KSR - 2024-08-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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You can give us Shown Clark's Pump and Shop phone line. That is 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-254. Does that sound weird to you at all, Shannon? I feel like I sound tinny. The number? No. No, I know the number doesn't sound.

It just sounds weird to me in my ear. No, you sound fun. Yeah, maybe that's just, I don't know. Maybe that's nothing. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin. Guys, how are you? Right now, the U.S. is playing Poland in volleyball in another Olympic event. It's winding down.

Only five days left of the Olympics. Watch the little of the basketball team yesterday. Kentucky Booker and Anthony Davis seemed like they were in every highlight. Every time I was turned on the, you know, sat down to watch something, one of those two guys was doing something. Great day for Kentucky Olympians. You had Sydney McLaughlin. What's our married name now?

Laverney. Laverney LeVroni Lebroni Cindy McLaughlin Levroni who ran in the semifinals

and looked like she was gliding like did you know unreal it looked like she was walking and she beat them by half a lap or something

I mean that was crazy that was a jog and she was so far ahead of them like Secretariat but it's everyone else is just straighted and give it their best and it looks like

The staff that amazed me about her semifinal heat she ran the 400 meter hurdles faster than any of the women in the race had ever just run 400 meters without her. That's insane. That's absolutely insane.

That's crazy. And then I feel like the one girl, either won or came in second, that also went here. Russell? Russell? Am I making that up? I didn't see that part, but I just saw Sidney's being. It feels like we just have a lot of Olympians from the University of Kentucky. Kentucky in general.

That's just, oh, and then the guy from Louisville with the high school. Look at you knowing the name. A big fan. Yard Nogus. I don't know. Did you watch the 1,500 meters? It's not normally a race you'd tune in for. Yeah.

But what a finish. Okay, so they're running. And you know, Shannon, they're just like, you know, they're running, like doing what they do. They're in the 1,500 meters. And then there's apparently a trash talking like guy from, what is he, Sweden or Great Britain. And he had said, nobody beats me. And he's leading. And it looks like he's just going to run away with it.

And he ends up in fourth. It's all these people passing, and it was a great moment. I was reading up on Yared Naguice over in Louisville. He was on the high school bowling team, had no interest in running track, and they just saw him kind of running around at the cafeteria or something one day. What are you doing? I want you to get over for the track team. They look at this guy.

He's at Manuel High School. He's on the bowling team. And he was not running track. And Drew's right. The college, the track coach for Manuel High School is like, you know what? I think you'd be good at track. And he's like, well, I'm bowling. Leave me alone.

And they say, no, come run track. And then he is an Olympic bronze medalist, however many years later. One of the best of the world. Yeah, not a lot of running in bowling. So how do they... Not a lot. No, not a lot. As in zero.

Americans don't usually do well in that middle distance, too. I've seen a lot of bowlers, and they don't seem to me to be a whole lot of... Not a lot of running involved in that point. He's also in the science club. Well, that I can see that. But how cool for Manuel High School? Yeah. Like, you know, to get a, to get, is there any other athlete in the Olympics that literally is from Kentucky?

Well, Lee Kiefer with the fencing. Did she grow up here, though? Yeah, Versailles. She's from Versailles. Okay. Went to Dunbar High School. So that's two. Anybody else?

That's kind of neat that you could, you know, there's a young person out there right now. You could be, I don't know, booing break dancing. When does that start, Shannon? And I've wanted to watch it. I think they save that for like the very end. Okay. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I don't think they've done it yet.

No, no, no. Were you here when we learned that Freddie Maggard used to be a big break dancer in high school? I was not. That's what I was surprised to hear. In Harlan County? A lot of break dancing in Harlem County? That was his nickname. Wow.

What was it? Panther. He told us on the older. When I'd do the football podcast with him and Jared, he told us about this. He'd even put the cardboard down and there's a whole thing. And they called him the Panther. He was the Panther. That's why we called him the Panther for so long on that show.

Wow. Breaking starts tomorrow or Friday. Breaking starts Friday. Okay. All right, I'm looking forward to that. I feel like America should have an advantage. I mean, since the whole thing started on the streets of New York, like if we lose to somebody else.

But then again, we started like the skateboarding and that, and we lose now because the other countries get good at it. But are you going to watch break dancing? I would like to see it just to see watch how the competition goes. You mentioned skateboarding. I did watch a little of it last night. Some of the females are like 12. I think the girl that won is like.

Wasn't the girl that won like 12 or 13 years old? Amazing. That's insane. Every contestant, when she'd come up, they're like, okay, this girl is 14 years old. Like, my goodness, it's super talented. And you're right now on this television right here is handball. And there are only five sports in the history of the Olympics that the United States has never won a medal in. Did you know this?

Did not know this. Only five sports. One of them is handball. Is handball. Why are we so bad at handball? handball. I don't feel like we should be good at it. Like it's just hockey, but with your hands. Like, I mean, that's what it looks. You'd run around, like just, you know how have you seen this played? They just run up the court. They have to dribble occasionally. And then they just throw it in the net.

Like it's hockey, but it seems like it's a sport where you've got to be strong. But it feels like we should be good at it. Do you have to shoot from outside that arc? I don't know the rules. I just know that they try to throw it in the goal. We're not good at it. None of us know the rules. Yeah, I mean, we should learn the rules. I think we'd have a better chance. Do you know the other sports that we've never won? Anybody know? Do you know? Badminton is one of them. We've never won bad men.

We've never won a medal in badminton. Well, well, I mean, I'll ask you, since these people know nothing. Do you know any of the other ones? Okay. Ping pong. I was getting ready to say ping. Never won. The United States never won a medal in ping pong.

Yeah. Rhythmic gymnastics. We've never, you know, that thing, we've never won. We've got no rhythm. I can't remember what the other one was. There was one more, and I can't remember what it was. Trampoline. Trampoline, which, well, that feels like that hasn't been going on that long.

But those are the five sports America's never won the Olympics. Ping pong, we've not even made a medal. That's what I just said. Literally just said. We've never won a medal. Men or women. What about ribbons? What about ribbon or trampoline?

Rhythm, gymnastics, and trampoline. Still haven't won a medal since we just said it a few seconds ago. I thought you said I'd never want to go. No, there's a lot of we've never want a gold in. But we've never even meddled, Drew, in those five sports. Very interesting. We need to figure out handball. I feel like we have the talent in this country to play handball.

We just need to pick it up a little better. Man, that's a rough sport. They're knocking people around. I think, by the way, the sport that I think has the toughest people in the Olympics is water polo. Oh, no doubt. I mean, in water polo, when they show the underwater camera. Yeah. Like, it's like you in wrestling.

You just hit everybody below the belt. That's what you get to do. That's what you get to do in water polo. They just take their legs and pull people under the water. It feels like it's crazy. Yeah, I think they're more concerned about just trying to stay alive and not drown. And it's all the teams are, it's always Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro. I mean, they must just do it all the time, but it's all those Balkan countries and they just beat each other up.

I wouldn't be good at any of these sports, but that one in rugby, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm, I would tap out immediately. If someone hit me in rugby, I'd go straight to the bench and say I'm not come back. Yeah, forget it. Rugby. The one that I'm fascinated with is it, is it kayak slalom? I love it. They drop you off the ramp and like 10 feet up and then boom, but then you just fight for your life.

And they race each other and then they hit each other with their paddles and spin around. Turn upside down. That's right. You're exactly right, Shannon. That one is ridiculous. And last night I saw for the first time the one I like where they ride the bikes in the circle. Yeah. You know what I mean?

And they go as fast as they can. Super fast. And ride the bikes in the circle. I like that one. The other day that kayak slalom was on where you're making your return to KSR, and it was really hard for me to listen to you because that is an amazing sport to watch. And when they go down and they're in the rapids and they have to purposely flip over, go underwater. It's amazing.

So I feel like the Olympics are back. I feel like it had been like eight, you know, the one was in Beijing. And then there was one during, or like it was up against COVID. It was since COVID. It feels like, you know, the Olympics, I kind of forgot. I feel like this has been the one that got everybody back. Like the opening ceremonies were cool. You've had all these different, you know, swimming track.

The American basketball team is good. The women's team is good. Like, I just feels like, don't you, Drew, it's kind of been back. Yeah, I've actually, probably the sport I've watched the least has been men's basketball, which you think, you know, I'd watch a lot of density in the game yesterday. but if you've got Simone Bowles on my TV, stopping what I'm doing and watching that, all of the track and field,

it's been great, ready to see Sydney finish the job the rest of the week, too. So anyway, that's been very good. 859-2-80, 2287. It is Wings Day here at KS Bar and Grill. Dollar Wings starting at 11 o'clock. So if you're in Lexington and you don't come here for lunch, then you're stupid.

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Like you, you all are smart. It's everybody else that still has to learn. I have a question for you that came in last night on the text machine. All right. What was it? The question was basically, it was long-winded. I won't read it all. But the equivalent of it was, Matt, four months ago or three,

however many months ago, we hired Mark Pope. Give me, and so we have no games yet. Give me a grade on. on Mark Pope as Kentucky coach to this point. And the scale can be whatever you want. It can be recruiting, it can be fan base, whatever it is you want to give the scale on. What would you grade Mark Pope for the job so far at Kentucky?

I'm going to give him an A-minus because I believe he has done an outstanding job of reconnecting the fan base. Like I said yesterday, we were a fractured fan base. and he's come in. He's got the fans now all excited, all on board. He's got the former players all excited, all on board. He's done a good job of inviting the former players back.

The roster he put together, I think, as a roster, can be very, very competitive. Don't know if they're good enough to win a championship, but super competitive. So the fact, having played one game, I'm going to give him an A-minus. All right. What about you, Drew? Yeah, I kind of agree.

I don't know where to really dock points when they haven't played a game yet. You know, if it doesn't, some of these guys don't pan out, jump into the SEC, of course. It won't be an A minus. But right now I like the roster he's built. But the fan thing, as Ryan said, has been bigger than anything. There's only been one press conference. You weren't here.

He brought cookies. That was a lot of fun. So I know the media is glad to have something new. But yeah, I'll go A. I don't know. A. Solid A. I don't know if it'll be an A at the end of the year just because some, I mean,

it'll be heavily waited on what they do on the court. But just for the summary, I feel like he's done a great job. All right, Shannon. I have to agree. I mean, he's hit all the high points. It's like somebody just gave him. him bullet points and said, hey, say we're going to care about the SEC tournament. Say we're going to play for the name on the front of the jersey, not on the back of the jersey.

Like all the things that we want to hear, all the things that are the opposite of what we've been dealing with over the past several years, he did them. So, I mean, if we're going off of that and the nostalgia factor, I think you've got to give him a. Yeah, so I'll do it like, I, you know, I just got my class schedule for my Georgetown this year. So I'm doing that for year four. And I'll do it like this. All right. So let's, I'll give him intro a plus. Couldn't have had a better intro. I'm not sure there was, there would be any, I don't know that anybody could have had a better intro than what he had. Um, fan engagement a completely. Um, I mean, fans, I think fans are more into more people ask me, are we going to be good at, even in

the limited time I've been here? Are we going to be good at basketball than the end in the last few years, at least? Um, you know, I think mojo around the program, A, I'm going to give. him in a minus though for only one thing. We don't know about the endgame coaching, although I think he's going to do really well. It's just for me, are they going to be able to get elite level talent? Right.

So I'm going to say when it comes to like recruiting, like B plus, I think we got really good players. I think they got a chance to be great. But we didn't quite, except for Jackson Robinson, who he already had, we didn't really get that star.

And then we don't really have one yet in the high school class. I feel like we'll get them. So I'm just going to give him a B plus for that, which gets me Ryan to an A minus, the same as you. Yeah, and, you know, his staff that he put together, I think that's a great staff. Great staff. A staff.

But you're right about recruiting. You know, he's got Jasper Johnson, Malacomarino, sitting out there. They may make. Yeah, I mean, there's two kids from Kentucky that are as good of kids as you're going to get out of Kentucky very often. And I'm not sure either one of them's going to go here. And so you do wonder about it.

And both of them with connections, you know, these are not just kids who moved here. Now, if he gets them, yes. Different situation. Yes. But we'll have to see. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. We're going to take a break.

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There's certain songs that you hear them. Yep. You just like, I hate that Big Ten gets the CBS college football music because that's great music. It is. But I do enjoy this. Apparently there's a break dancer from Louisville. Yes, Sunny Choi, I think is how you say her last name.

Sunny Choi. So it's a women, female break dancer is in the Olympics from Louisville. I didn't know that break dancing was a big thing. thing in Shannon and Louisville. I've never seen anybody. I've never seen one person do it. Let me tell you. St. Matthews.

I live right off Bardstown Road. There's people doing everything. Yeah. If ever there was a place you'd see breakdancing, you'd be in the Highlands. I mean, think about an activity, and somebody's doing it on Bardstown Road at any given moment of the day. And I still, Shannon, have never seen a break dance. I don't think.

That would not even be the strangest thing to see. Last night, I was driving very late on Bardstown Road, like later than I'm usually up. And I was like, man, Shannon, they come out at night, don't they? Did you see the person in the bunny costume out there? I did not see the person in the bunny costume. They just, it's a show. I guess I don't see it because my door's closed most of the time. Yeah, what's the do is open up that door every morning.

That's a different, because it's a different part of Kentucky. What person writes, Matt, why do we have to have an elite recruit? I think we can win without it just because Pope hasn't got. one doesn't matter. I think that's possible, but I also think if you look at the last 10 title winners, they've all had somebody really good, right? I mean, they've all, you know, you con just had two top 10 players picked, right? So you do have to get them.

And, you know, again, I think we did really well in the transfer portal, but would we get one of the top 20? I mean, like it wasn't, so I'm not saying we can't, but it will remain to be seen, Drew, what the level of recruiting is. It's not going to be Cal. I don't even want it to be Cal, but it does have to, you've got to have a couple of those guys. The days of a loaded class like they just had with Wagner, Bradshaw,

that's never happening. It's never happening. And look what that got us. But you still got to have one, two, certainly one. You definitely have to have more. If nothing else, just for the optics that you can go out and recruit. Now, I think Pope might prioritize recruiting his own guys to come back more than we, of course more than we had before, but more than a lot of people will.

I think he'll make a priority to get guys to stick around long term, but you still need to go out and get one of the blue chip recruits. I mean, if you look around, if you go look at the history of title teams, they almost always have at least one top 15 pick, and they usually have two first rounders. That's generally the way it goes. I'll notice that Kentucky's team last year fit that bill, and we still lost Oakland.

But I don't know, like, I don't know if we have a first rounder on the pick team this year. Maybe Jackson Robinson. maybe Colin Chandler down the road, right? But we just don't know yet, Ryan. That's what we have to see. Yeah, I always alluded it to a horsing analogy. You've got to have your horses in the stable. You've got to have a couple of horses in your stable.

Smarty Jones will win occasionally. Yeah. But if you have American Farrow long term, you're going to win more. I don't want a lot more. And like Drew said, kind of just that perception. You want to keep that perception that Kentucky is the place to be, one of the places to be. So you've got to get a guy, a guy, every once in a while, and every class. By the way, I think he can do it.

If you're an elite recruit, you're sitting there going, I need to see it. You know what I mean? I mean, all these coaches have to have a guy develop in order to start to get the guys usually. Yeah, now it's so different. Some of the top guys, you might even pass on yourself because they're asking price. Kentucky just got cut from the number one player in the country. But, dude, once like five or six million, so you can understand why you're doing a budget, you might say I'd rather go get what I can't have to apply.

I get four people out of the door. And notice that very few top schools were on his list because they're not going to spin back. He's looking at BYU because they're going crazy out there. Yeah. 859-280-2287. There's a couple open lines. So give us a shout. On the football side of things, yesterday you had all these conversations after the practice that if you just were to read the print,

everybody's acting like the offense is clicking in this. this summer. Now, you had, am I correct that you had like half the team at your house swimming the other night? Did I hear that? They were only, only think only six of them showed up because it rained. It ended up raining. It's only six of them made it. So you had six like. I think there were six. And what do you do? What do you do? You and six college guys? Well, Dante's on the grill. He's grilling hot dogs. So you and Dante and six college guys. His wife, Nicole was fixing some, you know, baked beans and some salad stuff. So do you, what do you talk to him about what's the scoop like what like what good stuff like what like what are you

sitting and talking about not much football it's about everything else but that's even we're even we're like what do like when you see deion walker what are you two talking about well we know he and i can relate a lot we're about the same size we should share the same clothes but no he wasn't there like uh d d d sk demo sutra is that your house you got he was there two years in a row all right so demo dsk the run of back. Again, for the third time, what do you talk about? So he was first one there, and we were sitting at the table. We were eating, and we started talking about the Netflix series on receivers. Have you seen that yet? I have not seen that. It's really good. So we were kind of talking

about that, and those guys, they can relate to it. They really were getting into it and talking to it about it. So you go up and you're like, hey kids. Hey, kiddos. Hey, kids. What's on the Netflix? Are you liking the receiver? Are you liking? That's Stevie Shimmy meme with his hat-back. Yeah, no, he is. Hey, what's up, kids? Yeah. You're like, hey. Ask him about Bush Hamden and how things are going. Maybe get us a little scoop for the show.

No, he's looking at him going, did you watch Love Island? I heard it was really good this season. You want another hot dog about another hamburger, you know? But they seem to like being at your house. But do you get any scoop? Does anything come out of it? No, I don't think so. Well, no.

They did talk. Oh, no, this is shit. That's the pause. Here's the, I know, I know right. That is the pause of. Let me play the jingle. Okay. That's the pause of I'm not sure if I should say this, but I'm going to.

So go ahead. Anthony Brown Stevens was there, and we talked to him about, you know, him and the dude from North Texas are really kind of having a battle to see who's going to win that third receiver spot. You know, Anthony Brown Stevens looked good last year for Kentucky, but this new guy from North Texas, is it McNabb? Macklin. Macklin. He's really good. McNabb and Anthony Brown Stevens and was Anthony Brown Stevens saying

I'm going to win it? Or was he going McNabb is too good? No, I think Anthony Brown Stevens think that's his spot. How many sports radio hosts that have the team they cover come to their pool parties? In the world. And find out last. I found out less. You can't get the

name. Yeah, I mean, Ryan has the team at his house. What's your name again? It doesn't know their name. Hey, R.S.K. How are you? Hey, McNabb. Thanks for coming. And then learns less about it, Drew, than him. He had McNabb and RFK at his house.

Yes. One more, just I remembered. I'll save it. We're going to break. All right. Just hang on. I'm sure it's going to be good. We'll be right back.

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Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the fly. man, he running 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. Oh, yeah. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball.

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Well, you know, the cornerback, Maxwell Hirsten, is one of the best coming back in the conference. Yeah, going to be a high draft pick. But at safety, you got Zion Childress and Jordan Love it. But, man, I'm telling you, Ty Bryant may be the guy. If there's a sleeper on defense that we may be talking about a lot, I think it's going to be Ty Bryant. Did he go to Douglas?

Yes, he did. What kind of limits are we reading this? See, again, am I supposed to take that with the guy? the grain of salt, Shannon, because when he goes to Douglas, it's kind of like me with Middlesbrough. Right. No matter who they are, they went to Douglas. I mean, they went to Douglas. Like, is that, so do you think Ty Brian's going to play, or do you hope Ty Bryant's going to play? I know Ty Bryant's going to play. Oh, no. No. He got on the field last year as a true freshman, and he ended up at leading

tackler one game. I think he had 12 or 13 tackles one game. He did step up last year when there were a lot of injuries. He's gotten bigger, stronger. Ty Bryant's going to play. All right, there you go. Ryan Lemon having all the info. He's not going to start, but I do think Ty Bryant will be a big player for him when he's called upon. Well, I'm glad to hear that.

859-28027. Before we go to the phones, yesterday, you may have heard us sort of complaining before. We had to go to this seminar out at the Lex, which is that hotel you all did the show. We did a pop-up show out there. We did a show out there. By the way, great location for that because it's like right off the interstate. Right? So, like, if you're coming to, like, you just get right off there, Athens, Boonsboro.

And a big soccer stadium. I'm going to talk about that at a minute. But the Lex, we have this thing, and they bring in the national head of podcasts for IHeart. And they showed up there something kind of neat. They said there are 50 podcasts in America that are IHeart podcast. And this includes things like stuff you should know, up in smoke, all these celebrity podcasts, etc. But there are 50 that get at least a million downloads a month. Only one of the 50 is a local sports radio show and it's Kentucky Sports.

There we go. Shout out. So that was, I thought that was very neat. They basically told me, they mentioned this show and two others, one of them in like Minnesota, and I don't remember where he said the other one was, that he said dwarf every other sports radio show in the company in terms of how many podcast downloads. So thank you to all the listeners. That was kind of neat to see.

That's all that scoop we give. That's exactly right. It's because of Ryan. You got up and gave you a little speech yesterday. I thought it was really good. I thought you told a really interesting story. Well, it's a true story. The quick version is in 2005,

I was driving down the road in Raleigh, North Carolina. I think I've said this on the air before, but I was listening to NPR, and I heard, Shannon, Adam Curry, come on. Do you remember Adam Curry? from MTV. Yep. And he, you know, I hadn't seen him in years.

He would, for those of you, they're older or younger, he was the guy who would, like, introduce the videos on MTV. And they were like, we are here with Adam Curry, who's going to tell us about a new exciting technology. Adam, what is a podcast? And I remember hearing him talk about it. And he was like, oh, it's audio. You can put on an iPod.

And I thought, I could do that for Kentucky. And it was that sort of listening to that, followed by, meeting Bill Simmons at the same time that kind of made me think, all right, I'm going to create Kentucky Sports Radio.com. And he said podcasts were created like November 2003, and that was probably January 2005. So that wasn't very long after they were even created. The technology was created. Well, you said, yeah, you felt like it was one of the first ever podcasts in Kentucky.

Our old podcast, which was like me and Rob Gidell and Hubby and the Turkey Hunter and Tomlin. That was, if it wasn't the oldest podcast in Kentucky, it's right there. Yeah. It's right. it's right there with it. So kind of neat to see. Who's up next? Sean.

Sean, go ahead, Sean. Hey, Matt, welcome back. And guys, thank you so much for having me on here. And just want to give you something to think about as a retired high school coach, trying to see where we as a society went from calling someone coach or their first name. For example. Well, can I tell you something? I've always thought calling coach's coach when I'm not, don't play for him,

is the stupidest thing in the world. Like I, like when I, oh yeah, because it's not like you're, it's not like you're a member of the military, right? Like it's, or the president, you're a coach. So like, if I played for someone, then I think you call them coach. But if I just know you and you happen to coach a team, I don't call you coach. I guess we did it with Coach Cal.

It's more of a nickname with him. But it was more of a nickname. I just, I've always thought it's odd when grown men. call other grown men that they don't play for coach. Yeah, they don't call us radio host. Hey, radio host. Yeah, do you understand what I'm saying? I totally understand.

I disagree with it by 100% now that you're doing that. But why do you disagree with it? Because most of the people we give the title to are either people who, through military or through some sort of educational rank, have risen to something. But a coach is a coach. I got, yeah, I'm a retired high school coach, and I just, it's something, it doesn't bother me, but I was wondering where we went where I don't think people called Adolf Rupp, Adolf, back in the day. Well, I do think there's a difference.

I don't think people called Mike Schuzevsky, Mike. They do call him Coach K, though, because they call him Coach K because they couldn't pronounce it. But like, that's good. Now, that could be true, too. I agree with that. No, I appreciate the call. Now, it is interesting that there are some coaches. is we call by their last name, and some we will call by their first name.

So you call stoop, stoops, stoop's, cow, cow. Usually somebody that has, I'm trying to think of it, what's a coach that we call them by their first name? I guess most of them we call them by their last name. Yeah, usually last name. But I just, I don't like when announcers do that. Well, Billy Gillespie, we always say Billy. Billy.

That's a good one. That's a good one. Tubby. Yeah. Tubby. Of course, we always said tubby. And honestly, we say Rick a lot. But I think it's dumb when an announcer at a game is like, you know, I was talking to Coach Kiffin before the game.

It's like, do you really go up to him and go Coach Kiffin, tell me what you're doing? I just, I don't know. See, I completely understand what you guys are coming from. Joe B. Everybody called him Joe B. They didn't call him Coach Hall. They called him Joe B. If someone calls him Coach Hall, they would think they played for him. Yeah.

And I get it, and I'm not even going to argue it, but I have never called Mark Stee, Anything but Coach Stoops. You do do that. Yeah. Maybe it's because my dad was a coach. I just grew up around coaches. But you know he's not like, I mean, he's not an elected leader. Yeah.

I've never called him, Mark. I've never called Vince Vince to his face. So what are the professions that we do call? We would call doctors. We call, but would you say, if you knew a doctor, would you call it, like if Drew became a doctor, we're in trouble. Would you, would you call him Drew or would you call him Dr. Franklin? You would call him Drew unless you were in his office being, right?

What about our photographer, Dr. Mike? Is that more of a nickname? That's more of a nickname. Because we're so, yeah. Well, use doctors. If I'm in the office with you, like my neurologist is Dr. Blake. I don't even know what his first name is. But if you're a doctor, I ain't going to call you Dr. Lemon.

I'm just going to go Ryan. Is it because we have a prior relationship? No, I just think that I am in the same way as a player, I'm playing for the coach. When the doctor is working on me, I'm like playing for him. Yeah. Reverend or preacher. Yes. People, I guess, do that.

Yeah. Yeah. Could it be in a smaller town, like an Otwell? So many people in the community did probably play for them that maybe it just sticks out more people call them. Maybe. I also think it's interesting, though, there was a time, like with the president where you would always say President Reagan. you know, President Nixon or President Now you say Trump or Biden

Like they don't like people don't give the title Even governor we just say Bashir We don't say Governor Bashir really right It is a lot of time a title of respect Like for the president or a doctor I think it's a little bit of a respect to refer to him that way I just don't see coaches like that but that's just me Who's next? Carl

Carl go ahead Carl You do it out of respect. That's the reason why that you address them as such they are. But I don't, but I mean, why wouldn't you call a radio host? When you're in court, you address other attorneys. That's different. But, okay, let's use judge. Let's use a damn bit different.

All right, hang on. If you're just going to interrupt and cuss, I'm not going to have you on. All right. In court, in court, if you're in front of a judge, you say judge. But I know judges, and I don't call them judge when I see them on the street. Right? Yeah. You say Gabe.

That's true. All right. Now, go ahead. He hung up. All right. Well, they seemed very angry. He's very mad about it. If there was a judge you saw on the street that you didn't have a personal relationship with them, would you refer to them as Judge Jones or would you say their first name?

Like, you know, you know Gabe kind of person. I don't know. But respect, I'm all for respect. But do you call a teacher, like a teacher deserves as much respect as a coach? Do you call them, if you see a teacher, do you call them Mr. Johnson? People probably don't or Mrs. Johnson. Coach is no more need. Every job deserves respect, right?

Yeah. I think the teacher thing would go back to like where are you their student. Kind of like, did you play for this person? If I played for some more, I'd probably go coach forever. If I saw my fifth grade teacher today, I'd probably still call them. If I saw any of my professors, I would call them Mr. or Miss. Yes. You're exactly right about that.

That's a lot more than time, though. I thought we'd spend on that. We met Scotty Basler at Hotel Lex, and we met Scottie Basler at Hotel Lex, and we talked to Scotty about you having his class, and he took you to Washington, D.C. Oh, I love, I have great Scotty Basel. That was one of the most fun things. He was an awesome teacher, but I call him Scotty. You call him Scotty.

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on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back, Tech Sports Radio. I'll tell you something, Shannon. You don't get people worked up. We've been talking for two and a half days. Everybody's been like, Matt, glad to have you back. It's awesome. Didn't say you're not going to call people coach.

They get angry. I was just saying to you during the break, like, why do we have to show coaches more respect than other people in society? Like, why do they deserve that treatment? But other people don't, you know? I'm with you. That's kind of what I'm getting at. Like, I don't know.

I mean, again, if you play for them. But that's interesting. I will tell you, the text machine seems to disagree with us, Shadden. Or at least the ones that wrote. Yeah. One person writes, I would never call a coach anything but coach. They give their time and their life to help people. they deserve the respect.

So do a lot of people that aren't coaches. So do a lot of people. I mean, if you want to use that logic, that you should address everybody by Mr. or Mrs. Yes. And then there was a time in society that we did that. But I agree. Like, why don't you, your mechanic helps people.

Yeah. Call him Mr. Mr. Mechanics. Sir. Right? Like, I mean, he helps people just as much. Guy working at the man or woman working at the factory. You know, they help people.

I would say they help people at EMT. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they help people a lot. more than coaches do this just our entertainment yeah well i do want to be called blogger if anyone addresses me on the street mr mr blizzard to unless you call me blogger now this has got to make three of the four of us very excited because we're going the braves and the reds are going to play a game next year at bristol motor speedway they think with a hundred and thirty thousand

people in attendance we're going absolutely awesome that's awesome our teams We have to work now on the traffic situation getting out. But beyond that, because apparently the traffic situation, when Tennessee played Virginia Tech in football, I had somebody tell me might be the worst traffic that's ever happened on earth. So we're going to, I'm working on the traffic already. But put that to the side. Do you think that'll be cool, Drew, to see a baseball game in Bristol Motor Speedway?

Absolutely. It'll be a fun trip for us being two of our teams. Sorry, the Cardinals couldn't make it a triple their Ryan. It's an easy drive. Those are the two teams if you want to get a crowd there, you'd probably do because they're both drivable. They don't have like a camping situation. We could just overnight it. I bet they do.

Maybe we get a little RV and just stay. You know, that's actually, that might be what we should do. Just stay overnight. I bet they will have an RV thing because they do it for now. Figure that out. But no, as soon as that was announced, I didn't even have to talk to you. I knew that was going on the KSR calendar being Braves and Reds. Yeah, Shannon, you got to love that, right?

Yeah, I mean, that's exciting. That's crazy. I just looked it up, $115,000 is the largest crowd in Major League Baseball history. So this would then break that. They're trying to break it. Yeah. Like the Tennessee Virginia Tech game broke the college. They're trying.

Bristol Motor Speedway is trying to be like we're more than NASCAR. So they're trying to put as many events there as they can to break attendance records. So now I guess they're going to try to do it with baseball. Great move for Bristol Motor Speedway. I've never been there. I've never been to a race there or anything. So I think it's kind of cool to see this historic venue and going to see a baseball game there. So you'll come with us?

100% yeah and I mean they'll fill it up just with Ellie Dela Cruz fans right I think Atlanta will come in pretty strong in that area just I'm just saying KS helicopter maybe we can get one of those little south likes the bruce dayla Cruz became last night the first player in the history of major league baseball to in to have in one season four stolen bases in a game four extra base hits in a game a game with four It's like there were four different things that were four. I can't remember what it was. And Ellie became the first player to ever do it in a season and nobody else had ever done it in a career. Oh, my. Really? Yes.

And he's still got a month left. He's 22 years old. That's amazing. He's 22 years old. Who's up next? Mr. Kentucky Joe, sir. Kentucky. Mr. Kentucky Joe.

How are you, sir? I'm doing fun. and I the first thing I love that I love that introduction Mr. Kentucky Joe. Yeah well you're going to lose it

if you don't get to your point. You've already lost it. Oh I lost it. Okay. Hey, Matt, hey Matt, it's good to have you back. Thank you, sir. I mean,

memories, I imagine you had memories. It's Greece, Italy and Ireland, right? I went to 12 countries, but those were, yes, those were three of them. You've been to Croatia? Do you go to back?

I went to Croatia the last time I was there. So I was there six years ago. I've been, I've been to Croatia. You've been to Croatia. What did you do in Croatia, Joe? What did you do in Croatia? Well, I've been to Croatia. I've been to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

This is something I never talked about. What did you just visit it? Or was it like, you? Yes. It's a place called Medigoria. That's where the blessed mother is apparent. That's something you all don't know about me. You know, there's another part of me.

Oh, well, good for you. I had to go there because my mom died of colon cancer back in 88. Oh. Well, I did not know that. Well, you're a worldly traveler, Joe. It's nice to hear your voice. Are you doing okay? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm ready for you, K football. I got a few projects ahead today. Good luck on your projects. And when you... No, no, no, no. I'm talking about project, projects, I mean, for you all to hear. Well, we don't have time to do it today. We'll do one later, but Joe, I appreciate the call,

and maybe we'll do a pre-season song a little later. Who would have known that Kentucky Joe went to Bosnia and Croatia? You know, I got a lot of questions. I still want to ask you about your trip. Go ahead, ask one before the break. What was the who had the best food? Was by far the food you like the best? I mean, Italian food is amazing.

I like the Spanish food a lot, the tapas. The only food, you know, I used to make fun of you all the time. Ryan because you'd talk about going to what was it Austria yeah and I'd be like you'd go I've been to Austria and I go well what's what about Austin you'd be like I hate the food that was always your first answer he wouldn't talk about Vienna or Salzburg or like the chapels it was like I hate the food I'm kind of weird what is it there's something about it's just something about the food in Germany and Austria it's like it's too much weaners don't you don't need to clip that it's like schnitzel it's like it's just

not it's just not good like i i could never you know i like sourcrow so i would basically just eat sourcrow because all the rest of it is just i don't know big bowl of crout i mean i maybe there's more and because austrian food is basically german food yes and i just i don't like it whereas the other food i love but i just couldn't get into it did you sneak over to a mcdonalds or a kfc anywhere one night i ate macdonalds a couple times. What amazes me about Europe is how much they love McDonald's. Yeah. I mean, they, you've been, they love McDonald's. Not only do they have McDonald's everywhere, they have McDonald's in like the nicest parts of town. So it'll be like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, McDonald's.

I'm serious. You've made the nicest part of town in a European city and there is a huge McDonald's right in the middle of it. We'll take a break. Be right back. Hour two, KSA. podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform?

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My mama want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. American Soccer is about to explode. The World Cup is coming. Ramos sending on to earn a store at the chip.

I'm Tab Ramos. I'm Tom Bowker. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines, the biggest decisions, and the truth about the U.S. national team. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if, our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals. Listen, Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tabramos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast.

Hey, I'm Deanna Maria Riva, and on my new podcast, How Hard Can It Be? I call on my Gen X squad from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate Midlife's most fantastic BS. Unfiltered conversations from night sweats to futas to scheduling sacks. Wait, what sex? Is it just me? or does every woman my age want to look at Pinterest instead of having sex sometimes? They say we can't polish a turn, but we're sure going to try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter.

Listen to How Hard Can It Be with Diana Maria Riva on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.