KSR - 2025-05-06- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

Matt, Drew, Shannon, and Mario talk the future of AI and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Hour number two, Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Mario Maitland here in Scottsdale, Arizona. Shannon's back in Kentucky. We will be back. Ryan will be back on the show tomorrow. I will still be here, but they will be there. and you can give us a call. 859-28027.

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Cheney, you've ever been the barbecue festival over there in Owensburg? I love some good barbecue, so I'm looking forward to it. It's great. That will be this weekend. And so after we go, after we do our show, I think we're going to go try to find some barbecue at the barbecue festival. I've been to it many times, but it's been probably 10 years since I've been. But it's a lot of fun. I'll be there a little earlier.

I'm going Thursday night. Looking forward to a fun week. We're going to have a little Billy birthday party, I hope, Thursday night. So we'll be around Owensboro. Yeah. Well, if you're around Owensboro, come see us at the show Friday at the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. 859-2-80-22-87. I'm going to go back to the phone just a second.

But NBC Sports, you probably don't know the name Jonathan Fagan, right? Nobody knows. I do not. But he is the voice when you watch the Olympics on NBC. He's the voice that comes in and out and does the promos. Okay. Right? So probably none of the four of us would know his voice, but if we heard his voice, we would know what he says.

NBC, he died, unfortunately. Rested peace after the Olympics last year. But Shannon, his voice is apparently iconic with the Olympics. Okay, yeah. So they have made a deal with his family that they will use AI to have his voice do the winter Olympics this year. His family agreed to it. And now the same voice that has been used in the Olympics in years past will be used as the official voice in the Olympics. this year. And some people wonder, is this the start of bringing back all kinds of announcers?

Like John Madden could just be back. Wow. An AI version of John Madden. Kentucky Sports Radio could exist after I died, but just with me with AI. You could conceivably Rush Limbaugh could replace Clay and stray that come on after here. So leave aside the ethics because his family agreed to it. Shannon, do you think this is a good idea, a bad idea? What do you think? It's kind of cool because it's really a way for you to live forever, right? I mean, if you could use that voice until the end of time, it's sort of cool that you can honor that person's legacy long after they're gone.

So as long as the family's okay with it, and I guess he would be, We don't know if he was okay with it or not. We'd probably never, but never even assumed it was something you could do. Yep. And as long as they're paying the family for the continuing. They're paying the family. Yeah, then I'm kind of fine with it, I think. I mean, it's strange, but I like it.

Would any of you not want your families in the future to have you live forever via voice? My hand is raised. Mine too. I don't like this. I don't like what you guys don't want to live forever no well let me first of all I don't want to live forever just in general I mean your voice no because I don't care how a how good AI is I don't want to be held responsible for what AI says I would say so you think AI could ruin your legacy post mortals yeah I don't care how smart it is but no that's AI mad that's not really mad but here's the

thing though there are everyone has thoughts in their head that are good and bad, right? Yeah. And you have a filter that makes you decide whether it's good or not. And some people's filter is better than others. Ryan's filter is terrible. Ryan has no worse thoughts than anyone else. It's just he doesn't know when not to say it.

He doesn't know to say, you know, I think women make good food, so they should keep making food. Like, I don't, like, he doesn't know not to say that. I worry that the computer, the AI, would not have that. And then my legacy would be stained by something they said. There's a thing, though, like, Matt, I hope you live to be 150. But, like, let's say you passed away before me. I want to still be able to argue with AI, Matt, in the future. Do you want that?

Like, okay, so people, we talked about people being irreplaceable. Everybody agrees John Madden is the best announcer ever. Would you want to hear John Madden call a game right now? Yes. If there was an alternate, like let's say they got the regular broadcast and an alternate broadcast and another station. I'm watching the Madden broadcast. Would you want to have John Madden?

I'm conflicted here because I'm definitely team no on wanting it to exist. But when you frame it that way, I would tune into a John Badden broadcast right now. And Pat Summerall, you put them together? Yeah, I mean, it's just like a Madden game. Yeah. Like, I mean, they, they. They still, those dudes, but now imagine it's live and they're reacting to what happens with the boom. I mean, would you like to have a virtual Lee Corso still put on the mascot heads when he retires?

I understand. You got Kaywood with Kentucky games. Oh, Kwood. That's the one that's. All right. So there we go. I'm asking the fans, 772-774-5-254. This is in the realm of, this is not like some crazy thing.

No, it's close. We're going there. In the next five years, they could have K. Wood Letford do the UK games. Would you want, let's assume it wouldn't affect Tom Leach's important. We don't want to fire Tom Leach. Love Tom Leach. But let's say you could have Kaywood Letford and Ralph Hacker on an alternate stream of Kentucky basketball. Would you want to listen to it?

See, I hate this concept of it existing. However, I would absolutely tune in for Kaywood broadcast. Wouldn't you want to listen to it? Yeah. And so if his family was cool with it, you know, but Kaywood might have had thoughts. We'll say they can filter that out. So you're saying that we make it to where AI has like the same filter that Kaywood has. It has guardrails on it.

Okay. You can go rogue and start cussing. Maybe I can be talked into it. But we don't know how Kewood has. would have adjusted to modern life. Will we be able to hear AI, K. Wood, like taking puffs of the cigarette, like in between plays?

Yeah. What if Kwood's smoking during the game? He smoked during the old UK games. I've mentioned this before, but I just did this. This took one second. You can go to chat, GPT, and write an episode of KSR. It is scary how real it is. Okay, so this is what KSR.

I just typed that in. So you typed in KSR set today. I said write an episode of KSR. This is what they say, I would say. I'm going to read exactly, Shannon, what ChatGBT. It has all of us. I'm going to read exactly what JP, Chat, GBT, GBT, says I would say.

Okay. Welcome, everyone. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday edition, live from KS. Bar, grill, and beautiful Lexington, Kentucky. I'm Matt Jones. Joined, as always, by Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, and Shannon, the dude behind the board.

Big show today. Travis Perry lit it up in a scrimmage. Liam Cohen's back doing Liam Cohen things at spring practice, and Ryan might have had another run in at the Meyer self-checkout. And then Ryan Lemon goes, listen, those machines hate me. I scan grapes and it charged me for ribbi. And I don't even like ribbi. Isn't that airy?

And then Drew responds, that's a lie. I've seen you eat a 20 ounce ribai at Malones and ask for dessert. That took one second. Scary, right? That sounds like that could have been. It even has, I did it one time where Ryan was running late and he forgot the, it starts to you be like, did you forget the equipment again? Like the fact that it even knows our personalities is nuts.

Okay, so think about that. This is like an early generation. So yes or no, you would want to hear a K. Wood Ledford game, UK, of his AI today. He calls Kentucky Louisville next year. Yes, I would definitely tune in. Would you want to hear it? Yes, absolutely. Shannon? 100%. Yes. See, I think I would too. So this is coming, folks. Like Charles Barkley can retire, but he can just make his AI do it forever. Like it's NIL, right? I mean, for all of us. Yeah. So maybe I will keep doing KSR after 50. It just won't be me. That's so weird.

It's crazy to think that that can happen. But they're doing that with this guy at the Olympics. You will hear his voice at the Winter Olympics, even though he is dead and couldn't possibly know what is happening at the Winter Olympics. Imagine you retire, though, and you're making the same salary, but you're not even going to work every day. You could make the same salary and not even exist. Crazy. Unbelievable. So you tell me, would you want to hear Kwood?

772-774-5-254? Who's next? Jerry. Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry. Well, first, I would love to hear Kwood, particularly doing football because he was as good on footballs as he was on basketball. But would you feel like it's really him, Jerry?

Would you feel like it was really him when you listen to it, or would you even care? I wouldn't care. I'm amazed at somebody like KSR or, you. UK or somebody doesn't make a library of all his games available. You know, forget about the library, this is about the future. You're talking about the past. I'm talking about the future. Would you want to hear

the ball? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I love it. Yeah. I grew up on Kwood. I love Kwood. I could list to him any time. But my main point in column was, you know, I think that that next September

for Stoops is going to be the most important month since he's been here. Particularly that first game against Toledo because Toledo is the best team in the Mac. They've got a really good football team. And if Kentucky drops that gap, I mean, if they go one in four in September, it could be bad. Well, if Kentucky loses to Toledo, it's over. No, I mean, it's over.

If Kentucky loses to Toledo for Stoops, it's over. Now, the old Miss game, to me, is a more interesting conversation because I don't think they have to win it, but they can't get blown out. But you're right. The Toledo game, Toledo is good. Toledo is good and you cannot lose that game. No, he can't lose that game. And then also, South Carolina, he can't go down there and get blown out in South Carolina.

I mean, I'm not saying they're going to win that game, but they've got to play well. And we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I'm totally with you, Jerry. I appreciate the call. This dude that was at the party last night, Mincy, he's an old Miss guy. And he came up to me and he said that the old Miss game is used for, for Lange. Kiffin, too, that the fans are kind of like, all right, man, you know, the Kentucky game is like a sticking point to them last year.

And they're kind of like, we can't lose to Kentucky again. That Kentucky old miss game in week two is going to be a massive game for both programs. And week one, it goes without saying. Like, Mark Sto's, if he lose to Toledo, the time here is just going to end. That's just how it is. Toledo, if I'm not mistaken, went to Mississippi State and won last year. They did. I already have an SEC win just to see.

season ago. But at the same time, to be on the more optimistic end, if Stoop beats Toledo and Ole Miss to start the season, what does that do for the narrative? There's a lot of people that are already done with him, but if he beats Ole Miss and your 2-0, I think that can completely change the direction of how things are going for him. It seems like everybody wants to hear Kaywood. Yeah, I was very anti-AI until we framed it as would you turn on the Kewood broadcast. Well, yeah, I would actually do that. Okay, like I think about radio. If you said to me, could I I get Tony Cornheiser

Circa, like before he became a completely grumpy old man. Like Tony Cornheiser, when I listened to him, which was like 2001 to 2007 or 8, he was awesome. Could I get, if you could get me an AI

version of that to talk about what was happening on a day to day basis, I think I'd probably listen. You could also like you love Bill Simmons, you could also maybe pick who you want to be broadcasting together. You could like form your own. You could make a podcast. That's exactly right.

Like I could have Tony Kornheiser, Bill Simmons before he became rich, and, yeah, and Shane Gillis, and then, like, that's a podcast. I mean, same. Come on, man. That's not far away. Dude. It kind of blows your mind. I mean, when I read this story, apparently they did something like this with Al Michaels last year, but the technology was, like, very basic. It was like a video game.

They're saying. They can have this dude that they had. Update the promos in real time. That's wild. That's crazy. That's wild. Scary. Yeah.

Well, I heart already has it. We had that podcast thing last year, but it can take our show now and put it out in every language. Yeah, they take our show and they put it in like every. Spanish, Matt. Yeah. There is, Shannon, did you know that? There's like a version of me in Arabic doing this show. Has that already started?

They don't send it out, but they have the technology that they could make me speak in Arabic right now. When I signed my new deal, there was language in there about it, basically saying you give us permission to create foreign language versions of you. I've already got you on Netflix and Italian saying, look at that cake. So we can do that, like with every language, basically. Yeah, all right, we'll take a break. Crazy stuff. Be right back. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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like giving me examples of things you could do are crazy. When person writes, Matt, I sort of look at you the way you always talk about corn eyes. I've enjoyed listening to you since I was a kid. If you were gone, I'd love to hear an AI version of the show. It wouldn't be real, but it still would be something. But here's a question for you. Would you like to use it for you to interview people

that you admire from the past? Oh, that's a nice twist. Okay. So what, like, I could interview like Muhammad Ali or like Bobby Kennedy. That's what, or Kaywood? Like, what if I were to bring AI Kewood on and interview him and he and I talk about the past and the concurrent of UK basketball? Shannon, that's like mind-blowing stuff. That would be crazy.

It would be crazy, but it's not really him. No. But it's kind of him. It's all his knowledge. Yeah. It gives you an idea of what it may be like if it would happen. Yeah, I like that. I'm down.

I'm down for it. As we saw in what I just handed you, like the substance of what they come up where you would say, it is kind of your tone, what we normally do. Like it knows what a person should have would say. And that's like just processing audio from a long period of time. Yeah, but when you say to me, could I in real time interview like Bobby Kennedy? That's crazy. We could get John Calapari on the show.

But to sit and talk to him about, like, his tour of Appalachia in the 60s, where he, like, walked. Like, I would be fascinated. But it would not really be him. Wouldn't be real. Wouldn't you feel like you're kind of talking to a wall or, like, a weird? I don't know what it would feel like. Maybe it'll feel normal over time. But this is partially why, like this conversation is part of a bigger conversation that I do think people need to understand, which is the world is about to be a different place in 10 years.

And a lot of like our current conversation is about bringing back the world of the past. You just got to say, stop. Like that ain't happening. you know the sort of let's bring well I don't want to get into a political fight but like let's bring back jobs that stuff's gone like this is the future now I'm not saying it's good like something bad about this is you could just make Matt Jones the host of KSR forever and then nobody like there's no new talent that gets to do it that's not good but this is coming and our economy like there's going to be tons of jobs that people train for, that they were told

this is the future job that are just going to go away. Because they don't need them. Like coders. Oh, gone. Gone. Graphic designers are already gone. Ten years they would have told you, 10 years ago, go be a computer coder. That's a job you'll always have.

And Shannon, in five years, they're not going to need any of them. No. And you're going to have a lot of people without jobs. Except like the elite elite. graphic designers. Yeah. Exactly. Like the things people can do with graphic design now?

Some of this is already here. There's already like trucking. There's already trucks driving around making deliveries with no one driving. Yeah. That's already here. We saw a car. Shannon, we saw a driverless car. It was like right next to it.

I mean, I'm saying that. They shall night. No, that's crazy. That's scary. But I've never seen one. I've never seen one in person. it was, I kind of was like, get away from me, driverless car. The fact that we just trust it to park, you know, itself.

So, I mean, there's a whole thing coming that I don't really think America or the world gets, including me, that is, it's coming. Who's next? Michael. Michael. Michael, what's up, Michael? Hey, glad you all are having a good time in Arizona. I have a question for you to talk about maybe. do you think there will ever be a world where the first two rounds of the NCAA are probably given out on a bidding process

where we could get a bidding process between like Nashville and St. Louis, Lexington and Louis. Maybe in Cincinnati. But they already do that. Yeah, but get it in like a rotation. Yeah, I mean, they could, but they're going to, that city's already bid for this. I mean, that's how they pick the cities now is that cities. bid for it. I mean, if you're asking, like, can we get to where there's always one in this area that we could go to? I think the answer to that is yes. Cincinnati did not have the

facilities to host until recently. They've upgraded their arena. So Cincinnati's hosting, I want to say next year, or maybe the year after, Nashville usually doesn't bid because they can make more money on concerts, so that's why they don't do it. You'll notice that the the first and second rounds are often in cities like Providence and Greensboro and Wichita. Because what I understand is the bigger cities, they think they can make more money with other stuff, or they have MBA obligations and hockey obligations that they can't work around. So, sir, that's part of the reason you see why the first and second rounds are often in secondary cities is for that reason. I was just thinking that

Like in North Carolina There's always seems like one in Greensboro Charlotte and Raleigh And Duke never has to leave the stake To play in the first two rounds But the reason they do that is Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh always sell out immediately And

Because there's all those teams there, etc. If you put one in Lexington If Kentucky's not or excuse me, if Louisville's not good, who's going to fill up? Like, they got lucky. They had Louisville and Tennessee here. And I appreciate the call. If Louisville and Tennessee weren't in it, would they have sold out Lexington?

I don't know. I don't think they would have probably, you know. Especially when Louisville doesn't make the second round. I probably heard it too. Yeah. But like, if we're not a one seed the year it's in Louisville, then did it really help Louisville a lot to get it? So, but I do think that's why you see the first round have secondary city.

Because if you're a team with an NBA team or a hockey team, you have a schedule, you have to work around. You got concerts. Where is like, again, where did we go this year? Milwaukee. Well, they have an NBA team, but they don't have a hockey team, so it's probably easier to schedule. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. This KSR.

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They're like, Matt, does this mean? Remember, like, you know, you start to think about the ramifications of this stuff. Mm-hmm. It's wild. We've gone too far. We've already gone too far. Well, if you think we've gone too far, wait until we go. Shout out to the ladies of KSR, by the way, who their membership is growing.

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Very loyal. Very loyal. And so we adore them. All right, I just sent you all. Chat GPT put together. Somebody put in chat GPT, Shannon. Just do an episode of KSR a script, okay? Okay.

Coming back from break. We are going to read the parts. This is what they say we would say. So this is not us saying this. This is what they say we would say. Drew's going to read his. Shannon will read his. Mario, you're going to play Ryan Limit.

Love it. Okay, because he's not here. All right. This is exactly what GPT says the show would be. And I'm going to do it like I would do. All right, welcome back. Techie Sports Radio live, KS Bar and Grill. It's a beautiful day in Lexington.

Ryan, how many chicken wings did you just eat during the break? I stopped counting after 12, Matt. But in my defense, okay, hang on, is that your Ryan Lemon? What is that? Yes. Dorky, Ryan Lemon. Take two.

It'll get better. It'll get better. Oh, you're going to be like AI. I wasn't ready for that. All right, I'll tell you one, let's go back from the top because I didn't, I wasn't expecting that as your Ryan Lemon voice. All right, let's try again. All right, welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, live from KS.

Bar and Grill. It is a beautiful day here in Lexington. Now, Ryan, how many chicken wings did you eat during the break? I'd stop counting after 12, Matt. But in my defense, they were honey barbecue ones, so I was basically eating healthy. Ryan's over here treating honey barbecue like it's kale. All right, let's sound just lucky. I'm sorry.

Well, all right, let's circle back to rides dietary choices later. Let's talk a little Kentucky basketball. Shannon, are you worried about the cat's defense heading into the NCAA tournament? I'm more worried about their free throw shooting, to be honest. You can't win six games in March if you're breaking front ends of one-in-ones. Shannon's right. It's not 1996 anymore. You can't just out-athlete everybody. You've got to hit your free throws. I still say, Reed Shepard's on the court, I feel good. That kid's got ice in his veins, man. Ryan, you'd feel good if Reed opened a gas station and sold you a hot dog. You are irrationally confident about everything he does.

That's because he's a winner, Matt. Okay, so not exactly the best script. I actually thought it was a pretty good script, to be honest with you. I mean, Mario playing Ryan might not have been realistic. But I mean, like, we can try another one when we get Ryan back with us. We could say that, though. That could have been, yeah, a conversation that we had in the past. That's a conversation we could have had.

Me even saying you can't out-athlete anyone, like it's like 1996. I don't know that I would be concerned about Brickin' one-in-one. like free throw I've never talked about free throw shooting being worried about it still I don't know man I'm coming I like that you think that's how right who's up next

Dave Chappelle doing his white guy Yeah that's like all white people To you Is that good go ahead How you doing fellas Good what's up I just down here in sunny Florida And Sarasota and join it

Listen to you guys talk and I want to ask you guys A question what do you guys think about her Do you think we guys have too many big guys in the center position or in a tall? Because I'm kind of worried about not having enough guards. And I'm going to hang up here and listen. And again, we'll see you back in Kentucky in a little bit. But thanks a lot. Bye.

Yeah, you know, I do. They basically traded a guard for a big, right, as the last person. You know, I'm not particularly worried about it. I mean, you've got what? So what are our, what's our guard situation? Jalen Lowe. You've got Aberdeen. You got Jasper Jones.

Jasper Johnson, you got Otega. Colin Chandler. Colin Chandler. Trent. Trent, no. Cam Williams kind of. So I think you're all right. I mean, if you ask me in college basketball, would I, right now, I'd probably want to have a guard instead of another big.

But, you know, maybe they, when Travis left, they just thought it was a chance to give a shot. So I don't know. I mean, they have a lot of debt. depth, but after Brandon Garrison, there's a lot of unknowns at that center position in some way. So maybe take two shots at it. They're deep at the front court. Not worried about that at all. You're fine if you have a healthy season.

If you have any injuries like you did a year ago, I mean, you're doomed, no matter what your roster looks like. But as long as Lowe can play the whole year, I think they'll be fine on the back court. It would be nice to have one more behind them, but that's just Kentucky fans being greedy. We want two at every spot. And we want three. I mean, yeah, if you look at other rosters, there's teams in much worse shape than Kentucky's. Yeah, I mean, and they have, in my opinion, three guys that can play point guard in a pinch, which is Aberdeen Chandler.

And you could even play O.A. You could throw Jasper in the point guard position, too. Yeah. So I mean. I'm critical of Colin Chandler how he played point guard this past season just a little bit. But you got to remember last summer, he didn't practice as a point guard. He barely even practiced at all. If he goes into the year and spends the whole offseason knowing that he's going to have to do it.

little ball handling. I think that can completely change as development. Did you say we have somebody, Shannon? Oh, I thought you did. Okay, 859-280, 2287. I do feel like they probably they have enough. Are you

seen the did you see after we talked about Newark? Did you see what happened at Newark yesterday? Tell us about it. Newark Airport, we talked about all the problems. It turns out a week ago for two minutes the entire system went off the

grid at Newark. And for two minutes, all the air traffic controllers lost control of all planes. Oh, my goodness. The reason it apparently happened is they switched over the system from Long Island,

New York to Philadelphia, because Long Island had two people quit, so they didn't have enough people to do it. So they switched it over to Philadelphia to oversee it. but then Philadelphia apparently now has to do Philadelphia and Newark. And then they didn't have enough people because of the firings a few months ago. So now two weeks ago, they had two minutes where it went off the grid.

And they couldn't see any of the plane. That's terrible. That's a pretty traumatic event. Heck yeah. Apparently some of the people were very upset, threatened to quit because they were like, I can't do this anymore. The FAA who can't lose any more people said, how about you take 45-day leave? They have, but now they have even fewer people.

So now yesterday, 800 flights were canceled into Newark, and they are expecting four to five-hour delays today. So, Shannon, I think this is a story that's not going away, because these people are still on leave. Right, yeah. And now you've got even fewer people there. And apparently Newark, because it switched over, I don't understand the science of it, but because it's switched over from Long Island to Philadelphia,

they had to create a system that you have to work in Philadelphia to understand. So it's not like they can just bring in people from other branches to fill in. This whole thing just sounds like an absolute nightmare. An absolute nightmare. It's chaos. It's absolute chaos. I felt like it didn't. It wasn't chaos.

Like, it feels like everything just started to fall apart on this. Getting worse. And getting worse. And you all are getting on a plane today. Good luck, boys. I'm not going to our suitcases and head to an airport here a few hours. Yeah, but at least you're not going to Newark. We'll get the AI version of you ready just in case.

After our conversation yesterday, I was fine still flying to Newark. But I don't know about after I see, I see that, like, first of all, the delays in and of itself. They said yesterday they had planes that just had to circle the city for two hours, waiting for a chance to land. Well, when there was somebody there that worked at air traffic control that said, I wouldn't fly, it's not safe. That would be the moment I would be out right there. But now you understand why they said it.

Because two weeks ago, they said the whole system just, it disappeared. They had no contact with the planes. The planes had no way to know where the other planes were. They said, thankfully, it was a bright day so you could see everything. but otherwise for two minutes, like what if it had been cloudy? We're talking about AI. It might be time to bring the robots into air traffic control.

I mean, I don't know. Seems like a scary situation. How much is an Uber from Arizona to hear? I have to say, if you were flying into Newark today or tomorrow, wouldn't you be like nervous? Very nervous. I wouldn't. Imagine you want to play.

It'd be interesting to see if, like, people, how many, like, canceled flights and stuff they've had to that, to that, you know? Mario, you're ready to head to the airport? I know we're not going to Newark, but this is a fun conversation. On a different, though. Recent storms may have caused damage to your roof, but don't wait to get your roof inspecting. Get it done now because if you miss a minor repair, you could be thousands in the future. It's bluegrass, roofing, and consulting. Free estimates always, bluegrass roofing and consulting, a family veteran and first responder own company.

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Welcome back, it's Kentucky Sports Radio. I love, no matter what you talk about, there'll be people on the text machine who will say to me, Joe Biden. What is the moment that when bad things happen now, it's not Joe Biden's fault Does that just go forever? Because when good things happen people go

because we got a new president and then when bad things happen they go because of this president when's the moment you get to say it's the other one I'd say we have a few more years to go Yeah the next term

Yeah Because every time Every time something good I don't hear everybody go That's because of Joe Biden But every time something's bad Well that's because of Joe Biden Thanks a lot Obama

That's one, too. You know, Bill Clinton, why didn't you fix the airplane? No. It doesn't matter to me who's fault any of this is. They just got to get it fixed. Like airports, you can't just like, I mean, there's still people who got to fly today, like you. People's lives online. People's lives online.

You can't make mistakes. Two quick things. In Louisville, Shannon, tonight, I'm hearing there's going to be drama. All right, I wish I had a camera there. You know, we had that caller call last week about the Joe Creed. That's right. Yeah, the one to put the pickleball. So the Joe Creason Park, there's a park. It's a beautiful park. It's a beautiful park. And they are going to like take 20 acres of the 65 and make it pickleball, private pickleball, which by the way, at this resort. At this resort, we have here, they have free pickleball. I'm actively turning it down. You haven't even walked to that side of the property. It's right there. And I'm like, nope, not.

going. So tonight they're having a public forum and I'm hearing through the Great Vine, it's going to be wild. Lots of people coming to make their thoughts known. Shannon, I would love to be a fly on the wall at the pickleball forum tonight because the people that are against this, my neighborhood, you know, I didn't know anything about it when that woman called. My neighborhood is now all signs save the Joe Creason Park. So people are taking this up as a cause and Shannon, I bet that open forum tonight will be something else. are passionate about two things. Parks and Pickleball. And you put the two on the other end of the spectrum. And boy, you're going to have a cat fight going on there today. That is true. Forget conservative,

liberal, parks pickleball. That is the way to divide a nation right there. That's going to be funny to see. I'm surprised you're not flying back to be a part of this. Well, I don't have an opinion. Oh, you definitely have an opinion. You hate pickleball. I do. I do, but I don't go to parks. I mean, I like them in theory, but I don't spend a lot of time in them. Plus, they have dogs and children at the parks. Okay. This is why you're conflicted. You could get rid of dogs and children, but then you're looking to pick a ball.

Are there parks where you can't have dogs or children? No. I think that's kind of the point of parks. You know where you can't have dogs and parks? And a pickleball. That's true. So I'm very conflicted. You can present both sides, really.

Really both of you all are the problems. You should show up and be anti-olving. You should make it a parking lot. You're the third party. How about we do this? Compromise. Let's get rid of the park. Let's get rid of the pickleball.

Let's put a skyline. I'm going to make you a yard sign that says making a skyline just for this park debate in your community. So if anybody goes to that, I'd like to hear what happens tonight. I think it would be nice to have it to be a fly on the wall. Second, I learned something yesterday. What is it? Javier. What was the Alvarado?

What jockey won with sovereignty? Was it junior Alvarado? I'm not going to be able to provide this answer. But anyway, the jockey that won, he got fine, Shannon, because he hit the horse sovereignty with his whip one too many times. Which means I didn't know this. In a race, you can only hit, as I read the article, you can only hit the horse in its hind quarters six times.

That's it. And he hit it a seventh time. And it's not a competitive advantage. It's for the safety of the horse. So he was fined $31,000. It was a lot of money, I would think, for those jockeys. But did you know that there was a whip count maximum? Did you know that?

I didn't know that. No, I don't know anything about horse racing to begin with. So I thought you could hit it as much as you want. I never heard that until yesterday that you, that you, I mean, it makes sense to me. I mean, I don't want to abuse, do you know. Yeah, I don't want to abuse. What I don't understand is why six is okay. But like, I can, to me, if it's, yeah, to me, six is a weird number.

It's not, you would think it'd be five. Was there science by this? Did they like? Or maybe just, if it's so bad, just don't. Don't do it like you can't do it at all. Don't do it at all. I think we should get to hit the jockey six times. And that's his punishment.

No, every time you go over. The horse gets to kick you. We give you seven lashes. But I had no idea. That was the rule. Did you all? No, I had no idea. Do you think there's like a conscious decision while they're riding like,

crap? I'm in foul trouble here. I've already done it five times. We're a little behind. I'm just going to take this fine and hit it twice. He lost count. It happens. Yeah.

I don't know. Interesting, just an interesting little tidbit. Who's next? Rod. Rod, go ahead, Ron. Hey, Matt. Enjoying the show, a couple things. Yes, on Kaywood, emphatically.

Okay. You don't think it would be weird, sir? You don't think it would be weird? Well, I don't think so. I just enjoyed Kaywood's cause. I'm 73, so. Yeah. Yeah, that might make a difference,

but I really would like it. And I wanted to tell you thank you for your update on the ponies. Okay. I listened that, and I found it very helpful. I'm going to go back and listen to the podcast again, but I miss every now and then, but thanks for doing that. All right. I appreciate the call. Thank you very much.

What do you say thank you for what? I couldn't tell. I think you said the ponies? Pony's, yes. Like your betting advice, maybe? Oh, okay. Gotcha. All right.

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