KSR - 2024-09-04- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

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One person on the text machine writes, when I hear Mario pronounce these names, now I know why he didn't. get credentialed to the game. That was rough. I don't like that one. That one hit home. One person writes, Matt, how's Ryan feeling? I was there Saturday. I was worried about him.

That's a good question. How you feel it? Better. I'm not 100% still can't drive, but definitely better. Is it like, explain to somebody what, like, vertigo is like? Because a lot of people, if you've never experienced, it may not know what it is. When it was at its worst, like when you're a kid, and you spin around in a circle and you spin and spin and spin like on a merry-go-round and then you stop and you immediately fall to the ground because you're so dizzy that's what it feels like all day long like i can't you can't i have no balance can't walk really light-headed just dizzy and did you just wake up like that one morning i was here for singo tuesday night drove from here to georgetown to see jennifer and as soon as i got in her driveway opened up my car door and i couldn't walk i could almost fell down i mean i drove all the way there but as soon as i got out of the car it's when it hit me i couldn't even stay

stand up. Wow. Well, so it's crazy. So things are better. Better. Do you feel like you've gotten better every day? Yes. Okay. Mario was my Uber driver today. So he picked me up. I don't know what we'd do without Mario now. Who's going to text Dan Ovlogersky? I want to give Mario a little something. Your handwriting is a little hard to read sometimes. So maybe he was trying to read it. All right. So do we have any more yeses? No yeses. I have a Joe, Joe Fortinbaugh. Yes. There we go. He says bottle of happy. Just say yes. He's a yes. All right. So now we're at Joe Fortinba. So we have seven. I'm still working on Jimmy Dykes. You still work? What are you negotiating with him? I'm recruiting for you, Matt.

What is Jimmy Dykes asking? What does he have to do? He just said he's in. Jimmy Dykes is in. All right. Now we have a. Nice. What good negotiation there. We got another one. Who is it? Cole Cubblec. Cubblec. Cubl. Cubl. Cubl. Cublick. Cole Kublick. He did the game Saturday night. Did you watch the game? I did watch the game.

Okay, he was... Sorry about that, Cole. He's the bald guy that was on the field during the game. You did a rapid reaction, too. Very nice. Cole Kublick. All right, boy, we're killing it. We now have nine people in.

Good crew. You can go ahead and add Joe Fortinbaugh. He says he's in. Good. What about the people in your list? Poor Richie Farmer and Tim Couch? They may have a field pool before they get there. I think we got...

We can have to... I think two to each. I think Merrill Manson's going to say no. There's going to be a few of them that go. All right, so is everybody going to be on their best behavior? Because you know what today is. Oh, yeah. Today is.

For those of you that don't know, today is the day that I take these gobers to go meet Mark Pope. Okay, so Mark Pope has agreed to meet. Got another one. Go ahead. What is it? Dickey Lions. Dickie Lions. All right.

Nice. Dickie Lyons. Boy, this is becoming a star study group. All right. Are you, well, you've met him before? Yes. Are you excited? I am excited.

You know what? What a change of pace. The old coach wouldn't even look our way, and this coach wants to talk to us. I mean, that's kind of. But he's bringing us in. We can't screw up. The truth. Like I met with him, and then he said, I'd like to meet your crew.

He didn't invite Shannon, but actually, he would have invited you, Shannon. You just are in Louisville, and he had to meet at 1230. Are you excited? Very excited. Marl and I already met him, got a picture, and I was his, camper at basketball camp. I'm sure we'll go over all those things that happened in 95 catching up on old times. Mario, what about you? You got to be excited. I'm pumped. Do you know who he is? Mark Pope? Mark? Just make sure. Yeah, I know Mark Pope. We met him, dear. He gave us a firm

handshake. We have a new picture with him. All right. So you're excited. Like he wants to meet you though in your official capacity. You're meeting with the coach. You can't get credentialed, but you're meeting with the coach. I'm excited, man. I'm pumped. We call him. We need to bring him some cookies. That's a good question. What are you going to call him? I'm calling him. I'm calling him Mark. What are you calling him? Coach Pope. You're going to call him Coach Pope? Absolutely. Okay. What about you? I'm probably going to go with Mark. What about you? Coach Pope.

Okay, so we got two marks, two Coach Poles. The two guys that played basketball, calling coach. There you go, right? What do you mean the two guys that's basketball? I played basketball. Well, that's loosely. You did bring a roster. I was on the roster. You were an all-American clapper from Middlesborough High School.

He had a coach. You know what? I do you have a question. Are we meeting in his office? Yeah, we're going to his office. Oh, cool. That's kind of cool. He's going to his office.

Never ever stepped foot in John Cali Perry's office, I'll tell you that. Really? No. It's a new era, Ryan. It's a new era. And you can... I'm excited to see the office. I'd been in Cal's office.

I want to see what he did with it. I don't know if y'all saw a week or two ago, the Alabama football coach went viral for how he flipped Sabin's office. Got roasted for it. I just want to see what Pope did with the place. You'll notice. It is a lot... And I'm not criticizing Cal, but Cal was a cow-centric office.

This is a UK-centric office. So it's much better. What are you laughing at? Your mom, she just texted me. She said, I love hearing Mario say these names. Oh, I think she's tried to text me. That's my phone. Yeah.

Okay, well, Mario saying the names is great. 859-280-2287. Who's up next, Shannon? Let's go to Jerry. Jerry. How are you, Jerry? Hey, man. First off on the South Carolina.

Carolina game, I really don't, they're really down this year, particularly quarterback and the offensive line. So I think we win like 28 to 7. But the interesting thing about the Georgia game, when Mike Elko was being interviewed before the Notre Dame game Saturday, we're talking about how he had worked with Notre Dame's quarterback for two years on his team and how that would be an advantage for him. He said, no, the advantage is he practiced against my defense for two years. And that's some advantage we might have in the Georgia game is Van Griff knows that defense. He does. He does.

I mean, we have arguably, I appreciate the car, are the guy that has his helmet on for the offense and the defense for Kentucky, the sort of captain of both the office and the defense knows Georgia as well as anybody because they both played there. Yep. Right? So the guy that's going to be calling the plays, he knows he played at Georgia and the guy who knows on defense played at Georgia that will probably be a little. bit of an advantage. I mean, everything else is not an advantage, but that part will be an advantage. The guy that I trust his football knowledge, he goes, look, you don't understand Van de Griff was a scout team quarterback against the first team defense, the best team in the country for two years. He can play. He knows what out of play against the Georgia defense.

And on the other side, Dumas Johnson. I mean, he was probably going against a little scout team on the other way, but he knows what that offense is going to do. Probably know a lot of the people on defense, too. Got a hint. Sort like, you know, a little whisper. We are one of two three finalists for game day if we win Saturday. If we win Saturday, we are one of three finalists and I've kind of heard really one of two.

The third is if there's upsets on both. So I don't know what the other one is. I mean, looking at it, I guess it's Alabama Wisconsin is probably the other one. But the thing about Alabama, Wisconsin is that game is not on ESPN. So I think the tie goes to the runner. I mean, that game is on Fox. So I think

you know. Yeah. So It's also at noon. You don't want to just lead directly into their game. So, I mean, Alabama, Wisconsin, I mean, what if we had game day next week? Like, how awesome would that be? I'm to the point. I'm pretty much expecting it as long as they finish the job against South Carolina. Just looking at the other games around the country, I think Kentucky could be a favorite,

especially if they look good on Saturday. I mean, the two best games are clearly Alabama, Wisconsin, Kentucky, George. I mean, those are the two if, but Kentucky's got to hold up there. the bargain, which is win that game, because they're not coming if we lose. Then they'll go to Alabama, Wisconsin. So we've got to make sure we actually get the W. What did Georgia win, too? We don't want them to throw it off.

Who did they play? I don't even know if someone not good, right? Okay. All right, well, we do need them to win as well. 859-2-80. Tennessee Tech. Tennessee Tech. I think they will get that.

Any more? Any more we got? I'm currently working on Nick Mingeon. Okay. All right, good. Let's talk for a second about the Louisville. people we got we got a text back from Orlando and Tegua is that a no he's typing

oh he hasn't responded yet so he said what's up brother that was his answer yeah yeah his answer was just what's up brother yeah that's all he said it's all he said okay all right well I don't know how to respond to that so yesterday and we had the caller predict this yesterday I screwed up and said Louisville played Florida State Do you remember that?

I do, yes. I said Louisville's going to play Florida State. Well, they don't play Florida State. They play Notre Dame and maybe Miami or Clemson, something. I don't know which one. But they don't play Florida State. Then the caller called later in the show and said, I want you to correct that because they will say it on the radio today.

Dude predicted. He did. He did. He called a shot. Dude completely called his shot. On Twitter, first of all, I'm amazed at how much they listened to this show. I mean, I thank them. You show up in the.

ratings. Sure. I get a bonus every year. Thank you. Based on you all listening. So thank you very much for doing that. But they immediately put it up. Matt doesn't know anything, et cetera, and that went viral.

Matt's the biggest idiot on radio, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then it became they are now claiming because they play four top 25 teams that their schedule is now harder than Kentucky's. Now, I will note that two of their top 25. teams are SMU and Boston College. Some powerhouses. Give us those two teams on our schedule. Let me say that again.

SMU and Boston College. As opposed to Georgia, Texas, Ole Miss, Missouri, et cetera, and them, they're top 25 now, SMU and Boston College. I like beating Louisville every year, but it's going to be extra sweet when we beat them this year. Because they're going to go like 9 and 2. They might even be 10 and 1.

The playoff odds have them at a 34% chance of playoff, but here's what's going to happen. They're going to walk into this stadium with a chance to go to the playoff, and we are going to beat them, and they're not going to go to the playoff, and that's going to be quite fun. Last year was a very similar situation. They had the good season. But the playoff now. They're going to have a chance.

to go to the playoffs. Even better. And that's when we're going to beat them. And I'm going to take such elaborate joy in that, Ryan. I'm excited about that game for sure, and our fan base will be also. Let's hope our record is better than it was going into that game last year to make it even a bigger, bigger event in Lexington. Even though I don't like them being ranked and in the conversation, I like this setup we have

where every year they just get so excited and at the end. We're like, no, sit back down. You don't matter. No, every year we're going to be what ruins their year. That's why I like the game at the end. Because the ACC is a relatively easy conference, we're going to have it to where when they're good, we ruin their season every single year.

And I have to tell you, Ryan, I really do take joy in that. I was one of the guys that hated to see it move from the first game of the year. But now that it is the last game, you're right. How many times now we've ruined their season because of us maybe not being the favorite team come in and knock them off, especially on their home field.

That's right. Feels like you're hitting a dry spell, Mario. Are you getting into long conversations with Andy Bashir? What's happening? No, so I got... You got to use your microphone. I got a... Nick Minjeon said that he's going to pass on this one, but he appreciates the offer.

We got a pass from Nick Mingeon. He says, I appreciate you twice in one text message. He's very nice. Yeah, sure. He said, oh, gotcha. Appreciate you thinking of me. I don't do fantasy or anything like that. Appreciate you thinking of me, though.

Please don't let this stop thinking of me. for other things in the future. Okay, yeah. Love Mitcho. All right. I like that, Nick Mingeo. All right. We'll be thinking of him.

Mario reads my text messages would be a great segment. A nice segment in general. Who's up next, Shannon? Dave. Dave. Dave, how are you, Dave? Hey, doing well. Good morning, fellas.

Two things. Tell Mario, and I'm saying this with a smile on my face, but if you're going to give him a list like that, hooked on phonics, I've got a bootleg copy. I had to use it myself. He just doesn't know these guys. He doesn't watch. Do you watch ESPN, Mario?

I do a little bit, but not, I don't know name for name, like the personalities on ESPN. I understand. All right, go ahead. Yeah, got to give the guy a break. Secondly, it speaks to what you've already been talking about. Where's all this love for little brother Louisville coming from after they whip up on the mighty, mighty Austin P? And I'm going to hang up with you continue that. It's ridiculous.

I don't get it. I don't get it either. It's, well, I mean, part of it is they've had no success in a long time. And so when you've had no success, even the most minor success. makes you happy, which I understand that, Ryan. But part of it's just ridiculousness. Actually, to be honest, I want them to have a great season. I don't.

So we can loop, kick their butt in the last game, just makes it that much more sweeter. I will enjoy beating them in that last game, but I would still love them to go five and six or something going into it. Yeah, I prefer they lose every single game in every single sport. Yeah, 89,000, swimming. 89-2-8027. We are here at KSbar Grill.

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Like right now? I mean, it was taken this morning. Maybe Pope's already on a flight home to see us. You know, it's not that hard for him to get around, especially from. from Atlanta. A little over an hour. He flies private. I'd say, uh, you think there is a, it's a non-zero percentage. So you think we're getting stood up? I don't think we're getting stood up. I mean, I, I am going to be prepared to be stood up.

Our meetings at 12.30. Yeah. This photo, that's an hour. This photo was originally started with someone named Trent Markwith. He tweeted it 18 minutes ago. So at 11.02, Mark Pope was standing in the gym of Holy Innocence Episcopal School in Atlanta. Yeah. You think they got the days mixed up? He can still make it, right? I mean, he could. I still think there's multiple Mark Popes.

What if we go there and there is a Mark Pope, and we also knew he was in Atlanta? I'm sitting in his office until he gets back. I'll put my feet on the desk. I have to go teach my class at two. Yeah. We might have gotten stood up, boys. I got up and showered and everything.

You looked like you dressed up for this. Yeah. This is your official. Workout attire. Can I just show you? I'm wearing the nicest clothes I would wear, and you're, that's your meat-marked Pope outfit? This is my best polo that I own. Actually, this is my second shirt.

What do you mean your second shirt? The first one, I put on the start with the shirt with Father Jim Schittgo, giving the Pope jersey to the Pope. Okay. I thought, well, that may be a little too much. So you just went with that? It's a Nike black shirt, yes. It's a dry fit workout shirt.

Maybe you'll get some reps and the craps. That's a big step down. But it may not matter. He may have stood this up, Shannon. I don't know what to do. Yeah, I wanted you to explain what Ryan was wearing since I'm not there with you guys to see it. He's wearing a black t-shirt that's like a tight t-shirt. He doesn't look bad.

It's not a freebie. It's not a freebie. It's got the Nike logo. What would you call these shorts right here? Corteroy but fake Yeah Maybe You should wear pants when you see the Pope

I agree with you I think when you see a coach You should wear pants So what do you think How are we going to pull this off here? I mean we're going to go And I think we're going to find out that they Missedged

Is there saying that we can call ahead of time Well Marie's got my phone So I think we're going to We're going there All right unless somebody tells me otherwise We're going and if he's not there then he's not there. We'll take a picture and it'll be what it is.

But we're going. Maybe we can meet with. We show up for appointments. We show up for our appointments. That's exactly right. I'm upset, Drew, about this direct TV ESPN thing. What's going on? Doesn't this happen every year?

Does any of you have ESP, direct TV? Anybody left? I mean, I know there's not many. The problem for me is this bar has direct TV. Like almost every bar you know uses direct TV because it's easier. So every sports bar that you know of probably. has direct TV. That will change in the future because YouTube TV.

But right now, in order to have multiple stuff, you almost have to have direct TV. Well, right now ESPN and all the ESPN networks, ESPN, ESPN 2, SEC Network, etc., are not on direct TV. What is going on? Cags coming in. They are not on direct TV. So we have an issue. Now, the game Saturday, Kentucky's games on ABC, which doesn't affect us. The NFL game Thursday is on NBC, so that doesn't affect us.

But, you know, there's other games Saturday. Is this going to be the final death for DirecTV, which is seen like its subscribers plummet? Like they've lost 50% of their subscribers in like the last three years. Is this going to be the final straw for them? Am I crazy? Don't they do this every football season? Every season, it seems like. Seems like there's always still the final minute.

They're like, okay, we've figured it out again. But the final minutes already happened. Like, it went away. It went away Sunday. I saw that DirecTV has gone to the SEC and asked the SEC to get involved so that their games won't be missed on Saturday. Because there's some big games Saturday in the SEC that are on ESPN. The moment Sunday ticket left Direc TV, I thought that was the death blow. And now we're just watching it fizzle away with this being adding to that death.

Are you, do you think this is going to be it for the direct TV? Drew said what I was going to say. It seems like this happens every single season and at the last minute before the game's going to kick off. They figure it out. Yeah, well, we'll see what. Are you ever going to switch? YouTube TV is so great. I'm getting rid.

This is the final straw. I kept it because of Sunday ticket, the NFL Sunday ticket, but now it's on YouTube TV. So this is probably it. We got the multi-view. The problem is they still make you pay for that. equipment like that like you have to give them back the equipment and I don't even know where you go like my equipment's from 15 years ago so who what are they even going to do with it like when you get up on your roof and unplug your satellite no they make you I don't know about the satellite

but they make you take their boxes and give it back to them and I don't even know where to go who to give them to it's a good thing about YouTube TV you don't need any boxes or satellites it's just right there in the cloud coming straight to you who's up next Bob and Jamestown Bob how are you 859-2-80-2287. Go ahead, Bob. Got a couple of things. How did that Mitchum work out for you, Matt? How did what?

To Mitchum deodorant. It was wonderful. Worked out great for Ryan. It worked out great. Ryan took it home. If I'm going to be honest with you, Bob, I don't want to lie to you. Ryan took it home. Bob, it leaves a flaky residue everywhere.

So it's kind of like you don't want white armpit stain. So that's why I'm not going to use it. Anyway, with this direct TV, it's also ABC and the Disney Channel. So once again, they're in that seasonal pissing contest. Okay, we can't say that word. We can't say that word, but go ahead, Bob. I dropped them. See, I mean, you know, you give Bob a chance and you go,

do you know how many people say to me some form of, you're too mean to Bob? Like, I get that all the time. I got that Saturday. Somebody goes, you're too mean to Bob, but he comes on. on here, he cusses, he talks about, like, deodorant. Like, why are you deodorant? We got one.

We got two. Oh, all right, who is it? All right. All right. We got Tim Ryan. Sure, buddy. Tim Ryan. Tim Ryan.

Former Congressman Tim Ryan. Didn't expect Tim to respond. Okay, got you. And then we got Tucker Max. Wow. Not a former congressman. He's in. He's in.

This league is now going. So we have Tim Ryan and Tucker Max. Yep. What happened to Tucker Max? was everywhere for a lot. He, I think he lives off the grid. He does. He like built his own school. Really? Yeah, he lives off the grid and he like, a lot of people don't even know who Tucker Max is, but he was like, he was like Dave Portnoy before Dave Portnoy. And he, uh, he lives off the grid. He built his own farm. I think the only thing he has is a cell phone. Like he doesn't, he doesn't

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We will take a break and be right back. We are here at KS Bar. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. What did you just say, Drew? Penny Hardaway fired everyone this morning

with the season two months away. Fired, what do you mean, fired everyone? Three assistants, including Rick Stansberry and like the special assistant to Penny. Basically just cleaned house on his bench. Penny Hardaway fired his staff this morning. Memphis basketball fires four

members of Penny Hardaway's coaching staff. Wow. Something had to have happened. Something happened. You can't. You don't, I mean, the season starts. He fired his staff today? Yeah, the only people still remain are a chief of staff and the director of scouting.

Wow. And then the trainer and physical therapist. Something happens, we got to know what happens. Some sort of scandal or something. It's either a scandal or he got in a fight with all of them or somebody's cheating. Like, there's no way you. you fire your whole staff a month and a half before the season. Not a chance.

One of them is Rick Stansberry. I mean, that's even having him as a sister sister there was a pretty big deal. That's amazing. It is amazing. That's amazing. Well, I can't wait to find out what that is, don't you? Like, that's...

I mean, they've already done summer practices. Everyone's getting back on campus now for the start of school. Wow. That's certainly unique. That's interesting. 859-280-2287. All right, give us it up. First of all, you...

I want you to tell me, I want you to repeat, exactly how you said it to me the question you asked me during the break. Oh, Matt, I'm looking for Jay Bayliss's contact. Is it under Jay Bilis or Jay Baylis? Is it under just the word Baylis? Do you mean Jay Billis? Jay Billis. Shannon's buddy.

Yeah, come on, Mario. You never heard of Jay Billis? Yes, I know exactly who he is. Is it under Balas? Two different ways that are neither his way. I'm not sure which. way it is, but now I know what it is. Billis. It might be under just Billis

if it's not. I figured. But go ahead. So you said we have some people in. Who's in? Let me give you the updates. You ready? We just had Tim Ryan. We got, I'm assuming he's saying yes. This is Vince Merrow. He said K. You just surprised. K is yes.

Vince Mero is in. Okay. He says K a lot. K is good. We got, shout out Myron Medcalf. Myron's in. All right. I knew he would do it. Okay. We're up to 14. We got Wu. Woo is in, up to 15.

Okay, good. We got Rick D's. Rick D. said yes. Did Rick D. Did Rick D. send his profile picture? He sets a picture. Read what Rick D. said. He says, Matt, my man, you are the best.

I am exciting. I'm exiting for Los Angeles. So I won't be available unless you come to play Lakeside Golf Club with me in the near future. If there's any other way I can help, just let me know. Your friend and fan, Rick Dees. What's a nice email? With an updated headshot. And he sent me an updated headshot?

A recent selfie. Just in case you forgot what he looks like. I like it. Wow. I think that's my favorite, but he's not agreeing to play in the league, right? Yeah, I don't think he's a... He didn't say much about the league. Okay.

Well, Rick's out. But that was nice. Very nice. The head shot to me looks like, though, from the 80s. We got some more. By my count, we're up to 16. Keep going. We got PFT commenter.

He say yes? He says, sure. All right, PFT's in. Good. You left one part out. He wants to know what the buy-in is. What's the buy-in? Okay, well, it's no buy-in.

Okay, what else? That's all we got. That's all we got. All right. What a group. The list grows. 17. 17 just, I mean, it's the elite of society in some ways.

Seeing all these names together in a list. It's pretty funny. 8-9-2-80-27. All right. So Florida coach Billy Napier loses to Miami, loses big. If there's one thing when you're losing big you don't want to do, especially when you might be on the hottest seat in all of college football, is go after the fans.

Yes. The one thing you would not want to do is go after the fans. But, oh, Billy Napier decided something different. Billy Napier said, you know what? Things aren't going well. How about I specifically go after the fans? How about I make the fans the target? Here was his response to a question yesterday.

to go to work on the football part, you know, and I think we got to get more, we've got to become a more consistent team, and we have to execute better. And if we can focus on those things and not necessarily what some guy in his basement saying in, you know, rural Central Florida on social media, then we got a chance to get better, right? So, I mean, not what some guy in his basement in rural central Florida says, I feel like that's a really stupid thing to say, don't you? This is week one. Just go ahead, pack your things. He's gone.

Like? The basement thing, that's an old joke. For some reason, I found an offensive that he said central Florida. It'd almost be like if you were singling out eastern Kentucky or a certain area of Kentucky, almost like not even the people near the beach. Not even talking about them. I'm talking about worse than that in central Florida. And then when he says rural, he's using rural as like, he's.

he's using rural almost as a slur there. Wouldn't you agree? He didn't say we can't worry about what fans said. He said what some guy in rural central Florida says. That is clearly like a they are lesser comment, isn't it? Very, very derogatory comment. No doubt about it. That's your fan base, man.

Those are the people that help you make that million dollar salary. Those fans that support the University of Florida for years and years of years. They were there long before you got there. They're going to be long after you leave. You better be careful. And they don't have basements. Yeah. That's true.

Can you even have a basement in Florida? I guess you can't. He's done. I mean, he's cooked. They have a really good chance of being one in five when we play them. I mean, look at their schedule. They have a really, really good chance of being one and five. And when we play them, they might have a different coach.

I mean, they might be on, by the time we play them, be on an interim coach at this point. I hope it's still him, though. Have a locker room that's just completely checked out, not respecting him, feuding. I want them in shambles when Kentucky gets down there just to add to how. His AD, Scott Strickland, said before the Florida Miami game, Billy Napier will be the coach here for a long, long time. He gave him two long, Shannon, not one, two longs.

How in the world do you let a guy go six weeks after you said long, long time? But they're going to, aren't they? stupid comments like that, it makes your job a lot easier to, you know, reverse course. You can't be taking a shot at fans. You cannot. Coaches make this mistake, Ryan, all the time. You can do a lot of things, but you cannot take a shot at the fans. No, we saw it here very recently in our basketball program, taking shots at the fans and talking down to the fans.

Those are the people that support you. Like I said, they're the reason you're making all that money is because of the fans. It is unbelievable. Who's next? Let's go to Steve. Steve, how are you, Steve? How are you doing that? Good.

Good. Hey, your little direct TV issue there, it's really pretty simple way to handle it. When you call to cancel their service and they start to explain to you about how you got to take this there. You just say, look, I'm a rental unit. If you want your equipment, here is my address. Come get it. I put it on the front porch and they sent a carrier. I won't mention names.

and they picked it up. Okay. Well, that's good advice, then that's what I'll do. What if they say, no, we won't pick it up? Then say, it'll be out there at the street next week, and the garbage man will pick it up. All right, I like it. You know, you're my kind of guy.

Just be like, look, company, this is what it's going to be, and if you don't like it, you don't like it. Yeah, because you're just a rental unit. That's right. Yep. Okay, I appreciate the call. That's good information, Ryan. You think I should do that?

You know, but I'm done with them. I mean, I'm a loyal customer. I've been a customer for 15 plus years. I think I'm done with them. I think, I mean, I... I think I might have somebody on the phone with DirecTV that can maybe help you. Since you're done with them.

You got somebody from DirecTV on the phone? I believe he said, Brandon. Oh, okay. All right. Hello, Brandon from DirecTV. Hey, how you doing? I'm actually, I work for DirecTV, but I mean, I'm just a technician, but I mean, they, all it is is posturing between two scumbag organizations. Disney wants more money and they know the best way to do it is to cut their, is to usher forward their little contract renegotiation right, right when football seasons start. So I would give it just a couple of weeks and it'll be back. But I definitely would not leave my boxes on the porch and say, just come get them or they'll bill you for it. They'll bill you for that. And then they'll bill you for the boxes themselves. And it's like, I don't know, $300 per box.

I wouldn't advise doing that. All right. Well, I appreciate it, Brandon. I appreciate the information and good luck to you. All right, thanks. Thank you. Not a great sign that Brandon works for DirecTV and called it a scumbag organization. But, uh, employee the month.

It'll be in the middle, Brandon. I hope that was an alien. Yeah, hopefully it was a fake name. I hope it was an alien. I just work there. I just worked there, those jerks. All right, well, appreciate the information. Any updates?

We got no updates right now. Have you written everybody? I'm finished. I'm finished. You can unlock your phone. Shot all the shots. So first of all, Mario, thank you for doing it. We have 17.

We need three more. I think we'll get the three more to the group. Why are you holding your phone up? There's two or three that I want you to see if you could try to find a contact. for me. Who's that? Patrick Patterson and Billy Kogan. All right, so Patrick Patterson is under here as Paterson. Okay. All right, so you want to try that one again? Yes. And then Billy Corgan is under Smashing Pumpkins. What? Why is that funny? Why is it smashing pumpkin? Do you know there's a band? Do you know there's a band, Billy called Smashing Pumpkins? Or Billy, I'm sorry, Mario called Smashing Pumpkins. Now I know that.

You've never heard of Smashing Pumpkins? No. Like ever. Wow. No. Have you ever heard the song, The World is a vampire? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Nope. Never heard of it.

Never heard of it. I am so old. You got to remember, he probably wasn't born for their first several hours. Shannon, is that not crazy? It is. I mean, I get it. Like, he's, you're 24, right? Yep.

He's born in 2000, right? 99. 99. Oh, 90s kid. Wow. Yeah, you're a 90s kid. You should know 90s. these music?

What's wrong with you? The world is a lambire. He's not going to change the fact he doesn't know it. Play? You think me singing it was not going to make it more likely he knows? I mean, he didn't know it 30 seconds ago in this song, but he's not going to know it again. I'll tell you what, when we come back, he'll play interstate love song, and we'll see if you've heard of that.

We'll do that. Okay. That's not even smashing Popkins. That's Stone Tipal Pilot. So we're not going to play that. That's not going to help. Well, we could play at it. It's a better song anyway.

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No, I don't. You never heard that? No. The world is a man. No, I'm never going to. Now you're singing it, though. Is it, do you like it? I have to hear more of this.

Turn it up for just a second. You need to get to the chorus. Okay, well, we'll do it. We'll get you the chorus. I think you'll like it more. All right, 859-280-2287. We don't have any more. Mr. Pectacular.

Oh, no way. Mr. Pectacular says he's two, busy. You got stood up. Big time, too. Did I just get big time by Mr. Pectacular? You did. Wow.

He said things are a little bit crazy now because of House of Villains. I turn it up. Here's a course. Never heard this? No, I never heard it. Wow. All right. Sorry, y'all.

How of all people is it Mr. Pectacular, Shannon, that big times? Hey, he's busy. He's spectacular. All those other guys aren't spectacular. I'm taking part in lots of similar leagues and House of Villains is taking up a lot of He's a big brother and what was the other wacky world of sports? Unbelievable. He was he shaving all these chest-air.

I'm not even. I'm not even, I don't even know what to say about that. All right, go ahead. Tim Ryan and didn't get Mr. Pectacular. I mean, we've got Cole Kublich. You know what your friends are. I think I've learned. He's not as spectacular as I thought he was.

8-59-2-80-22-87. Are we getting Jasper Johnson tomorrow? I would say my crystal ball is 99.9% leaning towards Kentucky getting Jasper Jones tomorrow, yes. I've been invited to the signing. It's a good sign. I'm not driving to Woodford County. Then we don't get it. Are you going?

I'm going. Yeah, I'm going. All right. I'm going. I'm going. It's not open to the public, by the way. So just so you know, the school has asked us to say, don't everybody show up there. It's not open to the public.

So I do think that's important for people to know. I will say, Shannon, it's an hour and a half long, which strikes me as being a little long for the event. It starts at 1230. He signs at 2.30. Are they doing like a parade before the committee? No, he starts at 1. I'm sorry, and he signs at 230. There's a lot of people speaking. Yeah, here's the full itinerary. I mean, let me read you the itinerary, Shannon. This is the itinerary. All right, 1230, set up. You get tables and chairs, blah, blah, blah.

two o'clock students enter the gymnasium 215 we begin the ceremony Nate Conley will speak then of course Danny Adkins Jaron Brown Dennis Johnson then the announcement press conference students students dismissed

why do we need all those speakers we just need to know where you're going to school man we don't need all that I mean I so the ceremony itself though is just well they say there are people start their things starting at 1230 we got Nate's got to welcome everyone That's the, he was with Oscar, kind of the agent type.

A couple other people got to speak. Dad's got to speak. Dad, I get. Got to let Dennis talk. And Geron Brown's the coach. And dad only left himself for three minutes. I feel like that's fine. Three minutes.

All right. That's not as much as, uh, as I guess I thought. But it is for people at home, it is at 2.30. That's when the, and it's live on something. It's live on a TV station. I think it's on the CBS Sports Channel. Is that a TV station? CBS Sports Network.

I think it is on there at 2.30. Sorry, if you got direct TV, you're not getting it. If you're on the TV, sorry. Just leave it on the porch. Who's next? Clayton. Clayton, go ahead, Clayton. Clayton.

Okay, let's try T.O. T.O. What's going on? Matt Jones. God bless you, boys, today. If you ever want to feel old, just listen to Mario, try to read off the names of some of these sportscasters. That'll definitely remind you that you are old. Mario is the one that reminds us all of our mortality. That's the thing you brought in.

Like, you make me realize, you make me realize my age more than anyone. There may be more than anyone I've ever met. But go ahead. Special God bless you to Mario there. Boys have no fear this weekend. Big Blue Nation, the line low down, dirty snitch. Beamer is going to get everything he's got coming to him this weekend when he comes to Kentucky. Tell you what, the cats are just going to pound the cocks into submission.

second half against Old Dominion. That defense was gassed out and depleted. They were. And the Rex Beck quarterback's going to be running for his life, seeing double all day. And the cats are absolutely going to roll. They're going to cover. Everybody's going to make some money.

It's going to be a big day in the bluegrass. Well, I hope so. I want it to be a big day. It's a huge day. We'll talk more about this tomorrow. It's a huge day for the program. It's a huge day for this team. I mean, Saturday is a major, major day for UK football.

I mean, you could end up getting game day the next week. There's a lot on the line next week. And by the way, for the game, Club Blue will have a tailgate for its members where you can meet members of the UK basketball team. They did it last week with Jackson Robinson and a member of the women's team. There will be multiple UK basketball players at a tailgate exclusively for Club Blue members starting at 1 o'clock. So you go to ClubBlue.com, make yourself a member.

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I got Skylar Bros. They want to join. Okay. Skylar Bros. Sclar Bros. Schuyler Bros. The Schuyler Bros. That brings us to 19.

The Schuyler Bros are in. You mean Squar Brothers? And what's the last one? Ryan McGee. He said that he's going to pass, and then I'm working on Steve Zand. Zahn. Steve Zon. Ryan McGee passed?

He did pass. He said he's a little busy. Rust in peace. He's over. So we got big-timed by Mr. Pectacular and Ryan McGee. Unbelievable. 19 people, though. 19 people.

One shy of the goal. We are one shire of the goal. We are one. shot Mario, excellent job. Well, that worked. Texting all those people. Yeah. And sort of pronouncing their names.

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