KSR - 2024-10-17- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk historical moments in UK Basketball and get another finalist for the UK Basketball Fan Experience contest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is our number two. Kentucky Sports Radio. Far be it for me to criticize my colleagues at ESPN, but there's literally right now a topic would you rather have Patrick Mahomes or Brock Purdy this week.

Are you crazy? Patrick Mahomes, I think he's pretty good. Patrick Mahomes might be the best. Like, it's him or Brady? Like, you want to say, I'd rather have Brock Purdy? I want to hear the argument somebody's going to try to give, to take Brock Purdy over Patrick Mahomes.

What would the argument be? I mean, Purdy's great, but Mahomes is an all-timer, so I don't know what you could possibly be debating here. I can't either. Anyway, 859-280-2287, people continuing to give me things that they think fans should know. What about Malik Monk getting 47 on North Carolina? I'm telling you, I've said this before. That is the best regular season game I've ever seen live.

It was unbelievable what he did that day. Alan Cutler chasing Billy Gillespie. Yeah, that's an all-timer. That's an all-timer. I mean, that's pretty good. I was trying to think of something in the last five years, and the public won't remember, but something that I remember was the shutdown at the SEC tournament from COVID.

No, I think that's definitely one I will remember, whether or not. Just that feeling we all had? Yeah, that was very much crazy. All right, let's talk about a couple other things here. We do want to mention, I want more than mention, I do want to sort of remember Lonnie Demery, who was a U.K. reporter. He did football and basketball, but his real focus was football.

And he had a pretty amazing story of the life. He passed away. He fell, I think, at the U.K. Alabama basketball game last year and struggled after that some and passed away yesterday. Bonnie, like, was a self-taught guy. He went to, he was in the military. He then worked for a while for IBM, and at some point decided in the 80s he wanted to sports write and he wanted to be a newspaper writer.

So he wrote for, I think, the community voice, which I believe was like a black newspaper in town. He would do sports and he would do movie reviews. Never got to read his movie reviews, but I wanted to. He covered UK football for 40 plus years. nicest man ever. Ask any football player. They all loved him.

Like he got to know all of them. For a long time, he did a postgame radio show on one of the other stations with Larry Glover after games. If you followed UK sports, you at some point have read or remember Lonnie, worked for the cat's paws for a little while, worked for Kentucky Sports Report for a little while. He was very friendly and friends with me and all three of us, honestly, came in here. Not that long ago and just showed up one day, came in, sat down, talked to us for five minutes, walked out, but it was good to seem. But, Ryan, I know you knew him for a long time. Very sad news and my prayers and condolences to the family of one of really the greats of being around UK sports, specifically UK football, Lonnie Demer.

This one hurts. I mean, it really does. We all know Lonnie. I remember Bill Curry, I think, giving the nickname the mayor, because he was kind of the mayor of all the UK press corps. And Rich Brooks, I used to kid him all the time, say, Lonnie, I don't know who you write for, but you're always here. He must be here for the free food. I want to tell about Lonnie, you know, before segregation, there were two black high schools in Lexington, Paul Orange Dunbar and Frederick Douglas High School. Lonnie was one of the best athletes to ever come out of Frederick Douglas High School.

But it was before segregation, so nobody got to know it. During segregation. During segregation, yeah. So he was a football track. So like you said, he went to the military. Well, then they had their own little athletic teams, whatever post he was at to play football. He was so good, other posts would like trade for him to use in their games. Really? I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah. So when the new Frederick Douglass opened here in town, they invited all the living alumni back for their first home football game. And some of them were in wheelchair, some of them were on walkers. But Lonnie was right there, walked out on the field, and after the game I saw him, and he was crying. He said, I got my school back. I got my alma mater back. You know, it was just such a great story. So we're all going to miss him.

Just such a great guy. You gave him your Dodgers tickets every year. Yeah, every year when the Reds would play the Dodgers, he was a huge Dodgers fan. I would give him a Dodgers game, and he would go up there, and it would be so sweet. He would take pictures, selfies of him sitting on the field. I think it was fitting last night when you sent me the note that he had passed. I was watching the Dodgers, and that's just, you know, something was near and dear to his heart, UK and the Dodgers. Yeah, my son.

sign seat was by Lonnie at most games. Every single time he would walk up to me. Have you seen and he would name a movie? No, Lonnie, haven't seen that one yet. He'd tell me 10 minutes about the movie, whether I should see it or not see it. Well, back in the day, back in the day they would do

for these local media outlets that reviewed movies, they would have like a Tuesday afternoon showing of movies coming out Friday so that they could watch it so they could write the reviews. And Lonnie did it for a while, but then long after he stopped riding, they would still let him come,

and he would go see, Lottie would go see every movie, like every single movie. And we tried to get him to write for, I wanted him to do movie reviews for KSR. We never could quite get him to do it. I always said he was too busy. Yeah. I'll miss that the most.

It really bothers me. I always told him I'd go to Wheeler's with him. That hurt me pretty bad last night. But you mentioned selfies. I'm not exactly. I have an album. I probably have 30 pictures of me. I tweeted eight of them last night.

I can't just tweet all of these photos. But love that guy. going to miss him. My favorite story was just last year. You know, we're one of the last sleeve Rupp Arena. We look over and there's a phone and I learned that it's Lonnie's and UK people are gone. It's Middle of the night. So I'm like, I guess I'll take Lonnie's phone. I don't know who else I would give it to. And I get home and that thing is dinging all night. I can't get the pass code. You remember, Ryan? The next morning, I think I called Larry Vaught. I'm trying to find people to find Lonnie. Finally get in touch with his daughter. But I just had

Lonnie's phone for 24 hours and it would ping every. minute or two and I could not shut that thing up or get logged in. That was my guy. Everybody loved Lonnie. I miss Lonnie a lot. So God bless his family and rest in peace to one of the true UK football, UK football legends. Who's next, Shannon?

Darrell. Darrell, go ahead, Darrell. A couple of other things from the rough era. There was one year back in the 50s that we were the number one team in the nation, and they would, the NCAA kind of stacked it against us. from what I've read, that if you had any players that graduated, they could not play in the NCAA, so rough turned down. Yeah, no, yeah.

We went and played in the NIT. It was like, what, one of those years, like in the early 50s, yeah. Yeah. And then as far as Pat Riley, there was something, I think he actually started, but he jumped center because he has, he was like Jerry West. He has really good pops to him. But it showed a pitcher in the Harold Leader maybe 25 or 30 years ago of him jumping center. And, of course, when the ball goes up, everybody's looking at the ball.

It had him going up at his, and he was trying to tap it with his right hand. His left hand was pulling the competitor, I think, was a Tennessee player down at the same time. I like that. I like that. That's good. Now, I have to look, Corny, you can find that picture. Yeah, I appreciate it. I got working one more Lonnie thing that came from Corey Price.

I forgot to mention this. I didn't know this, but Corey did a nice tribute to Lonnie. Did you know he coached the blue-white football game? I did hear that. And Rick Bosich. It was Lonnie Demery versus Rick. Lonnie Demery versus Rick. Can you imagine if tomorrow they asked me versus Ryan coaching the blue-white game?

It would not go well for either of us. But yes. I'd never heard that. So, Corey, too. That's crazy. I'd forgotten that. That little nugget. Like you said, Lonnie used to do post-game radio shows.

I still don't know really who he wrote for. I don't know if I ever saw anything he ever wrote. He bounced around. Yeah. All right, I got a question for you. Kentucky, we talked about yesterday number eight in the SEC. Here's my question for you. Let's say we're number 23 in the AP poll going into the season when we look back at the end of the year.

Will we think we were underrated or overrated at 23? Underrated? So basically that means do you think we would? will be a sixth seed? Do you think will be better than a six seed or worse than a six seed in the tournament, which is what a number 23 ranked team would be in the NCAA tournament? I'm going to go to a little underrated, but not by much. I kind of had it in my head.

They were around 20 to begin with, so 23rd is just a little below. So I'm going to say they're a little underrated. So that means you're going to, because part of what I want you to do is predict the seed we'll have in the NCAA tournament. So you're going to predict like a five seed? Like a five seed. Okay. All right.

What about you, Drew? I think they're a little underrated. Just thinking back to Pope last year with BYU was picked to be at the bottom of the Big 12. And then I don't remember exactly where they started, but their top 20 team at the end of the year in Ken Palm with not having as good of a roster as he has in Kentucky. So that's my optimism. And I think they're a little underrated. I mean, it's fine right now, but I think they'll play their way up and be in a better spot by the end of the year.

Yeah, I'm going to set. So what seed in the tournament? I'll go four. Four? I think it's a little underrated. and I'm going to put us as a four seed in the tournament. I think we're going to have some hiccups in the SEC, but I think we're also going to beat some teams down.

I think when you look at the early season games, like between Duke and Gonzaga, I think we'll win one of those. But I also think, and like then when we play Ohio State and Clemson, we'll lose one of those, right? Like I think it'll be one of those things where we pull some games off. We shouldn't. We lose some games we shouldn't.

And we'll end up about a four-seat. That's kind of my prediction. I think that's fair. And I think, you know, the analysis where the SEC is just, there's just some really, really good teams in the SEC this year. We mentioned them the other day. Even like Texas and Texas A&M, these teams are really good this year. Arkansas is going to be good this year.

So, yeah, they'll stump their toe a little bit. Andy Katz said the two hardest teams in college basketball to predict what they're going to do this year are Arkansas and Kentucky. And that's probably true. Yeah. Like I could see Arkansas. Putting it together and being good, I could see them missing the tournament. You know, like, I'd be surprised if we missed the tournament. I'd also be surprised if we were like a one or two seat.

I just don't think we're a player short. I don't think we have a person. You know, like last year, Antonio Reeves could shift it into another gear. And by the end of the year, Reed Shepard and Rob could shift it in it. I just don't know if we have a dude that can do that this year, Drew. Maybe we do, but I just, I don't know. Yeah, I agree that it's a high enough floor that they'll be in the tournament. I mean, there's so much experience, guys that have played good basketball just at schools that aren't as prestigious to Kentucky.

I mean, Lamont Butler has played in the national championship game. That's a guy that knows how to win some basketball games. So I don't think, you know, Cal, there was some bad losses early on because the guys were young and we hear the wait till March. They're young. These guys have played enough basketball. There shouldn't be too many hiccups. Yeah, I don't expect us to lose. Yeah, outside learning the system and things, that'll take some growing things.

I don't expect us to lose to like a UNC Wilmington this year. I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. But I do think, like, take Ohio State, we should be better than them. We're playing them in Madison Square Garden, but it wouldn't shot me if they upset us and beat us. But at the same time, it wouldn't shot me if we went and beat Gonzaga. Yeah. Honestly, because it's not going to be at the kennel or whatever. It's going to be at the Seattle Arena.

So the way this team can shoot, there's going to be a night. We know it's coming where they are going to just shoot lights out. and cannot lose to anybody. Yeah. Who's next? Grover. Grover. Go ahead, Grover.

Matt, I want to pass my condolences on to Lonnie's family. In 1969, I was at Shively Sports Center where the football team practiced, and Lonnie walked up to me, didn't know me, and he befriended me, and we were friends 55 years. God bless him. And I want to congratulate you, Matt, on your knowledge of UK basketball history. You've really worked hard to. do that. But I want to bring up, I got my UK alumni magazine today, and there's a section

on Memorial Coliseum, and there's a picture of Coach Rupp, and they spelled his name like Adolf Hitler. Well, that's not good. I've always known UK basketball history, where I've been weak on, and still am weak on UK football history. But I, my grandfather, I, you know, I had to sit and listen to him talk about like playing Elgin Baylor in 58 in Seattle and he could remember how the game went and so I've kind of I've always known that stuff pretty well I appreciate the call but I will acknowledge my football history prior to how mummy is is not great my knowledge of because when I was a kid like it just wasn't a thing I'd be honest with you like the games the games came on after I went to bed on on tape delay and I just never

saw them play. Well, I like going back and learning about things before I can remember it. So I've gone back and watched more UK basketball games I can remember. It's easy to find those things. They are. Finding the UK football history is not as easy as basketball. I mean, you can go on YouTube. Like, Kyle Macy's interviewed every player you can think of. You can watch as many basketball interviews as you want, but the football history is just a little harder to dig up. And everybody, like a lot of you all remember this. Like when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, the only game all year that was live on television was Kentucky, Tennessee, and we'd lose by 40. That was the only game all season that was live. You had to watch it, like, on delay. Tate delay. And usually, I mean, who's going

sit and watch a game where we lost by 30, you know? So I just never, I just never saw them, to be honest. Yeah, how many times after the news, there's Rob Romney coming on to do the UK tape delay game of a game that got beat by 30 points? One of the few games I remember watching on tape delay was Kentucky, Indiana, and we won three to nothing. Oh, it's one of the one of the one. I was at that game. One of the worst games ever. If you're a business owner, HR manager looking to attract and retain talent, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce understands child care is a big part of it. That's why they're leading the charge with innovative solutions to help make it happen.

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the real winners. Okay, so I picked three people. One of them, the thing was you were supposed to tag who you would take with you to the game. So one of them was this person, I don't know the person's name. Let's say it was like Mary. And it said, Mary and it said at Emily Sharp, we're going to the game. And I was like, oh, I know Emily. That's kind of, that's kind of cool. But sorry, Emily, you didn't win. So then we do it for real. Second take, and I'm like, this one's for real. Let's do it. And it's Emily Sharp picking someone else besides the person who had picked her. So Emily Sharp is the finalist, but someone else tagged her. But when she did, it, she tagged someone else.

So I don't remember who the person was that tagged Emily, but Emily didn't tag you. So if Emily wins, now it's out there. A little drama in Emily's world. I got to like that. We'll find out if they win, however, but we will do that one more time. One more question for Ryan.

Okay. So here's what I'm going to do. Because not everybody can get through on the phone. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm actually going to get two more finalists. The one on the phone, but you know we play. what does Ryan think the answer is? 772-7-4-5-254.

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Write in with the question you would ask Ryan, Drew, in this game. Yeah, I said it yesterday. This is my favorite game we play. I like this new wrinkle to get two winners out of it. I'm looking forward to see what we get. So we'll see what we get. Tom Brady has been approved as one of the new owners of the Las Vegas Raiders. whatever, who cares?

But as part of the rules, he, A, cannot have any association with gambling, which means his draft king's sponsorship is over. He was a draft king's guy. Number two, he's not allowed to sit in on team meetings before the games he calls, which means basically the thing everyone does to prep, he's not allowed to do it. He's not allowed to criticize other owners, players, or reference. referees. How is he going to be an announcer? How can you do your job as a color analyst if you can't do that and you can't sit in on these prep meetings to get ready to call the game? I mean, how can you call a game and you can't criticize a player, a coach, a referee?

Like, what's he doing in the game to begin with? Like, what's he going to say? Well, for Tom Brady, he would have to be very good at explaining what's happening or telling stories and having watched at least three or four full games with him already. He's not very good at that. So I don't know how long this is going to last. As a practical matter, he sees a play. Quarterback throws it to a receiver, receiver drops it. Is he not supposed to say you should have caught that? Like, is he not supposed to say anything? That's why he's sitting there.

He's supposed to. He is supposed to, but he's also not supposed to because of the rules now. You're the analyst. You've got to break it down what you just saw, and if he can't do it accurately. So I just don't know, to me, I don't know how he can do his job there. I don't either. That and they tell those announcers so much. much in those meetings. Those announcers know a lot going in for the broadcast. And if he's just

in the dark, they don't want to tell the other team because he's with the Raiders, I don't know how I don't think I've said this on the show yet. Did I say about the bowl thing? Shannon, have I told the story yet about me in the bowl game? I don't think so. So ESPN radio, at least as of now, is going to have Myron and I call a bowl game. No, you haven't said that. No, you've not said that at all. On ESPN radio, they have all the bowl games on the radio. They're going to have me and Myron call a bowl game. Now, they haven't said which one. They said they'll figure out which one once the matchups come out.

I can tell you, I'm sure we're at the bottom of the pecking order. I mean, I'm sure pick the worst bowl that they have. That will be the one they assign us. But as part of it, we either have to go to Bristol and do it from Bristol or we go to the game. and if we go to the game, we like go through the thing where we meet with the coaches before the game, and they tell us all the little wrinkles and all that, I have to tell you, I can't wait. But one thing that worries me, they want me to do play-by-play. I'm about to ask that, yeah.

I've never done play-by-play for any game of any kind ever. Okay? I've never done play-by-play for high school. I've never done play-by-play for college. I've never even done play-by-play for, like, Youth League. And they want me to give my debut doing play-by-play on national radio. They're like, you think you can handle that. And, of course, I've learned over the years, just say yes.

Yes. You just say yes. Worry about the details later. But I'm going to tell you, I think what I'm going to do is, I'm going to pick a game and just like practice and act like I'm really doing it to try to get myself ready. That's how Tom Leach got started. Went to some high school games, sitting in a corner and practice watching the game. That's what you can do.

But all that great experience you got with YMT doing the 13th region. But I didn't do play by play. You'll translate right over. That's different. I've called, you may not remember this. I called like five UK basketball games color before. Do you remember that? No.

one year Dave Baker did play-by-play and me and Robbie Moss did color. Oh, yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, I do remember that. So, anyway, just something to watch. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J., he'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. I really like this song, Shannon. I think it's good. Yeah, it is. Now that we know who sings it. That's exactly right. If I'm not 280, 2287, I think I found my win.

here. 7-7-2-7-4-5-25. I'm not going to say it yet, but I think I found my winner for the question. I think it's a really good one for Ryan to see how he does. I got a great night's sleep last night, so I feel like I'm going to come a little closer this time. You do. Stay at a holiday in. Stay at a Holiday Inn Express. One person writes, Matt, I do the play-by-play for our high school football team. I don't think you realize how hard it is if you've never done it. Oh, I realize it. I don't think I'm going to be good at it. I mean, I don't really know anything about the plays. I was going to ask you that.

When they get out there, what are you looking for? I'm going to be looking for, yeah. The guy goes in motion. What does that mean? Two-tide-in formation, you know, going in motion. They're playing Tampa 2 defense. You know what you should do, really? It's called Tom Leach and have a conversation with him.

He's one of the best, I think, there is on radio. I'm going to. Because I want this to do well. If we do well, maybe they'll use this again. Absolutely. Yes. But I'm going to, I will tell you this, whatever two teams were playing, I'm going to know more about those two teams than anyone on earth.

I told you I've had to do play-by-play for swimming and tennis before. I think I could do tennis. How do you do swimming? What do you say? Stroke, stroke. He's just goes faster? Here he goes. Look at him.

Boy, that's a breaststroke if I've ever seen one. Like, what do you say? Well, Tom Leach told me you make sure you mention every kid's name. That's all mom and dad want to hear. They just want to hear their kid's name. So just make sure you mention them one time. You know, Matt Jones and Lane 4 has got some, you know, some room to make up. But look in Lane 5, Drew Franklin is killing it.

All right. Well, all right. I feel like I can do that. Draft Kings pick of the night. Tonight's Thursday night football. Who's playing tonight? Broncos and... Saints.

He's going back to New Orleans, right. Broncos and Saints. Broncos and Saints. So Broncos and Saints tonight, the Broncos are a three-point favorite. Go to draft Kings. Use a Coke. KSR, bet five, get $200. Who's winning?

Broncos Saints. Devin Key and the Broncos, another big win. They're that kind of, Bo Nix has kind of found himself a little bit. So go Broncos. I'll take the home dog here. I'll take a little New Orleans. Give me a Thursday night team at home that's an underdog. I'm taking them.

Spencer Rattler gets his first win, and I will take the Saints at home. What about you, Shia? I hate to go against you, Ryan, but I think I'm taking the Saints, too, at home. So three picks for the Saints. Ryan for the Broncos. Bo Nix versus Spencer Rattler in an NFL game on Thursday. Oregon and South Carolina playing in the NFL.

Who's up next? Let's go to Bill. Bill, go ahead, Bill. Good morning, guys. Just a couple of things. First time I've actually gotten to get through. I've been listening forever. My mother was a cheerleader at the University of Kentucky for four years while Ruff was there.

And so my next door neighbor was Louis Dapter growing up, excuse me, out of breath. And the one thing that I think they'll remember in 50 years is Cats by 90. Who can forget that? Cats by 90 is good. They'll probably still be saying that in 50 years. Well,

that's cool. Louis Dampier and the cheerleader. I appreciate the call. I had somebody add the Marty Graw Miracle, the big comeback. Yeah, we mentioned that earlier. Yeah, we mentioned that earlier. Dirk Minifield's Dunk. Dunk is the last forever, too. Oh, my. Yeah, Dirtman of Fields dunk should be. I think there's

People, Mario, you ever seen Dirk Menofield's Dunk where he like, looks like he's levitating in air? Look it up. Best dunk in UK history. Google Dirt Mennafield's Dunk. It's still like, it doesn't feel like real life. I don't know who posted it, but it popped up on a random basketball video account recently, and I thought, yes, keep that thing. Young Dick Vitow announcing the game, too. That's like a very young Vital just, well, I mean, young announcer.

I don't know if he was a young person. at the time. But it was one of, it was an early game of his, because that was in, what, the early 80s? 81, maybe, I think. Yeah, it's one of his early ESPN games

when he does the dunk, and he says, he'll say something like, Joe B's got the thoroughbreds or something running this year. So who's next? Tommy. Tommy, go ahead, Tommy.

Do you know the story of how Pat Riley got to UK? Car? No. There was a guy, that owned a bar, I think it was connected to New York, somewhere in New York State. And he was channel surfing or whatever on the radio. And he found this ball game on, and he started listening to it. And, of course, it was UK playing somebody, and Kay Wood Ledford was announcing.

Well, the guy that owned the bar fell in love with Kay Wood Ledford's announcing, and he started listening to Kentucky games all the time. And then they had a pretty good high school player up there named Pat Riley. And I don't know how it happened, but because of this guy at the bar, he got worded to the UK. And that's how Pat Riley got that. Is that right? I did not know that. That's a really interesting story, sir.

That'll be my Kentucky branded story of the, or, excuse me, Whiskey Thief, story of the day for Whiskey Thief. Yeah, I've heard that story. It was 84 WHS. The signal was so strong. They could pick it up in Schedectady, New York. Somehow Pat Riley got affiliated with it and started listening to the games, I think, with this guy. Yeah, I used to travel, and we worked 12 states, and I would listen to WHAS in different places. Oh, remember at one time we heard, thank you for the story, sir.

I appreciate it. Look at my, do you like that, Dirk? You like that, Mario? He just capped him right on his head, didn't he? But we were in, were we in like New Mexico that one time, and we listened to a Kentucky game. We could hear it over the air in New Mexico once. on one of our road trips. Driving across New Mexico, you pulled that game on a radio and we can hear it clear on 84 HAS.

That's amazing if you think about it. The story I've heard about 84 WHAS, which is kind of an interesting story, is that during the Eisenhower administration, they set up, they wanted to have, you know, when you'll hear the emergency broadcast system, they wanted to set up on radio a broadcast system where every part of America, if the government needed to like put out, you know, we're being attacked or something, that every part of America could hear the signal. And what was happening is all these radio stations were overpowering each other at night and you couldn't hear anything.

So they picked 10 radio stations in America that at night were allowed to power up instead of power down so that every piece of America could be covered. and 840 WHAS in Louisville was one of those 10 stations that is allowed at night to power up, whereas other AM stations have to power down. And now that law is still in effect,

which is why you can hear 840 all over the Midwest and the South, and then if you ever like me and you're driving, turn on your AM at night, there's like a handful of stations that you will hear that play sort of all over. That story is dead on right. You know, just by the luck of the draw, 84 HES was the one they picked back in the day to be one of those 10 stations. So I've always thought that was kind of a neat story, and now 840 WHS has this huge signal because of that.

I remember that time we're on the road trip. I think that's actually how I learned how radios work, even though I was think five years into radio at that point. But that was amazing being so far away in here in our local. What's wrong here? What are you looking at? What are you doing? I think the cord may have come out over there. Hey, Mario, re-plugged that cord in over there if you don't mind.

No, Ryan screwed it up. All right, there you go. Who's up next? Bob. Bob, go ahead, Bob. That's not it. No, it must be down here. Good morning, JSR.

Good morning. Two thanks. Did you ever know the FCC tournament was played in Jefferson County in the Louisville? I did know that, yes. And Rupp had more wins in seven years in the late 50s and 60s, and Caliphary had an 11 years. years, the first 11 years he was here. Yeah, a little different competition, though.

I mean, I will say, to be fair to Cal, wins before integration, it was a different sport. And the football, I haven't played with the guys that was on the winning team for Kentucky in 51, some of the boys. And two of the twins, Harry and Larry Jones have played. Jerry was given one A because he was older. Yeah, we've heard that one before. They were one and one A. That's right. Yeah.

Well, I appreciate it. I think they were from Corbin or something like that, right? One and one A. That's, to me, it's one of the under-told stories of UK football. One-and-1-A that were the two teams. Clayton and Kroom, do you like a good leather good, right? Oh, I love a good. Well, Clayton and Kroom, leather goods here in Kentucky, bags, belts, wallets, and much more.

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You can get tickets to ClubBlueNIL.com. It's going to be a very unique event. We've talked about all the stuff going on, but also just having an event like that that you can't see in your last year there, which is kind of unique. You know, we haven't seen that a whole lot over the... So it's not going to be streamed at all anywhere, right? People keep asking me if they can watch it.

From what I understand, it is not streamed. So it is just at Memorial Coliseum. You know, so people have asked about parking. If you're coming, my suggestion would be to park in this lot right here and walk. I think that's going to be your best suggestion if you go because it's just a few blocks down here. And you're not going to be able to park on campus. I mean, you're just not. Like, so just don't even try.

So I would say your best bet, park here. We'd love for you to eat here, but then walk there. I think that's going to be your best. bet. Don't you? Yeah, come here, pregame here and get your pregame meal, and then we just walk over. Because, like I said, you're not, there's nowhere to park over there during games. And that's probably going to be true for women's basketball as well and volleyball,

etc. All right. So here's the question. I want you to write your answer down. Don't say it out loud. All right. The question, and I liked it. Last year in 2024 at the Kentucky Derby, how many meant.

juleps did they sell? How many mint juleps did they sell last year at the Kentucky Derby? Now remember, for those of you on the phone, you're not guessing the right answer. You're guessing what Ryan thinks the right answer is. All right, so I need you to, Ryan, before I do this, I need you to write down what you think the right answer is. Don't say it, but write it down. Okay?

All right, there we go. All right. Ryan has written his answer down. Let's go to the phone. Who's up first? Stephen. Stephen, where are you from? The metropolis of Eubank.

UBank? Where is UBank? Just north of Somerset, about 15 minutes or so. I have never heard of UBank. We'll be close tomorrow. Well, yeah, we'll be there tomorrow at Don Franklin for the remote. I did not know that UBank was a place. All right, well, so for the pride of UBank, what's your guess?

Let's go with about 185,000. 185,000 is Stephen from Eubanks' guess. What about you, sir? Next. All right, let's go to Ryan. Ryan, where are you from? Russell Springs. Another one from down in that area.

Russell Springs, okay. What is your guess? I'm going to say 105,000. 105,000. All right, so there's our Russell Springs guess. Who's next? Robert. Robert, Robert, where are you from?

Evansville, Anna. Yeah, shout out. Evansville, okay. Now, Robert, who would you take, by the way, if you get to go to this? Probably my best friend, Ramundo. He's a die-hard Cucky basketball. Your best friend, what's his name? Ramundo.

Ramundo. Ramundo. I like Romundo. I do, too. All right, what's your guess? I would say $106,000. $106,000. He's doing a little Bob Barker going one-up.

there on Ryan just a second ago. Price is right. All right. Who's next? Parker. Parker. Now Parker, by the way, is here in the bar. Yes, he is.

I don't know how he got through. I made him step outside because he can't be in here because there would be an echo. But Parker at the bar got through. Parker, what is your guess? I think Ryan's going to go with $50,000. 50,000. So Parker's taking the go low. assuming Ryan doesn't know strategy.

I was way under yesterday. Yes. But what if it is low? What if people don't drink as many mid-Jules? Who knows? All right, what's next? Matt. Matt, what, uh, what, uh, where are you from?

I'm from Casey County, baby. Casey County, Apple Festival time. The only show we've ever done from a funeral home was it Casey. It was in Casey County. Yep. That's right. I was there. There you go.

What is, yeah, what's your guess? I'm going to go with 27,000. 27,000. He's even undercutting Parker as the guess. All right. And finally, who's last? Rick. Rick.

Rick. Is this Rick our producer? Not today. Okay. Where are you from? Bowling Green. Bowling Green. And what's your guess? I'm going to say he thinks there's a lot of drinkers, $190,000.

$190.90. thousand. So he guesses the highest number. All right. So we have guesses everywhere from 27 to 190,000. Now, first of all, Ryan, the correct answer, well, actually, I'm going to let you give your guests first, and I want you to walk us through how you got to your guest. I guessed 125,000. Because I was thinking that's an average of about one, a person, because some people may drink two, some people may drink zero. So I went with 125,000. 125,000. The correct answer, according to Churchill Downs in 2024, 124,920. Wow. Wow. You still went over, though.

Ryan only missed it by 80. How about that? Wow. Let's go. Wow, let's go. It's impressive. It's been a big numbers guy. That's the best guess you have ever given.

for anything in your life, and that is the hardest one. I think it just goes to show you. I don't know mileage. I don't know time, but I know alcohol, damn it. Derby. Your Derby guy, a big derby. What an unbelievable success story. Well, my strategy worked out that time.

You only were off by 80. I mean, Shannon, there are groups of people who could have drank the other 80, and he'd have been exactly right. I am extremely impressed. I am extremely impressed, too. Now, our winner, it looks like, is going to be Ryan from Russell Springs. Ryan, are you there? Yeah.

Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Who knew that you would get it when Ryan actually got it correct? It's the Ryan mind mailed right there. All right, so, Ryan, thank a lot. Hang on. Give your information to Shannon, and we'll let you know tomorrow whether or not you're the winner, okay? Thanks, sir.

There you go. How about that? Well, you know, yesterday I was a little off yesterday and maybe even have been a little off the day before, but I'm a Thursday guy. You're a servant. That's what you are. That's right. Parker, nice job. You thank you for participating even though you were not able to win. I can't believe how close you got on that.

I can't believe you didn't react when I wrote it down. Well, there was part of me going, did he know the answer to this? Like, that's crazy. You were within 80 hours. I was just thinking about one a person. There's like $125,000 that usually go, right? I don't know. I guess.

That was my logic, too, but I didn't know how many people went. I like the one a person. Well, so there you go. Shannon, are you impressed? I mean, that's crazy. Deserves an award? Yeah, I mean, like, are you sure you didn't look this up, like, around Derby Time and remembered it? Or, like, how?

Yeah, is there a possibility you had heard that stat before? No, I drink, I hate, I hate mint jillow. Yeah, I know that. You always bring that up. So I drank one one time, and I remember telling myself, I am never going to have this ever again. So I know there's got to be some people like me that don't. So he just assumes that happens in every day. Everybody drinks one time, never drinks it again.

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We'll talk more about how you can do that because you can't come in here and just sit all day. So we'll talk about how that works tomorrow. But thank you all very much. Congrats to Ryan, who has proven to be the biggest genius when it comes to of anyone we've ever seen. Shout out. Let's go. Great ending there.

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