KSR - 2025-09-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

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Ryan Lemon, Shannon the dude, Billy R. Sports and Super Mario running around here today. And we are at Ham Days in Lebanon, Kentucky. One of the best festivals all across the bluegrass here in Marion County. And as always, we are brought to you by T.J. Smith, personal injury lawyer. Call T.J. Ryan, and what will he make them do? He will make them? Pay. That's right. Beautiful work, guys. I'm not used to leading this voice at a remote.

I'm Drew. I filled in Tuesday, I guess, for you, Ron Lemon. And I guess we're just going to keep rotating until Matt Jones gets back. We want to hear from the callers, as always, on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line at 859-2-287. And the A-Vision Glass Text Machine is in Ryan's pocket. I got it right here. Shannon, do you know the number? 502-7, 35, 36, 80. And in case you forget it, it's on a sticker on the back of the phone.

There you go. There we go. Beautiful stuff. And as always, or not as always, today we're sponsored by Lebanon Tourism and Johnny Rocker Law. You're familiar with him from the pregame shows where Ryan picks the Johnny Rocker role player of the game. He's rocking right now. He sure is. I saw he climb the Rockin' his own rocking chair.

You know, by the way, he has small-town compassion with big city results. Yeah. You've done that before. Look at that. He got his old pop. Well, as I said, we're here at Ham Days. It runs September 26th through 28th. We've been here a few times, especially last year was a monumental one.

As we have our guy, Billy, our sports is going to do the show with us today. And Billy, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention last year your big victory here where you beat all of us in the haybell toss, and you still carry that trophy around like it's the Lombardi trophy. Yeah, I've only thought about it every day since then. This is my favorite remote for one reason only, and that was the haybell toss. I still remember jumping into your arms after my victory drew. and was excited to do whatever competition that we're going to do today.

Yeah, we got that picture framed at KS. Barr, me lifting you up as you beat mostly Shannon here in the headoff. Well, who decided to hang that up there? That had to be Billy that hung that up there because nobody else would do that. And I'm sad because you're not defending that title. What kind of title do you not defend? Radio heavyweight title never gets defended. Let's just jump into that. Let's just talk about, we have a new trophy here. It says 2025 on it. But we do not get a shot at Billy in the haybell toss. Everyone has just decided he is such a champion. He can never be taken down.

But it looks like, according to this trophy, we will be doing a hog-calling competition. Well, you were against this now. So have you turned on it or do you think you're still going to do it? Do you want to call the hogs? I'm on the fence. I got a little bit of feedback from fans. Like this is KSR, we can't be hog-calling. Yeah.

Maybe we just change the name, pig calling? Can we do that? That's it. Is it the same? I don't know. It says hog right here on the trophy. I don't want to edit that out. But we are going to do that at the end of the show,

even if it is just Billy versus Ryan, because Billy has to continue his dominance here in Lebanon. And this will be his next opportunity when he calls the hogs at the end of the show. So that's what we do. We just change it. The pig calling contest, we can get a piece of tape. Get a what?

A piece of tape. Cover that up. Put pig on it. But apparently, I don't know what's going on with the haybell contest. There's like a controversy down here, a little drama going on down here. I don't think they want us to talk about that.

I don't know what you're talking about. Ryan just makes things up sometimes. Let's talk about how it's a top 10 event. in Kentucky. It includes the country ham breakfast, the pokey pig 5K live music. Shannon, you know anything about live music? Yeah, we played here, Alice Bluegown a couple of years ago. A couple years ago, yeah, really cool facility that they've got. Look, you get a pop. That's right. Yeah, they shut down like the little town square, and they put a stage right there, and we had a great crowd out there, and I was thinking about

actually coming back out here Saturday, so I may be a monkstom out here today, or Saturday. Yeah, and Friday night, you got the downtown concert brought to you by Good Buddies Brewing Saturday tonight from 8 to 11 brought to you by Marion County Economic Development for more go to ham days.com as I said we've been here many times we love it has anyone gotten the country ham biscuit yet I really just came to eat like I'm just doing a radio show secondary I've already had a country ham biscuit I had a sausage egg and cheese biscuit from cedar wood which is absolutely delicious get some of that if you if you like breakfast food and I'm a big fan of it you know we were just in 11 a couple weeks ago at the cornbread hemp fields

So we're making this. It's been twice in two weeks we've come down here. We've become like, you know, second-born citizens here in Lebanon right now. Well, let's give it a little love like we do when we go to random cities. Okay. This one, you know, usually you have the athletes. That's pretty easy, but I'll still toss to you to brag on the local athletes from the past. Well, of course, it starts and ends with the Epps family.

Anthony Epps, Michaela Epps, two of the greatest high school players this state has ever produced. Right here in Lebanon, yeah. But, you know, one guy I think that gets forgotten is Elton Scott. who was a year behind Anthony, so he was on Anthony's state championship team, but he won Mr. Basketball the next year. I think he went to West Virginia, but ended up in Louisville like that. So those are the top three, I think. I heard you talk about somebody named Toothpick.

Bobby Toothpick Williams. I don't know Toothpick. Tell us about Toothpick. I don't know anything about Toothpick. Well, Toothpick is named Toothpick because he had a toothpick in his mouth, not because he was so skinny. It looked like a toothpick. I believe he was the first African-American All-Star for the K-S-A-A.

Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. So a toothpick on the list also. You mentioned cornbread we were just there. This is cornbread territory. It is.

Absolutely it is. This area is all over it with big Johnny Boone. Also. We're not supposed to talk about that, right? I'm supposed to say that either. How about another legend from around here? The late Turtle Man? Turtle Man.

Called the Wild Man. Did you all watch Call of the Wild Man? Live action. I used to watch that all the time. Yeah. Turtle Man was a big star around these parts. Was that like A&E or Discovery? Yeah.

I mean, respectfully everyone here, he would Definitely just go put the animal and then go get it, right? Isn't that how it worked? Like the raccoon in the garage, he would plant it? Okay, but see, I don't think there's any difference between, you know, you go to a pay lake and you go fishing, right? Right. You realize those fish get loaded in by somebody and then you just go pull them right back out. I don't think that Turtle Man was doing anything different than what you would do if you went to a lake.

So I think it was perfectly fair. Well, I think you had to go in there and get it. You still had to go grab a snapping turtle with your two bare hands and pull it out. But how did the snapping turtle get into a swimming pool above ground swimming pool? They just got to throw them in there. Who threw the turtle in there? Neil, his good friend Neil. He's on the show.

He'll probably threw it in. Also some fun KSR memories from here, including one. Last time we did a remote in Lebanon last summer. Again, Matt Jones has gone, gallivanting all over the world. Matt Jones does not like Lebanon. I think that's what it is. Matt doesn't like Lebanon. He doesn't like Country Ham.

He says Country Ham stinks. I think that's why he's not here. Well, I remember our show we did downtown very well, because moments before we started, Ryan Lemon was in charge of hosting, as I'm doing now. When you're hosting, as you all know with the pre-show, you've got to have your topics, you've got to drive, you've got to be ready. And we are minutes from going live, and Ryan shows me his phone,

and his entire phone had just switched to German. I remember that day. Yeah. Contacts, notes, emails, and we could not figure out how to get it back into English. Everything I had prepared and written down for the day had been in German, and none of us knew how to translate it back. Nobody could figure it out. We had to just kind of wing it.

I remember if I remember it, I think I went to the AT&T store, and they had to get it back to reset it because everything was in German. How did that happen? It happened in my pocket. In the pocket. And everything got translated to the German. I don't know what happened. It's one of those Ryan Lemon phones. I would think you could have maybe taken all of that, copied and pasted it into like a German to English website.

I think they were trying to try it. It wouldn't work. Wow. And you know Ryan's notes they're so thorough. I mean, there were probably 6,000 words. I had all kinds of stuff. Talk about Lebanon, all translated to German and finally. Finally, somebody at the AT&D store finally translated it back for me.

I bet Matt wishes that's what happened to his phone in his pocket instead of... Oh, you're right. Have we talked about that on KSR? We have? Let's keep talking about it. That's actually one of my things to do is a Matt checkup. Billy and I are, you know, with cover zero. We recorded another one yesterday.

It's out this morning. A couple people here said you listened, so thank you. But in part of doing our NFL show, we are able to have long conversations with Matt. We're like the only people able to speak to him because he doesn't have a phone over there. And Billy being the great GM that he is, sent up an iPad that was already rigged up with all the streaming tools we need. So we've checked in with Matt. He is alive.

We can report. He's mid-Safari. We were able to get through a show yesterday. But Billy, we mentioned he had seen some animals. And if you all follow Matt on Instagram, I think he borrowed a stranger's phone. He's like, I can't go to Africa and not take pictures. So he was able to post on social media a few times by logging in through someone else's phone. Yeah, and he said that he did that several times, whether it be a taxi driver that he's going into or the guy

that he's on tour with. He needs some photos, so he's asking people to take a photo of him and then send it to his phone so he can get it later. Well, I saw he posted one of a giant turtle. Uh-huh. And I saw he posted one of a 75-year-old turtle. Oh, a 75-year-old turtle. Asked him how he knows that, and he said the guy told him, and I was like, well, that guy, I know. Get a count the rings on it. And he posted a picture of some penguins, looks like on the beach. So at least we got to see that part of it. Now here's my question, though, aren't they going to the big safari today or something? They're like in it right now, I believe. He's already rebelling and snorkeling. Yeah, there's six hours ahead of us.

Wasn't it closed? Didn't they close it yesterday or something? I did see in a lot of KSR listeners Senate. It looked like they had closed the area he was going to completely shut down. That's what I thought. But I believe Billy, he's already in the area when we talked to him yesterday. So had he been a day later, Matt in traffic with no phone would have been a great plot twist for his trip. But I'm pretty sure he is already in whatever the mountain or whatever he's doing. We got another show to record later today. We're supposed to see if he contacts us before that if he can even get connected. So he is going to the bush, but that would be the ultimate KSR cursed if something like that were to happen.

They said they closed it because there were too many people already on the property. And there are already, I saw that line of traffic backed up. He would have loved that. But I think he managed to. So he was already in when they closed it. He did not mention this yesterday. Okay. But also yesterday after we did cover zero, we could have used you guys.

Billy, we wrapped up at about 4 o'clock. We're talking about this. Yeah, we're going to tell. I heart loves when I tell behind the scenes I heart stories. Yeah. Wrap up about 4 o'clock. Very, very long day at that point. I still had a lot more to do.

Had a mother-in-law coming over. I was supposed to have lasagna in the oven by five to get that ready. And it's 4 o'clock? Yeah, but at this moment, I'm still great on time. I got my whole itinerary. But as I'm leaving eye heart, waving goodbye to everyone, someone says, oh, Drew, you're here for the 430 seminar. And I stopped and I was like, yeah, of course I'm here for the 430 seminar.

Remind me again about the seminar. And then they said, you know, we get to meet clients. There's a presentation and all things going on just at infinity right above I heart, same building. So because me, Billy, O, and Mario are unable to say no, we're very nice guys. You're trapped. You're in the office. I'm not going to say we're trapped because we were very enthused. But me, Billy and Mario, spent a little extra time with our I-Heart colleagues yesterday going over a podcast presentation. I posted a little clip of Billy O and Mario.

They were dialed in, very focused. We met a lot of our nice clients. But Ryan, you know, we missed it the meeting yesterday. I'm sure you were completely aware of it like we were. I was so excited about going to the meeting. I slept from like 3 to 5 o'clock. Slept right through it and no idea. People seemed to be questioning how into the presentation I was.

Me and Mario were showing each other pictures on our phone during the video that you posted. But look, we were there to mingle, right? We were meeting the clients. We did what we needed to do. Mario was taking pictures. They had free food there. Mario made sure to get lots of that. Used to go boxes on the way home.

But, you know, sometimes you're at I heart and you just, I'm not going to say we didn't check an email. But we lucked into walking out the door right as they needed us there. But we really could have used your run. So they went to Infinity Bar, but yet it was a seminar there. Oh, there was a big screen with multiple speakers, like guest speakers. I heart brass from out of town speaking. That sounds great, doesn't it? People wearing suits.

I hated to miss that one, Shannon. I didn't know anything about it. It was in Lexington. So I could wipe my hands clean of this one. I didn't know about it. Well, we signed you all in. It looks like you were there. Thank you.

I also want to mention before we get on to some actual news and have some more fun here at Ham Days. Jojo was awesome yesterday. He was good, wasn't he? He was so fun. I need people to understand that energy you got from Jojo through the radio during the break because he was like that, maybe even times too. And I just, that is, I guess that's Jojo all the time. He's full speed and full of energy and just seems to always be happy. Yeah, I said this on the show.

The fan base needed that, needed a little pump of excitement. I think we got it from Dennis on Tuesday, Dennis Johnson, and then Jojo yesterday. the fan base needs it. Surely the locker room and the coaches need something like that, but just a little boost, a little jolt of breath of fresh air excitement coming into the program. Maybe see what JoJo is doing on Saturdays. He could join you guys on that pregame show because he is full of a lot of positive energy. He is. We'll have to check with the Ortho Legend to get his availability. But Shannon, you agree with us from the show.

Joe Joe needs his microphone in Kroger Field. If only for 30 seconds during a timeout. Yeah, I mean, somebody just to go over there, you know, and pump the crowd up a little bit, A former player always helps if it's somebody that the fans are already familiar with and, you know, a guy who's beloved like Jojo is. But, yeah, I thought he was great on the show yesterday. And he does seem like the happiest person I think I've ever heard, just, you know, talking about Kentucky football and saying, why not, you know? And yeah, that's what I was going to say. How many times could we set the over under for why not if he does the hosting? Why not us?

If you're a program looking for traditions, looking for things to celebrate, why not? Why not, Jojo? You know, he gave a little plea. Mitch Barnhart and Susan, I think he called her Susan Slacks. Susan Slacks. Yeah, he said if we've kind of a little plea to bring him on and let him do something, it would be great to bring him out there because he definitely would help revive the fan base a little bit, I think.

It was a great show with him yesterday. Also, it's great talking to Matt, doing another cover zero. Check that out. We have a lot of news to get to here at Ham Days. More Ham Days talk. It is Drew, Ryan, Shannon, and Billy. Billy might be doing some hog calling later. We'll see.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. at Ham Days in Lebanon. Lovely Marion County. Drew Franklin here, they gave me the keys to the car to the remote for the first time. This is fun, Ryan. Rolling on with it.

Yeah, I do want to drive it into Lebanon. Last time we were here at the Cornbread Hemp Show, Mario was surprised that Abraham Lincoln was born in this area. So today, coming in, I pointed out, look at that sign. They say he was born in a cabin down that road right there. Isn't there like 15 different places that people claim? That doesn't matter.

Abraham Lincoln was born in? The real place is right down the road. road here close to Lebanon. Yeah, and I don't think we really have any evidence from back then, so I guess you could claim he was born anywhere in Kentucky. What about Hodgandville? Yeah, but he's born in a cabin, right down the road right over here. We'll count it. The sign says so. Just wherever we are that particular day, that's where Abraham was. That's right. Yeah. All in Kentucky wants a piece of Lincoln. Like, I mean, everywhere, everywhere you go, it's Lincoln.

Well, you know, I grew up in Indiana. We claim Abraham Lincoln where he went to, was a youngster there, and then, of course, Illinois claimed him where he grew up there. He was bouncing around like he was running from the wall. But we're happy to be here in in Springfield, or Lebanon in Marion County. Let's do a few news items. Yesterday was a little newsy after the show. We got some basketball start times.

Yeah, some good, some bad. I'll start with the one I like. We're finally the first game in the Champions Classic playing Michigan State at 630. Usually in those double-headers. Kentucky gets that second game, which always starts a little late. Oh, yeah. Makes for a later night and so on.

But this year, at least, in the Champions Classic up in the Garden. We'll be at 6.30. That's on a Tuesday night. Nobody happier than Brother Billy right here. Yes. Amen. I always think about Billy and all of these because I know those late night games. He's got to be there on 2, 3 o'clock in the morning dealing with drunk fans.

And depending on how the game went, if they end up losing, I mean, it's even more of a, I guess, hurdle trying to screen those phone calls. Oh, I've always circled the champion classic as the longest day of the year. And it's also pretty good news for our guys, Dave Baker and Cameron Mills, because that is a long pregame show as well. So good on them being the first game. Our website team, shout out to them. That makes for a long night as well. We might even get an hour of sleep after this next game, the one Billy's dreading. We got some decent news about the Champions Classic,

but in the ACC SEC SEC Challenge, Kentucky and North Carolina get the 930 draw, meaning Billy will officially crawl into the pre-show that next day, having not slept. Billy, what did you think about getting the absolute last time slot available for the long day of basketball in the channel? Well, I have an air mattress. I can set that up in the studio. I think that might be the best thing to do to get to the show the next day. It kind of reminds me of the Oklahoma game in the SEC tournament, if you remember. We had to wait for that game to start.

It was like three in the morning. Matt's on the roof doing the postgame show. So maybe we can channel some of that craziness at night, but definitely a show we might turn on the alien show for at least a couple seconds. You and I are together postgame South Carolina. Is that right? Me and you. Two of us.

I will say, I've never, I've done a postgame show. show, but not a late night. We might also do some alien talk, depending how that game goes. What time's pregame, Ron? That's us. Was that game 7.25? Let's how we're going to go at 430. 430 to 530. Just one hour pregame show since it's a road game. So 430 to 530 will be at KS bars. We'll come out and tailgate with us and then sit and watch the game. Yeah, even though it's a road game, we'll go to the bar and still have a good time there pre-gaming. Some other basketball-related news. We got a bracketology yesterday. I know everybody's worried about our NCAA tournament seed in the middle of September. Of course we are.

But Joe La Nardi, he loves it. He loves his job. He has great job security over there as long as he keeps doing these weekly. So we'll at least acknowledge it. Kentucky is three seed in the west. I think that's San Jose is where that region would be opening with Furman. My boy Mani's team. My boy Mani's alma mater. That would be fun. And then you would get Michigan State or Memphis in the second round. The one seed in that region is Purdue, who Kentucky plays here in about four weeks in an exhibition game.

And then the other one seeds in the draw are Houston, Florida, and Duke. We obviously don't know really what matchups would be, but at this stage in the year, knowing what little we know, is anyone arguing against the three seeds? Do you good with that? I'm good with that. First, a couple of thoughts. First of all, the fact that ESPN employs Joe Lannardi year-round to do bracketology,

which means absolutely nothing. Joe Lannardi's got it figured out. I mean, I want that job. Yeah, he does. Make stuff up that doesn't matter. And he just moves like three teams around. Yeah. Yeah.

Second of all, San Jose, three seeds, okay, whatever. I mean, obviously two or one would be better. But a three-seed, okay, we'll take that. But San Jose, I'm thinking if we have to drive all the way out to San Jose, I am not looking forward to that. So maybe you and I, I think that's a Matt and Drew. Ryan and I can stay back and entertain everybody at KS. Barr if that happens. You know, when Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster were on,

they both said they felt like it's Purdue and Houston, and then there's like eight teams kind of grouped together. Kentucky's in that group, but so is Louisville's in that group. So, you know, a three-seed, you know, but if you're going to give me Purdue, Purdue doesn't scare me. Of course, you know, I hate Purdue. I never like Purdue. You grew up hating Purdue.

They produce stink. Purdue stink. You know, you just, they're going to fail. They're not going to do anything. Is that the chant, Purdue Sting? That's what we used to say. Produce Stink. Produce Stink.

They just produce stink. Purdue Stink. All right. That's a good one. It's very clever. Purdue Stink. Well, we'll see them, except that's four weeks from maybe even today. Let me ask you this.

If we could wave a magic wand and say Kentucky gets a three seed right now, would you take that? would you say let's just play it out and maybe we'll get a one or a two. Meaning, do you think there's any chance that Kentucky gets worse than a three seed? I say play it out. Play it out. Yeah, play it out. I mean, you've got Stephen Pearl, coaching Auburn now.

I mean, Florida's Florida. They're projected as a one seed. But other than that, the SEC overall, still going to be strong, but not nearly what was a year ago. I'm loving what we're hearing out of practice. I want a top two seats. Yeah, three seats should be the floor, right? With this roster, let's be a one or a two. I would be poetic.

You play an exhibition game versus Purdue, and then they're the one seed. That would be an interesting matchup, but at the same time, I'd like to avoid them. Can we just get hashtag Purdue Stink? Produceding. Purdue Stink. Purdue Stink.

We're looking way too far ahead to the NCAA basketball postseason, but one postseason is coming up close, and Matt's Reds might have been. You know, he would be up here having a meltdown about what happened. So we have to acknowledge the Reds. You had the big home run last night in the bottom of the ninth, that's when I turned it on, when Stevenson tied it up. Did you miss the inside of the Parker?

I caught up on it. I don't sit around watching the Reds, but my group chat went crazy. We're back. Okay, well, they were down 4-2 and the – is it the eighth when they had the – It was 2-0, then 2-1 on the inside of the Parker, then it was 2-2. Then they went into extra innings, Pirates score 1 in the top of the 10th, Red score 1, 3-3. And I think it was 4-3 was the final, I believe. The Pirate scored another one, obviously, in the top of the 10th.

11th. But yeah, the Reds are quickly running out of time here. They got four more games. They got one more with the Pirates today. Three on the road against the Brewers and the Mets lost last night too, but they're still one game ahead. Excruciating way to lose for them too. Extra innings. I have

the record here. They're 3 and 12 in extra innings this season. Braves were part of one of those wins. But filling for Reds fans a little bit. They're not out of it. ESPN gives them a 29% chance. But losing back to back to Pittsburgh that way, Ryan, I can only imagine what Matt's going through as he's chasing zebras around South Africa.

Yeah, when we did this show, as it on Monday, the Reds were in the driver's seat. Because they had the tiebreaker with the match. They were currently tied with them at that time. But you already dropped, and you've got the Pirates. You think you could maybe win two or three of the Pirates. But then you had the Cy Young Award winner Paul Skeens last night on the mound, too. So that's what I heard a lot of Reds fans saying. Why didn't they pitch Hunter Green on Tuesday night?

Just concede the loss to Paul Skeen. And they concede the loss. There's split going into today. Today's game like starts at noon, too, I think. I think it's an afternoon game. 1245. Johnny Rocker said he might have. to sneak out here to watch his Reds. We can't be having that.

Yeah, and then the Brewers next. They're going to be playing for home field advantage chance. It's right. Rick, I feel like you told me we're counting down. I feel like we're coming up on a break. How are you doing over there, Rick, by the way? All right. You're doing 10. How you doing, Rick? Rick, Ryan, Shannon, and Billy. You heard that. We'll take a quick break and be right back with more news from Big Blue Nation yesterday. This is not Matt Jones. This is Drew Franklin here in Lebanon for Ham Days with Ryan Shannon and Billy.

Guys, we're having fun today, but I have a slight correction I have to make. I've already made an error. You know, I'm not used to being up here. Hey, I don't normally drive the show. I usually just sit there and barely pay attention. Two, we're on a big stage. Facts are optional. I'm thinking back to, like, I was the kid in school where you had to give a presentation.

You could, like, see their hands shaking. Like, I was terrified. Were you all like that? I've grown out of it. But, I mean, did you all have basic public speaking problems, or am I alone on that? I was the guy volunteering to go first. I'm jumping up. Yeah, I'll do it.

Let's go. All right. Woo-hoo. Well, that doesn't surprise anyone, but I do have to correct something. Turtle Man is alive. His friend, Neil, on the show, is the one who passed. I got it backwards. So, Turtle Man, if you're out there listening, good to know.

You're still doing well. You've got his number. I do have Turtle Man's number. How do you, why and how do you get Turtle Man's number in your phone? I can never lose this phone. I have the most random contacts. We should go through your phone and see who the most random people we could find, and maybe just have Rick call them up and see if they want to talk about, you know, how life's going.

Listen, listen, send Turtle. send Turtle Man a message, and let's try to get him on the show. I mean, we're in his hometown. We're in Lebanon. Well, yeah, he's one of the most random. Him and Marilyn Manson, I believe. Well, Marilyn Manson was just a louder than life. I mean, you could have, you know, hung out with him over the weekend.

I was trying to get a hold of him. But I just wanted to clear things up, Turtle Man. Turtle Man is alive and well. Yeah. Is he still here in Lebanon? Where does he live? He does. They're shaking in here.

Maybe he'll be at Ham Days. Maybe he'll walk into the show. Why didn't they correct me when I said it then? Yeah. Well, we fixed that. They were just ready for you to kill him off. Maybe we'll hear from him later. He can do some good hog calling, I'm sure.

If anybody could, it'd be Turtle Man, right? What that was his whole thing? Didn't he do the Yee-G-G-E? Oh, yeah, he did do the Yee-E. Live action? Maybe I'll do the Turtle Man call while you all our hog-call. There you go. But we want your calls.

859-280-2287. Nailed that transition there. And the A-Vision Glass 5027-35-36-80. That's it. You've ruined my brain of how to say a phone number. And, you know, I don't usually have the A-Vision-glass text machine, but it goes off all day long. People who listen to the podcast, boom, then they'll text me stuff.

So I've had to learn to turn it down because it beeps all night long. This phone nearly spontaneously combust it last Thursday when we brought up Jimmy Kimmel. That's true. And Ryan brought it up, and I've never seen anybody backtrack on a topic quicker than Ryan on Jimmy Kimball. Because the text machine just went crazy. I thought it was going to explode. Like 20 texts in a row about the Jimmy Kimmel. Oh, there's more than 20.

Yeah, that's probably right. I will say I was off last week, and I wasn't able to listen. But there was a moment where I was out, and a few people came up to me, and they're like, your boy had a Kimmel segment today, and I was wondering if I needed to get back on the show in a hurry. But you all did great. So thank you for holding it up a little while. Happy to drive today for you.

Well, you know, he's talking about. He's back. Yeah, he's back on air, Ryan. And he had, like, record viewership, I think, on his first game show back. So it's all I'm going to say. What do we have tomorrow? Three, two, one. You're driving tomorrow show at Irmo.

Where are we? We are at Bywater Farms in Georgetown, another one of our favorite stop. Of course, it's like a big pumpkin patch. You can come get your pumpkins, get your moms. It's a great place. We always have a good time out there. Like cinnamon donuts, apple cider always out there. It's always a lot of fun.

Shannon did the pumpkin cannon last year. How was that, Shannon? Chunkin or out there. What do they call something? Like a cannon they have. It was actually apples you put in there. Oh, it's apples. And yeah, that's a lot of fun too.

So a lot of cool things you can do out there tomorrow at Bywater Farms. And growing up in Madisonville, I used to make the potato guns. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good old-fashioned fun staying out of trouble. back then. I had a few more news items. I didn't want to skip over here. Kentucky volleyball needs a shout out. Yes, they do. Opened SEC play with a sweep

yesterday, beating South Carolina. Yeah, give my round of applause. We can cheer for that. Put your hand biscuits down and sure for that. South Carolina actually dominated the second set. Kentucky still came back to win that one, didn't have much trouble in the other two, but I was surprised to see it's the first time they've won their first

SEC match since 2021. Eight straight SEC titles, but usually get off to a rough start there. So they're one and 8 and 2 on the year, and I believe this Friday they have another home win. That's surprising me, because you're right. They are the queens of SEC volleyball. They've won so many titles in a row. But I saw they moved up to number three in the country.

They beat Louisville last week, so they've already played number one, played number two. Now they are number three. I want to see Kentucky Nebraska again. I think we want them back. We had them down 2-0. Nebraska came back, ended up winning, but I think Kentucky can beat Nebraska again. Hopefully maybe we'll see them in the championship game. We've got all these trophies out here.

Maybe we should give Kentucky volleyball a trophy right now. Let's make that the championship. Yesterday being Wednesday, we also got a football injury report. Been a while since we've had for those. Last week's a by week. Before that, Eastern Michigan, where you don't have to release it. But now that there's a SEC opponent, we found out that Kentucky, not in too bad a shape.

DJ Waller probably not going to have him starting corner, but he's missed the last three games. Calzada was listed as questionable. Stoops hasn't said much about that. Hard to know his status. I think there's a little gamesmanship going on there when Stoop talks about it. Wilcox was listed out, but then some good news. Terriott Nichols will be back after he missed part of the Eastern Michigan game.

Josiah Hayes and Troy Stalado look like they're back. And then South Carolina, they're a little more beaten up. They could be without a right tackle, a defensive tackle, center, a cornerback, and a safety. So a little bit of football news coming out of there. Looks like Kentucky in decent shape, all things considered, after that secondary was really banged up two weeks ago. Yeah, the biweek definitely helps Kentucky. for sure, I let these guys kind of get healed up a little bit. You know, Waller's a guy that kind of missed.

They had to play a lot of guys at Corner last game, just trying to find somebody that can maybe get the job done. He's the one they probably missed the most. But, you know, we talked about this. There's a little scuttle butt that said Calzada's shoulder is pretty messed up, that he may be out for a while, just be a backup guy. Maybe, like we saw him in the Eastern Michigan, be a coach on the sideline to Cutter, kind of help him out what he sees from the sideline

and then goes and talks to Cutter about it. But South Carolina down five people, that's good news for us, for sure. And a great opportunity like we've been talking about for Cutter Bowley to go into a tough road environment. And if he can pull off a win there against South Carolina, that's one of those games. It's a swing game on your schedule. So we can really see, I think, what we've got in Cutter. It's hard to see really what you got when you're playing Eastern Michigan. But going on a road and getting a win like this as your quarterback, I think that would be a huge step in the right direction.

Well, I think that's the silver lining. You don't root for injuries, but Kousada being out allows Qatar to do his thing without looking behind his shoulder. I mean, it's going to be his game, his first SEC start. And I think that this team is better with Cutter at the quarterback spot. At least their ceiling. I think so, too. Last night, I sticking with SEC football, Billy, after our big I-heart seminar, which we were so excited to get to and dressed up for.

We were dressed up, that was for sure. I was wearing basically pajamas. I had on a Titan shirt. Well, we were doing cover zero. I wasn't ready to go be part of this. Double bucks a year on was a rough move. We looked like a couple little kids on our way to our first NFL game. But after that, I went home and staying on some of our topics yesterday.

We talked about Lane Kiffin. Yes. The big debut of his documentary, the mini-lives of what Kiffin was last night. Did anyone get bored enough to tune into a Lane Kippen documentary? I wish I would have known that came out last night. I would have watched it. I don't know how many people listened to the pre-show that are listening right now. But Billy told a great story on the pre-show about how his fiancee is in love with Nick Sabin.

Of all people. We watched the whole documentary last night. She starts sitting up in her chair when he goes to Alabama, doing the offensive coordinator stuff. I'm like, oh, you're really in. into this 30 for 30 and she goes, that guy's attractive. Nick Saban. I thought she would be talking about Lane Kiffin. Nick Saban. Not Lank. He's dry. He's just like very basic.

I mean, he's a great coach. But I just, I mean, look, I'm not one to judge if guys a good looking or not. But I wouldn't think that Nick Saban would be the heartthrob for somebody in her 20s. But apparently Billy better watch out because Nick Saban is going to come take your girl. She was all over him. I mean, at the end, though, she tried to say that that's how I would look if I was And I said, no, no, no, I don't look anything like Nick Saban. Please, you're just trying to save yourself now. Yeah.

We looked it up. He's 73. I'm playing the documentary back in my mind. I can't think of a moment where even if you thought Nick Saban was good looking, that would be a moment. But it opens with, you see a lot of Lane Kiffin, the documentary opens with him doing hot yoga. Just like he had done in Lexington. I didn't expect the whole beginning to be about the impact of hot yoga on him. But it was a decent documentary in about an hour.

I tend to like Elaine Kiffin in a kind of love hate way. I found him entertaining. The big news that came out of it was he admitted that in 2022, he was considering Auburn pretty heavily leaving Ole Miss. And his daughter Landry and their friends went to his office, and they had put together a slideshow with sad music. And he said, I wasn't sure that I was going to leave, but at that point I knew I had to stay.

I hope I'm doing a documentary this week of the girlfriend. I mean, his daughter, the girlfriend did the LSU linebacker game day, game week. That's the documentary I want to want to. to watch. Absolutely. I did think it was really good, though. Like, you forget about Al Davis's PowerPoint after firing Lane with the Raiders or him leaving after going seven and six with Tennessee and then only for USC to get all those

sanctions with Reggie Bush. So, I mean, the guy has lived many lives, as the title is. He talks about leaving Knoxville where he was not ready for the news to get out. He comes out, and immediately there are people throwing stuff at his house with his wife and kid there. They had to send police, and he just left town and never went back. But it was about an hour. If you need something to watch, I recommend watching.

Not to watch it just to see how sexy. Just see Nick Saban looks in that. How can you watch Game Day after this knowing Marissa has this thing for Nick Saban? Yeah. See, hey, Billy, let's go watch College Day. Well, you know, I think I'm safe. I don't think Game Day will ever come to Kentucky, so I'm at least good there. That's the hall pass, right?

Nick Saban. I guess that's her hall pass. Rick, we need to cleanse ourselves of these mental images of Nick Saban. Who's on the phone line? Maybe they'll have something to change the subject or add to this. Got Wayne on the line. Wayne, you have the floor. Hey, thank you for taking my call.

All right. Paul, our show prep, probably the most important people that ever came out of Marion County are much famous. Tommy Simpson was the best football player ever played in the UK. He was one of a thin third. They're not their head.

He was in the thin 30? He was a thin 30. It hadn't been for him. It had been a thin 29. That's true. Yeah, it would be one less. Well, that's a good point. We appreciate the call.

Tommy Simpson? Was that his name? Tommy Simpson? Tommy Simpson, all right? Part of the thin 30. So there we go. Got somebody else here from Lebanon that he's to be mentioned. You're supposed to know all the athletes, Ron.

I didn't know Toothpick. I didn't know Tommy Simpson, but that's what we do. That's why the callers will educate us. And one more SEC coaching note, Billy, I'll tell Marissa to turn the radio down. So we talk about other SEC coaches. But the situation to watch in Arkansas, it's very unlikely, but not impossible. Their coach is on the hot seat. And the potential option should they leave him in the middle of the year when Bobby Petrino sits there.

And we could have Bobby 2.0, 2.0. That's right. He's the offensive coordinator. He did the little thing twice. We could see neck brace Bobby head coach of Arkansas once again. I can't imagine them bringing them back again. It's probably not going to happen. A booster has even said absolutely no way.

But there's some buzz because the offense is looking good. Sam Pittman, the time looks like it might be up. And they could hand it off to Petrino where we get Bobby 2.0. 2.0. Would you all be for Bobby Petrino running the show with the Razorbacks again? I'd be for it because I'm not a Razorback fan. But if I'm Arkansas, I can't imagine them bringing them back again. I mean, Louisville already made that mistake once.

So I can't imagine Arkansas doing the same thing. But I guess stranger things have happened. I hadn't even thought about that, but that's a strong scenario that could happen. I mean, Patrino's the offensive coordinator. He's got head coaching experience. You need an interim coach just to get you through the end of the year. I can see them maybe giving it to him. So then does Arkansas become public enemy number one, Caliparian basketball,

and Patrino and football both at the same school? I don't know if I'd call that. I would just laugh at that. And he would, you got to lean into it if it were to happen. Like, he needs to ride a motorcycle onto the field with a neck brace and just go all. in if that happens. But it's a fun little side story to watch the conference. Again, they probably wouldn't do it, but that is being talked about. It's a possibility. Like, what else you're going to do?

You've got to win a couple of games. You're trying to win in the rest of the season. Maybe he gives you the best chance to do it. I'd love to see it. Neckbrace and all. We're going to take a break here at Ham Days. We're having lots of fun. I got a topic coming up where Billy and I are going to teach these two how to like golf. Don't worry. It's not going to be golf talk. There's different parts of it. We're still going to do some hog calling. We want to take your calls. 5.02. excuse me, 502, God, that's the, it's the text line, 859-280-2287, and the A-Vision glass text machine 502-7, 35, 3680.

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So that's how you do it. You don't just start shouting words because they're on the paper in front of you. Words and numbers, whatever is. Whatever's on there. We should talk a little South Carolina. It's coming up. Still got another day. We'll do a lot of that tomorrow.

But we mentioned the injury report. A few other things. It's a Tom Hart game. Oh, does he? Yeah, SEC Network 745. Tom was texting us yesterday. Tom was also part of the 2014 game that was so eventful. He even sent a few things that he went through.

What did he have? Flat tire? Flat tire. He mentioned that was when the fan fell out of the stands that game. That's right. It ended up being okay. But, I mean, in that night, he was just like one thing after another. So we were talking about, you know,

the Jojo touchdown, the Grove Street Party song, Bud's touchdown. And then Tom, I guess, we're listening to the show. He texted, because remember, that's also the game. Somebody fell out of the stands down there after Bud threw the ball up in the stands, I think it was. And, you know, Tom sees games all over the SEC all season. He agrees that was just one of the most eventful, like things that stuck around. Even for him, like he said, after the game, he's got a flat tire. He's trying to get to the airport.

Yeah, but we'll have him back Saturday. Good. Does the name Vicari Swain, meaning you think to anyone? because he's a name you need to know if you're going to be watching that game. He is South Carolina's punt returner. Okay. And why do we need to know him? He's returned seven punts this season.

All right. You know, it's only been four games. Yeah. Seven times people punted to him. Three times he took it back for a touchdown. Oh, I got an idea. Fourth down, let's just go for it. I don't care where we're out on the field.

We're just kicking out of balance. We're not kicking to that guy. You know, special team coaches infuriate me sometime. You got a guy back there like that. Just don't punt to him. I mean, we had Derek Abney. they kept putting to him, kept pumped because they thought we know how to stop him. He won't score against us.

Guess what? He scored against you. Just don't punt to this guy. I'm kicking the ball straight out of bounds. Absolutely. We got a good. We got a great punter. Kentucky special teams have been good so far.

Not three touchdowns good, but that is Beamer Ball. That started with his dad of Virginia Tech. They win special teams. That's what they do. They already have four non-office touchdowns this year. But absolutely going to have to watch out for him. And you mentioned Derek Abney. He has the record with six.

We don't want this guy getting close to his record. but Derek Abney lives in South Carolina. This could be a game where he's in the crowd, hopefully not watching that guy take another one back. You know, I was just texting Derek Hadby the other day trying to see if you could maybe come on the show. Like people do. Yeah.

What about your numbers in your phone book then? Well, I got all the old-timer football players, Jo Jo Kemp, Dennis Johnson. I got those guys. But you're right, man. I think special team coaches think he's not going to score against us. We know how to stop him. Just don't kick to this guy, man.

This game could depend on a big play like that. I think it's going to be that close. Don't give him that opportunity. I brought up the fourth downs, you know, the Ole Miss game. Stoops was very aggressive going forward on fourth down. Do you guys like Stoops? I mean, years past, he's sort of played more conservative. A lot of times not going forward on fourth down.

That got a lot of fan criticism. You know, it seems to be from game to game. We're not really sure which Stoops were going to get. Do you like them more aggressive? Let's go forward on fourth down, or do we need to play conservative against South Carolina if we find ourselves in a fourth down situation like that? What do you guys think?

My NFL team had Mike Brable, where he'll go for it anywhere. I kind of like the gambling attitude. Dan Campbell does that a lot. Stoops is a little bit the opposite, but I think the one that really broke me was last year, Georgia, or not being more aggressive. And we know all the end of first half debacles, but the Georgia one is one that really hurt.

Well, you want them to follow trends and numbers, right? Analytical stuff and be consistent. And your gut. Yeah, well, see, that's, I don't know about the gut. But you mentioned it being at South Carolina. Is it right that they were playing at South Carolina three of the next four years because of how the schedule works? So a lot more sandstorm in our future.

You got a chance to win a game at South Carolina on a fourth down. You got to go for it. Like he should have gone for it against Georgia last year. You got to take that chance. You got to get that win. And Beamer noted what we just said. He called it a slug fest. He noted that since 2016, the team that's come on top has not scored more than 24 offensive points.

I mean, these games are close, not high scoring. They pulled away late last year, had an interception return. But these games are always slugfest. And Beamer knows what that's ahead. Ahead for us. We're going to talk a little more golf, a little more South Carolina, a little more Ham Days. Billy and Ryan might do some hog calling. Stick with us. This is KSR, Drew,

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