KSR - 2025-05-02- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

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You know, I'd love to talk to you folks, but we also have a lot to say. So Kentucky Joe's on. I mean, I guess we'll let him do his Oaks pick. It's a KSR Oaks tradition. He's good a day of the year. So I'll let him do that. But otherwise we'll probably keep flying through.

Patino's not on the phone, I assume. Is that right? No. You think I've got to put Kentucky Joe ahead of Patino? Yeah. Sorry, Rick. It's Oaks Day. You've got to wait.

We've got to have Kentucky Joe's on. People are saying to me, and I've heard this version that they like Towns Van Zance version of Dead Flowers better. Play that at the next segment, okay, Shannon. And we can see if people, I love Towns Van Zanzanzanzanz. I don't know if I would say it's better. I was just outside showing Mario, you know, my house. We're not going to say what street we're on.

But he laughed about one of the funniest parts about my house, which is they took this little plot of land next to my house, and they called it a park. Very little. That's supposed to be a park? It's a nice park. It has a name. I'm not going to say what it is, but like that is officially a park.

That's two benches. So, yeah. Well, it couldn't fit any more. How long, Drew? Listen, I love this neighborhood. I've been here for 18 years. That is not a park. There's not a park.

What would you call it? It's a plot of land. It's like four houses of land. But small land. I'd call it your side yard. Your yard, yeah, side yard. But it is a Lexington City Park. And people will, excuse me, Louisville.

People in the neighborhood call it the park. Do people go there? and sit? Yes. There are people that go there? Yes, it's a park. But what do they do? Sit.

And then you can't do any activities. There's one little path that I think, I'd say that path is literally not even a block long. Would you agree with that? Less than a half a block probably. You can't even like throw a frisbee or a football. No, there's nothing you can do in that park. But you go and sit. I don't.

But there are people who will, don't people who will walk their dog in that park. What? In the yard. That took two minutes. What are they doing the rest of the day? I don't know. I see people all the time. They take their kids and they play.

Do they have a little picnic? I've never seen a picnic. But there are people that go there and they call it the park. It's got a sign that said preserve our parks, Shannon. Yeah. It used to just be vacant land. And then they one day were like, we need a park and they call it a park. It has to be the smallest park in America.

What are you doing to preserve? the park. I don't, I just preserve it by asking them to please not come in my yard. Okay. You've lived here for 18 years. Have you ever stepped foot in the park? I go up the handicap ramp sometimes to avoid my stairs. You see, there's a handicap ramp there. Yeah. And if I do that, if I just don't want to walk up the stairs. Like if I'm, if I, like, have a suitcase, I'm rolling or something, I'll roll it up the handicap ramp. I guess it's good for property value. You're overlooking a park? Yeah. That looks good on a, on a town appetizing it.

You think you should say overlooking a park? Beautiful park live right next door Enjoy the beautiful setting In the park If people are ever Like people in this day If you're listening in Louisville

In the Highlands You know what I'm talking about Because I think it's a regular joke That they call that a park Because Louisville has great parks Like Louisville has one of the best Park systems probably of any city I mean there's Cherokee Park

And there's an I mean there's a lot of parks But that ain't one of them That one though is on the list So when they talk about all the parks They'll be like Louisville has four 45 parks. Just remember, they count this as well.

They're patent stats. Get their park numbers up. The Matt Yard park over here. Also, I was showing Mario a picture. That's the picture of me, Ryan, and Drew, when we went to Alaska. The Alaskan Cruz. What year was that? That we took a KSR Alaska cruise?

2013? I'm guessing. 2014? Something like that. I don't know why we've never done another one. I was running back in a heartbeat. It was awesome. So much fun.

We had a KSR cruise, invited the listeners. Probably had, what, 40 or 50 listeners go? I think so. I still stay in touch. See a lot of them around. And we didn't even really advertise it and people went. So if we really advertised it now. They sold out the allotment of available tickets.

We probably get hundreds of people to go. Set it up. But we went to an Alaska cruise. And we went all the way up and down the bay and looked at the glacier. It was great. But my memory of it is basically, Mario, that Drew got a stalker on the trail. That's wild on that trip. So Drew, it was an old people trip, right?

When you go to Alaska, the other people on the boat outside the KSR group were all older. You guys are the youngest people on the boat. Drew and I were by far the youngest people on the boat. Drew and I was the youngest person on the boat. At night, they had a bar, a lounge you could go in. And they would do karaoke. And there was a woman. How old do you think that woman was?

So you were probably at the time 29, 28? Yeah, mid to late 20s. And how old do you think that woman was? close to 50? Yeah, late 40s. Early 50s. Put her in the 40s somewhere. And she fell in love with Drew.

Yeah. And she would dedicate her karaoke songs every night to him. To Drew, just singing. Even though, like, we really had never talked to her. Yeah, I didn't have any interaction with it. But she had decided that she loved her. She's in love, yeah. She wouldn't break eye contact while she was singing.

She would sing karaoke and look directly into his eyes. Very uncomfortable. And she would sing the big. song was walk away Joe because she said he was a walk away Joe because he kept walking away from her I would get to the other side of the boat as quickly as possible you never actually talked to her and we did talk to her once and she doesn't have a home she just travels on cruise ships I forgot that part of the story yeah she said like well I mean she may have a home but she's like I don't have any home base the world is my home base and she just travels and she goes I

meet, I think she looks for a Drew on every boat, and she would sing to him. And so every time I hear Walk Away Joe, I think about Drew and his lady. Well, I did talk to her because she invited me to the spa, and I'd never had a massage, and it's very expensive on this cruise ship. So I thought, oh, you went? Yeah, I'm like, it's 11. I forgot you went to the spa with her. Well, I'm like, all right, she can't abduct me on a cruise ship.

It's 11 a.m. How much trouble can we get in at 11 a.m.? So I told her I'd meet her there. She's going to put it on her tab, whatever I wanted. I'd never even been to a spot. He was a sugar baby. So I get there and the people greet me and they're like, she's waiting for you. I'm like, okay, that's fine.

I'm just going to get this massage, you know, probably go see my friends after this. But then I just had to stand there and she would pick up an oil and smell it and look at me. Like, no, that's not him. And then they'd hand her a different one and she'd smell it. She'd like, no, that's not him either. And just went through all these oils trying to find. That is so creepy. I didn't stay.

I left. I didn't even get the massage. I was out. Oh, I didn't know you left. I mean, I was just standing there with two masseuse people and her stand. staring at me trying to figure out which smell I was. If you ever hear this song, Walk Away Joe, just think about this woman singing to Drew directly on our way into Alaska.

That was a great trip, though. We got to do that again. What was the song that Wishi-Washi song they sang? When you had to sanitize, you had to sing a Wishi-Washi song? Wishy-Washy. I don't remember that. I do remember us performing YMCA. Yes.

And Sweet Caroline. We all had to. We all had to dress. We dressed as the village people. I can send you those pictures, Marr. I got to see that. I got to see that. Oh, I've got that picture of you guys.

Yeah, I was, I think I was the construction worker. I don't know what Drew was, but we all, we performed. Yeah, Mario, we'll send you these for a throwback Thursday. It was quite a thing back there. So let's run it back. 859-28027. Shannon, I have a story for you about baseball. I wanted your take on.

Okay, let's hear it. Umpires this year are more precise, and correct on their ball strike calls than in the history of baseball. They are getting 93% of the called pitches correct, the highest number ever since being recorded. Wow. And so you would ask why. Well, the athletic reported yesterday that Major League Baseball this offseason told the umpires that their grace zone was going away. So it used to be they would be graded.

Think about the strike zone. Right. And if the ball was two inches in either direction from the strike zone, from the gray zone, even if they called it wrong, they would get grace. Basically, they were giving them two inches to be wrong. That makes sense? That's a lot if you go over around the plate. Exactly.

Now they've changed it to 0.75 inches. And even though the standard has become harder, the umps are becoming even more accurate. Wow. And why is that? And the conclusion the article is, the umpires, A, got better because they knew they'd be graded harder, but B decided that things like a motion were getting out of it. You have to just call the ball or the strike. And that, of course, leads to the conclusion, Shannon, that for years, umpires could have done better,

but didn't, presumably I would say, Shannon, because of personal biases, right? Yeah, I mean, like those Braves pitchers, Glavin used to get six inches off the plate. Yeah. call it a strike. So now this year they've had the best. And the hitters, the managers have said they have learned guys are taking more pitches because they know the strike zone. The strike zone hasn't changed.

But the grace umpires get for getting it wrong has been cut in half. And they're now, but presumably by raising standards, the umpires have gotten better at doing it. See, my mind totally went the other way why umpires got better. I thought it was because, you know, they were going to take their order. job away and just have an automated robot. No, I do think that's part of it. Yeah, minor league is doing that, the automatic balls and strikes where they have an earpiece. Yeah, but what the umpire, but what the umpires have done, even though they cut in half

the amount of grace you get in your call, the umpires have gotten better, which means ultimately they could have gotten better before. They just didn't have an incentive to do it. They got way too comfortable. Way too comfortable. They're starting to get graded or watching a little closer. It's like when a secret shopper comes in at your work. You got to get focused.

And I agree with Ryan. They probably see the robots over their shoulder. We better tighten this up. That's right. You get a little more accurate. We'll be out of here. Yeah. It's like when in Caddyshack where they look at the caddies and said we're all going to be replaced by golf carts if you don't straighten up.

I just found that it would seem to be the opposite of common sense. Common sense would say if you made the standards harder, it would be harder to meet them. And they might get worse. But instead, even by making it harder, they got more. better. That's crazy. So I just thought that was an interesting. Good little tidbit there.

And then second before I go to Kentucky Joe. Luca, as you watch the final game, Anthony Edwards and Luke did. Did you watch that? And Luca got beat. No defense. I like Luca, zero effort defensively. Offense is great, and then defense, you just can't watch it. I mean, I could have scored off.

Like, he is. He's just gotten awful. After the game, JJ Redick said, some people on our team. have got to get in better shape. Championship shape. Which clearly has to be about him. Because LeBron doesn't have an ounce of fat on him. Do you think Luca will ever stop being fat?

See, the headlines shouldn't even be that. But, yeah. Yeah, he has. If he wants to win a championship, yeah, he has to. And that's why the Mavericks traded him. Apparently, they didn't think he would get in shape. And they thought as he got older, that weight will make him worse. could the Mavericks maybe getting some redemption here as he's

I think Nico Harrison needs to go on a tour of flex and patting himself on the back saying I told you all this was going to be a problem no still a bad trade but he at least has a moment to say this is what I was talking about Charles Barclay said he's the worst good player defender in the history of basketball he was like there have been worse defenders but you'll never see a dude who's an elite player who's worse on defense defense than Luca. Do you agree with that? I'll trust his opinion more than mine, but you would think in the playoffs

that's where he would at least attempt to play a little defense. He doesn't even give the effort. There's no effort. And then LeBron is 40, so he's slower now. So they just can't guard anybody. So I do wonder if in five years people will go, well, maybe we were, because you know how many games Dallas won in the playoffs this year? How many?

They just to play in. They didn't make it, huh? They won one playing game, right? You had to win, too. You know how many of the Lakers won this year? One. Wow. Now, I mean, I'm just saying, the Lakers fans would say, well, we did it for the future.

But if he is fat and smoking a cigarette at 28, drinking beer at halftime. Dr. Maybe that won't work. Kentucky Joe. How are you, Kentucky Joe? I'm doing fine. It's Kentucky Elk State. Okay. And the thing is, I think our friend who loves Jeff.

I have a very good film that Mr. Brad Cox is going to win today. But what about our horse? We have a horse, Joe. It's called Simply Joking. What about it? He'll probably come second or third. He'll be in the super effective. So which horse is your horse?

Probably, yeah, I'd probably have good cheer. Good cheer. So you're picking the overwhelming favorite. My gosh. A horse is ready to run. It's one, what? four or five of races in a row and

I'm also looking I'm looking for tomorrow to be it's probably going to be long shot day that's what I'm thinking tomorrow who you got it's going to be mudders going to be in the first three horse maybe four horses all right you still have it given me a name

for what what for I mean what's a winner Joe I appreciate the call for what I was really excited about that call Thought maybe we'd get a song. He's pretty good at it, actually. We just got him picking the favorite in the Oaks against our horse.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, Tegu Sports Radio. I like Towns vansant, Shannon. I like his voice. but I still like the day. You know, maybe because I heard the Rolling Stones version first. Yeah, this is slower. This is slower.

I like the Stones version. A little sad, although song's sad. It's about doing heroin on Derby Day. I guess the Rolling Stones did it at Churchill Downs. Yeah, he says, he's like, he's talking about his ex, and his ex is like riding around in a Cadillac making bets on Derby Day, and he's in his basement room with a needle and a spoon. I'm assuming that's what he means.

I never paid attention to the one. You never paid attention to the words? Not really. The point is his wife is like, or his ex-girlfriend is like living this high life and his life is sad, right? And then you can send me dead, I send your dead flowers by the mail, send me dead flowers at my wedding, but I won't forget to put roses on your grave. His point is, you hate me. You would send me dead flowers in the mail, but I still, when you die, would put roses on your grave. while he's doing heroin.

Wow. Well, it's not about the heroin. He's just like he's still in love with him. His life has collapsed. Gotcha. She's living a life of luxury, but he still would put roses on her grave, even though she mails him dead flowers in the mail.

That is so deep. What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with all these dead flowers in your living? You're going to mail these to anyone? Send them to some ex-girlfriends. No, I would never do that. Derby, we can do that. here. So get to D.K.

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Yeah. It's got to be $5. All right. So if you bet two horses to win, you'll only share the prize pool of your first bet. Gotcha. Does that make sense? Yes. And I would argue if you pick a horse that's a little bit of a longer shot that wins,

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Have to go to the window. The window is a part of the experience. Go up and give them the cash. then get it back. And then get back in the line. It's part of the experience, though, don't you think? It is part of the experience. Either Keenland or Churchill is going up to the window.

One person writes, I know Ryan used to be on television for the Derby all the time. You guys have been. I'm going tomorrow for the first time. Best and worst things to do at the Derby. We already told you one best, walk around the neighborhoods. Worst is the infield. The infield is absolute. And they've taken away a lot of it now, haven't they?

Yeah, they've classed up the joint a little bit. still the infield, but people dress up now. They do? Yeah. In the infield? It's like $100 to even get in the infield now. They've kind of taken away a lot of the debauchery, the running on the porta-potties, the throwing news anchor.

Why would you go in there for a hundred dollars? You can't even see. I agree. I mean, it's still the infield. You can still find the trouble if you want it, but they have classed it up quite a bit. Well, I mean, I hated it, but I still think it should be there. Like, you got to let people have a chance to run wild. You used to get assigned to the infield.

You hate it, right? The worst part about going to the derby is going to the derby, to me. What does that mean? I mean, we'd have to get to like at 6.30 in the morning, broadcast all day, not leave until the race was over at like 8 o'clock. It was the most ridiculous, longest day. I hated it. Where were your assignments during that?

Well, I got to the point where I was on top of the roof, outside of Millionaire's Row, Mary Jo and me or Cutler and me or somebody. Did you get to meet Millionaire? I almost bold over Jessica Simpson. I think I've told that story before. No, we'll tear it again. That's when they were, she was doing it.

No, I know. Of course you don't. How do you not know? She had CDs. She was doing that reality show with her and Nick Lachay. They were newlyweds. So they were up there in Millionaire's Row. I was sick as a dog.

I was so sick. And so I was going into the bathroom, take a break. And I walked through with my head down and bam, I bumped into her. And I kind of shook. Oh, I'm so sorry. Saw the cameras were all over the place. I thought, well, that's going to be on their reality show. And it wasn't.

No, of course, thank you not. Janet Jackson. Oh, you did. You see it? Yeah, Janet Jackson, and she was with Germain Dupre at the time. But you didn't embarrass you because you have a thing for Janet Jackson. I did and I wanted to, but we were like instructed, do not interact. When you go to the restroom, do not interact with those people in there.

They instructed when you go to the restroom, don't interact with people. I'll tell you this. They said, you're not supposed to make eye contact with Janet. Okay. All right. I'm serious. You think I'm joking. No, wait a bit.

They said, don't make eye contact with her? The employees there, and they told us you're not supposed to make eye contact with Janet. Ryan was looking at everything else on her. Just right. Kid Rock and was dating Pamela Anderson. Oh, wow. And they came in together, and Mary Jo loves Kid Rock. Really?

She loves Kid Rock. They didn't seem like her type. Well, she's always been a Kid Rock. Oh, loves it. So she starts screaming at him, Kid Rock, I love you. I love you. Mary Jo did that? Yes.

Wow. Okay, so who are the celebrities that are always there? You always get Kid Rock. He comes every year. Travis Tritt. Nick Lachet. If you're talking Barnes Stable, you've got Joey Fetone. Joey Fetone's always there.

Boys to men. Yeah, boys to men. Aaron Rogers and Randall Cobb always have a collection of former Packers with him. Yeah. Brady's there a lot. The Brady crew. Edelman, Portnoy. Who else?

Travis Tritt never misses it. He's always there. He just wants them to continue. That's a good one. Now, you're on the red carpet tomorrow. I am not, actually. Oh, you got moved? No, I was, but my credential says I'm not on red carpet.

So where are you? Everywhere else, but the red carpet. So he's assigned to, like, do crowd interviews. And Billy is once again to sign the jockeys. Yeah. He's taller than all of them. I love it. That's why he goes there.

It's the only place he feels tall at all. We're going to give you your picks. We're going to bring an expert on here in just a second. ASR. 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. You like this song? You like, you love it, man. Do you know what it is? No, who is it? Sawyer Brown. Do you like his version or George Jones better? I kind of like this version better. I kind of like this one. I like George's voice, but I like how this one's kind of upbeat.

So I love Sawyer Brown. We just got ponchos because it may rain today, just for the record. Ovello is joining us. He's the Draft King's Director of Race and Sports Operations. Johnny is your first time on the show. Somebody told me it's standing in the background like you were playing slot machines. Are you playing slot machines in the background? That's my computer keeps updating me with emails that are just constant. Yeah, there it is. How many emails are you getting, Johnny? Oh, it looks like one every seven seconds. About what?

Remember, draft king is involved in a lot of things. A lot of sports going on there. Wow. Johnny's getting some info, isn't he? I need to see these emails. All right, Johnny, this is your first time on the show, so we're hoping for big-time picks. Let's start with Oaks Day today.

Besides the big race, which we'll do just a minute, give me on the undercard your best bet of the day, something these listeners can go. All right, Johnny Avello says it. I'm doing it. Now, you're saying the oaks itself? No, that said the undercard, Johnny. Anything but the Oaks?

Oh, the undercard of that day. Okay, I actually haven't dove into that too much today. I have dove into, I'll give you something on the undercard for Saturday. Okay. All right, well, we'll get to, I didn't forget, then scratch that. That's okay. Let's just do the Oaks. What do you like in the Oaks, Johnny?

I like Quietside in the Oaks. he is coming out of an outside post, but I love the way he's coming into the race with a couple of paired great races, and I look for him to move up here. I know La Cara has been training great and loves the track. I've seen the workouts are amazing. So I'll also be using La Cara in some exactus with Quiet Side, and of course I can't keep out good cheer

the short favorite, but I'm going to try to be today because she's on everything right. I'm looking for, I'm looking for something, you know, try to enhance that price. I wanted your honest opinion, but I don't know if anybody told you. We are, we're part owners of simply joking. So I'm going to assume that your pick, you are simply joking. And then in the end, you like simply joking in the two. Is that correct?

I like simply joking. I have simply joking marked. simply joking, ran well on an off track. So, you know, I think probably going to be off today. And Simply Joking, coming to the race, has done nothing wrong.

A couple of wins a second. And the numbers look real good. So nothing wrong with Simply Joking. There we go. He's a mutter. And his mother was a mutter. And like, here we go. Simply, I didn't realize

he'd run it on an off track, Ryan. There you go. Wouldn't that excited? Maybe an off track today. It depends on what happens of the run. All right.

So now let's go to the undercard on Saturday. Johnny, you do have a pitch. pick on the undercard on Saturday for the Derby. What do you like? Let's see now. I do like, well, my computer, like you just said, kind of went off on me here, so let me find that for you again. It's all right.

Take a job. We're good. Just on the radio. Well, let's start with the Derby. Then I'll find that one. Okay. All right. Let's start with the Derby then, Johnny.

Okay. The Derby, you know, by the time this race goes off, we could be down to 17 horses. So, you know, I'm going to give you the horses, of course, I think will be in the mix. Journalism should be in the mix. Sovereignty should be in the mix. These horses were, you know, just coming into this race perfectly. They love the track down there.

But you have to look for some horses underneath to try to make that, you know, get a good payoff if you're betting, tries, and supers. Some of those horses I'll be looking at underneath are East Avenue, who was probably the Derby. be favorite going back to last August, last October or so, but just had a rough time in a couple of races the trainer couldn't figure it out. I think that horse could be in a mix today. I like publisher underneath too because publisher seems to like the track down there, although publishers is a maiden and a maiden hasn't won this race for probably 90 years or so. Burnham Square is another I like underneath there. So those are the horses I'll be using underneath those top two. All right. Johnny, I still got to know how you get seven emails a second at some point.

But thank you very much for your time. Enjoy what I think are two of the best days of horse betting of the year, Johnny Avello. Okay. Well, you didn't get my other pick on the undercar. I'll just give it to you quick. It's Zulu Kingdom and Ninth in the American Terps. Zulu Kingdom and the American Turf. All right.

I appreciate it. I'm betting that one for you. And if we win, I'll send you an email, okay? Oh, don't. Please don't. I got enough. Thank you, Johnny. Appreciate it. Bye, guys. There you go. Johnny Avello. Is he answering all those emails?

Did he know he was going to be on the show? I don't know. There's a lot of emails. That was one of the worst, best interviews we've ever done. I thought it was good. Let me tell you why he thought it was good. Mario's the one of the schedule there. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I know. That was Mario. Y'all thought it was bad? Good producing, Mario. No, no, he's fine. I didn't seem like he knew he was going to be on the radio. I'll talk to the rat. That connected him.

I didn't talk to him directly, so, but I thought it was pretty good. Good job, Mario. A plus for me. Thank you, Drew. It was very enlightening, especially like Ryan saying she. He kept talking about the races in the horses. I like his computer locked up in the middle. Well, he getting all those emails.

Busy man. Seven emails a second. Seven emails a second. I think he said one email every seven. seconds. That's still a lot of emails. One email every seven seconds. I mean, if you just do the math, that's like eight and a half emails a minute. That's the first thing I heard before he even said hello when I called him off the air was just bells ringing. Yeah, that's 510 emails in an hour. Just no offense, I'm throwing a challenge flag on that, Johnny. Although it did beep a lot,

even during that interview. I think he's not using a spam filter. It's like bedbath and beyond coupons. Well, a bunch of stuff you don't even need. I think we could actually help his efficiency. We can all attest. We get a lot of emails from Draft Kings every single day. You do get a lot of emails. As you said. Mario, the thing was, Shadden, Mario came up to me and said,

I got the perfect guess for a week. And I was like, who is? He goes, oh, it's my dog, Johnny. Oh, roo-hoo-hoo. That's what he did. When he told you, that's my dog. You gave me a roo-roo-roo-roo. I did not.

How do you know him? Well, Rachel connected, you know, Rachel wanted him on. So he's like, we definitely get him on. Again, great job, Mario. Great job. Thank you, Drew. Good producing. All I'm going to remember about that, since he did pick the favorite in both races,

is he did say Zulu Kingdom. So that's going to be, Mario, that's your pick. Zulu Kingdom. If Zulu Kingdom doesn't win tomorrow, you have to run a lap around the dirt. Oh, boy. I don't know about all that. But like if he gets it, if Zulu Kingdom wins, then you just gave everybody a pick. That ends up being big form.

So you should be proud if that has. happens. We'll see if it happens. It was a little odd. Our horse racing expert has looked at the undercard on today's card at Churchill down. That was just a little odd. Did you not hear the emails? He's busy.

He's a busy man. I talked him too. I said, hey, we want your best undercard pick. And he goes, oh, the underguard. Oh, the undergarde. Oh, I looked at it. Maybe it's something that horse racing expert will probably do. The weather is heating up.

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Turn it off. Yeah. It was so creepy. You haven't flashbacks, Drew? Yeah, I'm like, I'm just going to stare in Drew's eyes. Oh, that's her! Wow! I got a picture of memory that I'll keep with me.

Wow, look at that picture. Look at that perm. Man, that was a part. Look at you. You look young in that picture. Young and it looked like I ate the whole buffet that night. Yeah. Oh, she.

loved you. So, so creepy. So she played this song. This is the song. She sang her song. All right. What person writes,

Matt, y'all are ziggin? I'm going to zag. I'm betting all of Johnny Avello's picks in order. I already put in my trifecta box with his five horses. Can't wait until it hits, and I'm tweeting Johnny. There you go.

Who is he again? I looked him up. He's all over Google. He's the director. What does that mean? He's all over Google. What does that mean? he's all over Google.

Everyone's all over Google. Some people are. Some people aren't. I can't buy them on any social media at all. You know it's all over Google? The dude who got arrested who won the lottery. That doesn't mean anything. He's the director of race and sports, though.

Again, great job, Mario. Great job. Great job, Mario. I enjoyed the interview. You did? I enjoyed it, too, but I enjoyed it. I knew where it was going when you said something about his email dinging. He said, yeah, well, you know, Draft King's is in a lot of stuff.

Got the bed gal on Monday. One person writes, man, I think most of the emails are Ryan locked out of his password at I'm. I think that's probably right. That could be true. Email and draft kings. Okay, I locked out again. Yeah. We have a friend.

I'm not going to say his name, but who bet on the NBA All-Star game, Team Shack versus Team Candice on a serious bet. and he argued the result. It was like plus seven. And he argued the results and was angrily tweeting draft kings that he should be paid out for his team Candace versus Team Shackbet. And I'm venturing to say that those emails are all my friend asking him if he can win his team Candace and his team shack bet. I think there were a request for radio interviews today.

That's all coming through. Good job, Mario. All right, so the oaks. Ready and make an oaks pick. Simply joking. There's only one horse in the race. It's the only other horse. I mean, we have to pick this horse.

Everybody, all the folks listening, it's right now the third favorite. I believe it's nine to one. But the favorite is good cheer, and it's a heavy favorite. So we just have to hope that good cheer is, for some reason it's not his day, her day. Her day.

And then here we go, simply joking. And then what an exciting thing that would be. Well, I guess you could probably just do a lot of your exactus and trifectives. I'm not here to come in second. Oh, okay. We own this war. That's very true. This is not about just winning a bet.

If she gets on the board, though, I'll be happy. No, no, I'm probably going to make some bets that include her in second or third. But we're here to win, Mario. Always. Does LeBron come to make a good showing? Luca does. You play to win the game. You play to win the game.

So what happens if we win? But we're going to be at the track. We're going to be going crazy. Mario will probably be filming us going crazy. How much do we win? Well, I mean, you win the bet. It's on the app. It'll tell you what the payouts are for today.

Yeah, you'll see it on the app. But you remember, the investment goes throughout all the races and including its breeding rights. So this is a long-term thing, Shannon. Yeah, long-term relationship. It's a long-term relationship. But if we win, I mean, I'm going to get, you're going to bet on it, aren't you? Yeah. Aren't you going to bet on your horse?

Yes. You've got to. You've got to. Since you didn't get a share, Mario, I'm going to make a bet for you. Okay. That is my gift to you. Very cool. Appreciate that.

Since they didn't give you a share. All right, so let's go to the derby. That's the next day. After we win and we spend all that money of our winnings, what do we bet in the next day? Now, yesterday you may have heard, I picked Rodriguez as my horse. It got scratched. Okay. Like an hour after the show.

Like an hour after the show. If you listen to Jay and Lyndon, he asked me my long shot horse, and I said, Grande this morning it got scratched. So I'm KSR cursed. The two horses I really liked, both scratch. I'm going to have to start over, and I haven't really done it yet, but I'll pick one for course of this show. What is your horse true?

Like most people, I'm going to have to put a bunch of stuff with journalism because it looks to just be the heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy favorite. But I'm watching Final Gambit. A couple reasons. One, it's Brad Cox Horse. I always have good success betting on Brad Coxhorses at Churchill Downs, and it's a gray horse. Gray horse had won in 20 years.

You don't go 21 years without a gray horse winning, so I think the gray streak snaps today or tomorrow with final gambit in there. Mario, what's yours? I'm going to admire Daytona because I'm a Florida boy. Got to stick with Daytona Beach. It's Japanese horse, though. Yes, Daytona Japan. Yeah.

Oh. That's okay. No, I mean, they probably mean, Jay. I don't think there's a Daytona. But it is a Japanese horse. Yeah, I'm going to still stick with it. Japanese horse never won. Okay.

Still going. First time for everything. All right, right. You'll go 151 derbies without a Japanese horse win. There you go, man. I'm going to be really boring because I'm doing the exact same thing with Drew. Journalism has, like, been compared to, like, American Pharaoh and judge by who? Tom Leach.

Tom Leach. Yeah, John. No, wait, Tom Leach says it's like American Pharaoh. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Well, you can't leave it out then if you do that.

All right. And I was going to pick. Judd-Mont Farm. Drew backed up to be in the Great Court, but he's also from What was that English? Final Gambit. What is Judd-Mont Farm? That's where Final Gambit's from. That's where I was going with it. Okay, got you. And from the X-Men.

Final Gambit. I like Queens Gambit, the series on Netflix. And he's from Judd-Vant Farm. Are you okay? Drew totally threw me for a loop. I was so ready to be. We can both have the horse. We're going to do it. They don't make everyone pick a different horse. There's not enough space for that. We can share. We're going to share this one.

All right. Shannon. Give me a chunk of gold and Sandman. And then I'll throw in journalism as well. You want the Ticktokers horse. Yeah. Well, I just like the name. I mean, again, we don't know anything about horse race.

We're just picking by the names. The Ticktoker tomorrow is going to annoy us because he's going to come out and he's going to do like, what's the big TikTok dance right now? Like a more popular one? I guess the, what you call it? The needle is it? Okay. All right. So he's going to do the needle?

I don't know if it's the needle. I don't know if that's what it's called. All right. For me, again, I felt good about Rodriguez. It's out, so I can't pick that one. Journalism is probably going to be my pick to win, but you know I like to do boxes. Yes. I don't have my long shot now.

That was going to be Grande. So I'm going to look for my long shot. I'll tweet it out. I like journalism, sovereignty, and Burnham Square is the three that I like the most. And I'll throw a long shot in. I'll notice that what's his face, Johnny had those horses too, which makes me a little worry. But what if he nails it, though? What if Johnny nails it?

Johnny's going to nail it. Zulu Kingdom, I'm putting a heavy bet on it. And if I don't win, somebody's getting an email. Which one is Baffert's horse? Because now that he's back, you've got to figure that that's going to be a big storyline. Is it Citizen Bull? I'm not sure which one. I don't know.

He's got one left, right? But I'm going to go Sovereignty Journalism and Burdham Square, and then I'll throw in a long shot. I don't know what it's going to be yet. Ryan, thank you for driving up here today. I appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm going to miss you, boys, when you're in Scartsdale next week.

So for people don't know, next week. So Drew, Mario and I fly to Scottsdale, Arizona, Sunday for the Barstool Bet Gala, which I still don't even know what that is. We're going to work. I've looked. They haven't even really talked about it. Dave put out a video last night, but he still didn't say exactly what we're doing. I don't even know what it is we're going to, but they're putting us up in an insanely nice resort,

flying us out there. You know what the dress coat is? It's black tie. I have a new black tie suit to wear. I got mine too. So that is Monday night. So Monday, it'll be me, Drew, and Shannon only. Ryan won't be here.

Then Tuesday, it'll be me, Drew, and Shannon. And then I'm staying out there until Thursday night, and you guys will be back in Lexington on Wednesday and Thursday. Maybe Mario can get us a good guest if we miss Ryan. book as someone else. I'll be on Wednesday and Thursday, too. I'll just be out there. So are you excited for the...

I'm pumped. I'm pumped. Barstool Beck Gala? Yeah. Yeah. I got a nice little outfit coming out. So you get to meet people and then I've never been in Arizona. So I'm excited, man.

I'm ecstatic. I literally, never in my life if I've gone to something that I know less about what it is than this. I don't even know. Like, we're supposed to wear black tie. But I don't even know what we're going to. I like they just invite you to something you don't even know what it is and you're going to go across the country. Sort of encouraged us to go.

And so I was like, you know what, it's free trip to free trip to Arizona. They're going to pay for it. And this resort is nice. And then Drew and I are playing TPC Scottsdale on Sunday. We're playing the course where they have

the waste management tournament. Drew and I are playing that on Sunday. So I am looking forward to that. That's going to be fun. Sounds like a fun trip, doesn't it, Shannon? We probably would have been going, isn't it?

Yeah, you all didn't get invited. Darn. So I guess this is the same time. It's the same thing. It's the same time as the Met Gallas, so we're going head to head, which is to play on the words. But Dave said we're betting all day, but there's not a lot of sports on Monday, so I don't know what we're betting on. But they're bringing out all the Barstool people, me, Drew and Mario, and then like a bunch of, I think, people from TikTok. Chad's horse owner.

Yeah, so there you go. So we will be there Monday. It'll be early in the morning for us Monday in Scottsdale, but we will be there. Thank you all very much. If we win tonight. If we win with Simply Joke. be watching on social media. There's going to be a party.

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