KSR - 2025-05-06- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Tuesday, May the 6th, here in Scottsdale, Arizona. Beautiful Scottsdale, where it is not even 7 o'clock. Well, I guess it is. 7 o'clock in the morning here. You can give a shout to Clark's puppet. phone line, that is 859-280-2-87. We will take your calls. So go ahead and get in. I've got some complaints that haven't taken enough calls. I need to talk to the people. So 859-2-80-2287. We'll

take your calls up early. A Vision Auto Glass text machine 772-7-7-4-5-254 in this edition. This edition is sponsored by a T.J. Smith law office. You call T.J. He'll make them pay. Here with Drew and Mario in Scottsdale. Shannon is back in Kentucky. These guys are getting on a plane and going back this afternoon. I'm going back on Thursday. Thursday. All of us will be in Owensboro on Friday. I made it sound like I wasn't going to be there at the Skin Cancer Center, but I will be there. Mario just has to pick me up at 11 o'clock at night at the airport in Cincinnati, and then we have to drive to Owensboro. Marl, that'll be a heck of a drive Thursday, won't it? It's a lot of driving. 11 p.m. in Owens in Cincinnati and then go all the way to Owensboro that night.

We'll get there late, but that's okay. You may hear in my voice a little bit of struggle because we're all pretty tired. It is because it's 7 o'clock in the morning here, but Drew, a lot of fun last night. I had an absolute blast yesterday. I mean, our pool day felt like a day in itself. It felt like two different, completely different days. We strung them all together. We're a little worn out, but we had so much fun. You guys look so nice. I normally just see you, Matt, in a hoodie. Mario, you know, we never get dressed up, but a black tie affair, it felt a lot different with you guys last night. We looked good, didn't we? We looked amazing. I mean, the three of us walked in. I mean, first of all, you guys start with Mario. I mean, his jacket. He had strangers. Mario Shannon could have hooked up

with every 45-year-old woman in Scottsdale. Well, like there's beautiful women there, so I would get them. I mean, like literally everybody, they were like all the women, like my age to Ryan's age, were just going, you look good. And then all of a sudden there'd be like a little tinkle in their voice. And then they would be like, can I buy you a drink at this free bar? Mario, all the, all the, They were out for you last night. I guess they were. Not women your age. No, they're a lot older.

You're a lot older. I don't know why. I don't know what it was. We were outside and when the woman came up to Mario and said, your drink's empty and then walked all the way back in, got him a drink and came back out. I'm thinking, my goodness, Mario, what do you got going on today? That jacket had them going. Then, you know, I don't usually dress like that.

The suede, the person that said the suede was maybe a little hot for Arizona. I think they were a little right. right about that, especially since I didn't know the party was going to be outside. I was suburb. I was sunburned within 45 minutes. They were giving away hats. And after 45 minutes, I said, I wanted to get a hat because there's parts of my head that are going, what's going on over there?

So, but otherwise, a lot of fun, right? It's so fun, man. You see, I don't know. I have so many different favorite parts about the day. I love the fact that we all dressed up. Before you say, yeah. Well, go ahead. Don't give you any specific people we met.

But besides that, go ahead. Don't spill. Don't spill that because I have a big takeaway, but go ahead. I was just going to talk about our outfits, man. The way we showed up in the red carpet and, you know, took photos and everything like that. And it wasn't like an event that was too long. You know, we were there for like two or three hours and then we got up out of there. It was awesome, man.

All right. Let's start with that. It was interesting, Shannon, to go to this with Mario, okay? Because you're still there, Shannon? Yeah. Yeah. So, like, this is a bar. stool event. So I think you can agree Mario, mostly white people, right? Like a lot of white people.

There was like four black people in the building. But they all love Mario. I mean, Mario became like, Mario was like the guest of honor there. When we walk in, we want to take a picture, Shannon, on the red carpet, right? Because the three of us are dressed up. There's a draft king's barstool logo. There's a red carpet. So the red, the official red carpet walk had ended. But, Shannon, you understand. We wanted to take a picture of us, right? Of course, yeah. But there's nobody there.

The photographers have already gone inside. Right. So Mario is just looking for somebody to take a picture. You know who he asked to take our picture, Shannon? Who's that? Hall of Fame-wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. He doesn't know who he is because he's too old. I had to tell him that's a top five receiver.

I mean, Mario looks at Larry Fitzgerald. It's like looking at Jerry Rice and going, Jerry Rice, can I have a picture and then just holding him the phone and asking him to take it, which is exactly what he did. He asked Larry Fitzgerald to take our picture. Did he take it? No, Larry just walked on, but his buddy took the picture. But that's, when you hang out with him, you understand he doesn't know anybody, Drew.

Like, if they're older than 27, he does not know who they are. In the moment he didn't know, we go to the bar and I looked at him, I was like, do you realize that's probably a top five NFL wide receiver? that you just talked to. He's like, oh, that guy's a receiver. I was like, he's retired, but that is a legend that you spoke to. He looked familiar. I was definitely seen him on TV or something like that. So then we got inside, and, you know, it was an interesting group

because you and I wondered, Drew, before we went, like, why did they ask us to be here? How are we here? I still don't really know the answer to that question, because even though it was a lot of fun, I still don't really know what it was. I mean, everybody was just hanging out. Even the barstall guys weren't real true What was going on I don't think anybody really knew what was happening

It was just like a party Which I guess is what the Met Galley is You know the Met Galley everybody sees everybody walk in But then you don't really know what's going on inside Are they looking at art Are they just standing there? That's kind of how this was You walk inside at least there were games on

Right, the Knicks played the Celtics The Nuggets played the Thunder And so there were games on But otherwise you know you're just standing there and it was interesting to me because I only knew a handful of people, but I ended up in a lot of conversations, and there are conversations where you just don't know what to say to people, right? Like you go, hey, you, I know you, and then they're like, hey, you're the Kentucky guy.

It's good to talk to you, right? All right. Nice. I mean, you just, you kind of run out of things to say after a while. Yeah, looking back, if someone were to ask me, like what did you all do i kind of we just mingled we mingled and i don't like to mingle but we mingle the big barstool personalities we're like what's up what do we do here and they're like we don't know hi uh did you get the sushi all right good talk move on to the next round now shanan they did

have a lot of food that's always like they had a chef hand rolling sushi while you were there you know they had they had a lot of food it was an open bar they gave away okay when you got there you could scan your phone, Shannon. And they were just having a little contest where you would pick the games that were on that night. Yeah. And there's probably, what, 200 people at that party, maybe? A hundred of them are barstool employees,

and they're not allowed to be in the contest. So you're talking about like 100 people. And somebody was going to win $25,000 out of that. And second place was like $10,000. And third place was $7,000. And so that's like, and when we walk in, we go, what an amazing contest. You know what we did, Shannon?

What'd you do? All three of us forgot to do. I never, not once took a picture. All three of us. And I think most people didn't enter. So somebody won $25,000 probably with not much competition, you know? I actually woke up this morning kicking myself. Like, did you forget to ever enter that?

Yeah, because like all those women that were there. I was overwhelmed by everything going on. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, all those women that were there, I bet they didn't enter it. And then, you know, the Barstow employees couldn't. I'm doubting Larry Fitzgerald and the athlete, Steve. Dave Nash. I don't think they, I don't think they entered it. So, so Shannon, somebody just probably walked in there and just scanned their thing and won $25,000. That's crazy. So I got

to ask you, though, the guy with the green silk suit, who is that? Who is that and what's his deal? That's Jerry, that's Jerry, you know who it is. That's Jerry O'Connell Jr. That's who that is. That's Jerry O'Connell Jr. Yeah, he was there. The actor from our childhood from lost boys and all that. So there's a perfect example. Okay, here's a perfect example what I'm talking about. Jerry O'Connell Jr., Shannon,

I've seen that guy since I was a child, right, as an actor. He's been an actor our whole lives. There he is in a green mesh suit for reasons I don't totally understand. And he's watching the Nick Celtics game and he's going crazy. I'm standing behind him most of the night.

When it's over, you know, we're in a position where it's just me and him. And I go, hey, Jerry, I'm Matt. he couldn't be nicer. He looks at me, and he's like, hey man, what do you do? I'm like, Kentucky, burbrough. Oh, he's like, you're the guy, Kentucky Sports Radio.

I was surprised he knew who I was. Yeah. But then, like, what do you say to Jerry O'Connell after that? You know what I can't say I loved you in Lost Boys? You know what I mean? I don't want to be like, I hear you on part of my day. Well, what do you have in common with him, you know? Nothing.

I mean, I just, so it was like, what about that game Jerry O'Connell Jr.? You know He looked like he was living his best life He was enjoying whatever was going on in that moment He came in, he was fun I joke about we didn't really know what to say But then we started talking about sports

And it was great and he talked about how He said he would like to come on the show sometime So I'll have him on the show Some guy He was a very nice guy But it's just you start this conversation You don't want to be like I know you from a movie when you were nice

Like there just comes a point Like what do you say He set the tone for me after Mario's awkward red carpet interaction asking Larry Fitzgerald take a picture we weren't in the building for 30 seconds and Mario and I just ended up talking to Jerry O'Connell and he could have been nicer

but it did get to a point where even like pat us on the back like well so you guys later we've run out of things to say but at that moment my brain was like what is life right now what is going on Shannon we have to talk about our guy Drew okay he was not going to a commercial we have to talk

I was having a good time Shannon you know I've known Drew for like 16, 17 years as part of KSR. And I've known Drew in like his Drew stages where he like was Drew. You know, every night Drew Franklin's story. I mean, I could write a book of Drew Franklin's stories from that era. Yeah. Good times.

He's a different Drew now. Still fun. Still funny. Still awesome. Still a great friend. But not quite the Drew. Like he's not, you know, Shannon. He's not Nolan Ryan.

throwing at 99. He lost a little on the fastball? He just doesn't. Well, I haven't lost the fastball. He still, you know, he's just kind of. I just don't send me out much. I mean, he's not Greg Maddox painting the corners, but he's like smote's when they send him to the bullpen.

You know, and that's what he is. Okay. A couple more slatters and fork balls. Yes, exactly right. Well, last night, he reared back for a Nolan Ryan at 40 no hitter. Okay. Like he, Drew was throwing his fastball. My line is I haven't lost a step.

I just look before I take one. No, it's the old Toby Key song. I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once. I still got it when I get called up as I ever was. Last night, Drew was on one. He was definitely on one, man. I think the correct word is I even sent this to my wife and others. I was absolutely folded at that event.

And it all hit him when we were talking to Dave Portnoy. We got in like a 15 or 20-minute conversation. He and I talked a lot about what it's like to own a company and the good and the bad and the up and down. and it was actually a really interesting conversation. Drew started it, completely Mario coherent. Normal as ever. Normal, you know, just talking.

Drew's coming in here and there. By the end, he was like, Dave Park, Barry. I got a little sideways there. Hey, let me tell you someday, Portnoy. I wasn't that bad. Them horses go around and around. It's a pretty fucking Derby.

You just go. And then Mario and we're like, you know, I think it's time for us. Yeah, you got to go, man. I think we probably ought to go back to the hotel. And he was like, Dave! Thank you. Listen, we did your impersonation yesterday. I didn't know I was going to be one of them today.

It wasn't that bad. Mario, it was pretty bad, man. Drew was pretty bad, man. And then he was, hey, we'll be, thank you to the draft king's sports book for all of your support. And then we ended up, Mario and I, like, let's go get an Uber. Yeah, it's time to go, man. It's time to go. It's time to go.

Drew, wouldn't you like something to eat? That actually was my problem. I did not eat all day. And the 9.30 a.m. tequila. So we went and got something to eat, and then it was a little more calm, and we finished the evening. But it was a lot of fun. You met what had to be one of your heroes, Mario, which I want to talk about. That was a cute moment.

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You shouldn't. You were fun. You were very fun. You only told me and Mario the same story how many times. I said before the show. I'm ready to say it today on the radio because I know I've already said it to y'all. Yeah, no, no. I want you, here's what I want you to do in just a second.

I want you to tell the story you told us 10 times on the radio because it is nice. But first, a bunch of people on the text machine writing 772-7-7-4-5-254. One person, one of many, says that Matt Jerry O'Connell was not in Lost Boys. He was in Stand-by- Me. That would have been good to know yesterday because I do think I said. to him he was in lost boys. You told him he was in a movie that he didn't know what he was even in. That I don't think he wasn't.

I think I said something like, I don't remember exactly how it came up. But I think I may have said the word lost boys too. Oops. That's embarrassing. Yeah, but he didn't correct me. But I think I did say it to him in the course of a longer conversation. Yeah, I had a couple of those, actually. There was a, there was a woman there that works a bar stool.

that I called the wrong name twice. I thought her name was something else. And I had a good conversation with her. And now I realized I called her the wrong. I think I thought she was the other person the whole time. You did that in Milwaukee, too, to look at the sideline reporters. I think I thought, no, I did do it in Milwaukee to a sideline reporter. I thought that was Tracy Wolfson and it was not Tracy Wolfson.

Then I turned on TV and she was in, like, L.A. or something. I don't think it's a turn. I called this woman Tracy. Tracy. And like, I know this woman. I know Tracy Wolfson. I don't know the person I was talking to, which made it clear why she looked like she. She didn't respond.

I was like, you know me. And then she didn't because it was not who I thought it was. I did the exact same thing with one of those women last night. I kept calling her one thing and it was not her. What is that with you, man? I don't know. All right. Tell the audience what you said to us 45 times last night.

I just kept saying it. Even when we went to Old Town afterwards, I felt like I just, I was pulled my string, and I'm going to say it one more time. But I have one more in me. Okay. Gilly. So, Shannon, do you know who Gilly is? I don't think I do.

I didn't feel bad. I didn't know who he was either. He was like a big hats. He's like a big podcast star. He was with Shador Sanders on Draft Night. He was the guy in the big hat with Shador Sanders on Draft night. Did you see that? Yeah.

Remember in the background of the guy with the big hat? That's who it was. But go ahead. He's a big Eagles fan, Super Bowl. He's in the locker room. Mario wanted to meet him going in. That's who Mario knew of all the people that would be there. He's a legend, man.

He's like a legend, especially in the black community. He's a huge legend. So you said he was one of the biggest black podcasts. Yes, yes. Okay, so go ahead. This feels so awkward to say it to you guys. I'm talking to the listeners, not you too. We meet him like we did everybody with awkward conversations.

But this man was so nice. He did not have to do this. He pulled Mario aside. Matt went in. I kind of just took a few steps away, I was hanging out, just a little bit away from them. He talked to Mario for at least 20 minutes, giving him advice, how can I help you, this, that.

You feel like he was a mentor. We just met. I could not get over how nice Gilly was tomorrow and us. He was nice to me and Matt too. I mean, I talked to him plenty. But of all the interactions last night, I could not get over what a nice guy that was. He's probably going to end up linking up with Mario

on Mario's podcast or something down the road. But Gilly out there, I know some of our listeners probably know him. You know him for the big hats. There's not a better person on Earth than Gilly. I walked in, knowing who he was, and that I'm a big fan. I'm now his biggest fan. He was so good to Mario. I was like Mario's dad.

I was taking candid pictures of those two talking. Yeah, it was nice. I have 10 pictures of Mario Gilly. You see her outside. I know. Now imagine he tells you that 10 times over the course of one car. I'm a Gilly fan. I'm not going to.

I'm not going to apologize for... No, it was... He kind of took, like, a big uncle energy with you. And you loved it. Like, you were star-struck by that, dude. Yeah, this is somebody who I grew up watching. You know, you see him on podcast. What was his advice?

He took you to decide and he gave you advice. He said, obviously, his first advice, he was like, be known in a state. Like, you guys got to be known in the state. And try to be as known as possible in the state. And I was like, well, we're pretty known to the state already. And he was like, okay. Then value.

He said values the key. Like make sure you provide value. If you're working for these guys, whatever you do, provide value. That was his biggest thing. And I was like, okay, he was like, he said you don't want to be, like, I remember you telling me Matt a few weeks ago, you don't want to be replaceable. Well, it was a long-nosed. That's the advice I always give people.

Younger people, they say to me, what's the biggest piece of advice you can give? And I said, I don't care what your job is. Whatever your job is, whether you're in media, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're working, you know, as a bank teller, what, you pick the job. Make yourself irreplaceable. Because as an employer, there are certain people you cannot replace. Like in every job that I have, there's somebody there that if we lost them, it would not be the same. And so you don't want, and my thing is you want to make sure you're that person.

Gilly's advice to you was add value in everything you do. And those are actually two really good pieces of advice, like not trying to be, you know, Tony Robbins here, but they really are. Yeah, yeah. And I took it, took it all, you know, and he was a good dude, man. I love the way he didn't know us, came over to us and talked with us for like 25 minutes. We had a great conversation with him. I'll give you the best example of somebody making themselves irreplaceable.

I heart used to have Shannon phone lines that were, that were, well, they were weird. a guy set up our phone system at iHeart to where he was the only person that knew how to use it. You remember this? Oh, yeah. And he like set up and he set it up much more elaborately than it needed to be so that no one else could fix the phone system but him. And so when cuts were made, he'd always get capped because they're like, well, you can't replace him. If we lose him, we lose the phone system. And then finally, I don't know what he did, but something happened to where they had to separate it.

Remember, our phones were down for like two or three days. Remember, we couldn't take calls for two or three days. He was the only person on planet Earth who knew how to fix it. Yeah, and they brought AT&T, and then the phone company was like, what is this system? Who did this? And he had done it. So that's a little sneaky way to do it.

But he had done it to where he, like, was irreplaceable. And then finally, when it had to happen, we were kind of screwed for a while. Yeah, exactly. Well, Gilly's irreplaceable to be. Even like my brother-in-law is an Eagles fan, and Gilly's probably one of the more famous Eagles fans. He's like, well, let's send him a video. Like, he was just doing so much that was so nice.

And the crazy part is you see that on camera. Like, when you watch his podcast, he acts just like that. And when you see it in person, like, it's crazy. Matt, I know you didn't really know who he was, but, like, hearing his stories of Shadoor. You could say you're like, you should be the one on TV talking about Shadour. Yeah, he was great. There were some other people that I thought just as were much nice.

I mean, Portnoy. Like, we talked to you. for like 20 minutes. I mean, we talked about Drew was done at the end of that 20 minutes. Did you tell Portnoy, the Gilly story, Drew? Actually, I think I did, actually. I told him anybody that listened. I think he did.

I talked to Cactus about it. Whoever the kid is that does the, I don't know, the Josh Richards. Josh Richards. My new best friend? Did you know, I knew when he was really gone, when we tried to take a selfie with Josh Richards and Drew had it on video. And we were standing there for like, all right, we don't have. Turn this in the

Five seconds. Just staring at the video. Drew looks at this guy. All right, Shannon. Josh Richards. He's like a TikTok guy, right? And he does a podcast. I don't like the direction of this conversation.

But Drew meets him just immediately takes a vape with him. I don't know how it happened. But Drew's just vaping with this guy, Josh Reed. I mean, how many times you have the opportunity? I didn't even know Drew vapeed. I don't. I don't. I don't.

With a TikTok star. And then when it's over, goes, hey, can I get a selfie? And he just turns. it on video. All right. Let's go to break. This is not about me. This is about Gilly. And how nice you are. We'll take a break very bad. KS.R. T.J. Smith, personal

injury attorney. Call T.J. he'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. I feel sorry for the podcast, people, because Shannon's been on a roll with the music lately in terms of it being like, I mean, this is a great pick over and over again

for an irreplaceable going in the break. Shannon is uh, Shannon's killing it. I am going to go the phones. 859, 28027. We only got one or two people on there. Get on there because I do want to go. Real quick. I want to do a couple questions here that people wrote in. One person writes, Matt,

um, I saw you on the live stream a few times talking to Rico Bosco. Uh, it was weird seeing all those people and then seeing you on it too. Yeah, we made a few of those shots just standing behind. Because the Knicks and Celtics, Shannon, weren't an amazing game. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I hate the way that ended it. Yeah. Yeah, half the people there were Knicks fans, and half the people there were Celtics fans. And so that was kind of cool to watch.

One person says, Matt, did you meet Frank the Tank? I know a lot of you don't know who these people are, but, you know, some people do. Yes, and he was very nice. We liked him. Yeah, he's, I had to help him. His pants were, like, he was having a pants situation. So I tried to help him a little bit. I'm so hesitant to say anything, but everyone really was nice.

Frank, I know him just a little bit from social media, but we sat and talked to him forever about his weight loss. journey and how he's doing. Dana Beers, I got to do a beer chug. I beat it, by the way. Thank you to all the people on social media who went frame by frame and figured out, I won by a millisecond on that. One person writes, what about

the Sidney Thomas? We met her. She's beautiful. There are a lot of beautiful people there. A lot of beautiful people. A lot of people. Everybody was. Yeah, everybody, there's a lot of beautiful people. The older ones really like Mario. There was a moment where Mario and I even said to him is right after we were

talking to Gilly, who by the way, was so nice tomorrow. There we go. No, but we went to this couch and we're like, hey, man, because can we sit here for a second? And the guy's like, I was training this morning. I'm a little sore. Turns out he's just this huge UFC fighter.

Mario and I just pull up and sit with him on his couch. There's just people everywhere. No, it was, it was weird. They had a lot of beautiful people. You know, everybody was, everybody was looking good. But don't look good for one night to look good. So we'll have, I'll talk a little bit more about a couple more things from there later in the show.

But yesterday, Reese Potter from Lexington Catholic High School became the 13th player in the UK class. He ends up kind of replacing Travis Perry. He's a Lexington kid. He had been made, I think, a pretty big offer from Washington to come play. I was told Hubert Davis, Carolina fans are mad that I said this, but I'll trust my source over a random Tar Heel in-Eye person, that Hubert Davis had kind of made him a priority.

I know Louisville and Yukon had reached out to him. I don't know if they offered him, but he picks Kentucky. I would think it almost a significantly, I don't say significantly less, but a less amount because he bled blue. He was offered a campus tour, and he said, I don't need one.

I grew up here, I know it. Down the street. He is down the street, and so he is our new player. Do you like the addition for the roster? I do. This next season, I don't expect him to be in with five minutes left in a tournament game or anything, but he's a good piece to put on the bench and maybe develop over time.

He can step out and shoot the three. I like just the Kentucky connection, especially losing Travis Perry. I consider him maybe the 13th man, all due respect to him. But it's good to have a Kentucky kid there. Like I said, just right down the road playing a high school ball, a Catholic. I'm sure a lot of people know who he is. So it's good to have him on the team. Big local guy.

You know, I like to see that. Lexington the Catholic, like Drew said, you know, his height, 7-1. Yeah. You get, you add in depth, Brandon Garrison. Shot 40% from 3, too. He can shoot a little bit too, you know. So I like, I like the pickup. You get a local guy to replace another local guy.

So I think it was a good guy. And I think the theory is, if you get a big that's hurt, he becomes a potential backup. And who knows? You know, if he plays well, this is probably a two-year thing. I think they still might add one more. after some conversations yesterday, but it's a kid that wouldn't be thought to be an immediate contributor. So I think you have the team for next year as an immediate.

There's another kid that might be like, let's see what happens with you as a longer-term option. But I do think, you know, you got your group now. I like the group. And front court is stacked. They got a lot of people. I mean, there's not a better front court in the country. Talk about size, too. We got a lot more size compared to last.

season. So, yeah, it should be fun. We'll talk, I'm sure, going into October about what this team ceiling is, but I feel really good about it. I mean, I feel like they have one of everything. If Aberdeen and Williams especially can become really, really good three-point shooters to where it's a regular thing, then I think they got one of everything you want. My only concern is from a team that had so much shooting last year, do you have?

have enough shooting with this group, but they got all, pretty much all of them can do it. The question is, do you have a Kobe Braya kind of guy that gets you the shot you need in a pinch? Yeah, I mean, we're all being optimistic because we're fans of the team. Like you assume that Jalen Lowe will be a little more efficient than he was at Pittsburgh, where his teammates were just were absolute trash and he's having to play hero ball. You get him in a good system of pieces around him. You think he'll be better. My biggest thing is Yelovich, which, by the way, they put out.

out a statement that he signed and they put the pronunciation guide. We've been saying it right. Even Ron Lemon's been getting his name right. Yellovich. Yeah, we don't really know how he's going to translate to college ball. There's a chance where he's really good. Now, there's a chance he's really good. It's hard to know.

There's a chance you have a Z situation where he has like an amazing game and then has two the next game. But there, yeah, I think there's a chance he's really good. So every year there's a freshman in the SEC that wasn't five star that, Everyone was just like, wow. Last year, Jeremiah Fears at Oklahoma, he wasn't top 50. Dude was a stud. Before that, you had Josh Hubbard.

I think he was barely top 100. I mean, there's a chance. Jasper, you know, he's in the 25 range. There's a chance Jasper surprises people how good he is. Defensively, he's got to get a little better. But he might be a lights-out shooter. It would be. So it should be exciting in your Kentucky basketball team

with the possible exception of one long-term piece, I think, is now here for you. Who's up first, Shannon? Jacob. Jacob. How are you, Jacob? 859-280-2287. Go ahead. Hi, good morning. Matt, I hope you and Drew and Mario had an incredible time in the Phoenix, Scottsville area. I have two quick comments. I just want to mention a couple of great restaurant options in Scottsdale. You have the time. I recommend Ocean 44, Francine, or Cafe Monarch, both in the Scottsdale area.

I just wrote those down. And then lastly, yeah, those are great, great options. recommend. And lastly, I just wanted to mention that Drew's acting experience inspired me to sign up, and I auditioned this weekend for play later the summer at the Lexington Children's Theater. So I'll find out how we do it. That's very nice. Well, thank you very much, and appreciate the call. Look at you. You are inspiring the youth. Inspiring the people. You're with these people like Gilly was with Mario. Do it throw an inspiration. Well, that actually meant a lot to me, that me embarrassing myself on

stage open the door for someone else and I just can't get over how nice Gilly okay you got to stop like it's you really got to stop 859 280 27 couple open lines give us a shout you know I know we've been talking a lot the last few days but I do want to talk to you folks we just had a we've just had a lot to a lot to say are you all did you have you all enjoyed your trip I know you're going back it's probably been my favorite trip so far really yeah you're because you were starstruck yeah starstruck you know I've never been out here, and, you know, this is cool. This is cool, man.

We can't pass a cactus without Mario getting out and take a picture. You really love, but you look at everything with such a childlike wonder. It makes me happy. Like, you really do. Like, you have such, I'm being serious. I'm not being sarcastic. You have such a positive outlook and such a positive energy. Like, you, Shannon, he'll sit there and pump you up.

You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Like, he'll look at me when I come downstairs. in my jacket and go, okay, here we go. Watch out. This is the, and, you know, it's like a, it's like a little over the top, but it also makes you go, you know what, I do look like a million dollars. You're supposed to, you're supposed to do that. Shannon, it's good to have somebody like that. You need a hype man, right? We all need a Mario just following us around telling us how good we look every day. That's exactly right. Well, thanks to draft king. Speaking to draft Kings, you can go to the

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I really like this song, Shannon. You probably didn't even know that. I know you could guess. Glenn Campbell. Glenn Campbell. Right. Yeah. It is. I will say this about this area. I could see how somebody would want to live here. Now, I know in July and August, they say it's like 100 plus degrees and kind of miserable. But right now, I can't imagine whether you would like more than this every day. 80 degrees, like a breeze, every single day. I mean, that would be amazing. And I think we're hitting it perfectly. I think it was like 100 today before we got here. We are here in their best weather. I could live with this. resort. I went around the Lazy River yesterday. There's not much I love more than the Lazy River.

This man loves a lazy river. Listen, I did a couple great laps. Also, I met people from Madisonville in the Lazy River. What are the odds? What a small world we live in. But I mean, Madisonville, Kentucky. We also, Shannon, there's a law firm that is having their partner retreat here. Do you want to partner retreat? So in partner retreat, law firms basically bring all the big people and they're just like, let's spend three days doing meetings. But really, it's just a excuse to make the associates stay in work and they go party for three or four days. So there's a, the law firm Goodwin Proctor is here. I don't know anything about Goodwin Proctor. They might be nice people. There might be a Goodwin Proctor person listening. I'm just going to tell you, y'all got a law

firm full of nerdy people that are just getting hammered in this place. I'm just saying, like it's, you know I'm right. Like they just walking around here, first of all, like they own it. They even brought, Shannon, they brought their own pillows to put on the communal sofas. What? Who does that? I got out by the pool. They got them by the pool. All the pillows say Goodwin on it.

I feel like I work for Goodwin. Couldn't bring any KSR pillows with you? I mean, come on. There's thousands of people here. The only five people that don't work for them, but the three of us, Roy Williams and Austin Rivers. Everyone else walking around. Roy Williams and Austin Rivers are here. And then every lawyer from Goodwin Proctor.

So I'm just going to say this to the people who work for. Goodwin Proctor who aren't here. Y'all be careful because they spend in your money. The signs at the, and they're not like print out signs with tape. Like the signage in the hotels says Goodwin everywhere.

It's unbelievable. How much money, though, whatever Goodwin Proctor is spending. A lot of money. Good for y'all. So congratulations. Who's up next? John.

John. Go ahead, John. Hey, guys. McCall. I got a quick concern and then a question about NIH. My concern is that Jay and Quakey doesn't have to play at Kentucky to be a first round pick in the NBA next year. And I'm not saying he'd be a nefarious character for doing that,

but there's a world where I might think about it. There's a lot of people, though, that could apply to that have had wonderful careers here. John Wall didn't have to play here to be a first year. He has an injury, though. That's fine. But why if he didn't, I am going to operate under the assumption that not everyone in the world is stupid and that UK knows exactly what you just said and would not have signed him

unless they believe firmly that he is going to play. I do believe that. We have Mark Pope as a coach now and that our former coach. But also, do you know how the NIL is structured to the players have to play to get paid? Pends on the deal. Because there are no rules, because there are no rules, the deal can be structured, however, the two parties agree. And, you know, I think, I can't tell you what Jaden Quentin's deal or any deal is, because ultimately there are private contracts, at least for now, one day I think that's going to change. But, so I don't know.

I would think, though, a kid coming off an injury who has the talent you're talking about, I know the person that is negotiating these contracts, and he is an extremely smart person. And then Mark Pope, I know he's extremely smart. I got to think they've thought through that. Now, if he ends up coming, takes the money, doesn't play, then I'll reserve the right to criticize. But I'm not going to assume that's the case, considering they know everything you just said.

Right, right. Do you know if there is insurance policies to protect the schools? Yes. Well, to protect the school, again, these are not schools that are doing this. These are collectives. Do they have an insurance policy? I don't know. I would assume, yeah, because most businesses do,

but I don't know if there's NIL collective insurance policies. I mean, I'll tell you, usually speaking, if you want insurance, somebody will find a way to sell it to you, but I don't know if there is that. Yeah, I don't know about that. With Quaitans, I've seen some people like the caller there, wondering if it's going to be a shade and sharp situation, but I think he actually has to prove that he's healthy.

I think the injury makes it more likely they have to play because they knew what he was before the injury, but now he needs to go out and show I'm still good. I've recovered from this. And so much of what he was good was his athleticism. And if you don't have that, then that would be a... I think he has to go out and do it to make that statement. Who's next?

Parker. Parker, go ahead, Parker. Hey, guys, real quick, I want to take you too much your time at the end of the hour here. When it comes to at the end of the season for everybody, usually they go on like a signing tour or like a farewell tour. Have you guys heard anything from the guys that were leaving? I appreciate it.

Thanks, guys. I'm hoping they'll do something because obviously I'd like to do something at the bar, but I think what's probably changed this a little bit, Drew, is that now they make money. And those signing tours, they probably used to make these kids, I don't know, $50,000, $60,000. maybe less for the less popular players. I just don't know if these dudes, like, do you want to come to KS.

Bar and make $4,000 or $5,000 to sign for a night if you just made a million dollars? I mean, I would, but I could see why there would be kids that wouldn't want to, you know? Yeah, and, you know, they would finish their careers and they'd go to Pikeville, Madisonville, Owensboro. It'd be all over the state, and it was a bit of a grind. And as you're saying, not to make it sound like they don't want to do that, but they've got a lot of money now and other deals in place that they don't really feel like they have to do that.

For a lot of those players in Cal's era where they were really, like Anthony Davis knew he was about to be the number one pick, right? I mean, Devin Booker knew he was going to be picked out. You know, guys like Amari and Jackson Robinson, they need to go have good workouts and stuff, not just for NBA futures, but even for overseas futures. Like they need, they kind of have to grind. And so that time where they could have gone to Madisonville or Hopkinsville and signed, it might be to go work with a trainer. I feel like they're probably focused on different things right now,

draft process, overseas process rather than probably signing. It really depends on the player. Can we say the one person we met last night, Mario, that did not like us? Who was it? Oh, yeah. I know exactly who you're about to say. Shannon, I didn't know this was a person, but apparently there's a former U of L player.

What's his name? Chris Brickley. Chris Brickley who trains the NBA guys. Huge following. Huge following. Look him up, Shannon. Chris Brickley. He's got like a million followers on the Instagram.

He's a little tatted guy. All tatted. He's in NBA 2K for the young folks. Yeah, he's in the NBA 2K just because he trains the guys. Do you see him, Shannon, the picture of him? Yeah, I got him. All right. So he was there.

I didn't know who he was. Mario was like, hey, that dude right there played at U of L. And so I thought, well, you know, be a Kentucky guy. So I went up to him. And I have seen this before. where I walk up and it takes a second for somebody to place me, and then they're like, oh, I don't like you. And he played at Louisville 08 to 11,

which is when I was on Louisville, the hardest, was probably that era. Right. He was on the stripper era. He was on the stripper era team. And I said, I met Joltz, KSR, and he gave me one of those, I know who you are. He said that.

He's like, I know who you are. I was like, oh, okay. It's like that. Now, then he was very nice. But it was clear, Drew, that he was like, you're the Kentucky dude who used to run that mouth. He didn't say he was completely nice, but it was clear that's a dude who knows KSR not for positive reasons.

Yeah, I was kind of behind you all when that conversation started, and you could almost see his face like the switch. Like, wait a minute. I know who this guy is. He was nice. He was nice. He was nice as a gilly. It was very nice tomorrow.

but he definitely knew KSR when we were at our not worse but the two fan bases were going right at it if you're telling me when did I talk the most trash to Louisville it was 08 to 11 because they were down

Cal had just got really 9 10, 11, 12 you know then they won in 13 but 910 1112 is when I talked the most trash and that's when he played he had the look of somebody who remembers that we'll be right back Skaazark.

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