KSR - 2025-08-22- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

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I guess this is the official, what, grand opening, am I right about? No, it's just an official, wonderful moment here at the community care campus to show it off to people. Great crowd of Kentucky fans here in Louisville. I got Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, and Shannon the dudes. You can give a shout to Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-7-7-4, and this edition is sponsored by the TV. If you call TGL Make them Pay, we are on the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety Safe Summer Driving Tour and in a great building here in facility off Breckenridge Street.

Ryan, good to see you this morning in your UK baseball jersey. It's kind of a cool little event center. We're up on a stage right now. It's got a little like a mosh pit here in front of us and orchestra seating. It's kind of a... I would not call the place that they do the work on the Louisville homelessness crisis a mosh pit, but nevertheless, it is a mosh pit. It is a facility here.

That's one way to put it, Shannon. But it is very nice in this building. I will echo that. Very nice facility. It looks like maybe a place where we could put the band up here one day. I would like to maybe come out here and bring the band and play here. Yeah, this is in the Smoketown neighborhood. It is a partnership between Volunteers of America and Louisville Metro.

It provides a central space for people experiencing homelessness to access shelter, medical care, and other services. And there's a great group of folks tonight. Here's what we're going to have coming through here today. First of all, the mayor, Craig Greenberg, if Louisville's going to stop by. You know, I've known him for years. I've been my friend for years. He's been always like, when do I get to come on the show? And I always say never.

But today, I actually am going to have him on. And then Richie Farmer is in the house as well. How many people are here from Clay County? Holler, because from Clay County, I should be able to hear you when you holler. Buck right there next to him is, of course. Yeah. First of all, you're from Clay County. You can do better than that.

There you go. That was not better. You dress them up and they lose their Clay County roots except Richie because he didn't dress up, which I like that. But Clay County and Louisville are partner cities, partner places with Manchester and Louisville. I think that's very cool. Yeah, Richie was telling me there was a Volunteers of America Center in Manchester. We did actually did a show there one time. We did, yes.

There's a Volunteers of America Center in Lexington. I have some friends of mine are here from Lexington to help support the center here. So thank you all very much for all coming out and joining us today. And guys, this is the last day before college football actually begins. There will be games tomorrow, including Billy Rutledge's Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, will be playing their first game. But games start tomorrow. And, you know, we are eight days away from college football beginning here in Kentucky.

Are you getting excited? I got to be honest, I'm really starting to get excited. And the closer we get to kickoff for UK, the more and more optimistic I become about our season. I'm buying into it. I got to be honest. Well, I mean, I can tell you, this city is optimistic about their other team, but it does feel like our fans are getting a little bit more optimistic about our team, and a little less are, I think they're getting more scared for the Toledo game,

but more optimistic about the season. It's sort of rinse and repeat. We do this every year where we come off of maybe a mediocre season or last year not a great season at all, and we're all gloom and doom and doom. But then, you know, it's a week or two before the college football season, and we talk ourselves into being excited because why? not enjoy it, right? It's here. It's going to happen anyway. You might as well enjoy it. That's exactly right. There's no reason to be miserable. We're playing either way, so let's go do it.

Well, there was some big news announced yesterday, which I think is probably the most important thing to lead with, which is the SEC announces that starting next year, they will go to non-conference games. So that is, first of all, one more conference game than we've been playing, really, for our entire history until you go back to the 80s when they played everybody. Non-conference games. The schedule will break out. You will play three teams every single year. You will have three opponents that are your yearly opponents. Then the other six will alternate year out of year.

What it does mean is you will play every team in the SEC once every two years, and you will host every team in the SEC once during a four-year period. So the theory is, if one of you all send your kids to college or I don't see high schoolers here, they should be in school. But if they were here when they went to college, they would get to see every SEC team play in Kroger Field at least once before they graduate. So let's talk about positives and negatives. Positives, I do like the fact, you know, that we will get to host every team.

Texas, there was a stat. Texas A&M has been in the SEC since 2012 and has never hosted Georgia once during that whole time. Never once played. 13 years never hosted them. You know, we have we hosted Texas A&M? I don't think we have ever hosted Texas A&M during that period of time. So stuff like that will go away. Also, you're going to get three teams on your schedule every year.

We're going to talk about which three we think Kentucky will get. Negatives. We're going to lose a gimmie game. We always say the three stinky teams, now that's going to be two teams, because the SEC is also going to require that you play one major non-conference opponent every year. For us, at least for the next four years, it is Louisville because we are locked into that schedule. It would be interesting. They had talked about doing an SEC Big Ten challenge, and if they did that, that would mean 11 games like that.

But at least for now, the Louisville series stays on for four years. But the chances for Kentucky to get to six wins, get a bowl, they become harder now. Overall, do you like it or not the change to nine conference games? I guess as a fan, I like it. favor of it. I'm like everybody else. As soon as I heard it, I thought, oh, Louisville game's in jeopardy. But then we can understand a little bit, get into a little bit more that they have to play a Power 5 team. Mitch Barnhart said the Louisville game would stay. It makes me feel good about it. Maybe the only guy that does it. Mitch Barnhart, let me be clear about saying the Louisville game.

He said we have four years left on the contract. He didn't say we're definitely going to play the Louisville game. He said we have four years left on the contract. So I think he was leaving open what happens after that. I guess I'll like it more when I find out who our three common opponents will be. You know, hopefully, you know, I know we're going to get into it, but hopefully that'll add to the excitement of what's going to happen now in the SEC football schedule. Yeah, I mean, for Kentucky, you know, Mitch Barnhart acknowledged in an interview last night, he was against it.

He does not want, but he was basically outvoted. He was, he's against it. His reasoning was, he didn't say, we need the three stinky teams, but I think that's what he implied. And then the other thing is, you know, there's been a lot, there's every other year in Kentucky football now, we get eight home games. It is going to be impossible for us to get eight home games anymore. We basically will have seven every year because with nine games, one year you'll have five home games in conference.

One year you'll have four and they're going to make it to where Kentucky, when they have Louisville at home, that's when they get four. So basically we will have seven home games every year and there'll be no year, Shannon, that we get eight, which sometimes is a big advantage of stuff. As a fan, I like this. If you said to me you get another Eastern Michigan-type game or a better caliber team in the SEC, then I would take, or even if it's, you know, Vanderbilt, for instance, whoever it may be, I still like the balance of the schedule better. I think no matter what, you have to keep that Louisville game on the schedule. I agree.

And I don't think that Barnhart maybe agrees with us, but I think that you've got to preserve that rivalry game. Well, I've taken to view at least for a long time, that if Kentucky football is not going to win a national championship, which I have a hard time ever seen us doing. then let's at least make it entertaining, right? I mean, let's at least make it entertaining. So, you know, my guess, Ryan, is what happens is, you know how we always play a team like Tennessee Tech at the end of the year, like the game before Louisville.

We play some Murray State or Tennessee Tech. My guess is that game's now going away, basically, that you are going to, in that spot, play a conference team. And, you know, most of the time those games, nobody's excited about them anyway, so I guess that's how it works out. And, you know, it does keep, you know, South Carolina can play Clemson, you know, Georgia, plays Georgia Tech, Florida, plays Florida State. Those rivalries that have developed over the years, at least those are still intact. Do you worry, though, if they go to this Big Ten thing, that that's when the Louisville game would maybe disappear?

Possibly. If they do that SEC Big Ten thing, I could see Kentucky ending the Louisville series. But we're still years away from that. And to be quite frank with you, I kind of don't think Mitch Barnhart will be the AD in four years when they make that decision, Shannon. So it'll probably be the next person that is. ends up deciding that. I can see that. And of course, we all know why this is happening, right? It all comes down to the money. Fifty to $80 million that ESPN said they would give the SEC if they would add one more conference game. That's what it comes down to. Basically, if you want to do the simplest math here, this decision makes Kentucky an extra $5 million a year. I mean, that's essentially

why they're doing this as the ESPN agrees to give more money. Now, the big question is, who will Kentucky get as their three opponents? So, It's complicated, but here's the process. They basically want every team in the SEC to assist. They have divided the SEC teams into basically groups of three. They want each SEC team to have as one of their three primary opponents, one team in each group. So one team is the elite group, one team is the middle group,

one team is the bottom five, bottom six group. They're not telling us what those groups are. Probably because they don't want to make the programs mad. But you can figure it out. But you can kind of figure it out. I mean, you can kind of figure out that it's probably Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, and somebody else in the top group. The middle group is probably a button.

And then the bottom group is probably Vandy, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri. That's just my guess. That's just my guess as to what they're doing. So knowing that, then they also want to, they also want a preserve. rivalries, right? So they're trying to figure out how do you preserve rivalries? So most people think our rival, because they've given every team one rival to preserve. It's Auburn and Alabama, right?

Mississippi and Mississippi State. You got Texas and Oklahoma. They're doing like Texas A&M and ARC, so they have those. Ours, even though I don't necessarily consider them a rival, ours when you do the math is South Carolina. Because, to be quite frank with you, we're the only teams left. By default, our rival in South Carolina. They hand everybody a rival. Missouri gets Arkansas, A&M gets LSU, Texas gets Oklahoma.

The only two teams left are us in South Carolina. So I think you can take it to the bank that one of our teams is South Carolina, right? South Carolina is put in that middle tier of team. So there's our middle tier team, right? Makes sense? I think that's how it works. Now you look at like Vandy. I would love to have Vandy,

but Vandy's got teams they have to play. They have to play Tennessee. They have to play Ole Miss. Most of the projections I've seen have said Kentucky's teams will be South Carolina, Georgia, and then either Vandy or Mississippi State. Mississippi State not being a rival, but they got to give Mississippi State to somebody, and so there we are.

So if it ends up being what I think most projections tend to have us is Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Tennessee is not one of them. Because Tennessee has Alabama, Vandy, and they want to have Florida, some people think is their third one instead of us. If we don't get Tennessee and we get Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi State is our three, what do you think? I got to admit, I know Tennessee kind of has owned us over the last 30 years, but I would miss that series.

I would miss that game for sure. You'd still play them every other year. You just wouldn't play them every year. Yeah, so I guess to answer your question, I would not be in favor of that. I would rather have Tennessee other than, obviously, then Georgia, who's been a powerhouse. I was afraid they might stick us with Missouri

because Missouri considers us a rival, even though we don't consider them a rival. So I'm the opposite of him. Yeah. I'd like to have the three easiest teams we can have. Me too. Right. So I'd love to have Missouri.

Right. Give me Missouri. Give me Vandy. I'll take Mississippi State. That might be the three worst teams in the conference. So I would love to do that. I, in theory, do I want to play Tennessee? Yes.

But I think the fact we have to play South Carolina is going to make it hard to play Tennessee because Tennessee is going to be in that middle pack of teams. So I think we're going to end up, I think we're getting Georgia and South Carolina and then we're either going to get Vandy, Mississippi State. Maybe Missouri will get one of those three as our third. That's my guess. And if that's true, for those of you complaining about the strength of schedule this year, wait until next year and every year after that, if you're going to get Georgia every single year on your schedule.

But we have to get one of those teams. So if we have to get. But Tennessee's not going to be in that top group. They're going to be in the middle. The top group's going to be Alabama, LSU, Texas, Georgia, and then probably Texas A&M or a team like that. I'd rather have like an A&M or even an LSU. Well, I'd love to have A&M, but we're not rivals with them. They're on the other side.

Like, they're as far away from here as you can be. So I actually think we can beat Mississippi State every year, and we can be competitive with South Carolina every year. So I'm actually okay with that group. You know, we're not that far removed, but we used to own South Carolina. We'd be like, what, five out of six years? Six out of seven, I think. Six out of seven.

So kind of owned this last couple years, so bring them on. But the most obvious thing is you might see the end of the yearly Tennessee series, which I don't know what the stat is. I bet we've played Tennessee every year ever. Since the beginning of time. I mean, I don't know. Does anybody remember a year we didn't play Tennessee? I don't think so.

And there may now be a year where we don't play Tennessee. And your folks down in Bell County, the folks in Clay County, I mean, that's the game, man. The Tennessee game's always been the game. But as Richie knows, we always lost. So, you know, not having to play, it ain't the worst thing in the world. 859-2-80-2287. We are here at Volunteers of America, Mid-State, in Louisville at the Community Center campus downtown. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Indiana I just saw all kinds of dignitaries you got the Senate president Robert Stivers over there you got Craig Greenberg's going to the mayor's coming Buck Stivers is here all but Stivers if Buck Stivers slows down now you know they'll let anybody into the city glad to see we dress for the occasion that's all You know what? Speaking of dignitaries, my interview with Congressman Andrew Barr is up on the Interrupted with Matt Jones podcast. You can hear the moments when Billy wanted to crawl under the table. But I actually think it's a good podcast.

It was good back and forth. I appreciate him doing it. And check it out. And then next week, Governor Andy Beshear will be on with me as well on the podcast. did it get a little contentious with Andy Boyle? I never got contentious. We're not like fighting with each other, but we disagreed about some stuff. So that's, but that's life.

That's good. I'll like a good competitive interview. Challenge people on things. Hey, 59-28027. I got to ask you, this was now night two of you being without Josiah in your house. You were at the bar sort of helping with the dinner last night. So you got to work your way through the evening. what was it like when you got back home being at k s bar last night great distraction kind of kept me my

mind occupied but then i go home and the house is just quiet and empty it's going to be like that i hate it i mean i'm not kidding i hate it so like i got i got telling myself no wait a man what did you do like two o'clock in the morning dead asleep i wake up i think my phone's ringing i thought it was him i thought he was calling me he's in trouble he needs me of course the phone wasn't ringing i don't i dreamt it i guess the phone was ringing so he's already he's been in college two nights. I've already gotten updates. He's been at two parties. He's at a barn party the very first night. Two hours after you dropped him off, he was already partying. Did anybody see the picture I put up last night? So I was driving. We had our listener dinner last night. Thank you to all of

those to all of you who, thank you to those who came. I hope you enjoyed it yesterday evening. We got big praises on the food. A little slow, but we're going to prove that when we get started. But on my drive home, I'm pulling out, for those of you know Lexington, pulling out on Virginia Avenue, look up towards turn right, because I was going to drive home. There was traffic on Broadway. Turn right, and now you're looking at like the UK hospital when you pull out there on Virginia Avenue.

Up above, they have a drone wildcat. Oh. All right. So it's like, I guess it was for new students because it was like a blue drone wildcat in lights. So I pulled into the center lane. got out of the car, I was going to, I was going to take a picture. So I took a picture.

Now, I want you to go, if you can't, go to my Twitter and look at the drone wildcat. Okay? First of all, very cool idea. Very cool starting. Let's put a drone wildcat up. Let's look at it. And, et cetera. Shannon, love the idea.

The execution, it kind of looks like for those of you, because now, Chet Limman was the first one to point this out. that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza becomes like an underwear model and the way he poses. Yeah. That cat is kind of in a very sassy pose there, don't you think? I feel like I'm seeing a little too much underbelly of the cat. You know what I mean? The cat. Like there's too much underbelly right here.

The cat seems, I just think it's sassy. It's kind of looking at you like, meir. Is that what you get? I wish it made that sound effect. I think that cat, that's not a rar. No, that's not a mean. cat mirror he's smiling at you he is kind of smiling kind of winking at you a little bit and a happy face smile he's kind of flirty he thinks like he's a cat i think that's you know

he's ready to party i think that's a good look so how long is this thing going to stay up there just for last night or is it it probably works at night i assume so i don't know they're going to put it back up tonight where people could see it maybe but it was a cool thing they did i just thought that was a cat that was you know just it was a little sassy cat that's a good comparison to the george castance of the look on signfield the picture they took of him that's what looks like. I guess it was part of K week. They've got events every night this week with their incoming freshman and new students. Yeah, 859-280-2287. I don't know if you heard, you might want to get this on your way out. This is the kind of promotion I think Shannon would like, but I'm going to see if you

will do what is necessary to get it. Let's hear it. At Krispy Cream tomorrow, if you walk in, you can get a free donut. So that sounds like something you'd like, right? Yeah, yeah. Free donut. Just walk in on a Saturday at Krispy Kreme. Sounds great. Just one catch. When you walk up to the front to get your donut, you have to announce what Harry Potter house you are in. Oh.

Because the four donuts are each associated with what house you are in. Now, let me be clear, I don't even really know what that sentence means. I don't either. I know that there are four houses. I think one of them is like slithering and one of them's like papal. and then there's something else. I think there's four of them. But you're supposed to pick which one.

The only reason I know this is I took my ex-girlfriend to Harry Potter World one time and you had to go to this place and you got the wand based on which house you were in and it was a whole thing. Kids were going crazy. Sounds dorky. It's very dorky. So here's my question for you. Would you, even though you think Harry Potter's dorky,

would you have the, would you degrade yourself to pick a house so you can get a free donut. What's the going rate for a donut these days? $1.50? Absolutely not. I'm going to say I'll pay for the glaze. Give me one of those. So you won't say which house?

I'm not going to say I'm in Hermione's house. Oh, you. That's right. Hermione. I think of Hermione. Oh, I need somebody to come up and cuss me out because I didn't get the name right. Would you want to go put your Harry Potter house on? One, I would not do it. And two, I'm still not ready to eat another donut.

That's true. Yeah. Do you think you'll get it? back to donuts at all? I hope so. I love donuts, but I am not there yet. You haven't eaten one since the contest? They had some Jeff's donuts last night at the restaurant. No way. I am not having a donut. Wow. You're still a little sick. By the way, Saturday, you know I have a couple friends who are going to do the challenge. You'll get a bucket beside him because it ain't happening. Well, they think they can do it. They think you were not successful. I, by the way,

would go, somebody just needs to teach me what the four houses are because I don't want to go in and say one. and it'd be embarrassing. Well, you already know one, it sounds like. You don't know which donut you again. Is anybody a Harry Potter person here? No. What are here? Is it the Slythering, like, they're the bad people, right?

They're what? Slythering. They're the bad people. Yeah, I don't want to be that. So I got to pick one of the other ones. I better learn your houses. Yeah, I better figure it out. 859-280-2287.

We're going to take a break when we come back. I'm going to bring Richie up here and talk a little basketball. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live in Louisville at Volunteers. of America. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the Volunteers of America Community Care Campus in Louisville. This is a campus which is being turned into a former hotel building on the site, converted

to a full-service shelter with 29 units. It's specifically for families with children. It'll also help those who have chronic homelessness in a medical and behavioral health clinic and a medical facility all here, plus a community gathering space that will be. we are at. Everybody here, give a big round of applause to my good friend from Clay County, Richie Farmer, who is here. Thank you. Richie, you had some big moments in this city, right? The Clay County Ballard games there weren't both at Freedom Hall, right? Yeah, we played my senior year, we played Ballard in the state finals here. We ended up losing that game,

obviously. And we also played the LIT here. Yes, which. My senior year. My senior year, we ended up losing. year, which was one of the best tournaments that I was ever a part of. So tell me, so, you know, I was sitting here saying it's odd on the, on the surface, it's odd to have all you guys from Clay County here in Louisville. But one of the former assistant coaches there at Clay County said, you know, Clay County and Louisville have a bond going back to Clay County Ballard back in the day. We have a bond going way back. And, you know, I used to tell the guys when we came here, you know, a lot of teams from the mountains,

they would be a little bit intimidated to come to Louisville. Were you intimidated? Not at all. Okay. You know, because, you know, we felt like that in any game that, you know, we had a chance. And Coach Keith really did a great job of having us prepared, and we came up here to show them what we were all about. You came up there in those little shorts, and you were like, I'm going to show them what it's all about.

And we wanted to show them what it was all about and take the trophy. back to the mountains. I understand. Well, that's good. Before, I want to talk some basketball with you, but one little serious thing. You and I, I was talking with somebody back there, and you and I've had this conversation. We're from Eastern Kentucky. I now live in Louisville, but a lot of the problems that this place deals with and that we deal with in the mountains, yes, two on paper, people would say completely different places, right? Predominantly African American in downtown Louisville, predominantly white and Clay County, etc. But a lot of the problems that those areas deal with are very similar.

Very, very similar. And I actually, that's why I've always said the connection, we shouldn't be separated. We should be together because we deal with a lot of the same stuff. We deal with a whole lot of the same things. And that's kind of what, you know, with Jennifer Hancock, what she's doing. I think she has kind of built a bridge between Louisville and Eastern Kentucky. And I can tell you the thing that really excites me. They do so many wonderful things, but I know she and the organization have been such a part of the community,

and they've been really involved in trying to help get some other things done, and we really appreciate it, and that's why we're here today. So let's talk a little basketball. I know you've loved every Kentucky team. I know you've loved every Kentucky coach, but I get a feeling, and you and I don't even think of talked about this, but I got a feeling that Richie Farmer was really happy when Mark Pope became the coach. Am I right about that? You are exactly right about that.

And, you know, I've said there's been a few times, like when Coach Petino came, he was the exact right coach at the exact right time. Same thing with Cal. And I think with Mark Pope, we couldn't have had a better person. And, you know, we talked a little bit about it. A lot of people was kind of like scratching their head. when it first happened like I was one of yeah and I was one of them and I was you one of oh yes I was I was like what I mean because you was you were hearing all these different names

and then all of a sudden you know the more I got to thinking about it the more it made sense and and I'm telling you that he has done a phenomenal job and what he did you know in his first year was enough to get everybody excited because you know he comes in he has no staff he has no players and in 30 days he put together a pretty good deal. During those last few Cal years, I remember you and I would have conversations and you would point things out to me that were concerns to you that then showed themselves later, but that you, because you played basketball so long, you kind of saw coming. When you watched that team last year and you were watching the way Mark Pope coached and the way

they played, what did you think about it? Like, what did you see that made you excited? Was there anything you were concerned about? What was? Well, I think that he plays a style that the kids really like to play. And it's a matter of him getting, you know, the right guys to fit his system. And I think he did a phenomenal job of doing that in a short amount of time for the first year. But with what he's done in this offseason, with bringing in all these different guys.

and I can tell you, being an Eastern Kentucky kid, I can tell you I'm really excited about what I'm hearing about Trent. No. Right, so you know how you believe me, I was going to ask you about Trent, though. I mean, 13th region, we got a pull for our own. Absolutely. I mean, Trent is the biggest, I mean, Reed is as well, although like you know, London's kind of right there on the edge.

That's right. Reed was 13th Region 2, but Trent Noah, being from Harlan, I mean, I got to think, like, you just got to love. having him there. Oh, I love him. And, you know, he's, here's one thing that a lot of people don't realize about Trent. Tren is a big guy. Trent's probably 6-6-6-7, you know, somewhere 6-6. He's taller than me. And, I mean, he's 200, 25, 30 pounds. He's a big kid. And, and he's very athletic, but I'm excited about the way I'm hearing he's shooting the ball. They're saying that he may be one of our better three-point shooters this year.

Does he shoot it as well as Richie? Well, I don't know, but from what I'm hearing, it could be. Could be the case. And he starts raining threes. Eastern Kentucky will, you know, we will invade Lexington, that's for sure. No, I think that's probably true that that'll happen. Do you, you know, you watch their style and the way they play and the way they kind of try to spread it out and get shooting.

We were talking the other day about big dudes who would play well under Pope. I feel like Richie would have seen some minutes there under Pope. Like I think that might have been a good style for you too. Yeah, I would have loved to have played in that style. And, you know, I played with a guy Mashburn that, you know, really would. Yeah, there's your four. We were talking about the perfect four. The perfect four for Mark Pope was Jamal Mashburn.

I mean, you know, he could do it all. And, I mean, he loved to shoot the three. But you get running the offense through him. It would have been fun to play with. You played for Rick Petino. Obviously, we're in Louisville where he coached. He seems like he's now back in good graces with Big Blue Nation after all these years. I mean, I was one of his harshest critics, and now I was like rooting for St. John's in the tournament.

Does it make you happy that the university and the fans have kind of reembraced Rick? It really does. you know, because, you know, that was my coach, and I've always had a really good relationship with him, and we've talked throughout everything. And, you know, even through the times when he was at Louisville, I was always, you know, a Coach Patino fan, except for that one game, you know, he always knew that.

But I think, you know, last year when they introduced Coach Pope and Coach Patino was there, I think that he was just, so happy the way the reception. I mean, it just meant so much to him and so much, so much to all of us. So how are we going to be this year? Good group of players. You got, we got obviously Otega back. You mentioned Trent, Colin Chandler back, Brandon Garrison back, and then a new group of guys, Jalen Lowe, point guard I'm very excited about hearing really good things. What do you think about this group? Well, I think it's if everything goes well and they develop the way that they can

have the potential to over the year. I think we've got the potential to be a Final 14. Do you like, I mean, you're old school. We were talking the other day, Ryan, about people who would have killed it in NIL if NIL had been available. I think Richie might have done some milk ads or something back in the day. Do you ever sit there and go, why couldn't I've played during NIL? I feel like it would have been a good run for you.

I'm still trying to figure out how I can get in on that, man. I mean, because, you know, I can tell you that, I mean, there's a lot of people. There was one of the guys over in sports information with UK. They was like, oh, my God, maybe it had Brooks Downing. He said if we'd have had NIL during when Richard was here, he would have been retired. I mean, I want you to think about what that 92 team, the four of you that were seniors, I mean, the ad campaign, Shannon, the unforgettable's going to have done. Plus mashburn on a national level could have just absolutely crushed it.

And there was some characters there, too. I mean, I think we would have really embraced the NIL and would have done well. Yeah. Thank you very much. Richie Farmer, everybody, UK legend. You know what? We will pay if you were late. You've heard me talk about estate renovations, but here's something you may not know.

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for making today's event possible. We'll be talking to the mayor here at the start of the second hour. I've got to give him a hard time about our wrestling venture. Speaking of wrestling, you just told me, I forgot this. I forgot this. When we first got in OVW, you wrestled Richie Farmer as the two celebrity managers in a match. And I'd forgotten during the match, Shira, who everybody knows from the wrestler's show, Shira actually legitimately separated his shoulder during the match.

Like he tripped wrong, he got hurt, and the referees had to look at Richie and Ryan and say, you all got to kill time. And I had forgotten for like two or three minutes, you two just ran around chasing each other like little children. It was a great moment. Yeah, I was managing Shira. He was managing shotgun, Tony Gunn.

We had done it. We had already finished our little thing. I kicked Ritchie's ass. We're about to leave the stage, and then the referee comes over, like, gets in our ear. He's really hurt. He's really hurt. Keep going. Keep going.

And you all, like, you guys did a really good job of acting. For, like, 10 seconds, you did something, and then you didn't know what to do. So you just started running around in circles. And, Shannon, they just kept running around over and over over over. Yeah. I mean, they didn't know what to do. They never been in that situation before. It was the first time.

I was giving nougies on top of him. Yeah, that's great. I'm wearing, by the way, before we go the phones, I'm wearing my red show. Red's only a half game back, by the way. That's right. The Mets lost last night, so we're only a half game back. We play the Diamondbacks. They play the Braves.

I'm going to root for you guys again to get a... You know, I'm tired of carrying you guys into the postseason, and we were single-handedly trying to shove you in there, and you guys got to keep winning, though. But here's the big news. The Red signed, called up a new pitcher, and I need you to look him up at some point. His name is Zach Maxwell.

All right. And they call him big. sugar all right we are we already have scus bucket and now we got big sugar if you look at him he looks like a big sugar oh got a big old belly he's got a neck beard looks like an AI generated picture look at that he's got a big neck he's got a big sugar yeah and I don't know if he's any good but I'm just gonna tell you I hope he's good so that I can have two people in the bullpen I like the scuzz bucket and big big sugar he's got a

Big belly on him. He's okay, though. That's all right, though. I'm okay with the big belly. You don't have to be in good shape to throw a baseball, right? He was in Georgia Tech. That's right. He's big sugar.

Oopalupa. Big sugar. Watch out for him. I hope it works out for you guys. You got to love a big sugar. Who's up first? Got Jake up first. Jake, go ahead, Jake.

Good morning, guys. The four Harry Potter houses are Gryphindor, Slitherin, Hufflep, and it's Reagan Quall. but you just think Kentucky is Gryffindore and Louisville is Slythor and that's all you need to know. Well, this kid right here was wearing a Kentucky shirt said he was Slythering, so he wanted to be a bad guy. So we are Gryffindor, is that what you're saying? So when I go get a donut tomorrow, I ask for a Gryffindor. Right, yep.

All right. Good guy. The other thing I had, Ryan, you need to watch the Bills Hard Knock to distract you from your loneliness. There's features on Maxwell. There's a lot on Ray Davis. some scenes with Dion. Do you guys think that helps with recruiting at all or just the overall prestige of the football program? Well, it certainly doesn't hurt.

I appreciate the call. For people who don't know, Hard Knocks covering the bills. And all three, I think last show didn't mention a lot of them. But the first two shows had a lot of the Kentucky guys, especially Ray Davis for the reasons everybody remembers when he was here about his background. But I've heard less buzz about this version of Hard Knocks than any I can Remember, I think when the Giants, GM, and coach got embarrassed during the Sequin Barkley thing, now it feels like they're showing less and less good stuff.

But with that said, it can't hurt that they pick the team that has three Kentucky football players, Ryan, and the three Kentucky football players are actually being highlighted on the show. Every high school football kid watches hard knocks, every one of them. So the fact that they're- Is that right? Oh, yeah, man, they love that. Eat that stuff up. So that's, if they're showing these Kentucky guys, of course I think they could do nothing.

nothing but help. Certainly doesn't hurt. You know, I forgot that it was even going on, to be honest with you. But to your point, I think that it's getting less publicity than it has in the past few years. But Maxwell Harrison and Ray Davis, you ought to watch it if you can. They both are very heavily featured. Both of them, Ray Davis, I think, is probably one of the two or three people they're most centered on on the entire show. So very cool for Kentucky football. Who's next? Bob is up next.

Bob, go ahead, Bob. Good morning, KSR. Hey, Bob. The building you're in there. Is that the old Mayo High School? I have, I went to Matt. It's next to us. It's next to us.

This is an old hotel. Oh, okay. I was remembering the high school right there. But anyway, one of the best athletes to come out of Kentucky came from Mayo High. It was Kenny Coon. he was an all-around athlete. They've had a lot of them from male high school, right?

You had what, Michael Bush? Did Daryl Griffith go to mail? Yes, he did. But he was an all-around, he was an all-stater in three sports. And the last one I've heard to talk about in Kentucky. But the volunteers of America took over male high school

and part of it. Anyway, I was just reminiscing, and I went to manual, graduated there in 51, which... 51? You don't sound the day over 30, Bob. I do not believe you graduated in 51. Madison sounds older than you. Yeah, you're not going to convince me. 51.

Now, wait a minute. If you graduated in 51, that would mean you are... Hang on just a second. Don't tell me. That would mean 51, that's 49 plus 25. That's 74. Does that mean you're like 92? 91.

90. Well, Bob, thank you for calling, and I appreciate the call. Ninety-one years young and still going. Peruse what you said, an older gentleman maybe over than 80, you're going to let him talk. You didn't want to cut him off. Well, you know, he was reminiscing. It's all right. Nothing wrong with that.

What's next? Will is up next. Will, just got about a minute. Go ahead. Well, I wanted to tell you that next Sunday, Augusta, is hosting the 52nd annual Frog Derby, where they shut down Main Street and raced frogs in the middle of the street. Yes, we've heard about this before. But the local funeral home brought it back.

Yeah, it's in Augusta, Kentucky, right? Yes. So they have a Frog Derby. This is George Clooney's hometown. Shut down the town, and they let frogs race down the street. That sounds like something you would go to? No. Okay, I would go.

I think that's go. Are you going to go, sir? Yes, I'm going to go. I've gone there every year. This is the 52nd annual, so it's been, frogs have been passed down for generations. Well, that means, okay, I appreciate the call. George Clooney probably went to that when he was a kid.

You wouldn't, when you want to be a part of that tradition, Ryan? No. I do. Why are you all down playing the front of the movie? I mean, maybe the frogs are jumping out. I mean, what is the thing you? You were at Craig the other day where you threw the stupid thing. The dainty fast.

That's no... That looks fun, though. That's no sillier than the dainty fest. Watching frogs jump down the street. You don't love our small towns. We will take a break. Come back. Hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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