KSR - 2025-06-26- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

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859-280-2287 here in Shelby County at the Little Crooked Creek Safari and join a hot day. It's Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, KSR Safe Summer Driving Tour. This was our third location. We went to Kenton County. We were at a place in Lexington

and now Shelby County. And we just saw there's a zebra. They said the zebra is a loner. Doesn't like to interact with the other animals, but seemed to like Mario. So that was nice. Yeah, I guess you've got to keep some of these animals.

separated, might fight a little bit. I learned a lot during the break. Yeah, I said the zebra and the camel can't be in the same place. Remember, our friend Chris Tomlin used to write an article called Animal Friends. He could come up here and write animal enemy. He wrote for National Geographic for Kids, and he would write about animals that were friends with each other that you wouldn't think would be friends, not going to be the case with this camel and zebra. He could learn a lot here. I like that Mario's getting along with the zebra.

Did the zebra have a name? Did we learn that? What's the zebra's name? Brody. Brody. It's a good name for zebra. It would have been better. Zebra? You like zebra?

Brody, the zebra. So do all these animals? Do you have names for all of them? Oh, they lend themselves. So you look at them and go, that camel looks like a bob. Okay, so what is like that one? What's that? That's Poppy.

Okay. Well, if there's anything not named, I think we'd be glad to name one of them if you want. No, he's not into that. I think he would have done it before I told him I didn't vote for. Trump. I think that probably... He tried to unplug the equipment when he found that out. I think that probably did it. I saw...

He's not a regular listener, so I think I could tell when I gave him that. He was like, how did I let these people on my porch? He must have to get the hell out here. His son-in-laws want to set it up. McKinsey, he kind of did it underneath. McKinsey conveniently didn't tell him that fact, which I totally understand.

I get it. All right, before I go, the phones, 859, 280-22-87. Tell me about this quarterback. We have a four. Matt Potitowski. We have a four-star quarterback that is ranked number nine in America, the ninth best quarterback in America that multiple people are saying is going to pick Kentucky within the next week. My guess is would pick Kentucky before this July 1st thing.

My guess is the idea that they want to do it before these rules come into place. I don't know that, but that's my guess. You get to July 1st, then all of a sudden the rev-sharing rules apply. So potentially over the weekend or something would end up picking Kentucky. On paper, this seems amazing and a little crazy that the ninth best quarterback would pick us. Give me a little bit about him. It would be a huge get. Could really pop any moment.

He's really Kentucky and Oregon are the two finalists. Oregon just got a commitment yesterday, which makes us feel more comfortable. But Alabama was in his final mix. Went to the Elite 11 camp earlier this week. really shine, won the MVP, but was in the conversation for it early. He's also a two-sport star. I think that's what's helped Kentucky so much as they've played up the baseball aspect, too. There's also a chance he gets drafted really high and just goes the baseball route.

But this would be one of the bigger commitments in a long time. I know it's hard for people to get excited about things on down the road with Kentucky football when we have the season in front of us, but this would be one of the biggest quarterback gets that they've had. I mean, the number nine ranked quarterback, not from Kentucky. when's the last time we've had a dude ranked this high, not from Kentucky, commit as a quarterback? Commit as a freshman. I don't know, has it ever been one, top ten quarterback.

When's the last time a freshman even ended up playing quarterback? Where was Morgan Newton top ten? He was pretty high. Yeah, I don't know if he was top ten or not. But, I mean, the fact that we can't, we don't know, I mean, this doesn't happen very much. I think the baseball thing is part of it. Mingeyone and Stoops have kind of worked together.

This is an interesting thing. I wonder if we'll see this more often, from what I've been told, maybe pooling their rev share money and saying you can get some of our baseball money and you can get some of our football money, which might lead to him being offered more than he could have to play one sport at Oregon.

Kind of creative. Yeah, because he's an elite baseball player. He's a very good baseball player, kind of creative. I like that idea. What do you think about getting a guy who literally, I think, is projected? He could be like a top three-round baseball player, like third or fourth round, getting both a top three- or four-round baseball player and a quarterback that's top ten.

That would be, I mean, that's a huge thing for both UK football and baseball. I think if you're a place like a Kentucky, you have to do something creative like that. If you're going to try to get a top-10 quarterback, play on him, let him think that he can maybe do both sports. But I think the big fear is he's going to get drafted and not play college football or college baseball at all. I mean, he's that good. Well, we'll know. I mean, the draft is coming up here a couple weeks, I think, the baseball draft. Kentucky since Vince Mero left.

They're on fire. Has gotten eight football commitments. I mean, when Vince left, we were down to two, and one of them decommitted. So really, one. And they've gotten eight in the two weeks since he left. That's clearly a message, Drew. They're clearly trying to get this done. they're also focusing on Texas.

Most of the players they're getting are from Texas. What do you make of all that? It's pretty crazy when the official visit season started at the beginning of June. They had one commitment, and they were the only power for school in any of the big conferences that only had a single commitment at that point in next year's class. Now they're already in double digits. You mentioned Texas. They've cast a wide net.

We're used to see in Kentucky and Ohio when you go down the list. It is everywhere. They got another Michigan player, a tight end, got some out of Georgia. Georgia, double-dipped in Texas. They got a Texas defensive lineman yesterday. That's a good addition. It started a little slow with some players where you're like, oh, is this really the caliber we want? But the last four or five have been really big gets,

and Ponatowski could be around the corner at any moment. Well, you got to give you – I mean, we thought recruiting was done with Vince gone. They've seemed to bounce back and we're starting to see some other guys. That's good. That's a positive. Great marketing move on UK's part. Vince Lees, boom. Get all these guys to commit right now.

And boom, one after the other after the other, kind of get that momentum. them back that maybe they had a loss when Vince left. In Ponatoski's interview, he said he liked the culture at Kentucky. What we think about that? Really? Yeah. He said he liked the C word saying culture look good. What if they told him to say like, hey, brag on our culture.

Say culture. Or maybe he really saw something, but that was in that was an interview. It put such an emphasis on and made an impression with him. Listen, I'm excited. We are to the point, and you're going to hear me say this a lot between now and September. We are to the point that's sort of complaining and being up to the point that's sort of complaining and being upset will only do so much. We got to get as excited about this year as we can,

because it is what it is at this point. There's no reason to just be miserable. I kind of feel like, I don't know if you saw the GM, the Myers guy, was with Stephen A. Smith, and Stephen A. Smith was complaining about the Knicks or whatever, and he said, look, this is the NBA draft. Can we be positive about these guys since once they're picked? I kind of agree with him.

I sort of feel that way about UK football now. Like, we might as well be positive. This is what we've got. Yeah, and all the complaints have been fair, but I think you do have to give them credit for what they're doing recruiting, especially if they land a stud quarterback for the future. Whatever you think the future looks like, you at least have to pat them on the back for recruiting in June right now.

Yeah, who's up next, Shannon? Freebird. Freebird. Go ahead. Hey, guys, greetings from Trigg County. All right, hello. You were talking about earlier, I think about like the games before Louisville, how disaster it would be,

that they don't get crowds, then why do they still changing the rules for tailgating and pissing all the fans off? They don't want to come to this? Don't you think it could be a start? Let's talk about that for a minute. So they made some new rules about tailgating. I appreciate the call.

I read the rules. I mean, what is the difference, just that they're making people put their name tags on? I feel like the only thing I noticed, and I wasn't in the weeds of it, but it looked like just tagging your tents and maybe putting a date. Yeah, instead of just the free-for-all it's been. I expected it to be worse when I read the story. I was getting a lot of people writing me saying they were upset about the changes, but then when I looked at the changes, I couldn't figure out what they'd be upset about.

It seemed like the only rule was that you had to put your name address and phone number on your thing. which, I mean, I guess I don't feel like that's crazy to say put your name, address, and phone number. If it blows away, they'll know who it is. Am I missing something else about it? No, I mean, there's changes coming that weren't part of what was written yesterday about, you know, they're bringing in some of those corporate tents. It might move to people around. RV lot has complaints, but that story, I think Roush wrote it yesterday.

I expected there'd be more in it that people would be mad about. It didn't seem that bad. Well, I mean, this year, you know, we've talked a lot about how the, the tailgating culture and all that, how bad it's gotten or how much they've changed. This is going to be the year that will tell the tale of it. Because in the last few years, we've either been good enough or the opponents were good enough that people's kind of got over it. This year, if the experience of going to the game is not pleasant, people are not going to go.

I mean, I think that's just a fact. So we're going to see in these various games, when we play Florida or when we play Tennessee, I want to kind of see where people are. And at some point, UK has, I feel like I say this until I'm blue in the face. UK has got to prioritize the fan experience better. I think they're doing better than they did three years ago, but it's still not. I don't think anybody sits there and says, well, let me put a different way. I feel like people at UK take as a given that people are coming.

Okay? They take as a given that people are coming and then adjust accordingly. I think they're going to have to start doing things to ensure that people want to come, period. Right? And I think that's something that really hasn't been their mindset in the last decade. And it's going to be more prevalent on a season like this season, when the wins aren't on the field. They've got to make something for the fans.

I mean, season tickets are already down. I mean, so what if they come out and they struggle when they lose a couple of early games? People are going to be more orange in there for Tennessee and Texas than there will be blue, I think. Oh, I worry about that. You look at the Tennessee and Texas game. I mean, just take Texas. Texas has never been here, okay? Texas has the richest fans.

There's no fan base that is richer in the SEC than Texas. I'm not sure if people realize how wealthy the University of Texas is. They are probably the wealthiest public school in America with their alumni. They've never been here. Lexington is a lot nicer of a place to go than a lot of places you can go in the SEC. Then throw in, it's the middle of October. It's during Keenland, which you know we'll get out there. Then throw in that they're good enough to potentially win a national championship this year.

This might be the best Texas team they've had since Vince Young. Put all that in there. we are looking at a Texas takeover when they come. If our team is not playing at a level, I mean, you could literally get a situation where there's more Texas people than there are Kentucky people. That is not a crazy scenario at all. We're getting the Texas takeover.

You mentioned Keenlin. They still have that excitement about just being in the SEC, even though it's already have a year under their belt. It's all these new destinations they get to go. Lexington has become a huge tourist place. I don't know if y'all have noticed, but if you read any kind of those magazines that rank places, Lexington has really shot up the list of places to visit. So I think Texas is coming in strong.

That'll be a Matthew McConaughey game. I'm sure we'll see him around town. You know, I didn't even think about that because his dad played here. Yeah. So his dad played at Kentucky, and he's a Texas fan. If you're Matthew McConaughey, you're coming to that game, right? Texas wants this trip bad. They're going to completely take over.

It'll be burnt orange everywhere. Well, just like you went down to Texas last year. Fans like to go to places they've never been. That's why I think it'll be a big Texas. his swarm into Croger Field when they play. By the way, apparently the quarterback baseball player, obviously I said the draft was in two or three weeks. He's in the next year's draft.

So he will not be. Got a little more high school. Yeah, he's got one more year of high school. Listen, it would be good for Stoops if he gets that commitment. Yeah, not a lot of good news around Stubes. If they get that, I know the rules about signing and how much you can play it up. But you got to really, if you're looking forward to the future past this season, build around that kid because that's, you don't.

get many quarterbacks like that. I know Stoop's doesn't use them. What's the last time we used a freshman commitment quarterback? Not a lot. But that's that'll be a big get if they pull it off. One person writes, Matt, I've never had an argument in our family like the argument about Drew's ketchup comment last night. My daughters are mad about it. My wife is mad about it.

For what it's worth, I agree with Drew. But not eating ketchup has caused major problems in our family. I've got a lot of feedback about the ketchup. I don't feel like I said anything wrong. I'm not taking it back. He even said himself as daughters like ketchup. I assume they're probably young, probably under the age of 12.

Sorry to the wife, but I stand by it. I had a few people on my side. Who? There were more than I thought I would have gotten, but I did hear from a lot of people who adore it. Mario, you haven't eaten today. You said you don't eat till noon. Are you holding out till our food thing at 2.30?

So you're going to be really hungry. Like you haven't eaten at all. Yeah. Mario texted me about ketchup on the show. He was in Louisville. He was upset. Yeah. Did you get any feedback from your unpopular opinion?

No, nobody got mad at me. Okay. I don't, I'm not sure. None of our bosses got mad at you. I didn't know if the phone would ring on that one or not. I will say this. I didn't get one. This is all the folks that UK need to know.

Every unpopular opinion that was said, Drew's ketchup one, Mario's breakfast one. What was yours? TikTok. TikTok one. Shannon, what was yours? Kentucky football six wins. Kentucky football six wins. All four of those got people writing saying,

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So there's been some, I don't know if Hugh Freeze hasn't been recruiting well, but there's been some fan discontent. So they looked up, someone wrote on a message board for Auburn. Hugh Freeze has been playing golf every day and not working. And, you know, it got its own life. So like the way people sometimes have been giving Mark Stoops a hard time here, they were doing with Hugh Freeze. So then somebody who did an ingenious thing.

Do you know what they did? I do. I saw this. Great reporting. They went on the USGA site to find the handicaps for golf. And every time you play golf, if you want to keep up your handicap, you report what your score was. And they found that Hugh Fries had played golf 10 times in 15 days in June. And the Auburn fans are now like, he's not working, he's played 18 holes of golf 10 times in 15 days.

I'll note, Mark Stoops, no golf in June. Zero golf. golf in June and played a little bit in May, no golf in June. Hugh Freeze 10 and 15 days. If you found out your coach played 18 holes of golf 10 times in 15 days, is that too much? It is too much because June is maybe one of the most crucial months for football recruiting. It's a camp session. It's making you make your visits.

June is like huge when it comes to football recruiting. So, you know, I've got family members that are big Auburn fans. They ain't happy with Hugh Freeze down there doing this. JFK once said, you show me a man that's good at golf, really good at golf. I'll show you a man that's neglecting something in his life, meaning either his family or his work. I always thought that was an interesting quote. Hugh Freeze, would you be upset if you found out our coach had done 10 to 15 days golf.

I think I would. First of all, I believe this is AL.com. Got to give them huge credit for this. That's Pulitzer worthy. Yeah, because you can go into the USGA system and just look up golfers. Never would have thought to look up college football coaches in the same. South, but they had four or five that they found and reported on that. As you mentioned, Stoops playing in the least.

But I could see why fans would be a little upset. There are some months for, okay, I need my coach to go recharge. He's earned some golf, but it's camp and visit season right now. Shannon, upset if you're all that fans? Yeah, I mean, could you imagine if Stoops were out there and we found out he was golfing 10 out of 14 days or whatever it was? It's not like Auburn's good either. What were they, five and seven last year? There was a game in the last couple years where there were rumors.

that Stoops had played golf before the game. Someone leaked a photo where there was a teetom under his name, which could have been him setting it up for family. It was him setting it up for a friend. But there were people very angry. We were about to play. We had a game at night, and he had a tea time at like 9 a.m.

Someone had taken a picture. But it turned out that he was setting it up for friends that were in town at his country club. But I actually think Auburn fans have a legitimate 10 out of 15 days, like you said, Ryan, in June, which is big for college football recruiting. June for college basketball, kind of an off time, but June for college football is big.

Yeah, if you'd made the final four, even the playoffs, maybe we'd cut you a little slack. But, man, when you're struggling, you're fighting for your job almost. You need to be out there in the recruiting trail in the month of j-golfed during the dead period for crying out loud. You can't golf during June like that. I haven't golf ten times in three years,

and I just work at home with my pajamas and talk to you guys. How is he able to do it? By the way, from now on, they'll just not report their score. Oh, they're done. They'll use fake names in the handicaps. you, by the way, it's easy. Just pick up the ball and don't report the score. It's much easier to do that.

Who's up next? Scott. Scott, go ahead, Scott. Hey, I think at the end of the year, we're going to have a really good football team. I think the wins may not have stars. It started back at Matt Eam. And if you'll look, our best years, he developed two and three stars. And I think he's just better suited to be.

able to take some guys that may be hungry and have something to prove. And I actually think that there'll be an improvement this year and that maybe next year when he gets his guys back in there that he's comfortable with, I think that the football team may turn around. Okay, so I appreciate to call. Again, if you want to be optimistic a laugh Shannon, six-win-shannon about football, you would say Mark Stubes has always done the best when he has, when he's kind of being underplayed, when he's being dismissed, when he has guys that sort of aren't as strong of players,

he usually coaches him up. I mean, is there an argument that that could happen this year? There's probably a little bit to that. I completely agree that Stoops is a guy who probably likes to play from behind a little bit, whether than with the recruit he's trying to develop or being told he can't do something. That's usually when he's at his best is when his backs against the wall and he's the underdog. When he's motivated. Yeah, when he's motivated.

That's right now when he put his golf clubs in the attic for the year and is focused on recruiting. Yeah. You know, I agree. I mean, some of his best players were completely under the radar. I don't know if UK was listening to the show, but UK put a picture. Right after we talked about him being thin and like how Cal looked, like they put a picture out of him looking really thin. And I thought, first of all, they were listening when they put that out. But he did look good.

I mean, Stoops puts on and loses weight a lot. And he looks thin. He looks kind of like, I don't want to use the word, but he looks like he's kind of. kind of like ready to rock. Get his swagger back a little bit. Man, the whole season to me depends on Calzada. He's got to be good for this team to be good. You know, Vandergriff kind of struggled last year, the team struggle.

Year before that, Leary kind of struggled a little bit, the team struggle. If Calzada is good, this team maybe could pull out some wins, we don't think they can. I think he'll be an upgrade no matter what. I just worry about who he's throwing to. Shannon, I'm a little upset at our friend Tony Venetti. Would you like to know why? What happened with you? I hadn't seen him in a couple months, ran into him yesterday.

And he came up to me and he goes, dude, are you like, you're taking Ozimic, aren't you? And I go, no. I was like, I've just lost weight. And he was like, no, you don't have to lie to me. You've taken Ozimic. I'm like, can't you just give me credit for losers? Why are you got to say I'm taking Ozmpic? And he was like, you're not, and he wouldn't believe me.

And so people are saying the same thing about Mark Stoops. They're like, oh, he's just taking Ozimic. I feel like that's a bad thing about Ozimic. I'm proud of myself. I've lost weight. Don't be telling me I took O-ZMPIC, Tony Vanetti. And I feel like Mark Stoop should say the same thing, unless he took O-ZMPIC, at which point then he can't say it.

I don't think he's taking O-ZMPIC. They have all that exercise equipment over there. He's probably doing three a days. And I don't like Tony, who I heard was wearing a backwards hat yesterday. Yeah, Tony is downplaying your way lost. Tony's walking around with his backwards hat telling me I'm taking O-ZMPIC. Turn your hat around, Tony. Be proud of who you sell.

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You drive by it on the interstate now, that big, amazing how much they've grown. We've set and watched Shady Raise and Cornbread Him grow from, like, tiny companies to nationwide companies pretty much solely by it. Yeah, I mean, I remember. I'm just kidding. They're not solely, but it's been fun to watch. I remember standing over them when they were putting the last screw in the first pair of sunglasses they ever made, and now they got this gigantic facility right over you pass by.

Same at cornbread. We were in the fields with cornbread when the concept came up to the concept and now look at them. One person writes, is Vince leaving going to be like PV leaving? You're in Stoop's relationship will get bad now that Vince left like it, basketball did with Peavy? No, I mean, I have direct communication with Mark. Not a lot, but occasionally. So, no, I mean, here's a good thing about Mark. I think he listens to too much criticism, but he's not the kind of guy who says, you can't criticize me. That's a Cal thing. Mark Pope,

same way. Like, if you're ranking the sensitivity scale of criticism, there's no. There's no Nobody that's been at Kentucky who was more sensitive about criticism than John Cal Perry, which is why when Cal Perry would always do his, I don't listen to what they say. The clutter. Even when I loved Cal, that was the most ridiculous thing ever. Because Cal would like, there could be a writer. I remember many years ago when he first got here. There was a publication called Basketball News.

Does anybody even remember that? I do not. Clever name. I'm going to guess that they had basketball news. I think it was called Basketball News. was like a nationwide weekly newspaper or something about basketball. Again, no one knows about it. But I guess Cal had been reading it all his life.

So there was some columnist on there who occasionally would criticize him for the whole, you know, unfairly, the one and done and all that stuff. And whenever it would come in, he would call me and Peevy and like be livid and say, what should I tweet out about this? And I would go, no one is reading this. The only way anyone will know it exists is if you tweet it out. Like, don't amplify it. No one will even know it's happening.

But he took criticism so personally. And, you know, now go to the other end of the scale, there are guys who I don't even think know when things happen, right? Like Tubby. Yeah. I don't know that Tubby ever knew what anyone. ever said about him about anything. I don't think so either.

You know? I think for guys like Stoops and Cal, they try to rest on their laurels a lot of time. So when the things do go south a little bit, they get like, yeah, but remember when I did this? Yeah, remember when I did that? Sooops does that. Stoops does the why don't people think about this, but I've never had Stoops tell me. Like Stoops has always said to me, I know you got to do your job. Like he has said that to me probably 30 times before.

he's then said but but he always says that and i appreciate that because you do have to do your job but cow never saw it like that really ever well cow also had like didn't he pay someone to call into his radio shows in new jersey and like well that's the allegation i mean that's been that's been cow's immo for a long time we'll see with pope over time but i hope he's honest and and what he said to you and what he said openly about you know i'm here to win if i don't win have at it you know say what you got to say say what you're feeling give your criticism pope said that not only publicly, like I said, he has said that to me privately. He says, I mean, he looked at me.

It was so refreshing and said, if you don't criticize me, this is not Kentucky basketball. If we ever get to the point that losing is okay, it's not Kentucky basketball. And we've got to that point in football where, you know, we've had some success, we've had some really good years. So when things are not successful, we're going to criticize. I mean, you've got to take the good with the bad, I guess. I've never really figured out. I don't know how much, like Mitch doesn't really speak.

directly to anyone, so it's hard to know what he thinks about criticism. I don't think he likes it, but he also doesn't tell you not to do it. I have no clue what he thinks. I assume it's all via email. There'll never be somebody that's more involved in UK sports that I will know less about as a human being than I do Mitch. I've never spoken to him. This is my 16th year. One time Mitch invited me out to his farm.

He has a farm out there in Midway, right? And he invited me, or between Lexington and Midway, and he invited me to come out there. And he was very nice, like a great host. And he took me around on a golf court, on a golf cart, and showed me his farm. He's very proud of it. Like, I don't think he, I don't think he's out there tilling the land. But he just, like, it's beautiful out there. And he was showing me all of it.

And I was there two hours, and we talked, and he couldn't have been nicer. He gave, like, he served a ham sandwich that was like a piece of ham and cheese and white bread. Exactly what you think, which Barnhart eats for lunch. That's what he eats. Like, no condiments. I see him pulling up to a little table with two chairs far off on the farm, and there's a pitcher of lemonade and two glasses. It was a long table.

He sat on one end, and I sat on the other. Like, we were like an old British family. With that said, he couldn't have been nicer. It was wonderful. And then when I got back in the car, I thought to myself driving, I don't remember one thing we said during those two hours. Like, that's just how he is. He just doesn't reveal himself.

I just felt like he does such a great job on the athletic size of it. He's kind of out of touch with the fans at times, and one is important to the fan base. But he does a lot of things really well. Yes, he does. So I think he's a net positive overall. Who's next? Will. Will. Go ahead, Will.

Hey, Matt, I got a couple things for you. I know Kentucky has that sort of fake tournament they have at Rupp Arena. One problem I think we have is we have eight Division I teams in Kentucky, and they play in seven different conferences. Yes. So I wish they could play more because I think that would be good for our state if they were all able to play each other. And the second thing is there's a freshman softball player for Brackett County. She's, her name's Kendall Johnson.

Next week and starting tomorrow, she's playing in the Team USA, playing with Team USA in the 15-under World Cup for softball. And she's over in Italy now. And she's playing for the World Cups. I wanted to give her a shout out. Well, congrats to her. I think, you know, I appreciate the call. I'm not going to complain about our schedule because we have so many good games this year in basketball. I will say this.

My little concern, one of the things that's important about RPI, Tubby was good at this, Cal ended up being pretty good at this. The stinky teams we played were good enough to win their conference so they didn't kill our RPI. Just looking at the teams we play next year, we play like three of the worst teams in the country. Like I think we play I think Southern was like the worst team in the country last year And we play them So I am a little worried

That can hurt you More than good games can help you We're going to play the team rank like 350th next year So some of our stinky games Drew maybe a little bit stinkier than they need to be And I don't know the answer I think Pope did that a little bit of BYU too And he's done that in the past

I think he has a method and why he doesn't I don't know what that would be But if you look at his schedule, it could be because they do factor in margin of victory. Maybe he sees, you know, he's a lot smarter than I am. Maybe he sees a formula where if you beat a team by 50, it can help you. That's interesting. You might be right about that. Maybe he's looked at the numbers and beat.

But that means you've got to beat him by 50. Like you can't win by 8 or whatever. There's one guy that has figured out a way to use that to his advantage. It's Pope. That would be interesting. I'd be interested to see. Maybe we'll ask you. Like, would I rather beat one team by 14 or beat the 16?

He's not going to say, I'm going to assume we're going to win by 50. But that would be, maybe you're right about that. Who's next? Nancy. Nancy, go ahead, Nancy. Hey, Matt. Okay, so I'm supporting you on the no-shot deal on losing weight. I lost 29 pounds.

No shots, a lot of willpower. But it can be done. And so everybody thinks that, you know, oh, I can't wait unless I'm on those shots or something. Another kind of weight loss med. That's not true. So if you just walk, if you just, if you just, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. If you just walk, if you're not someone that walks regularly and you just walk,

you'll lose seven to 10 pounds quickly, like quickly. I walk in the morning for an hour. Now the next 10 pounds. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. The next 10 pounds are harder. 10 pounds If you're not someone that walks regularly

If you just go do it You'll get rid of that first 10 pounds pretty quickly That is the Matt Jones weight loss Tip of the week Does that include your walking Where you stop and get Skyline halfway Is that also part of the tip? Well

You want to know the madness behind the Skyline? Yeah, I'd love to know it If I walk from my house to Skyline Here's the way, here's the math I do The walk to Skyline justifies the skyline. Okay. The walk back is my exercise.

Uh-huh. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Does that make sense? Yeah, so just make sure you double the exercise. It's double the exercise if you're going to eat skyline. Now, if you want to eat normal food, you don't have to double the exercise. But if I justify eating skyline by saying I'm going to walk all the way out there.

And now I've earned myself Skyline for the walk back. I like that. What about the donuts and the chocolate chip cookies? We don't have to get into all that. These are great chocolate chip cookies who ever made them. Thank you. You don't have to do it every day. I'm acting like I'm an expert.

I'm just telling you I didn't take a shot. That's all I'm saying. Tomorrow, we are at Assured Partners' 1792 Alli Sheba Way. We're in Hamburg. In Lexington. Now, here's the thing. First 75 people get free food from Drake's. Yeah.

That's a pretty good food. Food truck out there. We're going to have a Drake's food truck for the first 75 people at Assured Partners in Lexington, 1792 Alley Sheeba Way. They're a good host. right we've done this before yeah this one yeah I think we'll be outside and it's under a tent yeah I remember a few years ago we went there they had food trucks a great great host for the show yeah make sure you get out there close to my house too big fan of it's gonna be hot I'm not gonna lie to you but you get free food free food it's close to

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So if you come out, you can meet Darius Miller as well. Love Darius. One of my favorites. Hadn't see him in a while, but he's local now after retirement. He's settled down around here. Put him on. Pete. Yeah, he's struggling out here in the sun. All right, I got a question for you as a dad.

All right. Let's go. My Carolina hurricanes have a ton of cap space and are trying to make a deal to get like a star. They really, of all the years, they've been good for like 10 years, but they're missing like one star. And that's always been their issue. So they saved up all this money. They now have the money to go get a star. So they're trying to get a trade to do it.

They have a lot of people they can trade. They actually have a really good farm system. but one of the people that they could trade that other people would want is Rod Brindamor's is the coach's kid. Whoa. So the coach's kid is one of the prospects that they could trade to go get a star. So you're the GM. You know the coach likes having his kid on the team.

Can you trade the coach's kid? And by the way, the coach usually signs off on it. Would you trade your kid to get the star that would make you? your team potentially be able to win a championship? I couldn't make myself do it. I couldn't trade my kid for somebody else. I just couldn't do it no matter how good the other kid was. I would probably...

Don't you owe it to the team? Yeah. Don't you owe it to the city? Yeah. Don't you owe it to the hardworking Carolina hurricane fans that have supported you for 20 years to tell your kid, get out. We need to get someone better than you. But I love my kid.

It's maybe not the best. then we have to fire you. Oh, I'm taking the bullet for my kid. So you would rather get fired than trade? It's not like you're trading your kid to the gulag. He just goes in place for a different team. Yeah, unless my kid signed off on it, I couldn't do it. I couldn't.

So we're firing Ryan. Would you trade your kid? If I'm the head coach, I walk into the GM's office with my son. I set my son down and we trade him right there together and I sat here to win. I wanted to look him in the eyes as I shipped him somewhere else to let you know how serious I about winning here. Thanksgiving's going to be a little awkward in your house. You're also teaching your kid a lesson. Yeah. That like, you know, this is business.

This is, we, I still love you. I'll see at Christmas. Yes, I will be. No, he won't. He ain't coming around at Christmas now. Fine, then I won't see him at Christmas, but I love my G-M-Z-No. I'll fire him, I'll fire him Christmas morning. Well, I will get around the Christmas tree with my family and trade him and let him know how serious him about winning.

Channon, would you trade your son if it means helping your team win a championship? Why are you asking me? You already know the answer to this. I mean, there's business. There's family. The kid has got to go. It is your job to put the best team out there. I don't care if it's your kid, your mom, your grandma.

You got to trade them off and get the best players. Let's look at it as a fan. Let's say Mark Pope had a kid. And we're one player away from, you know, there's now a hard cap on players, 15. We're one player away from getting a title. There's a dude out there in the portal that if he comes is the missing piece to us winning a title. But I'm sorry, Mark Polk. Pope's kid has to go, and Mark says, I can't do it.

I can't tell my kid no. The Kentucky fans are going to lose their minds, aren't they? This is easier for me. All he has to do is scoot back one seat into the row behind him from the bench. So with the Pope family, it's like he's on the team, but sorry, that's Spotscone. Are you keeping your kid and then not winning a title for the Big Blue Nation? Yes. Oh, my goodness.

Blood is thicker than anything else. I mean, John Caliperi did this. He did do this. Is it thicker than the unemployment line? Tubby Smith did this. You know, he didn't sign some other guys because Saul was the point guard. But Saul could at least, well, yeah, I mean, tell him, but people didn't like it. People didn't like when he did that with Saul.

But this dude's son's obviously good enough to play in the NHL. He's a good player. I can't do it. There's no way I can look my son in the eye and say, dude, you're out. I got to get somebody else. He's good enough that he's a good trade piece to go get something better. From Brindamore and you have a chance to get a star, you've got to tell your son. And from what I know of Brindamore, he would tell him.

How long has he been there? I think that matters. 20 years. Yeah, he's got to look out for the franchise first. Summer weather has arrived, and it's a perfect time to stock your cooler with refreshing drinks that also are hangover free. Get a free four pack of seltzers from cornbread hemp with any order over $75. The code is summer sips. I don't like the coat, but that's what they gave me.

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Yes. First time caller, a long time. Who are? What's up, Josh? Okay, I'm with you on the no shot because in 1990 or 2016, my bad. I weighed 398 pounds. Wow. And started on vitamin water and minerals and CBD.

I also have a real bad case of seizures. But from 2016 to 2019, I went from 398 to 190. Wow. So I lost 200 pounds? I lost 208 pounds. Good for you, man. And nobody really recognizes me for it. Yeah.

But, you know. I'll recognize you. I did a whole lot. That takes a whole lot of discipline. Are you? So are you in good health now? I still have epilepsy seizures pretty much every day, but yeah, I've gained a lot of stuff back. That doesn't mean you're not in good health.

I have seizures too. I mean, I know it affects if you have one of your day. That affects your life much more than mine does mine, but still don't let people tell you you're not in good health. Well, I'm in good health. I got back into UK neurology. That's what I'm really looking forward to. And I got my medical marijuana card. That's why I was.

Well, I hope it helps you with that. I believe it does. Yeah, I think it does for a whole lot of people. So I appreciate you, Colin, sir, and good luck to you. Okay. Y'all have a blessed day. There you go. That's a good inspiring story to finish today, right?

The 208 pounds. Don't you forget those eight pounds? So it's 208 pounds, which is what we're going to put on when we go to this kitchen here in just a little bit to test the food. I'm nervous. I'm already sweating more than I thought I was going to sweat here today. I'll definitely be sweating when we eat the food. Listen, thanks to you folks for hosting us, McKinsey. We appreciate here at the Crooked Creek Safari.

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