KSR - 2025-06-03- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Murray State Baseball going to the Super Regionals, the latest Kentucky sports news, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The next machine is 772-744, and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lawvis. You call T.J. O'Me. O'Me. Normally, this is where I would say there are four people here on the show. But Shannon, we are all kind of in different places. And just a minute ago before you started, you said Ryan and Drew are not set up. What does that mean? That means they're in a studio, and they don't know how to set up a studio. And, you know, normally when we're at KS. Bar, they know how to set up that Comrex piece of equipment that we do the remotes on, but they don't know how to set up an actual board in a studio. They're in Lexington.

So why did they go there and do it if they don't know how to set it up? That's a good question. I think it's a valid question. I don't know. See, this is Shannon what we have to deal with on this show. I just want to be clear. This is one thing I appreciate about you. You think about the logistics.

I think that's a thing about you that I have always really admired is that you understand. is that you understand and think about logistics. I love those guys, but they don't ever think about the logistics. So they came into the studio. They know Billy's on vacation this week. Right? Yeah. So Billy's on vacation, and he's the one that always sets it up.

They didn't think about that, did they? I hear some heavy breathing on one of the lines. Are you guys there now? We've been here the whole time. We've been right. We heard you guys rip out. I feel attacked. You were not ready.

We were ready. I heard the opening of the show. Back to Shannon. No. Shannon, this is on you. No, it's not. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

I don't know anybody in apology. We were trying to get set up. We were on the air and I was like, go to the access to and nobody was there. Gus was in here. You can ask Gus. All right, Ryan. We don't need access to you. That's what you're on.

You or Shannon. Which one is it? I'm not taking place with us. We got connected during the opening jingle. Okay. So you weren't connected then when I told Matt you weren't connected. So to be fair, you weren't ready when the show started. You were ready during the jingle.

What we've learned is what Billy means to this company. No kidding. No one in this building knows how to run the board. Low key, how important Billy is to what we do. No, it's Gus who had to save it. Gus saved this whole show today. Can I just say something, Shannon? They're just now learning that the person that connects them every time might be on vacation.

That's right. And that might have been something they should have considered when they came in today. Come here, Gus. Who's to blame? It's not me. Yes, Gus. Tell them it's not my fault. Come here, Gus.

Gus, whose fault is? Is it? Is it is it Shannon's fault or is it, is it Ryan's fault? He probably could have called me a little earlier. Yeah. Okay. Ryan Limit's fault. There we go.

Uh-huh. 859-2802-2-82. Wow. I think it's Billy's fault. Wow. We didn't even know Billy was going on vacation. Wow. Ryan Limit gets called to the principal's office.

You probably could have called him just a little bit earlier. I did the board set up exactly We had plenty of time There was a button There's a button in there Still not pushed it exactly Oh best gas! Did you hear gas? Did you hear gas?

We don't know what we're doing We never had to do this before Exactly And you knew Billy was on a vacation You co-hosted the pre-show with me yesterday That's why we brought in the Comrex here Just for this reason Good planning on me and Drew's part

It's all Billy's cool Who's suggestion was that by the way bringing the Comrex as a backup. That might have been Shannon. That might have been Shannon. Thank you. There we go. All right.

We'll stop here. We'll stop here. I want to keep going. Word has been laid down by Gus, whose fault it was. One point for Ryan Lemon. What negative one point for Ryan Lemon? Yeah, thank you. 859-280-2287.

A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-77525-4. Even with that rough start, I'm not going to let it get me down today, Ryan Lemon, because I had an enjoyable night thanks to something that I never thought I would ever say. Really? What is this? I want to think the Murray State baseball team for an awesome evening. So yesterday, I think because I was a little bummed that Kentucky had blown their game, I just decided I'm going to be all in on Murray State today.

I pulled out my Murray State jaw one shoes. Yeah, or jaw, yes, jaw one shoes. You know what I did, Drew? I walked 13 miles yesterday. 13 miles. Think about that. 13 miles. Because I was walking around and had stuff to do,

and I thought if I'm going to do all this stuff, I'll do it via walking around. 13 miles in my jaw one shoes, came home, watched Murray State. They did get up 12 to 3 with three innings left. And then in the eighth inning, it was 12 to 11. And I thought I was looking at the Kentucky thing again. But they hung on and won, and I have to say to you, not just because of Murray State, although Murray State's going to get the credit for it today. I think I'm kind of in Ryan on college baseball, at least the college baseball tournament.

The college baseball tournament, to me, is like perfect excitement. You have powerhouse teams, but they can lose to run. random programs. It's exciting. It's double elimination, so it feels like a fluke doesn't get you out. The crowds are into it. Are great stories. By the time you get to the end of the four days of tournament, basically they're pitching dudes who haven't even played all year, most of whom looks scared to death at the end of the games. I love it, Ryan. And Murray State last night culminated what was probably the most college baseball I've ever watched in a four-day period, and them winning and getting to go to the Super Reginals,

they now play Duke, a team we all can collectively hate. I had a wonderful time watching it last night. Yeah, we should be all in in Murray State. And you're right. They're just good enough. They can hit a big home run, get a big hit. But yet, they're still airs. There's still wild pitches.

They're still crazy pickoff attempts and stuff that happened. But it's the crowd. You said it, man. The crowd's what makes these college games. what they are. So, you know, I really committed to be a Murray State racer. So I kind of feel like I'm part of the Murray State. Oh, well, Shannon, tell him.

Hang on just a second. I mean, he doesn't get to act like he played. Sure. He's trying to claim this. I'm trying to claim this. They are the reason I'm into this. And that game last night was a perfect example. In any other form of sports, Drew, when it's 12 to 3 going in the seventh inning,

you just turn on and move on with your life. But in college baseball, you can. because at the end of the series, they're pitching a guy who probably pitched at Rock Castle County last year, right? And he gets in there, and anything can happen. They can score eight runs in a heartbeat. The Ole Miss guys all look like they just came from the Sigma New House, and they're sad. They're crying at the end of the game. It's just a – it was just great emotion.

My jaw won Murray State shoes felt happiness after it was up. over and now, Drew, I think we need to accomplish something today, and I want to see if our audience can do it. I would like to get the Murray State coach on the show today. I think it would be, that would be a cool thing to do. Drew, do you think we can do that? Yeah, I'm sure they're just traveling back today, probably by bus, probably just sitting there doing a bunch of nothing. Yeah, they're probably on a bus. They're probably in like Jackson, Tennessee right now, right?

Wouldn't that be where they are? Yeah, I would think he would have plenty of time to call in. In fact, I'll expect we can get this done. Okay, so this Shannon is what we want to do. If you, and I don't mean you, Shannon, if anyone can get the Murray State baseball coach, first of all, what's his name? Ryan, you almost committed there. What's his name? Well, Johnny Reagan was the coach when I was there.

He's a long, long time ago. I don't want to talk to Johnny Reagan. Do you know what the current coach's name is? I do not. I'm looking it up. The internet tells me Dan Skirka. Yes, Dan Skirka. That's right.

Yes, okay, he had that little kid running around the field yesterday. His kid and he had a Skirka jersey on. Dan Skirka, if anyone out there, and I know someone listening, and find a way to have this happen. You can get it? I can get him. Brown's already working the phones over here. Okay, I will forgive you for being 45 minutes late to the show today

if you can get Dan Skirka. How can you get Dan Skirka? I know two guys that do like the Murray State play-by-play and the podcast for the Murray State sports. Yep. He's an encyclopedia of connections. I will say, okay. The compliment I gave you about always being ready, Ryan's compliment, he knows everybody. He knows the guy that does the Murray State play-by-play. You know the guy that does the baseball?

Jeff Bidwell, former Paducah sports anchor, and then Dave Winder is a former Kentucky, Wesley. Wesley. Murray State player who's now unlike their administrative officer. I can get one of those guys. Can I find track him down. All right. Look at this guy. Shannon, that's a good way for him to win me back.

That's right. Won you over in 10 minutes. Yes, he can win me back in 10 minutes. He can always suck me back in. If Ryan can't do it, hopefully someone from the audience can. Drew, I know you watched a ton of this this weekend. Are you with me on how the college baseball, how it's kind of really exciting this time of year? Yeah, and I'm like you.

I'm all in on the racers last night. You know, I'll be honest, I don't know the roster from top to bottom. I'm still learning as a new racers fan, but their cleanup batter comes up and they say from Madisonville, North Hopkins, Jonathan Hogarth. So I didn't even know I have a fellow maroon on the team. So that just makes me like them even more. We'll be following them at the next stage. Yeah, I mean, when you get to the NCAA tournament in basketball, yes, you get like a Jack Gulky. and those kind of guys.

And they're interesting stories. I know it was against us. You do get that. But there are not like a ton of those guys. Part of the reason we remember their names is because you might have one every two or three years. But Shannon, you played college baseball, right? I mean, it's clear. First of all, their rosters seem to never end.

And they have 45 pitchers. And they'll come in because of the format of that series. They'll come in having only pitched like three games all season. And then they'll be in the eighth inning in the most important game of the year. And you can literally see them trembling. And then you get this moment where they take a guy who's going to be drafted in the major league draft like in two weeks and they strike them out. Murray State had a pitcher where the announcer literally was like, he basically said he can't throw anything. but he's hoping right now.

That's basically what he said. Drew, you saw it. He was basically like he can't, but he's hoping. And then he got him out. And I was rooting for that kid so much. Shannon, I think it's like probably what people older than us

say college sports used to be like. I feel like you see it right. Yeah, you've gotten some really cool moments in the tournament so far. And you're right. You know, you've got to go deep into your bullpen and you got guys that haven't thrown much all season.

And all of a sudden now they're put into a pressure-packed point of the game where they've got to go in and get somebody out. And it's a tough situation for somebody like that that's been on the bench all year. So I know we have a lot of listeners who have connections to Murray State. Maybe you went there. Maybe you know, somebody from your town has gone and played there. I don't think, you know, there are some Western fans, Drew, that for whatever reason have a chip on their shoulder and won't root for Kentucky.

I've never really understood that. But I feel like Murray State and Kentucky fans, there's no animosity. there. Would you agree? No, not at all. I'd say there's a lot of crossover fans in Western Kentucky that like both. And I never really have any head-to-head rivalries with them at any point. No losses we remember. So why not root for them? Have we ever lost to them, Ryan, in basketball? Have we ever lost to Murray State? No, that's the big debate. We won't play them because they want to do a home and home. Remember Murray State wants to do a home and home with Kentucky? No, but I mean, have we, we have played them at some point, I'm sure, haven't we? At some point. Man, I can't remember maybe before my time when they played.

They play them in football a couple times at Crogra Field. Yeah. They play them in baseball. Have we ever played them in basketball? I don't remember them ever playing Murray in basketball. You know, I don't. It feels like we would have had to have played at some point, but I don't know that we have. I mean, obviously we could look this up, but it's much better, Shannon, just to guess like this randomly.

Right. I have no minute. We were supposed to play them in the tournament, and we lost to St. Peter's. Right, right. And then St. Peter's beat Murray the next game. But I don't think we've played Murray in basketball, at least in the modern era. You know what? I can't remember it. So all the more reason, we don't have any reason to have any animosity towards it.

Football game was just last season. Yeah. It's still fresh. Yeah, we played them. We played a couple times in football, I think. Max coached at Murray State, obviously, for a year. I went to the Spanish or the foreign language. festival there.

That's also very important to the connection between the two schools. I have the SID's phone number. I'm getting ready to call during the commercial break. All right. You take care of that because I'd like to talk to Dan Skirka. But I do want to thank Murray State Baseball for bringing me back some, you know, some good post-NCA tournament joy with their win down in the regional last week. And, you know, we're going to pull them through against Duke this weekend.

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859-280-2287, one person on the text machine, which is 772-774-5254 said that was a great first segment because it was all their personalities. You had frustrated Matt, heel, Shannon, defensive, rind, sarcastic Drew. That's very true. It kind of was, but you. That is kind of true. You said you have definitive proof of something, Shannon.

Oh, yeah. I've got the receipts. I've got the text messages that are time stamped on when I got. What's the timestamp? Okay, 10.04, we're good. I don't know what that means. 10.05 on two. Okay, so now I know where I can find you, and that's when I switched over to two.

And the show starts at what time? 10.03. Yeah, that's right. Drew can verify. And we put our headsets on. We were connected and can hear the jingle. so I texted Shannon, hey, we're good. The jingle.

It's wherewolves of London. It's a song. Yeah, when the jingle starts, that's when you're supposed to be. Because we were in the other studio trying to set it up. Right, right, Shannon. Shannon didn't know how to do it. He didn't know what to tell me to do. It's true.

Yeah. I've got to do everything. No help. Yeah. Let me do everything. It's your responsibility. Okay, did we get the Murray State coach? I made contact to the SID.

The coach, they're in route back. They're trying to say that tomorrow morning would be. better, but I'm not doing tomorrow morning. I know they're in route back. This is a chance to get the entire Kentucky fan base on board. I would love to have him. We got other things to do tomorrow. If they don't want to do it, that's totally fine.

But I don't, I mean, I know it's short notice, but this would be the chance, SID. I mean, Murray State, there's a huge Kentucky fan base that would love to root for you. Your coach is very, very likable. I've heard the interview after he beat Ole Miss the first time and last night This would be wouldn't you agree Ryan a good to a good time to do it Yeah you got to kind of strike why the iron's hot You got to strike what's hot I'm excited about it right now Shannon tomorrow we might there might be a story about zipper merging and we move on

That's right yeah I mean right now is a great opportunity Right now is a great time yeah okay so I'm sure tomorrow morning would be better But we have other things to do tomorrow morning So hopefully just let us know if you think if you can I totally understand. A little update. We made this announcement yesterday. So we are taking at KS Bar basically a two-month break of June and July to do some renovations and to do some updates with the restaurant.

Just historically, you know, if you just look at the bar, here's the way the sports bar in Lexington works, at least an independently owned one like ourselves. June and July are slowest months in general. You go back to when we opened in 2018. It's always been like that. But also, we just have decided we need to do some updates to the place in general. We need to make it, you know, we need to renovate some stuff, especially in the back in the kitchen, because we have a small kitchen and that can get crowded on big game days.

We also need to do some menu changes, et cetera. So we're going to use this June and July to do sort of a refresher update. will open back in August, you know, hopefully a couple weeks, if not earlier, before the football season. So I want to thank all of you that wrote support yesterday, and we're looking forward to being back open. But because of that, in June and July, we're going to do some shows in different places because we always usually do them at the bar.

So one of the things we're going to do is we're going to have a contest starting next week where, Ryan, we will do the show at someone in Kentucky's house over the course of the summer. Now, do you like that idea? On the outset, yes. Now, I need more excitement about this idea. Drew, no, uh, before we start. I'm all in on going to a random person's house. I expect breakfast.

You were part of our initial conversation about this on the other show. We're going to do a, you can bring us to your house for a moment. morning show. I'll explain how next week, but Drew, it will be a chance for us to go somewhere different over the course of the summer. I'm all about it. I want to go into someone's home. I want to kick my shoes off, put my feet up on their couch, I want to drink their coffee, eat their bagels, and just basically live in someone's residence for two hours while we do the show. I think that'd be fun to go to a stranger's house. WCW. Nitro did this once. They had a contest, bring Nitro to your house. Do you remember this?

Yeah, and the WWF had a thing called In Your House, which is what we're going to be doing. Basically. So we will do that next week. But because of that, but KS. Mar will be closed in June and July, moved back in August. We're keeping, for some people have asked because you've gotten to know our staff. We're keeping our managers on during this period. And the folks that are, you know, we have a lot of people that work part-time.

They have other jobs or their students, et cetera. The handful of people that work regularly, we're helping them. They'll have other jobs within the rest of the job. community until we open back up. So Ryan, Drew, I know you guys are like me. You're going to miss everybody, but this is a best decision for the restaurant and also kind of trying to improve it. We need, as with everything, you need to kind of restart it a little bit.

And Ryan, we're going to use this as our chance to do that. Yeah, I think we'll come back better than ever, ready for football season head on with some improvements and things we're going to do at the restaurant. It kind of gets us back on on the road, like old school KSR during the summer, where we're on the road doing across the state shows. So that'll be kind of fun to get back to that a little bit. Yeah, so we're looking forward to it. But wanted to make that announcement.

Also, for the trivia finals, we will still do that. It's one of these days in June. I'll announce the date. We will still do it. It'll likely be at the bar, but I will announce it when it happens. 859-280-2287. I've had somebody send me Skirka's number. What do you think, Shannon?

Should I just call him directly, or do we have to go through these? I mean, it's a cinema attack. Say, hey, do you want to come on KSR? Pretty self-explanatory. I feel like that's, I mean, I feel like that's probably what you ought to do. Drew, we didn't talk about this yesterday, but Carl Towns and the Knicks end up taking a loss to the Pacers. Carl did not play well in the final game and has taken a lot of criticism of people trying, saying he needs to get gone. You saw the final game.

we talked about how much we enjoyed Carl getting good publicity. Did it make you sad to see in the final game in New York, or excuse me, in Indiana, that it didn't really go well at the end and all the stuff people have said since then? Yeah, I'm actually quite surprised that Nix fans soured on Carl so quickly. Overall, he had great running the playoffs. Even his last game, I still think he had a pretty big double-double, just didn't shoot it well. I've been seeing some things like Brunson and Kat can't play together. I'm like, did we not just watch the run that they just went on?

So, yeah, I've got a little defensive of my guy, Carl. It was one thing to make the zesty jokes. I might have scrolled through those and had laughs here and there, but they seem to really be upset with how I finish that series. I don't understand. There are only four teams left. The Knicks hadn't been there since 2000. They get there, and then they lose, and everybody wants to break the team up.

That makes no sense to me. Weren't the most success you've had in 25 years, you should want to continue it. But people have such short-term thoughts and memories. It drives me nuts. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney.

Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio. 859-8-2-80-2287. Text machine 772-7-4-5-25-4. I sent a text message to the coach, just like you suggested, Shannon.

I felt very powerful when we sent that Dan Skirka. I'll let you know if he responds. Now, you have a response, Ryan. What is your response? This is from the SID. Really prefer to not have him do an interview on the bus. It would work out for tomorrow's show at some point that would work best for us. Okay.

Tell him to stop off of the Buckees. Get off the bus. Amen. Call in. First of all, I think. the bus, wouldn't the bus be cool, Drew? Like they're on the bus? Like, I think that's even cooler than a regular interview.

They're on the bus. We can hear the excitement from the victory. Can you even pass the phone. Maybe the star players sit next to him. Pass the phone over. Let him get a moment on the radio. I think that's exciting. The bus.

That would be so cool. You're getting the moment. You're all caught up in the moment. Could it be this? they're partying too hard on the bus. Well, okay, I can excuse that if it's that the party's too hard. You think the party's too hard at 10.30 in the morning? That's 9.30 central time.

Maybe they're still asleep. Just one at Ole Miss. And then like, where do we think they are on the bus? How do you get from Oxford to Murray? What's the right? Pretty short drive, actually. Is it not very far? No, I know a lot of people from my side of the state that went to Ole Miss.

It's a lot closer than you think. I'm trying to think you go through Memphis, right? you would go how do you get from memphis to murray do you go through nashville or do you go a different way um i don't think you would go through memphis maybe just through nashville no not even really through nashville here you have to go through memphis i mean there is a map ship google google says um it's a three hour and 40 minute drive just skirt past memphis all right so i guess ryan we i mean if they just said no i guess we shouldn't write again Well, maybe he'll answer your text.

Maybe he'll come in a personal text from you. Maybe he'll convince him to go ahead and do it. Yeah, it looks like you go through Memphis, then you would go through Jackson. Like we said, Martin, Tennessee. I assume that's where U.T. Martin is. Right across the state line, yep. Because you went to go to Murray State before they went wet. Actually, you wouldn't go through Martin.

You'd go through Jackson, then Paris, Tennessee. Did we have a U.K. player from Paris, Tennessee, Ryan? I feel like I know that from somewhere. I feel like you're right. Somebody came from Paris, Tennessee. Who did we have from Paris, Tennessee? I feel like we did. And then you go up through Murray.

So they should be home pretty soon. It just calls me when he gets home. It's a short trip. It would have been cool, but I'm not going to press it. We tried. I mean, I still will wish you luck. I'm still going to wear these shoes, Shannon. But I will say this has deflated my excitement a little bit.

Yeah, could have had a chance to talk to the entire. state of Kentucky. That would have been cool. We can't do it on the bus, though. The bus would have been much, much cooler than anything else. We have never,

859-280-2287, couple open lines. Give us a shout. We'd love to talk to you. We have never played Murray State Ryan in basketball ever. Which is kind of amazing. That's kind of amazing that it's in the state

and we have never played them. Somebody mentioned, did we play them in a benefit game not too long ago when Cal was here and like for a fundraiser or something, but I don't remember that either. What do you mean a benefit game? A fundraiser game?

I don't remember that. Somebody texted that in. I have no memory of that. Drew, do you have a memory of that? No, I don't know what that would be. Yeah. I don't know that I believe that happened. I'll tell you another thing I don't believe that happened.

Louisville had a recruit, Drew, that went on field of 68. What's the kid's names? Oh, you're Fr. Frue. Fru. Frue. Trey Mitchell's not the recruit. He's the guy that played here.

But there was a guy, there. Frue goes on field of 68, and in the course of the conversation, says Trey Mitchell told him that Louisville had the best fans in the country, and that Louisville was the loudest place to play basketball.

I don't believe Trey Mitchell said that. First of all, I don't think he would say that over Kentucky. Secondly, when Trey was here, Louisville was terrible. That was when Kenny Payne was here. So they were like 40 people at the games. Do you believe that Trey Mitchell told this random kid going to Louisville that Louisville had the best fans? I do not believe this whatsoever.

One, Trey Mitchell wouldn't do that to us. I don't believe that at all. I think this is the case. This guy, Frew, he was playing over in Germany. I think maybe he had a conversation with Trey Mitchell. Trey was talking about Kentucky, and he just associated Louisville as being in Kentucky with Kentucky fans, and it just got kind of combined there. Maybe a slight miscommunication that Fru took the wrong direction.

Oh, so this kid's in Germany. Yes, Sananda Fru. Okay. Well, you could see that, Shannon, if you're in Germany. Like, you would just, I mean, you barely even know the states in Germany. Like, how many cities in Germany, Shannon, can you name? just off the top of your head Munich Munich all right what else

It's probably about it Can you get five? No What's the capital? You can get the capital Berlin Berlin okay that's two All right can we collectively get five in Germany

Hamburg Shout up Hamburg Three like our Hamburg Lexington Anybody else Frankfurt Frankfurt now we're up to four Can we get five

I'm out going once going twice four is pretty impressive I don't care what you say what about where all the American military is we have a ton of American military in one city

like if you go to this city I went to this city there are probably 50,000 Americans walking around because we have a military base there you may know Stuttgart

Stuttgart has like a massive military base anyway if you didn't know about to get it. If you didn't know any of the places, like in Kentucky, you would think Louisville and Kentucky are the same place. Yeah, I could see that.

And Trey Mitchell has already responded on Instagram saying that's, what do you say? That's no cap. Is that what he said? No, no, no. Here it is. You know that's cap. I think that means you know that's a lie. Yeah.

No cap would mean he's telling the truth. Okay, yeah, yeah. You know, you know, K-N-O-W-No. That's cap. So he wrote, you know that's cap. Yeah. Which means you know that's a lot. Yeah.

Because when Tray Mitchell was here, and after when Kenny was there. That was when Kenny Payne was there. They had no one at their games. Like no one at their games. Can't be true. Who's up first? Let's go to Bubba.

Bubba. How are you Bubba? I just called in yesterday about the Tommy Bannon, no hitter UK. Hey, I know you guys who just mentioned about having a, at someone's house, to show at someone's house. Yes.

We'll have a contest or something, yeah. Okay. Well, I've got a lot of sports memorabilia, and I think it'd be a great place at my base. Yeah, we'll have a contest, Bubba. I mean, I'm sure your place would be great, but we'll have some kind of contest or something to make. I mean, I don't, it's not about the memorabilia so much.

It's just going to be like a cool, like we'll see where we end up going, and you should enter it, and who knows, maybe we'll be there with your memorabilia. But, okay, but then again, I would like you to come to look at some of this stuff because I've got stuff signed by Wawa Jones and Ralph Beard and a lot of old Kentucky memorabilia stuff that you might be interested in looking at anyway. So I appreciate it. Just, yeah, just enter the contest and we'll do it, Bubba. Thank you very much.

One person writes, Matt, I hope Bob and Jamestown wins the contest. I kind of do too. dude on the porch I'm not getting anywhere near that porch I feel like that porch Shannon is at least the side of misdemeanors oh yeah things have gone down on that porch unspeakable things we've done the show

at people's houses we did Josephine's house that one time yes and we did the woman in Louisville's house yes yes um yeah no I mean it's I think it would be I think it would be fun I'd love to do it in like a town or a county that we haven't been to before. I think that would be nice. But we'll have sort of a scientific, we'll have a scientific, you know, thing.

Drew, did you see the video of the world chess champion? What's his name? Magnus. Magnus Carlson. Magnus Carlson, the number one chess player in the world, he lost to like an 18-year-old. He lost to a kid. And he kind of lost his temper. when he lost. He like slammed his hand down against the board. He did shake hands and then he walked off in a huff.

It's a great video. I mean, obviously, I don't know anything about chess to know how he lost to this kid. But what did you think of the video? Sour a loser. I mean, let's be honest, a guy named Magnus that looks like that, probably would have predicted that's how he would react. But I like that the kid and beat him just calm and cool and collected, just kind of stands up, keeps a straight face, and walks with the scene behind him. him like a little walk-off, but I guess Magnus didn't used to losing those being the best in the world. I obviously don't know a lot about chess. Is this kid good, or was this just a random kid?

Do we know? I'd say if he mentioned the championship, he'd have to be good to get there. That's probably true. Yeah. But I think he was the youngest ever to win whatever that was, whatever championship that is. The Magnus kid, they said, had not lost in three years. Wow. And then he loses to this kid.

He looks, I feel like to be really good at chess, Shannon. Don't you think you have to be a little bit off? Yeah, probably so. Spending a lot of time playing chess. You probably don't get out and make a lot of friends, unless you're chess buddies, I guess. I read a book this year called Intermezzo. It was by Sally Rooney.

It's like a fiction book, and it's very good. And it's got two main characters, and one of the main characters is a lawyer, and one of the main characters is a chess player. And the chess player is, like they give him have like a heart of gold, but he's a little bit, like, socially awkward. And I would think, Ryan, if you're going to sit, to be really good at chess, you're going to have to stare at that chess board or that chess screen like all the time. And so I feel like you can't help but be a little.

awkward if you do that, right? I would think so, and they memorize all these moons. You know, I watch Queens Gambit, so I kind of got behind the scenes on the chess world. Which was set in Lexington, isn't it? Absolutely it was. The guy wrote it was from Lexington. But they memorized all these moves

like possible centers. They have them all memorized in their head, so Magnus obviously must have been caught off guard by this young guy. Maybe he underestimated his opponent a little bit. One of the cool things when you go to New York City that you can see is you can go, Shannon, by these parks. and there'll be chess boards set up

and there'll be older men usually African American men who sit there and they just challenge whoever comes up to chess and they just beat them like all the time. They just sit there waiting for people to come challenge them and people will come up thinking they're going to beat them and these guys these guys who are just sitting there

in the park will just like take on all comers in chess and I always think that's kind of cool. You should just walk up to one maybe later today and sit down and see how long you can last against a professional chess player. Do you even know how to play chess? Loosely. I mean, I know how the moves go, but I would not. I have no strategy.

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un-televised exhibition game for tornado relief? Is that? Was that Murray or Moorhead? People have texted me that too, but it seems like to me it was Moorhead. Did we play Moorhead in a relief game? I don't remember that. Kentucky playing Murray State. What was the game where the coal miner set in the front row?

That was the blue-white game in Eastern Kentucky. That was the blue-white game. They played that in Pikeville. Yeah, that's right. Didn't they play that in Pikeville? I think they did at the Pikeville Arena. Definitely. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I guess it's possible they played a game against Murray State.

They're saying it was the Bam Fox Monkier. I just have. I have no memory of that if that happened. If that's true, I have absolutely no memory of that whatsoever. So, I mean, I guess it's possible. But 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, what are you hearing about UK football season tickets? Are you hearing any numbers?

No, and that's part of the worry for me, Ryan, about the football season tickets is they haven't announced any numbers that I've heard. I haven't heard. I mean, normally at this time, they'll say, you know, season tickets are sold out or this game is sold out. I mean, you have Texas coming to town, you have Florida coming to town, you have Tennessee coming to town, you have big games coming and I've heard absolutely nothing about any of those games even be sold out, much less season tickets. Yeah, there are no official numbers, but I'm just anecdotally kind of expecting it to be very, very low. Yeah, my fear is that those games you just talked about will be full,

but they'll be mainly full with opposing teams fans in our stadium. I think Drew and I talked about the Texas game. That's during Keenland. all those folks probably coming at Lexington for the first time. They'll probably flood Lexington, buy those tickets, go out to Keenland that weekend. So it's going to be tough when you walk in. There's a lot of orange in there for Tennessee, Texas,

and maybe even Florida. The Harold Leader had something at the April season ticket deadline. I think it said they were down like 13, 12, 13-ish percent a couple months ago, which. Well, that would be not as bad as I would have thought, honestly. If it's only 13 or 12 percent, I mean, that's not good. good, but it would be better than I thought. I mean, maybe it's just anecdotally, Drew, that people when they renew don't tell you,

and when they don't renew, they do. But, I mean, I just, I don't want to say the person's name because they may not want me to do that. But I have a very close friend who's had season tickets for as long as I've known him. So we're talking 20 years who didn't renew. And, I mean, that's renewing even through the Joker years. And, I mean, that's, I feel like that's a very bad. sign. I know a lot of people like that too. Heck, we heard from Jerry just recently. I would have probably guessed more than 13%, but at the same time, if you're a business and your stock goes down

13%, that's a pretty big deal. And people are going to be upset with you and need some good PR. So it's not a great decline. No, and it's at a time we need more revenue, right? Like, that's at a time that we're adding $22 million to our budget for NIL. So, I mean, I guess that's a good point. If you're I don't know what the football season tickets bring in, but let's say they bring in $30 million. If all of a sudden you take 3.9% or $3.9 million out of that budget, you've got to make it up somewhere. So I guess, Ryan, I mean, you connect with a lot of football fans,

probably even more than I do. What are you hearing? Right now, I think it is they're kind of holding off. I just kind of hope that as the season gets closer, they'll kind of get back on board and get them on the excitement, like go ahead and get those tickets and go to the games. You know, maybe as the summer progresses, we'll start hearing maybe some more positive things about that.

I talked to a football guy today. He gave me some positive news to make you feel a little better maybe about football. He said the offensive line will be better than people think. Like that kid from New Mexico State, I guess, is legit. Like he's really good. Farmers back at guard. The kid from Alabama at the other guard. So they think that.

I guess that's good, Shane. It just depends on what people think. Yeah. How bad? How bad do you think? What your expectation level of bad? Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Who's up next? KB. KB. How are you KB? Hey, what's going on, guys? Hey, real quick. Matt, did you say you went to Kaiser Slaughter while he was in Germany? I went to what?

Did you go to Kaiser Slaughter? Or where did you go at in Germany? Talking about the military people. I said Stuttgart. Oh, okay, never mind, never mind. I'm here at Kaiser Slott, and so I didn't know if you, I missed that conversation. Oh, you're in Germany right now? Yeah, yeah, I'm right here.

I'm on Ramstein. All right, well, God bless you, sir. I appreciate it. No, I got a quick question. I'm about to go on like a week-long road trip, and I know y'all are, y'all go on plenty of those, so y'all are like the experts. Random question, but what is your, what's your favorite road trip snacks, I guess? I'm torn between

a couple, but I didn't know what y'all. What was it? What were the pretzels we got in Iowa? What were those things? Dots. Dots. Oh, dots. So good.

That's the best thing I've gotten on a road trip. Those dots pretzels. Shannon, you got something? That was the one for me. How about some Mingy beef jerky? I've always got some of that. Beef jerky is good. Nerd gummy clusters, too.

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