KSR - 2025-05-14- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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For your home loan needs, Stockton.com and click Get Started. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KS Bar and Grill. Wings Day, Dollar Wings all day and night. Come on out and have lunch or dinner. This guy right here, he came in, but smile on his face, sit down to eat, and gave me the great news.

He was like, your left rear tires flap. And I was thought, well, I mean, he doesn't know what he's talking about. I mean, he's. He doesn't know tires. I'm a tire expert. And then I went outside in my left rear tires flap. I don't know how that happened. Well, if you need a segment off to go put the spare on, Drew and I can handle it.

We'll narrate it. You know, I mean, I'm pretty good at that, but like I may let other people practice on it. Michelle right there has got a pump right across the street. Yeah, I have a couple. You got your job? right? Yeah, I mean, I have like three jacks. Three jacks.

Wow. You only need one. The hard part would be. In case I see people on the side of the road, Shannon, I need to help. Yeah. I'm going to put somebody's car up on blocks with three jacks. The hard part would be cleaning out the back to get to the spare tire and the jack. All the stuff in the back of your car.

So that wasn't really, that wasn't really good news. That stinks. That stinks. But thank you for telling me that, sir. You get $2 wings today. I threw for out the rest of the day. 859, 280, 2287. Kobe Brea.

Kobe Brea opened some eyes there at the NBA Combine. He shot 57% on all shots, which is like 6th or 7th best of all the players. But more importantly, I saw kind of getting some good buzz, seen some mock drafts where he's risen to the top of the second round. Instead of at the bottom, Kobe Brea might get drafted, Drew. That's kind of exciting, isn't it? I think at this point I'd be surprised if he's not drafted if we're to believe all these mock drafts, once the order was set two nights ago, every publication there is put one out yesterday,

and I think they all consider him somewhere in the second round, some in the back of the second round, but some as high as right away in the second, so I'm expecting it when the draft gets here. And he measured really well. A lot of these guys, you see what they have in their college media guys, and they get to the combine, it's like four-inch difference. I think he was right at six-seven. It was a good size for him. And one of those two dudes at Rutgers, I get him confused.

But one of the two. Ace Bailey, he was listed by Rutgers at 6-10, and then they measured him. He was 6-7 and a half, which that'll hurt you. He's probably now not going to be a top three pick because of his measurements. Kobe Bray was 6'5 and 3 quarters barefoot. I don't know why they do barefoot, but put some shoes on him, and that's right around 6-7. It's weird because you don't play barefoot. Exactly.

But he's getting great reviews from the Combine. So that's good, though. It's awesome because we saw him become a better player as the season went on. He's just a spot-up shooter to start with. By the time the season in that he was creating his own shot, he was making the moves to get open so he can get a shot off, he's earned that right to play in the NBA. He's made himself an NBA player.

Yeah, do you think he will become any, like, will he play in the NBA? I mean, his defense, his defense was an issue here, so it's hard to imagine how it's not in the NBA, but what do you think? I think somebody will store him on the bench and use them, I mean, hopefully that defense improved. It got a lot better at the very end of the year. By tournament time, he was defending. pretty well, but it still has ways to go to get a lot of minutes.

But I do think he'll be wearing a uniform and getting minutes sparingly somewhere just because how he shoots so well. He's a perfect example of how it is so hard for a lot of college fans to project the NBA. Because if you were looking at Kentucky's team last year and you were saying, okay, who are the best players? You probably would have ranked him like fifth or sixth. You know, you would have said Otega, you know, Jackson Robinson, Lamont Butler, Amari Williams,

maybe even Andrew Carr before he got hurt. But the NBA is looking for one specific set of skill sets. And 15 years ago, those skill sets were athleticism. And that still matters. But now shooting is a lot more of what that skill set is, and he has it more consistently than those other guys. There's no doubt about it. It's a shooters league, and that's one thing he can do well.

And I've learned over the years, I've been burned a couple times saying that guys will never play in the NBA. Like I remember I said, Winnie and Gabriel will never play in the NBA. Jared Vanderbilt. These guys surprise me, and he can do the thing that NBA coaches want done, and that shoot the basketball. It happens, I think, a lot more now in the NBA that they see guys and they are putting you into a slot. Unless you're a superstar, you know, unless you're Anthony Edwards or whatever, they're saying, okay, I need a big who can do this. I need a wing who can shoot. I need a three and D guy, right?

I need a point guard who can do this. And if you can do that, they'd rather have that than say a Jackson Robinson who can do a lot of things well, but isn't necessarily a superstar at anything. And three-pointing shooting is such a priority now. Like the guys Ryan mentioned nothing against the past coach, but you know some guys just weren't allowed to shoot threes here. And then in one summer before they get the NBA, they prove they have a shot. Like guys like Julius Randall just knocking down. three is consistently. I mean, he's a big example. He's a superstar. But anyone that can make a

three has a shot in the NBA. Yeah, and then Boogie Flan from Arkansas, who at one point probably would have been the point guard, but would have been the point guard here at Kentucky. He is withdrawing from the draft. He's a perfect example of how NIL has changed college sports. This is a dude who certainly would have been in the draft, but he's withdrawing, even though he could have still been a first-round pick because there's more money for him. in college. Most people think he's going to go to Florida and be the point guard there. Surprised? Are you surprised Cal's going to lose a point guard? He's actually slipped really far. Cal even put out a tweet a few weeks ago about a

first round pick. I think everyone had him as a second. And I saw if a dude doesn't go first round, this will be Cal's first year, not having a first rounder since like 2007. Really? Yeah. So all the pressures on a do who's also projected fringe kind of more so second round right now. But with Fland, I'm really surprised that didn't work out, especially when he got hurt. A lot of us thought he was kind of just getting ready for the NBA. I was going to say, do you think if he hadn't got hurt, he would have been a first-round pick?

Did the injury kind of derail it? I don't think he was playing great. I mean, you know, not to pick on cow, but I want you to think about the slippage in point guards from Cal, let's even go back to Memphis through the last few years. Let's just relate who the Calipari point guards have been in the last few years. Started with Derek Rose,

Tyreek Evans, John Wall, Brandon Knight, Marcus Teague, Andrew Harrison, Tyler Ullis, Deeran Fox, Shea Gilges Alexander,

right? Go through the, that list. Now let's look at what the post-COVID point guards were. Devin Askew, Severe Wheeler, DJ Wagner, and now Boogie Flynn. That's a massive drop-off. And if you want to talk about the drop-off in Cal as a coach, is that the explanation, Drew, that you started with these guys who were able to dominate, have four?

pro careers and then you end with guys who are not first round picks and might not even play in the league. Especially when he's so, you know, so much of giving him the dribble drive, you know, go and attack and then you end up with Devin Hescuon who picks up his dribble at half court and Severe Wheeler who couldn't really do it that well. I think years from now, when we look back at Cal's career, you will have to talk about pre-COVID and post-COVID. I don't know what happened, but I've seen a lot of night and day difference in him, the talent he's using. It could also just be with portal and LIL. It might not just be the COVID year, but it

has been a completely different story around him since that 2019, 2020 season. And he also went, I mean, in that group of post-COVID guys, there are some dudes who were pretty good that he wouldn't let play point guard. So I was going to say. Case of Wallace, Taita Washington, even Davian

Mints, he wouldn't, John L. Davis, who played a little point guard at Florida Atlantic and then he didn't let him play And Rob should have been the starter. Let's go ahead and say it. Rob could have been the one on the list, but he didn't do it. So think about what that list is of Devin Askew, Severe Wheeler, D.J. Wagner, and Boogie Flan. And what that list could have been, which would have been Davian Mintz, Taita, Washington,

Kaysen Wallace, Rob Dillingham. That's a different feel. That's a different list. Yeah, 100%. I got to be honest, though. I really thought DJ was going to be that guy. We talked about him for years until he got here. I thought he was going to be in that same conversation as the great Cal point guard.

It just didn't happen. It just didn't happen. Who's up next, Shannon? Bradley. Bradley, go ahead, Bradley. Hey, Matt. I just had a quick question for you. For the longest time, you always said that we shouldn't choose coaches just because they have a connection to the university.

be, but now that we have Pope, has that tune changed, or did we just get lucky with Pope? No, I still feel the same way. I mean, again, let's go back to when Pope was hired. If you look at who the candidates were, I think he was equally as qualified as the candidates that we were down to at the time. So I think my opinion over the years has been if it's a tie, you could give it to the Kentucky guy, but if it is not a tie, you pick the best coach. I think when you get down to the final two candidates were Shaka Smart and Mark Pope,

then to me it's a tie and you take Mark Pope. But if the university had allowed them to hire Bruce Pearl or Nate Oates, I think you would have hired Bruce Pearl or Nate Oates, and I think even Mark Pope would have probably understood that. But that's not how it played out. So my position is still the same. I mean, take John Shire at Duke, doing a great job recruiting, should have won a national championship last year.

Mike Shoshchowski probably wins a national championship with that group last year. Duke hired a dude who had never coached before. Carolina hired Hubert Davis, who had never coached before. I think when you got a job like that, you get the best dude you can get, and then that's that. Yeah, and Pope maybe. Go ahead, sir. Sorry, so do you think that Pope still would have been one of the top candidates,

even if he hadn't played at UK? Yeah, maybe. I mean, it depends. Again, once the university made the decision that they were not going to hire Nate Oates, Bruce Pearl, Chris Beard, or Sean Miller, which that decision was made. You can argue whether it should have been or not,

but that decision was made by the higher-ups in the university. Then Mark Pope, to me, was just as qualified as everybody else. I mean, who's the coach at Louisville right now? Pat Kelsey. Did he do a good job? Did you know who he was before he got the Louisville job? Probably not. Look at the coach at Michigan, Dusty May.

How many people knew who he was? Probably not many. So I think it's a different era of hiring coaches. You can't just go steal the big name. And yes, I think I appreciate the call. If you look at who was available and who Kentucky was allowed to hire, Mark Pope was as qualified as in him. I haven't wrote a list before he even got hired.

I had him 10th, but like all the way through six or seven were crossed off because some they wouldn't talk to. Some had turned him down. I think I had Todd Golden ahead of him. I ended up that looking like pretty good. But once Pope had that one year at BYU before he hired him, that put him on the list because it was their first year in the Big 12. I think they finished fourth. Before that, he didn't really have the resume. But that one season, I think, really took him up to the next tier of coaches.

But look at Todd Gold. He came from San Francisco, right? Nate Oates came from Buffalo. I mean, those dudes came from small schools. Mark Pope was at BYU and had some success. He's as qualified as those dudes were before they took their jobs. Yeah, I think I was through with dudes. I did say dudes twice.

A lot of dudes. All right. They're beautiful dudes. I think it's a fair question the guy asked if you take away Mark Pope's UK basketball career, would he have been considered as a head coach? and I think Drew hit it. The one year, what he was able to do turning around, BYU made them a power, I think,

kind of opened some eyes in the coaching world. They lost the tournament game to Duquesne or whatever was, but that was their first year in the Big 12, and he actually had a great season all things considered. I think that put him on a lot of lists. I do too. I mean, you're right. To be fair, would he have been hired if he hadn't gone to Kentucky?

Probably not. But would you rather have Shaka Smart? Because that's who it would have been. I didn't really want him anyway. I think that's who, let's say Mark Pope didn't exist. Chaka smart's the coach here. Is that better? Not for me.

No, not really. I mean, Chaka's good, but he failed at Texas. Yeah. So would you have wanted to try it here? You know, I'm not sure. Hey, Wildcat fans, Club Blue is the official in IL fundraising partner in the University of Kentucky, and they're excited to introduce Club Blue Kids. Remember this is for your kid fans.

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Mario can film this. We'll do it. I've had to do it, too. I mean, if you needed to go somewhere, I could do it. No, that's fine. Look at this. This guy. That's very nice.

That's why as hard a time as I give you, you're like the nicest too. Well, we're all band of brothers. We've got to reach out and help each other when they need some help. You should buy some of that catfish for lunch to fix your flight. Yeah. Banda brothers, just not in an actual war. Yeah. I don't, I'm not sure any of us would really be good in an actual war.

What do you think would be if you were in the trenches in World War I of the six of us, who would you want the most? combination of all the skills needed i'd say none of us are coming home but i would well shannon has a wrestling championship belt that's not yeah and i'm from bullet county i can shoot i can shoot and he's from bullet county yeah can you can you you can shoot a gun yeah but like good well yes i can't shoot he's first i'm certainly last i i don't i can't shoot a gun i'm a big target uh uh i probably mouth off to the other side. Yeah, you would get it started.

You'd be the reason we'd all die. You would walk out into the field and try to talk first. I'd be like, look, Germans. My man, my man. What are you doing? Like, why are we out here? You take the picture? It's not, I like comfort.

So I would be last. I think that's, you know, it's the way it goes. I have, I need help with everybody listening with something. You're tired? Tomorrow is the start of the new Matt Jones show. It'll air on Thursday nights at 6 o'clock on WHS. Is it on here in Lexington? Do we know yet?

I think it is. Let's just say it is. If it's not, we'll force them to. It's on 6 o'clock. It's going to be every week I'm going to be talking to somebody new about everything. My first ever Matt Jones podcast, the guest was Beaumani Jones, so I'm bringing him back to be the first guest on this one. But we'll have a ton of people over things.

And then we're restarting the podcast as a podcast too. So you'll be able, I'll tell you when it's up on all the sites and you can get it. But they're very big on making me have a name for it. And I can't call it the Matt Jones podcast because I already did that. Plus it's on the radio. but it feels like the Matt Jones show is kind of a lame name. Can you think of a name that would be a good name? Jay Williams would just call it the MJ show.

Oh, there you go, MJ. So I'm up for suggestions from the listeners. 772-745254. You know, one of the people with Aheart was like, call it conversations. And I was like, that sounds like I'm on NPR, you know, drinking a latte. Talking real soft. Conversations with Matt Jones. I'm not calling it back.

Come get yelled at by Matt Jones. I'm not going to yell at anybody. You remember I did this during COVID. I would bring people on and talk. It was really popular. People really liked it. So that's what we're doing. But if you have a suggestion, I'm open to it.

Do you have one? No. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. All right. Well, do you think about it? Yeah, we're a little on the spot. We'll come up with something.

But, you know, it'll probably start tomorrow called the Matt Jones Show, but I'm open to change. it to something else as we keep going. I consider calling it nose whistle. Well, that would be attractive. People are like, what is this talking about? What's the nose whistle? Is attractive the word you were looking for right there?

Attractive to the listeners? Yeah. I just think, though, if you just saw it, if you don't, you wouldn't know what it is. But you might tune in to find out. Mario designed the graphic yesterday. You have a new one for me to look at? All right, send it to me there.

All right, thank you. So I mean, the first one didn't pass? Well, the first one, he just showed me, it looked like I was angry, and I'm trying to project positivity on this show. These are attractive conversations you're having. That's right. Who's up next? Let's go to Francis.

Francis. Go ahead, Francis. Hey, guys. Shout out to Ryan. Fellow Owens Boreen, you know, went to Cathay and Brescia and I went to UK for med school. It's great to talk to you. I think I have a good question for you, Matt. Okay.

So I saw Mark Pope's latest press conference. He went through all the. players. I don't think he left out, Cam Williams, but I might have missed that. He did. So I have a limited, I don't have a frame of reference. I've been a Kentucky basketball fan since I was a kid turning on K. Wood-Lebford on top of the TV broadcast. And, you know, he talked a lot about, you know, we hear a lot about Kentucky's unique, it's special, right? And for me it is because it's the only sports team I've ever followed. I took a wrong turn on the interstate 34 years ago, and I've been in New York practice in medicine since then.

You have a better perspective being around the sports world, you guys, Shannon and Brian and everything. What, objectively speaking, like, I already believe it's the best, but what do I know? Objective, but what makes really – Yeah, that's a great question. I would say if you were to rank programs in college basketball in terms of what is, quote, unquote, the best program, there's really only a case for four, in my opinion. Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, and Kansas. And they each have their strengths.

I think North Carolina has like a swagger factor that goes back really to Michael Jordan, right? The Tar Hill Blue, you know, that whole thing. There's just kind of a mystique around that. I think Duke has the brand national. They were hated for so long. they have, they've been good for 40 straight years, and really, with the exception of a couple years, good every year, they might have the best national brand. I think Kansas has the best home environment and the best history of just like it feels like history, but Kentucky has the

best fans. I mean, Kentucky fans care more than any other fan. And so because of that, the big blue nation, we still have a great history, we still have a great environment, and I think we have probably the second best brand now, but we have the best fans. And I think when you combine all those, Kentucky comes on top because if Duke's the best brand, we're the second, right? If the best home environment is Kansas and Duke's second, we're probably third. and if the best NBA mystique is Carolina, we're probably second,

and you could argue in the last 20 years, we're probably first. So with all of that, I think I would put us at top first overall. Yeah, and to back it up, you have to win. You have to be successful. He's got the most titles. We do have the most titles.

Yes, that's exactly the most wins. Those are obviously very important, yeah. Yeah, so you've got the fan base and you get the success. That makes puts him on top. We're the only program that's been good in every decade. We're the only one. And I do think that's important. That's important.

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Thank you all. Like some good ones. Yeah. I like appreciate the conversation. Maybe a little long, but I like it because it connects to our audience. Connects to the audience. conversation doesn't feel like the perfect word, but I might be able to figure it out. You can do appreciate our conversation and call it AOC for short.

Tie in your political allegiance to it. How about the Matt chat? Matt chat. Jones Zone. Jones. Wow. Jones. Wow.

Like Bill O'Reilly, no spin. Since you mentioned the AOC, can I tell you two things that make me a little mad this week? Okay. And it's going to be one on each side so everybody don't get mad. Give me a chance to say both of them. First of all, the more that comes out about the way the people in the White House hid Biden's kind of slip, especially last summer or summer 2024, is pretty bad. It's pretty disgraceful.

I don't blame him. He can't help it, right? But it was clear they knew in the month. leading up to the debate that he was slipping and they actively apparently tried to hide it. They would make video slot. They would, when he would walk, they would slow the video down so that it looked like he was walking normal speed. He met George Clooney who had known for 20 years and didn't know, didn't recognize. Didn't recognize George Clooney, pretty famous person.

Somebody had been one of his biggest donors. If you remember, George Clooney right after that announced that somebody that he should drop out. that's probably why he did it. You owe that to America to tell people, not just because we want to win the election, because he is the president of the United States. So that is, I don't blame him. He was an old man.

But the people around him, you can't do that. You can't be, and apparently they say they didn't do it because they thought he was their only chance to win. You know, that's not a reason to, right? So that's one thing. Other thing. I don't care what anyone says. You can write me on the text machine.

I ain't changed my mind on this. It is a horrible look for the president of the United States to take a free plane from Qatar and then keep it when he's done. That is bribery, plain and simple. A country that has over the years supported terrorism to just basically bribery. bribe the president out in the open. You can go, well, the Biden family did this. Well, if that's the case, then that's wrong, too.

But this is out in the open. And, you know, I give credit to some of the Republican commentators who are like, if Joe Biden said, I'm taking a plane, and when I'm done, I'm keeping it, that's a ridiculous. And so you got to, on both those things, I don't care who you support, you've got to have standards. We have to have a president who, if he has mental deterioration, you don't have. hide it. And we have to have a system where you can't just pay off the president $400 million plane and say when you're done, y'all can keep it. Come on. Both two things are ridiculous. Because people hate each other so much now in politics, we are accepting things that we would

have never as a country accepted 10 years. Neither one of those things would have been considered acceptable 15 years ago. And now all of a sudden, everybody takes up for it. It annoys me. do you think there'd be a big, huge public outcry on both of those situations? They should. Now, the Biden thing we didn't really know, but there were people that did, and they didn't say any should have. And they should have. That's just, you know, that's just how it is. You go on the game tonight, sir?

You're going to say it with the Rose shirt? Well, enjoy. I just thought. Yeah, I saw he beat Rose shirt on it. All right. So I just wanted to say those two things. Was that a teaser for conversations? No, no, that's not what I'm doing.

on that show necessarily. But I just, you know, people got to say stuff. We are accepting things that we would never accept, and then we're defending it because we like, because we want our side to win, and that's nonsense. You cannot do that. That's how this country slips is when you start defending stuff

that you know is bad just because it's your side. You can't do that. All right, who's next? Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony. Go ahead. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Hey, Matthew, your show, is it going to be sports-centric,

or is it just going to be? be everything except UK sports. That'll be the only thing I don't talk about. But it'll be sports. It'll be other stuff. Okay. All right. Then secondly, a big shout out to Bellarmine baseball for last night's performance.

What happened? I don't know what happened. Bellarmine baseball beat Lobel. Oh, they did. Number 21, Lovel. Bellerman beat Loebuck Jim. He robbed him at the end, ran into the wall for the last out of the game. It was an awesome catch.

Wow. I didn't know that. Very cool. I can't believe this is our, too, and y'all haven't covered that yet. I didn't know. I'm sorry, that's on me. I didn't know that happened. And I know we're switching over to basketball right now,

but I have to rant just for a second on this Pete Rose thing. Everybody knew Pete was going to be in the Hall of Fame because his numbers earned that spot for him. But I think it's petty and small to hold it until the man has died before he gets his flowers. I just think that it's just pity. and it just rubbed me the wrong way. I just don't think that's frightening.

Totally understand. Appreciate the call. Totally understand. We're showing the, Drew's showing me the player right here. Man on third. If he doesn't catch that, wow.

Wow. What a play. If he doesn't catch that, if he doesn't catch that, it's a tie. That was like an over-the-head basket catch. Wow. Slamming into the wall.

First time they beat Louisville since 91. That's an amazing catch, Shannon. Great catch. Yeah. I mean, to end the game, way it doesn't get any better that's awesome against the wall and that's your team you got it's got to make you happy right yeah i mean we never had the chance to play d1 teams but i'm very that's so funny that they just beat louisville i was driving down baxter avenue the other day and

they were playing somebody and there were like 30 people there and i remember thinking it's kind of crazy that's a d1 baseball team or whatever and then and then a few days later they beat they beat it's their first ever top 25 win re throwing ls down last night shannon oh yeah yeah well actually I can't, I'll be honest with you. I didn't find out until this morning, but I wasn't this morning. Not last night. This morning I was right there. That's very, very, very cool.

Who's up next? Let's go to John. John, go ahead, John. Hey, Matt, so a couple of days ago you were talking about how you weren't getting callers and you were saying your phrase because you're cutting people off. But I was having the time of my life because in the first 30 minutes, the first two people didn't realize they were on the air. You had five old men calling about Bill Belichick's girlfriend and a lady asking you

about Hitler. So bro, let me just tell you, you can cut us off. It's okay. We need it sometimes. Thank you, though. But it has kind of picked back up after I started letting people do that. So that's okay. You're going to try to make it to Thursday.

Yeah, you said through tomorrow. No, I got one more day. Tomorrow, though, is, tomorrow of those that ask anything Thursday. So I'm a little worried about that. But, you know, we'll see what that. I've already, I had the under. Me too. You've already passed that.

I didn't think you'd make it as far as you made. You didn't think I'd be able to do it. I didn't think you'd get through Monday, to be honest. Oh, okay. Well, you know, we're proud of you. It was hard when the guys were like, my girlfriend's 22 and I'm 81. That was a little difficult, but, you know, we still were able to do it. Yeah, I think Drew and I were over there cut this guy off.

We're wanting you to cut those guys off. Yes. Thank you very much. Appreciate the call. You know, we, I learned something that I didn't know was still the case. I saw the headline Libby Dunn is the cover of the SI swimsuit issue

I didn't even know they still did that did you they went through an era where like they were naked like all the athletes were naked and they were that's a different body issue that's a different magazine also and that was ESPN

the body and what of course that's your reaction they went through an era where they were naked who's that? Who's that? Athletes Okay, I'm going to go to you, Drew. Did you know that still existed? You know, I've seen like they'll do online.

Do you still have a print version? I knew it still existed because they've had a lot of famous people step in that aren't normally models. But, you know, when I was a kid, I used to make sure I had the copy. Yeah, my mom took it from it. I don't know if they still put it out like they did. My mom took it from it. Out of the mailbox before you got home?

Yeah, so I subscribed to Sports Illustrated. When I was a kid, Sports Illustrated, came on Thursdays. It was my favorite thing. It was awesome. I would read it cover to cover. I probably read every Sports Illustrated from 1980. I can still remember the Jack Nichols winning the Masters one. So that was what, 86?

So I probably read every Sports Illustrated from probably 86 to 96, every one of them. But then there'd be a week where it wouldn't come. And I'd go, Mom, did the Sports Illustrated come? And she would be like. I haven't seen it. You know, my mom doesn't lie. They're on vacation. My mom doesn't lie, but she'd be like, I didn't have one this week.

That's weird. I haven't seen it comes every Thursday. It always seems to not come the same time of year. Then finally, like when I was a senior in high school, she told me she was throwing those away, and I never got to see them. We could have shared a subscription because I didn't need the other 51. I'm going to say that's the only reason I was counted as a kid.

I didn't even know he did it. Yeah, didn't even read the other ones. I was always like, what's everybody talking about? I didn't know because I saw at the beginning, there would be letters to the editor. where people complained about the week before issue, and I'd always go, what are they talking about?

That's funny. That wasn't in there. I don't remember that at all. No bikinis in the one week before. Yeah, I didn't see one bikini. Stock to mortgage. Tell me about it. Oh, I got some new reads.

I got a pull up here. And I got it ready. So as soon as I get to. You got it ready as soon as you pull it up. Yeah, here we go. Boom. All right. We'll start us pick one at random.

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Oh, here we go. She did. There it is. Mama tried. That's a great reply. Mama tried. That's a good two-word reply to that sentence. Perfect.

I just, this is just for educational purposes. There's a lot of people right in me. I'm sure that are like, you know, one encounter and they go, oh, he's not keeping the plane himself, the president. He's going to be his presidential library. First of all, presidential libraries are private. They're not part of the government. And he could still use it for all of his private. private stuff. Presidential libraries are donated by donors. That's actually why they're a little

bit of a boondoggle. I don't like it. Presidents, all the presidents do this. When they finish, they take money from everyone for their library because it's private. But it'll be for his library, but he'll use it for his personal use. So you should be against that. One person writes, I think he's only doing it to make the left mad. You're probably right, but that's not what the president should do. And then there's a security part. Do we want to let a country that over the years has aided and abetted terrorists have the security knowledge of our plane that keeps the president in the air? I hadn't even thought about that angle. That's a little scary. I mean, that's going to be the new Air Force One. We are going to have a country who has aided terrorist who gave us the

plane for our president, Shannon. That's a little worrisome, isn't it? Yeah, I would think so. Probably got little hidden microchips in there. And I'm sure they'll go, well, we'll look at it, but they'll know how it. Like right now, I don't think they know what our Air Force want. They'll know now. Yes, they will. I just can't imagine why people think that's a good idea.

Thankfully, there are some people on the other side who have said, what are we doing? But there need to be more because it's crazy to me. Crazy. Also, it sets a bad precedent for whoever's next. Could be the other side that takes something that's wild. That's another thing I don't understand. everything you're taking up for now, the other side's going to do the same thing, right?

Are you not worried about that? That's what they're going to say. Well, he did it. Yeah, but that cannot be the reason for everything. The other side did it. Then we'll just go into a pit of awfulness. Anyway, all right, I'm done with that. I have a question for you before I go to the phone.

You don't have to go to South Africa in September. Yes. The little conference I'm in is six days. But I'm going to South. It takes 17 weeks to get to South Africa. It's a long trip. It is far away. It is literally the second longest flight you can take in America is the one I'm going to take.

Atlanta to Cape Town is a 15-hour direct flight. Oh, my goodness. It is the second longest flight you can take in the world. There's only one flight longer, New York to Singapore. If I'm going to go all that way and fly 15 hours each way, I'm going to stay more than five days. I see on, I was looking online and there's a safari. Oh. That starts the day after my conference ends for nine days.

You get to go to this wildlife preserve where you get to see rhinos, elephants, giraffes. Giraffes. I'm in on all that. You got to do it. But here's the second part of it. It's half safari, half adventure tourism. What does that entail? Here's the adventure part.

Scaling down a mountain, like repelling. Yeah. A zip line over the world's largest, over Africa's largest canyon. You just sit there for that. Yeah, that'd be awesome. And a hike, which I could do the hike. But you know, Shannon, you and I were both scared of heights. Yeah, I'm sitting that one out.

I think I can do the zip line. We've done it before. We did in Alaska. Yeah. You just go. We jumped out of a plane. Just a ride. But the rappelling.

We did a small, very small, repel in Alaska. Do you remember that? I do. And I was terrified. Okay. That's a bad sign. Tell me you able to sit that one out. That's what I wonder.

Can I just say? They're not going to force you off the side of a cliff. I'll go look at the line. But I don't know. When you get up there? A lot of these, they're catered to tourists, so, like, you know, it could take any type of person. I would read the fine print. Like, does it say you need to have a little bit of experience or you need to be a certain weight or mobile?

No, it said you were, it said as long as you weren't in terrible shape you could do. Okay, because I think they'll babysit you a little bit on this repelling. I mean, I like the idea of, like, there's a nature preserve up in northeast South Africa that is like the second best nature preserve to see wild animals in the world, and you get to stay in it. and they say elephants like walk up to your house, that feels like that would be awesome. So part of me is like, if I'm going to go all the way over there, I'd like to do it.

It's good. The UK by week is during this week, so I wouldn't miss a game. You've got to do it. I mean, you may never have this chance again. And I think all the positive and the fun things about this far outweigh the one reservation you have about to do the repelling down the mountain. Yeah. So you say do it. Do it.

Shannon, would you do it? Have to repel down the mountain? God, I don't know, man. I guess I would if push came to shove, but I wouldn't want to do it. Hopefully it doesn't come to pushing and shoving. Hopefully they don't have to actually push you off the mountain. But seeing an elephant, you got to do all that.

We got those at the zoo in Louisville. Yeah, but like out in the wild, it's a nature preserve, and it just feels like once in a lifetime opportunity. I never, I mean, the reality is I'll probably never, go back to South Africa after this trip. So I feel like you have to do it, Ryan, don't you? Yeah.

You know, they've got some places around town where you can kind of practice your repelling. It won't be near as tall, but you can practice a little bit. We can take you out to the gorge. Yeah, not a bad idea. All right, who's up next, Shannon? Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. First time, long time.

Who are? For the name of your show, there's a song that was written 60 years ago. It's called Along Came Jones by the Coasters. It would be perfect for your show. Long Came. A Long Came. A Long Came Jones. It's a humorous song.

It is. It feels like people could read that the wrong way, though. Sing it again, Ryan. A long came Joan. Tall talking Joan. Well, that's kind of a good theme song. Yeah. That actually would be a theme song.

be the worst theme song in the world. All right, well, thank you, sir. I appreciate the call. The Coasters version, the Coasters version, there's a Ray Stevens did it around 1970. The Coasters did it around 1960. All right, well, I appreciate it. Appreciate the call. Let's pick tonight, Pete Rose Knight, White Sox and Reds.

Reds are on a five-game losing streak, but they're minus 240 to win tonight. Do the Reds get it done in honor of Pete Rose? This is Draft Kings, by the way. Go to Draft Kings. Bet five, get $300 if you win your. bet at draft kings promo code ksr draft king's the crown is yours who you got in honor of peteros you have to bet on the reds i will bet on cincinnati tonight you specifically have to bet on the reds this is the one if you're ever going to bet this is the night to bet on the reds fair

enough you got them uh you they're not they're not going to lose on pete rose night of course they're going to win the socks going to throw the game though oh that's a good point you're playing the white socks too. This is a guarantee. This is the biggest bet on the reds. The White Sox throw the game. Come on. Do you think they put it against the White Sox for that very reason? I'm definitely betting this. They play the White Sox at home once every two years. They were like, this is perfect. The walking game of the century. Thank you all very much. Tomorrow we are in studio. This is been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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