KSR - 2025-01-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Tuesday. January the 7th. I'm Matt Jones here on an icy. State of Kentucky in Louisville, still stuck it by house, but ready to venture out this afternoon. You can give a shout to Clark's puppet shop phone line 859-280-2287. A-Vision auto glass text machine is 772-77524 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, he'll make them pay. Today, I'd love to, you know, there's, because not a lot is happening because we haven't done a lot because of snow and ice, love to hear from you today. 859-2-80-2-807.

We'll make it sort of Ask Anything Tuesday, since tomorrow is after a game. We'll probably be talking a lot about the game. So we'll do an Ask-N-A-N-2-80-22-87. Ryan, yesterday after the show, I went outside, dug my car out, you know, did all that.

I broke not one, but two scrapers in doing it, because the ice was so thick. Yeah. But then drove around a little bit. And I have to say, this morning I got up and walked to get something to drink. And I think the roads are worse this morning than they were yesterday outside of like Bardstown Road. But like the side streets because it's all like a, it's all ice now.

It's not, there's no snow in between. So it is, I think, pretty treacherous outside. Yeah. You know, you're stuck in Louisville. Billy and I all stuck in our houses in Lexington because of what you just said. The neighborhood streets. I got out. I drove around.

Are you like scared to drive around? Like get out of your house? It's just the neighborhood streets. If I can get to the main roads, I think it'll be okay. But just to get out of my neighborhood to get to the main streets is what is it's just like a skating rink out there and everybody's parking lot. Yeah. So have you tried? No.

No. So what are you waiting on? It's going to be like that for a long time. Like you're going to have to get out. Isn't he going to have to get out and just do it? At some point, you got to rip the Band-Aid off, right? I mean, I went outside. It took me a long time, and you know I'm not a handy person, Shannon, right?

I had, somebody gave me this long brush slash scraper thing. Yeah. You know, and the ice was so thick, it snapped Shannon the metal in half. Yeah. That's, yeah, that's how you know it's straight ice. But I still, I kept chipping away, right? I chipped away, got my car out. I drove last night to Elnapal, Shannon, got our salsa that we can mix together, right?

That place was insane because, again, not much was open. And then drove home. So, like, I did, I was like, you got to get out. You can't just sit in here forever. Ryan, what are you waiting on? Like, it's going to be under 20 degrees for the next few days, and it's supposed to snow on Friday. Are you just never leaving?

I think it's just a safety for my own being and not get out on the roads. like they're telling you, do not get on the road unless you have to. Are they still saying that, Shannon? I don't think so. Like, we got actually people in the station today. I talked to a few people. They said it's better now. I feel like he's making an excuse.

He just wants to stay home. Not to live in this. There are people out. Like, are you, but I'm just, what's going to be the thing that makes you leave? It's not going to get better. When I can see some cars in my cul-de-sac, get out of it, I can go. But now they just go out and the wheels are just spinning. So I don't think I'm any,

any hurry to try to fight the elements. Like I said, if I can get to the main roads, it's good. It's just getting to the main. Drew's the same way. Drew can't get out of his neighborhood this morning. A bunch of cars were stuck yesterday. I went for a walk, and it was just car after car just spinning out. I didn't know whether to help them or just laugh at them, so I just laughed at him.

You thought about just laughing at it. Just taunting them? I didn't like get up in their window, but I was kind of laughing. Shannon likes to talk to smack. He's living in the life then in a hotel downtown in Louisville. But Shannon, you're going. home today. I am. I've run out of underwear. I need a change of clothes. Yeah. I'm going to go back. I feel like, I mean, I'm not telling you what to do, right? Except I am. I feel like you,

you should, you should be trapped because here, because again, I don't know what you're waiting for. Like, they're not going to come scrape your street. Right. You live, like, there'd be no reason for them to come over there. Like, you're one on the lowest power. Well, you're being H-O-A, though, right? Yeah, but that doesn't cover, I think, snow removal. Oh, my gosh. What is it, what does it cover? Oh, you know, they got them, you know, the flowers they plant out front. Oh, well, that's good. Yeah.

You probably, you know what? You know what I would say to him, Shannon? You can keep your flowers. Yeah. Get me out of my house. Amen. So it's good. So, like, what are you going to do?

I mean, are you just not, are you just giving up forever? Do you have a shovel? I, I've shoveled all the ice off my front porch so I don't bust my butt when I walk outside. Okay. So why not go ahead and do the driveway? I did the driveway. So I'm not doing the whole cul-de-sac and the little hill to, and the little hill that goes from Greendale

up into my neighborhood where everybody can't get up right now. All right. So there's a hill that keeps you stuck, you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's a mess at Ryan's. His dogs fell in the pool last night.

I mean, you texted us and said your dogs fell in the pool. What does that mean? I was out banging the ice off the steps outside just so they could get up and down the steps, not knowing that my dog had, I guess, stepped on the ice in the pool and fell in. I had no idea. Did you jump in and run?

rescue it? No. He paddled over to the steps. So he's just dead? And got out by himself. And he came up to me and he was soaking wet. And I look and I see where the ice had been broken on the top of the pool. I didn't even know he fell in. Your dog fell into a freezing pool. Yeah, and got himself out. Again, I know nothing about pools. But aren't you supposed to have it covered this time of year? The way my pool is shaped, you can't get a cover for it. Like it would take like two covers. Yeah, I bet you can't. Like I bet they'd make one. Don't you think? I would say so. I would think they would.

So, I mean, if that had happened, so your dog got itself out? Got him just paddled over to the steps and walked out the steps of the pool. And I had no idea. I'm lucky. What if he had fallen under the ice and got under the ice and couldn't get back in the house. What's crazy, Shannon, is I can't do anything. You know that. I have no ability to do anything.

And yet I feel like I'm better prepared for this storm than he is. He has pets, children falling into the pool. He has like he can't get out of his driveway. The whole fiasco. It is a whole fiasco. And then Drew's the same way. I just, I don't know. Yeah, Drew and his dad are stuck in their neighborhood.

Here's what I know. There's one person who got out. Yeah. And that's me, Shamed. Yeah. I got out. Yeah. I've been out.

You've been out. Yeah. But I don't know about these guys. So it is frigid cold. Yeah. Like I went outside. It's crazy cold. Like I said, the streets are ice.

Now, it's supposed to get colder the next two days, right? I saw that on Thursday it might get down to minus three. Yes. Yeah, zero, I think, is typical going to happen on Thursday and Friday. Minus three, shit. Yeah, that means all this ice is going to be there for a while. And then we get more on Friday. So then it's supposed to snow more on Friday and Saturday.

They are expecting six to ten. inches Friday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. You know, there's a playoff game Friday night. Yeah. And they are expecting 6 to 10 inches. Now, I have been in Dallas when it snowed. And the city, you talk about people shedding that don't know how to handle it. They just immediately drive off the road just to make things easier for everybody.

Like they go straight. Drew and I were there when UK played bail. I remember that. Yeah. And it was, it was a disaster. So that's going to be fun to watch because they're going to be just forget it. Like they have no chance. But here, you know, there is a part of me that goes like, are we just like, is there just nothing for the next week?

Is there absolutely nothing we can do? Are we just stuck? I mean, Ryan, seriously, when are you planning to get out of your house? I'm hoping maybe Monique or somebody with a truck can come get me for the game tonight. Wait a minute. Monique is going to pick you up? She's got a big four-wheel drive truck. If you got a big truck, you can come pick me up and take me to the restaurant. So he just wants random people to come pick him up.

Ron, what do you drive? Don't you drive like an SUV? No, I got a big car. I got a Chevy excursion. And you don't think that can get up the hill? I haven't tried it yet. I mean, my Lexus gets up these hills. I feel like that's the same thing, isn't it, Shannon?

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, you can. I think you can. I think you can. I think you can. I feel like if you put you, so Kentucky plays at seven, right? And we are opening the bar at three. So we're finally going to open back up at three because we want to be open for the game tonight.

Now, Ryan, you want to try to come to that, right? Yeah, we got a pregame show to do before the game tonight. We got a pregame show at 430. I mean, do you need me to send the Fayette County Metro services to get you? Because I'm planning Shannon to drive from Louisville to Lexington today. Yeah, if you can do that. And we had 10 and a half inches of snow. here.

Yeah, we had twice as much snow. And you're, I remember about 10 years ago we had this bad storm. And at the time, IHeart had some vehicles that were four-wheel drive. They were coming to our houses and picking us up and taking us to the radio station and do the show. It's clear what he wants. He wants people to come. He wants first-class service. It's exactly right.

He wants first-class service. Shannon should drive here in his Jeep and pick me up and take me the restaurant. He wants people to come and pick him up and take the little dainty princess. out for the day. You've created this monster. He's boozy now. You know, he is boozy for somebody that you wouldn't think of as bougie. Right. He's a little boogie. You and I are men of the people. That's right. Yeah, we get out there and shovel

driveways. That's exactly right. All right, 859-28027. Kentucky plays at 7 o'clock on the SEC Network play Georgia. So I, because I was here and didn't have anything to do, I did some Georgia research. Oh. Right. Yeah, they've only lost twice this year. They lost to Marquette, who you know is ranked in the top 10, and they lost to Ole Miss last week. They were ahead at Old Miss at halftime. Okay. Old Miss is good. They were ahead at halftime, then Old Miss came back and won. I said yesterday they have a top 10 pick on their team. They do, and it is not the one that Kentucky fans wrote me saying it was. So they have that

guy, Somto, Cyril, Cyril, who originally committed to Cal, here, if I'm correct, right? Right. He is not the projected top 10 pick. Matter of fact, he comes off the bench, and he only plays 10 to 12 minutes. He might play a little more than that to this. But their guy is their power forward, Asa Newell, who is projected ninth in the draft. He's averaging 16 and 12.

He's been their leading score in five of the last six games, right? he's going to be guarded probably by Andrew Carr again. How do you expect us to match up with him? Yeah, he must be a really good player. I think the only reason he went to Georgia because his older brother, it was already on the Georgia basketball team. Like you said, this is the top 10 pick that probably could have picked a bigger school, better basketball school, but he wanted to play for his brother.

So I think he definitely proposes a matchup problem for Kentucky because we've seen Andrew Carr have some problems on defense. Yeah, I mean, he's good. And they have guards. They have a number of guards. This is weird to me, Shannon. Of their three leading scores, two of them come off the bench. I mean, sounds like last year for us.

You know what it does? The Shepard and Dunham, right? They have two guards. I think one of them's name is Montgomery, and then there's something else. But they have two guards who are the only two people besides Newell over averaging double digits. And they come off the bench. They don't even start. So when we watch the game tonight, you know, we have to watch, there will be a second wave of guys who come off the bench who light it up, who shoot well from the outside.

You know, we shoot like, what, 49% from the field? So do they. I mean, I knew this would be a tough game because it's on the road. But Ryan, I actually think it's harder maybe than I realized when you break down the stats. This team beat St. John's earlier in the year. They won at Georgia Tech a road game. like Ryan this is going to be a tough game tonight. Yeah, and Mike White's a good coach.

That's one of those sneaky road games on a Tuesday night where you see teams and I maybe come out a little flat. Kind of concerns me a little bit because Georgia is a pretty good team that nobody talks about because the SEC is so top heavy right now. And they're having a t-shirt night, Shannon. Of course they are. You know, away T-shirts. Listen to what their schedule is, by the way.

They play us tonight. They play Tennessee Saturday, number one in the country, and they play Auburn next Tuesday. Oh, my. Brutal stretch. They go Kentucky, Tennessee, Auburn. And by the way, they played a ranked old miss team in the first game.

That's the crazy stretch. No nights off. The number six team, the number one team, and then the number two team. That's as hard as stretch as you'll ever see in basketball, and they're starting it right now. So, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-25.

One person writes, Matt, I will come pick up Ryan if he needs it. Would he like me to bring him some ice cream or a soda on the way so that he gets full service? Yeah, that would be actually a sweet idea. What my plan is after the show is try to get in my car and just kind of see if I can get to the main road. I know once I get to the main road, I think I'm good. He's going to call us to come push him. He's going to get stuck. He is.

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One person writes, Matt, Ryan said he drove a Chevy excursion. There is no such thing as a Chevy excursion. Ford makes an excursion. Yeah, it's an, hang on it. Equinox. I have an equinox. He doesn't know what he drives. I said the wrong thing.

How long have you had that car? Probably four years. So you've had the car for four years. And you thought, did you think it was an excursion all these years? No, I don't know why I said. it's an equinox. So it's a Ford Equinox. A Chevy Equinox.

So it's a Chevy Equinox? Yes. And you said Chevy Excursion? Yes. Okay. Yeah, maybe he should stay home, Shannon. He doesn't know what he drives. Yeah.

I got to tell you him, I got a lot of people offering to pick me up, including Blind Andy, who says he's going to drive up here. Okay. Well, that may be just, that may be better. Yeah. Andy can try to pick you off. One of people upset is your girlfriend who wrote me and said that you had, that, you that you're too old to be shoveling.

So, Shannon. She put the cabosh on that. She sent me five texts. The first one says, Ryan is almost 60. He doesn't need to be shoveling. So, first of all, I don't think you're almost 60. You're only, what are you? 56?

58. You are almost 60. You really are almost. I mean, you shouldn't be shoveling. Yeah, you know what? Just stay home. Just stay in bed. Just get a blow torch.

Go out there. Yeah. It happens every snowstorm. Somebody will be out shoveling snow and have a heart attack. It's sad. Well, you said that happened. They did. Where did that happen?

I think in Louisville guys just out, you know. Yeah, you don't want that. Hard time. Droved over dead. Yeah, that's sad. Do you feel good about this game, Ryan? Do you feel like we're, I mean, you know, let me just tell you how I break down the road games, okay, because we have nine road games.

We have two that I have no expectation of winning, Tennessee and Alabama. If we win those, that's awesome, but I have no expectation of win. We have three that I feel like we should win. Obviously, we could lose, but we should win. That's Missouri, Vandy, and this one. All right, and then we have four that I think are toss-ups, but that it would be nice to pull out. I'd like to see us go two and two in those.

Texas, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, and Mississippi State. that's kind of how I look at it. So I put this one in the three that, like, you know, if you want to have a chance to win the SEC, you got to win this game. How do you look at the game tonight? I feel like with these two road trips this week, you can't go O&2. I agree with totally, yes. You got at least got to split them.

And tonight is the more winnable game. Saturday, Mississippi State is really good. So if you don't want to go O&2, you've got to win tonight then, I feel like. I think you're exactly right. I think you've got to win one of these two. you got to win one of these two. Kind of my way of looking at it, Shannon, is I think we're going to go 12 and 6 in conference. And so, you know, if you could win every home game, you could go 3 and 6 on the road.

I think you'll probably drop a home game or so. So I look at those four games I was talking about, Mississippi State, Old Miss, Texas and Oklahoma, and say every one of those you win, Shannon, you could drop a home game and be okay, right? Right, yeah. So, but I think this is one of the three, along with Vanney and Missouri, that if you really want to have a shot, you got to win this one. Because, I mean, it's not easy. We're only a two and a half point favorite. But if you're going to, like, make noise in the conference, these are the kind of games you have to win.

You got to get this one. Rebound is going to be key tonight, I think. Yeah. Kobe Bray, I mean, we don't really know if he's even going to play tonight. And if they don't have to. Okay, so let's talk about what is that? I don't know. I saw that, and did I miss something?

I mean... Must have been in practice because he didn't show any signs of it in the game against Florida. Is he sick? Like, what is it? Maybe he is? No, I'm saying that's what I think. Something had come up out of the blue, no report of an injury. Maybe he just got a stomach bug or he's sick or something.

Did we lose Matt? Maybe we lost Matt. I think we did. Do we think that maybe he got that injury from holding that baby? I'm right here. Can you not hear me? There we dropped out for like 10 seconds. Well, I was here.

I was saying, you know, that's why you got to be careful putting these people around children. Right? It's exactly the same thing I said. Oh, was it? I didn't hear you say it. Because they all have snot, you know, and they all, I'm telling you, there's never been a baby that didn't have snot.

You have to be careful. But if we don't have Brea, then all of a sudden, you know, one of these other dudes, Ryan's going to have to have a big game, whether it's Jackson Robinson or Butler or car, one of these other dudes is really going to have to play better than normal. You know, you mentioned how Georgia brings guards off the bench and they provide a spark. Well, Kobe's the guy that comes off our bench provides us with a spark. So, yeah, somebody else is going to have to step up and fill a void. Also, by the way, Vandy has that Tyron Lawrence guy, or excuse me, Georgia does that played at Vandy that used to light us up.

Didn't he have like one or two huge games against us, Shannon, over the years? Yeah, he's a really good player. I didn't even realize he was still playing college basketball. He didn't realize he was in Georgia. He's one of the starting guards. They got a lot of good guards. and then they got a top 10 NBA draft pick big. And that's not even counting the former UK commitment McDonald's All-American, Cyril.

So, I mean, this is a good roster we're playing tonight on a T-shirt night. Do you think that Carr can handle this kid? No. They'll probably have to put Williams on him and Garrison, which is going to make us have to go big some, which I don't think is our most efficient offense. But that's just what we're going to have to do because this dude's, a load and we've got to be able to control it. Who's up first? Scotty. Scotty. What's up, Scottie?

Hey, Matt, if I'm not asking anything questions in regards to the basketball practice facility. I know Cal complained about that this last few years of UK, and I was just curious if you know what Mark Pope thinks about it. I don't know what Mark Pope thinks about it. You know, I think it's unlikely that we, I don't think they will fix. They will put up a new basketball facility unless a donor comes and just says, I'll pay for all of it. I do not think the university will dedicate funds because of what we've talked about the way so much money is now going to have to be transitioned to paying athletes, etc.

I think it'll be a few years before they could do that. But if there was a donor that came and said, I'll pay for all of it, then that might be a different thing. So do you think it used to be updated? I didn't know if he was just complaining. Yeah, I mean, it is not. And I appreciate the call. It is not the best. It is not the best of the best.

There are places that are better. But, Ryan, I actually think the facilities thing probably matters less today than it did a few years ago because ultimately NIL's why a lot of these kids are making their decision. That's it. They're not going to base it on the living conditions like who is a Trey, what's his name did? Trey Young. Trey Young, when he downplayed Kentucky's living conditions, that's one reason he said he could eliminate it. That's not the case anymore.

It's what kind of money. What's my best deal I can get? Yeah. So, I mean, I think facilities still matter. You still want to have top of the line. But I think that was a key factor in kids' decisions four years ago. Yeah. I don't think that's true anymore.

So I don't think it's as pressing an issue maybe as it was. We will take a break. Be right back. It's 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.

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Shannon, this was inevitable. What's up? Probably 15 people riding me saying they're in their 60s and they shoveled their thing. Yeah. One person writes, I'm 66. I shovel my own snow. I know Ryan can do it. I feel it for him. Tell him he's got the power and you three sound like whims. Well, first of all, how they throw us on? We got, we got out.

through a damn blizzard. Don't be coming here, a wimp. I drove to El Nepal. Think about that. Yeah. Yeah. You got fajitas and salsa? One person writes,

Chevy Ford Equinox has front wheel drive and four wheel drive. Does Ryan know which one he has? It's the one that doesn't go good in the ice. That's his answer. Whichever one doesn't go well. That's the one he's got. Well, you know, I mean, I think four-wheel drive is the one that goes. Yeah.

That's what you want. But if you got front wheel or rear wheel, the wheels just spin. So you don't have four-wheel drive. I have the rear wheel. My wheels just spin on ice. Okay. Well, you, I'm sorry about that. I don't know what to say.

I wish you had it. One person writes, Matt, I'm worried about tonight's game. We lose a game like this every year. I'm feeling like it'll be tonight because of the big win. I mean, it's certainly plausible, Ryan. I mean, it's certainly plausible they could go down there and lose. I'm with you. They've got to win one of these next two.

I think it would be easier if you're playing with house money Saturday night. And I think it's going to be harder to win Saturday night because Mississippi State, we talked about it yesterday, plays a way that gives Kentucky problems. And that's just the blueprint of how to beat Kentucky. And that's the way they normally play. So if you're going to get one, tonight's the one you've got to get then. One person writes, Matt, you're here today. So does that mean that you got the contract with IHeart figured out?

No. but because of the weather and Kentucky games, I'm trying not to miss, Shannon, unless we have to, right? I mean, you know,

it's right now, yeah, I mean, so I'm going to try to, I'm doing my best to try to work through it until we come up with something. So, you know,

but if I don't show up one day, Shannon, now you'll know. Okay. Well, we'll just, you know, carry the baton as long as we can until you get back.

I mean, my hope is, because it's during the season, you know, I don't want to miss a game tonight, right? I don't want to, you know, I don't want to miss unless I have to. So we're, I'm trying to work through it as much as I can.

What were you going to say, Ryan? I got to admit, you sent us all group text last night when I saw it pop in. It's the first thing that popped in my mind. You know, I was going to say I'm not going to be there. Like, I'm not going to be there to show tomorrow, you know, stuck, negotiating. You know, they do, they send these all like Shannon, what is it, like week-long things. You know what I mean, to keep you going until you come to a resolution. Oh, yeah.

like a little week-long extension or something? Yeah, something like that. So hopefully we can do it. Tonight, Florida plays Tennessee. Tennessee goes to Florida. Yeah. So Florida comes off having come here. And now Tennessee's the last undefeated team left in the country.

Do they go down the night at Florida? Man, you know, we all watched them just run Arkansas off the floor after Kentucky beat Florida on Saturday. Tennessee is for real. But Florida also is pretty dangone good. They score 100 points and lost. I won't be shocked if Florida, wins this game tonight. But who you pick it? Florida. You're picking Florida to win at home. Okay. What about you? You pick it to Shannon, you're picking Tennessee to go on the road to win or Florida?

I think, you know, like as good as the SEC is, there's two teams at the top, Tennessee and Auburn, who are just a little bit better than everybody else. And I think even on the road, as good as Florida has been, I think Tennessee wins tonight. Yeah, I mean, for me, this is a game to see if Tennessee and it hurts my soul to say it, but to see if they're the best team in the country. because I think if they go down there and beat Florida on road, then they're going to be the best team in the country. Right now I kind of think Auburn is, even though they lost that one game to Duke. But I'm going to pick Florida.

Part of it might be the bias of having just seen them play. Yeah. But I think it's going to be hard to win on the road. You know, there were eight games in the SEC this weekend. Only one road team won. Seven home teams won. Does anybody know the one road team to win? Vandy.

Vandy. Vandy is the only team that won on the road. They went and won at LSU. But I think you're going to see it's going to be so hard to win on the road that if the teams are even close to match up, I'm generally going to pick the home team. So I'm going to pick Florida tonight. Okay, go with this then.

The number two team to countries, Auburn, they're on the road tonight. But who do they play? Who do they play? Texas, I blink, at Texas. Yeah, now that's a tough one too. I mean, I think I probably. Does number one and number two both lose? Yeah, I mean, there's a chance that you could take Texas.

I don't know. I don't know enough about Texas. I haven't watched them, I haven't watched them, like, intently. So I don't know. But it will be interesting. I mean, you could have one and two both win. Or they could both win these games and you go, okay, those are the two best teams in the country. So we'll see.

Who's next? Radio Ron. Radio Ron. How are you? Well, I'm fine, Matt. Good morning to everyone. Good morning. What a snow-covered morning it is in Louisville.

As well, you know, Matt. Yeah, it's everywhere. Everywhere. I'm snowed in. A couple of comments. Thank you for bringing me up to date on the whereabouts of T.J. Weisner. I remember, of course, when you left KSTV, he became the host, and we worked together for four years with radio runs reflection. And so he's in the big time with Belichick.

Yes. He's hanging out with Belichick now. And I wanted to tell you, Matt, but a couple of weeks ago, in mid-December, I entered the and completed the jingle bell jog 5K in Stanford. The jingle bell jog. Jingle bell jog in Stanford. And I got first place, and I wanted to tell you I had one competitor. Oh, okay.

See, one competitor. And how old was the competitor? 87. And you're what again, Ron? What are you again? 90 to infinity. They made a new category for me. All right.

So you ran against the 87-year-old. How much did you beat him by the jingle bell jog? Five minutes. When he crossed the line, did you talk trash to him? Yeah, I raised my hands, and I said, good luck, young man, in future races. Oh, wow. That's a little saucy, isn't it, Shannon?

I know it. I'm becoming more saucy in my old age. Yes, you are. I'll just keep the tame there, Ron. Well, it's good to hear from you. Congrats on your jingle bell jog victory. And good luck going forward. Well, thank you.

Guess she was running with me all the way. Larry Vaugh. You know him. Yes, Larry Vaugh. I knew it. I just figured. You did that. I just that was a good guess. Ron, thank you very much. I appreciate to call. Who's up next, Shadden? Let's go to Doug. Doug. Go ahead, Doug. Yeah, Matt, I'm calling in reference to your show yesterday and that the politicians wearing a name tag.

Yes. I actually have a belt with my name on it. My son said that's in case I get lost. Are you a politician? No, sir. No, not hardly. Okay. But I am 76 years old, and I did shovel my driveway yet. Oh, Ron. Oh, ho! If Doug and Reddy O'Ron can shovel their driveway, Ryan, so can you.

So, Doug. I did shovel my driveway. So, Doug, do you believe that Ryan can get out of his house? Absolutely. Listen to that. You're getting trashed talked about 76-year-old. I mean, you got Doug, you got 93-year-old Ron running in the jingle-bell jog, and 76-year-old Doug.

Ryan, do you hear these people? Aren't they inspirations? You can be a 100-year-old guy, and if your car still can't drive on the ice, then there's nothing you can do about it. I don't know. I'm going to get out today, and I'm going, in about an hour,

I'm going to go to the gym. Look at that. Doug, go get them, Doug. Do your thing, Doug. Be careful. I appreciate the call. Doug, going to the gym at 76. Good for him, man.

Good for him. Dude, that's, man. These guys are showing you up, Brian. They're showing you up. I got out and shoveled my driveway. I just can't drive on the ice. Well, then why did your girlfriend write me and say, don't tell him to shovel?

I don't know, but I did it. Do you believe that? I don't know. Take a picture and show us. All right. I'll take a picture out my window. Okay. Maybe that was your dog that fell into the pool.

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Welcome back. It is Techie Sports Radio. 859-2-80-2287. Text machine 772-7752. 7754. One person writes, Matt, I sell Chevys for a living. There is no such thing as a rear-wheel drive Chevy Equinox. They either come four-wheel drive or front-wheel drive. It's definitely not four-wheel drive, so it must be front-wheel drive. So so far, if you had asked Ryan, he believed he drove a Chevy excursion rear-wheel drive. Yeah.

And he actually drove a Chevy Equinox likely front-wheel drive. To be fair, he sells houses, not cars. That's true. Yeah. Apparently, if your rear-wheel spin, Ryan, that makes it a front-wheel drive. That's what I got then. Okay. See, I thought that meant rear rear wheel if your wheels are the ones doing all the turning.

It would have made a rear wheel drive. My rear wheel spin. Okay, that's plenty. That's enough of you saying rear wheel. One person writes, Matt, I'm a UPS driver, and I'm out right now. I'll take up for Ryan like this. While he probably could get out, I would argue you shouldn't get out because a lot of the neighborhoods are still terrible.

I think I said, if I can get to Greendale or Leastown Road, I'm fine, but just getting there from my house is what's going to be the trick. Yeah. So our football, real quick, our football transfer class, this kid we got from Washington State, what's his name, Ryan, David Gusto? Yeah, I'm really not for sure how to pronounce his last name. Well, he's from Washington State. ESPN has him ranked as the 22nd best player overall in the portal.

he is our highest ranked player we've gotten and on three now has us as having the eighth highest class in the portal. So I know it's hard to be positive or excited about football right now. I totally get that. But it looks like the portal has been successful. And I had one person that does football recruiting nationally say to me, Matt, if you take out the loss of Dane Key, because this person thought that was a, an important loss. Then if you take that out, Kentucky has significantly improved their football team

based on last year. Now, this person thought the key loss was Shannon Key, actually. But, you know, so that gave me some positivity, Ryan, that even though we don't know who these players are, you know, they got two of the top 50 guys, the linemen from Bowling Green, offensive linemen was a top 50 guy. And then this kid from Washington State, you know, again, again, we won't know and it's hard to get excited but at least there's some positivity positive news about the football transfer class yeah you think just in the transfer portal you they got potentially five starting

offensive linemen potential starting quarterback potential starting running back well a receiver these guys on defense you're talking about so yeah there is a lot of new faces that should get you a little excited about what they could do next year would you feel better if the quarterback was somebody that was highly touted or would you say well we've gotten a highly touting guy the last two years and it hasn't even worked. I guess we just got to put our trust in Bush and he got the guy that he thinks can fit his system the best because even though we were all excited about Vandergriff last year, it just didn't work this season as well we thought it was going to.

Leary was kind of the same way. I mean, I guess everything is just wait and see with these portals stuff. I will say, though, that stat about, did I tell you that the stat about the, did we talk about yesterday about the four teams in the playoff and where their players came from? No, we didn't. Okay, so I saw a stat. I want to say of the four teams that are in the playoffs,

the 25 starters, so basically offense, defense, special teams, of the four teams, that's 100 players, that 92 of the 100 started with that program. Wow, no kidding. That's a lot. Wow.

that's a lot. And it kind of goes counter to this idea you can just get everything you want in the portal. Now, I haven't checked those numbers. That number may be off by just a little bit, but it was still a significant amount of people in these classes started with these programs. So for the people that want to say, you know, recruit and develop, that gives them a little strength in their argument now for sure. Maybe in football, it's even more important than basketball, which I actually think that's probably true, to be honest. because in basketball, if you get a star as a freshman, he's gone. But in football, a star as a freshman still has to stay.

So maybe, you know, maybe actually getting your own guys is the key to doing it. Who's up next? Mack. Mack. Matt, go ahead, Mac. Mack. Hey, guys. I'm doing well.

Thank you. These current weather conditions you all are dealing with, I think, just a sign. You guys shouldn't move out to Colorado. You don't have to deal with no ice. You all have snow, don't you? I feel like Colorado, they have the ski slopes. Don't you all have snow, too? Yeah, man, but it's like the nice dry, snow, no ice.

You can drive, things stay open, you can get your kangaroo tacos. So you don't have, you all don't have ice in Colorado? No, no, it's like a dry snow. I mean, occasionally, but not like in Kentucky. I grew up in Virginia, so I know what it's like every time it snows. It's really wet. Yeah. No, man.

Out here is always fun. Yeah, but they would be hard to do Kentucky Sports Radio, Shannon, in Colorado. That would be a little bit more, that would be a little bit more difficult. But yeah, anything else? We had 50 people in Fort Collins. We did. That's right. I was there in Fort Collins.

Glad you guys came through. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Yeah, I mean, we get, one of the things about Kentucky is I do think you get, Shannon, like every kind of weather. It gets really hot here in the summer. we get snow, we get rain. You know, I feel like this is a place where you get everything.

I don't know how many places are like that in America, where you get like every season. Yeah, you get a beautiful spring, a beautiful fall, and then like you may end up with a winter where you actually get to see some snow. What do they always say about it, like if you don't like the weather to stick around? Is that what they say? Because it's going to change about next week. You'll get a completely different experience.

No, I mean, Kentucky is one of the, like, I think we get everything. I'm not sure how many places get everything. We get everything here. And I do think that's kind of a cool thing. Who's next? Joseph. Joseph. What's up, Joseph?

Hey, Matt, I appreciate checking my call. I got to ask anything legal question. But real fast, you know, if you watch like Monday night football, a lot of those starters say what college they went to, a lot of them went to mid-major colleges, more than you think, whenever you hear the names right off there. No, you're right. They do. I don't mind taking.

I don't know if that'll still be the case in 10 years because I think a lot of those mid-majors will play their final year at a big school, but it may be, we'll see. And my legal question is, you know, if you have someone park in your parking lot and they don't utilize your business, sometimes the business will have them towed away. Yes. And I get that because they're not patronizing your business. But what if you tow someone's car that is patronizing your business? Explain to me how that's not car.

You still can because, like, the, the, the, owner of the lot, it's a private lot. They don't have to let anyone park there. Now, I mean, it's bad business to tow people that were in your business, clearly, because it'll make people not want to come. But from a legal perspective, you know, you're not entitled to park anywhere in a private lot. So, I mean, most businesses, if they do it mistakenly, a lot of them will try to do something to make you feel good. But in general, unless a city has specific laws to the contrary, which I don't know if Lexington or Louisville do. I don't know city parking laws. But in general, it's private property and you're not entitled to park anywhere without the person's

permission. And if they made a mistake, it's still their property. So it's ultimately up to them to whether or not they fix it for you. Okay. I didn't realize that. I assumed that if you are patronizing a business that there's some sort of like agreement in place. Yeah, I mean, there might be a city. I'm using your parking lot. Yeah, there might be a city law in some places that has that. I wouldn't be surprised if there is. But just in general, you know, if I go to Shannon's house and I park in Shannon's driveway, and while I'm in his house, he decides to tell me, that's kind of his right,

even though it would be a jerk move to do. Totally something you could see me doing, though. I could totally see you doing that. You're one of the people I think I could totally see doing that. So I appreciate the call. 859-2-80-22-87. We'll take a break. Come back.

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