KSR - 2025-10-23- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk the latest news, cussing coaches, gambling players, and Bon Jovi on tour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just so you know, Brett Bermfrey just put out, worst records against Power Conference teams since last season. We have the second worst record. Only Purdue has a worst. Purdue is 0 and 15. We are 1 in 12. That's fun for us. We really are in the conversation of the worst team in college football right now

of the power conferences. The whole touchdown streak thing We're having a three touchdowns since My 10th birthday or whatever it was It's these Corey Price has like a new one every day too They're damning statistics Yeah, um all right So you had a couple details about the Chauncey Billups poker thing

What was it? Yeah, I guess this is out of the press conference But I'm seeing it tweeted by Chad Millman who we know and trust But it wasn't just that they were doing illegal poker This says they had X-ray machines built into the tables to read face down cards. Secret cameras in card trays. And this is the-

Oh, no. You got secret cameras in card trays. No, this is the craziest part. They wore contact lenses that could read marks on cards so they could know what cards were because the contacts they were wearing. Yeah, he needs to go ahead and pack his bags.

Yeah, that's not good. If that's true, that's not good. He's going to have a lot of time to play cards in the future in prison, if that's all true. That's outrageous. Someone with that, Worth that much money to do something that extreme. Yeah, I guess you want to win on the cards.

All right, a couple things here. Let's go over. First of all, the Wimby. Did you see Wimby last night? He was unbelievable last night. Freak of nature. He is a freak. I mean, like, literally, if he keeps playing like that,

if he keeps playing like that, he'll be the best player we've ever seen. Like, Michael Jordan, LeBron, that debate, I'm not putting Wimby above them, he's not. But if he plays like he did last night, if he is like, Anthony Davis is one of the best defenders in basketball. And he just, that was against Anthony Davis. That wasn't against some chump. That was against Anthony Davis.

And that pump fake where he did a reverse slam and barely jumped, stop it. And then crossover hits a three and he's fouled. The dude is seven foot four. He scored 40 points. He only played like 28 minutes. He didn't even play the full game. Forget it.

If that's what he is and he doesn't get hurt, he'll be the best player that ever played, period. No one's ever going to be better than that. And he was like, you missed 15 to 20 from the field, made all his free throws. It was just an insane performance, and the disbelief on the people trying to guard him is my favorite part. And he's already the best defensive player in the league. So, I mean, like, he'll be the best defensive player every game he ever plays. so then you throw in that, forget it. I mean, I don't expect him to be like that all time.

But if he is like that all time, forget it. There'll be nobody. No one can guard that. Cooper flags is the number one pick, and there's clips of him looking at Wemby, like, what are you? What am I supposed to do about this? I mean, just an absolute freak of nature. To be 7 foot 4 and can beat you on the dribble,

and then step back and hit a three-pointer is just amazing. Cross you over and hit a, and it was Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is He and Rudy Gobera are the two best defensive big man in the league and he did it to him. What do you think he's going to do to like Luke Cornett? I mean, like it's going to forget it.

You don't think Walker Kessler's got something dialed up for him when they play Utah? The one, and he's like flat-footed when he's dunking. It looks so silly. That play is one of the most amazing plays I've ever seen in my life. I think it's PJ Washington. He beat on that play, wasn't it? He pump-fake.

Yeah, I mean, he was killing Kentucky players left and right in that one. So, I mean, if you weren't watching, you just got to go see those highlights. I mean, there were two or three highlights in that game that are as good as any NBA highlight I've ever seen. I almost ran to bet them to win the championship, because if that's really what he's going to be, I don't know how you can take down the spur. It's going to be hard for his body to hold together.

I mean, seven foot four, like tall guys like that, they get feet problems, they get shin problems, like that's the thing. But if he doesn't, that's an unbelievable, uh, unbelievable site. All right. Did you see that students from Trinity High School in Whitesville, Kentucky, which is in Davis County, I didn't know we had another Trinity High School. It's called Whitefield Trinity. Whitefield Trinity. I did not know we had two Trinities, but they were at the Louvre when the break-in occurred. And they were about to walk into the room where they broke in. They were outside the room, and according to them, they heard a chainsaw cutting glass and decided to go the other

way. Smart move, I guess, on their part. Get out of the way. First of all, good decision. Yeah. Secondly, House Whitesville, Trinity got the money to go to Louvre in high school. I don't know you had that kind of money, Whitesville Trinity. But nevertheless, that's kind of crazy.

Heck, yeah. You talk about witnessing history. Yeah, I mean, we were to the Corvette Museum. I think that was our biggest museum. We were at the Kings Island. Oh, lucky? How neat is that? I mean, this is like an international story.

It's huge news, and you're just a room over when it all happens. It turns out they didn't use a hammer to get in. They used a hammer to break the glass with the jewels. They used to get in the window outside. They used a chainsaw to the glass. Have you seen the video of them running around? I haven't seen video. I've just seen the ladder pictures.

There's like video of them running around inside. They don't look like the most professional group in the world. They're like running around going, hey, hit that, hit that. There you go. I mean, like you can. But they knew what they were after, man. They were in and out. What did they say?

Seven and a half minutes. But to me, seven and a half minutes, Shannon, feels like a long time. Yeah, to not catch them, I mean, like, if they were in there for seven and a half minutes, feels like that's a long time for them to be in there. All the guards just ran the other way. Yeah, I mean, all the guards were out, like, I'm out here. You don't pay me enough. Are the guards the one that kind of shrewed the Whitefield Trinity students out, too?

Like, let's go, get out, get out, get out. The Whitefield Trinity students said they heard the sounds of a chainsaw to glass, and then people started running, and it was like that old, what was it, Cedric the entertainer joke. We don't wait to see why people are running. We just run. Get leasing them. So they just ran and then got out.

I don't need no run coordinator. There's no run coordinator. If you run and I'm running. That's what Whitefield Trinity did. My first ever play-by-play was at Whitefield Trinity. They were hosting Drake's Burl from Mulemberg County. Drake's Burles of school? It was.

They consolidated into Mule's. Bloomberg County now. Boy, you had, look at you with the Whitefield Trinity. Did you know they had Louvre money? I did not. Darrell Walter, but Michael Walter started their go-kart racing in Whitesville. Really? Yeah.

Well, you're full of all kinds of information. This guy. Didn't know Eric Monday, but you knew all this. Leslie County High School in Eastern Kentucky. Their football coach, I think his name is Brian Hubbard, has been suspended for two games for inappropriate language. They said he used inappropriate language in front of the team, and he suspended for two games. Now, my, here was my take on this story when I saw it. I've been to Leslie County. I love the people of Leslie County, but it must have been really inappropriate.

I mean, how inappropriate was this language for it to shock the people of Leslie County? You know, I mean, this is, that's Tim Couch country. I don't know. I mean, first of all, do you think you should suspend coaches for cursing in general? We would not have any coaches. There would be no coaches. I'll be suspended. Okay.

All right, so you're good with cursing. My sixth grade football coach. So do we think, what did we think happened in this room that would lead to not fireable? What is so inappropriate that you're suspended, but you're not fireable? I would assume something like sexual would get you fired, and cursing probably wouldn't get you suspended. So what's the middle ground? Something derogatory.

Yeah. So you think it's like at a player, derogatory? Probably. That's probably a good call. I think it would have to be pretty specific and maybe even aimed at someone or some people. Like you're a blankety-blank. Yeah. Okay.

Pointing at the kid. But let's go beat their bluepil. You know, that happens everywhere. Beat their bleeps. They're bleep and bleep. Let's go knock their bleeping heads on. You know, that's normal. But if the coach made it, like you guys said, personal against a group of guys or individual person,

maybe that's where he crossed the line. I'm going to do this. It's never popular. The only thing the text machine likes less than my opinion on ice wearing mask is when I talk about cussing. I don't understand, even to this day, why it's okay for cussing. coaches to cuss like they did. If your science teacher were to curse at you,

they would be fired. If your math teacher were to curse at you, they'd be fired. I think mine did. Your math teacher cursed at you? What did you do that was so bad at math? I was that bad at math. You were so bad at math. His teacher got suspended.

You were the dumbest bleepiddy-blie. Dumbus S-O-B-I-I-I-ever-seen. I don't understand why we I don't understand why we think it's okay. I really don't. We don't allow that in any other form, but for some reason, coaches just get to do whatever they want to do.

And if the player clapped back. If the player cussed, he'd be expelled from school. There you go. The coach can say anything to that player, and it's fine, and if the player, and the player could be 18,

a senior in high school. Say something back, you're kicked out of school. It's to me, like, I don't understand how we allow that. Drew, I've never understood.

Yeah, I know you're getting in their fate. You're trying to squeeze out every little bit of energy. It's not like science where they're in your face, like, do the periodic table. You know, they're really trying to get you to reach a level you don't normally reach in your performance. But I understand what you're saying. You don't have to F-bomb them all the time, but it's everywhere. Yeah.

Even young teams, I mean, they hear. Well, ask Ryan. I mean, Ryan does the same thing. I don't know what you're saying. I mean, you've admitted to cursing as a coach, right? No, I haven't. Oh, okay. I thought you did.

Didn't you get... No, he hit a kid in the face of the ball. You hit a kid in the face. That's right. Unintentionally. Sorry. Little Morgan, how dare me? Little Morgan, you looked at me like I was saying the most outrageous thing.

I'm trying to think of which story you were talking about. Yeah, it was the hitting the kid in the face. My bad. Accidentally. Accidentally. Yes, that's important to say. 859-2-8027. Who's up next?

Justin. Justin. Go ahead, Justin. Hey, Matt. Calling about yesterday's hour number two, and I just got to say, it's probably one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard you guys do,

is joking about ICE while they're disappearing people off the street. Yeah, I don't want to get into a political conversation. I don't want to get no political conversation. I appreciate the call. I'm not going to do that, all right? I, you know, we, I gave you my opinion on something,

and when I got on the text machine last night, I had people on the right and the left being mad at me. Your criticism there's on the left. Our other people's criticism was on the right. That's what we do on this show. And so I don't mean to be disrespectful to you, but as I've said before, when we say stuff, I don't want this show to turn into a political show.

And your general point about there are some things that maybe you don't think we should joke about, I'll take that point. I disagree with you to some extent, but I'm fine with it, but I'm not going to sit here and have a political conversation on the show. Whether that's hypocritical or not, it's the way we've always done it.

Who's up next? Jerry. Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. I'm a bear with what I have to say is when I officiated football, as long as the coach and sending about my mother or my wife, he didn't get the hanky.

Mother or wife, stuff comes out, they got the hanky. Anyway, on Auburn, supposedly stuff I're... Oh, the Hanky. Oh, me, sorry, got you. Okay. Okay. Mr. Yellowwood supposedly down there, he's a big booster that runs everything right now because Auburn's a booster run program.

Apparently he's still back and freeze, but these next two games against us and Arkansas, if he loses one of those games, he very well could be gone. And as far as Summerall goes, the stuff I've heard is it, he really wants to come to Kentucky, but he's not going to weigh around. And that's my big worry in all this stuff. But I don't know what the wait around is. John Somerall is not going to take another job before his season ends, right, before his regular season ends. So I've heard people say, well, John Somerall is not going to wait around.

He's got to wait around until the end of the year. By the end of the year, we'll have decided whether or not Mark Stoops is going to be the coach. Our game against Louis on a Saturday. We'll have an answer by Sunday, Monday at the latest. John Somerall plays the week after, potentially, in the championship. of the American. He's not leaving before, he's not going to announce he's leaving before the season

end, so waiting around is not a, I'm not worried about waiting around. Well, that's, that's my big worry and all this honestly is, with some or any of the top candidates, is, personally, I think they got to make a decision

about Tennessee Tech, what they're going to do. Now, my worry is Barney waits until, you know, after Louisville, it's ringing his hands for two or three days, trying to figure out what are you going to do, By the time he makes up his mind, some of these guys are darned. He'll know going to go in the Louisville game.

Unless we, and I appreciate the call, unless we're 5 and 7 and the Louisville game takes you to a bowler. Right, right. Mitch will have made his decision one way or the other by the Louisville game, in my opinion. I think the only scenario I can see where the Louisville game matters is if we're 5 and 7 and Louisville sends you to a bowl, Drew or does not. Then it might matter. And with Tennessee Tech before that, I mean, should know even going into that one at that point, you know what you're looking at. And Summerall, with him in a hurry, they could be in the playoff.

I mean, I think they have the second best odds of the group of five teams, so his season could go real long. He's a guy that's bigger teams going to come after him, man. He's a good coach. But there's not going to be anything we can do. I mean, if he wants to go to Auburn, Florida, Penn State, there's not anything we can do about that. Right.

I don't care if he did play here. It's still a bigger, better job. Now, if we were to lose him to Oklahoma, home estate because we didn't that's a different question it is but if he takes the auburn job there wasn't going to be one thing Mitch barnhart or anybody else could have done no in my opinion because that just means he wants to be in a place that you win and we everybody kind of feels like those kind of schools are going to go after him cornbreadthimp.com if you need to rest relax or you would just like a seltzer that's without the hangover

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Starting with them? I like this song. I do too. Even though... So cheesy. Why are you so down on this? I told you. He got up.

He brought his son out there. I've been watching you. I like it. It makes you cry, though, because you're a little sentimental. You cry over this song? No, Ryan does cry over, don't you? I can't start talking about it. Listen, Shannon, seriously, he cries over this song.

There's a lot of songs you could maybe cry listening. This can't be the one you cry. Oh, yeah. He cries. Little Buccaroo. You talk about your little kid. He's growing up. It's tough.

Who's it by again? I saw him at Country Music Fest. Rodney Ackon. Because he's from Harrigant, Tennessee. That's right, right next to Middlesworth. So, yeah, we talked about this. He got his son up there at Country Music Fest. The son was not the best singer, but had him sing with him.

Oh, what a moment. What a great moment. What a father-son moment. That made you cry from afar. You didn't even see it. No, I didn't. This song just pulls at your heartstrings. Now, you went to see the Mumford and Sons like yesterday.

Yes, I saw Mumford, the Sons, and Sierra Farrell, whose shirt I'm wearing right now. I mean, Mumford was awesome. They were the highlight. But she was just as good. I was kind of familiar with her, but it was a great show. I drove down and back to Nashville. Don't recommend that. What times you get back?

Well, before five. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. I did notice, though, you went out afterwards. It's not like you just got in the car. No, no, no, we got straight in the car. I saw you, though, at Tootsie's. That was before.

We did a lap around rather before, but no, it was construction and all the fun coming home. Let me explain again, because we always get new listeners, and I love that we get new listeners. So some people may not know kind of the policy. of the show. I do not think on anything we talk about that other people's opinions are not equal to or maybe in a lot of cases better than ours. However, this is an entertainment show.

And in order to do that, we have to keep it entertaining. The moment people start, the moment we start having discussions that are not entertaining, we lose people. I know people don't necessarily want me to talk about this or that issue. They don't necessarily like my opinion about this or that. Some people want us to stick to sport. Some people want us to stick to entertainment.

Some people want me to talk more about politics. I try to balance it the best I can. But once callers get off onto especially politics, the show derails because a guy will say something like he said, and then the guy on the other side wants to say the opposite thing. So that doesn't mean either of those opinions are not worthy. They're just not going to be done here. So I just want you to understand that.

It's nothing, I mean, it's nothing personal. but like once you go down that road, then we just have callers screaming about something that's not the topic. Whereas when we talk about it, I can cut it off when I feel like we're losing the audience, which doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes you do. So that's the reason why, Ryan, I cut off calls like the one we just have. The one thing you're good at is the topics you bring up for the show,

topics of conversation, news headlines, sports headlines, whatever it may be, hit it, then move on. But I tell you what I really love, Matt. I love this so much. is when you get, I get tagged in some of your Twitter. I like when you get tagged. Y'all, I love that. As a matter of fact, whatever your opinion is on anything, I think what you ought to do is just tell Ryan.

Oh, especially if it's like the conversation we have a political conversation. So I think if you want tonight or today, just tag Ryan and say what you think about ice. Remember? Just that whatever you think, I think he wants to hear it, don't you? When there a time of Ryan was before bed, he would put out like, what do you think about this in politics? We did that for a couple weeks. It was a nightly bit. Bring that back.

Bring that back again? Bon Jovi, Shannon, has announced they're going to go back on tour. Mm-hmm. How old are those guys now? 60s? You think? Absolutely. Yeah, they were popular when I was in high school.

How old do we think John Bon Jovi is? I honestly don't know the answer. I'm going to look it up right now. I'd say he's early 60s. Yes, 64. You're going to say 64? What's your guess, Shin. 63 is what he is.

I'm just telling you. Oh, okay. Well, you looked it up. He's 63 years old. All right, so they're going to go back on tour. Here's the question. 63-year-old Bon Jovi and his band, would you want to go see him? They have a lot of bangers.

I mean, a lot of, we're halfway there. Oh, oh. I was at his bar on Broadway last night. Heard them all. That's my version. Oh, oh. Living on a prayer. Would you go?

Yeah. Cost would matter, but yes, if it wasn't outrageous, I'd go. What an outrageous you'd go? Would you go? I absolutely would go. Yes. But, you know, I saw their documentary on him where he was trying to make a comeback and he just didn't have the voice anymore. That was...

He has some songs that would be hard to sing, right? I would think. What do you think, Shannon? No, I never really was a big fan of his, so I probably wouldn't go, even if he was 30. I'm a cowboy. But you know, my most guilty pleasure, the whole... Bed of Roses. When we used to do the guilty pleasure song.

See, some people will say guilty pleasures are like party in the USA. I don't consider that a guilty pleasure. That's objectively a fun song. Guilty pleasures are when you like something like Bon Jovi Bed of Roses. And Gilded H. And Gilded H. Those are guilty pleasures. I don't like to admit I like Bon Jovi Bed of Roses.

It's an objectively awful song, but when it comes on, and I sometimes play it so that it comes on, I'm a fan. The Runaway album was game-changing for me. It came out like my senior year, high school, freshman year of college runaway. Is that dead or alive in that? Is that on that one? No, dude. Who's up next, Shad?

While they're talking about Young Guns 2 soundtrack. Go ahead. Russ. Russ, 30 seconds. Go ahead. Hey, sir. Hey, thanks, Matt. I'm Russ from Mick Rift to Prime Rib

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I said I was going to do it after lunch. Joe Flacco, had a great comment yesterday. I already liked Joe Flacco. He's already old. He plays for the Bengals, and I, for purposes of the bar, root for the Bengals. I'm going to the Bengals Bears game here in a week and a half. Nice. He was on.

He did a. press conference and they said they're like what's changed since you're 40 and he said you know when i was younger i would see an old guy over 40 eating by himself at dinner and i would think poor guy he's lonely he must be miserable i would like to go sit and help him and he goes now i look at it and say that would be awesome he was like now i see why it's great and i thought joe he gets you're 100% right. Eating by yourself, very underrated, and I'm a big fan of it. Me too.

I don't even think you have to be 40. I love going to just sit at a bar by myself and just stare at the TV or talk to the stranger next to me. I've made friends I still talk to today because I was just sitting in a hotel lobby and by myself and struck up a conversation at a bar. I'm good with sitting at the bar and reading the New Yorker. I don't even need to interact. There's something free, like a meal, like not having to be pressured to have conversation and just sit there and enjoy it, see the atmosphere where you are. I love it.

And Ryan, you need to start loving it because this is your life now. I'm exactly the opposite to you guys. I have to be with somebody. I have to eat with somebody. I have to hang out with somebody. Why do you think that is? I don't know. I don't like being by myself at all.

Ever. No. Like ever? No. Forever and ever? So, like, you have a night where yoga girls out of town. Yeah. And you know you're going to be by yourself.

What are you doing? Probably going to a high school game, a football game, or like tonight, there's a freshman football game. You're going to go to a freshman football game. You're going to go to a freshman football game. I know. I know some of the dads, the dad's, Dr. Closterman's kids playing. And also, you would rather go to a freshman football game than. and sit by yourself?

And sit at home by myself, watching TV with nothing to do, nobody to talk to. Yeah. If you had like a craving for a restaurant and nobody could go, you wouldn't just go eat it and sit alone? Uh-uh. No. I've been to like, I've been to Jeff Rubies in the dining room at a table of one before, and it did not bother me. So when's the last time you ate alone, like out? 90s, 80s?

In the 90s. What about when you're out of town? Do you just take it back to your room? I don't think I'm ever alone out of town. Wow. I don't travel by myself. I've always had a kid. Shannon, when we do our trip in December,

no, don't make me do that. We're going to have a meal. No. Where we make him sit by himself in a restaurant. We'll go sit together somewhere else. I can't do it. And we will make him sit by himself in a restaurant. I'll be standing up.

Matt, hey, I'm over here. And you're not allowed to come to our table right now. You live very close to fun, nice rush. You've never thought games on. I'm hungry. I'm going to go to Drake's and just sit at the bar. Thoroughbred. None of them.

What about like here? If you came to watch Kentucky play Purdue on Friday night, you wouldn't just come here by yourself? Well, like when you were gone, you know, where I'd come in here for a Thursday night football for those three or four weeks. But I knew Mario was also going to be here. So I came by myself, and then he and I sat together. at the bar and watch the game. I can't do it. I couldn't come just by myself.

You just got to rip the band-aid off and do it. Well, Joe Flacco's exactly right. There is liberty and there is freedom in being by yourself at a restaurant. Thank you, Joe Flacco, for standing up for us. Who's up next? Matt. Matt. Go ahead, Matt. If Mitch does fire, Mark, who do you think his guarantee hire will be, like, you know, kind of like Mark Coppola last year, or I'm scared it's going to be. like a Neil Brown. What do you think?

It won't be Deal Brown. It's like the top tier shirt out, you know? It won't be Neil Brown. I think there's a worry people have with Mitch that like he'll hire someone like him, that he'll have to go, like he'll go look for a certain kind of personality that people like, I've had that worry in the past. The basketball coaching search took that away from me. So, I mean, just think about who has talked to.

choices were. Scott Drew is kind of like Mitch, kind of quiet, conservative, sort of that kind of thing. But then Danny Hurley was the exact opposite. I mean, Danny Hurley is essentially Mitch just reverse everything. And he tried to hire him as well. So my view is if he was going to consider hiring Danny Hurley, he did hire John Caliperi, right, at one point, then I think he ultimately will pick the guy that he thinks is best. So I don't have that worried. Do you have that worry, Drew? I think he knows he has to nail this.

I mean, it's not a legacy hire, but it will probably be one of the last things he leaves the UK with. And he knows he's got to get approval with the fan base. And somebody that has some juice that comes in here and can embrace an I. I think it's a legacy hire. I mean, I think when he leaves, if he leaves next year, the success of Mark Pope and whoever the new football, football coaches will determine how people look at his tenure.

I mean, I don't think Mitch gets credit, Ryan, for John Calaparing. I think he should. He definitely should. But I don't think he does because people have this perception that he was forced into it. I don't think that's fair to him, but I think people think that. I think he gets credit for Rich Brooks, but then he also gets the Knox for Joker and Billy Gillespie. So I think this hire, how Mark Pope does, and whoever the football coach is, will in some ways be Mitch's legacy.

And that's why we were talking earlier, you know, if he sticks around and make this coaching change, he's not immediately going to leave. I think he'll stick around and try to help usher in that new era of the new coach a little bit. Now, I think he deserves a lot of credit because there are three basketball programs. You could make a strong argument that have had the strongest success they've ever had in his tenure. I mean, baseball, women's basketball, both Matthew Mitchell and now, and, you know, and volleyball.

And I'll even throw in football. I mean, so Mitch deserves a lot of credit. He does. But I do think he needs to nail this higher, just like he needed to nail the Mark Popeye. If you pat him on a lot of texture, he probably wanted Stubs to have a good year, so he wouldn't have to do this because it is kind of the last thing you did is kind of how your legacy is going to be. And he probably didn't want to be put in this situation, but it's looking like it's heading straight for it. You're exactly right.

Who's next? Matt. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Drew, I hope you had fun watching Sierra Farrell. I've seen her live in person three times. The last time at Red Rocks in Colorado. She's amazing. He's wearing a Sierra Falls.

She walked right by me. We touched. It was amazing. I'm her biggest fan. It sounds weird. It's all right. Right through my aisle. Right through my aisle.

All right. Two questions for you. One, Matt, would you ever do a calling show on interrupting? following episode? Yes, I would. If we could, I think the forum to have those political conversations would be on that. So yes, that's actually a good idea, and I will do that sometime. Now, we don't tape it live, so I'd have to figure out how we were able to get the calls in, but yes, I would do that.

I think that would be good. All right, the other question is. I know reparita is going to charge money for engagements, or proposals. Would you guys ever do a proposal show on KSR? appreciate the call we've had a proposal on this show we did at the SEC tournament and tin roof and that couple still together and they come to that show at tin roof every year introduced themselves and say we're the couple that got engaged they've got a couple babies now if I'm not mistaken yeah so we our success marriage success rate is one for one and we charge them

zero dollars we did charge them zero dollars the Department of justice alleges terry roger told a co-defendant de Niro laster that he would take himself out during the first quarter of a Hornets game with an injury so Laster could bet it. $259,000 was wagered on that bet. Wait a minute. De Niro Laster is a former UK football player. What?

Oh, De Niro Laster is a UK football player. I was like, I know that name. Oh, my goodness. Like a while ago. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Well, I didn't realize that. As soon as you said that name, I was like, how do I know that name?

How did they think, like if you're betting on Terry Rozier first quarter under points, $259,000, how do they think that's not going to get flagged? They have systems in place that automatically trigger an alarm when a bet is like, forget the word, you know, it just doesn't line up with what's consistent betting that. How do they think they're going to get away with that, man? They thought they were going to sneak that by? Wait a minute, De Niro Laster, like he played. didn't he?

I'm trying to. The moment you said that name, I was like, I know that name. How do I know that name? I punched it in Google real quick. I can't remember the year. 2016 and 17. One season.

One season. One season. 2016 to 17. Well, there you go. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-254. Good crowd here at lunch. Folks from all over.

We'll take a break. Be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back in the Kentucky Sports Radio. 8-9-8-2-2-287. Text Machine is 772, 774-5254. Matt Ryan and Drew, tomorrow we are at Don Franklin Nissan out past Richmond Road. The UK Purdue game.

Our pre-game show will start here at 3.30, KS. Barr. I'll be doing the post-game show afterwards. I'm really excited for that post-game show, Ryan, because it'll be our first chance to get to see what the team is like and discuss it. I'm sure there'll be no overreactions to whatever we see. Of course it will be. We win the game, we think we're going to hang on banner. We lose the game, it doesn't matter.

This is probably the most anticipated season opener exhibition game I think I've ever been a part of. You're probably right about that. I'm not sure. Maybe the first Kentucky one when Cal came, like, just because we wanted to see it. But remember, John Wall wasn't allowed to play in that game. John Wall didn't play. So that made it a little bit different. And we're all excited about Purdue.

I'm just ready to see him again. I'm ready to see that two-and-a-half-minute video for Madness played in up arena with the crowd. I just want to be in the building again for basketball. Let me give a shout out to this guy right here in the front. When I saw you two come in, I didn't think he was going to order a salad. I like that you're staying healthy, sir. I like that. There's nothing wrong with, there's nothing wrong with being healthy in 2000 and in 25. To come to this restaurant with all this fried and like food and get a salad, that's a man of willpower.

I need to learn how to do that. 959-280-2287. Who's up next? Matt. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hi, guys. What's going on? I'm out here in my garden, cleaning it up, getting it ready for next year,

and I just got a couple things to say real quick. Haven't meditated yet. But I like to ask Matt Jones, since you're traveled the world, Do you know what the top four sports are fan-based? Say that again? Do you know what the top four fan-based sports are watched? Oh, in the world. I mean, the most popular sport in the world is soccer.

Right. Yeah, I would say after that. Cricket. Maybe cricket because you got those countries that are so big, like India, that really like cricket. You know, I don't know. I mean, do you consider, like, track a sport? Because that's probably up there. Almost everybody runs track or does long distance running.

And then after that. Way off. Well, soccer's number one. You're not going to convince me otherwise. your soccer's number one yeah okay what else and what are the next three all right soccer cricket hockey and tennis and can you believe table tennis is next yeah i can believe i'm a little surprised about hockey because like they don't do hockey in south america they don't do hockey in africa i mean And hockey, I would throw a challenge flag on hockey.

But the others make sense to me. Can I say one more thing? Yes. I was going to go negative, you know, about the football team, but I'm not because, you know, who I am. But because I got my vending out at work, shot out to Billy. But I went to your show last Friday, and I'd like to say a thank you to that. sweet, wonderful woman that met me and my wife at the door, made sure that I had a picture with the famous Matt Jones on my birthday.

And she works for eye heart. Well, that's very nice. I will pass. I will pass the message along. And thank you for coming last week. Y'all have a blessed day. It was great to meet you, by the way. 8-9-280-22.

Always nice, like we'd never met him. Always nice to meet somebody when you hear, their voice for a long time. And he's got his own t-shirts. He's meditating Matt when he walks around now, so we know who he is. Spot him the second he walked in the door at 46 solutions. Yes. I just want to throw a little heads up for you. Do you know

what's happening in nine days, Ryan? Nine days. Halloween. That's 10 days, but you're close. Okay. Or see, that's 8 days. Some people are arguing that the best, most stacked horse race of all time is coming in

eight days. Really? The Breeders Cup Classic. Okay. This year it has journalism and sovereignty. Remember, they fought during the Triple Crown. Right. It has last year, you remember, it was it fierceness that was the really good horse? Remember that name?

Sierra Leone, you remember that name? And then the Japanese horse Forever Young, those were the big horses. All five of them are in the Breeders Cup Classic. Some people are saying the best field that they've ever had for a race, and it's next Saturday. Where is the Breeders Cup then this week? It's at Del Mar. It's at Del Mar.

But there's a little bit, there's some people upset because one of the horses, I can't remember which one. His owner, Drew, put in a horse that has no chance to win, like none, just so it would run as fast as it can and set the pace so that he could come from the back. They put in a horse that they think may go off like 150 to 1, just put it in there. And some of the other horse owners are calling fast. I would say, so you can't run a two-man game in horse racing. No, they do it all the time, but usually the horse is competitive.

This one, they say, has no chance. This is like Ricky Bobby and Cal Notting out there, shaking bacon? Is this how this is going to look when the breeders' cup starts? Yeah, something like that. But I just wanted to get you ready because, you know, we like historic moments. They're saying could be the biggest horse race of Baltimore. Well, I knew nothing about it, so I'm glad you kind of alerted this too. At least I can kind of follow it a little bit now.

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I understand why you take a little less money. His thing is, you know, his players, remember they would talk trash, they would run with their middle fingers up. He would yell. Do you think that works in the major leagues? I don't. I mean, it's a heck of a risk, heck of a jump that the Giants are making on this move, but I just, I just don't think it's going to work. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends.

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