KSR - 2025-08-29- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

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The new one, they just reopened it back. See, this is what's exciting, Ryan. Let me never know what's going to happen when you're in downtown. Darius Miller just drove by. Just drove by. Just drove by. If you drive by and you're listening, give us a honk or wave, just some sort of acknowledgement that we're down here.

Ryan is already hot, you can tell. He does not want to be out here in this sun. We also get the slant eye for the people who are walking by have no idea what we're doing while we're out here. Yes, well, that's all right. Who cares? Like, we can talk to them as they walk by. Right here across from Bourbon on ride, this is the kind of excitement you need when you're getting ready to have your first college football game. Yeah, that's a famous Lexington Monument. That's Sculler's clock. It's been here since like the 1930s or something. So people know exactly where we are across. What is it? I mean, I've seen it over the years, but what is it? It's a freestanding

clock. It's been there, I guess, for like 80 years or something like that. What makes it famous? It's been there for like 80 years. Okay, but you said the Scholar's clock, what's the scholar? It's just like a landmark. There used to be like, I think, the Phoenix Hotel used to be right across the street. This was like the hubbub of downtown Lexington. This right here was? Yeah.

Okay. This building right here, I ducked under a pool table because someone fired a gun inside. Whoa. Was that what used to be trust? Yeah, another monument. Okay. That, okay, so since we're telling stories about this building, the history of it, this is where Drew through the Oklahoma City Thunder Party.

was in that building, and it was upstairs up there where I got to watch DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall in action. In the wild? In their natural habitat. James Hardin and all those folks. I met Kevin Durant. Yeah, Kevin Durant, like right up there in the top floor of that building. Not the same night as the gunshots. No, not the same night.

I'll tell you a little more history. That building right there, when it was built, was the tallest building, I think, west of the Allegheny Mountains. This one? Yep. And it was first built. Well, now it's not as tall as the biggest building in America. blue one over here. That's right. I feel like Ryan could do one of those double-decker tour buses downtown.

You can do Lexington Tour. I'm on. Well, I've got a retirement job. Either the greeter at Walmart or the tour bus guy. Yes. And then, of course, they're building this new park right over here. What is it? Phoenix Park. They've been building that since 1971. A lot of people don't know that.

Like I said, that's where the famous Phoenix Hotel used to be. Thus, that's what's called Phoenix Park. Phoenix Park, not Phoenix. Phoenix. That's right. Let's do a couple of news items non-Kentucky. Rick Barnes-Drew given a lifetime deal. I love that because at Indy last year in the Elite 8,

there was a lot of buzz that he could retire when they lost, and now he went from, I'm going to retire in April or March potentially, to I now have a lifetime contract. But you know, I wish him the best with that. It didn't exactly work out here with our lifetime contract. Surprise someone trying to do. How long do we? I mean, how long is the, hey, what's going on?

Not you, sir, the car. So in other words, you're nice to. You signed like a two-year contract then. Well, that's what I'm going to say. How long could it possibly be? I'm not trying to kill him off or anything, but he's not going to. I'm not saying he's going to die. I'm saying how long is that person going to, I mean, how long is he going to be coaching?

Well, apparently they finalized the deal he's on the golf course yesterday, but he quit after the 14th hole because he never plays the final four. We should have left him upstairs. I'll have a good Ryan Day. I actually wrote on our board. at 950 this morning. After we were talking to him before the show, I said, I think this is going to be a good Ryan name.

He just kind of had that vibe. It is odd to give a lifetime contract to someone who's never been to a Final Four. Never been to a Final Four. But nevertheless, he gets it. So he'll be at Tennessee. You know, he owned Cal for a while, but I thought Pope, you know,

I feel like I'm not worried about Rick Barnes. We've been very good at going to Knoxville since he's been there. He's gotten some in Rupp that we didn't want to lose, and the record's pretty even since he's been there. I thought there was some scuttle butt last year. we planned that they was going to maybe retire last year after the season. Yeah, in March. No, I heard from a Tennessee, a person who gives a lot of money to Tennessee,

that they were already preparing trying to find their next coach. And it ends up not being the case. Well, I don't know if I mentioned this, but in Annapolis last year at the Elite 8, I met the press conference, and that's what all the buzz was if I was talking about that. So, who knows? Kyle Swarber, four home runs was last night. He becomes, I don't know, what, the 21st players? Twenty-first player to ever do it.

21st player to do it. Scooter Gannett did it many years ago for the Reds, but Kyle Schwabber, you know, some talk he could be a red at the end of the year from Cincinnati. Yeah. He's talked about it. I think Kyle Swarber, that's kind of a cool thing. You like when history happens like that? I don't know if you saw it.

He came up in the ninth inning, chance to hit five home runs in a game, and they had a shortstop pitching, and the pitch was like 58 miles an hour, and he popped it straight up. He had a chance to hit five in a row. With 58 miles an hour. It was a 58-mile-an-hour little Little League pitch. Has anyone ever done that? I don't think anybody's ever hit five.

Yeah, I don't think so either. I don't think they have, but it's still very cool last night. And then probably the biggest story, Cowboys, you know, you have a connection there. Micah Parsons traded to the Packers. Shannon, are you excited? I am. I think we're going to the Super Bowl. That's what everybody tells me now that we've got them, so let's go.

Remember, Dary and Carnard was traded to Green Bay, and everybody said his Super Bowl streak was going to end, winning rings. Now he might win. You're a Cowboys guy, though, Drew. Sad? The worst part was telling my wife, she really loves the Cowboys and thought Jerry was going to resign him in time for the first game. And to go to the Packers, staying in the NFC,

now they're going to be the main event. We certainly hated it. I couldn't believe Jerry let him go. It felt like to me the Bears were going to finally be able to consistently play with and beat the Packers, and now they end up getting the best linebacker league. Jerry Jones needs to quit, right? Well, the thing is, if they have to have,

had a decent GM. They could turn this into a great rebuild once you get past this little PR hit, but they don't have one of those because they did get some first round picks that they could turn into the future picks the next two years. I wouldn't want Jerry in charge of the rebuilder right now. Yeah, well, it's hard. They've now traded Luca and Michael Parsons. That's right. In the last six months in that city. The city of Dallas had these two young superstars, saw them both leave with months apart. Crazy. That's exactly right. 8-9-28027 here in downtown Lexington. It's been nice seeing the people wave. It's weird when the people walk by the street because they kind of look at us like, uh, what are they doing? Why are you all doing? Hey, hello there right there.

Nice see you, sir. Uh, who's up next year? Tyler. Yeah, go cats. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys, kind of stole my thunder. I called him to talk about Rick Barnes and in that situation. I will say one of my favorite parts of the show is when Ryan tells a joke and before anyone else starts talking, he's the first one to start snickering. He's always the first one to laugh. The good thing about your jokes is you find them funnier than anyone. I was dying laughing inside. I couldn't wait to tell that one.

Ryan is Ryan's best audience. Did you come up with it last night? Well, I've used a joke before, but I haven't used it in the Rick Barnes conversation. So it's multi-fast. You can bring it up a lot. I can bring any time we talk about Tennessee basketball. Anytime it works. Yeah, I'm with you.

Ryan jokes are the worst, but also the best. My one addendum and additional kind of question with the Rick Barnes is like when this happened with Cal like it was because UCLA was coming after him. Was anyone like legitimately? Was anyone coming after Rick Barnes? Like why did Tennessee do this? That's a good question. I would think no one was coming after Rick Barnes.

You know, they didn't really add a lot of money. I think they gave him a little bit more money. It's probably just a symbolic gesture, don't you think? Yeah, there's probably something in there to get him to hang around the Food City Center for the rest of his life and wave and I keep forgetting that's named the Food City Center. They made fun of Kroger Field for years. I'm never going to call it anything but Food City. Yeah, I would like to make fun of the Food City Sitter,

and then we have Kroger Field. Just pay them back for what they said to us. Appreciate the call. I will say one thing about Micah. We had just taped episode one of the NFL podcast. Literally had just finished it. We went team by team, talked about every single team, the NFL, including the Cowboys and the Packers, and then that news breaks.

And so now we have to do at least those parts. Oh, wow. Literally, we'd tape the whole thing, and it came out moments after. I went out of the building when Billy sent us up. That was very, very frustrating, Ryan, I will say. Yeah, all that prep time you guys put into this great show, this opening show, and they've got to redo parts of it. I'm sorry, man.

That's all right. We will get over it. Who's next? Trevor. Trevor, how are you, Trevor? Look at this eye heart crowd out here. Trevor, go ahead. I'm doing well, Matt.

Unless I'm badly mistaken, I think last season, Kentucky football ranged amongst the bottom of the polls when it came to, well, not polls, but when it came to offensive, like, plays per game. But this new offense, do you think we're going to get more plays off and with this, you know, run style that we're going to do with the clock continuing to run a whole lot? Do you think we're going to have more plays, more opportunities out there? That's a good question. Do you think, you know, when Bush Hamden was that, boys,

state the tempo was pretty fast he didn't throw a ton they were still more of a they were people thought of him as will levis in terms of or you know as leum cohen but they ran more but they did go tempo do you think we go tempo at all mark stoop's and tempo i just don't know he hates tempo yeah i mean if they get downhill and they're really bruising somebody i mean they might try to speed it up a little bit but i think we're in for the old school so you think they're slow i want my defense to rest as long as they and that kind of ball. So the thought of potentially lowest plays per game, that could certainly happen again, you think?

Might be in the conversation. One thing I like this year, though, they'll run Calzada a lot more than we've seen with past running quarterbacks because they trust their second string. We've had quarterbacks like Levis, who had legs, but in his second year, it's like, all right, we're not running you because if you get hurt, this season's over.

This year, I think they're going to use Calzada's legs a lot, Because if he gets dinged up, gets a stinger, whatever. Cutter, get in here. You know, it's nice seeing all these horns. Makes you, like, feel like people are listening to the radio. Yeah, you know, we usually were in a studio by ourselves. Like, we were upstairs coming down here and you realize, man, there's people actually listening to us. I thought there would be more people like walking up and down the street, though.

Isn't it? Am I wrong? I feel like, hey, I feel like we, you normally have, there's this more foot traffic through here. What's happening? I don't know. Maybe everybody's left for Labor Day weekend. That, maybe getting lunch right now. Yeah.

Well. Maybe the lunch crowd is probably going to start pouring out here any minute. I was just going to sit here and talk to people and everyone has disappeared. But hopefully, well, we still got 45 minutes. Well, 859-280-2287. Couple open lines, give us a shout. You mentioned Nick Kowalzada. What do we think is going to happen with him tomorrow?

Well, I love these quote that he had this week where he said like, I know I have to be Clark Kemp, and every now that I need to know when I need to be Superman. So I think, you know, he's got that experience. He's played in the SEC. He knows what he needs to pull the truck. and when not to pull the trigger. He talked like he's really comfortable now, Bush Handum's system already. So if he's good, this football team could be really good this year.

I think so, too. He needs to do a little bit of game managing with the way they're going to play, you know, short passes, hopefully use the tight ends. As I just said, he's going to run a little bit. I don't know if we're going to have this big world-beater year where we're like, wow, Calzada, you know, we're going to remember this forever. But I think he's good enough where if their offensive lines good and isn't just a disaster like a year ago, that that offense is going to

prize people. Let's take our last three quarterbacks. Levis, Leary, Vandigriff. When the Calzada era ends, where's he going to be on that ranking? We're doing Levis. First year. We was really good or second year when he was hurt? You can separate him. Let's take our last four quarterbacks. Levis one, Levis one, Levis two, Leary, Van degriff. How are you going to do? Hey, hey. Levis is a clear one. Yeah, Levis. Healthy Levis is number one. Levis one. I almost put hurt. Levist number two. I think I do too. And then I'll put Calzada and then Leary and then Vandergriff.

So I think it's clear Van derriff's last. Yeah. It's clear Levis one is first. I think Levis two is probably second. So the question is, do you think you'll be better or worse than Devin Lear? Isn't that ultimately the question? Yeah. Because Devin Leary, while he was not great, in hindsight,

wasn't as bad as we thought. I mean, he made the Ravens last year. I mean, it's still on their practice squad. I mean, the NFL has a place for him. So you think better than Devin Lear? Yeah. For some reason, the only memory I have of Devin Leary right now is all of his pass is getting batted down. I'm trying to think of a good Devin Leary memory, and it's not coming to me.

I mean, I know the wins and the losses, but I think Calzada will be ahead. It's a good Devin Leary memory. Yeah, I mean, it feels like we won some games, though. I remember the games. I'm just trying to think of a specific moment where he will remember one either, but it feels like we should have one, right? Well, he threw the touchdown pass today against Ole Miss that got nullified when Barry on was called offside. That was Devin'Lary. That would have been a good one.

We need Calzada to be a little better. Have we played Ole Miss like four straight years? Played them down there two years in a row. But we played them Levis's year. That was the year when they reset the schedule. You're wrong about that. It wasn't Leary. It was Levis' second year was when they knocked that down.

They knocked it down? Because Dane was a freshman, right? Yeah. I think that is right. Yeah. How do I know your son's games better than you do? But I am right about that. So we've played Ole Miss three of the last four years.

Yeah, after going like, I think we went 13 years without going to Oxford. They did it so it's a lot. Hey, just in time for Labor Day. There are now more places for you to pick up bottles of Red State barbecue sauce. This is the Kentucky Proud section of Liquor Barn and Kroger, the local sections of Publix and Lexington and Louisville, and now Myers across the state. Critchfield on Southland, Kentucky Horse Park, Jungle Jims, and Cincinnati.

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Thanks to everybody driving by Honkin. Makes us feel special and love. That guy just asked, do you have anybody famous coming out here? I was very offended. That wasn't very nice. We do have Brandon our sales guy here. But, I mean, like, we're right here. Like, why are you going to say that to us?

We can be moderately. Yeah, let us know if you found somebody. And then I said, like who? And he goes, Mark Stoops. No, he's not. You said Mark Stubbs was on Bobby Bones this morning. Yeah, I haven't heard anything of it. Just saw it on social media.

That's kind of a surprise. Yes. You go from pretty quiet off season to Bobby Bones. Do what? No, it's television. 859-280-2287. How's he go look and say, is this radio? 772-7-4-5-254.

One person writes, Matt, Chip-Train him. Would you bet on him scoring a touchdown against Tiles? know it's plus 175. I can't bet on the other team, but I think that's a pretty good bet if you're going to do it. Yeah, I spot on all their press conferences and what their reporters are writing and all that. And he had a great fall camp, and they're excited about him. What should note, UK, Nebraska playing volleyball on Sunday on ABC, a network television regular season volleyball game.

Only the fourth time that's happened in the history of women's volleyball, they will be playing in its UK and Nebraska. a great opportunity for the UK program, who, as we've talked about, did you really throw the L at me? Who do you think you are? And you're wearing a blue hat, too. I'm going to tell your employer. Nevertheless, UK Nebraska, it is a great chance for Craig Skinner and his group.

Huge chance for this great exposure. Sunday afternoon at noon and playing Nebraska, the number one team in the country. And, you know, Kentucky coming off a national championship a couple years ago, this is a huge opportunity to kind of get some exposure for Craig Skinner's program. And they are one, I mean, Nebraska's number one or two this year. We're in the top five. Also should be a great game.

They play somebody else Saturday, Lipscomb, which should be a victory, but then they'll get the opportunity on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, Sundays are about to be the NFL's, but right now there's one left that somebody can have. And it's volleyball. Volleyball. After all day football on Saturday, so hopefully they have a big win there. People who know volleyball, tell me, we have a final four contender,

and that none of the teams are quite as powerful as they usually are, and that Kentucky's got a shot to, if not be a favorite to win the second one, win a second title to do very well. You know, we don't talk about the volleyball program near as much we probably should, but they have just been dominant. They've won the SEC. What is it, Drew, like nine or ten years in a row to win the SEC? They've just got a powerhouse program over there.

We don't mention as much as we should. I want to ask you a question, Drew. Are you one of these people who looks at real estate online all the time? Oh, yeah. Here's the reason I'm asking you. I have female friends in my life, all of whom send me houses when they look at it. And what I find fascinating is every time a new house comes on the market, they all send it within like 20 minutes. Do people get alerts?

Yeah. How do they find out about it? You probably get alerts. I'm not that committed, but I have the Zillow app. Yes. I keep up with things. I'm not getting immediate updates. But yeah, I think part of it is also, even if you're not shopping, you just look around, like, see the big houses in Lexington or whatever, kind of snoop around.

The listings. Right, that's obviously your job. Do you feel that as well? Yeah, you can set up those alerts on Zillow or any of these third-party sites. What are the rules about like going, if I want to look, like, let's say that I see a house. Yeah. And it's for sale. Yeah.

Okay. You can't just walk up and knock on the door, right? But can you, are you allowed to creep around? No. No. It is still private property. You have to set up an appointment with your realtor. A lot of houses have a private code

You can't even get to the key to unlock the door Unless you have a private code So this is a process Do you know how I can get in touch with my realtor? You just kind of, you know Just reach out and touch him sometimes It's Friday, man It's Friday and it's payday

God bless payday That you're that excited about being paid out? Yes, I was down like $1.43 in my checking account last night Really? I had $1.43 in my checking account I did not have $1.43. I did. A dollar $0.43. Time to cash out that equity.

It's been calling you. Yes. Ring, ring, ring. Yeah, speaking of a house that maybe you should go on the market, I think I know one out in Master's sensation that might be a little big for the current occupier of it. I think maybe once you just move in with me, we could be roomies. You got to stop with the movie. How's it going?

I keep getting asked. Well, you know, my football watching buddy is not there at the house anymore. Josiah and I would have been watching Dane last night. So yoga girl came over and watched the entire game with me last night. She didn't leave to like 1 o'clock in the morning, and she did go to her own home. All right. Do you need anybody to swim with you? I'll check on the pool if you ever need help with the pool.

Yes. Loneliness better? No. I hate it. I mean, I really hate it. It's not fun. I need some companionship. So why don't you come and be my roommate for a while?

All right. We need you to work through this. Like I mean that. We need you to work through it. We can't have you. I'm not there yet. I'm definitely not there yet. What if we all moved in with Ryan for 72 hours and did a reality show?

I'm out. I mean, the bar is still Beach House is killing it right now. We'll do the Ryan Lemon Masters of Stations. I'm out on that. One person writes, Matt, do we score a defensive touchdown in the first three home games? I'll say yes. If that includes the Eastern Michigan game. Yeah, I'll say why not.

And I'll even say that it's Ty Bryant doing it. Yes. You know, our secondary, those four guys are all experienced guys. Yeah, that's where usually we're worried about our secondary. This year, that's our strength, I think, is our secondary. One person writes, Matt, you guys have been so negative about the football season for months, yet now you question why the fan base is negative. How can you do that?

Kentucky last year, the problems were the players. If you all had been positive all offseason, that 11% number would have been much higher. It is your all's fault this fan base feels like it does. Wow. I feel like I'm having the basketball situation. two years ago in reverse. Those are the same comments people said two years ago. At some point, we are not the arbiters of fan.

We reflect. We do not lead in terms of fan sentiment. And I don't know what people want. I mean, again, I just use today as an example. I mean, we are trying, we want people to call in about football. But every comment I get is either people going, yeah, I don't know about. about the game tomorrow or about the couch car. Like, that's just how it is.

Now, that may change tomorrow, but that is the University of Kentucky's fault. It just is. People don't need us to be disappointed in Kentucky football. If you've been following it, you're disappointed. I want Kentucky to be good. I want Kentucky to be exciting. I want Kentucky to be fun.

Nothing would be better with us reopening our restaurant, but they're going to have to go out tomorrow and play well for people to do that. If they do that, this fan base will. be back on it. But if they don't, you think that 11% number's negative. Wait till the next week. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call 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 here in downtown Lexington, waving at all the folks that are

driving by and giving us honks. 8.59-2802287. Folks are riding in. Lots of message on the text machine, not many about football. One person writes, Matt, do you think that Ryan has the nicest house to also have a dollar 37 in his checking account? That's got to be, I would say yes is the answer to that question. Definitely.

That's true. That's why I needed payday to come today. Well, it came, though, right? Yeah, I still got bills I got to pay, you know, insurance. Insurance. Well, that's exactly. Oh, I didn't want to smit you something. get. Okay.

Last night, Thursday's child gave our own Freddie Maggard a really nice award last night. Yeah, so talk about that for a minute because people ask me a lot how Freddy's doing. Why don't you speak to that? I get asked that quite a bit. Freddy's doing really well. You know, he'll be honest until he's got good weeks. He's got bad weeks. He has trouble walking right now, but he's got to visit with him last night.

Great to catch up. And Thursday Child gave him like an achievement, lifetime achievement honor last night. Of course, you know, he's adopted parent. He served his country. He's on the board of Thursday's Child So it was really kind of nice I'm really glad I didn't know what was coming So I'm glad I was there to kind of witness it

And you got to talk to him for a long time He wanted to tell you guys hello He's going to miss during the pregame show He's going to miss that's kind of one thing He really enjoyed doing with all of us He's going to miss that I'm going to miss that with him as well Yeah speaking of the pregame show

It is tomorrow 830 to 1030 The restaurant opens at 9 o'clock So we are serving breakfast We never had our breakfast It's always very, very good. If you want to get there, people ask, well, what time should you get there? I would say get there a little bit before so you can ensure that you get a table. But we'll often, you know, people come and go.

You'll be able, even if you get there a little later. And then we do have the bus going from the KS Bar lot to the game. You do, however, have to patronize one of the businesses if you use the lot. They do enforce that. But it's only a dollar, Drew, to take a bus from the lot to the game. And honestly, with traffic, that's not a bad way to go. Heck yeah, sometimes that bus can be a little fun, a little pregame. I've gotten some catch chance going on that before.

Obviously, you're just full of other Kentucky fans heading that way, so that can be its own little excitement on the way over. Big games tomorrow night. First of all, we mentioned Ohio State, Texas. You like Ohio State. Drew, who you got? Well, now I'm watching the big two-lane game, to be honest with my minus four. I just loaded up on that during the break.

So what about Ohio State, Texas? Oh, and Ohio State. What did you go with, Ryan? You said Texas. Ohio State. Ohio State at home. I was actually going to take Texas in the upset there. I don't want to go against our parlay, so I'll go with Ohio State.

It's going to be interesting. I mean, I can't remember a more hyped opening week game ever. I mean, in terms of people being excited about it, you get Arch Manning on the road, Lee Corso's last game. The game starts at noon, so it starts right after all these games go. I'm going to take Ohio State for the reason you did. I just feel like they're not going to lose that game at home. But they do have a brand new quarterback who I don't think has started one game for them,

and that's his first one. Shannon, who you got? Give me Texas. I was going to pick Texas until Ryan picked Ohio State. Well, you can take them. That's okay. Alabama goes on the road to Florida State playing a road game, true road game in Tallahassee. Alabama's still a nine-point favorite.

Who you got? Yeah, I'm still taking Alabama right there. I mean, Florida State's kind of been kind of a mess last year or so. So I'm going Alabama. Florida State will be improved, but Alabama's winning this one. Shannon? Yeah, I believed in Florida State. state too much last year.

Lost a lot of money on draft king. They just, you did that all the time. You were big on Florida State. I was and I screwed up. So I'm going Alabama just out of spite for no other reason. I'm going to take Alabama. But remember, they've been the last couple of years had a game like this early in the they almost lost to South Florida a couple years ago.

Remember who won last night? So, but I will take Alabama. LSU and Clemson play at night. That's a big game. If it wasn't for Ohio State, Texas, that's the biggest game. LHU, that's the mayor. Did you just see that? Linda Gordon?

That was Linda Gordon right there. Come on back. She literally just drove by. She drives a minivan. Hi, go cats. I think that was her. She didn't honk. Which means she's not even listening to us.

Yeah. Linda. She was just on the show a month ago. Not even honking. All right, LSU. You know, two teams that probably have playoff aspirations, but a loss kind of puts one of them behind the eight ball right to start the season. So it's a huge game for LSU if they can get this one on the road, but I'm going Clemson.

Oh, you're picking against my parlay leg? You're picking against our parlay and Clems. Never believe in Davo, but go ahead. I really don't like LSU in this Kelly era. Even that documentary, maybe hate them more. I'm taking them here at Clemson. I don't like either of these, and I think LSU is the better team. Shannon, I assume you have LSU.

Yeah, yeah, give me LSU. Sunday night, Sunday night football, Notre Dame and Miami, Catholics versus convicts. They're reuniting, Drew. I've got to go with the Irish here. Yeah, Notre Dame, man. After they lost Northern Illinois last year, they were awesome. So I'm going to carry that into this year. I'm taking Miami.

They're at home. I think Notre Dame is going to be cold and not used to the heat there. That didn't make a sense. But I'm taking Miami at home to find Carson Beck earns his NIL money and gets this win in the first game. Who you got? Give me Miami with the upset. I like them over Notre Dame. They need to find a conference to play in.

And then on Monday, North Carolina, Bill Belichick opens his post-Jordan-Hudson career. against TCU at home. Who you got? I'm going to go North Carolina. I think they probably have a great year just because of all the circuits that's been going on over there. The North Carolina experiment

is going to be a disaster. It's a disaster. Oh, she's going to be a distraction. It's going to just implode and it all starts on Sunday. She'll be. Shannon. Yeah, I kind of hope TCU wins

just for all the fans to go off on Bill Belichick and Jordan. See, I want it to work. Why are you all hating on love. I want it to work. I want it to work. I mean, nice. Why you've got to hate on love? I mean, this is a... He finds love in his life.

Wouldn't you want him to have success? And don't we need more Jordan Hudson with her gold digger clothing and accessories? I think you're reading my prediction wrong. I want them to stay together. I want the football team to suck. I want their love to be so big that he can't coach football anymore. The football can't stand the love. I want us to learn that he had a weak spot and this great coach. is actually going to be terrible.

Shannon, I'm pulling for North Carolina. Those two kids going up against society. Those two kids, that's what we need in this world. Two kids in love taking on the world. Go North Carolina. I'm going to add, though, to my prediction that they have a baby do by the end of the season. Oh, my goodness.

Oh, you think there's going to be a little belich. Add a prop bet to my under prediction on their wins. So you're part on infants under on wins. It's my official North Carolina prediction. Over on infants, under on wins. Wow, strong prediction there. Didn't see that would come. And finally, Auburn and Baylor, they play tonight.

Yeah, tonight. Can Auburn the Hugh Freeze get that? You talk about a seat that will be hot. If Hugh Freeze loses tonight against Baylor, which they could, it will be very hot. Who you got? I'm taking Baylor. I have no confidence in Auburn whatsoever this year. I'm going to pick the SEC.

I got Auburn. It's a close spread, though. It's like one-and-a-half, two points. It's a tight one. but I'm going to Auburn. Shannon? When in doubt, go with the SEC. I'm taking Auburn as well.

I am too, but just if we want people to not say that we're the most pessimistic, have Auburn win. Yeah. Because if Auburn loses this game, their fan base will lose their collective minds. And it may happen tonight. I like when that guy just looked stared at me. He stared into my soul the whole way he was walking. He gave me a little head nod.

He just looked right in my eyes. Who's next? Old Treve. Old Treve. How are you? Hey, I'm doing good. First time long time. Who are?

Hey, man. So I know that you're rooting for the catch and you want to see him win six games, but you are the only one to pick five games. Correct. I'm thinking there probably should be some accountability if we do win six games. And I would like to see you host a one-hour segment with Bob from Jamestown if you are wrong. Oh, no. I wouldn't do that to the listeners.

It's not even so much me as it would be the listeners. I couldn't do that. But I'll take account of Bill. I want us to win six. If somebody comes up with something, if they win six, I'm glad to do it because I want them to win terribly. And I think five is still optimistic because it's still the over in terms of wins. But I'll take whatever punishment you want.

I appreciate the call. If they win six, we'll make you do something when we're partying at the Duke Mayo Bowl. Oh, I would like, listen, the Duke's Mayo Bowl would be a huge success for us this year. If we were able to go something like that, I think it would completely change the fortunes of the program. You win six. I think that number from 11% optimistic gets closer to 40 or 50. You get an offseason of recruiting where I think they'll be able to, I think they're going to have money to do it.

And I think it would work out. I'm telling you, if this team can get to six, get to a ball game, it'll be one of Stoop's best coaching jobs. I know it's just six wins, but if he's able to pull it off with what he's got with 55 new faces, it'll go down as one of his best jobs. Wow, this Kentucky Skin Cancer Center talking some trash in their new ad. You want me to read it? Oh, my goodness. I recently heard about a company that has grown, G-R-O-A-N.

Oh, my. Wow, I wonder who he's talking about. How about the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center? Spicy. Wow. You know, you open a new place in Glasgow, and you start to get a little spanker. Don't you, Mario? That's right.

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appointment. You're not just a patient, your family, at the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. We've been a little, you know, I don't want to say negative on this show, just not overly optimistic. If you are optimistic about tomorrow, if you can get us pumped up, if you can make it exciting, if you can make me think we're going to beat Toledo, 859-280-2287, give us a shout. We'll take a break, come back. Final segment. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies,

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This is Clever Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Clivert Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff, like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this kid. This linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her.

What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue of 42. Hey, rep, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Ms. Park. Listen to the Cliverts show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcasts presents soccer moms.

So I'm Leanne. This is my best friend Janet. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey.

with all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white collar or something here? Just a second. Oh, what are y'all doing?

Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you put? I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious.

Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky. I'm not an alcoholic. You are. You are. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really.

trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That's right. As we were standing here, guess who just walked by Shannon? Leading with Eidlin. That's right. Let's just hear a little chorus.

Yeah. Lead in with Eelon means more jobs for us. Lead in. There it is. You're ready? You're ready. Okay, here we go. Lead in with Edeland, Vin Moscow.

Boom, boom, boom. He won't join me. Anyway, he just walked by. Adam Edelan, former governor, gubernatorial candidate, auditor, just walked by. Best campaign jingle ever. Didn't win him election, but he won our hearts. And even more exciting, Shannon, the couch car just drove by. Oh, really?

The rude drivers of Lexington would not let him get over. So he is circling the block right now. You got to hit the ride and jump on that thing. But a couple things about the couch car. Very aggressive in traffic. Yeah, he was. He merged right into traffic. He had no problem merging in.

He stuck his nose in like it was the Bristol Motor Speedway, and he was Earnhardt and that was Terry Labani. He got his nose in. There's three lanes here. He's in the far wind, and he almost made it all the way across. He was trying. How about the UK flag? That was exciting.

so he's circling the box. Shannon, we may just run and get in the car with him. I don't know if he'll let us get on the couch, but we will see. That'll be the perfect way to end the show, just right off into the sunset on the couch. Right off into the sunset. We'll see what happens. I've not seen it since he put the big Kentucky flag on the back. He's got big cute.

There's two of them. So hopefully he gets back around here so that we can get on before this ends. Who's up next? Noah. Noah, go ahead. Make me excited. Wait a minute, that was weird. Hey, Matt, I just, I personally want to really thank you for you guys from the interaction

from yesterday, even though I came in on Wednesday thinking I was only going to pay three bucks, but $30, that was absolutely worth it for how you guys, like, seriously. I just, I really want to appreciate just overall on the fact how you guys being like, I think what you said, the number one rated, like local sports radio in the entire nation, and you guys do everything you can to be able to reach out to be interactive with the fans and be around people and you just don't get like high big businesses like that

where people like that so I really appreciate what you guys do with that a lot Hey no I think we may have lost connection with the guys out there but I thought I heard him coming back on really appreciate you coming by the bar man glad you like the wings

sorry we didn't give you as good as deal as what you were expecting but I still think though dollar wings dollar per wing is a good deal but we appreciate you stopping by there Oh, it is. Yeah, it just, you guys' interactions in every way is really awesome. Like, I just, it was every bit worth it for the money that I did pay. All right, no, appreciate it.

Thanks for the call. 859-280, 2287. I don't know if they're going to come back to the studio or what the plan is. It's just me right now until we get reconnected with the guys out on the street. Let's go back to the phones and talk to Jordan. Hey, Jordan, what's up? Hey, yeah, just calling with some optimism for football. I think we tried the high ceiling guy.

that didn't make it, but now we've got proven college guys. And, I mean, I know Toledo is good in the Mac, but All-Mack right tackle is our right tackle. All-Mack linebacker is our linebacker. So it comes down to Jimmy Jinjose, and we're just going to line up and run it down their throats. So looking forward to it, and then Kiffinor.

I'm with you on that. Like I said earlier, I don't know why there's so much hype about Toledo in the offseason. I feel like that's all I've heard about. Like we can't measure up against Toledo. And, you know, if we play the game tomorrow and they lose. Forget that I said all of this because we got bigger problems on our hands if we can't beat Toledo. But again,

you're talking about a completely different team that you had last year. You're talking about over 50 new players that Kentucky brought in. So to compare last year's team to this year's team, I don't know where all the pessimism comes in. You know, there's a lot of unknown when you're bringing that many players.

But I would argue when you're bringing in an entire new team, there's just as much reason to be optimistic as there is pessimistic. about the team. Does that make sense? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think it kind of reminds me of the early Stoops team. It's like 17, Stephen Johnson,

not the greatest guy, but he's not going to lose your games, and Benny Snell is going to run it down your third, and I think we're going to do that. I think Kiffin's going to hang about 70 on an FCS school this week, and then Stoops is going to line up and run it down the third next week, and we'll win again. Yeah, I mean, I think the argument

for getting to six wins, which is now what Ryan and Drew has picked. They finally come on board with me. By the way, I've been ringing the six and six bells since the offseason since last December. But the way that I think they get there is you win the games you're supposed to. And then there's a couple of games that I think are swing games that you can still get. South Carolina on the road is going to be tough this year. But that's a team that you used to dominate if you're Kentucky.

They won seven out of eight at one point during a stretch with Mark Stoops. I think they can do it again. You take care of Vandy, which again, Vandy's tougher than they have been in years past. but that's a game that's very winnable. And then you go on the road and maybe knock off your biggest rival. You knock off Louisville at the end, and I think that's how you can get to six. Yeah, I think there's definitely a path of six and six. I mean, Georgia and Texas look, you know, not beatable,

but other than that, I think you look at each game in a vacuum, we could win any of them. So I'm not conceding South Carolina. It's definitely not conceding Tennessee or Florida at home. So those are all winnable, I think. So I'm looking forward to it. All right, Jordan. Thank you for the call. We got Matt on the phone now.

All right, so I'm down here. Drew has jumped onto the couch car. Is Ryan back in studio yet? I'm not sure if he is or not. Let's see. Ryan, are you there? Yes, I'm here. I'm here.

I'm here. Let's do quickly. Let's do our picks here. We've got Katz and Toledo, Kentucky is at this moment a 10-point favorite. Ryan, give me the store. I think it's going to be a low-scoring score, and I think it's going to be that way all seasons. So I'm going to say Kentucky 24. to 10. 2410 is my final score I'm going with tomorrow.

Shannon. Give me the Cats, 3117. Yeah, so I feel like Kentucky has basically had an offseason where very few things have gone right. They've made the decision to not promote this game heavily, but I still think tomorrow they come out and surprise people play better than our fans expect and end up winning a game. It's probably close for a little bit in the first half.

Yeah, that's not too. second half the cats find their speed and they go 31 13 Kentucky wins against Toledo. We are going to have tomorrow our pregame show starts at 830 live from KS Bar. We will have the restaurant. We'll open at 9. We will lead you up into the game. I'll be with you after the game. Kentucky SportsCat, Kentucky and Toledo tomorrow, Shannon, looking forward to it.

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We've got 20 seconds. I never thought that this show would end with the four of us in four completely different places. Drew Franklin is right now on the couch car, right, studio. I'm out on the street. And you're in Louisville. But tomorrow we will all be at the restaurant to celebrate. Kentucky and Toledo football is finally here. This is been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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