KSR - 2025-06-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio here on the Kentucky Department of Highway Safety, KSR Safe Summer Driving Tour around the state. KSR comes to you here in Independence. We will pick our next location to go, probably a Monday, day, so be listening and we'll do a contest to pick it. Never know where we'll end up. The independence came up here so I could go to the Reds game that starts at 1240 and a nice place. Eric, is that right? Eric's, Eric's house and he's got friends here and we, Mario's challenging children to pop a shot contest, so it's been good. And losing, right? Was that a loss for Mario? No, he won right at the end.

He cheated. Cheated right at the end and blocked. All right, so I got some players who played quarterback who played basketball for Kentucky. All right. Ready. First of all, Anthony Epps did play quarterback. I thought he did, but I wasn't for sure about that. Desmond Allison played quarterback. Oh, he's a good one.

Wawa Jones played quarterback. Wawa was a quarterback. Wau was good at every sport. I almost said Wawa, just assuming he played basketball, football, and baseball at UK. So, yeah, he was, uh, Kayson Wallace was apparently a really good high school quarterback. Really? I didn't know that. I don't know that I ever heard that.

Have you? No. Apparently Richard Madison was a quarterback. I know he was a pitcher in baseball. He could throw it 100 miles an hour. So there you go. And he stopped before his senior year of high school, but Kobe Brea started for his high school as a quarterback as a junior.

The Internet also told me Rondo played a little high school quarterback. At Oak Hill? No, before he went to Oak Hill. And did Jasper Johnson play at Woodford? Someone else submitted that. He did. He played a quarterback at Woodford County. Yes.

So there you go. More than we thought. All right, got some folks on the phone. I'm going to go to it and just say. second, just a couple quick things first. Drew, the Karen Reed trial while we were doing the Matt Jones show yesterday, which is the name is about to officially change to interrupted by Matt Jones. Drew and I were doing the news with Billy, the Karen Reed verdict. We had just talked about it, and then the verdict came out, not guilty on anything except DUI. I did not follow this trial

at all. I have people in my life who cared too much about it. Do you, did you, did you, did you, care and did what you think of the verse? Well, I enjoyed yesterday, Billy and I predicted guilty, maybe three minutes before the news broke that you were not guilty. They both said guilty, and then we got the breaking news right after. It could have been under two minutes how quickly we were wrong. I did not really follow it. My guilty thing was a complete guess for show purposes.

I have seen a few, like, updates on TV. I won't lie a couple nights ago. I flipped over to court TV. I probably haven't done that since the OJ trial just to see what was going on. But I didn't. I wasn't one of the people that was obsessing. Did you follow it? I watched a couple of Dateline episodes about it, so I'm kind of...

So you're an expert? Yeah, I'm an expert on top of it. So if she didn't, are they saying the Boston police guys did? Somebody killed that man. And now they've got to find out. I guess they're going to have to get you on the case. I don't know. I don't know anything about it.

I really didn't watch any of it, but I know some people, it was very important, the verdict. And so now I guess will she have a reality show soon? Her book probably comes out next week. She'll be on the view, a co-host on the view soon. Well, it is weird to me. Like, we'll just as a society just pick a case and obsess over it. Because this doesn't seem that unique to other stuff that's happening to go out there. I think it may as it.

She's kind of pretty. Is that probably part of it? It is a police officer. But, I mean, some people just absolutely obsessed over every little thing about it for months. And it's weird how we do that. Well, you can listen to me and Drew and Billy do the news on the Matt Jones. show. It's tonight at 6 o'clock on HAS, or you can listen on podcast. I will say, Billy, his news was a little negative yesterday. Although, to be fair, there's not a lot of fun things happening right now

in the national news, but he went back to back, Iran, Israel, legislator gets shot, playing crash in India. And we were like, Billy, can you lighten up the news just a little bit? But it was still fun. Yeah, you broke it up with an ad read there to change the mood. But you know, the news is the news. Clayton and Kroom and everything just cheered up. Billy brings the news. He doesn't decide what's out there. Yes, it's all the news.

Have you seen the Stephen A. Smith City of Memphis beef? Oh, I know I'm going to love this. Do you not know about it? No. Okay. So Stephen A. Smith went on television, and, you know, I guess Memphis traded Desmond Bain to Orlando. And Stephen A. Smith said, I've talked to local authorities in Memphis.

By the way, no, you haven't. I've talked to local authorities in Memphis, and players do not want to go to Memphis because there's too much crime. That's why they don't sign with Memphis. They're worried about there being too much crime. And as soon as I saw that, I was like, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'm not saying there's not crime in Memphis, but you don't think there's crime in Chicago. You don't think there's crime in Detroit. You don't think there's crime in San Francisco and L.A.

I mean, there's crime in a lot of places. The other thing is, these players, they don't live where the crime. crime is. Like, do you think John Morant is living where the crime in Memphis is? I bet he's living in a suburb in a massive house.

Well, the city of Memphis is angry about it. I mean, angry. Tashon Prince got involved yesterday. Did you see? Said Stephen, because Tashon lives in Memphis. Right. It says you don't know anything about Memphis. The mayor of Memphis is mad. Memphis is up in arms. I'm kind

of Ryan on Memphis's side. Not that I don't think there's crime. I'm sure there is. A, no players deciding where to go based on crime. Chicago, do you think you're not going to go play in Chicago? But B, I'd be mad, too. You can't just say a whole city players are not signing because of that. He totally made that up.

He made it up. You think he's talking to the Memphis police? Hey, Stephen A, it's the Memphis police. Like, stop it. Like you said, these players, they ain't living in where there's crime going down to Memphis. I'm sure there's some areas of Memphis you don't want to go down. But there's areas of almost every city. You don't want to go down.

There's areas of Louisville at night. You don't want to go down. There's areas of Harlan I wouldn't go at night. Like, I mean, just that's how it is. And what about the big bass pro shop in the pyramid? I mean, Memphis has a lot of things the players probably enjoy. I assume they're there at least every other weekend. So it's easy to crap on Memphis.

But let's talk about the good things of Memphis. Food, barbecue. Yes. Great food in Memphis, right? Music. The Blues. Three-six Mafia. History.

Do you remember when we were? We walk by the Martin Luther King, the Lorraine Hotel, the music, civil rights. A lot of that stuff is there. Jerry the King Lawler. Jerry the King Lawler, according to Shannon is there. Of the great wrestlers of all time. So Stephen A. Smith doubled down yesterday, and he was like, I looked and per capita, like, stop. Whether players want to go to play in Memphis, they may not want to play because it's a small city.

But, Drew, it's not because they think they're going to get robbed when they go to the game. That is not why they go there. I'm sure most players would prefer a market like L.A. or New York. I could understand it for that reason, but I don't know that they're out in the trouble. And I think L.A. and New York are probably the two most attractive markets. And guess what they have some? Crime. Guess what they don't have?

A pyramid bass pro shops. It must have really upset Tashon because that guy never says, speaks up about anything. It kind of keeps to himself. The people of Memphis are upset. And I'm for it. I love Memphis. I've had such a great time. I've had fun in Memphis.

Except for John Higgins, Memphis was a great trip when we went down. We were duckmas. Yeah, we walked the ducks. That's right. Yeah, the Peabody. The Peabody, the Ducks. So he should apologize to the Ducks. Definitely.

He will not be a Duckmaster like we were ever when he goes to Memphis. I think Stephen A just likes being the villain and having everybody talking about it. Yeah, he did a thing. I think Stephen A thinks he plays. Right. Like, he did a thing where he goes. LeBron doesn't like me. I don't like LeBron.

Like, who cares? Who cares what you think. LeBron really spends his time worried about you? LeBron's a billionaire. You think he's sitting there worried about Stephen A. Smith? No, but Stephen A loves putting himself in the conversation. Yeah. All right.

Who's up next? Jerry. Jerry. What's up, Jerry? Maybe this is Jerry the King. No, it's not. First off, I spend a year in Memphis and working for a company in Memphis and downtown Memphis. And I can get that a little bit.

Memphis was the most crime-ridden city in the country for a long time. Did you ever get, were you ever a victim of crime in Memphis, Jerry? I almost was. Everybody's almost a victim of crime. Were you ever a victim of crime? Let me finish. I went to a gas station and stopped. But they get my receipt with the gas.

So I go inside to get my receipt and as I walk into the gas station, four police cars come screaming up, guys coming out with guns and drawn. told me to get the hell out of the stopping rob and get back to my car. Well, first of all, it's your fault for going to a place called Stop and Rob. Okay. When you went to a place called Stop and Rob, then you should have known that maybe that was a place you shouldn't be at, Jerry. It was an Exxon, but everybody called it to Stop and Rob. Well, again, if everyone in town called it to Stop and Rob, maybe you don't go, Ryan.

If you may get robbed when you go to Stop and Rob. And we had to have, we worked at a building in downtown Memphis. Okay. We had a sign up. Get your football story. Go ahead. Well, I was actually going to talk about dogs.

I love dogs. I have border collie. Okay. I love them. And I'm going to say what I'm going to say. Okay. No, Terry,

you don't get to do paragraphs. Go, good, go. Okay. I lived in France, in Normandy, and the French took their dogs

everywhere. It was gross. It was disgusting. It's getting that way over here now. With these purses of these purse dogs, my wife's not at a restaurant, in Lexington a couple weeks ago. I'm going to say which one.

This woman has set over two tables over with a dog in her purse. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like that. I appreciate the call, Jerry. I'm waiting. I'll actually finish that call with agreeing with Jerry. People who put their dogs in their purse and take them into places, that's not cool either. I agree.

He's right. In France, people take their dogs everywhere, and most people don't like French people. So I think there's a correlation. Anywhere. Well, they don't. Have you ever been around French people? people, they're not the nicest people in the world. Anything that poops in public

does not need to be in a restaurant. Well, that means we can't take you. He said he lived in Normandy. I think I said this many years ago. If you ever get a chance in life, go to Normandy. If you're going to list the top seven or eight places

I've ever been in terms of just powerful, you're there and you just feel it. Normandy is right there. Standing there, looking over that beach because the wind is always blowing and you just sit there and picture what that had to be like

in World War II and then the you know the cemetery that is there it's one of the it's hard to get to like you have to go somewhere take a train then get on a bus then get on another bus

like it's not easy to get to but it is worth the trip when you say go understand how powerful that would be but what else is there other stuff there is pretty much the beach and a roller coaster I didn't expect Coney Island, but I mean, is it a... They got the graveyard for Canadians, a graveyard for French, graveyard for United States.

Yeah, so there's all these graveyards with the crosses. But you can go and you can get, like there's a little tour thing there. I don't know if they give tours, but they will show you. You can sit and see, okay, where did they come up? Here's where the Germans were. Here's where the Americans got to. Then they moved here. Here was the train.

And you can, and it's one of the few, you know, when you go to like a Civil War thing, it's hard to really see the battle. It's just grass. This is, you can see because of the land elevation, you can almost picture what it could have looked like. I mean, you can't really, but you know what I mean. Like you can kind of watch it in your head. And I just, have you been there? Yeah. Yeah.

With my family, when my brother lived in Paris and we walked down on the beach and, you know, my dad got emotional about it because, you know, he's a history teacher. He talked about that battle for years and years and years in the classroom, and for him to be standing on the beach. It's kind of one of the more powerful moments I've had with my dad. It's almost, yeah, it's hard not to be emotional about it. And when I went, you know, it was windy, it was a little rainy, which is what it was that day, right? And if you've seen Saving Private Ryan, you can see it, and then you're there. And it's just, it's a, it's.

When you walk the ground, there's still, you know, these manholes where the bombs are, you know. That's right. those are still. Yeah. So I didn't mean to get off on that after he said he went to the robin shop. But go to the robin shop. I think I expect you're going to get robbed. Summer is here.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Now, Rod Lemon has some breaking news, Shannon. Oh, really? Okay. Rani na, nah. A rare Rye and Lemon breaking news. Ryan, what is the breaking news?

There's a new house on the market in the city of Lexington. The former home of a one Vince Merrill has just hit the market. Wow. Not a champion's golf course. The doghouse. What's it going for? 1.89 million. That's a little rich for my blood.

Does he have a pool? Yeah, got a pool. Look at that. That's beautiful there. Maybe we can negotiate. You ride your golf car right over the pool. course. I've seen Vince pull that move a few times. Yeah, he's got a nice. I've been out there.

It's really, really, really nice out. So I guess it's happening. Because we talked about, I think we kind of hopefully just kind of talked about maybe they would just live here and he would commute back and forth for a while. That was never going to work, though. You can't live here and work in Louisville. I thought we'd just do that maybe for Renee. They just bought that house. I will say this, Shannon, I'm getting every night a picture of where Vince is eating dinner. I got another one last night. Well, people are No, last night he had his wife

And there were a couple of other people I didn't know there But wherever he goes to eat There are KSR spies Because the text machine is just Well, here's Vince eating dinner here And here's Vince eating dinner here You don't ever think Vince eats at home maybe Oh Vince doesn't eat at home

But I can't criticize him When's the last time I eat at home? I mean, I don't know I don't know Not a lot So but you know I'm with you I got sent a picture of Vince at lunch yesterday

I can tell Vince where he's Ben. I could actually name Vince's meals better than I could name my own meals the last 48 hours. Keep getting lots of Louisville photos. Did you see the thing about Will Wade and the player from North Carolina? Tell me about it. So there's a guy from North Carolina who transferred to North Carolina State. So in and of itself, that's a big deal, right?

Will Wade got him. I guess he came off the bench at North Carolina. I only played a few minutes a game, I think. Seems like Jackson. I don't know what his name is, but he's got a name. He has one. Will Wade made a statement talking about him, previewing him and said something to the effect of, I don't know why North Carolina didn't play more.

They have to be really stupid to not see how good he is. Did he use the word stupid? I think he did. Which feels like a Will Wade is coming in firing at North Carolina and Duke, which I like. That's what NC State need. They need a guy to come into me say, I'm not scared of you, North Carolina. I'm not scared of you, Duke, and he kind of did it with that comment. I did not like him at LSU whatsoever. I got off my share of jokes about him paying players,

but since his little run in McNeese and sticking his chest out at NC State saying, bring it to North Carolina, I've got to admit, I've been a fan here of Will Wade in the last couple of years. He's going to do good there. I mean, he's going to do really well. I don't know, like, you know, are they going to win a title or anything like that? I'm not sure. but he will, if I'm Carolina, I'm scared. Duke's always going to be good. But if I'm Carolina, I'm a little scared, they could get past in the short term. If Huber Davis, because, you know, he's not been killing it,

I could see NC State Ryan kind of taking over their slot in the short term. Yeah, if you're Will Wade, you can't be scared of North Carolina. You've got to take shots when you can. You're going to recruit against those guys? You're going to play against those guys. You can't act like you're scared or intimidated by them. People don't realize how many North Carolina State fans there are. Like, when you think of them.

North Carolina, you only think of Duke and Carolina. But in the state of North Carolina, NC State has the second most fans. Carolina has the most, but there are more NC State fans than there are Duke in North Carolina. Duke's got more nationwide fans. Sure. But in North Carolina, if you look at the map, you go from Raleigh, East, those are all state fans. There's a lot of African-American rural people that live like down on the, where the chicken farms and all that are, that's where I did my death penalty case in Duplin and Jones County.

And you go all the way to Wilmington and all that. Those are all NC state fans. They're like country NC state fans. And people don't realize they exist. But if you get that thing going, Drew, and then they get into it, they can be huge. And this is the first time, well, outside of their three-week run in the tournament two years ago, I mean, that was pretty big deal. But outside of that one little month of the tournament, this is the most excited and optimistic.

They've been in a long time. They've gone through several coaches, and he's finally brought the word, but I guess some just confidence you're willing to punch up in that area when they've been running third for so long. Who's up next year? Let's go to Donnie. Donnie. How are you, Donnie? Matt, got something for you here. All right, tell me.

You were referencing yesterday about the bark in the park, and you said Fluffy referencing a dog. Well, you may be think of a song called Fluffy. by W-E-E-E-N. If you have not heard that song, you listen to Fluffy. Please, I got to hear your comments on this song. All right. Well, Shannon will play Fluffy when we come back from the next break.

Okay? All right, well, I'll do it. You got to listen to the whole song, though. I'm not going to listen to the whole song on the air, but we'll play a part of it. You have to. It will blow your mind. All right. Well, I'll listen to it on the car.

We'll play a little bit of it here. I appreciate the call. You have to. What if we don't? What's going to happen? He's going to be very angry at you if you don't. Who's next? Brennan.

Brennan, go ahead, Brennan. Hey, Matt, what's going on? Man, another independence listener here. More independence people. All right, the city's coming out. Yes, sir. Been listening since we got that famous call about Shane not wearing any socks. There's good time.

Shane and Grayson. Right. Right. So here's what I got for you. So before you left for Amsterdam, a caller called in and made a comment about how he didn't think, oh, way's second year would be good. You kind of compared it to Oscar's second year.

You kind of went to break. You were going to touch on it. And then when you came back, I guess you forgot about it or whatever. But I just wanted to get your take on what you thought. How's that going to be different? I didn't agree with you at all. But what's your take on that? I think Oway, there is a world, I appreciate the call,

where Oway scores fewer points this year than he scored last year. As a matter of fact, I think for Kentucky to be really good, that wouldn't be a bad thing because they've got so many players. I think O-Way be the, what did he average last year? 14, 15, I'd say 16-ish, 17-ish. I could say that being 12 or 13 this year. I still think he's going to be really good. A lot of what O-Way gives you, Drew, is not inconsistent.

It's effort, it's getting to the basket, it's playing hard defensively. He'll do that. Well, he scored the same amount of points. I think it'll be less. The idea that he's, first of all, Oscar was still good. good in the second year. He wasn't maybe national player of the year, but he was still really good. I think O.A. will have

a good year. I don't know but it would not surprise me if he averages fewer points. Yeah, I think he even said yesterday, I think he might take a step back in points just because there's going to be a lot more scores around him. Hopefully they're much healthier than they were a year ago where they're not as thin and maybe don't even need to have to do as much.

I'm really looking forward to see what his defense does because in that combine, I watched those scrimmages, and he was playing some lockdown defense in those just five on five drills in Chicago, which isn't a real game atmosphere. But he showed some aggressiveness on that side that if he locks in that way in the college season, I think he's going to be great on both ends. If you made me create the stat profile of a Kentucky team that I'd like to see that could win

the national championship next year, I think Jalen Lowe's the leading score, always the second leading score, and you got a bunch of dudes averaging eight, nine, ten points, like four other guys. To me, that is the makeup of a team, Ryan, that can win the whole thing. I think we all hope and we will get a step up from away in his all-around game. He'll become a better player. Points may go down. I think it'll be a better player. And they need somebody to get a shot at the end of the game.

Give the ball to him, man. He can get to the basket. He can hit a couple of game winners against Oklahoma. He's our guy. I hope acquaintance is averaging a lot of points. That could mean big things for Kentucky if he's getting several. You're going to hear me say this until you're probably tired of hearing it. But Kentucky will be great if Jalen Lowe is great.

I think that he is the key. He's great, we'll be great. If he's just good, we might still be really good, but to be great, he needs to be great. We'll take a break. Be right back. KS.R. 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. This is awful. Why do you think this guy wouldn't be to listen to this? It's terrible. This is a horrible song. The first line. Oh, my God.

good. What Fluffy do? Fluffy's been a bad dog. Actually, now I'm going to have to listen to it, Shannon, on the way home. I was going to tell you the first line. I don't know if you could hear it or not, but it says, fluffy, furry buddy chewed his leg on the porch. Why did you do it fluffy on the porch? On the floor.

Interesting. Okay, now you're actually intrigued me because I got to see why he would think I would want to listen to this song. Because on paper and in the opening sentence, it seems awful. I will be listening to this on the way back to Lexington. Some good storytelling. Let's do it on the way there is. We are at Salfer Creek tomorrow.

Mike's Landing. Mike's landing. Third summer in a row, we've been down there. They do it right on the dock, right on the lake. It's beautiful. Do we know what the weather's going to be? I don't know yet. Hopefully it's good because it is beautiful out there.

We've always had good crowds. Come out and see us. That is a part of the state. If you're somebody who says, I want to go to parts of state, I haven't been. That is a neat little part of the state. The town is Berksville. Berksville. They've got a good bakery there.

They've got a little restaurant. Got the judge. I can't remember his name. Williams used to be the state senate president you can lock billy in a bathroom there billy gets locked in bathrooms is it the one with the hotel up on the hill there's yeah the wotale the wotel the wotel i did there's some kind of story about that place i went up to the wotel i just say be careful about that um the lakers drew soap for 10 billion dollars yesterday that's a lot of the big number i mean the south just to give an example seltics sold for

six billion like three months ago so the lakers apparently are worth four billion more dollars than the Celtics, which is kind of mind-blowing. The bus family, who has owned it, you know, they did a TV show about them, right? They've owned it for 50 years. They are letting it go. The story is the one, there's three kids. If you watch that show, you know, there's, the woman is serious, and then the two kids are buffoons, the boys. And the woman, basically the buffoons wanted their money, and so they had to sell it so they could

split the team. And the woman who's run it, Jenny Bus, not going to be able to do it anymore. now there'll be a new owner, and I think it's the guy who owns the Red Sox. So he owns the Dodgers. He owns the Dodgers. He owns both L.A. teams now. So now he owns the Dodgers and the Lakers. But $10 billion is a lot of money.

Yeah, the kids waited about 10 years after Jerry passed to cash in. I wonder if he's rolling over or if he's proud of him for turning. I think he saw he bought it for $67 million, and they flipped it into $10. He bought it for $60 million. He got to be pretty proud of that, even if he wasn't up for selling. I think he probably ought to be pretty proud. Have you watched that show, winning time? I've watched some of it, not watched all of it, I have watched some of it.

It's actually really good. It is, yeah. It is really good. It's a TV show that's both entertaining, but also, I think, really well done. Have you seen the Kate Hudson show about the, it's like a spinoff of the Lakers on Netflix? It's okay. I've seen that. Let's give them some good content for season two.

But the winning time, if you can just get over the fact that the guy who's playing magic and Kareem and all those, if you can just get over, that it's not them, which sometimes can be a little hard, because we know what they look like, then I otherwise think it's actually really good. I really liked it. I even thought the guy that played magic. I mean, you can't get it perfect, but they did pretty well cast. He wasn't very good at basketball.

How are Hollywood actors so bad at sports? He looked a little bit like magic, but when they had the basketball scenes, he didn't look like he had played a lot of basketball. I remember Jerry West came out like very anti. Well, they make Jerry West come out to seem like an insane person. Yeah, and I don't know if he was or not, but they make him come off as that.

that. Pat Rowley was another character. It's hard to look at him and see Pat Rowley. It's hard getting used to that. But they did as good a job as you can. One person writes, Matt, how many points a game for Trent Noah this year? Good question. How many points a game for Trent Noah this year? I would say he's going to have a hard time getting on the floor. We all like Trent, but man, there's so much talent on this roster this year. He's not going to get a lot of opportunity, I don't think. I say 3.4. You didn't give me an answer. I'll go less than 3.4. Okay, but a number would be nice. Three.

Okay. The assignment. Wait, man, hang on. You're going to go less than 3.4, and you're just going to say 3? Sure. So you thought Drew was 0.4 points away? Just ridiculous for putting the other 0.4 points in. Yeah, it's almost a half a point.

I don't see that coming. It's tough to score half a point in basketball. Shana, how many points in game for Trin-Owe? I'll be a little more optimistic. I'll go 5. Five. Yeah, I'm going to say, I'm going to be a little more optimistic than you two. I'm going to say 4.5.

Here's the thing. I think Trent Noah's playing time will come down to, in some ways, whether or not the other guys can shoot. If the other guys can shoot, then I don't, then I think it'll hurt his playing time, because I think some of those guys can do things Trent can't do. But if they can't, and we don't have a guy who can consistently knock down shots, then I think Trent's going to get a chance. Because they're going to have to have dudes who can, make buckets.

Yeah. So if Jaylen Lowe comes in and he's a good three-point shooter, and if Jasper Johnson's a good three-point shooter, and if Denzel Aberdeen's a good three-point shooter, then I don't know how much time, Cam Williams, I don't know how much time you're going to get for Noah. But if those guys, if Jalen Lowe's not shooting well, and O-A hasn't improved his three-point shot, then I think Noah's going to get a chance because you've got to have somebody on the floor who can spread it out and open it up.

He earned these minutes last year by doing the other things. just getting loose balls, rebounds. He did. He can do that again, just kind of get on the floor. But he also got on the floor in part because there were a lot of injuries, right? I mean, now, once he got his chance, he had games like against Tennessee that he played really well. But if there hadn't been all the injuries, I'm not sure how much time he would have ended up getting to begin with. So we'll see.

Earlier this week, I played an over-under game and said his minutes at 10 minutes per game. Or would you go over or under at 10 minutes? He averaged 11 last year, but they weren't nearly as deep. I'll answer that question by reframing a little bit. Under 10 in SEC play. But I could see a non-conference him having games where he gets a lot of minutes to where, I don't know where it'll even out at the end. But when you're getting a conference play, I would say under 10.

But I also don't think it'll be zero. I mean, I think it's going to be seven, eight, something like that. I think him and Colin both are just going to be in that. I think Colin's playing. I think Colin's playing. Backup point guard? I think once he stopped looking scared, he looked like he was ready.

He was ready to be good. He was scared until February. But then once that scared was gone, he's a player. He's playing, in my opinion. I don't know if he's going to be the sixth man, ninth man, but he will be on the court. I had an over under, Noah and Chandler combined 13 points a game. 13 points?

Yeah, I did those two because of press cover. That's an under for 13 points. Another fun, Chandler fact, about him turning on. He had more points in March than he had in November through February combined. So in that one little stretch, he did more than he did all season. Is that right? What's the one? They needed him the most, too.

Who's up next, Shannon? Cat Daddy. Cat Daddy. How are you? Doing great. Thanks for taking my call. I've been saved in the summer topic, and you guys kind of touched on it a little bit today. But with the renovation, with the new park in downtown Lexington, and the renovations to Triangle,

Park. Matt, you're a promoter. What's got to happen in downtown Lexington for us to get a viewing area like they have in the hockey markets or the Raptors where we can watch away UK games together in downtown Lexington? That's a good question. The problem is weather, right? The problem is when we're playing in January, February, and March, it's a weather issue. I know, for instance, at KS. Bar, we have a plan as part of our renovation for March for basketball games and outside viewing if the weather works. But it would be cool if a city had that. The problem is just for us when it comes to downtown,

unless there's a game going on, people don't have an incentive to go down there during the week. And I think it makes it hard, Drew, to make something like that happen. Maybe with the amphitheater and stuff, people will do that more. We'll see, I don't know. Maybe the amphitheater is the answer. I put a big screen up on the stage. Yeah, maybe that's a really good point.

You could just make it. That's a great point. Why couldn't you just do it at the Amphitheat? It is fun seeing that at larger cities where people who couldn't go just form a party outside. That's what came to mind with me with the amphitheater. And if they can watch hockey in the winter in Canada, we're Kentuckyans. We can watch basketball in the winter. Yeah, that's true. I appreciate the call.

I mean, I do think there is a collective viewing experience that is awesome, that you just can't replicate at home. I'm too nervous to do it, to be quite frank with you. But when I was in Spain for the Euros last year, and I was in Madrid, and Spain was playing for the title, and I went to the city square with like 100,000 Spaniards and watched Spain win the Euros, it was one of the coolest sports experiences of my life. And they were singing and dancing and playing music, and it was unbelievable. It would be nice, Ryan, if Kentucky had something. Yeah, it seems to be more of a thing in Europe, but it does seem like you're not.

United States are kind of adapting it a little bit trying to do things like that. So maybe the amphitheater is the answer. You know, put it out there. You can watch it from your deck on the back of your house. I'm telling you, if you have not seen it, if they don't screw it up, that's going to be one of the better things in Lexington. Just don't screw it up. They won't screw it up.

I have faith. Well, they're going to have to police it because, I mean, it's a different conversation, but, you know, it comes and goes. But I feel like this summer for the first time, it's been, I think the homeless issue has gotten worse in Lexington this summer. I thought it had been better the last few years. Do you agree with me on that? Oh, I totally agree with you on that. And I don't know. That's not an easy situation. I don't know what you do about that. I'm for humanitarian. Like, you don't just go, get out. Like, you got to do something for,

but it is, it's worse. You know, that they had like four businesses yesterday got hit by Iraq overnight. I saw one of them. One of them. One of them was right by my radio state. But they were like four. And, you know, I went walking on Tuesday night, and I was like, there's a lot more. And that's just, you know, that makes people feel unsafe. So the city's got to figure that out. Because Louisville's actually done a really good job. Louisville's is better.

Still not perfect. But Louisville is better. But Lexington's, I think, has gotten a little bit worse. So Louisville did have a really serious problem. What did they do? I don't know. I'm not sure. Shannon, do you know?

It's still not great. It's still not great, but it's better than it was. I mean, it had gotten really bad in Louisville a couple years ago. And it seems a little better. I can tell you. Craig Greenberg. Yeah, that's true. Why don't you get on that, journalist?

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Welcome back. If you're a young professional in Kentucky like you, Ryan Lemon, there's something big event coming up. What is it? July 25th in Louisville, it's the Young Professional Summit. A lot of you went last year when we did this, and I heard a lot of positive feedback. If you would like to meet other young professionals in Kentucky network and hear some great speakers, Elizabeth McCall, she's the master distiller for Woodford Reserve. We met her at the Oaks. Scotty Davenport, former head coach at Bellarmine and others, level up your career by learning about the state and becoming with the Kentucky Chamber. So go to k.ychamber.com slash events and look for the young professional event. I did hear, like that's not just me doing it.

I did hear a lot of people tell me they thought that was very valuable. There are still, I went to something like that 15 years ago. And I met there, Craig Greenberg. He became the mayor of Louis, Morgan McGarvey, who's now a congressman. And then a lot of times when we go to these towns, I know somebody in those places. And it all stem from one of those things 15 years ago. So you can make connections, Ryan, all around the state. Would you love to have those connections?

I would. And I really appreciate you consider me a young professional. So thank you. Which one of those is he more of? Is he more young or more professional? That's a good question. I don't know. Young at heart.

We'll go with that. You're definitely young at heart. Young and heart professors. You are much younger than me at heart. Not in life, but at heart. I got a big birthday coming up. What is it? 59.

Dude, you're almost 60. I don't process you as almost 60 years old. I don't either. I do not either. 59. See, people ask me how old you are, and I always give you. them like I never get it right I always tell them like 53 54 55 what are we doing to celebrate it well it made me feel bad when Drew our baby boy turned 40 last month last week but I think you look really good for 70 so no I mean I die for but for 59 years old I think you look really good

59 that's a big number I was telling you the the the floth of hair you got a few years ago I think did a lot of good work sure yeah yeah and my new teeth I got I mean I don't think the teeth Like a movie star now. The teeth has never been something I thought really changed a lot. I never looked at you before and said, man, if that dude would get his teeth done. Occasionally, like, a Facebook memory will pop up before Ryan went full of Kardashian on us. And I'll look at it and I'll genuinely think he looks much older eight, nine, ten years ago than he does right now. You need some lip filler.

Lip filler, okay. I can work on that. Maybe a butt lift. Ooh. Okay, don't that. I should have never said that. I set him up for that. I set him up for that.

And that was, did you see the story shared about the chat GPT wife? No. It's going to be on CBS, Drew's show, CBS Sunday morning this week. I'll be watching live. A man, they didn't interview with a man who is in love with his chat GPT girlfriend. I know it sounds ridiculous, but he's in love. And I guess, you know, they were doing a story about people who have become obsessive about chat, GBT. and on air he asked his chat GPT girlfriend to marry him on CBS this morning and she says yes

and he begins to cry this is all like going to air Sunday morning this clip is out there I can't wait to see this hey well Shannon you can watch it you'll love it for me it's kind of cringy like I'm like the main thing I see when you watch the clip is why did this man let them film this no I'm serious it's one thing to do it like that may but like why would you let because the clip is being passed around and people are not surprisingly having the reaction Shannon did and and laughing at it why would you let CBS this morning do this interview if you're proposing to your computer I'm going to think your decision making is already a little bit off already but what if the computer had said no to him Shannon on national television

even better I was going to say yes it's programmed to say that but if he had If you got rejected by a computer on live TV, that would be the greatest embarrassment in TV history, right? Listen to Shannon. I knew that was going to be his reaction. Ryan, when I say watch the video, be prepared for it to hurt inside when you watch it, because it is hard to watch, to be honest with you. Nothing stands in the way of true love. He's in true love with you.

You think it requires a human being? Yes, I do. Okay. But I know, I know somebody that chats with GPT every day at work, and they've got this relationship. I'm like jealous. Like you're going to leave me for. Who is this?

Well, you know, there's somebody I'm very close with that chats GPT every day. Okay, you're about to embarrass somebody. Yeah, she calls him her. Now we're down to she. We've narrowed it down real far. I think we already know who it is. I think we already know. Without what I'm saying.

Okay. I'm getting a little jealous is all I'm going to say. I think you've already revealed who. Yeah, you've already said it without saying it. You're strange. So, really? he's in trouble you're already in trouble big trouble yeah

I won't let you dig the hole anymore who's up next uh let's get a william william go ahead William hey Matt what's going on William I have one question okay me and my family love skyline

and I was just wondering if you stay with the same water every time all the time yes first of all congrats to you and your family for loving Skyline. Four-way onions, large. Now they have Coke products, so I go Coke Zero. It's an easy order. Get two crackers and hot sauce, and you're good. Yeah.

All right, there you go. Appreciate the call. We're up here close to Cincinnati. That's a good way to end it. Well, that's the thing up here was Skyline. What's the other one called? Gold Star. Gold Star.

I mean, I like Gold Star, but it's not as good. Eric, thank you very much. Eric, thank you. What is it? Straight down the middle. SDM. Pinball.com. This is a cool place to be here today.

And I very much appreciate you opening your home to us. We'll pick another place on Monday. Tomorrow's Sulfur Creek, Mike's Landing. Can't wait. This has been a fun one. I might hang around and play pinball. Yeah, I'm going to see you play bad girls over there. Let's go Reds.

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