KSR - 2025-09-17- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. All right, welcome everybody. This Wednesday edition, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, grandpals and grandmas, aunts and uncles, it is Wednesday, September 17th. It's a big day in my world. We'll get to that in just a minute.

But as always, Kentucky Sports Radio sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called T.J. Shannon, what's he do? He'll make them pay. He absolutely will make them play. No, no, no, no, make them pay, not play. They can play. They can play. Yes.

And then they could pay. Yeah. The Clark's Pump Shop phone number is open. 859-2802-287. And the A-Vision Glass Tech Machine, Shannon, do you still know it? All right, let me try here. You put me on the spot. Yeah.

I'm feeling a little nervous trying to remember this. 5-0-2-7. Yes. 35. Yes. 36. Yes. 80.

There you go. It's like I unlocked my high school locker. There you go. number right there. We are live at KS Bar and Grill where it is Wings Day. And for our friend Noah, that means each wing is a dollar. Not all your wings are a dollar. Dollar wings, Noah.

So you got to come in, you buy ten wings. How much? $10, Noah. Make sure you get that straight. So Ryan Lemon is sharing the dude here. We've got our week of a couple, well, three weeks of Matt being gone. So we're bringing in some special guests. Today we are honored a veteran of the Leach Report, a veteran at WKYT Sports,

Mr. Lee K. Howard in the house. What up, Lee Kay. Hey, it's good to be here. In fact, I haven't been back over to KS Bar since you guys redid it in here. It looks awesome. Thank you. Looks great. You do all the decorating in here?

Drew and I did. Drew and I did the little remodels work. You know, the pictures, kind of put up some different things and stuff. It's got some New Jersey. So, Shannon, you may remember this. Lee Kay is no stranger to KSR either. He famously was co-hosting KSR one morning with Dave Buzz Baker. Mm-hmm.

Buzz was going to be the lead. Lee K was the co-host. Dave Buzz Baker did not show up on time. Right. That's when, and Shannon yelled at me. I remember this. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wow. Oh, yeah.

That doesn't sound like me. No, no, no. So this was like, this was like a decade plus ago. This is before KSR got so big that, like, Jay Billis and Howard Stern were doing the summer shows. And they were asking just anybody to do the summer shows, Matt was. and he had asked Buzz Baker to anchor a summer show or host a summer show. And the night before, Buzz text me and he said, hey, I'm hosting KSR tomorrow. Can you jump in with me?

And I was like, sure, why not? So I drive over to the Nicholasville IHeart Studios. The old building. The old building. And I'm there at like 940 because I want to be prepared, right? And 950 comes along, no buzz. I'm sitting there. 955 comes along.

And if you know Buzz, Ryan, you know, he's notoriously late to everything. Always come in at the last minute. Last minute. But he usually makes it. Yeah, he'll be putting his microphone on in the studio at WKYT like seconds before he talks. So I'm not too worried, but then it gets to like almost 10 o'clock. And I'm thinking, is Buzz going to be here?

So I start texting him. Hey, man, are you coming? And he texts me back. Yeah, I'm in the parking lot. Be right in. I'm like, okay, sounds good. We're good. It gets to like a minute or two after 10 o'clock.

Finally, here comes Buzz walking into the studios. He's carrying a stack of papers. He sets him down on the table and goes, got to go to the restroom. I'll be right back. And I'm like, okay, wait, what? So because 10 hours ago, I didn't even know it was going to be on the show. I hadn't prepared. It was a summer show, so there's not an obvious topic. We hadn't talked one second about what we were going to discuss. So he leaves the room. Well, I have my headset sitting on the table in front of me. So I can still kind of hear it. And all of a sudden, I start hearing werewolves of London.

And it's like three times into it. And I did one of the dumbest, things I've ever done in my broadcasting career, media career. I pick up my headset and I spoke to the microphone and I go, Shannon, Shannon, are we on? I don't know. Was Shannon just practicing? I don't know. And Shannon goes, you could be more irritated. Shannon goes, yeah, we're on.

It's KSR. We're live. We're live. You're on. Come on. Don't you know what you're doing? Yeah. And I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I don't know.

The phone number. I don't know a sponsor. And so I just babble probably for like 10 seconds. It feels like 10 minutes. And then finally, here comes Buzz. Walk it into the studio. He could not be bothered. He was not in a hurry.

Just walks over and picks up his thing. He goes, all right, where are we at? You know, so anyway, that was, I'm surprised you guys had me back after that performance. Well, it has been 10 years or so. So we had to, you know, put you on the suspension list, I guess, for 10 years. It wasn't your fault, though. It wasn't, but it felt like my fault. It was bad.

So I got here early today, but I got here early today, I will tell you, Ryan, if you weren't in this building when I walked in, I was going to just hang out the parking lot because I did not need Shannon yelling at me again for starting the show terribly. I have no memory of that whatsoever, but I would assume that's the last time you ever agreed to do a show with Buzz after that day. Yes, yes, yes. Now I wait until he gets there and I show up after him. You did a show one time with Cameron Mills, you said, at KSR with Cameron Mills way back in the day also. Yeah, hosted with Cameron. That was, I think that day we talked the entire show about how college athletes.

shouldn't be paid. Wow. So that is not ageable. And in fact, the world has changed. Yeah. And in fact, I've changed my opinions greatly on that subject. But yeah, it's, it's been a while. But it's good to be back. Good to be back. Good to have you back. Lee Kay Howard from WKYT. Those in the Lexington area, no. You've been at KYT now how many years? 14. Oh my goodness. Have you really? Yeah. Wow. You started at KYT about the time I started KSR, I guess, about the same time. Yeah. In fact, I remember moving to Lexington and you guys were just getting kind of big. You had been around, but like KSR was really becoming a thing.

And it's crazy to see like the trajectory of this show and how it's not only statewide, but almost like nationally known in a lot of ways. So yeah, it's been a while. So we got Lee K here and we're going to have like an Ask Anything Wednesday. We'll open up the phone line, take a lot of calls today. 859-2802-287. That's the Clark Pubbershop phone number. If you want to call and get aboard, I do have the aviation glass text machine,

although my screen's sideways. I can't get my screen back the way I like it. Lee Kay, you may have to help me with the... There's a lock screen function on that. Yeah, but... Oh, wait a minute, I had it upside down. Oh, there you go. There you go.

See, now I went the right way. I'm old. All right, I said today is September 17th. It is yoga girls' birthday. Ooh, that's big. You got big plans, right? Oh, of course, you know where I'm taking her to dinner tonight. There's only one place to go for special birthday dinners, right?

Especially if she lives in Georgetown. Rodney's on Broadway in Georgetown gets a visit tonight. And we all know that you, over the years, have gotten free mills at Rodney's. Will you be getting a free birthday dinner tonight for her? I hope not. But you need to pay. Like, you should pay for a birthday dinner. It makes you look bad if you get a free birthday dinner for her.

I agree. If I get it free, and I feel like I still owe or one. I still got to go out and take her somewhere. So, yeah, feel free to, like, send her a couple messages. I tweeted some very beautiful and attractive photos of her already this morning, so I'm sure she's really going to appreciate that. I got to look this up. Yeah.

So you take her to Rodney's for a free steak, and then you take her to KS bar afterwards, right? That's true, yeah. I get my owner's discount here. at KS Bar and Grill. Okay, this is what I want to start to show with. Yesterday we had the field of 68 guys in here. Yep. Jeff Goodman, Rob Doster, Jack Pilgrim helped me co-host.

They were great. But we only had them for like 30 minutes because they had to leave, go to UK practice. We had to do their own UK interviews, do their own podcast, and watch UK practice. After UK's practice, the plan was they were going to come out of the Craft Center, meet Jack Pilgrim and Stephen Peek, and do sources of say podcasts. for them. Before the podcast started, they were going to call an Uber. So while the Uber was en route to pick them up at the craft center,

they were going to stand out there with Jack and Stephen and report on what they saw practice for the podcast. Plan was perfect. Practice went a little long. Jack Pilgrim said he got a text from Rob Dostor said, hey man, practice going long. We're not going to have time. We have to get to the airport. Our flights at like 7 o'clock and right now was already like 5.30, something like that.

So Jack called an audible, decides, I'll take him to the airport. This is where the story gets beautiful, Shannon. They put Rob Doster and Jeff Goodman in the back seat. Stephen Peake was in the passenger seat with his camera and microphone. Jack was driving, and they did the podcast in the car while driving the two guys to the airport. I mean, if that is so KSR right there, it's the best, Lee Kay, it's the best, Porter interview since Cutler chased down Billy Gillespie over at the Memorial Coliseum. Yeah, that one's going to be hard to top.

But I do, you know, first of all, Jack does an awesome job. They do a great job with that, Sources City podcast. And I watched the entire thing last night. I did too. And I'll be honest, had they just been standing outside of the craft center? I don't know that I would have watched the whole thing. Good point. And first of all, it wouldn't have gone that long.

So they almost found a way to have a captive interview, a captive audience. It's not like they were going to just quit asking. They were in the back seat of the car. You literally had a destination to get to and into the interview. So, no, I thought it was awesome. And my only concern, Shannon, was, I don't know if you saw trying to put Doster and Goodman's luggage in the back of that car. I don't know this car it was. Yeah.

It almost didn't fit. Well, there's an outtake that Jack sent me as they first pulled away from the craft center. Jack almost hit somebody. He almost killed him. Pulled right in front of somebody it looked like. Well, that would have been a completely different podcast. It would have been. I'm getting arrested.

I encourage everybody to go listen to this. It's on YouTube. You can watch it and listen to it for two reasons. One is just the hilariousness of it happening in the backseat of this of Jack's car while Jack's driving. Jack's asking the questions while he's driving. But the second reason is there's a lot of really good info in there about this basketball team. I guess the big newsy thing was Otega Owe has suffered the Joe Burrow injury and has turf toe. That's why he's been walking around in a boot and apparently he's going to have another couple weeks in the boot.

And what did the Bengals lose Joe Burrow, and now the catch lose Otega for a short time, with Turf Toe? Listen, I didn't know Turf Toe was such a big deal. Obviously, my athletic career didn't span past high school, but, like, that seems to be a big deal. Although the good thing is it seems like Otega's is not near as, you know, bad, I guess, is Joe Burroughs. It's going to keep him out for a couple of months.

But, no, that was great. And you can tell that Goodman and Doster have a great relationship with Pope. Absolutely. And so they're able to, one, get into a practice. none of the rest of us local media can and get all this information. And I thought it was very informative, though. Tega thing was informative, kind of like some of their insights on, you know, which player was doing what and who seems to be kind of ahead of the others.

I thought if you get a chance, I mean, a lot of that stuff was really good. It was. They were also really high on Jalen Lowe, which was good. So we're going to break down about just about everything they said here. The next segment kind of go bit by bit because, like I said, it's really good information they got from having to watch practice, talk to the guys. guys, talk to Pope, and kind of get a feel of what this basketball team is all about. So we'll take our break.

We'll take your calls all day long. Ask anything Wednesday. 859-2-80-2-287. That's a Clark's Publisho Shop phone number. A-Vision Glass Tech Machine is 5027. See, 5 plus 0 plus 2 equals 7, 35, 36, 80. So I'm going to ask you later. 5-02-7, 35, 36-80.

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Listen to Hurtle with Emily Abadi on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. All right, welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan, Shannon the dude, and Lee K. Howard. Before we go to what the basketball tidbits, we want to talk about, I did get a text on the A Vision Glass text machine, Shannon. It says, are you sure that's Lee K. Howard? It sounds like Rick, the producer. No. Think they sound alike?

No, he doesn't sound like Rick at all. Really? No. Man. Lee K. didn't mention wine one time an entire segment. Very true. Very true. Yeah. So. 's right.

All right. We talked about how the Philo of 68 guys, Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster, went to practice yesterday. Got to talk to Coach Pope and a lot of the players. I'm just going to go down some stuff that they talked about in the crazy podcast from the backseat of Jack Pilgum's car. And you guys, both of you want to comment on it then. The one thing I think was Jeff Goodman who said, make no mistake about it. This is Jaylon Lowe's team. He is the leader.

It's his team. They go as he goes. Yeah, and I think that's what everybody wanted to hear because Pope's system historically, if he's got a good point guard to run it, it can go. And we saw when Lamont Butler last year was healthy, how good this team could be run.

And then, of course, they got into trouble with injuries at that point guard position. But the way that Jaylen can really effectively run this Pope's system, I think people are going to love because last year at Pitt, he had to be a guy who shot all. the shots, the good shots, the bad shots, whatever. He can work on being a distributor this year. And we got to interview him once in the summer.

And it was great hearing from him because that's what he wants to do. Like he seems like one of those pass-first point guards. He wants to distribute the ball, and he's on a team right now that he's going to have so many options, so many guys he can get the ball to. Shannon? Yeah, I mean, I think that's what you want to hear. He's the guy that's going to, you know, make the offense go. And I think that a lot of the offense is going to go through.

he and Otega Owey, as long as we can get O'A healthy. But to the point on O'A with that turf toe, he said that if it were like a game today or tomorrow, he would be able to play. So we don't have to worry about, I don't think about O'A's injury too much. But yeah, I think a lot of that offense is going to go through those two guys. I agree. And can you imagine when you get those two on the floor together? Yes. Like, I mean, that is a one-two punch that any team in America would take with Jalen and Otega.

We're talking about Jailen and Otega. both Rob and Jeff both emphasized several times that there are seven perimeter players that not just can't play are going to play seven different guys that may be as deep a back court as we've ever had here well there was a previous coach at the school that didn't play seven players

well that's a good point complete I mean at all positions and so you've got you've got the ability to put seven guys in I think Jalen and Otega are going to eat up most of those minutes but you're right you I mean you've got to find a way to get Aberdeen into the game. I mean, he was on a national championship team last year. I think Jasper Johnson is another guy who, you know, he's going to play. He's got this upside that maybe some of these other guys don't have, but he doesn't have the experience.

I mean, there's going to be a lot of guys who come in thinking that they've got a lot of minutes. They're going to have to share minutes, but I think most of these guys understand that. Shannon? Yeah, I mean, Pope believes that he is deep, and I mean, super deep, one through 13. He mentioned you were talking about the seven perimeter players. He's got seven guys. He says in practice, this is hard to believe it, he says they're shooting 70% from three, including Yellovich, who is shooting 77% this past week in practice from three.

I don't think that's going to translate to 70% in gameplay. If so, then we've got an NBA team on our hands, and we're going to win the national championship if we got guys that can shoot that well in the game. But just to hear that, even in practice, I think is amazing. So I think that this is going to be maybe the best three-point shooting team we've ever had. He said he wants to break that record of most. three-pointers made in a single season. If he's got guys that can shoot that well, I think we're on our way to seeing that happen

this season. One more point that we're going to go to the phone line. You're talking about Yelovich. You know, he did say, gosh, he's been shooting 77% from threes during practice. And, oh, by the way, he's 610. They're like a better version. I think it might have been in Govind City. He's a better version than Andrew Carr was.

Wow. Yeah. He's the guy that I think a lot of people want to see because he's like the great mystery, you know and we don't have to go too far back in the past to see like a zvonimir vichich and people were so excited to see what he could do and everything that i've heard is yelovitch is further along at this point in his career than vich ever was so yellowvich is going to be a guy that like you said the andrew car roll yeah and i think that's how they described i think that's how goodman described him on that on that podcast but i think he can do more than what andrew did i mean

he can step out take the shots he can we've seen a lot of video from his league across wherever it was, B-Max or whatever it was called. And he can get the ball to the rim. I mean, he's a talented, talented player. I think he's one of those players that Pope just loves to have in his system because he can do so much with him in a way that he's like a unicorn. Right. Yeah, the guy's already a pro.

And when I think of, you know, Yelovich, I can't help but think of Yvesic, right? In my mind, so I can't wait to see him actually to play a game. But I just imagine him going out there and having every, game like a Vise's first game against was it Georgia where he came out and knocked down like three straight three point shots so I can't wait to see him I think he's probably the guy that I'm really most intrigued to see 859-2-2-287 we'll get back to some more comments about the practice from yesterday that Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster got to witness but we got a phone call Shannon who we got let's go to Andy Andy Andy go ahead Andy hey what's up guys Andy you're on

with Lee K Howard today hey how you guys doing we're good good for asking anything Wednesday I didn't have a question but on college game day where they do the kick for the money the college players do before the games you got Pat McAfee and all them Pat McAfee saying if this guy

gets that kick I will donate $100,000 and then whoever matches it and then they do the charity do they really does Pat McAfee really donate $100,000 out of his account I don't have a goodness of his heart.

I've trouble believing that. Well, I didn't see that question coming, Andy, but I guess if he puts his money where his mouth is, his mouth's getting him in trouble because somebody hits it. I guess he's got to come up with that somehow. Or what's going to say? But how many guys actually hit it? It's happened, I think, twice already.

Twice? So he's $200,000 in the hole? I mean, I don't know what Pat McAfee's making. I'm sure he's making good money. I'm sure he's making big money. It depends on what $200,000 means to him. Yeah, he's probably in the shenandin the dude money category. So he's got plenty, he's got plenty, Andy, to throw around.

In that case, then he's bankrupt now. Thanks for the call, Andy. Well, he's, all right, you take it easy. Yeah, man. 859-2-287. If you want to call and get on board, we'll get you in here. Maybe it's like one of those things where, you know, you see the half-court shot. And, you know, like at Ruppets, that central bank half-court shot.

Right. And basically they buy an insurance policy where it's like $100,000. but the insurance policy that UK has to buy is like $100. So maybe there's some sort of like insurance policy that McAfee has. That if he spends $100, then somebody, I'm just guessing, but I can't imagine he's giving away $100,000. Got to be a sponsor probably going to. Right, yeah, out of his own bank account.

Yeah. Because every once in a while, this was the thing that stood out to me this last week at Game Day. I think it was last week or maybe the week before. The kid that they picked out of the stands actually was wearing football cleats. It was almost like he came prepared. Like, how do you pick that guy? Because you know he can hit it. And he did hit it?

Yeah, yeah, he hit it. He's probably a kicker at some high school or small college or something somewhere. Right, so. 859-2-287. All right, you know, we mentioned about kind of the newsy thing that came out of their podcast yesterday. It was about Otega, the turf toll. The other kind of newsy item was the fact that Colin Chandler was told him that he was basically hurt most of the year last year. You know, he really came on at the end of the season.

I guess maybe that's when he finally was healthy. You know, he got the slow start because he was on his mission. and kind of, you know, getting the rust off. But maybe he, you know, was injured and we always didn't know it. Once he got healthy, then we saw the results of what he can be. Drew has already gone on record saying he expects that's the big breakout player, the guy that makes the big jump this year. Where do you see Colin Chandler fitting into what, after what you heard yesterday?

Yeah, it makes sense what they said, because you could see kind of the trajectory of Colin throughout the year. And it felt like the last month, month and a half, he got really good. You know, and a lot of that we all kind of attributed to, well, he hasn't played basketball in a year or two. Yeah. You know, and so, like he had to get his legs under him. But if it was true, like Jeff Goodman said, that he was injured for part of it. And part of that was just him getting healthy, then look out. Because he was, I can remember that Fandy game in particular.

He came out in Rupp and played really, really well and looked like he would, well, he took over Travis Perry's spot as the backup point at that point. So if he can make another leap, and I think he'll, was either Doster or Goodman yesterday talked about kind of how bouncy he is, how athletic he is. Yeah, talking about how mobile he was. Yeah, I think there's a lot that Chandler can do. So I like Shannon. I like what Colin Chandler can bring to this team.

Yeah, I mean, if you go back to last season, he was a guy that I didn't think really would get any significant playing time at all. And at the end of the year, he's one of our best players on the floor. So I feel like he brings so much to the team, he makes it difficult for Pope to keep him on the bench. He almost forces you to play him. and I think that he is going to have a big role in this team. Now, I don't know, like, if you were to say,

how many minutes is he going to get? I don't know about that, but I think that he will continue to have a significant role on this team. And I think he's kind of in a way, he's kind of the backup point card, right? Right, right, because. It's going to be him or Aberdeen, one of the two guys. Exactly. And I think, like I said earlier, Lowe is going to demand the majority of those minutes, but you've got to have somebody behind him.

And that's the only obvious position that doesn't have an obvious backup behind him is Jalen Lowe. Yeah. They said, like you said, more mobile, guarding better, confidence seems to be up. So if Drew's right, we expect a big breakout season, sophomore season from Colin Chandler. All right, we'll get ready to take our break. Phone lines are open. 859-2802-287. That's the Clark's Publishout phone number.

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Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Shannon, the dude, what are you implying with your musical selections today? Oh, I was just like the next song up on the rotation. Oh, that was the next song in the rotation. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's like I hit a button and it just plays whatever's next. Well, you know, it's not my birthday.

It's her birthday. Right. Well, it takes two to tango, so. Yeah, I'm just curious, Ryan. What does a Ryan Yoga Girl birthday look like? You said dinner. Is it like, do you buy a card? Do you buy like a gift?

I already already. By the way, Mario just walked in here and he just walked up to the table. Yeah, it is. To look at Ryan and see this. So this morning I got up at 7.30 this morning to go get her some roses. Took them to her employer, her school, where she works with a card. had them deliver the roses in the card to her classroom. Oh, you're already way ahead.

And then the card says, she didn't know we were going. The card says, you know, it's your birthday. Tonight we're going to Rodney's on Broadway. Had a little poem in there even. It was better than that. It was better than that. I was going to say, do you write that yourself? That's good.

What was the poem? Can you not say it on the radio? No, I think it was just like, I'm so excited. Today's your birthday. So get cleaned up. We're going to Rodney's on Broadway. I think that's what it said. something like that roses are red violets are blue i'm going to rodney's and so are so okay so or

shakespeare i'll give the way the rest of my secrets because she's not listening right now she's teaching class yep so we go to rodney's on broadway i'm going to slide her another card it's got another surprise in it okay uh wedding certificate no shan cassidy is her favorite performer from back in her youth okay so sean castie's performing in Cincinnati we saw it this week. I was like, okay, I'm buying tickets right now. So we bought tickets. I'm taking her to see Sean Cassidy in Cincinnati in November. Okay. She doesn't know and did no time. I already bought concert tickets for another concert that's in October up in Cincinnati. So when I slide her the card at dinner, she's going to get surprise another surprise. That's good. That's good. I like that.

Yeah. Yeah, all day. And then the practical gift, Shannon, she lost her keys and couldn't find them for like a whole day. So I got one of those key finders she can put on her key chain. That's the old person gift right there. I mean, I've actually got one, so I don't think there's any shame in that. So there we go. Sean Cassidy. Sean Cassidy. Ryan the Casanova.

Which, if you remember when I was under anesthesia from the colonoscopy, I started singing, do run, run, run, do run, run, for whatever reason. Yeah. That day. Can we run that back again? Can you get another colonoscopy so we can have another show? I got to do one next year. Every five years, I'll be 60 next year, so I have to do another one. So you had a colonoscopy and you started singing do run run?

Yes. It seems appropriate. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why. And I was craving a cheeseburger. I started talking about trying to go get a cheeseburger. Immediately, we got to go get a cheeseburger.

I've got to find that drop. I'll play it for you in a minute. All right, 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's Pumby Shop phone number. Who we got, Shannon? John. John, go ahead, John. Hey, fellas.

How are you? How are you, John? My biggest news that I took away from the interviews was that Colin Chandler said that during a scrimmage yesterday, Cam Williams hit 10 three-pointers in a row. They just kept feeding him, and he hit 10 three-pointers in a row during a scrimmage. Yeah, President Funkall, that's on my list to discuss it. So let's talk about that. Cam Williams, a guy we never talk about. And when we talk about everybody else, he's the one guy that probably.

He gets lost in the shuffle more than anybody, and it comes out that he hit 10 threes in a row during the scrimmage. Now, I want to piggyback that by saying one of the TBT guys, I don't remember who it was, came on this show and said that Ken Williams is a better shooter than Kobe Brea. Can we believe? How much stock we put into this? I mean, that's tough because Kobe was a knockdown shooter, and I think Cam has a little bit more to his game. First of all, the reason that nobody talks about him, if you remember, he committed while Kentucky was still in the tournament. I remember standing in Indianapolis, and it was like we were getting ready for another life hit, and it was like, oh, yeah, Kentucky just got to commit. And it was Cam Williams.

So I think his timing on when he committed, and then the fact that he's from Tulane, it kind of got lost in the shuffle. But I do remember, like, early on, he was one of the guys that people were talking about. He has the potential to be an NBA guy just because of his skill set. So it doesn't surprise me that he's a guy that can knock down 10 threes in a row. I mean, that's who knows if he's better than Kobe or not. That'll be to be determined. But if he can, that's a weapon. You got to get that guy on the floor, Shannon.

You go on hit 10-3s in a scrimmage game. I think Pope's going to have the problem of trying to figure out how to divide the minutes when you got this many guys that can knock down three-point shots for you. I mean, we just mentioned seven. You can only play five. So how do you keep everybody happy? That might be his biggest struggle this year is trying to keep everybody happy. And here's your drop, by the way, of your cheeseburger.

Immediately, when we leave here, we need to go get a cheeseburger. Well, that's really funny. Make fun of the poor man who's on an anesthesia from his first colonoscopy. One more time. Immediately when we leave here, we need to go get a cheeseburger. Because you can't eat for like two days leading up to it. I've had one before. Yeah, so I was hungry.

I mean, I don't eat a cheeseburger. Why you agreed to have that on the radio? I have no idea. No, Lee Kay, we've not done it once. We've done it twice. Oh, wow. Live in the recovery room after my colonoscopy. I feel like the second time it wasn't that eventful, was it?

No, because remember, I think I kind of fell asleep. even in the middle of it. And Drew's like, oh, we lost him. He's asleep. And they had to kind of wake me back up. I was really out of it that day. Did somebody have a cheeseburger waiting on you the moment you woke up? No, but they should have. If somebody was smart, they would use that as an endorsement opportunity and have a cheeseburger there for you, you know. Well, you got a year. I turned 16 next year, so we'll do it next year.

Or maybe Stockton Mortgage could have a read for you ready to read the moment you come out. To walk out the door here, Ryan, read this. Read this, and then they could use that as their read. Well, you know, Shannon, I think Stockton Mortgage is sponsoring this segment anyway, aren't they? Yes, they are. I'm going to tell you about Stockton Market.

Good segue there, Lee K. You know, the interest rates are lower now than they've been in three years. They're like at 6.1, maybe 6.2. There's a chance they may even go in lower with what's going on with the Fed. So if you've been on the fence

waiting on the interest rates to drop, they may not get any lower than this for a long time. Who knows? But they're low right now. So if you're thinking about it, you ought to at least go get pre-approved, and our friend that Stockton Mortgage

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Dog, Word. Shannon, do you remember a couple days ago that a caller called in and said he was on an overseas flight and Mark Pope was on the plane? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do remember that. Well, it's come out that maybe we know why he was flying overseas. his daughter I believe it was Emory

I think he's not the Emory Okay Is in El Salvador On a mission trip And had to have an emergency appendectomy And Pope I think went down to see her

So I think that answers the question Why he was on an overseas flight He was flying down to Sit at bedside With his daughter They had emergency surgery down there I do think that one of his daughters Is on the mission

And maybe that's what that is But it's emery or avery i maybe that's avery okay avery there you go but no i mean who i'm sure pope is on a plane almost every other day it feels like so and he's a type of guy too that can drop everything blink of an eye throw some stuff in a backpack and go and not even think twice about it and i think we've seen do that with in recruiting and of course it went at your daughter she's down i'm sure she was scared by herself emergency surgery he wants to go be with his baby girl shannon no i'm sorry i'm sorry i was taking a phone call there.

I'm out of my bed. Yeah, yeah. But that explains, though, why he was on that plane. I think he does. Was it France or something like that? He said he was on his way back from? I can't remember. I can't remember where he said it was, but it could explain why Pope was on an overseas flight.

If it was on that one somehow a connection or something to go see his daughter. Of course, every other college coach in America thinks, okay, now who's he recruiting overseas? Who's your recruiting in El Salvador? Exactly. Who is Pope after? I think, you know, the college basketball game is becoming more and more international every day. So, you know, maybe he stopped by, saw his daughter, went over, checked out a few locals. Why he's down there?

You know, you might as well to pick up game. Check out the talents. Yeah. They got going in El Salvador. I can't imagine there's, you know, great recruits, but he's a good developmental guy. It's very true. He can develop a guy. Why not?

859-2-287. Who we got, Shannon? Alan. Alan. Alan. Hey, guys. I actually got to meet Lee Kay this weekend at a tailgate in his family. Nice.

And they're just nice of people and really enjoy getting to talk to. them but I'm a big Seth McGowan fan on this team in his running style I really think we got to keep leaning into that to let Cutter kind of continue to develop I love the way he pushes it down the field I think it's going to make us win a big game this year but I also think it's going to cause us to lose one due to turnovers if we were somehow to get a big win would you guys rather have Georgia on the road or Texas at home good phone call you know Texas maybe looks a little beatable with Arch Manning struggling a little bit. I like my chances at home more than on the road at Georgia.

What do you guys think? I mean, I think either win would be obviously program shifting in a way because Georgia's had Kentucky's number. I think, though, just because the Texas game is at Kroger Field, I think I would prefer that one. Just because you would give the fan base a chance to celebrate. And how long has it been since Kentucky's had a chance to celebrate a home SEC win? I mean, it's been a while.

Yeah, there's three in their last, three wins in their last 11 games or something, a home game, something like that, some crazy stat. It's not good. And Texas has never played in Lexington, so this would be their introduction to Lexington. Either win would be awesome, but I think if there's some way that they could beat Texas at home in a couple of weeks, I think that would be the one that most Kentucky fans would like just because they would be there. I feel like that probably is the most winnable of the two. You win that. We're rushing the field. We're pulling up the go post.

We're getting fined. You know what? But, yeah, what better way to break that losing streak at home in SEC play than to beat a top 10 teams? So if I had the choice, I would definitely take the Texas game at home. Texas fans are going to pack Kroger Field. It's Keenland. They're going to come up to do the whole Keenland football game weekend. It's Arch Manning.

It's on your home field. And like I said, I think the correct stat is they've won three of their last 14 SEC home games. They're three and 11 in their last 14 SEC home games. That's not good. That's not good. So you're able to beat Texas at home. Absolutely blows the roof off the place. Alan's good people, by the way.

I enjoyed meeting him at the tailgate, too. Yeah, he said with your family, do you actually have a day off? No, because it was a night game, I went over there and we tailgated before the game, and then I went and worked. Then you went and worked the game. There we go. True Life of a Media superstar. 859-2-287. That's our Clark's Pumby-Shout phone number.

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So when I'm sitting at the concert in November in Cincinnati with Yoga Girl, and this song comes on, I've got to get up and dance as hard as I can dance and sing as hard as I can sing, Shana. I got it like I'm into it because this is the song. This is like the grand finale song, I'm sure. Did people get up and dance to this? Oh, I'm sure. He was such a heart throb in the song. 70s I'm sure they're going to be a bunch of lying that was 50 years ago but okay you don't think 60 year old women still remember what they felt like when they saw Sean

Cassidy in the 70s I mean I guess I don't know that's your demo you tell me do you even know who Sean Cassidy is yes I've heard the name I guess I know this song yeah so not really but sort of know that he exists okay home and listen to this stuff here's your challenge Shannon this is his hit can you find another song by Sean Cassie to play in the second hour. I'm going to guess my answer is no. I mean, I can find another song to play, but will anybody know it? Probably not. He'll be telling you, he was huge in like the early to mid-70s. Has a teen heartthrob. Yeah, Shannon and I weren't around in the early to mid-s. No, I was. Yeah. I was. Early 80s, that's where I came along.

Look, our bartender's looking at us like some crazy look, like, who are they talking about? What in in the world are they talking about? 859-2-802-287. That's a Clark's Publishop. Before we go to phone lines. I got to ask Shannon this question. He's the Vanderbilt guy. What's that? Diego Pavia. I already know what you're going to ask. I mean, his, like, agent and people were trying to petition the NCAA for a seventh

season of eligibility. I mean, it's not unheard of. Our quarterback, Zach, Calzada is in his seventh season of eligibility. Exactly, yeah. But he hasn't played every year either. Right. So, I guess Calzada then tweeted out a cap, like no cap, like this is

false. So, what Since you're the Vandy Authority, what's going on over there? I don't know exactly. I also don't know how we got to the point to where guys can play or be even in college football, basketball, whatever it may be, for seven years. Like, you know, you used to hear, of course, all the time about a fifth year senior. Then it went to six. Then the COVID thing happened, and then years got mixed up.

And, I mean, we're past that now, right? So, I mean, I don't even know how you can get to seven years of playing. Has Diego Pavia played all those previous years? I'm not sure. That's the thing he played two years in a juco. They're trying to wipe those two years clean. One of them got wiped clean. They're trying to wipe the other one clean.

If you'd wipe one clean, why wouldn't you wipe the other clean? Well, I guess it's not the insaney rule right now. I think his argument was, and I believe he played at New Mexico Junior College. Okay. Or New Mexico, no, no, no. He played at New Mexico Military Institute, which, by the way, I grew up in New Mexico. You're a New Mexico guy. So I think what his argument is that those junior colleges are not under the

jurisdiction of the NCAA. So they shouldn't count toward his NCAA years. Like that's kind of like what he's saying. So an antitrust law or something that's involved with this, I think. I'm not really sure. Yeah. But to Shannon's point, at some point, you've got to move on.

And maybe it's something with Tennessee, the state of Tennessee, because this feels like the Kai Ziegler. No kidding. He petitioned the NCAA for another year of eligibility and lost. Right. And the thing about it now is these guys are making so much money. Right. That Pobby has probably looking at this going, I come back for a seventh year.

Get a couple mill? Yeah, I can bank compared to like he's probably not a draftable. Correct. Felfth quarterback just because of his size and such. But yeah, like I took four and a half years and my parents were looking at me sideways. Like, are you ever going to like, like, hey, we were planning on four. What's this next semester all about? And, you know, seven, that's all.

By that time, he's got a doctorate and he's probably teaching classes. But you're right. He can make more money at Vandy than he could be in on the, practice squad for the Buffalo Bills or something, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, whatever he does after this, which I assume is not going to be, I mean, I guess it could be pro football in a different, you know, maybe like arena football or something like that.

You know, Jared did that for a while. Yeah. But you're not going to make, I don't think, I don't think those guys make that kind of money in that league, do they? No. So it's probably going to make a lot more money at Vandy for another year than he would at any other facet of life. Yeah.

And I think football is the sport that you're going to see more of this in because, kind of like what Shannon was alluding to, there's not like there's not a minor league system of football some of these other little pop-up leagues have come up like the xFL and some of those that yeah guys can go play in it but it's not a a feeder system into the NFL like major league baseball as a minor league system right the NBA g league feeds into the NBA so you can be a decent athlete in college and still find your way work your way up into a pro league like the NBA or the MLB if you're not one of those top guys particularly a quarterback because there's only a handful of them in the NFL. If you're not one of those top guys, then yeah, I can see why you want to be in college your entire... Make some money. Make some money. And then you can go work, you know, do whatever you want to

after that and you're financially set. 859-2-287. Who's our caller, Shannon? Let's go to Michael. Michael. Go ahead, Michael. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Appreciate you, Colin. I wanted to expand on the Mark Culp going overseas for his daughter. Yeah. It is what I read was on your website, but where he, the doctor who was going to do this emergency surgery on his daughter was, he was a veteran doctor, but he had not really remembered, hadn't done this surgery in so long. So Mark Pope coached this doctor through the surgery on his own daughter.

That's the word on the street. Appreciate the phone call. I don't know how much truth is to that, but he did. go to med school. He did play operation with Jeff Goodman and Rob Dostry yesterday and go through some of the medical procedures that he learned when he's back in med school. I don't know if I buy that story.

He was coaching the doctor on an emergency appendectomy. I can't imagine that's true, but I like to think of maybe Pope behind the doctor in the room going like clapping. Come on. Come on. Play three. Or if you're caliper, you're back there going, go!

Or floppy. floppy. Yeah, yeah. I can't imagine that's true, but that sounds like somebody can come up with a good AI picture of Mark Pope, coaching doctor in a room. Yeah. A lot of people on the aviation class section are telling me that there's no way he could be on a flight to Paris or from Paris and trying to go to El Salvador. It could have been a connecting flight.

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You know, connecting flight somewhere, who knows? I don't know. Do you know where El Salvador is on a map? It's down south. It's in the south. We're going to Mount Vernon tomorrow, Shannon.

Yes, we are. That's not in Central America. It is not in Central America. It's kind of South Central Kentucky almost. It's a couple of hours away for me, and I think I'm going to come down maybe later on tonight. I'll stay at a holiday and express. Nice. And you have a new shirt to wear tomorrow.

We all have bright-oing shirts. It's the Christian Appalachian Project Hunger Walk tomorrow. We're going to be down there as they get that started in Mount Vernon. We'll be at the Community Trust Bank on Main Street. Shannon and I are doing the pre-show, then we'll do KSR down there. So if you're down the Mountain Vernon area, Rock Castle County, here we come. Tomorrow, the Christian Appalachian Project Hunger Walk. We'll see you there.

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