because of Aberdeen. Do you agree with that? Yeah. And, you know, South Carolina led for most of the game early. I think they were up first ten minutes, went up early. And then they had that 10-0 run. and part of it was he hit those back-to-back threes, and that was the first time we got the Go Big Blue chant from the crowd. That completely flipped the game. A lot of Kentucky fans there, by the way. Well, heck yeah. Shout out. Not many South Carolina fans, but a lot of Kentucky fans. $4 tickets. $4? $4 to go see Kentucky basketball on the road. A lot of empty seats available. Yeah. I'll say this about Aberdeen, too. Zero turnovers last night. I love the kid. Yeah. And I couldn't stand watching him play in the first half of the year. Agreed. I'm with you. And I love him now. He's played great. And Chandler not played great, but hit shots when it matters and has been important for the team. Very important. And, yeah, like you said, he kind of struggled, but he still hit the big shot at the end of the game. He just got that knack for the end of the game making the big play, and he did it again last night. Malachi has been much better than I would have thought and good. You've started to see in the last five or six games his lack of strength is starting to hurt him. because guys are taking the ball from him. But he had, what, 11 rebounds last night. So that was big for him as well. Yeah. They won the rebounding battle 48-28. That's nuts. I mean, like, do South Carolina players even have arms? Like, how do you lose that bad inside? But Malachi was a big part of it. You remember in Teen Wolf, they don't rebound. That's true. That's true. They don't feel the need to. Until he turns into the Wolf, then he's all over the place. Their guys haven't turned into the Wolf yet. They'll do that at the SEC tournament. that's when the little child becomes a wolf. He's the guy. You don't remember the storyline. I do. I didn't get the connection to South Carolina, but I see it now. Diabate, inconsistent, but brings a level of toughness that nobody else on the team has that I think is big, and you saw that last night He took over last night He just bullying inside playing good defense getting big rebounds Now when he gets the ball he ain going to pass it back out He gets the ball. I mean, you can see it. He will get the ball sometimes, and it's like this is going up. And he dribbles. He puts his head down. Yeah, puts his head down. He dribbles it very low to the ground. Like he's almost below his knee. and they could send five people, a police department, guard dogs. He's shooting. He's going up. And there ain't nothing that's going to stop him. Nope. And he shoots probably 20% on those shots. But when he gets them, they tend to be an and one. That's right. But I like his rebounding and his toughness. Football could have used him on the goal line last year. I think that lower my head and run through anything could have worked on the other side of campus. but it became very clear in the second half. They realized they had a big advantage inside, and they just bullied their way in. I mean, he even had the breakaway where he went end-to-end, got an and-one finish. That was a great play. He cut a few times. They hit him on passes inside, but they made him part of the attack. One of the biggest plays of the game, he made a move. It was another I'm-not-gonna-pass move. Missed, but Garrison was able to get the putback and got an and-one, and that was really Diabate created that play. Yeah, Devante, when you're talking about it, he makes that movie. A lot of times he just doesn't even shoot it. He just throws it up there. He does throw it. He just kind of throws it. All of it didn't play great, but hit a couple big threes. He did. Missed a few as well. Was he one of six or something? It doesn't matter how he finished. But the one felt good. I think the one was the sixth one. He started 0 for 5. Yeah, and then, you know. We've got to talk about it. It's not fun to talk about. So Trent has made three baskets in February. No, he's made zero. He has two free throws. That's all he has. Well, that's in the last two weeks. No, he has no made-filled goals since January. Oh, that's even worse. Those shots last night made me cry. I mean, his first three, the one in the corner, may be the worst shot that's ever been taken. It was like three feet short left. So I didn't see it. I stepped out of the room. Don't watch it. Well, I got a bunch of texts about it, and I'm like, well, I have to go rewind this now to see how bad it was, and I wish I hadn't. Yeah. It was bad. Breaks all of our hearts, too, and we see that, I think. Brandon Garrison, you know, it's Mario's fault. He brings it out of me. Although he did hit what I think was the shot that put us in the lead for good last night. He hit a big bucket, had a big and one play there late in the game. But he's frustrating. He made some good passes. Had a couple good passes, you're right. And then Jasper, I don't know, man. I don't know either with Jasper. I've been trying to be his number one supporter, but he's struggling right now for sure, missing some shots he normally hits. I don't know if he's just lost his confidence and he's shooting, and that's affecting his overall game. It's more than struggling. though. I mean, he can't dribble. They just trap him and take it from him. They just take the ball from him. Well, one of them is almost back-to-back. He got lucky. The ball rolled over to Diabate on the block. But he almost got stripped on back-to-back plays. Yeah. You know, I mean, he's getting to the point where it's becoming unplayable. Those guys played. A couple guys played over 37 minutes last night, I think. Collin and O.A. and Aberdeen. Yeah. Can we make it 39? Diabate saved the bench, but the Noah Jasper Garrison group went one for 11 from the field and O for six from three. Those three guys. Ouch. Ouch. Yeah, ouch is right. 859-280-2287. We're going to take a break. 772-774-5254. We are here. I'm teaching this woman who used to work for a doctor all about medicine, and we will be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. 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Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it, all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom, with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search for it. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. This season, an epic battle of he said, she said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. I have done nothing except get pregnant by the f***ing bachelor! 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This is wild. Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We are hanging by a moment here on Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287 Love Me Some Life House Are they at Larger Than Life? Louder Than Life No, they're not I think they'd be more of a Bourbon and Beyond band I wonder if they still play I think they do I'm going to see But I would only want to hear this song The rest of it is Yeah, but this is the only one that matters That's Mitz I loved Life House Not enough to buy their CD but I burned them all Had all the bourbons You liked them enough to steal their music You have to really like a band to buy their music. Especially today. Stealing their music. Yeah. I mean, I bought one album in 15 years, and it was the Tyler Childers Purgatory on vinyl. On vinyl? Yeah, he signed it for me. It's actually at my house. That's pretty cool. But that's it. See, growing up, I only had singles money, so I'd get a song and I'd go buy the single, and it would have the remix, the Spanish one, The instrumental with it. No, it's like the Spanish one. But the full album, I didn't have many of those. Sorry, they're not on tour right now. Oh, that's too bad. Eli Ellis apparently played with Jasper Johnson at Overtime Elite. And he has 700,000 followers on Instagram. Is it just like he's a child? I mean, is he good? At basketball or at Instagram? At TikTok. He seems to be better at Instagram. Okay. It looks like he does a lot with sunglasses on. Maybe that makes him look older. Maybe he's got a Beamer thing going on. Yeah. He's not spending the money on his decorations in his room. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, we all love Jasper and Noah because they're from Kentucky, but can you play those guys in the postseason? I mean, I don't think you have a choice, at least for a few minutes, but I don't know. It's tough. I feel bad for him. I mean, you know, look, Trenton Hall was starting at the beginning of the year. you know, he was starting. He's at least rebounded. He had five again last night. That's ten and two games. Five in the first half. So he finds something else to do, but it's clear he has the yips or something mental. I don't know how you break him out of it. Heck, well, I guess you've got some tough opponents left, but I'd try to just feed him some shots and try to get him out of the funk because I do think you'll need him to hit some shots if you're going to go on any kind of run. Like you said, I don't know if you said it off the air or on the air. After he banked that one off the side of the board, the other two threes he had were wide open. I mean, he had wide open, great looks. Those are shots that he would hit down in his sleep. So he's got to have his confidence issue. I think the same thing with Jasper. I think the confidence with him has maybe affected his whole game. Yeah, one time, Yelovich and Noah were 0 for 8 from 3, which is not what you want. No. And most of them were open. Yelovich made all his twos. He drove a lot. I want a little more Yelovich. I wish we'd take a few more garrison minutes and just pass them over to Yelovich. I'm fine handing some garrisons to some Yelovich's. But Yelovich has some mistakes, but I don't think they rub at my soul as much as the Garrison ones do. He's had a lot of turnovers in the last week, but he's getting a little better. One person writes, Matt, what about Peter Burns burning you at halftime? Okay, that was a big thing to everybody last night. I thought it was really funny. I did too. He said, for people who didn't hear it coming out of the break, Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the State of the Union. Great line. Great line. First of all, I'm glad the fan base knows me well enough to know that it means, like, angry. And not like Trump's getting me in a lather, to use Ryan's words. But I was really surprised he said it. I'm kind of surprised. Because, you know, they say during games, don't bring up politics. Don't do any of that. So I think it was funny. You know, Peter, I like Peter. We're friends. Made me laugh. But it was also like our fan base knows what that means. And it's cool. Like, I liked it. I thought it was funny. There was a lot of them, though. Does he owe you money or something he's trying to make up for? I want to just say to Peter, you do realize other people are watching this game other than Matt Jones, right? Yes. It was like he was just catering it to you. I understand, but that's good. It's good for you. I mean, he did it three times. I missed the third one. I guess I was in the car driving home when he did the third one. He talked about a tweet I had sent about Diabate. Okay. Yeah, both times I was watching the game and I heard it. Shannon, were you jealous? Did you not want him to say something about you? I thought the guy named Peter Burns might mention STD, but he didn't. So that's not him. Anyway, you would think that. You would think that. I think he sees what Tom Hart has with the fan base. He might be like, I would like to have some of that too. I'll drop some nuggets. Well, smart. Yes. I wonder if Tom might be a little jealous. And I think we have Tom Saturday. Yeah, we do. Maybe we get a back and forth. Peter Burns, I'll tell you, having spent some time with immaculate dresser, best dresser, see the best dresser in broadcasting? And he dresses like that Southern, like he dresses like he's going to Keeneland. Yes, he does. Some patterns. He's got like that. Yeah, so he dresses like his life is perpetually going to Keeneland. Paisley. Yeah, some pastels. Yeah. I'm hearing a budding bromance going on here between you two. First of all, haven't you hosted with him before? Yeah, yeah. So I mean it sounds to me like Shannon is complete jealousy here No I like Peter I like it He just mentioned you every time they went to break It was you Well, it was a lot. I thought maybe he had a bet on how many times he could mention you. We're talking about it. I enjoyed it. Not a complaint. I just wondered what was going on. That website awful announcing put out the video of him saying that about the State of the Union. It would not have made a difference if it was another team, but he knows Kentucky fans. He knows we were watching it. Didn't do it for South Carolina fans watching the game. Well, maybe there's a South Carolina guy. We just don't recognize the reference. By the way, how hot were you watching that last night? I didn't watch it. I'm not going to watch the stadium. Are you kidding me? It was like two hours long. Billy was watching it on mute. When I saw the thing said it was going to be two, maybe three hours, I was like, are you – why would I do that? Yeah, I don't care who's talking. I'm not listening for two hours. So I hate it. Not just him. I hate the whole thing. I hate that, like, they all get in line like children to take selfies with the picture, and then they clap and stand and sit and, like, you know. I mean, in the past that was like 40 minutes. Everybody shut up. Just speak and get out. But now it's like a whole show, and then they bring in, you know, sad stories, happy stories. You know, I just, I've never liked it, to be honest with you. Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton ruined it. Because Bill Clinton, like, was so good at it that it then became like a production. And I don't like it. They introduced the hockey team, right? They didn't give them seats. Didn't they have to walk in and then leave? Get out of here. Or maybe they were like, I ain't staying here. Just give us our hours. It's two hours. South Carolina's playing. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-774-5254. One person writes, Ryan said he wouldn't listen to anyone speak for two hours, yet he's on the radio for two hours every single day. Well, we have a conversation. Just sit there and listen to one guy talk for two hours. I don't care who it is. I'm probably going to struggle to stay alert. So you don't listen to Big Blue Insider? Never heard of podcasts? I don't listen to podcasts very often. You don't listen to Big Blue Insider? When they have a discussion. So you just don't want to listen to one person? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, like sit in front of a TV and watch somebody speak for two hours. That's a lot. We have Friday people coming to hear us speak in Madisonville. We have people watching us speak right now in front of you. Have you ever seen a comedy special? Yeah. You ever like those? Didn't you go see a comedy show in Cincinnati? You go see a guy talk to his puppets for two hours. It's not by himself. That's entertainment right there. We got people here from Irvine. Irvin. Not Irvine. Irvin. Irvin. Oldham County. Nicholasville. Oh, I'm sorry. Where? Carrollton. That's right. Carrollton and Nicholasville. So here at the bar, it's Wings Day. It is Wings Day. Dollar Wings all day. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I love Jasper, Trent. It makes me sad not to see them play well, but the reality is not everyone can play, and I think we go six guys in Garrison and Jasper and Noah only when people need a quick breather. That's what I would do. I mean, you've got to remember, go back to our national championship team in 2012. We only played six guys. Eloy Vargas was kind of the occasional seventh, but they basically played what? Lamb, Gilchrist, Miller, Teague, Davis, Terrence Jones. I guess Kyle Wilcher was the seventh. He played a little. Eloy would play a little, but they basically were a six-man rotation. Yeah, and it's not ideal, but we see what these guys are doing right now. Unless just a light goes off with Trent and the shot keeps going in, He can play a little more because he has been rebounding. But, I mean, Jasper's gotten to the point where it seems like he just can't even bring the ball up. I don't know if that can be fixed in a couple weeks. Now that we're in the tournament, before we go to the phone, do these last three games, like, do they matter? I mean, they kind of – obviously they matter. But, like, we're not going to be higher than a six at most. And we're not going to be lower than probably a 10 or 11. Does it matter? Can it help us keep from playing on Wednesday night at the SEC tournament? Well, that matters. That matters. Right now, I looked at it. Assuming the game's finished tonight like I think they will, we would be a seven seed right now in the SEC tournament, which would give you a bye. But our schedules are harder than everybody. I mean, if you don't want to play on Wednesday, what you're sitting there hoping is Texas loses games, Missouri loses games. Missouri winning last night didn't help us. Missouri winning didn't help us. That was bad for us. Although it now made it to where if we kept winning and Tennessee were to lose, because Tennessee has a couple hard games, we have the tiebreaker against them. True. But Missouri winning did not help us because they have the tiebreaker against us. I don't think it matters for seeding, but if you're one of these people, whether a fan or you're on the damn team, if you think you have a run in March, you need to turn a corner now and win some of these games and show you're capable and get some momentum going. I just want us to be a 6-7 or 10-11 seed. I don't want us to be an 8-9 because we ain't beating these one seeds. Right? Yeah. I mean, I've always thought you'd be better off being an 11 seed than being an 8 because you're going to play a 6 and a 3 instead of a 1, and the 1s are so good this year in my opinion. They're so much better than the other teams. I want to win this game Saturday just for them to show me something. You know, Vanderbilt punked you. They not just beat you, they embarrassed you down in Nashville. You played horrible. Show some pride, man. Man up and come out and try to win this – not just try, win this game on Saturday against Vanderbilt. Yeah, we need to shut up Shannon since he thought my name was mentioned too much. It was. Maybe he can mention it four times next game. Okay. I'm going to challenge him to do that. Who's up first? Let's go to Will. Will. Go ahead, Will. Wow I was not expecting to be the first caller chosen I feel honored slightly privileged thank you well I was gonna say I called yesterday and I have to do a little bit of a victory lap because I said we have a little bit of a rivalry with South Carolina and it was a close game just like I thought it would be and really and truly this was when we lost Calipari was when we lost to South Carolina so that was a pivotal turning point in that rivalry and honestly when I saw that Meachie Johnson was still on that roster, that's when I thought we could lose because I talked shit to him at that game. I appreciate the call. Appreciate the call. You can't cuss. We do not have a rivalry with South Carolina. We've got to stop with that. It's not – if I were to list our SEC basketball rivals, football, a little different. I actually think we are a little bit of a rival with them in football. Basketball, if you were to rank the SEC rivals, Tennessee, one. Florida, two. Vandy. Vandy, three. Arkansas, four. I'd even go Mississippi State above South Carolina, even though there's not much there either. Yeah, I mean, South Carolina to me would be – the only ones less are like Oklahoma. But even Texas A&M, I can remember games more than South Carolina. I mean, Texas, no. Oklahoma, no. Missouri. I mean, would they be like 10th in the SEC for me? But most teams you named are pretty new. We hadn't even had time to build stuff up. Yeah, we hadn't had time. And tickets were $4. You can't call yourself a rivalry if it's $4 to get into the game. There were a lot of empty seats last night at that game. I didn't expect a good crowd. I couldn't believe how many empties were in the lower bowl when they would zoom out a little bit. Did we have as many people as they did? It looked like we had several people call in on their way home and said there's just an entire section of U.K. fans. That's what we kept hearing on the broadcast. When I was in law school, I went to that game every year. We played them twice a year. I remember I was there once when the space shuttle crashed. I don't know why I'm telling you that, but I just remember we were playing South Carolina once. You didn't crash there, right? No, but I think I was in Columbia, and I think it was the space shuttle Columbia that crashed. Interesting. People don't seem as interested about that as I thought they would be. I've been to Columbia more than any other SEC town for their basketball. Didn't the space shuttle Columbia explode? Columbia exploded in 1986, though. That's the Challenger. Oh, it's the Challenger. Yes. That was a pretty big one. Yeah, that's the one I thought you were talking about. No, Columbia. Look it up, Shannon. See when the space shuttle – see if it was like January or February because I think we were playing – I was at Duke. I think we were playing South Carolina. February 1, 2003. 2003. Look at that. There you go. And was it the space shuttle Columbia? Yeah. Yes. That's why Peter Burns dropped. Peter Burns dropped. Peter Burns. That's why Peter Burns dropped. Bobby Bones had him Peter Bones. We also did play on that day. And we won by, do you remember? Don't remember the score, no. Won by 18. Big games from Marquise Estill, Keith Bogans, and Eric Daniels. There we go. You got two major errors there. Yeah. the space shuttle challenger and Peter Bones. Peter Bones. And I remember the exact – that was just a lot of you and I right there. Who's next? Ben. Ben. Go ahead, Ben. Hey, guys. I was really happy that we won last night overall. Trying to change directions here. I was watching a YouTube or a TikTok video last night, and this guy suggested for the NBA All-Star Game next year. They do the Team World, Team USA, and then Team Kentucky. I saw that, yeah. So it was Max Kellerman. He's doing an interview with Rich Paul. I appreciate the call. LeBron's agent. And they're talking about the All-Star game. And they suggested next year Team USA, Team World, Team Kentucky. And it was like Team World was like Luka, Giannis, Jokic. Really good team. Team USA was like LeBron, Durant, Curry, Tatum. And then Team Kentucky. and Rich Paul's like, Kentucky's not going to be, and they were like, hang on. And then he was like, Shea, Booker, Maxie, Towns, Bam, Randall, and he was like, oh. Yeah. He was like, yeah, that would be a good game. It would be a good little game, good little squad. Yeah, when De'Aaron Fox was like your eighth man. Uh-huh. Got a pretty good squad. Yeah, De'Aaron Fox was on it. I mean, he didn't even have Reed or any of that. I mean, that's, you know, if you were to look at the way they had it set up, the USA and the world team would be better, but not by a lot. I mean, we would put a competitive game against them. Could Wall and Cousins coach and just be a part of it somehow? Oh, Davis. Obviously Davis was on the team too. I'd love to see it. Of course, the Kentucky fans, we'd love to see it to see how they would compete. Well, and all those guys they mentioned have been all-stars in the last two years. So it wasn't like it was crazy. I mean, all those guys had been all-stars. Shaden Sharp. You'd use him. He's had a great year in the NBA. Are we taking him? Yes. Shannon, would you count Shaden Sharp? Probably not. He warmed up. Would you want me? Keldon Johnson, Emmanuel Cookley, Tyler Hero. I mean, Drake was on our layup line at one point. Is he on the team? Yeah. I mean, Shaden Sharp is not – I don't consider Shaden Sharp a Kentucky player. But I don't have anything against the guy. But I feel like you have to play. Like, I will consider Jaden Quaintance a Kentucky player, even though it was only three games. He played. He played. I don't think I consider Shaden Sharp one. But I do kind of consider Enos one, even though he didn't play. He was trying. Because he tried. There's nothing in Shaden's way except his agent. 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All right. It's a common talking point, Drew, for people to go, oh, we're becoming Indiana. People need to understand what Indiana is. Okay, Indiana hasn't made the Final Four since 1996, okay, or 95, something like that. Been forever. But they also, they're not just like bad. They're really bad. They are now firmly on the cut line of the bubble, maybe out. Last night they lost to Northwestern, and the stat that came up was amazing to me. They have lost to Northwestern. Indiana, six straight times. Oh, wow. Home and away. Six straight times. Northwestern. That's amazing, Drew. It's embarrassing. Yeah. I think, well, now this year Nebraska's got a good team. But I think even when they were losing to those Nebraska teams, we went to one of them. Yeah, we went to a game. We were at a game in Nebraska one on senior day, and I was excited because I hate Indiana, but I kept thinking how far this program has fallen and I'm sitting here watching Nebraska celebrate in Bloomington. So I'm not trying to downplay the concerns people have. This guy right here was talking about how he has season tickets and he can't even make himself go to the 9 o'clock games. I get all that. But we've got to stop saying we're going to become Indiana. Indiana is like Indiana is on a different... I mean if you were to rank the programs of the last 20 years is Indiana even in the top 40? maybe not i mean maybe not they had that one good run that one year but that was about it i mean that's so you know it is perspective because you would not want to be indiana and they just keep hiring new coaches and it doesn't work they did just hire gm though if i could copy one thing indiana's doing i would like to do that yeah that is true we need to do that uh what about by the way people when they talk about gm i keep seeing the name tayshaun prince you know normally I don't like the idea of you get a guy because he went here. But Tayshaun's the assistant GM for the Grizzlies. That actually is one that would be kind of good. Yeah, he's got a resume that can back up putting him in that position. He knows about roster development, roster management, budgeting for players and stuff. That's why that's his life. And I also just love him. Yeah. I mean, he may be – he's top five all time for me and just person. I love Tayshaun Prince. Yeah, I don't put him in that category of the list of former players. He's a legit candidate if you look at him. I think Nausey's in that territory too. Those two are beloved around the NBA. Been at a lot of stops, played a lot, and worked for a lot of teams. I can't even imagine the connections they have in the league. So those are two that I would put aside from the typical don't get a former player conversation. Who's next? Mike. Mike. Go ahead, Mike. Mike. All right, who's next? Alex. Go ahead, Alex. You can feel the left corner starting to come in. Hey, guys. My name's Alex Green. We're setting up here at the – we're setting up for the state wrestling tournament this weekend, Thursday, Friday, the boys. Girls is on Saturday here at the horse park. Yeah. If you guys, anybody listening is able to come, we'd love to have you. We've got the Randy brothers going for six and five time, respectfully. We have two girls going for three timers. We have several guys this year that have signed the Wrestle Division I. We're setting the mats up. All Tech Arena. You guys come be a part of it. All right. I appreciate the call. The brothers, aren't they like going to Iowa or something, signed a big NIL deal? Am I right about that? All right. There you go. Never mind. They are, without a doubt, the best wrestlers this state has ever produced. I mean, they're not just state champions. They're world champions. They won as seventh graders, didn't they? Yeah. So I feel like they're going to win this year. They're world champions. These guys are just amazing. They'll probably be in the Olympics. They are world champions. Yes. And they're from where? Union County? Union County. Boy, they got something in the water there, don't they? Yes, they do. Wrestling factory. That's my area. I don't mess with Union County. Yeah. I don't fight people from Clay County or Union County. Amen. Or really any of the counties. If you had to fight a county, which county are you fighting? That's a great question. That is a good question. All right, so you're saying I get a random county and the average citizen in that county. You're fighting for humanity and you have to pick a Kentucky county. So we're basically saying what is the weakest county in Kentucky? I got the answer, I think. All right, before you do it, I'm not going anywhere in eastern Kentucky, forget it. I'm not going out in western Kentucky because they're out there in their farms with the tractors and the hay and I'm not doing that. So I got to go – I'm probably going to fight somebody from Jessamine County. Jessamine, okay. Well, I mean, it's suburb-y, right? There's a Christian college there. They don't fight, right? The Lord doesn't want them to do that. When Wilmore – so I'm going to say – and Jared Polson, he's not a fighter. I'm going to say Jessamine. What about you? I think I'd just go with Oldham. That's the answer right there. But the problem with Oldham – They're just rich, they would just hit you with their wallet. Here's the problem with Oldham. There's some country Oldham people too. Like it's not – we all think of the rich people. But like I almost got shot in LaGrange. Remember at the courthouse. Like there's some – so yeah, there's a lot of rich people, but they got some other people that – so Oldham, I'm thinking – Are we talking about gunfight though or hand-to-hand combat? Hand-to-hand combat. Listen, this dude could have beat me in the hand-to-hand combat, too. You should have seen his truck. Anybody can win with a gun. It could have been anything. What about you? I'm thinking a risk-reward, though. Like, do I get Papa John's Castle if I win with that, like, eagle clock in the rotating driveway? Yeah. I'm looking at territories. There's another part of Oldham County, though. What about you? Oh, the answer is Oldham County. There is no doubt. Sorry to our guys here. It is with no question. Are there any, like, redneck Jessamine County, though? Yes. Where? Oh, yes. Out in the county? Like, where in the county? Well, even Nicholasville itself, the city of Nicholasville. Oh, Nicholasville can't fight. Oh, yes, they can. Honestly, my second one's Fayette County. I'll step outside right now. Somebody hadn't been to Georgetown Road. What are you talking about? I mean, there are spots. I'm certainly going to lose, but of all the counties, I think my best shot would be right here. I think we all agree, though, the suburbs. Yes. The suburb counties are the place. And eliminate all of the eastern Kentucky counties. In west. We don't spend as much time in West, but you get out there towards the river. I mean, again, we're talking about Union County. There's some hosses out there. Mines and farms. Yeah. We'll take a break. Come back. Stay on topic. Hour number twos, KSR. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. 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