KSR - 2025-05-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

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And this is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T.J. He'll make them pay. For the first time, Ryan, well, we've done this once before where we've used two courses for the scramble, but this is the first, this is our biggest one we've had yet. teams on each course, 46 teams out here. Unfortunately, it has been pouring rain all day. It's supposed to ease up a little bit by noon,

and hopefully we can get relatively dry for the rest of the time. Yeah, it'll be a little sloppy out there. Mario and I were talking before the show, I said, it's supposed to quit by noon. He's kind of laugh like, no, it's not. Well, it's all right. We're going to have a good time. These folks, I told them there's a lot of alcohol out there.

A lot. For better or worse. So at 5 o'clock, I think this place will be jumping. Drew, this is our, I was trying to think, in Lexington, this is our, I think, eighth or ninth that we've done. Always been a lot of fun in our, I think, our second one we've done here at the Eucl. Yeah, it's good to pull up here. I'm a little disappointed by defending champion. Parking spot wasn't there.

I guess this J.B. Holmes guy still has one, but I'm still expecting the treatment. I tried to have a champion's dinner last night. You ought to answer my text, but it's good to be back here. I like this one because I have the fond memories of Ryan putting that year and us doing Hey, Kentucky out here. We did. This is where you missed the puts and had to go to jail. It was right out there on the island green on the blue course. I don't remember that. It must be, you guys must be making some story up.

No, I got a little flashback when I drove by that island green. Like, oh, there it was right there. Yeah, so I played the blue course. Drew will play the white and should be a lot of fun. And then people are all around them. This is a nasty day, but you know what, Shannon? This is one of my favorite days because I feel like the KSR listeners, they kind of let their guard down.

I see sides of some of the people that I don't usually see. There was a guy here last year. I hope he comes back because we had to help him get home last year. And I told him when they go to the cornbread hemp, the seltzer one, just be careful. I feel like all the Uber. I told two for those of you that are out there. All the Uber's and lifts are just, you know, around five, six o'clock, just come out here to the parking lot. You're going to get a lot of business, I feel like.

I'm looking at all the sponsors. Maybe two or three aren't. Alcohol, the rest of them are. Well, so yeah, thanks to Clark's Pubbets Shop, Cornbread Hemp, minus 196 and On the Rock Rock's cocktails, Stock to Mortgage and Penn Station all here today. This, I want to tell you a story before we get started with some sports stuff. All right. First of all, everybody, Rod's son graduated from high school last night.

Josiah. Clap it for me like I had anything to do with it. I'm sure you helped with homework. I mean, he overcame a lot, having you to be able to make it. So yeah my favorite story like in middle school he's like dad can you help me with my science project I'm like yeah sure when's it due he said yesterday but he got through got it done yeah uh all right so yesterday I was driving and I was driving down for those of you in lexington you got a picture where this was I was driving down for sales road okay okay and I was about to take a left on Oliver

Lewis yeah and you know that used to be like a shortcut that used to be a way you can now forget it like forget that that Oliver Lewis is now as crowded as downtown in It's completely packed with people. You try to turn there, there's a backup. And this dude is doing a move, Shannon, that I would do quite a bit. He doesn't know whether to turn left or to keep going straight because he wants to see how the lines go. And so he's hovering in both lines. I've seen that move before.

I've seen that move before. I've seen that move before. I've seen you do that move. That's what I was going to say. I can't get too mad because that's a line of a move I've done. But because I was mad, I was behind him, I was getting a little bit frustrated. So I was honking at him, like, make it to do. decision. Make a decision. Honk, honk, honk. Finally, he makes a decision. I think he's out of my life.

He ends up in front of me, and I start looking, and I can see through his back window. He is yelling at his wife or girlfriend or whatever. And I don't mean just yelling. I mean like yelling. Arms swelling. Screaming at her. To the point, I don't know this woman, but I'm starting to feel really sorry for her. And I actually starting to be like, okay, dude, you need to calm down. Yeah. Now, of course, most people would mind their business. But you know, Mr. Franklin, I'm not the kind of person to just see someone in need and just let it happen. So, I mean, he's yelling at her for like 20 or 30 seconds. We go to turn left there on Oliver Lewis. We end up in different lanes,

and he drifts into mine almost hits me. So now he's helped me up. He's almost hit me, and he's yelling at his wife, right? So, As the traffic goes, I end up pulling up next to him. We're stopped. Look into the car window, still yelling at her. Uncomfortably yelling at this woman who looks sad and is staring straight ahead. And at that point, Ryan, I felt like I had to get involved. And this is not necessarily the best thing in the world.

But I honk and he rolls down his window. And I said, dude, how about you stop yelling or excuse me, stop yelling and start focusing on your driving. You almost hit me twice. And he gets that look of anger. Drew, you've seen it before. And he goes, you don't know what we've been through today.

You don't know what's happening. You don't know. And then all of a sudden you can tell a light clicks in his head. Get the crazy eyes? And he goes, you don't know what's happening. You don't know what we've been through. Matt Jones button. And then he just starts like he recognizes me.

Yeah. And he goes, Matt Jones. And then he pauses and says, you still don't know what we've been through. You still don't know. And his wife kind of looks over at me and gives me like a thank you or something like that. And then I drive on. But watching him halfway through his argument, realize who I was, and then get right back to arguing.

He did not stop. But he did. It was almost like Shannon, he had a look of this is going to be on the radio tomorrow. Oh, yeah. I can tell. He was almost like when he's probably. Probably listening right now. And, sir, you may be a wonderful person.

You shouldn't yell at your wife like that in public because that was that was embarrassing. Otherwise, fine. Did you remember to get his picture? I did not take his picture. Anytime there's controversy, pictures. He had, let me say, he had a very distinct car, but I'm not going to say what it is, Drew, because like then people might be able to know who it is. So I'm not going to do that. But it was a very distinct car, but nevertheless, I just, it was the yelling and almost hitting me.

I feel like I had to say. I like when there's any confrontation, maybe a gas station, there's like a mat light that goes. up in the sky like the bat signal where it's like it's calling you in to come help come i've never seen though a person like halfway through be able to recognize me but didn't keep on yelling exactly the same way i thought you were telling the story he's going to say mac jones here you sign my book hand the book out across the way for you to sign i don't think he was a guy who would have read that book just looking at him but uh nevertheless i hope that worked out uh better than it did you don't stand up for that lady well i just it was you know you see somebody like

I get uncomfortable when I see somebody like that with kids. Yeah. But when it's their wife, it's like, come on, man. Road rage, though. You've got to be very careful because you don't know who's in that car. Yeah, and I can't fight. I think we know that. All right, so also, in addition, the KSR Golf Scramble here in a little less than two hours,

UK baseball kicks off their NCAA tournament. They play against West Virginia at noon on ESPNU. Kentucky is actually second favorite in the regional. behind Clemson, even though they're the third seed, they actually have better odds than West Virginia. They're favored to win today. How do you think they're going to do? I've heard, I actually listen to a baseball podcast on my drive down to McCreary County that had Kentucky winning this regional as an upset pick. Thanks for the reminder.

I need to get that bet in. I meant to do that before it starts because I do, I feel confident in the cats. The SEC was such a grind and they led in so many games. No, they're capable of it. They just can't close. And I'm hoping Mingione had the message or whatever it takes, hit the reset button, for the NCAAs after they had those heartbreaking losses at Vandy, left a lot on the table against Oklahoma. They have good baseball in them. They just can't close. And I feel like eventually that luck's got

to flip the other direction. Let's have a good weekend. 31 SEC games they've played, Ryan. 31. This stat is amazing to me. They have led in 27 of the 31 games. Even though they are 13 and 18 in the conference, even though they're 13 and 18, they have led in 27 of the games, which means even in games they've led, they're 13 and 14. There has to be no team that's ever had that happen. You could either say, well, that means they can't close or they have bad luck. Which one would you say?

Well, I think they're starting pitchers, their weekend starters are really, really good, and they got that lead. I think it's when they go to the bullpen. The bullpen's kind of not been able to hold that lead all season long. I'm letting my starter go the distance, I think, of this, you know? Pitch to his arm falls off. If you're trying to be optimistic about it, though, you can look at the other three teams and say none of these three teams

are as good as what Kentucky has already played this season. And, you know, the top seed, Vandy, they had them on the ropes all three games. They very well could have swept Vandy. Yeah, so if people who don't know if they play today at noon, if they win, they would play tomorrow at seven. If they lose, they will play tomorrow at noon. So, and then Sunday, they could play one game, they could play two games, but it will be going on all weekend.

And then the second thing, UK's football team announced the times for all the first three. games. They're basically, in the first three home games, they're playing in all three slots. The first game against Toledo will be 1245, which worries me a little bit. The game against Old Miss is at 3.30 on national TV on ABC. If you remember, is exactly where it was. We played at noon last time, but we played on ABC last time when we beat them last year. And then the game against Eastern Michigan is at night, Drew, at 7 o'clock. So you get all three time slots in the first home games are any of those you particularly like or particularly don't? I'm fine with what they are, but the Ole Miss game, it is South Carolina last year all over again.

That was 330 ABC week two, kind of a similar SEC opponent. We had SEC Nation. I think they'll be back this year for that game because it's the only SEC game that weekend. I mean, it's copy-paced that South Carolina game, and we know what happens when you get drilled by South Carolina. That killed a lot of the excitement. Season was a disappointment. I worry you could be looking at a similar.

situation in week two this year. Could be, I mean, you don't know what, again, you have no idea what's going to be. It could be hot. Like that could be at 3.30 on a Saturday in early September could be very hot. That 1245 time for the Toledo game worries me a little bit. It is the first game of the year, so you usually get a good crowd for the first game regardless. But playing a team that is good, but that our fans may not be amped up for, playing it at noon. Now, you know, They pick to win the Mac, by the way, and that's a good conference. I'm tired of hearing about Toledo. If we can't beat Toledo, this is going to be a long season.

It's going to be a two or three weeks ago. So you're not worried about it. No. We're Kentucky. I guess you think if we're going to lose, then the rest of the season's going to be terrible. Yeah, I mean, if you can't be Toledo, look out, man. Like, just fold it in now. Like, just quit the season.

If you can't beat Toledo. I wish to start time for the Toledo Eastern Michigan and Flipflop. Me too. I wish we had Toledo at night, Eastern Michigan at noon. I totally agree a little better about that. Yeah, I wish Toledo was at night as well. But the good thing, I will say this, if they get blown out in that Old Miss game, the Eastern Michigan game may just be friends and family there in week three after three in a row.

I do think with the Old Miss game, it guarantees you'll have a crowd that's ready for it, that's into it, you know, from a selfish perspective, for me with the bar, I love 3.30 games because we get crowds before and after. But I do think for if you're really wanting to win that game, you're right, we lost the South Carolina last year. But I do think 330 is a good time. Yeah, I love the spot. And if you're like Shannon and assume Toledo is in the books, you got that one done.

That can be a huge win to get fans back behind you. As we all know, fan support's a little dicey right now. But if you're 2-0 and win that 3.30 game on ABC, that set you up for an all-day tailgate against Eastern Michigan. I think there's some excitement in the season. Just out of curiosity, how many people here on the news that we gave an extension and a raise to our offensive line coach think that's a good decision? How many of you think it's a bad one? See, that's what, I mean, that's 100%. We don't get 100% for a lot of polls.

Ryan, I, those, when I looked at that schedule, I just thought to myself, those first two weeks, those first two weeks are Mark Stoops UK career, meaning you cannot lose to Toledo. And then if you beat Old Miss, maybe you're going off on a year that gets you back on track. If you lose and it's close, but if you get blown out against Ole Miss, then I think things start to be Nick. See, and I'm worried about that game because I think Lane Kiffin will try to embarrass Kentucky since Kentucky won down there last year. And you made a good point that he's got all summer to play,

because, I mean, their first games get somebody terrible, so he's got all summer to get all summer to game playing against Kentucky going into week two. So I'm a little, no, I am worried about that game. And he doesn't like how Stoops beat him last year because Stoop's broke character and went for it Bear on Brown on the bomb. I even heard Kiffin reached out to him after. He was like, what the heck was that, Mark? Where's that been?

So I think Kiffin definitely has to be. Well, remember, we kept Old Miss out of the playoff. They're in the playoff if they win that game. And it is, that old Miss program is looked at completely different if they could have just beaten us at home. And they didn't. So I think they'll be, they'll be ready. 859-280-2287. We are here at the U-Club.

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So that's seven holes just with that. And then there's food and other things. But Spoken Spoken Spirits, eight holes on each course. A lot of alcohol out there. I see also that OVW is going to be here. Do we have wrestlers coming out today? We should. Speaking of that, on the text machine, one person writes,

Matt, every time you have the KSR golf scramble, I think of that scene in wrestlers when you drove away from that guy on the golf cart. Poor Brian. Poor Brian. All he wanted to do is spend time with this kid, and you wouldn't let him. Get back to work. Now watch this shot. First of all, I did not do the George W. Bush.

Now watch this drive. I did not do that. You know, I love that show, but that does show you the power of editing. because, well, none of you were with me, so I don't anybody to verify. That's what they'll say. When my team gets here, they can tell you I did talk to him for 10 minutes before they showed the scene of me driving off. Yeah, the producers did you no favors the way they edited that. There were two things the producers did me no favors on.

That and then the look at that cake date. They didn't have to do that to me either. Yeah, you think they did you dirty. They didn't leave you on a mat with a drone shot going. over top of you. That is true. Actually, you know what? You did get it worse in that regard.

Well, but you did get beat up, so I think that makes it, makes it fair. But that, and it was whole two, it was whole two, it was right at the beginning. It was not very nice. Poor Brian. He just wanted to spend time with his kids. Matt Jones hates families. Stop with poor Brian. 859-280-20287.

Who's up first, Rick? Got Tim up first. Tim, go ahead, Tim. Tim. This is Tim. One thing I did not expect to hear at KSR Golf Scramble was a crying child, but that's okay.

Everyone is welcome. Go ahead. Designated driver. He's going to go separate him from his dad. Go ahead, sir. Can you hear me? You still got you. You keep saying the times of the football games,

but you never say the day. And the second, like talk about the new quarterback coming in. See if he's any good? Well, as far as the dates, they'll be this, they're playing the games this year, sir, on Saturdays. So they're on August 30th, September 6th, and September 13th are the games. As far as the new quarterback, appreciate the call. Nick, Zach.

I'm going to get it before the year's over. You're becoming Ryan with Will Wilford. For some reason, I keep on the call him. Zach Kousada. I did talk to someone this week, Drew, who said to me, I said, all right, I've got to talk about this guy. I don't know anything about him. Please give me something to say.

And they said that his strengths are, he can be mobile, although he's had injuries at times, and they like his decision making. It was basically, here's what the person said to me. Think about last year the strengths Brock had versus weaknesses. Now flip them. Those strengths now are what Zach has, or what Brock's weaknesses were.

and Brock's weaknesses are Zach's strengths. Do you agree with that? A little bit. And I like that he has a, I won't say a ton of experience, because he went to Incarnate Word, step down a little bit, but he has big game experience. I mentioned yesterday that game against Alabama, where he led A&M back.

If you want to get excited about Calzada, you should really just go watch that Highlands Highlands Highland's like to. Because he has shown that he can do it in the SEC against the great defense. That was years ago and he's been hurt, but at least it's in him. There's a lot of mystery around how I play at UK, but we know he's at least played at this level a little bit. What are you here?

In Carnet Word, I may remind you my Tennessee Titans, Cam Ward came from there, so it's not like they're just producing nobody's there. What are you hearing about? He's got a good arm. That's the one thing everybody says. He's just the kid has a good arm. But more accuracy than straight, right?

Probably. And like you said, you mentioned, his decision making. You know, we saw a lot of times Brock kind of just focused in on one guy and, you know, trying to force a few passes to he was so focused on one person. I think maybe it's Calzada, maybe you'll be able to open it up a little more. His biggest difference with Brock is absolutely their personality.

I think Brock wanted to go get in the tree and hunt when his time off. He's got a little swagger in him. He showed that in the mic'd-up video in the spring game. He's big on the sidelines. He's a little bit of a talker. He's kind of like Will Levis in that regard. I think he wants to be Johnny Mansell. Got some of that to him.

I'm not expecting him to get knocked down at all this season now that our offensive line. Coach just got $100,000 raise. That better be the best offensive line in college. football. Seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America. Let's see if we get the results that match it. Seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America. Well worth it, right?

Only one returning starter on that offensive line. But I don't I think that's good. Our offensive line was terrible last year. I'm fine with us not having any returning starters except one. We were awful last year. But I think that's going to be something Drew that all year,

if the offensive line does not play well, I mean, I say some people, it's going to be me going, we're paying this guy. He's the seventh highest paid coach and our offensive line, which was awful last year. It's got to have a market improvement. Now, I want to be careful not to sound like I'm defending the raise because I hate that. Sounds like you are. But to give the guy credit, at least on paper, what he did in the portal, it's hard to ask for much more of what's available, what he went out and got. Now they have to go do it in the games. I'm not saying he deserves $100,000, but he did load up on the best he could

that was available. I think they're going to be in a much better spot last year. If they're not good, it's going to be this year's version of pony up. We're going to keep bringing that up. That's interesting. You think so? Oh, yeah. You just said it yourself. You're going to bring it up if it doesn't work.

I will, too, everybody will. How can you not? You know, we talked about with Cal in that last year or two. I always said I am more, I feel like this show and me personally even are more of a reflection of the fan base than a driver of the fan base. I don't think there's any question that when it comes. comes to our fan base right now, the negativity about this regime is the highest, maybe the highest it's ever been. Because in the early years, people still had optimism. There was that little time, Ryan, in the year before we made our first bowl where people were questioning it. And then, of course,

you had the Austin McGinnis kick against Mississippi State. But this fan base, when I go out in the state. I don't think UK realizes, honestly, since I was gone last summer, I'm not sure that I realized how much negativity there was around the fan base. I think these first four or five games will decide Stoop's future here. I really do. It's why you have to win Toledo. You have to, cannot get embarrassed by Ole Miss. Those first two games could decide the rest of the season. Because where are you going to get six wins? I mean, Shannon, you were just saying next Friday, we're doing a show in Somerset. And then you have a concert that night in Somerset, and you don't want to drive back home.

So what are you going to do for those eight hours? Well, you suggest it, Mr. Gattie is all you can eat buffet. I thought maybe I had waste at least three hours there. Eight hours worth of it? Have you ever gotten kicked out of a buffet? I might be the first person to do that on this show. I saw it. I have.

Yeah, okay. Well, I'll be second person. I went with a competitive eater to Cici's pizza to watch him train. It was incredible. They eventually just brought a box and set it down. You said you can fill it, but you have to leave. One thing we should mention, before we have a ton of fun today is some sad news.

Another tornado did hit in Kentucky last night in Washington County. Actually, last night early this morning, there's one fatality, lots of damage. So we don't know all the specifics, but prayers to the people in Washington County that kind of a surprise event again, Ryan, that hit. You know, we are kind of, like I said, we've become, we're tornado alley now. unfortunately and it continues to show it. So prayers to all those folks in Washington County. One person writes, Matt, with your inability to remember Calzada's name,

I don't know how you think you could have run for political office, you would get crushed for it. I would say I think with the last two presidents, it's been pretty clear that's not a disqualifier anymore as being able to remember or say coherent things. I don't think that's apparently that might actually help me. Didn't you say it one time like Bill Clinton has that ability to remember everybody's name? They said that Bill Clinton could, like, if he met you, he could remember your name from then on.

I don't believe it. You don't? No. Anybody? I mean, like, people. I mean, I don't know if he means, yeah, I think he means people. Like, I don't think if he just, you said my name's Joe, then he could see you in 10 years and remember you were Joe. Right.

But I think the theory is everybody would have a conversation with, which I cannot do. I mean, there are people I've had 25 conversations with and that I like. that I can't remember their name. So, I mean, I do not have that. I'm terrible at names. So when you met him, did you have a conversation with Bill Clinton? Or was it like picture? Two minutes.

And if he came back and remembered my name after that, I would be pretty impressed. Well, there is kind of a, some people just have an ability. You look somebody in the eye and you can kind of match their name with who they are. I've just seen people do that. So Greg Sanky said yesterday, or excuse me, Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, said yesterday that they are trying to get all the conferences on board for the NCAA tournament to go to 72 teams, which is four more than they have,

and that it could start as early as this year's tournament, the one coming up. I don't love it. What do you think? I feel like it's happening, the fact that he wants it, others seem to want it. I guess now with revenue sharing, they've got to find ways to make more money.

I mentioned before that, sure, I like the idea of a noon game, to gamble on Tuesday of NCAA tournament week, but I really wish they'd leave it alone. I liked it at 64. It's fine at 68, but I feel like we'll just do this, then it'll be 76, and it'll be 80, and next thing you know, we're in the 90s. Yeah, Baker said that if they did it, it would be four more at-large teams. They would not make any more teams play in that are automatic bids.

So it would be basically four probably major conference or maybe one or two kind of of mid-majors that make it. You know, it does give you all-day games, all-game. I mean, basically, you know, you always say, Shannon, you love how Thursday and Friday, you'd essentially have that Tuesday and Wednesday, too. You'd have games all day starting on Tuesday. I do wonder if there's some point, though, where you start to make it a little less special if you keep adding that.

Yeah, that's my thing. And the great thing about Thursday and Friday is you have upsets. You can't really have an upset when you have two 11 seats playing each other in a playing game. So I think it takes away the excitement in that regard. It was interesting to me. There was also a listing yesterday of the 10 most watched first round games of all time. Or excuse me, since 2012 or something like that.

It was the 10 most watched first round games. And I looked at it and they followed a pattern. They were two sets of games. It was either two major programs playing each other. So like last year, Arkansas and Kansas. when Cal went up against Bill Selle. That was an extremely highly watched game. Or it was Kentucky or Duke on upset alert.

It was us against Oakland. It was us against St. Peter. It was Duke against Lehigh. It was Duke against North Dakota State. The two highest ranked first round games are major programs against each other, Duke and Kentucky on upset alert. I think, Ryan, the theory is, you can't make Duke and Kentucky be on upset alert every year.

You can't plan that. But you can plan two power teams playing each other every year if you want to. And I think the idea would be by adding four more teams, you can get two major programs on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Like this past year, North Carolina played Texas. That was a very highly ranked playing game because it was North Carolina and Texas. I think that's what they're doing. I think we're all not crazy about it, but it's probably going to happen.

I just kind of hope they leave it all in Dayton. I think that idea was it all be in Dayton. See, now I kind of like that. If they're going to add four more teams and you start on Tuesday night, let it stay in Dayton because they've kind of got a thing going on now. We're kind of used to it, and I think it will help it grow. I just don't want this to – is it the end of the world if it goes to 72? No.

But I just don't want it, Drew, to be the step to 76, 96, because then you start to get a point where I do think it starts to ruin it. I don't know if one more, you know, two more playing games matter. But if you start, if you went from 64 to 96, then I do think you're starting to hurt it. That's what I worry they're doing. They're going to see, okay, we made a little more money this step. All right, let's just do a little more next year. And eventually you're just letting everybody in.

For so long, it's been a measure that your team made the tournament. I mean, coaches got fired and kept based on did they get into the field. But when the field gets so big, I think even some teams that don't deserve to be in the conversation or get an opportunity just to have more games to watch. Well, think about this for a second. Go back to 2013, that Nerlands-Nole season. If there were 72 teams in, we're in. Yeah.

Do you look at that year differently if there are four more teams and that Nerlin's Noel after he got hurt, that Archie Goodwin team goes to the tournament and plays a playing game? Do we end up looking at that year differently? I mean, for me personally, I probably do just because of the fact they got in the tournament. I don't care if it was 72 teams.

They got in. That makes a difference for me. And I think that's a big reason they want to do it. coaches want to do this so that they can have more of them who said you can't fire me I made the tournament see but then it means less though you water it down to the point to where okay I made 20 straight NCAA tournaments but we made it with 72 teams yeah I mean if you if they had that as a rule then cow only misses one tournament and he could have said well I only missed the COVID tournament that was it but there's always going to be a 73rd team or 74 team or 97 team you know we're getting into participation madness

they're just going to invite everyone yeah I mean Lenardi is still going to have a job either way because you're going to figure out which is the 73rd team. But it does. That's revenue and it helps coach his job. So I think they're going to do it. And maybe starting this season? He said they could start it this year, which surprised me they could do it that quickly. But they would.

Who's next, Rick? Carson is up next. Carson. Go ahead, Carson. Hey, Matt, my brother and my buddy and I erupt into this are going down to Clemson for the battle of coal mines. We're on 85. I will have boots on the ground about 30 minutes to give you updates. I think we're the most dangerous 29 and 24 team in college baseball,

and I hammered the wildcats. I'm sorry for Robin Draft Kings and broad daylight. But how do you feel about Clever for the first game? And instead of going with Walker McLeigh, Walker McKay, do you think that's going to the way? I'm not the person to ask. You know I'm not the person to ask. I think generally speaking, the rule in UK-based, or in, College baseball has been, Ryan, if you're a two or three seed, it's very important you win that game.

You pitch your ace in the first game. If you're a one seed, they usually try to save the ace until the second game. That's generally how it's gone. We're a two or three seed, so I appreciate the call. I think you end up trying to pitch your best guy today. I thought we're talking about, you know, the guy that started on Friday night, Cleaver's the guy that started on Saturday night. Cleaver's kind of had a better year.

So do you flip-flop them around and start Cleaver then today? It is very, very hard. I think like only 10% or 5%? of the teams that lose their first game end up winning the regional so they you got you know sometimes the one seeds feel like they can hide their their best pitcher until the second game but the two and threes can't do that yeah we're not in a good enough spot to be trying to look ahead or game playing for other games you got to throw your best at every opportunity and i'm depositing the draft kings now to get on that too are you what is the what are we're minus 105 today that's that just like he said

we're stealing from them on this one in broad daylight minus 105 let's do it draft kings that's going to be our Draft Kings pick of the day from Drew Franklin. Go to Draft King's bet five. Win $300 on bonus bets. It is Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. Let's do one more. Who's next, Rick?

Carter is up next. Carter, go ahead, Carter. Hey, guys, my girlfriend and I are going to be coming to the bar for the first time. And what do you all suggest that we order? Wings, catfish, cheese logs, beer cheese casso. Those are the four. suggest one of those four or two if you want, but that's what I would do. And thank you for coming by. This weekend with Railbird should be quite an atmosphere there throughout the weekend.

Have you seen Shibuzi around town yet? I have not. I'm interviewing Shibuzzi next Sunday. Oh, really? I have no idea what to say to it. Like, what do you say to Shibuzzi? Ask him about Lexington. I've heard he's been here for a week. So you can go, hey man, what did you do in Lexington for the last week? There you go. Maybe invite him out to KS. Bar. Hey, look at that. The sun's out. Here we go. All right, let's go. Okay, you got to have more excitement than that. You guys want to play golf or not?

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Listen to Pod Meets Tworold on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I actually drop better when I'm high. It heightens my senses, calms me down. If anything, I'm more careful. Honestly, it just helps me focus. That's probably what the driver who killed a four-year-old told himself. And now he's in prison. You see, no matter what you tell yourself, if you feel different.

You drive different. So if you're high, just don't drive. Brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council. Looking around this room, I'm going to say, first of all, how much money, Drew, did they make at the PGA Championship in Vah? Yeah, everyone is got a lot of the line. You guys got Quail Hollow gear. Like, they must print money at the Masters in the PGA.

Maybe the U.S. open, too, but there are Vaughalo PGA shirts and hats all over this bill. I can't judge anyone. I gave the Valhalla. I'm clean on my head. Yeah, you too. I gave the Valahala gift shop paycheck myself, so I'm not judging going here, but it is everywhere. All day yesterday, Shannon, I got messages from people in Lexington with their wonderful experiences with the roof company. Oh, it was my favorite story from the show yesterday.

I mean, all day. Like, literally all day. I thought I was the Kentucky Better Business Bureau with how many, it was unbelievable. Were there people confirming what you heard? I mean, not some of the, like, RAPTER. Reverend stuff and all that. A lot of these were just customers who had felt upset about whatever. But, and did you see the guy, the main guy, what was his name?

His name. Reverend. Well, yeah, the Reverend. Whatever is actual. Brad. Brad Pagel. He went on Facebook, made some comments about how now the shackles were off and he was free to do whatever he wants, which now that's a little scary. If making everybody call you Reverend and all that is with you.

with your shackles on. I don't know what it's going to be like with your shackles off, but I got a feeling this thing, this story is not over. I think it's got some legs. I just feel like, you know, it's been on the front page of the Harold's website for three or four days. That means they're getting a lot of traffic on it. I feel like they're not going to stop. That's just a guess, but that's how I feel.

Like you said, a lot of people have stories to relate to what has happened. So that is going to keep it going out there, keep it snowballing. Yeah, I don't know if you had a chance to read any of his books yet, though. There's 12 of them. I was wondering if you had. As someone who's written one book, and I know how long it takes, 12 books, that's a lot of work. I'm waiting to see you at a Reds game reading Roof King or whatever you wrote about motivating roofers.

If I go to a Reds game, I'm not going to get to see Ryan Alexis Diaz anymore. I don't know how many Reds fans are here, but for two years, the dude was unstoppable. Like, couldn't be hit. I mean, just, when he came in, you knew the game was over. over. And now can't even throw a strike, just completely been it wasn't great last year, a disaster when they put him in this year, end up trading him to the Dodgers for basically nothing. Why do you, you're a baseball guy. I've never understood this. You look at pitchers, hitters, you know, they'll get better or worse, but pretty much they kind of are what they are.

They follow career trajectory. Why do closers? Why are they dominant for a year or two? and then they just fall off the planet. Why does that happen with them? Is it just a mind, is it their mindset or what? Yeah, there's something a little wacky about closers and kickers in football where their minds are just a little different

than normal people. And for a closer man, you've got to have that mentality. You've got to have a killer mentality, and I think it's tough to maintain that. You've got to have short-term memory loss and not forget about what happened the night before. How many closers have there been

that were like great for a decade? Mariano Rivera. Yeah. Or all this Chapman's, been good at a lot of different parts. I mean, he's gone in good. But, you know, he pitched for a long time. Cubs, Yankees.

I think he won with the Cubs and Yankees was really good with the Reds. Dennis Eskerley. There's been some guys out there that overall. Eckersley? Yeah, that's a while ago. Yeah. But you just don't, I mean, this dude, he was my favorite player pre-Elli for the Reds because he just was dominant and then literally cannot throw a strike.

You know, there's something about baseball. Remember when Steve Sacks couldn't throw it from second base to first base? No, I can't remember Steve Sacks. Well, it's Chuck Knoblock. Chuck Knoblock. Mickey Sasser, I think was the catcher who couldn't even throw it back to the pitching mound, something to some middle block. How high is the probability that he goes to the Dodgers and turns it back on, though?

One of the Reds accounts, I won't go too deep in the Reds, but one of the Reds accounts went and looked at all the players for the Reds in the last seven years who were good that then became terrible. And it's a lot. Like, they've had a lot of guys. like Christian and Carcy on Strand. You barely even remember. He exists.

Like he was supposed to be like Ellie. And then he's just gone. Little Spencer Steer, Matt McLean. Like pretty much everyone but Ellie has gotten worse when they got to leave. Bad luck. There's got to be some common denominator, which I would think comes to the coaching. Maybe so. Who's up next?

Aaron is up next. Aaron. Go ahead, Aaron. Hey, man. At the beginning of the show, you're talking about the guy yelling. And you'd mention that, or Ryan said, give him your book and you said he didn't look like he could like he would want your book i think that's fair i didn't understand what you meant by that i think it's fairly fair i think

it's pretty self-explanatory sometimes you can tell that a person's not on the same wavelength as you are about certain things it's not a criticism it's just you can tell if you're you can look at people yes if you're if you're trying to bait me to so yeah you can look at people i appreciate the call rick Thank you very much. Who's next? This is the golf scramble. This is golf scramble, Matt. It is not argument.

But what if that was that guy? It may have been that guy. That was the temper that that guy had on yesterday. Who's up next? John is up next. John, go ahead, John. I wanted to congratulate Wolf County Wolves on our first ever 14th regional baseball championship.

And I also had a question. Do you think the lack of NIL has anything to do with the football program falling apart and I'll hang up and listen. Let me ask you, real quick, before we be hanging up, the Wolf County High School, their nickname are the Wolves? Yeah. That's awesome. Wolf County Wolves.

The Wolf County Wolves. The County and then the plur, I love it. I appreciate the call. Congrats to the Wolf County Wolves. So you should be the Middlesboro Middles. They wouldn't let us be the Bullet County Bullets. Bullet County Bullets? I like the Campbell County Camels.

It's not exactly the same, but it's got some alliteration to it. The Middlesboro Middles would be a little bit. They're very different. As far as NIL, I actually, Drew, do not think the football programs, I don't think NIL is, I mean, is NIL the reason that we can't compete with Alabama, Texas? Yeah. But is NIL the reason we lost to Vanderbilt or South Carolina?

No. Like our NIL, you tell me our NIL was not better than Vanderbilt's NIA? Of course it was. Of course it was. Our NIL was comparable. of Louisville's. We got run off the field last year against Louisville. So NIL, if you want

to say NIL is why we don't make the playoff, fair enough. But I'm not going to say it's why we went four and eight. And what have they lost, like, eight straight, power four home games? Yeah, they've had enough NIL money to win some home games. Kentucky is probably 10th to 12th in SEC NIL, but

it's not the reason we lost to Vandy. Absolutely. Two years ago. I guess we didn't lose. No, wait, but we lost last year. Last two years. Two of the last three years. We lost two of the last three years. We will take a break. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy,

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