KSR - 2025-08-04- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk all the latest news, terrible country songs, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio. A couple of open lines, 859-280-2287. A lot of stuff I want to get through here in this segment. Let's start with this. first of all, prayers to our long-time listener and a caller that everybody knows on the show. Marsha Po, her mother, passed away last night. You all have heard her over the years. Probably if she hasn't attended more remotes than anyone, she's in the top three of all time.

And her mom passed away. And so our prayers, Ryan, are with her, her family, and everyone. And her mom had been to our shows before. Yeah, she brought her mom to several of our shows. And, you know, people like Marcia have become, you know, friends and then become part of our family. We feel like, you know, they were a big, big Blue Nation, KSR family. So it broke my heart. I know Marcia was going through this with her mom.

I was in my storage room and I noted she, Marsha, and think about this from it, over two years of our old summer tour that we would do, she would make a photo, she would take photos at all the stops she went to and make a photo album for me. and I have those from like two different summer tours. And you look back and those are such great memory. Some of them like 10 years ago. And she did that. Yeah, we don't like to play favorites, but Marcia's one of my favorites.

Yeah. Always love Marsha. And also no bigger UK fan. No, no. Front row of women's games, front row of big blue madness, you know, mad at the parking situation at UK football. Like that's,

and so her whole family we've gotten to know and prayers to all of them. Somebody we don't know, but is famous. Probably somebody I would think that Ryan at one point in his life had a crush on. Lonnie Anderson passed away. WKRP in Cincinnati. We watched it for one reason. It was because Lonnie Anderson was on that show.

That's the only reason you watched it. It wasn't that it was a good show. Okay. Married to Bert Reynolds, I believe. She was at one time. Yes. She was like probably, you know, she was 79? Was she 79?

Yeah. Wow. She was definitely probably one of the big sex symbols of the early 80s, late 70s, early 80s, for sure. Yeah, it was a little before my time. I kind of know her through Bert Reynolds and recognize the name and her picture, but I'm sure Mr. Ryan over here has some thoughts he can't say

on here from the old days. Angelina Jolie. Yeah. Of their era, wouldn't you think? Definitely. He was the biggest, one of the biggest male stars and she was one of the hottest stars. So they were a big power couple in Hollywood. UK, I want to give a quick update on UK former athletes.

Okay. All right. So we'll Reed Shepard was named by ESPN as the number one second year player to watch take a leap this year. It's going to be a big year. Houston's going to be a playoff contender. They have Kevin Durant. And Houston's coach has said, we're playing Reed. He better be ready.

Yeah, just recently Houston had one open spot. People wondered if they'd get a guard or something else. And they went and got a forward, which pretty much solidified Reed is, you know, you have a big role on this team or count on you to keep it. the level we're at, maybe even better with big KD coming in. Sydney McLaughlin and Mackay Russell, two former Kentucky

hurdlers, both won their events in the world championships. Sydney has now moved to, she wins the hurdles by so much. Now she just runs the regular 400, wins that too. But still, the former track cats out here winning gold medals

won the world championships. We look back 20 years from now, she may be the most decorated athlete to ever come out of this school. know with all our I think that's probably true. I think maybe she already is. I think so too. Right?

I think if you're saying what former Kentucky athlete is the best at the sport they play vis-a-vis the rest of the world, I mean, she's number one, right? No football player, no basketball player. I mean, maybe I. Because not just the United States. She's a world champion. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, she's got it. She probably is the best. athlete to ever play here in any sport. I think so too. Best of the best at her sport. And people often forget the other Russell because of that. Right. She gets overshadowed, but then she goes and wins too.

That was a very close, like three people just by nose and she won. Well, they became hurdle you for whatever reason. That coach over there became hurdle you. The floor. That was the reason. Yeah. And then Dion Walker was named by the Buffalo Bill. their main fan site as the best potential lineman that the bills have had at his position in like a decade.

Now, of course, I mean, we thought that too. So, like, he's got to actually go and do it. But that's kind of exciting. Good to hear that. Also, good news from the bills camp is Harrison looked like you had a bad injury. He ended up being okay. He's going to be able to play. I'm a Titans guy, but it's going to be hard not to root for the bills with those two on a Super Bowl contender.

So I'll be pulling for him. And Ray Davis. They got three. And they're all going to be playing, too. I mean, that's going to be a Super Bowl contending team. And they're going to have three of our guys playing big minutes while they're there. I hope for Deion Walker's sake, he looks in the mirror and understands that he's got a chance to do this. Because I think he lost his focus and lost his drive and his passion here at Kentucky.

So maybe he can get that back and be a star we all think he could be at the bills. Starting tomorrow, they're on hard knocks. And those two Harrison and Dion will be, I assume, heavily featured as two of their best. Start tomorrow night? It's Bill's year on there. Also tomorrow is the SEC documentary or dokey series. I don't want to think about that. So a lot of football to watch tomorrow. The first episode apparently is about us in a bad way. Is it like after a loss or something like that? It's after the South Carolina game. That's the first episode that I think that I've heard that now maybe it's not. But like I've heard the first episode is a lot of us getting beat.

And you know, a lot of people watch those shows and they'll only get through an episode. Yeah. That's the thing. Like when you're the team, they're tracking and you allow them to bring in those cameras, you better win that game. Otherwise, it's going to have a negative outlook on your season. So we might get some good UK football stuff with the hard knocks. And then at the exact same time, get some negative UK stuff with the SEC show.

Hopefully because Kentucky's season last year was so insignificant, they just blow right over it and go focus on Texas, all the other ones, because it was such a bad year. But in the trailer, Dane's like sitting on a porch So it looks like Dane's going to be featured in a little bit Dion Walker's driving a three-wheeler Around town

Yeah, in the trailer They've got Dane and Dian a lot Well, I mean they're in the trailer I will definitely watch it And I hope it pisses off this UK football team this year They're going into the season Why do we need to cut? This is a radio show

Why do you have to use salty language on the air? Because it's football and it's football season I understand but we There are rules of society Don't get me called in the office. I already got called in the office because of another die tribe. Oh. A couple weeks ago.

I don't need to get called into the office again because you can't have a potty mouth. You can say the P word that way. You can't say the B word the other way. First of all, how do you know? That's the FCC rule. Yeah, we take these tests every year. Don't you take that one? I mean, I've seen it.

Somebody take it for you? I don't remember. No, I take it, but I don't remember that word being on the test. but all right so you remember the caller a couple weeks ago who called in and was like I want to use this show to get someone to buy my printer yes you remember that he was like I called long john silver and I tried to sell them a printer and they wouldn't buy or they haven't gotten back with me so I'm on here saying hey long johns buy my print I remember remember that guy very well yeah and then he called

again. It's called twice in one show to try to get Long John's Silvers to buy a printer. Now, Long John's is going through. I mean, this is, if you are a Long John's person, this is as good as it gets. Like, this is your Renaissance. I mean, Nicholsville breaks the record for most money in a Long John's. When I was in Middlesbril, they have Alon Johns now. I know they used to.

I thought it closed. It's back and it has a new facade, like new building. So Long John's is on it. So this guy was like, hey, let me sell you the printer. Well, I noticed on LinkedIn, the CEO, or I say CEO, but the head of Long Johns, whatever his job title is, goes on LinkedIn and basically writes, let me tell you a story about business. And it's, he's, you know, like CEOs, he's a little full of himself. Like, dude, come on. No one needs to read all this.

Just make the fish. But he writes this long thing about how, you know, I met with this person a year ago. And I thought about buying their things. And he was like, persistence pays off. But don't turn persistence into annoyance. And he's like, this man called a local radio show. Hey, Long Johns, didn't even mention the show. Come on.

Don't get too big for your britch's fish boy. All right. He, uh, he, uh, he, you can mention the, it started here. I saw the post. I read his post. He could mention the show and basically saying, because this guy called in, I'll never buy his printer. Ah.

What do you think of that? I think he's maybe missing a chance out on a great printer. He's maybe the best printer ever made. That's how you read the situation. He might be missing a heck of a printer. Could be. Yeah. I saw the LinkedIn posts.

What are they even printing out? What are they? The documents? Their menus? Like, what are they printing on this printer? What's so great about this print? It's true. I don't know that there's a whole lot you have to print.

I mean, they're not printing fish. That's what they do. I don't really know. company. Well, but so the guy who called in ended up not only not getting the sale, he has now ended up saying, basically saying you will never have your printers sold here at Long John. So who side are you on? Are you on Long John's CEO side or are you on caller side? I'm on the CEO. Even though his post was a little too like LinkedIn buzzwordy for me, it was like, let me tell you how not to do this. And he tried to flip it into like how to,

how to create a sell. He's trying to act like he was the 50 ways to sell printers to fish companies. If I'm in his shoes and someone's calling in the radio shows calling me out for not answering the phone, I'm like him not answering that phone. Okay. What about you? I'm on the collar side. He's a hustler. He's a salesman.

He's trying to make a sell. Drew said the CEO guy's talking down to him. You know, you don't talk down to people like that. Gonna come back to bite you in a booty one day. Shannon, who side? Is there anything more annoying than a really pushy salesperson? I don't think there is. I'm on the CEO's side. You don't call a local radio show or our show is not local. We're all over the place, by the way. We're not local. Don't call us a local radio show to air out your dirty laundry because of a business transaction that didn't work out in your favor. Yeah, you certainly wouldn't go on a radio show and say you got upset at a restaurant for not being as good and then go on and talk about you. You would never use that. Never do that. Never should do that. All right. I was against the caller because he called twice.

and was not on topic. But the CEO has now flipped me back to the caller. I didn't like his post. First of all, I didn't like that he didn't say our name. But that's not the biggest thing. You were using this as a lesson, and I didn't like his hoity-to-dy language. Amen.

I didn't like that he was like talking down to the guy and trying to act like he was, dude, you, if nothing else, you got free publicity from the guy. True. We were talking about Long Johns. And you're going to, I mean, if you don't want to buy his printer, I don't care. I'm with Shannon. How many printers does Long John Silver part? Like this, I don't understand the whole story. Like, how many printers could Long John Silver possibly buy? I mean, seriously, that got called and acted like he was about to make the biggest sale in the world.

I feel like $50 at Walmart could get, John Silver is the printer they need. Yeah, I mean, that's another thing. Can he not just go and get his own? Why does he need you to get the printer? With that said, I didn't like the way the CEO talked to him. I didn't either. So now I'm back on the sales guy side.

So we're split two to two on this. It did read like CEO guy, I went to chat GPT and said, make the most business nerdy message you should. I hate when people use words like management and effectiveness. And let's like just speak like a human being. You know? Yeah. So I'm now back on the caller side, although if he calls twice again, then I'm back on the CEO's side.

Persistence is powerful, tact is priceless. Oh, do you have the thing? Okay, read a little bit up. Would you like to know the first sentence? Yes. There's a thin line between tenacity and tact. That sentence right there tells me I don't like you. I get it.

Cold outreach is part of the game. But last week, a sales tactic caught me off guard. Uh-oh, hate that. And not in a good way. I hate to do that to him. Wait, now that I'm looking at closely, why did local radio show is italicized and nothing else is? If you're going to italicize it, name it. Like the whole point of italics is the name.

You wouldn't italicize the phrase local radio? Wait, wait a minute, hang on. You think maybe he was supposed to insert the name and he took it chat GPT and never did. That's what he was supposed to do. Yeah. Well, it says, live listener used his airtime to name drop me, not rudely, but clearly as a way to say I've been trying to get in touch with you. I was floored.

He was floored. We've created LinkedIn drama. I will say, buy the man, just buy a stupid printer. I'll buy his printer. How much could this printer even be? Local guy, support your local businesses. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage is a local business.

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What is this? I've never heard this, but it sounds awful. What is it? Rednecker than you. Oh, this is Rednecker than you. Okay. Turned up. Oh, my goodness.

I mean, this is so terrible. He said, I'm a little more, my collar's a little more blue. Yeah. My truck is bigger than your truck. My town is smaller than your town. This is the most small, blank energy you could have in a song. No, seriously. If you're just like, my muscles are bigger than your muscles.

It's like, dude, you know, I just live, Hardy. Isn't he also like a goober? Yeah, I saw him live in concert, unfortunately. It was not fun. He was with more than a while. Yeah. He was all big on America. He was throwing beers.

I'm more patriotic than you. I got a bigger buck and bass on my wall, he says. He's got more spit in his chaw. That's good for you. Glad you got all that spit in your chaw. 8-5-2802-2287. One person writes, Matt, I love you. But just because you don't like a song doesn't mean it's not good.

Yes, it does. What does to you? It does to me, which is what this is. I mean, if the standard is somebody likes it, so I can't criticize it. Then we wouldn't be able to criticize anything. In this room on this show, it's 4-0, terrible song. Terrible song.

Terrible. Apparently people are saying the printer he wanted to sell is the thing that prints receipts. Oh, that makes sense. Like when you order. Yeah. And so then it comes up. Gotcha. So I guess special receipt.

They're digital now. They're new. Why are they print receipts? I got screens for that now. Oh, you don't? I mean, I don't know that. But what do you do print receipts? Receipts to me, especially, especially, like, it's one thing.

thing when you're at a nice restaurant. But receipts at McDonald's, it's like, I don't, what am I going to do with this? I love keeping receipts. What do you keep them from? I've got one on you with your big bruised butt. That's a receipt. Different kind of receipt.

Different kind of receipt, but I understand what you're saying. Do I want to do this? Yeah, you do. No, I want to go to Bill. Go ahead. Come on. Oh, that's that's a good. Speaking of two things, football, I think the quiet confidence that I'm seeing in stoops, I like it.

I think they're going to get back to some blue collar ball. And I think while the results on the field this year with the schedule may not be higher than normal, I think the quality of the play and the fire and the players is going to be better to watch. So I'm looking forward to that. I can't wait for three weeks to get here. On that point, I'll let you make your second point. But on that point, there's nothing worse than watching a bad team rhyme that's also

undisciplined. Yeah. Because it's like, it's one thing, like with this Reds team this year, part of what I've enjoyed is while they have many deficiencies, I always feel like they're giving their all and they make stupid mistakes and it drives me crazy, but they're likable and it feels like they like their manager. They're trying really hard and doing the best they can, like Ricky Steamboat. Last year, when you watch a team stink and then they have those discipline issues,

that's a terrible combination. They stink. You see some of your star players taking plays off, man. That does affect everybody. That does affect you. Go ahead, sir. Yeah, that's a bad product to watch. But last point is, you know, with dodky donk and a couple of the points you've made on the episode or the show today is that you've got to remember, and this stat is irrefutable, half of America has below average intelligence. Well, that is true.

And I freely acknowledge that on most of these issues, I'm not in the majority. You know, people will write me sometimes when I express an opinion online that they don't like and they'll go. Matt, most of your listeners don't agree with you. Okay. But does that mean I don't get to have the opinion? Yeah. Right? Like, I actually think the easiest thing in the world to do is to give the opinion that everyone else has.

It's much more interesting to hear someone who has varied opinions, right? And I think that's one reason why this show works. people may not agree with your decisions, but they like to listen to the show for the topics and the conversation that we have about these things. I heard Dave Portnoy once he was talking about Clay Travis, and they said, why don't you like him? They were like,

you all have the same views. And he was like, because he's boring. He said, take any issue and I know exactly what he's going to say. Right? So the same thing is true. Like in politics now, there are people that I don't care what Trump does, they'll defend it. And there's

people that I don't care what he does. They'll criticize it. Those people aren't interesting. What's interesting is something happens and then you go, oh, I wonder what this person's take will be on this. And so, you know, with QK sports, there are people who, and they're nice people, but they're going to parrot the Kentucky company line no matter what. Yeah. How is that interesting? And this is a big world with a lot of us. If we all believe the same things and like the same things, it'd be a boring place. We're all different. But with all that said, no one should like that.

I agree with that. The world should unite in no more but dokey docks. That is the one thing that I think everyone should agree. All right, fine, Shannon, Kentucky, Joe. Joe, wake up. Joe. See? I knew it.

No. I was asleep. This is what I get for even trying. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hi, guys. What's going up? I'm just sitting out my garden. and the day shine just finished my meditation,

enjoying the nature and being thankful. I ate a couple of cornbread hemp gummies, and I got two things for you. Okay. All right. The first thing, I got to know more about this Courtney Cox house visit. Like, did you, like, you know, throw a little game to Courtney Cox? Did you take the opportunity to thought you didn't?

No, I mean, you're talking about, what you're talking about for people who don't know, Josh Hopkins and I talked about the Courtney Cox visit to her house. It was, it was amazing. She's got the best house I've ever been to. But it was also her birthday party and I didn't know her and it was her closest friends. That probably wasn't the time, Matt, for me to try to make a move. Not that it would have been successful. I got you.

I got you. I understand that. But I had, I just, I mean, that had to been awesome. It was. It was awesome. You're exactly right. Okay, have you ever heard of the Portland Pickles baseball team and the West Coast Premier League?

I saw this. I know what you're talking about. The Pickles? What did they do? Yeah. What did they do? Well, okay, real quick. They had a thing where they picked a random person in the stadium to come and hit

and a legit hit, and he got a hit, and then gave him another chance, and he hit a homer, and now they gave him a one-day contract. Yeah, I saw it. That's awesome. Appreciate it. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J.

He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. I mean, this might be the worst example. Like, this is maybe even worse than truck. Yeah, because he, like, takes shift and, like, makes it go a long time. Yeah. This is Kenny and...

And this is Kenny Chessie. You don't need to do this, Kenny Chessie. And George Strait, too. Wait a minute. No, it's not George Strait. It's with George Strait. Does he need money? I don't know.

I'm just saying this was 15 years ago. That disappoints me with George Strait. He's too good for this. One person writes, Matt, would you consider achy-breaking heart one of those? Well, it's stupid. But it is great. And it was his first song,

so he's trying to make it. I have a little bit more sympathy for that. But it is stupid. It's one of your go-to karaoke songs. I do like it, though. It's a good song. It is. I don't know why I think that's different, but I do think it's different.

Do you? What is it? You can tell my arms to go back to the farm? He says, you can tell your maw who lives in Arkansas. What a great mom. Wow. Dog to bite my leg. Yeah.

You know they were writing that. They were like, all right. We want him to say something about his mall. What rhymes with it? Arkansas. Yeah, that's it. Brilliant. Let it down.

She could have done it with other states, though. Or you can come get lucky with me in Kentucky. He could have done like, he should have done when he went on tour, sang each version wherever he was. Or tell your aunt Louise, tell anything you please. I think, in honest, this is a great song. Did he even write that?

Who wrote that song? He may not have even. I mean, it wouldn't have been him. I wouldn't have think. 859-280-2287. By the way, all week long, from 10 to 2. So from 10 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon,

we are interviewing at KS Bar for positions. We did a bunch on Friday, but Monday through Friday this week, 10 to 2, if you're interested in being a server, a cook, or whatever. We're fulfilling the positions this week. So if you're interested, you just have to go there from 10 to 2,

or if you call, I'm sure they will find a way to set up another time for you. Fun time ahead. Football season, good chance to make some money. We did our wings thing. It was good because we, first of all, it is so nice to have people make the trip and come. Sure, it is. Like they were for everywhere. Yep. At about, you know, 80 people, we left it as a small group. Everybody was very excited. It was fun. We, it was good because we tested something and we were like, that doesn't work. We're not going to do that anymore.

And so that's good to know. and our wedges are really good, the new ones. Yes. And we decided we tested like a new kind of wing and we said, you know what? We like the other one better. The other one was good. We were going to try to have two different kinds and now we're just going to go with the one that we have. It was kind of cool.

We saw some of our regulars. Like you said, like some new people that drove. There was a group of people there that had never been there. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't it just trying to do that. One of the story. They had a daughter who really wanted to come.

She was like 15. And she came and they came the day we closed. Oh, no, I didn't know that part of the story. They had driven from like Louisville and they came the day we closed. And so I said, well, I'm glad you came back and that was very nice of them. It was fun getting in there and just being in the bar again with people. You should have seen these dudes. They were working.

They put Ryan and Drew and Hubby to work. I was kind of on the microphone talking and these people were working. Well, Drew's got some experience, I believe. I don't think Ryan does it serving. You could tell Ryan struggled carrying the plates. I was on there if I weren't at the Reds game. Helping didn't want to carry too many to be full on the floor.

As a former server, it kind of took me back. I was enjoying checking on my tables, running food, pre-bussing, getting drinks. It took me back to Malone's days. I was the worst server ever. I worked it out back, Matt, for like two months. Oh, really?

It's not for me. You didn't know how to do the blooming onion? Well, I didn't cook it. I just couldn't. I wouldn't have been a good server because I would have smarted back at people. Like, if they were rude to me, I'd have been like, yeah, shut up.

I had a few instances. I'm sure. I had a guy yell at me. Some water got spilt on his $300 shoes. He said there were $300. It was water. And I kind of was like, all right, man, let's calm down. So I got a manager.

She comped an appetizer. And he wanted his whole bill comped. And that's when he's like, these are $300. And his bill was $150. And I said, you could give me one of those shoes. And I got a weak suspension. Did you really? Yeah.

I had to hit him with it. He was being a jerk. It was a little bit of water. And I was like, we'll give me one of those shoes. I like to give shout-out. to local people who do well. Let's start with the Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington Eastern Little League team. They won last night in their regional game on a walk-off hit. Nice. You can see it. I tweeted out the picture. They had a walk-off hit right at the end, won the game. They now

moved to the next round. So congrats to Eastern Lexington Little League as they try to go to the Little League World Series. You probably don't know who Mack Miller is, do you? Do not. Mac Miller is the world champion of Scrabble, and he lives in Lexington. Really? And he is defending his Scrabble World Championship this week. Nice. We got to get on board here. I think we have an advantage in Scrabble since we speak English and the game is in English.

So I think a lot of those other countries that don't speak English as their primary language, we probably have advantage. But I'm not trying to discount. Yeah. Mac Miller. So good luck to him, which made me think of, you know, I think I said this the other day. I don't think people realize how big a community here in Lexington they have of people who like to play these games. Like with the cards and the dragons and the tiles and all this stuff. That place, it's close to KS. Bar. You know what I'm talking about? Chaotic goods. It's called like chaotic nerds.

And they're there. And I'm not, first of all, I'm not disparaging these people. I have walked, that's on my walk now. I've walked by there all times of night, every night.

And there are people there all the time. Yeah. Yesterday I walked by at like six o'clock. And it was, there were, I don't know how many tables are in there. 30. All of them were filled with people going,

you've got my dragon, you've got my sword, you've got my dragon. but they seem like they're happy. Sure. There's obviously a social community there. Yes. I may just walk in one day and say,

teach me how to play the wizards or whatever. But it's always full. I had no idea that was as big as it is. I'm like you. I drive by it all the time. I don't know what they're doing. Maybe Magic the Gathering. Pokemon.

I don't know what the games are, but it is one of the more crowded places in Lexington. There are people everywhere. everywhere in there. And it's when I was there once on a Sunday night at like 1130 walking by and there were people in there then. They had the gaming convention every year out there at the Clarion and it is massive. It is, you know, hey Kentucky, you guys sent me there that one time. Just thousands of games and thousands of people sitting around playing these games.

So that's a business that I think the city could use more of are places for people to go, my ferry, we'll take out your wolf. Hey, KS Bar, does that's a game night? You know what? Maybe we'll have game night. That's right. Game night. Let's go to Kyle. Go ahead, Kyle.

Hey, Matt. This is for you and Shannon. I don't know if you talked about it yet, but what are your thoughts on the most important sporting event of this past weekend, SummerSlam? Didn't watch it. I watched it. I appreciate the call.

First of all, here were my takeaway. Shocked it how good, or not how good, but how well they did the match with Jellyroll. When I heard Jelly Row was wrestling, I was like, well, that will be a disaster. But all they did was just beat him up. That's good. But it ended up looking good. Jelly Roll, give him credit.

I thought he did a good job. So that was kind of good. John Sina had a good match. They brought Brock Lesnar back, who I thought would never be back because I guess everyone always comes back. But he was part of that whole Vince McMahon thing, wasn't he? He was caught up in the accusations there. So I don't know how they got around that.

But overall, it's too much. I don't know why they feel like they need nine hours of it now, Shannon. I thought, okay, WrestleMania, you get two nights, whatever. But SummerSlam, now they're doing two nights for that too. Too much. Too much wrestling. I mean, that's too much wrestling. But I did watch some of it.

And I thought it was fine. I liked watching Gunther and whoever seeing punk. That was good. I enjoyed it, but it was too long. And that was Shannon. It was where me and you went to WrestleMania. It was out at the MetLife, the MetLife. Yeah, that was in the same place you and I went.

Yeah. Trying to get back. I'm going to watch Sunday's replay today. I watched a little bit of Saturday. I don't get into current wrestling anymore, but the WrestleMania is Royal Rumble, Summer Slams. I'll turn on just for the entertainment.

The thing that's infuriating is that Logan, or is it Jake Paul? Jake Paul's actually really good at it. And like you don't want to, you want to think, why is he doing it? But he's actually really, and he basically carried jelly roll. Well, that frog splash he did from the,

Turnbuckle all the way to the announce table. He's really good. That's Logan Paul, right? Isn't he the wrestler and Jake Paul's the boxer? Yeah. See, I was thinking it was Rand Paul. But whichever way... A Rand Paul is he hit his neighbor.

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That is cornbread hemp. You went to some like speak easy cornbread hemp thing. didn't you? It was the coolest thing I've been to in a long time. It was like an underground bunker in Louisville that I didn't even know existed. They just take you over on a trolley, drop you off, and there's an underground bunker. There's an underground bunker. Yeah. Cobblestone. Like the entire thing was all cobblestone. It doesn't have like a sign. It doesn't have like a sign. No, no. It's just like a stone wall and then a door on the side of a street. And they've made it into a speakeasy? Well, well, it was just a one night only thing, you know, so you could actually drink a THC seltre in a social setting. Well, they have those speak-isies now. Like, that's the thing. They got it. They got like four of them in Lexington. I'm not even talking about those bars that we've talked about with the little clubs that Rines in.

They have bars here. We have to go in and be like, you know, hammer. Frank. But don't don't don't. And then they open the door and you can walk in. I don't get invited. I don't know. I don't get invited any of them.

I don't know where they are. I just hear about them. I went to one about a year ago when it first opened and I'm in there taking pictures because it is cool. And the bartenders is like, don't post these, please. We're trying to keep quiet. What is the point of that, by the way?

What's the point of having a bar that, like, no one knows? It's the novelty of it. Like, you walk in and you pull a book and the bookshelf turns. And the bar is very nice and the cocktails are good. You pull a book and the bookshel turns. You go in behind the bookshelf. That's pretty cool. They're everywhere in New York.

But in New York, it's to keep people out. I just would think in Lexington. Like, the drinks are very good. Like it's, you know. Like a craft cocktail. Is there a name of one here? It's a speak easy. You've got to find it on your own.

There's one in a... What's the name of it? Hell or High Water. Heller High Water. Uh-huh. Okay. Why can't you say the name of the one here? Constitution.

It's a good bar. Check it out. Where is it? Close to transit, downtown. But you can't tell me where it is? I mean, I don't know the exact street, to be honest, but that's what it's called. I mean, if you Google it, you can find it.

The one of the YUM center. Yeah, I've seen that. I know we're talking about. If I got Constitution, 280, 20287. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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And then all of a sudden there were all these stories about how people were upset about the ad. So I, Billy, did it on the news. And so I was like, well, who's upset? And I couldn't find anyone upset. And the story about people up being upset was just random people on the internet, a handful of people being upset. And then everyone's arguing about it. And when you try to find who are the core people that were upset, I can't find them. And so clearly the handful of human beings, random people that were upset got amplified so we could all yell at each other.

And this annoys me to no end. They do this over and over to get us to all hate each other. so we're not paying attention while the rich people take over the world. You think I'm kidding. I'm dead serious. They want us to argue about Dr. Seuss and Sidney Sweeney and all this nonsense so then they can pass tax cuts so they have all the money in the world, create AI, so there are no more jobs, and we're sitting here yelling at each other about Sydney Sweet.

I can't imagine caring about an American Eagle ad. Whatever it is. Did you even know American Eagle still exist? Whatever your life is, how could you? possibly care about American Eagle. Did you know American Eagle existed? Whenever I go to a mall, I'll see it there, but I don't... You still go to malls? I mean, every now and then, I will, yeah. Oh, okay. I didn't know. Other than that, I swear to you, I didn't know it existed. By the way, I don't shop there. I'm, it's not going to change my view of Sidney, which is, I am a fan,

and I wish her the best. And it's good wordplay. Good ad. She has good jeans. Good jeans. Get it? Jeans. Jeans. Yeah. Lots of people going to have good jeans. But if that affected you in any way, I don't think it did affect anybody. I think people just, first of all, I don't think people did. Show me a person in your life who was angry. Well, conspiracy theorists might say maybe it was American ego kind of promoting that to get more publicity for their genes. Wouldn't shock me at all. Would make sense.

Yeah. Would be smart. So that's one of those stories that I've learned to sniff out and go. Are you people being serious? Ashley, go ahead, Ashley. Hi, guys. What's up? I've been listening forever, but Shannon's never answered my call, so thank you.

I have two. That's good. Shannon finally decided to. He finally approved you. I know. Thank you, Shannon. You're welcome. I love to show.

It got us through a really hard year last year, and I met Sean Woods at one of your remotes, and that was like amazing. Awesome. My first question is, are you all going to go to Bourbon and Beyond and see fish? and two, what's going to be the best game of the season because I want tickets for my birthday? Yeah, so I'll be in South Africa. I would love to go. Shannon will be there.

It's a great lineup. I would love to go, but I will be in South Africa, so I can't go. Appreciate the call. As far as best game, I mean, best home game this year. Florida. Florida is good. It could all fall apart before you get to any. I say old miss.

I thought we were talking. Oh, basketball. Yeah, basketball. Florida being national. I think Florida's probably the one because I mean, Indiana. Yeah, if you care about Indiana, maybe because it's been so long. Well, North Carolina. Still, Florida's defending champion, your number one competition in the SEC.

Florida is the one this year if you were going to pick one. I think it's overwhelming the number one choice because that's what I was going to say. They've got a lot of people back from their defending championship team. Frankham, Florida. I'd put North Carolina a second. It's just going to be earlier in the year and exciting. Probably the best first, be the first really good home crowd of the season. So I'd probably do that.

Is Indiana in your conversation at all? No, I don't care. Are they even going to be good? Yeah, I mean, I know you're going to care because it's the first time they've been here in a while, but I really don't care. See, I'm probably more excited about that game than the North Carolina game. Just because. I mean, I don't know.

Are they even supposed to be decent? Well, it's hard to tell because last year they spent as much as anyone. They're supposed to be good. Then they sucked again. Well, they do have that kid that we wanted. Wilkerson. They got a new coach. Who's their coach?

Scoop lemons, boy. I don't know. You don't know who their coach is? DeVry. Dejornos. DeVry Institute. Oh, the dude from West Virginia. Yeah, from West Virginia.

Yeah. What are you going to do? Are you going to say to that kid, thanks for embarrassing me? Well, a kid you're talking about. The kid that you said was coming to Kentucky that went to Indiana. Oh, that guy. I still stand. by my information. Oh, you stand by your information? You still think he's coming?

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