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

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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give us a shout. We'll open it up here in a few minutes. Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2-287. A-Visian Autoglass Text Machine is 772-745-254, and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lawvis. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Drew Franklin is here. Mario is actually down at the gift shop trying to get us some breakfast sodas, Shannon.

And Shannon's in Louisville. Ryan is off for a couple days. Shannon, nice to talk to you, even though a little later where you are, but we are in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Yeah, so did you ever figure out exactly why you're in Arizona? You didn't really know why you were going when you jumped on the plane. We're going to be at the Barstool Beck Gallup. We don't really know what that is.

Not sure 100% what it is we're going to. Still don't really know. The invitation said three to ten, come when you want. I don't know what that means. When you say three to ten. Big time span. That's a big time span three to ten. I don't want to be the first one there.

We're not showing up at three. We decided. Drew, we did believe. it said try for sure to be there by six. So I think we're going to try to do maybe Shannon 435. We feel like that's the prime time for us to enter is around there. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I think you know, you come about midway through.

That way you can stay a little bit later on. That's where the meat of whatever's going to happen is probably going to happen. It'll be on the bone right there for that. Drew, are you ready for whatever this is going to be? I'm very ready, but I'll admit I'm here in your room. Nice room, by the way, and I saw what you're wearing tonight. and now me and Mario both were kind of intimidated. We don't want to go after seeing your outfit.

Shannon, I have, for the first time in my life, I'm wearing a suede jacket. Swade. Swade. You've got to see this thing, Shannon. It's kind of awesome. It finally walks the line from being beautiful and could be a waiter. It walks that line really well. Somebody walks up to you and asks for some more appetizers. That could happen.

Yeah. So when I was picking my outfit, I'm going, the guy that was helping me, Albert, he suggested black on black because we were in short amount of time. And at first he said, we're a white shirt. And then I looked at it and I feel like I look like a waiter with this. So now we're all black, Shannon. All black. Johnny Cash. All black shirt, black pants, black suede jacket, black shoes. Well, actually, hold on. No black shoes yet. Right now we don't have any shoes because I forgot my shoes. So I might have to go get shoes. today. Right now I have Devin Booker ones that are gray. I don't think I can

roll with. You need to mix in a little color, you know? Yeah, no, all black. That's what we're doing. And we'll see how it plays out. We also have, you know, I am sunburned, but I have a hat line. So I have really red face and then a white line across the top of my head. So, you know, this is going to be an

interesting thing, but you know, Drew, this is what we do with the barstool, Beck gal of whatever that is. Yeah, we still don't know what it is. I thought I paid good money for my suit. I even tried it on at the hotel. I thought I looked good, but I am so intimidated, but I am looking forward to getting there from whatever we're doing. With Mario, too, because he says he's wearing red. Oh, my goodness.

So I didn't know that. Black tie event going red. So we don't really know what we're going to, but we will talk more about it later. We'll talk more about what we don't know. Scottsdale, Arizona, beautiful, isn't it? I mean, there are cacti everywhere. We are at a really nice resort that Draft Kings put us up in. There's palm trees, and it's, uh,

What do you think of the place so far? We've only mostly seen the Uber ride to the resort, the resort, but this is a beautiful area. Just the mountains in the backdrop. We've been to Arizona, went to Sedona, but I've never been to the Phoenix Scottsdale area. I've loved it so far. I have the body clock thing going on, so I was up at 5 a.m. this morning, and I just kind of walked around outside, but it's gorgeous out here. It is beautiful. Nice flight here, which Shannon Mario almost didn't make.

He was one of the last people that. they checked in. I thought we were going to have to leave him. Let me just say, Shannon, the security on the Sunday morning after the Derby in Cincinnati, that's a wild scene. That is a wild, wild scene with the amount of people, I guess, trying to get out of this area.

Everybody probably hung over, you know, from the Derby. If you've ever been to Cincinnati Airport, for anybody listening, I want you to think about what the security would look like if the line was outside, okay? It went all the way through the security line, all the way to the front of the building, out on the sidewalk, Shannon. That's where the security line was when I got there yesterday.

That sounds like an absolute nightmare. But there's going to be more of that coming because, you know, that real ID thing starts Wednesday. And I'm flying home Thursday. Like, I'm already kind of concerned about it. But, you know, I have pre-check and clear. So I was able to, and Drew has pre-check. But Mario didn't have anything. So Mario had to get at the back of the line.

And I was like, Mario, we'll see you. never. I hope it works out for you. I mean, what are you going to do? I felt bad because I was Mario's ride and I'm the one that did the timing. And I actually told him, I was like, let's be extra early. I was, I got up at four yesterday and I was in Mario's driveway at 5 a.m. I thought we were good. I thought we were more than good. When we got to that airport, I thought, I've never seen it like. I was, I played it cool with Mario because I didn't want to panic and make him panic, but the whole time I'm thinking we're not making this. I can't imagine what the Louisville airport's like after the, if that's the Cincinnati Airport. Can you imagine what the

Louisville Airport is like the day after the derby. And we were waiting and we had to check our luggage. And the woman just walked away and left the station there completely unattended for 15 minutes. None of us knew what to do. At that point I looked at Mario, I was like, all right, now we can officially worry. Yeah. But we're here.

He made it and we're here and we're ready to go. We've got a few things we can talk about. We'll talk about Drew's pretty amazing round of golf in a number of different ways yesterday, but we should start with the derby in the Oaks. Let's start, Shannon, with the Oaks, Simply Joking, where we were ready to go. I was pumped up for the race. Not going to lie to you.

All day, we were walking around with our owners' hats. Shannon, people were taking our picture, but not because it was KSR, because they were like, they saw our hats and like, you own Simply Joking? Can I have a picture? They thought you were the owners. Yeah, we didn't say,

you know, we own one fraction of a hair, we were like, yeah, you're talking to a simply joking owner. So there's a lot of pictures people have who I don't think know who we are of us with those hats on. And we started to get excited. I mean, over the course of the day, I'd convince myself, Drew, we were winning this race. Me too, and I'll learn something.

I wish I could go back to my younger derby days. Anyone listening, if you're single and you go to the derby, even if you're infield, let me tell you, get a hat made with a horse's name. It doesn't even matter what the horse is. I mean, put Barbara on. I don't care. You truly cannot walk around. People, hubby, we stepped outside to smoke a cigar and I went with him.

And this group of gorgeous women came up and asked hubby for a picture. They're like, we've never met a horse owner. And I'm thinking, this is all about wearing a hat. And that's the move from now on. Single. Just put a horse's name on. It doesn't even have to be a horse running the race because nobody knows who's in a race. Just wear a ball cap that has a name.

That's exactly right. Just have it say, you know, Billy R Sports on it. And they're like, people, people don't think, well, this dude must have enough money to own a horse. We don't have to tell them how much of the horse you own. So that was good. And by, over the course of the day, you also saw the power of KSR. I mean, that horse opened as the fifth favorite. And it got up to Shannon the second favorite, right?

By the race, you can't tell me that's not KSR. That's not people betting that. Did you, don't you agree? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sure, like, if you're outside of that KSR world, you're probably thinking, why is this horse all the way up to number two? Yeah. So the race starts, Mario's now joining us. What's up, guys?

How excited were we by the time the race started? You guys are pretty excited. I have a video that I didn't put out yet that you can see your facial experience. You don't have to put that out because we were, you don't have to put that out. Yeah, I was thinking about it, but, you know, you guys seemed very excited and by the end of the race. What is happening? Why can't you? this one. He's that one. All right. You need

to be able to talk it. Talk in your right. First of all, put that up next to your face. It's touching my leg. There you go. Okay, that's good. That's better. All right. So, but anyway, we were excited, ready to go, and then all of a sudden, the race started. That's the problem

with these races. You end up having them. You know, you end up actually, they start and things don't go as well. It came out well, right? Came out well, ready to go. I like the position it was in. It was, It was, you know, just right behind the leaders, which is where we were. The owner or the trainer told us that's where we want to be.

Well, in the barn for the last two months, that's what we've been saying. We've been saying. I had told the trainer, and I actually told the jockey, Shannon, just stay right behind the lead there. Like you were giving them advice. Exactly. Yeah. My guy, Florex, Jean, I was like, just stay right there. And it looked good.

And then all of a sudden, as the horses started making their move, he made an odd decision, which was to go backwards. It was an odd decision. You know, at that time, I would have advocated to go forward. But, Drew, you know, again, I can't second guess the jockey, but he made the decision to go backwards. And by backwards, I mean to last place. So out of 14 horses, simply joking, came in last.

Again, not what I had predicted. And I'm a little disappointing. Not going to lie to you, but still, we were in the race, and that's what it matters. We were in the race. Yeah, for a few seconds, I was dreaming dreams. We were looking good. I actually worried, to be honest, that it had gotten hurt the way it pulled up so much.

I did too. And I had flashbacks. We mentioned this last Friday, but you and I picked a horse at Keenland years ago, and they put it down in front of everyone. So we've gone from dead to last, dead to dead last. Next year, maybe we're 13 to 12th. I mean, we're working our way up. Apparently that Jackie pulled it up because he said he knew they weren't going to win,

And they're saving him, hoping him, I think, to maybe run him the day of the Belmont, not in the Belmont, but one of the undercard races. So that's the way I look at it. We'll get back to the stable and figure it out. Yeah, you got to be optimistic about it. Like, you know, it's only going to get better from here, right? It can't get any worse. I'm totally with you. How could it get worse?

It could not. Probably it could be shy like Bruce said. But it was not, but you know what? It was a fun experience. I did enjoy it. It was exciting to feel like a part of it. you know we we had a lot of adventures which we'll talk about later on during the show and a lot of you all there were a bunch of you all that were there who were coming up who

they gave me a bag of hats to give out to fellow owners I may have just given them out to people that I saw yeah I'm still waiting on my hat still waiting on mine to get here I think I gave years away I don't think I wanted after that performance I don't even want to be associated with this horse anymore stop it it's a good horned woman I'm an embarrassed owner it's uh but but But, you know, it was fun even though it didn't work out. We had done the Oaks and Derby several years consecutively before 2020, and I thought, you know, I've left that part of me behind. But getting back there, that was so much thought.

I have this. I can't wait until next year. A lot of people, they've changed it a lot since we've been. It's very, so Shannon, have you been since COVID to Churchill? I don't think that, man, I don't think I have. So I think basically everything except the infield and the general admission. So if you have an assigned seat, it's all free food and drink. Wow.

Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. So the good part about that is there are no lines, right? Now, they don't have as much, like, cool food because they're just giving it all away. But there's no lines anywhere. So, like, whereas you used to always have to stand in a line for food or alcohol or whatever. Now it's just all free.

Now, I'm sure they raise the tickets to make that up. Yeah. But because of that, I do think the experience is a lot better, don't you, Drew? Oh, absolutely. It was smooth and sure the food quality has probably gone down a little bit, but all the man needs is a hot dog and a good bourbon drink. You just, I mean, it took no time to go up and get a hot dog. People who just walk up and down the stands, Shannon, handing out hot dogs for free. You got hot dog delivery.

You know, that's pretty good. You charge you, you know, $22 for a drink. I think Drew would definitely get his money's worth if you were there. Yeah, it's free. I mean, you're paying for it and a cost of ticket. But, I mean, it's, they make their money on me because I don't drink. I get one diet. Coke. They lose it on Drew, but I think it probably evens out for them, right? Yeah, and just

overall, I don't know if they've priced people out, or maybe it was a down year, but at least on Oaks Day, it didn't feel nearly as packed as it's been in the past. Yeah, I agree. We still had the rain. There was some rain. Yeah, it might have just been a one-off year. I haven't been since for 2020, as I mentioned, but we even had our, my favorite part of going to Churchill is the walk out. I mean, we even had, we didn't hit Rodman Street. Oh, the walkout was very long. But the parties were happening. Ended up shanning that Moby Dick, the fish place that I only eat out, walking home from something, which is good, though.

Moby Dick is good. It's good in a pinch. I need you to tell me about this guy that was just grilling out with the shirt off in the front yard. Let's take a break because we need to talk about that guy. We need to talk about that guy and we need to talk about what many of our listeners thought about that guy. But we will take a break.

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Moby Dick's good in it. Oh, I enjoyed it. I thought it was good. That's good. I mean, Shannon, it's not like you're not going for a five-star restaurant, but if you would like fried fish in a pinch, that was good fried fish. Especially after you've walked a mile and a half to get there. What is it, the first mate that you get the fish and you get the fries and the hush puppies?

The hush puppies good. The hush puppy was really good. So yeah, shout out Moby Dick. Don't listen to these people. There's a few of those. I don't know. Is that a chain outside of Louisville? It's big in Louisville.

But is anywhere, there's like six or seven of them in Louisville. I've only known it in Louisville. All right. Well, I'm for it. They used to have soup beans, like white beans that were good. I didn't see those. 859-9-2-80-22. Somebody just sent me a picture from the Louisville Airport Sunday.

you thought Cincinnati was bad. Oh, my goodness. That looked like chaos. I'm just saying, in the future, try not to fly the morning after the derby. I'll try not to do that again. Apparently in Phoenix, Mario, they have Uber's here that don't have drivers. You good with that? I kind of, I would like to see it.

I don't know if I'm 100% sure I want to drive in it. But I would like the experience. Well, they won't let you drive. It's driverless. You mean ride in it? Yeah, I'll ride in it. I'll ride in it. Not to a far place, though.

After that Uber we had yesterday, I would like one that doesn't have a driver. Oh, my goodness. We had an Uber driver. We had an Uber driver. He's one of these people that won't stop talking. He wants to be in every conversation. And here's the thing. This is the great trade about Mario.

Mario is nice to everybody. But he's a little too nice sometimes. I would say he's curious. I was a lot of questions. I was definitely curious. But like, you need to be less curious with him. I was coming off of a plane and I'm in Phoenix. Arizona for the first time, and he's driving us, and I kind of treated him.

But you had him going over the history of the Detroit lines flag calls. That was him. Like the calls by the referees he disagreed with. I didn't need to hear all that. Like he was like, and then there was Calvin Johnson. And Mario just go, yeah, yeah, tell me about it. And I just wanted to look at him. Like, tell him to, Mario, stop.

Mickey Mantle? We talked about Mickey Mantle. You'd rather be awkward silence? Just like having him. I'd rather sit in silence. If the Uber talks too much, do you? deduct a star from I'm not going to think I don't want to deduct stars because my Uber rating people deduct stars on me and it hurts my feet I have a four point eight

four and I don't understand why I'm a good rider I always I don't know they don't tell you you know I have 11 Uber drivers over history of giving me one star I see why I thought you're going to like it wait a minute what do you see why unfriendliness tell the driver Shut up and stop talking so much. You think they put one star because you don't talk to them? Yeah. I thought you were going to like him because as soon as we left the airport, I was watching his GPS and he missed a turn.

He missed the turn immediately. He pulled a U-turned. I'm like, oh, Matt's right at home where you turning right in the middle of the Scott. I don't understand. I mean, it looks like most of them were a long time ago. It was like when I first started going, but I guess I didn't know the etiquette when you first started.

But I'll tell you one of the things. Don't talk to. No talk. Just hop in a car. Just hopping the car. Hey, hope you're having a good day. Thank you, man. and then like put your headphones on.

Mario asked about the insects. We're getting the bugs in Phoenix. Mario talks. He talks way too much. I've seen the videos. All right. So, so let's talk about the guy that we ran into afterwards. You know, Shannon, there are people out cooking on the road, right?

And a lot of it's good food. Smells good. You get a lot of different smells. You get a lot of different people. It seems like sometimes when you're walking down those roads, people brought their whole families in from out of town. Everybody's sitting in the yard. You know what I mean?

Like there's just people everywhere. We get almost to Moby Dick. We're almost done with the walk. And then hubby decides he wants a Broughtwurst tortilla, which are two words I didn't even know combined with these. I've never heard of that before. You ever heard of anybody getting a Broughtwurst and putting them on a tortilla? Yeah, I'm a big Broughtwurst guy.

That's the first time I've seen it off. First time I've seen it. I tweeted out the picture of the guy. It's hard to do him justice. Just think, though, if you were to create beer belly in perfection, I mean, he looked like he was pregnant, right? He was about to birth a Miller life. And he was.

Oh, my goodness. And he was totally fine. This is why I appreciate him about a guy like that. Totally fine. Shirt off, belly out, not self-conscious in the least. I give him credit for that. Like, he didn't think about how he looked. He's totally good with it.

Most people in that situation would suck in a little bit. I think he was pushing it out. He was pushing it out. And then his door said, had a picture of a gun and said, unless you want to meet Jesus, don't come through this door. Fair enough. An amazing thing to put on your door. Right? So hubby decides that's where we're going to stop and get the Broughtwurst Tortillas.

And two can beers. So I put up his picture because I was like, this is what we're getting food from. And the amount of people, Shannon, that put in the comments, they thought it looked like Ryan. No, my mind didn't go to Ryan at all. Well, a lot of people's did. A lot of people's did. Go look at the comments. It's all like, oh, Ryan's letting himself go.

Look at Ryan. He's in that slim suit. We know Ryan's slim done. I started to feel bad for Ryan. Ryan didn't do anything. Ryan didn't do anything. You talk about catching a stray. But then I looked at it and I was like,

it kind of looks like him a little bit. Well, I can kind of see it. I can have a second opinion. Yeah, I mean, go look at it. like it it kind of looks like him and so then i felt bad that you know people but look at that just quickly glance at it you can like you can see how somebody went from afar you can see how somebody could think that's ryan i put a couple videos on my instagram i don't know that i've ever had that many messages in reply to something as it was that video and all of them were ryan ryan

ryan ryan everybody was rime which i didn't even think when i put up that it looked like right Now, it will look like good food, right? Well, there's one thing that jumped out to me. I'm not here to be the health department. But he, when he put the tortilla on the grill, he would pat it to make sure it was warm. Like you would do, you want to make sure you have a good hot grill for a tortilla. But with that same hand, he would pick at his belly button and then go back to the tortilla.

I mean, same hand, tortilla belly button, tortilla belly button. As hubby was just sitting there looking at the grill, waiting to eat his broad tortilla. You mean he touched the tortilla? I mean, he was a little belly button seasoning. Fill the tortilla, put some peppers on it, get belly button lit, repeat. Belly button. Over and over.

I mean, if you're eating food from that guy, I don't think you're worried about the belly button or maybe a chest hair falling in. He's not in the position to worry about it. He's got the cardboard sign for the menu, like on a fence. The menu is written on a cardboard sign, which was nice. Which, by the way, it worked. It's what drew Hubby into the place. was the cardboard sign.

He at one point... He at one point asked Hubby if he would like jalapinos on it. And hubby said yes, and he goes, all right, I got to go inside and get some. And I was like, no, we're going. That's the moment where you just take the food in the league. That was the moment I'd had enough. Like, I mean, because it had taken forever to begin with. So...

I loved him. I loved him, too. I don't think he's certified. I was looking for like the A, B, C score from the health department. I didn't see a sign. I didn't see a health department score. But so that was our Oaks. And it was a lot of fun.

Saw a lot of former UK folks, Mario. We saw Will Levis, Wondell Robinson. Trent Noah was that there? Trent Noah. Oscar Sheba. Saw Randall Cobb. I haven't seen Randall Cobb in a while. And I'm a married man.

Randall Cobb's eyes were hypnotizing. I hadn't seen him in a while. That guy. I got to agree. Listen, they're at the dirt. It's unbelievable. At the Oaks, they're beautiful women. Yes.

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Luckily, Shannon didn't have any of that going. Oh, yeah, no, no. It's going to be in the podcast. Every bit of that. It'll be there. When I hear that song, I falsetto that. one part that's hungry eyes it's a great time do it again do it again no it's good eric carman's fine shannon's got it if he wants to put it in podcast he can that could be a little nugget for the podcast people i wish what we were telling shannon off the air to be on the yeah we met some characters we met some characters at the uh at the oaks we uh i had a ticket

shanan to the turf club yeah but uh drew ryan and and and hubby didn't and uh we might have snuck them in it was a character it was a member of andy barren Barr's entourage might have screamed at one of my friends for no reason. I like Andy Barr fine. But Andy Barr, you need to control your people. There's no reason to just have your people screaming at one of my friends. Just screamed at them. Just because they were in the term.

I don't know. Just be like Andy Barr, control your people. And arguably your most likable friend. Yes, no one dislikes tall. You know why? You don't like dislike him. I love him. Actually, let me say something to you about him.

I'm sorry, this is becoming a fade this episode, and this is just what's going to happen right now. Hopefully people like it. You want to know what Mario said to Tall, Shannon? What's up? And you meant this as a compliment, didn't you? 100% compliment. Mario likes tall.

Mario did that thing where he's been drinking a little bit, and he starts pointing at you. You know what I'm doing? Like, he starts pointing at you. And he looks at Tall, and he goes, I really like you. You are hilarious. So far so good, Shannon, right?

Yeah, yeah. He goes, you know who you were. remind me of Kevin from the office. Not a compliment. How are you going to say that to somebody? I love Kevin. Like you broke his heart. I love Kevin.

But you understand no one wants to think they look like Kevin from the office. And tall looks nothing like tall is not. He's not big like that. It's not size wise, but facial like. That's not a compliment. You can't tell somebody they look like Kevin from the office. I love Kevin. And we love tall.

They're not the same person Shannon, would you agree you can't say that to somebody? I don't think that's a copulment. Why? Who do you think we look like, Mario? Who do I think who? Who do you think we look like? I mean, you know, probably give us the least flattering name you can think of.

Are you there? Yeah, we're having a, it looks like it's having a little connection problem here. Do we sound all right? Do we sound okay? Yeah, you're there. You're good. Okay. All right, well, if it's, if it's, but you can't do that, Mario, just for the record.

Sorry, Kevin. Not sorry, Kevin. Kevin, you're making it worse. Sorry. Tall is 100 pounds shy of Kevin from the office. Sorry, Kevin. All right, so let's go to the derby. First of all, Drew, highest derby rating since 1991.

That's pretty amazing. The derby has become, in this world where all these sporting events are getting splintered, and basically nothing except the NFL is as big as it once was. The Derby is bigger than it's ever been. And me personally, I paid more attention this year than ever. I watched starting at 8 a.m. with L.X.18 all the way through the derby race. And, you know, I don't know the terminology of stakes this, stakes that, but some of the earlier races were awesome. I mean, it was just a great day all the way around.

The coverage was good. Why do you think it is? Like, why do you think it is that this has become, because everyone is watching it, I mean, not just here. But like the ratings, just to give an example, were like 33% higher than Rory's win at the Masters. It was higher than every NBA finals game last year. It was the exact same rating the National Championship of basketball got, the one just a few weeks ago. Like, why do you think that is? I don't know.

The sports doing well because even the Netflix show, which came out, I don't think that did a bump for the derby, but that's blown up. but it's one of the top shows. Horse racing is really in a great place. I don't know what caused it, but a lot of people have eyes on it. I think some of it, Shannon,

is women like watching the pump and circumstance of it, right? Like the outfits and the hats, and they've really leaned in on having celebrities there. And the weather wasn't even good. It wasn't stopped. It's still raining. And yet, and yet,

I mean, I'm happy for it for the state. It really is great for our state, Right. Everybody knows the Kentucky Derby. You know, they put Kentucky stuff in it with the My old Kentucky home and the governor gets to present the thing. So it's awesome for the state, but it is kind of amazing that it has become such a huge thing. It's definitely more than a horse race. That's what my experience is.

I thought it was going to be a lot worse because of the rain. You know, I thought it was going to make people shy away from it. But other than that, like it's more than a horse race. It's like an event. It is. And it's an event where I think it's what. one of the few sporting events where men and women, I think, like it equally, even if they like it for different reasons, you know?

Humblebrack here. I had a winning ticket left over from the Oaks, and I had to go to Red Mile and Lexington to Cash at Saturday morning, and I went early thinking, I'm going to get this out of the way. They were parking people down in the grass away from Redmond. I mean, Red Mile was slammed at like 1130 a.m. with people dressed up in there. I don't know if it's normally like that, but I'm sure Keenland was the same way. I've seen some people in the people have really got into it.

I hit the trifecta again. You did. Just for sake of our, just for, for, it has been now six of the last nine years. I've hit the trifecta. So this is your thing, basically. Which is crazy because I'm not a great, I mean, I'm not, it's not like I'm great at horse racing game. But for some reason, big race mad. There's some reason at the derby.

It's just like I, it's just, I kind of feel it. Get into your group? I get into my group. So I said in my tweet, the third. Three horses I like the most. I think you had them in order. In order. Sovereignty, journalism, and biza, or whatever, in that order.

And that's how they came. That is spectacular. It is kind of spectacular. To pick it, Shannon, one, two, three. You know, because the IRS might be listed, I'm not going to tell you what I want. But it's the most I've ever won on a horse race. I mean, the most up until that was when Orb won, because that was a Lexington horse. And that was the first try I think I hit.

I won a lot. But I think this one was more, probably because I bet more. But it was, you know. Big race mad. And yet people, why do people, like now I'll miss one and everybody will go, but if you've played my picks over these, you should be way ahead if you're doing the derby. Where was that energy in the Oaks race? We're finishing last with the horse you own.

Again, it's just a derby house. Place that in that one. Yeah. The problem is you go, I went with my heart, not my head in the Ours. Okay. Right? because I was part of it. That's why, remember last week?

I said you can't become friends with the coaches. You can't be friends with the horses. You'll start to look at them, pet them, and then you don't have an objective, objective view. Well, that was an impressive hit, especially because you tweeted it long before the race. You had the receipts, as the kids said. Yeah, and I got mad at people, Shannon,

who after the race were going to wish you'd send it out before. I'm like, just because you read it after the race does not mean I didn't send it, Shannon, before the race. People are so stupid, I have to tell you, just collectively. When I read, he must have just read it because I did, or he must just written it because I just read it. Stop answering these people. Stop giving them.

Stupid labor. Giving them all your energy. Worryed about these people on Twitter. You're right, but the problem was our golf slowed down yesterday, and I made the mistake of picking up my phone. Yeah, you're getting into it on the internet. I read Trump's stupid tweet about his tariffs, and I was like, Well, I thought to myself, well, I got to say something, which was dumb.

I didn't need to say anything. I was trying to a nice dinner. I was trying to enjoy my sea scallops last night. You're ever getting called commie on the internet. We're just trying to, we're trying to enjoy a nice scott-stall dinner. I love what people still bring out commie as a commie. Comey. Do you even know what a commie is?

What's a commie? Do you know? You're sitting on the couch. Like, seriously, you don't know what that is? Explain to me, what's a commie. Like a communist. Oh. So it's just short for communists?

Yeah, do you know what a communist is? I have an idea. Give me an idea. Communists is like they, uh, now, uh, you. You don't want to commit to his response to. I don't. People on the other end of this machine. We need a final answer, Mario.

Communist, I should notice. I have a history degree, so I should just write along my lines. But communists, it has something to do with business. They like the, they like what? What do they like to do in business? Control everything or something? That's okay. Okay.

All right? That's okay. government control of the economy basically so yeah so basically Matt yeah so basically me not the guy who's instituting tariffs business by business to which way that's not communist okay I'm communist yeah that with his peloton in his room here yeah yeah man you got the peloton in your yeah Shannon they put a peloton in my room have you been on it yet have you peddled a little bit what do you think I don't know it's got like it's own lighting around and pull I thought maybe you might start pedaling you know you're in a place where

everybody's in shape when they put peloton's in your room. I thought about taking it for a spin, but it's way too close to your bed. That would be awkward if I'm just in your room working out right next to where you sleep. Yeah, so there's a peloton. I dabble in Peloton. It is lit up like a Peloton studio. There's yoga mats and weights. I don't know if you were a work at this room.

Yeah. No, I did not. This is just what they gave me. Thank you to Draft Kings. So anyway, got that. Then there were a lot of celebrities at the race. Oh, yeah. Livy Dunn.

Carmelo Anthony. Carmel, let's do it. Just Livy Dunn for a second. Beautiful, would we agree? Obviously, a good gymnast. Shannon, personality of cardboard. Did you see her try to call the horses up? Yeah, yeah.

She had to look down. I want you to go watch the video. Why I like that one? You need to go watch the video. She reads, first of all, she's reading. And then it was clear somebody told her to look up. So she goes, the beautiful city of Louisville and Commonwealth Kentucky welcomes you. And then she looked up, and it was like somebody goes, line.

And she looked down and goes, riders up. She had to look down for the line riders up. I don't think she did her homework. Listen, I grant you, she's beautiful. Her boyfriend, number one picking the draft, right? Great baseball player. What do they talk about? They both have the personality of stale cheese.

I didn't know you're going to be coming with the Livine Dunn takes today. But am I wrong about that? Simone Biles went the next day. She was great. She was fine. Like she did what you're supposed to do. But Lively Dunn looked like she forgot the two words you're supposed to say is Riders Up. Riders Up.

There could have been a little more preparation. Riders up. Riders up. up. What you're saying is they didn't practice this before they went out there. She must not have because she literally looked down for the line, riders up. You tell me they didn't teleprone for this. I'm looking at it right now. Here, I'll tell you what, when we come back, you leave, you got it right now? I got it on my phone. I can play it here. Let's try and see what's that's right. Try it. Talk the Oaks fan. Tradition. We were two.

Lide. Lide. Well, I was there of all. There was a long bus. There was a lot of chance. She didn't look on. to look down and go, riders up. Anyway, stop. Court physical therapy. I'm on need it after that golf round yesterday. Court physical therapy, K-O-R-T.com.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Great day, great weekend for the city of Louisville, state of Kentucky. 859-2802287. One person writes, Matt, how is it you get your trifecta, your trifecta system, I remember you said it years ago, but I've forgotten it.

Yeah, I came up with this, like I said, like nine or ten years ago, I took some time one day. I was bored, and I looked at a pattern of everybody who'd ever won before, and it was a very similar pattern. Very rarely did the top three horses

finished one, two, three in the race. I think it's happened like once in the last 25 years. So, but often in the top three horses are two of the top three. So what I do is I pick the top. three horses and I just throw one out. You just have to decide there's one I'm not going to believe in. And you just have to do it.

And then if that horse makes it, well, try again next year. Right. So for me, this year, when I first looked at it, the top three horses were journalism, sovereignty and the TikTok horse. And I was like, well, we're getting rid of the TikTok horse. That was not scientific. I just wasn't going to bet, Shannon, on the TikTok horse, Sandman. So TikTok horse out.

Then sovereignty and journalism, I looked at it, looked to me like sovereignty was just as good journalism. Odds were much better for sovereignty. So I'm going to put that on top of most of my plays. But I put journalism on top of stuff too. And then you have to look forward, generally speaking, of the middle tier horses, there's about usually six. I pick like three, throw them in, and then one long shot. And then those are my six horses that I build everything around. But you have to have three that are your primary ones, and it's usually for me, two of the favorites, one of the long shots, and it was the three that came in this year. So, like, it's not so much, for me, that's the system, and then everyone should use that

system, then pick your own horses. But I think the system is pretty sound. I think if you do that system, you got a good shot. Now, obviously, you have to pick the right horses, or it won't help. But, Drew, I believe in my system. It's worked well, and it only seems to work in the derby because there's so many horses in the field. And I was listening to Randy Moss on the broadcast, and he made a point that I think very interesting. He said since Rich Strike won at 80 to 1 a few years ago, people all want to bet

the long shot and hope they get that 80 to 1 pick. So he said these long shots are like 40 to 1, but they should be 100 to 1. And money that should go on horses like sovereignty is going to are going to these long shots. And he was like, there's value in these horses. And he used sovereignty as an example because people are taking a horse that has no chance and betting it down to where it's 35 to 1. and that money can be one somewhere else. Did you only throw out the TikTok horse because you knew it as the TikTok horse? Yes, I didn't look at one thing about him. The moment I saw that dude at the draw, and he was like.

Griffin? Yeah, he was like, you know, me and my dogs, we're in the house swaying. And we were like, let's get a horse. And she was like, oh, and I was like, you know, I got. That's the one horse I did bet on just because of the Metallica tie in. It wasn't about the TikTok thing. It wasn't, but it'd be, it's not real. Metallica because TikTok guy owns it.

So the moment I saw him, I said he's out. I'm done with it. I thought about Shannon because I didn't know the actual Hatfield guy, the Metallica lead singer. James Hatfield, yeah. Yeah, he was there and a part of it. So I knew Shannon would have a little money on that one. The moment Mike Toriko got on the air, I knew something was wrong with him.

Did you hear that? I did not. When he did the intro, he was like, and I was like, and I'd say, I know what Mike Tariko sounds like. and then he came on and he was just like, I was getting Scott still Matt today. And I said to Tall, I was like, something's wrong with him. And then Drew 30 minutes later, he was off the air,

apparently had a serious reaction to a peanut allergy. A peanut took him down. That's what it was. I didn't see his initial interview. I guess I just heard it for me here. But I saw when they came back and there were a quick announcement, Mike, he's here, he's okay, but he's not going to be all anymore because of his peanut allergy. Well, because if you go listen to the reaction, it was like, it was,

are you okay, man? I said the moment he started talking. Yeah, I said the moment he started talking, I said something's not right with him. And then it turns out somebody slipped a peanut into him at church him out. I think he ate from our guy's front yard on the way to the road. He had one of those belly button tortillas. It wasn't a peanut. The guy had a peanut in his belly button.

One of the biggest broadcast he can be on. Peanut takes him down. That's got to stink. You prepare all week. You do all this stuff. He was there. Did they just put him in a room? I don't know.

But I knew the moment he started talking, something was wrong with that guy. You could just tell something was not right. And then I don't know what the guy's name is, but he had to be happy. Because he gets the call up. Like, he thinks he's done for the day. Nope. Right? And they go, hey, man.

He's probably the one that gave him peanuts. Sabotaging. He saw an opportunity. You think so? Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. He was like, all right, Mike, have a great show. Here have a payday.

Here's a smoothie. I like the idea that he just, you think he, I don't know that guy's name. He's on there a lot. He's a, he's got the beard, handsome guy. You think he slipped to Rico. It's a tradition that we eat peanuts. He takes your nervvy every year. Slides right.

Does the Chris Collinsworth slide right into the big chair? Mike, you want to fit in, right? We're all taking a toast of the smoothie. This is fade this radio. Here you go. All right. We do need to talk about Travis Perry. He picked his school, and we need to talk about that.

We also, you got the event tonight. We'll preview our bar stool bet gala with my new jacket. And then Billy, we have a Billy conversation to have Shannon, which Billy doesn't even know we're having. We're doing this on the air. I thought that was off the air last night. Yeah, we're moving it on the air. We're going to do both of them.

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