KSR - 2025-08-15- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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Sports Radio here live at the Kentucky State Fair. First of all, we're Kentucky fans in Louisville. We can do better than that. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio here live. There we go. We got to make sure a card fans knows who owns this city here. Kentucky Association of Health Plans, free flu shots throughout the state fair, and the Kroger gift cards are throughout the state fair. It was not just

it's not just during this. You can come get your flu shot, get a gift card by groceries. They're, they're expensive out here. They are. Vegetables are going. Do you see a vegetable is going up? So that's why you shouldn't eat them. But nevertheless, you can still come and get your flu shot, and it'll all be good. There's a lot of. controversy here right now, Drew, because Shannon the dude just tweeted a picture of Billy, and Billy is clearly very angry. The pre-show host, I saw somebody earlier, had a KSR pre-show host, KSR pre-show shirt. Save that one.

That could become, because Billy is very mad at Shannon. Shannon tweeted out a picture. Well, I'll let everybody look at it on Twitter. Why did you tweet that out, Shannon? Do you want me to delete it? he won't even look at me he won't even look at me right now I won't even look at you I'll delete it if you really want me to but it's too late I mean well no I can delete it

yeah but you act like nobody he's not even looking so he's turning his back to me right now you act like nobody could have already seen like somebody can already saved it it's not going anywhere like once it's out he had a pacifier in his mouth I could not resist the urge to take a picture of a grown man I'm just saying with a binkie in his mouth I'm just saying there might be some pre-show host animosity going for the future. I worry about the pre-show sometimes. Sometimes they're bickering on there like a married couple. They really do.

Now Billy won't even look his direction. I accidentally hit retweet. I didn't mean to do that. Oh, no. Oh, no. Just for the record, people sometimes think I'm mean to Ryan. Those two are a lot meaner to each other than I. I'm going to give you a couple more state fair events real quick.

tonight at five o'clock there's the granny contest with a granny contest just bring your granny I think is it like a sexy granny contest I hope so is it wait a minute you're you're the granny right that's grandma Sarah speaking of sexy granny she would win five o'clock granny come on stick around you might win a gold medal today before you leave I don't know what the granny contest is Shannon but whatever it is good luck to all of the that are in it. I might still be here. I'll let you know.

I'll be your reporter. Then also competing against the granny contest is animal cracker conspiracy. Nobody's going to that if the granny contest is going on. Well, what do we think an animal cracker conspiracy is? I like a good conspiracy, though. I don't know what's going on with animal crackers. I might check that one out after I see the granny competition. There's one here called Most Wanted.

Do they just, like, bring all the Most Wanted together and have them sign in? Probably a few out here roaming around. I'll tell you what, they're trying to trick them. Yeah. If you're one of the most wanted people, they tell you to come and then they get you. Free gift card. Then you're caught, and they've, you know, it's a very clever way to solve it. One person writes, Matt, you and the other guys are casuals.

I don't, that's a big front thing people call each other. Casuals. Casuals. Yeah, thank you. You are casuals. True UK fans would give money to B, B.B.U. And United. so that UK wins.

That does not mean you're going to win. Yeah, okay. So the thing about, here's why you have to give perks. So let me give you an example. This is what, we've talked about this before, but it's called the tragedy of the commons. So if I were to go to all of you and say, is it worth it to you to pay $5 so that there's a nice park in your town?

almost everybody's going to say yes almost everybody's going to say you know what I'd like a nice park in my town $5 is fine however if you say here's a here's a link to click click this link and give us $5 for the park

a lot of people won't do it because they'll think well somebody else will do it right like I don't need to do it somebody else will do it it's the tragedy of the commons it's also like why you have to hire people to clean parks. Everybody wants clean parks, but nobody wants to sit there and actually pick up the trash, right? So you have taxes and you have other things that force people to give the $5 because otherwise

they wouldn't do it. What worries me about things, and this was true of Club Blue, too, what worries you is, I think everybody, if I were to say to you, Shannon, is it worth $100 to you for Kentucky to be good at sports? I think we'd all say yes, but that's different than clicking the button to give. $100. So the way you click, get people to click the button to $100 is to give them something. Yep.

Give them something immediate, whatever it is that makes them want to click the button. And so the question is not whether or not it's worth $100 or $600 or whatever. The question is, can you give enough stuff to make me click the button to make this happen? And that's what I think these things have to work. That and too, I mean, if there was a magic wand and that said you can wave this one, and you give $100 and it will guarantee Kentucky will be competitive in football. Everybody I would do it. But there's no guarantee in that either.

So it doesn't necessarily equal the other. So I think that's the great. I mean, think about taxes. Everybody wants to have a government. Everybody wants to have a police force. Everybody will have all this. At the same time, if the IRS doesn't exist, nobody would pay their taxes because you just wouldn't want to like, you'd just be like, well, if I can get away with it, then it'll be fine.

And so I do wonder if it's enough. By the way, one of the things you get to vote on, I'm told, is there'll be one game during the year where the people in BBEU and the United get to vote on what uniforms the players win. That's kind of cool. I like that. It's kind of cool.

Yeah. You know, I think the jorts would probably be the one that's going to win. Do they give us options or do we literally get to just vote for whatever we think that you should wear that day? That would be a lot of fun. Yeah, if they would really open it off. Like an overalls. Like a suggestion box.

could add your own overalls you're onto something with uh you know five dollars coming out take care of the part why don't we just take five dollars out of everyone's paycheck there's just kentucky games well just i mean that's not going to happen but if you think about it like taxes are this like they take it out now so that in theory things we all share can get taken care of now of course a lot of people think we waste the money i get all that but that's what taxes are so but But there's really not a BB in tax. So you have to voluntarily do it. I think it's interesting, though.

If the government were to charge everybody $25 for Kentucky to have a Final Four competitive roster and take it out of your checks, I probably would support that, to be honest with you. But if you live in Louisville, though, they take it out. No, they can't take my money for Louisville. I'm just saying, like, I live close to Louisville. What if they were to take it out and give it to them instead? Yeah, they can't.

Well, you know, like when you go to UK, you would know this better than I do, Drew. Don't they have, like, student activities fees or something? Don't they charge you? Sure. I think you're thinking highly of my UK experience there. Well, you did it. You did the first year three times, so I felt like you...

Because I wasn't going to many student activities. I'm already paying school taxes for kids I don't have, so... Very good. So do I. For kids, I'll probably... Who's up next? Kyle is up next. Kyle. Go ahead, Kyle.

Hey, fellas. Matt, I just want to say you at least have one Reds fan that likes all the Reds talk. Well, thank you. I just, I don't, no problem. Drew, Drew and Shannon, thank you to your braids for getting us this close. And Matt, you got to try to get Ellie to come to UK basketball game to do the Y one time. And that's all I got. Oh, I would love that.

I would love to have Ellie as the Y as the Y. Do you think I left people at Rupp Arena would even know, who he is, though. Like, what percentage of Rupp Arena do you think would know who L.E. De La Cruz is? Well, they always introduce the person, but you're saying without the introduction? No, no, no. I mean, if they said Ellie De La Cruz, Rads, do you think?

How many people would be like, oh, yeah, I've heard of that guy? I think more than what you think. I hope so, yeah. Yeah. Go about half. You're worth doing if he would do it. Well, first of all, if you listen to this show, you would know. Yeah.

Right. So, there you go. If you're a Reds fan, you would know. Even if you're a casual baseball fan, you know who that is. So maybe there'd be more than you think. 859-2-807, who's next? Sean from Austin is next. Sean from Austin.

Go ahead, Sean. Hey, guys, great show. I wish I could be there to smell the fair. When I was a kid, I always had to get the hand-squeezed lemonade and a deep-fried Oreo. And I was wondering, like, what are some, crazy fair food you can only get like at the fair and like what do you guys talk we talked earlier about the chitos corn dog corn dog today they're outside i'll show you in the midway he's right

about those lemon shakeups it's sugar lemon water it shouldn't be that hard to make but there's something about how they make him at the fair i don't know if they put crack in them too much sugar i don't know what it is probably the fair limit shakeups are good yeah probably and last Yeah, go ahead. And George Costanza said about the kid that was 12 years old, about the Reds, you know, it's not a lie if you believe it. That's true. That's true. Although it was a lie.

He went to Valparaiso, Lloyd MacLendon, and was not drafted until he's 21, which may be that guy's dyslexic, and he just had the numbers flip. There you go. He saw 21 and he was actually. Plausible explanation right there. Appreciate that. call. A couple open lines. 8.59.280.27.27. We're all friends here, so like you guys know what we do, et cetera. So I'm going to give you some a little behind the scenes. So the NFL show, which is probably going to be announced a week from Monday, I think, for me and Drew. We've been,

we did something that is like against my nature, which is we did a test show. We did like a full show that no one will ever hear because I thought we needed to like practice and we have all these cameras and Billy and Mario and Nathan have been setting up cameras we have lights and actually like we're almost getting professional I mean not yet but we're there's slow down Mario's like hitting buttons on the yeah Mario's got like one of these editing things where you hit buttons and you go camera one camera two camera three so we did a practice show and you know drew and I've been doing shows together for 15 years. So I kind of know how we vibe.

And I would say when it was over, I was thinking, you know, that was probably like a B-minus Matt and Drew show, maybe a C-plus Matt and Drew show. I'm not worried about it, but I was like, you know, we can do better. So Billy, you don't even know this yet. Billy sent it off to the NFL people. And I was a little nervous about sending it, Shannon, because I was like, we can do better than that. they said the content was quote excellent and through the roof wow imagine when you're actually on your game honestly that wasn't even very good like we can do better than that uh so drew that that was encouraging

yeah actually billy shared with that yesterday even used the word outstanding also in there i'm with you you know i had fun but it was our first one we're still figuring out the format it was truly just getting some shots up so if they liked our our dress rehearsal i'm looking forward to when we finally get our rules that wasn't even real. Is it possible expectations were so low? Yes. That they were like, you know what? Very possible. This is great. So you will hear on, if you listen to KSR or other IHeart podcast, you're going to start to hear the promos on it. Those promos come from the test show that Drew and I just did. And so, I mean, I'm, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm nervous about it. I realize doing that test show. I don't know enough about this. On ESPN, on ESPN, I can just go to the phones or make

fun of Myron. Like, I can just do something like that. This is, you know, when you're trying to break down like a preseason game, Shannon, I may have to do, I've got to do a little bit more work. We've got one tonight. I mean, do you want to break down that preseason game for tonight's Falcons. I don't want to watch it. I have no interest in it, but I'm probably going to have to turn it on because, you know, that's the way it goes. That sounds like at least you guys are having fun and, you know, it's cover zero so you're acknowledging you don't know anything. So you just play up that and you'll be fine.

And a big shout out to Mario and Billy and Nathan that works back there. They are working really hard. Like they, like, it's not going to, when it comes out, it's not going to look perfect, but like it's going to look a lot better than it could have. And so a big shout out to them.

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you can also get a Kroger gift card. We've got great crowd here. Folks, knew they didn't have chairs still came out, and we very much appreciate them. One person writes, Matt, you are a stinking liberal. I hope you see at the fair there are no Kamala Harris flags. No, they're not. You're exactly right about that. This is, this is. I haven't seen one yet.

Yeah, well, I've been here a number of years. I've never seen one. This is like, if you were going to pick, I'm not saying everybody, but if you were going to pick in terms of merchandise, this is definitely a MAGA merchandise place. There's no doubt about that. I try on a lot of the stuff. I probably will afterwards as well. Where did you get your combo of flag then?

Not here. Is that Amazon? I made it myself. I actually sewed it. It was good. I saw that they have many places where you can get pocket knives over there. If you want to get, you know, your buddy. Yeah, a new pocket knife for your friend.

Yeah. There's several places over there where you can get those. I don't know what I would use it for, though. No, not for you for your friend. Give another one. You know, he had to leave it at the casino. So, yeah, maybe that's what, you know, today's a business. birthday there you go that's a great birthday gift tell i'm really narrowing this

town don't tell him it's his birthday i'm going to take him a new there you go that is perfect there's something for everybody at the state fair that's exactly right a year ago i was with you back there and you bought like some salsa to make it home did you make it at home i think i left in my car still uh but uh but it probably so i can i can have it i think sauce is good warm yeah so it's okay yeah been frozen good stuff yeah uh 859 280 202 8000 Let's talk about our rivals. Some of the stuff they're doing. We'll start with the Kansas.

Kansas alumnus gave $300 million to Kansas to use for NIL over the course of the next 20 years. He basically said, I got 20 years left on Earth. I want us to be good at sports. Here's $300 million. What do you think about that? I think everybody needs a friend like that. Just give you $300 million. There's a lot of pressure on you, though, if you're a program like Kansas, I think.

If you get that kind of money and you don't win a championship, People want to know why. Well, no, I mean, it's a blessing, but if you're like, first of all, this guy says he only has 20 years to live. Yeah. And I don't know how much he's worth, but $300 million has got to be a big chunk of it. I mean, unless he's Jeff Bezos. That's what I was wondering. Is this Warren Buffett?

That's a, first of all, also, if I'm his kids, I'm like, hello? Yeah. You love Kansas basketball more than me. Or maybe he's just like me and he doesn't have it. I mean, if I had $300 million, I don't know. If I think I wouldn't give it all to the UK, but I could see myself going, let's get a good five-year run here, you know?

So, but it is a lot of pressure for Kansas, isn't it? Yeah, especially with this. I mean, you got a hard deadline with this guy. Might even try freezing him. I don't know how that works. Got it went before he dies. This is something when this came up, the change in the college landscape,

and it happened at a big school like Kansas, but this could happen anywhere where someone just on their way out drops an enormous bag and says, go crazy, go see what you can win. Yeah, give me. I think one of the interesting things to see is, like, we don't think about this, but let me give you a practical thing

that teams are going to have to deal with. Let's say you're a team and you have, like, a big donor. And there are probably 20 schools around college sports that have one person that gives most of their money. All right. Let's say that person dies. Okay? Then their spouse or their kids,

are going to decide whether to keep this going. And chances are, a lot of times they're going to be like, nah, you know. And so I do think all of a sudden you got like a lot of pressure on, you've been to the doctor, man. Yeah. How's everything going? Yeah. I know Bill Self just had a heart attack.

He doesn't need this extra pressure. But, I mean, there is a sense of, can we go ahead and get this in Ryan? Yeah. Exactly. I do think there's, you know, you've got individuals now that have a lot of, A lot of power over a team. Can you take out an insurance policy on your biggest donor? That's a good question.

Well, I do like the idea. I got 20 years left on this. I want a Kansas. He said, Kansas has really not had a great football team since I've been here. It's time for me to get one before I die. So we'll see if it works out. We need some of those. You can't pay anybody to live in Kansas.

There's no way. I don't think 300 million is going to do anything for it. If you are a school that has these big donors and they have kids, you have to recruit them. Like, yeah, bring your kid to everything. whatever sweet your kid wants, wherever your kid, whatever they need. I want to make sure I'm in with them for the future. Tennessee flip from Nike to Adidas.

They just announced what their deal is. It is $16 million, excuse me, $20 million a year. If you remember, we've talked about, Adidas overpays Louisville and Tennessee and those schools so that they'll have it. But in the process, they listed in the SEC what each school gets from apparel deals from Nike your Adidas. I was kind of surprised to see Kentucky's actually fourth. Now, the only three schools ahead of Kentucky are Texas, Texas, A&M in Tennessee. We actually get more in revenue than Alabama and Georgia, which surprised me. Now, it may just be that their deals haven't come up again and the next time it'll be more, but were you surprised by that? Yeah, for right now, I'll take that. I mean,

that's a huge deal for Tennessee. And they were at Dita's school. It seemed like forever until fairly recently. I always had them as an Adidas school in mind. So they're just going back to those roots, but you can't know, they got a nice payday to go back and do that. And then finally, Shannon, Oklahoma trying to figure out ways to raise money, is going to sell to the fans the ability to have a day. They can buy a day in the Oklahoma media press box. You can pay $10 to $15,000 and you can sit in the press box for a game. Well, all of us have sat there for free with our media passes, and I can tell you,

It's a lot more fun out there with all the fans than it is in that sterile environment, which is the media press box where you can't cheer. It's quiet. It's not where I would want to watch a game. So there's no way I want to pay that kind of money to go there. Of all the fundraisers I've heard, Drew, this is the worst one. If you pay $10,000 to sit next to Rob Bromley and John Clay, no offense to Rob Bromley and John Clay and eat like stale barbecue,

you, I feel like that's probably a bad decision. I mean, they can have my spot. I'll sell it. There is free coffee. Now, I think it was made the Saturday before, but you have that. The barbecue is good. Also made the Saturday before.

Do you get to ask a question? I don't know. I can't imagine paying you to be in the press box. I can't think of anyone. Let me just say. Maybe you got like a kid that wants to go into journalism. For all you folks here, if you were to just like go as my end, turn to the press box, you would have a really good time. You would think it's really cool.

You would think it's interesting. But if you had paid $10,000 to go into the press box, you'd be like, I need a refund. Yeah. It would not, it is cool, but it is not $10,000. I was there for five minutes. I was ready to leave. Yeah. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live at the state fair. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here. at the Kentucky State Fair. We are brought to you by the Kentucky Association of Health Plans. They are doing flu shots.

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Don't worry about it. It looks great. One person writes, Matt, do not buy your friend a pocket knife for people who actually know about such a lot. things it's like your mom buying you shoes. My mom's got me shoes. What's wrong with your mom buying you shoes? I think that's actually, you can't buy another man a pocket night?

I think you can. I think that's a great manly gift to give somebody. I'm going to go buy him a nice pocket night for him to lose, Drew, the next time we go to a casino. I think it's a great idea. Walking around here after the show, shopping is my favorite part of this trip every year. Yep, 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Got Adam up next.

Adam, go ahead, Adam. What's up, guys? Yesterday, caller called in asking about three-point shooting for next year's team. I think you said you expected either an equal or lesser amount of volume. I'm kind of the other way. Now that you have Jalen Lowe who can get to the rim along with O.A., I think that's going to open up more shots. On the outside, plus you have better offensive rebounding for kickbacks and things like that.

So I'm kind of optimistic that the ball you may be higher. You're going to have to be really good to have better offensive rebound. We rebounded pretty well last year, especially as the season went on. Now, your point's valid, though, about driving to the basket and kicking out. We may have more open looks. So, Drew, we might shoot a higher percentage. I'd be surprised if we had a higher number, but maybe. I mean, it's plausible.

And driving to kicking back out is one of the things low does best. maybe even Pat Kelsey, one of the coaches last year in the post game raved about how he could just get to the rim with eyes in the back of his head. Next thing, you know, you've got a wide open three-pointers. So that's something teams really have to look out for him because that's the way he likes to go. Do we feel like this is going to be a high-scoring team like last year where you can score 100 on somebody, like just on any given night? Kind of like that team last year, do you think that'll be similar? Because I think part of what made us be able to score 100 is we had guys who could get super hot, right? Yeah.

So Kobe Brea, like, think about that Florida game when we won in Rupp Arena. Kobe Brea, Jackson Robinson, all those dudes got insanely hot. Let me put it like this. If Colin Chandler becomes a knockdown shooter, right? And if Aberdeen is getting a lot of minutes and is a not-in-jay. I mean, it's possible, but I don't know that, I don't know. I just think this team is going to be so different from last year. They're going to be much improved defensively.

I'm just not sure that they'll be better offensively, but you might still win more, Drew, because you're so much better defensively. Yeah, and Pope likes to go, and let's assume Lowe's healthy, hopefully nothing, anything like last year ever again. But if you have a point guard with his pace, maybe it could play a lot faster. It kind of got stagnant when you had Perry out there

still learning the ropes in the middle of SEC play. It was unfair for him, but it did slow it down a little more than Pope likes to go. I know I've said this a lot, and you're going to hear me say it a lot more, and you're probably going to get tired of it. To me, this team is just how good is Jalen Lowe going to be? If Jailen Lowe is good, we can win the national championship.

If Jalen Lowe's not good or is not as good as he should be, then I think this team kind of reminds me a little bit of last year. It'll be up and down and up and down. But I think this team, it is all about Jalen Lowe. What Jalen Lowe does, I think, Drew, that's what this team does. And, you know, every summer there's a standerner. out that doesn't really meet the expectations put them in the summer, but it's been exciting hearing what we've heard out of the small workouts they've had of low on campus and being a leader

and looking like he's ready to be that guy at a place that's, you know, a little notch up from Pittsburgh a year ago. That's the thing. I think there's a lot of potential there, but it's hard to compare his teammates that he was playing with at Pittsburgh to Kentucky this year. He had to take every shot. And if you've listened to Mark Pope, he said it on this show and he said it on others. He took like the worst.

shots in the country last year. Because he had to. He was in the bottom five percentile of worst shots in the country because he had to. Right. Because he was playing with dude. So start making him. So there's two ways to look at that. One, if he takes good shots, he'll be great. Two is, is he capable of taking good shots? Those will be, that'll really be the question for the year. Is he a guy who once you get him to take good shots is awesome? Or is he a guy who just is going to end up still kind of ball hogging? We'll have to see. And Pope's an offensive mind. He's a good coach, and Lowe has the pieces around him. He would almost have to be stubborn to come in and take bad shots at the rate he did a year ago with this team he'll be playing with now.

But I will also note, by the way, we don't have any choice but to play him, in my opinion. So like good or bad, it's one of these things we're going to have to live with him because who's his backup? I mean, it'll be like when Jackson Robinson was a point guard. Whoever we have play backup point guard is not a point guard. So like he is, it's live or die with with Jay and low. And I'm comfortable with it, but that's just the truth. I think so too. It's the only spot that doesn't have a true backup.

So if everyone on the roster, including Oway, might be the most important. He's the most important player. He is the most important player. Oteg Owey might be the best player, but he is the most important player on the team is still low. Who's next? Lucas is next.

Lucas, go ahead, Lucas. Hey, I just wanted to say I'm headed to see your cousin tonight in Cleveland. Oh, is Morgan in Cleveland? Yes, he's playing tonight with Gavin Adcock and Miranda Lambert. I'm headed there now. We're going to go see it tonight. But I'm sure it'll be fun. Oh, it'll be a blast.

I can't wait. The other thing I wanted to say real quick was last night I was playing NCAA football as Kentucky playing against Toledo. And the first of the back was Chip Train him. from Ohio State and then a former cat that played for us. Yep, he plays for Toledo, and he will be ready to go against us. I appreciate the call. I saw somebody do their early picks of the year for college football.

They had Kentucky over Toledo because they thought Toledo was getting too much respect, Shadon. I feel like we've been hearing a lot about Toledo in the off season, but I feel like that's probably just people maybe getting. their hopes up, building it up, building up Toledo a little bit more than what they should. And I think Kentucky wins. Well, week one of the college. They better win. Let's put it that way. Week one of the college football season. It has a couple of pretty good games, but it has a lot of games where you're kind of stretching and people want to have a big upset. And you look at that, Drew, and you go, okay, this is one that could happen. And I think it's probably led some people to

put more into it than they should. Everybody on the national scene that's having to do their previews and their predictions. You kind of got to have an upset pick. Nobody just wants to watch you pick chalk all the time. And if you look at week one, if we're being objective, Toledo at Kentucky is a pretty easy one to make as your upset pick. It's of all the games where you've got a power four going against the team outside their conference. It's probably the one with a smaller margin. So that's why a lot of teams are high on Toledo right now because it's a, it's a trendy and easy way to pick an upset. By the way, there's a, I think there's a top 25 game next week. All right. I think a lot of people, Iowa State,

Kansas State, I believe both teams are in the top 25. They play next Saturday. So you're going to have a game one week from tomorrow, an actual college football game that counts. I believe it's in, like, Dublin. Iowa State and Kansas State are going to Dublin, Ireland, and playing. And I like in week one, the number one team in the country is an underdog. Texas playing Ohio State. Texas is number one in the week two, excuse me. But no, it's the second week. Yeah, week one football after week zero. But first time ever, the number one team in the country starts out. as an underdog in a game. Yeah, are you going to watch?

You know, that's going to be Lee Corso's final thing. Are you going to watch that? Absolutely. I love Lee Corso, an absolute legend. And I'm glad that he gets to go out on week one, you know, gets to come back for one more season and do his final farewell. So that'll be very cool. Be very emotional and really, really neat thing.

Remember, we play that game at, we play at noon. 1230, so we're going to, like, it'll be coming right into our first. game. Who's up next? Jake is next. Jake, go ahead, Jake. Yes, Matthew. How are you doing this morning? Good, Jake. What's up? Hey, I was wanting to catch a Cincinnati Reds game before their season's over. How can I catch that on a... Well, they're on television. You can watch them. I can't watch the games because you know, you know I can't see, so I can't watch the games anyway. that dude yeah well you can listen to them i mean they're on you can you can listen to them they're on 700 wlw you can listen they've got or that they're they're on every game i because i used to listen to listen to them uh when i was going to school in uh in louisville when i was a kid so i wanted to yeah well you can where do you live again jake i'm in west kentucky now

But they used to go to school in Louisville. I'm sure there's an affiliate out there. I'll tell you another thing you can do, Jake. Are you a Reds fan? That's what I'm trying to get back into it for, because I was a Reds fan back when going on. All right, Jake, I'll tell you what, when you get, find a way to send me an email, and I'll give you and you can, I'll give you a way to listen online, okay?

Yes, sir. All right. He says what disappointed. What he was out in for? AM. 700 WLW. AM. Got you.

All right. Thank you, Jake. I'm not sure what else he wanted me to do. I don't know. Was he hinting at some free tickets or something? I'm not sure. Jake would never do that. We've got some exciting news to share today.

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Can I double up? I'm extra safe? I think you're supposed to do it every year. Because every year is. But I mean, if I did it this year already, I can't remember. I think you only do it once a year. I don't think you need a second one just in case. I need the Kroger gift card.

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so that's Federal Department of Justice prosecutors announced, well, announced that they are in the middle of a game probing about college football involving players in college football and basketball. And it said, quote, it is focusing on southern schools. So generally speaking, what we've seen with these probes, Drew, is that they've been at smaller colleges. They've been at kind of small places where maybe there's not as much attention or not as much focus.

But I have a feeling this, I mean, we've already seen like three or four professional athletes lose their career from it, couple in baseball, couple in basketball. It's coming. Like, there are going to be guys in college sports getting trouble. And what I would just say, you know, I like to gamble on sports as much as anybody. But if you're playing, I hope people realize. I hope kids realize, like, it's not a joke. It's a federal crime.

Like, if you manipulate a score. or even if you manipulate how many points you score, it is a federal crime, and you could end up in prison, and like right now they are investigating it. I think this is a big deal. And they can spot it a lot easier than people realize. Yes.

You might be surprised. There aren't many people betting $10,000 on your little prop bet in your game or your small conference game. Anything that's out of the ordinary is a red flag, and they will look into it. And if it's something like a player prop that looks wonky, they'll fish that out pretty quickly. or if you put it on your Venmo that you're betting on games i mean that you know that just go

and say i did it you know the kid in oklahoma on his venmo he was betting well we don't know if he was betting on games but it would be like a hundred dollars to drew and then it would say USC UCLA now he says he was just kid but if you look back it was on that same day that those two teams were playing that's highly suspect do you think he was just kidding no i'm torn because on one hand if you're in his shoes, you know to be cautious if you're actually gambling. But at the same time, why would you joke about that? The one thing that could really get you in trouble and derail your career, why would you make a joke? I think that he believed he had like a privacy setting to where that would not go public,

and that's why he did it. But he didn't know that it went public where everybody could see it. I think he got busted. If you're going to lie, and I'm not advocating lie, but if you're going to lie, that was a bad lie saying you're joking. Just be like, my friend and I were eating. that was the game that was on. There you go. See, you're a much better liar than he is.

I got one better. What would you say? My friend tried to gamble and he set his money down. I said, I cannot accept this. So I sent it back on Venmo because he ran away. I was trying not to gamble. But he was trying so hard to gamble with me. I had to Venmo him.

Why did that happen 10 times, sir? It's on your Venmo. Relentless. I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted nothing to do with it, so I had to get it out of my account. That's right. Who's up next? Kevin is next.

Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. Matt, that's very concerning about that probe, and I think we all know the number one school they're going to hone in on is probably Nickel State. So if I'm down there, I'm getting nervous. Yeah, you got to watch out for Nichol State. Second of all, I need you guys to square a neighborly dispute I'm having, okay? I've got to, I always mow every seven days on the nose, okay?

My neighbors seldomly mow. we share a very small patch of grass probably 40 yards long 10 yards wide it's tiny and whenever i mow i just mow their side because i what is it to me i don't even care uh multiple times now they have mowed in a very uh passive aggressive fashion their side not mine am i right in thinking they're jerks yes yes i mean anybody who would not accept i appreciate the call a free mo is in and of themselves a little bit of a jerk unless you're just a bad you're just a bad you're just a bad you're mower and I don't even know how you can be a bad mower but unless you're just a bad mower if somebody want I'm gonna say this again unless I have a fence if you want to mow my grass have at it

I'm totally fine with you know you get back at them like just cut your side the normal height and then drop that thing all the way down to the lowest setting and just skin it on his side all the way down to the dirt that'll be the last time that'll happen to you well how you're really going for you I'm the opposite don't mow my yard Why don't you want people to mow your yard? Like I just put weed killer down yesterday. I want somebody, it doesn't need to sit for a while. Before you go and just mow it, I got to redo it again.

Or I like to keep mine a little taller. What if you mow it shorter? Yeah. What's your preference to hide? Just feel free to mow mine. My goal is to not get ticks. So if you will just, you just do whatever it is.

You just set it on whatever setting is right. I'm totally fine with that. Well, I want to thank everybody for coming out here to the state fair. Everybody give yourselves a round of applause. There's no better fan base than Kentucky. Let me give you a little scheduling for next week. KSR Golf Scramble is on Monday,

so we will all be out there on Monday. Ryan will be back next week. We open the restaurant a week from Tuesday to the general public, and then we are 15 days away from kickoff of the Kentucky football season, Kentucky and Toledo 15 days from now. Drew, thank you very much. Shannon, Billy is going to beat your tail. Yeah, where is this?

Let's go. I think he left in shame. Billy and his pass. There he is. Oh, look at him. Billy is flipping Shannon off. Hey, I got one of those, too. All right, we will see you later.

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