KSR - 2025-06-16- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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The Reds won seven the last 10. And they're first in the division? Well, I mean, that's not really. That's not the goal. The goal is to be the best you can. But there are two games over first you can. 500. They just won a series against the best record in baseball Tigers. Best team in baseball. But they broke two massive streaks. I think I had told you this.

They had lost 39 straight series where they lost the first game. And they broke it this weekend. Then they had not won a game all year where they were losing after the seventh inning. They were 0.30. Oh, that's terrible. And they won yesterday after being down going to that. So I feel like that's, here we go. Choo-choo. Well, I missed, I think, eight shows. How many times did we go up and down with the Reds? We've been a little up.

They won't seven of ten, right? Sweep the Guardians. I think it was right before the Seven of Ten, he said, I'm done with the Reds. I was, but now they started. Here's what I liked yesterday. Shannon, I think more sporting events should do this. I want to see if you all agree. The game yesterday was on something that I didn't know existed.

Problem with baseball is there on so many different things. How do you even, it's on so many different things. To watch the Reds, I have to have to have like, seven different things. But this was on something I didn't know exist. The Roku channel. Did you know there was a channel called Roku channel? I know that you know Roku, but did you know, they have a channel? They carry sports? Apparently. Didn't know. There's a Roku sports channel. Didn't know. And apparently they have a baseball game every Sunday at noon. Were any of you aware of that? Nope. Were you aware of it, Shannon? No. I just watched it on the MLB. Every Sunday at noon.

they have a game free that anyone can watch on the Roku channel, and I bet you no one listening to this knew that until yesterday. I learned of it two days ago because we were in Times Square, and on the biggest screen in Times Square, they had a Reds logo, and I was like, why is there a Reds ad in Times Square? It was for Roku. So I had L.A on the big screen. I guess in some ways it works,

because I wouldn't have known there was a Roku Sports Channel if there wasn't that Reds game. But here's what I like about it. So I turned it on. It looks kind of cheap. Like it looks like the graphics are from Atari. Like it's like, the reds play the tiger.

Double, triple. Like that's kind of what. But I will say this. They did something that I think TV networks should do. The announcers for the game, play-by-play guy was the Tigers play-by-play guy. The color guy was the Reds color guy, Jeff Brantley.

So it was the Tigers guy. and the Reds guy. And they knew about the teams. And they would say, when the pitcher was up, the Tigers guy would go like, now he normally does this. And then Jeff Brantley,

the Reds guy would go, well, for Ellie, that's what he wants him to do. And you were like, these people know about the teams. This guy's teaching me about the Tigers. If I'm a Detroit fan, I'm learning about the Reds.

Shannon, that's what they ought to do on these national broadcasts. Rather than bringing people that don't know either team, they actually knew these teams. Is that not a good idea? Yeah. And for some of these play-by-play guys,

I mean, what a cool opportunity to work with the guy for the Reds. Someone knew. Someone knew. I thought it was, I sat there, I was kind of making fun of the graphics because then they would be like,

ball to outfield. But the announcing thing, Ryan, I think they should do that. In college basketball, we play Alabama, have Tom Leach, and the Alabama color guy.

Or have the Alabama play by the Clay guy and Jack Givens. Yeah. Like, they'll know more about it. So just for their, yeah, that one high profile game in the week? Just for maybe one or two games or whatever. I just thought it was a unique change of pace that I'd never seen done before and it made perfect sense to me. Because if it's a their one Sunday afternoon game, you don't want to have Homer radio announcers on there. So you split them.

But rather than Roku hiring a bunch of people that don't know any of the teams. and do one game a week, do this. I just thought it was a good idea. I may end up watching these Roku games to hear the two announcers from different teams. It's a good idea. It could be fun in a close game. If you get a little bit of trash talk, I know they've got to be professionals, but just a little homerism on each side.

I will say, Shannon, if you will look up, if you can find this, I don't know if you can find it. The Detroit Tigers guy calling the Tigers home runs versus calling the Elkins. calling the Ellie home run. He had different levels of excitement. When the Tigers guy hit it, they were like, back, back, it is good. And then when Ellie hit it, he was like,

Ellie, La Cruz long run, Joe, and it is out home run. He didn't have quite the same excitement. But you know, that's okay, right? I still think that's all right. I mean, if you had to call a Loebel game, that's where you would be when Lobel did something good, right? But I think it would be cool to have a game with like, you know, I just thought it was.

was a neat idea. I wish we could see it more. I just want to know, like, what's on this Roku channel the other 22 hours out of the day? After it was over, I watched the post game show. I had to be the only person in America watching that post game show. And then it was women of surfing. That was the next show. I didn't watch it, but I just, women of surfing was next. So anyway, it's kind of neat. They, so in a tragedy, someone killed a legislator in Minnesota. and then, I mean, did you read this story? This is a wild story. A man dressed up as a police officer,

went to a legislator's house in Minnesota, knocked on the door as if he was a police officer, and then shot and killed her and tried to kill her husband. Or actually, maybe did kill her husband. And then went to another legislator's house, was at the door. They came, shot them both, then saw the police coming, ran and got away.

was 48 hours. They just caught him late last night. Wild story. But here's what I, my takeaway from it. The police saw him shoot the second one and didn't catch him. And he got away Shannon for 48 hours. Wow.

With conceivably the whole country looking for him. That's a crazy story. That's crazy. Usually what is it? Like if you don't catch a criminal in the first 48 hours, your chances of catching that criminal go drastically down. But it is amazing to me. I thought this when the Luigi guy got away. How in 2025 do people get away?

How? It would feel like to me they should be able to catch them like immediately. They pulled over the guy's wife. Did you see this? She was driving towards the board. order and they pulled her over and she had passports and like a hundred thousand dollars in cash. She was clearly trying to get out of the country. And she almost did.

Is that not? And he wore that like mask that covered him completely. Now it didn't look that human if you look close in the picture, but it completely like changed his identity, at least for the shooting part. And they ended up figuring out who it was. But do you think in 2025, Shannon, people can get away? No, no. I mean, I don't know what some of these criminals are thinking. Obviously, not much. But I don't know that in their mind, I guess they are cocky enough to think that they're smart or smarter than everybody else out there. They can outsmart, you know, the police officers. Well, they did. I mean, he did get away for 48 hours. Sure, but eventually they're going to catch you. Which is 48 hours more than I would think. So do you, so let's say somebody were to commit a high profile crime like that. Do you think in 2025, someone, someone. who commits a crime like that can get away.

No. Like for good. No. No. You can run for a while. You can run for a while, but they're going to catch you eventually. Do you think you could get away? No.

Not unless you're out of the country almost immediately. So what is the way they would think they could get away? Like how would they think, okay, I'm going to do this and I'm going to get away? You can't get on a plane. Can't use your cell phone. Can't. I mean, you have to get on a plane instantly. before they have any idea even who it could remotely be.

They would have to, you'd have to get on a plane before. But then if you're in the air and you go to a country that the U.S. has any relationship with, you'll get stopped there. So you probably can't get on a plane at all. You can't drive, can you, across the border? You can go to Mexico. You just don't go to the pizza hut and get soup like, what's his face? Yeah, but remember he left before he got charged with anything.

You're talking about Eric C. Carr. Right. Yeah. So when he left, He wasn't wanted yet. He just never came back home. So you can't probably cross the border, I wouldn't think. So what do you do?

You get on a boat? You would have to have like an underground bunker. Like I don't even like in the, I would say in the Amazon, but that's all swamp. So I would a television show like I would watch a television show that talked about how people try to get away. Don't you think that would be an interesting? show. I'm not saying you should. Like, I don't think we should encourage telling people how. Well, there's a great show out there that exists. What's it called? I almost got away with it. I'm fascinated with it. I've seen every episode. I think it's on like one of those like ID channels,

you know, investigation. It's called I Almost Got Away With It. Oh, yeah. It's fascinating. So how many people that commit major crimes? I mean, I see like at the post office most wanted list. but most of those are like financial crimes or their drug trafficking. How many people that commit major crimes like murders and they know who did it? It's different than unsolved. We don't know who did it. Get away. They just can't catch it.

They just can't find them. Does that happen? It's getting harder and harder. Yeah. And there's a camera everywhere. You think if they know who you are and they will get here. they know you did it, they will get you. Is there anybody that is famous that got away?

Maybe some like years ago, but nowadays, it seems hard to do. Yeah, one, DB Cooper. DB Cooper. I was like in what, the 60s or 50s or something? Because they can basically just track you on camera anymore. I was shocked how long it took him. We talked about this a couple weeks ago to find Osama bin Laden. Yeah.

You know, he was in hiding for a long time. years. But they found, my point is they found him basically in like a shack in Pakistan. And they still found him. And they knew where he was for a while before they moved in. I just wonder, Shannon, like these people who commit these kind of crimes, do they really think they're going to get away? Because I feel like nobody gets away. Yeah. Well, if you're willing to commit that type of crime or, you know, kill somebody, you're not in the right mindset to begin with. So in your own mind, you can probably think, oh, yeah, I can get away with it. I'm going to be the one person that can actually disappear off the face of the earth.

Well, I just wondered if maybe there are people who get away that we don't know, get away. Did they ever catch that police officer down in Louisiana that was on the run for like two weeks? What are we talking about? They caught all the people that escaped prison, right? They did catch the other. They were like one last guy that was still on the loose. They couldn't catch him, I think. Did they get him?

I don't know. Well, now that would be if you're just a guy who escaped prison. prison because presumably he didn't have a plan. Yeah. But it's only been like what, a month? Like, they'll catch them eventually. It's a long time though. I mean, if you went a month without getting caught. Sure, but you're saying like, do they just never get caught? They will get caught eventually. That's what I feel. I feel like everybody will get caught. Eventually, you run out of money. If they can solve the crime. Now, there are unsolved crimes, but if they can solve the crime, I feel like they'll get you. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I'd like to see the TV show on it. The NBA Finals are here. It's your

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Welcome back, Northern Kentucky. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. I guess. I guess people, you know how people are over Vince. Phone line's very slow today. 859-2-80-2-87. I thought there would have been people, I guess that's, when you're over it, you're over it.

Move on. They're over it. Yep. So that's the way it goes. They are over it. By the way, before we get to Billy's thing, do you see our baseball transfer portal class is ranked number two in the country? Are they really?

You know, when the season ended, everybody goes, I had a lot of people write and go, what's the deal with all the baseball players leaving? I guess they had plans. Probably told, honestly, some of them to leave. Because the number two ranked portal, now they'll go down because a lot of these teams in the college world series will start going and getting their classes. But, I mean, I can't imagine we fall out of the top 15, right?

Yeah, they're fifth right now. I was it eight editions? I think it's second now and one, maybe fifth in another. Yeah, it had several editions. As you mentioned, part of it is Kentucky season. It's a little earlier. You got a head start, but it's still looking like a good overhaul. far. Plus, you've got some guys I think you'll be able to keep and put together a good team next

year. Our portal stuff is pretty amazing on a lot of sports. I mean, we've done better overall in the football portal than you would think we would do. We had the number two ranked class in the basketball portal, did pretty good in the women's basketball portal. Now you got a high ranking in the baseball portal. Maybe Kentucky's just better at recruiting in the portal, Ryan, than they are in just regular world. Ben Gione definitely made a shift. That's what he wanted to do. just kind of recruit out of the Would you just do that in baseball? Just go to the portal?

I think you do. I think you just load up, replace the guys. Because you know who's good. Yep. You know, they do have several guys that have decided to come back. That kind of helps them. And you get this good transfer portal class. Maybe they may be loading up.

Yeah. All right. So we were doing the, we will come to your KSR comes to you on Tuesday. Or excuse me, on Thursday. We had people call in from Northern Kentucky. Billy, you have found the five finalists. You're going to give us the five finalist, and then we will pick where we are going to go on Thursday. So give us the choices.

All right. Number one, Eric has a house. Okay, that's a bad microphone. Is that the mic on over the row? Is that the women's microphone? No, no. I don't hear you very well. All right.

Go to Ryan's microphone. Go to Ryan's microphone because that's a bad mind. Always something. There we go. Okay. Okay. So our first option is Eric. He has a house in Independence, Kentucky.

Where is independence? Just south of Cincinnati. So doable. that he has a full-blown arcade. 18 pinball machines. What? And it's a nice place to hang. So that Eric has a house.

He's 18 pinball machines. And a full-blown arcade. In his house. In his house. So a lot to do there if you go. That is interesting. What do you think about 18 pinball machines? Seems like a lot.

Like I feel like two, three, four would be enough? Is it going to be allowed? Do we need tokens? We win anything. That's a very interesting. little tickets. That's an intriguing idea of 18 pitball machines. All right. What's number two? Number two. Stubb has a condo in Newport, Kentucky.

So you'll have no problem getting to the game. It's right across the street from the Red Stadium. So you might as well walk there. Matt will appreciate this. It is where Licking River and the Ohio River meet. And besides that, he can accommodate maybe 10 to 12 people. So if you'd like to bring a crew, that'd be a... I appreciate the offer from Stub. I'm a little warm. worried about someone named stub. What? I mean, that sounds like it sounds like a criminal, doesn't it?

You're already calling our fans. I'm not saying he's a criminal. I'm just saying if you know anybody named stub? You can't hold it against him, though. He's got to, right across from the stadium. That's fine. Stubbs be generous. That is very nice to be right across from the stadium.

All right. What's number three? Corbin has a house in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He has not asked his wife yet, but he is still going through with this. It's 10 minutes away from the Red Stadium. It's not asked his wife. He has not asked his wife and he has a 5 and an 11 year old kid

that will be staring at Matt the entire show. No, no, no, we gotta keep Corbyn. Out, out. What if we go to Corbyn's but we request that he doesn't ever tell his wife, we just show up and she finds out when we're there at 10. Okay, no wife doesn't know and 5 and 11 year old kids. All right, what's

the fourth one? Matt is in Covington, Kentucky. He is downtown So another walk to the game option. He's off of 7th Street. This is an apartment, though. A good location next to a coffee shop and a bar that you could hit before the game. All right. And then what's the last one?

And our final option is Rick in Alexandria, Kentucky. He is 10 minutes away from barley corn, a fan of the show. And he said he has a great bourbon collection that he'd like to show you, 25 minutes away from the Red Stadium. So that's the farthest one. Yes. All right. So early on, and now let Ryan in back in here for a second, early on, I tend to lead toward the guy with the pinball click. You know, 18 pinball machines?

He won me at pinball machines. I didn't have to hear anything else. Are you good at pinball? It feels like something you'd be good at. Well, like Pac-Man and asteroids back in the day. I didn't do a lot of pinball stuff. I was more of the video game. Just went to an arcade on Saturday and played pinball.

I'd like to play a little more. You're not going, but if you were picking one, what would you be? Oh, the arcade, pinball machines. You have to be sold right there. All right. I'm going to just go ahead and executive say it. What town is pinball machine guy in? Independence Kentucky.

Independent. Is that how far is that from the stadium? Not far. Well, okay, but that's Independence, Kentucky is. Okay, that's on the way. It's a little south, but that's okay. I'm picking Independence. Are we going to Independence?

Yeah, just do it. Isn't that one of the places with two county seats? Isn't Independence one of two? that doesn't sound very independent. Good point. He's co-dependent. He's codependent, Kentucky. I think that's not fun independence fact because it's the only county with two.

That is amazing that you know that, but I think you're right. I think I vaguely remember that from the book. All right. What county is? They all kind of run together up there. It's in two. Kenton, perhaps. All right.

Independence, Kentucky. What's his name? Eric. Eric in Independence. Get his. contact, give it to Ryan, and we will come to the house with an arcade in it. Sounds good. All right.

You guys are going to have so much fun. I kind of want to be there now. That's awesome. Yeah. Well, I know what Mario will do during the show. So there we go, Independence, Kentucky. And if, well, I don't know if we can't invite people to his house without his permission, but we'll learn more about it this afternoon.

We have to bring our own quarters to play the pinball machines? I hope he does. I hope it's a money-making thing for him. Big C., what's up? How you doing, guys? First time caller, a long time listener. Who are? What's up?

Vince Morrow will boo him for going to U of L, but shouldn't we kind of ask why? I mean, he's an insider, right, of UK football. What's he know that we don't know? Well, everything I've heard, and this comes from people on the UK side, people on the Vince side, media members. I think everybody's kind of saying the same thing. He had kind of lost some of his authority in recruiting. He had kind of in the falling a little bit on the chart of who was being listened to.

He didn't like that. And then Louisville offered him a three-year guaranteed deal. Kentucky was not going to do that. And Justin Rowland said something, which I can't, I mean, I'm not saying Justin's wrong, but Justin seemed to suggest that Vince would get a percentage of the money he brings in for NIL. That can't be true. Is it? I wouldn't think so, but Justin would put out there if he didn't think's true.

That's an interesting idea. I can't imagine that's true. But I think that's ultimately what it was. We'll be right back. 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, Kentucky Sports Radio.

859-280-2287. text machine is 772-7745254. Independence is in Kenton County. It shares the county seat with Covington. You're right. See, I know what I'm talking about sometimes. Not often, but sometimes. How's half the county seat in independents and the other hand? They have two courthouses? I don't know that much about it. I just recognize the name as one of the two counties. In 1995, Shannon, Independence only had 10,000 people. In 2025, they say they have 33,000 people. Wow. A lot of growth. has happened. I mean, what are they added in there?

I think it's like all the suburbs of Cincinnati moving more and more south. And so there's a Kentucky player from Independence. Ryan Lemon, do you know who the Kentucky player that has not currently on the team, but in, let's say, since 19, in my lifetime, there's one Kentucky player from Independence, Kentucky. Can Ryan Lemon get the who is the Kentucky player from Independence Kentucky? I'm going to go with Mark Krebs. Mark Krebs is not from, I'll give you three guesses.

This is not an easy one. Yeah. Wow, from Northern Kentucky. From Independence. Todd's Faboda. No. Number three. Oh.

I will say close. Really? There was a hesitation in that no. Yeah, there was a hesitation in that no. You're close. Can you get, now use the hint, you are close with Todd Sabota. Todd May? Who's that?

I thought that was a guy that played in the 80s. Todd McKinley. Oh, I wouldn't have got that. I wouldn't have got that. Well, you were close. You got Todd McKinley. You got Todd? That's pretty good.

Half credit. Todd Lanter. So if anybody knows any facts about independence, let me know. One person writes, Matt, what do you think about Stephen A. Smith getting caught playing solitaire during the NBA finals game? do you think that is a bad look for him? Yeah, so people didn't see the game's going on and he's playing Solitaire with the game going on

and it led a lot of Stephen A critics to say clearly he doesn't pay attention to the game. What do you think? It's a pretty bad look. You know, people have been on their phones at games before. It's not the other world. I don't think it affects how he can give his analysis. But it did look ridiculous, the image of him holding up Solitaire

while the actions are going on in front of him. You're a guy who takes a book to a Reds game. Well, I also don't do the halftime show and the post game show on TV. That's the difference. Now, I'm not, I'm not, yeah, what? I said that is the difference. That's the difference. Now, I'm not going to act like I haven't been at a game and gotten bored and looked at a web page,

like at a website or something or on my phone. Just scrolling social media. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to act like it. I think that I would be surprised if anyone that's ever been to a game has not been on social media or something during the game. I think the solitaire thing though makes it look worse because solitaire is the most mindless of activities. Shannon, Solitaire is like I, my brain is so uninterested in what is happening. I'm going to sit there and play cards. So I actually think it's the fact that he played Solitaire that makes it look so much worse than it is being on

his phone. Yeah, it's a time commitment too, right? I mean, you don't play Solitaire, a full game in in a timeout, it's going to be 15, 20 minutes. Well, they show the game is going on while he's doing it. I guarantee you if his New York Knicks were playing, he wouldn't be playing solitaire. So, yeah, I think it is a bad look that he has to come on the air and talk about this, and he's not even watching the game. Ryan, bad look? Bad look.

You know, it's not the Jazz and the Pelicans. It's the NBA finals. You got to talk about it. Your career depends on it. But maybe, you know, I see these commercials all the time. You can get paid for playing Solitaire now. Maybe he's, you know, trying to cash it. He thinks he needs to get paid.

He thinks he's a size. Yeah. I don't understand. What do you mean they get paid to play solitaire? Oh, you haven't seen that on your algorithm? You get solitaire cash. I mean, that's just for you. Here's what that is.

That is a Ponzi scheme that you are going to fall for. They can make up to $200 a week playing solitaire. You cannot make $200 a week playing solitaire. Do you fall for every scam? I haven't done that one yet, but it does sound pretty appealing. and just play What's the last, you've fallen for a scam recently, haven't you? It's been a minute.

I'm due for one. There's a point. There comes a point where when you... Oh, I almost got arrested, I thought. Okay, here we go. I almost got arrested. Like, he just said, I almost got arrested. Like, that was shit, and that was just a throw away.

Okay, so tell me how you almost got arrested. So I'm pulling into a Zecut train to go to work this one afternoon and I got a call. Is this recent? Yes. Okay. I've got to tell you about it. And I got a call from a sheriff's deputy who wanted to know why I've not been showing up for jury duty. I'm like, I didn't know I had jury duty.

He said, yes, you signed a document back in February where you agreed to show up for jury duty. And now we have a warrant out for your arrest, which carries a fine. You have a warrant out for your arrest? For not showing up for jury duty. Okay. So then the sheriff's deputy put me on phone with his supervisor, Sergeant Green, I think was his name. Okay. You don't need to say his name.

I don't think that helps. But they're making it like real official. It's not real. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, this was this game. Yes. Okay, so keep going. So then they say, you know, you have to come down here to the courthouse right now to clear this up or there will be, you will be arrested later today.

I'm like, oh, well, I'm going into work. First of all, was this an unknown number? Private number. Private number. It said private. Oh, it was private. Why did you answer? Well, like I get calls from Dante sometimes from his, when he's a work phone, it says private number.

Okay, so go ahead. So I answered the phone. So they, you know, they drug it. out for like 10 minutes and like you know I said I need to go tell my boss because when you can't hang up you hang up we consider that you're fleeing and we will come after you right there that was the first red flag do you think that the police say don't hang up first red flag okay then they say you have to come down here and you have to pay a fine uh and where did they say to come down come down to the sheriff's deputy's office I said where is the sheriff's deputy's office

they gave me an address close to trancy I'm like red flag number two I don't think the sheriff's office is over by trancy. Okay. And then they said, well, you can pay for it over the phone. Well, that should have been right there. Oh, I know. What police officer do you think says you can pay for things over the phone? So that's why I said, that's not how this works. I said, I'm going to call the Sheriff's Department myself. This is the Sheriff's Department you're talking to. You're saying, your name is Sergeant Green? Click. So I called the Sheriff's Department. They said, before I even got it, the story out, it's a scam. They're calling people. It's a scam. But they really had it. It's an elaborate scheme where.

you know, I'm talking to a trooper, I mean, the sheriff's deputy, then I'm talking to the, they knew, they knew a lot. They knew. What did they know? They knew your name. Yeah, my name. What else did they? They said, we came to your house at, well, I won't give the address.

We came to your house at Blake, like, blank, blank, blank, and you signed it. And I'm thinking to myself, but you should have known whether you did that. I know I did, but I can see Gavin like being there house sitting. You think your son signs your name for jury, dude? If a sheriff's deputy shows up and they need you a legal signature, I can see. And he can sign your name. I can see him doing it. So you think your son, you don't tell your son, don't sign my name to documents that the sheriff comes by?

I need to have that conversation with him. But I, well, your son didn't do it. No, he didn't do it. Okay. But I didn't cross my mind that probably he did. I mean, I. Matt's shaking. I mean, I love you.

But like, they had me convinced for about 10 minutes. I can't protect you forever. Yeah. I had missed jury duty for two days that week. Like, gee, I were. Like, you just, you fall for things. I did. Why?

How close were you to actually pay? I wasn't going to pay, but I was close to driving down there. You were going to drive to trancy. Yeah. What would have tipped you off that it wasn't the sheriff's office when it was someone's house? I really thought they had like some substation down there. Oh, they had a substation. Uh-huh.

That I didn't know about. Substation at Indies. On 3rd Street or something down there. It was crazy. I mean, they were so convincing. It was really good. And I can see why people fall for it all the time. Shannon.

Yeah, Ryan, come on, man. Seem to remember, didn't Ryan actually have a warrant out for his arrest years ago, and we talked about this on the show, or am I just making that up? Ryan? This might have been something Ryan told you on spring break. Okay, maybe so, okay, because I don't remember that one. Yeah. Man, I weren't, like. Miss jury duty, going to get arrested, or pay a fine?

There's a scam going around now trying to get people to pay, like, tolls and stuff and saying if you all that. I get that one all the time. I get that one all the time. You just have to ignore it. I mean, one time, the closest I came to fight one of those is someone called me and said I had a tax, like I had not paid something in tax.

Yeah. Like $300 or something. And I was like, you know, I'm disorganized. I probably didn't pay that. I could see myself having not done it. And I said, but I was like,

I'm not paying over the phone. I was like, send me a document. They're like, this will be over the phone. If you don't do it over the phone, it'll be $600. and then I remembered something

somebody said to me a long time ago, which is the IRS doesn't, will never call you to pay over the phone. And I was like, and so I hung up. But they did get me for a minute or two. But I wouldn't have thought that it was like on 3rd Street, the sheriff's office. Well, they had me.

I was ready to fly down there to take care. Here's the thing, though. If I paid over the phone, I would get reimbursed when I came back to the state, came down to the station. You would get reimbursed. Wait a minute. They wanted you to pay over the phone.

and then if you went to the station, they'd give you the money back? If I could clear it up. If I could get it all cleared up. If you could clear it up. I would get reimbursed. Like, that's not how this works. Stockton mortgage. Go ahead.

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They switch guys on you in the middle of the conversation. The sheriff's deputy switched to his sergeant. Oh, they go a good cop, bad cop on you? Oh, yeah. They gave me their badge numbers. Wow. They gave you your badge. Did you look them up?

No, but I was in the car. Just because they said a number you thought better? I was in the parking lot. I wrote everything down. Here's one. Poor Ryan. Can I just give him a hug? He's going to end up giving everything of his away.

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My bad. Sorry, Troy. I think he was a police officer here in Lexington for a while. I think he was for a long time. Two, you did have an arrest warrant. You skipped a court date. I remember that Shannon's right. Because you realized it when we were like in Danville or something.

And then you thought you were going to get it. Didn't some police officer come tell you? Somebody at our show in Danville said. That's right. Somebody in Danville said you have an arrest warrant out for you. I saw it on the docket this morning. See, I knew. Shannon was right.

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R-N-O-S-com, Reno's, as in renovations. One person writes, why did Ryan think that he had no warrant? Everyone knows where he is from 10 to noon. He would have already been arrested. Decent point.

Maybe the sheriff's deputy was a Louisville fan. Another person writes, my wife got scammed out of $1,700 with the same thing. $1,700. Mine was like $2,000. It was $2,000 a day. $1,000. A lot.

Scam inflation. Scam inflation. Well, like I told you during the break, they were very respectful. They called me sir. So they were very respectful criminals. One person writes, Matt, just so you know, the scam artist have a registry. And when they see someone close who nearly falls for it and then gets off, they will try again soon. Tell Ryan not to, or tell Ryan to be careful.

Gotcha. I'm on it. Just don't answer your phone. Tell Dante to call you from a different number. You know, there's only one, there's only one person I've ever known that called me from a number that didn't show up. Yeah. Vince Barrow. Really?

What does it say on your screen? No caller ID. No caller ID. Every time, he's the only one. And so when I saw no caller ID, I knew it was him. Well, the only time it ever shows up for me is when Dante calls some office numbers says private number. He's the only person. And I don't even know how he did it.

He was the only person. he's still like still now it always says no caller usually I would not answer and then try him back because I don't want to answer if I don't know the number yeah don't they say like likely scam now and Ryan it just goes well I mean just likely it's not certainly Harold go ahead Harold yes first time caller

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they called a Mari State? One guy would say Murray the other guy would say Mari

and I kept to tell him to talk in selfish said are you thinking

about Mari wills but yeah I did I had it on mute I had the

game on but had it on mute so I didn't see that well you know

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Did you see Louisville when they played Oregon State? The catcher tried to throw the ball and he lost it. Did you see that? I saw that. Did you see that, Shannon? The catcher was like, where's the ball go? You ever seen that before? I've seen it before.

Yeah, they tried to that quick release, get it up to their throwing hand and mishandle it. But then he, like, he didn't even realize that he hadn't thrown it. He was just kind of looking around. Like where in the heck did it go? Cindy, go ahead, Cindy.

Hey, this is Cindy. I'm one of the proud members of ladies of KSR. We're calling from Anna Maria Island today, looking out at the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.

And I have a question for you. I know Vince is gone. Let's move on. What is your prediction for the UK basketball SEC record based on the level of knowledge you have. Yeah, they haven't released the full schedule yet. I appreciate the call, so I don't know where we play home in a way yet.

Just off the top of my head, I'm going to say 14 and 4. That's a good guess. That's what I was going to say. What do you think? I was going to say they'll lose 3 or 4. I don't want to be the same. I'll say, getting pretty confident with 3. I'll say 15 to 3.

15 and 3. They're going to contend. they'll be in the conversation to win the regular season this year for the first time. I don't think we lose a home game. I think we win all the home games. And I think we win basically what we go five and four on the road. They'll probably have us play Florida twice, you think? Florida's supposed to be the elite team.

It's already happened. I think they are saying that. By the way, there is a sheriff's office on 3rd Street. See, I wasn't surprised. I thought there's some like remote office there. Don't let your guard down. Don't start giving in now. There's going to be more scam.

They had me until they said I had to pay over the phone. Well, I mean, that's how they have to get you, though. They reel you in. They slowly reel you in. You start to go, well, I mean, maybe I am arrested. Yeah, maybe Gavin. You literally convince yourself Gavin signed your name for an, I mean. I can see a police officer short to my door here.

And Gavin, go on here. I'll sign Ryan. Yeah, I'll sign it for him. Gavin is smarter than that. Gavin would not have done it. For jury duty, you have to do a lot more than just sign a piece of paper. You don't think your son is smarter than that. Not if his police officer shows up at the door, he's like, oh, okay,

whatever you say, sir. Yes, sir. Or maybe teach your son that he has rights. Yeah. You have rights. You have rights. Not people don't know their rights. Teacher's son is right.

But if I disconnected that call, they were going to thought of us fleeing and evading, and they're going to come after me. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Kyle, go ahead, Kyle. Hey, I was raised in Independence, Kentucky, and I was going to correct you, that was Troy McKinley, not Todd McKinley. But I'm sure everyone knows the story in 1981. He went to Simon McKinn, and the school actually blew up.

and a student passed away, and Simon Kennedy ended up in the state basketball tournament that year. And I believe Troy won Mr. Basketball that way in 1981. First of all, I didn't know that. Wait a minute, hang on. The school blew up? Yeah. What do you mean?

Yeah, it was a boiler. It was a boiler system in 1981, and it blew up. And I believe it blew out the wall, and there was a student there, and he passed away due to the hotel. I did not know that. That's not something. I did not know that. Well, I appreciate the call. Well, since we're going to Independence, that's good to know. I did not know that story. I'd heard that story. I didn't realize it was the same year that Troy McKinley and them won the state title.

See, there you go. That's part of why going around like this is nice. We're going to learn about Independence, you know, Northern Kentucky, I've said, is the part of the state I know the least because I can't differentiate. The only thing I know is Villa Hills because that's where Tall lives. But besides that, I don't really know the rest of it. By the guy's name's Eric, right? The guy that won? Yeah. Yes, it is. It's not Eric Dieter's the guy that ran for governor.

Apparently he lives in Independence. Oh, let's go to his house. We're not going to his house. I don't have a last name. Listen. That's a guy that would have 18 pinball machines. Don't be Eric Deeter's house. We can call him.

We can go back to Corbyn's. He's threatened my life, so I cannot go to Eric Deeter's house. I'll find out. But he does live in Independence, Kentucky. If you got us set up, right, where you would end up getting us at Eric Deeter's house. Blame Billy. We'll be back.

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