KSR - 2025-08-06- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

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Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. It is Wednesday, August the 6th. I am Matt Jones here on a beautiful day in Louisville, Kentucky. We are all over the place. I'm at my house. Louisville. Shannon is at the studio in Louisville. Drew and Ryan are at the studio in Lexington. But you can give a shout at Clark's Pump and Shop phone line. That's 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745254. In this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith law office,

you call T.J. He'll make them pay. I'm at my house because I, right after this show ends, have to immediately start. I host Joe and Q today on ESPN radio from 12 to 3. Neither Joe nor Q will be there, but I'm hosting it with Jonathan Zaslow of Miami. And yeah, so five straight hours of radio. And let me just tell you, Ryan, they just sent out just a few minutes ago the rundown for today's Joe and Q. Oh, man, things I have big, big. Well, Drew and I probably need to learn this stuff, right?

But these are things I have big opinions on. Jordan Addison being suspended. Oh, man. Three games, right? Yeah, do I have a segment in me on that one? Well, I just gave everything I know about it. Three games. We're leading the show with Shador Sanders starting the first preseason game.

There's Michael Parsons. It's nice to see you again. Shannon, how about what is your opinion of Bo Nicks this year? Ooh, I have strong. I mean, how much time are you? got. Well, I've got 15 minutes I've got to figure out on that one. I got a little nugget on Bow Nix for you today.

Okay. Okay. Now, wait a minute. Here we go. Shannon, if he gives me a nugget that I can use, I'll slip it in. Let's see, at 11 a.m. Or, excuse me, well, no, that's 12. This would be my 12 p.m. set.

Go ahead. They had a scrimmage this weekend, Inter Squad Scrimmage, and Bow Nix is an interception by Devin Key. Probably not going to throw that one in, Shannon, because I don't know. know that the nation is going to have a strong and opinion about that. If you get desperate, you could always say that, though. It pulls some time. That takes some five seconds.

It would sound like I know a lot about it, right? That's true. Yeah, you're naming off like unknown players. A guy that Devin Keith fighting for a spot on the roster picked off the starting quarterback in the screen. I think you should say it. Really extended there, like you watch it, like Devin was just sitting there waiting both through it right to him. I really name's excusable. You know what?

You know what? All right. Fine. Yes. Yes. Yes. I guess it's at 1 p.m. I'm trying to look at this.

It says 12. Yeah, so this would be 1 p.m. I am, we are doing Bo Nix. I'm going to find a way for you, Ryan. Thank you, thank you. To mention Devin Key's interception. So this is just, this is for you. You tell his family, and I'm going to throw that in there for you.

You just made my day. I'm smiling ear to ear. That makes me very happy because Devin's trying to make a spot. So let's like, give him a little pub. You know, national publicity. And by the way, also, Matthew Stafford has back pain. That's 145. I don't know what true.

Do you have that? I can't wait to tune into that one. I can talk about what back pain feels like, right? Yeah, these are all easy topics. I have back pain all day. He only has it at 145? Now you should bring on Drew as your expert, you know, back herder. Drew and I can just sit there and talk about how much it hurts to have your back pain.

Oh, he sits on a computer for 10 hours a day, too? Oh, okay. No, I'm going to make this, I'm going to make it more entertaining. I'm going to say you got five hours of radio. I'm glad you got this really elaborate radio studio to do five hours of radio in this morning. Yeah, well, I'm in my house. I'm sitting here right next to all my candles. I'll probably light a few of them today.

Matter of fact, I'll do that during this first break, Shannon, a little Cypress and Amber White Barn to kind of get my in the ambiance of this day. I like that. I remember that one time I was over there, we went and we picked out a different candle each time. You have an absurd amount of candles for a man. You really do. Is it for a man or just for a human being? Well, just for a human being, especially for a man. Yeah, well, fair enough.

So anyway, we will do that. This is going to be an ask-anything Wednesday. Now, here's what I'm going to say to you. You obviously can ask anything on the text machine or on the phone. You know, usually I'm like, hey, the more absurd, the better. And I still believe that. If you want to ask something off the beaten path, I'm good with it. But I think I talked about this yesterday.

There are literally, there are like no U.K. stories. Like nothing. There's just, there's nothing. I have one thing, and then the rest of this is other stuff. So I'm going to say on your Ask Anything Wednesday, while you can still ask anything else, if you want to ask something about Kentucky, normally I'm kind of against that. But today's the day to do it because there's just not any stories.

So this is the time to ask. Like somebody asked me yesterday, I think it was the St. John's fan. And he said, do you think St. John's is going to be, do the rules favor them? And we got into that conversation. I thought that was good. So, you know, 502 or 879-2-270-2-87. I think now is the time, Ron, to do that. What did he just say?

I don't know. There's so many numbers. What is it again? 8-9-2-80-22-87. I said two. That's what I said, didn't I? You said, 879, 6-4-10. I did not say 8-7-9.

Yeah. I may have said 270-0-287. Anyway, the point is, everybody knows the stupid number. It's just 859-280-2-807. There's just a lot of numbers in my head today. So anyway, Ryan, today may be a good day to ask a UK question. Well, you know, we're early in fall camps, but maybe some people start to have some football questions. Or basketball.

Drew, you brought up yesterday the picture of Otega in the boot, and we question whether it was AI. It turns out it was real. That was not a fake picture. and he is in a boot. He got injured at the Jason Tatum camp, okay? Jason Tatum and CP3 have a camp. Apparently he injured his toe, but he decided to still keep it in a boot, but it is expected he will miss no practice or anything serious.

So I just wanted to make sure we updated that because, you know, some people may have left there a little worried after you brought up the picture. Yeah, no one loves seeing their star player in a boot, but we're a long way from the season still. boots guys wear them often they wear them more than we'll probably ever know and jack confirmed with always mom that it's just the toe really my anger is with chris paul and jason taitam leave him alone he was here practicing why did you take him to Vegas and hurt his toe uh shouldn't have done that

oh is it Vegas yeah yeah people were noticed he was missing from practice highlights last week wondering what was going on oh so he missed oh he missed practice to go to this yeah that's what back off chris and jason we got a we got things going on in lex an we don't need you hurting our toes in Vegas but he'll be fine in the longer i think i think the rule is Ryan The team cannot have, like, they can only have one, or they can only have a handful of mandatory workouts in the summer. So they do allow these guys to go to things like the Tatum camp during the non-mandatory workouts. Good experience for Otega, too, to go to something like that. You know, he's going to be looking to expand his wings very soon going to NBA.

So I'm glad he got that opportunity to play with those guys. A lot of college stars there, too, and high school. Like, Arkansas had like 10 people there. Arkansas had three. So it was a big event. he was a part of even though they tried to sabotage Kentucky season. Yeah, don't hurt his toe. That's bad.

Now, speaking of extremity injuries, Shannon, they put Nick Ladolo on the 15-day disabled list for that blister. Oh, must have been a really bad blister. Okay, so this is more of a question for the medical community. How is it that we don't have a cure for? blisters that doesn't make it take 15 days. And he's not going to be able to pitch for like three go-ar-rounds in the rotation. And this is a key time of year. We won last night.

We're rolling. I mean, the Summer Valley is kind of back on life support. Why can't, why is it so hard to fix a blister? I know everybody just assumes, oh, you get a blister. But three times around the rotation, explain to me how we don't have a better way of fixing a blister. Yeah, I mean, isn't there something you can just spray on it? You would think like a, I don't know, some sort of like skin that you could spray over top of a blister. I mean, there are very few surgeries that keep you in the hospital for 15 days.

I would think there would be something. I'm like, Shannon, I agree, a spray. Yeah. That you could spray like a spray and then your skin would just be back, Drew. And there it is. Why is it so hard? What is it? Why do we not have a better cure?

I don't know about the spray, but it seems. you just need time for that layer of skin to grow back and cover up the blister. And if you go pitch, it's just going to make it worse. You need time for that to heal. That's it. They want it to heal so you can be strong here at the stretch run. But I don't understand why we don't have easier ways to do that. I think about this stuff all the time.

Like, I think about ailments that it feels like to me we should be passed. Like, I still don't understand why there's not a cure for baldness. It feels like there would be a market for it. Shannon. Like, I'm shocked that people can't do that. I'm always surprised that people, we never have a really a cure for the common cold. We spend so much money on these things and then things that, to me, would seem the most easy to fix. When I saw he was going to be out for 15 days, Ryan, I was furious because it just feels like that shouldn't be how long you're out for a blister.

Well, I think you guys hit it. I think they're just getting completely 100% heel, get that the blister area completely, skin tough again so he can be ready to go and not miss any starts at all during the stretch run. Is there like a 10-day thing you could do or a five-day or does it have to be 15 or nothing? I don't know. I don't know how the rules are. I don't know if it has to be 10, 50. But I saw that it was 15.

Then because the Reds have been playing the Cubs, when I get on the TikTok, because as we established yesterday, Drew, your phone listens to you, right? Like you started getting blister ads. On my TikTok, now all over my feet are, and this, I guess, is the thing. thing. Chicago Cubs fans, I guess do this thing where they film themselves watching games, okay? And they film themselves having live reaction to Cubs games. I don't know. I've never seen any other team do it. I don't know of a Reds fan that does it. I've seen over the years videos of like Kentucky fans at the end of a game losing their stuff, but I've never seen videos where a person's

watching the game the whole time they film themselves and then they cut it into things Drew I have to tell you I've watched 15 of them in the last in the because watching them get upset as the Reds have won on these various plays makes me so happy especially like Monday night when the guy missed the base you know what I'm talking about and they got the joy of thinking he had scored and then he missed the base and I I have really really, really enjoyed them. And I would say to the Kentucky listeners, Drew, I think there's a market out there during this season for stick a camera on yourself, watch the game, just let the reaction come,

then you later edited into a video where you're acting a fool. Drew, I actually think there's a market for that. Yeah, especially in Kentucky where we know the emotions run hot during a game. Our guy Stephen did one last season It had a ton of viewers Like he did one with just on him It was an away game Away basketball game

He had a couple guests that would rotate it in and out But mostly just him And it had more viewers than you'd think There is a market for For watching people watch a game I agree I don't think you want to watch it live Ryan because you want to watch the game

But what But just keeping it on you Acting like you forget that it's there Like don't put on a show just forget that it's there watch it and then we get to see all the craziness like if there was a camera on me shannon i couldn't put it out because it would i know i'm in the shower you can't put that out i'm serious like like there are very few people i allow to see me in that state it's usually only been women i've dated and a lot and a couple of them have broken up with me after seeing me in that

stage. And so if there are people like me who would have similar reactions, you know, I'm pacing around and I'm throwing stuff and I'm, you know, I feel like, Ryan, I would watch if there were a Kentucky fan doing it. There's something hilarious about watching

people lose their mind over the last second shot or last second play and just going ballistic. There is something entertaining about it, I think. I would like to see that video when we were watching the Kentucky game with the B-dubs and you nearly knocked me out of my bar store. for a shot. Do you remember that?

I mean, I was going. The Notre Dame game, I think. We took the, we had a shot to take the lead or something. And I was trying to push you on the ground because I thought it was going to go in. Yeah, we were on the road somewhere. Yeah. Well, I'm just, as someone who appreciates content, I'm telling you, after having seen like 10 of these for the Cubs last night and getting joy and watching them get mad when Key, Key Brian Hayes gets the one-handed throw to first,

there is a market, because the great thing is, if we win, Drew, everybody's going to want to see you celebrate. If we lose, the other team's fans are going to want to see you upset, so it's perfect. Really, I'm in for the wins and losses, just to know that I'm not alone in going chaotic. I think it would almost be therapeutic seeing someone lose their mind, if you're someone who loses your mind, knowing you're not in it alone.

So my advice, though, is if you're going to do this, Don't try to put on a show and forget the camera is there. Just be yourself and then when it's over, you can edit the reactions into a bit. Don't try to live stream it. You're probably not entertaining enough to have a camera on you for two hours straight. But do that. People ask me sometimes, man. How do you think I can break in the business?

Because it's harder now than it was when I did it. I think this is a way, I'm just saying. We'll take a break. Be right back. 859-280-2287. and he's Ask Anything Wednesday. It's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Yeah, you'd think after all this years and advances in medicine, we'd come. know it was something more than pickle juice and a band-aid. It doesn't work. Apparently you said expand his wings, not spread his wings in the last segment. Did you say that? I didn't hear it. Probably. Okay.

The good thing is expanding and spreading. JR says, holy boomer radio, Matt is just discovering live streams in 2025. I've discovered them. I've seen them a million times. You know, bar stool does them. But the problem, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying these reaction videos. Drew, the only ones I've ever seen on TikTok will be like,

they'll be like black people hearing country music songs for the first time and getting excited. You know what I'm talking about? You've seen those, right? Or young people seeing old people songs for the first time and getting excited? You've seen those, right? I haven't, but that sounds exciting. We all have different algorithms. You've seen that.

You've seen that. Yeah, like just reaction, like live reaction videos. And I've seen sports ones where they do the whole game. but most people are too boring for that. I'm talking this edited concise, and unless somebody tells me, I don't know of any Kentucky one. People mention Stephen Pete did one.

I'm going to go check that out. But I just am saying to you, I think there would be a market for that. One person writes, on Ask Anything Wednesday, do you think Mark Pope curses during practice? Ryan, you know him better than I do. Do you think he curses during practice?

Cal used to curse like a sailor. I'm going to say Pope doesn't, but every now and then one slips. out. I mean, it's nothing else on the regular. I think just every now and one they're saying that. Is he the kind of guy who says you think like freak that? Yeah. That's a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Shoot. Darn it. Dang. Dumb it. I bet he does. Who do you think's the biggest cursor head coach UK football basketball history? Oh, and history. Rup. You think it was rup? See, I feel like that was a different time. I feel like people

didn't cuss as much. Oh, I feel like back then it was a whole lot worse. Petino or Cal, Patino. Patino was every other word. Was it? Yeah. So you think Patino more than Cal? Yeah. What about Billy? I don't know if he cusses, but it feels like he would. I don't really know about that either. Oh, I'd be willing to put money on it. What about on the football side? All of all of them. Every one of them. I don't think there's anybody in foot. I mean, Mark Stoop's curse is like a sailor. Rich Brooks did. Was Hal Mummy a cusser?

Not with the media, but I'm sure he was on the practice field during the game. Rich Brooks has a, Rich Brooks did it a lot, I think. I heard. He was a, let's go beat Florida, damn it. All the time. Is that your Rich Brooks impression? Let's go get Georgia, damn it. I feel like Mark Pope is a gosh dang it type of guy.

Yeah. I think Mark Pope says the word prick at least a couple times a day. I do. I would mention. I would be shocked if there's a coach that cusses as much as Rick Petino or John Cal Perry. I would think, I mean, I went to Cal Practices. There are a lot of cuss words. But Roebick cussed a lot, Drew.

You remember when he was when he would do it? Yeah, I would think it's common with just about every coach but Mark Pope. I can't only see Joe B. Hall going after. Yeah, I can't either. Do you think? I don't see, think it was tubby a cusser, Ryan? Not a big cussar. I don't remember him being a big cussar.

He would just stare a hole through you. I mean, that was his form of cussing. Yeah, I'm not a big cusser. I don't, I feel like there are more words to use. But when you're coaching, I think it's like you're not sitting there trying to expand your vocabulary. So I think you just say whatever you say. Who's up first? Alan.

Alan, go ahead, Alan. What is that? Alan's working somewhere, right? He's about 6-8 to solid 260 and moves like. Whoa, whoa. Oh, okay. See? Did you get that?

Yeah, well, I hit the button. I'm going to, yeah. Okay. Well, see, that's what we get. That was not a Mark Pope word right there. That's what we get. We sit there and say, does anybody cuss? And we get a guy who says, first caller.

I think a lot of that got dropped. I hope all he did. I hit the button. He said, the caller said he's 6A, 250 pounds. He's a solid. murder murder and who he was like and it sounded like he was in a factory right

yeah yeah I thought he was given as a scatter report on some recruit or something for a second who we talking about yeah we need to start that guy don't we yeah special if he's well I'm sorry sir I wanted you to go first but you cannot say that there are some words that we've argued about

whether you can say you definitely cannot say that you definitely can't say that confident that's the one I know you can't say what's next let's go to Kyle Kyle go ahead Kyle Is this say anything Wednesday? No, no, you heard it because you're on hold, yeah. Yeah, I heard it.

Yes, I did. My ears are burning. No, hey, I just heard yesterday that ESPN's got their app. I've cut the cord on everything. I cut my direct TV. I cut my YouTube TV. All I was watching was the office and Judge Judy. So with having ESPN totally, I can watch every UK game of basketball and football.

Is that correct? Yes. If you have the ESPN app, which starting August 21st, you don't have to have cable. You can just buy it from ESPN. You'll get pretty much every UK game. There might be one or two where we play a road game against a team that their contract is with a different partner. I don't know that there is one off the top of my head, but that could happen.

But for the most part, you would get every UK game on that. So, yeah, it's expensive. I think I saw it was $29 or something. But you would get all the ESPN stuff and yes. and that does include the SEC network, I guess. It would include the SEC network, yes. So it's a way for you to have ESPN, but you don't have to go through cable. That's what I like to hear.

And just one more quick thing, and I don't, you know, don't get mad at me, Matt, but this is asking you anything Wednesday. Okay, go for it. How does your mom feel about you advertising for gambling sites? Love you, Matt. You know, I don't know. We've never really talked about it. The only time my mom and I've ever talked about an ad was when I started with cornbread hemp. And then I explained to her, honestly, how it helped me sleep at a time she knew that I was really struggling, sleeping during that time after I got out of the hospital.

And she kind of said, like, if it helps you, that I want you to do it. So, yeah, we've never really talked about gambling. I mean, my grandfather was very against gambling. but then his brothers would buy lottery tickets and say it wasn't gambling, and we always used to laugh at that. So, you know, I mean, I like to sports gamble, but I can see why people would be against it. But we've actually never talked about it.

Cornbread hemp was the only time we ever chatted. We'll take a break because I don't do cigarettes or alcohol. So we'll take a break. 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.

That is kind of what that guy said. This is not really a song, Shannon. It comes on Willie's Roadhouse sometimes. I kind of like it, though, man. You do? I like it. It's not a song. He just talks the whole time.

Yeah, but I like it. It's Jimmy Dean. Is it the same Jimmy Dean as the sausage? You know, I've always wondered that. I never looked it up. It might be a guy can make sausage and sing songs. I mean, the guys got to have gotten famous to make sausage somehow. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. If I'm not in 280, one person says, Matt, I thought it was odd. That guy asked you about the cornbread hemp. By the way, I didn't. That's a good question. You know, nothing wrong with asking that. There's a lot of people who probably have thought the same thing.

But you skipped over the fact that he only watches Judge Judy and the office. Don't you think those are two odd shows to watch? Yeah, Drew, I mean, what do you think about it? He only watches the office and Judge Judy. Now, listeners probably heard me laugh out loud at that one. That's a great combo. I didn't know Judge Judy held up. Everybody binges the office.

I'll still check on the office, but Judge Judy still packs a punch? My neighbor will record that and go back and watch it later in the day. Loves Judge Judy. Yeah, that's interesting. I can't, I don't, you know what, I don't think I've ever watched one episode of Judge Judy. I don't know that I, maybe it's just because I did law. I hate the judge shows because I feel like nobody knows. You know what I mean?

Like, it's not, I guess Shannon, because it's not real law. Yeah, does you go to law? school? I'm sure she did. You think so? Yeah. What about Mills Lane? He didn't go to law school. He was a boxing referee. Oh, he didn't? He was only a, or did he go to law school and a boxing ruff. Well, maybe he did, but I mean, I always thought he was a boxing ref. But if he went to law school, why would you be a boxing refloff? Well, if he went to law school, why would you own a wrestling company? Why would you do a sports radio? Tush. You know, I mean, like, people have varied interest. One person writes, Matt, if you had a live reaction video on you, what Kentucky games would have provided the best content. Oh, those are great. That's a great question. It is a good question. All right.

So I think the best content would be games, Ryan, where I was like going back and forth between happiness and worried. Yes. So 2014, Wichita State. Wow. With me pacing back and forth in that exercise room in the hotel. I feel like that would have been a really funny video. You know, any UK Louisville game, you will see me going nuts a lot.

Was there one you ended up on like an exercise bike? That was the Wichita State game. Oh, that was Wichita State game. That was Wichita State. There's probably never been a game that I thought was more going to give me a heart attack than that Wichita State game. Because you remember that game was just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. You remember that? I mean, it was like they just kept just trying.

Braden baskets. I got a poop tooth that game. Oh, that's right. I chipped my tooth on the fried ravioli. Me, you and Rob Bromley said they're eating lunch together. What a night. You chipped your tooth on ravioli, which would seem to be hard to do. Can you all think of a game where if you'd had it, it would have been good watching back and forth?

You said Louisville. I was going to say that Louisville game up in Indianapolis that we did the pregame show, and then you kind of hid from everybody and had to walk back to the arena to do the post- game show after the game. That whole game, I think, was probably... I think the reaction, if you had my reaction when Austin McGinnis made the field goal against Mississippi State to send us to a bowl, that was a pretty great one. I think anytime it's a game where it's back and forth, those are the ones, the Wichita State stands out. Drew, does one stand out for you?

I'm a bad example because I've been trained for 15 years. You don't have any emotion, yeah. Well, it's bad. Like, even when I go to a Titans game, I don't clap because I'm so used to being told I can't clap. Like, Abby will nudge me like you're not working. You can cheer here. Like, my body is trained to be stoic. But I will add, I was hesitant to confess this.

Right now I'm looking at what I think is a broken finger. Yesterday, I was playing the video game, and Texas A&M ranked undefeated, beat me on a hell Mary. And I stood up for the final play, and I stuck my hand in my ceiling fan. And right now my finger does not bend, and it is very purple. You got hurt playing a video game. Yes, it was a bad call, too. He was out of bounds. Fourth and, like, 18.

But I threw my hand and my controller up and I stuck it right in a ceiling fan. So yesterday would have actually been a funny one. That's awful. That's really bad. I'll tell you another good one. Otherwise, though, I hate that it, like, I love my job, but I'm sitting there. You don't show emotion. Yeah.

And they tell you, you get in trouble if you're in the press box. I sit next to you when we lost to Oakland. You showed no emotion whatsoever. That's, that's crazy to me. They made me a robot. Yeah. I'll tell you another one. If you had a live stream on me and my mom when Big Z scored all those points in the Georgia game.

That's a good one. I was sitting with her, like, in the lower arena, and she and I were losing it. Like, that would be, I think that would be one that people would like. Who's next, Shannon? Chris. Chris, go ahead, Chris. Chris. People are having trouble with their phones.

Sorry, I didn't. All right, go. Could you tell your ACBC story? my AC oh yeah how do you remember that a long time ago you brought that was a long time ago I don't know if I know your story well I appreciate the call do you know this thing Wednesday do you all know this story

I don't recall you telling an ACDC story so when I was I don't know 15 16 17 something like that the state high school academic tournament was in Louisville. Now I know. Like academic team, you know, quick recall. And we were there, and ACDC was staying at the same hotel as us. It was that old, what's the hotel out there next to the Freedom Hall, Shannon?

The Crown Plaza? Yeah. Yeah, it was that hotel. We were there. And I walked, I was walking down the hall, and I smelled weed, which you, know, at that age, I guess Shannon, I didn't smell a lot. Yeah. Because there's a skunk in there.

Yeah, because Middlesbrough, I mean, they had it, but they didn't bring it around me because my mom was the prosecutor. Right. So I never saw it. And I smelled and I looked in and the door was open and it was like part of ACDC in their smoking. And I don't know. I walked in and they kind of looked at me like, you can't be in here, kid, while we smoke. weed in the Ace in the Crown

Plaza in Louisville. And it was the dude who's the guitar player. Angus? Angus Young, yeah. He was in there. And I was like, wow. And then one of them said,

come, then one of them kind of gave me a bad look and one of them said to come in. And I got scared and I ran. Oh my gosh. You could have hung out

with ECDC. Yeah. It's 16, though. That's probably not what you want to do. You know, my mom's listening. I don't think she's ever

heard that story until right now. And so then I went back and I was, I think I was rooming with Bobob and went back to my room for a quick recall. So, yeah, that's the – I almost ended up watching ACDC smoke wheat. You have run away from every cool opportunity you've had to hang out with somebody. But I was scared – I was scared. I was scared until I was 18. You were also scared of Kelly Kelly, weren't you? Admit it.

I was not scared to Kelly. I wanted that to – that would have been nice to work out. I was scared of Marilyn Manson. I'll say that. I was definitely scared to Marilyn Manson. You could have hung out with Marilyn Manson. Yeah, I was definitely scared of him. Who's next? Chase. Chase, go ahead, Chase. Morning gentlemen, Shannon. I got two things.

One, I'm firmly with Ryan. You get a blister on your index finger or your middle finger as a pitcher, man, good luck. So what does it do? Help me understand because I love Lodolo and I'm not understanding. What makes it so bad? I mean, you can't firmly grip the seams. I mean, you're not throwing a fastball and getting any rotation on that and getting any movement, man. You're throwing out to big league batters, man.

they're hitting out of the park. So it just makes you less effective, is what you're saying? Oh, significantly. And I get Shannon, you play college ball. I get it, but, man, I'm with Ryan. All right, too. He gets it, but he doesn't get it. I would have thrown.

Two, look, I grew up playing college, or, I mean, sports year-round. And the worst thing you could do is that not what Severe Wheeler did? I feel like that got glossed over. I don't want to pick on them, but, you know, it was kind of just, you know, shrouded in this. Let me throw that one to Drew. What would you say Severe Wheeler did at the end of that what, Kansas State season? Is that right? What would you say he did? I feel like the caller just nailed it. I don't have to say it. I mean, there were reports of he's practicing and he's back. We even got to the tournament. Where were we at Greensboro?

Yeah. And they were like making a point to talk about his comeback. But you and I both, I think going back to January, we're getting messages like, don't listen. It's not true. true he ain't playing. I mean, three months before you got to March, and I were believing that the whole time. So whoever those anonymous textors were, when we were getting in the beginning that we followed up and looked at it, we were hearing severe quit in January,

and then, of course, we didn't see him again the rest of the year. That team, if I were ranking teams that had internal turmoil, right? Is that team number one, or is the team turmoil with, tubby number one. Both. They're 1A and 1B, I think. I mean, so that's like what year was team terminal?

2002? I think that's right. Yeah, 02. Was it Taysham was on that team? Was it 0. No, 0.3, 0.05. We were good all those years. It was, I think it was 02.

I think it was Tayshan's senior year, even though he wasn't involved. I might be wrong about that. Maybe it was a different year. But the severe wheeler, I mean, the team was divided. and people like to gloss over this, but it's just the case. The team was divided. Most of the team was on Severe Wheeler's side. And then there was Oscar.

And Oscar was beloved by the fans. He was beloved by the community. He was beloved by the boosters. He was beloved by, you know, pretty much. And then you had the team itself was kind of just not feeling him to really use the term. and Coleman, and really the head of it was Severe and Oscar and Severe just, I think, just kind of Drew walked away, right?

And then you ended up with this team where Severe was not the best player, but he was probably the vocal leader, and he wasn't even there. And then you had Oscar who was seen as the leader, but really wasn't, and you just ended up with a team that just had no direction, Drew, whatsoever. Yep, and we don't have to use the person's name, but someone very high up in UK athletics.

Remember, we saw them in Greensboro. We asked them at the pregame show, but not on the air. Like, what's all this wheeler buzz? Is he really going to play? And the person who would know was like, no. No. Come on. Yeah, I mean, it was a definitive, like, laughter, no.

What I've never heard, though, Drew, is why. I mean, I know that players thought Oscar got too much, not too much love for playing, but I think there was just, how would you describe how players felt about it? Oscar. How would you do you, you two both? How would you describe that? I don't know this to be the case because I wasn't living it, but my, how I interpret it hearing stories, it was like in school when the, there's like the goody, goody in class. There's nothing wrong with them. They're a great person. Everyone likes them, but they're

like telling the teacher when someone's laid or we forgot the quiz today. It was almost like he was being too perfect to where it annoyed everyone around them when they really know them. They're like, all right, man, you're not that perfect. We know you. But he was putting this image. exactly right. Yeah. Yeah, I think there was this idea of everybody's like, oh, he's Mr. Perfect. And everybody was like, no, you're not. Just be like us. Not that Oscar was bad and the Oscar wasn't fake, but it's, it was almost like he had this image if he could do no wrong. And I just think the people around him that shared the locker room maybe thought it was over the top. That's how I interpret it. I don't think it was like that Oscar's first year. But I think people kind of felt like that the second year. And then the players were just closer with severe. And then it ended up in that moment where did he quit? I mean, I don't want to say somebody quit, but maybe. Don't miss your shot to win big and support a great cause with Commonwealth causes.

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Ryan, how about the Ole Miss football game last year? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I was with my buddies at the game. There's that picture drew of me with my shirt in my mouth during him. But if you had me when Barry and Brown got that touchdown, or that catch that led to the touchdown, you would have seen me being pretty insane.

That would be a good one for a reaction game. The Ole Miss game before that, I took off and went as a fan. We had had a couple cold pops before the game, and Dane gets that touchdown, and pretty much everyone in my row had shirts off, and we're throwing them around. You had your shirt off? I didn't, you know.

I'm still working on the physique. But a lot of people around me who don't have great physiques took their shirts off, and we were losing our minds just oblivious to the yellow flag. And then they took it away. Yeah. I was going to say, you and I are not really shirts off guys. That's a Ryan Lemon thing.

Not front row of Oxford, you know. Oklahoma SEC tournament game this year. That's a good one. Oh, yeah. That's a great one. That was a great one. That would have been a really good one, although my friend, Dwayne, spoiled it,

and I already knew we won before he made the shot on my. Yeah, I've told you that. When we, you know, we were down. Yeah. My cable feed was like a minute. We were streaming it, so it was like a minute and a half behind. He had looked online and saw we want. He just whispered and said, you will be all right, friend.

That's what he said. Dwayne, come on. I was actually okay with it. It was trying to make me not nervous, because I was so nervous about the game. One person writes, what do you and Shannon think about Howard Stern being canceled? Wait, what? Well, he wasn't canceled. The report is that Sirius is not going to renew his contract's up at the end of the year and they're not going to renew it. Oh, I didn't.

It's breaking news to me. Well, I don't know if it's, it's like being said by some people, but I haven't seen it in an official report. But I'm not surprised by it. I mean, he cost a bajillion dollars. Yeah. Like, he costs a zillion dollars. And while Howard Stern, there was a period of time from like 1998, 99, through like 2007, where I probably

listened to every episode. you know that time's kind of passed and while occasionally I'll turn it on you know it's just not the same I mean times changed Shannon he only does like three days a week of live shows now the rest of all he plays he's 71 I think he's my he's my parents age yeah he's definitely lost his edge too I mean it's not it's just not the same like it's just not the same so I mean I understand I think he did exactly what serious wanted which is he I bought serious for him Shannon oh yeah I did You know what? So, I mean, clearly it worked.

I didn't think he was ever going to retire. I guess they're retiring them for them right now. I've been a subscriber to Sirius for 23 years because of him. So, I mean, they've made enough money for me probably to justify. Who's up next? Kentucky Joe. Kentucky Joe. How are you?

859-280-2287. I'm saying good morning, too. It's been a good show this morning. I've got a comment and maybe an offering too. I can't get over that show on Friday. You know, what's the, I mean, with the UK football players, especially cheeky. I can't say his name. Don't even try.

Yeah, don't even try. You were going to say Cheeky Pete, and that's a mafia member. That's not him. Well, I'll tell you what's happened. It's touched my heart. I also got a song about him. No song, no song. You know, we don't need a song about it.

But I think that's very sweet of you to say something nice about him because he has kind of taken over Big Blue Nation. Yeah. God, I'm thinking, I think you're capable of a hig of the football team this year. going to be a surprise. I'm going out. I'm going out on a limb. I'm going to say 9 and 3.

9 and 3. All right. Well, good. Well, you're on the positive end of the predictions. Appreciate the call. Yeah, Shiaj, Pete. He's got to get, don't you think, drew an NIL deal or something after all this, right? I think I would buy one of his products.

Absolutely. I would love a Shiaz Pete shirt. Assuming he plays the way he's expected to, I think he's only going to grow more and more popular with the fan base. I would love to see. his reaction if Joe actually sing a song for him, like to his face. I would love that too. That would be great.

We can make that happen. Start crying. Pete may start crying. He would love it. Big emotional teddy bear. Yeah, I would love it too. I would, you know, I wish I could have him on my uninterrupted podcast. Kentucky Joe's available all the time.

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