KSR - 2025-06-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon share unpopular opinions and take your calls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, June the 25th. One of my usually favorite shows of the year. it is unpopular opinion day. We haven't done this in like two years because we didn't get to do it last summer because I was gone. So there should be a lot of unpopular opinions out there. 859-2802287 on the Clark's puppet shop phone line. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J.

Smith law office you called T. He'll make them pay. Here is a reminder of how this works. Two things. Number one, you pick an opinion. It can be about UK sports. or the state of Kentucky. That's what we would prefer.

But if you have another one, that's okay. But I prefer UK sports, the state of Kentucky. It has to be unpopular. You are in the minority in this position. Okay. And it is no politics. And also, you can say it, and we will give no judgment. And by the no judgment, I mean, like,

I'm not going to tell you, I won't disagree with you, or say it's a bad opinion, but like we're not going to look down on you as a person for coming up with that opinion. You get to just say it and we will digest it. So 859-280-2287. Ryan, I always enjoy this because we get to hear things. And sometimes I think people look at things a different way if people make a good case. See, I'm already a little anxious because the couple I've had in years past have really gotten me in a lot of trouble. Well, because you have said you didn't like Keenland.

You didn't like A-L-A. Those are two big things for the state. You have said that over the years. And didn't like it. I think Taylor Swift's overrated. That's the one that really, I think, got me going. Yeah. But that was, yeah, that was dumb.

But you've done all of those. No judgment. No judgment. Well, no, no. Yeah. I mean, no. It's not that we can't say they're wrong. I just can't say you're a bad person for it.

There's a difference. Drew, do you enjoy unpopular opinion day? Yeah, I worked hard on my homework assignment. It kept me up pretty late last night, but it's not about my own opinions. I like hearing the crazy stuff that the callers bring in. I feel like I have a pretty good feel for all you guys, but the callers usually come in with some outrageous things. They do.

And I'm looking forward to it. And you can also send them on the text machine 772-745254. So we're going to get started. We all were assigned to give one. But before I do that, Ryan, that was the best Reds game in two years last night. You had to be excited about what you saw last night. So if you didn't watch it. First of all, you should have.

Chase Burns comes out, strikes out the first five batters. Ryan, first pitchers since 1960 to strike out the first five batters of his major league career. How cool is that? And I wanted to hear, you know, like the crowd's excited. He gets the debut. He gets the first strike out. But then he gets the second one. And then he gets the third one.

I mean, the crowd had to be going crazy. And the third one was Aaron Judge. Yeah, right. The third one was Aaron Judge. I think that's key. To get Aaron Judge on the third one, it's why. And then you have the game. Then the fourth inning, you know, he gets roughed up a little bit.

They score three runs. You think, well, this was a great story, but whatever. Then we come back in the seventh, Christian Encarsion Strand, who's basically been Christian and Carcyon Strand runners on base. Instead, he gets a triple with the base is loaded, ties the game. You go to extra innings, Reds fall behind, then they come back. Ellie thinks the game's over, like a John Wall, Mississippi State, DeMarcus Cousins thing. And then they still end up winning.

And it was awesome. Like it was awesome. That's the best game. Two years. I think, Shannon, you saw the best game, what was it, last year or two years ago when they got the cycle. Yeah. You were at that one. Ellie hit for the cycle.

That's right. Was that two years ago or last year? I think that was two years ago. Two years ago. Probably the best game since that. Probably two years. been the best game since that. And Ryan, it was just awesome.

Summer of Ellie, now is also the summer of Burns. It's great. Well, you know, the highly touted, you know, their top draft pick making his debut against the Yankees at home and to start the way he did, man, I mean, you can't be helped be excited

about the guy if you're a Reds fan. True, five strikeouts in a row. I mean, I thought he was going to strike. I thought he was going to get 27. I had it on draft teams. Didn't quite happen. I wasn't watching live, but I did pull it up. I was on the ESPN app, and I just pulled up the box score through two innings, and I saw he had six strikeouts in two innings. I didn't realize that someone I got hit on him. But I just had a visual of him just striking out everyone

on the Yankees for the whole game, because at that point, it seems like he was on pace to do that. Well, he is a Tennessee volunteer. Does that? No, no, no, no, no. Transferred to Wake Forest. Yeah, they benched him. This is how stupid the Tennessee vals are. They benched him, and he transferred to Wake Forest. So no, he is not a Tennessee vall. He is a Wake Forest Demon Deacon. So I'm excited. You know, probably 80%.

Yeah, it was for a Tuesday night. Yeah, that's good. Because, you know, that place holds 42,000 people. So awesome stuff. I'm in, at least until the end of the weekend. And the Reds are back. Summer Revelli. And it was exciting. It was also exciting. A lot of you all are now texting in and like on tweeting me. Everybody's getting into this, Shannon. Are you feeling the excitement?

No, not for your Reds at all. I am feeling excited about the Braves because they keep beating the Mets. No one cares. Five straight over the Mets. Nobody cares about the Reds. What are you talking about? Oh, Summer Valley. Chase Burns. Summer Burns. It's it. It's go. All right. So now, unpopular opinion day for the rest of the day. I just had to get that out of my system. Drew, I'll let you go first. What is your unpopular opinion. Mine are more alive things. They're not Kentucky specific. I can only tell you all so many times that I think Ruporina ice cream is overrated. You know, the usual hits. So I brought three. I'll just use one, but it's more of a broad everyday thing. Okay, go for it. I do not think that you should

be able to use ketchup over the age of 12. If you ask for ketchup in a restaurant, I think they should also bring you a coloring book and crayons and you have to sit there like a child and put ketchup on your food. Not even on french fries. I give a little bit of all right, those two things are kind of go together. Or if you order, like if I go to McDonald's and get a double cheeseburger, I'm not customizing my order. It's McDonald's. They put ketchup on it. I'll eat it. But if you're in a restaurant and you reach for the ketchup bottle, I will maybe give you French fries, but anything else you're a child. So you can't put it on a hamburger. If it came out and it's on a hamburger.

No, no, no. If you're going to do all this ifs, then you don't really believe. You physically cannot use, you cannot actively put the ketchup on anything. If it is served with it on there, you eat it. Nope. Not a burger. Nope. You will let them do french fries. Potentially.

I might meet you there, but that's the only exception. ketchup is for children. Catchup in a real condiment with flavor that is not just fake tomato processed sugar. Grow up and get an aoli, get a nice mustard. Get an aoli. Yeah. Use some real. condiments once you graduate fourth grade.

We're going to have to ask the chefs there in Shelbyville to add Zamoly to the to the table menu. So there you go. Okay. I feel like I was speaking directly to Ryan Lemon as he looked at me embarrassed. I had ketchup on my hash browns at Waffle House last night. What percentage of food, Ryan, do you think you eat that either has ketchup or ranch? 80% or honey mustard or chick filet sauce?

Pretty much any sauce. Yeah, any sauce. All right. That one hurt me, Drew. That one really hurt me. All right. All right. So mine is Kentucky related.

It's Kentucky football. As much as we've talked about how terrible we think that this season's going to be, I'm going to go on record right now and say that I believe this team will get to six wins. Oh, wow. This year. I think it will happen. I think, you know, if you look at Mark Stoops and how he's performed when his back is against the wall over the years, I think he's done as good as.

any coach that we've had in a long, long time. So you are six-win-shannon? I'm six-win-shannon for this year. Six-win-shannon. Okay, all right, that's going to be your name for the year. What are the six? Well, let me pull up the schedule. No, no, let me just read through.

I'll go through them in my head. Okay. So you assume we win the three stinky games. Are you putting a win over Vandy? Yes. That's four. Okay, then the road games, do you have any of these? We go to Georgia.

We win in that one? No. We go to South Carolina. Yes. going to win at South Carolina. Yeah, they gets me to five. Okay, are we going to go to Auburn? No.

No. All right, then we play at home Florida. I could be talked into that one. It's either that one or Louisville. One of those two. Florida or Louisville. One of those two, they will win, and they'll get to six that way. So South Carolina and Vandy and either Florida or Louisville.

Yep. All right. Here we go. That's unpopular. That's unpopular. It's popular. No, it's, it is doable. I think the at South Carolina one is the really hard one. What's the other road game I'm forgetting?

South Carolina, Auburn. Van Dee. Vanee and Georgia. Okay. So you've got us winning two road games and then either Florida or Louisville. All right. So now that's yours. Ryan, what is your unpopular opinion?

Ryan, the first one I'm going to go with is that I think TikTok is trash. I try to get on it. And everybody's, it's all geared to under. 21, 25 year old people and other people just giving me their political opinions. But you know, it doesn't have to be like that. Like there are old people, there's old people TikTok. You just have to get the algorithm and like the stuff that's aimed at your age. Trash.

TikTok. How long did you spend on it? A week. Okay. Maybe. So is it plausible that the reason you were seeing things geared at 21 year olds is because you were watching the video. or maybe in other scenarios you're watching things that normally 21-year-olds watch.

I don't know how I didn't even favorite anything. Everything I got on there was somebody's opinion about some political thing or 21 years old doing some stupid dance. I'm like, nope, I'm out. Trash. But you've done those stupid dances before, though. Yeah, you mean, you do those dances with Martin. Yeah, but I don't watch them on TikTok.

Yeah. Okay. I think it says, this reminds me of Shannon of when people you should. to write me on the old KSR website and say, why are the ads on your site all porn? And go, those are Google ads. That says more about you than it does.

Did you say to them, why are you watching porn? Yeah, because I mean, the Google ads, we don't pick what comes on there. It's just like what they got from your computer. Yeah.

I wonder why he's getting political opinions and dance is because that's what he looks up on his computer. Taylor made ads. for you. Maybe so. All right. So mine is unpopular. Maybe not to the fan base as a whole, but Drew, maybe to my bosses and to people that we,

you know, we work with. Okay. Are you sure you want to do this? All right. I'm getting under the table. Is this unpopular opinion day or not? It is. I mean, the bosses, Shannon, the bosses have to agree with unpopular opinion day too, right?

I guess so. I guess so. This is nobody in particular's fault. I don't blame any individual in particular. But my unpopular opinion is very simple. The pregame and postgame shows for University of Kentucky Athletics are the worst things on the airwaves and have to be fixed. They are insanely boring.

They do not capture what it means to get excited for a game and to come down from a game, and we have to fix them. I'm not saying we have to change anybody that's on them, but we have to change how they're programmed. And I come to this from the Reds and from the Hurricanes, these two teams that I've gotten big on. I watch their pregame and post game and listen to their pregame and post game for every big game. Last night, I listened to the Reds radio post game. I listened to Lance McAllister after that. I wanted it to go into the night.

And when it comes to UK games, it's the opposite. There are too many ads. There are too many planned segments. And there is too much non-interaction with what makes the BBN great that the shows to me are not good. The people on them, I think they could be good. But you got to let them have personalities. And that's not just buzz and Cameron screaming at each call

and calling each other butt face. Like there has to be a better time spent trying to program the pre-and-post game shows that are non-KSR for our fan base. That is my unpopular opinion. Ryan, Drew. I'm not going to argue because we do our pre-game show kind. I feel like, I feel like we build up all this momentum and excitement. And then it just goes, it's coming to a screeching halt sometimes.

And I'm not blaming the people. I like the people. But it's got to be better. JMI. You have to produce shows people want to listen to. You're right. That postgame show, you come off a big win. And it's just, it's 10 minutes of commercials. And then it's like, well, Western Kentucky tonight beat Louisiana Tech, 13. It's like, no, give me some excitement. Give me outside of the stadium. Drew, I think that's going to be

unpopular to the people in charge, but I think most of the fans would actually agree with me. I think it's pretty popular to the fan base. I've heard that a lot. I agree with it. You have to realize the moment you're in and either ride that wave into the game or ride that wave out of the game. I remember specifically the show where Cash put

Ryan through a table, and it felt like everyone around KS Bar was ready to run through a wall to go beat Georgia whoever it was. And then that energy kind of got sucked out. Here's a taped interview with Eli Capiluto about the changes on the tennis team. I think it went straight into a Barnhart taped interview on the next show. Come on.

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which means I've probably succeeded the least in being unpopular. Drew's is by far the most unpopular. What person writes, Drew has always been my favorite on the show. He's now last. I use ketchup on catfish, hush puppies, and honestly, most things in the day, I would fight Drew if I saw him say that to my face. Well, I don't fight children, so I couldn't fight back.

I got to step in and defend Drew a little bit. I'm with them on this ketchup thing. Oh, come on. I hate ketchup. I hate it. I love it. So I'm with you on that. I think, though, there's some things you got to have it on fries. I wouldn't put it on catfish, but I think on.

and hush puppies, yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even put it on fries. I don't either. That's crazy. If I'm going to dip it, I'll do like honey mustard, maybe barbecue sauce, even hot sauce. I do like hot sauce. I will say. One person writes, my own popular opinion is horse racing is not a sport. We treat it like it is, and the animals do all the work. I think it is a hobby, but it is not a sport. Well, I think there was a horse that lost its jockey in a race this year and actually won the race. That is, that validates the guy's opinion. Ryan, do you agree with that? You know, I agree with that.

I've always thought that about horse racing. Yeah, I think it's, we treat it like it's some kind of grand NFL Super Bowl deal, and it's not. It's just, it's horses, they're animals. They poop in public. It's not a sport. So do you. I got no problem with that. It's not like horse race.

One person writes, Matt, my unpopular opinion for Reds fans is Barry Larkin is the worst color analyst in the history of baseball. Between me and you, because, see, I got. got no loyalty to the Reds pre-2020, 2019. He is. He's so boring. Jeff Brantley is so much better. Brantley is really good. Brantley is awesome. And Barry Larkin is a snooze fest. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he's a snooze fest. Like last night, you know, I listened to the highlights after the game's over. He's just boring, even on the most exciting plays. You got to do, like, the art play-by-play guy is good. What's his name? Sadak? That dude's good. But Barry Lark is a snob. But Barry

Larkin's a snooze fest. I totally agree with you. That may be unpopular Reds fans, but they're wrong. He's a snooze fest. There's no comparison with him and Brantley. Brantley's great. Get some personality to it. Brantley's great. Larkin's a snooze fest. All right, let's get to the phones. Andy, what's your

unpopular opinion? You got like 40 seconds, all right? So Shannon enforced this. I'll give people a little bit longer. Go ahead. I think they should do away with bowl games all together unless they're in the college football playoff. They've got boring. are meaningless. People's entering the portal. People's opting out. And you just, you don't have

the same team playing in that game as you would, the team that's playing throughout the season. I appreciate it, Andy. I don't think that's a crazy point. I actually think a lot of people would agree with that. I like them because honestly, Drew, I want to be able to go to some because I think we're not going to the playoff. But do you agree or disagree with it? I'm going to disagree, but it's not, it's not that crazy to say that. I enjoy them. It's more things. to gamble on. It makes the the bowl season entertaining, even if some of the games have a lot of opt-outs. So I

will slightly disagree. They've got to figure out a way to stop the opt-outs. And probably the only way is to require them to get their final check after the game. That's probably the only way you're going to be able to do it. Or give like a bonus for playing in it so that they get money. But in general, if you can do something about

the opt-outs, I'm fine with having the games. I'm okay with Andy saying, you know, eliminate some of the bowl games. It seems like we've got just way too many. But yet if you're school like, you know, Western Kentucky, man. It's a chance to play in a bowl game to reward your team after a good season. So I can see it both ways. Yeah.

Brady, unpopular opinion. Hey, so the last 25 years, Woodson, Lorenzen, and Levis are not the best QBs. It's easily Lynn Bowden. Well, he only was quarterback for a handful of games and barely threw the ball. So I don't, I think that's going to be not only unpopular. I think that's kind of wrong. Yeah. Okay, there you go.

I appreciate the call. Shannon, his response. Yeah, I think you know you lost the argument. I actually like that. It's kind of like the dude says you can come here or not. Yeah, he's indifferent. Somebody says something to you in a debate and you don't know what to say. You just go, eh.

His argument would be it sure was exciting every snap when Lynn Bowden was a quarterback. I will say on TikTok, which Ryan hates, there's this guy and he just takes. drew football highlights of people in college, and he just watches them. And the other day it came up, he did Lynn Bowden, and he went nuts. He was like, wait a minute. This dude played quarterback, wide receiver, running back, and ran back kicks. Who is this dude? And that's true.

We got used to it, but it is kind of amazing what he did. And we're probably getting to a point pretty soon where people didn't watch him live and like the guy on TikTok who are reacting to it, they're going to be like, what in the hell was this thing? Yeah. You're not supposed to be able to do this. He played quarterback wide receiver running back.

Like who plays all three? Nobody. Nobody. And Kentucky would line up and everyone, everyone knew they were running. Everyone knew they were running. And he would still pick up big game. Still couldn't stop him.

Can we go ahead and tell the Vince Morrow story now about that? Or is that still against, is that still like a know? Well, I think you can tell it now. Yeah. He left us. He left. Okay. We'll tell a little bit.

I'll do a little bit later. But it's a great story in it, Drew, about the. Oh, yeah. It's one of my favorite stories. It's maybe my favorite story about the football-related thing. Nick, go ahead, Nick. All right, guys. I'm going to strike a nerve specifically with all four of you all and probably a lot of Kentucky.

Please let me explain. You got 40 seconds. I did not. Perfect. I did not enjoy the kids. Kentucky, the KSR shows that Jared Lorenzen hosted. Please let me explain. One second.

It wasn't anything Jared did. He was amazing. Great human being, great on a post and pregame shows and everything. When he hosted KSR, it was great, it was awesome. But then it just turned into an hour and a half fest of people just saying, like Chris Farley did on S&L. Hey, you remember that one time you threw the ball here and you ran here? That was great, man.

Hey, man, you remember this? Oh, I love you, man. And Jared the whole time was like, yeah, man, thanks. Appreciate it. Yeah, all right. Next caller. Hey man, I loved you too. Me too, man. It was just that over. Overall, he's a great human being, loved him, but the shows he hosted, not to his fault, we're not the best.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I appreciate the call. I think he was a great co-host, but there was a little bit of like, you were awesome. But I thought as a game analyst and stuff, I love him. Greatest guy. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J., he'll make him pay. Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tuggy Sports Radio. Mario just wandered in here here in Louisville. He's been, today is his one Louisville day of the week where he has to spend time with all the boring people, Shannon, where he comes up here. Don't talk about Venetti like that. Yeah, Venetti, Terry Miners. He gets all them. He doesn't get to hang out with us. He always looks sad. But today he looks a little more excited. One person writes, Matt, okay, so you don't like the pre-up post game shows. What would you do with him? Something different.

You know, I mean, there's a lot of things you could do. Part of it is you can have different people do it to bring energy. I'm not volunteering myself because I don't need more work. But you, like, I thought Ryan Rex Chapman was great at it. I know everybody gets mad at his political opinions, but I thought he was really good when he did those. Do you remember those few years of doing it? Like just tell him, look, Rex, man, you can't talk about politics. When I did those games, I didn't.

So like, just do that. I think Tom's great. I think Jack's great. Um, you know, I think Dave is great. Uh, but, but like he and Cameron need to just bring it down a notch. Stop screaming at each other. They're both smart. Just talk.

Um, football pregame, you got to get the atmosphere of the tailgate. Like, there's no atmosphere of the tailgate. Like, I don't, I barely know you're at the game. You know, at KS. Barr, we have the atmosphere at KS bar. You guys are at the actual games. You got to like get that in there. And then the post game, the post game show is a disaster because they don't do anything post game except just like kill time until the coach talks.

And a postgame show should not be kill time. Drew gets the atmosphere great right after games. He's outside with the fans talking to them. Like his postgame thing, what do you call it again, Drew? Rapid reaction. It's awesome. Subscribe. In a perfect world, what you ought to do is just combine it with KSRs and have us take

calls until the coach and players are ready. But if you don't want to do that because you don't want to have criticisms, then you got to find a way to get people's reactions. You got to make people feel like they're at the game. The Reds last night, those dudes are sitting out in the thing. And so people are, you got to get that excitement. And we just don't do that Ryan at all. So it just feels sterile as it can be.

Yeah, I'm with you. My biggest complaint has been with the postgame show. Because after a big win, people are excited, man. They want to talk about it. They want to get on board. They don't want to hear scores from across conference USA. Yeah, take calls. Like just immediately, if it were me, if I'm JMI, I would just say, look, this calling thing,

I mean, we got people staying up to 2.30 in the morning to call. And then you give an hour of, well, Eastern was playing Moorhead today in baseball. And it was like, nobody wants to hear that. So that's my. People are still mad about the catch up. I mean, I, oh, yeah, they're worked up. This is the most unpopular opinion you've ever had, Ryan. Excuse me, Drew, there's no doubt.

You didn't play that song, did you, Shannon? because I didn't get to talk. No, you wanted to set it up. No, no, we'll play it leading into the next break, and then I'll say what it is after. All right, let's go. Jimmy, Jimmy, unpopular opinion. Hey, so I wanted to preface my remarks by saying that I love Mark Pope,

and I think from the moment Pope was announced, I was fully for him. And I realized that Cal had his problems. I mean, the win-loss record wasn't good, the tournament wasn't good, and his press conferences weren't good. but I think Cal was mistreated. And I think all through the fan base, but including by KSR, I just felt like he was a sitting duck. I don't think it would have mattered if he won the national championship.

I think it was kind of unfair the way we treated Cal. Do you think, and now, that is an important. That's a fair opinion for today. Do you think losing to Oakland and St. Peter's two of three years was acceptable? Absolutely not. So then how did we? But then how did we, then how did people treat him wrong?

Well, I just think it was a sitting, he was a sitting duck. I mean, he was kind of caught with his pants down, and I don't think it would have mattered what he did. I think if he'd won the national championship, these people were just so rabid anti-Cal. Yeah. Well, I can always speak for me. He did his own thought. Yeah.

All right. Fair enough. I appreciate the call. I can always speak for me. Ryan, if he had won the national championship, I'd have been good with him. Yeah. I would go so far as to say if he won a couple games in the tournament, I'd have been good with him. So, you know, hey, unpopular opinion.

Adam, go ahead, Adam. Drew, I'm 100% with you, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. Only belongs on the children's menu. Nice to meet a fellow adult here on the radio. Hey, so I'm about to take a lot of people off, but I think Kentucky Derby is the most overrated sporting event that there is. Why?

It's just a It has become just a five-hour, you know, TV event where people that are not even from Kentucky come and say, look at me. Then there's a two-minute race, and it's back to look at me. It's just a narcissistic celebrity event. But, you know. Okay. I appreciate to call. Ryan, I kind of feel like you might agree with that.

I 100% agree with that. I think the fact I had to be there at 6 o'clock in the morning for 12 years to cover that dang thing. the race last two minutes. I think it's way over-hyped, way over-blown, and we in Kentucky don't care about it until Derby Day. It's not a big deal to us. The other 3654 days of the year, but the Derby Day, the only day we care about it.

Do you think it's a narcissistic event? Look at me? Oh, yeah. Are you kidding? Look at how well I can dress. Look at my suit. Look at my new hat. Look at my purple suit.

All right. Okay, hang on. That was a direct shot. Personal shot. directly at me. What was that? I disagree. Drew, I think you and I'll take up for the derby.

It's good for the state. I think it's exciting to have the biggest event in America be taking place in our state. The whole nation turns its attention to hear. I wish it wasn't quite as aristocratic. I wish there was more kind of for the common person that was part of it. I think that's gone away in recent years. But overall, I still think it's good. I agree.

will say there are people it's not the entire percentage of people at Churchill downs but a lot of people make it just look at what I'm wearing yeah but some of them are good looking like I understand why they would do it like they're like they're showing off is that bad no no no I don't like a sharp Mario looked at the thing is he not supposed to look sharp I'm guilty too I start thinking about my derby outfit a month in advance but I mean the overall event I wouldn't label the whole event that way is my point there are people Shannon I put on clean socks. Yeah.

I put on like my best boxer briefs that day. Like you put on you do. You actually shower. I shower. That's exactly right. Brett, what's your unpopular opinion? Well, I don't like Skyla on chili. I appreciate the call.

Appreciate the call. That's not even that unpopular. That's not even that unpopular. No, I mean, I feel like you have a, you know, great taste. but I tried it and I just couldn't get into it. I don't know if it's just the noodles and the chili or something. It's definitely a yes or no thing for people. I appreciate the call.

I love it, but I can see why people wouldn't like it. I had it two nights ago. But it's a yes or no thing, right? Like you either immediately in one bite like it or you hate it. There's no in between. Yeah. So, you know, now you can even get it in the grocery store. I don't have a skyline close to me like you do,

so I got some at the grocery store. And it's still good, even heat it up in a mic. microwave, it's good. Yeah, I don't think I would want to eat in a grocery store. Well, look, again, if you don't live close to a skyline and you want skyline, it's the best you can get. I guess that's true. Jerry, unpopular opinion.

Hey, Matt. My unpopular opinion is I think we should get rid of my own Kentucky home. It's a minstrel song. If people knew the context of that song, excuse me, that song, I don't think people would support it. Okay. This is usually said Yeah, this is probably said, appreciate the call,

Ryan, once every couple years on this. So it goes to kind of what you what you want your state song to be, right? Because he's, what he just said is not controversial. If you go to the history of the song, it's not a good history. It's just not.

If you go read what it is, it's not a good song. But it's also very beautiful. It's also a song that I think brings about an emotion in people and the vast majority of people don't think about the lyrics the way it was intended and they think about it a different way, a way that is sort of like Shannon born in the USA has become a song that wasn't what it was when it was written, right? Like it means something different now than it did when it was written.

And I think people probably don't even know the full lyrics of the song. And most people don't even know why Bruce Springsteen wrote that song. So, like, I've had people over the years challenge me on that. I generally say keep it because of the history, but I do understand Ryan the other opinion. I do too because the original lyrics were very racially insensitive. And they've changed some of them. They've changed some of the lyrics. But still, I think a lot of the older black people in Kentucky still remember what that song really stands for and do not like it at all as our state song.

Yeah. So I get it. But there is something about when you get to that chorus. again, at the Derby, and it says weep no more, my lady, that I actually, I find really powerful. I do not think those were, Drew, we should sing it at UK games because I think it slows everything down. Maybe at the end, but sometimes when, you know, there were times I used to play it before. I was against that. That was not, that's not the excitement level you need for a game. What are your thoughts on how we play Dumas Walker after every game?

Should be gone. At least it's more upbeat, though. Yeah, but should be gone. big win, this big exciting win, and then it's weep no more by lady. Agreed. Like, what are we doing? I agree with you on that. I agree.

Like, we need more upbeat things. It's getting better. The music and everything with UK sports is better than it was. Yeah. I love it at the derby, but not after a Kentucky game. The derby's good because it's sort of the ceremonial walkout, right? Like, you're not trying to pump the horses up. They'll go crazy if you do that.

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What a great name. What a great voice. Bill Taylor and the Appalachian Heathens. On America's Got Talent, last night. And where are they from? Middlesboro, Kentucky. No way. Middlesboro, Kentucky gets on America's Got Talent last night. I didn't find out until my mom texted me right as it was on. And then they got the made the cut. Four yeses. If you were to listen to the end, they all talk about including Simon Cow, how good they are. And they now move on to the next round. And of course,

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I just knew that they existed, but had never heard him play, never heard him seeing. Wow. Listen to that. It's great. shout out to Laurel Cove Festival in Pineville. They had it a couple weeks ago. It rained a lot, but people still had a great. It's become like this cool little niche festival that has really taken over,

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I mean, like, this is the meanest people have ever been to Drew. Go get your happy meal, kids. Unpopular opinion. One person writes, Drew became the worst on the show after he wrote the article about why a fan shouldn't be upset about losing guys in the portal. Yeah, he ended up being right, but it was like Drew the journalist, not Drew the fan. Yeah, and I was right and I'm right again. Stop eating ketchup.

I don't understand why I'd be upset at you if you were right. Yeah, I was very right. And then I ran it back again this year and was right again. I'm going to do it again next year, that same post. Why you got to talk bad about ketchup, though? Everybody loves ketchup. No, everyone doesn't love ketchup. One person writes, Matt, my unpopular opinion, nobody over 12 should wear their hat backwards.

Adult men look ridiculous with their hat backwards. Generally speaking, I agree with you. I've had that opinion ever since I saw this man from Bell County. I'm not going to say his name. His name was Bill Hayes. One time walking through a football. stadium and he was like in his 40s and he's had his hat on backwards. I was in high school and I was like, okay, that looks ridiculous. So I agree with you. But Shannon, women do like when you wear your

hat backwards. I saw a guy from Bell County with his hat on backwards in Milwaukee. Yeah. And it's because women do like it. And I agree with you. I think it looks ridiculous. But I've had women say like, you should wear your hat backwards. So I can't do it in public. I did it that day in Milwaukee, Shannon. But in general, I agree with that principle. Look, why don't you just do what you want to do and not worry about what other people think? That's exactly right. Mario walked in here, what's your unpopular opinion?

And talk in the microphone. You know how they say, like, breakfast is the most important meal of today? Yes. I don't believe in it. I don't believe in it. You don't eat any breakfast. Unpopular opinion, breakfast is overrated.

No breakfast. I'm going to leave it at that. You don't eat sausage? No. Ham. No. Eggs. My first meal is, like, at 12, and it's lunch.

None. He won't even need to eat a donut. You don't like to go to the show. I've tried to buy Mario breakfast several times on our road trips. He wants nothing to do with the meal before me. You just don't like, would you eat breakfast later in the day? Do you like omelets? Yeah, I'd eat like breakfast for dinner.

I'd eat breakfast for dinner. But you're not eating breakfast. I'm not hungry at that time. At 9, 10 a.m., I'll just wait to like one or two. So it's not the type of food. It's the time of day. You just don't like eating in the morning. Yeah.

Yep. All right. Well, there you go. Unpopular opinion there is Mario. Go back to the board. people. 8.59-2-80-2287. Andrew, what's your unpopular opinion? Big Blue madness is incredibly stale. I feel like our social media department has gotten tons better. And Matt, you being a wrestling fan and Shannon, you understand that we could go back

to having themes. Tubby did it. It was themed. They could put out corny trailers. We've got Mark Pope. He's the King of Cheese. Let him be cheesy. Lean into it. Let it be exciting. I don't even think that's unpopular. I totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. Not unpopular to me at all, Ryan. Big Blue Madness is boring. They need to fix it or do something else.

Like it's just not, like we went from having the best one to if you watch some of the other ones, one of the worst ones. Got to get it better. And I think that's what people were hoping with Pope, that breath of fresh air. He was here when Patino was doing the crazy things riding out like in Batman and Robin or on a Harley or something. So I think maybe it might get back to a little bit of that. You were beholden, Drew, to the kind of Cal, I got to give my state of the union speech and all that. Okay, so we're not anymore. So now's a good time to change it.

And I think Pope's a good guy to do it. It might even be corny at times, but he's not afraid to try something new and let anyone down. Cal, there's this, I got to be cool at all times. I got to be this big A-list celebrity figure. Pope will throw on a Batman costume and swing down from the rafters if he needs to. Might not always work, but he'll be willing to try new things. Mario just texted me, Vanetti's got his hat on backwards. right now.

It doesn't surprise me. Jason and Greensburg, go ahead. Hey, I have good morning. I want to preface this by saying that this is an unpopular opinion I've had for almost 23 years. Go back to my uncle, who is now deceased, was a decades-long booster and season ticket holder. Occasionally, I would get some free tickets given to me.

I don't, he was one of the ones in the, in the area. So what's your, what's the opinion? Go ahead. My opinion is that I don't think the eruption Jones should have been moved into that section where they're at at Rupp Arena. Where should they be? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I guess.

Oh, you think they should have worse seats. No, no, no. Well, here's the. No, no, no, just yes or no. You think they should have worse seats? Yes. Okay. Okay.

I like that. That is an unpopular opinion, Drew. Not that we should move the students on, you're going to have to do it quick, because these are taking too long. Go. Okay. So he was a decades-long donor, and when they got moved, they raised the price that had to be donated to the K fund and then got pushed back to worst seats. Okay. All right. I appreciate the call. So he's taking up for the donors and saying, Drew, they should have, we should have less seats for the students. I like that opinion because it is very unpopular. I like this. He's wanting to steal from the poor and give to the rich. It's a little different. Yeah. Put the students up in the upper day. He's basically a house Republican now. He's like,

these poor people have too much. That's the opposite of what I wanted to do. It's the exact opposite. I like it, but you know what? We said we want a popular opinion. Yep. Popular opinion, move the students closer the floor. Unpopular opinion. Make them sit outside. That's, that's an unpopular opinion. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, Ski, S.S.R. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel,

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