KSR - 2024-07-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are joined by Kyle Mann talking the latest UK sports news and Kyle's "KY Joe remixes."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ryan Lemon here, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude. We've got a special guest we're going to introduce you to here in just a second. As always, Kentucky Sports Radio, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called TJ. And what happened, Shannon? He will make them pay. We'll give our Don Franklin call the day. If you want to, Drew, we'll make up Don Franklin call the day. We'll do our Kentucky-branded tweet of the day. Is that sound okay to you? Oh, it sounds great, Ryan.

And maybe how about we do a whiskey thief song of the day? Wow, that sounds like a fun day. I also have the A Vision Glass text machine. The new number is 502-735-3680 if you want to hit us up on that. I kind of went through it last night and answered some people that were asking some questions and things. So we did know that. We are welcome and honored to have second year and a row on our airways here at KSR. Let's give it up for Jay Kyle Mann joining us today. Hello, Jay Kyle Mann.

How's going? It's good. I've never actually been in here. I was kind of just like stunned, walking through, looking at all the jerseys and stuff. I was joking with Drew. I was like, I'm the demo for this. You are.

Now, you did the show last year with Kyle Tucker. The two Kyle's did the show, and it was great. You guys had a great show. So thanks for coming back and doing it again this year. I'm happy to. I think I heard you describe it as detailed, I think is what you said you had a pause you went detailed and i was like i wanted i wouldn't specifically wanted to know what ryan meant by i don't know i don't know who knows what you say yeah i do ask me things i said on

podcast i'm like don't remember yeah just at some point just kind of goes into the ether yeah well my first question for you is what is the j kyle man what's the j stand for people ask me that all the time i'll even get people who don't like me who will be like uh you're snooty you're doing that on purpose to do like uh like i'm some kind of poet or something i seriously did it just because there's another guy with a pretty big online following named Kyle Man, and I was just like, I need something. My mom used to call me Jay Kyle, and I was like, there we go. We'll just go with Jay Kyle.

So no one calls me Jay Kyle. I'm just Kyle. But you can call me whatever you want, Ryan. I don't care. It's like Chris Tomlin with the Christian artist. He went by CM Tomlin on the website when the other Chris Tomlin got so big. Yeah, I remember that. Now, indescribable, yeah.

Your main gig is basketball. Yeah. And that's what we got to start with, because last night, the Louisville TBT team, Drew, won their game. So that sets up the showdown with Louisville versus Kentucky versus LaFamilia. Here we come, and it's at Freedom Hall Monday night. Yeah, I caught the end of the game mainly just to be ready for the 9 o'clock ticket drop. That was chaos.

I now know what the Swifties feel like. I had two seats go to pay, they disappear. Two seats go to pay you disappear. I probably had 15 different pairs of seats throughout the arena. And it was just everything was going away as quickly as you could click on it. those first few minutes. They eventually added the upper level a few minutes later. But that first five minutes, everything that was available just disappeared.

And then they, now they've added the end zones. So I knew there'd be people excited to hop on. I didn't expect you kind of had to fight for your life and ticket master team to get a seat in there. But that's how it went. They sold over 7,000 tickets in an hour. Yeah. It already broke the record for most tickets sold in a game and they did that in an hour. Yeah, when the map first popped up, it was mostly the lower bowl.

Like I said, five minutes in, they were gone. if you wanted lowers. And then it was empty for a minute, then they added the uppers. There's still some of those, but I think they're only on the end zones now. It's crazy for this tournament. I mean, this tournament has been around a while, but as you're saying, they're shattering the attendance record and the interest around the bluegrass in this game. You know, you live in Louisville, right?

I do. You're a Kentucky guy. Yeah. I mean, this is huge for the Kentucky fans in Louisville. That's why this is going to be a great environment. They'll wear blue. It'll probably be more blue there in Redd in Freedom Hall. Yeah, I assume you're wanting to go as a fan to get rowdy, right?

Yeah, I have a media pass, but media they don't let me just boo Peyton Siva. So I thought I needed to be an actual seat with like-minded people. I was on a play with Peyton Ceeve. He's a nice guy. He is a nice guy. Gorgie and Siva within a few minutes of each other. Yeah, I mean, I assume UL fans are bored, honestly. Like living in Louisville, like I would say the most unpleasant time I can remember.

And I was a little more, this is like pre-covering basketball, and I was definitely a little more just like talking trash all the time, way, way into it as a fan and like maybe a little too into it. But like the 2013 era, like the Jurich, Patino, Patrino kind of time in Louisville was like really not very fun when they were incredibly good. Yeah. We had the, we had the, you know, it was early on in Stoops's run and things like that. When they're bored, you know, as much as I hate to say this, Drew, I know probably just

wants them to lose forever and never win another game. Absolutely. It's, it is very boring. Like they stop talking trash. You stop hearing comments at the pickup game. You stop hearing comments anywhere. And it's been a little down, and I assume they just want something to be excited about. So I assume this is Louisville fans.

Do you think, or do you think it's UK fans? Where's it coming from? I would expect mostly Louisville, but I know a lot of Kentucky fans are on there fighting the fight, got good seats. I'd expect Louisville to have the majority, but I think we'll have a good showing, and maybe we're having the most fun at the end of the night. He's right about the boring thing. People have said, I take it easy on Louisville now. It's honestly, I forget they're doing either because you don't hear it back.

They're never in the postseason. They're barely winning games. I mean, you don't just keep kicking them while they're down. Move on to other things. They've fallen too far. How comedic is it that in the off season during Louisville's boredom that they hired? Can we just call it the way it is? UK and Yuvel both hired dorks.

We did. In the past, we've had Armani suit wearing slick guys who are like really imperial-looking powerful men. Not that Kelsey and Pope aren't powerful men. They are. They're both smart. They're charismatic. but they are both a little like youth group leadery kind of guys, right? Don't you?

I mean, it's a funny thing. It's not the Italian mob thing like these guys. You can't even get near. They got their security around. Right, right. A lot more approachable too. So they sold the center court tickets in the middle. They opened up the end zones.

And the attendance record was like 7,000. So Shannon and I talked about this on the pre-show. How many tickets do? How many people you think will actually end up there? Like more than 15,000? Will they get the 20,000? Well, the building is only. so big. I don't think you could get that. And they don't have the lower end zones. I'd say

10 or 12. What's Freedom Hall hold? 16ish, 15ish? It's like 17 minutes in its prime, right? So can they fill it? Well, they don't have the whole setup. There's like, there's like tables in the end zones for like VIP. So I would say take your capacity. I think they'll sell out what's available, but they don't have all of Freedom Hall as it was years ago. I say we go full ABA. They need to have like a brass band in the end section. We need to go. Let's get like just like people with cocktails down there in the end zone. I think we should just go all the way and make it a, make it a like a presentation for a pro situation.

According to Wikipedia, $18,000 is the capacity for basketball. So pull that down a little bit because they don't have all the seats. I got you. I think they'll get near the capacity of what TBT has available. I think they will too. Now, you guys talk about it. It almost comes at a perfect time. Kentucky hires a new coach.

We're excited about our program. Louisville hires a new coach. They're excited about their program. And here comes Kentucky versus Louisville in the middle of the summer. on a Monday night, I mean, when we're starving for some basketball, and we've got this game kind of fell on our laps for Monday night. Yeah, I mean, it's a thing where, I mean, Kentucky fans, I think, are starting to get a little bit more engaged with.

I just think the mystery of the roster is probably the main thing that's hovering in the air. The people are like, we kind of have an idea of some of these dudes. Kirk Creasa was sort of a known college basketball phenomenon. But you can kind of feel us, let's be honest, we took recruiting for granted for a long time. Yes, we did. We were just like, they're going to roll off. And now we're a little bit more like we're kind of the, we're kind of the like me. What's the, what's the phrase that's become real popular?

We're the like me girl kind of thing or whatever it is. Like we were like, hey, we have to charm you a little bit more. We're a little more interested in trying to win these recruits over. So it's kind of, I'm just trying to gauge where Kentucky fans focus. But right now I think it's just, they're not antsy, but they're very curious. You know, all the practice footage is, it's sort of like people's interest. The scrimmage between the TBT team, I've been like trying to find that anywhere. I can find it.

And it's, because I'm curious. I think people are just curious and just kind of waiting right now, yeah. Lamont Butler confirmed 17-point win. Straight from a player. You know, there's been rumors. And I think finally it looked like that's about what it was. He confirmed it two days ago. But did they play like a half-court game?

They played full. Did they also play a half-court? I mean, they practice in like the craft center, but their scrimmage. Yeah, there's their scrimmage. The practice game. Is there a little bit of a lame try-hard thing, too? how true of a sample is a scrimmage between TBT and a college kids? Do you think they were just like, what are we going to do?

Come out here and, like, punk them. I mean, you get that with the USA and the select team sometimes, too, where there's a little bit like, do you want to come out and, like, really be the big, the bully picking on the kids, and then the kids beat them. They're like, okay, here we go. That's usually the way these things played out, right? Yeah, and I would, I mean, we didn't see it. I would think the endurance and the legs of the younger guys probably was a big factor in that

playing in Ruff Arena. But that was a nice tune up for what we're going to accomplish moving forward with the TBT. I was looking at hotels last night. I was like, is this like a hotel thing for you? I'm like, yes, I'm going all in on it. I might get there at noon, pregame all day, stay all night. Sealbach. Yeah, we're going to have some fun.

So now we've got Willie Colley Stein versus Montrez-Harrow. Probably two guys that can still play in the NBA today if they really want to, if somebody would give them a chance. That's the matchup everybody's going to be looking at, right? I assume so. I mean, I get to ask a lot like what kind of happened with Montrez. I think the way the league has changed, it's kind of like if you're a non-shooting 4, you have to like provide some other things.

So both of those guys kind of fell into the same category of like not super efficient scores, not three point shooters, but they're also not like defensive anchors that you can like build a defense around. So they just, that kind of became the tweener in the modern NBA. But yeah, I mean those two, I don't know where that matchup's going to like play out. You know, neither one of them I think you're going to be like handling at the top of the key. It's probably going to come down to a like who gets the most kind of clean up dunks. Where does the Montrez-Harril, Willie Colleystein rivalry play?

out on court in 2024. That's hard to say. I already know how it's going to play out. I'm looking forward to it. They're going to be a wash while Karam Kanner goes for about 24 and 12 and a 20-point win because as much as I love, Willie and the guys, Karam is the baller on that team, but I think that's going to continue. He's won me over. I definitely was like, what? Come on. At first and I was like, all right, well, cool. He is Jay Kyle Mann and he's here and we'll take your calls. The Clark's Publishop shop phone number is 859-2-80-2287. Are we doing a buzzer today, Shannon? No, because yesterday I think you felt sorry for people when they got buzzed. So you can't have sympathy for the callers when you introduced the buzzer.

You were buzzing people from Wolf County. We wanted Wolf County people to be able to talk, Shannon. They were helping our exercise. You buzz anybody you want today. I can buzz Ryan. Let's throw the buzz in again today, and this time we'll be strict to it. Okay. Oh, okay.

Now we each have an extend, Kyle. Okay. If you want to extend somebody, all of us have an extend, we can do that as well. 859-280-2-287 that's our phone number if you want to call and get on board we'll also talk to Kyle about his other talent that he has that kind of introduced himself to all of us here at KSR we'll talk about that and a lot more and deviled eggs we're definitely talking about devil-degs today we come back did you bring any I did not but my mom made something this weekend and they were awesome we'll be right back this is Kentucky Sports Radio last night a blown call changed a game this morning the internet lost its mind highlights are trending opinions are flying and nobody's telling you exactly what happened that's where sports slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From

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Boom, deep bar. Forget, yo. He'll get a chill when he comes in, right? Was that you? No, that's this rapper in Florida named Jay Adams is his name. His name used to be nightmares. But I think I told this story last year. He has this really cool kind of like tough guy kind of rap persona.

And we got on the phone and he knew so little about football. He knew nothing, like absolutely nothing. So I was trying to like explain to him. And he was just like in tears laughing as I was like, you know, like pass me the rock. He was like, pass me the rock. Like it was like just a foreign line. He was like, what are you talking about? So then like on the on the song, he delivers it so confidently.

You would think he knew a lot about football. But dude, he knew nothing. So that was, yeah, that was a fun. So for those that don't know, the genius behind the Kentucky Joe remixes is this guy, Jay Kyle Mann. It's a heavy quotes on genius. Oh, it was just, you made this song listenable. Are you what are you talking about?

It's brilliant right now. I would say I arrange Joe. I like he, I tried to like I said. I try to imagine what he's thinking, and then I just kind of go in. And the thing is, is you can kind of piece it together sometimes. The thing that would amuse me is, like, when he would call back in. I think another time he sang the song, but he sang it the way that I had to rearrange it. So I kind of was just like, this is, so I was kind of like on Veepe, like when, you know, the guy that's behind Selena, the character, I was just like, you maybe try it this way.

And then he would do it. Yeah, so, yeah, I like being Joe's arranger. It's fun. He's actually on the phone right now. No way. Kentucky Joe. I am. Your own,

Kyle, man, it made you famous. Yes, I am. Hey, Hey, Kyle, thank you. You're welcome, man. You did three or four of those songs. Thank you, young man.

Honor of my life, yes. That's so much fun. You're professional. It was wonderful work. Joe, I'll give you some credit, man. When you sang the song about She Dare's the Devil, I went in there,

and sometimes I'd have to like, you sing in an a cappella, you know, you're not singing to a tuning thing. I know. He's not doing the thing. And I went in there, And Joe was perfectly in E-flat, like perfectly. I didn't have to change anything.

He just in his ear was locked in on it. There we go. That's Joe for you, man. He's on top of it. Yeah, yeah. Is that it, Joe? No, no, a ringer. You're busy on sports blog with, you know,

major author on the ringer. Busy on sports blog. Yep, big time. Try to be, try to stay busy so they don't get rid of me. That's the goal, yeah. You got any other songs playing? You still do a little music too, right? I was really, really into music for a long time.

I was going to have been called DeLoreans, but we COVID kind of ravaged the live music scene in Louisville. And we're all a little older. And we'll get it going again sometime. Joe, do you have enough of songs? I like to meet you and say it. As a final thing, I'd like to say thank you again. I mean, you know, Mr. Pringle.

Team, defense, running backs. Running back, running back. Birds in the background. You've, like, created a whole vernacular, Joe. You got your own, like, you're like, you're like, you're like, turn the headphones up. I hear the birds in the background. You can feel the interesting. Is that freestyle?

Is that freestyle rap? Huh? Is that what that is? Is that what you do? What you do? Yeah. I think it's improvisational for sure, right? Yeah.

Do you, I mean, that's a question for you, Joe. Do you come on here with a plan or do you, sometimes I wonder if you have a plan? Sometimes I wonder. No, no, I'm a true. I've actually done stuff. It just. comes out of my mind. Yeah, well, we kind of thought that.

Yeah, it's a God-given town, all right. I suspected that. Yeah. There's vomit on his sweater already, mom spaghetti. That's what he does. There are time for it. I think Joe has the lyrics written down. Okay.

And there are the time, yeah, I think he just, just spits out whatever comes to his head. Yeah, yeah. Like right now, Joe, like right now you're just going to sing a song for us, right? Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a tribute to Kyle Mann. Oh, yeah. I can't wait. Okay, let's introduce it.

Ladies and gentlemen, former number one artist swept the country. He now has a new single ready to release, worldwide release, Drew, right here on Connecticut Sports Radio. I just want to say this might be the single weirdest moment of my life. I just wanted to earmark that. Go ahead, Joe. I hope God. Sanerating J. Kyle Mann. Take it away, Kentucky Joe.

Go ahead. He's a man. He's a man. man that j cow man is a man above

for rest now he's a sports blogger and he my fan he's a man he's a man yeah

a jacal man is a man he's the best of the best now he's a great sports blogger man Man.

Yay! Kyle Man's a man. Beyond anything I could have ever hoped for. That was just incredible, Joe. Joe, you nailed it. Life altering. You nailed it. Kyle Man is a man.

The Jay actually stands for Joe. A lot of those jokes growing up. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Kentucky, Joe. We appreciate it. It was an honor to talking to you, Kyle. You too, Joe.

Thank you so much, Mayor. You're a good guy. I think that's how a lot of us, including me, got to know you was through your remix of the Kentucky Joe song. That's kind of how you made your splash on KSR. I've joked with my wife. It's going to be our son's legacy is those songs. They're going to outlive me. The Flame and the Fire, I think it's my favorite Joe song ever. Like every once in a while, I'll pull that one out because he was on to something there. I think that was a hit. And we got it. That's just a, I think that's a good idea. It's got it. Good pop idea. It's a big blue fan in the morning for me. It was the original. It's a little slower. I am a big blue fan. You're a little bit of a Joe hipster there.

You know, I like his early stuff. You know, you got to, you know. Yeah, he's too mainstream now. I really like his original song. Willie Collie Stein, man. That was one of the early ones. Maybe we'll just have Joe songs throughout the day. As our whiskey thief songs of the day.

Shannon, were you able to find others? Oh, just you wait. Just you wait. We're getting there. We can only do one per segment. I don't want to overload everybody with too much Joe. By the way, that was my extend on Joe. I wanted him to keep going there.

Okay, very good. Yeah, we need. Absolutely. Do we have callers now? We do. Let's go to Bill. He gets 20 seconds, right? Bill, you got 20 seconds.

You're on with Jake Kyle Mann. Go ahead, Bill. He can't follow Kentucky Joe. Bill, are you there? Buzz him, Shannon. There we go. All right, who's next? That's it.

Oh, that's it. 859-2-287. That's a Clark's Publishout phone number if you want to call and get on board. Now, Joe did mention you write for the ringer. Yes. And you also have an MBA podcast? Is it strictly NBA? Yeah, well, I kind of, I'm, I'm,

I'm rattle college basketball and grassroots. A lot of what I do is, like, leading up to the draft, and then I kind of cover the players. I cover development. I'm in a lot of lanes, so I never know what to say exactly what my job is. I'll tell people I'm like a hoops development writer. But I'm on a college basketball podcast weekly with a guy named Tate Frazier, who he's a North Carolina guy.

He's hosted the show. Yes, he has. I spared him last year because I think they said something. He and Mark Titus said something, I think, that got the Hornets Nest going. So he was like, oh, those guys. Kentucky fans up. I was like, yeah, we're a passionate group. But, yeah, I mean, I cover college and grassroots and through the lens of the NBA.

So, yeah. You know, you're sitting where Matt Jones usually sits, and he has a lifelong man crush on Bill Simmons, and you just know Bill Simmons. You just know him? You want to brag to let Matt know that you just know his boy? I mean, Matt's still waiting to just pass him at a basketball event. He's tried to get him on the show. Never had been able to get him on the show.

Yeah, you've got a leg up on Matt in that category. Well, I mean, if I host again in the future, we can try to. The thing is, I think Bill would probably have to be on a walk. He takes a walk in the morning, I think, so that would be the good time to get him, maybe around 8 a.m. But he's a real busy guy. You know, I try not to, you know, put more on the plate than I have to. But, I mean, I grew up.

I was like mad. I grew up. Bill was my idol. Like, he was my hero. So, like, in, like, middle school, early high school, I've said this before, but I used to print his articles out because it was pre-phones. You couldn't just, like, read something. And I would keep them in my backpack, and I would go and read them.

and he would compare the San Antonio Spurs to the cast of cheers or something, and people weren't doing that stuff back then. So, I mean, even to this day, if I talk to Bill, and I think the thing that makes Bill so successful is his motor, and I think you see that a lot of successful people is that, like, he always makes, he's always thinking about basketball. He never stops. That dude is just, he's just, he's relentless.

So, yeah, but, yeah, I still get starstruck by the fact that I know Bill and get to talk to him a lot. The Bill Simmons podcast is when we hear regularly, on our road trips. He listens to it over the pre-show. Yeah, he does. He does. Instead of listening to Shannon and Billy a lot of times,

he'll listen to Bill Simmons podcast. So since you do kind of pre-draft stuff and draft stuff, we're about Reed and Rob and Antonio Reed. How about hitting all three of them? You know, are these guys there, well, let's start with Antonio Reed. Was he undervalued? Oh, we got a little minute. That's the tease.

Okay. You're going to tell us if Antonio Reed was undervalued. Yeah. And then what is the ceiling for Reed and Rob? That's what we want to know from you. Yeah, yeah, I'm down to talk about that for sure. All right, 859-2802-287. That's our Clark's Pubbets Shop phone number.

We also got our great deviled eggs debate coming up later today in the show. We all big deviled eggs fans. So we've got to get to that. Even Kyle said he's a big fan. And Derek Ramsey's going to come here to KS Bar and join us at 1130. Oh, joining us in person. Nice. He's going to be here.

He's got a book. He's going to promote. Is it about deviled eggs? The book? Maybe. We'll ask him if he likes deviled eggs. All that and a lot more coming up. You're on Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280.2-87.

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All this, I hear birds in the background. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make him pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. We've got to let this play out. The band of pros will pass a chance going to Catalan on December day.

The cats are roaring. The cat's around fires. The Spirit is there. You can't deny. The team has got it. They won't fail. The Spanner Bros. will prevail.

Defense, defense, defense, defense, yes. Defense, defense, yes. The flame in the forest. The flame in the forest. We got it. We got it. Kyle, it is genius how you're going to be in the back. It's in the back playing from the bars.

We got it. We got it. We got it right now. It's... It is genius how you take those songs and made it where we're enjoyable. Matter of fact, yoga girl just texted me, this is the most horrible slash best radio I've ever heard. Because it is good. It's fun.

And I ask you, I say, can you take some of the J. Kyle Man? I'm a man song? And can you do something with it? You didn't give them much to work with. Well, you respond, I was telling you all during the break, I was like, my life's a tad different that it was then. I had a little more free time with my job. So I was a little bit bored at my job when I was doing these remixes. So, and I think you can tell.

One of my favorite things in life is to put way, way, way more effort than is really necessary or reasonable into something silly. And, yeah, that's kind of why these were as detailed as they were. And Drew has our Kentucky branded tweet of the day, Texas. the day? Well, I mean, I can't read that on the air, but I will say my friend likes Kyle Mann. Tell your friend I like him too. I haven't met him, but I'm open to it and I appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Somebody texted the aviation glass text between. It said Bill Simmons was on the show once. He was, yeah. I know he never got Kornheiser, but I swear Simmons was on once.

He came on with Titus and Tate. I'm pretty positive. I'm pretty positive. Oh, that's when it was. But now with Matt. But now I was just thinking of the Matt connection. Because he's still chasing Kornheiser and Bill Simmons. Those are what it's the last on his bucket list. Okay, so yeah, he's been on the show, but not with us. Like Rick Petino was on this show, but not with us. Yeah. Earlier this summer.

So 859-2-2-287, that's our phone number if you want to call and get on board. Okay, I gave you a break to think about it. Let's start with Antonio Reeves. Was he undervalued and what do you think his future is? I think his future is probably like a road. I mean, you kind of put him in categories. That's the way people talk about like trajectories for players. It's like is the, are they a starter?

Are they in the top 100 of the league? Are they, you know, All-Star, All-N-B-A and on up? If you're below 100, you're kind of like rotation-y kind of level, and that's kind of where I think, like, Antonio could carve out a niche for himself. I mean, the thing that the positives that he has going for him is that he has a really quick one-motion release. He shoots the ball that, like, doesn't have any kind of a hitch in his shot. He can shoot with movement. We saw that.

He can shoot stepping in off of a pick and roll. If he has it in his hands, he can shoot off the catch. You can run him off screens. He plays really fast. He's a little bigger than I think people give him credit for. Like I think he's probably a legit six four. Drew, you're a little taller. You stood next to him.

Can you confirm that? Yeah. I'm about 6-2. He's got me buying a little bit. Yeah, yeah. And the big thing for him is that, you know, last year, Cal was a little, you know, coming around. Cal loves guys that attacked the basket.

And he was, Antonio, I think, clearly spent some time over the summer playing through bumps, playing through, you know, getting to the rim. His finishing just like, I don't have the number in front of me, but just the eye test. I mean, it took a huge jump last year. Yeah, a floater he developed? I love a floater. I love a floater. So, yeah, he's, so he has the finishing, the floater, like, I think he projects as somebody that will hang around.

Will he be like a starter for somebody? I don't know, but he has the skill that's kind of a universal donor skill, which is shooting the ball and in a lot of different ways. Yeah, he's been a little mislabeled as just a three-point shooter, especially last season of Kentucky where he showed it from everywhere. I mean, what was it? One of the coaches said like he just wakes up with 20 points. Yeah.

Oh, you would say this on this show? Yeah. So I think he's kind of mislabeled a little bit. Is his defense going to be enough? It improved a lot. I think when he came here, that was kind of the thing, like, okay, this guy's never had to defend. And you see that when a guy's a focal point at a lower level or they're on a team where

they need to carry a bigger offensive load. When you come to a Kentucky and you're like, okay, well, we need you to do this, too. You need to be a two-way player. And I think he deserves a lot of credit for taking his weaknesses seriously, as much as we gnashed our teeth about him maybe not coming back here after the Illinois State stuff and getting compensated fairly and all that. But in that time, he improved. I mean, very clearly improved. I remember interviewing the new freshman DJ, Justin Edwards, all those guys last year. And one of the big takeaways in the summer was how good Antonio Reeves was defensively.

I know they're just getting to college, so they're taking a step up to themselves. But they were talking about how he was really embracing it last summer. Yeah. So what about Reed and Rob? What do you think their ceilings are in the NBA? The funny thing for me over the past year is like there's been this sort of slow conversion from, it wasn't that I was a disbeliever in Reed. It's just I had certain expectations.

I think we all did. You know, and the thing I try to always explain to people who aren't from here is that like, when we have one of our own, especially a son of two former players, he was on the radar. I mean, you're very tied into this stuff, Ryan. I mean, like, when was the first time that it was like, Reed is like on the radar, like, oh, watch, this is coming? Because I remember like Rob Locke, remember they had a kid and everybody was like keeping an eye on that. But like Reed was on the radar.

I mean, it was like middle school, right? When everybody was like, okay, this kid's going to be something. I'm not kidding. Drew can back me up on this. Reed was a fourth grader playing in a sixth grade AAU tournament. And I came on this show and said he was the best player on the floor as a fourth grader. And I remember somebody called in after that. I always say this.

Like Ryan's so stupid. You can't say what somebody's going to be as a fourth grader. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah, okay. Eat it, buddy. Ryan was way out in front of the Reed Shepherd movement. But yeah, you're right. In middle school, he always played up.

Every year in Summer Ball or whatever, he always played up. And I think that helped him develop. Definitely. That sort of cultivates something I always talk about with players is that like adaptability, which is like your ability to like take in new information and like apply it quickly, basically. And especially if you don't have a lot of advantages, you'll see like you'll see guys every single year. Like Ron Holland in this draft, Michael Kid Gilchrist was another guy like this.

Josh Jackson, Stanley Johnson, these big kid on the playground physical forward guys who just run people over for years. And then you'll see like a player like a read who didn't necessarily have like an overwhelming physical advantage. But like when he came, you know, he got later in high school at North Laurel and I was like, yeah, I mean, I see the vision here. I see this guy being like a starting college point guard. But I mean, I figured three-ish, four-ish years. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I think the thing that sort of like popped immediately was like, okay, well, when you put this guy around better players, no offense.

to his North Laurel people, but like when you put him around like better athletes, you started to see some of his like IQ pop, like in the flow of the offense. Like I just said this in a recent thing I wrote for the ringers that like Reed just smothers you with right decisions. Like his batting average for simple, correct decisions is just very, very high. And if you saw like in transition, he would like, he just, he never ever like let the defense off the hook in terms of like he always is hitting the ball ahead. Obviously the elite shooting thing.

But to answer your question, I mean, like, I think he has a chance to be an above average starter in the NBA. Like, I would put a ceiling at the All-Star kind of level. I'm not sure that he'll ever be enough of, like, a self-creator. But he projects to me as somebody who's like a high-quality role player on, like, a winning team, and you need those people. Oh, yeah. What about the fit in Houston for him?

It's just, I remember you and I were messaging about this. At the SEC tournament, I won't name any names, but I was, like, sitting at the front row with Kyle in that disaster of a weekend that was so short. But during that game against Texas A&M, my phone kept dinging and I was like, this person is here, okay. And they kept asking me questions about read, only read for like an hour.

And then I went and sat with them during the second half, and they continued to ask me questions about read, only read. And, you know, Kentucky had a few different prospects on that team. So my antennas were up for that. And then I started looking at their roster, and I'm just like, okay, the Rockets had Fred Van Vleet on a deal, a shorter deal. Like he's clearly a part of a group that's going to try to mature these young pieces they have with like Taris and Kim Whitmore.

And he fits to answer your question. I mean, he's going to be like a guy. They have a lot of perimeter athleticism. He's going to be able to move and hit shots off of Alperin Schengun, the big Turkish guy they have who can pass the ball. So he fits great. He won't have to be, there won't be a burden on him to be a superstar, but he'll be able to apply and affect what they do in a lot of different ways, I think. Well, we're going over the Kentucky guys. Then what about Justin Edwards?

Justin Edwards. The big thing for him is he's going to have to prove that for him to really stick and be, you know, have more, be more than just sort of like a very narrow lane like role player, basically, is he's going to have to prove he's more than a dribble pull-up guy, basically, because that's kind of what he was at Kentucky. If you think back about all his best games at Kentucky, if you really, even when we got really excited, you'd go back and watch him, like, okay, that was a catch-and-chhoot three. That was a one-dribal pull-up stuff.

Like, he's going to have to prove that people can. get into his body and that he can dribble and attack the rim. You remember that just became yakety sacks? You remember the dread that I, by the end of the year, felt this like dread in my stomach whenever he would attack the basket. I was just like, oh, Justin, just do something positive. That's the journey for him is like to do something beyond the catch. No, there's a role for a catching suit person in the league, but for him to be more of

what we thought he was going to be, he's going to have to prove that he's a creator in some way. He's got to find his confidence, too, because a lot of that became very mental. I mean, he missed a easy one in the Oakland game. We all remember we've talked many times about that shot that hit the backboard. We wondered if he would even be able to go back in a game. So hopefully getting home to Philadelphia, that can just reset him mentally too because he lost that while he was at Kentucky.

On the A-Vis and Glass Text Machine, two people have asked now, can they find the J-Man Kentucky Joe mixes online somewhere? They're on my SoundCloud, which still exists, which I think is just at J-Ca-Com Man, same as my Twitter handle. Drop your sound cloud. Yeah, there we go, yeah. Well, maybe we should come up with the best of and sell it. Or they can open for Shannon.

They can open for shit. You could pull some of those off with a real band. I mean, I'm pretty sure the second got it one, I think I was just trying to do a beat-it, basically, simulation with it. So, I mean, you could pull it off at the live band, I bet. I don't know that I could promise that I could be a part of it, but, yeah, you could.

Well, you know, Shannon's going to be here tomorrow night, Drew. Did you make your rounds to the neighbors? I heard on the pre-show you were knocking. on doors, handing out letters, letting people know what's ahead, little notices? I went to Halapinos. Okay. No, listen, I don't even have to know. They're in, right?

They party. They're excited about it. They'll probably end up over here and leave their restaurant to hang out. They said, we'll have extra margaritas ready. I figured they would be a hard yes on the concert. So during the top of the hour break, I want to sneak over here to Sumo, see if anybody's there yet. That's the one I'm a little worried about. That's one more worried about yet.

Also, because it will actually affect their dining experience. We share a wall. You know, if you're over there having your 15th birthday party. When I think of peaceful, coy fish swimming and like a tranquil kind of brook, I think of Shannon's band. Don't you want to hear she Blankin hates me in the background while you're trying to enjoy your dinner? Yeah. I went through Sonic this morning. I tried to let the young woman in the drive-thru.

No, she looked at me like I was crazy. I don't know if she's in a position of leadership to make decisions about bands next door. Did she think you were inviting her to a concert, like on a date capacity? Come see a cover band with me. As you all know, I barely made it over here for the show from Sonic. So I was doing my best. I guess we've checked two boxes. I've still got tilted, killed.

They're going to be fine. I'll let them know. That's a gimme. That's a given. Sumo, the one beside us, the one that I'll try to check out at top of the hour. So, all right, well, take our break. Go back to the phone lines. We need some calls for Jay Kyle Mann.

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Listen, Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab Ramos on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. She is not the lady, but a Philly who likes to run. She has a unique name, man.

She calls her better to bet on her. She is my bed for an oak when she dares the devil And hell is afraid of her precious name She dares the devil She's bad to know Could surround the strike And ladies at fault when they see her You dare

She's one of a kind Satan will never fear Coach is running on heavenly There we go Kentucky Joe remixed by Jay Kyle man And she's the devil, she's a devil do What's the name of the horse? She's a devil do

She dares the devil. She dares the devil. Ladies' hats fall off when they see her She's running on heavenly time, Ryan. Satan will never see her. You know, the lyrics were a little suspect. This one. More, more.

My wife would always Yeah, and shock, I guess, when they see her Yeah, and shock, I guess, when they see the horse lady's hats fall off Or there's a gust of wind that's so strong, she's so fast. My wife would always be like, she was like, I like that line about she's running on Heavenly Time. She was like, that's a good line. So, yeah, Joe has fans out there.

So we've played three of them, your remix of Kentucky Joe songs. How many are there actually out there? It's like five, I think. I don't know. Shannon, you still have some more? Yeah, I think there's one or two more on here. I've got it. Okay.

Yeah. All right. 859-2-287. That's our Clark's Publish out phone number if you want to call and get on more here with Jake Kyle Mann. You know, yesterday, Drew, we previewed profiled Wolf County. Yes. We spent a lot of time talking about the gorge and about people getting lost, falling off the gorge

and getting lost in the gorge. It can be a dangerous place if you're not careful. Guess what happened? Oh, no. Do we, we did chaos our curse, did we? A man was just found in the gorge that had been missing for two weeks, and he was alive. He was alive. He was missing for two weeks.

Look it up. And he was alive. Is he injured? And he just couldn't move? Is that what's going on? No, they said he would travel down from, I think, Ironton, Ohio on his own, not tell anybody, and just go on these hikes. And he went on some hike two weeks ago, I guess, and got lost.

was missing for two weeks. Do you think, Kyle, you could survive in the gorge for two weeks? Absolutely not. My dad is probably laughing his butt off. Listen to this. Somebody gave me like a socket set at Christmas one year, and my dad was like, what are you going to do with that? So I'm kind of like Matt. I'm on that level. Not exactly handy. I think I would probably just, I'm trying to think of what my strategy would be. It's kind of, it's even more pathetic because I did grow up in the country. In Spencer County, I just wanted to say, I'm a Spencer County. You're a Spencer County guy. I went to Spencer County and had a very below-average basketball career there. But I would just, like, I think I would just pick a direction and just walk in it.

I wouldn't do any turns. I would just be like at some point I'm going to see something, like a road or something, if I just walk a straight line. I don't know. What would your all strategy be? I would probably die, most likely, yeah. I don't know much about survival, but I know I'm going to look at the sun to get a little direction. Other than that, like with you, I'm going to commit to a direction and hope it's the right one.

So you're telling me this guy didn't like fall and get hurt. He was just lost, like walking around and just kept getting farther and farther from where he needed to be. They had given up that they were going to find him alive and they found this dude alive. And he'd been missing for two weeks. Shannon, how long could you survive out there in the gorge? Not long. You said two weeks. How long does it take to starve to death?

Three weeks? Well, he had to be able to get some berries and some worms or something. When they found him, was he like, was he like, thank God you're here? or was he like, I'm not, I'm fine. Like, was he, because you said he was out there. Leave you alone. I'm not missing. He gave a quote something like,

I knew after the second day that I was lost. Okay. I'm like, dude, you took you two days to figure out you were lost. I think I would have known in a couple hours that I had no idea where I was going. So what's your strategy for food? Are you going to try to eat fish? You're going to try to eat berries? You don't know which ones are poisonous and which ones aren't.

Don't eat the berries. One of my favorite movies, into the wild. Have you all seen it? Yes, that's a heartbreaking movie. Yeah. Stay away from the berries. So are you eating leaves, grass? Well, you're asking me.

Bugs? I have no idea. I've never put in the spot. Like I said, I'm just going to start walking and hope I'm going the right way. I don't know what I would turn to for food. A, I wouldn't leave the trail. I really think our parks department has done a great job with trails out there, so I'd probably just stick to that.

Stick to the trail. The signs that say 0.4 miles to the parking lot. I feel like if you walk two weeks, I mean, you know, walk 50 miles and 15 hours. So, I mean, you could cover a lot of ground in two weeks. if you just kept walking in a straight line. Well, that's what Kyle said. Yeah, just walk in a straight line.

Right, right. So I think eventually you'd find your way out of there. Hopefully. Well, you know, they have their own search and rescue team out there in the gorge because it happens so much, so often they have to go out and find these guys. So kudos to these, you know, first responders and these rescuers that went out and actually were able to rescue this guy before he had passed away. But I think I can make it for a day or two.

But after that, I'm like, none. Well, I'm fully prepared mentally. and I've been working on this for a long time to win Survivor. But they give you, like, white rice. Maybe you can win a contest and get some applebees. So I'm prepared to survive in the wilderness for a little bit, but I would still need a little bit of delivery of something to eat. I can't just go out and kill an animal by myself and eat or anything like that.

We have our next thing that we'll never do, but we should talk about doing putting Ryan in the middle of a forest for like 24 hours. No, we're not doing that. And seeing how long you can survive. You said you could survive a day or two. 24 hours you can do. We were going to do 24-hour werewolf wadi camp out, or I was going to camp out with the waddy werewolf.

I'll do anything for 24 hours. We'll be all right after 24 hours. And, you know, maybe the guy in his backpack had some freeze-dried bananas or something. You know, that could. Cliff bar or something. Yeah, yeah, maybe they could help you maybe rationed it out and getting through a few days. But, yeah, at least this story had a good ending because most times you get lost in the gorge. It does not have a good ending.

Stay on the trails. Stay on the trails. I get freaked out just by the ticks. That's the thing. I don't know. Like, I would just, yeah, that would be one of the things I'd be constantly thinking about is just getting a tick on me. Anyway, he is Jake, Kyle Man. We'll take our break.

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