KSR - 2025-08-28- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm Matt Jones here live at the KS Bar and Grill. Day three of us being open. You can give us shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That is 859-280-2287. In addition, Autoglass Text Machine is 772-7754 in this edition.

Sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call T.J., he'll make them pay. We got folks here from Indianapolis and Carlisle, Kentucky, the far end of the state. Here, you're good. Carlisle's a great place. I've been there. Well, I've been to every county. And here, Ryan and Drew, Shannon's in studio. Ryan's wearing his Middlesbrill high school t-shirt, ready to go two days before kickoff.

of a UK football. This is in honor of what Shannon said, your 54th birthday today. Happy birthday. Thank you. Happy, happy birthday. Shannon, if you said 54, that was very rude. 51, I'm sorry.

It's not. It is, if it's 47 or as they say on Facebook 43. Okay. It's just a number. It's okay. Yeah, nobody's worried about specifics. And yeah, thank you very much. Happy birthday.

I'd like to ask you a few questions. First of all, who said you are allowed to do this? We're going to hijack the show because it's your birthday. Okay, well, before you do that real quick, let me say. My mom's coming here for lunch. She and I are going to get lunch for my birthday. We, I don't know when it will come out, but we're doing our first NFL podcast today. Yes.

So I'm a little, you know, a little bit nervous about that. And then, but last night I got a cake. Somebody bought me a cake, which I didn't know existed, and I want to recommend, okay? Because I have, over the years, been slightly disparaging to the Dairy Queen. Because, you know, they would sometimes tow people and sometimes, like, we just talked about yesterday about how the blizzard machine is always broken and all that. Unbeknownst to me when I was talking about it, somebody yesterday last night got me a cake that was an Eminem Blizzard cake. Oh. Highly recommend.

I did not know. I knew they did birthday cakes. I did not know that they would make like a layer of it a blizzard. You're shaking your head. You said you hadn't had an Oreo one. Dude. Wow. Listen.

Highly recommend. If you, if you're a blizzard person, because you get, you get like, it gets blizzard mixed in with other things and all of a sudden it's like, oh my. So let me just say, M&M and. Blizzard cake, Ryan, I highly recommend. Sounds fantastic. Is the ice cream like the creamy ice cream in the Blizzard part? So there's ice cream, Blizzard ice cream. And so it's like regular ice cream, blizzard ice cream, and then other stuff, and that's the cake.

If you cut it in half, it's like in levels. It's in levels. It's like in levels. Layers. There you go. Exactly right. So anyway, that was, I'm a big fan of it. All right, now go ahead. I want to ask you a couple questions because this got me thinking my birthday last week.

Somebody asked me, what's your? your most special gift you got as a kid as a bird you remember was there something that you got that you really like you still remember you know and see you're gonna you say that you're gonna put me in the spot because i'm gonna see my mom earlier i don't really remember you remember one special i mean i'm sure it was something probably to do with uk like like maybe tickets to a game or something but i don't remember i mean you remember gifts from when you were a child i remember getting my baseball glove and i was like eight years old and i slept with it every night i loved it so much still do i still do yeah that's my

been part of your problem. Did you ever have a birthday party that you remember, like a big celebration party? Yeah, there would be, you know, you get kids there. And yeah, I had those when I was growing up. I think I broke my leg at one of them, actually. What are your birthday parties? Yeah, I think so. I think that was when I was really young, when I lived in Cynthia. I feel like I, I feel like I broke my leg at a birthday party. How did you do that? I don't know. Somebody, like, maybe the Probis kids knocked me down the steps or something like that. I think that might have happened. Was there ever a special birthday kiss from a girl on your birthday. Do you remember what I look like when I was younger?

You think about it? I may have seen some of those pictures on Twitter just long ago. Let me just tell you, those were not. There was, uh, they were not lining up down the street at that age for that to happen. And our birthdays are like right before school usually. Yeah. Well, that was always something that bummed me out. Yes.

You know, now they start school early. But when I was a kid, you started school after Labor Day. So I never got to have the birthday thing that everybody got to have. Because, you know, when you were in school and it was somebody's birthday, Big deal. Big party. I'd sing. You'd have a little party.

I never got that. I was always like, you didn't even get at the beginning of the year, oh, by the way, here's the people who passed during the summer. You didn't get that. So that did annoy me. There was never a birthday sort of acknowledgement when I was in school. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you? Because same for me being on the 18th.

There's a 20th. I wonder if you ever had a birthday party. You got to celebrate at school. We've talked about. There's a lot of people that are born at the end of August. Like a lot of people. We know why. We've talked about it.

It's Thanksgiving. Yes, it is. And then at the end of September, it's Christmas slash New Year's. But there's a lot of people. Like, most of my friends are born in like this two or three week period, you included. Chris Tomlin, Maria, Richie Farmer. Yes, the turkey hunter. Turkey hunter.

A hubby. They're all in this little period right now, yes. So was there ever something that you did on your birthday? You don't remember a birthday present or anything you did a special? I just said no. I mean, no way. There's got to be something. See, he planned this Shannon, and he doesn't have the ability.

to pivot, right? Like, he doesn't understand that if I don't have an answer, there's got to be something. But if you keep asking me, I'm not going to have an answer. No, I understood the question, Drew. I just don't, I don't have an answer. I'm not, unlike you, I'm not materialistic. Well, I want to go down Memory Road with you a little bit for your birthday.

Memory Road, not memory Lane. Memory Lane. Yeah. Memory Road. It's right off memory. Memory Lane just pulls off right off memory Road. Memory Interstate. Yeah.

But I appreciate it. You have always done a good job over the years of like you've done like things on my birthday or whatever. And I do always appreciate it. We're trying today. There's still some efforting going on. So that means that won't happen, Shannon. But that's okay because he's still, I know he means that that's the good thing about you. You're very thoughtful.

You know, you wake up, Drew, and you see people. You're like, oh, I haven't thought of that person. That's very nice of you to say happy birthday. Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because I don't know about y'all. I didn't know. I didn't remember anybody's birthday. Anybody. Like, I would be like, okay, my mom's is January 21st. You know, like that was, I was terrible about it.

But now they pop up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I worked with as a law clerk. I'll say hello to you, like things like that. Facebook's clutch. Even birthdays, I think I know. I will go to Facebook and double check. Yeah. Also, like people you don't stay in touch with in a while, they'll send you a happy birthday message. and your last message was like you telling them happy birthday or them telling you happy birthday

year ago. Like sitting here looking at my, you're exactly right. Like sitting here looking at my phone. There are names of people. Oh, hello high school friend Alison Cook. Thank you for acknowledging my birthday. It's been a while since we've talked. That's nice.

You know, that's good to kind of reconnect with people. You remember when I first started with you, one of your daily rituals was to go down Facebook and read people's birthdays on the show. My first message I got this morning. was from Slice. Wasn't really. And I looked, and the last message I got from Slice was last year on my birthday. So Slice does remember the birthdays.

That's nice. It finally ended, but I had like an eight-year run of Shane Boyd saying happy birthday, bro. I could show you the screenshot. There were no conversations in between. It was happy birthday bro and me saying, thanks, man, for almost a decade. Thanks, man's a good response. Yeah. The one thing I don't like now.

Because we're not that close, you know. The one thing I don't like on the text, when you just say happy birthday, they add balloons. You know what I mean? Like they add balloons and confetti. And so you get up in the morning, you look at it's just balloons and confetti everywhere. And it's just like, you know, I mean, that was an addition. I don't know that the text, the text app needed.

Your Twitter profile will do that today if your birthday's in there. Yes, it will. Someone goes to your page. It throws confetti and balloons. Oh, does it? Okay. Well, anyway. Everybody's very festive.

Everybody's very festive. Thanks to Corey Price for finding the picture of me with the bowl on my head in high school when I got the scholarship to, or college to study at Oxford. I'd forgotten. Well, I knew I went, but I'd forgotten it was in the newspaper and all that. That was nice. Don't want people to make fun of the bowl.

They were in at that time. Everybody I knew had the bowl. I had the bowl. You had to get the chili bowl haircut in that era. Yeah, that was what she did in the 90s. It was how you kind of showed you were. You're cool. I mean, kind of cool.

Like walking, maybe not on cool way. but maybe on cool road. Yeah, like that. Well, happy birthday. Hope you get to enjoy it today. You know, you got to do it. You're doing ESPN today also? Not doing ESPN, thank goodness.

I mean, that three hours of ESPN the last two days was very, very tiring. But it was nice to be in here. We had people in here all day yesterday, and it was nice to, they would come up during the breaks, and people seemed to be happy in here yesterday. It was nice. It's nice to everybody, and we'll be here today, and then, you know, know, Saturday. Saturday game day. Breakfast. Mario's taking pictures of the breakfast today, getting ready. And our pregame show will start at 8.30 on Saturday morning. I'm ready. I don't want to

wait around all day. Save that for later in the season. I'll watch game day another time. I want to wake up and get right to it. You're not going to watch game day for the Corso stuff? I mean, this is going to you all. Well, but, I mean, we'll be done at 1030. I mean, I would think if you love college football at like 1155, you got to watch the first. You got to watch the final corso thing where he picks the team right i mean i feel like that's going to be uh kind of very emotional isn't it and if i understand that's where he did his first one right oh how it's where he did his first one back in the i think early to mid not like 1995 maybe was where he did his first one and he's going to finish with it here so there's no

way he doesn't pick the buck guys again probably put them see i feel like he he's the kind of dude who on his way out might say hook him horns i mean i feel like that's kind of his thing right I can see him doing it one last time getting spicy, getting the crowd going, and maybe even if it's a negative reaction. But I don't think it's a lock that he puts on the Bucca hat, just because that's his first one. What is your favorite Corso moment? I mean, if you're thinking about all the years that he did it,

I kind of like it when he had the little kid on, and he kind of yelled at him. You know what I mean? I think he says, what? Not so fast, midget. That's what he says to him. The kid looks at him, like, what are you doing? That was, I think, like, Harvard Yale was where it was. I think it might have been, and I like that one.

And then I like when they would bring a live animal on it, whether it was a duck or a cow. I don't know if there was a cow. He got a promo on the Georgia Bulldog and called it ugly. Yeah, he called the promo. I also liked when they would bring on a celebrity. This happened a lot in recent years as he got kind of older, and he clearly Shannon didn't know who the celebrity was. Yeah, yeah. And he would just sort of look at him perplexed.

Like who is this person? I really enjoyed that. They'd bring on like a TikToker. No, I remember they did PFT commenter at James Madison. And he clearly was like, who is this person? Why is his sunglasses on? Drew always enjoyed that. My favorite, you can't really repeat it on radio, but he was doing a game and he changed his pick.

He picked up like a megaphone and then threw it. And he said, ah. And he said, F it. and everyone on set loses it. Loses it. Because you cannot say that because it came from Corso. He got away with it. He got away with it.

So I love that dude. And it's crazy to think that he was a former Louisville and Indiana coach. I mean, that's where he came from was coaching Louisville and Indiana. And when he was at Louisville, people say he was like Rick Petino. Like he was like slick, Italian, thought he was cool. And now he just seems so goofy that you could have never imagined. Ryan Rick Petino becoming what Lee Corso became. No, I remember when he was the head coach in Indiana,

he came to speak to the last Otwell High School Athletic Basketball Bankruptor, where my dad was the coach that got him to come down, he did it to the little bitty Otwell Indiana high school, and he was like a rock star. He was a rock star, and he was just a football coach in Indiana. I would argue the most important announcers to their sport in history. Number one is Dick Vital with college basketball. Dick Vital, in my opinion, was a massive,

part of making college basketball thing. I think John Madden for the NFL is a massive one. And then I would argue Lee Corso. For college football. For college football. And he's not even going to announce. Just doing the studio, kind of like the way Barclay is with the NBA.

He was so good on the studio that I think it in some ways helped make the sport. Made that show. Oh, I mean, that show that show and the T&T NBA show are the only pregame shows even worth thinking about watching.

Wouldn't you agree? And every other one tries to steal from what they've done to get there. And they can't. Because you need those personalities. If you're honestly about it, really, it's really Corso and Barclay. Like Kenny Smith and Herb Street are good with them. But if they weren't on there, you could skip them. It's really Corso and Barclay.

It'll be interesting to see. I mean, McAfee, maybe that helps it work with Game Day in the future. But for me, Corso and Barclay are the two best. people that have ever done a studio show ever. And you've talked about this, Kirk Herb Street kind of supporting Korsol these last couple of years. It's beautiful. Very touching. It is, it is very, very sweet. 859-2-80-2287. Text machine is 772-7-745-24. We'll talk a little bit about UK, Toledo and football. Some basketball news. Jay Billis had some really interesting things to say about Mark Pope, which I want to get to. We're here at KSbar. Come see us, have lunch at

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when we all went down to Middlesbrough in a bus, and all of my friends and their wives got in a fight, all of them like every single one of them got in a fight including people like some of them separating and driving back to lexington in separate cars like that like it was it was amazing they all got to fight except the one person most likely to get in a fight with the significant other ryan he was the only one thank you very much i was sitting there watching my friends drop like flies and Ryan, of all people, Shannon, somehow did not end up fighting with his girlfriend. I mean, if you could have gotten that on drafting. Vegas odds on that would have been unbelievable.

You would have killed it with that. Because if you go through history, Ryan Lemon, that is his role on all trips, is to fight with his significant other. And then that one, and you were like taking glee. Oh, I was. And we stopped at Buckees, and I remember one of you kind of, bit the, like not really bit, but it was like, took a little snipe and I went, uh-oh, it's going to break. We're only 30 minutes from home and it's going to fall apart and you hung on after all those years.

You were sitting right behind us in the front of the bus while we were like, I was high-fiving you. You couldn't look at all this going on. It just kept happening everywhere and they just kept hanging on and were able to do it. Jay Billis was on a KSR podcast with Jacob Polichick and he was talking about Mark Pope. and he said two things about Mark Pope that I thought was interesting. One, he said that Mark Pope coaches, and I think his wording was with relentless positivity. He says he's never seen a coach who coaches with more positivity, that when he wants to get something to a player, he doesn't say, don't do this.

He says, do this, and he says, like, you're good at this. that he like doesn't use the negative, he always uses the positive. And Bill has said he's never seen a coach that was more affirming in the way he tells people what to do and that he thinks it leads his players to play better. I thought that was interesting. Yeah, he had great comments. I do have to correct you. It was with Jack on sources.

Sorry, with Jack. My fault. Yeah, no, good good for Jack. No, he's raving about how, like, really, the Kentucky job, no one is cut out for it. It's so demanding. I mean, everything it takes to have that job. I'm sure there's been guys that have been successful, but no one's going to be perfect at it. But he was talking about how just Pope, if anyone's as close to being made for the job, he's handling it really well.

And it's things like that that got him off to a great start. Yeah, I mean. I think you're going to a home run higher. We all feel that way. But Bill is adding to it just makes it feel even more like the right movie. Bill has said whatever it is Mark Pope wants to accomplish, he tries to find a way to say it in words that are affirming. And when I read that last night, I was thinking, man, I'd like to figure out how to be able to do that. Like rather than say, I mean, that's not going to happen with Ryan, but with other people,

like if there's a way to say something in a lifting up rather than a take, like, you know, not even taking down, but just negative way, I think that's a really good, because I can see why people would respond to that better. And it's such a refreshing way of coaching because we know for years and years years, it's the coach's method was we've got to tear you down, we've got to break you down, and then build you back up. And we have to point out your mistakes and what you're doing wrong. so you can correct it on your own. I like this approach, and I hope other coaches take it.

I don't know if I can take that approach with the whole parking situation on my street. I don't think I can build those people up. By the way, have we talked about the letter that was on my door? No. No, we heard about the signs, not a letter. Okay. I'm going to have to digress just a second for Mark Pope. You know I don't want to get involved in anything community.

But this issue. It's a pressing issue. This is issue. I come home the other day. There's a letter that someone on my street has written. I think her name was Wanda. And it said, and I wanted to say, please help me, Wanda, right? It said, we all know what's going on.

This is frustrating. I've organized a meeting with our local council member. It had the date and said, write me if you want to come. I'm very torn. You got to go. You got to go. But I don't even want to know who my city council member is. Like, I don't care, right?

I don't want to get involved in any of this. Local government, I don't want to get involved. It's the government that matters. It is. It's actually more important to people's daily lives, honestly, than usually the Fed or State is. But with that said, I don't want to get involved. But she had an email, and she said she had a list of all the houses and said, I hope to hear from all of you. So I feel like she's doing a check list, Shannon.

And I feel like if I don't check. So I emailed her. Meeting is tonight. She never got back to me. So I guess they looked at my email and thought, well, we don't need him. Well, that's a good thing. That you're out then. That's my out.

I tried. They won't tell some meetings tonight, but I don't know where it is. So I guess I'm not going. I'm sure they feel like they need you to give them a little cloud, a little power when they meet with the same person. Or maybe they don't want me to like mess it up. They're like, oh, if he gets involved, then it's a whole another. thing.

Are the signs still posted in the back? Yeah, but they're cardboard. That's what I'm saying? They're not official. I thought the city would come by and rip those up already after the day. No, they're not official signs. But anyway, so I have to decide that. All right, second thing that Mark Pope said is he said that he was amazed at the analytic

approach that Pope took to recruiting in the portal. And he used Ansley Almanor as an example. He said something basically like when Pope got Anzley Almanor, I thought, what are you doing? Like that kid cannot play at Kentucky. But he said Pope had a specific thing he thought Almanor could do, shoot threes, stand in the corner, pass. And he was like, and then it worked to perfection. He said, then I realized maybe the way to look at the portal is to look at it like baseball GMs do, where you go, well, this can be a guy that, you know, is a pinch hitter versus lefties,

and that he thinks Pope, that eventually all coaches will do that, but Pope was maybe the first one to see it like that. That sounds a lot like, I can't remember if it was Myron or someone we had on last summer, they had just seen Pope at the Peach Jam, and we've been there a million times. Coaches are there to be seen, shaking hands, smiling. I said Pope had like an envelope that was, you know, almost a foot thick of profiles on all the players, Here's what he wanted. And like no one else has anything in their lap.

And here's Pope basically brought us desk with him as he's recruiting and analyzing talent. Yeah, which I would think would mean when you look at this coming year's team, we sit there and look and go, okay, what's this guy? What's this guy's going to do? Pope probably has with most of the guys he brought in. He is going to do this specific thing. I have him for this specific thing. Even if he's not as good as ex-person, I want him for this.

And that's a good way to think about. We're amazed at how he constructed that roster last year. year for exactly what you said. I need a point guard that can do this and this. I need a five guy that can pass. I need a four guy that can shoot in the corner. Specifically, go get guys just to do those roles. Yeah. Not superstars. So I thought the billis interview was very interesting. You ought to check it out on sources say. We'll take a break. Take your calls. 859-28027. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T. T.J., he'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio.

0859-28027 here at the KS Bar and Grill. We are open for lunch. Come and see us. Well, we're not open. We will be open in 30 minutes. And remember that we'll be here for the pregame show. Should be a fun day. I mean, like, I know we've said this over and over.

You can't ask for better weather than it's going to be here Saturday. So weather won't be any impact. I saw that our defense coordinator said we're going to play lots of people to try to wear them down. I like that, especially the weather. Like both those statements. I even double-checked the weather. this morning. It's supposed to be like 75 right at kickoff. Beautiful. Sunshine. Can't wait for that. And I want to see the depth on that defense.

I think we're going to get back to the defense being the strength of the team. And that will start here in 48 hours. Ready to see it. Hit them hard. Yeah, I think this is a team like we've said before. To win games, you're going to have to win them like 13 to 12, 21 to 20. We're not maybe score a lot of points. But we can hold teams in there with that a lot of points. That guy right there had a great interaction with me last night. So you came here last night for wings day right and he writes me and i you know this made me feel good like listen part of reopening this restaurant is like i have a lot of pride in this place i want people to like it i don't i mean like as a financial thing like a restaurant is even when it's good like you're you're

scraping by right like unless you're you know a massive it is what it is it's it's it's a it's a it's a labor of love so this guy writes me he's like the wings are awesome we got great reviews on the food yesterday which made me happy but Wings are awesome. Thank you so much. And this is the best deal I've ever seen. And I was like, yeah, you know, the dollar wings on Wednesday, that's a good deal. I mean, honestly, most places it's like $1.50.

That's a pretty good deal, right? I'm like, I'm glad he's appreciative. What an appreciative guy. Yes. And I remember thinking to myself, see, this is why we reopen this place. How appreciative guys like this. Right? then about an hour later I get another text message from him that says I kind of feel stupid

about what I said and I'm like oh no so here's what he said here's what his initial one Matt you guys have just given the best deal of all time all time with Wings Day I got three things of wings and it's the literal best bang for a buck I've ever had the key word there was a buck he writes me later Matt, I'm so stupid. And yes, you can make fun of me for being not naive. But I thought it was a dollar for an order of wings, not a dollar for each wing. Too good to be true.

It was still great, but I'm kicking myself. I got to look at you and I and say that was very nice. But you thought I was going to give you 10 wings for a dollar? That would have been $3 of them. So that would have been $3. And you would have gotten $30. I loved it. You still made me feel good, but I was like, you know what?

May have to make sure we articulate the right word. I saw the graphic. It says a dollar for all wings, but that means types, boneless, bone in, flavors, all the options. Not necessarily. You were very nice about it. And I appreciated it. I thought that was, it was still worth it. Okay, good.

But it made me laugh. Okay, you know I love the soccer cups in Europe. Oh, yes, you do. Why do I love the soccer cups in Europe? The fans and the announcers? And the little teams get a chance to have big upsets, right? That's what I like. And remember, in some of these countries, you get, like, teams that would be, like,

the KS Bar team gets to play against the Yankees, and they get a chance. So in Britain, one of the great upsets of all time, Grimsby Town, which is a town of, like, 16,000 people. So what's a town in Kentucky that has 16,000 people? Oh, wow. I don't even know. Let's just say what? Ashland.

Does that sound about right? Ashland would be playing Manchester United. And Grimsby Town beat them. Oh, they did. And they beat them. And the place goes crazy. There's videos online. They storm the field.

Although imagine it's not college kids, but it's old men with guts that stormed the field. It's a great video. But that's still not the most entertaining one. The Champions League, Ryan, they take teams from every country in Europe. And of course the teams in the big countries do better. England, Spain, France, Germany, etc. But these little other countries they get a chance to. Yes.

And the team that won the Kazakhstan League. Okay. I think their name right, Shane, is it K-E-I-R-A-T? Is that right? K-A-I-S-R-A-T. K-A-R-A-T. They were playing a match that if they won, They get to move to the group stage where the money just for coming in last is more than their entire team is worth.

Wow. Okay. So this is like the biggest moment in Kazakhstan soccer history. All they have to do is they've got this one penalty kick, and if they make it, they get to go. Comes down to a penalty kick? Now, granted, this is a language we do not know, but you don't need to know the language to hear. the excitement of Kazakhstan in this moment. Go ahead and play.

The Celtic command of Timurlan Anurbekov, Daimur, Timurlan, Anurbekah, Mayade al-Ga-Narbekah, Anurbekah, Arirbeka! Anurbeka! Limit is what sports is about. That's awesome. That is what sports is about.

They're just losing their mind. Still going. They scream. So now what happens is, I think today they have a draw. they have a draw where they'll decide what eight teams in Europe they play. And four of those teams will have to come to their little stadium in Kazakhstan. So you might have a situation where like Liverpool or Real Madrid has to come to their little stadium in Kazakhstan and listen to those guys scream.

And I love it. Like that Drew is what sports are about. Absolutely. They even, they had it ripped away from a little. I think, man, you scored twice. Well, that's a different game. That was a different game. It's the Grims. This is the Kazakhstan. Okay. Well, regardless, you know, you think you even have a little bit of remote chance.

It's like a moral victory, but then for it to actually hit the crossbar at the end. And then the screen – so when we get a big win, Shannon, I want you to save that. That's what I want to play. If we beat Texas or we beat Tennessee or Florida, that's the reaction. You said you didn't know the language. I don't think they were saying words. That's just yelling. They're just losing their minds.

That is not a language, Shannon. That's just visceral screaming, right? Yeah, but that works across any language, right? Exactly. So remember that. That's going to be Tom Leach and Jeff Pecorah after the Texas game. I hope that's right. So congratulations to whatever that team is in Kazakhstan.

Who's up first? Ryan. Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt. Happy birthday. Thank you very much. much. So you were talking the other day about an NFL player being traded.

Yes. And I can't remember who, but that doesn't matter. It dawned on me how odd the whole concept of trading is of players. And I mean, what if that was just like that in society? I agree. I had to tell your wife, I've been traded to the Walmart and Monticello. And we've got to go. You know what's funny?

You say that. I totally agree with you about that. and have had that thought. I appreciate the call. We accept in sports this idea that you can be traded to a different city without your consent. And you just have to go like the next day, right? You live in, like just imagine tomorrow, Shannon, I traded Ryan to a radio station in Seattle for someone else. And they say to him, you need to report to Seattle for work,

on Thursday. Like, that would be wild, isn't it? And in sports, that just happens. Okay, Ryan, go to Seattle. Hope you enjoyed your time in Kentucky. And that's why you see these emotional goodbye sometimes because these are your teammates, your friends, your family. But it's not even just that.

Your whole life. Like, you know that house you love? No more. Get rid of it. You're going to Seattle. Find you something in Seattle. He's exactly right. It's funny.

He says that. Because I've had that thought in my life how weird it is. And even, like he mentioned Walmart. Let's just say you work at Walmart in Monticello. And they go, all right, you'll be at Walmart in New Mexico tomorrow. Enjoy yourself. When sports, we think about it from the roster, change the jersey what it does for the team. But, I mean, these people have families.

Imagine you got a kid in school in Phoenix and you get traded to Toronto. That's a pretty big change for everyone around you. That's another good point. You could have to leave the country. True. They're talking about putting teams in Mexico City. You literally could just be like, all right now, go get your passport. Honey, we're living in Canada.

Bring the whole family. It is, it's just accepted, but it is very strange. That's why I assume a lot of them have to just get an apartment and leave life back where they were for a long time until they can get it figured out. You can't imagine just lifting up your whole family, not knowing how long you'd be playing for the Raptors. There's somebody who has told me, I think a lot of the Bengals, they live in an apartment complex there in Newport. And just so that they can, if need be, go somewhere else. That's what Devin does with the Broncos. They have like a community of townhomes and condos that are getting.

A lot of the players just live there just during the season. By the way, they announced yesterday all the NFL teams announced their practice squads. A lot of Kentucky guys found places. Dumas Johnson is on one. Greenbergers. The Packers, yeah. Quentin Bohanna got picked up by one. And you got to give a shout out to a guy who played for Kentucky last year,

Zion Childress, who was undrafted and made the Cowboys regular roster as an undrafted free agent. That's very rare. And Zion Childress from last year's team did that. A guy I thought would get drafted in the late round. So yeah, obviously talented enough and good enough. Went to camp, earned that spot on the roster. So congratulations to him. You know, Mike Edwards got cut, but then he made the last.

the Chiefs practice squad. Daring Kinnard is in Green Bay. Eli Cox made the Texans practice squad. Oh, Eli Cox did. They waved him, then brought him back on practice squad, which is common. And by the way, I saw Dane Key was named a captain of Nebraska. That's quite an accomplishment for a guy that just transferred in. Yeah, he just showed up in January, and his teammates, six months later, voted him one of the six captains.

I'm so proud of it. When are you going to Nebraska? They play Cincinnati. What? Tonight. Tonight. They played Cincinnati tonight. in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium.

Wow, why didn't you go? I had two tickets. I got the show to do. It's your birthday. You could leave after the show. Yeah, I mean, you can still get there. If you leave right now, I bet you could get there. We got a big show tomorrow with cornbread ham.

Drive up through the night. No, you're going to be excited to watch it, though. I can't wait to watch it, yeah. Clark's Puppet Shop, don't commit to a party foul. Get your tailgate ready at Clark's Pumpin Shop, Krispy, Crunchy Chicken, Hanger 54 Pizza, Pizza, Chip, Bottle, Water, Ice, and, of course, beer. Clark's Puppet Shop, every cup of coffee can get you a great prize. They've got breakfast sandwiches.

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It's worried they thought you might have put them on the trading block when you referenced their Walmart. Yeah, well, you're going to have to give us somebody back in order for that trade to be made. So like, yeah, here at KS Bar, we have some servers maybe have to skip out for a couple weeks. We're like, we can just go make a trade. We can trade you for somebody down to Monticello to come up and work at our restaurant for a couple weeks. That's true. That's exactly right. I like that.

I like that a lot. Sometimes Shannon, it sounds like he, like, stepped out for a segment and came back, you know? I think he did. I don't think he was listening. He wasn't really here. I think, like, I can tell. The light of nobody was home. And I can even tell your facial expression.

when it's happening. It's that one. Your mouth is open. Your tongue is on the bottom of your team. I'm not even there, but I can see it right now. You can see it. You know the facial expression when his mind is somewhere else, and his tongue is on his teeth.

He's just looking. That's when you know he's not here with us at this moment. We have to give him a minute to come back. Yeah, but we know he'll be right back. He'll be back. Yeah, he just stepped out. He's pro. And the thing is, he's like Homer Simpson.

He's probably like thinking about a donut or something. Like the Happy Gilmore Happy Place up there. Whatever he wants to do. He's up there doing it. Mario knows. You've seen that look, right? That's why he's not consistent. That's right, Mario, not consistent. Who's up next?

Cameron. Cameron. Cameron. Cameron. Hey, Matt, first of all, happy birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday, Matt. Can you hear me?

Yes. God. Just a couple quick things. Just a couple quick things. Kentucky football, I see them winning five games this year. Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Tennessee Tech, Auburn, and Bandy. Do you think that's plausible? Yes.

And second of all, don't sleep on that Dairy Queen chicken tender basket. It's one of the best fast food items out there. Yeah, we had a bunch of people take up for the Dairy Queen fast chicken tender basket. There are people who are fans of that. They like the gravy. I mean, those are the five, Drew, if you were going to say Kentucky, appreciate the call, was going to win five. Those are the five you'd pick, the three stinky teams,

Auburn and Vandy. I mean, that's what you would pick. I'm picking the three Sticky teams Vandy in Florida. But, you know, the path to six is win those five that includes Auburn and then steal one. That's the path to six. Yeah, I have the three Stinky Vandy in Florida. I feel good about the Florida game.

I know that's crazy. They're like ranked 15th right now, but I think we're going to see them slowly get worse. Their coach has been living on the hot seat. It's in Lexington in November when Florida never plays here in November. They've never played here in November in years. I'm looking at that as the marquee went on the schedule, not counting Louisville, of course, and then getting Vandy on the road.

We want it to be really cold for that game. We want the cold front to come in Florida here in November. That's what we'd like to see happen. I read this story where like the last time Florida came here in November, Frank Kersey, I think was a coach, and he flipped fields, made the Florida team be in the shade on the one side of the field, and the Kentucky team took the other side in the sun just to make them a little colder during the game.

We should do the same thing. I would agree. I agree. Why not? Let's do whatever gamesmanship we can do. My hope is you get to that point. Fans are still engaged in the season because you can have a big crowd advantage for that game as well.

To the stadium, we can all just blow, you know, try to make it even colder in there when Florida has the ball. I remember that date the Vandy game a few years ago because after my wedding, it was snowing pretty bad in Lexington, so maybe we could get some snow in early November. Did you see the story about Bill Belichick and his girlfriend and what they've done, the trademark they filed?

I have. Tell us about it. This is great. I have to tell you, I've completely flipped on the girlfriend from, like, I don't know what's going on to. I've decided she might be the best, like, business person I know. She has filed for a trademark for the word gold. digger to sell on jewelry the Jordan under Bill Belichick's company's name gold digger jewelry.

Kind of brilliant. I mean, it is. I mean, I know you're shaking your head, but at the same time, if you're going to get called that anyway. Why not embrace it? Like, if you're like, like, she's not going to be able to stop people from calling her that. Let me tell you something, ma'am. you'd be surprised

there are women that will buy it I bet you I know you don't think they will but Drew what do you think there's a world for a gold there's a world there's a world for anything there's a world of people I don't care what it is

there's a world of people who buy I actually think it's smart now it's hilarious to me it's going to be a Bill Belichick's name like that's what's hilarious to me is that he is his lawyer is going to have to go before the trademark board

and argue that Bill Belichick deserves that. But I do think that's funny. Yeah, as lawyers, probably thinking, I thought we're just going to retire and go off into the sunset. Now Jordan's got the keys to the company doing all kinds of stuff. You like it? He had to sign off on it. So, I mean, I think he's embraced.

Like I said, what I just embrace it and go for it, make money off like because you're right. I guarantee there's a big market for women out there that would buy that. I'm shocked that doesn't already exist, Shannon. You know what I mean? I'm kind of surprised. Like if nobody's done it, I'm kind of surprised. nobody has because I feel like Shinnon there is a market for it. Yeah, there definitely is. This is just another example on how she will do literally anything he tells her.

Or she tells him. She tells him. Yeah, I was about to say, I don't think this was Bill Belichick's idea. Yeah, that would be funny if it was. Yeah. If Bill Belichick was the one that came up with it, that would make it even more funny. She's, I don't really call her a villain, but she is leaning into this villain role or whatever it is. Remember, they open, she's embracing it. They open on Monday night football. The only game that night. The only game that is North Carolina with Belichick. You don't think she's going to end up on the screen at some point during that game? Oh, of course she will.

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