KSR - 2025-06-05- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

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we will. We haven't been here much for a long time, but we will be this summer. And you can give a shout to Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. 859-2-80-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772, 77524. And this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. Shannon is in Louisville, guys. Now that I'm back, I can admit something to you. Okay. this I flew like yesterday out of Newark oh you did yes you didn't want us to know that beforehand well I didn't want I really didn't want everybody freak it out specifically my mother yes I didn't want her worrying Shannon about going to Newark but I flew out of Newark I'm going to go ahead and tell you best airport experience I've ever had because nobody was there nobody's there wow first of all flights flights are a lot

cheaper yeah I can see why flights are like about half the other ones second you know, they've limited the amount of flights in and out to half of what they were. So, you know, the problem was it was overcrowded and the air traffic control was too crowded. But they, until September, have cut the flights in half to try to get their arms around it. Good for them. So you know what that means is the airport is basically empty. Yes. So no lines.

All right. Think about this. No traffic. No line to get your ticket or to, you know, check in. No lines through security. no lines at the restaurant, plenty of space to like stretch out, then they've redone the terminal and it's crazy modern and nice. And now, Shannon, after everybody's like, oh, I wouldn't go there, I'm going to say best airport

in America. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to tell you, if I go to an airport and there's nobody there, that's cause for concern. Well, I say nobody. I mean, it's just not very many people. First of all, here's a little, would you like a little Matt pro travel tip? or let's go.

The best time to fly is in the afternoon, 12 to 4 to 3 or 4, because that is the time that airports have their fewest flights, just in general. So if you go to the Cincinnati airport from 12 to 4, very angry, you do not want to go to the airport early in the morning. Yes. Or from 4 on until about 9 because that's when the most flights are. But if you start at like lunch to like 3 or 4 in the afternoon, there are not many flights. So first of all, in general, that's the time to fly.

But then secondly, in Newark, nobody's there. So, I mean, your bags come quick? You know, because there's nobody there. It's great. Did you have any anxiety at all? None. None. Because, I mean, once I heard they had cut the flights in half,

and the problem was they had too much traffic. Now, if when they get back to September, I could see being nervous. but for the summer, that's where you want to go. Imagine half the people. You know, you've admitted you're kind of a nervous flyer anyway. Yes. So you had to put a lot of trust in what they were doing there.

But again, like there is a sheer numbers thing, which is how many flights there are every single day. So having told you that experience, would you now fly into it? I would. I would probably would have done it beforehand. Shannon, would you play, especially if it was half the cost? no doubt. I'm definitely on board with that. I don't know. I think paying a little more is worth saving my life. But I would argue if there's half as many flights, now it might be safer than the other one. It's true. Half as many flights and a quarter of the employees working air traffic control. It was, they used to have two that would do this one job. Now they have one. So they just

cut the flights in half. So now it's, I'm like, I think it's great now. So all the near miss and everything they think was just from being. They didn't have near mist. there. They had the problem of they like went off the screen. That's right. They went off the street. The near misses were in, in D.C. But they, they had like, okay. Yeah, they went off the screen. That's right. They lost communication for a couple minutes. Now though, they're communicating so much. They're like doing podcasts up there. Are they? Yeah, Shannon, I don't think you know, like they're just talking. So anyway. They're over communicating now. Yeah, they're over communicating. So that ended up working really well. Then, because I had such free time, because I didn't have to

wait in any line. I was thinking about kind of the summer and the things we're going to do this summer. And so I decided, you know, I'm in on the, we're going to take the show once a week, somewhere different. I like that. Okay, once a week, we're going to go somewhere different. And I have a lot of different ideas.

I mentioned people's houses. That might be one at some point. But we'll also, occasionally, we'll pick a town randomly. Okay, remember we've done that before for things, like when I gave away the trip to the Champions Classic. Right. And we just picked the town. I think everybody went to a bakery in Owensboro or something.

That's exactly where they went. All right. So we'll do that. Now, we need to settle ourselves in here because Drew's gone next week. And by the last two days, trusting you to run the equipment. Hey, we're on. We got it going today. We did.

So next week, I'm just going to say it has to be in Lexington. Okay. All right. So I want to pick a random place in Lexington for us to do our show. and I'm going to ask you how you would like to pick it. Should we have people volunteer? Should we have people call in and make their case?

How would you want to pick where we would do a random show next week? I love it when you ask people to call in and try to persuade us with something because usually ends up frustrating you and ends up being really good radio. Okay, so here's what I'm going to do later on the show. Not right now, but we will call and you can try to convince us. We'll do it. It could be at someone's house. Yes.

I don't mind doing it a place of business, but you can't do it a place of business. Like, no one can come to this show. Right. All right, except that, like, no one can come. This is just us. And we'll pick the winner, and then we will go there. How's that? I like it.

I like the way we're starting in Lexington, too. Kind of get our feet wet. Get our feet wet. And then we'll open it up to other places in the state. So, Ryan, next week, it'll just be me and you. Drew's still gone. Yeah. And Shannon's in Louisville.

So it's just going to be me and you. So it'll just be me and you showing, and Mario, showing up at somebody's house. So we're knocking on the door. Can we do this show in your kitchen, ma'am? So you're good with it. I'm good with it. We'll do that a little bit later in the show. Okay.

And then that starts the process of us. While we're doing the KS Bar getting ready for August, we will put our, spread our wings and fly across the state. Is today the only day people can kind of convince us for Lex? For the Lex for next week. Gotcha. you. We'll have one day every week where we pick where we're going next week. How's that? I'm very good with it. It's nice to see you. Why are you wearing a Florida Panthers shirt? Well, I'm just just trying to rub it in with you a little bit with the canes, you know, since they beat your canes. And I thought they won last night.

Shannon, I wish you could see the shirt because it says Florida Panthers, but what would you think the mascot for a Florida Panthers shirt would be? A Panther. You would think, I don't know. I mean, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. You'd think it's be a panther. Right. You think so. Your shirt has a rat with a hockey stick. Uh-huh. What does that have to do with the Panthers?

That's a rat with whiskers in a hockey stick. Maybe somebody knows because I have no clue. Chedda, why would the Florida Panthers have as their mascot? A rat. A rat's the most disgusting thing in the world. I need to see the picture. Are we sure it's not just a panther? Mario's took a picture.

He'll send it to you. No, that's a rat. Oh, it's a rat. Definitely it's a rat. There's a little panther over here. but the rat is predominantly... So you have no idea why it has a rat. No, I'm wearing it just to poke at you because I knew you're coming back today.

Thank you for that. You just wanted to upset me? Yeah. And then you told me that they lost last night. I thought they were hit three to two. They lost to Edmonton. You know, no team from Canada has won the Stanley Cup in over 30 years. That does surprise me.

Wouldn't you kind of like... I mean, they care about it more than we do. Absolutely. Wouldn't you kind of like for them to be able to win in Edmonton? Florida won it last year. did let Canada get one they don't you know we're we're trying to take them over right now can they at least get a Stanley Cup before they do that they're going to be one of our 50s be number 50 state number 51 it was like you were trying to figure out how many states there were they would have been

they would have been 50 if they were to come which they will not they would be 51 but but you're for Florida just because they beat your canes all right yeah that's a really good welcome back thank you very much uh the UK basketball team is back in uh in well A lot of them came to Lexington yesterday. Jalen Lowe got here, Jaden Quaintence, Diabate, apparently Yelovich is like on his way. Good. He just, I guess that means the international V side.

Maybe he got it before, because they just shut those down. Maybe he got it before. But either way, the team is here. There were a lot of videos of them introducing the guys. Jalen Lowe said, I'm here to get number nine. That's what he said in his only statement yesterday. I'm here to get number nine. are you excited to now kind of move in this new class of basketball people?

I'm absolutely excited. I'm ready for the seasons to start today. I think they've got a great roster. It's good to you here to say about Yellovich because Mark Pope told you in the interview. He said, we've still got to work some things out to get him over here. And I immediately thought. I mean, I don't know if he's on his way to Newark, but I do know that his team. He is in the process supposedly of having left his team.

I guess it's not fair to say he's on the way over here because I actually don't know that. But he has left Megabat or whatever and supposedly to head in this direction. I actually don't know for sure whether or not he's like on a plane. So that's a fair point. I'm not sure. Yeah, because I was worried that he would have some, you know, restrictions and maybe not be here till the school starts. Well, you know, student visas right now. Like student visas are temporarily shut down.

So is it possible he could not make it over there? Well, I mean, I don't expect that to continue. Presumably, unless they just want to have the administration just wants to have no foreign students, which I can't imagine they would do that, then it's like a, I don't know. Short answer is I don't know. But let's just assume he ends up here. I'm kind of with you. I almost wish this would get going. Rob Doster and Field of 68 said yesterday that Kentucky could be preseason number one. Now, that's hard for me to believe since I haven't seen a preseason ranking that even has us in the top five,

except he is, but maybe even with his, they'd have us there. I saw where one guy said, you know, you take Florida, one of the best teams in the country, we took one of their best starters. You take Alabama, another one of the teams in the best in the SEC. We took one of their starters. We've got Kentucky one of the best teams. We retained one of our starters. I mean, when you look at how they reloaded, you can't help but be excited about it. You took a former all-ACC player as your point guard.

Yes. Right. So those are guys who have proven success. Absolutely. Right? Like you don't have to hope that they will be successful. You have Jasper Johnson, who I guess I'm higher on than everybody, because I can take – except Mario.

Yeah, Mario loves him. Because I continue to get, like, mocked online for saying he's going to start. I will be shocked if he's not starting at least in February. Maybe he doesn't start right off the bat. But you don't bring – a guy like that doesn't come here to, you know – DeMarcus said I didn't come here to play no. school. I don't think he came here to sit no bench. I mean, I feel like he's going to be out there. Because he's a baller, man. He's a score. He can fill it up no matter what who the opponent is,

the guy can score. That's going to get you a spot on the floor somewhere when he can do what he can do. You would think so. Absolutely. So I am extremely excited. I'm excited. Like last year, I was excited, but we still didn't know what it was going to be like with Mark Pope on the floor. Yeah. And we also really didn't know how good the team would be or not. It kind of got revved up last year when we beat Duke. True. You know, because even in the early games, you couldn't really, you didn't know. And these guys, a lot of them, I mean, we didn't know what the kid from Drexel was going to do and all this.

And then we beat Duke and we're like, okay, okay, I'm going to be like that from moment one this year. Are you? Yeah, because I think we kind of know these guys. We played against Diabonte. Oh, we don't really. Okay. Well, that's true. Yes, we played against Biavante.

We played against Aberdeen. We kind of know them a little bit. last year you're right these guys came in i had never heard of some of these guys before the well had you i mean let's be look how many of these guys had you how many of the guys on our team now had you heard of last year i mean aberdeen and diabette you had heard abradine and diabette you had heard of jane williams no it's true we had heard of jaden quaintance yeah i had not heard of cam william had you heard of jalen low no i didn't only follow them last year i had just because i watched him play a couple times but but i never heard of cam williams no obviously never heard of

heard of Yellovich. No, not at all. Never heard of this, what is it, Braden-Hathorn or Braden-Hawthorn that's coming. But it is true, we will have more knowledge than we did before. Yeah, and guys, we know that are really good. Brandon Garrison, Colin Chandler, Trent Noah. Yes, Otega. You know, we got these guys

we're kind of a little more familiar with. Last year, you could tell me, Anzley Almanor is coming. Like, who in the world is that? Well, I didn't know who he was until that impressive pro day when I was. Well, you predicted he was going to be one of the best three-point shooters in the history of Kentucky basketball. I've never, I mean, I freely acknowledge. I never have seen a UK player that when I watched him, I was like, that dude is on the team more than Ainsley-Lone.

And then, you know, shows you can't, you can't judge a book by its cover. Yeah. Right? He ended up being a very important piece for us as a year win-off. And the way Pope plays, he needs a guy like that. He needs a guy like that. Just go, just go stand in the corner and hit some threes for us, partner, and he needs a guy like that. It feels like back of the day when Arkansas had Dwight Stewart.

That would have been a guy Mark Pope could have made work if he had the right to. No doubt. So who thinks the Anzley Aminor this year then, the guy that can just go stand out there and just bomb-free. Well, I mean, I don't think there's anybody exactly like him, but Cam Williams is going to be in that role, except he's going to be crazy athletic. Right. So Kim Williams going to play that role, but be, I think, a lot better at it, which is interesting, which is a good, we'll do this at some point. You go position by position. we're going to be a lot better next year.

If you go position by position, is this guy better than the guy that played it last year? As a matter of fact, we may do that later, but I do think that exists. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-7-4-5-254. A little bit later, we'll try to pick where are we going for the show on Sunday.

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Brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-28027. text machine 7752-745-4. One person writes, Matt, why don't we just have people send you their addresses? And then you just surprise them by showing up at their house. Bad idea for a lot of us. Very bad idea.

First of all, maybe they're not even home. Maybe they're in the shower. Secondly, maybe they send us an address that's not where they live. And we knock on a stranger's house, Shannon. And that person really didn't want us there. Yeah. What a cruel thing to do. I'm sure somebody would do that to us, though.

Yes. Somebody would definitely do it as a prank or something. Send the address of a Louisville fan. Yes, that would not be good. Okay, so why does Florida Panthers have a rat? 20 years ago before a big game, apparently one of the players killed a rat during the pregame speech, then won the game and told the story.

Panthers fans have adopted it, and for big games when they win, they throw plastic rats on the ice. There you go. They have two mascots, a panther and a rat named Victor. Oh, the rat has a name. The rat's name is Victor. Victor, the rat. I'll let you wear this shirt if you'd like to do next week.

I have nothing against them. They've just beaten us. They just beat us badly. I like to root for people who really want it. And the people in Miami, do you think they really care? Like, they're in Miami. People in Edmonton, it's their life. People in Edmonton, it's their whole life.

So it would be like Kentucky basketball if we played USC and the national title game in basketball. They don't care. They're in L.A. They got other stuff to do. For us, it's everything. Everything. So, Edmonton, they care.

Miami, they're just going to go hang out with Pitbull. So like, let's root for the people that care. I can't believe you said no team from Canada has won the cup in 30 years. Over 30 years. That's amazing. Since the early 90s or something since they've won. I think it was Edmonton with Wayne Gradsky back in the day. It was the last time.

It's kind of surprising. Yeah. 8-9-2-8027. Let's go to Jacks. What's up, Jacks? Hey, how are y'all doing? Doing good. I just had a question for y'all.

If you all had to build the perfect roster for Mark Pope, but only using Caliperi players, what would it be? Oh, I see. Jack, that's a great question. That's going to be my Draft King's question of the day. All right. So the perfect Mark Pope roster with only Caliperi players. I appreciate the call. So let's start at the two most important positions.

Pope himself has said his two most important positions are point guard and the big who can do stuff, right, whether it be a four or a five. Who do you like at point guard? So you're going to want somebody who can distribute but also make shots and beat guys off the dribble. This is just my feeling. I feel like he'd love Tyler Ullis. Yes. I feel like Tyler Ullis would be his kind of. a dude. What do you think? He's a dog on

defense. The other guy I thought of too was Darren Fox. I think Fox is really good. I think Fox gets a lot for himself. Yeah. Which is where I think Ulyss, I think he likes that point guard to distribute. Ulyss could hit the shot. I really like. I think

Tyler Ullis would be, Shannon, anybody better than Tyler Ullis at that position. That's the one that actually came to mind just because of his mentality, the way that he played physically. Yeah, so I'm going to say Tyler U.S. And he's a really good defender. Correct. All right.

So at the four or five, the guy that can get to the top of the key, can hit his shot, but also can look at the defense and respond, set picks. Who you like? Knowing what we know now, Carl Anthony Towns will probably be my first pick. Okay. But Carl's, yes, Carl would be good. I'm going to take the skills of Carl, but a little tougher and a little more fit. I'm going to take DeMarcus.

Yeah. I think DeMarcus, because, you know, Demarcus could shoot threes. Didn't do it here. Yeah. But he'd do it some in the pros. True. Both those guys did. And I feel like DeMarc, I feel like just like Cal loved his thing, I think I think Pope would love his thing too. Would a guy like Willie Collie Stein be able to play in the Pope system?

I think he doesn't shoot threes. I agree. You know, so I think, I'm just going to go DeMarcus. Okay. All right. Now, on the wings, I feel like two guys that stick out to me that I think would just excel would be Reed and Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray, definitely. Reed and Jamal Murray, I just feel like the way they shoot, the way they come off.

If you had a three-man back court of U.S. Murray, who played together. Yes. And then Reed or Antonio Reeves at that other position, I really like it. What about you? It's hard to not pick one of those guys. Reed, Reeves, or Murray, I don't know who you're going to pick out of those three guys. So who are you going to take? If you get two guards, I'm going to take, actually, no offense to Reed.

I'm going to take Reeves and Murray. Who are you going to take? I probably would take Reed and Murray. Just got to think Reed. But you agree with me about Murray? Absolutely. So you think like Ulyss Murray is a perfect Pope back court. Now that we think about it, it is absolutely a blueprint of what he wants done.

All right. So let's say, let's just use your lineup. Let's say I have Ulyss, I've got Shepard, I've got Murray, I've got DeMarcus to kind of protect him. I think I need an athlete at that, an athlete at that four spot. Who's the athlete at the four that you like? I have one in mind, but who do you like? Julius Randall?

I didn't think of him. I like that one, but I think he and DeMarcus maybe do some similar stuff. They do. They do. I was going to say Bam. Bam's a good one. Although actually, Bam could be the guy at the five instead of DeMarcus. They could rotate those two guys there. This is the spot where if Willie could shoot

That's Willie's spot But Willie can't shoot And I think you'd have a hard time Playing him in Pope's office I think so too The other thing is now that's also the Ansley Aminor Stand in the corner and shoot threes guy Uh huh

So who's that? That's not Bam Who is that? Gosh Is that Winian Gabriel? Well he ended up being pretty good Pretty good doing that Winian Gabriel you'd won off the bench

with Pope. In Pope's system, he would be in Elmador. You would want him kind of coming off the bench in that role. He's perfect for that role right there. Yeah, that's interesting. We forgot about Malik Monk too. Well, and quickly, think about Quickly's year there, how good he could have been. I'll tell you, another guy who's a pretty good passer at the top of the key,

maybe not a three-point shooter, was Nick Richards at the end. He was. He was pretty good at that at the end. Yeah. I think pretty much everybody that Cal has, have would have worked, except like an Eric Bledso or something. That might not have been the best for him. That's interesting question.

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Here's Matt Jones. It's still crazy to hear this guy, Billy Corrigan. After he called me that one time, Shannon, it just came up smashing pumpkins on the phone. That was hilarious to me. That was his phone. Like the band has a hotline. And I saved it. It is still in my phone.

Smashing pumpkins. Yeah. You're going to call them up and just have a chat with them? I've talked to a few times. We've tried to work stuff out to do. He's, he, you know, he owns, what is it? TNA or N. N.W.A.

NW. Yeah, he owns NWA. And he's, we talked about doing the whole thing. Just didn't work out. All right. So other people suggesting stuff. I like, I mean, there's some good suggestions at the four. Patrick Patterson.

Yes, definitely. Could shoot. Absolutely. Because shreds the floor. Trey Liles. A guy that would have probably thrived in Mark Pope's system. Derek Willis. Another guy that probably would have thrived in Mark Pope.

But like Derek Willis missed his time. Derek Wilson with Mark Pope would have been really good. Could have elevated him to another level for sure. I give Derek Wilson a lot of credit because Cal could not stand. Not Derek Willis the person, but the way he played when he got here. Thought he was soft. I don't think Cal ever thought he would make it. And Derek stayed and stayed.

And then by the end was a heck of a player. Yes, he was. Why would you recruit somebody, though, that you think is soft? Because he felt like, again, Cal had a thing against Kentucky guys. He just did not want the guys from Kentucky. Didn't think they could play. He didn't think they could play. It's the truth.

I mean, you go back, every kid from Kentucky, he took reluctantly. And he recruited Derek early. But then I just think he thought Derek was soft. But then Derek worked to the point that Derek not only started, he had some big games towards the end of his career. Oh, he was one of our most crucial players there that he was seeing here. I mean, when he was playing on that team with Fox, Monk, and Bam, he started that year. It was Fox, Monk, Bam, Briscoe, and him.

That was the starting lineup. Probably a few people would be able to remember that, that he started. That lineup could have won the national championship. That is a national championship lineup. Fox Month. And they ran into the only team that was as good as they were. That North Carolina team, and I still contend, this is where I used to disagree with Cal about the regular season.

He'd always be like, oh, wait until March. We were costed a final four by the fact that that team took so long to get going. Because by the tournament, we were the second best team, but we got put in North Carolina's bracket. Any other bracket we're meeting in the final four. I think we're in the final four. I agree. But because we didn't take the regular season as seriously, but Fox Monk, bam, Derek Willis, Briscoe, that's a national championship. You can win the national championship with that lineup.

Didn't Derek still playing overseas too? Yes. I think he's still playing. He's still playing? You know, every time I see him, he's in a different country with his mustache and his child and his wife. He's banging threes. Yes, that's exactly right. There's a zebra on the loose in Tennessee.

about that. Okay. So somebody had a zebra zebra in Murphy's borough. Just somebody. Like on their farm? I don't know. Shannon,

just at their house, right? They just had a zebra. I guess so. Yeah. I didn't realize until Tiger King that there were just like people out there who had these things.

And let me just say, I don't think they should. I don't think you should be able to have a zebra in Murphy'sboro. It can't be good for the zebra. Can it? You would think, none, because there's not all those zebras around to hang out with.

That's what you're worried about? The loneliness? Yes. It's just a striped horse. What's the difference? I mean, it's probably used to a different temperature. Yeah. They're not a, I mean, actually, Ryan's right.

There's not other zebras to hang out with. Yeah, you can't cuddle up with your female zebra. Yeah. Well, and then you have the problem of, it gets loose. Have you seen these pictures of like zebra just walking through people's yards? The missing, they know, so they've seen the missing zebra. Oh, there are lots of pictures. There's pictures of it like next to the interstate.

there's pictures of it, Shannon, in like suburbs. Like, just like, like, there's like Masterson Station. Imagine if you just saw a zebra walking down Masterson Station. Shouldn't be hard to find. That really tickles me because I just assumed it was on the loose. Nobody could see it. I'm like, how can you not see a zebra walking around? No, it's everywhere.

Apparently you can. There are pictures of it. Like people, there are pictures of it. And then it escapes. And they're trying to corner. They can't, they can't get to it. Wow. And it just hangs out.

It can jump whatever. And it's so fast. that it runs past people. You're a cowboy. Why don't you go out there and wrangle it in? I don't think I can. And, you know, now you get the animal rights groups. They're like, don't shoot it.

Yeah. That's what I thought they probably might try to tranquilize it just to catch it. But it's everywhere. Oh, that's it. That's it. There are videos of it literally like walking up and knocking on people's door and asking them how they're doing. Mario showing a video of the zebra running down the side of the road.

Yeah, it's on the highway. But look for the video. This is on TikTok. Look at the video of the zebra like walking in a neighborhood, like with the milkman. And they guess they're puzzled. I guess there aren't milkmen anymore. But they don't know how to get it back into captivity. They can't find it for one thing.

Wow. So I'm rooting for the zebra. First of all, let it get out of Tennessee, Shannon. Every, every animal needs to get out of Tennessee for a little one. Yeah, nobody wants to be in Tennessee. What if it comes to Kentucky? We'll gladly take the zebra. They're not that far away.

Come on up here. The fish and wildlife company will get out there and get it. Yeah. So Murphy's Borough, if it were to come. north, what's the first town it would enter? You figure that out why I take this call. See if I were to come north, the zebra from Murphy's Borough. Can I go through Nashville?

Well, it's not going to go down the interstate. It can just go straight. Like, it doesn't have to follow the rules of the road. Let's go to Jordan. What's up, Jordan? Jordan. Hey, Matt. We're just, I'm a season ticket holder.

So I like to be optimistic about football, but listen to 11 personnel and talking about the high school recruiting. Right now we have two commits, one who's not even ranked. So just didn't know if you know big picture, that kind of seems like a forecast of the future of the program is kind of in shambles. Well, it's hard to say for me about high school recruiting now because I don't know to what extent in football. I mean, it matters less than it used to. How much does it matter? I don't really know, to be honest with you. And if you have a limited budget, how much of it are you going to use on high school guys who probably aren't going to play for a couple years? So I don't know the answer to that.

I mean, I have noticed that normally at this point we have like Vince Mero and Mark Stoops's strategy used to be, get a ton of really good guys to commit early and then hope you hold on to him. Right? Yeah. That's clearly not what they're doing this year because they haven't gotten a bunch of guys to commit early. So to your point, I don't know. in the state of Kentucky, the top 10 kids, we have one, Indiana has one, and Louisville has six, and Western has one. So that's not looking great.

Louisville has six of the top 10 Kentucky high school players? I didn't know that. Yes. Yeah, that's not good. Well, I appreciate the call. That, that's not good. You're right, though. Vance and those guys have been really good about identifying guys at an early age and getting on them early.

and then kind of be able to keep them until the time they're seniors. All right. Again, you know me. I don't want to be negative. But I will say this. I thought after we started down this path a few weeks ago, I thought that at some point,

someone at UK would reach out to me and sort of say, hey, Matt, it's not as bad. Yes. And here are the reasons why. Like, give me. me the case for things are good.

And I've gotten no case. So you're saying you're still waiting on that text message to come in. Well, I mean, I admit I would have thought. Yeah. I mean, have you, have you gotten the case of here's some things to think about positively? Well, just the one I shared this week about the offensive line. That's been it. It should be better.

It will be better with Jagger. I would have thought there would have been people saying to me, no, Matt. Here's this, this, and this. And none of it. The silence is almost scaring me that there's nothing coming from. Well, clearly the silence is a strategy. Because at this point, the silence is, as they would say, deafening. Yeah.

But I tend to be, I don't know, I'm starting to be. Like there comes a point where things happen and you go, well, maybe they're outsmarting me. No, let me give you an example, criticizing my own side. There came a point in the election in 2024 where Biden was doing so poorly that I started to think, hmm, there must be something I don't realize, right? Like they're going to do something. Like there's got to be a master strategy. And then he went up in the debate and he just bombed and it became clear they have no

strategy. And then all the rest was history. I kept thinking there's got to be something I'm not seeing, Ryan. Maybe they're trying to hook and hold them. And then it just became clear. They just nobody had the guts to say he needs to drop out. So I wonder if I keep waiting for there's some kind of master UK football strategy I'm not seen.

And maybe it just doesn't exist. I can see why your fear is legitimate. And I lean on guys know a lot more football than I do, and they're all just as concerned about the most, they're like most of us. Yeah, all right. 859-280-2287.

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This is a great song, Shannon. I'm not going to lie. There you go, saying, I'm not going to lie again. That's true. I'm not going to lie. No,

it is a good song. It is a great song. It is a great song. It's very pretty. Like, it's like Simon and Garfunkel at their best together. Because the way they play their voices off each other, it's very nice. Apparently they hate each other, right?

Yeah, I hate that they hate each other. Yeah. What are like other, like, lot of yabbering. It would hate suck to be a duo that didn't like each other. Well, yeah, especially

if you're Garfunkel. Yeah, because you get left behind. Yeah, he carried on and right just on. What are some other famous groups that hated each other? Hall and Oates do not. They sue each other now. They don't like each other either. No, they've sued each other like over. Well, neither Hall nor Oates is good without the other one. The true. You got. Who else?

You got, you got, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, right now you got Journey who's touring and their keyboardist is suing. like I think they're guitar player or maybe vice versa. And they're still on stage every night playing and there's an active lawsuit going on between them. You know, Guns and Roses. Van Halen. Didn't Van Halen hate each other? Well, David Lee Roth.

Yeah, David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, I think, kind of. Guns and Roses, they hate each. Oh, yeah. And they're back together again, but they, you know, broke up for years. Somebody just got on a fight on the stage. Like the singer and the guitar player just got on a fight not long ago. Who? It's probably puddle of mud

I think that happens every show Yeah Well Simon and Garfunkel to me are like maybe the most famous Don't like each other duo That's a shame though Because they were You know These these are great songs

This is the boxer This song just kind of mellows you immediately Yes it does 859-280 2287 One person writes Matt in Africa A lot of people don't know this Zebra is not said the way we say here

They don't say zebra they say zebra like deborah. Huh. Did you know that? Didn't know that. Maybe that's why he's not responding. They should scream. Well, I don't think you would scream, hey, zebra.

Come over here. But that would be like yelling at you, hey, human. Yeah. I don't think that's, you would probably would respond better to a name or something like that. So obviously his compound he was living in is in the Murphy's Borough area. He's like, dude, I'm out of here. Peace out. Yeah.

I'm on the run. would be the same way. 859-280-2287. The high school and baseball softball championships begin today in Lexington. I literally saw a group of three softball girls walking down Herodzburg Road this morning in their uniforms. Really? Which I thought was really strange.

They were in their uniforms, like pants and all walking down the street, which seemed to me to be odd. I don't know which high school team are the Panthers, but that's who that's who they were. I guess they got a game this morning. They had to go to McDonald's to get something to eat, something to drink before the game. I guess so. You usually know who's good?

For softball, no idea. No idea. What about baseball? Baseball. St. X is really good again this year. Okay. Yeah, they're probably the, I think one of the fair. I don't really know who else.

That's your Kentucky State High School and baseball softball preview. Bullitt East is really good. Bullitt East is usually really good. Are they in it? Yeah, I believe so. Believe so. I don't have the bracket in front of me. Let's look at the bracket. You pull up the bracket while I talk to Nico.

Go ahead, Nico. Hey, what's up, Matt? What's going on? Looking from North Carolina. I got a question. It's sort of similar to one asked before, but if you could add a quality from any cow player that he ever had to one player, like they're shooting another passing, to one player from last year to just try to win a national championship,

who would it be? Yeah, I mean, for me, it's all going to be about what Jalen Lowe does. So give me like the consistency of a Tyler Ulyss or I can give it to Jaylon. Okay, sorry. Go ahead. From like last. No, no, no, sorry. Oh, from last year.

Oh, that's okay. I got you. I appreciate the call. Well, if you're going to give me something from last year, then I would like for it to be like give Kobe Brayas three point shooting to one of the guys on the team. Yes. Right? Like make Aberdeen or Jasper Johnson make them a nod.

make them shoot as well as Kobe Braya, and I think we're good. That's definitely what this team is missing. So you take one aspect. Take me one guy that I know that if I get him off a pick, you're going to knock it down. He's going to knock it down. The other answer would be, give me Amari Williams. True.

At the five, and I know what I have there. But I still feel like they can get that from Garrison, Yelovich, etc. Just for the record, neither St.X nor Bullet Easter, even in the sweet-pick team. Okay, read me quickly the matchups. I'll tell you who's going to win. Boyd County versus Boyle County. Give me Boyd. Harrison County and Mack Whitaker.

The winning is coaching the history of Kentucky Baseball versus Wolf County. Yeah, I love Wolf County. That's Eastern Kentucky, but Harrison County wins. Go ahead. Taylor County versus 11th region champ, Sarah. Out of the powerful 113s. So you got the preppy, you got all the Lexington Money versus Taylor County, where I have some extended family.

My grandma lived there. I learned to play golf at the Campbellsville public course, and they have the Mr. Gaddies. So I'm taking Taylor County. Sarah's got some really good pitchers, two really good pitchers. Yeah, okay, but they're not pitching them today. Go ahead. Trinity versus Meade County, and Trinity's kind of the favorite.

We'll take Trinity. Go ahead. Johnson Central versus Spencer County. Those teams are either of them usually good? They got some arms in the mountains. Give me Johnson Central. Okay. I like your philosophy.

McCracken County versus Lyon County. Taking McCracken. PRP versus Corbin. And Corbin's got Mr. baseball, Kate Elam. Kate Elam can throw the screwball. Give him me Corbyn. And the last game is South Warren versus Highlands.

South Warren. There we go. So you're saying Trinity's the favorite. Trinity's favorite, yes. And that was softball or baseball? That was baseball. I was about saying, if that was softball, I was picking based on baseball, which would have made it, Shannon, not necessarily the best.

Yeah, when I said Bullitt East was, I was talking about softball, not baseball. I knew baseball was over. Yeah, softball. Well, that makes sense. All right. Are they in there? Are they even in the field? Let's go.

Let's go do Dustin. Go ahead, Dustin. Hey, guys, can you hear me? Go ahead. Hey, so a couple of things. So with the zebra moving north, it would actually probably run into Scottsville. And then if it continues up to, if it continues up to 231, 231, 231 actually turns into 31. and it could actually make its path up to Dixie Highway.

Now, that is a long way to go. If it got to Dixie Highway, no one would even notice it. If it would just blend in. If it got to Dixie Highway, people just blend in. It would just be at the Golden Corral. It would get in line with everybody else and it would be fine. I would say Scottsville, appreciate the call. You know, that's where Dollar General was created.

Dollar General was created in Scottsville. If I was the zebra, I'd go in a different direction. I'd be worried at Scottsville. I wouldn't make it towards the Allen County border. He can go west a little bit and go up through Franklin then. Go Franklin to Bowling Green. Yeah. Again, you want him on the interstate.

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