KSR - 2025-10-08- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

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Should be a big day in Lexington, UK basketball day. For people who don't know, tell your friends to come out to that. fan fest. I think that's going to be a really cool event, and I hope it's something they keep doing in the future. I got some stuff, and then I want to go to the basketball schedule. First of all, they had baseball games last night.

You know, I want to get my two baseball course spondents, Ryan, and Drew. First of all, did you see Vladimir Guerrero do the headfirst slide where he dove from like 30 feet out? I loved it. I loved it. That's the old school baseball Charlie Hustle slide. I haven't seen

anybody slide like that in a long time, Shannon. That was wild. I mean, he just, he laid out. Yeah, that was awesome. Plus, he's a big dude. Yeah, he is big. He had a home run too. He had a hell of a game. Yes, I mean, he had a, he is a big dude. He's like six, four, six five. So have you all ever slid like that? Does it hurt? I've slid like that, but our, our college coach refused to let us do it because it, you know, injury your hand or your fingers. So we had to slide his feet first. Back in Ryan's day, I'm sure it hurt, but like on those major league baseball fields, they're so nice. I mean, I don't think it hurts just the, you don't,

to jump flat out into the ground like that? Yeah, I don't think so. I remember trying it in Little League, and I, like, bounced and landed, like, a foot short of the foot bag, and I never did it again. Didn't even get all the way to play? I think I just belly flopped and then got gently tagged. Yeah.

Then you had Cal Raleigh. He hit a home run, and the guy in the crowd who caught it was wearing a Cal Ralee jersey. Do you like that? Every minute of that. That just fan of its best. That feels like that would be heartwarming for you. Very heartwarming, yes.

You go out of the game, you got your star hero's jersey on. Got your glove on. Got your glove on. Please hit it to me, please hit it to me, please hit to me. And they did. Well, better than that, he had a hit-it-here shirt that said 61 on it. After he caught it, he took it off and he had a hit-it-here-shirt. Oh, I didn't see that part.

And then someone zoomed in, and it looks like he has another shirt that would have said 63. So he had a hit-it-haired shirt. That's even better. That's even better. Okay. And then finally, Aaron Judge hit a home run, and they had an angle. I don't know how I've never seen this before. Maybe they've had this before.

But they showed the pitch. It was like the catchers thing. And they showed the pitch. It was 99.7 on his hands. And they showed him hit a home run. And as I was watching it, I thought hitting a hundred mile an hour pitch has to be the hardest thing in the world. Like when you watch it, you can't even see the ball. Yeah.

You can't even see the ball. And he hits it a thousand feet. Did you see that camera angle? To hit a moving round object with another moving round object and to hit it squarely, it is one of the toughest things in sports. And it was on his hands. Yeah. And it was on his hands and he hit it out.

That was, Shannon, that was when normally I think baseball, you are a bunch of old, like, fat dudes playing baseball. That was when I was the most impressed by a baseball player was watching that angle he turns on it. You know, he says the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a fastball. You know, those guys have to already have their mind. made up as a hitter what they're going to do what they think the pitch is going to be because if you're guessing off speed and there's a fastball there's no chance you catch up to that I totally totally agree with you now I got a question here this came on the text machine last night but they said they needed our opinion on it question is Matt four of you I think I

might get four different answers which is why I'm asking this my wife and I had a debate last night after watching an old episode of The Bachelor should women ever pay for dates at any point in a relationship. We would like to hear your take. Great question. So let's start with the chauvinist. Ryan. Oh, I thought you're going to me. Well, you're kind of a chauvinist, too. But you're, Ryan's both a chauvinist and cheap. So I think that's an interesting, do you think women should ever pay for any kind of date? I pay like 95% of the time. So yes, they should sometimes. So every now and then, Jennifer will be, or yoga girl, would be like, uh, like we're on vacation. Like how he says it after is if people didn't hear it

a second to go. Jennifer, I mean yoga girl. Yoga girl. We're talking about yoga girl. Yes. She might say, come on, let me buy this one time. We're going to lunch. I picked the place. Let me treat you to lunch this one time. And what makes you decide to say yes? Because I know it's important to her. She wants to show you. Yeah. Okay. What about you, Shemp? Yeah, I mean, I believe in equal rights. So women has just as much right to buy my dinner as I do to buy hers. How long, how many dates would you go before you would let her buy? Two. Two.

Two. I'll buy the first one. She buys the second one. Two. Look, I don't need to patronize her. You'd let her buy the second one. Okay. All right.

That's pretty quick. Next one's on you. Okay. Drew. Sounds like Shannon asked to split the bill and then says, wait a minute. You had three of the mozzarella sticks. I only had one.

So this isn't even. fair. That's true. You had the Pepsi, not me. Will you fix this check? Exactly. If, for one, if the guy, like, if it's early in the relationship and, you know, the guy usually asks, you absolutely have to. Like, it would never cross my mind to expect them to. But I will say, to Ryan's point, there are moments once you're dating where they're like, I want to get this one, and, you know, if they want to get it, I don't think there's any problem. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't look at them, like, Henning, are you going to get this one? But if they're like, hey, you've covered a lot of meals, let me get this one, then yeah, absolutely.

But I would never expect it or ask for it. I don't think I've ever let a woman pay. Maybe ever. Well, you and your mom are great about that. You won't let anybody pay. Yeah, I mean, I pay for my friends a lot, not all the time, but a lot. But I'm not going to say never. I mean, maybe if I'm in like a serious relationship and it's my birthday or something,

then I might let the other. But I don't know that I I don't know that I've ever let a woman pay. It's just, it's like, for me, it's like opening the door, you know. Like, it's just something you do. And I know, Shannon's being not serious when he says, I believe, in equal rights.

And it's not that I don't think women can pay. I've actually dated someone once who made more money than I did. So it wasn't that. It's just like, it's just kind of what you do, I feel like. But has there ever been a moment where you're cards in there and they take it out and they're like, I want to get this one. Because when they do that, then you're almost being a jerk. No, no, I'm a man.

You're not allowed to do it. You can't afford it. I set the expectation like early on. But like I'm, I mean, I'm not, you know, now they'll buy me a gift or something. Like, I understand that's important to people to, like, buy a gift. But when it comes to dinner or when it comes to going out, it's just, it's just what you do, right? It is what you do. And I can see, like, if your lady friend wanted to take you out.

for your birthday or a special occasion. But outside of that, yeah, you... The other thing is, like, I don't have... I don't have anything to spend money on. Like, you can only buy so many shoes. And it's certainly not fashioned. So, like, I might as well spend it on something, you know? I wonder about the younger generation, though.

Is it more... They probably split it up more? I think there's a lot of that. I think there's a lot of, like... Yeah, us young ends over here, like me. But I think it's also just because they're cheap skates. Well, I think they have to do it because they're all broke because I don't know how anyone in college affords to go on a date. Well, that's true because it is very expensive to do stuff now.

Yeah. But, yeah, so those are four different answers. And it actually, if you were to say on a scale of chauvinism, I think our answers are in reverse proportion. See, I think you're more chauvinist, Matt, because you want to allow her to pay. You want to allow her to pay. Maybe she wants to pay. I didn't say I wouldn't allow.

I just say I don't ever even, like, give the opportunity. I just, I just do it. Yeah. Well, I do that, too, but there are times where they're like, please let me get this one. And I think at that point, if you're like, no, woman, we can't drain your bank account today. I think there's a little bit of. I don't say woman. I know, but if they insist, like, hey, I would like to pay, I think at some point you allow them to pay.

I don't say woman, you're not allowed to pay. That's not a phrase that has come out of my mouth. But if they offer, I don't think it's wrong to accept it. Yeah, I don't. I understand. Here's the issue I'm having it right now. Now, you know, I'm almost 60 years old. Every time we go out to do with my parents, my parents pay every time.

My mom still pays, and there's nothing I can do. Same. And I think she, I watched my mom do this with her mom, okay? Her mom always wanted to pay for her. And my mom would be like, she didn't like it. And now the rolls have just flipped. Because if I try to pay, my mom acts like I shouldn't. So I've just learned not to fight.

Just okay. But I feel a little guilty. I feel guilty. Of course I feel guilty. I feel guilty. I'm like, you know, my mom's, my mom's got college bills. Yeah. She's a poor college student.

Starving college kids buying your dinners. But I, but she won't. So I know that's going to be what it is. So, you know, I mean, there's nothing you can do about it. Yeah, same for my parents. If we're going out to eat. If I try, it's like, no, they've already. All right.

The UK basketball schedule came out with time. times. Just a few notes here. Okay, Kentucky only plays, Kentucky only plays three nine o'clock games this year. And only one's at home, right? So you got the North Carolina game at home in the ACC. So that game is at 9.30. We have a Rupp Arena 930 game. What do you think about that one? Also, before that is the other marquee game. It's 7.30 on the same channel. So if you're not in Rupp Arena, you probably probably won't even see that until we're five minutes left. When's the last time Kentucky's had a 9-30 Rupp Arena game? I mean, probably not a lot over the years.

Nine that sometimes don't get started until 9-30. They get pushed back. Yeah, then we have a, we are at Vandy at 9 o'clock one time, and then we are home to Georgia at 9 o'clock one time. We have a couple of 8.30 games on Saturday nights, which isn't as bad, right? an 8.30 Saturday night game. But we have three mid-weight week, 9 o'clock games. Yeah, they're all Tuesdays, right?

Yes. Now, home games. We have, it's interesting. Our home schedule is, our home SEC schedule, it's weird. We play all the good teams on the road, and we play all the bad teams at home. So let me just read you the home schedule. Missouri, Mississippi State, Texas, Old Miss, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Vandy, Florida.

You could argue really only Tennessee and Florida are the good SEC. We got kind of all the bad teams at home. But now let me read you the road schedule. Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Vandy, Arkansas, Florida, Auburn, South Carolina, Texas, A&M. So the road schedule is kind of beastly there, isn't it? Yeah, Alabama, Auburn, and Arkansas. The three A's all on the road. that's not going to be easy.

Yeah, if you think there are five really good teams in the SEC, Florida and Tennessee, we play all five of them on the road. Yeah. We play two of them at home as well, but we play five, the five best teams in the SEC, we play every single one of them drew on the road. That's tough. And you always want to win your home games when your Kentucky basketball, but this year more than ever, you pretty much have to go undefeated at home.

Maybe you slip up with Florida just because they're so good. But to win the conference, I don't think you can take a home loss. Yeah. Then a couple other things. The Louisville game is at 8 o'clock on a Tuesday on ESP. We are the opening game of the Champions Classic against Michigan State, which means that game starts at 630. So we'll actually, that's not very bad at all, right?

Usually it's completely flipped. Usually we're in the late game. We play Gonzaga on a Saturday night at 7 o'clock. We play Friday night. That's a Friday night at 7 o'clock. We play Indiana on a Saturday night at 7.30 here in Rupp, and then we play St. John's. That St. John's game is at 1230.

So that's very early in the day in Atlanta. Is that still our road trip game? I think that's going to be our road trip. We'll leave after the Indiana game and go there. Mario said you mentioned. Very far after that Indiana game. I wish that had been at noon. It felt like Kentucky Indiana was at noon forever on those December Saturdays.

So the St. John's games in Atlanta. Yes. Mario mentioned you stopping at his parents' house in Florida on the way to that game. Yes, we're going to Florida, then Atlanta. Huh. What? Just a little. I mean, you think we're not going to road trip just to Atlanta.

That's six hours. We have to make it into a week. We'd just be stopping in like Williamsburg, Knoxville, Chattanooga. No, we got to go around. Ron, are you aware we went to Maine to go to New York City? This is not new. This is not a new development. I can already tell you, we're going to go to North Carolina.

South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and then come back through a different part of Georgia to Atlanta. I can't imagine a better route. I thought we'd go to Corbyn, stay there. Well, Asheville. Rocky Top, stay there, yeah. He wants us to go to Corbyn. Yeah.

For our road trip. We've been to Corbyn quite a bit. Yeah, we haven't spent the night there. We can go to Corbyn's day if you want. I'll go to Corbyn with you. Corp. It's an hour away. We'll take a break.

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Yeah. Yeah, what's he doing? He's on some show on television. It's called the floor. Rob Lowe hosts it. It's a game show. Bo Bice. We'll take a break and be right back.

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This is Dolly Parton. So if you haven't heard the news, Dolly is apparently very sick. her sister asked for prayers said everybody needs to be praying for Dolly made it sound like things were very very serious

so hopefully hopefully things will get better I cannot imagine we talked about this a lot more of an American treasure than Dolly Parton that'll be if she passes away

that'll be a day of the whole country would unite in sadness there aren't a lot of those people but she would definitely be one one of the greatest most like celebrities in the history of the world. Everybody likes Dolly.

Not one person doesn't like Dolly. Dolly and Willie. Those are the two I always say that apply. But prayers to Dolly Parton. What's your favorite Dolly Parton song? Probably Jolene. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. This is the first time here to.

You like Mule Skinner Blues. That's a good call. Dolly right there. What about you? I'm going to have to say Jolene. That's an awesome song. I'm a here you come again. I think that's a really beautiful

beautiful song Here you come again And there I go And what she wrote The Whitney Houston song She wrote I will always love you I will love you That's right

She's made She's I heard her say once She made more money From that song When Whitney Houston sold it Than she had made in her Or when sang it Then she had made in her

Entire career up to that Really She had She made more money In that song And Whitney Houston's Performance of that song Wow

Than her entire career up to that point. Now, I think that's changed since then, but up to them. That's crazy. Dolly have a heck of a career and then one of her crowning achievements with someone else singing it. I mean, that's one of the biggest songs of all time. Yes, it is. Right? Like, that's what... From an hour ago on TMZ, her sister says she apologizes for the false alarm. Says she's just a little under the weather. Didn't mean to make it sound so serious. What, her sister, wait a minute, hang on. Her sister apologizes for the false alarm. Yeah. She said she was just asking, said her sister was just a little under the weather, just asking for prayers, that's it.

Her sister was just under the weather? That's what she says. It's from TMZ. Okay, sister, you might need to give up the control of the Twitter account. Yeah, I just looked up the message because I didn't know this. She made it sound like she was going to die. She's strong. She's loved it with all the prayers being lifted for her.

I know in my heart she's going to be fine. Godspeed, my sissy dolly. What was the first one? I was up all night praying for my sister dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I've been led to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. That sounds like you're in trouble.

Now she's acting like she just had a cold. And so she just... Her COVID test came back negative. She's okay. She just had the sniffles? Everybody. World needs to pray for dolly sniffles. A little NyQuil.

She's good to go. You know what? This is why you don't let family members take over your social media accounts. people get people get a little well you were like that though ryan remember when i was in uh when i was in the hospital you were very nice but you made a statement i think one time on the air that made people think i was you actually thought made me think i was going to die called the doctor back in like what else you know i told me like people started sending me messages that made me think that they knew my diagnosis and i didn't i was getting text like

listen man we've had a great friendship Just whatever you know, I'll take care of your stuff. I know my blood pressure's high. Is there a different report that I'm getting? We've already cleaned out your house. But you did it out of care. Yeah. And I think that's probably what's.

I'm sure what sister's doing it out of care. Maybe she just didn't word it correctly. The sister did as well. Who's next? Chase. Chase. How are you, Chase? Chase.

Hey, man. How you doing? Good. Go ahead. So obviously the fan base is completely checked out of football. So everybody's super excited about basketball season. but I think it's important for us to set expectations before the season starts. So what I'm going to ask is what will the fans consider a successful second season for Mark Hope?

Well, okay. So you've heard me say this for 15 years if you've been listening to this show. I don't think in basketball you can set the expectations based solely on what happens on the tournament because there's a level of randomness in the tournament. So I'm not going to say it has to be the final four because I think there's a level of randomness. For me, this is just my expectation. I think this team needs to contend for an SEC title.

And I think they need to either win the SEC regular season or win the SEC tournament or make a final four. Between those three things, in a perfect, like when you have an elite elite team, you might do all three. When you have a great team, maybe you do two of them. I think for me this year, my expectation is we have to do one of them. I'd love to see us do two of them. them. But I think, you know, I think it is with the roster they have and the money they've put in it,

I think it's fully appropriate to expect us to win either the SEC regular season or the SEC tournament or if we don't win, we're right there and we just had another really good team that beat us true. That would be my expectation. Yeah, and I've used that, those three for a system going back to early in the Cal days, like if you do one of those three, you know, a pretty good year. some of yours he did three out of three that were incredible. But if you can at least have the great regular season to win the SEC, give us that run in Nashville or get us to a final four, it would be hard to complain about a season.

And the thing is we haven't had any of those since COVID. Hadn't gotten close, really. So think about that for a minute. If those are my three barriers or my three levels of success, we haven't done any of them. So it's been a long time. So it's time for us to do one of those. It's been seven years since we've done one.

So I think it's fair to say, Ryan, that we do at least one. Two would be amazing, and then three is an all-time thing. But I think if you could do one in year two for Pope, I'm good. If you do two, then I'm like, awesome. Just thank how our excitement level pumped up last year after the season they had last year. So, yeah, you knock on that door of an SEC title, get us to the weekend of the SEC tournament. Maybe you get to the Sunday championship game, make a run in March. This place, the whole state, it was just busting at the seams to explode.

And even though it's not one of my three levels, I would note, like last year, probably the thing that they did that was the best accomplishment is that they beat Duke, Louisville, Gonzaga, and Florida. Yeah. We had the record for top 25 wins last season. Yeah, I mean, that's not one of my three, but that's probably in and of it. You beat Duke, you beat Duke, Louisville, Tennessee,

and Florida and Gonzaga in one year. That's pretty good, you know? It'd be nice to beat Cal at Arkansas this year. With the injuries and all that last year in the scenario. How important do you think that game is, by the way? Does it matter or does it matter? It really doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me, but I think it matters to a lot of fans

because they beat us here at Rupp last year. I don't want to give Cal that credit. Yeah. It depends on what our record is going in the game, too. If we only have like one or two losses, it doesn't matter. If we have like seven, then maybe it matters more. Good point. We'll take a break.

859-28027's KSR. 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. Who sings this song? Helen Ready. Hell and ready.

Because I used to sing this song to my mom all the time. Because my mom would like, my mom is the person who really ingrained in me like a real respect for women. Like I, my mom is wonderful, but she's the one that got me like making sure that all these, the opinions I have I have. But sometimes she would like say something where she would be even more emphatic. And I would go, I am woman, hear me roar. And I didn't even know, like, I knew it was a song. But like, so that's why I always think of when I hear this song. I remember hearing this song a lot in the 70s growing up.

It came in the anthem for the women's movement a lot. When you started that sentence. I was, you know, he got through it. But I don't know about you. When he started, it became the anthem for, I was like, please don't say something bad. I'm getting to that point with him where I just sit there and hope. Keep your fingers crossed. And he's getting to that age where he can say what he wants, too.

Well, I don't think he can. I think he thinks he's only 57. Oh, 9. 59. But that's not, that's not Bob is 92. He can get away with stuff. 59 is still definitely a getting canceled age. I can't wait to hear Ryan at 92 on KSO.

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Listen to this story. This just came out. I'm just going to read you from it if that's all right. Robertson County Sheriff Terry Gray. We've not talked about this person very much on the show. Okay. But I'm going to give you some facts, ma'am, about Robertson County Sheriff Terry Gray. See what you think.

He was charged Tuesday evening with a DUI. Now that's bad for a sheriff. But what if I told you it was his third DUI in two years? Oh, my goodness. What if I told you he was charged after he drove 110 miles an hour and nearly flipped his car multiple times. You'd think that's bad. But then what if I told you after he's pulled over,

he, quote, said, I'm not that drunk. Didn't say I'm not drunk. I'm not that drunk. I'm not that drunk. So they gave him a breathalyzer. What's the legal limit? 0.08.

What if I told you that Terry Gray, 3DUI in two years, 110 miles an hour, not that drunk, blew a 0.226. Oh, my goodness. I'd say you are that drunk. Wow. That's three times.

And he's the sheriff. He's the sheriff. Here's my quit. The deputy smelled alcohol coming from gray, according to documents. Another deputy found multiple bottles of fireball whiskey in his pocket. So here's what I want to say. I mean, we're sort of laughing about the absurd. How's this man still the sheriff?

Yeah. I feel like one DUI, I'm ready for you not to be the sheriff. Two DUIs. I don't even think it's debatable. But three DUIs and I'm not that drunk. Robertson County only has like a thousand people, but still there's got to be someone else who could be the sheriff, right? He's got deputies, one of they promote one of the deputies to sheriff.

First of all, his deputy is the one that pulled him over. I mean, not that you should have three over the long period of time, but three and two years is also very aggressive. You know the way they caught him, by the way? He didn't try to be subtle. he was driving around Robertson County in a truck and he put on his blue lights and was just going 110 miles an hour so not only did he go 110 miles an hour

he just went ahead and put his blue lights on while he was doing it like look at me and by the way he wasn't chasing anyone he was just driving just driving around yeah i don't i'm with you i don't know how after one offense you could keep that job too he said he was not that drunk but i'm riding around 100 miles an hour with my blue lights on just for fun So he's got to be, they got to take the badge away from him in jail. Yeah, and probably take the fireball away from him also.

I actually don't know legally, though. I have to tell you, I'm not 100% sure in Kentucky law what you can do. Because a sheriff is elected in Kentucky. It's not appointed. So if you're elected, like, there's no boss that can just fire him, which I guess maybe the Kentucky legislature, may be able to, like, voting, but I don't know. That's the problem with elected officials.

Like, they can, you kind of, kind of hard to get rid of. Nobody oversees him at all? I mean, I'm sure there's somebody that oversees him, and I'm sure there is a way to get him out, but, like, it's not just like someone can fire him. So I don't know what the process is. I'm sure there is one, but I don't know off the top of my head what it would be.

I'm reading the LAX-18 story, and it says he has the charges in the past for driving under the influence in a marked cruiser, which he did this time, but he also was charged for overturning a tractor while intoxicated. Yeah, that's bad. I mean, one of the things that has happened in the last couple of years with, not to get political, but with some of our leadership, is we've realized kind of the holes in the American legal system. Like, for instance, you're not allowed to profit off your nation.

while you are president or while you are governor. But then the problem is there are no ways to enforce it. So remember my old rule is not a rule without a punishment? So like technically when Trump did that crypto coin, that's illegal. But if you can't enforce it, then is it really illegal? You know what I mean? And so this is the same way with the sheriff. Like you shouldn't be able to drive drunk.

But if you can't get rid of him, then I don't really. really know what you can do. I mean, I guess he can go to jail. I assume he'll be in jail. You can't be the sheriff in jail. You can prosecute him for it, so I guess they can do that. But, you know, when he gets out of jail, might still be the sheriff. Put his hat back on? There's my badge. Yeah. There's my badge. There's my fireball on my badge. So, all right, who's next? Warried.

Warried. How are you? It's probably worried. Yes, go ahead. Hey, guys. First time, long time. I've got a little bit of a problem, Matt. I need some legal advice. Okay. I just received a separation notice from my son to be ex-wife, and I see that the separation notice is designed by Mitch Barnhart.

I don't know that I can financially recover from then. Yeah, I don't know about that. Appreciate the call. Did the wife have Jimmy Sexton on the table? Yeah. Yeah. Everywhere, I will say yesterday when I was sitting there, all anyone wanted to talk about was the Mark Stoops contract. It's amazing.

We've gotten an hour and 41 minutes into this show, and this is the first time Stoops or UK football has come up. But, yeah, that's all anybody wanted to talk about yesterday, was the contract and just how bad it is. Exciting, as we all are about the basketball season starting. That's still, I think, a lot of our thoughts. What is wrong? how can we fix football, how bad is it going to be, what are we going to do with football? So I had two people tell me yesterday. One person sort of agreed with me of what I said yesterday, which was they'll find the money if they have to.

But then the second one said, Matt, they can't bring him back if he goes three and nine, but the money, like, they're going to have to pull everything they got to get. Basically, Stoops has Kentucky by the, well, I won't say, but they've got Kentucky by the, he, he, he, I mean, Mitch, this contract for Mitch is a disaster. And it's a disaster that I think everybody is really, like it's hitting home. I'll go further. You'll never see the University of Kentucky, Board of Trustees, or Athletic Board, approve a contract like this ever again. I feel confident in that. you know,

Mark Pope wins a national championship, we may give him, but you'll never see a contract where the buyout is due immediate and all that. Drew, they're just never going to do that again, which they shouldn't. And it's not lost on a lot of people

that we're pretty close to having this situation going on at the same time with basketball. We're lucky Cal snuck into a hotel room with John Tyson, or Mitch would have two of these contracts in front of him without an answer for either one of them. I would say to you, we owe I mean John Cal Perry

didn't do it out of the goodness of his heart but we do owe him a thank you for it because what if we had two of these going on right now at the same time Colin Boosters asking to double let's say our basketball team last year had gone and lost in the first round as a 10 seed

with DJ Wagner Carter Knox and the cast that was lined up to and let's say we had two of these Ryan going on at the same time I had somebody ask me, what business manager in the right mind would agree to a buyout doing 14 days? That's 38, 40 million. One who has an agent that says, my client is leaving if you do not do this. And, you know, you got to have guts sometimes to say, then walk. But I can understand why he wouldn't have wanted to do that because, again, go back to 2020 or 2019 or whatever it was when this happened.

and say like, well, what would you have done? Would you have let him go? You couldn't let him go. Yeah, but you can't do this. You can't do this either. But this is what you did. Yeah. I'm trying to play it back.

Where would have Stoops have gone? I know Barnhart can't fall away. But like the pay-it-and-60-day thing, like, how did he agree to that? I don't know. Stoops didn't have an offer next to him. Like, well, then I'm signing this one. So I was, so one thing I said on the post-game show was wrong. I think I, did I mention this?

Monday about the bowl thing. Did I say that on the air? About the six, the years where you keep going. Because on the post game show, I noted that the contract had it to where every time you made a bowl, you got another year. That does not say that anymore. I was incorrect about that. But I'm not sure if this is better or worse what it actually is. We do not have a thing where you get an extra year for a bowl.

However, this contract still goes through 2031. and when it was signed, that means they gave him seven more years. And that was in 2022. So I want you to think about just for a second. 2022, what year was that? That was the... They had just had the big season. The second.

Was that Will Levis's set? That was Will Levis's second year, though, wasn't it? It wasn't his first year. Yeah, yeah, it was the second year. That was Will Levis's second year where we went like seven and five. So we went seven and five, Will Levis' second year, with Skangarello as the offensive coordinator, and we gave him an extension for seven more years.

See, to me, that one's less defensible than the one we did in 2019. The one we did in 2019 after we had made a bowl game and won the Centress Bowl and had ten wins, that one makes some sense to me. But after we've gone seven and five with Scangarello, and then we gave him seven more years. I don't know, Ryan. That one makes less sense.

That's why I think people are, like, throwing their hands in the air. Who would agree to this deal, the way they set it up, these terms? And like Drew said, what power did Stoops have at that time? He didn't have another job on the table. Where was he going to go? In 2019, I'm sure he could have gotten a really good job. Do we think he could have gotten a really good job in 2022? I mean, he could have, but did he have one?

I mean, in theory, you could go get a line. Well, now, somebody would argue, okay. that was, you know, he was the next year offered Texas A&M. We had that great year in 21, let us his first year with Liam Cullen. They went to the one of the Citrus Bowl, right? Yes, our good years were 18 and 21. But he signed in November 22. I mean, they lost to Vandy in November 22.

Actually, you know what? He signed it, then they lost to Vandy. That's exactly right. You're exactly right. That's what it was. He signed it, and then we lost that home game to Vandy. Yep. You're exactly right. That's exactly what happened. And then lost to Iowa in the bowl game.

Yeah. And then asked fans to pony up and lost to Vandy too. The next year, I think, wasn't it? No, we won. Wasn't it the next year? We lost to Vandy in 2022. Then we beat them down there in 2020. Yes. But then we lost at home in 2024 again. We've lost two out of three, both at home.

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Take the Tigers. It's the game five. You got the Tigers. Brewers Cubs. Brewer's up 2-0. They can win the series. What are you got? Pick the Cubs, so I go Brewers.

Cubs are at home, they won't get swept. Cubs will win this one to be. Well, you got, Chubs get one. Blue Jays, Yankees. Blue Jays were up 6-1 last night, ready to knock the Yankees out. Yankees make a comeback, win 9-6, who wins tonight in Yankee Stadium? Blue Jays. I'm going to go to Blue Jays.

I want Blue Jays Mariners in the championship series. I'm going Yankees because Schlittler is pitching for the Yankees tonight. What about you? I'm going to take the Blue Jays to end the series tonight. All right, and finally, Philly's Dodgers. The Dodgers have won every game. game in the playoff by large margins, who you got in this one? Going with my guy Freddie Freeman and his Dodgers, even though I don't like them.

Dodgers are home. Yeah, they're the best team in baseball. Dodgers win at home. Dodgers win at home. There you go. 8-59-280-2287. We got sit to us. Here's how you can remove a sheriff.

The governor can start impeachment proceedings in front of a board, and then he can make the decision after the proceedings to remove him. I would say that is something that Governor Bashir probably ought to initiate, wouldn't you say? I would certainly, to quote Bush Hamden, take a look for what's going on in Robertson County and probably make some adjustments. I think that's probably a fair thing to do, right? I'd say that's on his agenda to get to as soon as possible. Shannon, I thought you would like this. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was asked about Bad Bunny playing at the Super Bowl.

And he said, it's a disgrace. Bad Bunny should not play. He should be replaced by Lee Greenwood. God bless America and the village people That'd be great Can you imagine Bringing out

How old is Lee Greenwood First of all? He's got to be in his 80s Can you imagine First of all What's he going to sing Besides God bless America I mean that's a 15 minute performance

So what else is he going to sit America the Beautiful I think he has Star Spangled Banner No he's got other songs Shannon You and I We've done this before What are his songs?

He's got like... I remember him standing by your dad during the ballwalk at the Tennessee Kentucky football games. Okay, so I'm looking at... Here's the list of Lee Greenwood's most popular songs. Are you ready? Yeah. God bless the USA. Rock version.

America the Beautiful. This land is your land. Told you. Star-Spangled Banner. He nailed them. The Battle Him of the Republic. Oh, my goodness. Wow.

You got one called I-O-U. I feel like that's not... Dixie Row. That's one I know. Dix, but first of all, I don't think they want you saying Dixie. I think that word got removed. So he's got to go back to America. This next one is Amazing Grace.

I can see a halftime show really rocking with that going on. I like that suggestion. You know what? Let's just do Lee Greenwood. How old was the guy that made this suggestion? I don't know how Mike Johnson is. He probably is in his 50s, maybe. Lee Greenwood's 82, by the way.

82. I'm actually in for it now. At first I laughed, that would be awesome. You could do a little flyover. Hey Greenwood's going to fly over? Oh, he parachutes in. Yeah, he definitely parachutes in. A lot of an American flag parachute.

I don't know if he could stick to landing. I don't know if that would happen. Who's next? Kelsey. Kelsey, go ahead, Kelsey. Hey, guys. So I went to Jeff Ruby's last night with my husband for our anniversary, street. And as we walked in, my husband said,

wouldn't it be funny if we saw, uh-huh, wouldn't it be funny if we saw Vince Mero? And I was like, no, we won't. Well, we got seated, and we were talking and over my shoulder. Here comes Vince Morrow with his Cardinals gear on. Oh, he was wearing Cardinals gear. Yes, he was. He was hustling through the dining room.

He looked like he kind of snuck out the side door. And I asked our waiter, because I'm nosy, how often is Vince here? and he said at least once a week. About 30 minutes later, can I keep going? Yeah, quickly. Okay, 30 minutes later, Kenny Walker and Leroy, or Leroy Bird come in, and they sit down with, like, the NBA scouts,

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I hear Vince. I get Vince Mero's sightings in Lexington, three times a week. Yep. I was at Jeff Furbies two weeks ago, and they said Vince was just in here. Like, I just missed him. The Harries and Malones, and then Jeff,

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