KSR - 2025-08-21- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk UK Football, UK Basketball, Cracker Barrel and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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One person says, Matt, now people will beg for the old Cracker Barrel like they did for the old Coke when they had new Coke and it'll work. Maybe so if they actually... Maybe so. I mean, like, you're talking about it. When was the last time we had a conversation about Cracker Barrel when we did the old Outback versus Cracker Barrel at the 2016 Republican Convention? Yeah, that's the last time we talked about it. That's probably the last time. Like, Chili's did that.

Yeah. So, like, Chili's is doing pretty, like, Chili's is having a comeback because they kind of went away. I mean, honestly, to some extent, in a minor way, that's kind of what we did with KS Bar. We were like, we're kind of going through this down groove where I felt like the food had slipped a little bit, like our service had slipped a little bit, like our, we just, it just, the energy wasn't there. And I was like, we can sit here and try to fix this on the fly.

or let's just go away for two or three months, fix everything, make the food better, and then come back, and then you get energy from, like, reappearing. I think that,

I hope that worked for us. I know I hear a lot more people say positive, positive things. We'll find out the next few weeks. But I think that's probably the theory. Maybe that'll happen with Cracker Barrel. Like they'll do all this, and then everybody will go do it the other way

and then they'll be getting excited about it again. I think it's definitely going to work what we're doing. I think we saw the excitement last night. For Cracker Bar, although you make it sound like they're going to rebrand everything. Rebrand the logo, rebrand the look. Well, they took the barrel and the cracker off the logo. So, like, what are you going to do?

They still have the rocking chairs out front on the porch. They say they're still going to have that. But the CEO is acting like all this positivity is coming from their customers. And not one person in the comments section had anything positive to say. So I don't know where all this positivity is coming from. Well, people look. See, that's also a personality type. Like there are people who look for the positivity and, like,

ignore the negativity. That's it. And then there are people like me who look at the negativity and can ignore the body. Neither of them are totally. Right. You know what I mean? Neither of them are reality. Neither of them are reality. That's exactly right. So you have to kind of find what that balance is. And some people don't look at any negativity.

And I think that's a poor way to do things too because then you can be diluted on what, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like Cal ignored all negativity as, and if it's, anybody was negative, it was because they were his enemy. Right. So he never really got an understanding of where the fan base was. Maybe the Cracker Barl ladies like that, too. Well, like you said, there's a good analogy with what you thought about KS Bar.

I just thought we needed. So, like, I just thought we needed a, just a reset. Because, like, on the good days, it was awesome. But on the bad, but on other days sometimes, and I was just like, we just need a reset, refocus. We needed to change some food items, which we did. I think they're a lot better. I think our burgers, boneless wings are a lot better. We got some new appetizers.

We just needed a reset. And like you could feel it last night. Like that energy last night, we hadn't had that in a while. Didn't you agree? It felt like one of our opening weekends. It did. And then we did that wings test a couple weeks ago. And because we were going to try a new wing.

And then when we did it, we realized it didn't work. Which is why I'm glad we did it. We were like, why are we changing this? Let's go back to what we had. That was good. So those 75 people, you're going to get something in your. email that's a present for me because you taught us that what we did there didn't work. And I think we'll see another step tonight with the event tonight.

Yeah, a lot of people coming tonight. Hopefully, uh, looking forward to seeing everybody tonight. All right, 859, 2807. I'm going to get, uh, to the phone real quick. But two things. One, Mark Pope says he's meeting 30 minutes with every player on the roster individually every week. Yeah, that's a lot.

So that's like seven hours. just of 30-minute meetings. Shannon? Yeah. First of all, do you believe that? I don't know why he would lie about it. I agree. 30 minutes, though, it does feel like a lot every week.

Do you think you'd have 30 minutes worth of conversation? No. I think it's probably shaved down to more like 10 or 15, and that's probably how you can squeeze all these in in one week. I think if anybody could do it, though, it would be Mark Pope because he talks a lot. Do the players have that much to say? Yeah, but maybe they don't have to talk much. Yeah.

I can say this, and Shannon may be able to agree. When I played college baseball, the last thing I wanted to do, the last thing was a sit and talk to my coach for 30 minutes. You're kind of get sick of them. You're in practice all day long. You're in film all day long. Well, Mark says, though, I heard in an interview. One of them he did, maybe with Matt Norlander, that he doesn't talk a lot in practice

because he doesn't want them to get tired of his voice. he said so a lot of his talk is in other times the assistants do a lot of the direct coaching in practice he does bigger picture stuff because he doesn't want his players to be like oh i got to listen this guy some more i know that's what i felt like when you said that they're going he's going to be at each of them 30 minutes that's exactly what i thought like oh i got to sit and listen to coach tell me what i'm doing wrong for 30 minutes yeah maybe he plays chess with these guys for 30 minutes some of those guys play chess with him in his office you missed this last week but jaden quaintance is five and one against him which I'm telling you is the thing that makes me the most excited about Jaden Quaint's.

We knew he was a great athlete. We knew he's like an elite elite defender. When I heard that Mark Pope, who is smart, so I'm going to assume he's good at chess. If Jaden is up 5'1 on him. It says something. That's pretty good because Colin Chandler's losing in their series. Colin Chandler's apparently pretty good. So, Jason Quaintons must be good at Chetheff.

And then he's still like just like 18 years old? Now what would DeMarcus doesn't say about this. Well, this ain't no spelling bee. Go out there and play basketball. It ain't no spelling me. That's all right. That's one of the great quotes.

If you think about my favorite quotes from UK players, this ain't no spelling B because it's so demarcus. First of all, it's a great answer to what was happening during that week, which was people were saying, Cornell is what college basketball should be. Kentucky's not, right? Right.

And it also, in DeMarcus's mind, like what it means to be smart in college is a spelling bee. Hello, Mr. President. Just the Marcus Cug. Well, that's another one. Play that again. Hello, Mr. President. This is DeMarcus Cugn. That's another great one.

Hello, Mr. President. This is DeMarcus Cousins. I got one for you. Okay. I'm asking Antoine Walker, why I shoot so many threes. Because there ain't no force. Because there ain't no force. Although I think he said that in college.

or in the pros. Oh, is it in the pros? I don't think he said that at UK. I think he said that in the pros. Hello, Mr. President. This is DeMarcus cousins. He's got two of the top quotes of all time. I loved that so much.

And then they lost the game that night. They did. That was their second loss. Or was it their first loss? It was their first loss. It was after Hoops for Haiti. That was when people were really mad. They were like,

Barack Obama's cost us an undefeated season. Yep. But, you know, so yesterday when I was on ESPN, I got him to do a segment about John Wall, which led me to kind of talking about that team. And we went back and looked like we skip over that during the regular season, the president called the team. Yeah. Right. I mean, Obama called the team during the season. Right.

Looked at John Wall and said, I've been watching you, son. Uh-huh. Like, what, that's a rock star team. Yeah, LeBron came to a game. LeBron, JZ, Lil Wayne, Drake, and Magic Johnson, all came to a game at Rupp Arena. I think Mike Tomlin was there, the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach one time.

They all wanted to see this rock star team. At Rup. Yeah. So, crazy stuff. But hello, Mr. President. This is DeMarcus Cous. On any other team, DeMarcus Cousins is the show. Yes.

Right. Anyway, Gino. Go ahead, Gino. Hey, Matt. It's been about a month since you talked about this, but I was wondering if you saw the, interviews, it's good national news coverage, but the interviews with the ladies in Letcher County earlier this week about the judge. So this is, is that the judge? The sheriff,

excuse me? Yes. Yeah. So the sheriff shot the judge and I guess there's been this story. Yeah. So there's a couple stories that have come out where women have said that the guy who got shot, tell me if I'm right about this. I don't want to get it wrong. Gino. The guy who got shot allegedly required women in jail to give like sexual favors. Am I right about that? Yeah, there's a lot more going on in the chambers than talking about issues. Yeah, that's not good. I mean, that's, yeah, I appreciate the call.

I mean, this was, I think the story maybe was a, I don't know if it was CBS, but it was also like a British, like a British news organization did it. Went to Letcher County. The allegation is the guy who the sheriff shot, also the women that were in jail in Letcher County, he would either, I don't know if he has a power to let him out, but alleged. Well, maybe he did. I don't remember.

But there was something, I didn't, there was something about the way they would exchange sexual favors for something. So pretty bad stuff. Yeah, they got several women. I read the story. It stepped up and said that he. Well, you read it. It's what it say.

It said that the, uh, the women, he had several women that, that, have come forward to say that they did sexual favors for him to be lenient on their sentence or to let him out of jail, this judge, and often it would happen in his chambers. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, has passed away. As a kid, I remember they would play those videos at our church. Remember James Dobson? I'm sorry, I don't. Yeah. He was like in that whole evangelist era of that time.

Well, rest in peace. Andrew, what's up, Andrew? First time, long time. Who are? What's up? I just had a suggestion for Ryan. This year is the last year for Christian County High School and a Hopkinsville High School football game before they combine to go to the megastchool,

which is also an unpopular opinion of Christian County. I'd say about 75% of people ain't really looking forward to the combination of the schools. And then for Shannon, he was talking about hypnosis. So you're suggesting he should go? You're suggesting Ryan should go? Oh, absolutely. It should.

That's cool. It would be awesome. End of an era. You should do like Friday night football games. You would love that. Like you just generally love. I'm going to Woodford County game next Friday. Maybe we could do the Rye Lemon game of the week.

Find a sponsor? Yeah. No, he doesn't seem as excited about that. You're going to wish you did it. Go ahead. What was your second thing? Oh, it was just for Shannon. He was talking about hypnosis earlier.

My parents took me that stuff when I was the biggest shenanigans I ever did in my entire life. I'm with you. I don't believe in it either. Some people swear that it's a real thing. I don't believe it. So I believe that you can get like, you can go into like a deep, I don't want to say sleep. A deep meditative thing where your mind can kind of float and you're sort of like,

you know, not in, like, it's hard to describe. I do believe you can get into that deep meditative state. Do I believe you can get to something where people then say bark like a dog and you do it. If I'm with you, I don't believe that's real either. And then I'm just disappointed that I ain't going to be able to sit in Crackerberg trying to figure out all the items that was on the wall. Well, they're going to leave.

I think they're leaving the Urin-Igneramus, right? The golf T-game. The golf T-game. They're leaving that. They're leaving that. Okay. Yeah, but all the stuff on the walls, like, you just, could you imagine being born in 1920s and your pitcher ends up in a random Crackerboro?

That's true. That's true. Old name town. That's true. I appreciate the call. You wonder if they gave their likeness. You can't get rid of the urine ignoramus. No.

Yeah. And they're not a rocking chair. Fireplace. What about the country store? They're going to keep it? I think they're keeping the store, but they're going to make it like have other stuff. I also think if I read correctly, they are changing the logo everywhere. But the design of the stores, the new, like the old ones are going to stay like that.

Just the new ones in the cities are going to be the modern thing. they're afraid nobody will come if they have the country store in New York City. Well, they're doing a pop-up store in New York to see how it goes. Because if you think about it, there are no cracker barrels in major cities. Yeah. You ever seen one in a big city? No, they're always out on the road somewhere. They're always out next to the interstate.

Yep. Like even in Lexington, the one is out next to the interstate. Both of them. What's the other one? On Winchester Road. Winchester Road. Out there by the interstate. Their one's a Newtown Pye, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So I think they're like trying to figure out how do you put it in Times Square? because you know, like the most successful olive garden in America is in Times Square. Really? That makes sense. I don't know who those people are, though. Who goes to New York and eats at the Olive Garden?

True. Actually, I say that. Drew and I have eaten at the Olive Garden in Times Square. It's like a joke. But we did eat there. Maybe that's why everybody goes. Kind of is a joke. Yeah.

The cheapest thing you can eat in New York City. It actually is pretty cheap. Unless you get dollar pizza. Relatively cheap if you eat at one of those places. So they have a TGI Friday. in the middle of Times Square. They really? Yeah.

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34 games to go. But Draft Kings, you can go make your bets. Let's see what's happening tonight since we don't have the Reds to bet on. Let's look. What we got here? NFL games, I believe. All right. So let's do an NFL.

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Is this live? Live, I alone. I alone. Yeah, that dude, they were really popular for like a year. They played Bourbon and Beyond Fest a couple of years ago. They were really good. Yeah. I can think of my friend Chris Thompson, rest in peace and I,

driving to U.K., or Middlesboro basketball games through the hills of Easter Kentucky, he loved live. So if you got in his gray car, we just had to listen to live the whole time. So every time I hear live, I think of us driving like Everts for a basketball game.

Did you get to play in that game? No, this was after I was already asked to be a manager. But I still wanted to go watch them. We'd go on a Friday night. It's because I liked going to these towns. Like I liked going to new gyms. You know.

You were an All-American Clapper, your final year at memory. You're saying that. in like you do the same jokes. Maybe during this free time, you can come up, Shannon, with new jokes, right? Yeah, we need some new dad jokes for you.

New dad jokes. These jokes, they're the same ones. One person writes, Matt, I thought you all had the best day of Ask Anything Wednesday callers in a long time yesterday.

So did I. I thought they were great. The callers stepped up in the last couple days of really funny, interesting calls. I enjoyed that. I completely agree with you. Great. Who?

Wendell. Wendell's was a little. That one was a little different. So tell me where we are tomorrow. We're in Louisville. Oh, yeah. Volunteers of America. Yes, I have the address right here.

It is at 225 East Breckenridge Street. 225 East Breckenridge Street. The new Volunteers of America facility. We're going to be there. Come on out. Show Kentucky fans there. My friend Craig's the mayor. The mayor is going to be there.

We're going to be there. Craig's going to be there. Yeah, Mayor Craig's going to be there. Happy birthday tomorrow. Now, Shannon, can we just like, we love the volunteers in America. We're going to have fun tomorrow. But what are you going to say? I know what he's going to say.

I already know. They gave Billy yesterday a sheet of paper with all the times on the show. and what they wanted me to say for each time. It's a very detailed itinerary. It's a very detailed it's a very detailed it. Probably what real radio shows go have every day. Yeah, but we ain't doing that. Tell me you've never had KSR without telling me.

You don't know KSR when you say Matt will say this then. Wow. So I said to him, hey, just give me some talking points. will be good, but like at 1017, that's just, that's not what I was. It was a full production sheet for the two-hour show? Have you seen it, Shannon? Yeah. It's like three pages long.

So Billy showed it to me and I just handed it back to him and said, tell them, thank you. But we'll just do that show normal. Yes. Right? Because that's kind of. Did they have slots where you're supposed to interview guests too? Maybe. I believe that was 11 o'clock to start.

It was 11 o'clock. Yeah. It was 30 minutes with Craig. 30 minutes with Craig. I said I'll give Craig three to five, which is plenty. And we'll probably talk about wrestling. Yeah. Shane, go ahead, Shane.

Hey, I was just wondering if you guys would think that this is like the coolest idea ever or the stupidest idea ever. But I was thinking after John Wall retired yesterday and y'all were talking about Patrick Patterson earlier today. It just hit me. You know, college basketball is changing as, you know, like every year it changes. And, you know, from Ennis Cantor to not being able to play back in 2011. And now Yellovich was a professional, and now he's going to be able to play Big Z. Same thing. And I was wondering about this.

Like, what if professional players, like the one and duns that came out, like John Wall, you know, what if they were made a rule in the NCAA is so stupid they would never even consider it? But I think it would be an interesting thing to talk about. What if after they retire, five years after they retire, they could come back and play college basketball? They should be able to. John Wall would be 39 years old, but some of the younger guys would have, you know, maybe they didn't make, like the Harrison twins or Willie Collins. The Harrison twins is a perfect example.

Yes, I think they should. I think they, Jay Billis has been talking about that. I think it would sell so many tickets. I mean, it would be incredible to go back to watch these guys. I appreciate the call. Jay Billis talked about, has been talking about this for years. Why not allow guys to come back, get their college. degree in play.

Yeah. Like, who does it hurt to have Khalil Whitney play basketball? Who does it hurt? He gets, assuming he's in college, right? Like, what's, what's bad about that? Now, I mean, would you want to have an age, an age, maybe? But if somebody makes a decision and goes to pro, it doesn't work, why can't they come back?

You know, the Yellovich example is perfect. He was a pro. He's getting to come here. why should we punish an American player who's a pro when we let a foreign player do? Yeah. Why? What's the reasoning? Is it something you think it's coming then?

We see what the European players? I don't know. I think the caller's right. The NCAA will be hesitant to do it. But I mean, I don't think you should let them play more than four years. But if they did not play four years and they have a chance and they have eligibility, then why not? Yeah. What's the downside?

It takes a roster spot from another player maybe. Okay. But the kid could graduate from college. The product is better. And it'll actually make the basketball at the lower levels better because the kid that might have gone to Mississippi State will now go to Southern Miss or something like that, right? I just, in a transfer, the idea that a kid should be able to come from Croatia after playing pro basketball and play college. But a guy that went to the pros and didn't get signed.

has to go to Croatia. Yeah. Like, think about that. I mean, that's the system we have. If a kid leaves to go to the NBA and he doesn't make it, he has to go overseas. Right. While the kids from overseas who've already played pro are allowed to come here and play college. How does that make sense?

It doesn't make any sense. Can you imagine if the twins came back for a second time? I mean, they're probably a little old for what I'm talking about, but the principle is still the same. Yeah. This is essentially a pro sport now. You've got the benefit of education. The TBT shows that these guys get more love doing this than what they do in their other stuff. Absolutely.

So why not? Why not? I just don't, I mean, I just think rethinking that, I think the caller makes a good point. Why wouldn't we rethink it now? Because it's a different world. I like that. I like that idea. We'll take a break. Great back.

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All right. So Mario made fun of me last night. Yes, he did. So, you know, one of the questions I do in the trivia is I'm like, what is the age? I give a person and you have to guess the age, Shannon. And you have to get two years, one direction or the other. Does that make sense? Yeah, of course. So I'll just do one here for you right now.

Jason Kelsey. How old do you think Jason Kelsey is? Ryan, you want to guess? No, no, he was there. You have to guess. 34. 37. So you get credit for 35 to 39, so you wouldn't have gotten that one.

One of your choices was Shannon the dude Grigsby last night. You were on there last night. That's why I asked you, that's why I confirmed you were 42. I was wondering why you were asking. Because you were on there last night. That's one you got right, I'm sure. Jimmy Fallon. How old do you think Jimmy Fallon is? Jimmy Fallon, 50.

He is exactly 50. Well done, Shannon. Fist pump through the screen. Linda Gorton, the mayor of Lexington. That's the one that surprised me. I was shocked by this. She's probably going to be embarrassed. I'm saying this on the radio. I was shocked by how old Linda Gordon is. I'm afraid to guess. I've got to go younger than what I would think. What are we going to say?

58? I thought she was probably like early 60s. That's what we guessed. She's 76 years old. She looks great for 76. She's 76. No, I would have never guessed that. I would have never guessed that.

I really wouldn't have. I would have thought she was in her. When I heard she was 76, when I could, I don't think one person got it right. Because she doesn't look it, doesn't act it? Good for her. Good for her. Then I also, so, so my point is, one of them on there was somebody that like some people call ASAP Rocky.

That's what some people call. What'd you call him? Well, there's other, like his good friends call him ASAP Rocky. Oh, okay. So you're in that category. So when I read his name, Shannon, I hear this cackling from the back. Yeah. And it's Mario who has led the entire back half of.

the restaurant to laugh at me saying ASAP Rocky, which is what his friends call it. Yeah. Instead of ASAP Rocky. Did you feel like an old man? Well, I'll tell you the other reason I felt like an old man. This is, okay, you want to talk about when things hit you. Yeah.

This was one of them last night. Last night? This dude comes up to me. He's one of the new servers at KS Park. Student at UK. He goes, hey, I'm John Baugh's son I was like

Johnny Baugh my old like I worked with him as a lawyer when I was practicing law I was like oh how's your dad Johnny Baugh I can't believe it I'm like you know and then I said Johnny Baugh and I worked together

in like 2008 and he goes I was two You probably remember him as a two-year-old. He was two. And now he's working at my bar. Wow. She didn't he was two.

Now he's almost 20. So that led me to put up find a picture of the claw. Yeah. So let me just say to people, some of y'all have seen this. Just right now, Google, Matt Jones, Kentucky law works. Or no, excuse me, don't do that. They won't come up.

Go to Twitter. Twitter. And put like KY Sports Radio Claw or something like that. I think that's how it comes up. KLAW. You'll find our old billboard. Okay. Is that what works?

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looking like Paul Rugg. Okay, that was me being really fat in that picture. But that's not the one I'm talking about. There's a billboard. Corey Price or somebody will find it. But here's the billboard, Shannon. This was what our billboard was in 2009. No, no, I've seen that before.

Look, first of all, look how fat I look. Your true big face. But then that's Johnny Barr right there. And his son is now working at KS Bar. Look at, I like you, or excuse me, Ryan said the one guy, that's Brian Cook. got his head like he didn't even get his head in the picture. He needs to renegotiate his contract.

You got a great looking like me mug look on your face. It's a scow. You don't want, if you get hurt, call the claw. Yeah. That's right. Get your long sleeves rolled up. We all have white shirts. Yeah.

Get your shirt sleeves rolled up a little bit, looks like. Cross your arms. Look how ridiculous. Why did I think that? Did you get any business off of that? Yeah. Well, it worked then. There is still, I won't say where.

But there's, this billboard is still. It's still hanging in one place in Eastern Kentucky. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Okay, so somebody will drive by and take a picture of it. It is hanging off this like dessert. Because we could only afford billboards, like we couldn't afford prime placement.

Yeah. So we like went to the billboard company and they're like, we can sell you 20 billboards in Eastern Kentucky, but only one is on a major road. You took it. So we got the one on a major road and it actually got us a lot of business. And then we just took the other 19. And one of them is still up.

I guess they've never sold. How have we never done a show at the base of this billboard? It's still up in, well, I'll see if somebody can find it. But it's on like this country road. And you just turn around and there I am. Hurt, call the claw with me, Johnny Bruce. Anyway, that was, I was telling him, I was like, I almost got shot. Yeah, that one picture.

Yeah. The one where I'm in front of the courthouse there, that was when that guy, like, pulled a shotgun. I remember you've told that story before. I mean, that was in a Lagrange. of all places. And they just had to be shooting a commercial that day. You're one of your commercials that day. They were shooting a commercial of me and Vanessa Cantley.

And her assistant was there. And he was like cat calling her and making like really rude comments. And finally I was like, dude, shut up. I like except if I cussed. And he goes, oh, we'll see if you'll talk bad about me. And he drives off and five minutes later, he drives up with a shotgun. Golly, man. And I was like, hey, man, we're good.

Yeah. Everybody calm down. So, and of all places, LaGrange. Like, that's not even a, they shoot home art movies there. I've heard you tell that story before. That's scary, man. And, Eric. Eric, go ahead.

Eric, go ahead, Eric. Afternoon, guys. Good afternoon. Hey, Ryan. Do you remember when they used to do the Cats versus Cops down there in Tell City? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, I used to go there when I was a little kid.

I wonder, I think they stopped at the year, John Wall's year. I think they stopped it the year before. I don't know what you're talking about. What's he talking about? It was like a benefit charity game. Who versus who? Like old, old UK players against like police officers. Oh, okay, gotcha.

All right. Anything else? Yeah, Chuck Hayes was there. I forget his name Peterson. I think it's his name Patrick Patterson. Met him. A couple guys. All right.

Well, I appreciate the call. I didn't know they did that. Old UK players versus police officers? Well, you know, they used to do those bars. The police officers couldn't have won. No. But I think a lot of fans missed those old barnstorming tours and games. Remember, you did it for a couple years.

No, I did it. My goodness. But I think fans love that. You want to talk about an absolute cluster. That's another thing, man. Like, I just jump feet into things I don't really know what I'm doing. And when Ramele and Joe, we're seeing. seniors.

Ramel was like, nobody's doing a barnstorming tour. And I was like, I got it. We can do it. We can do it. And I scheduled like 10 dates

around the state. Me, Ramel, Joe, Wu, and Bobby Perry would get in my car. Joe would take his nasty shoes off and his feet everywhere. I drove the four of them

around the state with Johnny Bruce and a hubby. And then we'd have to pick up somebody for every game. So we had Brandon Stockton for a couple. We had a game in McCreary County, which was supposed to be Matt Heisenbuttal, but he canceled.

So the turkey hunter just played and called himself Matt Heisenbottle. And Shannon, nobody knew the difference. No one knew. Like, he signed Matt Heisandbuttal's name. Gave autographs. He gave autographs, says Matt Heisenbottle. That's awesome. We would get there and me and Ramel and Joe,

and the thing is, it was all cash. We didn't have a way to do credit cards. So at the end of the night, we just have this huge stack of cash. be like, which, I mean, for the time, I'd never seen these stacks like $5,000, $8,000, $10,000. And we just divide it up. And then literally, just think about all these like $20 bills. And we'd just sit in the locker room and count them up and hand them up.

And then Ramelle and Joe, who got the biggest, as they would call them stacks. Yeah. Because they were the main draws. they would then chase each other around like children and hit each other in the head with their stacks of money. Like that was when I realized, you know this, Ryan. How young, like how much, like they're still kids. There's still kids. I mean, Ramele would literally just hit Joe in the back of the head with the money and be like,

my stacks bigger than yours. And it was the same amount of money. That was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun. I had more fun doing that. that, then I love those guys. Ramel, that's part of why I love him, Woo. Like, we had such a good done.

Didn't one of the guys leave their stack at Gold Star Chili or something? We went to Skyline in Cincinnati and they were eating with their stack of $4,000 on the table. I was like, you're going to get us killed. Exactly. You can't just have $4,000 like just laying on a table. I hope that was a good tool. money too? Huh? Doesn't some schools still owe you money? Knox Central never paid me.

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You can't see anything on his face at all. I had so much hair back then. Like it was, why didn't somebody not tell me about those bang, Shannon? I mean, I think they tried to tell you. My mom did. Yeah. I just didn't listen. I wish I had that much hair now, though. But that was not a tough look at all.

Okay, a couple things here. First of all, Jane Quaidens passed his driver's test. Good for him. All right. Got his driver's license. That's good, right? That is good. Sister Gene is 106 years old today.

Unbelievable. Way to go. 106. I wonder if she'll tweet today. She should. She needs to tweet on her birthday, don't you think? She's probably sleeping in today. It's her big day.

106 years old. Man, that's amazing. I didn't even know she was still alive. Good for her. 106. That's amazing. That is quite an accomplished. May we all be so lucky?

Amen. She's tight with the Lord. She clearly. Yeah. She's probably lived alone for a long time. No, I doubt. I doubt. She's probably got somebody with her.

Yeah, but I mean, she was a nun. So she probably spent a lot of her life alone. Maybe, but at 106, I'm sure she doesn't live alone. Now she may not. Yeah. Now she may not. Mark Anthony, go ahead. Mark Anthony. Hey, Matthew, Ryan, Shannon.

Hey, yeah. Oh, nuns live together at the nunnery, Matthew. That's all I know. and I was raised Catholic. So anyway, speaking about Cracker Barrow, they can put up, change the signs all they want to,

but until they fix their food, they're not helping them. See, everybody keeps writing me and saying that the food quality has gone down at the Cracker Barrel. Is that true? I haven't been in years.

I'm terribly, terribly, me and Ms. Boo stopped by there all just a few weeks ago to grab some supper, and I got the meatloaf and the chicken dumplings, which used to be solid.

And, yeah, The meatloaf sucked. Absolutely. So, you, wait a minute, Shannon, he shouldn't get the meatloaf? No, no, no. The only reason you go to Cracker Barrow is for the breakfast. I'm not going there for dinner. Uncle Herschel, right?

You've got a point. But hey, Shannon, put me in the breakfast group that I have on Friday, tried it a few times, and I tried the biscuit and gravy. They bring you a bowl of gravy that you pour it out. It looks like a bowl of old mashed potatoes. Like that. Well, maybe this is their chance. Maybe this is their way of saying, all right,

we're re signaling, we're re-getting the food going with, I've always thought the thing they did the best when they were rolling. I appreciate the call. When they were rolling, hash brown cassero. That's the best thing on the menu. That was always really good. I always thought the biscuits and gravy were good. I thought they were good.

When they were there. Like the country ham. Yes, that's what I got. That was always pretty good. So I always thought they did those three things really, really good. And then they would do, I would like it because I'll not. on Thanksgiving, you could get dressing. Yes.

Billy Gillespie used to go to the one on Newtown Pike just for turkey and dressing. I was wondering if you were going to say that. Billy Gillespie ate at the one on Newtown Pike like three times a week and I'm, and was told he ordered Thanksgiving every time he went. Yeah, the turkey and dressing was like always on a Thursday or something. He always ordered turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce. Yeah. I mean, he was sitting by himself.

Is that weird to want to eat Thanksgiving every week? Every week. It's good. I mean, I love dressing, though. dressing's good. I don't know why we got it. to the idea that we can only have dressing once or twice a year. Makes you want it more, though. But it's so good. I think Billy was on to something on it. I was there and he'd be in the corner

by himself. He said by himself. Yeah, and eat turkey and dressing. People can't leave alone. I wonder what Mark Pope's place is. Remember, John Caliperie's eat by himself place was Golden Crowrow. Yeah. With the ice cream. He would eat at like 4 o'clock by himself at the Golden Crowell and New Circle. Can you imagine walking in there and seeing John Calaparian at the 4 o'clock, at the golden corral with a big bowl of whipped cream yeah he would eat he would well no he would dip his food and whip cream that's right i think mark popes a lot like me can't stand to be by himself i think he's a guy that wouldn't go eat by himself oh okay so you don't think he would go i think with his wife or his daughters or assistant coaches he's somebody i think it's got to be social have somebody

with him yeah peggy peggy hey good morning guys um just wanted to let you know that um the Crafts bought the country ham at state fair and paid $10 million for it. Stop it. They did not pay $10.5. They paid $10. They got it for a discount this year. Yes, they did. $10 million.

Uh-huh. And Ryan, I'll never understand the country ham thing. But go ahead. Ryan, check your messages. I left you a message because I'm in the opposite position for you. She wants everybody to go away. take in a border for you lost one.

Well, he'll read it. I appreciate it, Peggy. Thank you very much. Let's go to Noah. Go ahead, Noah. Hey, Matt, got a two-part kind of question for you. So a little bit similar to one of the other callers. You guys remember, like, the UK alumni charity games that Calgary would usually bring in,

like, his recent former, like, NBA players and have matches. They play together. It was like a UK charity event. Say that again? Like when Cal had bringing some of his former players, they played a couple of charity games. Yeah, they did a couple of those, yes. Yes.

So with the kind of stuff from that, obviously, right now, Mark Pope has only from one year, so obviously there's not a lot of fish in the pool together for it. But one, do you think this is something that Pope could be able to try to be, like, create for the future? Or is this something that, like,

Yeah, it's hard. It ended up being hard. like they did it that first year for some sort of raising money for some issue. I can't remember what it was. Was it a flood or something? And then the problem not, the reason that ended is it was they found the players couldn't get insured anymore. Appreciate the call.

So the NBA guys, no one would insure them. And so their agents would not allow them to do it. Right. And so that's why they ended up stopping doing it. So, you know, I'd love for them to do it. but I think it's probably like you're just worried about getting hurt. And so that ends up not happening. All right.

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