KSR - 2025-08-14- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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Text machine makes a good point about the credit card thing where if everything that is paid for has to be credit card, you now have a digital record of everything you've ever bought. Are you good with that? Do you want, which by the way could be subpoenaed in court?

So let me give you an example. This is something that happened when I was a lawyer. So do you know what? dram shop liability is? No. Chan, do you know what that is? I don't know.

So that is if you go to a bar and you, you get drunk and then you go out and wreck a car on the way home and somebody gets hurt, there are situations where the person that got hurt can sue the bar for overserving you. Okay. Okay. It's called dram shop liability. And in Kentucky, at least when I practiced, that was something that happened to amount. Now I think it happens less. There might have been a change in law. I'm not sure.

But I'll get we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, I've actually had a case once where we, uh, were, I've actually had a case on both sides. And one of the issues, the first thing you look at if you're suing is, is there an electronic record of how much money they spend at the bar? Shannon, because if you're by yourself and you go to the bar and there's a record of you spending $250. Mm-hmm. You're either going to have to prove that you hit on a bunch of women and bought them all drinks. Right.

Somebody's going to say to the bar, why did he pay by himself $250 for the thing? Whereas if it was cash, you can't prove that, right? Then you have to look at things like cameras and all that. But cash in and of itself. I have heard of divorce cases in states where it's not no fault, where a purchase of, like a purse for $10,000. And then the wife goes, there's this purchase right here at Cartier,

$10,000. I never got the purse. Where did it go? Whereas if it was $10,000 in cash, you'd never know where they spent it. Right. You see what I'm saying? And so those electronic purchases can be used.

So I'm just saying that's also for people like you, Shannon, who I would think would be privacy interest. Right. If everything is transaction, it's all in one theory subpoenaable in court one day. Yeah, I mean, sometimes I'm okay with it being out there digitally, every place that I go to.

But there's also some things that maybe I wouldn't necessarily want on there. So I think that that's why it's important to keep cash around. I think eventually it's going to be phased out to where everything is just electronically. No, it is. That's probably what's going to happen. All right, let's talk football for a second here, Drew, before we go to the phones. A couple open lines, 859, 2,8027. The CBS, or excuse me, the athletic, Bruce Feldman did a,

how hot are coaches' seats around the country? And they would say, cool to scalding. Okay. So, you know, for example, the guy that coaches Ohio State is cool now, whereas other people could be scalding. Here's what he said about Mark Stoops. He said Mark Stoops is hot or seat is warm, but not especially so.

would you agree with that assessment? Yeah, I think I would. I wouldn't put it at scalding hot, but I think warm is fair. Stoops is a popular, you know, lots of these outlets are doing their hot seats. He's popular on these lists, just like Toledo's hot on a team to pick in week one as an underdog.

It's just something Kentucky fans are going to have to deal with in this preseason as all these previews are coming out. We're a hot topic to be a bust. It's an easy pick for a lot of people. I agree with the warm. I don't agree with the, but not especially so. I mean, I think if the scale is cold to scalding, he's definitely warm. I wouldn't say he's hot, but like, I don't think it's lukewarm.

I think it's definitely warm. I think if he gets four, three, four wins, it's going to be very uncomfortable. Yeah, I think it's warm, but when I think of a hot seat, I'm looking at a coach where the AD is standing right behind him, staring at them, knowing that they're ready to make that if they have to. And I've just never gotten that from Barnhart. So I feel it's definitely warm. We're not denying that, but getting too hot.

I haven't seen anything from Barnhart that's putting pressure on them. Would you say that with Mitch Barnhart, it's lukewarm, but with the fan base, it's hot? That's a different conversation. It's very hot with the fans. But as far as actually getting something done, Barnhart, he's also calling it a one year off, one year blip, whatever the terminology they've been using. I've never felt in these interviews we've gotten him recently that he has stooped on a hot seat. But the fans would be much hot. Yeah, hot with the fans for sure. I would say warm with Barnhart.

And I would say check back with me in about 17 days. Let's see what happens after the Toledo game. And we're all going to have a completely different conversation. That's going to be the first measuring stick that we have to see kind of what we got this year. I mean, if you want to talk about Matt, when I was saying earlier about the Reds, how I don't get nervous. and I just kind of are able to watch the game, come see me at 245 on Saturday, August 30th. Because if it's a Kentucky is up three, Toledo has the ball with two and a half minutes left,

I'm going to be pacing around because I'm going to be sitting there thinking, what do I do just across the board if it doesn't work out? So, yeah, I mean, that is definitely, talk to me again the afternoon of August 30th. I hate that opener. I think they're going to win. I even think they're going to surprise people in that game. But that's not a team you want to start with. I wish we had flipped like an Eastern Michigan or Tennessee Tech because I mean, they have to play Eastern Michigan and

then play Toledo in that third game. I mean, Toledo got preseason top 25 votes. They're picked to maybe even be a powerful playoff team. I mean, they're in one of the toughest They're picked to be a powerful playoff. They're in that conversation. I mean, the Mac is always one of the better conferences outside the Power 4. So they're a very trendy team right now going into that week one game. Eight and a half on draft games. Eight and a half. I mean, that is falling from 14 and a half to 8.5.

A lot of times you open the year in your 21 and a half, 24 and a half. Eight and a half, it's a little unsettling as you get excited about the season. That's a lot of people who don't believe in Kentucky are going to lose some money. that's what I think. Kentucky's going to come out. They're going to win. All right. Let's go to Glenn in Pennsylvania.

Go ahead. Oh, one more thing before I go to Glenn. Hang on just a second, Glenn. I'll come right back to you. The picture of the two guys jumping just will not. It's not going away. And it's like only getting more viral. And it's like everyone in the country is discovering it.

Now, one of the players was asked about it. And he didn't like it. understandably. He even, somebody said, he then said something like, I saw what KSR said. You know, I mean, I never want to be, like, I never want to be against the player ever. And I'm not against him. I'm sure he's, I'm like, I'm sure he's a great dude. I'm going to be cheering him on every time. But like, my answer would be, dude, you, you put it out. I mean, I didn't put it out. And he said it was to have fun. So it suggests that it was his idea. Yeah, he said it was to have fun. And, and, like, I hope you did. did have fun, right? I mean, I'm not, but, you know, I'm not the, I mean, the thing has gone viral outside of me.

So, you know, we're going to have to go and outplay that because for a lot of people going in the season, that picture, that video is kind of the preseason preview for Kentucky. Yeah, I love that he has a fun personality, and that probably was funny. But I think the awareness was low of how that would be responded outside of your circle friends. I have unfortunately several friends that like the Tennessee Valls and I mean they are just lighting me up with that, already mocking

the season to come and I'm sure there are plenty of people listening who have friends of other schools, Louisville, you name it. It is being sent to them saying it looks like it's going to be a fun year for Kentucky football. We have to be honest. We would do the same thing about other schools, right? I mean, think about what I said about

the Louisville preseason picture. Right? I mean, I made fun of it. because it was ridiculous. So they're going to do the same thing to us. It's just reality. And if the year doesn't go well, it's going to be thrown right back at the entire team's face at that point.

Now, if I was at Gadoot, I'd go eat it. And when I make the first play on the field, I would jump like that. Yeah. Go find your team. I would. That's what I would say. That's what I would say to the kid.

Hey, man, have fun with it. Like you had fun doing it. Now make a tackle and jump like that. and then recreate it in the end zone. I'm good with it. I think that would actually be really funny. It's kind of like the motivated Mark Stoops thing. Don't get upset about it.

Own it. You know what I mean? Own it. Same thing with this because he seems like a fun loving dude. I just was saying like I've never seen one jump like that. It was just an interesting decision to put as a picture. I would love nothing more than early in that Toledo game. He knocks someone's helmet off and gets up and turns and holds hands with a line back there and recreates it.

It'd be a little silly. but I think it's his best move at this point. Shannon and I will recreate it tomorrow at the State Fair. Yeah, we can do it. We will recreate it since Billy's two chicken. We're at the price of admission right there. Shannon and I tomorrow at the State Fair will recreate the picture. Mario, you cannot put it on social media because I've learned the understay,

but we will do it there. All right, go in Pennsylvania. Go ahead. Hey, guys. First off, I'm no longer in Pennsylvania. Moved back to Kentucky two weeks ago, and I'm feeling so much. better. Well, congratulations. Secondly, thank you. Thank you. Good, good to be back in the bluegrass state.

Secondly, on this JMI thing, what happens to our big money donors now, or what happens to that money, so to speak. Well, I mean, their money will now flow through JMI. So like, a lot of our donors, most of our donors don't just, well, especially the big ones. They don't just hand a check. Now, they might hand a check to the university. But when it comes to the donors doing something with players, they usually filter it through a business that would then be, because you can't just pay them. It had to go through a collective or a business.

Now they'll just take their business through JMI. It's almost like a JMI credit card fee, probably. And that'll be what it is. So I don't expect the people that donate a lot of money. I don't expect it to change how they do business. So is that going to be part of whatever that dollar figure, 700 or whatever hundreds of millions that was? Yeah, I think it would. I mean, I think when you get to that $465 million, you know, the good part of that deal is JMI's guaranteeing UK an amount of money.

But, you know, they're going to say, okay, Matt Jones gives a million dollars for players to UK. It goes through JMI. and JMI is going to count that towards the $465 million. Okay. All right. Thanks for your answer. Appreciate it. You guys have a good day.

Appreciate the call. So, yes. I heard that the guy from JMI was doing an interview earlier today on Tom Leach. I did not hear it, but Paul Archie is his name. So I don't know if he gave more details or not. Usually a Leach report listener didn't catch that. Yeah. Let's go to Joe.

Go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt, sometimes when sports fans do things, you guys take a poll, whether it was cool or weird. I have one of those for you, if you want, not really a sport. Go for it. So I'll preface it real quick by saying, my brother and I are kind of obsessed of OCD about making lists of things like concepts we've been to, games, stadiums, that type of thing. I've never known anyone who does what he does. A year before you and I were born, he started a list of every movie he's ever been to. at the theater.

He's kept it now for about 48, 49 years. That's amazing. And he rates them 1 to 10, and he has them, now he's since moved it from pen and paper to Excel or whatever. Hey, it's awesome. That's not weird. That's not weird. I mean, I just,

we were just talking about the letterboxed app that all of it. All of America is doing that. So, no, I don't think it's awesome. I think anybody who takes the time to dedicate that much time to keeping track of their things. thing. Like, I'm reading 52 books this year or trying to. I write them each down after. I'm planning on at some point with Mario filming little TikTok things, rating them. I've finished like 29. I've written them all down. I've written my review of them. So if I can do it for a few

months, I can't say it's weird for your friend to have done it for that long. I think it's kind of cool, actually. I will send you the screenshot of movies 1 through 22. Take care. I appreciate the call. awesome. Thank you. I think it's awesome, right? I won't call that weird. I'll call it awesome. My dad writes down every golf course he's played. Not like every time he plays one, but like a new one to know every place he's been.

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See, if I didn't have this list, I couldn't do it, because I wouldn't remember them all. Martyr, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow. I read that one. I regret almost everything. That's that book where the guy, who's like a restaurant guy that was really good. I just finished my brilliant friend,

and I really liked that one. Well, that's more like, I think it's more probably aimed at women, but I really liked it. And then you dreamed of empires, which is like this. that book, the crazy book about like Cortez and Montezuma and then it's like a fever dream. It's weird. You got to get yourself ready for how weird it is, but I really liked it.

I'll probably read that one again. I never read anything again. So is that's a big recommendation from the bunch? You dreamed of empires is great. What I would suggest to you is go back and actually get on Wikipedia or something and read the story of Cortez and Montezuma before you do it so you know what actually kind of happened. so that you realize what's like a fever dream and what's not. I didn't do that.

It took me a wild to figure out what in the world was going on. But then once I did, I was glad. I was good. So those are the recommendations. By the way, the $465 million to UK, just to be clear, from JMI, it does not include the past money. So they expect to get over the next 15 years, $465 million in money.

So that would be $31 million. a year or something like that. That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Go get me Stokes. Money sounds good. Go get players. But I'm with you. You've convinced me. The amounts of money are relevant to me. Let me see what the roster is when it starts. And if the roster is good, then that was a good amount of money. I'm a fan of the basketball and the football team, not the accounting department. Y'all figure it out. Just put the best team out there you can.

The Raiders had practice apparently two days ago, Shannon, and they were practicing the tush push and 73-year-old Pete Carroll jumped in on the defense to try to stop it. Oh, I'm sure that didn't go too well for him. I didn't see the video, but I can't imagine he jumped on the pile while everybody was like in a pile after the tush push, and he, without a helmet, jumped into the pile. If you're a player, do you like that? Or you're like, you're 71 years old, man. Be careful. Absolutely love it, that he's in his 70s and still has that kind of fire that he would jump in on a dog pile. I absolutely love it. I can you not love that

as a player? I'd love it as long as I didn't have to carry him off the field. He's doing it without a helmet. Without a helmet. You can't say he's doing something he's not asking his players to do. When Vrable was with the Titans, he would do this stuff. I thought it was so cool and Vrable's still athletic and, you know, decades younger than Pete Carroll. I think it's awesome.

71. I mean, like, that's my mom jumping on the pile. Love it. And those players probably love it. I'm sure they love it. I'm sure they love. Yes. Pete Carroll seems like a fun do. Maybe before first game he'll, you know, head butt somebody and split himself open, really get him fired up. Dobs would do that? I could see it. He's got, he's like robotic now with his ankle and they've got whatever. I worry about him hurting himself. Be Carroll's a young 71 or whatever he is. Which Kentucky coach do you think would be more likely to jump into the game of practice? There's a coach that's not currently at Kentucky that's somewhere else that would be pretty wild at Tulane of the current coach.

coaches. Or just in general, what coach have we had that you could see jumping into the dog pile? Or in a basketball game saying bring it on. Well, I could see Pope calling out guys right now. I can see Pope going, come on, Jaden. You failed the driver's test. See if you can score on me. Mingee-O and I could see you getting out there in the dog pile. I'm sure he has. I bet Minge Jones tried to take somebody's legs out in a double play before. I think Stobs would. He's just a little banged up at the moment. We don't need any more procedures. Go ahead, James.

Hey, guys. First time, median time. Who I? I got a couple things. I've been listening to the podcast for a while, and I've been bonding with my eight-and-four-year-old. Got them listening to it. They love it as well. Hello, eight- and four-year-old.

So we appreciate the show. Second thing, I know you guys have been kind of big off and on last few weeks about conspiracy theories, so I got one for you. Okay. I think that maybe Coach Cal left for Arkansas because he's seen Indiana coming up on the schedule this year and he's scared to play him. Well, he's scared to go to Bloomington. I don't know if he's – I don't think he was scared to play Indiana, but I definitely think he was scared to go to Bloomington. I appreciate to call. He didn't want to.

I say this a lot. You know, I don't like Indiana. I like to mock them. still, I would say, second best college basketball environment I've ever been in. The 2002 Duke Carolina game was the wildest, and I don't think anything will ever top it.

It was like number one versus number two. I stormed the court for North Carolina when they won. Didn't get arrested either, even though I was on the road. I think Kentucky Indiana was second. And then I think there's some Kentucky games where we were home, where it would be next.

but to me the Kentucky Indiana game in 2012 was the wildest atmosphere I've seen of a Kentucky game in my lifetime. Would you agree with that? Me too. Not really even close. They were out of their minds. The caller was half right. When the series was scheduled, Bloomington was last for like 2029.

Because we knew he was leaving. I think Cal knew he wouldn't be here in 2029. We knew he was leaving. Jose, go ahead, Jose. So I want to get you guys This opinion on something When I did this my wife called me stupid But I want somebody to hopefully be on my side

What do you guys think about spending money For the right to buy a ticket For the FIFA World Cup next year Without knowing the game Or the kind of speed that you're getting I'm for it, do it Because when I went to the Euro-European Championships Last year

I just picked random games I didn't care who was playing. It's still such an awesome cultural experience. Just like, and then next year, it's in our country. You're probably going to like Cincinnati or Nashville. Am I right about that? San Francisco. San Francisco.

Yeah. And you're in San Francisco. So whatever country it is, there'll be people from it. I say you do it. I mean, what's the worst it could be? Like, it's still going to be awesome. I think you definitely do it. All right.

Thank you. It's someone who's done it. I mean, I literally went to three games. It was like Slovakia versus Switzerland. And it was still awesome. You can't really, like you can't recreate moments like that. So if you have a chance to go, go. We'll take a break.

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where if they don't do it in time, you'll be the one that gets paid. One person writes, Matt, if you were to go to World Cup games, which city and which teens would you want to see? Okay, good question.

Where are the cities? Do you know? Because I said Nashville and Cincinnati, apparently neither of them is. They got eliminated at the final stage. So where are we going? New York, New Jersey at MetLife.

I love New York. That's a hard stadium to get to. You'd get a lot of cool diversity there, but that is a hard stadium to get to. So what else? Dallas at AT&T Stadium. I don't know how much atmosphere that would have, but go ahead. Kansas City. Kansas City's great, actually.

They have a huge soccer community there. Go ahead. Houston at Energy Stadium. A lot of energy stadium. Diversity there. Atlanta. L.A. L.A. would be awesome.

That's my pick. Seattle. Seattle would be awesome. San Francisco. Pretty good. Philly. Pretty good. Miami. Boston.

Pretty good. All right. But again, a lot of these places. All right. So the question is, who do you want to see? Number one, Shannon, you want to see Brazil. Okay. The Brazilian fans, they dance the whole time.

The women, stop it. If there's a country with more beautiful, women than Brazil. I haven't seen it. So stop it. Right there. They dance the whole game. They never stop. The music, it just keeps playing and they don't stop dancing. They can be down. You wouldn't be able to keep your eye on the game though. I'd just be dancing. It wouldn't matter. So Brazil's number one. Argentina is up there. You'd want to see. All right. So let's go to Europe. if they make it, nobody is more fun than the Scottish people. Nobody.

Scottish people are the most, and I don't know if they'll make it, but the Scottish people are the most fun people maybe in the world. I went to Scotland versus Spain and Yankee Stadium, and I don't know that I've been to a better sporting event. Nothing more fun than Scotland. I went to a European game with Scottish people. I still keep in contact with the dudes I met on the train that I ended up sitting with. They sit me a thing that said, congrats.

One of them, listen to the podcast. Congrats on the NFL podcast. shout out to you Scottish guys. Spain, you mentioned another one. Awesome. Portugal. Awesome. The British fans are in a bad mood because they know they're never going to win.

What else? French, nah. Germany, nah. Then go to a team that has never been or hasn't been in a while. They get really excited, right? Like, they're just happy to be there. And then there'll be a team from either like Australia or New Zealand that will make it. They're fun too.

That's who I would say. But number one is I will go where Brazil is if I have to sneak in. I would pick L.A. as my venue and hope I get Mexico nearby and that they would just come take over. Mexico would be great too. In L.A. The Mexican fans are insane. But nobody's like Brazil. Nobody.

It's just a different thing. I really wouldn't care who I got, though. Just seeing a World Cup in person would be awesome. What you don't want is a country that's like, like you don't want like Norway. They're not that ex. They're just like, we're over here being Norway. Like Borway.

Yeah, exactly. More like Borway. You need somebody with, with, I'd also like the huge underdog, even though they probably wouldn't have a lot of fans with them. I would just embrace. I would be their fans. I'd wear the flag.

Well, that's what it was with me with Slovak. All these, they were like, we're not going to win. We're just going to Shannon Slovak everywhere, you know. That was their exact wording. So that was what they did. And so that was a, that's a lot of fun. Give me Ivory Coast versus England. And I am, I am, I'm waiting the Ivory Coast is.

Yeah. Cameroon, Cameroon, like, ivory coast. Yeah. That's what you want to do. And it's going to be in America. And I hope we embrace it because I think it's going to be a lot of fun, having all those people. It was going to be cool.

Blake, go ahead, Blake. Hey, guys. So we were talking about the, I guess, maybe Louisville will be the first, like, private equity team in sports and college sports. Are we now the first team that has become the, like, private equity-owned team? And is that kind of a KSR curse on that or not? I don't think it's the same thing exactly. So, like, private equity would include. If you were to have a private equity team like invest in Louisville,

they would get a percentage of all Louisville profits for everything, including for like ticket sales, suites, all that. This JMI deal, as I understand it, is about merchandise, naming rights, and things like that. Media rights. And so it's, you could make a strong argument that they are buying part,

but it's also 15 years. So it's term limited. which is a little different than private equity. So no, I wouldn't say this is private equity in the sense of what I think some teams are going to do in the future. Okay. So like, to give you a little better about it, to give an example, like when I sold 51% of OVW, I now have, along with my partners, 49%. I can't get that 51% pack.

If that guy that runs it decides to do something that I hate, there's really nothing I can do. about it. UK still will get it back in 15 years. I'm sure there are provisions that allow them to still make the decision. So I just, I don't think it's the same thing. So it's more like a licensing agreement than anything else. I think so.

It's just a licensing agreement, though, but they are licensing away a massive part of what it means to be an athletics department, including the getting of players. Right. And does that have anything to do with, with how they separated the athletic department into the LLS, like the separate LLC to, or is that completely separate? I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does, but it's not, I'm not going to claim to be like a high level corporate lawyer and be able to tell you why from a business perspective it does.

But I'm sure that it made that deal a lot easier because the very first board meeting of the new private LLC is where they announced this. So I have to assume that it had something to do with it. Okay, cool. I appreciate the call. Thank you. Chad in Wisconsin. Go ahead, Chad. Long time listener, first time caller.

Who up? I was just calling because y'all were talking about the George Webb cheeseburgers earlier. Okay, so do you live up there? Yes, I'm from Kentucky. I used to bring you the big cases of Skittles back in the day. Those were good. I still have some because I couldn't eat them all. Thank you.

So tell me, like, are they, are they, Are you going to get one of the burgers? No, I'm not going there. I'm not waiting at that line. First of all, are they good? Have you ever eaten it, George Webb? It's like the Waffle House of the North. Oh, okay.

So it's not like a mom and pop. It's not like a mom and pop? No, it's not. Oh. No, it's a chain. Well, that's a lot less interesting. All right, well, are people in Milwaukee excited? They've been talking about these cheeseburgers for a month.

Well, I guess that means they are. I appreciate the call, and thank you for the Skittles over the year. I get some of them, maybe they got the worth in advertising themselves. I guess it takes a little bit out of the fun knowing it's a big entity with chains all over the state. I thought it was going to literally be a mom and a pop over a grill at their little shop. No way. You thought it's going to be George and Webb. Now that it's like the Wisconsin or the McDonald's of Wisconsin, it's a little different.

Do you remember when we went to Milwaukee for the NCAA, for the NCAA, tournament. Myron told us we had to go get a burger somewhere. We never made it. Oh, so this was not that. Cops could never do this. They're doing too well. So you think this is like to save George Webb? They're going to give 300,000 burgers away to save the... Well, I'm just, when you think of burgers, I mean, how many people said cops? We didn't hear a lot of... A ton. Yeah, so I think cops is doing just fun. Okay. I'm a little mad we didn't get to that place. It looked good. We had so many people recommend it too. Yeah, we did. Next time. Next time we'll

do it. All right, real quick, draft kings tonight, by the way, you can bet $5, you can get up to 150 in bonus bets. I'm sitting here looking at the game. The Reds are off tonight, so I'm just going to randomly pick one. How about this? Little League Baseball World Series.

Shannon, Taipei, Taipei, not Taipei. Taipei, Chinese, Tai plays Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. Chihuahua, wow. Chihuahua Mexico versus Chinese Taipei.

Who you got? Give me Chihuahua Mexico. You know, we heard Shannon's Poodle yesterday. Do you have a Chihuahua? Do you have a chihuahua over there? Sounds a lot like the poodle. Who you got? I got to go with the Chihuahua.

I'm going to go with Chinese Taipei. And then in the other, in the nightcap, Sue Falls, South Dakota. Dakota plays Uchelon Township, Pennsylvania. Ooh, Pennsylvania, the home of the World Series, right? So we've got to go with Pennsylvania. They got a home field advantage. I was just in South Dakota.

I feel like I'm a local now, so I'm rolling with my South Dakotaans. I'm going to go Pennsylvania. Let's do one more. Why not? Brain Tree, Massachusetts. That is not a place. It is. Brain Tree, Massachusetts versus Irmo, South Carolina.

Well, this is not a thinking game. So I'm going to go with the South Carolina team instead of brain tree. This ain't no spelling me for chess. Brain tree. This ain't know who's the smartest kids. Got to go with SEC country. I'll take South Carolina. I feel like Irmo's got to be good, right?

And then I think this is going to be a route. Berno Chechnia versus Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Japan. You got to go to Tokyo, right? like Japan. Do they even play baseball in the Czech Republic? I'm taking the burn of Chichotamio. I'm taking them.

They don't even play baseball in the Czech Republic, do they? They're about to. Dude, you got to take Tokyo. That's my Matt Jones lock of the week at Draft King. They did make it this far, so these teams got to be decent. I think they have to take someone from Europe. So Tokyo is the lock of the year. We'll take a break.

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I don't even want to know why. I just want to picture in court the mascot walking out in his gear and saying, Your Honor, and then stating his claim. I don't think what that could be, did he maybe get injured? Yeah, I would think it's probably something about an injury. I can't imagine. Got tired of the one arm push-ups. I can't imagine the mascot was sexually harassed.

The kiss cam. Yeah. I'm tired of doing the kiss cam. I would be. I would think. it would have to be something with an injury. I think that's the mascot that jumps on the trampoline and does like the flips and the dunks.

I think that's the mascot. I mean, so injury is probably a pretty good game. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I hope I never get the answer. I just, well, here, I've got the answer. He tried to collectively bargain with the other mascots and they were, do you have the end. Do you want to know the answer?

Yeah, let's do it. It's in another headline. Do you want the answer? Yeah, yeah. All right. So what's the answer? What did they do? Wrongful termination.

Amid health recovery. recovery. Okay. So health recovery. So it's probably an injury. Yep. And he probably didn't recover quick enough and they got somebody else to be a mascot. Yeah, that's mean. He was the mascot. Nobody knew who he was though. I mean, somebody else could put the costume on. Well, that is true. Like you didn't, you don't go, man, I missed the other guy. See, I liked it better in my brain that the actual mascot was the one suing. Not the guy inside the costume. I wish it was the mascot. Your Honor. they've discriminated against me as a lion. They're always favoring the cows.

I'm a lion. I said it's a lion. What is it? It is lion-ish. I mean, they don't have a nugget out there. It's like a little animal. I can't think of exactly what it is.

It's like a little cat or something, isn't it? Yeah. Some kind of cat. Adam, go ahead. It's a mountain lion. It's a mountain lion. That makes you rock. The mountain lion.

Tush. Gotcha. Adam, go ahead. First time, Jay Lucas, Patrick Patterson, long time. It's a little bit. Wow, now that is, that goes way back, my friend. Yes, that's 2007. Yes, I'm a Bell County boy, too.

And my buddy, he just was like, hey, man, there's a guy from Middlesbrough that has started in this website. And listen, I had dial-up, brother, and I would listen, because I lived in a holler, and I would try to get on to figure out what was, but what hauler, what holler did you live in? I live up, Hunter Holler and Little Clare,

up Little Clare Creek. It's up by the, up 190 down. Now say that again, you're in Hunter Haller in Little, I think, did you say Clare Creek, you met Clear Creek,

right? Yes, yes. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, up there, okay. Yeah, next to the, there's like a seminary or whatever up there, like a Bible college, right? Yeah, yeah, yes.

Yeah. Yeah, my house is literally four minutes away from that. All right, gotcha. The reason why I was calling it's a little different route today, but I have literally drove 75 my whole entire life. I was from Lima, so from Detroit all the way down to Knoxville. I'm pretty good at 75. Well, with the Clearwater the other day, and I have got to tell you,

I've always thought Ohio was the worst drivers, but let me tell you, is it just me or does Georgia over top Ohioans because they cannot drive worth a lick on 75? Is it just me? Is it just me? I don't know if it's just you, but I like it. I think Seth, Seth, since you're from Clear Creek,

I think you should, Adam, never mind, Adam, since you're from Clear Creek, I think you should, I think you should just call in with your thoughts. I like the Georgians can't drive. They're even worse than Oh, Hines. Hey, and I'll tell you, KST, Kentucky State Police, if you see a Georgia driver, hey, just pull them over, even if you've got to put something in their truck. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.

But whatever you got to do, just do it. I was driving. I was driving, you got time or am I? Listen, you're entertaining me. Go for it. Hey, I was coming out of the tunnel the other day. Okay. Where did it go?

Yeah, this, can you hear me? Now, go ahead. Okay, I was coming out of the tunnel. In the left lane, they was somebody pulling out of LMU. Well, they was nobody in the right lane, so I just thought, okay, they're not going to pull it out in front of me. They're going to get this fast one or getting a slum lane. Well, sure, no, Matt, you, Harper. They pulled right out in front of me.

And then, you know, I'm laid back. I'm like, that's so cool. That's so cool. Then they take the next left at that subway frosty free. And when I say, it pissed me off so bad. I literally got over in the turning lane, got on his ass, and scared the ever-loving dog crap in him. So Georgia, KSP, you see them, pull them over, do whatever you got to do to get them off the road.

Thank you, Adam. I appreciate it. Wow. That's one of my favorite calls in a long time. Adam from Clear Creek. We need to hear more from Adam. Hunter-Haller. I have a mascot detail.

This guy's... I really like that guy. Go ahead. This guy's dad was the mascot for 30 years, and he grew up in the locker room. He says he was doing his homework while his dad was practicing being the mascot. Wait a minute. He's a legacy, man. Yeah, this changes things for me. His dad was the original cat. He says as a kid, I would go to and do my homework in the locker room. My dad was getting ready. So he was the little cat. And he was fired for what was his injury? He has a hip injury. Hit some hip pain.

Being a mascot will do that to you. I would think if you're flipping like that. I'm on his side. I feel like you, oh, it's a family tradition. Wouldn't the nuggets want that story? Maybe he has a kid one day and then you got a little grandkid mascot. I like the idea, though, that, like, you're a father and you're like, son, one day you're going to be like me. You're going to be in this mountain line costume. Stanky sweaty costume. Yeah, you're going to follow in my stank footsteps. And you're going to be jumping off the trampoline to the sounds of Cisco at a game in the future. It says in the interview, I've loved Rocky my entire life. It's in my blood.

So I think your scenario is how he was. raised. It's a shame. If you put this case in front of a jury in Denver Nuggets, you're going to get taken to the bank. You better settle and bring back my hip-addled

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