KSR - 2024-02-29- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK Basketball and take first-time callers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know, Ryan, there are people out there that say what I would, what I would, what I, I would argue is a complete falsehood. Which is what? About me and this show. I mean, to be fair, it's mostly about me. But it's a complete falsehood, which is that I can be short with or harsh to callers. Oh, now, come on.

Drew and Shannon and I, we got your back on this. Never. That's a falsehood. Drew, is that not a falsehood? I mean, what are they even saying that you're cutting them off? What are the allegations here? They're listening to the wrong show. It's not this show.

Shannon, I feel like I let people fully make their point. Yeah, as long as they can make their point in five seconds. No, no, no. I mean, they have the time. I often let callers go two to three minutes. You're delusional, aren't you? No. On whatever device they want.

First of all, who side are you on, Shannon? Shut up. AirPods. Yeah, that's right. Bluetooth, AirPods, speakerphone. I am open to all of it. so long as you call, I'm good. But that has been an accusation, Ryan, that has been put out.

An unfair accusation. So I was sitting there thinking, I want to show how wrong that is. And the best way to do it is I get a lot of people that will come up to me at the bar or somewhere and go, Matt, I've never called your show. I listen every day. I hear that all the time. It's like people think they have to call to be a listener. You don't. I would say 97, 98, maybe 99, right?

percent of the listeners have never called the show. Isn't what you say? Easy. Easy. Yeah. I mean, that's the vast, vast majority. The postgame show, I think, gets a lot different callers. Uh-huh.

But wouldn't you say 97% of the listeners are better listeners than callers too? No, because I'm being open here, for Shannon. This is you that are saying that. No, I'm giving two gifts to the listeners here today. This is gift one. Uh-oh. So here's what I'd like to do today, Shane. When I open up the phones, I would like to have first-time callers, right?

Like you've never called before. Maybe because you're nervous, maybe because you just have never done it, can't get through sometimes. Now you can call, and today we'll take first-time callers, and Shannon and I will showcase my patience. that I've been known for for many years on the show. There's nowhere that lasts for two hours. It's going to last. It's going to last. Do you like this idea, Ryan?

I like the idea. And for people who've heard you on the ESPN show, you are a better listener, I think, on the ESPN show. But I get mad at the people on the ESPN show when they're bad. Because my view about the ESPN show, Drew, is like, if they stop listening, that's ESPN's fault, not mine, right? So that's their problem. ESPN will have to win it.

back. I got you. I just can't get over people have said these things about you. I'm excited for you to prove yourself today. We're going to prove ourselves 859-2-80. All right and open it up, Shannon. 8-59-2807. Only first-time callers. And we have an ability to see if you've first-time called, what, in the last 60 days? Is that how it is? Shannon, it's something like that. But still, I want first-time callers. I want to hear from some new people.

Hopefully there's enough of you new folks that have never called who can do it. 859-280-2-80-7. So that's the first thing. Second thing, I have an idea of Ryan that I think will be interesting. Okay. Let's hear it. There's a lot of people, especially who maybe are critics of mine or also just people in general who will say to me, Matt, I could do that or I would like to do that or one of those things about like hosting the show, right? So I came up with an idea. You know, the brackets are about to come out. Right. Right. And I thought, what if we had a KS bracket contest, or it might be a KS Bar bracket contest. Uh-huh.

And the winner of the contest would get to for a day be the host of this show along with some version of us, not by themselves, but that we, that the first prize would be your chance to host this show over the course of an hour. rather than a day. What do you think about that? That's dangerous waters. No, no, I wouldn't let them do it by themselves, but maybe you and Drew and Shannon, or maybe even me, I don't know. We would figure with them, I'll volunteer.

We would figure out, like, honestly, I'd meet them, Ryan, and figure out how much help they need. Yeah. But give a chance to break into a radio career via the bracket contest. So this was just an idea. I'm a big believer in democracy. So the three of you, I want you all to vote on whether or not you think this is a good idea.

Yes or no. And the majority will win. Ryan, I will let you go first. Yes or no. No. Why is it a no? It is going to crash and burn. I mean, maybe let them do one segment to do a two-hour radio show with notes.

No, I said that, give them one hour of the two. No. I still vote no. So you have no faith in the people of this listening audience. No. Can you imagine if Bob and Jamestown won the contest? Oh, there's an exception. By the way, there's an asterisk.

Bob and Jamestown can't win. That's the asterisk. He is not, he can't win. Kentucky Joe. I vote 100%. I think an hour of Kentucky Joe people would tune in. I don't know if it would work. But they would tune in.

All right. So you're a no. I want you to look at this audience, including the Bond That Bridge Facebook page, which you've been an active member of, and you want to tell them that you don't think they can do it. I'm going to tell them to their face and look them right in the eye. This is a lot harder than you think it is. And you think one hour, you can fill one hour, you're going to have a hard time feeling five minutes.

So no, it's 100% absolutely. Wow. Give them one segment. Over history, Shannon, generally speaking, Ryan's been the most positive about the audience. I thought for sure he'd be, yes. Okay, all right. Well, Drew, let's let you now. you've heard Ryan's argument.

Are you a yes or no? I'm sitting here with him. He was very passionate about his no. And I will say I'm just as passionate with my yes. So I am going to cancel Ryan out. I think someone that wins the bracket challenge would deserve the opportunity. Yes. I mean, what's the worst thing that can have?

There's a dump button if they said something they shouldn't or you get crazy. Other than that, it's one hour. The listeners will understand what's going on. They'll give it their best and we'll see what happens. So I am a thousand percent yes. So Ryan's a no. Yep. Drew's a yes.

And I wanted to add that even if I wasn't, though, I would have been a yes because I wanted Shannon to make this decision. Before you even pick the order, I wanted it to be Shannon. I know what you were going to do. So, as often happens on this show, Shannon gets to decide. Now, Shannon, you, I was talking to hubby about you last night. I said, Shannon with the show was interesting because Shannon has people in the audience that love him. because they love his cynical sort of Shannon nature.

Then there are people who kind of think Shannon can be a jerk and think he is too harsh and they really, especially recently, don't like that you are probably more critical of Cal than any of us, even though your comments often get put on me as if I said them. That's interesting. They think that I'm negative. Well, because you like our conspiracy theory guy. You believe all the conspiracy theory.

But what they don't know is that you're like that about everybody. You know, that's just kind of how you are. And if you're not a regular listener, people wouldn't know that. So this all comes down to you. You decide, can the audience handle hosting the show for an hour enough that when we do this bracket challenge, we allow the winner to have an hour as the host. I just want to make sure I understand this. So you're going to get a bracket of our listeners.

A bracket. No, no. Like they'll do the NCAA tournament bracket challenge. Oh, okay. And then whoever wins. will either get to host or if they want they could pick someone to host for them if that's not their thing. This is a horrible idea. I mean, it really is. But, you know, I would also like to see. Because it would be such a train wreck. As Ryan said, it's not easy to come on here and fill an

hour or a segment. I agree with you. But you know most people listening disagree with us on that. I don't care. This is why you wonder why people think you're going to see. That's what I'm saying. It is. No, you're right. but most people, the percentage of people in this audience, I would ask you if your hands on the steering wheel, keep one on. Raise your hand in your car if you think you know more about sports than us. Thumbs out, by the way. I would think what? Not both hands if you're right.

Don't you think 80% of people think they do? Maybe 90. And they probably do no more sports than we do. Exactly. But can you host a radio show? So they can. So Ryan, this is a chance to take a random winner of the audience. And presumably if you won the bracket.

challenge. You know something about sports. You won the challenge. Look, we've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this show to make it what it is. Are you worried that somebody will come in and be better than you? No, no. No, they're going to be awful. I'm telling you, it's going to be awful. Yeah, they'll turn it off that day. It'll be awful. But we'll be on to save it. Still. I'm still with you, Matt. I think it's great. All right. So ultimately, Shannon gets to this out. Shannon, are you a yes or are you a no?

This is all in your hands. You know, it's a horrible idea, as I've already stated. But I think in theory it could be such a train wreck that it could be horribly entertaining. I'm going to go with it. I'm going to say, yeah, let's do it. All right, so it's a yes. There we go. All right, so here's what we'll do.

We're going to do a bracket challenge, probably with KSbar. I haven't gotten it. They have one and maybe we'll just combine it. I'm not sure. but the winner will either get to host or pick someone to host for them that we approve. Like you can't pick Bob and James Town. Like you can't pick. What'd you say?

Bob and James Town. You cannot pick Bob and James Town. Like you'd have to pick somebody that we approve. And then we will let you run the show. Ryan, I think this is going to be just like all of our contest, a complete success. It'll be a complete train wreck. But I'll be here that day and I'll be enthusiastic. will help our winner alone.

I won't be helping you at all, by the way. I'm going to let you just drown live on the air. I won't say a word. I'm going to sit here silently and let you do it since you think you're so good at it. Whoever wins. All right. So there you go. So when the contest comes out, just know that will be first prize.

And along with that, I'm sure there'll be something else that the bar gives. But I will say to you, Drew, I think this is a good way. This is what I call fan outreach. Show to the fans. You have a chance. Maybe you're so good. that we say, hey, would you like to fill in once a month or something? Like, this could be the start drew of somebody who could completely change their career.

It's like American Idol, but for radio. It's exactly like American Idol. Imagine 10 years from now, you turn on your TV and you're watching someone every day from 6 to 9, whatever, and they go, remember that time I entered a contest in a restaurant and I got one shot, one hour, and now look at me. You remember ESPN did one of those? Do you remember that? they did one of those contests. I wanted to be on that show so

bad. Do you remember that, Ryan? They did and I think that guy is still on the Big Ten Network today. That's a different kind of contest than a random winner. So we get somebody like Marsha Poe's. What was it called? Dream job. Dream job. Wait a minute. Did you just crush Marsha Po? I did. I just threw Marsha Poe. What did it crush Marsha Po? Misty English,

some of our female list. What is wrong? First of all, what is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? First of all? why are you picking out the female listeners? Like, they can't do it. Secondly, we have no bigger fans than Marsha Poe and Misty English. You call me a jerk. What, that was the jerkiest thing I've ever heard.

You're trying to jerk me. Like, Ryan, those are two of the nicest people we know. Love them to death. Don't think they can do the radio show for two out, for an hour. I'm now rooting for them or whoever wins so bad. Okay. Shannon. I take it back. Yeah.

Who's the biggest jerk on the show now? This is what I want everybody listening to know. People always come up to me and say, why are you so mean to Ryan? Why, you, and I say, you don't know Ryan's sinister side, Shannon. This is the sin. Marsha Poe has never done anything to anyone, Drew,

and he picks her out of the lot. This is the real Ryan Lemon, by the way. This is the real Ryan. The other Ryan's the fake Ryan you hear every day. Drew, can you not, Misty English and Ryan? Marsa Poe. I want to call them personally right now and apologize for Ryan. I'm going to say they can't defend themselves.

Ryan, apologize to them. Those two women love you. Dude, you walk five miles all of a sudden you turn into a jerk. I apologize to both. I was using their name as an example. You just happened to use their name as an example? And last names. I almost threw out Grandma Sarah, but I thought she had to be in this. It's all women. That's the thing. To the ladies of KSR page. Just remember who takes up for you and who is Sammy misogynist over here. We'll take a break and be right back.

I can't get over Ryan, Shannon. He's showing us true colors now, right? Marshall Poe and Misty English woke up today, I'm sure. Just decide to list the show like they all did and Drew Ryan chose violence again. And then after we, you know, pointed out, this is not a great idea. He thought, oh yeah, well, how about I throw one at Grandma Sarah too? Yes, he just kept by her. and strays over here.

Unbelievable. John Robic's hair says on Twitter, 772, 7754. For those worried that this contest will be a disaster, don't worry about it. No bracket ever finish. Shut up, John. Well played. Good job. Shut up, John.

That's going to happen. You know, I still have the country music bracket in my glove box. That would be really bad for the show because we can't play music on the podcast, number one. Yeah, we couldn't do it anymore, unfortunately, at least until we get this fixed. My text machine is just lighting up with women, Drew, mad at Ryan. One person writes, I've always liked Ryan and thought he had a slight misogynistic street. He has just now taken the way of the word slight because of how nice you and Drew are to women. Now, this is true, Shannon.

I'm nice to women. You guys would help a woman probably more than you would a man. That's true. I actually think true. Yeah, I don't even know how to help them in. Last night, our garage door came off and Abby got a drill, hopped up on the ladder and fixed it. I was like, I'll be inside. Let me know how that goes.

Oh, happy fix your garage door. Nice. Yeah, she did a pretty good job. I like it. Well, if I, I would have called DoorDash and probably when the guy came, go, can you think you can fix this? I don't know how to do it. All right.

First time callers, any of these guys, Shannon, could win the contest, right? Dennis, go ahead, Dennis. and I'll just go ahead and give you a who-aw preemptively. Who-aw? Yeah, first time, caller. Just wanted to say, hey, appreciate the show. See, this is why we don't do this. That's why Dennis is going to win.

Thank you, Dennis. I appreciate it. No, no, wait. I just want to be clear to the first time callers. I appreciate you doing that. But, like, I do want you to have something to say, Shannon. You know what to me, a point or a question or talk about the cats. He's a good listener.

I don't know if he's a great caller I'll give you another one this one just came in Matt I hope Madison wins so he has two questions and then silence for 50s, eight minutes what's going to happen Rick, okay Rick go ahead, who are? Yes,

Rick from Monticello. Listen to you guys for about 10 years now every day. Thank you. First time caller. Who are? Absolutely love this team that we've got this year but they can drive you nuts too.

You can. You're right. Yes, absolutely. Well, they can. Probably my favorite. I agree with you. And he's right about the, I appreciate the call. The inconsistency, Drew, can drive you nuts if you let it. Because they, I heard Gary Parrish on TV say, you know, they beat Carolina, then they lose Twilbert.

Did they lose three straight games at home? Then they win at Auburn. The question for us in March is, can they win enough in a row to actually make it special? and they have been wildly inconsistent obviously but I think the reason we've kind of been on the roller coaster with them and not gotten too upset is they're just so dang likable from number one through 15 on the whole team so even you know a week ago when it falls apart at LSU I feel like we just it was a different case what an anger it was kind of hurting with them at how it went so I think it's just the just the way we love this team now

as far as getting to March we need them to win some games in a row because they still haven't won more than two in a row this calendar year but I I think that they've turned a corner recently and I think we're going to see a little more of that moving forward. Ryan, the latest bracketology has us as the lowest four seat. So we've actually moved into that four seed level, has this plane. Again, we've talked about this. If we're a four or five, just go ahead and pack our plane tickets to Salt Lake or Spokane because that's going to be where the games are.

And I kind of think if you're, unless we win out, and by that I mean win the rest of the game, get to the finals of the SEC tournament. It kind of looks like they don't consider the finals in the seating. But get to that final game. Maybe you can move up to a three, but we're probably looking at a four, which means probably in the first and second round going out to the West Coast.

And you should take care of business these next two games. You somehow pull off that win at Tennessee. I think that definitely helps you more seating-wise than even in the SEC tournament. Oh, no. I mean, let's say we were to win at Tennessee. if they were to rank our wins, that would be the best win of the year. Yeah.

Because they're the highest ranked team. So if we were to win at Tennessee, our wins would be ranked at Tennessee, at Auburn, Carolina and the neutral court, and then Alabama at home. Yeah, that's probably fair. At Tennessee, Drew, if you're just looking totally at seating purposes, would be the biggest game of the year here in a week and a half. Oh, absolutely. And there's still, it's a small chance, but I did the scenarios. There's still more than one scenario where if you win at Tennessee, it went out, you can win the league. I mean, you would need Alabama to drop maybe to Florida.

We needed some games to happen last night that didn't happen. South Carolina didn't help too. But there's still a few. But I mean, that game regardless will be huge for seating. It'll be huge to get Tennessee back. And it'll be huge for confidence for the team moving forward. Yeah, Alabama and South Carolina. Obis and A&M heard us last night.

Both those teams were leading and gave up leads. Had Ole Miss and A&M won those games last night, then winning the SEC would have been really right there for the taking. Now we need a bunch of stuff to happen for it to work, and it's going to be, I mean, it's not impossible, but it was a lot more likely if those two teams lost last night. Florida would have to beat Alabama is our last hope, and I think that's at Alabama.

Yeah, but then you've got to have Tennessee lose twice, and then South Carolina lose twice. And I mean, it can happen. happened. And then Auburn, well, Auburn lost last night, so we're tied with him right now. So Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. Hey, first time, Matt. Who are? I have a question for you guys. I love watching this team play. And when Reid's out on the court, it's just amazing. I mean, he's our little floor general things just seem to go a lot more smoother when he's out there. But looking at the draft and the mock draft has been out and shows him, you know, eight, nine somewhere along that

line, do you think we're going to lose him after this year? Yes. If you do, do you see his career kind of in the NBA? I mean, is he going to be a MacK McClung-type player and maybe spending some time? He's better than MacMach. He's better than MacMachael. He's better than those guys. Like, what's interesting about Reed to me is, I think it's very hard, and I'm not taking

myself out of this. I think there's a section of our fan base that thinks he's maybe better than he is. And then there's a section of our fan base. fan base who just won't give him credit for how good he is. I mean, he's... But like, why can't he be... If he plays like he did against Mississippi State, that's a lottery pick. That's a lottery pick.

It's not like kind of a lottery pick. That's a lottery pick. He's not a top five pick because he's not overwhelmingly athletic, but he's a lottery pick. Guys like that go in the lottery towards the end of the lottery. And, you know, people say, will he come back? I mean, I'm not in his head. but when's the last time a lottery pick came back to school?

Right. I mean, his NIL deals are... Leave all that aside, though. You'll still... He'll make more in the NBA if he's a lottery pick than any N.I.L deal he can get. So... True.

But he's almost that poster child for NIL deals here. That's fine, but he'll make... If he's a lottery pick, he'll make more in the NBA than he will NIL. So if he's a lottery pick, I can't imagine he stays. But maybe he does, but I don't think anyone has ever done. done it that I can remember in recent years. Thank you, man. I appreciate the call. Take a break. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Stay a sock. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

What is this nonsense? You don't like a venge sevenfold? I've never heard of it. I've heard of seven pence, none the richer. You always get on Rick. That's something that Rick would play. You always get on them about not playing upbeat songs. Okay. You think this is upbeat? Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's loud.

It's louder than life. You're going to go with me this year? I'll go to one day. Who's the band that I would like the most? Motley crew, because Bailey's going to be there. Bailey's going to be in your own town. Okay, well, then I won't go to Motley Curry. She's on Tinder.

You're going to set your range to like 50 yards when you're there. Drew, Ryan is getting killed on the ladies of KSR page. Oh, yeah. Misty just posted, WTF, I was just putting up groceries. Can you imagine that, Drew? She's just at home putting up groceries. And Ryan picks all of our listeners out and says she can't host. Any other female listeners you want to take a shot at?

Misty sent me a personal message. He said, I'm going to kick your ass. That's exactly what it said. She said she brings him salsa. saying cookies, no more ever. I meant to bring that up. I'm not sure there's two listeners that give more gifts to us than Marcia and Misty. That's literally.

I'm not sure there's two nicer people, which goes to show Ryan has a side, Shannon, where the only way what he wants is for you to be mean to him. He wants you. He's got, he's got, he does. He's got the dark side of limit. Interesting stat I saw yesterday. Reed Shepard, Rob Dillingham, and Antonio Reeves. This was, I think, from the Wildcat Tongue account.

That's an actual account. And I get all my stats from Wildcat Tongue. Reed Robin Reeves played 42% of the offensive possessions together in the Mississippi State game. 55% when not in foul trouble. That's the highest percentage of plays they've played together all year. and when that when that group was in plus 12 Drew

we average this was another person we average 136 points on possessions where the three of them are in when it's less than that that number goes to

119 why don't we just play the best players Drew right I think even he knows that and he's turning in that direction. I assume just for so long he had to get guys going, keeping them involved.

But we're at the other point where there's now been like three consecutive press conference where the other coach is like, holy crap, no one can stop that group that we just played. Nate Oates was fan-boying over Kentucky. I got what they call it, the nuclear five now. I mean, he coaches the best offense in college basketball, and he was like, that group is incredible. And then Chris Jans did it again.

Yeah, everyone sees it. And now we're at the end of the year. Even Cal, they've been playing a lot more than they had. We just played the most in the last game. So, yeah. So it seems even Cal, I think it's time and we'll see it moving forward. If not, that's just crazy. Because every metric, every coach, every fan is saying it at this point.

And then when one of them goes out, DJ, in my opinion. To me, DJ's the sub for all three. And then let's roll. Three guards, let's roll. I'm such a three guards, let's roll guy that I can't. say it enough we do have a woman on here so fawn how are you fawn I'm just fine thank you who I assume first time caller yes sir okay go for it well number one we have an RV 42 foot long fifth wheel we've got a 55 inch TV air conditioning

fireplace furnace residential refrigerator washer dryer it's not it's not it's not roughing it and it's a lot of fun okay well i'm glad um second thing i think you guys have really benefit from having a female on your show once in a while because we offer a different perspective and we know a lot about other kinds of sports like swimming swimming volleyball yeah but we don't do a lot of those sports that drives right oh yeah i mean i don't think i don't even know what you would say about swimming fawn like they swim faster i mean like i don't know i don't know i don't I think there's not a whole lot of things you can talk about with swimming besides just swim really fast. Oh, well, no.

I mean, we were swim officials. Our son swam for 13 years. But I know, but let's just say you were to do a segment on swimming. Again, part of radio is you have to say things that would get people to talk and sort of debate and different opinions. What are you going to say about swimming? Well, the Olympics are coming up. And so there's a lot to say we've got a couple of kids from Lexington who swim at Georgia. in Alabama and swim for the

Olympic trials and there's a whole lot of... Yeah, but that's not a conversation. Although I do wish those kids the best. Well, Don, thank you very much. I appreciate the call and I hope you have a great day. Well, thank you. There you go. 859-28027.

2287. Let's go to Tim. What's up, Tim? Hey, what's up, Matt? First time call. Who are? Yeah. Hey, just for the old folks, I mean a buddy mine in 78 went to Checker Dome and watched the cats win it all in 78. So that team would obviously be my favorite championship team.

Yeah. Well, what would be your guy's favorite, say, the top four championship teams? Well, I mean, I haven't been alive for four championships. So I can't say that. But if you were to say, what are my four favorite teams? I appreciate to call. And I'll let Ryan and Drew do theirs quickly, too. My four favorites.

My favorite of all time is 2010, and I don't think that's ever going to be passed. My second favorite is probably 92 with Richie and all those guys. Then I would say I really, really liked the 2015 team that went 38 and 1. And then I'm going to say 98 that won the title. So I'm going to go 2010, 92, 2015, 19. What about you, Ryan? I've said it many times. The 98 team is my favorite team.

I mean, I know I was in the thick of it in those days, but just the way they, you know, came from behind those last three games and the personalities on the team with Cameron Mills, Jeff Shepard, Alan Edwards. That's my favorite team on the court and off the court. And like I said, I may be a little prejudiced because I was close to them.

That's okay. What are your others? 2015, that was just an amazing year. I mean, we lived and died that year without a doubt. and probably I like the 03 team See I almost put the O3 team as my fourth I love the O3 team

the one that lost to Marquette I'm with you But they won what 20 something SEC games in a row I love that team I loved it They might be They in 98 sort of tie for my fourth What about you Drew?

My number one is 96 I was just at about that age I was just so ingrained in it Loved everything about it My room That little Meadowlands Final Four logo I still to this day probably own 50 things that have that on it from trash cans to shirts.

I even went to their camp that year before it's their overnight camp before that season started, so that one won't be topped. 2015 and 2010 or 2A and 2B for me. You know what? I'm going to say this team. I don't even care how they're finishing. I'm adding them right now. I'm adding them right now.

This team and then Fox Monk and you gave five. You gave four. Oh, I did. Sorry. Yeah, because you gave a 2A and 2B. I like Fox monks too. You know, this one, this one could get there if they have a good March run.

Because they're fun. They're a lot of fun. Those are all good ones. I think you all hit, hit all the big ones. 5-9-280-2287. Let's go to Eric before we take a break. Eric, go ahead.

Hi, guys. This is my first time calling. Who are? I just wanted to take a minute. And I was the gentleman that approached you on Friday. at the OBW show. Oh, yes, your friend had passed away. That's right.

Yes. Yeah, Larry's story was his name. Okay. And we were, we did show up on Saturday and had a great, just a remembrance of him. Good. And the fact that we were in his, he literally called your place heaven on earth. Wow. That's very nice.

That is, he was a diehard UK fan. the running joke with us at the workplace was that your popularity, the KSR popularity, wouldn't be possible without Larry. He printed literally 20 or more copies of your blog at that time, and they were distributed to different areas of the building. And the workday did not get started until everybody had time to read what Matt Jones I said very, very nice. Wow.

Well, I said this to you, Ross. I said this to you at the wrestling, and I mean this. The fact that you guys would honor your friend like that, and I'm sure we're with him during, you know, he had AOS, and that's a very difficult disease to go

through. Everybody should hope to have friends like that in their lives. Who would do that. And so I just wanted to tell you that and say, God bless you. And it was very nice of you to come up. We really appreciate it. And thank you for calling. Well, no problem. But the other thing is Shannon, Friday night, I do have a lawyer friend, cash flow putting

his hands on you like he did. Yeah. Yeah. We could sue him for damages. I hate to cut you off. I got to break. But yes, you should, Shannon, sue them for damages because you got crushed. UK Federal Credit Union is the official credit union of the University of Kentucky award winning and best places to work winner serving the University of Kentucky for over 100. 186 years. From student to graduate, employee and beyond UK Federal Credit Union is here for you. Two locations on UK campus. Membership eligibility required. Federally insured by UCUA. It's UK Federal Credit Union. Has anybody heard from Marsha? Thank you. Anybody heard from Marsha yet?

Drew? I'm getting lost some of her friends, though, coming at me. So it'll be probably just a matter of time for we hear from Marsha. We're going to talk about Texan. We should, we should, we should, Marsha should come and smack you right in the face. We'll take a break and be right back. KS. To talk to Matt Jones and the crew, call the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line at 859-2802-287 or 1-800-606. And send us the Kentucky brandit tweet of the day by tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio.

I used to always say this to my mom, this song, anytime she was like making some sort of statement. You know, I would say, I am woman. Hear me roar. What I've never known, though, Shannon is who sings this song? Helen Ready? That's right. How do you know that? How do you know that?

It's my era. Helen Reddy. Helen Ready. And you knew that? Helen Ready. How did you know that? First of all, that is not a rock star's name. No.

You know what I mean? If you met a woman named Helen, and my grandma was named Helen. All right? But it's a grandma, right? Let me ask you a question. Is Taylor Swift? is big if her name's Helen Swift.

No. No. Every Helen you meet is at church an hour before the service does. Are there any young Helens you think under the age of 40? No. My grandma was the last Helen on earth. Helen Earth. Seriously.

That would be a good rock star name. Helen Earth. Taylor Swift, if it's Helen Swift, she's not married to Travis Kelsey. She's married to their third brother, Mark Kelsey, that works at the plant. There's no such thing as a Helen Swift rock star. All right. What person writes, Matt, your contest about hosting the show. I love it because it'll be a disaster.

But it's not like American Idol. That's a talent show. This would be like drawing out of a hat and telling the person to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. No, it is like American Idol. It's like the first round where they bring in William Hung. But they do make a point, though, which is we're not picking a winner really based on merit at what we're picking them to do. They're not auditioning. Yes.

This is just like we're having this contest and the winner does it. It would be like having a contest for who could, I don't know, eat the most hot dogs and then letting them sing the national anthem. Yeah. So it's awesome. This is on you, Matt. I'm sure you won't be here that day. I've reached out to Marsha. She's going to try to call.

Okay. One person writes, Matt Kyle Philpowski came back. Don't you think that's like Reed? No, because Philopowski had kind of a disappointing freshman year and he was projected at the end of the first round, so he came back and helped his stock. Reed has been the opposite, Ryan. He's had a much better freshman year than anybody would have thought

and now is projected where he probably hoped he'd be projected after year two or three. Yeah, and we all know Cal. not going to let somebody leave money on the table. We've seen how you can do that over the years. Even if some of these kids, they want to come back, he's like, no, you need to go right now. Strike why the iron's hot. Do me a favor. Drew, look up what the number eight pick in the draft makes.

Just because, you know, 5.2 is first year, 5.5 is second year and a third option of 5.8. Okay, so $5.5 million a year. And this is the thing people have to remember. it gets him started to where he can get a big contract even sooner, right? Yeah. So that is $16.5 million. Okay. People sometimes ask me how much Reed is making an NIO.

I don't know the answer to that. But I would say if I were to like, and this is just an educated guess, I would say he's probably making 1.2. to 1.4, maybe less. I'd be very surprised if it's more than that. It might be more like one. What do you think it is, Drew? I just think on this, people take the NBA salary

and they compare it to NIL and you're ignoring that he can make money with his NIL salary. He can still do commercials with his 5.5 minutes. So the number is outrageous. Nike or something will sign that kid. Yeah. I mean, they will. I'm not trying to do the comparison, even though I'm about to do it. like Tyler Hero is projected about, was projected into the lottery, kind of where Reid is now.

He got his deal and then he signed a multimillion deal with Nike and then he's probably got everything with several others. So that just keeps adding up. So when people are doing this equation, they're acting like when you're in the NBA, that's all your money that you get. You just keep getting more on top of that. Let me go back to the NIL. He could make that much next year. I don't think Ryanie's making that this year. I don't say this to be weird, but do you think he'd do that commercial, Shannon, in an elevator if it was like, if he was making a million and a half or two million dollars? No, no.

No, I mean, now I think he can make it next year. But Ryan, now that I sit and think about it, I bet he's making less than a million this year. I thought your estimation was a little high for what he makes probably this year for sure. We saw that commercial. He's making a million off that. They saved a lot of money on production.

That's for sure. Let's go to Andrew, Shannon. That's true. They can pay him that because they did not pay for lighting. or sound or anything. Andrew, go ahead. All first time callers, by the way. Go ahead, Andrew. Yeah, hello, Matt and team. First time, long time. Who are? From Russell Springs? Yeah, from Russell Springs, Kentucky, and I've lived in South

Carolina the last few years, so I always go to the game in Columbia. This year was very disappointing. One comment, one question. One thing I've noticed over the years, and I've followed Kentucky for about 40 years. It seems their success somewhat follows the New York Yankees. There's a lot of parallels. So when the Yankees, are kind of down a little bit. It seems like Kentucky is. It's not always the case that's something I've observed. Yeah, well, you're not the first one. That's, that is something that a lot of people have noticed going back to the late 70s. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. One question I'll hang up and listen. Be curious who you guys think will win the SEC regular season

title. Well, that's great. I mean, it's going to be the winner of Alabama, Tennessee this weekend probably. I appreciate the call. Where's that game being played? Do you know? Where's that, Where's the Alabama-Tennessee game Saturday night? I think it's Alabama. Yeah, I'm going to say Alabama wins because then Tennessee still has a couple more hard games. So I'm going to say, Ryan, Alabama wins the regular season. I'd say it's got to be there because they just hosted Auburn

and then they host Kentucky the next Saturday. It is. And Tennessee goes to South Carolina. Yeah, before hosting Kentucky. And then host us, yeah. The game, Alabama, if they won the SEC, won it last night. That was the game. Winning that game at Old Miss.

if they win it, and then obviously they got to beat Tennessee at home. But if you don't beat Tennessee at home, then you don't deserve it anyway. David, just got a minute. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm like the other caller from South Carolina, but I grew up in Lexington, and I really enjoy your show him a first time caller. And I wanted to talk about, you guys were talking about spectacular dunks the other day, and it made me think of the LSU Kentucky game in 1981 when Bob Costas, Bill Packer,

Al McGuire were announcing. and it was at the end of the year senior day and it was just electric and dirt milled through yeah your phone's breaking up I'm sorry I don't think I know what don't think I know what don't he's talking about Ryan no I was trying to I want I'm anxious to hear

what he was going to say that's a heck of a crew by the way though Bob Costas Billy Packer and Al McGuire I didn't know Bob Costas did college basketball games I know he's done several games at Rupp his son went to UK Really? Yeah Bob Costas would be in the crowd sometimes watching UK. Look at you, full of information.

Do you know that, Drew? I did. He was in, I think he might have been there around the time I was and might even been a fraternity that had people that knew him. Oh, okay. All right. First time callers today, 859, 280, 2287. We will take a break.

Come right back. Talk a little bit more about a couple other things. Take your calls and hope Ryan can win, Marsha back over. You're the worst, Ryan. That was really mean. I mean, it was really mean. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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