KSR - 2025-08-18- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

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Welcome back, hour number two. Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-2-80-22-87. Text machine 772-7-7-4-5-254. A couple open lines. Let's start. I want to get to UK basketball, but I do have to acknowledge, Ryan,

that this might have been the most stressful weekend of Reds fandom of my short Reds fandom life. Friday night, Reds go up 8 to 1. You're like, oh, this is awesome. By the end of the third inning, it's 8 to 8. they end up losing 10 to 8 on Apple TV, which for some reason that just annoys me in and of itself. I mean, you're up by 8 to 1.

You got to win, you don't. Then Saturday they were up 2 to 1. They bring in our closer. He walks the first two guys. They still almost get out of it. All Ellie has to do, he tries to turn to double play. They're slow getting there. All he's got to do is eat it.

He throws it, throws it past the first baseman, score, two to two. We end up losing in extra ratings because we stink in extra earnings. And then on the third time, finally, we're up 1-0. They hit a 2-run homer in the night to go up 2 to 1. I think it's over. And then we come back.

They actually make an error. We end up winning an extra inning. So we got 1 of 3, which is really all I wanted, but it was too stressful. I didn't enjoy it, and it made me mad. You know, we had an event at KS Bar Friday night, and you walked in, a little pep in your step because Reds were up 8 to 1 when you walked in.

they're going to blow this, even when it was 8 to 1. And just like in 30 seconds, like it was quick. I look up there and it's already 8 to 8. How does that even happen? I was watching that game too. Well, first of all, again, like, you all know this. I haven't watched baseball since I was a little kid. So, like, I forget about the nerdy intricacies of the game.

But, like, little things end up hitting. So when it was 8 to 1, they hit a ground ball to Ellie. He had a double play, and he tried to flip it with his glove, probably something you do because it's 8 to 1, and he misses the double play, and then they score five straight runs after that. If they get that double play, they move on. Who knows? It's just little things like that annoy me.

And we had one guy making air so bad they just, he left the team, Jake Fraley. They sent him to Lobel? No, he's not even on the roster anymore. When the game was over, they were like, Jake Fraley and the team have creative differences. Like he's working on a movie or something. He's in a band or something. They said they have creative differences. They're breaking up.

Which is fine. I didn't really. He wasn't my favorite anyway. But point being, they're still in it. Didn't get swept. They didn't get swept. They didn't get swept. They're only a game and a half back.

Now they've got this long West Coast trip, which means I can watch as I fall asleep at night and go to that. I saw you bickering on Twitter back and forth about your fandom and whether or not you are allowed to complain. This dude was like, you've only been a fan for two weeks. For two weeks, you don't get to complain. First of all. I've been a fan since like 2018. I've yet to see them win. So I feel like I get to complain.

It's not like I was a bandwagon. They've stunk ever since I've been a fan. You buy season tickets every year too. I buy season tickets. You have a right to bicker. Every year I go to like two road trips. I feel like I should get to bicker, Drew, Drew, a little bit. It's automatic gets you the opportunity to bicker as much as you want,

especially where you sit for a baseball team like that. Maybe some. On the way to the ball. I live like 20 minutes from the bar, and I was listening on the local ESPN broadcast, the radio broadcasts. And that entire 8-to-1 lead was gone in the 20 minutes. But when I got to the bar, I was afraid to walk in because I knew you and all your buddies were in there. I was like, well, do I sit in the car and hear it out, or do I go in and see their misery? But that was quite the collapse.

It was very annoying. And I spent all this time trying to figure out, how do I pull up Apple TV on the bar? And that's not an easy thing to do. It's because we have a new electronic system. and then we finally do it, and in the time between when we tried to turn it on and got there, it was 8 to 8. Well, you missed all the stuff you didn't want to see, to be fair.

Maybe Summer of Ellie will be next year. It's not over yet, though. It's not straight road games. Perfect opportunity. Shut up. The Dodgers, they're not any good. No. Are you done?

Summer Valley. You just need it to be the fall of Ellie. You need to get to fall. Postseason baseball. I like Ellie. You got Arizona. Ellie's got to stop making airs. Okay, so the Kentucky basketball.

Yellovich has landed the, I got to stop to say, which country? Croatian sensation. Yelovich has landed. He and Pope went to the Carlos Alcaraz Cincinnati tennis match as his first thing in town. He posted on Instagram that he was moving into his dorm, so he is here. Drew, I would ask you, it's nice to have him here. how much is he going to play? Like is he a guy, is he going to give Z like minutes,

which was not a ton in the end, or is he going to be a bigger contributor? What do you think he's going to be? He's easily the biggest mystery on the team. I mean, the widest range of what he could be. I mean, if he shows up and he's like Big Z and he's not quite ready for the SEC, it won't shock me if he's 12th on the bench,

or if he shows up and he takes somebody's spot and he's playing 25 minutes the game of the four. That won't surprise me either. I mean, he played about 30 minutes for a pro team in Serbia, averaging near a double-double, so it's, you know, he's got quality of basketball experience, but we kind of expected Big Z to be a little bit more. I think maybe that's living in the back of my brain

that maybe when he shows up he still won't have much, but it's a wide range. It won't shock me if he comes here, and he's awesome the way he played so much for that mega beta max. A lot of European guys when they get here, especially that play in the college game, it's so different from the way they play over there, Just like it's much more, it's much more clogged.

Our three point line is closer, so it makes it to wear big guys. My view is if you're going to bring a guy like that here, you've got to let him play on the perimeter, because if he tries to go to inside, he's just going to get beat around. That's kind of my view when it comes to college. I think Pope will let him do that. So I think he's got a chance. I'm considering him a bonus right. Whatever happens with him is awesome, but I'm not.

considering him someone we rely on. Yeah, because at that spot, the four, I mean, that's where there's some minutes available. So maybe he can take advantage of that, get you 20, 25 minutes a game. He's not doing it. Are you expecting 25 minutes a game? I don't know how good he is, really. That's a lot. That's almost starter minutes.

I mean, how many guys do we even have last year that played 25 minutes? I mean, I... But he's the starting four by March that would not surprise me one bit. You think so, really? Just like if he's the 12th man that wouldn't surprise me. I think he's got a wide range of what he could be. It's not fair to do the Big Zee comparisons just because he's from Croatia. But if you are doing that, it does help that he's here now and not showing up in October.

He did miss about eight weeks of summer workouts a little bit behind with the team, but he's here in time for the semester and when fall practice starts in September. I do think that's a big difference. I do think that's a big difference, Shannon, is he's going to be here and working out with the team. You got to remember, Big Z came in December, you know, and this is he's going to be, have been playing for a while. I know he's still a little bit behind, but like you said, he is a pro player, so it's just about learning Pope's offense and learning his teammates, you know,

getting to know them. And I think that's something that can be caught up on quickly. So I'm not too worried about it. I think he'll get, I don't know. I would say around maybe 12 to 15 minutes a game. I don't think he's going to get 25, but just to guess. I honestly have no idea. I am excited, though, that he's there because I think he gives him another piece of depth.

I mean, depth of the big man position, I think it's, it could have was an issue last year and I think it could have been an issue this year. This gives you a lot of options and you can match up with people based on what you have. He hadn't played college ball. He'd be new to that, but he's 21 years old

has played a lot of basketball. That's true. He is experienced. Yeah. The Little League World Series is in what seems like week seven of it going on. I feel like Little League, I don't know how this series it never seems to end. There are some accusations out there that some of the other teams have guys that could be a lot older.

There's a pitcher. Is it Japan? There's a pitcher who throws it like 78 or something, which would equate to like 105 in the majors? Yeah, which is like what? What's their mound? I don't know. Like 45 feet maybe? But I saw the article was like if he was a major league pitcher at the major league thing and did that,

it would be like a 105 mile an hour fastball coming at. these kids. Like a Chapman. Fastball. That's crazy. I think he's from Tokyo. I feel like there's this controversy almost every year, like where somebody doesn't have a birth certificate or whatever it may be. But that's crazy that they're throwing that hard at that age. You enjoy the Little League World Series even though you are banned. I love it.

You know, they were talking about this pitcher. You remember the story, Danny Almonte, I think, was his name, where they proved he was 14 years old when they finally figured out how old he was. So I don't know if you know this, but I mentioned you on ESPN yesterday as being band from the Little League World Series. Oh. Is that one the Department of Homeland Security called me yesterday? We had Eduardo Perez, whose ESPN's announcer, he was doing the Little League.

He's doing the Little League World Series. And I said, hey, can you do it? I've grown to like him on almost every week. And I was like, can you help my friend Ryan Lemon get unbanned from the Little League World Series? And he said he was going to, he was going to look into it for me. I think the ban was coming. To your credit, you saved me.

You kind of got it. No, you're banned. I thought we were going to prison that day. They specifically, the Department of Homeland Security specifically said, do not let your friend show up at the... And I, you know, I was worried about it then. Now I'm even more worried about it. I think you should stay away.

You went to bat for me. You went to bat for me that day. But every time I heard it on, I think about that. Hey, I got to run the bases in that stadium right there. Yeah, I did that. You didn't get to do it. You just did it. I just did it.

They didn't say you're welcome. be right behind me. I turn around to be nowhere to be found. I do want to take a second, though, and think about what happened right there, because that is kind of crazy. Ryan Lemon, not me. Ryan Lemon jumped the fence and ran the bases at the Little League World Series. And then the next day, I, who didn't run the Little League World Series,

and who have no blood relation to Ryan, I'm not as emergency contact. the Department of Homeland Security called me. Yeah, but you're guilty by association. Yep. No, they called me and said, we hear your friend did this. And I want to be like, why don't you call my friend? They didn't have your number. Well, that's part of what's scary.

Why do they have my number? How did they get your number? And they don't have Ryan living's stupid Android number. Are you sure you're not his emergency contact? I could definitely see Ryan put you down as his emergency contact. And then they were like, okay, we need to know, blah, blah, blah. And I said, and look, when it popped up, it said, it didn't say Department of Homeland, but it said U.S. government.

And it had the, I even Googled to make sure the number, like, so I wasn't getting prank. And it was, it was the number. You were so funny when you were talking to you were like, you really want to take away the moment this balding, old fat man. I didn't say that to him. You want to take, he was just wanting to run the bases. You want to take this from this balding old fat man running around the bases. throw in what he looked like yeah yeah trying to get sympathy maybe what i did say i was like this is his dream do you want his dream to be we have to because they wanted us to go to the police station

dude it was serious like we joke about it but it was serious for about 10 minutes talking to me like i were your law was your law you asking if he would turn himself in for for arrest thank you thank you uncle matt you saved me that day because we if you remember we were in college we were at penn state correct this Airbnb us to drive back to williamsport turn him over like Luigi after he murdered the insurance guy. What were they going to do with them? And keep in mind, that was the same day you painted my bald spot black. Oh, yeah, you would have walked in there.

Same day. When they put the cups on you, they would see that spray paint on your bald spot. They would have thought he was trying to run, Drew. He was like trying to make himself look different. Disguise myself. They say it's the best day in Ron Luhin history. I think it is. That was a top. That was a top day. 859-280-2287.

Who's next? Gork is up next. Gork. Go ahead, Gork. Yes, Matthew Jones. We've got Wolfschlager, Farmer, we got Jagger, we got Brawn. But you could have looked all this up, man, like there's an internet. I mean, you also would know the capital of Armenia. That doesn't mean you actually know it.

You can just look on the internet. Well, that's true. That's true. I could click on the internet, but I also can tell you where they transferred from and how big they are. Maybe you should start a podcast. You know what? By the way, all that is also available on the internet. I agree.

But also, you said no one is calling in and giving you the starters, so I just gave you the starting old line. I understand. I could have looked it up to it. Did you honestly know? Did you honestly know the starting offensive line before you just looked it up? Yes. Absolutely. Who are you related to on the team?

I am related to no one. I am just a huge fan and former offensive lineman myself. Ah, there you go. Okay. I understand. Well, speaking of former offensive linemen, I appreciate the call. Luke Fortner, which traded last night from Jacksonville to New Orleans. He got beat out for the center job in Jacksonville, and so he's going to New Orleans,

where he will be on the offensive line with Landon Young. So two Kentucky guys are going to be with the Saints, which might be the worst team in football, but nevertheless still excited. Two of the big blue wall that kind of made a name for themselves, now both battling for starting jobs, be on the same line of the Saints. I think that's pretty cool. Protecting the Louisville quarterback. I'm glad that they're –

That's right, yeah. I'm glad they're pairing up, but my first thought was, what the hell, Liam Cohen? I thought Fortner was going to be safe when Cohen got there. So that's a really interesting point. If you're Luke Fortner, your offensive coordinator traded you. I thought when Cohen got that job, that would have been great news for him. But it sends him to a good team. It's also a bad sign when you're like, by the way, I love Luke Fortner.

Some people don't know this. I think I've said this on the air. Have I talked about the UK wineman? I guess not by those faces. Well, so when Max would hang out with the UK. lineman during that big blue wall time. And one time I walked in their house and they were all drinking wine. And I was like, this doesn't give me a lot of confidence for the future that our

offensive line is all drinking wine. And one of them, I won't say which one said, no, it's the UK wineman. I was like, oh. That still doesn't help. You need it to be bourbon or like bush light or something. It's just something about your whole. line. There's just something about your whole offensive line sipping a cabernet that did not make me think, but they were good. Yeah, and Luke Fortner was.

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It is a KSR Golf Scramble. As we said, it's Ryan Lemon's 59th birthday. Whoa. Which means he was, yeah, give me a round of applause there. Congratulations, you made a big number. He was born in 1966. Yes. So I thought it would be interesting to look back at how old he is

by looking back at what happened in 1966. All right, this would be fun. All right, so first of all, just to give you a sense of how old he is, the president, was Lyndon Baines Johnson. How about that? You remember the old Batman? the cheesy one. Yeah.

It debuted that year. Good TV. Good show right there. You remember the old Star Trek? Yeah. It also debuted that year. Great stuff. You know how people talk about Miranda rights, where you have a right to remain silent, blah, blah, blah.

In 1966, right when he was born, they didn't even exist. At that point, Drew, you didn't even have a right to remain silent. He changed laws. Brian was so old that they actually gave him a right to remain silent that he doesn't use. That's exactly right. Bush Stadium opened in St. Louis. Wow. I went there a lot when I was a kid.

Not when I was the baby. The United States vastly increased for the first time their military presence in Vietnam. Wow. So you brought Bush Stadium and Vietnam War to America. Sounds like a great year we're talking about, 1966. So those are just a few of the things. Do you know who won the national championship in basketball in 1966? Texas, they beat the Kentucky team.

Texas San Antonio. Keep going. Texas Western. There you go. Texas Western. That's exactly right. Do you know what movie won best movie? At the Oscars.

like Bonnie and Clyde. I don't know. The sound of music. Geez. Wow. I thought that came out like in the 40s. So you are the same age, Ryan Lemon,

as the sound of music. Well, you know, all the superstars are born in 66, Darius Rucker, Janet Jackson, Hallie Berry. You not go on. Are you just making that up?

No. We're all, all beautiful people were born in 1969. I'm sure that's exactly right. Who's next? Tim is up next. Tim, go ahead, Tim. Anytime, Tim.

Yes, go ahead. Yeah. I was calling. I was going to get your guys input on this. What is Kentucky's football's first game going to have to look like to make the fans that are kind of on the board about... I'll look at this in the first hour. Yeah. Yeah.

I might miss that on some of it. What's it going to take to get the fans to be like, oh, wow, we really want to watch this team. What's that first game going to have to look like? I'm going to have to tell you, and I love you because I don't want to redo the conversation. I appreciate the call. Just go back on podcast and listen to the first hour. For me, it's just you've got to win.

But we discussed that pretty in depth in hour one, so you can hear that conversation then. Who's up next? Fuzzy is up next. Fuzzy. Go ahead, Fuzzy. Hey, I got a question for you and a quick statement if I can. A question, me and my sister are on our way of Boston, Massachusetts, to go to a conference. concert. I was curious if you guys had any recommendations on some good food up there. Well, what do you think about Boston? You've been...

I was there for like an hour. Oh, that's right. Your house burned down. That's when your house burned down. So you just got to Boston had to turn right around and fly right back. I saw nothing but the concession line in the box we were at Fenway Park. I would like to know what concert he's going to. I'm going to the Joe Perry Project. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I would say to you, if you're in Boston, eat seafood.

Obviously, people will tell you clam chowder, but just in general, seafood's fresh there. They get all the stuff from Maine and the lobster and all that. So I would say if you're going to go to Boston, you want to eat something local, do seafood. Awesome, crab cakes it is. Yes, I appreciate. They're good, too. Yeah. Well, my statement actually is for Ryan.

I was going to say you're not a short, fat, bald, white guy. you're built just like me we are now built like triple h happy birthday ride yeah i thought that was me by the way i appreciate the cause for people we didn't see they caught the wrestler triple h he was on a boat with his family and they caught him with his shirt off and everybody's been making fun of him for being fat shannon i didn't think that was very nice first of all he's he's 60 years old i thought for 60 he actually looked good but secondly you know give him a break what do they want him to He had some medical issue, too, with his heart. I don't know if he had a heart attack or had a stint, whatever it is.

But he's been going through some medical issues, too. But I didn't even think he looked that bad. I mean, most people, his age, don't even look close to it being as good as he is. It's like when everybody criticizes Patrick Mahomes for having, like, he's got a better body than most people, Drew, right? I would trade bodies of Triple H right now. Yeah, I mean, he doesn't look like he's 25 and on steroids anymore, but still not that bad. It's not a dad bod. No.

It's a father figure. And he was also, he was sitting down. He was sitting down. And so his tummy, you know, if you sit there with your leg, his tummy, his tummy's all. He's on vacation. He's probably stuff. It's like I say to Mario, angles are key. Yeah, that's right.

You got to make sure you get the right angles. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio here live at KSR Golf Scramble, presented by Stockton Mortgage and Cornbread Hemp at Glen Oaks Country Club, where we'll be teeing off here in the South. son in just a little while.

Great crowd. Always excited to be out here and having a good time. Thanks to everybody. Thanks to Beer Nose for bringing us pizza. We added some, I love Beer Nose Pizza. I think it's very, very good. Boomer Express is the driving range sponsor. What is Boomer Express?

Do we know? No, I need to look that up, though. I feel like we should know. Yes, we should. And then the cocktail drinks on the rocks and minus 196, which Drew will have about 10 of today. Very good, very good. Beirno's owner raised a good question that we have to start considering with the Louisville Kentucky game they've moved it you know that's been a tradition for so long in December he's kind of like I don't know what to do now that basketball game is yeah I think we're doing it yeah I don't I think we're doing it before that basketball I think I don't know but yeah that was what that's but that's our oldest remote is the one at first one is it the one at Beernose in southern Indiana all right Shannon a couple media pieces of news rich Eisen will host

Sports Center tonight for the first time in 20 years. He's coming back to ESPN. Nice. He's doing ESPN radio from 12 to 3 every day, which I'm excited about because anything that helps ESPN Radio. Since I'm on there, I'm happy about, but he will be hosting from 12 to 3 every day starting in September. But tonight, he will host Sports Center.

That's kind of cool. Do you like, Rich Eisen? The older I get, the more nostalgic I get. Me too. So I kind of like when they bring back somebody from the past. I will be watching just for that very reason. I'm a big Rich Eisen fan. Yeah, I'm really, I've always liked him, and I think he did a great job.

I think he'll be good on the radio. And it's going to be cool to see him on SportsCenter. Yeah, me too. Honestly, when the NFL and ESPN had their merge, one of my first thoughts was Rich Eisen can do ESPN stuff again, because that's the ESPN I grew up on other than you and Myron. It's been downhill pretty bad lately, and I'm glad they're bringing him back. I feel like he'll get Craig Kilbourne back maybe, you know? Like, what's he doing these days?

He's got a ton of money now. But, you know, those were the good days. Yeah. In the 90s, without us. Well, I mean, when you had, when you, I mean, if you go through the list of Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick, Rich Eisen, Craig Kilbourne, Kenny Mayne. Kenny Maine. Stuart Scott.

Yeah, Stuart Scott. Like, all those guys were great. Who was your favorite? Like, who did you think was the best? I mean, to me, it's Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick. I know people look at Keith Oberman differently now because of politics. but on that show, they were the best. Yeah, I think Kilbourne for me was my favorite.

Kielborn was funny, too, though. I mean, regardless of what you think about them now, Steve Levy, don't forget about Steve Levy. He's still on there. And then, speaking of Oberman, this morning they announced the news network that I'm sure all of our listeners love, what used to be called MSNBC. They changed the name. So I guess MSNBC and NBC are separating.

So to do that, they wanted to drop the information. NBC. So, I mean, that's tough. They've got to figure out what to call themselves. Yeah. So I don't know what would have been better. I don't think this is great. They're called MS now.

All right. Now they had to figure out, okay, if we're going to call it MS now, what are we going to say it is? Yeah. Because they have to have, because, you know, do you remember why it's called MSNBC? Does anybody know? No. Does anybody know what the MS was? Microsoft, MBS, like, National Broadcasting Company.

So Microsoft doesn't own it anymore, so they're out. They're keeping the MS. But the now is going to be, Ryan, news, opinion, world. Whoa. Wow. Here's my thing about it. The news and opinion, I think that was smart. They got to think of something better for W than World.

So then it's Microsoft. It's not Microsoft anymore, so I don't even know. It's MS now, though, right? But I guess they just didn't want to change the MS. Microsoft's not involved anymore, so. Yeah. Sounds like they've really got things figured out over there. You know, they spent a million dollars to come up with that.

You know, millions of million dollars to come with a new name. Well, what would you have called it? Let's get it. Let's get it. Your three news stations are Fox News, CNN, and let's get it. Let's get it. I'm watching Let's get it. Yeah, actually, to be honest, let's get it.

Sounds exciting. Who's next? Caleb is next. Caleb, go ahead. Let's get it. Caleb. Hey, good after. Good afternoon, guys. Happy Golf Scramble Day.

I just wanted to say, I like my politicians to be solution-oriented. And with Lexington being the second or third most fatal per capita city for driving, I think Ryan Lemon's got a strong bid for mayor, and he certainly got my vote. And if you're willing to put a yard sign up, you're willing to pay for my vote. Yeah, Ryan, you've talked over the years. I appreciate the call about running for mayor as a joke. But would you consider doing it? I mean, I think you'd be bad at it, but would you still consider doing it?

You're not getting any younger. You know, we do kind of joke about it, but I would 100% be serious about it, like the city council person to start with, you know, when I retire. So why don't you do that? Well, I'm still enjoying life now. When are you going to retire? Nothing's stopping you. You only work from 10 to 12, so why don't you, on this show, I mean, you do other things,

but why don't you run for city council? I will say this. I give you a hard time. I think you would be a really good. city council person because one thing I could definitely say about you is you would like make the decision you thought was best like you know you can only be bought off by advertisers you can you wouldn't be bought out by interest groups I could totally see you plus you're a man of the community I mean what else am I going to do when I retire why not do something like that try to help your

community speaking of what else are you going to do people need to understand not always this is birthday, this is a sad day for Ryan. He's now an empty nester because his son got accepted into housing for UK, which he didn't think was going to happen. So that means starting Wednesday, he will not be on the show Wednesday because he's moving his son in. You will, for the first time since you were how old? First time in 27 years. For the first time in 27 years, you're going to be living completely alone. Yeah, first time in 27 years a kid has not been in my house. And this one hits me, man. This one really shook me yesterday when he realized he got housing.

Because it's just been me and him for the last, like, almost four years. Now all of a sudden he's going to leave. So are you sad about that? I am 100% sad. If I keep talking about it, I'm going to cry. I mean, it really shook me. Yeah, let's talk about it. Do you, like, do you think, I mean, do you think you'll get lonely?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I got three dogs. It's going to be me and the three dogs there at the house. So you're not entirely empty nester. Yoga girl could always move in with you. I live by myself. First of all, you should do that. I live by myself.

Drew doesn't anymore, but did for a long time. Shannon depends on how you look at it. What do you do when you're home by yourself? How do you entertain yourself? Well, I mean, you don't... Watch Netflix? I mean, when you say entertain yourself, you don't have to just constantly have stimulus in your face.

You can, like... Read a book? You can read. You can watch television. You can do work. There's a lot of stuff. And it's not like you won't have friends. Yeah, I don't know, man.

This one has really kind of shook me up. You think you'll have a hard time just being alone? Do you not like to be alone? No. No, not at all. Is that why as soon as you get single, you're not single anymore? I think I'll probably spend a lot of time in Georgetown, but I've got to come back and let my dogs in and out.

That's certainly a reason to keep your very expensive house. You can call your equity back. So it can be. Ring, ring, ring. Yeah, call your equity. It's certainly a reason to keep your house is so you can come let your dogs in and out. Yeah. So it's your dog's house. I don't know what's going to happen, man. Drew, how do you think he's going to handle it? I think this is going to be hard for you. I genuinely do.

Yeah. I think, you know, there could be a night where Josiah could look out his dorm room window and Ryan just parked on the curb, staring up, holding a boom box, waiting for a phone call to come in. Do you, now you know, you can't hover in his life. Like, he is in college as a freshman. You've got to let him you've got to let him be. You know that, right? Which is like, it's going to be hard because like every day after the show I call him and we usually have lunch together.

But you can't do that. I can't do that now. You've got to let him be. Like, he needs to... Call Dante. You'll have lunch with you. You and Dante can hang out. Dante just retired.

I can do that with him. There you go to the KS. Bar. Go there. At the same time, he might call you with something where you have to say you're on your own, figure that one out. You also have to give up

some of that responsibility so you can be a butterfly. Yeah, you've got to let him Be a man. You do, I mean, it's out of love, but you do a lot of things for your kids that I think you're going to have to start letting them handle on their own. You're 100% right, and I know that's coming, but he's just across town. I mean, he's just right there. Why can't I go over there?

Hey, man, let's go to Chick-fil-A for lunch. Because he's in college. He needs to live his own life. I know. You can still get a Chick-fil-A-lunch occasionally. You don't have to act like you doesn't exist. There's something else I need to tell you. His girlfriend's dorm is right next door.

Okay. Right next door. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. 859-2802287. Let me tell you just a second about, what am I telling you about? I'm telling you about the Kentucky Skin Care Center. It's Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.

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But that's why you've got to go. You also, when you're by yourself, you have to make sure you keep things for you to do so that you don't just sit and wallow in your sadness. I think I leaned on him so much as a crutch. He and I went through a lot. But he's a child. But I leaned on him. He kind of helped me through a lot of stuff.

You know? Now you've got to lean on your dogs. They're there for you. But you can still talk. He's not going to war. I mean, you can still talk to him. You just, like every night, don't need to be. I'll see him at Krogerfield on Saturday.

Hey, Josiah, what's up? Remember me? I'm your dad. Let's you come see me. He's not going to war. Write of letters every night like you're never going to see him again. Dearest Josiah. Hope this finds you well.

All right. You're going to be all right. You can do this. I hope. I'm worried. All right. It shook me, man. I'm telling you it shook me. Well, happy birthday, Ryan.

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People are writing in, Drew, to suggest what Ryan should do now that he's in empty-nester. I like this. One person says you should coach youth baseball. I think you'd be good at that. I did it when my boys were young. Can you do it and not scream at the children? Because you did one time, like, didn't you hit a girl in the head or something with a bat?

Yeah, a ball. I threw a ball against the fence and it skimmed the top of the head. It was like accidental. I didn't do it. Can you, but can you do it without getting kicked out of games and stuff? I think it would have to be like maybe the T-ball level to keep the temperament down. Lecy, at least he knows his limits. I like this one.

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People are too old in the government. So why not? Well, as long as you'll keep me around, I'm going to ride your coattails as far as I can. Get grief. All right. First of all, I don't need that pressure, Josiah. You got to support my family, damn it. You shut up.

859-2802287. One thing before I go, before I go to the phone, Shannon, we all know you wear Skechers. I did it one time. I moved on. Skechers has announced they are going to put a shoe for children where they will put an air tag in the shoe so that the parent will always know, the two women here are both clapping. Yeah. So that the parent will always know where.

the child is via an air tag. It will cost, I think it said, like $275, so you got to want this. I don't know why you can't just buy shoes and then put an air tag in it, but for $275, they'll make it together. Do you like this? Yes or no. It would have helped you on Saturday night at Bobo's Tea when those kids were running around. Oh, I can tell where they were.

I know, but their parents didn't know where they were, apparently. Yeah, I think it's a good thing until somebody stole your shoes, but then you can find out who stole your shoes, right? Yeah. Yeah. Can I just... Okay, so I don't care. I don't have kids.

If you want to put, you know, if you want to put metal detectors in their shoes or whatever, you can do it everyone. But there is a part of me. It's like we could just continue to, like, submit all of our information into the cloud. So you are, I will note, you are essentially giving your child's location to a private company that could be hacked. right so you're giving your child's location to a private company that in theory someone could hack it and they'd know where all the kids were and so stuff like that worries me now is the trade-off of your parents being able to find you if you got like kidnapped i mean that's yes that's a trade-off but i would also note now they'll just make it to wear when people kidnap kids they'll just throw their shoes into a lot or something so i don't know i just we can like i never turned my location on anywhere Yeah. Because I just, I don't know, do we want to keep down that path through? Yeah, I just don't think you should buy your kid's Skechers for one, start there.

But also, it does seem they're ripping you off. If I could just get an air tag for $30 and throw it on a necklace or a backpack, why do I need Skechers to be my middleman here? Because conceivably they could lose a backpack, but they'll always have their shoes on. I don't know. Kids probably lose shoes a lot. I don't have a kid, but I feel like they lose their shoes. But now you know where the shoe is.

Right. You got a starting point. I'm pro tagging your kids. I'm not pro-Sketchers tag shoes. Let's chip them. You know, put a collar around their neck. Like, I got one in my backpack right now. It says it's in my car.

You just put it somewhere, but I don't think you need the shoe. What about you? I've lost my kid a couple times over the years, and I think the air tag would have been helpful. Look at Mario. We lost them. What do you mean you've lost your kid a couple times? There was one time at the mall in Nashville.

All of a sudden, Gavin just disappeared, and I couldn't find him. We were running around the hallway, but, Imagine you had to track my kid app. If I had a air tag. There you go. Now, here's my question, Matthew. Why can't we do it for old people? I would wear sketchers with air tag.

They usually move a little slower. I get lost. Are you lost often? Well, it's coming. I'm sure I just reached 59 years old. First of all, you could do it. You could just turn on your location on your phone and share it with me, Ryan, or me, Drew, and Shannon. We'll know where you are.

I don't know how to do that. Well, then I don't be. He's trying to get the group text to work. That's true. He can't even do that. I get the benefit. I understand that it would give comfort to people to know they could see where their kid is. But I also don't think we think about the more we turn our lives over, the more somebody a nefarious actor could hack in and find where all these children are.

That's nerve-wracking stuff to some extent, Shannon. Yeah, but I feel like that's kind of the direction we're going in, regardless if we like it or not. And last thing I'll say about it, whether we all have complaints about the government, me more now than probably ever. With that said, at least with the government, you have rights, you can vote people out. When we give our information to private companies, we have no control over them whatsoever. Like we have no way of stopping what private companies do. So as much as we hate the government, at least with the government there's some checks.

with private companies, there's no checks whatsoever. And so, I don't know. That stuff kind of worries me, and I'll leave it at that. Who's next? Jerry is up next. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, man, first off, I want to tell Ryan, in 1966 was a great year.

A lot of great people were born in 66. Hell yeah, it was. Anyway, but as the Toledo game, I think if they beat Toledo by more than 14, you can feel better about the rest of the year. but the worry with this Toledo game to me the biggest worry is we're starting 11 guys on offense and haven't played together before in a game and Toledo's got all their people back and they're building this up

if they win this game they think they can run the rest of their games and maybe be the non-power 5 team to playoff you're exactly right you're exactly right Toledo looks at this I appreciate the call Toledo looks at this and says if we beat Kentucky we got a shot to make the playoff that's how they look at it They're not crazy if that happens, but Drew, they're not going to beat us. I do think we're going to take care of. But if you're in their shoes and they have a lot of people back from last year,

they had an SEC game last year. They went down to Starkville and won by double digits. So this isn't a game that they're going to be afraid of while they're having these playoff dreams. Why did we schedule this game, by the way? I don't agree. We have to win, though. I mean, if we're going to play the alternate spread. If we're going to play pansies, can we play like real pansies?

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