KSR - 2025-08-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, August the 7th. I cannot believe it's Thursday, August 7th. I mean, we're three weeks for my birthday. College

football. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. Clark's Publishop shop phone lines 859-280 2287. A Vision Auto Glass, text machine is 772-7474. 5254. And this is sponsored by the T.J. Smith's law office called T. J.L. Make them pay. Here's the way I think about it. We are three weeks from our birthday, less than three weeks from reopening the restaurant. We've got our 15th anniversary for the radio show coming in in September and then our 20th anniversary for the website coming in October. I mean, that's crazy to me, if you think about it. I mean, 20 years.

since the first post I wrote on the website. And I turned 37. I saw that on Facebook. I know. I mean, like, I'm like pushing 40 now. How did I pass you?

It's odd how, it's odd how numbers work now. Yeah, because like, you know, there's like, it's AI. Oh,

okay. And then I used to be the young one. Yeah. And now you're, you're older. And like, that's just, you're the old married man now.

You do wonder how that happens. But again, this is the new. You're going to have to get used to it. You're going to get left behind. That means you started the website at 17. I know. That was why it was so progressive at the time.

I hadn't even graduated from Middlesbrough high school yet. You know? You still had a toenail on your wallet. Petino was still the coach, but I acted like it was tubby. I knew he was coming. It's crazy. 20 years is a long time. 20 years is a long time.

And that hits in October. 859-280, 2287. machine is 772-745254. I've had really nice compliments from you all the last couple days of show. It continues my belief that the less things there are to talk about of importance, the better we do. I think just when I just look for like when I have things written on my topic sheet like Oreos, that usually ends up being a better show to be honest with you. Because we're not we don't know anything but we love cookies yeah we might as well talk about not knowing anything that's generally better well you know me that's my favorite show i i try to get way off topic

every time so yeah i'm looking forward to or no we do have a couple of of real things and then i have things like just to give an example okay here here are the words written on my sheet today orios herods berg eastern cemetery smelling salts bill tauts Taylor, Microsoft Workday, and checking account update. That sounds like a hell of a show we got coming up today. My goodness. Oh, and South Africa women. But there's a reason for that.

There's a reason for that. Shannon, breaking news. That peaks off our interest. That needs a word trip involved as well. Let me just think. It's not, well, you'll see, assuming we get to it. But I think we need to start with, we need to start with basketball. The UK basketball schedule has come out, okay, and the SEC schedule.

We still don't have the non-comfit chip. And it includes, obviously, nine home games, nine road games. We play everybody once. We play Florida, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt twice. That's not abnormal. Last year they took Florida out for twice, put in Alabama, but Florida ended up winning the national championship. So obviously, they were still very good.

I looked at the schedule and we're going to go through here and do our wins losses. But a couple things stuck out to me. First of all, our road schedule is like, again, and a lot, this is just random, but this is a harder schedule for us on the road than normal. I thought so. I think you could make an argument that three teams we play, that we only play once, the hardest three, we get them all on the road. the road.

Right. Auburn, Alabama, and Arkansas. I think those are the three hardest teams we play that are not played twice, and we get all of them on the road. Our home games are relatively weak, honestly. You know, you got Missouri, Mississippi State, Texas, Old Miss, Oklahoma, Georgia. Those are the first six of the first seven home games. You should win those easy.

Those are all wins right there. And then you play Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Florida. So, I mean, the home. SEC schedule is actually pretty bad. But then you have to remember that last year, it was Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, like the home schedule was crazy good. But the road schedule's tough. I mean, the road schedule has losses in it.

And I don't know that I'd process that that was going to be what it looks like, but it is. And that's, you know, that's going to be an issue. It looks to me like the hard games are balanced pretty well throughout. There's not necessarily a run of really hard games. There is a run from January 31st to February 14th where you have at Arkansas, Oklahoma at home, Tennessee at home at Florida. That's kind of a tough run.

Sure. But in general, it's spread out pretty well. And I think maybe the key thing for me is you've got a stretch. You play Alabama on the road. Then you got Missouri at home, Mississippi State at home, LSU on the road, where if you lost that Alabama game, you can get it back by winning three pities. So I think it's a pretty balanced schedule. But I thought what we do is we just go through here and do our wins loss.

Sure. So all you're supposed to do here is say win or loss. And then on your own sheet of paper, you keep what you think the record's going to be. Okay. Does everybody got that? Got it. You got it, Shannon? All right.

So I'm going to get started. I'll just start with you, Drew. Let's just roll through here at Alabama. Start the year, January 3rd, Saturday. I hate to do it, but I'm going to say starting with a loss. Starting with a loss, right. You got to lose somewhere. Loss.

I'm going to say loss, Shannon. Loss. All right, so we each have one loss there. Missouri at home. Oh, when. Win. When. When?

Mississippi State at home. Win. Win. Win. When? When. When. When.

Win. When. All right, so now all of us have us three and one. Yeah. At Tennessee. When. Knoxville's been good to the cats. That's right.

For whatever reason, they seem to play their best basketball. at Knoxville. I think I was a win too. Shannon. I'm going to take a loss. So that's our second. Texas at home. On my mom's birthday. Mom, I'll take you to that game if you want to go. A win. Win. Win. When? Win. O'Niss at home. Win. When? Win. Win.

Vandy on the road. Win. Win. Win. We're going to take over Nashville in that game. That's in the middle of the week. At Arkansas. I'm going to do it. Loss. it's a loss. No, we get them back. We owe Cal. We're getting a win.

Shannon's right. Yeah. Woo pig, pooey. We're going to go down there and get it back on the road, and that's going to be a win. I like that one. Shannon, you and I are on the exact same page because you're right. We're going to go steal one.

Yep. That's a win. All right. Oklahoma at home. Win. Win. Win. On a buzzer beater.

Win. Win. Win. I got that with Tennessee at home. Win. Win. Win. Sweep in Tennessee.

Win. Win. When? At Florida. Loss. Loss. Loss. I'm going to say loss. That's my third.

Georgia at home. Win. When? Win. When? At Auburn. Loss. Loss.

That one's tough. I'm going to say win on that one. See, Shannon and I are rolling. We're stealing that one. Bruce Pearl's going to be stinky and sweating. He's going to be sad because he's going to walk out of there with a loss as we steal one on the road in Auburn. I like that one. At South Carolina. Win. When? When? When? At Van or excuse me, Vandy at home. When? When. When.

This is going to be my, we always lose one that we shouldn't lose. You take Vandy at home is a loss? No, no. I'm sorry. Was that Vandy at home? Did we all do that? Okay. No, Vandy's a win. At A&M. Swinor alert. I'm taking a loss there at A&M. That's going to be my, we shouldn't lose it, but you lose one. going win, but that's going to be a hard game. I'm going to have lost. I've got a good coach. I'll probably say win. I'm going win. All right. So now I'm at, and then finally, Florida at home,

I think this could be for the SEC title. It's exactly what it's going to be for, and I say a win. Win. It could be a great game that day. Yeah, I think they'll win. I'm going to say win. So I have 14 and 4 with the losses at Alabama, at Tennessee, at Florida, at A&M. That's going to be. Those are my four.

What are you? I had four losses were Alabama, at Florida, Arkansas, and Auburn. Okay, what about you? I had the exact same thing as Drew. All right. And Shannon, you have what I, you have 15 and 3, right? Because you didn't have the A&M loss. Yep, that's right.

So most of us have 14 and 4. You guys have, or Shannon has 15 and 3. Do we set that as the expectation? Just to give you an example. 14 and 4 requires you to win two of these, assuming you win every game at home. It requires you to win at least one of these road games at Alabama, at Tennessee, at Arkansas, at Florida, at Auburn, and then also win at South Carolina at LSU at A&M. So, I mean, that's assuming you win all the ones at home, you're going to have to steal at least one or two on the road.

Yeah, I had them. I was struggling with four or five losses. Being optimistic, I'm going to go with four. I think the big point is if you want to win the conference, you can't slip up at home. Maybe I'll give you Florida. If Florida's as good as they look like they're going to be at the end of the year. But even that, you need to defend home court. You can't lose more than one at the absolute worst.

This schedule is made for you to sweep at home. I mean, you're right. To me, Florida is the only one at the end. But then if you're going to do that, you're going to have to steal two games on the road. Because I think if you want to win the conference and legitimately have a chance to win the conference, you've got to go 14 and 4. Now, the negative to this is, I think this is a schedule that's really hard to go like 16 and 2 or 15 and 3. I actually think that's going to be hard. But this is also a schedule, I think, that has a pretty good floor.

I don't think you're going to go worse than like 12 and 6 because you have all these home. You know, last year, think about the home games we had that we could lose because we did lose a bunch of them. Auburn, Alabama, Arkansas. we beat Florida, but Tennessee, but you had multiple home games you could lose. This year I look at it and say there's really only two home games you even really should think about losing Tennessee and Florida. The rest of the home games, you should be able to win easy. Yeah, you got to go undefeated at home with that schedule. I mean, you really do because when the schedule came out, of course, probably most fans like me looked,

where's the Arkansas game, where's the Auburn game, where's the Alabama game, those three games, and they're all three on the road. It's not a great home schedule if you're a ticket holder. You know, now you do get this year North Carolina and Indiana and Indiana and, Yeah. But for a home SEC schedule last year, I think, was, you know, it was like a banger every weekend. It's not really like that this year. You really kind of get two, and they're right at the end of the year. I mean, the Tennessee, Florida are two of the last four games at home, and that's kind of the best ones. Yeah, I love that Florida game, though. I went back and looked at the history books.

For 25 years, Florida, Kentucky played the last game of the season if you're there here, except for twice. I mean, that was just... Once it was Tennessee. And last year it was just, it was random. It was Missouri or something. We've had Vanity, Missouri the last couple years. It used to always be floored. Always.

I went back and looked at them, but only one time in 2001 was the SEC championship on the line. And I really think that on March 7th, Rupperino will be on fire with the regular season title on the line. I think that's what we're headed for. But regardless, it's just good to have Florida back at the end of the year. Yeah, I always like that. I mean, I never understood why last year we played.

I think it was Missouri. You went to Missouri, and I think Vandy was senior night. And I didn't understand why. I mean, we should finish the SEC schedule pretty much every year with either Florida or Tennessee. I mean, I'll, I think Florida, we've done it for 25 years, so I'm more into it. But it should be that pretty much every year, Ryan. There should be some. So basically the SEC is calling it championship opening Saturday.

They're putting all the best teams against each other. And then rivalry end of the season Saturday. and they have us with Florida, Tennessee with Vandy, Auburn with Alabama, Old Miss with Mississippi State, Texas, Oklahoma, etc. Well, the SEC schedule makers, like, they want that. They want that big finale going into the SEC tournament. But they haven't always done that. I mean, last year, it was, you know, again, we finished the season at Missouri.

That was not where you would make sense. It ended up being a game. We had to win. You ended up playing Wednesday, too. My other two big takeaways just for excitement was I love Mo Diabate. There's no waiting around. You're heading to Alabama. Reunion game. First, first SEC game, he's going to get to play.

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Shannon, you are playing tomorrow night at Manchester Music Hall. You are opening for Everclear. Yeah. This is. Very excited about it. Really cool opportunity. And there's, I think, So you were telling me about how many hits they had.

I forgot they had this one. They have, this is father of mine, but what about Santa Monica? This is Santa Monica. Okay. Well, what about Father of Mine? Father of Mine was also a big hit for him. I will bow you a new life, was a big one. I was just looking up, they sold over 6 million albums.

Really? They were huge for their time. So you are opening for them. What time will you go on tomorrow? We go on at 845. We play for 30 minutes. All right. And then comes Evercliffe.

And there's an opening game before us, too. Alice Blue Gown is so big. They've got their own opening act. Wow. Wow. So you have an opener for. You're like the assistant to the regional manager. That's right.

Yeah, that's right. And then you have an assistant to the assistant to the regional manager. Well, nice. So if I wasn't going to Pittsburgh, I would love to come over there and see you. So you can buy tickets. Rock out with your sock out with Shannon at Manchester Music Hall. Manchester Music Hall.com is where you can get the tickets. Okay, good.

Good for you. That's exciting. You told me Nick Sabin is in Madisonville. The best town on earth. TBTOE is hosting Nick Sabin and is it John C. Maxwell, the leadership book writer guy, John R. Maxwell

or Maxwell? I don't know. Somebody. They have a big deal in Madisonville. Friends text me. Nick Saban on the loose. And they'll pop up and a half. According to my... Where are they speaking? At the Rotary? At the Madisonville Community College. I hope they stopped by my English

101 classes, all three of them. Just, it's like a summit thing. I don't know. I'm learning about this on the fly. All good. All right. Well, Nick Saban is in Madison. Shout out Hopkins County. That is exciting. I hope he gets a coffee at the Lowe's parking lot. By the way, I'm interested in where the fan base is. Why don't you send 772-7-7-4-5-254? With that SEC schedule, I just told you, 18 games, we have 3 14 and 4s and 1-15 and 3.

Where are you? I'd like to see where the fans are. 7-7-2-7-4. Just give me the number and I'll see it in a minute. Here's what I wanted to talk about. Do you know, Shannon, you'll know where this is. Do you know Eastern Cemetery in Louisville? Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Of course. It's on Baxter Avenue.

It's like across from where the new Godfather's Pizza is, right? Isn't that Eastern Cemetery? Yep. And Phoenix O Tavern where it used to be right across from that, right? You've seen it. Of course. All right. So do you two know where it is?

I do not. Not really. It's huge. If you were driving from my house towards downtown, you'd pass it all. on the right. So I've seen it forever. I've actually been in there a couple times, like walking around, et cetera. It's very old. So it's like very old, you know, gravestones, et cetera. Now, I haven't verified this, but I think it's true. I was on TikTok and there was this guy and he did this whole thing about it, which led me to kind of rabbit hole. And I, do you know

the scandal about Eastern Cemetery? I'm anxious. and do you know this game? No. Apparently in 1989. Now again, don't hold me to this. This is just what I said. And then I read the comments and everyone seemed to agree. In 1989, they discovered that over the course of history,

this cemetery has gone back to like the 1820s, 1830s, that sometime around 1920s, the owners had taken 46,000 graves, taking the bodies out so they could resell the plots. No way. And then resold the plots. And they estimate because they don't really know for sure. $46,000. Then when the scandal came out, they just abandoned it.

And now there's like a volunteer group in Louisville that are the people who came, come and mow it and try to keep, because, you know, no one owns it now. It's basically an abandoned cemetery, at least according to this. and but the places are still there. So when you hear that, it sounds off. But like, what do you make of that? 46,000. And these are people, you know, it's been a long time.

I don't know if their relatives, like, I mean, do people come see graves from the 1830s? And I mean, maybe they do. I don't know. But what do you think about that story? Every person. 46,000. Every person has the right to have their own, burial site and, you know, rest in peace.

Not to be disturbed and dug up and moved around. What do you mean? They're gone. That's humane. That's just inhumane. I know, but they're gone. You know, they're not there. But it doesn't matter.

You know, everybody has earned and deserved that right. You think so? Yeah. In perpetuity. Yes. Forever. I think so. Okay.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just asking you. What about you? I agree with Ryan that once you have your plot, that should be your plot. But I have wondered, like, we can't do this forever. Like, well, like, it. New York City. Yeah, it's exactly what I was going to bring up. They basically run out of places to bury people. And there is a cry. I think I read like in 15 or 20 years, they're going to,

they're like, we don't know what to do. And they may have to start burying people like somewhere else. And then like families might have to go to other communities where the people never lived to bury it. So what do you do? What do you do, Mayor Lemon? You do that. You find him a place, a rest, a, final rest in place. place and not dig up other people. So you think it's a better use of the land to just, well, sorry, you've got to go to Poughkeepsie. Yes. Okay.

Yes. I'm not saying you're wrong. But I saw this. How many people do you think know this? Like this is in the city. Shannon, this is a mile from where I live. Yeah, I had no idea about that. I had no idea that this was the case.

46,000 bodies. I don't think in any circumstance should you ever be moving bodies. Once they're in the ground, they should stay there until the end of time. till the end of time. Yeah, I don't think you should be, I think it's disrespectful. Again, I'm not, it's just a practical conversation. Do you think you should, if you're running out of area, do you think you should double? Double up on the spots?

Yeah. Let's start telling everybody out. Because again, like, I mean, we talked about New York, but even think about Louisville, there's going to come a point where all the lands bought up. Yeah. Right. So at some point. We need to start thinking about that now, man.

maybe. Before it's all bought up, you know? Like, well, but you're dead. Like, honestly, to some extent, like, you're dead. So is it coming where everybody's about to be cremated? That's what I was saying. Well, would you rather do that? What's worse? Forced people to have them cremated or say we're going to double berry sometimes? I don't know which one's worse. Because if you don't want to be cremated. You know, there are some people whose religions think cremating is like, you can't do it. I just think it's an interesting conversation because when I saw it, I was horrified like everybody else.

And clearly these people were doing it for money. I think they went to, well, I think that people were dead when they discovered it. It's illegal. I'm sure. I'm sure it's illegal. It's been a lot of course or something. People up and then. Reminds me the mortician on HBO.

They're not burying them, but they were just burning everybody together into one pile. It will be interesting to see, though, when these cities, because New York is going to be the first one, but this will probably happen in a lot of cities. Because people are, I mean, are people putting up new graveyards? Like housing, we're going to have to go up. Are we going to have tall buildings that are story? I just wonder if you, you know, because it's not like I don't see investments in new graveyards. No. Do you? No. So, I mean, at some point you are going to run out. Just interesting when I saw it. But also, I had no idea that was down the street from me.

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Corey Price sent it to me. It's called Facing East. Facing East. He sent me a YouTube link, so I guess it's just all on YouTube. So this is kind of interesting. One person writes, Matt, in England, most cemeteries actually bury multiple family members in the same plot. Part of it is space because England's an island. And it's been around for a lot.

long time. But part of it is they more adhere to the belief that you can be in the same plot because then you are close to your family members in debt. Yeah, I mean, we do spread everybody out. Yeah. But you could have a plot that's like your whole family and you're all there together. I think people could get on board with that, not strangers on top of another in one plot. But you wouldn't know. Strange bedfellows. Yeah. That's exactly right. You would be strange bedfellows. you think that maybe is where that came from? Possibly. If in Europe, because, you know, Europe, the history of people being buried the way we do and it goes way far

back than it does here. So, I mean, they may have, they may have gone back. Who knows how long. Maybe that's where that comes from, Shannon. Yeah, maybe so. I mean, what do they do with bodies that, like, from the 1400s, 1500s? Are they just burnt? Or like, what happened to the, I mean, I don't really know.

I would assume, I mean, when you go back to like 1400s, you know, you go back to like 4,500, were people being buried the way we do? Probably not. But it makes me wonder like where they're at. Yeah. And then like during the plague, everybody had to be like burned

to get, yeah. I mean, this is a very uplifting topic. But I do not. It is interesting to me. I read a book a long time ago. I cannot remember what the name of it is.

A woman who's like a comedic writer, she had had a job for five years in a crematorium. And she wrote about it. And like she was trying, she was being funny, but she was also talking about what happens in a crematorium. And it was like the most eye-opening thing I've ever read. Just in terms of like the things they have to deal with that we don't even think about. Because people don't like to think about it. Right?

It makes you kind of, but somebody has to. Yeah. Think about it. And we see this all time. Heck, it's happening in the last couple of years where you're at a construction site and they're building something. They're like, oh, here's a graveyard. That's true. Yes, that has happened.

And sadly, most times because capitalism always wins. It's like, well, we'll just pretend we didn't see that. Yeah. There's a Starbucks. They built a hamburger around that little cemetery out there in the hamburger area. I mean, we all have this thing. This is especially, I'm sure this is like when I was a kid. It used to drive me crazy.

You go to funerals. They have an open casket, right? Yeah. For some reason, people like that. I don't know exactly why. I don't know if I would like that. But you look at somebody and people always go, oh, don't they look great? and my answer's always been no

they're dead they don't look great but that was a big deal to make them look a certain way I think that's definitely a mountain thing I don't know if it's like that everywhere else but I always thought like it's weird that we take this dead body

put makeup on it stuff it to make it look alive but it's not they're not alive is that not strange it is in the sometimes the lasting memory of your image of them can be... But I don't...

Do you even want that? No, I'm saying that can be a negative. I mean, I... I don't know. I've never totally understood why our culture does that. But we accept it as normal. Yes. It seems odd.

I guess, do... I don't know this. Do other cultures not do that? I'm not... Maybe they do. I mean, I know, like, you know, in history, they would take, like, kings, stuff them, put makeup on and take them around the city. So people could look.

So I don't know. Anyway, I do remember when I went and saw Ronald Reagan, I've told that story. Yeah. The casket was closed. They didn't just leave him out there for everybody to see. So, Ed, in Michigan. Ed, go ahead. Hey, guys, this is Michigan, Ed.

I am back, and my prediction is Kentucky wins number nine this year with no more than four losses. And I got a question about the football team. if Stutz goes to a bowl this year, is his job safe and secure? Yeah, for sure. I mean, it might be secure anyway. Well, the argument becomes if he doesn't. But if he goes to a bowl, I appreciate the call. I can't imagine his job not being secure, right?

I think go with the bowl, we start having the statute talk again. Yeah, I mean, I don't think. I can't imagine how, to be objective, even if you're the biggest Stoops hater, I cannot imagine how you would say if he went to a bowl with this scale. schedule after last year that you wouldn't say, yes, he's going to stay. Now, I don't know if you'd keep giving him a year, although I guess his contract automatically gives him another year, which is probably not the best thing to put in the contract. But I certainly think he's not going to lose its gig.

He wins six games this year. It goes down one of his best coaching jobs up there at the 10-win seasons. Well, it's certainly one of his best. Absolutely. Does Travis Perry get an ovation? We didn't get to that. I'm tough there. You know, a lot of people, especially El Masa,

of the state, you know, still love Travis and understood the movie made. But, you know, if you've, it's one of those, how much of the internet do we believe? Because when he left, a lot of people on the internet were mad at him, but are those people actually going to be in Rupp Arena deciding what kind of reception he gets? I mean, I think it would be mixed, honestly. The Arkansas players didn't get an ovation, but they're not from Kentucky. I wouldn't say anything is like an ovation, like a loud, yeah, but I think it'll be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit. You don't think if he checks in as

the six man. I don't think we're going crazy. I think there will be applause. But do you think people, do you think anybody boo? More applause than booze by far. You think there would be people that booed. Yeah. But I'm not saying either will be this grand, you know. So, but what would the reason, what's the rational reason, though? Because, like, DJ Wagner and a do Thierro got booed. What is the rational reason for booing them and not Travis Spear?

He's Kentucky. He's a Kentucky. Well, but some people could argue. That's even more reason to stay. He is a Kentucky high school legend that was beloved by... But what did it do Thierro ever do that was wrong here? Nothing. But Travis Perry did a lot that was loved here.

But not at Kentucky. In the state. That's true. I'm not suggesting we should booing. No. And I wasn't angry that we booed DJ and a do. But I thought our booze should just have been for cash. I thought the players, that wasn't fair.

Even, I mean, I wasn't mad about it. I get it. But I don't understand what, I mean, you could argue it made more sense for DJ and a do to leave than Travis. Yeah. Yeah. Heck, we don't. We're not.

I mean, DJ's only, DJ had a spot here. DJ's only connection to Kentucky was Cal. Yeah. Cal could have gone to Israel. DJ was going. Yeah. And Travis is from here. So I, I would remain, I mean, I would like, if I see him go, hey man,

I hope you're doing good. Good to see. But I also don't know that you give him applause when he runs here. I'm with Drew. I think he'll get like a polite applause when he checks in, but then that's it. No more the rest of the game. But that initial. Yeah, well, no one's going to cheer when he makes a shot.

I mean, I don't think anybody's going to do that. He comes back in like in a second half. What are the chances he comes in and like scores double digits? Oh, man, don't even put that. High. You think so? Yes. You think it's high.

Well, they all play great in Arkansas. I mean, they all had good games. DJ's best game of the year was at Rupp Arena last year. Yeah, it was. John, go ahead, John. So the parable to Sadu, how would that relate to Kentucky sports members if you subbed in it? Do what now? So Parable with Sadu, like, if you subbed in, like, hey, who would be the person that's lost on the side of the mountain?

Like, if we did that with Kentucky media members or members. I mean, that's an interesting question. I don't think enough people have appreciate the call have read it, although I do highly recommend it that I, the parable, the sidu that I talked about when I went to the fellowship about the mountain and would you go get them and all that stuff. I would say Ryan is the most likely to try to save people. But he also thought he could eat those donuts. So failure. Epic failure.

You can't fill in that situation or you're dead. Yes. Yeah. But a lot of people won't remember that probably. Robert says he used to work at Eastern Cemetery. Robert, give me the scoop. Was that story I told correct? It was very correct. I actually used to work for them. I started my grass-cutting business in 1987,

and when I was putting out advertisements, one of my workers said, hey, this guy wants you to cut a cemetery. And they owned Eastern Greenwood in the West End and a little cemetery card shardine on 7th Street Road. Well, they paid me to cut shardine for two years, and they were going to have me start cutting the other ones. I assume the reason they hadn't had me doing it was because they were reusing the graves, They were trying to find a way to hide that. But I went to call them one day to schedule a cutting, and the phone was ringing in the middle of the day, and nobody was answering. I was like, this is weird. I opened up the newspaper, and everybody was on the front page there.

So you were going to start working there right when this scandal broke. Well, I worked for East. It was called Eastern Cemetery. But, I mean, just focus with me on Eastern Cemetery. Did you ever work in there? No, no. They had me cut in the small one, and they were going to have me cut that one in Greenwood. that year when it happened.

But like I said, they were all on the front page of the newspaper. Oh, so you were... Hundreds of years. So did they do it at the other ones or that they know? Yeah, they did it at the Greenwood one in the West End, but the only one they didn't do it, it was the little one that I was cutting, but they were getting ready to have me cut the other two.

So does anybody run them now? Does anybody, like, I've read the volunteer... No, that's another thing. Well, here's the thing. They always act like the first of all, they're all abandoned because everybody went to jail. They had stole all the money from the trust, and so there was no money to pay for any upkeep.

So everybody acts like they don't know what happened, but that's what happened is they stole the money. There's nobody to take care of them. The Eastern Cemetery and crematorium business went out of business, and they've just been vacant ever since. Wow. Well, I appreciate the call. So I wonder, like, what can the city do?

Can the city take it? I mean, I don't know. Does the city pay to have it mode now? Well, I've heard. that there's a volunteer group that most, but I will say when you walk by it's not often kept. Like if you go by that cemetery,

not always, but sometimes the grass is very high. And I've often thought, man, they don't keep up that cemetery. What I didn't know is that it was abandoned. Well, our friend Harper So knowing that it's abandoned, does that change your view

on it? Knowing it's abandoned, do you think they should do something with it or they should just in the middle of Louisville in a high traffic area just letting an abandoned cemetery sit there. You have to. If those bodies are there, you have to. But is that really good for society to have abandoned cemetery with grass just growing, looking like a jungle?

The city should mow it. Yeah, cities need to cover this. But that's a big lot. Like that's a, I mean, you're asking the city to spend a lot of money. Yeah. Or sell it to somebody. I don't know. I mean.

But who's going to buy it? They can't use the land. All they're going to do with it. I mean, the land is useless. It's worthless. Can't build on it. Can't build on it. You can't do anything with it.

I don't really know what the alternative is. Which is, by the way, the reason why people don't build new cemeteries. The reason you don't build new cemeteries is it's not a growth business. As soon as you use all the plots, the land's dead. Yep. You can't do anything with it. What are you going to do with it? I mean, I don't know what else you could.

I mean, you can't just put an apartment complex on top of it. I feel like the city has to. to mow it and take care of it's like right in the middle of anyway just interesting i'm not advocating a point i just this all occurred to me as i watched this dude's random ticot last i'm watching the documentary i know that is your skin trying to tell you something sores that don't heal new gross or spots that feel itchy and tender how about the kentucky skin cancer center oensboro bowling green franklin glasco and powderly kentucky the skin cancer center is here for you over 40,000 patients everyone should get checked if you have like a little little bit of a little bit of a little

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Yeah. was, I remember on Saturday nights, Saturdays, my family would drive to Lexington to like go to Fayette Mall. Oh, big day. See my uncle David. Yeah. Uh, eat at Cheech's. Uh, we would drive home. And when we would drive home, they would listen on the radio. And there were always, my mom would only listen to two different things. Either country music or Garrison Keeler. I hated the Garrison Keeler nights. So I rooted for the country music. I did not care about the Prairie home campaign.

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You've been saying that for a couple years. That's supposed to be in Minnesota. What person's right, Matt, I'm from Eastern Kentucky. I've never understood that either. my dad said don't ask open my casket when my grandfather died they opened the casket and gave him a smile he never smiled in real life and it made me mad

I like that you don't know what he was like in real life yeah somebody on KS board said that they're at a family member's funeral and somebody leaned over and said these guys do a really good job with the bodies here what a psycho thing to say that is weird Shannon there was a story apparently released it recently in Lou today that there is a cemetery hidden in a parking lot under a shopping complex in St. Matthews.

What? I've never heard that before. Cemetery under a mall? So there's only two malls in St. Matthews, Oxmoor and Mall St. Matthews. Well, he said a shopping complex. It could be one of those like strip mall things there. Yeah. That's weird. Here's a good question. Matt, we worked for, I worked for the city once. One of our debates was when someone dies on the side of the road and they put a roadside memorial there with their family, how long should we leave it up? Yeah. I've wanted that too because the mowing crew has to mow around it you know what's the what's the amount of time six months no six a month six months a long time flowers will have wilted by then yeah but a lot of

people not necessarily yeah like the like the light up cross but would it make you feel weird to take it down yes like if there's like pictures of the family and a cross and flowers like in there like okay go take it down would you feel weird about that yeah I'm not doing it I'm having somebody else do it I'm with Ryan I'm not doing it what if that's your job I say, Ryan, you're in charge of taking it down. I'm going to get sick. They're not coming to work that day. You know, Matt, like in a little bit, Poplitt Park, where people have fallen off the train jostles.

They've got memorials there that they leave up. And I don't know, like, how long. They don't ever take them down. I don't think they ever take them down. But there's a lot of them there. You're saying a lot of KS. Bord says they're going to boo Travis Pair. That's, you know, not a ton of people, but it looks pretty unanimous.

Someone even asked, why wouldn't we boo Travis Perry? There's a lot of people on the text machine saying they're going to boo Travis Perry. All right, maybe I was wrong. I'm surprised. I'm shocked because I thought he was such a big hero to a lot of people in this state. Well, we'll see what happens as we get closer. Also, we'll need to see how much he's playing. Like, I think the better he is, the more you can booing.

Yes, fair. Like if he doesn't get to play and then he comes in as the ninth man, I think it's meaner to boo than if he's their best player. If he's their best player, Shannon, I think it's more understandable to boo. For Travis Perry, I would just give him the silent treatment. I'm not going to boo him. I'm not going to cheer him. Yeah, I'm not going to booing me.

Yeah, but it feels more mean to boo the less good he is. Yeah. The better he is, it's a little more understandable. We'll see. Adam, go ahead, Adam. I guess I don't know if you've ever seen polter guys, but you do not mess with buried bodies or cemeteries or anything like that. Well, that's not a documentary.

Oh, it's not? Oh, that. They're here. You're going to risk out? You're going to rest out? I wouldn't mess with it. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call.

But somebody has to. Oh, you got some else? Yeah, on the SEC schedule. I think 14 and 4 is likely, you know, the obvious losses at Bama, at Arkansas, at Florida, at Auburn. I think we steal one of those. I think Shannon's right probably at Arkansas. But then we always have a dud.

you know maybe we drop at LSU or at A&M something like that but 14 and 4 I think we win the SEC and probably looking at 1 or 2 seed yeah I think I appreciate the call I think you get 14 and 4 you're a 2 seat at work it depends on what you do in the non-conference obviously but I'd have a hard time seeing us being worse than a 2 seed might be a 1 seed at 14 and 4 I think you still could be a 2 seed at like 13 and 5 Madison quickly too you got minute oh oh sorry uh one Number one is do you think they will allow the current team to wear the 1996? Yes, I think it will happen. I think it will happen.

And then two, how many passing yards do you see our quarterback getting this year? Boy, I don't know about that one. Over. Under, whatever you say. No, I'm serious. Give me a number, under. 2,500. Under.

They're running, running, running, running, and then they're going to run. Right when you think they're going to pass, they're going to run. 2,000. Because that'd be 160 yards a game. You don't think he should throw for over 160 yards a game. He'll average about 1.30, 140. But we'll average about 151 more in rushing, 170. That sounds depressing.

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