KSR - 2025-06-04- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is our number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, here on a beautiful day. I'll catch a flight when this is over back to Kentucky, but I'm in New York. Is Kentucky beautiful today, Ryan? It is nice. It is fantastic.

I think some storms coming in. Thursday, Friday, though, just as you get back. Perfect weather, though, right now. That's what we want. We're in Somerset on Friday. Right. What is it? The victory.

No, the Virginia. Oh, okay. It's not the victory in Jesus theater, which is what I thought it was. No. The Virginia. That's a little different than the victory in Jesus. It's a great hymn, though. Victory in Jesus.

My Savior forever. Where is the Virginia? Somerset. Okay, I understand that. But what is it? Is it a theater? Is it a theater? Yeah, because Shannon, the dude, Alice Blue Gounds were performing there Friday night.

Same place. So we are at the Virginia from 10 to 12 in Somerset on Friday. Love to see everybody there in Somerset. Friday always been one of our, maybe one of the stops we go at the most on the road is Somerset. So we will see you on Friday. Tiburones, Ryan means sharks in Spanish. That's the name of the team. Okay.

So one person says, Matt, it was his daughter that got hit, not a son, and it was a boy that hit the girl when they were playing. Does that change your mind at all? No. No. No. First of all, there is no excuse ever for hitting a kid or for hitting a woman, period. You're not going to get an excuse for me. There's no excuse.

like, you know, if you're a man, you do not hit a kid, you do not hit a woman. You shouldn't hit anybody, but you certainly shouldn't hit a kid. He certainly shouldn't hit a woman. Apparently this guy was having his daughter play on the boys team, probably to make her, you know, against harder competition. Okay, that's fine. I got no problem with that. But then, like, if she's playing against the boys, like, she's playing against the boys. Like, she's making the decision that she's going to play in this, or you're making the decision for her.

that you're going to be playing in this more physical game. And that doesn't mean you can go hit people. Okay? I mean, you can't. When you make a decision for your daughter to play with the boys, it's going to be rougher. And they're going to treat her, hopefully, like they treat the other boys. But even if they don't, they can take it out of them.

They can punish the kid. But you can't be the one, Ryan, to go hit a kid. You just can't. No, you can complain to the official and call for a foul, which it looks like they did, but then you can't take it out on a 12-year-old kid, regardless of what the situation is. It's just inexcusable.

Yeah. Apparently it's the least people are saying, Shannon, allegedly. It's the director of the team. Well, that makes it almost even worse. I mean, not that you've just been the whole team. No, I mean, it's not the kid's fault. Correct.

I agree with that. It's not the kid's fault, so, like, I wouldn't suspend the team, but I'd say you got to get away. Suspend him. Or I don't know if they own it or they run it or whatever, but like he can't be in charge anymore. But no, I mean, you don't suspend the old team. It's not the, you know, it's not the, it's like when kids' parents do something wrong,

it's not the kid's fault that the parents act of fool. It's the, you know, it's the parents' fault. All right, a couple things. First of all, Shannon, I just, I'm not going to dwell on this, but I want the record to show I was right about something. What did I say? What did I say the moment Elon started working for Trump? What did I say?

You said eventually he's going to turn on Trump and they're going to disagree. I said it was never going to work. Can I say that? Two egos that big. No way. No way. And just for the record, what's happened? He's already out. And now he's criticizing. I told you, Shannon, did I call this moment one?

Yep, you did. It's like when the mega powers exploded in wrestling. Right. They can only coexist for so long. You cannot have Hulk Hogan and macho man together forever. At some point, the egos explode, and I feel like Ryan, I should get a checkmark for that one, correct? They made it, what, five, four, five months a lot longer than I thought than most people thought they would make it.

I said that he'd be out by July 1st, and it was getting close, Shannon, but it happens. We got there, and so that's one point team, team Matthew Harper. Second, I'm still giving up on the Reds, Ryan, but that was an awesome win last night the way they won. Did you see that catch at the end of the game? Yeah. There's one thing to say about the Reds, they do provide you with a lot of exciting moments. They can't maybe win the game, but they do provide some exciting moments with Ellie doing stuff. Did you see the ninth inning, Shannon?

It was classic Reds. Okay. We're up four to two, two outs. Ellie, all he has to do is throw its first. That's it. Game over. and he throws it away. Err.

So now there's a guy on. Game should be over. Should be over. And then the Brewers dude hits a shot. Deep center field, like the deepest part of the park. And when he hits it, Ryan, the announcer, has in his voice,

oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. And then Friedel gets over the wall and grabs it. I'm going to go ahead and tell you, had that been a home run, I was going to have to take about a two-week Reds break and literally not watch another day.

If they had blown it with that air and then the home run, but he caught it. And I'm still out on them, but it wasn't exciting way. Probably the best moment of the year so far for the Reds. Yeah, you know, the baseball gods often will punish some after an air like that. That's why I'm shocked that ball didn't, wasn't a home run. Anyplace else in the ballpark, it's a home run.

That's the one spot Frito had a chance to get. Why is that, by the way, in baseball? I want to ask you to that. I've often wondered this. Why is center field deeper than right and left field? What is the rationale? I don't really have an answer. I'm just trying to think if center field were as short as left and right filled.

But why isn't it? It would be like the shape of it would have to be completely different. Yeah, but the shape they chose is completely random. They could have chosen a different shape. It's just a more rounded shape. But why? I mean, why? What is the logic for it's a home run 350 feet and right, but it takes it 400 feet in center?

Why? I'm not really sure there's logic behind it. Shouldn't there be logic to sports? I mean, in other ballparks, it is like that. I mean, there's no one, you know, way that it has to be. But in every ballpark that I know of, center field is longer than left and right feet. Oh, yes. It's obviously different distances depending on the field you choose.

but what was the reason why center field was always longer? Like, why isn't it 350? If you decide to make a home run in your stadium 350 feet, why wouldn't it be like that everywhere? It's a fair question. Because in basketball, the three point line is different, but it's because the court's not big enough, right? And presumably, if they had made a bigger court,

they wouldn't have said the corner three is shorter. They have to do it because the court is too big because they made the court before we had three point lines. But I've never understood why in baseball, center field is, I mean, everybody just accepts that center field is farther, but I've never understood why. That's why they call it a diamond, I guess. It's, you know, it's diamond shaped. But no, the diamond is the infield. The outfield is more of a circle.

It's not a, it's not a diamond. It's a, the baseball diamond is the infield. I thought it was the whole field. Well, either way, I don't know why exactly it is, but, you know. There are a little league field where the fence is 200 feet all the way around. 200. That's the distance. But that to me would seem more logical.

Anyway, I'm glad because of last night. But I've just, also, well, if you hit it to center field, presumably you've hit it with perfect timing. Right? Because when you hit it to left or right, you've either hit it early or late. but if you hit it dead straight, presumably that's the best timing you could get. So why do we make it the farthest away? All right, so here's an answer.

I'll just read what this says. Okay, what is it said? Center field and baseball is typically deeper than other outfield positions because it covers the largest area. This is due to the shape of the baseball field and the need to have all positions to cover equal amounts of ground.

Center field's depth is also influenced by factors like altitude and the historical constraints of building ballparks within city blocks. Okay, the first part of that definition is the definition is just defining what it says. It's farther because it's farther. The second part is city blocks. I don't really know why that would, what that, why that would change anything. But, okay, that does, that still doesn't totally answer the question to me.

But either way it is, and that's ultimately why the Reds won the game. Who's up next, Shannon? Let's go to Madison. Madison, go ahead, Madison. I know you are. I know you are. 559, 280, 2287. I got two things for you, one of them's basketball, one of them's football.

Okay. When do you think, I know we've announced a couple non-conference games in basketball, but when do you think we'll get another announcement? Because I know there's not very many. I don't know when we'll get the other announcement. I would say usually, Ryan, by mid-June, you have the whole schedule, right? Isn't that about when we do usually? Definitely a summer thing that comes out in the summer, for sure.

Yeah, I think it's usually around mid-June. We have most of the games. I mean, there's, I think what? Who are the bad teams we play? We play Bellarmine, Ryan. Don't we play, what, Tennessee Tech or something like that? I think that's right. That sounds right.

I can't remember. I think we have most of them, but there's like two or three that haven't been announced. So we have close to the schedule at this point. We still don't know the AC-C. team we play yet, although a lot of the rumors have been NC State, who now looks like they'll be a top 25 team. But Madison, it'll be sometime in mid-Jew. What's your second question?

And then the second one is they recently released the line for the first football game against Toledo, 12 and a half. Do you all think that's too high? What's your opinion? I mean, it should be, and I appreciate the call, it should be too low, right? I mean, against the MAC team, if we're going to play in the SEC, we need to be a lot more of a favorite than 12.5. With that said, I can't say it feels too low considering the team we have,

Toledo's the favorite in the MAC, etc. But on paper, we should not be only a 12.5 point favorite to any team in the Mac. And I wonder if the fact that even though Kentucky's been favored by 17, 20, 21, they don't cover these games in the first game of the season. I think they're historically stupidest teams have not covered. so I don't know Maybe that's playing into it a little bit Yeah

I don't know what made me think of this But you know who I walked past yesterday On the street, Shannon, while walking down the road Who's that? Bill Burr Oh really cool Yeah I just he's in a play here, I think

And he just walks down And what's crazy about New York Is a dude like Bill Bear walks down the street And no one said Like no one acts like it's Uh huh Did you say anything to him? No

He didn't ask him about his brother I thought that might get punched in the face I don't want to get him angry at me. But, you know, if Bill Burr were to walk down the street in Lexington, people be like, oh, there's Bill Burr. But in New York, it's like people just feel like it's cool to not act like they're there. And I'm kind of looking around like going, hey, buddies, you see, that's Bill Burr? And like, nobody seems to care.

Yeah. Well, you know, I've been in New York several times. I guess I've never seen anybody famous or didn't recognize them. When you're close to that 30 Rock, that's where, because they all. go in there to do Saturday Night Live or the Tonight Show. So he's just walking down the street. He doesn't have an entourage or nobody surrounding him. He was just by himself, by himself walking down the street.

So at what level do you have to get to in New York of like celebrity to where you can't do that, you know? I think a lot of those dudes pride themselves on just trying to live normal lives. When I was working on my book, I worked on it at Simon & Schuster. You remember when Mitch got me kicked off the radio, I came to New York and I wrote the book. for like two months. And I would work out of the Simon and Shoester building, which is in 30 Rock. And so I would walk around to eat lunch and stuff.

And I saw a ton of people. I saw all the people at the time that were on Saturday Night Live. But then, like, who's the guy that voiceover's hard knocks? What's his name? Liam. Do you know what I'm talking about the guy who's like? I don't know his name. Can't think of his name.

Schreber, Shriver. You would recognize him. Anyway, point is I saw that guy. And Shannon, they just walk by themselves like it's nothing, you know? Which I think it's kind of cool. It is if you can slide under the radar. But, you know, if you've got people bothering you, then... Then that wouldn't be.

I guess that's when you have to get somebody. Who's next? Let's go to Andrew. Andrew, go ahead, Andrew. Hey, so three points real quick. I'm disappointed about my Knicks losing the conference finals. I'd like for UK football to be 8 and 4 and be whatever. bowl game used to be called the Outback Bowl in Tampa Bay,

and then how about UK, St. Johns, and Arkansas all in the Final Four next year and get you a hog in there, Boa. Woo! No on Arkansas in the Final Four. I do think it would be fun to have St. John's there with us. I'd love for us to go eight and four. Don't know if that's going to happen. And the Knicks, well, we'll talk about that.

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So we'll see him Sunday night at CMA Fest. Do you like this guy? Yeah, I mean, I don't know a whole lot about him. But you can hear how he sounds like he'd be from the 90s, right? Yeah, I like this style better than, what was it, Chase McDaniels we were listening to earlier. Yeah, turn it. You can totally hear that coming on a 90s country radio. Oh, no doubt.

Yep. For sure. That's why I like him. So I'm looking forward to seeing him in person. I just sent you, somebody sent me, Moorhead States baseball field. That's wild, didn't it? That field you sent us is Moorhead State? That's what they said.

Is that not Moorhead States? baseball field i've played there did it look like that no i don't remember looking like that what's it say on there it says alan filled is that the name of their field um i hope so or else this person just live yeah that's crazy it has a big huge left field right and like the left field looks like center field in other stadiums but even farther like you couldn't hit a home run to that left Oblong and left center. And right field, I bet the wall is like really tall. Like it's short, but I bet it's short from home plate, but I bet it's tall.

It goes up. It is weird, though, also in baseball. It's the only sport where the stadiums, like, the dimensions are not the same. Like, in basketball, they don't have subcords that are just, you know, 10 feet longer for whatever reason. Yeah, only the distance from, you know, base to base and the mound to the home plate. The rest of it could be anything. But the home runs. Right.

It could be anything. are completely different depending on where you play. That's kind of strange. I think at Clemson last week, Kentucky was there, they had like a little hill that went up toward the fence, like on around the aisle. Don't the Astros have that or Rangers or one of them? I think you're right.

I think you're right about that. One of those teams have like a little hill that goes up to center field. So one person writes in the text machine, Matt, do you think there's anything at all that can be done to make the UK football fan base excited about the season. You know, I've tried to think about that recently because I want to play my role too

to not just be an arbiter of doom and gloom. But Ryan, I don't know. Is there anything? Let's say you were in charge of PR at UK. Your job was fan engagement at UK. Is there anything you think they can do before the Toledo game? to get people more on board.

Well, I think one thing I would have Calzada do some meet and greets or come on here with us, you know, get to know who our quarterback is, the new running back. We don't know anything about him from Nebraska. I think we've got to get him out there and let him meet and greet him with some people. Dowell, is that his name? I don't even know his name. I think that's right. It's a bad side if we don't know his name, Shannon.

I think it's Dow. But go ahead. And, you know, we've got a couple guys that are coming back, and we need to maybe put them out there. You know, Ty Bryant's already been on the show. Jordan Lovett. They got both our safeties are back. Besides going on the radio, just a bigger picture thing.

What can they do? Like, what can they do? What can Mark Stoops? If you're trying to get this fan base excited, is there anything they can do? Put together a really good hype video and put it out there on social media to get people hyped up. What worries me is when KSR, the website, puts any football content at all out, anything. Just go look at the comments. It is overwhelming negativity.

And I don't know how you get off past that. I mean, just on a personal level, as I try to think about the content I'm going to do, you go to July and August. We usually get into football mode. And as a content producer, I'm trying to figure out if we can do that this year. Because I don't, I want people to still listen during July and

August. And I just don't know. I don't know what they can do. I really don't. I think they're in this weird spot where there's not going to be anything anybody believes until the season starts, Ryan. I just don't know what they can do. Yeah.

You know, Mario and these guys can put out video after video after video, but until they go out and beat somebody. But if people don't care, they don't care, you know? You got to make them care, though. You got to go out and win against Ole Miss. So that's what it may be the case. It may be the case there's nothing they can do until the season starts. And I'm telling you, man, that first game, they can't afford to lose,

but they've got to play well against Toledo before they limp into the Molymiss game. I think that's a big reason why it's been so quiet on the offseason, too. I think Steve's realises that. You think they realize there's nothing. You got to go out and win, people will start caring. Yeah. Well, we'll find out. Who's next?

Ryan. Ryan. Go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt, gentlemen. First time long time. Who are? Hey, two quick points. First off, petty crime and punishment.

And I think it'd be easily enforced because it doesn't happen often when a gas station is really crowded. And people are stacked up at the pumps and then people pump and then go on in and get their big gulp or beef jerky. Totally agree with you. The gas station, I'm going to let you finish. But the gas station at exit 28 in Shepherdsville and then in Wadi, 43, they're very good. guilty of that because there's a lot of people that stop there because that's the cheaper gas and people do that they pump and then they go in and i do that too but not at a crowded station when you do it at a crowded station i agree that should be at least one to three years

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There's a lot of issues. But I do think. Oh, yes, definitely. Some of these places screwed up on the COVID money stuff. And even though I'm as pro public education as anybody in the state, they're having to pay the piper now. And unfortunately, the taxpayers are the ones doing it. We'll be right back.

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Look at this. See, I know a little metallic. I'm the one of the band. Load and reload. Yeah, I liked them better when they cut their hair, like everything after that. Did you? I kind of like the load album. It was my favorite one.

Load album, I enjoy that came out when we were in college, I think. That's probably why I like it. Yep. Yeah. People always like the music that came out when they were in college. If you go through history and you ask people, what do you think the best music was? almost everyone is going to pick music that was popular when they were in high school or college. Yep.

Yep. That's what they're going to pick. So I bet you, Ryan, your favorite music is when you were in high school or in college. From the 80s. There's no doubt about it, for sure. Yeah. And for us, Shannon, it's like 90s because that's when I was in high school and when I was in college. Right.

So. So that's when you get into it. And that's when music seems to like matter a lot, you know, because you're like living it. Right. in that moment. Some other sports, by the way, that don't have the same dimensions. Good point. I hadn't thought about auto racing.

Yes. Tram track is different. I didn't think about this. Shannon, golf. Of course. Yeah. So I guess that's true. One person says, Matt, I don't think there's anything that could get my friends

to care about UK football this year. I'm having a hard time getting them to even go to the first three games, and we used to make it a weekend trip with all. my college buddies. I hope it gets better when it gets closer, but I haven't seen it like this in a long time. Yeah. There's a lot of people.

I think there's a lot of people like that. I know. And you know, that's why earlier this week I said I heard some good news about the offensive line, that the line's going to be much better this year with the guys they've got. So maybe that's the start of maybe trying to build some excitement that way. One person writes, Matt, I feel like you do a good job explaining things. on issues without your liberal bias.

That's not very nice, Shannon. I'm saying I have liberal bias. Without your liberal bias, can you explain what the debate is on Trump's big, beautiful bill? First of all, let me give him credit, Shannon, for calling it a big beautiful bill. That sounds like something you would love, right?

Of course it does. Sounds like something Mark Pope might be very beautiful. It does. He's got a big beautiful bill. That's right. So I'll make it quick. I think when people think about how we pass laws, Ryan, don't they think, okay, you have an idea.

I want to do X. Let's say I want to make it to where it's illegal to cut lanes at McDonald's, right? Okay, come on. You would make a bill, and then if everybody votes for it, it would pass, correct? Wouldn't you think that's how you do it? I would think that's exactly how you do it. That's really not how we do it anymore in America. We basically pass most of our laws now in one bill called the budget bill.

called the budget bill. And why do we do that? Because in every other bill, you have to get past a Senate filibuster. Ryan, what's a filibuster? They talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. That's sort of true. That's sort of true. But basically the way our government is set up now is for a bill to pass the Senate,

it has to get 60 votes. Why? Because if they don't, it's a filibuster. So basically, not only do you have to get more than a majority, Ryan, you have to get 60 votes. Did you know that? Didn't know that. So most bills, the vast majority of bills don't get passed because they don't get 60 votes

because you have to get people on the other side to agree with you to get past the 60 votes. So how does stuff get passed? Well, the only kind of bill that doesn't require 60 votes is the budget. Why? I have no idea. That's just what the rules are. They've just made it historically that the budget is the only kind of bill that doesn't require 60 votes. So Ryan, they have an incentive for everything they want to get in without getting 60 votes, throw it in the budget.

Does that make sense? Yes. Because it's the only bill that only takes 50 votes. So every party, when they're in charge, throws everything they want to do that they don't think will be popular. They throw it into the budget. And that's why the bill ends up huge. You know how you've seen over the year, Shannon, how bills will be like 600, pay. ages long.

Yep. It's because they're throwing it all in the budget because it's the only thing that takes 50 votes. And over the years, it's made a lot of politicians mad. Rand Paul's been the biggest one about it. He's always like, let's vote on each of these things

separately. And when Democrats are in charge, they go, nope, we need to put it all together. And the Republicans complain. And then when the Republicans are in charge, they say, let's put it all together. And then the Democrats complain. And it's always, and Rand Paul,

to his credit, will always say, why do we keep doing this? Because they sneak stuff in. So Trump has rebranded it, the big, beautiful bill. But it's really the same thing everybody's always done, which is cram everything unpopular into one bill because it doesn't take a majority. I hate it. It's why Washington kind of stinks.

And this debate we're having is this year. But really the problem is that we cram everything into one bill. And most of these people don't even read it. I don't know if you saw Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted out yesterday. Sorry, I didn't even read this when I voted on it. My bad. That's not how it should be. It was a little reckless.

Well, at least she was honest about it. She acknowledged she had not read it. Because how can they? They give it to them three hours before the vote, and it's 600 pages. There's no way they can read that, even if they wanted to. So I hate it, but it's unfortunately right in the way things are. You've talked to us before how they slide something in the budget bill. Sometimes they'll put things in the budget bill that only one person put in.

Only one person. They'll just throw in there. Oh, by the way, give my district $40 million to set up a Shannon the dude's skate park. Just do it. And no one even knows it's in there. But they do it. And this happens every time. And at some point, somebody's got to say we have to stop doing this.

Who's up next? Kyle. Kyle. How are you, Kyle? Hey, Shannon, thanks for the Billy Corgan call back there earlier. Yeah. The, let's talk about Cardinal Stadium when the Redbirds were there. That was a crazy stadium.

A short, right field, super long left field, because of it being a football stadium, that center field is about the same length as left field. So all those stadiums like that, that's what the boarderhead state one look like, wasn't it, Ryan? It had that big, huge left field. like it was a football field. You could see there where a football field could definitely be in there. Yeah, that's probably, it was probably shaped the same way.

What else? Yeah. Well, last thing, you know, I'm enjoying your ESPN. I like ESPN, almost like Ambien Matt. You're a whole different person sometimes. But my question for asking anything, Winsie, how does suits handle you? I mean, you've ripped on Indiana for two straight weeks. I love it, but there's got to be some retribution, you know,

something coming back to you on talking bad about those features. They don't ever say anything to me. I think I fly under the radar for everybody except radio. I think most people at ESPN, to be quite frank with you, don't even know who I am. My radio boss has listened to everything, but ESPN's changed a lot since I've been there. You know, now with Pat McAfee and some of these guys, they're encouraging people to sort of be who they are. I'm glad. I think they should do that.

That wasn't how it was when I started. But I think they kind of like it. At least that's what they tell me. So, you know, it's been fine. The only feedback I ever get is sometimes they will say to me, Matt, don't admit on the air you don't know anything about sports. Because I do. That humanizes you.

See, I agree with you. I think it's actually good to do that. Sometimes they wish I wouldn't do that. But to ESPN's credit, I've been there seven and a lot. a half years. I told them like three years ago, I can't keep doing this unless you just let me be myself. And they said, all right, have at it. And since then, actually, my stock has kind of risen in the company. So I'm glad. Mac, I'm not a huge fan of McAfee, but he has made it to where all of us are able to do that more. And so I'm glad. Well, and the Wildcat talk, these interviews, the last two,

has been great. It's going to make for a great summer to get you to interview all these former Wildcats on national radio. So keep it up, man. Good job. It's amazing that they let me do that, right? And I appreciate the call. Ryan, they let me interview Kentucky guys about Kentucky on national radio. It's kind of crazy.

Well, you've had some good ones to start with it. Travis, Jamal McGlore, John Wall. I mean, those are good with people that are still interested to see what they're up to these days. We should note, and, Ryan, you could speak to this more than me. Travis Ford's father passed away, Eddie. I know you know more about him, so I'll let you speak to that. Eddie Ford was the godfather of basketball in Western Kentucky.

I mean, he had this AAU program, and if you were any type of a player at all, you played under Eddie Ford's umbrella for AAU basketball. He was just a super guy. Everybody liked one of those guys you won't hear anybody's thinking bad about him. It kind of broke my heart to saw that he had passed. Travis put out some really nice posts about how he was more than just a father. He was his coach, you know, played for him in Madisonville. So kind of sad to see that he had passed.

Yeah, rest in peace to Eddie Ford. I mean, literally, if you're in Western Kentucky and you played basketball, you probably had some interaction with him. And so prayers to Travis and his family. Storm's been hitting like crazy in Kentucky, and there are a few key things to focus at Bluegrass Roofing and Consulting want you to know. They won't knock on your door after storm.

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Read the line where you said it's less one thing than the other. Read that one. Okay. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. Where is that line?

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Johnny. Johnny, go ahead, Johnny. Hey, guys. I'm actually a Moorhead State alum. I've got a comment about the field. So is it what I look like? It's got a huge left field. Is that what it is?

Yes. Or right field. Right field's got a huge wall. It's really short because there is an endangered species of salamander that lives in the tree line behind right field, and they cannot disrupt it. All right. You're saying there's an endangered species of salamander in Moorhead? Yeah. That's what was always told whenever I went to school there.

There's an endangered species of salamander that lives in the tree of. tree line behind right field and that's why the field is shaped like that. Do you believe that Shannon? Do you believe that they're, all right. So let me ask you a question before we get to the right. What is a salamander? Like, what is it?

Do you know what a salamander is? A lizard lizard. Lizard family, yeah. It's an amphibium. Okay, so it's a lizard. And you're saying there's a kind of lizard that is only in Moorhead? I don't know if it's only in Moorhead, and it's not a lizard. They're amphibians.

They look like lizards. But I guess it's just an endangered species that can't be disrupted. But the habitat cannot be disrupted. That's why they couldn't make the field bigger than what it is. Okay. All right. Because, I mean, there's a right answer to this question. And you may be right, sir.

Shannon, do we believe that's true or it was a falsehood just told the Moorhead State? I think that's something they just told everybody and people believed it. I don't believe that it's true. So you're throwing the challenge flag. Ryan, do you believe it or not? I don't believe it. I think you hit on it earlier. Probably it was built around the original football stadium,

and that's why it was built that way. I don't know about the salamander story. See, I'm going to throw the challenge flag as well. I think that people have said that over the years, but I have a hard time believing that the city of Moorhead has a kind of salamander that is on the endangered species, and it prevents a football stadium. That's just my, or excuse me, a change in the baseball stadium.

You may be right, sir, and I'm sure I'll get a correct answer by tomorrow and we'll let you know. That's fair. I got a Kentucky football question for you. Okay. So I think it would be silly to go four and eight with a seventh year starter at quarterback. How bad do you think the season has to go before they throw Bowley out there? That's a great point. Really great point.

Yeah, that's a great point. I don't know. I appreciate the call. I hadn't thought of that, Ryan. But that's a good point. I mean, if you're going to go four and eight, you might as well play the young guy some. Do you think that's true? I think if you start struggling, you've got to look ahead of the future.

And, you know, everything I've heard, Cutter had a great offseason, worked hard in the film room, had a good spring. So he's poised and ready to maybe step up and get some playing time. this year. Might be an interesting way to look at those first few games. Because I hadn't really thought of it like that. But you probably bring in the seventh-year guy, kind of like Minji-owned did two years ago, where he said, I'm bringing in all these fifth-year seniors

because I've got to save the program. And then he did. That's probably why you bring in a seventh-year starter. But if it doesn't look like that's going to work, then you maybe go to the young guy. It's a good point. Who's next? Shane from Grayson.

Shane, go ahead, Shane. Hey, how's it going today, fellas? Good. What's up? Hey. Hey, I'm not asking anything Wednesday question. I want to ask one off the wall here. What would you rather be the first person to ever meet a legit alien nation like lands in your parking lot and you're the first person ever meet them? Or would you be the person to discover the cure for all cancers?

Which one you're given? That's a good. Thank you. Wow, that's a really interesting. interesting question. I actually like that question. Chen, you said it's easy. What do you pick? Curing cancer? You could save, like, I don't know how many people die of cancer every year, but I would say tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Why would you not want to be the person to discover the cure for cancer? Yeah, I mean, if you're talking about what's

best for humanity, then there's no doubt you'd want to cure cancer. I mean, cancer, curing cancer would be like literally discovering penicillin, in terms of, of it. its effect on humanity. Who discovered penicillin? Was it? Cury? Who discovered penicillin? I don't know.

I have no idea. Something we knew in school we can't think of now. I didn't know it in school. Isn't it? Cury? Sure. Sure. Go with it.

Well, I'm just saying in terms of your name being known, my point was going to be your name would be known forever, but it may not be. Alexander Fleming. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't have known that. No. Okay, so never mind about Alexander Fleming. The point is you would save, it would completely change humanity. So you want to pick that.

But, Ryan, it would also be kind of cool to be, since I don't believe aliens exist, it would be kind of cool if they did to be the first one to meet them. I feel like we've probably already met a few aliens. We just don't even know it. So I'm going with the cancer solution. Definitely you want to do that. You all are crazy about that. I feel like Alexander Fleming, Shannon, should be better known.

She should be more well known. She has some statues or something. So we know who he is, at least. You said Curry, and I didn't have a clue. I thought that was Marie Curie. Well, what did she do? Because she did something. She did do something.

Doesn't play for the Golden State Warriors, right? No. Don't try to be funny. What did she? Look her up. I don't know. What is it? Marie Curie?

I never heard of that person either. Well, whatever. Yeah. All right. Well, that's a good way to end the show is with this really. With this great information about penicillin. Alexander Fleming, we should know more about a hundred-year anniversary of discovering it coming up. We will be back tomorrow.

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