KSR - 2024-04-24- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: April 24, 2024

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, here live at the KS Bar-Grill, 859-2802287. Aviation Autoglass Text Machine is 772-774-2524. I'm sitting here on a beautiful day. Got folks in for Wings Day. One person wrote in and said to tell the guy that talked about the restaurant as parents owned that they loved that place and they missed it.

That's very sweet, isn't it? Well, like you said, just explain it. It takes us all back to the late 80s, 90s when they had these Chinese restaurants were something like magical when you would walk into it. So, yeah. It is magical. It is magical. We haven't named the number one on our list, though.

Rupp Arena, Mr. Cannes. Our old pre-game show is. Mr. Cans down there with yesterday. and the chicken tender place and Arby's. I love that place. I miss those pregame atmospheres. All right, so let's do a couple of little news stories, non-sports. I think the biggest news yesterday, and folks, this affects a lot of people in a lot of different places.

I think the biggest news is the story that they are no, the non-compete agreements are no longer in place in the United States. It's the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission. Hey guys, in the back, we got a groupie. We got folks. Let's come. Don't interrupt phone time back there. I'm just saying, like, everybody just like, we got everybody standing right here. The Federal Trade Commission has said non-compete agreements are no longer enforceable.

in the U.S. Now this is from the FTC and it goes across the board. And this is a big deal. There are a lot of industries where when you finish with the company after six months,

you still can't work for their competitors. You were in one of those industries, television, radio, but it's not just that. This all started because Jimmy Johns had it. Do you know the story? That's where this originated from.

So in 2018, Jimmy Johns put out a thing that said, if you worked at Jimmy Johns for six months, you couldn't work at a fast food restaurant within five miles of Jimmy Johns. Now that's absurd, right? But there were people then who couldn't go for six months. And the thing was, that would be the rule even if they fired you. So even if they fired you, they couldn't do it. So an example is when I got to let go from, hey, Kentucky. because of the Amy McGrath thing.

Thanks a lot, Amy. How'd that campaign go? When I got let go for that, not only could I not finish my show. I mean, they had to pay me the rest of my contract, but not only could I, I couldn't go to another station for six months. And that's ridiculous.

It's one thing to say someone has to work for you through the end of the contract. I'm okay with that. You sign a two-year contract? You have to work for those two years. but for them to be able to then fire you and for six months you can't work after that to me is ridiculous and it's always been ridiculous and it's ridiculous in media and all that but they do it to construction people they do it to like all these various things and the fTC now says you cannot do those they're unenforceable it'll get challenged in court i'm not sure what a court will do because i think it'll be a close call but just as a policy perspective i think this is why in the world would you restrict the whole point of capitalism is that you're able to freely go and work where you want to work? Why would you restrict that?

I've always thought that was total BS to begin with. It's always been BS. And, you know, in the television industry when I was in for so long, it was like big. And I had people say you could challenge that and win because it is total BS. Well, for a while, though, you couldn't. But now you can't. But now it's just they can't do it. Even the ones that are in place now are unenforceable.

So, for example, we all have one at the radio station. Shannon, if they were to fire you, you could go to another radio station tomorrow. Whereas before, you would have had to wait six months. To give a company that much power to say, I don't want you working for my company, but, oh, by the way, I also don't want you working for our competitors is ridiculous. It should have never been a rule to begin with. It's always been ridiculous. But they force people to sign them when they start.

I'll tell you a world where it'll have a big impact, wrestling. Yes. That existed for wrestling. That was a 90-day thing, I think, for most wrestlers. They could fire you, and then for 90 days you couldn't do anything. Now they'll be able to. They could literally show up at the other one the next day. Was it within so many miles?

That's what always crazy. Like, you can't work within the city limits or, you know, an hour or whatever. If it was a wrestling, was that it? Was it that way? No, it was nationwide. Nationwide. It was nationwide. It was nationwide.

You couldn't go work for another company. So now that's gone. I think that's a really good thing. Here's another thing I just heard this morning. They finally passed the rule about airlines. Have you heard this about delayed flights? Oh, no, I haven't heard this. If now, just passed this today.

If a flight is canceled, they have to automatically pay you back. You don't have to do anything to get it. They have to automatically pay you back. And if it's delayed by more than three hours, they have to reimburse you for some portion of it. Oh. And if they lose your bag, they have to automatically pay for it. You don't have to go through the whole process of, well, where is it?

But they are required automatically. So this stuff existed before, but you had to go through all this stuff and most people wouldn't even do it. Now they have to do it. And I think if they delay you more than like 14 hours, now they have to buy you a hotel room, like they changed all of these rules for the airline industry. I spent the night in Chicago one time, did about 24 hours waiting on flights there. That would have been helpful.

That's a big change. So this is all to just all today. That's huge. You know, we all, it affects travel problems are the worst. They affect all of us at some point. So yeah, this is big news. Both these news are. I was going to add.

If people always say the government doesn't do anything that helps. Well, that's usually true. But these are two things I think help a lot. On the non-compete, I was following yesterday, and they said they estimate one and five people in the workforce have a non-compete. It's 30 million people. The thing is, it's people. There's a lot of you all that have non-competes that you don't even realize you had. That when you signed, you signed and they could enforce against you.

Now they often don't, but the one that you hear the most is you'd be shocked how many construction workers have it. Where companies can say, like, if you work in, like, high-end construction, that if you were to quit, they could keep you from working at other high, like, construction places. That's so ridiculous. And the Jimmy John's thing was the one that started it. Because Jimmy John's had a rule like you couldn't go work for sandwich-making companies, basically keeping you from working at subway, you know, which is absurd. Absolutely absurd. Who's up next?

Evan. Evan. Go ahead, Evan. Hey, just a couple quick things. You kept saying like the homeless stuff yesterday, and I kept thinking back when I was a kid, my dad would fall asleep on the couch, and I was watching, and he was watching TV or something, and then I would change the channel. and then he'd say his eyes were resting, like cops going around the city, like, how would they figure out if someone was actually sleeping or if they were, like, I don't know, I feel like there would be a rebuttal to that if you were just laying there. I don't know. It thought it's funny.

And then knowing what, I've got a question, knowing what you know now in like the direction, the basketball program's going. Yes. What would you trade for like last, last year's March run to not have what we have now? So like, say we made a final four, would you rather have that? I would love to have made now. I would have, if we had made a final four last year, then I would have been happy, and I would have been happy to have Cal back a year.

It's not like it was so terrible that it couldn't have worked. The goal of all of this is to win, in my opinion, and I appreciate the call. I agree. The goal is to win. So Drew, all the stuff that had changed about Cal in recent years, if he was winning, it would be annoying, but none of it would really matter, right?

Because ultimately we are winning. As much as I love Mark Pope, if we go out and we stink for three years, I don't care how nice he is, or I don't care how much he loves the program. You can't keep that going, right? So like, Joker Phillips is a perfect example. Joker Phillips loved the University of Kentucky. He played here. He coached here.

Everybody loved having him as a coach. But we stunk. so all of that stuff didn't matter. Had Cal won last year, I would have wanted him back because we won. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, that was one of my favorite teams

ever last year. Of course, we would have loved going to the Final Four and whatever was next after that. At the end of the day, I know people want to say narratives or bad opinions, this or that. My opinion is always going to be, did Kentucky win or not? And I'm going to be positive if they won,

and if they lose in the first round to Oakland, I'm going to be upset. I'm a Kentucky fan since birth. I just want Kentucky to win. It's not that hard. My issue was, going back to the Oakland game, as Cal was walking off the floor and Drew and I were standing there watching it, and it is a surreal moment. Like, there's going to be 15 moments when I retired that I'll remember where I was

and what it felt like. Most of them positive. But this will be a negative one. I remember watching the players walk off the court, watching Cal walk off the court, and looking at the crowd, and thinking, This can't go on because I didn't see how we could overcome it, right? The negativity was so high, right? I just didn't think there was a way to, but let's say you win that game,

and then you beat NC State and then you beat Marquette, and then you start running, rolling, then that's a different situation at that point, Ryan. 100%. This team, we all thought, was going to make a run. If they had, in fact, make a run, we're sitting here with the different. narrative today. Absolutely. Talking about Cal still our coach and this recruiting class we got coming in and building that roster around Jaden Quaintons and Carter Knox and those guys.

There were, when I think of Coach Erez ending, okay, so let's go through when Coach Eras have ended since we've done this. Joker, you knew if you were in that stadium when they lost to Vandy 40 to nothing. That was it. You knew there was no way. No coming back from that. There was no way you could come back. back from it. The Billy Gillespie thing. When we were in the press conference at the SEC

tournament after they lost, and Jerry Tipton looked at him and said, do you, after the ESPN article had come out, and he said, do you consider yourself an ambassador of the school? And Mitch had already criticized Billy for saying no. And then he said it again. If you were sitting in that room and you were, you knew it was over. They could go play in the NIT. but you knew it was over, right? Mitch even, like, shook his head. Mitch, I was standing next to Mitch and Larry Vaught, and he shook his head and mumbled something that sounded like, that's it.

I don't know if that's what he said, but it was something like that. And then this, it's almost like, Ryan, when the era ends, you can feel it at that moment. And it felt like that after the Oakland thing. Well, you know, you went on the post-game show, and we talked about that week that we just all felt like it was time for a change. It was just that that time had come in the basketball program that a change needed to be made. And I was not to the point that I could say it needed to be made, Drew, until that moment.

That was the moment that flipped it for me, was that one. Yeah, it was so negative in that arena, and they had just done that same reaction a week ago in Nashville, where I know he heard people yell at him because I could hear people yelling at him, and we had just never heard that from Kentucky fans at Calipari, and there was a lot of it after those two losses. Yeah. Who's next? Let's go to Bob.

Bob, we got 859-280-2287. A couple open lines. Give a shout. Bob, go ahead, Bob. Right. I'm going to change the entire direction of your conversation right now. Well, that's one one. I know you guys are wrestling fans.

So I'm going to bring up something that has just irritated me for several years now. And that is the fact that, you know, W. constantly talks about all of fame wrestlers, Hall of Fame wrestlers, and there is no such thing as a physical Hall of Fame. That's true. They do need to build one. You're exactly right.

Now, one of the reasons I called, I don't know whether this is an idea or not, but I keep thinking that Louisville is in the central part of the United States, we have a mayor who's a wrestling fan we have vacant buildings in Louisville Kentucky specifically one that I keep thinking about is Louisville Gardens I'm sure you're saying let's make it I'm for it

but like I'm not the one that can make that happen the WW would have to agree but I love the idea Louisville would be perfect I think that somebody has got to start a rumble all right well by the You're not the first person to think about this. It's a conversation that's been had, including about Louisville before.

So I'm with you, and it would be awesome. But ultimately, they control that. But I will tell you, you're not the first person to think of that idea. As a matter of fact, my co-owner, the mayor, has thought about that as well. Well, at the same time, WWE doesn't exactly have to be the one to start of me. all those legal details. I appreciate the call. You do an OVW Hall of Fame. I could be your first inductee. You will not be on it. They actually do own it because they came up with the people that are in it. So we do have to, we would have to go through them. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage. Great people to work with.

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Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259, Equal Housing Lender. All right, we'll take a break. Be right back. It's Dougie Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Tagu Sports Radio here. KS. Bar & Grill, Wings Day. I want to tell you about this couple right here.

This girl, she lives in Russell County. This guy right here, he lives in Hazard. Okay, they met at a, or is it the other way around? The other way around. Girls from Hazard, guys from Russell County. So they met at a church, like they're a church couple. And so they date, and sometimes they come to Lexington, but halfway between Hazard and Russell County is London.

So they have London is for them the city of love. City of love. So they meet halfway in London for their dates, and it's a very beautiful thing, and they're here in Lexington. So you remember I used to tell you about the guy, I went to law school with who Beckley, West Virginia. His girlfriend was in Lexington, and he was in Durham, and they would meet in Beckley. London is that for them, and I think that's very nice, you guys.

How long have you all dated? Two months. Oh, so it's still a young. Oh, wow. Young London love, okay? So what is the go-to spot when you go to London? Cheddar's? Texas Roadhouse.

Texas Roadhouse. Okay, they got that wings and things. You should go to Bluegrass home? Bluegrass Home Center while you're there and check it out. But I just, I think that's very nice. I was going to say nothing says love like a Weaver's hot dog in London, Kentucky. I like Weaver's Hot. Yeah, I do too.

Those are very good. 859-28027. I want to tell you something I don't think you know. Okay. Did you know? I want to give a shout out to the Herald Leader for a second. You know, the Harold Leader, sometimes they do stories that aren't interesting, but they had a story that I liked and there was, it seemingly no reason to do it,

but it caused me to click on the link. Yes. They had a story that said, can you keep live chickens at your house in Lexington? And I thought, that's a story I want to read. For no obvious reason, they did a story about whether or not in Lexington you can have chickens in your yard. So I read the story. Did you know in the city of Lexington you can keep as many chickens as you want in your backyard, and you can have whatever you want chicken-wise in your backyard, no matter where you live.

So, like, you could live in Chevy Chase and have a bunch of chickens in your yard if you want. Did you know that? I did know that. I've run into it in the real estate world. I know I can take you to a house right now down here off Nicholasville Road where they have roosters that crow every morning. You know, they just know on that street you're going to hear those roosters crowing every morning. And the neighbors don't care? Well, I think they probably do, but nothing they can do about it.

I mean, because they can have it. But, Shannon, that surprised me. I don't know if it surprises you, but I wouldn't have thought at just any house in Lexington, you could just have chickens roaming around. In my neighborhood, somebody's got a rooster because I hear it every morning. Yeah. Must have the same thing. No, no.

In Louisville, the rules different. Yeah. Louisville has a rule that's very different. You can have, Drew, five chickens and one rooster. Ah. That's it. You can only get one. This is the law.

This is in this article. You can have five chickens. Five chickens and one rooster. But in Lexington, as many chickens as you want. You do, however, have to keep them like it has to be humane. You can't just have like a yard full of chickens everywhere. Had a friend who had some chickens at his house in a nice subdivision. Really?

Yeah, we'd have some parties late at night. Then you just look over and there'd be a chicken in the yard and get eggs in the morning. So in a summer. It's like a sub-division. Very normal in town. Just had chickens in the backyard. It's a house and the Masters and Station. It's got them.

Are there a lot of people with chickens? Is this a thing I don't know? I mean, I think they're out there. Not a lot, but they're out there for sure. My understanding is if you have the chickens in the neighborhood, you pay your neighbors off with fresh eggs for the noise. That's a good tradeoff. And then you're like, oh, these are fresh eggs.

So you guys seem to know multiple houses with chickens. I do. I know, too. See, I would have thought where I live in Louisville, everybody would have chickens. Like that looks like, I've never seen any chickens there. On your original point, though, Harold Leader emailed me this story.

And when it popped to my inbox, I thought, this feels very KSR of them, that they're going off script a little bit. But it was a big deal yesterday in the Harold Leader. Harold Leader, if you want to get me to click, just tell me whether or not I can have chickens in Lexington. That's the kind of thing that will get me to click on your story, and they did that this morning.

Who's next shit? Brady. Brady. Go ahead, Brady. Hey, Matt Con, from Painesville. First of all, we're super excited for the OVW. event in Pikeville. Yes.

Kentucky's pump for that. Yeah, so we're doing the Pikeville Arena. It's going to be a paper view. It's very exciting. Yeah, but go ahead. So I just had a question about Cal, we've been talking a lot about, you know, the future, but, you know, 10 years from now when we look back, what is his legacy and is his name but to be in the Rafters?

Thanks, Matt. Okay, so will Cal Perry's name be in the Rafters? Yes, without question. And it should. It shouldn't happen while he's at Arkansas, but it definitely should happen one day. he deserves it. He won a title. All the coaches that win are up there or should be, will be up there. So definitely he should be in the rafters. What's his legacy? For me, his legacy is still positive. It's still four final fours. It's still a title. It's still positivity.

Even if things don't go well at Arkansas, let's say we have bad rivalries. He says bad things. So did Patino. And it looks like we've forgiven Patino. So over time, the same thing will happen with Cal. And he deserves to get all the praise that a coach who wins a title at Kentucky deserves to get. Absolutely. Put a banner at the top of Rup. It would be a little awkward here for a couple of years. I'll probably have a few more wisecracks. But overall, love the Caliperia era.

And I've told people on down the road, if I see you, we'll do a John Wall shot and rank our favorite Harrison moments. Here's my question. Okay. No, I'm just saying we'll look back fondly on all the good years more than the last four where it fell flat. Here's my question. is he the second or third best coach in Kentucky history? Third. I might put him third.

Third? Yeah. Rick's record would be one title, three final fours in nine years. Cowell's record is one title, four final fours in 14 years. Yeah, I'd go Rup, Patino, Cal. I go Ruppetino Cal tubby. Yeah. Or well, Ruppatino Cal Joe B. Tubby.

I might give Cal a second. Interesting. I'd have to think about it. We'll be back. 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.

Welcome back. This is very rarely I see a text, and it just makes me laugh. You laughed out loud. Said that Harold leader's story, Matt is cluck bait. You all didn't laugh as hard as I do. That was really funny. It was good.

You don't like it. You could do. You could do. That's right. One person writes, Matt, I live in a neighborhood in Lexington. I'd say 30% of the houses have chickens. Stop. 30%.

Okay, let me ask you, though. Is there not a smell? I mean, chickens stink. Like, is there not a smell in these neighborhoods? That's why you can't have a bunch of them. That's why you can only have a few. But in Lexington, there's no limit. No limit.

You can't have a bunch of them. Somebody said their neighbor has a turkey in their backyard. So let me ask you a question. Why would you want that in your yard? Like what play? Do people just, is it cute? For the turkey? How long do you, let me ask you a question.

The chicken people want the eggs. How long do chickens? But like, really? If you eat eggs, yeah, you go out and every morning have fresh eggs. Every morning? I don't know about every morning. How often do chickens have eggs? I have no idea.

Well, I think it's why you have several. So you can always have eggs every morning. But one chicken. How many eggs does a chicken have in a year? Right? Let's just guess. Let's take a guess. How many chickens does an egg?

I'm going to go 250. It's a lot of eggs. I'm going to go 100. I'm going to go 187. Shannon, do you have a guess? 120. All right, somebody Google it. All right, let's find out.

How many eggs does it? Huh? every 24 hours. So you're right. They have an egg every single day. Would you rather go to Kroger and buy a bunch of eggs or go to your backyard with the chicken you've named? They're fresh. There they are.

Look at that. So 365. The turkey, though. What's up with that? What's going on with the turkey? That's going on with the turkey. That's a pet. A pet turkey. Okay, so some news just came out.

The NCAA has changed the rules about the transfer portal. Now grad transfers have to enter the portal as well. So that means by May 1st, you'll know every single person in the portal, except there's one exception. When a coach leaves a program, the player gets 30 days to enter the portal. So actually, Jackson Robinson will have longer. He will have 30 days from when Mark Pope left. So everyone, so you don't grad transfers used to never have to get in the portal. Now they do.

But Jackson Robinson will actually. get more time because he his coach left so it'd be somewhere around May 10thish I guess so he'll have a couple more weeks stepped away from BYU you so there you go but that's actually good probably for coaches because it used to be grad transfers could wait until June or July and you'd never know now they have to say it makes sense that they go ahead and implemented the rule to what's that way so you have a better idea um one person writes Matt how do you just immediately put joe b over tubby the joe b tubby debate is close to so joe b made how many final fours he made that he won the title in 78 he made the final four and 84 did he make another final four i'm he was he there in 75 75 was he the coached in so three

final four so if he made three tubby made one you'd have to put joe b i think ahead of tubby so i would go i would say had if if you only took the first nine years of cal Cal's ahead of Rick. But the fact that the back end was what it was, Rick, his amount of time, I think, would put him slightly ahead of Cal, although I think they're very close. And, you know, we as a fan base are coming around on Patino now. The same thing will happen with Cal.

After he leaves Arkansas, for four or five years after time goes by, we'll come back around to him again. All right, so, Shannon, one of the things you've liked over the years is you've loved when people write songs about UK sports. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've always loved going back to teach me about Kentucky. You've always been a big fan. We now have a Mark Pope's song.

Okay. Somebody sent me a Mark Pope's song. This is to the tune of the Jason Aldeen, chilling on dirt road. Yeah. Bairdab, bibu-doop-bop. That's exactly how it goes. Now, we get to put this on the podcast.

Oh, that's right. Because it's not copyright music. So we have it. this is called chilling on a Pope road okay and Shannon you now this person sent me this yeah so you get to decide you're the greater you're our musician okay what do we think about chilling on a Pope road go ahead and chill it out with mark pole the new kentucky wildcats head he's giving all the fans hope and he used to play have so suck it hateers Second round traffic for the Pacers.

I'm going through a midlife crisis. I'm fine. Let's tearing it up. They're up on West Friday. Say Mark runs an offense. It's up tempo. Pass the ball round, get a field goal. Jump for eight bounds and guard the zone.

Don't lose three straight games at home. Lost in Canada, Ketton, Champ. Travis Perry. I'm a real big fan while they learn how to block and steal and shoot threes. Better watch out for the referees. We've moved on Cala Perry. He committed Harry Carey. Harry Carey with a first round lost to 14th Oakland.

Losing offense getting old. Man, notice of business he's tried and true. From Utah Valley to BYU, Y, Y'allie Cheery, you ain't paying attention. My man, Matt Jones is glad to get him. Shout to Matt Jones, Kentucky Sports Radio. There you go. So what do we think about that? What do we think about Chokke?

That's good. What do we think about chilling out with Mark Pope? First of all, who's the singer, Shannon? It looks like Chris Lackie. Chris Lacky. Are we pro or con? First we'll start with you, Drew. I expected to be con.

I came in with a negative attitude, but I admit the moment he sang my favorite line, 96 champs, suck at haters, I was in. So I am also chilling on the Pope Road. Chilling on the Pope Road. What do you think? I'm kind of Drew. I was expecting to laugh at it,

but he won me over with the little rap verse, especially when he threw in in KSR and Matt Jones. He won me over. I give it a thumbs up. Yeah, the throwing in KSR, Matt Jones, actually doesn't give a positive. Then you're just trying to suck up. Well, why not? I want this just on the basis of the song.

I will say, though, I think throwing in that he was a second round pick for the Pacers. He needed a word to rhyme and he went with Pacers. So I think it was solid. As far as these go, Shannon, it's towards the top half. Normally I hate these types of things, but I will say with this guy, good voice, clever lyrics, good guitar playing. I kind of like this. I don't like parodies normally, but I give this a degree. You're usually a harsh critic.

So you will jam to chilling with Mark Pope? No, but it's out of all the ones we've had, it's better than most of them. It is one of them and it's better than most of them. All right. So there you go. There's your first. I'm sure we will get more. I don't think this will be the final.

I've got another one too. We can play next. I've been listening to it a couple days. I'll text it to Shannon. Sounds good. What's next? J. Rock. J. Rock.

How are you? Hey, what's going out, y'all? Lots of times, long time. Matthew, I want to congratulate your mom and what she's getting. I mean, another degree. That's really impressive, but hey, think about this. Jayrock mom been gone for at least 10 years, and she got some weirdo in a single wide trailer with no electricity

and no running water whose kids call him uncle making mom jokes about her. I holl him. That was hard for me to follow a little bit. but I don't even know what to say about that. Hey, Shannon, sound the trumpets. Oh, I don't have the trumpet. What happened to it? It's gone.

How's it gone? It's not there. Somebody deleted my trumpet. Nobody came in and deleted your trumpet. I don't have it there anymore. I can, I'll have to do it with your voice then. It's horse racing time. Settle up for the action with D.K. Horse,

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Oh, you beatboxing over there? He was. Although, there we go. There we're going. We'll be right back. S. Ks.R. Lay it back Coming like George Jones

Is this Jason Aldine? Yes So I don't This is the only one of his songs I don't hate And I still hate the rapping part That's it This part of the song is good

I like this part The rapping part I hate But I do like You know on the dirt rule I do think that's good But when he wraps It's like dude come on That's not your thing

You're big Al Dean guy right Got some serve pro people here Yeah Serve pro is a good sponsor of ours. Is it PGA Tour shirt? You all do something with the PGA Tour? Sponsor. That's very cool. Well, I'm a big

fan of, they've been one of our longest sponsors. Yes, they have. One 800 serve pro. We hope you don't need us, but if you do, they're always there. I've used them. Ryan's using them. Ryan and those guys may have been in my house. Did you see the video? First of all, let me do one little football thing we didn't mention. Penny Boone. That's the wide receiver

running back. Excuse me. I said the running back from Toledo. Is that right? 1400 yard rusher. Fourteen hundred yards. He was, he had committed to Louisville. He is now on a visit to Kentucky. And I think, well, I think he was on a visit to Kentucky. I think he's gone now. And I think if they can get a couple things situated with the school, administratively, because there's some issues, I think, with transcripts, etc. But if they're able to do that, I think he will be a cat, Drew. And he would, that would be a huge. huge pickup so that we would have two very, very good running backs in the back. Yeah, he was the player of the year in the Mac, went to Louisville as soon as the season ended, did a little spring practice at Louisville and hopped right back in the portal.

It seems Kentucky's in good standing with him. You get him and the kid from Ohio State. I think you have two running backs that you feel very, very confident about going into the season. Yeah, Chip Trainum is the guy from Ohio State. And you think if he's from Toledo. Another example of a guy that, you know, Vince, he knows the guys. even if he ends up like not they don't come here so he looked at this guy coming out of high school I guess for whatever reason they didn't think this was the time etc and then he ends up

getting him out of college also I believe he's a Detroit guy which we have had a lot of success with Detroit I mean you don't really think of Detroit as a pipeline for recruiting for Kentucky but some of our favorites we've had in the Stoops era he's done very well in Michigan so that's that's very good did you see the video of the Yokic brother punching the guy in the face yes saw that scary don't mess with the yokic brothers do not mess with them i'm telling you something shannon if i've learned one thing over the years don't make the serbian people mad yeah i mean what was up with that guy i wonder how to that actually start i don't know i don't think that the video i just saw he was just beating down a guy yeah yeah yeah somebody dumb enough to go up and so the police are

apparently investigating but i'm not sure there's a group of people i'm more scared of than than the Yokich brothers. Amen. Like, first of all, Yokch is huge, his brothers are huge, and seem angry. All the time.

And there's three of them, right? So I don't know, man. You don't have a lot of liquid courage for that. Nuggets and Jok, they're going against you. Like, you're going against the organization. I will say the guy punched,

didn't go all the way down. He ate that punch pretty well. If that were me, I would have been in the fetal position, but he held his own a little. The Yokch brothers are a little bit like the Gatlin boys in Coward of the County. And there was three of them. And I'm not going to, I'm not messing with them, Ryan. They're big. Did you see Yokic was doing a press conference?

And he apparently, like, you know, he gets asked all these questions. And a guy from Serbia had come to the press conference. And he goes, Nikola. And just the way that he pronounced him, his name, Yokic immediately realized he was from his country, and he lights up. You got to see the video. His head's down, and he's like, yeah, we beat the Lakers. Then the guy goes, Nicola, and he lights up, and he's like. Really? And then they start speaking Serbian to each other.

I saw it because he kind of had his head down. He didn't see the guy, and he's looking all over the room for where he is because he's excited to hear the voice. He was so excited to hear somebody with his accent. That's cool. Apparently he pronounced his name. I guess we all say Nicola. Yeah.

And it is apparently Nicola. That's really cool. So you need to see it video. It's neat. Who's up next? Heather. Heather, go ahead, Heather. Hi.

I just wanted to clarify something that you spoke about yesterday. The Defender Kentucky three-day event that's happening this weekend. The only reason is four days is because the Dersage takes two days to get all the competitors through. The other two, there's three phases, Dersage, cross-country and stadium jumping. The other two can be done in one day, but Dersage takes two days. Okay. So it is, so are you, am I wrong? It is three days or it's four days this year just because there's so many people?

No, every year the resage takes two days worth because it's a longer test to the horse. And cross-country and stadium jumping are quickly done. Gotcha. Well, there you go. Are you going to go out there? We were out there one day. I hear it gets an amazing crowd. I've been out there in the past, but I don't think I'll be going this weekend.

I appreciate the call. But that's, you know, Bruce Springsteen. will be here. His daughter? His daughter? Yeah, his daughter's in it. So he comes every year. So you get to see a little Bruce Springsteen, maybe. I invited him to the bar. We'll see if he comes. Yeah. Yeah. But a lot of a lot of money comes in the town.

I think he was out there the time of the year I went. Yeah. So it's a big deal here for the city to have it here. And it's now not the Rolex. It's the is it the Lexus? It's not Rolex anymore. It's something else. It's K.S. Your sponsor.

Yeah. This bar. Who's next? Edie. Edie. Go ahead, Edy. Hey, guys. Welcome coach Mark Pope.

First off. And I'm usually not a, I'm usually not a huge wrestling. Edie, his name is Mark Pope, not Mike Pope. I said Mark Pope. Oh. She said Mark Pope. I thought she said Mike. I must have been sorry.

I'm sorry. You just always kicking on me. I was not trying to pick on you. I promise you. I know why I thought you said, my bad. Go ahead. First, I'm not usually a wrestling fan, but you guys should check out the W-W-Lucha League on Twitter. I think you'll enjoy it. All right.

The art's pretty cool. And is it OBW or OVW? I'm sorry. What were you? Is it OV? It's O-V like is in very. Okay. Thank you.

Valley. I guess I could have said the word that it actually was. Oh, very wrestling. Edie, it's, did you watch the Netflix show? She's gone. Oh, she's gone. Yeah. Yeah, I could have said V is in Valley.

You know, helped her a little bit. Let's do one more. Who's next? Bill. Bill, go ahead, Bill. Hey, Matt. First time, long time. Who are?

What's up? A couple of very quick things. Number one, I'm all in on Mark Pope. I've taken some time to watch some of his games at BYU on YouTube and what have. This guy can coach. He can flat out coach. There's just no question about that, particularly having the kind of players that, you know, that you get at BYU. It's just a different animal.

But secondly, the comment you made about non-compete, in the construction industry. I have a construction company. I've been in the construction business all my professional life, and I've never seen a situation like that. There may be some regulations if you're a member of a trade union where there's some restrictions because of where you are with your apprenticeship and those kind of things.

But our company is open shop. there is such a shortage of qualified partners and trades people that you would never you'd never do that yeah you would never do that ever ever ever so yeah just wanted to make that question and i i trust your judgment on that in the um there was to be fair the person that brought that up to my attention was about that was about 10 years ago so that may not yeah so it may things i'm certain have changed harder to find workers for everything yes so i'm sure that's probably true for construction too. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Commonwealth Causes

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