KSR - 2025-10-02- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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grandpaws, grandmas, aunts and uncles. This is not Matt Jones. This is Ryan Lemon. I'm here with Drew Franklin and Shannon the dude for another edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. It is Thursday, October the 2nd. We appreciate to everybody tuning in the day. 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 will absolutely make them pay. We've got our A Vision Glass Text Machine, which I brought it again. I got it right here in my pockets. Look at the consistency. Well, here's what I did.

I had to sit down in the counter. I put my car keys right on top of it. Oh, it's a good move. So I knew if I picked up my car keys, I had to see it, and I would pick it up. So the A Vision Glass Tech Machine is 502-7-35-36-80. It's hard to give a phone number in that pattern. But it works.

You remember? It's stupid, but it works. And the Clark's Pubbyshot phone number is 859-2-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-a-a-choddha. Richie Farmer wants to call in and tell us what he saw at basketball practice. Remember when he was here with Buck Stivers? We were going to practice after the show, so he wants to report on kind of some things he saw. We got a report on what I did, what we all did after the show yesterday. First of all, Shannon, thank you for hosting us yesterday.

That was a lot of fun to be in your man cave to your garage. I really enjoyed that. Thank you guys for coming out. It was a lot of fun, really enjoyed it. And first time we ever did a show in Mount Washington. Hopefully not our last, though. Well, it was the first time we've done a show at your house. Nobody had ever been to your house.

That man cave you put together is kind of an awesome thing. Now I see why your neighbors are always coming over and wanting to watch the games at your place. And you know, last night I was sitting there watching the Reds. And then I look over and here comes one of my neighbors, about half drunk. He's probably about two or three beers in. Hey, man, you got any more beer in that frit? Yeah, come on over. Let's sit down at the pub.

Let's have a beer and watch. the game so it never fails so when the show was over drew you you had to bust out of there i had to get back we got the moped busy day yeah i missed the moped fun i'm sure i i heard a brief mention of the pre-show setting it up then i had to get out of my car but it sounds like it didn't go swimmingly well of course it did well no you nearly as soon as you fired that thing you nearly ran right into my next door neighbors exaggerating how no you were inches away for running into a brick wall headfirst. I believe Shannon.

They are so exaggerating that. You know, when I first got on it, it's safety, gosh, you're supposed to check your mirrors, check your brakes. Buckle up, put your phone down. So I'm kind of checking all that. And I didn't make a wide turn. I didn't come close to hitting the house or anything.

Went up and down the street there that Shannon lives on, waving at some neighbors, one of your neighbors in the garage. I'm hollering at him. Yo, what up, dude? You immediately started disrupting everybody in the neighborhood. You were singing born to be wild at the top of your

lungs going up and down the street. You were honking at people. People are honking back at you. It was chaos that you created. On my nice, sleepy little street, you just stirred everybody up. Was there something very liberating about your hair flowing in the wind?

I got my flip-flops on. I got my baseball hat on backwards. I'm enjoying life riding Shannon's Vespos. Ryan is riding this moped going, I'm a badass. I'm in love a man on a motorcycle. And people are like, what is going on over there? Who is this guy?

Apologize to your neighbors from me. It's moon on a Wednesday. But here's what else we did. Shannon got a football out. We threw the football out in the backyard. Mario, Billy, Shannon, and me. You left to really. I just tossed the football back and forth out in these backyard out there.

It was a lot of fun. Who would you say has the best spiral out of me, yourself, Mario, and Billy? Rank the spirals. I'd say you're probably number one. Okay. Shannon's still got a pretty good arm. He just be a pitcher in college. He's still got a pretty good arm.

I can throw a good spiral, but I've lost a lot on my fastball. I can't really throw it very far. I can't throw it very hard. Lost your zip. Yeah. Mario and Billy are three and four. I'm going to say... Hold on.

That sounded like a... There might be a gap between one and two and three and four. There's a little bit of a gap there. I want to say Mario 3, Billy 4. What are you about you, Shannon? I was going to flip it because Mario, when he throws a football, it looks like the wounded duck. You know, it's like wobbly.

Okay, I had it in my head the other way around. So that was Mario that was throwing the bad spirals. Yeah, yeah. Mario would just kind of do like a little shovel pass to me and let me throw it back to you guys. But, yeah, I never was a quarterback, though. Never did play football. Sounds like you all had a big day.

It was fun. It was a lot of fun. Also sounds like you need your own moped in town. I need to see you going down Main Street, seeing him born to be wild with your hat on backwards. Dante's got one. He rides his moped from his house to my house. I'm hitting to go see his grandkids,

so maybe I can borrow his and just ride around the neighborhood. You know, I know that John Caliper had a Vespa, but I've seen like one picture of, I can't imagine Calipari riding a Vespa through the streets of Lexington. He wrote it a lot. Yeah, he did. He wouldn't, like, leave his neighborhood. Like, you wouldn't see him on New Circle.

No, he's going up, Shinaway, Fontaine, over that area over there. He had some friends in the neighborhood. He'd ride it over to their house. So if you were in that little area, you could see Cal on any given day. And apparently quite often, during the summer and stuff, he'd ride that Vespa out there everywhere.

So you got to, You got to step up, Ryan. It's your time. Well, here's the big. Lexington needs you riding around like you're in a biker gang. I'll borrow Dante's Vespa or a moped right around my neighborhood. But here's the one thing you really missed out on. Shannon gave us all one of these pumpkins.

Actually, I got on the Gene Snyder, I have Mount Washington in my rearview mirror, a little tear in my eye that I had to leave early, and I thought Shannon offered me a pumpkin, and I ran out of there. He gave us all one of his prize pumpkins. That's right. Now, I want to see what you do with it. I want to see how good your carving skills are when it comes closer to Halloween. I want to see what you do with it, okay?

I've got to see me a picture. Displayed proudly right in front of my house right now, right on the sidewalk, so all my neighbors can be jealous of this great pumpkin that I've got sitting on my sidewalk. They'll probably want to take it and smash it on your door after you, you know, blast Darius Rucker at 2 o'clock in the morning. That happens, too. Yeah. So a good show with Shannon yesterday. We appreciate it.

Today's show. You know, every year, E.KU football coach Walt Wells likes to come in on the show. usually it's during his by week or before a big game. Well, this is their by week, so he's going to come in and sit with us from like 11 to 12. Talk about the kernels and talk about the state of college football right now. You know, the thing that even they deal with the EKU level. So I'm looking forward to having Coach Wells on again with us. Yeah, it's become a bit of a tradition.

We've got to know him really well. Yeah, you mentioned sometimes in the past he's been hyping up a big rivalry, but it'll still be good to hear what's going on over there. Maybe he'll give his thoughts on Kentucky too. You know, he was on the staff at one point. Well, let's talk about Kentucky. Because I had a guy that knows a lot more football than me. Where did you ever find someone?

That's true, he knows more football than me. He's a defensive guy. Okay. And he was, this was the pitch he gave me to not give up on this team just yet. All right, let me hear it. I need it. I'm, I'm wounded like many others. He said, Ryan, listen, this defense is still really good.

I said, man, they looked awful against South Carolina. He goes, I know you think that, but listen. They didn't give up that scoop and score. They didn't give up that pick six. Another interception led to a very short field. You take away with those 21 points. The game is really 14 to 10, 14 to 13. He said, this defense is still an elite defense that can still keep you in some games.

What are your thoughts about his pitch to me, about don't give up yet because the defense can get you a couple wins? I'm with you on the defense being good, and maybe they can win some games. heck at halftime in South Carolina Kentucky had outgained South Carolina it's just when you have back-to-back defensive scores it doesn't matter who you're playing it's going to be hard to win that game

South Carolina didn't score at all in the third quarter would they have like three points in the second half three points in the whole second half defense kept them out of the end zone you can even go back to the home game defense setting the offense up in good field position with the first quarter takeaways I mean how many times would Ty Bryant have two in the first quarter

You got Jake Q. Hardaway on the first throw of the season, setting the offense up in good shape. So, yeah, I completely believe that the defense is one of the better ones Kentucky's had, especially the front. You know, Sellers are pretty special. They had him dead rights a couple times, and he just made some plays and turned him into big gains. But I can get behind this being a good defense. I just, I don't know if it's good enough to go actually win a game for an offense that is quite the opposite. Very true. We keep saying it, but the fact that they don't have.

more than two touchdowns in 11 power four games under Bush? I mean, how do you not get more than two touchdowns? So he was trying to tell me, you know, maybe they still are not going to have to beat Georgia or Texas, but they still have enough talent. They could beat Florida, Auburn, some of these other games coming up where we were kind of count them out already. I think Kentucky would beat Florida if you can stay together until that game comes around. It's in the middle of November. If you don't win before that, how does your locker room look if you've just gotten your butt kick throughout

October. But yeah, I'm not writing them out on a few games. I don't think they're going to win this coming weekend or the next couple weekends. But if they can stick together and still have a sign of life in November, it gets a little more winnable. Shannon, what are your thoughts about his argument to me about don't give up yet because the defense is elite? Yeah, I mean, I could be talked into the defense being, you know, serviceable, but that's not the problem. To me, the problem is the offense. So when your defense, again, you just said it, they gave up 14 points. and we still lost the game. That's the bigger problem.

How do you fix the offense? You're putting a ton of pressure on your defense when your offense doesn't have the capability of scoring more than 13 points. So that's what keeps me pessimistic about what's still ahead in the season. Last year you played Georgia and the final score was 13 to 12.

That's exciting. And we got hosed. Zion Childers, that should have stood. And then, you know, we all wish Stoop's been a little more aggressive there at the end. You had Georgia last year. You had Georgia last year. At home, you had a chance to be,

On that fourth down, get a first down, put some points on the board of field goal. You can win the game. Knock off Georgia for the first time and forever. You know, Georgia is beating Kentucky now 15 times in a row. 15 times in a row. The last time they beat Georgia, wasn't it a freshman quarterback? Was it Morgan Newton? Morton Newton went on the road and beat them, I think.

So, you know, I'm not going to sit here and predict beating Georgia, but it is another level, but it is at least a talent or a style matchup that's been good in the past. So what do you think? Definitely not a talent match. Are you completely checked out on the team? Are you still with little hope? Do you think the defense is elite enough to maybe get you a couple wins? We were already trying to think it not going to happen?

Where are you stand on it? I know the fan base has been very brutal on the text machine. They've been a text machine brutal. That's why it's hard to even mention some of the things they say because it's not pretty. Yeah, and I'm not going to say Stoops has been offensive, but he has noted, and there's a little bit of truth to this, like not just jumping on. on that football last week and punning and getting out of there or a deflected interception. Some of the stuff, I'm not defending the offense at all, they've been crap, but some stuff

is just piling on with luck too. I mean, like if Pete just picks up that ball or not even pick it up, just lands on it. Just like he was almost even on top of it. Put in your belly button. Yeah, so even though I think the coaching has been very poor, there's also been the bad luck factor at least last week because you're not going to beat anybody with the mistakes that were made in that second quarter. So we'll go to the phone line and take your call.

We'll take a lot of calls today if you've got something you need to get up your chest about the UK football team. 859-2-802-287. But before we go to the break, Drew, we need to give a pep talk, get-well wishes to our girl, Kelly McDowell, super-fan of KSR, works here at KS Bar and Grill. She's having some health issues. She's back in the hospital, so Kelly, we're all thinking about you. We're praying for you. Need you back in here on Saturday for game day.

So get well soon and get help. She's up and going pretty soon. Yeah, we're thinking about you, Kelly. Get better. We'll see you out here at KSbar. as soon as you can. We'll take our break. Come back. Ryan, Drew and Shannon, this is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you

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This is the first word. We're proud of you. This one says, I must disagree, Ryan. You are selective with the text machine messages you. report. I have texted both lines several times, both text machine lines several times. I still support this team. I pay for my tickets. I will be in the stands all season. Our defense is very good. Eddie Graham was the best OC we ever had. He could adjust to the talent. I am not alone in supporting this team. Negativity sells these days. Go cats.

So there are people out there that are very, very still on board with this team. Well, why don't you read more of those texts? You're filtering them. You're putting a negative spin on this for clicks and listens, Ryan. I feel it. I don't want to burst his bubble, but that's like the only one I've got. Yeah, I think that's a unicorn. Yeah. So the defense has been good, though. Not perfect.

They've given up too many explosive plays, especially to like an Eastern Michigan team. They're a little banged up in that game. Tackling could be better, but overall, they've held the team up as best they could. You're right, there was some poor tackling in the South Carolina game. Yeah, they got to play up some tackling. Brad White was livid after the Eastern Michigan game, so it's not all all rainbows for the defense. But you know who had maybe the best tackle in the entire game against South Carolina? Who's that?

Zero toughness punter Aidan LaRoss. Clock somebody on a punt return. And I think it was a dude that returned three punts for a touchdown already this year. He's going up the middle. LaRoss just clocked him. No way, dude, Shannon. That guy gets a zero on toughness next year on that video game. No, no, no.

Obviously that was a big mistake. He's a tough guy. You know, we talked about his dad who played rugby, right? he's a tough guy there's no doubt also he's having a great year punning he really is

kicker being perfect yeah I don't want to get back to where we're getting compliments on our punters and kickers and that's it starting to fill that way a little bit

punner you is back yeah those guys in a year where we're a little disappointed now it's gone so far those guys have been great Calway he's been awesome

yeah of course we're not going to jinx him right now but he's really probably did a bright spot he even had the rare doinck that goes in that's when you just you got the magic

when you've got the magic when you've got the doinck that's a make. All right, before we get to the Reds, we'll get a couple calls on real quick. Who we got, Shannon? Let's go to Hunter. Hunter, go ahead, Hunter. Hey, Hunter. Hey, guys.

It's been a long time coming. How are you guys doing today? All right. Appreciate you calling. Hey, so my question is, I have a comment and question. So my question is, even if we were to go, you know, three and nine or whatever it is, is there even any way to get the buyout done? Because from what it looks like to me, it looks like to me, it looks.

like stoop's the ball's in stoop's court like we are kind of held hostage and the reality is is the longer that he stays here the worst his reputation is going to be but he also is making you know nine million a year so like even if we were to do that bad is there even any way Mitch can raise that money to do his buyout good question I think it's a very legitimate question because if you go three and nine you got to make a move that is unacceptable but mark like a lot of people on this on the text machine and think, well, Stoops needs to step down. He needs to fall on the sort of step down. He ain't stepping down.

I'm not stepping down if you're paying me $9 million a year. $9 million a year and a $38 million buyout? I'm not stepping down. Stoops is not stupid. I know. And when they sign that contract that says, we owe you this after 60 days, I'm not budging on that either. Our deal is our deal. You signed it. If you want to fire me, fire me. I'm walking away with $38 million and I need it in a hurry. Was saying contract? Was that like a fraudulent slip?

Contricked. I feel like we did get contricked. So, but people do say, you wonder about his legacy. He doesn't want to leave it worse than he had it. I get all that. At the same time, that is a lot of money. Yes, it is. Where you might, and I don't know what's between his ears,

but I think a lot of people would go, my legacy, or just keep riding this out as they're paying me $9 million. And he's got UK wrapped around his finger right now. So the caller has a great question. Can that $38 million be generated? within 60 days to buy him out. That's way above what I would even know. I would hope that seeing how the results have been last year

and kind of heading this direction, that Mitch has at least got a little bit of a plan in place or some phone calls he knows he can make if it is a three and nine season. Now, this is what I thought I had, because Bruce Pearl's one that gave me the idea. Could they slide mark into an administrative role where you don't have to pay that buyout?

You take him off the sideline. but you put him as... I think he'd have to agree to that. Again, you sign that deal, why would he budge really at all? Maybe budge a little bit if it's three and nine. But that's negotiating, and he won big time at the table a few years ago. Who we got next, Shannon?

Let's go to Jerry. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Ryan. I told, like I told Drew Jerry tonight, you know, Matt was could be crap for being so negative full season, and I would love to be calling right now, and you guys just laughing at me and give me crap, because I didn't want to be right.

But unfortunately, that coaching is so bad on offense that even though our defense is good, that was my fear of our year. It would be good enough to overcome our coaching, quite frankly, on offense. And now we're kind of stuck with it for the rest of the year. And as far as Stoots goes, the problem with Stoots right now,

I mean, I'm not on the, there's some of the firemarked suit's bandwagon, but he's going to have to be self-reflective enough to realize that he screwed this up about the time of that funny-up comment and really screwed it up when he brought Wolfram back here, and he's going to have to have to be it to himself and he screwed it up and fix it. And I don't know that he's capable of doing that.

And so we'll see what happens the rest of the year. Football's all along, like Bill Curry said, funny things can happen. But I think if you're expecting more than the wing, it was it to see tech or whatever, I think you're just being too old for the optimistic. see. We'll see. All right, Jerry, appreciate it.

Yeah, you know, Jerry said some things early before the season we didn't really agree with. Now they're kind of come and do tuition. Truition. Truition. Fruition. I almost said truthful. It's true. Fruition.

Went with tuition. Like your contract. We're on one today. There is no easy answer. Right now, there's just not. Rich Brooks eats us all the time. We can't go to the waiver wire. We are, we are.

We are. We are warts. Everybody's got warts. We got warts. There's nothing you can do right now. And we all know that schedule. We've known the schedule for a while. We knew that you really needed to get Old Miss at home or South Carolina

to kind of keep it together a little bit longer before you hit this October gauntlet. And now you got Georgia this weekend, and then there's another bye week. Oh, yeah, Midnight Madness says that's a week from Saturday. The week your football team is off that your fans are grumbling, basketball season is getting ready to start. Horrible timing for the football football. program to be struggling right when basketball is getting ready to start. So I don't know, the scheduling.

The schedule didn't help them any. No. I did mention this yesterday, though. There's not a game where the crowd can really send a message and be empty because Tennessee and Texas are going to be fooled no matter what. People have planned trips for that. I mean, there's going to be a lot of the opponents in for that one. You know, it's Keenland season.

I don't think that's one where you're going to see a lot of empty seats because people are upset. But if we had like a, you know, Eastern. Michigan coming up or Toledo or something else, I think there'd be a statement made with attendance, but it'll be a while before we actually see that. It could be all the way in November. We've got to talk about the Reds.

Short-lived playoffs series. They got in the playoffs and out of the playoffs before Matt even got home. That's impressive. That's very impressive. The summer of Ellie became the fall of Ellie, became the October of Ellie, became, and it's over for Ellie. They got beat last night by the Dodgers, two games, two and done. Now, the other three wildcard playoffs

All went to game three. All three of them did. But the Reds bowed out last night. I tried to step and watch it. They went up two to nothing to start. I thought, well, maybe they're going to force the game three. Nope. Done.

I don't know that anyone really expected they'd win that series or even win a game. But, you know, at least as a guy who's a fan of a lot of teams that suck right now, at least you got a few days of excitement. You got in the playoffs. What was that? Like the fifth time in 30 years? Yeah, they hadn't won a playoff game since 2012. It was the last time they actually won.

a playoff game. It hadn't won a series since 95. Now that streak's still alive. But I would say the run of, you know, the excitement of being on the bubble and then getting in, watching the Mets lose as you're going getting hot at the end of the season, and then having a few days to look forward to it in the excitement of a playoff game. I can't speak for Reds fans, but most are probably still happy of how it ended. They weren't going to win the World Series. You got to lose at some point. Shannon had to play maybe the best team in the National League the last decade in Dodgers. Yeah, I mean, you have to score a lot of runs to beat the Dodgers. But I think, you know, in his first year as the manager, Terry Francona, taking the Reds to the playoffs.

It's big. Yeah, exactly. So it gives you something to build on for next year. And just enough, you know, to keep Matt hanging on for more season tickets. Got some young talent you're excited about? Super young talent. And your Braves fired their manager yesterday. Yeah.

Well, I think he transitioned into another role, I think. I don't know what they officially fired him, but he's like, I don't know what the word was. He got repurposed. There you go. There you go. That's what Mark Pope. He's now in a county. Mark Stoose maybe needs to do for the football program. Get repurposed somewhere over there at the U.K.

So Red's done for the season. I hate that Matt was not here to enjoy it. I really hate that for him. He was a big fan. He wanted a party tonight. He wanted to party tonight. We'll take our break. Come back. Ryan Drew and Shannon.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Matt Jones back tomorrow, and he will be at Shady Raise at Oxmoor Mall. We've done a couple shows there. I always have good crowds.

But I think if you're living in the Louisville area, come out to this show. I think that would be really a cool little thing for Matt to come back home after his trip, have a huge crowd there. I'm sure he's got a ton of stories he wants to share with us. So if you're not doing anything tomorrow morning, come on out to Shady Raids at Oxmore Mall, come out to the show and support Matt's return back to the airway. You took back to the show tomorrow. Yeah, we've gotten to Louisville a little bit lately, but still not nearly enough.

True. So it would be just good to get the city of Louisville because we usually get good turnouts. Have a lot of listeners we know there that we only see at Louisville shows, so I'm looking forward to making another trip. Well, what if I told you, Drew, you need to stop overpaying for sunglasses? I do need to. Are you tired of buying expensive sunglasses? Yes, exhausted from it.

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Let's get a call up Shannon who we got Let's go to Chase Chase Go ahead Chase Hey, how's it going, fellas? How are you, Chase? Doing great. Hey, you know, I'm 26 years old, and for most of my adult life,

soups ball is all I've known at Kentucky. And, you know, I just think it's time because if we keep letting him hang around, I'm afraid that we're going to end up in an Oklahoma State situation with Gundy where they let him stay too long and kind of force their hands. and if we're really serious about Kentucky football, Indiana showed you how to build a program quickly. You get a coach from a group of five school, maybe down in New Orleans,

and pray that he brings all his players with it if we're being serious about it. All right, Chase, appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, Indiana, they're ranked top ten again this year. It made the playoffs last year, Indiana football, and they're top ten again this year. But we're just a couple of years removed for wanting to build a statue for Mark Stoops.

He did things here at this program at this university I thought could never be done. He did it. But now I said this other day, starting to feel so eerily familiar to the end of the Cal era where people slowly started turning against the guy that we idolized.

I feel the same thing's happening now. Yeah, I mean, two 10-win seasons, one of them not even that long ago that got him the contract. I mean, we all know what he did here. He took him to new heights. But at some point, you have to say, is the person in charge the best to lead us into the future.

It's the same thing with Cal. Everybody knows how good Cal was, but the results started dropping, and it's like, well, he's still the best option, and it got to where a lot of people felt he wasn't, and he kind of felt that too and stepped away. It's feeling that way with Stoops. He's had a couple opportunities the last few years

to prove that he still got it, that he can go out in the portal and found a good quarterback, especially, and put things together, but it's looking like this is going to be a, third straight disappointing year. So here's another common thread on the aviation glass tax machine. A new football coach is much more important than this entertainment district around the stadium.

That entertainment project may be a white elephant if you don't put more exciting product on the field. Someone on the postgame show asked me, how could we spend $36 million on the entertainment district and not just pay stoops? And, you know, there's a big difference in building infrastructure and entertainment and an experience and just paying a guy to go disappear. It's a pretty big difference. Yeah. So I don't think those two are correlated. 859-2-2-287. Who's next, Shannon?

Jake. Jake, go ahead, Jake. I just had a quick question for Shannon. It seemed like y'all had so much fun yesterday at his house. I just wanted to know. Can I please come over? You just want to come to my house? Yes, please.

Where do you even live? Do you live in Mount Washington? I live in New Albany, but I'm in Louisville all the time, close to Mount Washington. I don't know. What do you think, Ryan? Shall I allow just random listeners to come to my house? Well, this guy sounds like he's pretty harmless. He just wants to sit and have a beer with you and watch a ballgame.

He sounds like he harmless. You don't even know Jake. Have you ever known a bad Jake? Jake's are all good guys. Thank you. Yeah. Jake from State Farm. Look at him.

That's true. Jake the Snake Roberts. Jake the snake was a bad guy. Yeah, I don't know. I'll tell you what, Jake. How about you just go to Ryan's house and we'll call it even? Well, that was my next question. If you said no, I was going to see if I can go to Ryan's house.

We'll go to Ryan's house. You can start a grease fire and start up some neighbors. We'll hook you up at some point, Jay. I'll be there today. All right, buddy. Appreciate it. Thank very much. Jake Gyllenhaal? Very true. Yoga Girl's son is named Jake. He's a good guy.

It's all kind of Jake. Sounds like Jake's head in your house. 859-2-80287. Did any, either one of you see the International Space Station that's been flying across the sky the last couple of night? Did you go out and take a look at it? I did not. I didn't even know about it. Yeah.

Are you one of the people that when there's like some, you know, the stars or whatever, you go out and just stare in the sky and look for it? No. Because I usually don't. I wait for the pictures to pop up. But I was with some people last night that were. Okay. How did it look? We didn't see it.

Well, you say the International Space Station flew by. I mean, isn't it always up there? But it's always not visible to, I guess, us in this part of the country. And with the way the Earth is tilted. Sounds like it still wasn't visible. I think it was a little too cloudy last night to see it. But they saw it like two nights ago. What does it look like?

Just a big star? Well, it doesn't blink. It's just like a solid light that just goes across the sky. You know, like an airplane is different because it blinks. Right. And a star doesn't move. Yeah. This light is moving.

So they saw it two nights ago, but it couldn't see it. I just wondered if anybody else got out to see it the last couple days. I thought it's a common thing to see that, no? Or am I wrong? No, I remember there were some news stories. Like Tuesday or Wednesday is your chance to see the Space Station. I think like the orbit, the orbit rotation. like it's not always over Kentucky I guess

yeah okay that makes sense I did not step out and see it how long did you try well my friend had an app and it had exactly the exact minute we're supposed to be outside where we live to go see it and we missed it it sounds like a good app

I didn't see it yeah now usually that stuff you know I'm into the aliens and the spaceships we have one of those heading our way I might look for but I just looking up seeing a light in the sky has never really done it for me Well, I wanted to see it. I mean, we spend all this time waiting on it.

I want to go at least to see the light go across the sky a little bit. Like the northern lights, I think that's really cool, like the green and stuff. But that's like in Alaska, right? I mean, you don't really get that here, do we? Or do we? No. I've never seen it before. No, no.

Not the northern. I feel like that's a Norway thing. Yeah. And before that, exciting experience with the space station I had last night, we went to the country boy pickleball facility. You were there last night? Yes. Why, did you go last night? I got to the parking lot.

and didn't go in. Really? I was by myself, and I was like, just head on home. You're probably not going to know anyone in there. No, it was a bunch of old Channel 18 sports guys.

Oh, I was literally parked on my way home from doing the podcast. I was going to go in for a beer because Abby was working late, and I just, I sat there, I looked at it,

I was like, no, I'm going home. I wish we were going to know that. It was Cutler, punk, Keith Farmer, me and yoga girl. We didn't go to play pickleball.

We went to just have a drink and eat, and the food was really good there, actually. It's an awesome place. It is an awesome place. You didn't get the urge to pickleball, though? Because when you're in there, you can't help, but kind of want to get a racket, a paddle? A paddle or a rattle?

Shannon introduced me to pickleball at the Daytona, Panama City Beach. He killed me. I paddled Ryan so hard. He tore his hamstring and I think retired on the spot right there from pickleball. But it is kind of fun. I'll do it again. I still haven't recovered from Shannon and I. I thought we were supposed to play one pre-show listener, but there was like a line of them.

We ran a gauntlet. having never played before and didn't even really stretch. We did like seven straight matches. I haven't recovered from that. Well, I don't know if you've seen Alan Cutler lately. He hasn't shaved or cut his hair in like four years. He's a massive caveman right now. Did you tell him?

I said hi. Yeah. He did ask about Shannon. Yeah. He said, you know, you and him, you guys had a kind of back and forth. You guys waited until I was on vacation. You had the back and forth with Cutler when I was on vacation. There was no back and forth, really.

I mean, you know, he had some choice words for me. something for him and that was really it. And one more news, Adam, before we go to a break, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman announced they've decided to split. One of the country music, Hollywood power couples, been together forever, decide that enough's enough splitting up. What do you think? You have big thoughts on Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman?

I don't really get into the Hollywood stuff. I kind of forgot they even existed. But I did see. I'm trying to make sure that I didn't fall for something online. There was some clause in their contract. Have you seen this? Yes. So that's real news before I started.

Well, I saw something to it. I don't know if it's true or not. Well, we'll just say it anyway. I saw that... Is there a buyout? Is there a buyout? No, there was a... There was a claw.

Do we trust the London Evening Standard? I think it's a very respectable. Or the Hindustan Times? Yeah. Uh-huh. We'll roll with it. There was a clause in their agreement that she would pay him every year that he didn't and do cocaine. Did you see that?

Yes. I don't know what the money amount was. $600,000 a year to not do cocaine. They had it written in a contract. If he stayed off cocaine, she would pay him, kind of entice him to stay off cocaine. I wonder how that works. Do they go back and do drug test? Like look up his nostril and make sure there's no white substance up there?

How would they even know? I guess when you're talking that kind of money, you do have to maybe pass a drug test, I would say. Yeah. He's been sober since 2006, so she's paid him $11 million to be sober. Wow. Can I get that contract? their marriage agreement. Yeah.

Geez. I really thought those crazy kids had a chance. You know, they live in Brentwood, Tennessee. They would go to their kids' high school basketball games, their kids' high school plays. Like, they were very active as mom and dad with their kids going to school down there in Brentwood. Oh, yeah. How do you think you was able to keep that active lifestyle? I have a way I want to go with this conversation, but I'm afraid to ask Ryan.

Yeah. I feel like a good way to turn this into a good radio discussion. All right. If you were hadn't had a clause in a marriage relationship, what would you get paid to not do again? But I'm worried that if I ask you that, I'm going to get an answer that we don't want. But like, let's say you and yoga girl got married tomorrow,

and she said, I will pay you $60,000 a year if you don't do this for a year. What's the, I'm going to regret this, Shannon. But what's the Ryan thing that would be in the clause? I assume you don't have a Coke problem. No, I don't do drugs. Is there anything where I'd say one one small part of the claws may be to keep my shirt on Okay stop undressing in public maybe probably the biggest one maybe no mommy squamis yeah that's it

Yeah, that's it yeah that's the one keep your clothes on in the pool keep your clothes on in public Keep your clothes on in the pool yeah I've been I've been known to skinny dip a time or two Oh, oh your your your trunks yeah okay Uh no more calling Matt daddy would probably be your next I heart contract yeah that might be another one try to keep from not getting a ticket every year of your life. A speeding ticket might be a... That's what it would be. Each year I don't get a speeding ticket, that's when I get my bonus.

Okay. Well, it's an interesting clause in the Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. You know, I got another ticket. I don't know if you were on that day. Oh, God. Like two weeks ago. What? Yeah.

No, I didn't know this. I thought you were off that day. I got... Well, let's talk about it. Did you say it on the show? Yeah. Okay. If you already said it on the show, we'll repeat it.

All right, well, take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines. Drew's got an interesting little game he wants to play with us. You want to do that next segment? Whatever. Let's do your game next segment. All right. We're right back. Ryan Drew and Shannon.

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A bunch of people saw the Northern Lights last year in Northern Kentucky. I didn't realize that. Neither. There we go. And apparently, for those of you who tried to get your blue-white tickets that went on pre-sail to the members this morning, it's been a disaster. Oh, great. Apparently, it has not gone well.

The person says they called the ticketing office and they're aware of the issues, but it's not fixed. So if you're trying to get tickets to the blue-white game through their pre-sale for their members, it's a disaster. All right, Drew, you said you had a nice little game you wanted us to play this show. So what do you got? Yeah, I hate calling it a game. It's not really a game, but I was reading local journalism earlier this week. The Lexington Herald Leader. You familiar?

I'm very familiar with Lexington Herald Leader. Yes. they listed the Lexington's oldest businesses that still operate today. And I thought that would be a fun game. Well, I just called it a game. Fun to see if you could guess them. How many did they list? Let's see.

There's about just doing this on the fly. I'd say close to 20. But it's a lot of things I think you would get. So I'm putting you on the spot a little bit. But do you have any guesses? There's some restaurants. There's a little bit everything. I know Matt, I think a few months ago we did some of the oldest restaurants.

There are some restaurants on here, but it's just any business that's been around in Lexington the longest and still operating. Barney Miller. Barney Miller. That's one. I thought it would be. They're not in order by oldest to. Oh, they're not. Okay.

But I can give you the year. It has the year. They're just not in order. Is P-Rats on there? Peirats is on there. Look at this. Barney Miller's 1922. P-Rats, 1946.

Columbia Steakhouse? Oh, my goodness. Did you read this? No. 1948. I'm about to run out of choices here, I think. You've got a couple. One of these places I've been to you with, been in there with you several times.

The Chevy Chase-In? That's another winner. 1933, one of my favorite places in Lexington. Shout out CCI. One of them is a college. I'll give you a hint. Transylvania University. There you go.

Transi. I didn't think about Transi. 1780. Wow. How about a car dealership? I don't see one. I'm scrolling fast. No, how about a place you once worked?

Channel 18. Channel 18 is on the list. Lexington's first TV station in 1955. How about WVLK? No, they only have the one. Okay. Let me read you the rest. You got any more guesses?

Shane, you got any guesses? No, no, I don't know anymore. Some of our favorites. How about thoroughbred restaurant? Oh, my goodness. You and I have been there together more times than we could possibly count. You mentioned Columbia's Chevy Chase-in. I was trying to get more things people realize.

The Red Mile? It should have said that. 1875. Lexington Cemetery, 1850. I wouldn't think that would be a business, but I guess it is. Yeah, those are pretty much the main ones. Bluegrass Airport, Farmers Jewelry, Wheeler Pharmacy. Oh, wheelers.

That's a good one. That's a good one. In fact, did you see, Tubby Smith was just there last week with Sunday. Did he go? That group still gets together. Who all used to be in the Wheeler Pharmacy group? Oscar Combs, Lonnie Demery. Uh, trying to think who else.

I mean, it would rotate, but yeah, those were some of the hits. But, yeah, anyway, I just, I found it very interesting that some of those places that we still frequent are Lexington's oldest businesses that are still operating. Still operating. I need to get to the Wheeler circle. Lonnie invited me shortly before he passed, and it killed me that I didn't get to go. I used to go a lot, yeah. I've still not done it. At the lunch counter?

I think Tom Leach goes occasionally. Tom Leach, yeah. It'd be a little Ralph Hacker. Jim Host. Yeah. That's where all the stories are told. All the big stories are told. stories. Ira Combs.

R.P. A sad couple of these guys we've mentioned are no longer with is Ira and Lonnie. Yeah, but Tubby was just in there a week ago and went to the Kentucky Road Show car shop. 859-9-2-8-7. We've got a quick time for a quick call, Shannon, who we got? Let's go to Mark. Mark, you got about a minute. Okay, this isn't what I called about, but was Millwards on the list?

It was. It was. Okay, good deal. I unfortunately had to just deal with them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry about that. But a good guess, yeah, it's another one. So the question I had, it was just kind of tongue-in-cheeked is, you know, Arkansas, I think, just fired their football coach.

What are the chances Cal is, you know, going to ask them to pony up and bring stoops over to their program? I appreciate the phone call. I'd say that chance is slim and none. Yeah, I've seen a few Kentucky fans wishing for that, but I don't expect that to happen. How about Cal has to work now with Bobby Petrino, though? That is a little humorous about that. Yeah, is they going to be like doing cardi-eeler stuff? ship videos together, maybe walking the line

at the Tyson plant with hairnets on, promoting local businesses. I mean, Arkansas, I know they just said interim coach, but they gave him a five-year deal. I think he's locked in now. I think he's going to be the guy. They let him fire people. He went right in and fired the staff. Exactly. Our caller mentioned Millward Funeral Home as one on this list. It says that is the 37th oldest

business in the entire United States. Millward Funeral home? Yeah, we'll continuously operate. Yeah. 1825. Fun fact. Very good. All right. We got EKU head football coach Walt Wells is going to join us here, talk about the colonel season. They're this, their by week this week, comes in every year about this time, kind of talk to us, brought some swag. Brought us some hats. Brought some swag in for us. We'll ask him about the summer of Ellie.

I'm sure he has a lot to say about that. Have we heard from Richie? So he's going to drop some knowledge on us later? Have you heard from Richie yet? Shannon? He said he was going to call in when he got a free minute. I hear from Richie every day. I haven't heard from them today, though.

Well, he had some stuff going on. Him and Buck had some business going on. They were moving and shaking down there in Clay County in Manchester, but he says he's going to call because he went to practice after he was on the show with us. He's got some thoughts, things he wants to share with everybody. So I'm anxious to hear that. And don't forget tomorrow we'll be at Shady Race at Oxmoor Mall and Louisville. Come on out.

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