KSR - 2025-07-28- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

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Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio Monday, July the 28th. We are one month away from the start of college football, and it is a beautiful Monday morning. You can give us a shout. Clark's puppet shop phone line 859-2802287. A vision auto glass text machine is 772-774-5254. this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called T.J. I'll make them pay. It has been a fun weekend, and we are getting, like, I'm starting to get in the mode of,

oh, season's not that far away. Got a cool announcement that we're going to make a little bit later today, and everything is going well, Ron Lim. What happened to the summer? August is coming up this week. It's amazing that Media Day and fall camp starts in a week. See, I feel like the summer's long because this is the first summer I've been. I've been here the whole time. Because usually basically I'm off in June, but because I took the time in April and in September, I've been here all summer. And summer's long.

So it's a long summer, especially, you know, when you're sitting there going, all right, what's there to talk about today? And you just look at blank pages. You go, all right, we're going to create a show out of this. But yeah, I've enjoyed it. Yeah, me too. It's a fast-moving summer, but it does. feel like that first kickoff is just right around the corner.

I know it's still July, but I feel like we're already in August. It feels like it's just right in front of us kickoff. This is supposed to be like insanely hot day across America. Like they cancel the horse races at Ellis Park. They said it was too hot for horses. I think the heat index and parts of Western Kentucky is supposed to get to like 108 to 110 today. It's been hot for a couple days and I guess today's kind of the... Yesterday.

I felt like when I got outside, you know, I do the Sunday morning show and then I walked outside to walk to Chipotle for lunch in Louisville. And I felt like I was stepping into a furnace. It was the hottest. And that walk, walking, this, yesterday was not today. Did you wear a hoodie while you were walking? Because I feel like you still wear the hoodie even in the summer. No, I wear the, the t-shirt. Okay.

Like hoodie. Yeah. Like the hooded t-shirts, which is okay. But still, it's not, it's just, I mean, I think I could walk. naked and it would still be hot. It's just so hot outside. I mowed my yard and it's not even a big yard, but it was 95 when I started and I didn't think I could get through the end. I was absolutely soaked. Does you have like a neighborhood kid? I enjoy mowing. I actually look forward to it. Now, if I had a big yard, then it's an in a campaign. About an hour and a half, get my post-mow beer.

It's a whole event. Well, good. Well, uh, in terms of sports this weekend, two, two major things. First of all, the summer of Ellie has officially clicked in. We wondered when it was going to happen. Now it's going. It's clicked. All right. So they beat the raise, swept them. Swept them.

Billy's raise got swept. Both teams came in with the same record. Both teams were 53 and 50. Both teams trying to decide, do you go for it? Yeah. At the trade deadline, or do you sell? And really, that weekend may have decided. Because I think the Reds are going.

and I think the rays are selling. And it was exciting, man. I mean, I went to the game Friday. The crowds are starting. I mean, yesterday the crowd wasn't great. But the crowd Friday was huge. Crowd Saturday was huge. Friday in Cincinnati was...

So they had like a music festival going on at the same time. Oh. So there was like 60,000 people at the football stadium at the music festival. And then there was 40,000 people at the baseball stadium. and you want to talk about just people everywhere. But Ellie gets a basis loaded hit. I go crazy. KSR fans everywhere, by the way.

Yeah, cool. Then Saturday win. Yesterday, the Reds probably didn't even deserve to win and they won. So I'm starting to feel it. Now they do have the Dodgers this week, which is going to be probably a hit to reality. But, you know, Drew, are you feeling the excitement? Are you starting to want to join the train?

I know you're brave fan. I understand, but you are out of them. You don't have a chance. Why not join the fun? I'll let you have it, but I will say I didn't keep up with each game as it was happening. But last night when I looked up and saw that there were 56 and 50, I was like, oh, okay, okay, Red. Maybe there's something here. Highest record over 500?

What are they like one back in Wildcar one-a-half? One back of those stupid Padres. Who names the team Padres? That's fathers. San Diego Fathers. What a one. stupid name. You're your daddy.

You shut up. So now, yeah, they play the Dodgers, but they got to get all their good guys. Shohay is pitching Wednesday. I'm going to go. Oh, you got to go. I've never seen him pitch. I've never seen him pitch. So I feel like you've got to go.

And we're pitching like our worst pitchers. So we're probably going to lose that game. But I still want to go to say I saw Shepa. Oh, show hey, you'll definitely have money on that game. You think so? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So are you getting excited?

I know you listen to the games. I do like to listen to the games. But even if they don't do against the Dodgers, you swept the race, got a chance to maybe sweep the Braves. Well, we'll see. They play one of those games up at the race track. Yeah. The field looks awesome, those aerial photos of the field. Are you going to go?

I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm going to decide a midweek decision. Why not? Why not? 65,000 people they're expecting to be there. Yeah. So they still have the, they're putting it in the track.

They're also going to have, in the pre-race, they're going to have cars driving around it. I didn't know that part. Yeah. The aerial of the thing looks cool. I mean, are you looking, I know that your team's not good, Shannon, but are you looking forward to seeing that at the racetrack? I think it's cool. I mean, they do it. How many years have they been doing this now?

A couple of years? They've never done it at Bristol. But they did something. I guess it was the total of green. They did a Tennessee Virginia Tech football game here about eight years ago, but they've never had a baseball game there. I'll still watch it. Still looking forward to it. And the Braves can play a spoiler to your Reds Wildcard hopes.

But yeah, it should be fun. Yeah, let's see. Who are we going to be pitching in that game? You got, uh, Yeah, V-da-Ber-D-Br-D-Br-Singer, brr, so it's going to be whoever pitches tonight. So we're going to have Chase Burns pitching. So the Fox people are going to love that. They're going to get Chase Burns in that game.

How about, just for a second, how about you were a rookie? And here's how you've started your career. Yankees at Red Sox, okay, at Mets. Then he had a game against the nationals, home against the Dodgers, National TV on the Bristol game. Wow. That is a tough way to start your career, isn't it? Yeah, that's a heck of a lot of, you know, you try to tiptoe in.

Usually they kind of let you start a little easy. He's had like the hardest run to start a career ever. So the Reds are on fire. I'm wearing Reds gear. You got your hat. I've got a hat and a hoodie. I've got a hoodie. How can you be excited?

Now, the second thing that happened this weekend is the Lexington SC game against Louisville. Heartbreaking loss for people who didn't see it. Game was tied for 89 minutes at zero. Then Lexington scores, it looks like it's going to be a storybook win. Packed house, beating your Commonwealth Cup brethren who's in first place. And then Louisville scores two goals in the last, in extra time. I liked my text machine, which had a lot of people that don't know the rules of soccer

that thought they cheated to put extra time on for Louisville. I had two people write me and go, it's supposed to be over at 90 minutes. And I was like, well, that's not exactly how it works. You were there. I was there. Was it sad? It was very sad. It was a lot of fun for 89 minutes.

Louisville looked like the better team throughout most of it. I was rooting for a draw. I even bet on a draw. Like a drawl would have been a win for me. But then Lexington scores in the 88th, 89th, whatever it was. And we are losing our minds thinking that they're going to beat Louisville. First time Louisville's played there. biggest match in history we're thinking we're going to win 1-0

and then before you could even like react or blink Louisville ties up and like okay well back to the draw and then they immediately score again both times I don't know the exact minutes but call it 91st 93rd something like that it was just two instant goals to steal it when Lexington had scored I looked down and they've already got the mayor getting ready on the field presentation of the trophy everybody is counting this as a win around me and then Louisville just

completely flips the script in a matter of seconds. Chaters. Louisville, they, I didn't see what they did, but I had to have been cheating. Oh, certainly cheating. Steroids. Steroids. Like you would think in this level of soccer they wouldn't take, but steroids, betting, HGH, vote buying.

I mean, there was all kinds of things. Salting the eye. They gerrymandering. They gerrymandered the stadium. You would not think you could gerrymander and then they did. Now, let's talk about the other stuff. Packed house. Very packed. Packed. Sold out.

Awesome crowd. O'Day was there. I heard the line to get a signature from him was all the way to Tate's Creek Road. Is that right? I think that's very accurate. Yes. So that's cool. I had a fun Oway moment. He was on the field and I was trying to get a picture and I couldn't get a good one. I said, I'm going to yell his name. And Abby's like, don't, don't be weird. I yelled away and he turned and gave me a double piece sign. So I got to pat myself on the back.

After I was told not to do it. Well, you are twice. You are twice his age. Yeah. And I was very far away. but I'm a reporter. I needed a good photo and he turned around. You didn't get a good photo. I saw it. I thought that was a good photo. After I was told not to do it, I went through it anyway. We do have to say though. And again, I didn't see it. But apparently, I think it's fair to say traffic issues. Not good. Like, I had a friend of mine write me from the road going, this is a disaster. So tell me what happened. We had four people and I wanted to go early and tellgate. So we got to. there a little after five. By about 545, we looked up and we could see the chaos already forming an hour behind the match. Just the line coming in was bad. I had some friends on Richmond Road saying it was already getting bad. What happened? Because, I mean, they've had a full house before. How was this one managed so much poorer? I heard Richmond Road was terrible.

Then I guess they, I don't know if they ran out of parking, but then there was a shuttle somewhere that you would get on, that people weren't planning on. A guy I knew walked in with like 25 minutes left in the whole night. But if you weren't there by six, you probably faced a severe delay. Even in the second half, when I'm walking around like the concourse area, you could see a lot of people still scanning in in the second half. Well, I had a friend Goh who wrote me and said, just get ready for the text machine to blow up.

And then it did at night of people saying to me that, which is a shame, you know, it's tough because, I mean, I'm sure it's hard to plan for the major crowd. But you get that moment. But they've also had a full crowd before. four so I don't know why it was so bad. Had they had a crowd this big? Like was there, you said a crowd before. I think they've been full once. Maybe it was just everybody

arriving so early. Maybe that's what it was because I think there was like going to be a big celebration. People were treating it like football and tailgating. Yeah, there's a lot of tailgating out there. I'm glad I went early. I wasn't even sure I was going to go that early, but I'm glad I did because if not, I don't know when we would have gotten in. And a few weeks ago they had a big match and there was

like food and logistical line issues. I didn't see as much as that Saturday, but it could have been because people were still outside the stadium. So I think they figured out their food and beer lines from a few weeks ago, but the traffic was a nightmare. Let me ask you this. If you took that aside and you went to that event, does it look like something when

you go, this can work? Yeah, they're going to need to get more support. And it's still a year one. And a lot of the crowd were Louisville people coming in. I think the election crowd still has a ways to go. But I've been twice and had a blast both times. It really is an awesome venue out there with a lot of fun. You don't even have to like soccer.

there's so much to do. So I hope it works out. But things like what happened Saturday, they'll have to figure out new plans for their next big match. Yeah, I think that makes sense. I mean, I have said to them that,

you know, they've advertised on the show. I'd love to, I mean, I went to them before the team even started and said, you know, I'd love to be a part of this, right?

Like I'd like to figure out a way to, you know, help you guys and to also, not just with advertising, but to somehow be a part. And we talked about it, and it just didn't. This was three, four years ago when it first got announced it just didn't happen.

But I want it to succeed. I mean, I think for Lexington, I think it's important to have something succeed here that is not just UK related. I've always believed that. And I'd love to see it succeed. They got to get through these growing pains, obviously, for that to happen. I guess that's what's kind of disappointing. The Lexington Sporting Club, they need an event like this to kind of showcase everything. I mean, it works in Lulville.

It works in Lulville. Now, Louis has a lot more people than we do. but it works there. So they've got a good base. I've noticed just driving around town. There's a lot of Lexington and SC stickers. I see people out, not even on game days, wearing the gear. They have people catching on.

It's just it needs time to grow. Well, hopefully that'll be able to keep happening. And the summer belly. I mean, that's part of it's a distraction of the summer. Had to been in it. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people are like, oh, summer belly. We need a trade. That's what we need.

We need to go get one bat and one middle reliever. I'm all in on Yadi. Diaz, okay, for Shannon, for the Rays. Go trade all of our players that stink and go get him. That feels like a fair trade. We get rid of the people I don't like. He could have just stayed in town. Exactly.

He should have done it yesterday. He wouldn't have even had to get another flight. The Braves are going to be sellers. They're meeting up this weekend. Maybe you can just, you know, go shopping. Go shopping in our dugout. Isn't it? Isn't that guy?

No, Zuna, yeah. He's not. I don't want him. I don't want Yadi. because I also like saying Yadi. 859-280-2287. We will take a break. Be right back.

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Like, I'm just going to say this. I think we have in Lexington a pretty good mayor. I think Linda Gorton does a pretty good job. I mean, I still think they got it. This is going to be my city, you know, my domestic city thing. We got to do something about the homelessness thing. Like, like they, you know, just from as a humanitarian, but also like, it's everywhere. And you go to Louisville and it's a lot better.

So I don't know what happened. I really don't. And I'm not saying that to me. It's gotten significantly worse in like the last three or four weeks. And I don't know, you know, the city's got to. do something. I'm not saying it's an easy situation. I don't think it is. If so, it would have been solved everywhere.

But go talk to Craig and Louisville. It's a lot better in Louisville. And it was much worse than Louisville for a long time. So, but put that to the side. That's one issue. But the traffic in this city, I don't blame. It's just always been like this. But how do you have a big event and then have

construction on Richmond Road the only way to get? Like, how do you do that? I don't know. I really don't. Are there traffic czars? Like, Shannon, is there someone whose sole job is traffic. There should be. Because there should be. Yeah. Especially in this city. Because the traffic in this city is, you know, I go to New York a lot.

Traffic in New York is bad, but it's planable. You know where it's going to be. Right. Like, you know, stay away from 34th Street. Right. The tunnels getting in and out are going to be hard. In Lexington, traffic can hit you at any minute from any place. Any place. And there's no rhyme or reason where. You just. will be like, I'm driving down the road. Okay, Newtown Pike is back to Paris at this point, right? Oh, I'm driving down the road. Richmond Road, there is a guerrilla match in the middle of, like, it is always terrible and you never know where it's going to hit you. How is it not better after all of these years? I don't know. That's why I was just talking about this with my mom yesterday. I was showing her. I use ways to go pretty much anywhere in Lexington, places I go weekly just because I never know what could be between me and where I'm. going. It could be a detour I need. So I use ways to go to the grocery store, even though I know

exactly where the grocery store is. I mean, last night, all of downtown was one lane. All of it. Like the whole, literally, if you wanted to be downtown, there was one lane and they were paving roads. And actually, I'd prefer them do that on a Sunday night. Yes. Like, I'd rather you do that than during the week. But I was just driving around one way streets. I couldn't get anywhere. Everything was closed off. You know, I just, I hope there's somebody in charge of traffic in Lexington. And then I hope they replace that person with someone else, Shannon, because they don't do a good job. I thought that was like a branch of the police department where you have like traffic and that's what they do. Is there a person that that's their job?

I would think there is. Can we move them to be in charge of Floress? Well, possible? Just something else. Because there has to be someone who can do it better than we do it right now. Especially like the Lexington Soccer Club match, it's not like that just sprung up on like a thunderstorm. It's been playing for months. there's only one way out there.

One way out, one way back. So, like, you got to make sure you don't close the road that day. Yep, that's the one day. Right? There are some areas of Lexington that have had barrels in the same spot since I moved here 20-something years ago. Yeah. I completely agree with you. Newtown Pike, they've just decided we'll be on construction.

We will all die and they will still be trying to make that third lane on Newtown Pike. And they're still building businesses out there. And yet, Walmart just got put up in six minutes. You know, or was that Kmart? K. Mark. K. K. I think they're going the other way. There's a Kroger out there that just, I think they literally put it up in two days. So traffic's just going to get worse with the new.

Why? How did that come? Nobody even lives out there. Why is there a Kroger? I think they're going to, their building zone is going to build around it. And then in Amazon, that took a free day. Yep. All out there on Newtown Pike. And all that road needs is more. All right. I'm done with this traffic. I'm just saying to you. So I got to listen to Officer Don on that traffic report. I'm not exactly sure how I. got off on that. But, all right, on Friday, I had on my Interrupted by Matt Jones podcast, Matt Norland.

Okay? Really good episode. I think we had two of our best episodes last week with Tommy Vitor and Matt Norlander. If you haven't yet, subscribe to Interrupted by Matt Jones. Give it a nice rating. It's rising on the chart. Like, every episode gets more downloaded than the last. But Matt Norlander was all college basketball. People say, Matt, you're talking about politics. This is a college basketball one. If you want more of these things, you've got to listen to them. he was talking about Kentucky's roster. And he said that he thinks Kentucky's roster this year costs conservatively $15 to $16 million, or all the way up to potentially $20 million.

Now, he makes the point that people that played this year will get more money than anyone's going to get in the next 10 years because they got double paid. They got the Rev Share and the NIL. Basically, he was like, if you're in college basketball this year, thank your lucky stars. This was the year to be in college basketball, which was interesting. But let's say he's right that it's $15 to $16 million up to $20.

Does it make you put more pressure on Kentucky based on how much money they're being paid or do you not care? I pretty much don't care. But as far as grading Pope and how he's doing overall, I do keep in the back of my brain that he's taking well care of with NIL. and that he shouldn't have any problems building a roster. But, you know, when we get to February and they're at whatever, Auburn on a Saturday night, no part of me, zero part of me will think about money and NIL and what's going on with their bank accounts.

What do you think, Ryan? I mean, is there a, when you're grading Pope at the end of the season or any coach, should how much money there, like, do you say, okay, this is an elite, a sweet 16 team, but considering the money, it should have been a final 14? For UK basketball, I probably don't think that way unless the number was bigger, like 30,000, 30 million or something like that. That's when I would probably think, come on, man, you spend on this money, you've got to win more games. But for 12, 15 million with 12 players, a million or so a player, I'd say, yeah, man, go for it. What if I tell you it's the third highest in the country?

It should be. Should be the highest in the country. But that doesn't mean you expect them to be the third best team in the country. No, I'm kind of withdrew on that. You know, the UK basketball, you're going to take care of. of itself. Once the game starts, I'm not thinking about much money. What about you, Shannon? Do you care? Yeah, I mean, I do think it matters. If you got that kind of money, you're investing in it, you expect results. So, you know, if we get to the NCAA tournament, they lose in the first round. We say we just

invested 20 million to lose in the first round. People aren't going to be happy about it. I think that's where you'll hear a lot of complaints if they were to lose in the first round or something. For me, I'm kind of like Drew in the sense of it's not my money, where I think it's going to matter is when we find out how much of the rev share money goes to each sport. So if Mitch Barnhart makes the decision that basketball is going to get 30 to 40% of the rev share and we're going to give less to football and our football team suffers, then I think our basketball team has to be good. You know what I mean?

Because that is a limited pool of money. And athletic departments are going to choose what to focus on. when they make a decision to choose to focus on a sport, I think it's rational for friendbases to say, now I expect that sport to be good. Right? Yeah, definitely. Do you agree with that?

Yeah, oh, definitely. I don't care necessarily about the NIL from the collectives because it's not my money. But if we're going to take our rev share money and focus on a sport, then that sport has to perform, in my opinion. 859-28027. We'll take a break. Be right back.

KSI. 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. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-28027. One person says, Matt, I would not blame the city of Lexington for the traffic.

I would blame the state and Bashir. I blame the state when it's on state roads. But in the city of Lexington, I'm on the city. Yeah. Like now, if the city people were to tell me, we can't do anything about it, the state keeps it, then I'll blame the state. But like, I don't think the state is in charge of Richmond Road. I mean, maybe they are. I don't think they are, though. Outside a man of war, maybe. I mean, like when there's a traffic jam in Middlesbril on 19th Street, is that the state?

I don't think so. I think it's the city, right? A lot going on on 19th Street in Middlesbrough. I just picked a street in there. But I just, so yeah, I blame them. One person writes, Matt, why don't you look at the facts? Homelessness is down 33. percent in Lexington. I don't believe that. I'm not trying to be like a truth or shenan that's like I do, you know, but I don't believe that. You've done your own stories by going downtown. I see it. I mean, if they are, that might be official, but there is zero doubt in my mind that there is more homelessness in downtown Lexington and around campus now than there's ever been since I've been here. There's no doubt

in my mind about that. It's like every intersection. It's every intersection. And there's some, and I'm not mad at these people. The factors that cause that are infinite. You know, addiction, joblessness. You know, there's a lot of things. But the city, like, it's a negative for those people,

but it's also a negative for the businesses. It's a negative for the community. Like, it has to be treated as a serious problem in a city. And I don't feel like Lexington does. It was awful in Louisville. It was, like, terrible. And it has gotten, better. I don't know what they did, but it is better. Lexington's got to find a way to do the same

thing. You know, you're downtown. I mean, there's a couple of street corners. That street corner where tin roof is. Yes, I'm going to say. I mean, that's, and that's on campus. And then right there in front of Rupp Arena, not the, where the wildcat liquor is, there's just, you've, like, everybody knows why, why do we try to act like it's not? But the one at campus right there at 10 roof. I don't understand how that's, there are businesses all over there and there are 15 people there all times of day, all night. I go downtown for breakfast almost every weekend. Shout out Perl's bagels. But it's across from the courthouse and I'm sitting there eating and I'm having this, like, there's just so many out there and that's early on a Saturday. And it's sad.

And it's sad. And like, so they're building these parks downtown. You're going to have the place behind Rupp Arena. You've got the place next to this building right out here. You've got the new courthouse things. Those are beautiful things that will help the city. But go there and it's just, it's homelessness everywhere. Like, those places won't succeed if you do that. And it's not fair to those people. And it's not fair to the general public. So you got to find something, we've got to find a way to do it.

I don't know what it is. I'm not sitting here telling you I have answers. But other cities have cleaned it up. Lexington has to make it a priority. Do you agree? Oh, 100%. And, you know, the homeless shelters out there. off Loudoun close to Russell Cave.

They keep building and building and building. I'm thinking, is it getting that? I don't, again, I want to be clear. I wish I knew what, I don't think it's an easy solution. Yeah. But I know what's not working. But we're doing. Whatever we're doing right now.

It's like the hotter it gets, the more people are coming out. Man, it's super hot this weekend. Which is even sad. It's awful. Yeah. So, anyway, I'll get off on that. Have you seen that huge art exhibit they're put in front of the courthouse, by the way? It is crazy big.

And that's a lot where they're homeless people gather. I don't know. what that's there for, what that will impact. But that is a huge exhibit going up right now. I don't know what it is. But go ahead, John. John. Good morning, fellas.

Good morning. It's good. First time, long time. Go ahead, John. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Are you guys aware of a report that says that the U.S.L.

Football League is making plans to move four teams. Yes. We talked about that. We talked about that last week. Yeah, we talked about that. last week. It's exciting. I hope it happens. Well, it is. It is. I'd like to see that happen. Secondly, to your point about the roads, we had this as you were at Richmond, the same kind of deal, and I learned that major roads like U.S. 27, U.S. 16, U.S. 25, all those roads are state routes.

Well, if they are, and I appreciate the call, if they are, I'm sure they are state roads. I don't who handles when to put the cones up. But if it's the state, then Jim Gray, we got to work on it. That's all I'm saying. If I were governor, would you like to, if I were governor or mayor, you know what my rule would be? What would it be? We only fix roads after 8 o'clock at night.

Yeah. Now, some things you can't help. I understand. Some things you got to leave up. I get that. But like it would be, especially in the summer, it's so hot for those people. Can you, by the way, there's a commercial that runs during the Reds game. Have you seen it?

that's eye-opening. I don't know if I've seen it. It's like this thing. It's an Ohio-based commercial that basically says people slow down when you're in construction zones. And it shows these people working on roads and how fast the cars go by. And Shannon, I saw it and it was like the first time it hit me. Yeah, we do go too fast when those people are on the interstate.

You know? Yeah. When they're out. Like, it was showing people working on the interstate and how fast the cars fly by. Some of these people, you're just a few feet away from them. You are just right next to them. And I have to tell you when I saw it, that commercial worked on me. The next time I drive through one of those, I'm driving slower.

Because it was, now I'll probably get sick of it. They'll probably run it like all those Reds commercials nine million times. But it actually worked because I was like, whoa, that is right next to those people. I had my eyes open changing a tire on the left side of the car. Cars that don't get over when people are on the shoulder, I mean, I probably didn't do it every time until I was actually one of them. That is terrifying if you're just standing there on that line because they're, coming at you and you're like, I hope they're paying attention. I don't know. So I would encourage you

if you see someone on the side of the road or a worker whatever, please get over to the left and get out of the way. But at the same time, do it at night. That too. I can't believe this is just turned into old man traffic. They also, like, is there any traffic on the planet worse than

the traffic getting into Cincinnati? No. No. Trying to get across that bridge. How has that never gotten better in 75 years? So you said there was a music festival at the football stadium and a big baseball game. But it's like that all the time. It's like that all it's, there's no time of day. There's no traffic. It backs up all the way to what those. It backs up to like Florence, y'all. You know, water tower back. Yeah, it's crazy. Russ, go ahead,

Russ. Hey guys, good morning. Greetings from Vanderburg County. Talk about what you were talking about earlier about expectations with NIL. Remember back in the day when Kentucky would be losing and in football and they would go off the field at halftime and people would start booing and we would say oh don't boo the players

don't boo the players you need to do the coaches well what if Kentucky's down by 10 at halftime against Toledo or they end up losing a game by three against Toledo can they boo?

Yeah they probably will I've never been as anti-buing as other people I don't like when you boo individual players. So I don't like when, for instance, a player makes a bad play and you boo a a college player. I don't like it. Now, I do, do I think it's going to happen more now in the days that people get paid? Yes, I do. Boeing coaches. And I want to give a shout out. Hang on. Boeing coaches

I think is much more understandable. But I don't think booing is like this sacred, I boo the umpires at every Reds game. But I don't think booing is necessarily bad. I don't like when it's targeted though at one player, a college player. player. I've never really enjoyed that. And that happens sometimes. It does. No, it happens. I would never really boo my own team regardless. I mean, I'll get mad and, you know, cuss under my breath or

text people, you know, but as far as like booing my own team, even when I'm upset, I don't think I do that. I don't think I've ever food my own team, but there are people that do. Are you, does it make you mad when people boo? You know, it happens, start happening a lot when it's fourth and short and they decide to punch that it go for it.

I was right to say a coaching decision like that. I think that's okay to boo. Yeah. Like, when we punted against Georgia last year. Yes. I think that's a legit boo. I know it was. You think it's a legit boo, Shannon? Oh, yeah, I think so.

But then again, it's not those people out there. That's not their job on the line. You know, if you make the wrong call. Yeah. You don't just go with the fans. I think it's okay. Like when Mark Stoops punted against Georgia, I was booing in the ESPN boss's house.

I was looking at Mario and booing in his face. Because I knew we, you knew we were going to lose. as soon as he did that. There was no way where we were going to win to get. You're the one who asked to answer to it. Not all those fans that are booing you. That's true. You know, you can't have to do what you do.

He didn't make the right call and we ended up losing. I was going to add, I wouldn't boo someone dropping a pass or missing a shot. No, I wouldn't either. But a coaching decision where I want to be like we should have been more aggressive. Like Kentucky football, we've seen them give up 14 points at the end of the second quarter in a minute, many times. Into the first half, if you're booing like how a half ended, probably directed at the coach, that's fine.

But booing a guy for a mistake. I don't do that as much. I want to feature the game where it's like who wants to be a millionaire. Let's pull the audience. Should we go for it or pun it? And then when they say go for it and you don't make it and go, well, all the fans wanted it. See, fans? Actually, if I was a coach, I'd before that. Send it to the audience.

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Text machine is 772-774-5254 at KY Sports Radio. Let's go over a couple quick things here. First of all, did you see the new Happy Gilmore yet? Of course, March it Friday night. I didn't see it, good or bad. It's kind of split online. I say very entertaining. As far as being a good movie, I don't even really know what the plot was in hindsight.

It felt like a bunch of celebrity skits put together, but I still love the two hours. I mean, it was... So you just wasn't entertaining or not. It was so hard to keep up with how many people were in it. It is just one after another. They're like in the background. It's almost a game trying to see how many celebrities you can spot. So is it...

I haven't seen it. What's the plot? He's going against a shooter again? I don't want to spoil anything, but there's a new league. Kind of got a live twist. Which is weird because they use Brooks and Bryson. to like go against this new live. That was a weird angle.

But yeah, and Sandler's daughter, both of his real daughters play his daughters in the movie. Okay. One of them is like, needs money to go to ballet school or something, so he realizes he has to go play golf again. He's coming back while facing this new league. Is shooter in it?

Shooters in it. Okay. A lot of cameos. Will Zalotoris and Scotty Schaeffler are the highlights. Okay. They make fun of themselves pretty well. All right. I'm looking forward to that.

MJF. I highly, yeah, it was really fun to watch. It was really fun to watch. It's the worst. I mean, it's not going to like it. I watched the first hour of it. I enjoyed John Daly. John Daly is really good in it to me. Have you seen it, Shannon? No, I haven't seen it yet. I probably will at some point

this week. I'm going to watch it. I spent most of my weekend with the Reds and Gilded Age. You know, let me tell you something. You all, you got to do it. I know you don't want to do it. The first couple of, look, Marion is a dud. Just understand that the main relationship's a dud. Marion and Tom Duds. I don't know. They're both Duds.

I'm seven episodes in. They haven't done one thing interesting. Get them out of my show. But everybody else. Oh, so good. Still totally into Bertha, although she's mean. Agnes is such a mean old woman and I like it. You got Miss Cornelius.

There's just so many good things. And I'm in. And for those of you that have written me, it's not a large group. But for those of you that have and said you've watched it, you know what? We know something other people don't. It's fun. and will I do a podcast about it? Maybe. I'm going to watch it.

I'm a little behind. Last night I started to turn it on, but I still had a dexter or some other things, so I push it off. But maybe tonight I'll have my guilty age. You're going to like it. There's so much social intrigue. And the thing that's cool is it actually follows history.

When you watch events happen, you can look them up that they happen in real life. And I find that very, very interesting. So I'm enjoying that. It's next on our list. We're actually going to go sit it and go through it. Tyler Childers has a new album.

I like it. I don't love it, but I like it. I like it better than a couple of things he's done recently. Still not purgatory. I'm just going to have to accept that it'll never be another purgatory. But I like it. I think it's gotten some harsh reviews from people. I don't think that's fair.

Well, it's new. I mean, it's very much like it looks like, it sounds like Tyler took mushrooms. And I know he's like gone clean. So I know that's not what it is. But it seems like maybe he went to an ayahuasca retreat. And then did the, that's kind of what it seems like. But it still very much sounds like him and it's mountain and he uses country phrases.

He's basically like, there's a song where he says he wishes that he was a dog with rabies. And if he did, he'd bite you first. And like things like that that, that I think are really good lines. I heard about that one. I want to hear that one. I haven't listened to any of it. But at least my friends, everyone liked it. So people out there aren't liking it.

Yeah, I think some people are. But you know what? They just like to complain. I like it. I think if you're ranking Tyler albums, it's not going to be in the top. two or three for me, but I think it's better. I actually enjoy it more than I'd have the last couple, so I'm for it.

But it does sound like he, I understand he's gone clean, so this clearly, but it's, it seems like he's done trumes when he did it. Like it's very much. Sturgel went through his face. He had, no, that's the, it's, it sounds like that Sturgel album, that meta-modern sounds of when they were like turtles flying in the sky. Like it's, it's that. Beals had the white album, you know, they all, you know,

all musicians take their turns and twists. That's exactly what it sounds like. And so if you're fine with that, which I am, I mean, I, I'm good with it. Had they released any singles off of it yet? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that. Something you are.

Well, I mean, I just listened to the whole album. I don't know. Do they even do singles anymore? Is that a thing? Is he played on the radio? Like on country? Almost never. He has to be one of the biggest musicians in the world that doesn't get played on the radio.

Yeah. Like think about it. Who is a bigger musician? that you can think of that doesn't get played on the radio than him. Dave Matthews Band. Dave Matthews Band is a good one, but some of his stuff's on the radio, like satellite and crash into me, and that stuff's been on the radio. It may not now, because I don't know what station would play it,

but it was on in the 90s. Why do you think that is? Because he's selling out huge venues and doing radio city music call. And I would say, you know, is he the biggest country star? No, but I would say he's in the top. 15. How many country music people can sell out Madison Square Garden back to back nights? Not many. Morgan Wallen could. You know, Stapleton.

Stapleton could. I bet there's like 10. Yeah. But he can. So why don't they play him on the radio? I was always curious why they never even locally here in the Kentucky. Yeah. I mean, we don't even play him here. Should we walk in this other room and turn it on right now? I mean, it is right next to us, but I don't understand Shannon. Why would you not play him? Unfortunately, music stations have become so. cookie cutter and if you don't fit their image, they don't play you. But Tyler is from here.

I know it. And there's great rock bands that are from here that they don't get played on rock radio. It's crazy. I agree with you. It is kind of crazy. It's not bro enough. Exactly. But I liked it. I thought it was good. Donna, go ahead, Donna. Hi, guys. How are you this morning? I wanted to go back to the Richmond Road traffic situation. I live off Richmond Road. And the reason that they have to keep those combs up even on the weekend when they're not working is because they are digging so far down over where the shoulder is supposed to be. There's no way you want to get over there and fall in. I don't want to fall in.

Or it would be detrimental to your vehicle for sure. It would probably, yes. So I have read that this construction will be ongoing until sometime next summer. So we didn't go in a way in Texas. That's if it's on time. I just feel like the world is under perpetual construction. And some of it will never be. I-75 South has been under construction since Truman was president.

Job security for those guys. And they've never finished any of it, ever. When I was a kid, and I appreciate to go ahead, Donna. I wanted to give you what little bit I knew because those soccer folks out there, they're just going to have to figure something out. There's got to deal with it, according to Donham. All right, I appreciate the call. When I was a kid, they were building the tongue.

from Middlesboro to Harrogate, from the day I was born, and I was convinced it would never be finished, ever, like ever, in the history of mankind. When we moved to Middlesbrough when I was five, they were working on the tunnel. And then it did not finish until I was in college. And I remember when they announced it was finished. Oh, I do too. I thought they were liars, all of them. But then they did, and it was 15 years for them to build that tunnel.

You know, here in town, even that little road right in front of your house is like an obstacle course right now. Oh my goodness. That little road right in front of my house, I don't know if they're trying to dig to China. I don't know what they're doing. They are out there. It is so loud. They have put metal plates that are 10 feet higher than the road up. You literally have to

have four-wheel drive to drive down that street right now. You're right. It's a mess. For people who, I mean, I don't want to tell you where I live, but it's not hard. There are massive plates up in the road, aren't there? Yes. When is that going to be 50? I didn't even know it was there until I went over it this weekend. I'm literally becoming

old man My grandparents going When they got to finish the road? But you know what? That's fine. Hour two, we're talking politics. We're going to talk a little basketball and football, Kentucky stuff. I promise.

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