KSR - 2024-07-29- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Myron Metcalfe back in the mix. Here we go again. One more go, man. One more run here on Merry Mondays with Myron. Wow, it's been so much fun. It's been a blast.

I can't believe it's already been like two months. Isn't that amazing? Dude, it is absolutely flown by. I can't believe this is your last Merry Monday with us, man. It went by way too fast. It went by fast. No, it's been fun. I really enjoyed it.

I think, you know, last week was kind of the icing on the cake, actually being able to be in town, you know, and meet some KSR folks, and that was cool. that was a blast. And now here we are, one more show before Matt Jones returns. I was actually on our Sunday show

yesterday, and I had a co-host who's filling in for Matt. And I said, yeah, I don't know when Matt's coming back. You know, he'll be back at some point. And I get a text like 30 seconds later from Matt Jones,

who was like, I'll be there next week. You know what I mean? He wanted to make it clear that he is returning and that, you know, the absence is about to end, I believe, at ESPN radio and also at KSR. So prepare for the return of Matt Jones. And, you know, he's got, I was thinking, like, he's got to have more than just stories. Like, I want Matt to return.

Give me some, like, new philosophy on life or something. Or just something that you learned along the way that you can give to the people, right? Right. Like, I need something more than just the. cool places you win when you return, in my opinion. He's been in Ireland. That's one of his last stops he's been at. But yeah, what if he just comes in and says, man, I've decided I want to get married

and I want to have kids. I mean, I can't even comprehend Matt Jones in that capacity. Right? I mean, that would be, that would impress me. Like something that is just like, okay, your life changed in these two months. Like you're eating something different. You know what I mean? Like, you know what, folks?

I don't eat turkey anymore. You know, like, there's something. There's something that is just different after a two-month stretch in Europe, man. What if, Ryan, what if he came back? You said that he could maybe say that he wants to have kids. He wants to be married. What if he actually came back with kids and he was married? Okay, now that'd be a story.

Now, that would be, okay, I would be, let me tell you something. If he does that, I'd be offended because that means there was a wedding that I wasn't invited to. True, true. You know what I mean? Like, so that would be my whole thing. It's like selfishly, if Matt Jones we're going to do that, I better be at the wedding. You know what I mean? Like I want to be, I want a full celebration if that's in fact what we're going to do.

You know what I mean? You know, I think there's a couple things we can definitely say for certain. He won't come back and say he wants dogs. He won't come back and say he wants to be a Republican. And he'll say he won't come back and he won't come back and start fixing his own meals at home. There's certain things in life. In his life, he just will not happen. I've already thought about this.

I expect him to come back. he's going to be 40 pounds lighter. I already know that because the food over there is clean. He's even mentioned that in Instagram post or on that bridge, one of those things, how much weight he's lost. And I also fully expect him to have an accent. I don't know which country he's spent the most time in. Maybe he'll be British.

I don't know. Maybe a little Spanish in there. I don't know. He's been everywhere, but I think he'll come back with an accent. Do you get to, I mean, once you've traveled that long, because it's not like he spent a day or two in some of these countries. I mean, he spent weeks in some of these places. Right.

Do you get to pick and choose the? accent? Good point. Like, do you get to just come back and you decide, okay, in August, it's Irish. And then he just has an Irish accent every now and then. You know what I mean? And he just gets to toss that in there. And then maybe it's French or something in September.

Like, for me, I think the accent is part of why you go. Being able to use that whenever you want. And then when someone's like, hey, man, did you just use a British accent? You can be like, yeah, I was there. I was there for like two weeks. You know what I mean? I've heard that right. And then people give you a pass.

Yeah, people give you a pass. That first show back, I fully expect him. It'll be a blend of everything. We'll have a little Bell County from the mountains. We'll still be in there. Did he ever make it to Estonia? Do they have an accent? I'm just trying to think of random places he had planned to go.

But there'll be a little sprinkle of everything. Yeah, I think that's the only way to do it. Because why travel like that and not take advantage of the accents? Do you know what I think? Kentuckyans have a unique innate feature, though, that they can just get on the phone with somebody from their hometown in eastern Kentucky, and immediately that accent comes back.

I mean, I've seen it happen. They talk and sounding normal, and they get a phone call from their mama, and the accent goes right back to that eastern Kentucky accent. So you're saying it won't last. You're saying like Matt will snap out of it. I believe, I would, yes, yeah, the gravely voice of Matt Jones next Sunday and Monday returns, yes.

Yeah. But I don't know, man, that Irish accent is thick, man. Like, they can't hide that over there. I mean, it's like the south of Europe a little bit, right? You can't, well, you meet someone from Ireland, that is a strong accent. So if that picks it up, it may take him some time to get rid of it. Who's the guy who played Elvis? You know what I'm talking about the guy in the movie, the movie that just came out.

Something Butler, I don't know that. Yeah. My daughter loves that dude. That's why he went to race. Austin Butler, I think, is his name. Austin, Austin Butler. So apparently he spent literally months and months trying to be Elvis, right? and listening to Elvis and mimicking Elvis

and like literally making himself Elvis, right? Apparently for months after the movie was done, he couldn't stop talking like Elvis. And apparently, like this is, and then I thought like, okay, he's got to be faking that, right? And then there were a bunch of actors and actresses who played characters like that who were like, yeah, the same thing happened to me.

Like I was in character and I couldn't get out of it even after the movie was over. So I wonder if you're Matt Jones and you've been to all these places, do we get a six-month stretch where it's like he's just speaking Italian? You know what I mean? He can't shake it.

It just kind of comes in spurts and he doesn't even realize it because it's just a part of him now. I wonder if we're going to see that. You know, that's interesting because you're right. Yeah, he's been in Italy. He's been in Germany. He's been in Spain.

He's been in Ireland. All four distinctly different accents or something he could pick up somewhere along the way. So I don't know what. Makes me want to tune in Sunday with you to see what he sounds on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah, it's got, no, it's going to be fun. It'll be fun to get the show back Sunday and get the crew back together.

They're putting us on the road a couple times this. Yeah, that's right. This year, so we're going to some games. So that's going to be fun. But I've been happy to fill in on these Merry Mondays. I've just really enjoyed it. The Kentucky folks have embraced me. It's just been a lot of fun.

I came back home and I was thinking about wild eggs and all of the good food we had last week. I didn't pass one Waffle House on my way back home. And I realized that too, like how disappointing that was. But it was a cool trip, man. It was cool to get down there and see everybody face to face. There were a lot of people who were concerned about me making that flight out of Cincinnati. Yes. And kudos to Drew, who during my ESPN show that I did brought me up some food,

gave me a fan out. I felt like, I'm like, is this what y'all do for Matt Jones? No, not at all. Not at all. Okay. No, because I gave you my best southern hospitality. That was my best. And it made me realize, Drew, why we don't have northern hospitality, because we don't do that. Like, I wish we need to start doing that. And maybe if we did, people would comment on our hospitality, but we can't match that. I got food. I got fans. It was an incredible time. I left the show about a half hour early, though, because I was concerned. after I told people at the KSR bar about my flight. There were some people at the bar who were like,

you can make the flight. And there was one woman in particular, and I don't remember her name. I don't remember her name. But I said, can I make the flight? And I just looked at her. And she didn't even say words. She just shook her head in a way

like your auntie shakes their head when you're like, you know what? Whatever you're getting ready to do is not going to go well. And although there were a lot of people hyping me up and were like, no, you can do it. No worries.

You'll be able to figure it out. I was focused on her. because she seemed like she was being the most honest with me. Like, yeah, you know what? You're going to miss this flight if you leave at that time. So I leave a little early, and I'm like cruising. I'm like, okay, it took me a while. I didn't realize how long it takes you to get to the interstate from there.

But once I got to the interstate, I was cruising to the airport. And I got a little arrogant because I'm thinking to myself, traffic ain't that bad. Like, what was everybody talking about? There's no traffic here? I'm cruising. And then I got to some town. I don't know where it was, maybe about 20 miles outside of the airport.

And it was like every truck driver in the state of Kentucky had decided that they were also going to travel that same road at the same time. And I hit this traffic jam like none I had ever seen. And I don't know, I mean, you guys were probably used to this. It was like I was on a two-lane road. And then next thing you know, I'm on like a 19-lane road. I'm like, what are these lanes? Where do I go?

How do I get to the airport? Can somebody escort me, please? because I didn't know where I was going. There were semis everywhere, and then suddenly I get nervous, and I'm going, man, I was talking all that trash. I left early, but here I am in a traffic dam. And I'm thinking to myself, I might not make it. Like, it may not work out for me.

Luckily, the traffic jam broke, got to the airport. It wasn't as bad as it had been in days earlier, and I made my flight, and the trip was complete. But thank you all for the hospitality when I was there. I had a great time. Kudos to you, Drew, for your hospitality, Ryan, the whole crew, everybody that was there, at a great time. I hope I can do it again sometime soon.

I want to tell you a little more about your boy, Drew. He set through our two-hour radio show, and we were getting ready to leave. He goes, no, I'm going to stay here just to make sure Myron doesn't need anything. I'm a team player. So he set up his laptop at the bar at KS Bar for another three hours and worked just so he could be there in case you needed him. People helping people. People helping people. That's what I do.

He's our guest. And I appreciate it. I really genuinely appreciate that. Because, you know, I mean, you know, just to be able to move from the show to another show, making it easy, I really valued that. I was going to go back to the hotel or the main studio, but that was just so much easier. Yeah. You all brought me food. I was going to bring your car around until you left early.

I was ready to valet that thing for you. I was like, is this the Matt Jones treatment? Is this what he experiences? because, man, I get it. I definitely understand now. But I tell you what, man, it was just an incredible trip. Just had a great time, some TBT action. But now, you know what?

After eight weeks, we become friends now, family, you know? So I'm used to doing this. So now I'm kind of thinking, fellas, like, what am I going to do next Monday? You know what I mean? Like, it's become a part of my Monday. Yeah. I'm like, wow, I got to go back to like regular Mondays now. That's going to be a little weird.

For me, man. You have absolutely killed it this summer, and we can't thank you enough for coming in and doing it. It's been awesome. And I'm like you. I said, man, why don't you join us every Monday when Matt gets here with this? You know, the five of us can all just do the show now on Mondays? Hey, if Matt wants me to give a call or whatever he wants, I'm definitely open to it. I have received so many.

I can't even keep up with all the DMs. And I apologize to people between Instagram, which I'm not even on Instagram. Like, I don't have a cool enough life, really, for Instagram. you know what I mean? Like, so I'm not really on it, but I get DMs there. Twitter, I get nonstop DMs from KSR people every single week. And they're all so kind. Hey, we love the show.

We love what you're doing. We appreciate you filling in for Matt. Just such a cool vibe, man. I can't even literally keep up with the number of DMs that I get from people. So I appreciate that support. We've had a lot of fun on these Mondays since Matt has been gone. I've been able to be the cool. uncle, I feel like.

You know what I mean? And that's a cool, that's a great role. Like, no real responsibilities. True. You know what I mean? Like, no one really relying on you to kind of run the whole show. You're just there for entertainment purposes in a lot of ways. Like, I had an uncle, resting in priest, he would put us in the car and he would drive with his knees. Now, I don't think that was legal. You know what I mean? Buckle up. Put your phone down. Yeah, rest in peace, Uncle Fred. I don't think it was legal, but it was a thrill. I'll tell you that. you to be six years old in a Cadillac and your uncle's driving with his knees,

you thought it was the coolest thing in the world. You didn't know you were in danger, but you knew you were dealing with the cool uncle, man. And that I realized, that's who you are. That's where you are kind of been. That's what I've been. I think to KSA, I've been the cool uncle. Yes, you're the uncle who drives with these knees.

That's you, man. 100%. You're not disciplining anybody. You ain't worried about nobody's report cards, whether or not they clean their rooms or not. You're just, hey, I'm just here. to give you some candy, take you on trips,

to go to the amusement park, and just have a good time. And then give you back to your parents. That's a cool role. And he comes back on Monday. Drop you off. He dropped us off all the time. Now, I don't know if my parents knew

that he was driving with his knees. I mean, I don't know. But I mean, as a kid, I was like, this is, it was like, to me, in terms of order of heroes, it was like Batman, number one,

I think shaft number two, and then my uncle Fred because he could drive with his knees. I had never seen that before. But I feel like to your point, Ryan, I've been the fun uncle driving with my knees here at KSR for the last two months. And Drew and I have been the nephews that want you to get in the car

and drive with your knees and give us candy. Yeah, but we all know it can't last, right? Like at some point, you know, you can't remain the cool uncle if you're doing that forever. Like you got to show up in spurts. You know, so maybe that's what I can be if Matt wants, you know, a Monday every now and then I kind of come in, say hello to everybody. Because I don't want to lose the cool uncle tag. I mean, that's the thing.

You got to be careful about that. Yeah, you don't want to lose that tag. Yeah. No, you can't start driving, you know, with your hands on the steering wheel at 10 and 2 and think that people are going to respect you. But you also can't drive with your knees every day. So you've got to pick your spots when you're the cool uncle. I'm grateful for the time we've had. It's been so much fun.

It's been a blast. And yeah, man, I wish I could do it more. But we will have a fun show. The rest of the way, we'll talk some Olympics here after this break. 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.

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The Olympics are cool because I think they make you realize that you can be like good at some things or at least you can manage to do something. But you can't do them at Olympic levels. Like I'm watching women's water polo right now. I can swim. I can't water polo swim. Amen. You know what I mean? So like I'm trying to figure out like if you threw me in that pool, I got a good two minutes of treadmill.

water for you. I'll give you two, two and a half. And then I'm going to start screaming, right? I'm going to start screaming. Go get the lifeguard. Because I've been treading water for two and a half minutes. Somebody needs to come and help me. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know how they're doing this, how they are literally treading water over the course of an entire match. And then managing also to pass the ball around and try to score. It just, it's incredible to watch this at the Olympic level. I've always thought water polo players are the most highly trained conditioned conditioned athletes in the world because exactly what you just said.

How can you do that? How can they stay afloat during a whole match? And oh yeah, I still try to catch the ball with one hand, fight off a defender where you're a second hand and then throw it in the net with your third hand. I mean, I don't know how they do it. I mean, two and a half minutes I'll give you. And then I'm grabbing onto the goal and I'm screaming.

Somebody comes up. Yeah, come get me. It seems like they're just trying to drown each other out there too, you know? You're fighting for your life. And that's the other thing. It's like hockey. Like you try to tackle people. Tell you, man, two and a half minutes, I could tread the water.

I might have one shot on goal or something like that. After that, take me out, coach. This is it. I'm not treading water for whatever. It's 30 minutes, 40 minutes. It's incredible. Amazing. Yep.

To watch them. At the same time, there are other sports fellas where I'm like, could I do that? You know, I was watching archery the other day. And I'm going, I mean, could I do that? You think? could I take a bow like that kind of a bow? Could I hit the target? I think the target is about 70 meters away.

70 meters away, which is about 77 yards. So about, you know, three quarters of a football field. Am I crazy to think that I could hit that target if you gave me 15 tries or so? What do you all think? Maybe 15 months of practice? 15 tries. I don't know. That's fair.

You might get lucky. You might get lucky. That's fair. So you don't think I could just get out there and kind of just take a few. few shots at it and hit. I'm not saying hit the bull's eye. Okay. I'm talking about just hitting the target. Okay. I think you can connect with the target. I don't know if you were to see you on the metal stand at the end of the event, but you might be able to hit the target with at least

one of them. This may be wrong, but didn't the actress Gina Davis was training to shoot a bow and arrow for a movie, found out she had was really good and ended up trying out for the Olympic team. I don't think she made it, but she was like an alternate. So I think something that did happen. I think there is some training. If you do some training, you could get good enough at it in a sport like archery, I think. I mean, these bowls look like you go to the sporting goods store. Like these are intense. Like it's not like somebody, you know, chopped down some wood and made a bow handmade or something like that.

He's like high tech. Yeah, it looks high tech. So maybe I'm dreaming there. I don't know. It has also been cool to see Snoop, who has somehow become a global ambassador. And Matt and I always have this kind of. conversation. Who are the most recognizable human beings in America?

Meaning you can walk them down any street in the country and people will go, I know who that is, right? We have some debates on who that is. Like I think Taylor Swift and Beyonce are in that category. I don't think he thinks Beyonce is. Willie Nelson is on our list. Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton.

It's on our list. And Snoop to me. Snoop is. Snoop's on that list now. I mean, he's literally. a global ambassador, I want to know the person in France who thought they were going to carry the torch, right? Because it's always your country folks, right? Like we don't, we've never had an Olympics in America and somebody from Europe was carrying the torch, right?

So I just want to know who they had to tell. I know we told you, Pierre, that you were carrying the torch, but Snoop has agreed to do it and we're going to let him do it. Now, can you imagine your whole life, you just want to carry the torch and be a part of. of the Paris Olympics, and that is what you're going to be your claim to fame. The number one thing on your Wikipedia page, and then they're like, sorry, we got Snoop. And here's the reality. If you got Snoop, you got to use Snoop. You know, you got to cut this guy out.

I just think that would be a hard conversation, though. And I feel kind of bad for whoever didn't get that chance because Snoop got the opportunity to carry the torch. Snoop's been a big part of that, but I was even more supportive. surprised to see Flavor Flave on my TV as much as I have so far at the Olympics. That's big. That's big. Did I see that he like helps sponsor the water polo team to get them there or something like that?

So Flav of Flav read some story. And apparently he learned that the women's water polo team, I think they've won three gold medals in a row. But like they all work second and third jobs. Like this whole idea that all of these sports have these giant sponsors is just wrong. Now some of these athletes, I mean, Simone Biles is just. just doing gymnastics, right? But there are a lot of these athletes who are regular folks working regular jobs and training on the side.

So Flay for Flay found out about the women's water polo team that they were doing that, and he decided to sponsor them. Now, I don't know what that means. Like, I don't know if it was his money, if he became a fundraiser, but he has been at every single event for women's water polo, and he's kind of like their ambassador, which if you would have told me 90s rap star, would somehow be some of the most prominent people

at the 2024 Olympics. I would have said, you're dreaming. Flava Flav, the dude with the clock, that dude is an ambassador and everyone's talking about him. He was at some event and people were giving them hugs and daps. And then Snoop.

I remember when they took Snoop, murder was the case that they gave me. He's in a casket. They roll him out onto stage, and then he gets up like The Undertaker, and he raps the song on MTV. I remember being like, this is impossible.

He's facing a literal murder case and he has a song about it. And that guy 30 years later is a global ambassador and he's the star of the Olympics. I mean, I don't even know what Snoop's job is at this point. Like, I don't even know if there's a job description. I don't think he applied for that job.

I think they just said, Snoop, just be Snoop in Paris and we'll pay you for it. And that's incredible. We'll be back after this break. 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.

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Here's Matt Jones. Snoop, dog. Hey, if you didn't grow up with this, I feel bad for you. Because there was nothing like that early 90s hip-hop. I remember waiting by the radio with a blank cassette tape for this song to come on and taping it as I was making like my summer mix tapes. And you had to be there, right? You had to make sure you got there as soon as they played the track.

But this was definitely one of those early 90s hits that still 30 years later, people still play at parties and weddings and all that. Oh, yeah. It's incredible, right? Yeah, it holds up for sure, yeah. It's still timeless music. And who would think that we still be talking about Snoop the way that we are? We got a couple of calls.

who's our first calling. Paul in Minnesota. Paul and Minnesota, my neck of the woods. Okay, what's up, Paul? Hey, how's it going, Myron? Oh, my gosh. How are you doing, Paul? I'm doing great.

Where are you at Minnesota? Edina Hopkins border. We live right on the border. Edina Taxes Hopkins School District. Yeah, yeah. Okay, up there. 394 somewhere. Yeah, yeah.

All right. Actually, 169. 169. 169. 169? Okay. 62. Yeah, a little bit further out.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. This has been a dream. So I'm a diehard KSR listener, sometimes caller, but it's like, you know, so to hear you on the radio, because of course I'm a fan of you, because I live up here, so I know all about you. And to hear you and Matt is like, you have just crushed it this summer. I mean, you, the saying that you're the fun uncle, like, could not have been more accurate. It has been so, so great to have you on. And I'm excited for you to, you know. know, to jump back on KSR and ride us around it with your knees again. It would be great. So I just wanted to, I couldn't let the summer go by without calling, and I've had to podcast most of it because work, you know, I've got to live life too. But, yeah, you guys, you guys as a family is great. Not so great about KSR is living here in Minnesota, I get to still connect with, you know,

Kentucky because I grew up in Kentucky. And so it's like, it's a marriage of two great worlds for me hearing you, and Matt on Sundays, and now you on KSR has just been a treat. So I really, really appreciate it. I appreciate that a lot, man. Wow, a Minnesota guy giving us a call. It's amazing. I'll tell you what, man, and I think I can't speak for anyone in the KSR community

because maybe this is just me. But I think it's easy to take for granted what Matt has built. Oh, yeah. Like people will come to me and they'll say, you know, Matt Jones, like, you know, what's like working with him? I mean, hey, he's, he's incredibly smart. I mean, you know that working with Matt Jones. Like, he's, he's a lawyer, right?

So he's very smart. Things fast on his feet. The other thing I really appreciate about Matt is he's always prepared. Like, when we do these shows, like Matt is always ready to go to make some incredible points. But I think his greatest strength has been his ability to build community. Like, I think what he's done with KSR is not something you could do, today. Like, I don't think you could say, all right, I am in, let's say, Pittsburgh.

And I want to build a community like this around Pittsburgh sports or something like that. It just wouldn't be easy to do because you need the combination of that passionate fan base. And then someone who, what, 20 years ago, 15 years ago, had the vision to sort of bring everybody together. And I think it's just amazing to be a part of it and to fill in to see what he has built from the ground up. It's just incredible because I really don't think you could duplicate what he's done with KSR in today's

climate. You just couldn't. No, and you're right. When he started this, it was the perfect time because right when social media was getting ready, you know, starting to take off with Twitter, and he comes along with his blog on a passionate fan base, covered the Patrick Patterson, J. Lucas recruitment.

He was on top of it. And that, it was a perfect storm. But you also So, Maureen, I mean, you also have to be good at it. You know, he's... Yes, you do. He's really good at what... I don't want to say this in front of him. So I'll say it to you.

He's really good at what he does. I mean, he's really good. He can run the radio show. He's going to write for the blog or whatever. And he's got some really talented people with Tyler and Drew and Eric and Nick Rouse and everybody kind of all involved with the website. It's just been a perfect storm. And the fan base, as you said, is so passionate.

They love every second of it. Yeah, I get a lot of people sometimes who will reach out me and say, you know, act like I'm sort of Matt's sidekick a little bit, and they'll call that an insult. It's never an insult to me. He's incredible. I love working with Matt. And I wish more people would understand life would be so much better for a lot of people

if they realize they didn't always have to be number one. There's so many people who want to be number one on everything. And then when they're not that, they don't know how to exist. Be a good teammate. Like, be a good team player. And I think that's been one of Matt's strength as well to be a leader. but also to incorporate all these teammates into everything he does. And, you know, you see the results.

But I think KSR has just been incredible. Our Sunday show has been fun. So that was cool to get that call. Do we have time for one more call? Let's go to Mike. Mike, where's Mike at? How are you going, Mike? Bowling Green by Bowling Green.

I'm in the big city of Tatees. Oh, yeah. Where is that? Hopkinsville. Where's some Hopkinsville? Why do I know the name Hopkinsville? Is something happened there in the last 10 years? They've produced some pretty good basketball players over the years.

It was the epicenter of the first eclipse that happened a couple years ago. Oh, that's what it was. Okay, that's through that too. Okay. Go ahead. Well, anyway, let me get to my three things real quick. Okay. Why you were gone.

This is why you were gone. The guys were having a discussion about the deference between. He used to Godaguanian Western. Okay. At Western Kentucky, East Kentucky. Here it is. Real simple. Eastern Kentucky, they're hillbillies.

Western Kentucky, we're redbacks. Okay. In the discussion. Hillbillet is redneck. That's all you got to know. Okay. All right. Okay.

Your fact was you couldn't figure out how to say Louisville. Here's the way it is. It's Loserville. See, I've been getting some of that. I've been getting some of that. And that doesn't help me. You know, I know that. Well, here's what I want to say it.

Here's why. My youngest daughter went to the Louisville, she always fussed. Dad, you don't root for my team. And I tell her, well, I'm a Kentucky fan, you know that. And Rick Patino's a traitor. And she said, what was that? And I said, well, I said, you know, you don't leave your school and go to the in-state school.

That would be like Mike Chashefsky leaving Duke going to the NBA and then come back and coach you in North Carolina. line up. How would that be a problem? That would have been a problem. That was the same thing with Rick Petino with me. We're softening our hearts a little bit because. Yeah.

It feels that way. It feels like it feels like y'all are sliding back into Rick Petino's DMs a little bit. Like it, you know, it feels like y'all are sending them those, hey, stranger, texts. How you been? You know what I mean? Like, you know, you know, somebody from the past comes back around? Has that ever happened to you, Ryan, like, you know, like, you know, like I've had that situation.

Was somebody from years ago send you that message that you weren't expecting? And you're like, oh, hey, I, you know, how you been? Maybe let's go get coffee. I feel like you all are prepared to go get coffee at least with Rick Patino at this point. Is that, is that fair? Well, I don't drink coffee, but anyway. And the last thing. What do you drink then?

Hold on a second. What do you drink in the morning then? What do you drink in the morning if you don't drink coffee? I drink water. Okay. I drank water 99% of the. time okay all all i've ever done i can i love the smell of coffee brewing but i couldn't drink if you put a gun to me it can't stand okay okay and the last thing is y'all were talking about snoop

and light the torch all you know that's fine but that sick and part about those drag queens doing the parody of the last supper that they you know that makes christians want to puke that was absolutely uncalled for. They should have had better sense than that. Well, I appreciate the call. Yeah, I appreciate the call. I mean, I'm going to leave that part alone because Disney doesn't let me talk about politics,

and I like my job. But I will say, I didn't even see the opening ceremony outside of, I knew everybody was getting wet. And the one story I saw, how much time do we have, by the way? Do we have enough time? They've got a few more minutes. Yeah. Okay.

I don't know if you all saw this story. There was an Italian, I don't know what he does. Paul Volter maybe, who lost his wedding ring in the opening ceremony. And he put out a big IG message to his spouse. And he said, I'm sorry, I've been losing weight training. But then he also said it was rainy, it was slippery. But then he ended it by saying, or maybe it was the enthusiasm of the moment. So he gives three different reasons as to why he might have lost his wedding ring during the opening ceremony and it goes into the river.

And I'm concerned about him because my question is, when did you lose the wedding ring? Was it going on to the boat? Was it going into Olympic Village? And you saw the French team and you said, you know what? Maybe I want to not look like I'm married? I don't know. Or was it actually when you said you did? So I'm a little concerned for him, put out this big Instagram post,

but said he lost his ring the opening ceremony, promised his wife they renew their vows. I still don't feel like he's safe, though, fellas. Like I think there's a second conversation coming that he's not aware of. I agree. He's going to get hit with the, oh, yeah, the opening ceremony. That's where you lost. Of course, yeah, the rain.

That knocked it off. I don't think she's falling for that. Yeah, you lost weight training. Yeah, right. Those heat in a moment, clapping your hand And it just flew off. You love your country so much. That ring just went flying.

Well, and somebody made the point, you can go buy one of these like cheap bands at a market anywhere in a country for $10, 15 bucks, if you just wanted to have something just in case, you know what I mean? But I think he's got a conversation he's going to have to have when he gets home. And that might not be a fun conversation.

Because again, if you lost it during the opening ceremony, it's raining, were cheering and it flew off your hand, that's one thing. If you passed, you know, the Spanish track team and you lost it, that's a whole another conversation that he may have to have when he gets home. We'll be back with more after this. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what.

He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reed. I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have

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That man, hell get the flying. He run up the court, licking his fingers, why he got the ball like after you go through a training camp with that Isaiah you figure it out real quick get your ass up and down the court and you're going to get the ball so listen to point game on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts yeah that dude better find the ring you can't spend two weeks in the Olympic village he can't spend two weeks in Olympic village without his wedding ring I mean no he'll I thought of this he'll magically it right during the closing ceremonies.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, oh, my goodness, it was in my pocket the whole time? The whole time, honey. Can you believe that? I have no idea. So that's going to be a fun conversation. Ryan, do we have a read? We got to knock out here?

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And then I'm going to hit some breaking news after that. Who's our next call? Let's go to Carl. Carl, how you doing, Carl? All right. Marlon, I want to clarify something on the pronunciation of Louisville. I'm going to give you two options. Being from the Chicago area, it's perfectly fine for you to say Louisville.

Yep, okay. But being from Kentucky, let me say it slowly. Louaville, now say it as fast as you can and you'll have it down. Louisville. Love. Louisville. No, Louisville. Not Louisville.

Louisville. Louable. Louable. That's what I'm saying. See, but there's a, there's a twang that you have that I don't think can be taught. I mean, I don't. How'd you figure that out? Well, I'm just saying, there's a thing in there that I just, you know, it's different.

It's the part I'm missing. My heritage from Smoky Mountains and. from the mountain in Kentucky, I'd say, more than anything. But I don't think that part, I don't think you can teach that part. It's a way to do it. And I've explained that to people for close to 70 years now. Lou of Bill. Okay, I appreciate.

See, but there's a part in that where it just makes it flow. And I think that's the part I'm missing. Like those first sounds, you know, I think that's where I struggle to say it the way that you all say, but I'm getting better. Louisville. Louisville. Is that closer? Is that better? What do you all think? It's been pretty good. Today we say they don't exist since we play tonight. I don't even like to say their name out loud.

The pronunciation is improving as the summer's gone on. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad. I credit KSR for that. Speaking of that team, I got some breaking news that you all. Running a no, no. This is a release that just came out. I mean, that breaking news thing, when I heard it for the first time last week, I was

scared. I didn't know what that was. But now I know that that's mass breaking news. I just got a release from the TBT people, the tournament, who have said that Kentucky in Louisville alumni have shattered the all-time attendance record for a TBT game. Over 12,000 fans are expected to be in attendance at Freedom Hall tonight. The original record was 7,202, and that was last year when Wichita State team faced. I'm not sure what's team they played, but it was in Wichita. But this is so big, apparently, that the

mayor of Louisville, Craig Greenberg, has declared today TBT day in the city. And it's amazing. I mean, I told you all last week. It's the most decorated team that I've covered in TVT. And, you know, Louisville's team is

very decorated as well. I got a message on Friday from the TBT folks. who told me that they had shattered the record, they'd broken the record of 7,202, 60 minutes, within 60 minutes of tickets being available, right? That's right. And then I'm like, I was like, wow, that's incredible.

And then they said, well, we're going to hit 10,000 here before the night's over. And then they hit 10,000. And now more than 12,000 people for a game between the alumni of these two rivaled teams are going to come out and watch them. And it makes me realize that, not that I didn't before, this is, forget basketball rivalries, right? Like, I don't think you can put Louisville, Kentucky in just the, what are the biggest college basketball rivalries.

It's top 10 in America in rivalries, period, I think, among all sports, when you can pull off something like this, fellas. Yeah, in the middle of the summer, in July, on a Monday night at 9 o'clock, you've got 12,000 people going to go watch guys that haven't played their school. going 10 years go out and compete because that's what this rivalry means

of this state. I was part of the crew fighting for tickets on Ticketmaster at 9 p.m. last week. That was one of the wildest events I've tried to get tickets for.

I would have some of my cart. I think I'm good and it's like, nope, those are gone. I'd find more, those would be gone. I looked it up. The section next to mine,

tickets are going for $415 each on StubUp. What? Now, I'm not selling mine, but that just shows you the interest in seats for this game. For a July,

29th game between former players of those teams. Some of which last played, I mean, Eric Bledso was on the 2011, the 2010 squad, right? Yeah, the John Waw team. He played like two minutes in that game before he got in trouble for a little extra curriculars. So, I mean, you're talking what? Was that 14 years ago? Crazy. Eric Bledso was playing.

I mean, Peyton Siva, I think is on the Louisville team, Russ Smith. Those guys last played over a decade ago. It's just a unique rivalry because I don't think there's another college basketball rivalry, certainly that could pull that off. You know, I mean, and no disrespect to North Carolina, Duke. I don't think that would happen there. But wow, 12,000 tickets, $400 tickets for a TBT game. I've covered the TBT.

I've covered championship games of the TBT where you might have had 1,000 people. You know what I mean? So to think 12,000, apparently this is. is such a big event. Chris Paul, who I didn't know as a co-owner apparently of TBT. He's going to be there at halftime to receive some sort of declaration from the mayor. It's going to be on national TV. Wow. Like what, what a statement from these two fan bases of how much you love basketball in the state of Kentucky that more than 12,000 people are coming out tonight to watch this game. For a 9 p.m. game.

on a Monday night. TBT organizers need to be thanking the basketball gods that both teams won and they set up this matchup for them. And if they don't try to set this up every single year, they're missing a golden opportunity because obviously they've proven themselves. They can make some money on it. Since we're so excited, I'll butt in and share a little betting line. It's moved a bit. We'll just say this is sponsored by Draf King Sportsbook promo code KSR. But LaFamea is a four and a half point favorite now.

It opened at two and a half. So that line is moving. Cats fans are loading up. man and they got to get high quality players i mean that helps too the fact they're like oh yeah colistein eric blestown oh yeah like that helps a lot too that those kinds of guys we'll be back another podcast from some s nl late night comedy guy not quite unhumored me with robert smigel and friends me and hilarious guests from bob odenkirk to david letterman help make you funnier this week my guess s nl's mikey day and head writer streeter sidel

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