KSR - 2025-08-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk cemeteries, and Matt's trip to Africa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm learning all kinds of stuff today. There was also, I thought of another good book about it. There's a book called Stiff that's about kind of another kind of funny person writing about the what happens when we die, what happens to your body, what they do, et cetera. Because you don't like to think about this stuff, but it's life. And if you're going to be mayor, you're going to have to deal with this. stuff. What are you going to do when you're mayor? These are the kind of things we need to know, Ryan, because you say you're running, you've already demolished Nicholsville Road. What are you

going to do to these cemeter? Now that Nicholsville Road is running like an expressway. But nothing's there. So it's an expressway to nowhere. All the businesses will be there. Just the sidewalks. Because you cut, because you got rid of them. I just got cut the sidewalks out. So you took sidewalks. So you took a city that's not walkable and made it less walk. Yeah, nobody walks on Nicholasville Road up there. Well, he could. No, nobody does. So we're going walking there all the time. There's lots of bus stops. In theory, in theory, in there would be very nice to be able to walk to the main shopping areas in town. Yeah, nobody does, though.

Because they don't have enough sidewalks. There's sidewalks there right now. And you're taking them away. I'm getting rid of them. So what about, yeah, what about the people that get off at a bus stop and need to walk somewhere? There's a bus stop right by that best by a dangerous spot. Very dangerous spot. And people stop and then they need to walk up the road.

A lot of people that work in those retail things bus to work. How are they going to walk from the bus stop to their workplace? They can walk in the grass. in the grass. Your campaign is not off to a good start. I don't like your chances of getting voted in. My money's on the other candidate. One person writes, Matt, you always say you wouldn't boo.

Are there people you would boo? Good question. I consistently boo the umpires at Reds game. They deserve it. I'm big on boo. I boo a pitcher if he throws too close to Ellie. Do not hurt him. but UK games

we should absolutely I'll boo a ref I'll boo a ref if I feel like the call is egregious enough I mean not angrily but I'll just yell a boo Rupperina when they go to the monitor for the 10th time with three minutes to go we should boo them every time

because it's not personal I usually don't even know these people's names I'm booing the thing you know would I boo I would not boo somebody like out on the street You know, like if a famous part, I would not, would I boo, like would I boo Trump? I wouldn't boo Trump if he was doing a presidential action. What if he's out on the street?

I don't, I don't think I would do that either. But like if they introduced him at a game, I might if I'm being honest with myself. So like if he came to a UK basketball game, there's a world that I would do. Yeah. when they introduced him, ladies and gentlemen in the United States, Donald Trump. There's a world I would. I'm not saying for sure I would. It would depend on the situation.

Like if he brought him out there to like honor a veteran. A veteran. I'm not going to do that. If they brought him out there as we are about to start the national anthem, I'm probably not going to do that. What if they brought him out to do the why? Yeah. Then that's close.

Then I don't know. Then I'm kind of, if they like showed him in the crowd and he said, stood up and he did that way. He does the Y and then they go into the YMCA because he loves that song. Yeah. If he did that, I'd probably just walk out into the hallway. But I will say this. Like people would say to me, okay, let's say Donald Trump wants to come to a UK basketball game. Do I think UK should let him? Yes. Yes, they should. I do. I just, I can choose like not to go to that. We mean let him. He's the president of the United States. He comes if he wants to here. We need to, everybody needs to understand.

We don't live in a kingdom. We're on this kick where we're just like, he's the president. Do it every one. No. Go to a game. Okay. He can. But like the university does, look, do I think if he wants to come to a game,

the university should invite him? Yes, I do think they should do that. But I also think, like if a university says, we don't want you to come, he should have to respect that. Don't you? This is not, this is a free country. This is not just a whatever. he wants to do country.

I don't know why you agree with me. I don't know why you wouldn't want the president. I agree with you, Shannon, but let's say they didn't. They should be able to feel that way, right? Yeah, you feel however you want. I mean, I can't tell anybody how to feel. And it's a big undertaking. When Ron DeSantis was there last year, I was walking to Rupp Arena, and I was a block away

and saw security everywhere, and I thought, what is going on at this basketball game? You get up there. And that was Ron DeSantis. Imagine what if the president was there. Whatever your feelings, it is a big accommodation. They should do it. Don't get me wrong. If the president was to come, you should make him come.

But you're asking me if I would boo, which was the question. The why? I don't know. They're spelling out Kentucky and out walks Donald Trump. That would be hard. That would be hard for me. I'm not going to lie. Real quick, before I go, the phones.

A couple of other things. The NFL At first it said they had banned smelling salts And now they're saying The teams cannot give the players smelling salts But if you as a player want to bring your own smelling salts You can take them Here's my question

What is a smelling salt Like what just as a physical thing What is that? I mean I know what it is You put it up there and you go But what's in it? Ammonia? Yeah

It's ammonia Does it hurt you? No. doesn't hurt you. How do you know? I think it's just supposed to help. It's, it's, the, the sense of smell is so strong. It's supposed to cleanse your thoughts and everything else.

Is it like horse radish? Actually, probably. Maybe. Probably like extreme horse ratch. Like when you get the same almost cocktail sauce and it wakes you up for like four minutes. No, no, no. I know that's probably right. If you ingest real horse radish, it goes up. Yeah.

Right. You're telling me, I've never had a smelling thought. You're telling me that's what it's right. That's a good comparison. It does. Yeah. So it doesn't have any physical harm to you. Not that I'm aware of. Okay. Because if not, then I think it's...

Unless you snort a lot. If you smell an ammonia, like five of them, maybe, I don't know. Okay. It opens up and really makes you breathe in. But don't people use... See, it feels like to me when I see it using football, it's like somebody's like trying to either A get themselves pumped up. Like, what's the difference between that and cocaine? I've never had cocaine I don't know

the cocaine is going up your nose and the smelling salt does not but it seems to me when I see football players take smelling salt they have the same reaction when I see people will do cocaine

yeah there were some 90s football players that preferred that over the I mean they go like the Dallas Cowboys team for the 90s I wouldn't gonna name him but it's a good receiver isn't it crazy though

somebody would have like a concussion they're knocked a little loopy and they're over there to give them a, you know, a smelling salt. Get back in there. Yes, for people who have fainted. But I don't think that's, I think that should not be allowed. No.

Like if you've had like a potential partial concussion, you should not give people smelling salts to get them woken up again. And that was common practice. So I understand why they did that. But, you know, either way. All right. So people will stop asking me about the South Africa. I've been waiting.

Women part. It's me. I'm the one asking. I think I told you all this about the little. tour I'm going on and who's going with me. Have I, have I said that? You said you're going on a tour.

I don't know if you said who's going with you. Have I not said who's going with me? I don't think so. Okay. So my fellowship is the 21st, or excuse me, like the 14th through the 20th. But it's such a long flight. I was like, I'm not going to turn right back around and come back.

You know? And South Africa is not, it's not like Europe. You can't just go anywhere. You have to like, You do have to be safe. So I didn't trust myself to roam around because I don't really know where to go. So I was like, you know what?

I'm already going to be there. My fellowship is only in Cape Town. There's a big country there. I'm going to go on like a tour. Right? Long story short, I find this tour aimed at solo travelers. It's like for people who are going to a country, don't have like, it's really for single people who, you know, don't have a spouse to go with,

but also are old and older than like, let's all go party, right? So it's only for people 30 to 50. Okay. That's the age. All right. You can't be older than 50.

You can't be younger than 30. I read about it. There's a lot of stories in the media. Like it's the thing like, you know, Shannon business people do. So I look at it. They're going to Johannesburg.

They're going to Cape Town. They're going to Krugher, National Park for the Savari thing. I thought, you know what? Why not? It had good reviews for being safe and all that stuff. So I signed up. They don't tell you when you get in who it's with, right?

They don't tell you. They just say, this is how many people assigned in your group because it's a small group, okay? The maximum is 10. So a few days ago, they gave us, they still, I still know these people. names, but they gave us the age and nationality of who's going on my trip. It is me and nine women. I don't see how that's a bad thing.

Me and nine women. It's just Africa. Age 30 to, I think the oldest of 48. Five of them are from America. Three of them are, yeah, three of them are from England, two of them are from Australia. And me. You just had the jackpot. We'll never see you again.

So on the one hand, like, I'm the only, first of all, I get my own room. True. Yeah. Right. Well, in theory. Who knows? It's my own room. But there is a part of me that's like, this is going to be very strange.

And the rule is, like, you can't have anybody you know on the trip. It's like no one's going to know each other. So my point is, I'm going to be. for nine days in South Africa, and it's just me and nine women. I think that's going to be different. You're going to look like a stud walking in with eight other women, nine of women. Are you sure you didn't sign up for the bachelor South Africa? Do they all show up in a limo one at a time?

I don't think so. I think it's, well, I won't say the company, but there's a couple companies that do this, and this is kind of the higher end one. I wonder if they're hosting their... But I looked at the others. A lot of the others, there are men. I think I just randomly got the one that's just the trip that's all women. Do you think the women are mad that there's only one man?

That doesn't get ready to say. They're going to be fighting over you. They're sitting there on their radio show today. But I mean, they may be. They may be, I don't think this is like a hookup thing. I think this is just traveling. But it is weird to me that it's just going to be me and non-women. Nothing says love like a trip to Cape Town.

going safari. You're going on a spot. One more thing. You know, some of this stuff is like adventure things that we've granted may not be my bag, like going out in the water and coming down a mountain. I can't like the women all do it. They're helping you. We'll hold your hand, Matthew.

Like I can't be the, like I can now have to do this stuff. You absolutely have to do it. I can't not do it. I would say they're going to. They're going to be looking to you for help. So not only do you have to do it, you are now in charge. Can you imagine if all nine go down the mountain and I'm like, I can't do it. I have to do it.

Come on, grow up here. Alan, go ahead, Alan. Alan. All right. Alan's busy. Doug, let's go to Doug. Yeah, man, I got a question about the cemetery thing. Okay.

I haven't quite died yet, but I've already purchased a cemetery pot. So after I die, it can be repossessed. Well, I mean, no, I think it's illegal, but it has been done. I mean, I think these people that were talking about at Eastern Cemetery, Doug, I think they went to jail. Yeah, I'm talking about someone with a shopping center over a cemetery. I pay for that pot. How can they take it? Yeah, I don't know the answer to that.

I mean, I don't, I would assume, I appreciate the call, I would assume there are laws about this, but it's clear. been done. Dead people can't say anything about it. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Family is good. But I would say to you, for me personally,

like, it doesn't bother me. I'm dead. You know? I mean, a lot of this stuff is about what your family feels, because you're dead. You're not going to, like if they pave over your grave,

you're not going to know. Oh, I'm going to haunt the heck out of that place. Okay, me too. but like you're not going to know. Yeah, I'd say in some cases, like you mentioned before, there are plots where it's just family that's been there for, heck, centuries, and they wouldn't want to lose that because you just have future generations that could visit that spot and will eventually be buried there.

But do you, I mean, how often do you think people visit the graves from the 1870? In reality. I understand people visit their grandparents, parents. How many people do you think go visit regularly graves from years before they knew who they were? Very, very few. A third grade elementary school on a field trip. What field trip do you do? You didn't go to old cemeteries?

No. You went to old cemeteries and looked at graves from the 1870s? Paper over the tombstone and you rub a crayon over it. What in the world? You guys didn't do it all well. No. Yeah. We went to the aquariums.

You went to cemeteries? Like you go to like the Abraham Lincoln world? Okay, but that's Abraham Lincoln I get. Did you go to random people's cemeteries? No, but there'd be like a family cemetery there in Abraham Lincoln's Lincoln land. And you just went and rubbed their... Yeah, you take a piece of paper and you rub your crayon over. Why?

Because then it shows up on your piece of paper. You can read it better when, you know, because it's all faded on the tombstone. Why would you want to read it? A little history. About random people that are dead? Yeah. And this was a school trip? Yeah, no, I understand how you ended up how you are.

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Listen to Hurtle with Emily Abadi on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. Welcome back, Tegi Sports Radio. One person writes in, Matt, I went on a trip to Ireland, 20 women, two men. It was the best trip I've ever had. This is a woman writing this. We had the most fun, and the men actually fit in with the group.

I mean, you don't have a choice unless you just want to be by yourself. I just hope they don't ask me Like Shannon I hope when we're like going from one place The other place we don't get like a flat tire Oh yeah They're all they're all going to look to me Yeah And I'll have to be like I don't know

I want to in my mind Think about these nine women All have a vision in their mind With the one American studly guy Is gonna be there on a trip What do you mean Why can't they have a vision of me Yeah I think they're visioning something else

You know going to the bush How do you know Going to Johannesburg, they had this vision of a big American stud. You think they had a vision of a guy like in a lumberjack outfit coming to this. Traveling by himself. Traveling by himself. Yeah. I'm sure that's the vision.

The rock. They probably think it's the rock. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly. I hope there's not a traditional manly task that needs to be accomplished because I might not be able to do it. I actually have some real information. So this is somebody that worked for the legislature. in the 80s.

Matt, Kentucky cemetery laws changed in 1984. Trusts in perpetual care is now mandatory. I worked during that period, and before 1984, the stuff you're talking about was rampant throughout the state. Cemetery were just paved over or forgotten about or left abandoned. You can't do that as easily now.

But then another person sends me a statute. There's a statute in the Kentucky statute code that says that if economic development needs to move cemeteries, the government is allowed to do that as long as they find another home for the bodies. That's got to be expensive. You're moving bodies like that, doesn't it? I mean, probably less expensive than moving a road to a different place. Yeah.

So apparently the government does have the ability if it wants to move your stuff. I guess it's like eminent domain, right? moving and giving you a proper space is better than just paving over you. Yeah, I agree with that. At least they're trying to do something. I don't know where they're going to put you. It's better than just be like, ah. Last question about this, right?

Eastern Cemetery. They've had no new body since 1989. Okay. It's 2150. There are no bodies in that cemetery that are not over 200 years old. you're the city of Louisville you've run out of space we have too many people and not enough place to live at that point even though no one goes there and it's overrun by grass are you like still have to leave it see I'm the guy that says yes you got to leave it

okay I think you just got to be respectful to the dead and to the people that are alive just deal with it yeah okay go to another man will be those people eventually moved to mount Washington. Yeah, but I don't, I don't know about it at Mount Washington. I will say this, a hundred years after I'm dead, pave over. Can we get that writing? Skyline. Okay, that's how you could honor me. Okay, I have another strange question. Yeah. And then you can answer this because in the mountains. In the mountains, sometimes they have like cemeteries on the side of a mountain. Oh, they're in the mountains. People would bury, you know, some people didn't have land, so they'd bury them anywhere. A lot, a lot of churches in the

mountains, the backyard is a cemetery where people who went to the church. I mean, my family in Hancock County, Tennessee, my mom knows where all these places are. But I have been on trips where we visit multiple cemeteries and they are everywhere. I went to a funeral. I cannot remember which family member it was where they buried them like literally, like on the side of the road on a little mountain because that was where their family was. So, I mean, in the mountains, especially in the deep mountains, There's also not a lot of flat land up through there.

So they have to pick what they can pick. They're on a side of a mountain. You know, it's like slanted. That's got to be. Got to be what? The water, the rain, the erosion. I always thought that's got to be tough. Well, I mean, you may remember when they had those floods in eastern Kentucky,

there were some graves that got. There were. Yeah. I've always wondered that. Johnny, go ahead, Johnny. And I am jealous, a single 35-year-old guy like you going to South Africa. Exactly. Exactly, 35. I mean, all these older women as well. Yes, go ahead.

Yeah, exactly. I was also, this is kind of interesting. If you know where the Home Depot is in off Breckenridge Lane in Louisville, there's actually a cemetery that was built completely around all that, all the commercial buildings there. You can Google Burke's Family Cemetery, and you can see it's just dead in the center of the parking lot. Really? Next to the Home Depot. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be there. Or super stores there. And also, I play a lot of golf in standard country club and Woodhaven. They have some tombstones on the course kind of in between the woods.

I've seen those actually. Yes, there are tombstones on the course there. I have seen that before. I've played there. Yeah. Appreciate the call. Yeah. It's crazy.

This is a fascinating topic for people to say, well, Eastern Cemetery. What are you going to talk about? You learn stuff. But we'll take a break. Be right back. KSR. 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, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-7-4-5-254. One person writes, Lindsay writes, Matt, question as a single person, where do you want to be buried? If you never get married, do you want to be close to your parents?

Or do you care? I mean, I guess I would want to be next to my parents. But I know this sounds weird. But let's say I never get married and my parents have passed. Part of me doesn't really care because who's even going to come? No, I'm not saying that to be morbid. It's just a reality, right? So I live next to a graveyard and I see like this empty.

And I often wonder like most of these people, no one ever comes and sees. Right? Yeah. Me, Ryan and Drew will come see you. We'll bring you a Diet Coke and make you fill out. Mr. Pib Zero. I think if I were to die, you all would think about me. I think there's a lot of people, hopefully, that would think about me.

Listeners of the show would remember, hey, I like that show. But would you come and stand at the grave? Probably not. I mean, if we're being honest. So it's okay. This is not morbid to me. I mean, I have had to think about recently, you know, so I'm. I'm going on a long trip.

And I was like, you know what? I need to like figure out, I need to get some stuff situated just in case. Just in case. Just in case. Well, you know, which got me to thinking of after my parents pass, what am I even going to do with my stuff? I mean, I'll give Mario the shoes. But besides that, you know, I don't know. And I've been trying to think in the last few weeks.

what what I want to do with my assets. Yeah, you don't have a small family. But I have a lot of people that I love who I could think maybe I could be of help to in some ways or their kids. Yeah, right. Because I don't have kids. Yeah. And this sounds morbid, but these are also the conversations you need to think about in life. Like, it's not, you can't just sit there and go.

this is depressing, you got to actually think about it. And I've used this trip as a chance to think about, you know, what would you do? And I don't know the answer. It's a tough conversation you have to have, but you need to have it. Yeah. And I, listen, I'm not asking anybody to feel sorry for me. But there is, when you are an only child, you are not married and you do not. have kids.

Like, it's not obvious what you do in those circumstances. And I have no relationship with my father. So I have mom and Larry, and that's just what it is. So I thought, well, do you want to set up like a scholarship thing? I mean, I loved where I went to law school, but I'm not giving it to Duke. That would like, they might use it to buy a basketball player. I'm not doing that. look another Zion with the Matt Jones scholarship.

But I could see myself setting up like a scholarship for people like in Eastern Kentucky. Yes. Or something like a middle school, a middle, middle of middle school middle school middle school middle school. Yeah. Or just anywhere in the mountains. Yeah. But, but anyway, those are the things you do have to think about. You do have to think about it.

It's easier when you have kids because you're like, well, you're going to kids going to get it. And then they'll blow it. Yeah, everything you worked for your entire life. And then it's just going to be gone. And that's the way it goes. Teresa. Go ahead, Teresa. Hey, good morning.

So, Matt, I actually, I think, live in your neighborhood. I'm in the Highlands, and I don't know if you realize that we actually are surrounded by five cemeteries. Oh, they're everywhere. It is crazy. Yes. So we walk them all the time. But anyway, I wanted to comment on the topic about the cemetery down the road from you. And, you know, eventually running out of space, what we do?

You were talking about New York. I'm actually closer to Ryan's age. So he may be aware of this movie back, maybe in the late 70s. It was the most disturbing movie called Soiling Green. So basically futuristic film, kind of like Planet Apes type of venue. And what they did, they would take the bodies because they ran out of room, emulsify them, make them into fertilizer, and also to feed them. the population. It was the most disturbing.

Wow. I hate that I missed that one, Teresa. You could stream it, right, if you wanted. Well, Teresa, thanks. I hated I missed that one. I can remember watching that with my brother, Mike, and we were like, terrified. I were like, is this what's going to happen? It was crazy. Soiling green.

I appreciate the call. And thank you, Teresa. And if you ever see me in the neighborhood, say hi. I don't know if that's going to be the issue. But these land use issues, I like talking about things that are like government-related that don't involve people that make people go angry. These issues of land use aren't going anywhere, especially in cities. And she mentioned all those cemeteries in Louisville.

Shannon, you know where I live. She's right. There are cemeteries everywhere. And they are huge. Did you know there's a former president? buried like Zachary Taylor like three blocks

like two blocks from where I live is a former president and I've walked by his grave no one's ever there and it's not really kept up very well they dug it up one year to see if he had been like poison or something right?

Yes but I'm just saying like a lot of people don't even know that there's a president buried like right next to the Taco Bell on Bardstown Road man that's the way I want to go Noah, go ahead Noah.

Hey Matt, I got two things for you guys. First for it, I'll be at the Shady Rays for tomorrow for your show. Yes, let me say on that. Tomorrow from 10 to noon, shady rays in the summit, 50% off all sunglasses. Weather's supposed to be gray, right? And then not too hot. Sometimes we've been out there and it's been stifling, not too hot. So I hope to see everybody tomorrow.

But go ahead. Yeah. With that, I want to make a promise. for this time, I'm going to 100% make sure that I do not almost hit Ryan Lemon with my car, especially since you won't be splashing a watermelon this time. Do you remember that? You did almost be hit my car out there.

Didn't even know he's behind me to us all the video. Yeah, you almost got hit. That would have been bad. And second part of it, I missed the first part of the show at 10 a.m. I don't know if you guys said about this, I apologize to this repeat. But did you guys see the video? I think it was UK Sports Network put out of Chiage, solving a Rubik's Cube.

No, what is it? Does he do it? I mean, it's it, yeah, it's just, I mean, it's simply him. But, I mean, if you, if you hadn't got enough of him, I know, I can't happen. He's the most wholesomen, great guy on the team. Yeah, that just tops it off. He, he solved the Rubik's Cube?

Like, he solved it? He did while he, yeah, he did while he's just talking about stuff from his life and just talking about how it, like, helps him in his childhood. Oh, see, I haven't seen that. You've seen it, Mario? Yeah, like I said, it just makes them so cool. Okay, well, I appreciate the call. We'll see you tomorrow.

Is it cool? Yeah. Yeah. How long does it take? I heard he did it. Oh. Well, doesn't surprise me, though. Seems like you got it would do a Rubik's Cube.

Just adds to his lore. Yeah, he does have a lore. When's the last time we've had a player that has this sort of, I don't know, aura, but not like an aura like he's going to be good, just like an aura like, yeah, what an interesting guy. When's the last time we've had somebody like that? Jared, maybe? Jared who?

Lorenzen. I love Jared, but that's different. He wasn't like mysterious at all. Jared was just Jared. I'm just trying to think of like a, you know, he seems smart and kind of. Yeah, I can't think of anything like him. I mean, is he going to be the biggest star on the team? I think he already is.

I mean, have we ever had an offensive? Who's the biggest star offensive line? Just in terms of like everybody knows who they are. Well, I mean, the collective. of big blue wall. It's always a collective. That's the closest it's ever been. When's an individual?

Because even when he was here, Dermani was a superstar. But can you think of a time that an offensive lineman would have had a long line of people wanting to meet him like kids? Because he's going to, she is going to end up with like the longest line. Probably so.

Once the season starts, whoever the quarterback is will too. But like, who, who's the most famous offensive linemen we've had when they were here? I mean, you're probably thinking like Dermani. I got one. Landon Young, Drake Jackson. Antonio Hall.

Because remember they would show him and he would sing Old Man River. Do you not remember that? Of course I remember that. Every time we were on TV, he'd be like, Old Man River. You think that man? He don't know nothing. Matt's not lying.

They would show it every game. Every game. It was the team that beat LSU. Yeah, probably was. And we were on national TV. when we played LSU and we played Florida. And CBS, it was like the only thing they knew to say about us is they would just show him singing Old Man River.

Am I the only one that remembers this? No, I remember it. I definitely remember it. Okay. And that made him the start? I just kept thinking should he have another song? Or should Pete sing Old Man River? Maybe he can.

I hope he's just nasty on the field, though, to make it even better. That would make it great. The beast of no nation still rings in my head. Plus a jersey that said, Pete on it. First of all, everyone in Kentucky named Pete should buy it. Yeah. You know. And shiage. I don't think there's a lot of shiages, but

if there are. It means something in Navajo. What was it? It was like... Dang it, he told us. Native son or baby or something. I don't know. And then something he mentioned a couple times, I want you guys to explain it to me. He said, the objective is the objective. He said it like three times. Yeah. What does that mean?

What does that mean? The objective is the objective. I mean, I think it says what it is. The objective is the objective. Don't stray. Yeah. Don't get away from it. The objective is not something else.

It's literally the objective. I would have to think about this one. Okay. Wednesday is the new Friday, UK Federal Credit Union. With early pay, you can get paid up to two days early by just by setting up a direct deposit. So open a UK federal credit union account, transfer your direct deposit, and you can get the money you're going to get up to two days early.

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That's exactly what they would. They would play that line. And then they'd be like, he can play and he could also sing Antonio Hall. So this was Grove Street before Grove Street. This was, it was sort of symbolic of it was hard to get us energized. Darren Kinnard is a good picked. Yeah. You know, he was, yeah, because he was here forever.

And he was good the whole time he was here. Yeah. A lot of older people say Warren Bryant. I don't know who that is. Yeah, he played in the NFL after he left UK as an offensive lineman. But was he popular when he was here? I was a little before my time. Okay.

One person writes, Matt, I think you're very cavalier about the way you treat bodies. They should be treated with more respect. I'm surprised you take that position. Well, because I'm practical. I'm also like I'm a Christian and you, we leave our, if you're a Christian, you, we leave our earthly bodies. Right? So we're, we go to heaven. If you believe in God or Christianity, you believe you leave your earthly body. So what happens here is really more for the people here, which, you know, at some point there'll be people here who don't know who you are. So I guess it doesn't bother me as much as it does other people. I'm not going to be here. I hopefully will have moved on to the next phase. I just wonder if like, cities like New York City will buy land

out in the country somewhere just to work for cemeteries. So here's the question. Is it fair to the families of people who die in 2025 that they have to find a way to go somewhere 50 miles outside of the city to see their body

so that bodies of people who never get visited remain untouched? Is that fair? Is that a more, is that the most equitable use of space. Maybe not, but it's the most respectful thing to do. That's not respectful the people that live in the city now. Why not move the other ones out there? Like I said, that's got to be expensive to move a grave.

I would think it'd be very expensive. It's expensive to buy land in a different place. You got to start going up. Buildings go up. Well, in New Orleans, don't they build up? Yeah, because you can't bury in the ground in New Orleans. So they built up, right? What was it called?

Mozzalian. Black Hills Cemetery in South Dakota. It's a military cemetery. They have a lot of, yeah, mausoleums, I guess, they're tall, and I think you have to do more of that. Yeah, maybe so. This is not what, I mean, I had 15 topics. It's not what I thought we were going to talk about today.

But you know what? I've enjoyed it. Have you enjoyed it? It's educational. So you haven't enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it because it's something we're going to have to deal with, I think, as we get older, the years go on, this is going to happen more and more frequently.

We have these dishes come up. Go ahead, Joseph. Hey, I was going to chime in on the smelling salts conversation. My guess is that NFL teams probably aren't allowed to supply them anymore. The same reason that boxers aren't allowed to use them anymore. They kind of wake you up, and in boxing, they were kind of masking concussions and things like that, so that's why they're outlawed. Makes perfect sense to me.

Yeah, I think that makes perfect sense because it does feel like I appreciate the call. Pre the concussion protocol, they used to do it like he's got cobwebs in his head. You're giving this. Yeah. It clear his head. There was a video of a COVID. that does it before every game. Did you see that? Chill out, dude. Getting fired up.

Shannon, I don't know if you said on the pre-show, you don't have to use their name, but you said you know someone that uses it to stay up? Yeah, like some of the wrestlers when they're driving long distances to stay awake. Yeah, that's bad. Wow. Scary. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. Mickey, go ahead, Mickey.

Hi, Matt. It's Mickey He Banks and Dr. Jim, and we are just so excited that you are going to South Africa. I wanted to tell you a couple of things. First of all, you could use a foundation to put your money into, and that could go to charities and so forth, and the foundation could run your assets. Just an idea. Anyway.

I don't know who would run the foundation. I don't know if I trust Ryan. I'd have to figure out the right. Well, you'd have to put it in another lawyer or somebody's hand. Anyway, Mickey and I have been to all seven continents, and Cape Town is probably the prettiest city we have ever been to. It's just beautiful. There are some shanty villages and stuff that you have to overlook, unfortunately. But, you know, that's where Mandela's prison is.

You will just have a wonderful time. One thing, hopefully when you go to Kruger, you're in a bus rather than like a low van or something. because if you're in a bus, you'll be a butt because they've got bushes that run along the roads where, and so if the animals are there, a lot of times you can't stand. Okay, okay. All right, I got you. You'll have a wonderful one. You'll have a wonderful, wonderful time.

Thank you very much. I've heard there are people who say, appreciate the call. Who was that? Dr. Jim and Mickey. Mickey. I've heard people say that it is the most beautiful city. in the world. Yeah, Aiden told you that when he had him on, he said it's beautiful.

The most beautiful city. There are multiple people that say it. How long do you get to stay there? I'm going to be there like a week. Because I'm there the whole time for the fellowship and then when that tour starts, the first two days of the tour are in there. So I'm there for a long time. Good. And then we

start heading out and, you know, I start taking on the lines in the bush. You got a machete? Listen, if we're waiting If we're using me to protect us, we're already in trouble. But again, that's the problem. The women, they might think I'm the one that's supposed to protect.

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