KSR - 2025-08-06- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK sports news, Ice Cube in "War Of The Worlds" and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280, 2287. Ask Anything Wednesday. I'll remind you we are doing interviews all week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at the bar. for server positions, cooks, et cetera. So all day, or we'll go 10, I think it's 10 to 3, today, tomorrow, Friday.

So we'd love to have you. And if you know people that would be interested, if there are college students, a good part-time job, if you are interested in a longer-term job, come see us. We have very competitive pay in a fun working environment, and we open three weeks from yesterday. So it's coming back here very soon. You excited for that, Drew?

very excited i ordered a bunch of new uh photos for us to get her tomorrow so i'd be hit right i'll have another uh framing and hanging party soon uh ready to open it and let everyone in though yes and uh we will put on sale monday tickets for our fan opening dinner which is i think thursday the do tuesday the 21st so uh just keep that uh in mind one person also wrote me and said uh shanan harvey would have loved shiage oh Absolutely. That would have been great to get those two together, wouldn't it? Yeah, I think Shiaz would have loved Harvey as well.

I think that's right. What person writes, Matt, has Scuttle Butt Lemon, who was so good at the 2025 class, heard anything about recruiting for 2026? Nope. Are you going to go back into that world of reporting recruits? You were pretty good at it last year. Yeah, I felt like I got some real good information. Things just changed. It has happened sometimes in recruiting world.

I get burned by your school. You do, but sometimes, you know what, nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? True. You put your, you put it out there. Didn't work, but that's okay. I haven't heard anything, though, about the 2026 class, so. I do. Before you said about Harvey, he would have had a blister recommendation.

Oh, he definitely would have. We could have sent Lidolo to him. He'd be back by his next start. No doubt. No doubt. You know who else I think Harvey would have really liked? Since I'm people all say, Harvey would have liked RFK, as the health secretary.

That would have been. That's true. Harvey would have been, what do they call it? Say, Maha, make America healthy. Harvey would have been on that train. I don't think there's, I don't think there's any doubt about that. One thing I wanted to know, and you're seeing some people talk about this online today, and I think it's an interesting conversation.

The W.W.E just signed with ESPN $300 million a year to put their, their, their 12 pay-per-views on ESPN. So they're going to be on that ESPN. They're going to be on the streaming app. They're not going to be on the regular network, at least they say. But it'll be on streaming. The NFL just announced the NFL network and NFL Red Zone are going to be on ESPN.

So with the combination of, for us, Drew, you know, SEC, NFL, and now WWE on ESPN, you almost have to have that app at this point, right, if you like sports. Definitely. And I'm someone that I don't really watch network TV or cable. I will open the ESPN app and see what's going on. Even watching old 30 for 30. Now you just add all the wrestling fans coming to it.

Are you worried about them hurting the product at all? No, I'm not. I mean, if they didn't change it for Netflix, I don't think they're going to change it for ESPN. But here's what I think is interesting about it. So it was $300 million. And that was the exact same amount that the east. ESPN is giving the SEC every year for all of the SEC games. And I was seeing people this morning online making the argument,

kind of that the SEC may have gotten jipped. That basically, because the Big Ten, if you remember, signed a contract for more than that. And the SEC contract is long term. I think we still have like another eight, nine years left in it. And the argument was, if the WWE's pay-per-views, which they only do 12 a year, or $300 million. Every SEC football game, every SEC basketball game,

every SEC women's basketball game, and the SEC network. Okay? So think about all that inventory. All the games, SEC network, basically the SEC should have gotten more money. And the argument was when we get into this rev share time, there's going to be a time these schools wished that they had signed a bigger deal because when some of these other conferences come up, they're going to get more money per value than the SEC will

because the SEC signed a long-term deal for maybe not the right amount of money. And I have to say, you know, Shannon, if 12 pay-per-views for the WWE, and granted, WrestleMania is one of them, I get it. Yeah. But if they're worth that amount of money for U.S. only rights, They still get to sell it. That's not world rights. That's just U.S.

rights. I was wondering about that. So, I mean, you would think then by the numbers, they're saying that as many people watch 12 pay-per-views for the WWE as watches all the SEC games. But I don't think that's true, though. I think more people will watch the SEC. Tote, again, I mean, how many people watch a wrestling pay-per-view? A few million?

I'm not sure. But there are you, there are college football games that get more than that. Well. I actually think there's a decent argument that. that our SEC deal actually ends up looking like it's not worth enough money when you compare it. You hear $300 million, you go, that's a ton of money. It is, but the Big Ten sign for more,

and when you compare it now to other sports, I don't know, Shannon. I mean, I kind of think maybe the SEC should have gotten more. Or maybe Triple H is just a great negotiator and got more than what they should have. Maybe. What do you all think? I mean, I would say to me, the SEC deal for every game, which think about how many games that is,

is worth more than 12 paper fees. I don't know the timeline, but I assume when they cut this deal with the SEC, maybe that was top market value. It was like two years ago. It was like two years ago, two and a half years ago. So, you know, good for the ESPN to kind of, you know, negotiate that deal at the time that maybe would be worth double that two years later.

I mean, I don't care, Drew, except for when it comes to being competitive, right? I mean, you always say, you give the quote, I say all the time. It's not my money, so what do I care? But I do hope we don't get to a point five years down the road where we're still in this contract that looks like it's not worth as much and it hurts us to actually be competitive on the field. Yeah, it sure looks like ESPN got a bargain. Just look at the poll that came out yesterday.

Was it nine or 10 SEC teams in the preseason top 25? So, I mean, every single week, you're going to have some great games in it, compared to what they just signed the WWE for. And especially in a few years, it's going to look like they got a nice little bargain on getting the best conference in football. Yeah. And now, Shannon, you know, with all these things, got the NFL, WWB, all in ESPN, you know, a lot of opportunities for Uncle Matt, potentially. Or they could just ignore me for all of them. That's true.

You're a wrestling expert. You're an NFL expert. Well, definitely an NFL expert now, right? Exactly, yeah. Yeah. I mean, they had talked to me about a year ago about hosting a W. W-E pay-per-view pre-game show with Booker T. Oh, what?

Yeah. And I was like, oh, I'd love to do that. And then about a month later, they announced the show, and it wasn't me. It was Booker T and somebody else. And I was like, well, no, well. What was the guy names of the guys that replaced you that one time? It was not Yom Yom Yom-Me suck. It was the guy, I understood.

It was the guy in New York. He's been on a bunch of stuff. Peter Rosenberg or something like that. I understand. Like, he's done a bunch of stuff for them. So it made sense to me. Who's up next? You could have been the other half of Harlem Heat.

I could. I was supposed to be Stevie Ray. Go ahead. Hunter. Hunter, go ahead, Hunter. Hunter. Yes, anytime you're ready. Okay, here now.

All right, I got two questions. One, if Otega was there for cows last year, Kentucky, would it affect the outcome of the season, and Woody would have left with him for Arkansas? So second question, with the revenue share, we're thinking like, what's North Carolina going to do with their football programs, stuff like that? What the heck the Alabama going to do with two elite programs? Yeah, I mean, Matt, well, Matt Norlander said on my interrupted podcast, I asked him what programs would be most effective, affected negatively by ref share? I don't know if you all heard this, but if you listen to my interrupted podcast, we talk about this.

I asked him what programs will be affected most positively. And he said Kentucky, Duke, and then he mentioned those big East schools, St. John's, Connecticut, and Villanova and Marquette. But then I asked him which schools were going to be most affected negatively. And Drew, he led with Alabama and Auburn. He said Alabama and Auburn basketball, they're going to take the biggest hit. Because he said there's no way their football programs are going to sacrifice the money. And he even then mentioned Arkansas as well.

He basically was like, he kind of thought. thought the schools that would take the biggest hit are the SEC schools not named Kentucky and Florida. He thought there were people at Florida that would still really push that. But he kind of thought Alabama and Auburn might take the two biggest hits. Definitely. They're both new to basketball success in the last decade. In Auburn, especially, there's a hunger to get football back where it needs to be

because Bama football has still pretty much been Bama football. So it'd be interesting to see if that fan base likes this run with Bruce Pearl, where they've, you know, doubled their conference championships under Pearl or do they want to get back to winning the Iron Bowl because it'll be hard to do both. It's going to be hard to do both. You're right. And that might be why Bruce Pearl seems to be sniffing it,

running for Senate, is he might be seeing the riding on the wall and thinking, I don't know if this is going to be the path. As far as the first question, Ryan, I don't know if Otega OA is a cow player. What do you think?

Yeah, you know, you got Reed, Rob, and Antonio Reeves, those three guys on that team. His last year. And D.J. Wagner. I mean, was Otega going to play over all those guys? That's it. Where's he going to play?

Where's going to go on the floor? As great as Otega was, I might take the other guys over him last year, that year. Although, Cal did like dudes who were tough and would take it to the basket more than he did shooters. So maybe he would have been a Cal player. I don't know. It's hard to say. Who's next? Doug.

Doug. Go ahead, Doug. Hey, guys. Since it's asking anything Wednesday, there's something one in your. you're also opinion on for a long time. So we know that Jerry West is the logo of the NBA. Not sure that he should still be, but he is. Who is the logo of UK athletics, both male and female?

Wow. So, you know, that's a good question. I appreciate the call. I mean, female, let's start with female. Is it Sidney McLaughlin, Ryan? I thought maybe he was talking just basketball, a basketball logo. Okay, well, if you're talking basketball, then, I don't know. I mean, we mentioned the other day the three or four kind of best players.

Does one stand out to you of that group? If I were in charge, I'd probably make it Dan Isle, just because he's the leader in points and rebounds. I know it's been a long time, but those two records have stood for a while and probably aren't going anywhere. And it's a similar era. It's a similar era to Jerry West. With Anthony Davis is a close second.

Yeah. You're probably right. If you go that line of thought, then is Valerie still the female one? She's actually the scoring leader. I have Matthew Mitchell doing the doggie as the women's logo. I like those picks. I think those are probably pretty good picks.

Shannon, War of the Worlds, apparently there's a new War of the World. I did not know it existed until earlier today. And it stars Ice Cube. Is that right? That's right. Yep. And it has a zero on Rotten Tomato.

How is that possible? Not one person like it. Literally has literally has the worst reviews of a film that has come out of a certain budget in the last since COVID. Now, I want you to think about that for a minute. Since COVID, every movie, and I don't know what the amount is, but every movie that's been made for a. certain amount of money. This movie has the worst reviews of any. Shannon, I would never see more of the worlds, but now I kind of want to see it. Oh yeah. This makes me want to see it. First of all, it brings awareness to the fact that even exists, because I didn't even know it existed until

this morning. But now I do want to watch it just to see how bad is it? Like how bad has Ice Cube's career fallen off a cliff? I would argue you'd rather have a zero. Drew, then have like a 20 because I now wonder how bad can this be that it hasn't even gotten one positive review.

Like it must be so bad that now I almost want to see how could it be that bad. Me too. Didn't know this existed until it was mentioned today. It's kind of like the Aidan LaRose with the zero toughness punting.

We don't talk about the punter if he doesn't have that zero. We don't talk about Ice Cube's new movie if it's not a zero. If it's just middle of the pack of the worst movies, don't even know it exists. Now I will make a point to watch it just to know how awful it is. And it's on prime. It's on prime. Oh, it's already out, so it's not in a theater. No, you can watch it like right now if you want to. Okay. All right. So I think we should watch it. Let's do it. I mean, I haven't seen a war of the world's, I mean, I know they had a couple, a few years ago. I haven't seen any of them. So I hope I will be able to keep up with the story.

But Ryan, you want to watch the Zero movie, War of the Worlds? Let's do it. And you said it, wouldn't you rather have a zero than a 20? Because now we would never be talking about it if it was a 20. Okay. So here's the thing. If you're listening, we have a group homework assignment. Okay.

By Monday. By Monday. What are the reviews said? I was rooting for the aliens. I was reading for the aliens. Beyond belief, land. boring, bore of the world, awful. Was this the student project?

These are great. I love it. All right. So between now and Monday, that is our homework, is that you have to watch War of the World. I'm told that WLAP just went off the air. This company and their technology is the aliens. It's unbelievably. Hopefully the rest of you are still hearing it.

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Last night, Ryan, a record. the fastest ball ever hit for a home run. Lurid, I don't know how to say his name. How do you say L-O-U-R-D-E-S? L-O-U-R-T-E-S? D-E-S. L-O-U-R-T-E-S. L-E-L-JrU-R-E-L-Ju-E-R-E-BACs hit

103-3.3-9-mile-per-hour home run. Fastball from a guy named Mason Miller, who I think throws faster than anybody in the league, through 103.9 and he hit a home run. It is the fastest ball hit for a home run of all time. Man, it's crazy. I mean, pitchers are throwing the ball faster. Guys are hitting it harder just every year.

Just the bigger, better, stronger, faster. Makes me wonder how all these records are not going to be just oblivionated than years ahead. It's amazing 103.9. That's hard to even fathom. But he's thrown, the guy who threw the pitch, has thrown it up to 104.5. Amazing. Grief.

That's insane. He played for the A's. Now he plays for the Padres, so that's why we've probably never heard him. I had Pablo Torre on my interrupted by Matt Jones podcast. I think people

will enjoy it. We talk about Rick Petino, we talk about Bill Belichette. And that's most of the show because he's really fascinated in both those stories. A lot of the stuff about Petino, you all will know, but it's fun to talk about with somebody else. But he also said two things, Drew, that I thought you'd find interesting.

Number one, we've talked, I think, before about the Yankees' wife swap, right? Mm-hmm. Do you remember that? Yes. The two guys that change families. Yep. He said, by the way, and I didn't know this. So you remember, there were two players.

They were like swingers on the baseball team. They decided to change wives and families. Did you know that one of those two, is still married to the woman that he switched with? No. Also, didn't they, like,

swap children to? They swapped everything. Yeah. They just changed houses. That's so weird. But I'm not surprised that one of the two relationships didn't work. But aren't you surprised that the other one did? Yes.

Yes. That's insane. I didn't know that until he said it. And second, and Shannon, this probably won't shock you. You remember totally. request live. Oh, yeah, TRL.

TRL. You remember they would do the top 10 every day? Of course, yeah. Pablo Torre proved on his podcast it was rigged. They would tell you to call in and vote. They never took the votes. They just ranked them based on what they wanted to play. It doesn't surprise me at all.

MTV was going to basically force feed you the bands that they wanted you to hear. It didn't matter what people really voted. So that doesn't surprise me. It didn't really shock me, but now we have a official word that TRL was rigged. People were not calling in for in sync and limp biscuit as much as you thought they were during the time.

But that was MTV's narrative. They wanted you to like that music. So they wanted you to see that it was number one every day on the top 10. Now we know it's a lie. Now we know it's a lie. So yeah, check that out that episode if you get a chance. What's next? Jackson.

Jackson. Go ahead, Jackson. Hey, Matt. I was just wondering about what you think of the Reds. They beat the Cubs twice, hopefully about to sweep them. And I saw something that said they have a 13.8% chance to make the postseason. So I was wondering what you thought about that. Yeah, I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'm not Jackson, but I have enjoyed it. You know, they lost that game, the Bristol game, and I kind of thought that might be it. But now they've won the last two. Their new guys played a big role. I know you appreciate defense, Ryan. You see that play Key Brine made last night at third base? The one that he bare-handed and threw the guy out that one, yeah. That was one of the best playing.

The pitcher played well. And then they, so I, you know. Both your, like, yeah, your new acquisitions won that game for you last night. They did, yeah. So, you know, they play this afternoon, Jackson. I don't know if they'll win that, but then they got four straight against the pirates. They need to win three of those. If they win three of the four against, I'm going to be at the game Saturday and Sunday.

I'm going up there. if they win three of those four, Jackson, or they win today. So three of the next five, then I'm on board and you and I can start getting excited, all right? All right. He didn't sound too excited. Now, he hung up. He was going. He hung up.

Yeah. I mean, I don't want to believe, Ryan, because I feel like it's just a good way to get hurt. But it is face good. They've won the series at Chicago. That was exciting. And they've got the schedule ahead of them. that they could actually make some noise. This week, then it starts to get really hard.

They play like all the best teams down the stretch. So it's going to be tough. But I want to thank them. They've given me a lot of enjoyment this year. I've really enjoyed it. What's next? It sounds like somebody's going to renew next year for their season tickets. Yeah, I am.

I mean, next year, to be honest with you, the next two years is what they've been building for, it's 26 and 27. Now, I will say if they don't make the playoffs one of those two years, I'm going to go on record, Shannon, not renewing in 28. Okay. All right. They got 26 and 27 to get me. I'm writing this down.

Because then all their players, their contract, like, they've got their core for the next two years. And that's what I'm, that's why I'm still holding out hope. What's next? Bob. Bob, go ahead, Bob. Good morning. Yes. You got one minute, Bob.

I'm impressed with the interview with Assange. Is that the way you pronounce his name? His name is not Assange. That was the former leader of Syria. His name is Shiaj. Shiaj, I'm sorry. I'm a crow member,

talked about a crow from Montana, and I wondered they played a lot of seven-man football in that area, and out southwest. And I just wondered if he participated in the seven-man. Yeah, I didn't hear that he did. He said he played 11 on 11, but they only had 11 guys,

He may have done that, but he didn't say one way or the other, so I don't know. And you were talking about Cortez. There's a place to help moral. I'll have to let you go. I'm sorry. We'll take a break. 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. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Some breaking news. She's in it. running on nah. The SEC has announced the basketball opening and closing weekend schedule. They are opening, they have decided every year to open the SEC play every year with powerhouses playing

and then make the last Saturday of every season rivalry Saturday. So the opening weekend for Kentucky, they will play on the road at Alabama, January 3rd, their first game in SEC play will be at Alabama, and they will close the season at home on rivalry Saturday against Florida in the final home game of the year. Do you like that, Drew? I love it, and I have a prediction. March 7th will be for the SEC regular season crown,

Kentucky, Florida, in Lexington, interrupt Ruperino, winner wins the conference. I like that. I don't think that's a bad prediction, actually. I love the Alabama ones. when to start it. I'd prefer a home game, but whatever. You've got to go to Alabama. eventually. Let's just get it out of the way. I love how those are the bookends on the schedule. And that'll be the only time we play Alabama all year, by the way. It's the only time

we play Alabama all year. We'll be that game. Florida's home and home. Not home and home. No, we play our home and home teams are Florida, Tennessee, and Vandy. So it's back to Florida, Tennessee, Vandy again. So that game against Alabama on the road is the only time we'll see them all year long. Ryan, do you like opening with Alabama and closing at home with Florida? The thing I like the best is that the Florida game closing out is at Rupp Arena. I thought for sure when you started that they were going to end at Tennessee or at Florida as the rivalry game on the road. I thought for sure you're going to say that. So the fact you've got Florida, the defending champs at home, yeah, absolutely bring it.

All right. I like it. So there you go. That is your. SEC update schedule. They should have the whole schedule here. Probably pretty soon. The women's schedule came out yesterday. The SEC schedule. So you've got to think the men's will come out soon after. Shady Rays.

We are at Shady Rays on Friday. We will be doing our remote there in Lexington at the summer. Remember, 50% off all Shady Rays in Lexington on Friday. Plus, I may spice it up with some ticky tics. So all you got to do is come to Shep. Shady Rays, Lexington and Summit should be a fun show. I think the weather is the weather supposed to be good? I was going to say it was going to be good, but I realized I have no idea if it's going to be good or not.

Yeah, I think it's supposed to be really good. Really good, good. As soon as it's over, I'm hopping in a car and heading up to Pittsburgh. So Shady Rays, Friday at the summit, we will see you there. Who's next, Shannon? Jordan. Jordan. Jordan.

Hey, guys. I watched the Any Given Saturday Netflix talk. Kentucky's not really in it. They don't cover us during the South Carolina game, just their perspective. In the last episode, we get like 10 minutes where they cover Harrison, and then they say we're playing against Louisville for pride and then show us getting destroyed. Yeah, as I understand it, you tell me if this is right, if you've seen the whole thing. The South Carolina episode is centered around South Carolina,

but the Kentucky Louisville episode looks like it was supposed to be centered around us, but then we lost, and so they didn't do a whole lot in it. Yeah, they showed a lot of, like, practice and stuff. They have, like, Matt, they have Harrison talking to Dion and, you know, all those guys, and then there's a little bit of it, but then it clearly they were like, oh, yeah, Kentucky's going to play for pride. They show Harrison, like, doing his homework in the hotel room, which is interesting, and then they just show highlights of Louisville just destroying us.

Is the show good overall? Like, is it a good show? It's very repetitive. I watched the first four episodes, and I was like, this is the same thing over and over again. They show a lot of LSU, and then I actually skipped episodes five and six

and just went straight to hours and skipped through that too. They do cover Vandy during the Alabama week, and I was like, oh, yeah, this will be a great... So, yeah, I heard they have a really cool shot. They're on the field with the fans as they're storming. Somebody told me, if you didn't like Diego Pavia, before you'll really not like him after this.

Is that true? One of his roommates talks to him and he's like, dude, you got to stop cussing in public. Okay. Well, I'm going to watch it. He's like, yeah, you do it at the restaurant the other day. Yeah, well, okay. Well, listen, I appreciate the information. Have you all watched any of it, the three of you?

I have yet to see any of it. I watched the first episode last night. It was all Brian Kelly and Shane Beamer. and the two guys I like the least in the entire conference, but I stomach through the first episode. Same as Ryan. When Brian Kelly was the first 15 minutes, I had it on,

and I was like, I'd rather not start with him, not a fan. Yeah, I mean, I love anything behind the scenes. Does anybody know, did Hard Knocks deal with Harrison or Walker or Davis? Do we know the first episode last night?

That's on my watch list tonight. I have not seen any spoilers. Okay. I assume if they were heavily featured, that would have been circulating on social media, but I've not seen it. I got to get through War of the Worlds first. I would have thought with Davis's story and Harris. I would think they'll be on there at some point.

But we'll see. Josh Allen got married. That'll probably be featured. Oh, you mean the other Josh Allen? Yeah, the Bill's quarterback. I assume they'll follow him around. Don. Don, go ahead, Don.

Don, go ahead, Don. Hey Matt, I was listening to Sports Radio, and on two different unrelated sports, it was go time. Well, I'd like to know is when or why is it go time? When is go time over, and who gets to declare it and why? It can't be a talking hit. You mean like go time in a game? Go time for whatever. This was like they were talking about, you know, like before the season started or, you know, anytime, whenever anybody, whenever it gets declared.

Well, so here's what I think. Generally speaking, and I appreciate the call. Generally speaking, I actually had to talk about this in my interview with Terry Miner's yesterday. I hate Shannon cliche. One of the things I hate about media is the way people have to do segments, right? Like, I really hate segments on shows when they're like, okay, let's play deal or no deal. Let's play Fact or Fictions. You know, all those kinds of things.

Really, it's just a way of we got to have something to say, so let's call it a game. Announcers are like that, too, with things like he's really stepping up or it's go time or whatever. I just think that's kind of you're just leaning back on something because you don't have anything interesting to say. So you go back. Now, I do like catch phrases like when people will say, back when I was a kid string music in Kentucky. but in general, when I hear things like go time, that guy's right. Like, what does that even mean? It's go time.

Isn't it always go time? I always kind of just roll my eyes. I guess it's talking time a lot of the summer, but now we're getting down to the last, you know, 30 days before football season. Now it's go time. I think that's probably what they mean. Probably. Are you all, do you, Drew, I feel like you, we've talked about this.

When we were playing in our NFL show, Billy was like, do we want to have segments? And I said, I hate segments. I think they're kind of stupid, but. Yeah. They get a little cheesy. I know your ESPN employer's big on them. We've got like two segments scheduled for this afternoon. I don't want to make fun of them.

But these shows, they all have segments. And you know, you have to do them. But right now, today on ESPN radio, I'm going to have to do NFL two a days. And the two we have are the Bears, which actually I can do. And Shannon, your Packers. What should I say about your Packers this afternoon? That they're going to win the Super Bowl?

That's really all you need to say. But can you give me any information about them? Yeah, Jordan loves their quarterback. I knew that. Yeah, that's about it. I don't know. All right, well, there you go. I haven't kept up with them at all in the offseason, as you can tell.

You're going to hear me BS about it for 10 minutes today. What's next? Jeff. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff. Hey, guys. Hey, Matt, do you have any idea why UK is doing the Family Day during the Texas Cambridge here? Family Day.

Is that where you get to bring your kids for, like, a reduced price? or something? Yeah, I usually do it against Stinking for the parents coming in, the kids. Oh, you mean like Parents Day or do you mean like Family Day? Yeah, yeah. It's like they call it Family Day, but it's more like Parents Day. Oh, for the college students.

Oh, I don't know. You're right. They usually do that at a game where it would be easy to get tickets. I am surprised that they would do that for Texas, because presumably that's going to be kind of a hard ticket. It's going to be a very hard ticket. We usually get an RV site. Pinky teams are easy to get, but it's not going to be able to do that this year.

Yeah, I don't know. I have not heard, but that is maybe they just, maybe they were hoping to find a way to not have that stadium filled with Texas fans since it's the first time they've come. I don't know. That's interesting. I appreciate the call, Drew. Why do you think they did that?

Yeah, because usually parents' days when we play like Vandy or something. Just a complete guess, but we only have two home games with Keenland. Maybe they try to line it up with that. The other's Tennessee. So if you're picking up the two, Texas has never been here. I don't know. But just Keenland being that time, maybe they combine the parents and the football weekend. How much do you think we're going to get

invaded for that Texas game? That, I believe, will be the hardest ticket all season due to Texas fans coming into our town and buying all the tickets. Well, they might be number one. Yeah, it's true. I mean, there's a decent chance they'll come in and they'll be the number one team

in the country. I think you're going to see I think that Saturday in Lexington has a potential to be because Keenland's going on too has a potential to be like an insane Saturday because if I was a Texas fan

you've never been here Keenland's here like why wouldn't you go to it? I mean you're going to see I think you this sounds crazy but I think you could see 30 to 40,000 Texas fans here.

Oh, I'm expecting it. And, you know, Kentucky football doesn't really move the needle in the SEC, but Lexington might be the number one destination. It really is. I mean, people can go to Nashville, people have been to Nashville, but I mean, you're going to go to Auburn, Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Kentucky has Keenland going on, Bourbon Trail. It's an awesome city.

It is a, it's a place where when your school doesn't get to go there very often, you want to make sure you take advantage of it that one time. The same way we wanted to go to Austin. Yeah, exactly. Like when we played there last year. year everybody there were a lot of people that really wanted to go i expect you know i i expect there are going to be some games this year old miss they're going to be a ton of old miss fans up here there will there i mean there's going to be a ton of this is there that'll be their first

big game of the year just like it is ours it's here we beat them last year so they feel like they want revenge i think you're going to see both for old miss and texas just obscene crowds of their fans here. And obviously Tennessee always does that. Yes. So, I mean, three of our, what, three of our seven home games, I would just expect to see just massive amounts of the other team. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage.

Stockton Mortgage, a lot of people are like asking me, you know, should we go ahead and try to do a refinancing, you know, the rates are high. You need to talk to them, man. Just sit down, they'll talk to you. They'll go over all your options. You may do something. They may say, hey, once you wait one more year, if the rates go down, then do it. So you can trust them.

And I've trust them for years doing my own mortgage and referring to customers to them. So give them a try. Stockton Mortgage, go to their website, Stockton.com. And there's a button right there says, get started. They'll link you up with a loan officer all across Kentucky, even outside of Kentucky. They can help you refinance, do a cash out refinance, do a he lock. They can do it all for you. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS, 8259, Equal Housing Lender.

All right, I'm going to have to go lock in so that the ESP. and people tell me what we're doing today. So these guys are going to take you through the final segment. Drew, or excuse me, Ryan, I'm going to mention Devin Key at 1 o'clock. And that interception he got. Who was it against? Oh, against Bo Nix. Bo Nix.

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Tiffany was the only name that I recognized from the 80s. Yeah, she was kind of the little, you know, risque one. What a Debbie Gibson? Debbie Gibson was like the Goody Two Shoes one. But what was her song? I can't think of it with Tiffany going on right now. She had a couple hits. Everybody knows this one.

I think we're alone now. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't even think was her song. I think that was out before that, before her. And they both got popular. Didn't they both get popular by going to shopping malls across the country? I know Tiffany did. Tiffany was on full house.

That's how I remember. All right, Ryan, Drew and Shannon here. I got one segment here. If you want to call, we'll get you on real quick. 859-2-2-287. That's Clark's Publish out phone number. So, Drew, there is a Kentucky Little League coach that is going viral right now. I believe he's coaching the Eastern Little League All-Star team in the regional tournament.

Is that right? Correct. And he makes a mound visit. Shannon, you know you've been there. You're the pitcher. Coach comes out, talks to you. But obviously the stakes are a little higher when it's the regional tournament. You're trying to get to the Little League World Series.

Big crowd. You're on the road, big stadiums. People watching at home on TV. This was on ESPN for crying out loud. Huge moment for Eastern Little League. That produced Walker Beeler, by the way, Eastern Little League. And this coach comes out and he did something that's gone viral. And we want to play it for you.

So go ahead, Shannon. I don't have that many funny ones. Oh, I got one. Do you know that a koala bear is not actually a bear? It's a marsupial. Do you know why a koala bear is a bear? Is a marsupial not a bear? Anybody know?

It doesn't have the qualifications. And then he walks off. That was the entire mound business. It's a huge point of the game. He goes out, brings his infield in, his pitcher, and he tells the joke about a marsupial. I loved every second of it. Me too.

If I had that little league coach, I might have stuck with baseball, with that kind of attitude. Ryan, you've been in that spot. Does that help the pitcher? If you're just talking nothing about baseball and telling a joke

or keeping their mind on something else? Well, these are 12-year-old kids, you know? And they feel it. They know, man. It's a tight game. They're trying to win in, you know, advance. So I was coaching 8-year-old. There's my story, Shannon.

Yeah. And it was a huge game. Matter of fact, Dante Key was the other coach. We were playing Dante's team. Oh, head to head. First place up for grabs in Southwest Little League. The drama. Now, Southwest Pony, I'm sorry.

And big part of the game. So I called timeout in the eight-year-old game stand and walked to the mound. Yeah. Called my infield in. And I'm like, tell me what I want, what I really, really want. Yeah, I'll tell you what I want, what I really want. I want you guys to get this guy out, walk back to the dugout. That was my mountain visit.

Did they laugh? Did they get it? I mean, they probably had never heard the song ever. Spice Girls even a big thing then? Well, no. They had no idea who the Spice Girls were. Didn't know what I was doing.

But like this coach was doing with this, you just tried to just, I mean, it's baseball. It's supposed to be fun. Don't be upset. What can you say in that moment anyway? Throw a strike. I mean, the pitcher knows how to pitch at this point. There's nothing you can really say unless you're talking strategy at that point.

I think the main object is to get out. out there and just to break up the rhythm of the pitcher, right? Make them laugh, make them smile, and think about something else for a second. My college coach at Kentucky Wesley and Denny Potts was like 5'3. When he would make a mound visit, he would go, Shannon, and stand on the rubber. So he would be as tall as all the other players, make them kind of stand down the mouth a little bit. But I thought the coach Drew played it perfectly. Just try to have some fun.

Enjoy the moment. Enjoy baseball. It's a great joke. They did have to come home. That was the end of the road for our Kentuckyans. So the marsupial joke didn't work? It didn't. Well, we don't know that didn't work.

Maybe it helped that pitcher in that moment. But it was great. It's gone viral, some nice attention for them, but it was the end of the road for the Kentuckians. Maybe he should have told a better joke. No, that's a good one. That's a great one. I could tell you that my mound visits were not as pleasant.

From my playing days. From Scotty Wiegand? Yeah, Scottie Wiegay wasn't telling any jokes. He ain't messing around. He's telling your ass to throw a striker. you're going to get yanked out of there. What age group did you say you sang Spice Girls to? Eight year old.

Yeah, they probably weren't very familiar with that. They had no idea, but I thought that was a good way to do it. Tell me what I want, what I really want. I'll tell you what I want, what I really want. Why don't you get this guy out? I mean, unless it was like 1996 when this happened. No, no, it was like 2010. It's good to know Coach Lemon's tactics, though.

Yeah, and we lost the game. I think Dante's team beat me that game. So you still bring that up while you are playing cornhole by the pool? Yeah. So listen, Matt mentioned it. We are at Shady Ray's on. Friday. Wild Egg is going to be there, free breakfast. Matt's already mentioned he's going to have maybe some ticket giveaways, a lot of free goods. But it's always a fun show. We go to Shady Raise, Drew.

Yeah, they're having a big sale on their sunglasses. So if you're going, maybe even partake and leave with some sunglasses, we usually do sunglasses. We usually do sunglasses. I double-checked your weather forecast, looking good. That's one we're usually outside there at the summit. Usually get a good crowd. So I'm looking forward to getting out there. And the interviews continue at KS Bar and Grill. You know, if you're interested maybe being one of our servers, a hostess, working in the kitchen. We got some spots. So come on down and check out Monique's doing interviews through the rest of the week, right? Yep. For the rest of the week. Almost here. All right. We're going to take our break for 22 hours and be back. Ryan Drew and Shannon.

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