KSR - 2025-05-02- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

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Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, May the 2nd. I'm Matt Jones here live at my house in Louisville, Kentucky. Right in the beautiful Highlands on what so far is an absolutely perfect day. I'm not sure it's going to stay that way, but that's okay. It's wonderful now.

It is Kentucky Oaks Day, and you give a shout on the Clark's Pumpage Shop phone line. That's 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Autoglass Text Machine is 772-7-4-27-4-4. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lawvis. You call T.J. O'M-Make-May. I have a dressed-up, Drew Franklin. A dressed-up, Mario Maitland, who's on the mic as well. and a Ryan Lemon wearing shorts where I can see things I don't need to see.

Happy Oaks Day, gentlemen. I got to say something before we start. We've been here a couple dozen times. This is by far the cleanest your place has ever been. Well done. Yes, you would thank Karen Greenblondell for that. Well, she did it. There are no empty Diet Cup cups hanging everywhere.

Diet Coke. Diet Coke. You got all your books in order. What do you think about these new bookshel? Wow. No, it's amazing. I've decided a summer thing we're going to do, Mario. I'll do a tour of my library.

Because people always ask what I read. I have three massive bookshelves already full. You like those? Yeah, yeah, tons of books, man. What happened? All your DVDs were over in that corner. I gave them away. You gave them away.

Well, DVDs are DVD. Yeah. What about your cassette tapes? I probably had, I don't know, Mario, 150 DVDs. Just stacked up in this corner. They were stacked up in that corner. I also did the same thing with my CDs. CDs and DVDs drew.

Unfortunately, technology has rendered them. It was hard to give away the Willie Nelson complete collection, but since it's on my phone, I feel like I could. I had a huge DVD collection. I used to work at Sam Goody, so I got the employee discount. I had everything. And when I took it to sell it off, I mean, just trash bags full of them. They're like, yeah, we'll give you 20 bucks.

That's exactly. It was worth absolutely nothing. Yeah, I went through a period in the 90s where I bought every season, of a television show you could buy. Not just like the Sopranos in the Wire or West Wing, which I liked. But for some reason, I would convince myself, yeah, let's just go ahead and get the complete Sanford and Sun collection, which I did own.

And I had news radio, why not? News radio, I want to watch that forever. So there was a period of time, if a show came out in the 90s, I had its entire collection. And I got rid of all of them. I gave them all away. Because, you know, I mean, was streaming. All that stuff is.

It's amazing. Like we're walking in a new place. I kept one. I kept one. You did keep one. Because I don't think you can stream it. Although somebody said recently maybe you can. I kept the entire collection of that show on MTV, the state.

Does you remember that show? I remember being on your shelf. That was the only one I kept because I wanted to make sure I didn't lose it. I kept the Sopranos box set. I feel like that's a collector's item. But I did head to part ways with my blind date, the entire series. You did not have blind date? Oh, wow.

You had the entire series of blind date? And I think it was unopened. I mean, there was some value on this. Had to part ways. So I could have given it all to you to Mario. Let you teach you about the older generation of TV shows. I don't know anything about that. Y'all lost me when you just started talking about the DVD.

Oh, man. You don't know the feeling. Have you ever watched a DVD ever? No, no, not really. I have the CDs. I remember putting the CDs in the car because my dad used to do that. I like, yeah, you said that like I would be talking about the telegraph. I've never felt older.

He was like, I had the CD you put in the car. car. Yeah, that was during my, like, childhood, that's how you listen to music, was the CD. Yeah, that's what early childhood I had that. Mario didn't know about putting in a DVD and a menu would pop up. The fact that you could control, have chapters in a movie. And then, like, directors commentary. Now, I actually do miss the director's commentaries.

Those were pretty good. So, so anyway, they're gone now, Ryan. And then so you got these bookshelves with all the books. The house is clean. Pictures on the wall. Pictures on the wall. Yeah, not on the floor. Biggers on the wall.

You got someone painted that for me. You got Daniel Boone right here. I wondered what that was. Abraham Lincoln's quote, I hope to have God on my side, but I have to have Kentucky. That's good. There's one down the hallway.

It says something about attitude and gratitude. Yeah. You got my New York Times bestseller. Saw that. So all my law degrees, which don't get used, but. Totally, totally a new place when you walk in. You got through, there's a bouquet of flowers.

Now, they may have you real flowers. Yeah, those look pretty good. They had flowers. Yeah, you would be impressed. Those are real flowers. Look at that. You say pictures on the wall. Do there are no pictures on the wall before?

They're on the ground. No, I had them leaning against the wall because I didn't know how to hang it. Well, you should have seen the before. You're in the after picture. That's true. The before is completely different. That's just funny, right? It was like, pictures on the wall.

He was so proud of what we walked in. He told hubby, go look at the room of stuff. Go check out the room of stuff. It's clean. It's clean. So we're ready to go. It is Oaks Day. we got our simply joking hats on.

Yes. Are you ready for a big day today at the track? I'm ready, but it's a different experience because I've never been part of the sport. Normally I'm just a spectator, and to be honest, don't even care who wins, but there's a lot on the line. This could change our futures later today.

Like 10 after 5. But we could end up sneaking into the winter circle. I mean, I don't know if we're invited in or not, but I'll tell you what I'm getting in. If we win. You got to. I'm getting in. Now, they're having an owner's meeting, Shannon, at 1 o'clock.

I'll be there. Yep, I'll be there. I don't know if I'm going to, we're going to be close getting there. But what do you think's going to happen in the owner's meeting? Apparently the trainer's going to talk to us about our chances. Well, they're probably going to tell each and every one of you, you're not invited to the winner's circle. Stay in the grandstand. Mario, they can't keep me away.

You're going. We know how you are. You're going to me in there. Well, look, so I did a lot. I did my research last night. Okay. Because, you know, I'm the Oaks and Derby. You got your daily racing for them right there.

I went to the grocery store, the Thorntons down the road. Got your daily racing for them. People were lined up out the door to get the day. Louisville just treats this so different. Remember in Lexington, I had a hard time finding a daily racing form. In Louisville, the gas stations that have it, they're lined down the street for people to get it. I got my Kentucky, my favorite handicap tip sheep. $3 for the Kentucky handicapped.

You had to pay extra for the tip sheet. Oh, it's worth $3. This person, when races are in Kentucky, the Kentucky handy. That's what you want. It's always helpful. So I was looking at it yesterday, and basically I break down the Oaks race like this. Okay, let's hear it. Shannon, this is my scientific view.

Bad handicapped in the race. Good cheer is by far the best horse. Okay. All right, good cheers won all of its races. It's a beast. So it's by far the favorite. And we're going to have to hope, you know, it's. Has a bad trip.

It's drunk or something. Like it's in love, you know, that it's my. mind is somewhere else. But if you take him out, her, her, you take her out, we're as good as anybody. Nice. But I'm serious. Right now we're the third choice.

I think you look at it, just on terms of results, we're probably fourth or something, probably a KSR bump in some of the early betting. But if the favorite, for whatever reason, doesn't do well, I think, Drew, we got as good a chance as everybody. I'm being honest about that. And I'd rather be there than the favorite.

pressure, all the attention. And he knows. She knows. It's in her head right now. You know, you get the pressure like this. I mean, you're kind of like Greg Norman in 96 at the Masters. You're going to start getting nervous. You know, I thought this horse was Greg Norman. Great analogy there. But I love our spot kind of coming in a little under the radar except for the radio promotion.

And we're going to surprise everyone here. I wouldn't say the radio promotion probably has put some attention. We have a little bit of a chip on our shoulder. I do. I have a friend who works in the horse industry who said there's a lot of the people who see the early money on simply joking and they're like, what's going on? And they think it's like somebody that has a tip. Uh-huh. Because, but they don't know that like we're, you know, that this is happening. So over 400 of you own some piece of it. And that was going into last

night. There might be more. I don't know today. But our business partners. These are our business partners. I feel like this is really. By the way, and if we win, we have the Oaks part, if you you have proof of that, I guarantee you a seat for it. Awesome. Awesome. At the bar. I really feel like today is a life-changing day for all of us. You're not even going. I'll be watching.

You're wearing a t-shirt with your name on it. I've got my best scoop lemon t-shirt on today. You're not even going. But I'm going to be, well, I'm off like those guys that doesn't like to be in the arena. I can go take a shower. Get so nervous before the race. We're like you during March Madness. Okay, that's fair.

You're walking down the street. Yeah. We'll have the Oaks on, by the way, at the, at the, bar. Of course. You want to come watch it today. It's going to be, well, it's maybe going to rain, but other words, but we have a roof, so it should be okay.

But yeah, I'm excited. This is one, I mean, I, I, going to the Oaks and the Derby Drew is a whole thing. Like, so I've done it, you know, I don't, but today, I think it's going to be a little different. We're in the, like, what is it, third floor clubhouse, which that's where a lot of people are, but might get to go up to the turf club with fellow celebrities. Of course. I'm sure they'll send security to come get us at some point.

Yeah. Well, we've done this many times, but I'm actually on quite a drought from being over there. I don't know that I've been since COVID. There was a time we went every year consecutively for quite a while, which was fun every year. But I've had the itch to get back. I haven't been. I don't think any of us have been since COVID. I don't think so.

No. Yeah, I haven't. Now, have you ever been, Mario? I've never been. So you don't even know what you're going to? I've been to like the track, but I've never been actual to Downs and Derby. Okay. So you've never been to this.

No. Now, you're dressed very well. I mean, Mario dress is great. You've got a little purple jacket with matching dunks. Yeah, yeah. But you said you hate this, the dress. I don't like dressing up. Why is that?

I don't feel comfortable. I feel a little tight. I like comfortable clothes where I can just feel free. Do you, what do you think about my? I like it, man. You got the yellow tie with the Kobe's to match the tie. I like it. The khakis, I like it.

Yeah, it looks classic. Smooth. Spiffy. Smooth. Classic smooth and spiffy. I like that. I like being spiffy. I didn't know we were going sneakers.

I feel over dressed. I'm wearing my nice leather boots. Well, I saw my backup. You know, I do the rotation. Yes. The rotation in this round

of not included these gold co. Perfect. And I'm like, these gold cobies, this is one of the nicer pairs of shoes I have. Are you worried about getting muddy when you walk across the tractor? Because they're gold,

I could clean them. It would be okay. Yeah. If they were white, maybe not. But because they're gold, plus, you know, what am I saving them for?

This is Oaks Day. We have a horse-roar-and-a-horse. That's a good point. Right, and if we win, gold. Gold. And channel and Toby to get there. Yeah. All right, so we're going to talk a little bit more about the race.

Kentucky is playing St. John's. We'll talk about that as well. But to me, Shannon, the overall number one story has to be this dude in Georgetown. Oh, yeah. So let me go back for a second. When we were on the air and I said, they don't know who the winner is. Was that Monday? they had actually announced the winner right before the show started, and we didn't know.

Right. And all of a sudden, throughout the day, throughout the show, people are like, hey, man, do you know who this dude is in Georgetown? And I didn't know. I thought his mother was his girlfriend. Me too. And what was it? What's his name? James Farthing.

Farthing. And so when I saw it, I was like, I think you even said, Shannon, that's how you wanted a lottery winner to look. That's what, exactly. wife beat her on, tatted up. You know, not a guy in a business suit and slick back here. That's what you want. Yeah, exactly. So people started riding me and saying, hey, dude, you might look into this guy's rap sheet.

And I was like, well, I'm not getting into that. You know, this was a private citizen. True. So I was like, this is a public radio show we'll go. So over the next couple days, I realized he had a long rap sheet. but you know I don't want to just be like dude has long rap sheets

so we just kind of let it go and then it comes across the wire that 48 hours after he won the lottery he's arrested for assaulting a police officer in Florida looks like there was what Ryan a bar fight or something

and the police came and then he might have got into it with the police is that what it looks like happened and apparently kicked a police officer kicked the police officer His wife, whose last name is what? Fighter. Fightmaster.

Yeah, his girlfriend's last name is Fightmaster. Living up to her name. Literally, when you start date, listen, Mario, I'm not going to give you too much advice. When you start dating a woman, if her last name is Fightmaster. Or her first name's Tiffany with an eye. Oh, it's not Tiffany with an eye. No, no. No, no.

I'm not. I'm not. No, Tiffany with an eye. No. First of all, be careful of anyone that ends in an eye. Yeah. Okay. Brittany with an eye.

Anybody with an eye. Be careful. But if you date a woman last name's Fightmaster, you're asking for it. Could be on. That's true. Right. And next thing you know, they are both 48 hours after winning the lottery arrested in Florida.

Now, we're going to take a break, but I want to get everybody's takes on this. Best story of the day. Oh, one of my favorite stories of all time, assuming everybody's okay. Can't even go 48 hours. No. Without it, we'll take a break. Be right back. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Text machine is 772-745-254. One person writes, Matt, I'm disappointed in you and Drew. You're not wearing your cowboy hats to the track. I considered it. Me too. We got to, we got a simply joking. If I didn't have the horse in, I'd wear the cowboy hat. They should have given us simply joking cowboy hats. And then we would have been in business. Yeah. We would have looked ridiculous, but I would have done it. But yeah, so I thought about that. I would have worn it if it was, if we didn't have this.

Abby asked what I'm going to wear my cowboy boots. And I said, no. I don't want to get them dirty because it's going to range. He's like, yeah, Cowboy. Just like a real cowboy. Don't get those boots muddy. That's right. One person writes, Matt, could you get Drew and Mario to carry you and your Kobe's across the mud like they did Jack Harlow? That was a ridiculous.

Remember that? Of course I remember that. When they carried out. All right, so got some breaking news, Shannon. Running on a-na-na-N-N-N-A-Kentucky basketball will play Purdue. in an exhibition game in Rupp Arena leading into next season. So rather than playing two exhibition games against stinky teams, this year they will play at least one game against a team like Purdue.

Presumably that might include next year going back the other way, or maybe not, who knows. But this year we'll play Purdue in an exhibition game. Ryan, do you like that? I love it. I mean, this is kind of a trend now. Teams are doing this rather than playing exhibition games against NAA schools or whatever. I hope the other game they play is still a Kentucky school

kind of like that element of what they're doing but I love the fact they're getting to play a high level opponent Yeah Purdue could be a number one title favorite going in the next year They have a lot of people back Braden Smith who he's probably National Player of the Year favorite Yeah I mean that's a huge opponent to open the season with

And I love Nate you could see where they stand without really affecting anything Kind of a game for funsies I cannot stand Purdue I hate Purdue the way a lot of South or Kentucky people hate Tennessee. So what do you think it's going to be like to play a game like that, though, where it doesn't matter whether you win?

Do you think our fans are still going to expect to win? Of course. I think they'll still be into it. And it's going to be in rough. Like in the beginning part of the season, yeah, fans are going to be definitely into it. October, that's going to feel weird playing a probably number one team in the country. I love it. That would be a good rupor, good KS bar environment before the game.

I think it's great they're doing that. A team should have done this a long time ago. I think the NCAA kind of banned it. And then they started letting them do it for charity after COVID. And now I guess they've kind of opened up. So here's the question. When is the last time they played Purdue? And they play like in the late 80s in the tournament one game?

Late 90s, I mean, not late 90s. It's got to be 30 years. I feel like we played them once in one of these like, back when we used to play in like things like Maui. I don't think it was in Maui. But I don't remember a Purdue game, which is crazy because it's not that far away. True. Right. I mean, it's just, it's what, just on the other side of the Indian.

96 and 97 on the same date actually in the great eight yeah go yeah the great eight when they used to play was that in indianapolis yes uh chicago this time but yeah the great eight was where they took the teams that made the elite eight the year before and let them play again which is a great idea great idea i mean it's tougher to do now because you have completely different rosters the next year but uh beat them both times pretty handily actually beat him about 14 both times we're gonna beat them again this time because produce stinks all right well uh that's good okay let's go back to our guys So the important things. So yeah. I mean, that's basketball, but this guy. So he gets arrested. Apparently he was in Florida, Ryan,

because he wanted to buy a high-rise apartment on the beach. Now, I want to say this. Drew, this dude wastes no time. 48 hours. He's already in Florida looking for a high-rise apartment. He's property. Like, he didn't even go, let's wait until the weekend, honey. Let's go now.

I can't judge him on this because if I'd won the lottery, I would have been in Vegas before anyone could blink. You wouldn't see me. I'd be going. So I'm not judging him. Maybe you quit? No, I wouldn't say that. I'll actually still work my jobs as I enjoy it.

But I'd be going here and there. Yeah, I got to celebrate, you know. Well, I was in Georgetown last night, and that was the scuttle butt. That's what everybody was talking about. Apparently, him and his girlfriend got a high-rise penthouse hotel room. And we're looking at beachfront property to purchase. have they even gotten their money yet Shannon? No, but it's on the way.

Are they waiting for the check to clear? Because they're taking it up front. Yeah. All right. So now, here's some just legal things. And let me say, I know nothing about his situation. But he, as I understand it, got out of prison not that long ago. Right.

Less than two years ago. 20, 23rd. I'm going to assume with no knowledge, because I haven't looked up his rap sheet, so this could be wrong. Take this with a grain of salt. but there's a decent chance he's still on probation. Absolutely. A decent chance. I don't know that, but if he just got out two years ago,

and looking at some of the charges, there's a decent chance he's on probation. Yes. Which, presumably, this will violate. Then there's a decent chance that because he's on probation, he's going to have issues bonding out. Go back to jail? He might still be there right now.

Yeah. Does anybody, did he get out? I'm not sure he would, because of the probation, he might not have gotten out. Right, depending on the terms of probation. I don't know the answer, but depending on the terms of probation, then you have to be extradited. Like, this dude, Shannon, went from top of the world to just don't get in a bar fight with the fight master. Yeah. Bottom of the world, the top of the world, back.

I guess he got homesick. So is there a world if he's incarcerated? They will hold his winnings. Well, see, I don't know. I think the rules about the lottery are you don't, I don't think it'd ask if you're a good person. Yeah. So you think the lottery should have a,

you can't have been a criminal, or does that cut down on the amount of tickets you sold so much? Nobody's buying a ticket then. But can they hold the money if he's in jail? But hold it for what? Under what grounds? I don't know. That's why I'm asking you.

You're, I don't know of a law that says you can't, like, I mean, if he was in prison, unless there's a law that says you can't. Now, if he owes money restitution, they might take that out. But it was a lot left over. There's still going to be a lot left over. It says the story that came out at 7 said he was still in jail as of 7th.

Yeah, I don't. It says he's facing probation. Yes, because he's on probation. See, I didn't know that, but that doesn't surprise me. See, I'm doing my legal now. I thought he's not going to be able to get out of jail because of the probation violation. And so, and, you know, when you violate your probation, you go to jail for the amount of time that was left in your sentence. And especially in Kentucky, where we let people out earlier because we have jail overcrowding.

There might be Shannon many years left in his sentence. Right. So he might literally have gone from this to jail. And because this is now high profile, nobody's going to let him out. No. No judge, because the media is going to be at his whatever. Yeah. So it's everywhere.

So, Shannon, I mean, his, you talk about screwing up. I mean, yeah. Dude, just be like a normal person. Just be normal. Some of these guys, you just can't help them. Can you imagine being his probation officer and you get the call earlier in the week, your dude just won the powerball. It's $170 million.

Then you get the call yesterday. Your dude's in jail down in Florida. Yeah. I mean, just, first thing, and again, she might be a one. wonderful woman. If I win $77 million, maybe consider getting away from the fight master.

Just name alone. Name alone, Mario. Just worried about the fight master. I don't know how you can make such a dumb decision. You won the lottery. Relax. Bad with life that you want to fight somebody. You have $77 million.

I'll tell you this. I'd say this like I did with Eon Musk. If I had his money, I wouldn't say a word on Twitter. If I had $77 million, I ain't fighting anybody. Let me right back. You're not fighting anybody anyway. Shut up. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney.

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So the woman, Fightmaster. Fightmaster. She's out. Okay. But he is kept on because I kept saying probation, violation of parole. Now, here's another crazy part of the story, Shannon. Guess when his parole ended? Probably like last week or August 2025.

If he could have just gotten through all. August. Just through August. He would have been fine. If he could have just not got... The story I just read said they got in fights with multiple people at the bar. They were just walking around asking people if they wanted some. Probably at a high-end bar with all the wealthy people.

I wonder what they were fighting about, though. That's the weird part about it. You think they were like, I won the lottery? Everybody else goes, no, you didn't. And they just punch them right in the face. Maybe so. What could they have been fighting with about multiple people, Ryan? Great Crossing or Scott County?

In Florida. You think they would have cared in Florida that much? There's nothing you could do to get me to fight if I just won the lottery. There's nothing you could say to me, nothing you could do to me. I am not doing anything. I'm happy, you're happy. First of all, why are you going to a place if you've got that kind of money where you might fight? I picture they're at a luxury play and they're fighting old rich people.

That's where you should be? You think they're at like the senior frogs? So now he's going to go, he's going to the pokey. Yeah. Like he's going to the pokey. He's going to go for whatever was left of his other sentence, right? And he's going to get charged. And the thing is, they're not going to show him any sympathy because this is now a national case.

Absolutely. Right. He assaulted a police officer and everybody knows about it. This story broke in the New York Post, Shannon. I mean, this didn't break in the Georgetown beacon. Everybody knows. This guy now. This broke in the New York Post.

The real winner here is Clark's Puppenshop, because now they're a national brand. Yeah, Clark's Puppets Shop was in the store. That's right. He pumped, and then he shot, I think. He punched. Seems like a guy with that much money could find some trouble in jail, too. I wouldn't want to be going to jail with everybody knowing what I'm worth. Not going to be fun for whom.

I will say there was a person who wrote me after the story came out from Georgetown and said to me, he will have no money in two years. They just knew he's going to blow through it. Because they knew him. They were just like he's going to blow through. He was on a head start, penthouse hotel room, looking for a beach property down in Florida. Quick. Very, very quick.

One person writes, Matt, you shouldn't be so down on your horse. Keenland Dan has it his horse to beat today. All right. That's what we needed. Who's Keenland Day? It's our guy. Who is he? I don't know, but he's my guy now.

He's been my guy for 10 seconds now that you said that. What makes him Keeland Dan? Does he work at Keenland? I'm going to guess he goes to Keenla a lot. His name's Dan. He obviously knows what he's talking about. I feel like, I feel like, now I could be wrong about this. I feel like Keenland Dan yells at me about Trump on Twitter.

Uh-oh. You all found something you can agree on. No, no, he's on the other side. I feel like he's always telling me that I, uh, uh, or no, maybe that's Keelan Jim. I think it is Keelan Jim. Jim, Dan, you know. Yeah, that's Keenland Jim. I don't know who Keenland Dan is.

His Twitter profile says he's Dr. Keenland Dan. So to the collar, let's put some respect. He's 45,000 pollers. He says, Dan Kronen, horse racing analysis, analyst sports pick, MAGA. Okay, so it is. I knew it was Keelan Dan. That's all right. We're on the same team today.

He's got MAGA. All right. Well, that's okay. Fat, bald guy racing. I like the name. Oh, I know who that is. That's Mick Cronin's brother. It is Dan.

He's brother. Yeah, Mick Cronin, the basketball coach. This is his brother, Dan Cronin. He was on the Leach Report this morning with Tom. Yeah, I got his number if you want to, you know, sort some things out. No, I don't want him to yell at me. He's got a good attitude today, though. No, I'm telling you, he does write me, and he'll be like, stupid labor.

That's exactly what he says. But he's for our horse, so for today. That's right. We make America simply joking again. Massja. We need master hats before we get over there. We need massja hats. So thank you to, if that's correct, that Keenland-Dand believes it, that's good.

859-280-2287. We're going to take calls here in just a second. So Kentucky St. John's now official in Atlanta, you're going to go? I'll probably make that a road trip, probably. I'm all about it. I mean, I think we all were secretly hoping there would be a Kentucky St. John's game this coming season because it's a 30-year anniversary of the 96 championship team. But I think we thought it would be maybe in Rupp.

But the fact that at least they're going to play them is awesome. Yeah. I think it's great. I'm looking forward to it. What about you, Drew? Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I'd go if we don't go as a road trip because I'm already doing the Gonzaga game and maybe one of the others, but I'm so excited for it. That event needs some juice when we're not playing North Carolina, and you can't get much better than Pope versus Petino. Pope versus Patino.

They put out that little video yesterday, building it up. I think we're going to hear a lot more about it. The only problem is it's that Saturday where they do the first round of the playoffs, so I don't know how much the world will pay attention to it. But we'll pay attention to it. And we'll probably make that our road trip. we've never really toured the south. Like we've never really done like Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia. Louisiana for our Atlanta game.

So I guess we're going to go up through Iowa and Kansas to loop around to get down to Atlanta. Is that the trip? We have a week. Yeah. We've driven to Seattle on this trip. We can go through Louisiana. But the thought would be go to places we've never been. Like we've never been to Baton Rouge.

I like getting around Atlanta traffic through Baton Rouge. Yeah. That's out a lot of time. A lot of people go that. I think we'll beat the rush. You know, I don't need all this pessimism from you all. Well, I'd love to go. You all agreed.

We've never really done Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. This is the way to get to do it. So we do that. Can we tip into Florida? Yeah, I would like that. Go see our lottery winner in jail maybe down there. I don't want to just show up and be like. You want to come on PSR?

This is Matt. Are you excited about it? Does Patino have the juice for you and you young kids? I wasn't sure. Like, I remember you interviewed him on. There were a few months back, you know, and you were there. Yeah, you asked him, he was like, do you think you're going to get that Kentucky St. John's matchup? And now look at it.

We're getting it early, so it's really cool to see the whole. So all those hints about the denim uniforms, or they break them out here at the Champions Classic against St. John's? By the way, there is a chance that he might be on the show at 11 o'clock. The lottery winner? No, not him. He only gets one phone call. No offense, I would rather it be the lottery winner. It was Rick Petito.

But it would be better if it was the lottery. We're still trying to make it work because he's doing horse stuff, I think, today. But yes, yeah. He's probably here in town. Why don't he just come to your house and do the show with us? That would be fun. That would be something. If Rick Petito walked in his house.

Hey, Rick. What's up? What do you have to drink? Nothing. Straight bourbon, and that's it. I have 20 bottles of ceremonial bourbon. And some cornbread celtars. I'm going to have one as we had out.

Yes. There you go. You could do that. Do you think the crowd will be big for that guy? Oh, it'll be huge. I think it's going to be big anyway because Catlanta, we kind of fill it up down there. But with the fact that St. John's and Petito's going to play Pope, I think it'll be packed. All three consecutive weekends.

You have Gonzaga, Nashville, Indiana at Rupp. Those are going to be good. That's going back to that tubby Saturdays. Tubby used to be every Saturday in December a big matchup. And now you're going to have back-to-back matchups, Gonzaga, Indiana, St. John's on back-to-back Saturday. So do you still think they'll try to work it out for St. John's to come to Rupp at some point, home and home with them? Yeah, it's just tough, though, because of the way the schedule works. Like, they just, they have a hard time, I think,

because of the way the revenue and all that. That might be after Mitch leaves. The thing that happens. Who's up first, Shadden? Doug. Doug, go ahead, Doug. All right, Matt, this is in reference to your collection of CDs and DVDs. Okay. Okay. Okay, my son, son-in-law, my daughter and I bought a house a few years ago, and we were going to flip it. He bought it from a pharmacist. And he had the weirdest collection of anything I've ever seen. Yeah, I don't know. Be careful what this collection is.

No, he had cases stacked from the ceiling, from the floor all the way to the ceiling, VHS tapes of golf tournaments. Of golf tournaments that he had, like, recorded off, off television? Yes. Huh. So I was wondering why it is the weirdest collection you got. That's a great.

Well, I'll tell you, I can answer that easy. I appreciate the call. In 1999, 2000, no, no, no, 2003, four. I just moved back to Kentucky, and I saw on eBay, someone was selling every Monday night Raw ever on VIII. VHS tape. And Shannon, you know, it's pre-WWE Network. Right. And that was when I

loved Raw, and I bought it. You had your own WWE Network. It was like $150, which at the time was a lot of money. But it was a VH and the guy had gotten married and his wife said this is not going in the house.

And it was a lot. Think about it. And I had it and this is going to sound ridiculous. I lost it. What? I lost it. I left an apartment and forgot it in the apartment.

So somebody somewhere is enjoying all those VHS P.HSA. So someone in, I think the apartment, Raleigh, North Carolina, I left all of the Raws. I'm sure they were very excited. Yeah, it was boxes and boxes up. Were they sorted at least? They each had a label of what day it was, and it was like 1995 through like 2001, every raw. Wow.

That's dedication. I mean, it was kind of awesome. Yeah. I feel like $150 is cheaper. I would sometimes. Like in Raleigh, when I lived in Raleigh, I didn't know anybody, so I was by myself a lot. It was a year I didn't know one person there, and my other co-clerks were married. And I would just come home, Shannon, get some dinner and just put in a random raw, just sit and watch it.

That was good stuff. That's how you knew what a cool guy was. You know, we're talking about these old BHS tapes. I've always wondered what happened to Josephine and her husband's collection. He'd ever recorded every three games. and every UK game. I wondered whatever happened to that. That would be cool to have now, honestly.

Yeah. To have every UK game ever on VHS, that would be kind of cool. I'm looking for that. Them or someone else that has it. That would be cool. I've seen about everything you can on YouTube of the old games. We'll take a break.

Be right back. We are here. This is, wait a minute, hang on. Tommy Tupperville apparently says he had a conversation with President Trump last night about establishing NIL standards. They got to pass legislation. If Trump tries to do it with an executive order,

it will just get overturned by the courts and it's just going to postpone everything for years. Tommy, let somebody with intelligence work on this. Like, not you. Let Ted Cruz and Cory Booker. They're smart. You just keep being a coach. We'll take a break.

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Now, I was thinking about this. I'm considering doing my top 100 favorite songs in playing during the day. the summer and having a contest where you have to keep up with what they are. Yeah. This would probably be in the top 15 now. Really? I didn't even know it was there. I just love it.

I love it. The Rolling Stones, how talented are they? They come over and start playing country music, Shannon, and immediately put out like a really good country music album and a good country music legendary song. Yep. Yep. Those guys can do it all. They can do it all.

There's a video on TikTok of them performing this, and Mick is doing that dance. where he puts his hands on his butt and shakes around. He looks ridiculous. But I do really like this song. And when you go to the Derby, when you walk through around all those back streets like Rodman Street, which we're going to do today, you'll always see like a guy with the guitar playing this song. Somewhere everywhere. Well, you know, Rodman Street is my favorite part of the Derby.

Do you know Robin Street, Mario? No, I don't. Oh, you're going to learn it. Rodman Street. If it's not raining, it's awesome. If it's raining today, it won't be as much fun. People can just walk up in their house, do some jello shots. So all the streets around, yeah, all the streets around Churchill, there's just houses.

And they just party that day. And because there's so many, like, drunk, rich people, they're selling food, they're selling drinks. Drew one time, I lost Drew and hubby and tall. And what I think at one point was probably a crack house. It definitely was a house. But 100% of crack house. No, I mean, they were like, they turned it into, like, a dance. Yeah.

I didn't think anyone owned it. It was empty. It was empty, and, like, they cleared it out, and everybody was just dancing in there. When we walked in, I wasn't sure we were walking out. Yeah. And we were trying to leave, and we couldn't find Drew Tall and Hubby, the three biggest people in the group. And we looked, and they were going nuts in this former had to be crack house where they had turned it into, like, a dance hall. That's where I got the jello shots.

They were very melted. Definitely did not need to be taking those. But look, we're still here today. I mean, there's a lot of unofficial. sales going around, but they'll sell anything. Like, the food is so good, right? I mean, like, people are like frying fish, and it's like... And it's like...

And it's on the street. Just in the neighborhoods, because that's people go back there and park their cars. So these people turn their yards into, like, parking. And then they basically make it a party. And when the weather's good, which it is right now, I don't know if it's going to be at the end of the day, but when the weather's good, it's like a street party for blocks and blocks and blocks. And we've learned over the years, in some ways,

Drew, wouldn't you agree? That's more fun than the derby? I'm not kidding. Most of my derby memories are not on the Churchill grounds. They're on Rodman Street. Hubby reminded me right before the show. A guy was selling $2 fireball shots one time. We're like, well, for $2, we have to partake.

And he just handed us a bottle. There was no shot glass. He just said like, just drink. It was out of his back pocket. That was the shot. A back pocket fireball. For $2. I mean, where else can you get a shot for $2 on Derby Day?

So it is. I mean, like that part of it, that was a part of the culture of it, Ryan. never really experienced until we started going a few years ago. And that's a lot more fun than the stuffy kind of, you know. Yeah, part of the derby experience, that walk to and from the derby, and it smells great. They've got it. Oh, it smells awesome. The food smells amazing.

I didn't even know they did that. I just thought I was doing it. Well, it's only on one side. So you have to, it's on the side. We always say Rodman Street, but there's a lot of streets. But it's on that side. Now, by nighttime, I don't know if you want to be there. Like, you are like, when it gets dark, you need to probably.

be gone. But during that time, it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. Don't you agree? It's like a festival. It really is. I was going to say it's the best, but it's all, like it said, it's only on like one part of it. Some of the other parts are just roads, but that part is really. I think one time we walked by and there was a dunking booth in somebody's front yard. Yeah, somebody ran a donkey booth that put it in the front yard. People put out like an actual dance floor on their front yard. I've heard they, I've heard some, that there's a place I've never been to it, but where they have boxing matches. Oh, fight club.

Yeah. No, I mean, like, they have a boxing ring. I mean, you can't just walk up and fight. But they have people, and you can, like, I think there are people like taking bets on the show. I mean, it's, they, it's like the city of Louisville just looks the other way for a day. Yeah. Or actually two days, today and tomorrow.

It's like, all right, just don't hurt anybody. That's incredible. And then just have it. But they still cancel school here in Jefferson County today? I think it's canceled today. They cancel school? Yes. Today there can't.

Like today, tomorrow's a big deal. But today is the biggest party day in Louisville. Because the parties tonight, this city will be, I mean, you're going to be here a while. You'll see. This city will be, this is the most fun night. I would argue tonight is the most fun night. Louisville, Kentucky, if you're in Louisville, Kentucky tonight, it's the most fun place you could be tonight in America. Would you agree with that, Drew?

Oh, yeah. For one night. It's by Saturday. people are worn out. It's tonight is the night. There's a few derby night parties. Like you said, most people have already had the derby race. They're kind of winding down. Don't need any more. But tonight's the lead up. People just get in town today or yesterday. Most of the big events are tonight. That's why all the celebrities and athletes come to Kentucky Derby is the party tonight.

It is tonight. And then the derby tomorrow is awesome. But by the end, people are kind of worn out. Yeah. People are kind of tired. And it'll be what it is. So, Shannon, we were potentially going to have Patino. Let me see if that has happened or not. If we do, he just wants to talk about the game. You know, I interviewed him, but we didn't interview him on this show, right? I interviewed him, then we used clips of it.

Right. But it was, we taped it on a Saturday. Right. So I haven't gotten the call back. He has the number. So if you get a phone call during the break, Shannon, that's him. Okay, got it. Yeah, he called him one time when you were gone with the, pardon my take guys.

With pardon my tag. Okay, got you. Well, he's not been on with me, but hopefully it would be good. Do you, it was cool the way they announced it with Mark and Rick on that call together. Yeah. I thought it was very cool. I mean, it shows that they truly do love each other, and it's going to be a big deal, I think, to get a place St. John's at Rupp someday. Yeah.

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