KSR - 2025-08-05- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk blisters, Oweh's boot and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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59280 2287. A Vision Autoglass Text Machine is 772-7474-5254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T.J. I'll make them pay. You would, you know, for people who don't know, we work for IHeart Radio. And this is a big day for IHeart Radio. First of all, getting us on the air. You would think a company like this getting on the air would be the least of our words. Oh, no. No, no. No, it's very difficult. Right now, Ryan, he just got headset with two ear pieces because for a while he only had one earpiece because the Louisville equipment nobody uses this studio so it doesn't really work very well and we had to scramble to get it but we're here and uh we very rarely have a day that we're all in Louisville and studio but Ryan today

is that day there was wild eggs breakfast for us and now we're ready to rock you know Shannon was crying and whining and complaining on the pre-show about how he never gets any food we walk in here and it's like a smorgas board of wild eggs out there's no food in here here. We have ramen noodles and nuts. That's normally all we get. Today, the big bosses are in. Big breakfast. Yeah, this is a big, it's big day. So here's what's happening. Okay. Iheart radio does a once a year local radio week nationally. All right. So it's all about local radio. And this year, and every year they spot like they spotlight three hosts as like their watch these people. Yeah. One in music, one in entertainment and one in sports.

Okay. This year, I'm the sports person. Whoa, slow down, big fella. So like everyone's freaking out. Like the regional bosses are all here. Mario and Billy are trying to set up the cameras. They both look like they're going to cry. Okay, because they're in charge of making this work.

Terry Miners is interviewing me for it. Oh, that is big time. And people here are all freaking out. And so... Is that why Tony Vanetti was so nice to you all ago? Well, Tony Vanetti was supposed to interview me. me, but he backed out. So I was asking him why, and he said, because he just bought a truck. I don't know how those two things, I don't know what those two things have to do with each other,

Drew, but that's why he said he couldn't do it because he bought a truck. Yeah, I don't think that's an excused absence. I mean, congrats on the truck. Good for you. I was excited to hear you and Tony. Nothing against Terry, but you know, Tony was in that spot. He bells on you. Yeah. So Tony, Tony, Tony Bell, so Terry is interviewed, but everyone is nervous about it, because they're like, the whole country's going to see this. Now, I'm going to make the argument. No one's going to see it. going to watch this? Radio nerds.

But who are those people? Who's going to watch this? Where do you even watch it? I don't know. I don't think it's on ESPN. No. Well, at least you got cleaned up for it and wore some nice clothes. I know.

I told them I was going, they wanted me, I was going to dress like I dress. So I have a hoodie and a hat on. That's what they said. Be who you, because the point is to show who you are. If I come in here wearing a suit, that's not who I am. This is a local radio spotlight. So you're the face of IHeart, Lexington, and Louisville today. No, I'm the face of sports local radio nationally today.

And so we can look at you and say that's what our sports guys look like right there. This is what you want. This is what you want. You need to wear the headphones with just one ear on it today too. This is what you're looking for. The content they needed were the five minutes getting this show together to show what a real host you were as we're screaming. Are there headphones in this building? Who is going to watch this?

Like they are treating this like, we are making Godfather 2. But who is going to watch this? Well, I'm pretty sure Karen Blondell will watch it. I don't think she has access to this. I still don't know where it is. If you tell me, I'll watch it. What it is, where it's at?

Who's even filming it's the local, well, Billy and, like all the tech people here. That's why you see all these people running around. Is they're trying to get ready? That's at 1.30 today. Well, we were really prepared to start this show with no headphones at work and we got ready to go in the air. So for your local radio spotlight, get ready. Now, I was thinking when I was pulling up here,

I have long maintained that the hardest time to do radio in Kentucky is early August. I've always believed that because people are ready to move into football, but there's nothing to talk about. I mean, there's nothing to talk about. We don't know anything. True. We don't, we have done the, okay, who are we going to beat already? This is the, these two weeks, really the first full week of August, which is what we're in.

I have always said is the hardest week to do sports radio ever. Now, last year I had just come back. That's true. From Europe. So I had all that excitement. So because of that, the reason I say all this is, I'm going to take your calls, 859-280-2287. But this is one of the more rank.

random shows you're going to hear. Because I don't, I mean, I was sitting there. What am I going to say about basketball? Like, literally, what new can we say? There's no new news. There's really nothing. I mean, Jaden Quentin's apparently is able to jump now. That's nice.

But that's really it. Always got a boot on. Does he? Is that a real picture, though? I thought that was an AI picture. I'm just saying, that's the news. Even if it's not AI, it's a boot. Who cares?

But you know he has a boot on. Well, I saw the picture. But that could be AI. That's the talk of the... Yeah, but that could be AI. You can't just believe it. I mean, is it AI? It looks like a real picture to me.

I'm not asking you. You're the reporter. Like you said, even if it is, it's early August. It shouldn't affect us at all by the time October starts. So you think it is real. I mean, it looks real to me, but I'm not concerned about it. But I'm saying if there were anything to talk about, that would be it. But I also, my wife's in a boot and my dad's in a boot and they take them off and walk around the neighborhood at nights.

I'm not expecting your wife and dad to play big minutes on a final 14 this year. Boots aren't as big as they. they seem. Also, the season isn't until November. So there were some overreactions to that. But you're sure it's true. I mean, I wasn't there, but I'm looking at it. Yeah, that looks like a real photo to me. Okay. All right.

I'll take your word for it. See, this was the one basketball conversation we could have, is, is the boot? Do you believe that Quauntons is jumping, though? Then you've got to believe that it's a boot. I had heard he was like doing stuff before this. I don't know if that picture's real or not. But that's true, Shannon. You can't think that Aquitance is jumping. Half of it's real and half of it's real.

half of its AI. That's a good point. By the way, it feels like people wear boots more now. Yeah. Is that just a thing that people, like they assign you boots more now? I think players have been wearing boots a lot more than we even realize, but you see them on campus. And naturally, you don't want to see your star player in a boot. But I don't know anything about Otega in the moment. But that is done often for precautionary measures. Okay. And then on the football side, the biggest whisper is what we talked about, which is the whole, uh, is Cutter Bowley playing better than Nick Kauzon in practice? You're starting to hear that more and more.

Yeah, and I think a lot of it is, you know, this is Cutter's second year with Bush Hamden. You finally got an offensive coordinator to stick around for more than one year. So he kind of knows the system, kind of understands what he wants. And then Cutter all, everybody says Cutter was like great in the classroom, in the film room, all the stuff he needed to do off the field to get ready for this season. So I think maybe it's why he is a little ahead in that aspect of Zach. So if you call 859-9-280-2287 or you text,

go in any direction you want. The only thing I'm not going to do is rank the Cal teams again. Okay, that's the one thing I'm not going to do. You did a pretty good job with that, though, yesterday. But I feel like we've done it a lot. I feel like I get asked about once a week, and I have to make the same cases. So I'm not going to do that. So if it feels like we're going in weird directions, I am just going to do this in the order

that I wrote them down, which is not necessarily the order of importance. Do you understand what I'm saying? So that's what that. Okay. So let's start with number one. This is just the thing I had written down. All right. Because I was watching, and I needed my baseball people to help me.

Oh, we're here. I was watching the Reds and the Cubs, and we had Nick Lodolo pitching. He's like 7 foot six. Yeah, he's a big man. And he throws like a slider, and he has been really good in the last few weeks. He really has. So we're playing the Cubs, and we're like, here we go. And the game starts, and he throws one pitch, and then they take him out.

which feels like you're supposed to go more than one pitch. I mean, I know they're strict on pitch counts. Yeah, but that feels like the pitch count can at least be two. They take him out, and then it comes out there, they take him out because he has a blister. They said he had a blister. He had to go. Now, luckily, the Reds still won. I don't know how.

But I became frustrated with the idea of a blister. Now, you all are baseball players. how is it that a pitcher who presumably does the same thing every day how do you get a blister and how debilitating is the blister Shannon's the pitcher he's got an answer and I got an answer I'm sure as far as how you get the blister that's a great question I don't know maybe he got the blister doing something different he's had this before whatever he's doing he shouldn't do carrying his luggage or something

he's had like he was out for part of last year with a blister So I guess what I'm saying is, you know, it is 2025. They can take your arm ligaments, take horses' faces, and put them in your arms. Wow. And it'll make it better. How do we not have an answer for a blister? A lot of it is how they put their fingers on the seam. And sometimes the seams, like maybe when he's warming up or maybe a little bigger than the seams of the baseball and the game ball.

What? The seams on the ball. Yeah. You know, the ones you throw in the bullpen made the scene may be a little thicker than the seams you play with in the game. When you say may, are they? I'm sure they are.

Why are they? Because, you know, each baseball is a little different when the way they're made. They're not all exactly the same. I'm not buying that. So you're telling me the baseballs have different blister or have different scenes? Yeah.

And that's why you'll see if they throw a ball out and a pitcher will look at it and get rid of it. He doesn't like the way it feels because the scenes are a little. So you're telling me they don't make the same baseball. No. They're all, they're all a little different. Shannon, do you buy that? No, I don't.

No, you guys are wrong. Well, how many games are you pitched? One. I was undefeated. So I would say, why not pop the blister, put a band-aid on it, and go? You can't do that on your pitching hand? Why not? You can't have a band-aid on your pitching hand when you're trying to grip a baseball to make it spin coming out of your hand?

Why? You just can't. That's not really science. If a baseball, if I got a band-aid on your finger and you're trying to spin it off your finger... When I go for these long walks, and this is the same thing, Drew, basically. the back of my shoe will rub against my heel and I will get a blister. But I persevere. I don't stop the walk.

Exactly. I keep going. Why can't Nick Ladolo do the same thing I do when I'm walking through Louisville, Drew? I mean, he is pitching to get to the playoffs and you're walking home from Skyline. There's a little bit of difference here. I agree with right. I don't know how he could get the blister, but I don't think. think a pitcher would want to throw with a blister. That throws off your control. Like Ryan's at the

spin, you could worsen it. You're trying to get it to heal. That will only make it worse as you pitch. Okay, my guy probably 350 pitches in the bullpen. Did he not know that he couldn't go when he was warming up? Like, why would you go into the game? Why wouldn't you tell your manager, I can't go? I got a blister. Don't start me. I just, it feels like to me, and again, I know nothing. But it feels like to me, the blister, it is 2, 2025. How do we not have a cure? or prevention for blisters. People have quadruple open bypass surgery, right? They are taking people's brains and putting them in other people.

I don't know if that's true, but they're doing crazy, amazing things in the medicine. How can you still miss for a blister? How do we not have blister cure? Well, you know, back in the 70s and 80s pictures, when they get blisters on their fingers, I'm not kidding. They used to soak them in pickle juice. He said pickle juice would help heal the blister. Didn't people tell me when I got a sore throat to drink pickle juice?

Pickle juice must be magic. What's in pickle juice? I don't know. I guess we need to find out. So they would soak their fingers in pickle juice? Yes. Yeah, this has been... Well, he didn't even try that.

He was like, I'm out. Yeah, she just started there. He just went away. And I was very upset. They also confirmed that at the baseball game Saturday, there were 91,000 people here at the game. It broke an all-time attendance record for a major league. league baseball game. But here's my question.

They didn't play the game. So do you count it? Do you break, does it count as an attendance record for most people to see a game if they don't play the game? They did play one inning? Yeah, they got it an inning. Is that half an inning enough to break the attendance record?

If they had never got an inning in, I'd say no, that's just a bunch of people sitting around for pit bull. But they did get the inning in, so I think you got to count it. That's just the biggest pit bull concert of all time. The biggest Tim McGrawl featuring football concert. You think that counts as a game.

If you play a half an inning. In the record books, it didn't count. I think you count it. Maybe you put the asterisk by it. This game only lasted. I mean, half an inning. The intended ending of all time. There you go.

That's it. The most attended inning of baseball of all time. Because the next day, they only had like 37. Yeah. I said this yesterday. It feels to be feel bad for Bristol and baseball. This could have been a really awesome event. And Mother Nature decided to poo it.

And I think the event. was tickets sold. So like, that's what they're counting as the record. Yeah. Well, we do that for football, too. They do the tickets sold. That's the new thing. Don't say how many people actually came.

Just say tickets sold. Louisville got away with that when Kenny Payne was here. And they'd be like eight people in the crowd. They'd go, well, the tickets sold. But if I'm Cleveland Stadium that had the record for 70 years, I'm arguing. You're suing? Because I had butts in seats in 1920 or whatever. All right.

So if you're a blister expert, 772, 774, 5, 2. 554, 859, 2807. We will take a break. That's number one. We're going to go through here. Hopefully all of our stuff will work throughout the show. This is Kentucky Sports. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. All right, tell me what, tell them what you just said to me. I was on kentuckysportsradio.com, my favorite website, and a little pop-up ad popped up with some shoes that help feet the blister. Feet the blister. Help when your feet blister, some shoes that help blisters. See, these computers are listening to us. Of course they are.

And I personally, I think that should be illegal. I'm not even kidding. That's not a joke. It is clear that these phones listen to us and that should be illegal. Did anyone, do you want your phone to listen to you? No. No. I say bad things sometimes.

I don't want it to know. You know, I shouldn't, and it does. Because there's no way you would just randomly have a blister at. I haven't searched anything, blisters. Yeah, I mean, no one searches. I learned two things during the break that I didn't know. 772-7-4-7-4. See, this is where when people complain about,

oh, you're talking about random stuff, we learn things. Yes. Did you know in baseball? You can't have a Band-Aid on your hand. I make sense. I didn't know that. You could use a foreign object. You can't have a Band-Aid on your hand.

It is illegal in Major League Baseball to throw a pitch with a mandate. Yeah. Makes total sense. Does it? Yeah. Not really. You could hide some pine tar or something maybe underneath the band-air. They check them every happening.

Come on. Secondly, they say in Major League Baseball, they still sew the stitches, the seams by hand. That's why each baseball is just a little different. They still do that? I think so. Every Major League Baseball. Where are they made? The baseball shop.

Is it in America? First of all, if not put a tariff on it. No, but I mean, where's it made? I would hope in America, but I have no idea where baseball is made. So you mean, that's shocking to me, that in 2025 there's still a lot. little old lady going, hey, pretty this,

I can't believe that's still how they make baseball. And I just read us a little story during the break that the seam height on the baseball has been shortened

in recent years, probably by demand, and that's what causing more blisters. Okay, this says they're made in a factory in Costa Rica. I think they're probably

all the same. Major League baseballs. Yes. That's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about. So they're made in a factory and coast. But there could still be

people sewing them in the factory in Costa Rica. Yeah, but I lean towards machinery. Come on. All right. Well, there you go. 859-280-2-87.

Again, I'm just going to these in order. Number two, the AP football top 25 came out. We play four of the top, or excuse me, two of the top four teams, four of the top 10, and six of the top 18. Well, that tells you what we've been saying all summer how tough this schedule is. Like, it's a crazy hard schedule. So we play, I think, just off the first of the time. the top of my head. I think Georgia's one, or excuse me, Texas one, Georgia's

four. Then the next highest team I think we play is South Carolina maybe. Yeah, 13. 11 maybe or something like that. They're overrated. And then you've got what Florida, Tennessee, and Ole Miss. Those are the ones that we play that are ranked. That's crazy.

That's why they, even though this football team may be better than last year, the schedule is so hard the record may not reflect you. Do you like playing six out of the top 18? No, I mean, you're going to get to see. And that, like, Louisville's not ranked. Louisville's unranked. And they probably will be ranked before the season.

Do you like playing the best? You want a little bit of a break? I mean, half your schedule being in the preseason top 25 is a bit much. Kentucky has to have one of the toughest, toughest schedules in the whole country. I think we have the third toughest schedule in the country. Got to be. I would like maybe like a South Carolina to not be as high as they are. Yeah.

But, I mean, it is exciting to have a Texas or a Georgia that's going to be playing for a national championship. I mean, we can all dream going to be going to of that, especially now when we don't know what product we're going to roll out. But if you're decent, you should beat one of those teams. Wouldn't you say? Like, I think if you have a decent team, you play six teams in the top 18, you should steal one. Is that fair? Well, and that's kind of been Kentucky's M.O. in recent years.

Like, they get one of those games they're not supposed to, you know? The thing is, though, they got to stop losing games that they sure are supposed to win. You can't lose at Vandy. You can't lose, I mean, but the problem is, okay, we play six. games against teams that are ranked. Then Team 7,8, 9, we play those games, two of them on the road and one of them is against Vane. You know what I mean?

Like, it's hard to, the schedule just has no breaks for you. In your home opener, they're the Mac favorite. The Mac is a tough conference. Toledo returned a lot of players. That spreads changed. It was 12 and a half. Now it's down to 10 and a half. It's even down to 9 and a half.

It just keeps going down. It's down to 9 and a half. So, I mean, even a game that we call cupcakes to open the year, Toledo is not a cupcake at all. You mean, you should win that. Us and Toledo is nine and a half now.

People are very high on Toledo. I still think we're all right, though. What if we lost? I think of the, of the rate teams, Tennessee,

I mean, they're blurring their damn quarterback because he's throwing so many receptions and videos. Like, they're, I don't know that Tennessee.

I think they're overrated. I think Tennessee is going to be overrated. And Florida's got issues with Lagway. We don't know what they're going to be. But we play to, I mean, none of this matters if you lose to Toledo.

None of it matters. But if we, like, if we can get one of those home games, I think they've got to steal one of these home games this year, and then win maybe at Auburn, at Vandy. You know, you got a chance. Well, we play Vandy at home, right? Or on the road. No, we're there. It's at Vandy. They beat us at home last year. Yeah, they beat us at home. We're going to beat Vandy. We've got four. The question is, can you find two more? The one I like is Florida at home. It's in November. I don't think they're good.

When do we play Florida in November? I mean, if it is lagway, he's going to come up here. I hope there's snow everywhere because he will have never. ever seen that. We need it to snow. You're right. I'm watching Florida as a big as a win. Let's go to Sean. Go ahead, Sean.

Hey, guys. Go ahead. Oh, hey. I know, I just want to say on the O-way thing, I was at Douglas Park here in Lexington last night for the Dirt Bowl. And it's not AI. He did have a boot on. Okay.

There you go. I came to Clayton since some other guy showed up. It was real. Was he walking with a limp or anything? Oh, no, no. What's funny? And I even told a couple of buddies last night because I know it sounds stupid, but to have a boot on, the guy

I was moving around fine. Getting shots up acquaintance on another court. To have a boot on, the guy was walking fine. I know that sounds dumb. No, that could be true. All right, I appreciate it. Good. See, that's reporters on the street information. Like I said, a little ankle tweak anymore. Just a precautionary measure, like Drew said, they put these

boots on now and let them wear it for a couple weeks. Do you go to the dirt bowl? No, I would like to. I mean, okay, so where is it? I've never been. Is that on Georgetown Road? Yeah, Douglas Park sits right on Georgetown Road. Georgetown Road and Newtown split and then it starts right there. Across from Grimes.

You know where the Grimes restaurant is right across from Grimes. Okay. So that's, I drive sometimes on Sundays on that road and there are so many. It looks like the biggest, it looks like a party and I want to go. It is a big festival, yeah. But there's like no white people there. No, but they've got like food, a lot of food, a lot of music. I'm going.

Will you go? I've been many times. There's versions in Western Tug, I go, the Dust Bowl, and it's awesome. No, it doesn't. Well, I mean, they have one of these in Lex, in Louisville, too. What's it called? Where Myron saw a guy on a horse with a boa constrictor around his neck. I probably would have gone yesterday if I'd even known about it. Yeah.

Is there a schedule? Oh, no. It goes like, it's like two weeks long. Is it going on right now? Oh, yeah. So is it all week? Yes, probably is every day of the week. So what is it?

It's a basketball tournament. And they have all age division. Who's playing? They got like five-year-olds all the way to like. When do the non-five-year-olds play? I don't know the schedule. Well, I want to go. All right, we'll be right back.

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. All right, so we have a definitive thing. They make the balls in Costa Rica. The core and all that is done by machine, but the balls are hands sewn. Yeah.

Every ball is hand sewn in Costa Rica. Can you guess how many balls in an average Major League Baseball game are used? in an average game? In a game, not in the warm-ups. In a game. What is the average amount of baseball is used? Everybody take a guess. I'll say 62.

72. Shannon? 56. 108. Wow. You can double. We think about all the foul balls. Yeah.

Guys, sometimes the pitchers just look at them and throw them into the ground and make the little bat boys running to get them. You spend all that time sewing a ball and a guy just spikes your ball into the ground. Or what if you make all that time sewing a ball and they use it in warm-ups. Yeah. And then you know there's a guy. You've probably seen him. He sits in the dugout.

He's the authenticator. Authenticator. Authenticator. He's trying to say big words you're using. Authentator. Every ball. He writes. He puts a little sticker on it.

Yeah. Because they use that when something important happens. Yeah. And then they sell them in the gift shop, you know, a game but use ball. Yes. All right. I'm going to do this every segment. We're going to go to number three before I go to the phones.

All right. I'm using this. I don't want you arguing in on the, on my text machine. about the political part of this. That's not what I'm bringing this up for. I'm bringing it up for the secondary part. You know, I don't know if you've followed. The Texas legislature wants to gerrymander

the thing to take seats away from Democrats for Congress and give them to Republicans. Basically, you know, forget about that part. But they have to have a quorum to vote. And so the Democrats don't want to let them do it. They say that's cheating. So the Democrats have escaped the state, some of them,

and gone to Illinois. And they're basically like, until you all agree to stop this, we're not coming back. And there are like 14 of them that have left. So here's my question for you. They, apparently some of the Democrats have jobs where they couldn't leave.

So they got the ones that either own their own businesses or they do something where they could be gone. So here's my question for you, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon. Let's say how far, Texas to Illinois would be the equivalent of like here to what? Denver, maybe. Sure. I'd close. Let's just say Denver.

If I said to you tomorrow, you have to get in your car and go to Denver. You'll keep your job. All right. You're not going to get fired. You have to go from here and you can't come back until I say. How long do you think you could go? Packing one bag going to Denver until you,

because they say, they say, we'll stay as long as we need to. So how long could you go to Denver and not return? You go first because you've got connection. Yeah, I have a brother-in-law in Denver, so it's a little easier for me. But just in general, three months. You think you can go for three months?

I think I would enjoy it. Yeah. I'll be like, I'll see you all when I get back. I'll figure it out. As long as I'm not losing a job. But here's the thing, you can't see your folks, if they're going to see, you're going to have to come to you. Nobody, everybody's going to have to come there. That's why I said three months.

After a while I'd miss family. So you think you could go to Denver for three months? Shannon, how long could you go? Can we make this a challenge? But you, like, lose your out. You can't take, you're basically taking one bag and heading to Denver. Three months, okay, Shannon? Six years.

No. I could probably stick it out for one year as long as I don't get into the gummies. A year? Yeah, I think one year. Okay, what about you? You couldn't do it. I was only like maybe a month, max. I was going to say five days.

Maybe so. I got, yeah. But your kids don't have to be here. Like they're going to college. They don't want you here. They may not want me here, but I'm going to miss them. Well, but I mean, they don't want you here. My parents.

My parents can come to you. Yeah, they're 80 years old. I'm thinking a month is all I could do. If not for checking on family, I think I could do something extreme. Like, maybe you'd never come back. You know, I mean, I was thinking about that. If it were not for my parents. Yeah.

I think I could just live in Denver. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could pull that off. Yeah, I'm just like, I'll just go to Denver. Our parents are a little older. You don't want them to travel out to see you. You need to come back. It would be good for them. Well, honestly, why can't they come to Denver?

Good point. I mean, they can just live in Denver. They're united fly out of bluegrass. They can do it once a month maybe, but that's a lot. I'm kind of, though, with Shannon and Drew, that if you assume I can still do my job, my jobs don't require. The only thing that really requires me to be here is trying to, is the KS Bar part. I would miss my friends and stuff, but like, I feel like I can just go to Denver.

Yeah, DSR. Start your own restaurant out there. Yeah, DSR. I love Colorado. Actually, can this be my summer challenge? Can I leave right now and see how long? I do wonder if any of the legislators in Texas will be like, why'd they pick Illinois? Are they going to Cubs games?

I think because, I don't know, actually. I think maybe because it's run by Democratic. Because he's threatening he's going to have them arrested. And so I think their thought was probably, we'll go to some place that won't arrest us. I don't know that. I'm not sure. But that's my guess. See, when I heard this story, well, I thought of, can they get fired?

I mean, they're supposed to show up. Well, he says they can, but I don't know. I don't, it's in the Texas legislature. I mean, you know, Congress people, that's one of the interesting things. You can elect like a senator and they could just never do anything. And you really can't do anything about it. Can't fire them? Can't get them fired?

You can never do anything. Like, like, they could just be like, like, they could just be like, like, eh. Just don't reelect them. That's in theory what you could do is not, is not reelect them. But I,

I, so these 14 Democrats got in a van, their party and all the way up to Illinois. I think they probably flew. I don't know. Maybe they didn't take a van. I don't know. Is this like Billy Gillespie when they were trying to fire them?

They're just thinking if we're hiding, we don't have to participate. But they've done this before. Like this is the way, because you have to have a quorum. And they're not the first people to do it. I mean, other people and other legislatures have done it. But this,

what I found interesting about this is, They called the vote. You have to call it in 20. So they had to get out in 24 hours. So they just had to have just packed a bag. And you'd get out of the States. They had to get out. Yeah.

So anyway, I think the three of us could go a long time. Eric, go ahead, Eric. Hey, what's up guys? What's going on? Hey, so with the Dolo is, I'm a Cubs fan. I listen to the free game. He got a blister within like 30 minutes of the game starting, therefore they couldn't scratch him.

Therefore, he has their one pitch where they could take him out. That makes sense. Okay, see, I didn't realize that. All right, that makes sense. That makes sense. Apparently, he pitched, I'd turn the game on in the third inning. Apparently he may be pitched. Appreciate the call.

The first inning and then one pitch of the second inning. I thought it was just one pitch overall. But still, that makes sense if you can't scratch him. Well, what do they do like if someone has a heart attack, Shannon, in those 30 minutes? Sorry, go out there. You're going to have to throw one? Yeah, throw one pitch. We can't scratch you.

They get a stint in there after that first pitch. That's interesting. After the first 30 minutes, you might have a weekend at Bernie's situation if you went ahead and put them down. I wonder what the worst injury that's happened where they had to do the 30 minute. It's a great question. Like broken leg.

Yeah, exactly. They get run over by the little golf cart. And then they're like, listen, man, but can I please go to the hospital? No, shut up and pitch. The clock's running. If he got it 30 minutes before the game, he obviously was warming up

and probably the stitching in the ball was a little different. Maybe he's rubbing it, spinning it out of his hand. Yeah. Well, that's what people who pitch say, since you and Shannon didn't. It's the breaking balls or whatever that makes you rub against the... Okay, so throw fastballs. Yeah, exactly.

You'll only throw fastballs. Throw a circle change. Jay, go ahead, Jay. Hey, Matt, what's going on? What's up? Hey, I got a thought I want to run past you. You know how when Mark Pope assembled last year's basketball team, he did so with a lot of, like, journeymen's basketball players, guys that have been in college for a while,

they weren't, you know, overly talented, but they were very experienced. And they turned out to be a really good team, like you said. The whole was greater than the sum of the parts, right? Yes. Okay, I think in my, and this is just me, but I think that's what Mark Stoops has done. I think he has brought together a lot of journeymen's football players that have done, you know, they've got a lot of experience in college football. They're not going to be surprised by a big stage or anything like that.

And the hole can be greater than the sum of the parks. They might not be the most talented team, but they could turn around and win some games. We're just not expecting them to win. I think, I mean, you're making the case, and I appreciate the call that I bet you if you were to get the PR people for UK, Drew, they would make that same case, right? Now, does that work in football?

In basketball, you know, whatever physical limitations that Andrew Carr might have, he could make up for with shooting and stuff like in football, Can you make up for the fact that the other dudes is just quicker than you? I don't know. We'll see. I do think that was Stoops' intent when he hit the portal this year, was to get a guys that have played a lot of football wherever they come from. I mean, I think the best defender might be Gusto,

where you're from Washington State. You got Pete from New Mexico. I mean, they are literally all over. You got Braun that played a little in the SEC. There, as Pete said, they're the beast of no nation. And that was what UK was trying to put on their roster because I think the experience was lacking a little bit. There's no doubt they took a completely different tact in the

Transfer portal before this year, the tack was go get the guys from Georgia and Alabama that were second string, have them come here and then they'll let them play. It didn't totally work. So now it's go get the guy from New Mexico State and from Akron and from Washington State and get just, they were their best player, now bring them here. That's what, and that's what Pope did for basketball. To be fair, that was the same thing. You got Western Marshall, I mean, all kinds of levels, but guys that have played a lot of football. Yeah. So that theory, we're giving a lot more important to the transfer portal is kind of maybe one of the reasons Vince left, right?

Because they put so much important. There's no doubt that if you were, I mean, Vince was not given total control over the portal. He had, I think, some say, but he didn't have total control. He kind of did have total control on the high school recruiting. And I think as we moved more and more to the portal, Vince got pushed a little more and more to the background. I think that's, I think that probably was part of it.

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I just got to ghost tonight and Thursday. And the playoffs are Friday and Saturday. I mean, some of the best players around playing out, like ex-college players, they've had ex-N-B-A guys playing that out there? Yes. Otago, according to On 3 Sports, Kentucky Sports Radio, hurt his ankle at the Jason Tatum CP3 camp.

Oh. But he's going to be okay, but that's why he wears the boot. And another person writes, why is Jaden Quentin's dunking in slides? That's my biggest takeaway in the photo. I didn't even notice O.A's boot. I'm like, why is our lottery pick who's recovering from injury dunking

on a streetball court without even running to his shoes. Maybe that's a great sign. Maybe he's farther along. But still, I don't know that anyone should dunk in flip flops. When you can. Yeah. While they're rehabbing to hurry up and get back.

I'm going to go ahead and say, get some padding in there. That's what I'm going to ask for. Okay, next thing on my list. SEC Hard Knocks starts tonight on Netflix. Maybe out right now. You're going to watch it? It's not going to be pretty for us. I tried to start it this morning.

Had to drive to Louisville and I got to see a little bit. But yeah, it's out. Jack Pilgrim even wrote a little recap. I guess he stayed up all night watching it, working on it of the UK parts. Good or bad? I haven't seen everything that's been out there yet, but I know the games that they went to weren't good. So I don't know how they can paint it too good of a light.

How many episodes are there? I looked right at it and can't even think. I don't know the exact number. I'm going to watch it, but I feel like it's going to be. Especially if you said episode one is the South Carolina game at home, and we got destroyed. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know if I want to see it. So you're going to watch it? Yeah, I'll watch it. I like the WWE unreal thing, Shannon. Have you seen that? No, I've heard about it. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

It's pretty good. It's completely stowed off us, but otherwise it's pretty good. That's on Max? No, it's on Netflix. Oh, Netflix. Okay. It's pretty good. It's worth watching.

It's kind of cool to see the behind the scenes and see how things go. I mean, you don't know how much of it's, like, how much of even that is staged. But then again, you know, I mean, I, There are people who think in wrestlers, it was, I can tell you it wasn't. I mean, I lived through it. I wonder what you guys thought because I saw part of the trailer where they're actually going to the meeting.

The writer's room. That's the one thing Al didn't want to do. I didn't want us to, I mean, they filmed some of it. But I was kind of, when I told Al about it, that was the one thing he was like, I don't want us to do that. And I go, well, somebody's going to do it one day. And he was like, no, they won't.

And then a couple years later, they did it. But they filmed us in that room, but I don't think they didn't air it. I don't think it's in there. I mean, there's pulling back the curtain. And then there's pulling it back all the way. And that's really pulling it back. Yeah. So I liked what I've seen so far. I've only seen one episode. Jamie, go ahead, Jamie. Hi, Matt. Right now, all of the boys are on the way to Wrigley Sealed to watch the Cubs and the Red. Oh, that'll be fun. You ever been? Yeah. I have not. You love it. It's cool. of us crans in Arcadia right now with no air conditioning.

That sounds awful. But it's fun. Give yourself time to walk around the neighborhood. I mean, and the environment's cool. Like, you'll love it. I mean, the Cubs, Wrigley Field, you'll enjoy. It's a very unique place. Yeah.

My question is, if you could pick three players out of this upcoming 26 recruiting class, who would they be? Well, I'm not the best person to ask because I don't know. I appreciate the call. I don't follow it enough. I'll defer over here to Drew. I do want Tyron Stokes, since he's the number one player in the country in Louisville once. It'd be nice to beat Louisville for a kid that grew up in Louisville for the number one player in the country.

So that one I want. Who else should I want? Well, that point guard, you got, they're looking at Darren Rippey. He's second, rank second in the class. So you could get one and two? So he's the second rank point guard, excuse me. Overall, though, he's still in the conference. He's a five star.

Okay. 10, 11 overall, but second-ranked point guard. And then the Kentucky kid, Tylin Kenney. Yeah. He's the third-ranked point guard. I thought he was going to Louisville. I don't know if he's committed anywhere yet. But, I mean, that's where people think he's going.

Oh, I don't know. Not sure. Well, I would love to see. He's good friends with Jasper, I think. Well, one of the things I want to see is how does Pope do with freshmen? You know, we still don't know yet, right? Like, I mean, we still don't know. Is this, let's see how things go with Jack?

But do you, if the number one player in America wants to come, do you want to get him, yes. Of course you do. Of course you do. And Louisville's been counting him forever. Louis thought they've had him for years. And if we could take him and then just be able to just make them weep, that would be amazing. Yeah, not only is he the number one player. He's a Kentucky kid that grew up like in Louisville. Grew up like in Louisville. So if you can steal him away, that's a big get. That's a big get. That's a huge gift. Yeah. So that's my one. As far as everybody else, I'm not going to say I don't follow it. Well, I don't follow it like I used to. But I still think the majority of our teams in the future will be built in the portal or with guys we have.

So I think we're back to the days where we need like three guys instead of we need like eight guys when it was with Cal. And I think this upcoming year, especially if they play the way we're all expecting them to, I prioritize a lot of that roster. You want low back. You probably want Chandler back. You want Trent Noah back. Marino back. If Jasper doesn't go pro, you want Jasper back. I mean, a lot of the guys that are on this current team, we're hoping they're two-year guys. even more. Yeah. The Croatian kid, right?

Really? Most of the roster outside of O-Way and I don't even know who's seniors, but the seniors are like Cam. Aberdeen. Aberdeen, Diabate. Ozone. Is that right? Ozone?

That's right. Ozone. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys doing that? Good. I hear you're from the Dirt Bowl. Is that right?

Yes, I am. I've got like a minute. Explain to people that don't know what it is. What it is, it's me and summer league basketball. Me and Summer Basketball League, it started back in 1967. We've been running it, man, for over almost 50 years, I guess, over 50 years. So what we do, we have a lot of guys who play college ball, high school ball, and some professional guys who come back in the summer to work on their games and stuff.

So right now we're in the semifinal, quarterfinals of our playoffs, and the final four is Thursday, and our championship games are Sunday. Okay, so you play tonight? Yes, we play tonight. Then we have a day off tomorrow, and then our final four is Thursday evening. I may go Thursday. Yeah. I hear there's food.

Is there good food? The food is spectacular. We have Thursday nights is probably the best night to come up. We have live music in the front of the park. We have live music in the front of the park. parking. Then we have a lot of food vendors out there, and the food is spectacular. You have to come out and get you a fried this sandwich. Oh, dude.

Man, when you pull up, the smell knocks you all over. I can go Thursday. I can go Thursday. Get some fish. Yeah. And then. Watch the little basketball. Some chili dogs.

Ozone, can I dance with the music? Oh, yeah. Most definitely. Okay. Most definitely. I can dance. Man, they give you all type of music. Anything you want, man.

It's pretty dope. Well, all right. You sold me. Appreciate it, Oz. All right, man. I hope to see you guys out there. Yeah, I'm going to go Thursday. I can walk from my house.

You need to because parking's tough. Yes. So just walk. Yeah, just walk. That's right. 859-28027. We'll come back, take your calls. Go through the rest of this list.

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