KSR - 2025-07-29- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

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Matt, I think we should release the revenue information unless it puts us at a disadvantage. So follow the law unless it puts a set of disadvantage. Just got to look out for yourself. Then ignore it. Okay. I mean, I understand that. One person writes, Matt, did you see that Donald Trump is going after your law school? Duke.

I did see that. They're going after the Duke Law Journal, which I was on. Hope they don't arrest me. You're going to get a call? You worried? I know. I was on the Duke Law Journal. What's he going after him for?

I don't know. I think it's something about anytime they have something, it's usually about DEI. But when I was on there, the Law Journal is the stupidest thing. Like, law journal is so dumb. You pick, like if you're in your top 20 or whatever in the class, you get picked.

And then your job is law professors from around the country, write these legal notes or, you know, legal articles. And then the students, we get to decide which, one's published. How stupid is that? Save some fun for the rest of us. Oh, it's awful. I hated it. I hated it. But like you felt like you were compelled if you got picked, you were compelled. Like, oh, it's an honor. You got to do it. You had to write your own. I wrote about genetics in criminal law. Basically, do you have a gene that causes you to be violent? I was ahead of the curve on that.

Yeah. Now that's like, what you learned? I argue that there are genes that make you violent, but you shouldn't include them in your sentencing because if you started doing that, we would never be able to stop. If you've, it's out there on the internet. They got published? Yeah. It's under Matt Jones, Duke Law. I mean, I hesitate to go back and read.

I wrote it 20. Did you bowl the most important since then? I did. Like it. But it's out there. It's called free will and criminal law or something like that. But the thing I always thought was stupid is all these legal professors from around the country would write you.

and have spent all this work on something, and we were the most unqualified people in the world to pick it. And you want to talk about people who took themselves seriously. The people on the law journal, you would have thought we were curing cancer, Shannon, the way these meetings went. Yeah, very serious. Everybody took it all seriously.

Oh, my gosh, they were so serious. I hated it. It was my least favorite thing that I did when I was in school. I hate to talk about this, but we have to. He's our friend, but it's also the news. Rommel Bradley was. arrested. Saw that.

Two nights ago in Lexington. It looks like it was a, he got charged with four or five different small things, including trespass, riding a moped without a license. Yeah. Which I didn't realize, Shannon, that was a crime. You're going to have a license. You got a license. Yeah, I hated to see it.

It's, it was like a 245 in the morning. So, you know, I'm sure there is some story to it that is. probably more complicated than ended up on that police report. I talked to Ramel. You know, I texted him yesterday. I was like, listen, man, we're going to have to report on this because it's our job, but you know I love you. And he said yes, and he said some other things I won't say.

But I'm, I was sad to see it, you know? I mean, you know, we love, along with Wu, Ramell's probably my favorite. I mean, he's a friend, right? So I hated to see it. Me too. Love Ramell. Saw him not too long ago.

there would be a day actually catching up with him disappointing to see the news don't know specifics whatever trouble he was getting into hope he's learned his lesson and gets right back on the right track because Ramel's a good guy doesn't need to be caught up in whatever happened there. He did say he was like I'd like to come on your show and talk about it and I said

you should talk to your lawyer. Yeah. Don't let us be your first person. Don't just don't just you know I was like you need to just don't immediately come on here. I don't know that that's the so. It was sad, but you know, everybody makes mistakes. Hopefully he learns from these mistakes.

Yeah, everybody makes mistakes. Oh, yes, they do. Do you know the next line? Oh, everybody makes mistakes. Let's go make food. Not exactly. Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too. There it is.

So, so sorry to hear that. And hopefully that gets taken out of it. I also want to recommend something. This afternoon, the podcast will come out that I did yesterday with Josh Hopkins. So people know who Josh Hopkins is most of you. Kentucky fan from Lexington. His dad was a congressman. But I don't think a lot of people know that he was one of the actors on the movie set where Alec Baldwin accidentally killed the woman. He was one of the stars of that movie.

He has never talked about that experience publicly ever before. He did with me yesterday for about 30 minutes. And I'm not just saying this. I think it's one of the most powerful, interesting things we've ever done. It's going to be released tomorrow or today. It'll be on podcast. And then we'll also be on YouTube. You can watch it. I highly recommend it.

He gets emotional during it. He talks about what that day was like. He was on set when it happened. Wow. And, you know, Drew and I have been very good friends with him for a long time. I've never seen Josh like he was yesterday. and, you know, Mario and Billy are sitting in here. They don't even know who he is.

And like, they're getting emotional watching it. So that comes out today, highly recommended. And then we talk about UK sports and he gets to show you what a diehard UK basketball fan is. But I appreciate him coming on and I think people will really enjoy it. I was already planning to listen to it because I, like, Josh Lott, I want to hear what you all talked about. But now that I know he went into detail about that, I'm very interested.

He also talks about what it's like to be, you know, an actor when you first get started. and so anyway We went long We ended up going like an hour and a half But I do think people will like it Brady, go ahead Brady I have first time caller Who I?

I start middle school this Friday Do you have any advice? So you're going to be in sixth grade Is that right? Brady Brady? All right sixth grade What advice would you have?

The worst time I'm going to do kindness advice Brady, you seem like an outgoing person. Sixth grade can be hard. Be nice to people. And if someone's off by themselves, go say hi. Oh, I like that. You say go to the other folks.

You know, you're going from elementary to middle. Brady seems like a good person. Be very friendly to everyone, especially if someone's in your class doesn't look like. Usually you're probably going to be going to school with some new people because other elementary schools will probably feed into them middle school. So, yeah, I would say. And kids can be really mean at that age. You can be the nice kid. Be nice.

This is also probably the time you're going to start being interested in. girls, right? Don't get tied down too early. That's right. No, no. You see, I've given the opposite. I think you should pick out the prettiest girl you can find in class. And then, you know, it's the first day. It's when you got to move in the very first day. You don't wait until later in there. You're saying get the girlfriend moment one. Exactly. That way, you're set for the rest of the school year. Well, I think I was living proof you could go through middle school and never have a girlfriend and things can end up okay. Because I wasn't the most. That's your thing.

I wasn't the most handsome. Come on now. Your urquered glasses. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of acne and glasses and braces. But it's good for character. It is. My first heartbreak was my sixth grade girlfriend. Really?

For Valentine's Day, she got me a Glenn Robinson bucks jersey and something. That's a nice gift. Yeah. And I got her like a $10 gift card to Clares or something. And then she done me shortly after. So maybe that was the reason. But first heartbreak was in middle school. She knew that you couldn't take care of.

That's right. Yeah. I think being an outcast in middle school builds character. You have to learn that you can't, when you're not attractive, you have to learn you can't just get by with looks in your life. You have to have a personality to be smart. Have you seen the ears that were on the side of my head in sixth grade? I see where they are now.

Yeah. The head has caught up with them a little bit. But at sixth grade, it was pretty up. You and I both had big ears. I mean, nobody has bigger ears than Dave Baker. But you and I were right there with him. I always say, I looked like a car with the doors opened. coming at you. Let's go to Terry in Shepherdsville. Go ahead, Terry.

Yeah, Gene Garber was the reliever for the braces. Now, what is he known for and why do I hate him? I don't know. Why do you? I can't understand why you hate him. He struck out Pete to end the 44-game hitting streak. Actually, I do. Actually, now that you say that, I remember that, but I would have forgotten that, yes. I mean, it's a three-two count, and he throws him a fall low and away. Just throw right down the middle so he can hit it. But anyway, because they were up 16 to 4. They killed the rest.

I just bet Kentucky on the futures line of minus four and a half wins. And I don't like the odds I'm getting. And you only get 185 for betting 100. But you look at the schedule, let's take the three easy teams, Tennessee Tech, Eastern Michigan. Okay, look at the rest of the schedule. All you got to do, South Carolina and Vandy, you're not going to lose both of them again.

That's not going to happen. The Vandy games away, but that's like a home game. So you just really got to beat either Ole Miss, Auburn, or Florida at home. Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. That's the scenario right there, Terry, and I appreciate the call. You've got to find. I would even.

say you just, if you want to get to five wins, you beat Vandy, and then you got to get one of those South Carolina, South Carolina, Old Miss, or excuse me, South Carolina on the road, Auburn on the Road, Old Miss, Florida. And I don't even throw Tennessee in there because I don't think they are as good as they've been the last couple years. Again, I'm not saying we're going to beat any of these teams, but I'm saying if you're trying to get a path, Drew, that's how you get there. That's right.

Florida lost lagway yesterday. Their quarterback, they might not be that good depending on what's going to. on there. But I have a confession. I bet over four and a half wins. I did it. Get the canoe. I was under, if you'd asked me in April, I would have said, get out of my face. There's no way I would bet that. I did it. I'm not in Ryan's canoe. I don't even know if they'll make a bowl game, but I think five is more likely than four. So I did it. I want to get to five. I'd love to get to six. I'm still in four. Come on. I'm already there. I'm waiting on you. I'm selling four because I don't know what the fifth is. I think we have to

win, to get to five, I think the most likely fifth win is at Auburn, and I just don't know that I can pick us to win. You just got to shock somebody one game. Or you can shock somebody? They've been so close. You can just say, okay, can we shock Ole Miss Tennessee, Florida, and Texas at home? Can we shock one of them? That's what you're asked. Yeah. You beat Ole Miss last year in Oxford. They got worse and you got better. Do they have the best offensive line they've ever had? No. Do we? Yes. You already yesterday. There you go. Come on.

We have the best offensive lines we've ever had. Stoises teams always have one road game where they play great. Last year was it at Ole Miss. This year would be at Auburn. But what if it's like at Georgia and we play great, but we just can't win? That's okay. They're going to play just as good at Auburn. That's the game.

So our road games are at Vandy, at Auburn, at Georgia. South Carolina. The thing about this schedule is if we were really good, this is a schedule you want. because you've got the good teams at home where you could maybe win some and you've got the not so good teams on the road except Georgia. So this is a schedule that if you had a loaded team, you'd go, wait a minute. We can do something. We can do something.

Also Louisville. I'm not giving up on Louisville. Oh, we're beating Louisville. I'm not giving up on. That's my fifth win and my bet. I think South Carolina is going to be good. I'm a little worried about that one. Kevin, go ahead, Kevin.

Remember their quarterback with the goggles? Yeah. He could be like a top pick. Yeah. Kevin, go ahead. Hey, man. I know yesterday you guys were talking about traffic and you sort of admonished yourself for bringing it up. And I think you need to embrace it. Again, that's what makes the show great, all the things you talk about. But second of all,

I got to push back on you guys. The traffic in Lexington is really not that bad. I was just up in Boston for a wedding. We drove to Cape Cod. It took us two hours and 52 minutes to go 65 miles. Yeah, but here's why I don't, you're right. Traffic is works in New York and Boston, but A, you have the option of public transportation, which we really don't. I mean, we have buses, but we don't have rail like they do in those places. And two, our population is like, you know, I mean, New York's got 8 million people. We have 400,000, right? So when you consider the total population, I think our traffic is worse.

And in New York, you don't even need to have a car if you don't want to. In Boston, it's a little harder. but you can get around on their system. So that's what frustrates me about it. We have to have cars here. This city is not even compatible for walking. It's hard to walk in this city. Like Louisville's much better about that.

So that's why it frustrates me so much. Yeah, exactly. And also, you guys got to stop. You're talking to me. And I was at 4 and 8, and now that's climbing to 6. You got to stop. I love it. All right.

I appreciate the call. That's good. Come on. Zach Calzata is 75 to 1 to be a Hosman finalist. If anyone wants to dabling that. Everybody, I think, on that one. I'm going to have to ask you to slow down. I didn't bet that one.

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Welcome back, TuckySports Radio, 8592-80-2287. Text machine 772-7-4-5-254. One person writes, Matt, I saw you a few days ago. Why in the middle of the summer do you wear a hoodie in shorts? Well, I don't always, but like here's something I've always thought. Why don't you dress the way you're going to spend most of your day? So if you're going to spend all your day inside, then why don't you dress the way you'd be comfortable inside? The only time you're outside is too and from your car.

Exactly. So for me, I get cold from the waist up. I get hot from the waist down. Ah. So for the minute or two I walk to my car, why am I dressing the whole day, Shannon, for those two minutes? Yeah. See what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah.

Like in the winter, do you wear a coat in your house? No. No. You wear in the way that you're most comfortable. So that's why. You're not going on your five-mile walks. If you go on a five-mile walk, yeah, you'll end up sweating a lot. But I don't think it's, I mean, I'm walking from the car inside and the inside to the car.

Like, wouldn't why not be more comfortable in the room you're going to be in? And it's just your, it's kind of your identity, your hoodie guy. You have, I couldn't even begin to guess how many hoodies you have. A lot. I started giving those away too. More hoodies or a pair of shoes, which one? More hoodies or shoes? Counting the shoes as one pair.

Shoes. Yeah. By the way, you need to swing by KS Bar. You have several boxes of shoes waiting on your pickup. I think Monique's going to throw them away if you don't get in there soon. All right, I'm going there today. Today is the day that the Cokes and the Pepsi's come to make their... Yeah.

Oh, here we go. Come to make their case. You should have seen this guy with a masonry bit. yesterday. What's a masonry bill? Drilling into the brick. Drilling into the mortar of the brick. Do you know how to do that?

I learned. No. It's just the equipment. I don't want you like collapse. I got it. You can do it? Yeah. So are you getting,

are you getting close? You got two weeks left. Oh, yeah. You'll see a big, huge improvement when you walk in. Oh, it looks good. Yeah. Working hard. Are you excited about it?

I think Drew and I have got it looking fantastic. We've redid the floors. Floors look good. The floors, I didn't see it yet. Do they look good? Yeah, it looks really good. You know the added touch they had? the floors.

Let him be a surprise. No, I know what they did. I know what we did. You know the big wildcat in the back in the state. Yeah. On the wall crutches is going to paint them blue. We're adding more blue to the place. There's blue on the ground.

It was gray. I ripped down the blue restroom sign. We're getting blue restroom sign. We're bringing in blue. Got some new TVs to kind of update it. I'm excited about it. So remember, we open August 26. I will put on sale Monday.

We're going to have a listener opening party. where you can get tickets and you will, it'll be a set menu, but you will be the first, like, we'll be training our staff with you and it'll be like that. That will be August the, let's see, here are the dates. August the 21st will be our listener opening party that you can buy tickets to. August 22nd is going to be our trivia final. All right. And then August 23rd will be our opening for friends and invite us.

T's. Nice. Ron's really excited to show you something he hung up on the wall that wasn't hanging up before from Fantasy Camp, that frame photo. You did not put a photo up there. We have a Cal area. We have a Cow corner. You do not put me up in that jersey. Cal's corner looks good.

You did not put me up in that jersey. It's way up high. It's real high. It's been behind you for years at the stage. That's true. It is. But Cal has his own place in the restaurant now. We got the Cow's corner.

Do we have a Pope corner? Well, it's just we have a disproportional amount of stuff right now. So it had to go somewhere, but we put it, I wanted to make it the to go station where you get to go, but they voted that down. That didn't work. All right. Chelsea, go ahead, Chelsea. First time, long time. Who are?

A couple things. I looked up the butt smacking earlier, and it's supposed to be an alternate high-fiving, and the reason they did it in football is because they don't have pads on their butts. Okay. I still think high five would be more, you know, less offensive. But all right, I understand that. What's your second thing? Second thing is I want to give a shout out to my boyfriend Sandler. We actually met you a couple weeks ago on a random Monday at like devilish brewing.

And I was trying to coax him into betting on knowing NBA players. And you try to take my bet from him. Okay. All right. Where was this devilish brewing? It's across from Green Lanner down to town. I don't think, are you sure you were talking to me? That doesn't sound like.

Yeah, I talked about Summer Valley. I hate to tell you this, Chelsea, that might have been someone impersonating me. Man, oh, okay, no, no, no, no, I know where you are. Okay, no, no, I know where you are. Yes, I was watching the end of that NBA game. You're right, you're right. I'd stopped in because it was raining after my walk. You're exactly right.

Okay, Chelsea. Now I remember. Yes, I appreciate the call. Yes. I do remember you all. I was going off to breweries without us. Yeah, I don't go to buries. I was doing a walk and it started pouring rain and I had to run in somewhere to, yes, she's right

about that. I'm sorry, but I was concerned for me. I was like, what are you talking about? Shannon, this is for you. Yeah. and he said, now remember, Liv Tor is supposed to be, hey, we have fun, we play music. He said that's too far when people are rooting for you to miss it. What a baby.

I mean, this is what golf needs. You need hecklers. And if it's after he puts, then what does he care? The ball is already, I mean, he's already made his putt. So they should be able to say what they want. I don't think you should be able to talk in the swing. But after it's complete. But after the ball has been hit.

Yeah. Drew, why is it wrong for the? crowd to say miss it. Wouldn't bother me. He looked a little whiny. He and, uh, not so much him, John Rom, who also complained about it. I think John needs to get away from the live. He looked, he just seems smash another T-marker.

Every time John Rom is on a live event, it seems he's throwing a club or yelling at someone or complaining or breaking a camera. But I thought Bryson was supposed to be fun guy. I'm on YouTube. Look at me. Everybody needs to party. The whole point of the live tour is for, is for rough neck. who are like...

There's a DJ. There's a DJ. Like, why can't somebody yell miss it? And of course, now more people are going to yell miss it because he's complaining. So now it's just going to happen more often. What a cry, whiny baby he is. That was ridiculous.

Like, they don't do anything when you're shooting a free throw at a basketball game. They don't do anything. You don't yell at you. Come on, man. I have a hot take. I love golf. I don't think it needs to be quiet. It doesn't need to be quiet.

It doesn't need to be silent. Baseball games are not quiet. I don't care. I've never understood why we've decided. golf and tennis have to be quiet. I think it would be more fun if you could go, ah! I mean, not maybe a intentional distraction,

but if there's noise, oh, well, you're hitting the ball. Yeah, I'm with you. I thought he was supposed to be, look how fun I am now. I'm not mean, old Bryce, and I'm fun. And he's sitting there going, don't say miss it. Well, if I ever go to a live tour event, I'm saying miss it.

It'll be miss it signs at the next event. I'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney, Call TJ. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. This is, who is this?

I think it's Billy Currington. Billie, John Michael Montgomery, they announced today, is going to play his final show. Although I feel like country music singers do do, like the final show. Airwell tour for five years. George Strait's been on 15 final tours. But it is the final. show for now, the John Michael Montgomery at Rupp Arena, and he is going to come on here tomorrow. Oh, nice.

He's going to come in studio. We will have John Michael Montgomery here tomorrow. You lit up when I told you that. I mean, you know, in the early 90s, he was as big as a country star as anybody. I saw the concert, too, like Eddie is going to play. And I think even Walker Montgomery is going to play. Yeah. It'll be a big family event.

It'll be a big family event. He'll be on here. That's very cool. Tomorrow. You don't remember how college basketball, they used to do the marathon to start the season? you'd have all those games. Well, they're bringing it back. Yes, I love this. They're bringing it back. Field of 68, Jeff Goodman is the one who made it happen.

Really? Good job, Jeff. I like Jeff. All right. So here are the games. You give us a quick pick. Okay. 8 a.m. Oh, I'm tuned in and betting heavy. 8 a.m. Queens and Winthrop. That's my kind of 8 a.m. game. Winthrop. Winthrop. All right. Then we go to 11 a.m. Bradley and St.

Bonaventure. Gosh, the monies. Bradley Braves. Taking the Bonnie Braves. I'm going bonnies. All right. Then we go to 1.30. Murray State and Omaha.

Oh, come on. I'm going to roll. In Omaha, remember Omaha's the outrunners team. Yeah. Yes, 4 o'clock. Drake, Northern Arizona.

Not touching Drake. We're going to go Northern Arizona. Northern Arizona. I was going to take Drake. I was going to stay away from Drake. Northern Arizona. All right. And then at 6.30.

High Point, Furman. High Point. Tubby's alma mater. Yeah. Go over there. Herman. Got to go Furman. Fernand.

Mannie's alma mater. And then finally at 9 o'clock. South Dakota State plays Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black, black, black with silver buttons, buttons, buttons all down her back. Back. South Dakota State. What was that team? St. Mary's, I don't know who that is. Mary Mac.

Oh. Oh, okay. Well, after a song like that, that's why I did the song. Yeah, I just got real. Isn't the song Mary Mac? Mac? Yeah, yeah, I just, I didn't put that together. That's the name of the team.

I didn't have you singing that song. My brain wasn't ready. South Dakota State and Mary Mac. I got to go Marriac after that performance. With the fight song like that, I'm taking whoever they're playing. Actually, they're... Well, the game is in South Dakota, so I might need to take that. 859-2802287.

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that everything's kind of in order. They still got to get the logistics, I think, for him to get over again. Oh, you all are assuming the basketball player. I was just saying somebody here in town. Oh, this is Slovarez. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, it is supposed to be the basketball player. And Pope speaks very highly of him as a player.

How do we say his name? Andreas Yellivik. Yellivik. Yeah, okay. Yellivik. Like Pope talked like he might be a guy that pushed for get a lot of playing time. Do you think

you think he plays more than 10 minutes a game this year? Yes. Yes. Yes. I'll say yes. But they're so crowded. If he is a little bit behind, it's going to be hard to take minutes from anyone.

Shannon? Yeah, yeah. I'll say I'll go over. I'll go over because Brandon Garrison stays in foul trouble. So just that fact alone will make him end up playing a lot of minutes. Yeah, and Jaden Cain is still not quite 100%. Moreno, though? That is true.

You do have the Moreno factor. If he ends up being really good. I don't know. There are going to be one or two players that are talented that just don't play. Yeah. They just don't play just from a sheer numbers thing. And I don't know who it's going to be. Well, like Hawthorne, there's great reports of him so far in the summer.

I'm assuming he's one that doesn't play. Yeah, but I mean, that was a good get when they got him and he's doing good things, but he might be sitting on the end of the bench. And Marino, if he doesn't leap Yellowidge, some of these guys, that's a McDonald's All-American. You can have two guys who just don't play that would have played before for teams. So who knows?

Micah, go ahead, Micah. What's up, Matt? What's going on? So I know a lot of people are pretty negative about this upcoming football season. I'm kind of younger, so I started watching, like, the Benny Snow years. so I kind of only know our football season kind of going well and everything like that

I'm thinking about going to the eastern Michigan game If we don't have a hard time getting tickets Well I mean if we put up a good fight against Ole Miss Do you think a lot of people will go to that Do you think it's worth a five hour drive for me or not Well I mean it depends on what like when you Do you not have the ability to go to one of the other games Well, I mean, I'm trying to pay off college, so I...

Yeah, I understand. I'm trying to go to a cheaper game. Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt that'll be a cheaper game. And you get the whole day experience with that one. The whole day because it's 7 o'clock. I mean, look, the Toledo game is going to be, the crowd will be into it because it's the first game. The Ole Miss game, assuming we beat Toledo, the crowd will be into it because it's Ole Miss.

Eastern Michigan's Moraville, we'll see. I do like that it's at 7 o'clock, so people have all day. It's a good weather day, mid-September. So yeah, I think it'll be okay. The only way it would be a dud is if we get destroyed by Old Miss. But I would say to you, yes, it's worth it. I would look at prices. I don't think you need to jump on it because I think you could get a ticket honestly anytime

and you probably would be okay. But I would plan to go. I think it'll be fun. The fact that it's at 7 o'clock to me is why you would go. Okay. Appreciate the call. The game was at noon, Drew. I don't know that I would say it'll be good.

but at 7 o'clock, I think it'll probably be good. And if you don't have a ticket to it, buy the Ole Miss game. If Kentucky's like winning by 14 in the second half, buy it quickly. Because if they do beat Ole Miss, I think it'll go up a little bit. But between now and the Ole Miss game, I don't think it'll change much. It'll all depend on Old Miss, but I think it's worth the gamble to plan to come. Because you're right, even if the Ole Miss game is competitive, people will want to come see it. Then there's a buy right after Eastern Michigan, so you won't get to see them for another week.

Yeah, you know, we as a fan base, they go 2 and O, like you said, or play Ole Miss close. That Eastern Michigan game will still have a really good crowd, I feel like. That one's going to be tough for me because I'm going to be, that game's going to be going to be going to be on and I think I'm going to be on a flight. Eastern Michigan game? Yeah. And I don't think, I don't think South African television Shannon will get the Kentucky Eastern Michigan game. I don't think it's going to be on one of the major stations. I think it's on ESPNU, unlikely. Yeah. Well, maybe. That's better an SEC network. That's better if it was on SEC Plus. I just assumed there was no way we would get it. Take your box with you. Just hook up the Wi-Fi. You're

good to go. YouTube TV. Don't you have that? You can watch anywhere. I don't know. I guess that's true. Watch on your phone. I do all these words. Bob, go ahead, Bob. Can we go back to the Braves a minute? Of course. Well, I become a super big Braves fan when they moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta. And in 69, it just broke my heart when the Mets just blowed them away. You know, they had the Mets had Seaver and Coosman and all those guys. But to Bravesant, you know, they had Hank Aaron. They had Orlando.

Listen, you're talking about stuff that's way before my time. I mean, I wasn't even when you're talking about Milwaukee Braves and Hank Aaron. I was not around at that point. There's people listening out there that can remember the Braves of 69. I mean, the Miracle Mets of 69, everybody remembers the Miracle Mets. Well, they beat a great Atlanta Braves team.

Okay. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's true. Felipe L.O. was with the Braves and Rickal Cardi. Your phone's breaking up, sir. Your phone's breaking up. I'm going to lose you there.

You remember 69 Mets. I've heard of them. Managed by a guy for my home county, Gil Hodges, Miracle Mets. Okay. We can't just turn this into old guy. I mean, I know I guess I did a little bit of that

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Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio, 859-2802287. Text machine 772-745254. Tomorrow, Ask Anything Wednesday and John Michael Montgomery will be. here. Friday is UK Media Day. We will be at the football media day, have all the coaches on and

all the rest of it, which should be a lot of fun. Let's talk for just a second. This isn't a happy thing, but what happened yesterday in New York with the so the guy who walked down the street in New York and shot four people and a police officer,

by the way, where that is is like, I don't know if people realize, like that's where a lot of people are. That's on like 50 first in park. It's right next to a hotel that I stay at a lot when I go there. But it's like, you know, right next St. Patrick's Cathedral,

where people know where it is, Rockefeller Center's right there. So there's a lot of people in that area. And at first it looked random and then it comes out today that he was a former football player with CTE going after the NFL because the NFL

headquarters are in that office. Oh, wow. And so he went in the building. He tried to go to the NFL office and he got on the wrong elevator. And then when he got on the wrong elevator, because he had shot the officer in the lobby, he could hear people like, and so he shot himself just in the stairway or whatever. But he was trying to go into the NFL offices

and ended up just getting on the wrong elevator and going to a different floor. Could have been a lot worse. Yeah, I mean, there were videos and pictures. I don't know if you saw this of People in some of the office buildings there who had barricaded, like they had taken all the furniture in the building and tried to barricade the doors. It's a huge pile.

Huge pile. Couches upon couches upon couches. And they were in there for like an hour, hour and a half because they, they, they couldn't know for sure. For whatever reason, they couldn't find where he was. And so, I mean, that had to be like, scary. Terrifying, you know. I mean, that's a, I mean, it's a huge building.

Thousands of people working there. So think about how hard it would be as police officers to clear a building. Yeah. That has thousands of people in. Onto a street with thousands of people. Like, that's got to be just the logistics of trying to do that in the middle of a day in New York City has got to be crazy. And never know if they get the shooters even behind that door. Well, you don't know if he's by himself or he's got other people.

So you literally would have to clear like every single office in every single hall. way. I mean, that, Shannon, that would just be a huge undertaking. Massive. Yeah. I mean, those police officers have to go through so much on a daily basis. And then something like this happens, it's incredible. And then the story of who was shot, it's so sad. He was an off-duty police officer with two kids and an eight-month-old on the way. But, you know, I mean, the CTE thing, like, it feels like people hadn't talked about that as much. but this will unfortunately bring it probably back to the forefront. And you do still like, you know, I don't know, man.

We've talked about this a lot. It feels like football is safer now than it was 20 years ago, 25 years ago, but you still have a lot of people played in a different era dealing with it. Yeah, 25 years ago, those people that played before 25 years ago, now they were suffering from the effects of it. Yeah. You know, we see it all the time. See it all the time.

Yeah, I mean, they've recently put rules and plays, kickoffs, helmet technology. So many things they're doing now, but that doesn't help people that are just now getting to that stage where it's getting bad. They took care of it. I saw a scientist on TV, like a brain person say, that the people who will have the biggest effect of the CTE are the people who played in the late 70s through about 1990. Yeah. Because that was when the rules were the wildest. the technology was the worst and the mentality of play through it. And that was when people started to get huge.

Like if you go watching the 60s and 70s, they're not as big. But they started getting huge in the late 70s and then steroids in the 80s. And those late 70s through like 90 to 92, this person was saying those are the people who have the greatest effects of CTE hit them. Yeah, bigger, faster, stronger. but with no understanding yet of what was happening. And the rules were like you could hit helmet on helmet. I mean, it was just... You could hit defensive receivers.

You could lower your head. I mean, all the things that were now used to, you could do all that and people had gotten big because they weren't as big in the 60s and 70s. Now that we know what we know, when you go back, even in the 90s and early 2000s and watch some of the highlights we'd celebrate of a big helmet to helmet hit or catching a guy

not looking where you just lay them out, I mean, it looks kind of awful. I think like that Dickie Lion block we loved on history. If you go back and watch that, now knowing we know, you're like, oh my, is that dude going to be a radio? I mean, what was it on the SPN? They would do that you got jacked up or whatever. Like now people wouldn't say that. Like they certainly wouldn't be a segment about it on there. The helmet to helmet just we look at it so different. It's really is amazing how much it's like smoking, how much our view on it has changed over the years. And I think about the,

the perfect hit on Antonio Brown, who's clearly suffered from something. I mean, that was just a violent vicious hit on his brain. J.C. What's up, J.C.? Yeah, guys, with the NIL collectives, you know, a major factor in, you know, money, I don't understand really the fuss about revenue sharing percentage. Wouldn't it just be made up with NIL? Well, it depends on.

depends on what the rules are. It depends on what the rules are. I mean, right now, if the rules are that the deals have to be legitimate, then it will make a big difference. If they say, well, you can just make up the difference by just giving money, then you're right. It won't make a difference. But if the settlement is enforced and all NIL deals have to be like market value, then what you decide to invest in, JC will become very important. Because you can't just write a check for a million dollars to guys if they enforce that settlement. So you'd have to determine like a market value for a commercial for a coal mine? Yeah, you would.

And now, if you're asking me, how do you do that? I have no idea. Like, I really don't know how they come up with it. But you're right. That's what they have to do. And this accounting firm they've hired, in theory, that's what they're doing. I'm with you. I don't know how you come up with it,

but there have already been apparently like 100 deals that have been struck down by this group. So clearly they are striking some things down. So, I don't know. I clarify it a little bit. We have to wait for that law to change it as well. Yeah, I mean, we just have to, I appreciate the call. And then also, you know, it depends on what the final law ends up being.

If you read Trump's executive order, it is very restrictive on what people make, which would mean the revs shared decisions. decisions would be even more important. If you read what the Democrats want to do, it would kind of be a lot more player-friendly. So point being Ryan, we really don't know what it's going to be. And it's going to be so hard for these administrators because they've got to figure out what they're going to do with the money. And they don't even know what the rules are going to be.

I was going to ask you this yesterday. After your Matt Norlander interview, do you feel like he's on target with that $9 million to each one? I think he's on target with what the caller said earlier, that we front-loaded this year. We'll backload it next year, and we won't really know what UK is going to do for two years. Got you. I think that's probably correct. Long days, warm nights, and cold cans are in hand, and that's what summer in Kentucky's all about. And our friends at Cornbread Hemp are here to help the good vibes keep rolling.

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