KSR - 2025-05-14- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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It is Wednesday, which means Wingsday on a, what a beautiful day outside, isn't it? Yes, beautiful day outside. Beautiful day outside. Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, and Drew Franklin. We will be here all day. Come see us at the KS Bar and Grill. Mario is over there. He's got a new toy he's playing with.

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Clark's Pubbichot Phone line 859-280-2-8027. A-Visem-Ex machine is 772-7-4 in this edition. It's sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J. he'll make them pay. Ryan, I got 14 topics on here, so we may not get to all of them. Last night we did trivia. You were not here. But there were some good questions.

Well, I'm hearing from my sources. They were hard questions last night. Eh, maybe. I mean, probably the average score was down a little, but the winners did very well. I thought I would test you with a couple to start today. Okay, all right. Are you ready? Yeah, I don't know any of them.

This will maybe test your memory a little bit. Oh, okay. Can you name for me, guys, the last eight teams Kentucky has beaten in the NCAA tournament? The last eight teams Kentucky has. beaten in the NCAA tournament let's see how you can let's alternate Ryan you go first Buffalo Buffalo is one of them how about you right or Drew why can I not even think of this season who did Kentucky play this season all right now that's embarrassing I was there that this is really embarrassing we beat a good team Illinois it just took me a second my goodness Shannon like he is

on the show you know and he can't get one of them I mean I was in the building can you get one I'm trying to remember who they beat in the first round this year is a really bad team. All right, I'll skip you. You all are terrible at this. What about you? Providence. Providence.

That's exactly right. Beat them in Greensboro. Now we're up to three. What about before that? Who was before or after that? This is embarrassing. I thought you all would do better than this. Well, you'd be easier to say who they lost to.

I was there. I wrote about it. Well, clearly you didn't pay a lot of attention. Wofford. Nice job, Brian. At least I can't. I believe of all the people on this show, you're the one that actually is remembering things. Who did they play before Illinois?

All right, so let me just tell you, so I don't listen. Watch Drew's like empty head go around. We beat Illinois. Before we beat Illinois, we beat Troy. Troy, the Waffle House team. Yes, then we beat Providence, and then you have to go back to before COVID, right? Which is kind of amazing. Who did we, who did Tyler Hero hit a shot to be?

Houston. Houston. I forgot that one. That's exactly right. And then before that, who did we beat? That have been Shay's team. Shea and Knox? This was not Shea and Knox's team.

This was the team with Tyler Hero, Kelvin Johnson. Man, it just makes me sad that it's been that long. It was Woffered. In the first round, this is the one I think people struggled with. No. Abilene Christian. Oh, I never would have got that one.

And then you remember it in Boise, we beat Buffalo. Do you remember who we opened that up with in Boise? That's the eighth win. Oh. Oh, no, I don't remember. Davidson. Oh, yeah. So Davidson, Buffalo, Abilene, Christian, Wofford, Houston, Providence, and Troy.

That's a good question because a lot of those schools are really... Corey Prescott all eight of them. I'm sure he did. Does he miss many of your Kentucky basketball questions? Very few. He'll miss like one or two answers out of eight. I have to tell you, a little disappointed in your all's answers on that. Ryan, I'll actually give you some credit for Gary Wofford,

but Drew not even remembering Illinois. It took him a little bit. All right, now here's a good question for you. Here's a good question. Okay. The 10 oldest fast food restaurants in America, go back the farthest, that have at least one location in Lexington. Okay?

The 10 oldest fast food restaurants that have at least one location in Lexington. Now, little hint, some of these are a little obscure and actually only have one location. Now, two of the 10 are McDonald's and Burger King. Okay? Two of the tender McDonald's and Burger King. But the others are not necessarily. A couple of them are big, but not of them. So what would be the eight oldest besides McDonald's and Burger King fast food joints in America

that have a location here in Lexington? Arby's. Arby's is not one of them. Wendy's. I just started this by going, these are not necessarily the most prominent, and you all are guessing the most prominent. Yeah. White Castle.

White Castle is a good one. Nice job, Shire. White Castle is the third oldest fast food chain in America. Good guess, Shannon. So about Crystal. Crystal is not one of them. Shannon, I'm going to let you keep going since you got it. What are you got?

Hardys. Hardys? Oh, nice. Not on the list. Wow. What else? Sir pizza. Sir pizza?

How about Pizza Hut? How about Pizza Hut? Pizza Hut was 11. That's very close. Pizza Hut was the first. But it's not on the list because it's it but Pizza Hut was was was close Trying to remember when like I think Taco Bell started then Tockel Bell and those are much more recent. Yeah

Well again subway subway is the most recent like I like I like it like Subway it was afraid yeah you all are terrible. All right I'm gonna go backwards Sonic come on there we're on roller skates. How was that Sonic five minutes ago Sonic? Sonic Dunkin' Donuts I wouldn't have guessed that one. I wouldn't have guessed that one. I wouldn't have guessed. Chick-fil-A, which I wouldn't have guessed.

They're old. They have been around since the 50s. What? No idea. Yes. Dairy Queen. Oh, yeah. Probably should have gotten that one.

KFC's been around since 1930 and started here. Yeah. That's an obvious one. That should have been an obvious one, which we did not do well. White Castle, you got. Now, the two oldest are extremely hard. And only one person got one of these. and one no one in here got the other.

No kidding. A&W, which has existed since 1918. Wow. And then the oldest fast food place in America goes back to 1915, and we have one location, Nathan's Famous. Wow. I don't even know where that is here in town. Isn't it just, I think it's just down the road here, isn't it?

Isn't it on Heronsburg Road? I looked it up. There's one Nathan's Famous. I don't know he had one. ever been to a Nathan's famous? Never. Like you said, I don't even know where it is. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's on Heronsburg Road.

Wow. So there you go. Those are the eight oldest fast food places. So we did. We followed our two neighbors, Dairy Queen and Sonic right here in our own parking lot. All they had to do, Shannon, was look outside the door. And they could have seen two of the eight. I ate it Sonic right before I walked in.

KFC was the most obvious. I'm always disappointed in this morning. AFC you should have got. So, luckily, I think it was good that you all did not play last night. I don't think it necessarily would have been successful. Can I give you one more chance since you really struggled on those? We're nailing it right now. I want you to give me, in all of history, what are the five most watched daytime talk shows

and daytime or syndicated game shows? Daytime talk shows. Take over. The price is right. Price is right. It's number one. Most watch game show of all time. What's number two?

We're going all game shows here. You do the game shows first. Okay, Will of Fortune. Will of Fortune's number three. Family feud. Family feud's number four. Jeopardy. Jeopardy's number two.

Can he go a clean sweep? Come on, Shannon. Oh, who wants to be a millionaire? Well, the problem is that's a night time game show. Well, it used to be daytime. Yeah, but the daytime wasn't watched it nearly is like the night time. Oh, God. One more.

To tell the truth. Hollywood squares. Go back to the 60. Close. That was sixth. Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal. Okay, so now, give me the top five talk shows most watched of all time. Jerry Springer.

Jerry Springer is number three. Oprah. Oprah is number one. Mori is not on the list. Phil Donahue is number six. I was surprised. I thought that would be in the top five. I would have guessed that one.

Sally Jesse Raphael. No, you're missing two four and five. Ellen. Ellen is number number five. four. Ricky Lake. What's two and five. Ricky Lake, it's not on there.

Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz is not on there. Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil is on there. That's number two. Now what's number five? Still on.

The View. The View. Yay. There you go. I'm better at daytime TV that I doesn't watch. Games I attended. That's great. That's KSR in a nutshell.

You are much better at daytime talk shows than the sports we actually cover and the city we live in. We're the view. sports radio we really are you are the joy bay har rides the whoopey goldberg that's right so uh it does kind of calculate what we're all about can't remember who we played in the ncai tournament like a couple months ago just a couple months ago this wasn't that long ago i wrote several stories about those games too i'm embarrassed um all right so then the other big story besides my trivia last night uh mark pope did his press conference yesterday um so i i i There were like three things that stuck out to me.

First of all, he says that the roster is likely complete, but they might add a person here or there, depending on what happens with the settlement. So basically, as I read it is, they have 13 players, but if the settlement here in June allows them to get 15, they might go get one or two more. Yeah, he wouldn't just definitively say they're done with the roster. Like, he was leaving that door open,

and I think it's because of that reason you just said. Yeah, I mean, if the, as part of the, settlement if Congress makes it into legislation, which right now Congress can't even get the budget passed. So I don't know if that's going to happen. But if they do get to legislation, it would include 15 basketball players. So Drew, I do think he was leaving an opening for if that happens. Yeah, he called it there could be some movement. I didn't read that as anyone leaving or anything, but I think it had some guys to store on the end of the bench for on down the road. So we'll see about that. Second, he did give a nice comment about Travis Perry, said it

broke his heart when he left. What did you make of that? Yeah, he said he was devastated when Travis Perry left. And I heard that comment. He really said some nice things, some things that I think we probably all felt the same as Coach Pope did, that we kind of hated to see him go. Well, I was disappointed. Could you get out of bed? It was tough. I had to, you know, put on my number 11 Lion County, Jersey and Mozy on here to Kayas Far. I mean, I was disappointed to see him go, but I didn't know you were devastated by it. Well, I guess the rest of the comments, like, you know, hey, we think he's a really good player. We think he's really going to be a success.

Yeah, so I thought that was nice to see. Still surprised that didn't get said at the time, but it was good now that he was able to say that. And not that anyone thought there was a way Pope pushed him or wanted him or was okay with that. He made it very clear that was 100% on Travis, just wanting to leave and that they wanted to keep him. Yeah, I thought that was nice. And then he made a quote about, let's see, I want to find it because I want to get it right. Well, here was Pope about the overall program. We want to play the hardest schedule.

We want to play the best teams. We want to win the most games. We want to have the best players. We want to have the highest NIL. We want the coolest uniforms. We should be the best at everything. I think if you were to sum up how fans want UK basketball to be, that is about the best summary of a quote you can get.

Would you agree? Yeah, absolutely. When we're saying now, I'm like, yeah, yeah, we want the best schedule. We ain't scared to play anybody. Load them up. Let's go, let's go play. We want to be the coolest team. We want to be the best uniform.

I love to be through that out there, too. We want to look the best. It was interesting because there are some parts of that, Drew, that are different than the last guy. Yeah. We want to have the hardest schedule. Big difference. That's not, I mean, to be fair to count, they didn't play easy schedules, but I don't think he would have said that.

necessarily. We want to win the most games. That's, even though they won a lot, Cal's thing was be ready for March, right? That was his big thing. We want to have the highest NIL. If you remember Cal said, we don't need NIL, right? We can do this on our own. And we wore the same uniform for way too long. With all our throwbacks, it took until just a couple years ago to finally wear any of them. So I actually just thought that was very interesting. He kind of, you know, what Cal used to say about the gold standard, Mark Pope is articulating a gold standard that basically says,

I don't care what it is in college basketball, we want to be the best at it. Yeah, that one really took off. I mean, Pope spoke for over 30 minutes yesterday. We have content on top of content, on top of content for the website, but that one is the one that got the most attention. I think Mario made a graphic that went viral. That one got the fans fired up saying we just want to be the best at absolutely everything. there's been people criticizing Kentucky for spending too much money.

Pope's like, no, we want to have the most money. We want to be the best of the best of the best. Yeah, I mean, you want to have the most. It's like the Dodgers owner in baseball. They're like, you're spending way more than everybody else, and he goes, because we want to win. I mean, I think that's a similar view here. It did resonate with fans, and it got me excited.

Just that one quote right there, like, man, this is the guy. This is why he's here. This is why we love our coach. Yeah. So, you know, I think he seemed like he handed the press conference well. I did have a listener right in. He said the word beautiful 16 times. I might actually go over on that.

He always says it a lot. We were halfway through the press conference, and I text our group chat, like, this is going to be an all-time record. Do we need to do something, Shannon, about the beautifuls? Do we need to, like, have a buzzer? Because it's a lot. And special.

There was probably 30 specials yesterday. Everybody's got their own, like, crutch words they use in life. Is there any word we say as much as beautiful? Like if you, I mean, I mean, beautiful is also a weird, like, I'm trying to think how many times do I say beautiful in a week? I'm not sure I ever say beautiful. I think you may have said it this morning. He said it's a beautiful day. Okay.

Yeah, if I'm going to say beautiful, I would probably say it in the context of day or maybe woman. I'm not like Travis Perry is beautiful. Like, I don't usually say that. Trent Noah has a beautiful body. Yeah, I would, I don't think I would say Trit Noah has a beautiful body. But Mark Pope does. And everything is special. At some point, one of these players aren't going to be special.

So I feel like we're kind of the boy crying wolf here with those special. That someone's not special. 859-280, 2287. We are here at KS bar. Beautiful KS Bar and Grill. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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Hot dogs. Hot dogs. I get these famous hot dogs. Are they good? I never had them. Like any other hot dogs. I've had them. I've had them up in, uh, I was in New York City at some, I think, uh, was that the

Coney Island? Yeah, thank you. That's the name. I couldn't think of it. Coney Island. Yes. That's the famous hot dog eating content. Yeah.

I didn't know they, first of all, I didn't know they had a location here. Uh, secondly, I've never. never had them. So, but it is the oldest fast food place. So explain to me. The location in Lexington is Frisch's big boy? Well, they said, it says it's in Hamburg. I said Herdsburg Road. It says it's in Hamburg. I guess it's one of those ghost kitchens. Do you know about what ghost kitchens? You guys are explaining it to me. I'm not really... There are restaurants here in town that sell food on DoorDash for restaurants that are not them. So it's like, do you know what Mr. Beast burgers are? I've never had one, but I think I know what you're talking about. I think kids like them, right?

Because it's Mr. Beast guy. Correct. But there's not a Mr. Beast restaurant. They used to sell them out of this Frisch's big boy right over here before it closed. The one on Harrisburg Road. And I think it kept it up open for a long time. So when you go, if you go on DoorDash and you order, there are some places you can order that actually don't have a physical location in Lexington, but a kitchen at a different restaurant sells it. So presumably like, you know, we could be an in-and-out burger or something if there isn't one i see there isn't one here so the nathan's hot dog stand in lexington basically is just door d'clock out of christian big boy location but apparently people are telling me it's the it's the it's the ghost place of frisches it's like you can't actually they go to sam's club and get the

nathan's hot dog pack because they sell up there and then they just serve it out of big boy's kitchen don't tell you where it's coming um yeah i i had no idea it's pretty common uh i've heard especially like in towns like Lexington they're there everywhere. One person writes Matt, you guys say dudes way too much. You say dudes as much as they say beautiful.

I don't think that's true. When I say dudes? We got some dudes. Yeah, I'll say we need dudes, but I don't, I mean, I don't think I say it about every, I don't think every day. I'm like, some dudes. I'm like, we're a deed, cowbunga dudes.

Only when you say my name is probably the only time. Well, that's true. Shannon the dude. I guess we do say that. Maybe they don't know that's Shannon's nickname, and he just thinks you're addressing Shannon as the dude. One person writes, Matt, you say you appreciate the call a lot. That's fair. Yeah.

That's fair. Another person says, Matt, is it still the summer of Ellie? No. It is the melancholy spring of Ellie. Although he did it at a home run last night that was big. But the Reds, I mean, they stink so bad. Like, they're just terrible. What are they lost, like seven out of eight, eight out of nine, something like that?

They're 20 out of 20. Is that what it is? And they're playing the White Sox, who I didn't even know, were still allowed to have a team, and they lost last night. Tonight they're doing the Pete Rose thing, which gets me to the second point before I go to the phones.

Pete Rose, the Major League Baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred says that Pete Rose is now eligible for the Hall of Fame. A lot of people are upset, said, why'd you wait until he died? Manfred said, basically, it's a lifetime ban

when your life ends that it goes away, I think that's probably complete nonsense since Shulis Joe Jackson's been dead for 60 years and they just now let him in yesterday or let him be eligible yesterday. I know this is important to you and Shannon specifically, so do you want to rant about Pete Rose? Well, I'm just like you and everybody else. It's ridiculous to have to wait until somebody to pass for an honor and give him Schlaher. I'm just telling you that.

I think it's ridiculous. He's using that as an excuse, but go ahead. Yeah. The man, when he was a player, no indication that he cheated at all. All the things that happened when he was a manager. So I always felt like why couldn't he be enshrined in Cooperstown just as a player and you can put an asterisk on the plaque or whatever you want to, but it just makes no sense that the leading hit guy, the leading home run guy,

one of the best pictures of our generation are all not in the Hall of Fame for as a player. I ran through about this on the pre-show for two segments. But my thing is, okay, if you're going to say he's eligible now, why is it okay now that he bet on baseball? You know what I'm saying? Like if you want to stay consistent with that, he should never be allowed in the Hall of Fame. You don't buy the it's a lifetime ban and he's not alive anymore.

No, why is it okay now to put him in now that he's passed? I think it's a slap to Pete Rose's face to do this eight months after the guy dies. You could have given him some flowers while he was alive. It clearly meant a lot to him to be into the Baseball Hall of Fame and you wait eight months after he dies and says now he's good to do. Well, I thought, I've always. thought these, I've said for a long time, I think these dudes should be in the Hall of Fame. It's not a morality contest, right?

It's whether or not you're good at baseball. But Barry Bond should be in, Pete Rhodes should be in, Shulis Joe Jackson should be in, Kurt chilling, you just, Roger Clemens, you name the person. With that said, he did do the number one thing you can't do. And there is a sense that people act like Pete Rose is the only one that's been punished for this. They've to ban like three NBA players for life just recently. Just recently.

So I don't mind the ban for life. I do sort of agree with Shannon, though, like to wait until eight months after he dies and then do it. Yeah, he should never be in then if you believe that. Yeah, I'm okay. I could understand if you change your policy, Drew, and say we're not going to ban anybody. They might be banned from baseball, but not from the Hall of Fame. But to do the whole well, his life's over now so now you can do it. to me seems a little lame.

I think a lot of people even predicted this when Pete Rose died. It's like now what? He'll finally change it now that he's gone. And here it didn't even take a full year for them to change it and make him eligible. Now we've got to see if they'll actually vote them in. Yeah, well, I don't think they'll vote him. Yeah, I don't think the riders will be the worst. Yeah, they're not going to, I mean, they still haven't voted bonds in.

And they still haven't voted Clemens in. Baseball riders hold themselves to a pretty high standard. Yeah, I mean, so it's, the baseball Hall of Fame acts like it's trying to elect integrity of the game. Get out of here with that crab integrity of the game. And there's a lot of people in there you know that did a lot of bad things. Oh, yeah. So in the committee or in the Hall of Fame?

I think part of it was they just didn't like Pete Rose. Peerose apparently was a very hard person to get along with. And I think they didn't want to give him the satisfaction of winning. Still one of the greatest. Oh, no question. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports.

Sent it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. So tonight they're doing a Pete Rose ceremony at the Reds. I think it's the first, maybe the second time they've done something like that. And they're giving everybody a jersey if you go. I'm not going. But I'm going to probably sell the tickets this afternoon. Hopefully get a premium on them as they get.

We'll see what happened. Yeah, we were talking during the break. I thought I was pretty generous of the Reds. It's kind of a cool thing to give everybody a jersey to come to the game. It gets people to come to the game. It'll be packed. Yeah, I mean. Don't be fine those $20.

or not just. It's a Wednesday game against the White Sox. They didn't put it for Friday night versus the Yankees. They put it Wednesday versus the White Sox. They'll make it back on pretzels and beer real quick. Yeah, I think it makes sense. What person writes, Matt, you can't compare Rose's situation to Bonds and Clemens. Rose never cheated

while playing, unlike the steroid guys. I feel like I say this all the time. The steroid guys, it wasn't illegal when they did it. Yeah. Like they're banning dudes for stuff. They didn't test for it. I don't know how you can get, I don't, I mean, clearly, Bonds was on steroids. So was Clemens. So were probably a lot of guys. First of all, there are dudes that were on steroids who are in the Hall of Fame. But the other thing is, it wasn't illegal. They didn't test for it. So how are you going to get mad? I mean,

it may have been technically illegal, but they did not test for it. So what do you want? I mean, they, you know, throwing spitballs was illegal, but it was, what is it? You ain't illegal unless you get caught. They never, they never found a test of these guys of it being served. I don't know how you can ban somebody when they never even were found guilty. Even if we know they did it, in America, you still got to find them guilty, I would think, Drew. You can probably go back to the beginning of time in baseball and someone was doing something to get an advantage that they weren't supposed to do, and the Hall of Fame is probably full of those people. A ton of them. And then Chulis-Jose Jackson, they let him in yesterday too. It's been 60 years since he's been dead.

And I can't believe I'm saying this. A lot of you all will be shocked. I'm saying this. Kurt Schilling's the worst. Kurt Schilling is banned just for being a jerk. And just for being like a MAGA guy online. And again, I think Kurt Schilling is a jerk. And I think his political commentary is awful.

But it has nothing to do with whether or not you're in the Hall of Fame, in my opinion. Like it shouldn't. Just look at the stats in the record and go off that. That should have nothing to do with it. Yeah, the character part, once you get into that, probably nobody belongs in the Hall of Fame if you're going to go by that. It's not the nice guy, Hall of Fame. It's not the, you know, who do you want to date your daughter, Hall of Fame? Well, you know, the guys, Bonds and McGuire and Sosa, they hit all the home runs, they're on steroids probably. But you know what? So were the pitchers who were throwing the baseball.

They were still able to hit the ball. Roger Clemens was double the size when we finished. What's crazy about Bonds and Clemens is they were both really good when they were young and skinny. Yes. They both were awesome They would have been in the Hall of Fame before that Can they put them in just before they took the steroids Count that era?

Bond just used their early pictures That story Did we talk about this? I don't know if we did I saw a video Shannon you'll appreciate this as a Braves fan Maddox Glaven

Smolts and Pedro Martinez Okay those four For the best pitchers Maybe for our Hall of Famers They pitch to Tony Gwyn and Barry Bonds in the course of their career,

I want to say, let's say, 750 times, those two guys. Yeah. Over the course of the 750 times, combined those four pitchers, struck those two guys out four times. Wow. Insane. I know Tony Gwynn never struck out. Is that not amazing?

That's insane. Tony Gwyn was one, and Barry Bonds was three. Unbelievable. The Tony Gwynn strikeout stats by them. selves are nuts. There's a guy this year that like through two months had more than Gwen had his entire career. It's unbelievable. All right, who's up first? Ben.

Ben. Go ahead, Ben. Morning, guys. So we were talking yesterday about like the pressure of having Kentucky boys come be on the basketball team. I'm kind of the belief now that maybe it's just best we don't recruit Kentucky players just because like there's just too much pressure

and like I feel bad for whatever with Perry and all that. That's just my thought. I've been thinking about the last couple hours. It's an interesting question. All right. So I appreciate the call. Do you think there's always been this belief amongst our fan base to some extent we should have these Kentucky guys.

Do you think there's an argument of the opposite that we need to be careful recruiting those guys because it puts so much pressure on them and then so much pressure on the coaching staff? Maybe at a certain time. By the way, that's what Cal thought. That's exactly what Cal thought. He got a little tired of the dump play Dante Alish. Yes, definitely. But go ahead. I think there are times where, yeah,

deaf maybe it kind of factors in, but like right now, Jasper Johnson is going to be a superstar. Malachi Marino, it was recruited by everybody. Kentucky's producing better-level talent now. Trent Noah ended up being a great player last year. So I think you can't overlook these guys now.

Is there, though, they better be like, because nobody's going to argue you shouldn't have gotten Jasper Johnson or Malackeye. Right. Is there an argument, though, if you're going to give a reach for somebody, do you give a re- I've always taken the belief if you're going to take the 150th ranked player then take the 160th and he's from Kentucky but do you is there any possibility that that's the

opposite I still believe you should get them if they if they're worth it but I mean it's obvious there's a pressure that's not on everyone else and a pressure to play them and the fans want and more I mean they just have to know that when they sign up that it's coming because there's nothing you can do about it but I wouldn't skip over a guy just because that exists It'll be interesting with these two guys Because Travis Perry and Trent Noah I think Noah will play his whole career here Just a prediction I could end up being wrong about that

But I think he will But I also think Trent Noah knew What was going to happen when he got here Right? I think he knew he was the 13th man When he signed Travis Perry signed with Cal He was at the Pope Press conference He started some games

And I do think that maybe changed all of those things, his expectations a little bit. I think so. Like I said yesterday, I wish Travis would have a do-over because he was just forced to play when he maybe wasn't ready yet. I still think he could be a really good player down the road. He just wasn't ready to play SEC guards, point guard in the SEC last year. Especially starting minutes. Yeah, right. He probably wasn't.

Who's up next? Brennan. Brennan. Go ahead, Brennan. Hey, I just had a few questions about the revenue-sharing court case that's, that they're deciding right now. Okay. One, could, what happens to all the NIL agreements once they finally decide that?

Do all of those go away? Right now, all the NIL agreements as of this moment are one-year agreements, right? So like, they just go away because they're over. I think what's going to happen in the future is that some of that's going to change. And some of these agreements are going to be longer, and it'll be. a little different. But like if you're asking, are there agreements that occur right now that'll be void? I do, I think the answer to that is no. These schools have known this is coming. I think they've signed agreements to make sure that they will work for the coming year.

Gotcha. Okay. And second, once they do decide, once that case is over, could it be appealed, you know, further, you know, drawing this whole thing out? No, probably not. because this is what's called a class action lawsuit, and they are in the settlement proceedings, right? So both parties agree this is what they want. They just have to get the judge to approve it. So if the judge approves it, there's nobody to appeal it because both sides agree. The issue is, again, law is complicated and nerdy, but the issue is this. This lawsuit is going to settle the claims for everyone that has ever played games.

college basketball, football in the past. And the NCAA wants this to become the rules for the future. But what is almost certain to happen is the next year of players, somebody's going to sue and say, yeah, you may want that, but I wasn't part of that settlement. So it doesn't apply to me. And they're probably going to be right, which is why Congress has to pass the legislation. Because if Congress doesn't pass the legislation, and that's why. I don't really believe in Trump's commission.

It's not going to be legal without congressional legislation, and that's why you see Tommy Tuberville and these guys, Ted Cruz, Corey Booker, trying to get something passed, and they need to get it passed before recruiting starts for real in the late summer and fall, and we'll see, sir, whether or not it happens. Gotcha, okay, thanks. Does that make sense? No, I can tell by your face.

It doesn't make sense. When he takes a deep breath like that, that means he had no idea what I was talking. First of all, actually, I know exactly what that deep breath did. You tuned out. I'm trying to understand it. It's just way complicated. I'm going to try real easy. All right.

There have been a lot. Dante played football back in the day. He did. He didn't get any money. He didn't get any money. This lawsuit goes back for all that money. Actually, Dante won't get any because he's so old. He wasn't even in the class.

but this takes all the players that were exploited in the past. If the judge agrees to this settlement, they'll get a check for X amount of money and then they're done. Done. Going forward, the NCAA is saying, we're going to apply these rules going forward. But there's going to be some player that says that's not legal. And they're going to sue. And in my humble legal opinion, they're going to win. And so the NCAA knows that.

And so they're trying to get Congress to pass a law that says, hey, these parameters we agreed to, let's make that the law going forward. And I think it's probably going to happen, but it needs to happen quickly, and nothing in Congress happens quickly. So, like, do all these programs to sign contracts, like some sort of legal binding? They already do. It's just some of them don't get enforced. But what's going to happen is the university has $22 million. I'm recruiting Mario. I'm going to say Mario out of this $22 million, I'm giving you $500,000.

You at the University of Kentucky are going to sign a deal with this LLC we just created that Mitch and them created a couple weeks ago. And it says if you play here for two years, I'll give you $500,000 a year. It'll just be a contract. You'll be an independent contractor like my wrestlers are in OVW. And then that's that. And then we'll go to somebody else. but there'll be a cap of $22 million.

Now, if KS. Barr wants to sign Mario to a $100,000 deal, I'm still allowed to do that. But under the new rules, what I can't do, in theory, is say, Mario, if you are in high school and come to Kentucky, KS Bar will give you $100,000. That now will be banned, in theory. Whether or not that will be enforced, we'll have to wait and see. I have very little faith if that gets enforced. I think they'll be able to double-dip. With the money from the university out of the $22 million, and then businesses will still be paying way too much.

I think a lot of people agree with you about that, but that's the idea. Yeah. So we'll see what happened. Shady rays, if you need sunglasses to help not only keep the sun out of your eyes, but help you look fashionable. How about Shady Ray? How about Shady Ray?

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You know, I'm the bird whisperer on the show. I usually corral them, get them outside. I feel like we've got an army in there today on the patio. Can I play you something exciting? I'm ready to hear. I hope this translates on the radio if not watch the video. Okay, so you know I love the environments of European soccer. Yes, you do.

Okay, and you know they take teams and they get promoted and relegated. They go up and they go down. Right now in Britain, they're playing the games that decide who gets to go up. Okay. Sunder, sir, sir, keep it down just a minute. If you're going to see, just, okay. Sunderland was playing Coventry City. Okay.

Sunderland plays in the stadium of light. I've been to the stadium of light. It is, when it's lit up, it is beautiful. It's a beautiful stadium. Right, Mark Holmes is beautiful. It is a stadium of light. Is it special? I'm not going to say that, but it's very nice.

They were playing yesterday. It is tied two-two. The winner moves on. There are 30 seconds left. Guy kicks a corner kick. They score a goal. Sunderland is now going to the finals to get to move up. This was the scene yesterday, Ryan, at the Stadium of Light.

Okay. Lefeith takes the corner. The two legs. Unbelievable. How do you love that? I love it. At the Stadium of Light. Love every second of that.

He just screamed. That's all he did. Scream like his hair was on fire. Oh, it was awesome. I have no idea who either one of those teams are, but I loved every second of that. That was in fantastic. In fantastic, that's right.

It was the stadium of what? You need to see the video. You want to talk about a stadium losing their minds. I mean, Shannon, you see the video there. People are going insane. All the players take their shirts off. I mean, people are losing their minds. That's what I like about sports.

I would have loved to last night. have been to the stadium lights. I saw ESPN had it as number two play in the top 10 yesterday as well. American commentary doesn't have enough high-pitched screaming. We've got some great, great, great commentators. I like a good Mike Breen bang in the NBA, but we need some people that just absolutely lose their minds when things happens in games. I love hearing that European soccer. I don't even know what they said. They were just squealing. Fake Rock Hapner said that was screaming leech. That definitely was screaming leech. Okay. One other thing. then we're going to go to a little basketball.

Some good news for some guys in the draft for UK. There's a TikTok right now that's going viral. Who would win in a fight? A hundred British people or 100 Americans. Since we're talking about the Stadium of Light, put 100 Americans or 100 British into a fist fight. Who would win? I thought too much about this for a grown man.

Who do you think would win? Picking the Americans, of course. Why? Our colors don't run. That's a stupid answer. But do you have any reason beyond America? I think our American guys can kind of be a little more sneaky and cheat and win in a fight, a fist fight. Sneaky and cheat?

Yes. Okay. Yeah. It's a great answer. Really national pride, too. We cheat and are sneaky more. What about you? You know, we already won a good war against them.

That's true. We have to lead the series. We're up one-0 in the series. Actually, we're up two-oh. War of 1812. I think we're up 2-0. For that reason, I think I'm going the other way. I think the pressure is on there.

We come in with an arrogance. You know we wear those shirts, world champs, and all that. We think we're the best at everything. And then in their sports, their fans are fighting in the crowd. I feel like they fight a lot there. So I think we lose game three. In this segment, I'm betting against us. It's a must-win situation when you're down 2-0.

That's right. It's my exact point. Shannon, what about you? Yeah, I was going to say the same thing about the war. I mean, I feel like we already had this fight. We won, so we win again, I think. Okay, so you're like, why not? Yeah, we had never lost.

So here's the thing. The key part of this is fist fight. They don't have guns, right? They're called, they don't have guns. If it's a gun fight, nobody's beaten America in a gun fight. We are gun-rific. But I don't know how many people have been to Britain and seen how many fist fights they have.

They fight all the time. It's like Clay County. Everybody fights, you know. Now, if it's 100 Appalachian, I'm taking America. Money on that. Okay, I'm taking a mayor. You give me 100 people from Clay County,

Brits don't stand a chance. Winner. But you just take random Americans and random Brits. They fight more. They go to pubs, part of the culture. They got a lot of rowdies. They're a lot more working class, most of them, than a lot of America is.

So you just take 100 random people. I'm taking the British. But you take 100 Appalachians. Yeah. that's a different situation. So which one you're going with? I'm taking 100 British over 100 random Americans. But if I get to pick the Americans and I get to pick the British, then I'm taking the Americans.

If it's like a symbol your Avengers team of Americans? Yes. Yeah, okay. If I get to pick, you know, if I get to pick like 20 people from Appalachia, 20 people from the city. You get a region where they do lotteries. Right. Like you give me 20 people from New York. You give me 20 people from the deep south

That's a different situation But you know I get 20 people from out here in the streets of Lexington And they're going up against people from Liverpool Forget it we got no chance Silicon Valley we're in trouble We're out there Are you kidding me? We're done

If I get what Ben Shapiro I mean I got no chance If I get like it come on But you give me 100 people from Clay County I'll take us All day long That's right 859-280 2287 We're going to take a break

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