KSR - 2025-07-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk about the new UK Football and Baseball commitment and catch up on everything that happened over the holiday weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Full house today, all five in the building. We are getting close to where we're, like, all geared up for August. I'll be gone next week, but then otherwise we're here. It's almost football season. I mean, it's coming. And, guys, how was your 4th of July? Ryan, I saw you went to Otwell, Indiana. It's a tradition like none of the other.

The Otwell, Fourth of July celebration, the parade. You know, there are 15 fire trucks, people riding their horses down the main thing. Do you know anyone that lives there anymore? I think I know, like, three people that I saw up there. So you just went up there just to, but did you go by yourself? My parents, we went to Jasper. Got my parents and the three of us went. That's beautiful.

Drew, you went out to all those, the scenery in the American Southwest, which we'd been to before, right? Yeah, the Badlands. Badlands. had a very patriotic break. I saw Mount Rushmore. I'd never seen that before. Was Trump on there yet? He was not there yet. Okay. It's pretty impressive to see that. I went and saw... Who are the four people on Mount Rushmore? Oh, you got it. Wait a minute. Don't let you saw it. Ryan, who's four people on Mount Rushmore? All right. Abraham Lincoln. Yep. Theodore Roosevelt. Okay.

George Washington. Okay. And the fourth one is John Adams. I don't think John Adams is on there. Who's the fourth one? Wait, which one did you mean? You said Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Washington. Those were the four. I said Washington, not Jefferson. Okay. Yeah, so you didn't get Jefferson.

I had a cool moment. We had an Airbnb facing Mount Rushmore, but at night you couldn't see it. We were wondering if they, like, turn it on. It's because it's just pitch black. So I played Whitney Houston Super Bowl anthem on my phone. I'll show it to you. Right when he gets the end of her song, they lit up Mount Rushmore. We cheered like we did it on our back porch.

Oh, you think they heard you? Yeah, it's pretty cool. Okay. Well, that's good. I also got to see two historic baseball teams, the Rockies, hosted the White Sox. It is not the summer of the Rockies. Oh, you got the two worst teams in the league.

That's exciting. I went there on the 4th of July. I went for the fireworks. Sold out crowd for a team on pace to lose 125 games and a team on pace to lose 120 games. They were there for the fireworks, clearly. That's kind of nice, though, to see the two worst teams play. That's kind of exciting. Shannon, what did you do?

Went down to Panama City Beach, Florida, hung out with Lori Morgan. She was right next to me. Oh, Lori Morgan. I really wanted to go over and get a summer. selfie, but other people are bothering her. And I don't know how you are when you see like a celebrity. I don't want to go up and be that guy. See, I used to be the big, I used to be a big like, there's the celebrity. I want a picture with them. Now I feel like I'm imposing. I try not to do it. Now, there are some people I'll do it with. Lori Morgan's an interesting one because I would have

thought you could get a picture with Lori Morgan, like she didn't get asked a lot. Right. So you're telling me she gets asked a lot. Well, the way that I saw that she was there was somebody posting on social media. And I'm going to be. That's right across from where I'm at. Someone called her out for being at the, what, a restaurant? No, she's just on the beach, just sitting there, like on the beach with everybody else. Someone posted on social media, Lori Morgan, is at the beach? Well, does it change your mind if I told you that she had a giant tent on the beach that said Keith Whitley on the side of it?

Like, it was probably his merch tent that he used when he was on tour. Okay, hang on just said. Now this is getting dark. You're telling me Lori Morgan, who, how old is Lori Morgan? Yes. Who, how old is Lori Morgan? She's probably in her 60s. 60s?

You're telling me, Lori Morgan, is she just on the bench, on the beach hanging out? Yes, just with like a couple of friends. So she's not like selling merchandise. No, she's vacationing. So she's hanging out on the beach with her friends. Yes. And she's under a Keith Whitley tent? A giant tent that says Keith Whitley on it.

I think she owns one of the houses right across from the condo complex. But that's really, really weird. Like, Keith Whitley is her ex-boyfriend. She's already married like three other men. Oh, she's also, yeah. And she's married now? Well, he just passed away this year. But, you know, she'd be married like five or six times.

But it is sort of strange that Keith Whitley's tent would be. But that's weird because when Keith Whitley died, they weren't together. Yeah. And it kind of calls. I'm sorry. I can't skip over this. That's really strange. And like, when you say a Keith Whitley died.

tent. Is it like a tour tent? Well, you know, like if you would sell, like, okay, like when we do, like when we do, you know, we have those big tents. Yeah. It was about that size, but a little bit bigger. And it has his name on it. And I feel like that's calling attention to her when you see, oh, Keith Whitley tent. That's got to be somebody related to Keith Whitley.

It's calling attention to something. That's really strange to me. Because that's how I knew where she was. That's got to be. And I look over. There she is. Who on social media posted Lori Morgan's at this beach? But people who don't know.

Lori Morgan, because Mario's looking like. who are these people. Lori Morgan's an old country singer. Yeah. Who was dating Keith Whitley, a Kentuckian. Right. He died, what would you say? Drunking hearted.

Drank himself to death has always been the story. I don't know if that's actually a technical term. And in one of his final songs, he sings Tell Lori I Love Her. Yeah. Which is one of maybe the saddest songs of all time. And now that's 30 years. later, she's sitting on the beach in Panama City with a Keith Whitley tent. Yep.

And I'll screenshot the picture. So you see it on social media and then you're like, well, I'm going to go over there? Well, it was right across the street from my condo. I'm going, okay, there's these big beach houses. I started digging a little bit. And she owns one of those houses right across from the condo that I have. So did you go? I went over there and I saw her.

I go, I don't want to. So what did you say to her? You just go up and go, hey, Lori. I'm Shannon the dude. I saw her from a far. She was 20. She was 20 yards away from me, but I didn't go up and bother her. I'm like, well, there she is.

Wow. Yeah. That is quite a story. That's a better story than anything I am. I'm confused by this tent. Yeah. So he died in like 1990. Is the tent that old or did at some point after his death did someone make a custom Keith Whitley tent?

I don't know. I gave the tour to use the beep. I should have asked. Yeah. And it's a. That'd have to be like a 40-year-old tent or someone made a Keith. And I'm a big Keith Whitley fan. and I like Lori Morgan.

That's a really bizarre story to me. And I'm going to have to take a while to process. Well, on the 4th of July, I went walking through Louisville. They had in Paris Town, which is a part of Louisville that they sort of created out of nowhere, Shannon. That was not a phrase I ever heard. Until about five or six years ago, they were like, this part of town is called Paris Town. And here's a Paris Town hall and a Paris Town village. and I was like, you never called it that for a long time.

Bonjour. But Jumapel, Matteo went to Paris Town. And I saw, I didn't stay for it, but they were having that night. They claimed the national donut eating contest. I'm throwing the challenge flag on the weather. It was national. It was sponsored by Jeff's Donuts, which is a Louisville donut place. Right.

So I don't know if they get sponsored. But they were having it that night. Yeah. And you had 10 minutes. to eat as many glazed donuts as you could. And I went inside, you could pre-purchase a donut just to see what people were eating. And it was a big, thick donut. Okay, so think about, like, the biggest donut you would buy over-the-counter donut.

Okay. Glazed. Yeah. Now, I didn't watch the finals, but I was thinking to myself, let's just take us, okay? Not professionals. Because you had to sit and watch in the high. It was 94 degrees in the heat to eat big old thick glazed donuts. How many think you could eat in 10 minutes?

In 10 minutes? You know, I'm a donut guy. I love donuts. But after about three or four, I get the meat sweats. I start sweating and get a sugar high. I'm going to say I could probably only eat 10. Well, 10's a lot. 10's a lot.

Tens a lot. I mean, that's one a minute. I mean, 10. In 10 minutes? I mean, those gyps don't know. Those are thick. You think you could eat 10. Set it up.

All right, we're doing this. Let's say, all right. So here's my. They're our neighbor at KS Bar. Yeah, they'll do this. I'm sure they would do this. Would you try? We would set it up outside of, because yeah,

there are our neighbor at KS Bar. We'll set it up outside in the heat so that you can recreate the temperature. Would you this week do this? the 10 donuts in 10 minutes. I would absolutely try it just to eat the donuts. Yeah. I love this. You would do it for the food.

Yeah, I mean, if I tap out at five, I still got five donuts. You have to put your whole. No, no, no, no, you're not taking them home with you. If you don't eat them in the 10 minutes, they're done. This is not just a way for you to get 12 glazed donuts. Yeah, they're putting it on my plate. Don't I get a keep it to go box. I'm going to see.

So you think you could do it? I probably could not, but I would give it a shot. You'd give it a shot, like a real shot. Yes. 10 glazed donuts and 10 minutes. I would give it a shot. We're doing that this week. I would give it a shot.

What do you think, Shannon? We're doing that this week. Oh, let's do it. Anybody's... Where's our remote this week? My house. Perfect. That's what we'll do.

You can run inside if you need to. Friday at the remote. Okay. You figure out how to get us the donuts. All right. You will eat 10 outside at your house. Okay. In 10 minutes.

I'm going to try. I don't say I can do it, but I'm going to try. Does anybody else think they can top 10? No way. I was going to add, I've done many food challenges in the past. I used to be good at this. I was going to say five, and I thought that was going to be difficult. You go on with 10.

Once you get two or three down, that's going to start doing real hard. These are thick. Yeah. I mean, just to eat the 10 donuts, you're going to put on five pounds. I say, I get sweat after eight two or three donuts in the car. I mean, that may be a complete exaggeration. I just made up five pounds. That's probably not how much you would put on.

But whatever it is, it's going to, I mean, your stomach will explode. I think eight minutes in, you have already. had eight donuts. You're telling me you could eat two more in two minutes. But I would give it one hell of a shot. Let's go. We're doing it at 10.30 a.m. Okay. Friday. Tell you what, I'll go get the donuts. I don't want Ryan to leave his house to get them. Mario lives over by me. None of us are close to it. I will personally make sure the donuts are there. Look at that. Drew will get the donuts. Spaldi. No, no, no. I already told you. Why are you switching it to Spalding?

Because I can eat Spalty. Jeff is the one that did it. And Jeffs is the one we had the other day. they're thick. They're okay. I want you, because I want you to eat the big thick ones like you like. So what, if I only get, if I only get five done.

Now, you're doing 10. Well, there's no way I can probably do 10 in 10 minutes. You're the one that said it. Well, I didn't come up with 10. You came up with 10.

You're now like arguing with yourself. You're the one that said 10. Yeah, I think I may be over exaggerated my ability a little bit. You got 10 and 10 minutes. Whoa. That is Friday on the show. Joey Chestnut dips it in water. Did I try to dig them in water? If you want to do that, that sounds gross in and of itself.

No, eat it, 10. I don't know. I didn't see water on the stage, so I don't think you were allowed to do it in water. Somebody, if you were there at the Paris Town thing, let me know what the winter got. Yeah, what the winter got. I don't even know what the answer was. But I saw it and I thought, boy, in the summer in this heat, I don't know. I'm excited for Ryan to try it. I don't know if I'll go just glazed, you said? Variety pack? Okay, 10 glazed? You realize I'll be done the rest of the show. That's what we want. It'll be like you after the colonoscopy, but just pre. You're doing the last segment.

Sugar rush. Yeah. It'll be fun. We got another hour after the show. All right. So the big story, besides the 4th of July, Kentucky gets a major commitment. Kentucky gets the commitment from quarterback Matt Ponatowski. Pontosky?

Pontosky, I believe. Isn't that what I said? Yeah, you're right on it. Okay. Matt Panatowski. He is from Cincinnati. Top 10 quarterback in America would be one of the handful, if not the highest ranked quarterback Kentucky's ever had committed,

not from the state of Kentucky. Cincinnati's close, but it's technically not in the state. So I think he passes that test. He is also a top baseball star. He is the reigning Gatorade National Player of the Year in both football and baseball. Excuse me, Ohio player of the year in both football and baseball. As a junior he won that.

As a junior he won Shannon, both of them. And Ohio's pretty good. Ohio's pretty good. He is coming to Kentucky. I'm not surprised because we'd heard this was going to happen. But this is a major, major get for UK football. It's a huge get. He comes from Archbishop Mueller in Cincinnati that just puts out football products. They're a powerhouse, but they play in a difficult league in Ohio.

And he still won those awards. He was Mr. Football. I think they were runner up in the state championship. he had 4,000-something yards with like three interceptions and five touchdowns, went to the elite 11 camp earlier this summer and was the most accurate passer there. Didn't win the MVP award, but still turned a bunch of heads and just added to his resume. I know it's hard to get really excited about UK football right now in the middle of all the motivated talk and the season ahead. But this is a gigantic commitment.

I want to get excited. Yeah, I know. You have to be excited about this. We're going to take a break. We're going to have a minute to get excited about this. because this is worthy of getting excited about all the negative nellies and cynical cindies which i have been one at times and will be one again you should take a couple hours off because had they gotten this kid two years ago we'd be doing a parade so we shouldn't

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feel better just for spite. Be great on the podcast. That's right. Thursday and Friday, take too long before I know it. Great song. I got to stop because I have to remember the podcast won't have the music and it might not sound as good

acapella. Oh, it sounds great. Hey. I thought you were going to play. Tell Lori, I love her. And I was like, are you going to depress everyone? No, no, we can do that next. I've never played that song. I've told the story of that song and then played it to probably 20 people over the years.

Some of whom don't even know country music. And they all say, that's the most depressing thing I've ever heard. Like, because he recorded it right before he died. Yeah. On like a tape recorder or something. On like a tape recorder. Yeah. And the premise is, I may leave the earth, but just make sure Lori knows I love her.

Some deep stuff. You're right. There is something about that recording. They were married, by the way. I was wrong. Apparently they were married. They were separated but married when. It's haunting to hear it.

It's a tape recorder. It's a tape recorder. And you can tell you it's like you just kind of feel like he's alone in a room by himself down the basement. I do think that's the saddest song of all time. It's sad. Is there a sadder song than that? Knowing how his life ended shortly after he sing it.

Shannon, you're a big music guy. Sadder song than tell Lori I love her with considering circumstances, etc. It'd be hard to think of one. I know Drew thinks that whiskey lullaby. Yeah, but they like that. Tell her she's the only girl for me. 772-774-5254 on the text machine. Is there a song sadder than tell Lori I love it?

I don't think there is. I mean, there are songs that'll make you cry, but that one. I've always wondered about that song, too. he did it in a tape recorder and just left it there. Somebody had to stumble across and probably find it, you know? Yeah, I've heard mixed things about what happened in that when he recorded it and all that, but still, very, very sad. All right, real quick, let's go back to quarterback. Kentucky football is right now at the lowest point since Mark Stoops took over.

Even in the first couple years, there was at least the excitement of what might be. Yeah. That's all gone. and you just two weeks ago or two and a half weeks ago lost your head recruiter and lifelong friend of Stoop. So like you couldn't have been at a lower point. And since then they've gotten a number of commitments, some of which are impressive, some of which were lower rated, but they've at least shown life. But now to get at this point a four-star quarterback who plays both sports that will uplift both sports

and to get him over major programs, all of whom wanted him, when he's not very far away and has to know the perception of the program right now, I think is an amazing accomplishment. And I think for as much as we've criticized Mark Stoops and everybody, as much as they've gotten, you know, a lot of heat. And I think a lot of it deserved. There should be a minute, Drew, to sit there and go, this is quite an accomplishment.

Now, I know you can say, well, he isn't here yet. He could always leave. That's true. You could say that about any commitment ever. And if you want to take the position, I will never care about anyone that ever commits, because they might not come here. Fair enough. Then just skip recruiting season.

But if you're going to care about recruiting at all, and I don't know how as a fan, you can't care about it at all, then you have to say, this is a pretty amazing accomplishment from an embattled staff. Yeah, that's a remarkable gift. with just where he's ranked, what he's already done in Ohio, and how, as you said, he knows what's going around UK football. He's from an hour away. Maybe he's not a lifelong fan, but he knows where things are right now.

And he committed to a coordinator who's still pretty unproven here. Last year did not go well in Hamden's first season, even though he's a little handcuffed with the circumstances. For him to make that commitment, it is a big get. I'm with you. I've been as down as anyone on Kentucky football, but you have to be excited about this, even though it is for on down the road a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, like I said. get since Tim Couch at quarterback. It is. Drew Barker's the only other one that had this ranking, but both those guys were from Kentucky. Yeah. Right? You know, I said the negative Nellies and the cynical Sundays.

I had a cynical Cindy send me a, Eric said to me something during the break that has the rankings of the quarterback's history. That's fine. All of that's true. We're going to be, have plenty of time to complain about it. But Ryan, I do think if you are going to complain about things,

you also have to acknowledge when somebody does something good. You can't just be like everything's bad and then be balanced and on balance. This is an amazing pickup for UK. My two big takeaways I love the fact that the two programs Mingione and Stoops had to work

together on this to get this kid. They both had to work together. It's huge for both programs. He's going to play both. And he said he wants to get drafted in both like Kyler Merr. So I think both coaches kind of had to agree, you know, I understand that this is what this kid's about. We want this kid. We have to agree to it. But the perception for

both programs. They can pull out this type of kid, especially for football. They're going to use that now and go recruit other kids. This is a huge, I mean, this is a huge get. And it shows some life. Yeah, it does. And listen, a lot of recruiting now is money. But my guess is what makes this more impressive to me is this is not the case.

Like some of the guys I think the staff has gotten, we just probably prioritized them more than other guys and gave them more money. That's my guess. Some of these three star dudes, these high three star dudes, we probably just offered them more than other good programs. But this kid was probably offered a lot of money by everybody. Yeah, for sure. Right?

For sure. When you get to the top level kids, to some extent, money is not even the reason. Basketball might be a little different. But in football, all these programs would have offered him a lot of money, which means he picked Kentucky because he wanted to come here. I'm going to assume he's going to come until he doesn't. Yeah, he had several offers, but the main three that Kentucky beat out in the end were Oregon and Alabama.

I think we're all pretty aware of how they do in football. And Arkansas was the other school, SEC football, but also just nearly won the College World Series. He was really considering them for baseball too. So in both sports, you beat out some of the top programs that are in the country. It's a huge

successful thing. And I would just say, I looked at the comments when I posted it. Most were positive, but there were some 408, 39, okay, fine. There's going to plenty of time for that. But take just a minute to be happy, right? Same thing happened at the end of Cal. There was a group of people that wanted Cal gone for so, so much that they couldn't even root the successes on. You got to root the successes on. And then at the end of the year,

you evaluate where you are, but you got to take a moment to enjoy the successes. If you don't enjoy the successes, why are you even a fan? Why are you even a fan? I mean, if we beat Old Miss, are you going to go, five, four, and eight? Like, just take a minute. Just take a minute. and be happy. There are going to be plenty of time probably to be sad. I think it shows, too, they can get big-time kids without Vince. Yes, that's another thing. In Ohio.

This is a big-time kid from Ohio that you did not get with Vince. I think that's big. That is big. I didn't even think about the Ohio part. That's big. Yeah. That is big. Also, a lot of the criticism is, you know,

Stoop's work ethic, are they recruiting well over there? You can't still talk. crash a little bit when they go out and get a commitment like this. It shows they are doing something. He stopped loving her today. Oh, yeah. My mom suggests that's a good one. Yeah.

I don't know. I still feel like tell Lori I love her, sadder. But that's a good call from my mom. Be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

Here's Matt Jones. See, I think it's the fact that it's like, I think the fact that it's on like a tape recorder makes it sadder. Yeah. You know what I mean? Makes it more haunting. It's not produced at all.

It's not produced at all. It's kind of gently plucking those streams and barely singing. It feels like he's just sitting there being sad. Yeah. And like just the words where he says, tell Lori I love her, tell Lori I need her. What's it? It's like, tell Lori. She's the only girl for me.

I give anything I do just to see her. Oh, this one. See, that's, that's, that's. haunting right there. It is. Because it's like I'm in a terrible place and if I could just see her. So I, so it's all a background to say, Shannon, it's so weird to then think there's a tent on a beach. Yeah. I know. Somebody pointed out that it was, I guess, the anniversary of his death. So maybe she was honoring him. So she pulls the tent out for that? I don't know. I guess everybody's got a different way of grieving. Yeah. I mean, that's true. You don't want to judge people's grief.

I can ask you a question for you to switch subjects. the Keith Whitley Museum was in like what was that Carter County they caught on fire or something did they ever rebuild it or they It's in Elliott County, right? Is it Elliott County? Okay. Didn't he live in Sandy Hook? Where Rock is from? Sandy Hook.

Remember that museum we stopped in? We were over there. Well, it wasn't a museum. It was a restaurant. Yes. Kind of had all these. It was like a museum. It was like a museum of serve food.

It was literally like a hamburger place. They just had a lot of pictures of him. I love Keith Whitley. I love that hamburger place. But you're being very generous in calling it. a museum. It was like a steak shack. Yeah, but it was part museum for him. I remember it caught on fire. He did catch on fire. So I wonder whatever happened to everything. It was just pictures of him. It wasn't like it wasn't a, it was it was picture. They probably have other copies. Yeah, they could

reprint it to get a printer. Uh, tears in heaven. That's a good. That's a sad song. Yeah. A Warren Zvon. That's a great one. Shannon. Keep me in your heart. I know that one. He sang that right before he died of cancer. And it was basically like, I know I'm about to die. Please just remember I'm here. You should see, he sang that on David Letterman, like a month before he died because he was like David Letterman's favorite artist. And it's brutally sad. I'm not trying to bring the mood down.

All sad songs today. That's what I'm playing. The saddest songs ever. So let's talk for the donuts just a second before I go to the phone. Tens a lot. Your girlfriend's trying to talk you out of it. Yoga girl is begging me. She doesn't weigh me.

Do not do it. And if I do it, she goes, make sure there's somebody there with the insulin standing by. Okay, I'll get the insulin also. But you don't have diabetes. No. You will after this, though. Not until 10.30 on Friday. I mean, he also can't get in the pool for 30 minutes after you eat.

That's true. Make sure you can't get. We don't want the cramps. Is that true, by the way? People said that their whole lives. Is that a thing? I think it's an old wives tale. I really do.

Who came up with it? I know wife. Yeah. An old grandma. You boys just stayed. You got to stay out of the pool for 30 minutes. No cramps. Well, I'm excited for you to do it.

I think timing-wise is not an issue. You have enough time. You don't need to scarf it down. The question just is, can you physically do it? Like, you don't need the Joey chestnut and just, the question is just can you physically hold that amount of food? I am going to say the answer is going to be a big fat. No.

Well, no, you have to go into the mindset that you can do. Okay. If you go in like if your mind tells you you can't, then you can't. So I have to believe I can do it. You like these big ice coffees in the morning. Yeah, I love them. 64 hours out there. You should dip it in that.

What would make you to where you would feel more motivated? If I gave you a financial reward. What if Mark Stoops were there? What if I said? What if I said, I'll give you $200 if you do? Oh. What about a per donut? No, I'm not doing that.

That's $2,000. But what about if I said you get $200 if you do it? I think I'll be as wiped out as Shannon was on his walk and you gave him $5,000. Well, but I had a sponsor for that. I don't have a don't. If Jeff's donuts wants to sponsor it. Don't try to compare eating 10 donuts to walk a 50 miles. Don't even start with me.

If Jeff's donuts wants to give us a grand to do it, but I personally will give you $200 if you do it. I will give it my best shot, sir. You don't seem like, are you rich now? You don't need $200? Oh, I absolutely need $200. Are you kidding? I'll buy a lot of Jeff's donuts. That would be a classic ride thing.

He did it, got the $200 and wouldn't bought more donuts. Let's go to John. Go ahead, John, go ahead. Yeah, hello, Matt. How are you there? Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Okay.

How long your renovation is going to last at KSR? We are scheduled right now to open. We're looking at August the 26th that week. But we're going to do some special things leading up to it, including some stuff for fans. Actually, I'll probably announce some of that later this week, like some early openings for people who listen to the show. Okay, all right.

Yeah, the quarterback slash baseball superstars are good pickups for football team. I mean, I don't know how long. I appreciate the call. It's at least probably, I mean, when does he play? Two, three years from now? I mean, it's going to be a while. It's interesting enough, it also says for a quarterback, you don't commit unless you think Mark Stoops

or Bush Hampton's going to be here, and that's a long time to wait. Yeah, it shows that they really are trying to turn things around there. Also, not just with him, but I think he said it too. A lot of these guys have committed, and there's been, it feels like 15 in the last month. They all talk about the culture at Kentucky and how it stood out. I don't know if that's a message that they're intentionally telling them to work into their comments

or if they're really seeing something behind closed doors that makes the operation look a lot better than it's been. Yeah. I have one person right. Say they might chip in another $100. Oh, my. Now you're up to $300. It's getting more enticing.

No, no, you're doing it. This is not, like, this isn't to talk you into it. You're just getting offered rewards. To eat free donuts. To eat. Eat donuts. Like you're doing it. You already do that anyway.

You have already said yes. Oh, I'm doing it. I'm going for it. I need to get motivated to do 10. So if you were hungry, you said you could do 10. Yeah, I was exaggerating, I'm sure, a little bit. When you go to Jeff's, because you go to Jeffs, do you get like two, three? How many do you eat in a normal sitting? One. Come on.

So now you've just got to do nine more. It's nine more. In 10 minutes. I've watched you on the show. You eat one in less than a minute. You ate two like a week ago before we left when they brought them out. You ate two right there. We had some at the Standard Bragg track.

the other year. It's Wednesday. So you just lied to me. You basically eat two every Friday. Yeah, but now I've got to figure in eight more. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Matt? Hello? Yes. Talk, Jerry. Hey, hey, all right, sorry, Matt. Hey, I'm excited to see this quarterback come here, but I've just learned over the years of these recruits the way they can flip and change. But why do you have to do the butt? I'm being dead serious. When it's negative, Jerry, you are always, adamant to be negative. You're always quick to say things are bad. You're always quick to, like, if we lose a game, call and blast them. And I'm fine with that. Like, I know that when Jerry's

on, there'll be some negativity and I'm cool with that. But when something positive happens, why is your initial inclination within one and a half seconds to say but and then something negative? Why can't you just take a minute to say you've talked about culture on this show a lot? This is a good sign. Well, when I saw that he signed yesterday, I wouldn't pull up the 250 rankings for classes for next year with all these guys that they've had to commit. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. For him, yes. But this class is still ranked 44th. See, I can't do this. I appreciate the call, Jerry. I can't do this. The class doesn't, it has struggled.

but you get a piece of positive news. And when you get one piece of positive news and the only thing you can say is negative news, I don't know how people can be a fan like that. Shannon, I don't. Like if everything is negative. Why do you watch it? Why even be a fan? I can't not take Donald Trump as president.

Every day he drives me crazy. With that said, you do have to be, you do have to say, okay, well, the border crossings are down. the illegal boy. Give him credit for that. There's something, right? Like, you have to do that. I hate when people get so into their frame of mind that you can't say anything positive. Doesn't mean you have to like. You can still think Mark Stoop should be fired. But you can say, well, at least it's good news we got this guy. Why can't you do that? Dude, I don't get it either. This program has been begging for some good news for over a year. You got it, man. You got this top-notch recruit. that most people in the country would want to have

and Kentucky got him. I think the answer on the stoop situation is some people almost don't want him to have success. And when you're in that point, when you're in that point, I had this mindset with Cal that last year. When you're in the point that you're rooting for him to fail

so you'll be right, that's a you problem. Right? If you want to be right so much that you'll cut your nose off your face, then that's a you problem. If you hate the president so much that you want there to be bad news, so they get criticized, that's a you problem.

That's not a them problem. And there are some people like that with Mark Stoops, and I think you're going in a wrong direction when you do that. When does the law familiar game start? Friday, April 18th. Friday, April 18th? July 18th. That is not that. I don't know why I said April.

There's not one word there that's correct. Friday, July 18th. Friday, April the 18th. I can't, I know exactly when my mind did that. When your mind did it, it did it 10 seconds ago. Yeah, I'm still on April football the last time we had some good news, April of last year. Let me do this ad without Ryan. I was hoping Ryan would like it contribute and Friday, April the 18th was not.

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Just play the playlist. The playlist we picked today, the most depressing. What person writes, Matt Jerry would be the kind of person who would win the power ball and then complain about the taxes. Yes. That's a good example. That's a perfect example. That's exactly what he would do. It's like when we've had contests in the past for something free.

That day doesn't work out. That's too far. to drive. You win a war, you win a thing and then they go, I mean. Where the seats at? Well, you're not throwing in a hard. I hate when people do wear the seats. I always have the same answer, facing the stage.

Where are the seats at? Yeah, people. Yeah, can I have your Reds tickets? Yeah. Where are they? You mean the free ones? That's a day game, though. I can't do day games.

Yeah. So, Marcia. She, Marsha was at the show on Friday. Correct. But Marcia said, hey, I'm going to go to the Reds game Monday. Are you going to be there? And I said, you know, I'm not sure. But if I don't go, you can have my.

So she wasn't even asking. She was just going to say that she would say hi. So I've decided to go tonight. So I text her and said, okay, I've decided to go Monday. But if you want, you could have Wednesdays. She said, oh, I would love it. That's the attitude to head. That's the attitude to head.

They're free. Yeah. Right. And Marcia, of all people. That's right. We've got a bunch of people on here. I want to give them a chance. So let's put the 30-second shot clock on.

All right, ready, Shannon? Gary and Orlando, go. Well, good morning, guys. Two quick stories. Moeller High School years ago, all right. Moeller High School years ago had Gary Fauses as a coach. They contacted a friend of mine who was an assistant at a small school in Kentucky

and come up and look at these kids. So he goes up and watch them play this game and the kids never got in the game. And he went to Faust after the game. and he said, hey man, he said, I came up here and the kids never even got on the field. He said, I said they were good enough to play for you. You feel coming.

I felt that. He didn't even get through one story, Shannon. I mean, I knew first of my second. I said 30 seconds. You get two stories. Didn't you get him through one? And I don't even know the ending of that one. And most people listen to don't even know who Gary Faust is.

Now I want to know who the two kids were. Does it have come here playing? Did he coach Notre Dame? All right, Gary. You can't be mad at Shannon, though. It's poor clock management. Greg, 30 seconds, go. All right, we got to focus on this athleticism for Mr.

Ryan Lemon. He can do it. He can do the donut challenge, but he's got to practice. That's the secret of Joey Chestnut. He does practice, okay? We got to work with Jeff. We got to get you a dozen a day, buddy. You got to start taking down a dozen days.

Real quick, real quick assist. I got 10 seconds left. Go, what you got to say, Sam? Go cats. There you go. Appreciate to call. Go cast. The kid even gets the go.

You do need to practice. Do throat exercises? My dad even sent me a text. Not a smart idea, Ryan. Smartest idea. I can hear it in his voice too, right? Yeah. Smartest idea.

30 seconds, Mike. Mike. Matt, listen. Hello. Go. Matt, can you hear me? 20 seconds. Okay, so, listen, I have it on good authority.

You've been giving Mitch Barnhart a lot of credit for being forward-thinking, which is good. But I haven't on good authority of a certain high-networth individual that might be an NBA owner came to the Kentucky Football Association, Athletic Association, and offered to give them a lot of money. I wish the three-throw at me again. I would wonder, I wonder where that was going. He did waste 10 seconds. Can you hear of me, Matt? Yes, that would have been a start.

That would have. I'd actually wonder what do you say? Who could be a net owner that would want to give UK athletics money? Do we have any UK people who own a team? Not owners that's coming to mind. I can't think of who that would be. Shannon, put him back on. What is it?

It was intriguing. Listen, I gave him 30 seconds. That was intriguing though. Mark, 30 seconds. Ryan, just take the donuts, put them in two stacks of five, flatten them with your hand, be done. Oh. Okay, first, I don't like your little hands.

You don't need to practice. You don't need to practice. All right. Well, I mean, listen, that would be, I appreciate the call. That is, I guess, a good piece of advice. It's kind of gross, but all right. I like that idea, though. Mash them together.

All right. You're doing it either way. Okay. By the way, if you mash them $200 is off the table. Lee, go ahead. Hey, I hate the Vince left, but I don't think it's the end of the world. I think with the transfer portal is more important. plus if I believe what I read, I would want to be choosing my own Y receivers.

If I'm the receivers coach, with running back coach, I wouldn't want Vince telling me, here's the kid you make it work. So I don't think it's that big a deal. I think we're going to have a decent season. I understand that viewpoint. I actually don't think I appreciate the call. I don't think that's a crazy viewpoint, especially the portal part. I think the portal is going to become even more important.

It already is even more important than high school recruiting. All right, J-Rock, 30 seconds. Hello? Hello? Yes. Hey, Matthew. Matthew, you're there? Hey, hey, man, I want some rest kickers, but I want to sit in the bleachers.

Holler. That's why he's the best caller we have. He is the best. He is a good caller. I agree. 859-2-8-0-22. I've got one more. Anthony, 30 seconds.

Hey, right? Yeah, Ryan. What's going on, man? This is Heavy Jones, man. I think we need to really get back to the basics and really hit this transfer portal really hard because we're a fool if we think we're going to really look to the future with a freshman quarterback.

I mean, did we forget about Cutter Bowley already? We had 20 losses the last three years. This program is in a lot of trouble. Listen, first of all, he's not starting next year. He's not starting next year. I appreciate the call. I mean, either Cutter Bowley or if they don't think it's Cutter Bowley, they will get one out of the portal.

Sure. He's not starting next year. But that doesn't mean it's not a good person to have, right? Everybody always wants Cutter Bowley to play. I do too. Well, when did we get cutter bolly? Out of high school. Yep.

I think in a perfect world, you get somebody out of high school, and then you get somebody out of the portal, and you make that work. That's how you got it work. That's how you make it work, and they feel like they got their high school guy. We'll take a break and come back. This is hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends.

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