KSR - 2025-07-18- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are joined by all-around tough guy and UK punter Aidan Laros and also talk the latest news with your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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of Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt will be back on Monday. He had a week off here before we get into the weeds with football season. 859-280-2287. That's our Clark's Publishout phone number. If you want to call and get on board, we'll take your calls.

our Josiah Scavenger Hunt is still underway I told you where he works at Wild Eggs If you go find Josiah at Wild Eggs He's got a $100 gift card in his pocket He's going to give to somebody First person to come up to him and give it to him He'll give it to him

And the first five people that can text The A Vision Glass text machine Which is my cell phone so I'm not going to give my cell phone number out But if you know it The first five people that text With their name you're going to get a $25 wild eggs gift card.

Wow. So Wildegs is like just blowing it up here today. No, you're ineligible. Oh, I'm ineligible. You're ineligible to win. Employees of IHeart Radio are ineligible and Kate Katakis Sports Radio are ineligible to win. Okay.

Well, my contract's up today, so I don't know. Maybe I'm not employed. So the first five people that text the text machine and the first person to go find Josiah gets the gift card. All right. Drew, you're a big fan of the EA college sports football game. Yes, I've played it. A total of one hour and 20 minutes, but I've enjoyed it.

And the two things I hear the most is one, Chris Wilcox's shoes are taped in the video game. Jamarian Wilcox. Jimarian Wilcox. Chris Wilcox was a basketball player. Maryland, I think. It wasn't Maryland. When they beat Kentucky? Yeah.

Was that the Sweet 16 or the Elite 8? What was the, what was the, Steve Blake? Yeah. Was on that team? Joanne Dixon, I think. John? Some people say Juan for short. One.

If you want to call them Joanne. No, he was Juan, Juan Dixon. If you want to make that two syllables. I was there, actually, at that game. so Wilcox's shoes are taped and then Aiden LaRose's toughness ranking was zero It has to be a mistake

Has to be a mistake Somebody screwed up when they were doing the toughness rating there If it's not a mistake he has to drive to EA headquarters and fight someone I mean that is just the most disrespectfully thing you could do Like if they made him a zero Because there's all these different criteria

Catch run block Pass block elusiveness they put you zero there. Okay, whatever. But toughness, that's a question. That's a question on a man right there. I think it's personal. They forgot to put the nine in front of the zero.

90? 90. Yeah, that's what it was. So joining us now to defend his self, defend his toughness, defend his manhood. Is Kentucky punter, Aidan Leros,

Aiden, how embarrassing was that? You go get the game, you're all excited, and they have your toughness as a zero. Yeah, how's it going, guys? Yeah, it came as a pretty big shock to me in the fact that I got a lot of DMs from my buddies

back at home and all over the place about it. It's quite comical, I just think it's a good joke. I don't see anything other than it being a mistake because I know I grew up playing rugby and from South Africa, you know, there's no question about my toughness in that sense. But yeah, I think it's good. It's brought really good media presence for me, and it's been nothing but good, good publicity, you know.

Yeah, I mean, pardon my take, the number one sports podcast in America was talking about you. So even though I guess it's a bit of a negative getting to zero, lots of attention from this. Were you a pardon my take listener beforehand? And did you hear that clip of them talking about you? Yeah, honestly, I don't listen to many podcasts myself, but again, I had a couple friends of mine text me, and they were like, I was listening to part of my tape on the way to work and heard your name, buddies that I haven't heard from in years. And so it's been good, actually, good connection building from friends I haven't spoken to in a while

because it's brought up a funny joke now. But yeah, it was really cool to see that. Let's set the record straight because they can still update these things. They're updating rosters every week. New downloads, this can be fixed. What is your toughness from zero to 99? and we will make sure they get the message and it is properly updated

the next time they release one. Yeah, you know, I'm going to be, I'm going to be very confident about it and say a lot higher than that. But yeah, we'll see. Hopefully they'll, maybe we'll see if they change it. But yeah, definitely, I reckon I'm the, one of the tougher guys of punters in the nation for sure.

88, 88, 88, 88, 89, 90, where you want to be? Yeah, yeah, above 90 for sure. we should go from zero to 99 Listen, I know you're a tough guy because I saw that video of you taking Those footballs off your chest A couple of days ago that was posted on Social media

But I do want to have I do want to ask one question just to test Your toughness here So would you rather fight One horse-sized duck Or 100 duck-sized horses? Which one are you going with? One horse-sized duck

That's right I mean let me repeat it again one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses. I reckon 100 duck-sized horses just because I can get a good kick-in. There you go. I don't think I can get the kick-in. There you go. At least they gave me the leg power on the game, so I think I could at least get the kick-in for those hundred.

That's right. He could pick them up and put them. That's exactly right. I do love the fact how you and University of Degas kind of leaned into this with the video that came out a couple days ago, showing you working out and saying, man, I got one year to get that toughness ready enough. and you're working out already, so next year's video game, you don't have the zero there beside your name. Right, especially with the new Happy Gilmore movie coming out, it definitely worked out well. It was a good time, and I enjoyed doing that.

On a serious note, we'll talk a little real-life football, not virtual football. You came here last year as an FCS All-American, but set out the first three games. They went a different direction at Punter, but then you stepped in, got the role, and finished the year. What was that like last year having to come and sit for a little bit before you got your chance, and then you seem to make the most of it once you became that full-time starter. Yeah, look, I obviously had trust in the coaches. They brought me here for a reason. I can't lie and say I wasn't upset, but I'm not a guy that sits in pouts.

I kept working and made my way onto the field. And I knew once I got onto the field, I'd do what I came to do. And yeah, I've got a big year coming up this year. We've got a great team and super excited to show America what we've got. what I've got to prove. You know, Kentucky's had some kick-ass punters. Max Duffy, Tim Mastay.

I've argued that maybe the toughest punter of all was the guy named Glenn Packalak. So I guess you got you got some people, you know, some tough guys ahead of you that were also good punters. You can kind of emulate those guys a little bit. Yeah, definitely. I think that being able to learn what they've done here

at Kentucky and obviously put my own spin on it, I think that I'm going to do some something that people haven't done here. And yeah, I'm really excited to do that. You're a part of last year's team when it didn't quite go as well as you all had hoped. And the talk ever since in the off season from a lot of your teammates and coaches is how the culture in the locker room is a lot better. Even though you're a specialist and might not being involved as the offensive defense's

game planning and all that, are you at least just in the building and in the locker room? Do you feel like you all have hit reset and you're in a good place going into next year? Yeah, definitely. obviously last year's past us, but I get around a lot of the guys. I know I'm a specialist, but I'm around a lot of the players. I'm really close with a lot of the team. I get out and hang out with a lot of the players. I've always been around people other than the specialists,

and I love the team this year. The new transfers are really down to earth. And it seems like a great brotherhood this year, and I can't wait to get on the field with them, because we're getting there. We're getting there. Once the first game hits, we're ready. Yeah.

Well, A, and we appreciate it. We also want to plug you. You've got a couple of events coming up with the part of the Scott County Humane Society. You've got an event. Are they going to do it tonight at Evans Orchard? Are they going to call an audible if the weather's going to be bad? Yeah, I think tonight should work out if the weather's up to it. I've really enjoyed helping out Scott Humane Society with the animals there.

It's been a great, great opportunity to help out fostered animals. So the Scott County Humane Society event tonight at Everett. Evans Orchard. What are the times of that tonight if the rain holds off? Five to eight. Five to eight. And then you'll be at PetSmart tomorrow in Hamburg from about one to three with Dumplin. Is Dumplin one of the, I guess, one of the dogs available for adoption you guys are talking about from the Scott County Humane Society? Yeah, I think that's, that's if the weather doesn't hold out for tonight.

Okay, okay. All right. Well, Aidan, we appreciate it, man. Get back to working out. get that toughness number up for next year's video game just go clobber a few people this year and they'll have to move that number up yeah look I really appreciate you guys having me it was a good time I can't wait to show the world what we've got is Kentucky football yeah appreciate it appreciate it that's Aidan Leros

Kentucky's punta this year and already I got text messages the ladies love his voice I mean they're like I got four or five text messages like we could hear him talk all day okay I didn't know we're going to go that ain't the interview I enjoyed hearing from that's the first time I've talked to him. I didn't do any of the interviews with him last year, but I didn't know this was for the ladies.

Yeah, well, apparently they really enjoyed his voice a little bit. Is Max going to get jealous? Yeah, you don't have to be a big tough guy to get the ladies. Oh, you got to do this to have a good accent. That's all the knows. Max Duffy proved that. Exactly what you're saying. Do you think, is Aiden going to be on a KSR road trip here in four or five years?

So you're just going to follow the Max path? Is he going to disappear in Seattle? We've got to wait around and look for him again like somebody else we knew. 859-9-280-2287. That's our Clark's Publish Shop phone number. We do have one caller before we go to a break, Shannon. Let's go ahead and get that. Okay, let's go to Cody.

Cody, go ahead, Cody. Hey, gang, how are y'all doing today? All right, how are you, Cody? Good, good. Hey, I wanted to call in a common topic that comes up on the show is, or a debate, I should say, is what team do we root for when Kentucky's not playing? And my late grandpa, one of the biggest Kentucky fans I know, shared with me his formula on who to cheer for.

and I wanted to share with you guys. All right, go ahead. All right, real quick. So, number one, obviously, Kentucky. We have fans of buts about it. It could be water polo. We're cheering Kentucky. Number two, SEC.

Could care less, you know, whatever team in the SEC you pick, but it's the SEC. The number three, we go state of Kentucky, excluding Louisville, of course. Then number four, we go whichever team is playing Louisville or Duke, and then we top it off with whichever team. helps Kentucky the most by winning. So after following that formula, I can easily pick what team to cheer for. All right. I appreciate it.

Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call, Cody. It kind of makes sense to me, right? It's good code to go by. Good code to go by. Even though I haven't had it written out like that, I think that's the same way I follow, too. I kind of feel like I almost follow the Kentucky schools second, not county in Louisville, and SEC schools third sometimes.

That's true. I would probably flip those two on my list, but otherwise I'm right in step. Yeah, like an eastern, western, northern, morehead. somebody's playing Murray. I'm pulling for them, even if they're playing against an SEC school, for sure. Louisville aside, I don't have any interstate animosity. I know even yesterday, DJ Burns was like it's awkward with the Murray-Kentucky rivalry.

Yeah. I didn't want to interrupt him. I'm like, what, what are you talking about? What rivalry? I'm from Murray. You know, I guess being the big dog, you don't look at that way. Yeah. People in Murray look at Kentucky, like they won't play us.

Okay, calm down, Murray, calm down. Because that's been the big contingent. Kentucky wants to play Murray, but Murray wants a home and home. Kentucky's like, we. ain't coming there. If you want to play us, you've got to come here. Mary can do something in one hand and something else in the other on that. But overall, I like all Kentucky schools

across the board, minus Louisville. You know, we have the open on right now, and you're anxiously awaiting because your draft king's parlay could win you see some cash. I'm very superstitious with the bets and when one's doing well, but hasn't hit yet, I try not to talk about it. Also, I just jinxed you.

No, I haven't said it out loud yet. It's more about me saying it out loud. This goes back 50. It's betting before I was 18. This was even my role back then. When you start counting it before it hits, that's when you lose. But I will say, I have a 20-to-1 parlay. We're looking all right. I don't want to get too confident, but I'm feeling pretty good.

Kind of. 20. 20. Wow. No, it's 11 legs. It's 20 to 1. 11 legs, 20-to-1. Shannon, this is like the only thing to bet on right now on Draft King with the Major League

Baseball gets kicks back up was the old tonight. What are you talking about? We got TBT tonight. Is it TBT on draft? Kings? Yeah, I've already bet it. I'm all over that under. 154.5. I made sure to get my bets in before telling anyone else. Now you all go bet all you want. Mine are locked in. But I have the under at 154.5 and a half. And they're a 13.5 point favorite. I took them to cover. But I like the under. So if you believe Willie and the twins talking about their putting emphasis on defense, you may want to bet the under in some of these games. I think so. This is not financial advice. You do you gamble responsibly. Never bet more than you're comfortable losing. But I do feel like game. one. They're going to be trying to save their legs. They're playing the worst. Shannon's got his phone out doing it right now. Law Familia is 13 and a half point favorite.

Yeah, bet that too. But I think defensively they'll do well. And maybe it's high. They score a bunch of points, but I think they might get a big lead in Coast knowing there's bigger games ahead this weekend. That's my logic in my head. So go to draft Kings, bet on LaFamilia all weekend. All weekend. Hit it up. All right. Well, take our break. Come back. Go back to the phone lines. 859-8-0-2-287.

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You tough enough, you tough Aidan Leros, our UK punter. I enjoyed the interview talking to me about. I'm glad he's just kind of like I said, leaning into it, having some fun with his ranking on the EA college sports football game. Yeah, sounds like he's got some good personality. I know he hadn't done a lot of media here at Kentucky. Maybe he did at other stops. but very comfortable talking to it.

It seemed like a fun guy. So maybe should we all tweet EA College football? Is that what the... I don't know what their Twitter handle is. I think they got lit up pretty good when that first came out. They should all...

They're aware of what they did. They know. And maybe we say he should be a 90. Aiden Lerrell should be a 90. I don't know. Give them a one at least. I mean, not a zero. Not a zero.

All right, phone lines are open this segment. If you want to call and get them board, 859-2-2-287. We do have the winners in the Wild Egg's gift certificate giveaway. I forget how many people actually have my number. That didn't go very well at all. But I just did the first five.

The first five people, we got you. We got your name and numbers. So we got, we'll take care of you. And I don't know if anybody has found Josiah yet at Wild Eggs walking around with that $100 gift card in his pocket. At what point do you start thinking Josiah didn't show up for work? Well, I did leave before he did this morning. Is Josiah at home in bed with a wild egg gift card in his pocket missing his shift?

It's highly possible. Let me tell you what he did, though. what we're talking about just say, I know this is this is a dad thing. But I guess it's an event now when you want to ask your girl to be your girlfriend. You don't just assume it. You don't, you have to not only ask, you make it an event. And so he went and bought all these balloons, blew up all the balloons, hung balloons from his ceiling, all these candles, pictures of the two of them. And then he had these balloon letters that said, will you be my girlfriend on his wall?

you know it's a thing now really it's like a proposal or something it literally was he didn't hire a photographer for it is this is this the example you set for him how to how to treat someone exactly opposite I went to him like is this what I need to do to yoga girl to have to officially answer ask her to be my girlfriend you're getting dating advice from your you're soon-to-be college age son but you know that's a thing like you know they're making an event when you ask him to go to prom you know it's a big promotion big production You got promoted. You're going to prom with me. Congratulations.

So now you have to make it a promotion, production, to ask them to be your girlfriend. See, my era, I'm recently 40, when I was in high school, middle school, it was all about writing notes. We didn't have these Snapchat's and all these ways to communicate. You would have to meet them at their locker between classes, pass them a note.

Hopefully you would get one back. If not, you would go cry yourself to sleep in algebra. But it was always about passing notes. I felt like there was a lot of, will you be my girlfriend, will you go to prom? Please circle yes or no. Yeah, we had to show off our penmanship. You know, you were getting judged by your handwriting. Not anymore.

Now kids these days are out buying balloons and this is too much. Just get back to pen and paper. He spent over $100 on this decorations for his room with candles, balloons. Badger she says no. A big teddy bear that's as big as me. A dozen roses. Dude, what? Yes.

I'll send you the picture. I'll tell you what. I'm going to tweet out the picture of the setup in his room. This is the room that caught on fire. And so now he's got a setup to ask her to be his girlfriend. And, of course, she said yes. So now, even though they've kind of been dating since they were freshmen in high school. She's now officially boyfriend, girlfriend.

Did he get her a ring? I mean, it feels like he got her everything else. Are you sure this isn't a proposal? Well, I didn't see a ring. My goodness. We just had, we had like a pilot G. ink pen, a five-star notebook, loose-sleeve paper. And then if you really liked them, you'd fold it real hard, get nice creases, maybe you

knew some origami, and then you'd just pass the note off, wait for class to be over, and then you'd find out if you had a girlfriend or boyfriend or not. Was there a word you used? Because when I was growing up, we'd say, well, you'd go with me. Yeah, I'd say that was probably, well, I don't remember exactly, but it was all about the notes. We weren't doing balloons. Maybe I just wasn't doing it.

Maybe I just wasn't doing it. Did you not have a girlfriend in high school? I did. I wrote notes. we exchanged notes. It's my wife that's listening. I'm sorry. Shannon had like 25 girlfriends in the high school. There's notes going everywhere, coming from every direction.

859-2802-287. That's a Clark's Publishout phone number. Now, on Monday, September 8th, we have our KSR Golf Scramble at Woodson Bend in Somerset. We've been down there for several years in a row. How many years in a row we think we've been down there? That one's... Eight? Yeah, I was going to say at least seven?

Maybe eight. Every year we go down to Woodson Ben. early in our KSR career. They almost kicked me. I was banned from Woodson Day because my son stole a couple of golf carts and drove them around the golf course. You're staying there. But last, this week, maybe two nights ago,

one of their big condo buildings caught on fire and it destroyed it. I mean, it burned it down. It was a massive fire on the golf course at one of their condo complexes. So it was kind of eerie to kind of see that because we're going to be there in about a month. Yeah, and I go there a couple times a year.

One of my good friends, his family has a place there. mentioned it before when we do shows. We used to do a seat of the J. Yeah, seat of the J. We used to do a golf weekend. And he was sending me this in real time, giving us updates. And just at a place I've been so many times and been in condos identical to that one, luckily, not that one. It's just crazy to see how completely engulfed in flames.

I mean, that was a horrible fire. Massive fire. And they're lucky that it was kind of contained to one building. And thankfully, nobody was injured. I don't know if anybody was even home when the fire broke out, but it looks like one of those condo buildings that maybe holds like six condos, maybe four. Yeah, they're usually a four pack or a six-pack seam together. Yeah.

Yeah, it just looks absolutely awful. I did not see anything as you mentioned of, you know, people being in there or anything, but just for a place that we're going to be soon and we've been many times to see it completely engulfed like that. It was kind of take you back a little bit, doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. I hope everyone involved owns those that are able to recover

and hopefully they don't have too many valuables and family family photos yeah that's the stuff that it doesn't come back 8592802287 who's up next jannon bob and james town bob bob bob bob and jangton how you bob what are you doing guys why you're doing bob well when it's the virtue is always older women they've got when you're in high school they might have the driver's license before you and they're more experienced when you're older. This older women. That's been my

key. Anyway. I've always wanted to know how Bob's dating strategy was in high school. He went after the the milfs, it sounds like. Oh,

yeah. I was in the, you know, in the drama club, you know, with the play craft. That's where all the, the better looking women were in,

uh, the theater club. Oh, yeah. I was like stage crew. They had good, parties, the best parties. Anyway, guys, have a good weekend and stay cool because it's going to be another hot one.

All right, Bob. I'm glad you're doing well, too. Yeah, I'm glad we got some dating advice from Bob. Date the good-looking women are in the drama club. Okay. Because they know how to party. I'm retired from dating. That would have been good advice back in the day.

You're the only married guy left right now, although Shannon's kind of legally married. He's been with Sarah for like 45 years. No, not true. You're about to propose. Yeah, you are. I got to ask her to be my girlfriend, I guess. the thing I got to do. Well, I know we can get some balloons.

Just go to the room down the hallway from yours. Why don't I do that? There's still fresh. Probably take that little. That helium is still good. She doesn't listen to this show, does she? Yes. Well, then you ruined it.

Or she'll appreciate your saving money. Good point, too. That's right. Yep. Budget friendly. So I left one part out of, I was kind of involved in the setup. Kind of. He went to get her, and my job was to light the candles. Keep in mind, that's the room that caught on fire already once.

So I waited until he's right on. the corner and lit all the candles. I went to go in the room. He had like 30 candles. Wow. Did he know you were going to tell the entire state? No. He probably doesn't even know right now. Okay. I don't even know if he knows what I know. If he knows what I do. We'll be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio. 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. Dude, we had the best conversation during that commercial break. It was the best, best, best, off-air conversation. ever had. All three of us had a story. Yeah.

Sometimes I sit and as we're talking, I'm like, I sure hope Shannon hit that mute button over there in Louisville. I don't know that this isn't. Every mic's a hot mic. Every mic's a hot mic. We won't tell you what we were talking about. Let's just say Bob and Jamestown's phone call kind of sparked some stories that we all were telling.

We'll just leave it at that. 859-280-287. Our Clark's Publish Shop phone number if you want to call and get on board. I just got a picture of Josiah. at wild eggs. So he is there. He is there. And he does have the gift card still in his pocket.

If you know somebody that lives over there, tell him just to go get this gift card. It's a $100 gift card in these pocket at wild eggs. Matter of fact, you didn't say which location, though? Okay, I'm going to tell it now. You're going to reveal it? I'm going to tell it. Because there are multi wild eggs. He's at the Hamburg location.

Ooh. He's at the, that's where he works. It works at the Hamburg location. I know. I know someone who lives across the street. Well, you should call him. It's a $100 gift card. 859-2802 to each out.

I got a couple stories. worry about a couple high school kids I want to talk and we'll go back to the phone lines. One, probably the leading candidate for Kentucky Mr. Football. One of the leading candidates for sure is Evan Hampton from Owensboro High School. We know his family, Drew. You know, his dad is Brent Hampton, who's a official, officiates SEC games, ACC games, he's one of the biggest officials in the country. His grandpa's dog, yeah.

Who works the scorers table at all the UK games. He was a legendary official back in his day also. up in Cincinnati. And spends a mean pizza too. He makes a great pizza. I haven't had one yet. I've had one. Oh, you got one. Yes. I went to his house and he fixed it in his basement. Mac Whitaker was there. It was a lot of fun. I see him on Facebook. So Evan Hampton is the grandson and the son of Brinhampton. Maybe the best player in Kentucky for next season. He had originally committed to Louisville. Did not commit to Kentucky, he did not commit to Kentucky committed to Louisville. Well, now he has flipped Shannon,

leaving Louisville as committed to Vanderbilt. How about that? Diego Pavia. How about Vanderbilt getting a commitment from Louisville? From Owensboro. He's from Owensboro. Right, but I mean... Oh, yeah, I flip from Louisville.

That's what I mean, yeah. Sorry. The guy that was going to be at Louisville and going to Vanderbilt. That's something you don't see very often. Yeah, I want him to be a cat, first and foremost. I was pretty disappointed. I don't know him, but I didn't want him to go to Louisville. Knowing the family a little bit, the last thing I want to do is have them been there,

Kentucky fans. I don't want them root for cards. So if you can't be Kentucky, I like that he left Louisville to go to Vandy and it does show that Vandy's got a little bit of swagger right now. A little more than they normally will be Pavvia. He was a big star at Media Days this

week, talking a lot of noise. Vandy's starting to flex a little bit in the conference. They're still down at the bottom. Kentucky, also at the bottom. But Vandy is, if there's anything as momentum, such thing as momentum around Vandy football, they have some right now. See, that was my point. This kid

is from Owensboro, from Kentucky, maybe Kentucky Mr. Football. His family grew up in Cynthia. They are right in UK's backyard, didn't commit to Kentucky to start with, and now opens his commitment back up, leaves Louisville, goes to Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt still's one from Kentucky right here. And Rivals has him as a four-star. He's a three on all the others, but number one in Kentucky on Rivals, which I guess now I am somehow connected to with on the exact word there, but support rivals decision on this Hampton ranking. But again, I wish it were cats, but at least it's not the cards.

Did not want to see him wearing red. I agree. One more high school story to tell you about it, and then we'll go to the phone lines. There's a dude in Scott County named Connor Wilhite. He is going to be a sophomore. Connor does play-by-play for Scott County basketball, Scott County Football, Scott County Baseball. I think he does Scott County Girls Basketball.

he did all these as a freshman with his own equipment, sets it up himself. He's a producer. He's the talent. He does stats. He keeps his own scorebook. And he does his own podcast. He's had major, major superstars on his podcast. Tom Leach.

Yerari Figgs. Ryan Lemon. Ryan Lemon? He got Ryan Lemon? Yes, he did. All the big stars. Jim McKee. So Channel 18 did a story on him.

And I tweeted it out. I'll tweet it out again. I'll retweet it. But you need to go see it because people ask, I know they ask you guys to all the time. How do I get started? How do I get, you know, I want to do sports talk radio. I want to do TV. How do I get started?

Connor's showing you how you get started. In this day and age, you've got to start early. And he's got his own equipment, sets it up. Scott County's giving him full access to do all these games. Just he's got an opportunity that most people don't even have after they graduate college. And he's doing it in high school. Well, I don't have to go look Connor up because a couple nights ago, I sat on the couch with my dad watching Hilly Nix 18, and I saw the feature on him.

He saw the story. And I actually thought, I should probably remember this kid in his name because it might be working with him one day. He'll be our boss. If not with him, he'll be in the media room at a UK something or other. So I do need to put a little note in my brain about Connor. And it was impressive. I enjoyed hearing him. They interviewed him on 18, obviously.

But he was doing like Scott County football previews when he was 12. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy how early you got to start. And you're right. That's exactly what you have to do. I did a little an interview with a journalism student over at UK this week

and they're asking for advice and I was like well one journalism school that sounds cool I didn't do that you already got a pretty good head start there but my big point is like even if no one's listening or reading just start something and be consistent with it

and over time it'll grow and that's exactly what he did when he was 12 years old I doubt he was breaking podcast records with this Scott County preview but he at least sat down and hit record and started something and stuck with it and now three four years years later, he's featured on the news, and that's

exactly what it takes. I think it's a great story. And I've known Connor since he was a kid. Billy Hicks used to let him sit on the bench and he have his sport coat on and red tie and his glasses and sit on the end of the bench, keeping stats and stuff. So, Shannon, he will be probably our boss someday. Well, yeah, I mean, that's right. You've got to just

pick it up and go with it. You have so many more opportunities now than you did years ago with podcast. You know, when I started in a radio, we didn't even know what a podcast was. You had to be an intern, and then if you were lucky enough, you got hired. But, you know, just now anybody wants to start out to start your own podcast. There's a million of them out there.

You've got to find a way to cut through the clutter. But it's a good practice to get started. Here's a connection for all three of us. His older brother is Jack Will Hight, left-handed pitcher, Shannon, who's committed to pitch at Evansville, Drew, back in our old stomping grounds. Oh, nice. Grats to him. Watched Evansville play the Cats here a year or two ago.

They almost beat Tennessee in the super regional ice. year. Yeah. All right, 859, 2802-2287. Who we got, Shannon?

Larry. Larry, go ahead, Larry. Hey, guys, how's it going? Enjoy the show. Nice to know that when Matt hangs it up, you guys will be able to carry you on the torch.

Real quick, I'm going to make a couple comments, and try to tie it together on basketball and football. The Archie Goodwin interview yesterday was great. It just goes to show that Calipari to me was more about his way or no way and relying more on talent than coaching. And if he would have coached these guys to their strengths

and their ability, think of what more UK basketball could have had. And I'll lean that over to football with Stoops. The question I have with Stoops is, have you guys noticed the past three, years that to me on the sideline the fire was gone in him and i know uh with bennie snell um boom williams uh boden um they wouldn't have had anything without the big blue wall when you had landin young there and stoops is more of a blue collar get down dirty type of guy absolutely and with bents

with Vince, he wanted the stars, you know, the recruit. Let's get these five stars so we can get to Atlanta. And to me, it kind of took, not that it was bad, we tried that, but that wasn't Stoops. So I'm kind of having the open mind with this season. Nobody knew who Perry Wilson was, Stephen Jackson, these guys when they came. We tried Bandergriff, we tried Leary. We had some success with Levis. but this team to me has more of a feel back to the old Stoops.

All right. We got to let you go. I appreciate it. I'm kind of having open the mind. Okay, appreciate it. Thanks to the phone call. I think he says something a lot of people believe. Stoops maybe lost a little fire,

but I saw that fire back yesterday. That's what I was trying to get to in our opening segment. I kind of saw it back in his eyes a little bit yesterday. I love you in the SEC Media Days optimism you're carrying with you. I think the SEC Media Day is one of the most overrated things ever. But I saw something in Coach Stubbs. It changed you yesterday. It did.

Yeah. If you have that much of a flip, in your opinion. It must have been really important. Well, it wasn't him on the podium. It was him with Nick and Adam and Dick Gabriel and those guys. That's when I saw maybe a little of that fireback that Larry was talking about. So Ryan Lemon's a believer

again that we can say. I'm starting to believe a little bit. Why not? How many games they're winning? I'm still at 4 or 5 but I used to be at 3 or 4. See, now I'm up to 4 or 5. Shannon said 6. Shannon said 6. Yeah, I know it. You'll be on my side before the season starts. Let's get another phone call. Who we got, Shannon.

All right, let's go to John. John, go ahead, John. Hey, guys, just to touch on the football thing, I think we sneak up on somebody more than once like we did last year against Ole Miss, and I think that pushes us over the sixth win or right after six wins. The other thing is I think it is so cool for these young guys,

even the transfers that are on the basketball team right now, that they get to see and know even the guys that didn't stay here very long, what it's like and what it means to this city for our sports teams, specifically our basketball. What those people say. I mean, Willie's just enamored in being back here. Whitney said the same thing. Good one said the same thing. With that being said, you know, basketball in season time is going to be phenomenal for everybody.

I think we're better than we're giving credit for on the football team. One quick question. Two questions. Ryan, where's it going to be in the? in Tate Creek for Wild Egg and Drew, what bottles do you need to complete Weller? All right. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

The phone call. The new Wild Eggs will be at the Tate's Creek Shopping Center there by the Kroger. Somewhere in that shopping center. I'm sure which location that's where it'll be. What about you, Drew? What weller bottles do you know? Oh, I'm chasing the Weller flight. I need the, I guess, the white one that craft your perfect bourbon.

Does any of this make sense to you, if I were to tell you, see why? You're talking a foreign language to me right now. Okay. Well, there's Weller. And there's different kinds of Weller. And they each have a different color label. Okay. And I'm trying to get the rainbow set.

Oh, the rainbow set. Yeah, I have four of them. I don't have the white one. I don't know what you're talking about. And it's a big get. I don't know why I was asking. That's a tough one to track down. I'm not looking for any favors there, but that's where I stand in my journey.

859. I had one more thing to add about his call. Go ahead. He mentioned about sneaking up on somebody. Yeah. When I was playing around on draft Kings last night, when I hammered La Familia and got my little parlay that wink wink we're enjoying right now. I saw Kentucky's win total at four and a half.

I almost hammered the over. Yeah. I said, you know what, Drew, let's sleep on it. I thought about it again this morning, I think I'm going to take the over. Yes, that's a word. Hang on. I'm not like you.

I'm not talking myself into anything. Why not? But at four and a half, you can surprise someone like Ole Miss, like the caller said. Yes, you can. Win the other three. Yeah. I think. I have not committed to it yet,

but I have my finger approaching the button to bet the over on four and a half. I'm not drinking the SEC Medi-Dase Kool-Aid with you. In fact, don't even pour me a glass. I don't need the Kool-Aid near me. But I am thinking about the over on the wind total. There we go. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid. It's going to happen.

Keep talking, Mark Stoops. It's going to happen. All right, we've got to take our final break. We've still not talked about what happened at the Cold Plate concert. So we've got to do that. Take a quick phone coffee. And we do have a winner. Somebody found Josiah.

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Matt will be back on Monday. We're back on a remote next Friday at a bedliner place in Nicholasville. I'm drawing a blank on the name of it right now, but that's what we'll be next Friday. Let me tell you what it is real quick, since I said it. It is at... Kentucky Customs and Uplifting in Nicholasville. Upfitting. It is uplifting that we're going to be there.

It's uplifting and they're upfitting. What's upfitting? We'll tell you about it next Friday. Okay. It can't get spoilers. Why would people listen if we're already talking about it now? So the biggest story across the country, we hadn't even touched on it until right now, what happened at the Coldplay concert.

They had a kiss cam and they caught a dude and a woman in an embrace on the kiss cam. And then they scattered like somebody just dropped a bomb on them. Come to find out, it's a married CEO of a company and his HR director, and he's married. She's married. She's married. She's the HR director at his billion dollar company. The head of HR and the CEO. In an embrace, a lovely embrace.

She's kind of laying back on him. They got their hands around each other, fingers interlocked, and the kiss cam shows up on them, and you thought somebody was like through hot acid on the way they scattered like that. well even the leads here in cold play says they're either having an affair or they're very shy he says that in the microphone

yeah yeah I went and that popped up on my phone yesterday I turned to my dad I was sitting with him and I was like sometimes you just know

something is about to be everywhere and the moment I saw it I showed him said I'm showing this you now because he's not on Twitter and stuff I was like watch this now because this will be everywhere

within the next few hours and it was if I open my phone right now I bet it's three of the first things that pop up. And I see why. What an awkward, awkward, awkward moment. She bolted. It took him three to four business days to duck behind that wall. He did like a slow motion hide. And the third character, let's not forget her. She has also been spotted because she didn't turn around and hide. She sat there and laughed. Yes, she did. And she also works in HR for the

company and just got promoted this week. So I don't think it's a secret around the company that the top of the top of the brand there might be a little bit of infidelity. Shannon, how you think that conversation went when he went home and to his wife then last night? Probably not too well. I mean, the side piece chick just got a

I think she just got promoted as well to like that that yeah, she was hard in November. Lots of promotions. You wonder how she got that promotion, huh? But they did everything you shouldn't do. First of all, I mean, I'm going to assume they weren't the first couple that were shown on the

kiss cam. So when you see there's a camera going around with kiss cam and you're cheating on your wife, maybe you shouldn't be, you know, interlocking arms. Great point. That moment. Number two, if you just played it off and played it cool, nobody would have known the difference. That's true. They moved on to the next couple and nothing would have been said about this. So what if they reacted? What if she turned around and they kissed and kiss and kiss cam, kiss cam, kiss cam moves to somebody else? Nothing happens. Nobody recognizes the CEO of Astronomer in the HR. billion dollar CEO went viral because of the way they scattered and all the new eyeballs

that saw it started recognizing. If I were him, I wouldn't do that. You shouldn't cheat on your skin. And you shouldn't be doing that in your company. Around your other employees. A double no-no. But if you are going to do it and you're in that moment, I would have said, we're hymn looking, act like you're choking.

And I would have saved her right there. And it would have looked even better for the company. That's true. So. Shannon's right though. How dumb to hold her during the kiss camp. You've got to know there's a non-zero percent chance you're going to show up on the big screen. Unless that's the very first person people they showed.

They were asking for it. They were asking for it. Well, I've loved the reaction of it. There's been a lot of great memes, for one. Lots of great memes. But his wife changed her name on Facebook instantly. Oh, I didn't know that. Like not even waiting for an explanation.

She's done. Didn't need any more evidence. other than the clip from the Coldplay concert. 859-2-802-2-28. We're about out of time, so you want to squeeze one on real quick. Shan, I'll let you take a pick. Whoever you want. Let's go to Scott.

Scott, go ahead, Scott. Hey, good morning, guys. Real quick. If we think I lost a Louisville, but we either beat Georgia, Texas, or Tennessee, what team would you pick? Georgia, Texas, or Tennessee? Yeah, but we lost the level.

But we beat one of them. Yep. Okay, I appreciate the phone call. Who got, Drew? This year, Texas, they're probably a national championship favorite. I'd love to beat Tennessee. I don't think Tennessee is going to have a great season. So if you can knock off Arch Manning and Texas at home in October, I think you take that.

That's going to be tough to beat any of those three. But if you've got to beat one of them, I want to beat Tennessee, obviously. So I'm going to take Tennessee. Hey, listen, it's Stockton and Mortgage. They don't help you close on a house. They help you get home. That means guidance, support, and loan options, build around people, not cookie-cutter solutions. Buying a home can feel kind of overwhelming at times.

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Mario's been off. Matt's been off. Shannon's been, you know, Shannon and doing Shannon things. So it's been a lot of fun. Matt will be back on Monday. Do we know where he went? The days I was gone, did you all solve the riddle? No, no.

Is he at the open? I don't know. I'm just going to guess Austin. It would be, you know, high likelihood. I don't know that. Middlesboro, just kind of hanging out, Middlesbril, seeing Chain Rock. You're in Middlesbrough, I'll go New York.

That's my guess. Well, we don't know. We don't ask. Don't ask. We appreciate it. Yeah, TBT tonight at 9 o'clock. It's on FX1. No radio broadcast.

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