KSR - 2025-09-17- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

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Shout out Bobby Perry. But we're doing the Bobby Perry band. History. What are you guys doing? Oh, man. So somebody back at the station must have resh switched our access unit, Shannon. Because we were hearing a commercial. It was definitely a Louisville-based station.

Oh, yeah. Mario's with us now, by the way. Mario Maitland joins us. So, somebody, Tom Jurich must have snuck into the I-Harr building. Try to sabotage our show this morning, Shannon. I don't know what was going on, but the music was playing, and you guys were talking about the Bobby Perry band, and I'm going, I don't think these guys even know they're on the air right now.

No, we didn't. We were hearing a commercial about for WLKY. The important thing is Shannon didn't yell at me this time. That's true, which is good. No, no, no, I was yelling. You guys just couldn't hear me. We did not hear you at all. Didn't hear him one time, did we?

The commercial was just playing in the background, and we were just talking about Bobby Perry. We know the show goes on at 1103.03, so when it's 11.05. We definitely knew because we literally asked. that maybe you should call and see what's going on. We were talking about the Bobby Perry band. I was trying to call Ryan's phone. Ryan wasn't answering, of course.

Oh, did you call me? Yes, I called you. He didn't even know you called him. I'm glad we weren't further discussing your plans with yoga girls, so that's good. That is very true. I tried to invite Shannon to my house. He's going to stay in a hotel. You stay at my house tonight.

Yeah, I forgot we were on a radio show for it. So anyway, shout out Bobby Perry. See, I have a BPB shirt on. Right. You guys ask me, what the heck? is that Bobby Perry band they're now the Commonwealth band but for many years they were the Bobby Perry band and Mario goes who's Bobby Perry that's okay Mario's a young guy he says that making you all yes I'm a young folk man you're a young guy good to see you though man I've

seen you everywhere man I was uh I saw you were hosting uh everyday Kentucky the other day how was yeah you know I'm trying to I'm trying to branch out trying to I was talking like non sports topics yeah a little bit different KYT which is a little different I got to talk about current events and stuff like that. So now here today, you wear a lot of hats. Yeah, I'm going to talk with Tom Leach tomorrow. Branching out a little. Oh, you're a regular on the Tom Leach report. So I hear you all the time. I always enjoy talking to Tom. We do need to clear up something. The last caller we had said that Mark Pope tried to talk to the doctor through the surgery that that was in the KSR report on On 3.

Totally false. Okay. Totally false. Wait, and the guy called back and said that Mark Pope actually said that in the video. No, I didn't see the video. Did you see the video of the interview? I have not seen the video on the interview. Mario, have you? I haven't seen that part. I think the article says Pope talked to the doctor, but didn't talk him through the surgery. I guess felt confident after talking to the doctor, he could do it with his daughter Avery down there in El Salvador.

That makes sense. I mean, with his kind of background, I mean, I think most fathers would want to talk to the doctor, first of all. Absolutely. But then with Pope's kind of expertise, maybe he was just checking the guy out, making sure that they were kind of on the same page. 859-2-8-7. That's our Clark's Publishout phone number. We have added Mario Maitland here with Lee K. Howard and Shannon the dude.

A couple topics let's hit on before we shift back into basketball. Shannon, I guess you need to answer this one first. There's a new show on Netflix called Unknown Number. It's about catfishing. Yeah. Billy was trying to get Shannon to watch it. Do you watch it, Shannon? I haven't watched it yet.

It's about catfishing? I watched it last night. It's freaky. I mean, it's definitely worth it. I can't spoil it for you. Can I get your login because I don't have Netflix? That's one of the reasons. Sure.

Netflix doesn't care. Just go and put that on the air too while you're talking about the Bobby Perry band. It's going to air out everything else you got. Well, have you seen it? Are you doing anything about it? No. It's a true story that happened in Michigan. Okay.

About some high school kids getting catfished. and I wish we could talk about with somebody, because it's freaky. Well, give us a... I can't. I don't want to give it away. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what.

We'll watch it tonight. You give me your login for Netflix. I'll watch it tonight while I'm at the days. If you stay at my house, you're just going to stay at my house tonight. It's going to be right there. Oh, yeah. Okay, we'll do that then. That's fine.

I'll watch it. Is it a series or is just a show? Just one show. It's a documentary, but it's only like one episode. Oh, one episode? Yeah. Wow. You watch it on one episode.

What was it? I'm blanking the name of the Notre Dame football player for... Taito. Taito, thank you. Yeah, who got catfished for over a year. Fell in love with a woman just via online. Social media contact turned out to be a guy in like Kansas or something. What else is there to do in Kansas?

Let's catfish a guy from Notre Dame. This sucks. All right, 859-2-2-287. Got to talk about Sidney McLaughlin. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Legend. Sydney McLaughlin is going to end up being the best.

best athlete ever to wear the blue and white. And I don't even think it's going to be close. She now is the fastest woman in the world in two of the hardest events ever. She's a legend. The 400 hurdles is considered the hardest event in track and field. She smashed every American record, every U.S. record. So if that's not good enough, then she just starts running the 400 meters breaks the American record this week. I mean, she is going, she will be remembered as the greatest athlete in the history of the University of Kentucky.

I think her record, the American record that she broke the other day was like 48.29 seconds. And I was watching the race, and it looked like she let up a little bit. I mean, that's the thing about when you watch her, it looks like she's out there competing with a bunch of like JV athletes. I mean, she's like running. And these are world-class athletes. She's the other athletes. She's a different level in the world. She's definitely on a different level.

I can't believe she went here. Like, she's from, like, she's went to the University of Kentucky, man. Like, I went to school with her. But I think that's cool. I got a chance to go to school with Sidney McLaughlin. I can say that. Well, they kind of became Hurtle you there for a while. Some of the Olympic champions were hurdlers that came through UK.

She was at the forefront of it. Yeah, Kenny Harrison was another one who's done really well. Jasmine Camacho Quinn. I think she ran in the Olympics for the Puerto Rico, I believe. But, yeah, Sydney McLaughlin, I think back at some of the interviews that I've been able to do with athletes at UK over the years, and she might be at the top of the list. I got to do just a one-on-one interview with her in her year that she was at Kentucky

and she was smashing SEC records and college track and field records. And that is just continued. And the crazy thing now is like it's almost like she's challenging herself. She's got two gold medals in the 400 hurdles. She has two gold medals in the 4x400 relay. And now she's on her way to setting the world record in the 400 open. I mean, I think at this point she needs to take on like javelin and Polvovolt and really challenging, challenge yourself a little.

Challengerously. Can we talk about like just track and field, the program itself at UK, like how big it's gotten? Like we talk about volleyball. We talk about baseball, basketball, football, of course.

But track and field is kind of like underrated. I mean, Maasai Russell, Sidney McLaughin, Ashley Holmes. I believe she participated in the Olympics as well. And then you could look at the guy's side as well. We have a lot of guys that went through the track and field program.

I feel like that Kentucky athletics has done a great job with the UK track and field program and doesn't really get talked about a lot. Here's my question for you, Ryan. Do you think a race between you and Sydney McLaughlin, if you ran the 100 and she ran the 400, who's finishing first? I would win at 100. Okay.

What about 200? 200 I could probably make it in under 30 seconds. You would not win at 100. 100 I could run like 15, 16 seconds. I used to run. My best time was 11.3, I think, when I was in high school. Of course, that was 40 years ago. You wouldn't do it.

What about the 200? That might be... 200, I can run it in probably 30, 35 seconds. Nope. So we've got to... The race is three quarters. She runs the full 400. Sidney's beating him.

Yeah, I think so. Because she's... Regardless of what he's doing. She's going to run a sub-48, I think, on Thursday in the final. So you can run a 200... I can run a 200 in 30, 35 seconds. No, no, no. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. But if we're talking about a 3... We used to call it a 3-30. It gets probably 300 meters. I would love to see you sprint. Yeah. We got to do a video. You know one little chubby little white guy running down the truck?

He's got some wheels. But you mentioned the UK track and field. You know, they got the new complex over there, the new field house. They got all the, they're putting a lot of money into the program because it has developed into one of the best programs on campus that we don't talk about. Don't talk about it enough, man. They've definitely doing big things over there at the track and field program. Well, she was just inducted into the Hall of Fame, I think.

Was it last year? Yeah, last year. She was here. the Hall of Fame. So she continues to help support UK. They'll use her in recruiting for years and years to come. She's the face of UK track. And she may end up being the face of UK athletics, period.

Yeah, that's the fact. I literally said on my sports cast yesterday that when we think of the most dominant athletes to ever compete at the University of Kentucky, it's hard to find one that is more dominant in their sport than sending me a lot. That's true. So let's just spitball it. Who would be in the argument of some of the best athletes ever in Kentucky? I didn't even thought about this, but I know one that comes to mind way before all of our times,

but Wawa Jones played football, basketball, and baseball, and I believe played professional football and professional basketball. When was this? What era? Late 40s. Oh, my goodness. Late 40s. Before even I was born.

19. Does that really count? But think about it. Even in the 40s, he played professional basketball and professional football. Right. So Wals got to be on the list. Yeah, and you know, there's plenty of basketball players that were dominant in their sport. Like, obviously the year that Anthony Davis had, he was dominant. Dan Issel was dominant.

But, you know, I'm just trying to think of, like, athletes that were just dominant in their field, not only, you know. John Wall's the fastest dude I've ever seen from baseline to baseline. I wish I would have got a chance to see him in person. He was on TV. He looked fast. I can only imagine what he looked like in person. I got one for you. I just thought of. Shane Boyd was a starting quarterback for the Kentucky Wildcats and the SEC

and also got drafted by the Minnesota Twins and baseball. How about that one? That's pretty cool. You're just saying like overall great athletes. Someone's going to call in and tell us who we're missing. I guess Rajan Roddo is trying to be an all-star quarterback in a flag football. I've seen that. He looked pretty good, too.

He was a stud quarterback in high school. He played quarterback in high school. Anthony Epps played quarterback in high school. Yeah. A lot of it. You see a lot of, like, basketball football guys. That seems like a natural. You can cross over, yeah.

Yeah, that seems like a natural thing. Like, Tim Couch was a great basketball player in high school. He played basketball, too. I didn't know that. Wow. He led the state in scoring as a junior at like 35 points a game. Oh, man. And then didn't even play basketball his senior year.

Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. If he did, he would have probably won Mr. Football and Mr. Basketball. If he'd played basketball. Yeah, you know what? By the way, Kentucky's got the quarterback kid from a molar Ponatoskey coming out next year. Baseball stuff. He was baseball and football stud.

Yeah. I think he was Mr. Football and Mr. Football as a junior. As a junior. In Ohio. Oh, wow. No kidding. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, if you got a suggestion for us somebody where we can't think of, give us a call.

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This plays in a lot of movies. Well, Shannon brought the point. He probably wasn't the first guy to sing this song. I think this is probably a cover, Shannon is my guess. Yeah, I think this is an older song. the 70s. But I'll be sitting there rocking. I'll be in my seat, standing up, snapping my fingers, doing the white man dance, the white man overbite dance. I could tell he's so happy today because it's yoga girl's birthday. He has a little pep in his step here. Yeah. I even shaved this morning.

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all-around title. Cool. She definitely has got to be one of the top. And then somebody suggested Lynn Bowden. Lynn Bowden, yeah, for you, forgotten about. Yeah. Because he was a big basketball player, I think, in high school. I played him multiple times.

In basketball? Yeah, he's legit. He can play? He can play. Someone text me and said for his size, Jared Lorenzen. Yeah, Lorenz. That's a great choice. Just an athlete?

Because Jared always said if he'd stayed with baseball, he would have got drafted as a pitcher. Because he got a cannon for an arm. He led Fort Thomas Highlands to the Sweet 16 semifinals, I think, in basketball. Yeah. And then, of course, what he did in football. That's really, we should have thought of him first. Yeah, he's kind of like a unicorn in the way that he moved. Yeah, the way he moved, the way he played that position.

So I guess we can announce now, Mario. Monday. You scare me when you say that. Go ahead. Monday, Shannon knows this, I think. We're doing the show at Fort Thomas Highlands High School, Jared Lerenzen's alma mater. because his son is now a football star at Fort Thomas Highlands. Tate and Lorenza.

Look at that. You know, wow, I did not know that. You didn't tell me that. Well, there's secrets out. It's not a public show. You can't come to the school and watch the show, but we're going to go up there, do the show up there so we can talk to Taden

and catch up with him a little bit because he's really having a good season this year for Fort Thomas Highlands. And it's cool, too, because he wears number 22, like his dad. And we see some of the highlights. I've seen some of the highlights. He's a big kid, but he moves.

Is he the same kind of like? his dad. Yeah, kind of like, I mean, it's pretty neat to see. By the way, we talked about this while ago, Ryan. Do you remember when you and I did a photo shoot with Jared years ago? I don't know why they picked Lee K. Howard, me, Jerry Lorenzen, and Dead Air Dennis to go do a photo shoot for like a triathlon contest of some sort outside at the Kentucky Horse Park. I still don't know why we were invited to, like, talk about four awkward dudes and let's like we were grouped together for a photo shoot and I don't even know I don't know if it helped them promote their event or if they were just I don't know there are some great photos out

there maybe Cory Price can find out because they are some great photos how long ago was this oh geez it's had to be over 15 years ago I have to I have to see it yeah because you like jumped on Jared's shoulders yeah and we had one picture that they used like in a magazine or something and it looked like the the album cover of a really bad rock band. Good rock band. I don't know. It was bad, but yeah.

I have to see that. 859, 2802-287. We've got some phone calls. Who we got, Shannon? Hunter. Hunter. Go ahead, Hunter. First off, I think you do a great job whenever you get the chance to host. Appreciate that, brother.

I love hearing you on that. I've got a statement for football, but it's also kind of like a disagree, agree, whatever. If Cutter gets to start the next 10 games or if he will start 10 games, I believe that his stats across the board

will be better than Archmanning's 12 games. Not the down arch. I think he's got a lot of pressure on him, but I think it's appraise the Cutter's confidence and just stepping up there and being a playmaker. I'll hang up and listen. I appreciate that. Well, Lee Kay, if that is what's going to happen,

Kentucky's going to surprise some people to win some games, they probably shouldn't. Yeah, and I think the upside for Cutter is great. And I think that's why that the staff has decided at this point to go with him. They've not said it, but I do think that Cutter is kind of the quarterback going forward. And he's a guy who's not afraid to make mistakes. Confident kid.

Yeah, he's a confident kid. So if he can get in there, make the passes, you know, limit the turnovers. Maybe he does end up with a better season than Arch. I think he just needs reps. He needs in-game reps. That's why they left him in so long against Eastern Michigan just to get him some reps. Yeah, he needs to play. But, yeah, he's a confident dude, man.

Who's up next, Shannon? Let's go to Bob. Bob, go ahead, Bob. Good morning, guys. Getting back to my days of sports now, back 50 years ago, we had an all-around player came out of Louisville. Kenny Coon. He was an all-stater in three sports

and could have went to any major college. And I don't read today about anybody's being an all-around sport They weren't specialized. But he got drafted into the majors right out of high school and baseball. And Cleveland Indians, and he set two years behind the Louvre Grove. We believe you, Bob. I don't doubt you. What was the guy's name again?

Kenny Coon. Kenny Coons? He came out of Louisville, in the 50s. Okay, all right. We'll look him up. He was a terrific, three sport athletes. I appreciate it, Bob. Bob's right.

They just don't, you specialize now. Yeah. Even the good kids in high school don't even play the other sports that they like in high school. Although I did see, though, Tailing, not Kail and Kenny, the kid out in California, he's going to play football. He's going to play football. The number one recruit in the class. Oh, is it Stokes? Tyrant Stokes.

The kids are from Louisville. He's from Louisville. Tyron Stokes. He's going to play. They say he's going to play football this year. He's the number one recruit in America for basketball. I don't know about that. I feel like he's made it.

And then basketball, why not keep it going, right? I don't know. Maybe he wants the experience for different sports. You know, you grow up with your buddies. They're out there playing football. You want to play? I mean, when I was in high school, we all played all the sports. Yeah.

I mean, any sport that you could make the team, you would play. And now it's all specialized. And I have a son who's in first grade, and a lot of those kids are, like, almost specialized. They're playing year-round baseball or year-round whatever. But that's when you see him get burned out by the time they get to high school. Like, man, I'm done playing. I've been traveling for 10 years. I do regret that.

I was the only strictly basketball. I never tried football or anything like that. So, yeah, I agree. You should definitely try the sports. Well, we've got to just a minute, but I do want to throw out. We mentioned Thailand Kenny. He's at Arkansas today visiting with John Caliperi. Everybody thought he was going to be a lean to Kentucky or Louisville.

Kansas has kind of snuck in there recently, but now he's at Arkansas today, and he makes his announcement, I think, like, next week. Yeah, the 28th, I think. Is that it, the 28th? I think it's the 28th. You think Kyle steals him? I won't be shocked. He's capable.

I mean, Tylan Kenny grew up in Newport, Kentucky when Cal was during his heyday. Tyler and Kenny's been in this bar. I've talked to him in here before. Mario, is he the 6-7-7-7? He's the 6-7. 6-7. I learned about that. 6-7.

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Those to listen on podcasts, don't know why we're clapping. They can't hear it either. I can't hear the music. This is Tyler Childers, All Yorn. I asked Shannon to play this because, you know, I Heart Studios downtown Lexington on the seventh floor of the city center building. The new building where they had the big hole in the ground, they built the city center there.

Yeah. We're on the seventh floor. As you look out the windows, you can see the rooftops of a lot of buildings downtown. Right now at this moment, there is somebody has taken their like towels or clothes and spelled out all yorn on the rooftop. It's the guy that has the pool. Have you seen like these little inflatable pool? He's got on these rooftop out there? I think so.

I think so, yeah. Well, the pool is gone, but he's spelled out all yorn. All yorn. This is happening right now. It was there yesterday. He's gone. A picture of it? I must have missed it.

I do have a picture of it. Using what now clothes, you said? Doing clothes. I'll tweet it out. You should do that for yoga girl tonight for a birthday. Better on the bed, put all yorn. All yorn. On the bed.

Shannon, I really like that idea. I could use, like, my dirty socks or something. I'm doing socks with it on me. All right. 859-2802-287 is a phone number if you want to call. I get aboard real quick. We'll get out of here. I do need to read who this segment is sponsored by.

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Hey, guys. How are you doing, baby boy? How are you, Seth? Baby boy. I've got a couple of horses for you. Two-year-old. A couple two-year-old horses for us, okay? Once Tommy Joe, that's the Philly.

Tommy Joe, the Philly. She's got a good turn of foot on six and a half of our arms. Good turn of foot. And other one's tap its legacy, the Coltis tap its legacy. and so if they don't go to Bledersk, they should drop in at Kingland. And I'm going to say one more thing, get off here. Sunny Collins grew up a couple blocks away from me. Madisonville.

Yes, sir. Yeah, I wish Drew was here. I missed Drewie. But they won the 4 by 100 meters in Lexington. Okay. And sunny was the last leg. With the anchor leg. But my brother Johnny, my brother Johnny, he died of cancer.

He was on the first leg and no one ever beat him. Well, that's awesome. And I'm just going to leave you with, I'm just going to leave you guys with that, okay? Okay, Seth, we appreciate the phone call. Gave us a couple horses to keep our eye on. Tap its legacy and the Philly. You big horse guy? You got to write that down.

I'm not. Yeah. I've lived in this town for 30 years and I'm still not a horse guy. He hates Keenland. I think Keenland is one of the most overrated things in America. Keelan's awesome you got to wait in line to park you got to wait in line to take a trolley you got to wait in line to get somebody you like the actual race though i never win any money there i lose my money listen with with the ryan lemon VIP status i would think that they would just pull you right up to the door oh no and pull you all no the track i'm parking down by the airport and walking over so far away you just hate the things that the little things you like the actual race though don't you i like watching the race but there's like what you know 45 minutes between races and what you're going to do you're going to stand in line stand in line for this i can't buy a 20

drink by a 20 dollar drink that's exactly right one one thing here real quick shannon you and mario since i won't be with you guys tomorrow i do want you guys to hold ryan to reporting on how the date with yoga girl went oh yeah yeah sure for sure okay well i'm sure i'll be really tired when the show tomorrow from the date night tonight you're hosting you got to carry the ship we are in mount vernon tomorrow we'll tell you about that before we get out of the show but everybody in the Mountain Vernon area, Rock Castle County. We're coming down tomorrow, so come out and see us and join us. I've got all kinds of tickets to give away, too.

And you've got a few fun ideas that I can't wait to do on here. We're going to try something. We're going to try some new ideas out there for everybody at the show. I do want to get on a couple things that the Philadelphia 68 guys talked about from the basketball practice before this show is over, which way somebody sat on the A-Bision Glass Tech Machine. How the hell you've been on an hour acting like you watched the Field of 68 video and you haven't watched it?

I watched the Jack Pilgrim video, the Sources Say video. I didn't watch Goodman's video. Goodman's video was really long. So the Field of 68, it's like an hour and 53 minutes for the entire episode. That's a long time. Jack Pilgrim was like 29 minutes. Yeah, I've seen Jacks, but Goodman's I've seen about half of it. Yeah, I saw the Otega.

Otega. That was really good. I saw that part of the Field of 68. So I guess on the Goodman-Dostra interview, that's where maybe Coach Pope said something about the surgery. Yeah, a lot of good news in that interview. All right. They talked a lot about Jake, Jaden Quaitens, Jake Q.

Huge. Did you see him on the lobster? Doesn't he look biggerly? Well, I was going to say the one or two times that I've seen him in person, he looks big to begin with. So now I'm trying to picture him even bigger. Bigger? He was, man. He was, the word was he'd put on 40 pounds.

Goodman and Doster don't doubt it at all. He said he's gotten that much bigger. He looks big. Speaking of pounds, Jasper Johnson, he's 190 now. He gained 20 pounds. He needed to. You need to get more physical, bigger, stronger, so that's just something they work on you once you get to get on campus.

And we've seen these guys over the years that once they get on campus, how they change their body because they're not only lifting weights, obviously, but they're also changing their eating habits and what they're doing. And, you know, at my age, it's easy to put on 40 pounds, but it's not the good kind of 40 pounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love the way the Mark Pope basically, he was talking a little bit about Louisville in the interview,

and he said that Louisville, or I guess Goodman was saying it, Louisville and Kentucky both can be Final Four teams. And I agree with that. Legit. I agree with that. Goodman said right there where you're at Lee K and said they both, it's Final Four or Bus for those two teams. Yeah, I mean, the way that both of those, the Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope have recruited, it's fun. Like, I know that people don't want to see Louisville have success.

Go for the sport. But it's great for the sport. When both teams, you know, how many years ago was that when they met in the Final Four? I mean, that was crazy. So, I mean, when Louisville is good, it makes that rivalry. How are we feeling about the matchup in November versus Louisville? Are we feeling this? Well, first of all, I hate it that it's early in November.

So early, man. I mean, it's before the football game for crying out of. I don't like it. I don't like it at all that they moved it up to early November. Yeah, and I don't think there's a chance that they have Jaden at that point. I still think it's further down the road maybe December before Quentin's actually steps on the floor. But I have seen pictures of him out there doing, like, non-contact stuff. So it's good to see he's at least out there on the floor.

Is there one game that you guys are like, look, what's the game you guys are looking forward to the most out of the sea? Mine is Louisville. I want to see the Louisville game. All right. Mine's gonna be different and maybe in the line with yours. I want to see the Indiana game. Yeah, okay. At Rupp Arena. I know Ryan does too. See that's I grew up in that Kentucky Indiana rivalry man. I mean us old guys. Oster Combs talked about it a lot of you know when it went away The younger generation doesn't understand what that rivalry means. Yeah, I don't know that rivalry like that My thing is I grew up like I said in Texas and New Mexico, but my distant relatives or my grandma's from Indiana.

And so I grew up hearing about the Kentucky Indiana rivalry. And I know that Indiana is not Indiana anymore. And they're not. They're not going to be. Wilkison, though. Wilkison, your guy, Ryan. But they're not going to be the best team. I know who's going to Indiana all along.

What about the St. John's game in Atlanta? Oh, I forgot about that. This schedule is going to be crazy this year. Aren't we going to be at that game? Is that not going to be our trip? Yeah. That's allegedly our road trip.

We're going to go from Lexington to Atlanta, but veer through Louisiana, Mississippi, Austin. Austin, Texas. Oh, we're going to Austin, Texas? Well, Matt's in charge. Of course, we'll probably go to Austin, Texas. I've never been.

I've heard good things about Austin, Texas. I'll be at that game, too. That's the CBS Sports Classic games. Yes, yeah. Along with that games, I'll be in Atlanta. So another thing about Jake Kiefer, we get off of him, he did admit that his chess record against Mark Pope is four and one. I believe he said he's four and one against chess.

And I think he challenged. Did he not say checkly? I was waiting to hear it. I was so confused. You know, it's kind of like checkers. And I think. He challenged Rob Dostor to a chess match. He's legit good, and they just kept talking about how great a kid he was,

let alone he's 6-11 going to be an NBA basketball player. He's just a great kid. It seems like a smart kid, too, man, and all the interviews that I've seen, even before he got the U.K., when he would get an interview out, I've noticed. I'm like, he's very, like, well-spoken, very smart. Very smart, dude. It seems like a smart kid. The other guy that we really haven't talked about that they spent a lot of time talking about was Diabate.

So if you're looking at the four, you can go with the 6-10 shooter in Yelovich, or you can go with the toughness, rebounder, leader in Diabate. And I think it was Goodman said they'll probably play both, but that's two different styles, two different units to put out there, depending on who plays the four. Yeah, can you imagine being an opposing team and you're preparing for Kentucky? Well, it's a nightmare. And you've got to prepare for Yelovich and Diabote at that position.

So one thing I think that last year's Kentucky team was really missing, was kind of that physicalness, that dog, that guy who just, you know, got in there. They needed that at some points. They didn't have that last year. They did. They did. And Diabate could be that guy. Dan Jalen Lowe, people that have said that he's tough, too, as a point guard. He's a tough point guard.

Yeah. I haven't seen him play, but at least that's what I'm hearing from, you know, those interviews yesterday. Well, you couldn't help to get excited with the interview that they did with us yesterday, and then when they deal with Jack and the car driving to the airport last night. They could tell they were just really impressed with everything they saw at practice. And I also think this is important to keep in mind, too. Kentucky is going to be in the mix, I think, at the end of the season. And there's not another just dominant college basketball team this year.

Yeah. So I think it's more wide open. I think there's an opportunity for Kentucky or Louisville or, you know, anybody to kind of take off and be that number one team in a country. Yeah, I think they said like they produce one, Houston's two, and then there's about five or six teams that are all kind of about the same. So even though they had Kentucky ranked, what, sixth or seventh, they felt like, you know, it could be 5A and 5B. It could be 4A and 4B. That's how they're all kind of lumped in together there. I really enjoyed that.

I don't know about you guys, but I enjoyed their little practice. Their interview at the practice session, you can see live play in the background. I thought it was really, really cool. I love the way that Jeff Goodman kind of made a comparison. He said, like, Cal's practices more like tough love compared to the Pope. He's more like positive reinforcement kind of guy. So I like how they set the whole thing up at Joe Crafts Center. I thought that was really cool.

All right, well, take our final break. Come back, our final segment, 859-2-2-287, Ryan, Shannon, Mario, and Lee K-Haw. By the way, congratulations. The new sports director at WKYT. Thank you. I didn't know it had been officially announced yet. Congratulations, well-deserved.

As soon as Brian Milam decided to leave, I told Mario and some guys said, well, they need to give it to Lee K. He's been there. He's been saying that two, three weeks before it happened. Well, I appreciate that, Ryan. So congratulations. All right, we'll take our final break. Come back.

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But there is a car song that did when Little Ryan became a man one night. Oh, yeah, I didn't know what was that. Why do you do that? I thought it was touching go. No, who's going to drive you home? We have kids listening at home. All right. Well, that's a good thing to talk about on Yoga Girls' birthday.

859-2-802-287. Who's this segment? Our final segment. Who's our sponsor, Shannon? Court physical therapy. Hey, BBM, when it comes to your physical health. You want to get a physical therapist you can trust, and that is court physical therapy for over 35 years.

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And well, we forgot an athlete. and we're going to be smacking ourselves when I tell you the one we forgot that's one of the greatest athletes in UK history. I don't know if you know this or not, but he also played football in high school. Willie Collie Stein. Oh, Willie. You know, they never. They never had in high school.

They never said anything about him. I wish the announcers of the broadcast would have brought that up to let people know that he played football. Did he play wide receiver? I'm guessing maybe. I guess we have to research that on there because I never heard anybody talking about him playing receiver in high school. Quarterback air wide receiver, I believe. So Willie Collie Stein. 559-2-802-287 who we got shannon go to brian brian go ahead brian hey i want to say

happy birthday yoga girl yeah hey is this ask anything wednesday sure it is hey uh i want to know when that global global global uh commercial is going to be taken off the air driving me crazy i don't know what's you talking about shan i don't know global it may be a little something in your local area i'm not sure what you're talking about yeah who's it advertising for he's gone he's gone all right appreciate to call that was the point about our advertisers come on that was our whiskey thief call the day right there who's next shannon kevin go ahead kevin okay my question is for shannon hey dude what do you think the over under for ozies tributes at louder than life this weekend i think it's somewhere like at least 30 yeah well there's

175 bands so 30 is probably a good number yeah there would be a lot of those Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. 859-2-802-8-7. I just tweeted out the picture of the all-yorn picture taken from the city center window overlooking some of the buildings in downtown Lexington. So it's one of the buildings across from the two twin courthouses. Oh, wow.

I'm looking out of here. Yeah. It's got an all-yorn using like towels or clothes or something. I'm guessing. I don't know really what that is. Did he do this like when Tyler was in town? I think he just did it like. yesterday in the last couple of days.

Shout out Tyler. I do have another A Vision Glass text that I need to read. Ryan Lemon with the worst take ever. Keenlin is the best place on earth. Best place is crazy. I'm telling you, I learned real quick 15 years ago when I moved to Kentucky that horse people, they're very protective. Passing it.

They are. Passing about. 100%. Yes. So do you like Derby? You like Kentucky Derby? I hate it. Yeah, remember he got thrown into the mud puddle.

My first derby, they picked me up, the body slammed me in a mud puddle. So, yeah, I don't like anything about it. 859-2-802-287. We got another caller, Shannon, who we got? Let's finish on the truth. The truth, yes. How are you, truth? How are you doing, are there Brian Lemons and the KSR gang?

I'm going to throw this in here. I got a, will you bet this week, Indiana 46 and Eleanor's 20. What do you think about that, Brian Limit? Put that in your piece, Spike. Moke it. Illinois is ranked in the top 10, Truth. You think Indiana is going to knock off the top 10 of Linae? Why not?

We brought the bison back, and the truth's going to be there, and we're not going to sing the old Kentucky home song. We're going to sing the Indiana home, and Bob Knight going to get out of his gray and put a national championship. Now, can you dig that fuck up? Did he say the right word? No, he did. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's hear me there for a second. All right, 859-2-802-87. It does not cuss. He has never cussed. In all the years, he's never dropped any kind of word he shouldn't have.

No, he hasn't. He's even like some sort of a pastor or something in his church. Oh, is he a pastor? Okay, he definitely didn't say that. Brian Lemon. Oh, he's called me that for 15 years. He's a big Indiana fan, right? Yeah, oh, yeah.

He's from Henderson, Kentucky, but he's a big Indiana fan. He lives, I think, in Evansville most of the time. My one Indiana interaction was when I was in junior high, I was visiting family. in Indiana, and they took me to a car dealership, and I got Damon Bailey's honor. Oh, yeah. That was my... Big deal. Yeah, yeah, big, big.

That was when Indiana was Indiana. And it's been since then, since they were actually good. Well, they've had a couple games. I've talked about this before where, like, you know... Mike Davis had one year, I think, but yeah. They had the RCA done was half red, half blue. Those were the days when they were both top 10, top five programs, and it was awesome. Do you say we're about out of time, Shannon?

We got a couple more minutes. Okay, Google. We got another phone call? No. I couldn't hear what you were saying. I didn't say anything. Okay. He was talking to you, Brian.

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Hunger Walk. They're going to start the Hunger Walk right there, I think, right when we start our show. So come out and support the Christian Appalachian Project. They do great things to help feed the families of Appalachia that need help. A lot of them desperately need help. We've got tickets to give away to Louder Than Life tickets. I also have Eric Church concert tickets to give away tomorrow. So we've got all kind of good.

A lot of giveaways. A lot of giveaways. But that's not all. On Friday, we're back here for another live show at Wild Eggs in Hamburg. Their new location is it in Hamburg or is it in Tate's Creek. Tate's Creek. I don't know why I said Hamburg. The new Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek, we're going to be there.

I've got more louder than life tickets. I've got more Eric church tickets to give away. A lot of generous. So come on out and see us. You get to eat. Josiah may even be there working. They're trying to work it out. But he'd have to skip class.

You have Josiah in your class? You said you're teaching a UK. No, no, he's not my class. No. You know who he's got? He's got Jennifer Smith. Yeah, yeah. Jin's great.

Jim teaches some journalism class. Yeah. I'm teaching. I'm teaching one journalism class one day a week, so maybe Josiah will eventually be in my class. I got to ask you, man. You're a professor now. Are you a big syllabus guy?

No, I told the students the first day of school, I was like, look, it's going to be really hard to fail this class if you just show up. Are you an icebreaker guy? First day, icebreakers, please say no. Yeah, I had him say their name. Listen, thanks for coming in, Lee Kay. Appreciate it. Congratulations on your promotion.

Welcome to Lexington, dude. You've been over 15 years. Now you're a lifer. There you go. Thanks, guys. Lee Kay Howard. We're live in Mount Vernon tomorrow. We'll see you then.

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