KSR - 2025-07-28- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

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Camp starts for UK football. We have asked UK to let us come Friday. we'll get to do that. If not, I've just told them we'll just go to the Reds game because they play Friday as well. So we'll do one of those two, but I'd like to go to Media Day because I haven't been in the last couple years. Are you excited about camp starting and UK football kind of officially kick it off this week? You know, I kind of admitted recently that I am kind of getting excited and sucked in a little bit.

I know I would. The season got closer and closer. And I always like going to Media Day. One of my best Matt Jones stories is Media Day. You walking around barefoot on the field, carrying our little equipment, interviewing people. Yeah, I'll do it again. It's comfortable. Although it's not comfortable now.

They got that new field. Yeah. It's not, it's, uh, at the time they had natural grass and you're walking around. Are they, uh, are we doing, are they doing a fan day? Saturday. So, so, so, so media day is Friday. Correct. Fan day is Saturday.

Yeah, I want to say the door is open at 10. I'm going to say that with a little hesitation. That's a good day. By the way, for those of you that are UK fans, that's a really good day to take your kids. Yes, it is. Because the players play with the kids. And I would say, you know, it's, a lot of them are really. into it because they don't get to do a lot of interaction with fans.

So I would say if you don't have something to do, the Saturday fan day, I do think Ryan is a good thing. Always been a huge success. And, you know, Kentucky Act has a really good job of letting the players interact with kids and the families, photos, autographs, whatever. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. And maybe we'll get to know the players Friday.

Maybe. I think, you know, it looks like we've got a chance to maybe get some players on if we decide to go out there Friday. We do. Yeah. What about Mitch? Can I get him on? He's talking at 930, so he'll be there.

So let's ask for Mitch. There's no Stoops this year. He's talking right now because he has a procedure later in the week. So he wanted to go ahead and get his media out of the way. So Stoops is talking right now? Yeah, just wrapped up probably. What did he say? I've been trying to keep up with highlights.

So he did his Media Day thing right now? Yes, he can't do Friday. He's having a minor procedure. I think I saw a tweet that said it's something on his face and he doesn't want to do TV with a big bandage on his face. So Stoops was today, but Friday we'll have Barnhart and the two coordinators. Did I see we have a new coach?

Not head coach, but. Oh, the tight-in coach? No, we have a new offensive line. Oh, the assistant offensive line. We have an assistant to the regional manager, Shannon, of the offensive line. You got to go through him first before you get there. What's his name? Yeah, I need to pull that up.

He came from somewhere. But I guess Drake Jackson got a job. Yeah, Greg Frey. Greg Frey. So now we have two offensive line coaches. Wait a minute. Didn't our main offensive line coach just, get a major raise? Why does he need an assistant? Why does he need an assistant?

Because that's what you do. That's what you do with offensive lines. I don't want Caledada to fall down one time this season. Shannon, that's what you do with offensive lines that have been killing it. You give them a raise and then you give him an extra assistant. There's one thing we know. Our offensive line has been killing it. Yeah, killing our quarterback. So yeah, well, hopefully this guy helps. He's coached at a lot of different schools over the years, coached with Stoops before. Well, everybody says the offensive line much, much improved going into the season. So if they can do that, I got my optimism high. By the way, this is a second thing.

Do you remember a couple years ago me complaining on this show about a guy that played for the Reds named Bubba Thompson? Oh, yeah. And I said he was terrible. And I was like Bubba Thompson, get rid of Bubba Thompson. Guess what Bubba Thompson is doing right now? He's like an all-star. Driving for Uber. Quarterback for South Alabama.

No way. Yes. No way. I don't know. But he is the quarterback. That dude that I used to complain about playing for the Reds. First of all, I'm clearly right if he's now the quarterback of South Alabama that he shouldn't have been playing baseball.

But is that not wild? That is crazy. He is the starting quarterback this year for South Alabama. Went from the major leagues. You know, Russell Wilson never made to the big leagues. He went from the major leagues to South Alabama football. Arkansas has a receiver that's 30. He just retired from MLB.

South Alabama football. I kind of like it, to be honest. As long as he's not on the wrist. I would like it. As long as he's not on the reds. All right, a couple little things here. First of all, the baseball Hall of Fame was yesterday. Here's who got in.

Ichero. Yeah. You like each row. Absolutely, yes. If you count up all these hits from Japanese in the United States, he's the hit leader. In world history. Yep. If you were to count everything.

Yep. It was interesting to see him. He looks the exact same in the face except now he has a gray hair. But it was kind of called. I liked each year. He was little, and he would just hit. I always like lefties who, when, after they hit their one hand falls off the bat and they almost look like they hit with one hand. For some reason, I always think that's cool.

You know, everybody thinks Pete Rose is the hit king, but Ichiro maybe the best pure swing. Is itichiro? Ichiro. Yeah. I just didn't know if you knew a different pronunciation. He thought he was correcting us. I thought maybe you were correcting us. Did you see he uninvited the voter that didn't.

Yeah, he invited the voter who didn't vote for him to come to dinner. And then he said, all right, invitation rescinded because the guy never would say who it was. He said it's expired. Yeah. C.C. Sabathia made it in. Yeah. Actually, oddly, weird, once had a lot of interactions with C.C. Sabathia. How's that happened?

Remember there was a business thing? I remember. Remember? Well, he was involved in that. Oh. And so I ended, and I, he was really nice. I really liked him. C.C. Sabathia.

Yeah. So, congrats to him. Or some custom jays to his ceremony yesterday. He did. Billy Wagner. Dick Allen, who I guess passed away, his wife gave the speech. But then for me, the highlight was Dave Parker, the guy who played for the Pirates and the Reds. He died, unfortunately.

Just recently. A month ago with complications of Parkinson's disease. But on his way, I guess before he died, he wrote a poem that he wanted his son to read at the Hall of Fame ceremony. Okay. And you're probably thinking, oh, that's emotional and sad. That was not the kind of poem he read, right? He was not interested in a sad poem, Ryan. He was interested in a funny poem.

And, of course, now I can't put it up. But in it, he included it said lines like, I'm the prettiest, I'm the sexiest, I'm the cobra. I think that's going to go along with his personality. That's why he wanted to go out, want to be remembered that? Because that's the type of person he was. Would you do that, Shannon? After you passed, would you have right a poem and not be emotional or sappy?

Just be like fun? Absolutely. Yeah, it's going to be like one last Hill OVW promo that I'm going to have you read to everybody. Yeah, he had his son get up and read it and included the line, I am the Cobra, which I thought was hilarious. Dan, and I think he said something like known for my rocket arm or something like that. Yeah, I mean, he was running over catchers. He was literally cut. He was, that's a good example.

He was cutting a promo on his way out. So I thought that was kind of funny. I thought it was awesome. Like I said, yeah, Tate wants to be remembered. Do remember me not the guy I was in a wheelchair with Parkinson's, remember me as the player, the cobra, the king? Yes. Then did you see Yokic, Nikolai Yokic, apparently as soon as the basketball season is over, he goes to Serbia and he starts horse racing. He owns horses. He doesn't race himself. But it's like harness racing, right? It's like people sitting back and hitting the thing. And he goes and his horse won, I guess, a big race in Serbia yesterday. Did you see him crying? Was he? He showed more emotion cheering for his horse yesterday than he did when he won the NBA finals. Like he's, he's bawling.

Go look up the video. He's bawling because he's so happy that his horse won a harness race. And then they countered it with when he won the NBA finals and he just walked off the court. He didn't even like smile. He didn't do anything. And then he cries when his horse won the horse race. What did you think about that?

It was funny to see for a guy that doesn't show a lot of emotion. You know, what is he? Like a three-time MVP, NBA champion. But this little harness track where it didn't even look like that many people were there. It looked like the red mile. It looked like there were 45 people at the red mile. And he gives that jockey the biggest hug. He's pouring champagne on him.

That looks to be the happiest he has ever been. It's a fascinating video. You know, they always say that people are happier when their kids succeed than when they succeed. But could it be happier, Shannon, that you're happier when your horse succeeds than when you succeed? No, I think that's a little strange. I'd be a lot more happier for me than my horse. out there, but he was not. Too much the own, I guess. He was, I mean,

this man must really love horses, like really love it. You know, and reporters have said he doesn't really love basketball. Doesn't condition in the off season, doesn't practice much? Well, they act like he looks at basketball like I looked at law. Yeah. Like, well, I guess I just have to do this. Here we go.

I'm 16. I got to go. I got to go. There has to be no player that's been good that seems to hate what they're doing more than him. And love something so random. him in like a harness racing. A fraction of the significance of his NBA career. I mean, if you were American harness racing people, why don't they want him involved?

Oh, he should jump all over that. They should be like begging him to come be part of American harness racing, right? Something with him. Set up a Serbia versus America harness racing. Bring Yokic over here. Red Mile needs to do it. Nobody was happier than Yokic at the hardest race. He runs out there onto the track and he looks to be the size of the horse as he's hugging everyone.

Yeah, I would pay to watch him do the hardest racing. Brad, go ahead, Brad. Good morning, fellas. I'm going to channel my inner Madison here. I've got two things for you. First off on the new happy Gilmore movie. It's one you've got to watch, but then I don't think it has that classic side to it

to where like the old one where you wanted to watch it over and over and over. Okay, that makes sense. It was still pretty funny. And I know we're going back to an old topic here, but I actually live behind that new Kroger that's being built on Newtown Pike. And it's a nightmare even getting out of our neighborhood.

I tried to run the public Saturday. And I couldn't even get through the cross on Newtown Pike and Citation to get the public. It took me 15 minutes to cross that road in the stoplight. So it's pretty crazy. Yeah. Well, I mean that this city, I don't know. I appreciate it. Lexington is a great city, but I don't know what to do.

There's too many cars, too many people. We have the Nashville problem on a smaller scale. We're growing too fast and it wasn't built to hold all that. It's clear we were not. And then you have the horse farms that will not allow it to expand. I mean, I think that's one of Lexington's biggest problems is we've got all this rich horse farms everywhere. And I understand you don't want to just run them over. But because of that, the city just cannot expand in a lot of areas,

which means it can only expand in a handful of areas. And that traffic, like there's only so much growth. I mean, it's that Newtown Pike, Georgetown Road. those are the only places where this city can expand, and they don't have the infrastructure to hold it. Lexington's like an island with the worst farms. You guys said it, man. And those areas that they can develop on, they cram so much into a small area that there's no room for the traffic. There's nowhere for people to go.

Everybody wants to live here because Lexington is awesome. And now we're starting to go up. Like I know someone. We know him together. He's told he has to be out of his house soon. He's renting because they're putting in another high-rise apartment. There's just going to be more and more of those popping up. Well, we're not expanding, you know, the area.

Yeah. I mean, so, but you would you say we got to get, like, tell these horse farms, get out? No. That's the charm. That's what makes you Lexington. It is. So we just, I guess, just have to eat it. Mike, go ahead, Mike.

But good. Yeah. But see, let me just a point about that. I genuinely believe that 90% of the people agree on 90% of the issues. And the 10% where we disqual. agree is used to make everybody hate each other. And I'm glad to talk about these things that affect people's lives where we do agree, Mike, because I think that's really what people often care about the most.

No doubt. But the one point I wanted to make, like you were talking earlier, which I know it's kind of funny, but it's really not because traffic's like that everywhere anymore. Like you said, just hire some smarter people to plan this stuff because, like Louisville, for instance, when they close the bridge, well, they go to 265 where you have to go around and they cut it down to one lane. So why do both at once? Things like that.

I totally agree. And I agree you do have to hire smarter people, but, Mikey, that means you probably have to pay them, which means you probably have to stop cutting the government. If you're going to pay people, like, good people are going to make money, so you're going to have to pay them. I mean, these things come out. But I don't think it would take a rocket scientist to figure out don't close every way out of the city. Very good point.

Appreciate it, sir. It probably doesn't take a rocket scientist to do that. See, I like that, Ryan. We are agreeing on more and more things. And the one, the main artery from downtown out to the soccer stadium, don't close it down. It's closed until 2027. Court.com, KORT.com.

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That way you get a good sample. So I'm just going to start right here. One person writes, Matt, what do you start to miss more leading up to football and basketball seasons? I miss the post game and pregame shows. I think what he's asking is what do you miss when the season is over? I guess I miss being like on at the bar like in those atmospheres and stuff pre and post game I miss I miss that that's probably what is and I miss the post game shows it can get a lot when there's all these games happening but but I probably I miss the fun of everybody kind of the community coming together I think the funest thing we do all year are the pregame shows at KS bar just the atmosphere and the people and the show itself it's a lot of fun one person writes the name Ichiro is Japanese for the name first son. Jiro means second son and Suburo means third son.

There you go. Did you know that? I did not. Another person writes, Matt, what do you think about scientists reporting that a dangerous alien ship is heading towards Earth and will be here in 2029? Yeah, what do you think about that? I don't believe that's true. And I think you're making that up. How do they know it's a dangerous alien ship? Could it be a friendly alien ship? I was reading on this last night. Is this what? You mean it's a real? thing? I mean, as real as an alien ship coming for Earth can be. But I mean,

they didn't just make that up. There are things out there. What? The places I go on the internet, we get into some weird things. And this alien spaceship is heading our way. There's not an alien spaceship heading our way. I didn't mean there is. I'm saying it is being said on the internet. By who? Reddit. I was for Reddit. No, I actually did read a link about it. I don't believe it, but that

is being passed around the internet. That's some gigantic ship is heading for it. I like how they have an ETA. They know it's going to be here about 2029. How do you know? Well, I will say this. Okay, I've been reading. All right, so now, a little sidetrack here.

I've been on this kick about reading about the Aztecs and Montezuma. Okay. I read this book called You Dreamed of Empires. It's a novel. It's really good. It's weird. Very weird, but very good. And it's about, you know, like when Cortez and those people came to off the coast of Mexico.

you know, Cortez and the Tenostoclon. Do you know any of that stuff from history? Cortez story sounds familiar. I don't know what the other thing he just said. He came from Spain and then they landed on the coast of Mexico. Okay. And then the people in Mexico City, which used to be called Tenostoclon, they met them and they didn't know what to do.

And anyway, I've been reading all that. Point is they talked about how both groups, the people from Spain and then the native, well, I guess not Native America, Mexico was with the name of the Indian group. they both looked at each other like they were aliens because they had never seen anything like it. Like think about it. You're the Mexicas and you see what are basically to you, white people. Yeah. And you've never seen white people before.

And you're like, aliens. What is this? Yeah. And then the people who are sailing are like seeing all these headdresses and they see the city on an island and they're like, what in the world is this? What is this? And even though I don't think they're aliens, Shannon, that could be what would happen. Imagine we just look up one day. Yeah.

And like when the Mexicas see these ships, they didn't even know what ships were. They were only on canoes. And they said it looked like floating houses. That could be us one day when whatever comes here, Shannon. So it sounds like you're kind of coming over to our side and acknowledging that there's very likely chance. The aliens will come here. No, it's not going to happen.

We'll be the Mexicas. But when we do, it would have to be what it was like for them when they were like, what is this that just shows up? I would be very confused. But if I'm not mistaken, I think the story I read said these are hostile people coming to kill us. So it might be a quick standoff. How did they know that? I have no idea.

I'm just repeating what I read on the internet. What did you think about Trump cheating at golf? Remember, I've read the Trump cheating at golf book. So I know more Trump cheating at golf stories than I need to know. So just add it to the list. That was a good one, though. Yeah. I have to say.

I love the, you got, when you get to a point you're so powerful, you can have somebody go ahead of you and then casually throw the ball behind their back so that it lands to where you can hit it. And then you get out of the cart and go, well, look there. Good shot I just hit. Look what just happened to be right here. That, that's how you know you're powerful, right? When you have people go ahead of you to make sure your ball is there.

There's a lot of that. I can't think of the name of the book that Rick Riley wrote, but a lot of that, I think the Secret Service just keeps his golf balls in their pocket for that reason. If they see him hit in the water, they just kind of everyone around, I think is participating and making sure he's having a good day on the golf course. Who has that job? Like, is that a specific job? Or is that like, is that part of the, you know, job description for Secret Service? There's, there's, there are caddies at Valhalla that will do that. For the right price. Oh, no, no, there's caddies. I've seen it. There's caddies of a hollow. Somebody will give the caddy of 50 and go make sure I get a good lie. I don't need to pay 50 for that. I'll just

give myself a good luck. There are people I have absolutely zero problem with it. I'm just saying, maybe I played golf with Terry miners and I saw 50 exchange hands before it started and then all of a sudden you'd be like, wow, Terry. Good lie there. What a break. I thought it went in the sand. I sure thought that was over there in the fescue. And then you go, well, Terry's

like, we'll take care of you. We'll enjoy it. You know. Terry catching strays here. I'm not catching strays. I'm just saying that's a style I've seen before. Okay. Well, not everybody follows the USG rulebook as closely as you.

I'm not going to act like I don't enjoy. I saw it. They showed later on in the day he did my thing, which is like four foot putt. You tap it towards the hole, but don't really. You kind of drag it. You kind of drag it to the hole. I've done that. I've seen you good.

to lie, that's okay. I'm all right with it. But the having a caddy go ahead and throw the ball in the ground. That's a, that's a little bit of a, again, that's a Terry Miner's move, Shannon, if I was to call. If I was to, if I was, Terry hears this. You can look me in the eye and tell me he didn't do that. Noah, go ahead, Noah. Noah. Hey, guys, sorry. Hey, I just wanted to be able to give an apology to Ryan specifically on Friday when you guys were over here, Nicholas Phil, I was the one who was backing the car when Ryan was out there

trying to smash that watermelon in the lid with the bedline. You almost hit Ryan with the car. And I didn't even know it was back there. Yeah, I mean, the video, you came very close to running over, poor Ryan Lemon. Yeah, I had to head out to work early. That's why I asked you before, if we could win the prize tickets before.

So you asked me to change. You asked me to change the rules so you could win tickets. I said no, and you decided to just go run over Ryan Lemon and return? No, I just had to hurry. I had you to take my client back to work. Okay, all right. Well, I appreciate the call. I don't know if you did you see in the video how close you were to getting hit by a car?

I didn't see it until the video. I had no idea when we were out there trying to bang that watermelon. You came very close. He was out there banging watermen. It happens. He watches American pie. It happens. I will say,

what was the name of the place again custom fitting Kentucky Customs and Upfitting Kentucky Customs and Upfitting That bedliner They put on the football You know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah football They should sell that

Yeah it's kind of cool I think people would buy that I'd put it up in my house And every I think it's the coolest thing I've ever seen Oh you mean just sell the stuff I was like they do sell the bedline Yeah take a football

Dip it in bedliner and sell it I think people would buy that I took the donut It's pretty neat I think it's awesome We'll be right back T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay.

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That is what he does. Oh, no, confirmation. The caddy outing him. You thought I was lying and the caddy is backing up that the Trump throw the ball behind your back, put it in, is also a Terry minor's movie. I don't like this Terry slander that's going on. It's not slander. We need Terry on here to defend himself. Listen, it's okay.

I pick up four-footers. Terry pays caddies to throw him the ball back in the fairway. It's okay. Is it? It doesn't sound like it's okay, according to that candy. Billy came in here all angry. Billy, tell real quick what you said during the break. Oh, well, speaking of cheating, I went to Pinehurst a couple years ago.

Oh, look at a wait a minute. Who we went to Pinehurst? Lottie da. Let me pick up that name you dropped. Okay. Yeah, so I went to Pinehurst a couple years ago. And we got a four caddies, so they will go ahead of you to watch where your ball lands and throw your ball back in the fairway.

And so they did not tell us this, but the four caddies would go up to your ball and move it onto a better lie. They say for pace of play, you know, all these amateurs come out here in the waste collection area and they're just hitting into the sand and they don't make any progress. The caddy goes up and moves your ball to give you a better lie. He didn't tell us he was going to do that. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, don't touch my ball. Okay. I'm trying to play around to golf.

Don't give me a better lie. But you're not good enough to not do it. I say this with respect because you're probably about the same as me. You're not good enough to not move the ball. Okay. Well, I mean, the sport of golf. is, I mean, about integrity. And I don't cheat. I don't want to move my ball

onto a better lot. They're doing it for everybody. It's test myself to see what I can score on a nice course. But you know what you can score on a nice course. Badly. Well, I wouldn't say that. That's subjective. What did you shoot? 92. So you shot 92, but they moved the ball. Yeah. So imagine what you would have shot otherwise.

Yeah, like, I don't know. And that would have made you feel better to shoot 105? No, but it would have been all me instead of the caddy moving my ball into a better lie. All right. You have a 91. Or 93. Well, if you're going to do that, at least tell me. Don't, like, just go out there and move my ball.

So you got mad at this person trying to do you a favor? Could it have been you were so bad. He didn't want to tell you because you'd argue. He's like, I got to speed this guy up. He's holding up the course. Well, he was like, I do this to everybody. Like, you were not special. It's not like you're noticeably bad.

Oh, you thought maybe he came up to you and was like, this guy particularly needs help. Yeah, I didn't want. You see, I felt bad. I didn't want that. Okay. Well, I would say to you, it would be better for you to have a 92 than 100 and one. Yeah, but that 101 would have been mine, Matt. And now there's an asterisk next to my 92 because of this stupid caddy. All right. Well, it's not like my Beth Page Black 88, which is

completely legit. And as you watch the Rider Cup, you can know Matt Jones shot 88 on this exact same course. My biggest takeaway at all this is Terry didn't pay enough for the caddy, not telling it. I mean, you're obviously cheap if the caddy's going to go tell people. He should have had an NBA. All right, let me, I'm going to say this now real quick since Billy is in the room. Some cool news. This is not an official announcement. So this is just like I'm giving our audience a little heads up. It's not 100% official, but it's probably like 98% official.

Unbelievably, for reasons that I don't really understand the NFL. I'm talking about the National Football League has hired Drew and I to do a podcast for them this year. Nice. I always knew I'd get to the NFL. What a bizarre decision. I mean, like, the other podcasts are like, good morning football, Ian Rappaport. I mean, they have like six podcasts, and now it's going to be me and Drew. I don't know why.

And we get to come, they're like, you all pick what it's going to be. You all, like, they're going to build us a studio. they are thinking about sending us to the Super Bowl. Oh my. Why? I don't really know. This is not the official announcement. I'm just letting y'all know.

I have a meeting to kind of finalize it this week where you have to pick out a name. Matt and Drew do it for you. We'll get some other ideas. But anyway, it's exciting. Billy's going to be producing Mario's going to do some of the social media, but are you excited about that? Oh, I'm very excited. I absolutely love the NFL. I'm still like you a little bit in the, what? Huh? Why? I mean, when they called me about it, I just thought they were like, wrong number. You mean the guy that played in Arkansas?

Oh, you mean the Florida running back? Oh, the Australian golfer, Matt Jones. No, you. and, you know, I mean, I've met with the NFL people. Like, they're talking about, they're like, if you want to have on as guests sometimes, they're like, we can help you get players. What in the world am I going to say to these NFL players? But still, exciting. Well, they had to have seen my experience. I played tight-in, fifth grade, West Broadway Bobcats, one career catch.

You know, and our football pre-game show, everyone just fills the knowledge oozing from their radio. Oh, yeah. They certainly feel that with me on the SPN. I think they see us as like a Madden Summerall type. No, they specifically said to me in all seriousness, they were like, we want a show for fans who aren't necessarily experts. And I said, well, I'm you or I'm me. Look no further.

If you want somebody, it's not an expert, here you go. It's way too much work for me. But I can't say no. Can't. You can't say no. You got to do it. We will tape on Sunday nights after the games. So that's one of the things the four of us have to do,

is we're going to have to trudge down to this studio on Sunday night after Sunday night football. Which means we're probably going to watch the game sometimes together. And so. And then record a show after the game's over. And then record a show like a reaction show immediately after it's over. And then I'm up 6 a.m. Monday morning. No, I mean, I'm going to be pre. I don't even like the NFL.

We'll cut that part out. Yeah, don't say that too loud. But no, I like it. I'm just saying, if you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be doing this, I would have thought you were crazy. I really would. I would have like, of all the sports. But, you know, you never know.

Obviously, your expertise you bring to the NFL pre-cape show. None. You bought a book that one time? They did ask me, they were like, we want you to know the rosters. So that's something I'm getting Billy to help me. Like, we got to figure out, like, how do we learn this? Flash cards. Jake Ferguson just signed a new deal with the Dallas Cowboys.

Oh, I knew. I love Fergie Ferg. That's my guy. Dates a Cavander. That's what I was going to say. I think he dates a Cavender, which is what I know about it. So anyway, so it's exciting. Hopefully we'll have more details in the coming weeks.

I'm excited for Mario and Billy that they get a chance to do this and, like, you know. But the NFL is going to see what the word technical difficulty means. Yeah. Have some of those. They don't have many of those. NFL films, the Sables, they didn't have many difficulties when I was watching them. We had our technical meeting last week and they were asking about all this equipment and they said, do you have that? And the answer was no to everything.

So they're having to bring in. I think there's somebody from the NFL coming to this studio. We got this. I mean, so I'm excited about it. This is an unofficial announcement. The official announcement will come when we have a name and stuff. They're going to take our videos, Shannon, and put it on the official NFL Instagram. and TikTok page.

45 million followers. 45 million followers. You're big time now. 45 million followers. People are going to look at you for all the analysis for your own games. I don't know what to wear. They said just dress like you normally would. And I was like, you sure you want to me?

The Reds hoodie on the NFL. All right. So anyway, Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hello? Yes, go ahead. Hey, first thing, congratulations on that, Matt. I'm not going to say well-deserved, but now it is. Thank you.

Oh, that's the way things. that's the way things are going these days and, you know, kind of like Average Joe podcast and different things like that. But what I called about is, I go back and forth between Cincinnati and Lexington an awful lot. And I personally think the traffic in Lexington is worse than

Cincinnati. You haven't seen bad traffic in Cincinnati until they complete this bridge in about the next seven, eight years. Everyone should just, pretty much, if you have to cross the river, you should just never move somewhere else. I agree. It's terrible. You're exactly right. You said seven or eight years. I'll double that. They'll be doing that. They'll be doing that when Drew's first

born goes to college. I can guarantee you. I'm not quite sure about that because it's actually become an initiative with their infrastructure things. So people are really pushing it big time because it's actually a safety hazard and it cuts down a whole lot of things. Hey, one last thing I want you talking about, I know you're a big Red fan and you dump on some of players sometimes. You know, one of the players that you originally dumped on about four or five years ago, A-U-N-E-O-W-A-N-E-O-W-R. I know. Now I want him.

I want him. Three-time all-star. Now we're trying to get him. I agree. I dumped on him, and now he's good. And now I would like him to come back to Cincinnati so I can go, Eh, who, hey, me, oh, and get him his five syllables. I'm, I was, that was one.

I appreciate the call. Most of them I've been right about. I was wrong about him. And he's the number one trade piece everyone's trying to get. I started the Reds pre-game show. They spent most of the pre-game show talking about who could they trade to bring him back to Cincinnati. I would love to have Ahuaheño back, but that might be hard to do. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet

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Yeah, in studio. He's in town. So we're going to talk about his acting career. Also, you know, he, amongst the things I want to talk about, he was on that movie. the Alec Baldwin movie. Oh, he was on the set? He was one of the actors. Was he there when it happened?

I think so. Oh, my. So, I mean, we're going to talk about, I don't think he's talked a lot about it. I think we'll probably talk about that. I'm sure he'll want to talk about the Sarah Spartans win the state football title. He probably will. 859-280-2287. I do want to say one thing before I go to the phone.

Prayers to the people in folks in Wayne County, Kentucky. Kayla Bryce, a young man who had just finished his freshman year of high school, played football and basketball at Wayne County, died in a car accident this weekend. I've spent a lot of time in Wayne County in the last couple years. They've been very kind, invited me. I've spoken at their school in events in Monticello. You know, that is a very, very tight-knit community. And from what I understand, this young man was beloved part of the community.

Like I said, played all the sports, played for a couple of statewide basketball teams. and it is very devastating for anybody that age going to go in into a sophomore year of high school. So my prayers are to everybody there. I know it is, I mean, there are no words that can make it better, but it is having a strong impact there. And I feel a personal connection because of all my travels there in the last few years. So my prayers, and I know everybody on the show, Ryan, for the family, friends, and town with the passing of Kayla Bryce. when a tragic event happens like that in a small,

tight-knit community, it resonates and everybody feels it. I mean, everybody's feeling the loss down there right now. So, yeah, thoughts and prayers to everybody down there. Yeah. Freebird.

Go ahead, Free Bird. Go ahead, Free Bird. Hey, guys. Yeah, prayers to the families down there. I got a lot of buddies down there in Wayne County. Matt,

didn't last year, wasn't the Kentucky Derby and the Oaks race, didn't it? Excuse me. Wasn't the time later also? It is later. I mean, now they're racing the derby at like 630, 645, but this is going to be, at least with the Oaks,

fully under the lights. It's like going to start at like 830 or 840. But yes, it's gotten later over the years. It used to be at like five, and they've continued to move it farther and farther back. Well, my question is, what's an hour difference going to make? It makes a big difference. It makes a big difference.

Like, think, so first of all, Oaks Day, the Oaks always ran at like six. Yeah. Right. So the Oaks, you know, you could be out by seven and make a dinner, right, if you wanted to. All the parties. The derby would go later in the day, but it's kind of a little, like under-talked-about secret that derby night is kind of slow because it's, everybody's exhausted.

But the night in Louisville, the social night is Oaks night. That's when the parties are. That's when the big dinners are. That's when people are out until four or five in the morning. and I think now the worry is that with that race going off at 830, 840, people will just do what they do on Derby night, which is nothing, and that will hurt the city. I got you.

All right. Thanks for digging a call, man. You all have a great. Listen, this is in the city of Louisville, this is all anybody's talking about. I was there this weekend. It's all anybody's talking about it. Jeff Ruby made a long post basically asking to create a community commission

to work with Church Hill. downs on these things. You know, there are some people are thinking, well, maybe what used to be on Friday nights will now just be on Thursday nights and all the parties and the dinners will happen then. There are some people are saying, well, maybe everybody will just wait and then do it on Saturday nights after the derby. But it's a big deal. I mean, you could make an argument.

The Friday night before the derby is the biggest social night in Kentucky of the year in every form. Oh, easily. And this moving of the race, whether it will ruin it, remains to me seen, but it will certainly have an effect, right? You know, right now people show up with the parties dinner, what, 9, 10 o'clock?

They move that race back. Now you're talking about midnight by the time people show up. Well, like Barnstable Brown, it's hard to do that party. Unless you started at 10.30 or 11 at night, you know. And those people are getting up for Derby the next day. I think a big thing is people are now going to eat at Churchill Downs.

I mean, you've already had your dinner and the race is over. How probability you're just like, Let's just go in and rest up for tomorrow. That's what really makes, I think, the dinner people mad. Is they're basically like Churchill Downs, you are now taking everything. People won't really have a reason to go out if they've eaten and had their fun there until late in the night. Yeah. Now, maybe people don't start going to it until three or four o'clock and maybe you get a lunch thing.

I mean, I don't know. We'll have to see. But I totally understand why Churchill Downs did it. But I also understand why the city is frustrated. You know, I mean, for me, let's just use KS. Barr. we sit there and wait on bated breath, waiting for the times of the games to come out. Yeah. It really doesn't make much of an impact for us for football because we can make any time work in football.

Noon, we can do breakfast and then we can do a post game. 3.30, I love because we get both. 7 o'clock you can do a lead up. But in basketball, the time of the game is a massive financial difference. And we have no control. A 9.30 road game in basketball is not even an – Like for us, we've just lost the night. Yeah, close to me.

Like I would rather not, I mean, when I see a 930 road game in basketball, I'm like, because that just means we're going to get nothing that night. Right. And you're paying your staff to stay later. Exactly. A 7 o'clock road game, we can make that work. But a 930 road game for us or a 950, it's just death. And so like now imagine that times 20 and that's what it's like for them for the Oaks.

And, you know, it's such a powerful tool. The derby and the horse racing and Oaks. But they forget about the people that live there in that town. That's why they made it this special with the people. They're forgetting to consider them when they make these decisions. Yeah. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Yeah, Matt, just talking about being in New York Black Page

and shooting that 88 on one of the hardest courses ever. Of course, the guys remember this. But you forgot to mention you took a mulligan on the first toll. It was one mulligan. It was one mulligan. And I didn't take – listen, I freely acknowledge, Mike. I don't play the cleanest rounds of golf always. That was the cleanest round of golf.

Okay, shut up, Mike. I appreciate the call. That was just one drop after that. Was it on the tea or was it? It was on the tea. Okay, that's a breakfast ball. It was on the tea. And then I didn't, I was in the zone.

I wasn't playing the tips. I was playing, though, the next ones, whatever you call those blues. It's over 7,000 yards. I know I was there. And it's the best round of golf I've ever played. 98 on a championship course from the back, playing everything.

And all mulligans aren't the same. I think you can get one off the tea. Your first swing of the day if you didn't warm up. Now, if you hit in the water from the fairway and then you're mulligan. But I didn't do that here. Stockton Mortgage, tell me about it. Oh, we got some new wreath for Stockton Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage.

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Yes, it is. I am excited about that. I am excited about it. Can try all the new sauces? I may pass on the hot sauces, but I'm going to try all the other sauces. Yeah. I'm ready. I'm ready to get sauced.

Yeah. We only have only 75, we only sold 75 tickets because we wanted everybody. We want to be an intimate affair. I mean, not that kind of intimate, but as intimate as you can be with chicken wings. So we'll be doing that. Thank you all very much. We will see you tomorrow right back here. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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