KSR - 2025-10-28- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

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We'll do it for you today on a Tuesday. We are in Louisville because we now have a new regional boss. So this is somebody who's over like the entire southeast of the country, like basically runs all the radio, talent in the southeast of the country. They came here to meet us today. They separated us. I have to meet him for lunch. Yes. But you all met him before.

They just wanted to separate us. Right. Which is like, you know, what they say, divide and conquer. It's a strategy of war. It's a strategy of business. So I haven't met this person yet. You all just met him. We just met him.

What did you think? Very personal. Did he offer to fire you? No. But the first thing he did ask Drew was, did you guys really start in a basement? was the first thing he wanted to know. That was? First question.

Well, good. So you didn't do anything to, like, hurt us? No, we bragged on you, bragged on all of us. He's really personal, really easy to talk to. I think he's going to be a good guy to work for. All right. That's famous last words. What about you, Drew?

Talked about playing golf. Okay. It's good. He's a St. Louis Cardinal fan, too, so he and I immediately connected. Well, good. Well, I'm glad you to. You know, they separate. I can't tell you what I said.

I got to talk about you all, so that's the point of separating. That's the whole point of divide and conquer. Because if I know what I know what? what you all said, then I come in and say the same thing. He was really asking some good question. Like he wanted to know about this Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson thing. He couldn't and didn't know who the guys were, but he knew there was some sort of recruitment that kind of helped.

He knew about Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson. Well, he knew there was a recruitment that kind of helped springboard the website. Okay, got you. Well, anyway, so we are here in Louisville. What horrible traffic the city had today? What is wrong with you people in Louisville? I got up early. I left at 7.15.

That should have been plenty of time. I had intentions of going to this coffee shop down here, eating breakfast. I got here at 920. It took over two hours to get from Lexington to Louisville. I don't know what they did, but I-64 was just a parking lot from... Talks about Shelbyville. I mean, it backs up way back. It was awful.

It was awful. I don't know what you all did here, Louisville. Why is it happening? And then the thing about all these traffic jams in Louisville, they never seem to have a reason. That's it. That's what I'm going to say. You never get to a thing that makes sense as to why they're happening, Because there's never a wreck or something.

It's just you just backed up. Like there's one time where the three lanes funneled down the two. That's the only thing I saw. I can't believe it backed up all the way for that. Something else had to be going on. So if you're coming from Lexington to Louisville, just know. Leave yesterday. It's going to take a little while to get here.

But we're here and excited to have you. 859-280-2287. Ask anything Wednesday. Hopefully you give us a shout. We, I was trying to think which way to go today. last night, I did something I very rarely do because I'm kind of a night owl. I bailed on the baseball game. I went 13 innings.

Well, you made it farther than I did. And I thought, you know, I just got to go to sleep. And then they went 18. It finished at three in the morning. Played a double header last night. They're saying it's the one, maybe the best long World Series game of all time. Did anyone finish it? No, I tapped out about the ninth inning.

I made it to extra innings. About where you did, I'd say around the 13th, I dozed off. I had it on, I was trying, but I wasn't going to fight the eyelids when they were closing. I couldn't hang for the whole 18. I gave it 13. Well, I started in like the 8th, but I gave it from the 8th to the 13th. It was very exciting, right? Freddie Freeman wins it on a walkoff in the bottom of the 18th.

Shohei Otani gets on base 9 times. That's crazy, man. Nine times. Crazy. First player to ever get four extra base hits in a World Series game. He's unbelievable. And then they intentionally walked him four times. So he ended up getting on base nine times.

Insane. But you know what? It's a World Series record. But you know, that's happened twice before in a baseball game. No, I didn't know that. So it was the third time someone's ever gotten. Now, I wonder, do you feel like he's the greatest at, do you think he's the greatest baseball player of all time?

Are you ready to put, I mean, who are the contenders, right? So the contenders would be Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, what? Mickey Mantle. But Babe Ruth's the only guy that pitched and hit. Do you think you have to pitch and hit to be the greatest player?

Because nobody does that. To me, that's what puts him over the top of everybody else. The fact that he can be a big league pitcher and maybe the best big league hitter in our game right now. So are you going to say, are you going to say he's the best player of all time? Because he's pitching game four. I know.

After doing all that, he's pitching the night. You get your team to the World Series. Yes. To me, he's the greatest baseball player ever. I agree. I don't think it's close. Because you said no one else does this. Well, that's the point.

He's doing what no one else does and is excellent at both. Rick, you got to wake up and answer these calls. I can see them ringing. Rick. Oh, I'm here. Are you going to answer these calls? Yes. Okay.

Just doing it on your own pace? I get the job done. Okay, all right, Rick. I'm just making sure. All right. Yeah, it is an amazing thing. It's crazy. But he's also like crazy.

He's definitively the best hitter. Yes. And he's one of the really good pitchers. Yeah, he's in their starting rotation. The dude throws 100 miles an hour. It's amazing what he's able to do. Do you, okay, so when various people have played like Tiger or Michael Jordan, you sort of appreciate in the moment,

I'm watching greatness. Do you feel that way about Shohei Otani? I do. I get excited when he comes up to the plate because in any moment, what was that game in the championship series? He had three home runs. I mean, like, the dude is just,

he's a special player that we should really be able to appreciate what we're watching. Yeah, I don't even love baseball, but if Otani's a bat, you got to lock in. You got to watch him. You know, I'm not a historian.

I can't rank the best players ever, but I can't even think of anyone you could say to put ahead of him. Like, what would the case be for someone else? I did like last night, oh, no, I don't know what it would be. I mean, in my lifetime, I would have said Barry Bonds up until today, right, or up until like this year, because I loved watching Barry Bonds as a kid, and he was good even before he started roiding up. Yeah, he could hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases.

Yeah. I will say it was difficult to watch a dude we cut from the Reds in the World Series. last night. When the one guy got hurt, George Springer, they were like, coming to the game, Thai France. And I was like, Ty France. I remember that guy from last year. He's on the team, so that's a little difficult to watch. So he's on the Blue Jays. I didn't know who is. I think we got rid of him at the end of last year. And they had to put him in. They had a pinch runner last night, who's the slowest pinch runner I've ever seen. Did you see that guy? He tried to go from first to home. He's still running. Oh, that guy. He got thrown out by a mom.

You did. Wasn't even close. Yeah. But I've enjoyed it. This has been a very enjoyable. And now they play tonight. I mean, the game gets over at three in the morning. They play again tonight.

No, I liked it. Now, equally is important. Are you ready for next week, you're eating alone week? We're starting next Monday. You've got seven straight days. Have you processed that you're going to do this? I've talked it over with yoga girl. Why? Why? Because we try to eat dinner together. I need to eat dinner by myself.

And I think you said I got to stay an hour by myself there at the restaurant. Well, I'm hoping you don't have a clock to count it down. I probably will. I put the stopwatch. So yeah. Have you figured out where you want to go? What places would you like to go? Let me tell you? Sure. I'm going to hit all my neighborhood places. Drake's Applebee's El Mariachi. There's a Chinese place. I'm not offering you wherever you want to eat and you're picking apple. I wouldn't do anything crazy to you.

I understand, but don't you, why not try now that you're doing this new thing? Why not try some new places? Yeah, I'm not big on those new places. I like what I like. Applebee's, I think is very underrated. I think the food at Applebee's is really good. All right. So Drake's Applebee's El Marriachi.

They're on L. Mariahiachie. They're on L. town road. You're just naming my old neighborhood. These are all walking distance. Do you not want to go somewhere that's not with, I mean, like, why don't you try new places? I think I need to support my my hood where I live. You know?

It's not, it's about being comfortable here. I see it. Yeah. I think I need to go to Waffle House on Georgetown Road. There's a lot of new restaurants in Lexington. Here's the problem, though. We can't, I'm asking, I can't tell people where you're going because then they'll come to talk to. That's true.

I don't want, I don't want that. You don't want that. This is supposed to enrich your salt. Red State barbecue is right down the road. It's probably going to be on my list. It continues to say the ones. It's all about being comfortable. He knows the people that own these places.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Anytime you go to Applebee's, it's basically a little. the league team, just about to go to a game. He'll know the coaches and the players. You think Appleby's is just one big little league team? Yes, just to be in there all the time. It is kind of the kind of place that seems like a little league place. Yes.

Oh, yeah. All right. So you're going to go. Yeah. How are you going to spend the hour? Have you thought about, are you going to read? I think I'm probably just going to watch a game. Try to go when there's a game on and just sit and watch a game and eat.

So just sit there in silence. Yeah. And watch a game. Yes. No stimulation. Well, I don't know. What if somebody comes up and says, hey, Ryan, what's up? Of course they can talk to you, but you cannot invite them to sit down.

I can invite them to sit down. No, you don't get to invite them to sit down. You can talk to them, but they need to move along briskly. And KS. Bar is off the table, you said, right? KS Bar, I'd let you go to KS Bar on like Tuesday because we're not that crowded. Okay. So if you want to go on like Tuesday, I'm okay.

But you know, you cannot go like, wait a minute, no way. Hang on. Next week, Kentucky plays basketball on Tuesday. Friday. She can't go Tuesday or Friday. Oh, okay. I'm doing trivia on Thursday. So you could go Wednesday. Go Wednesday. Matter of fact, I appreciate that, it's Wings Day. It'll be a little cheaper for me, Drew, if he wants to do that. But in general,

you're just there to experience Ryan. Yeah. Your inner peace. And people are like saying, Matt's buying, you should go to Tony's and Jeff Ruby's. Like, I'm not going to do that, Tony. I'll give you one night of those. I wouldn't do that to you. I would go where I would normally go. I'll let you do one night of a Tony's or a Jeff Ruby's. Would you like to have one night of a meal to sort of spoil yourself? I would feel guilty.

You don't have to feel guilty. I'm offering. You're going to Appleby's. It cancels out. Applebees has good food now. Would you like to have one night? Would you like to sit? I mean, I even, you know.

I think that would be worse. Go to a nice restaurant like that. I have to sit there by yourself. I don't know if I'd like that. I've been to Tony's by myself many times. Get the crab cake. Yeah. I mean, we have a former assistant football coaches that is there probably now at one of those places.

by himself. I'm just saying I'll offer that to you. Okay. Are you excited about it? I am not. No, I have not. You met me if you saw me at dinner last night, I was with Yoga Girl Josiah and his new lady friend. That's good. That's what I want. That's what I like.

That's what I prefer. That's what I want to do. But some people would argue, though, that misses the point. The point is be at peace with Ron. Yeah. I got to make sure there's a game on. That keeps my attention focused. To go to watch a game. I love how many rules and details just going out to eat needs. How long do you think you could sit in silence with no mental stimulation?

No game, no person, just you and your thoughts. Ten minutes. You think you could do ten minutes? I think I could do about ten minutes. Not look at your phone. But I might fall asleep. If I'm laying there motionless for ten minutes, I'm probably going to be asleep. Not you could not use your phone.

Okay, maybe five minutes. All right, Mario, it's 1070. there's an empty studio right over there. Yeah. Okay, right across the store. I'll leave my phone in here. Leave your phone. Mario, you can't talk to it.

You just guard the door. All right. You just go sit in that studio by yourself. 13 minutes. 13 minutes. We'll get you at 10.30. Okay. And then you come back and you tell us how it went.

I'm already sweating a little bit. All right. I'll see you at 1030. Okay. Mario, you can't talk to him. All right. All right. 859-280, 2287.

He's going to fall asleep. We're going to hear snoring. coming from that studio. Don't you, am I wrong? This is not going to be good for him. This, it's so bizarre to me that like, you shouldn't need rules and stipulations to go out to eat by yourself. He's like, can I do this?

Can I do this? It's like, just go eat. Just go. At the end of that week, it's going to be good. 859-28027. We'll get, take your calls. We're also going to talk a little football, obviously, the stoop situation, some basketball as well as KSR.

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Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 85928027. You were just saying everything Ryan said while he was here was false about that you're beating with the boss. It wasn't false. I think it was just packaged a little differently than reality. He made it seem like he had done all this research about us. You're saying he didn't know anything about us. Well, I don't want to say our boss didn't know anything about us. But like Ryan used the Patterson and Lucas thing as an example.

He didn't sit down and say, tell me about Lucas Patterson. He said, hey, Drew, what made that website take off? back in the day. And then we told the story. Actually, Ryan told us. Ryan told the story. So Ryan made it sound like he knew the story, but it was actually Ryan that told the story.

Correct. We discussed everything Ryan said we discussed, but we offered the information to him and then we discussed it. Am I wrong? Ryan acted like he offered the information. He did. I wasn't going to correct him or our boss. I don't want to make it sound like he didn't know anything about us, but like.

Yeah, that's a different take on it. Here I was thinking our boss did all this research on us, and it sounds like Ryan did. Ryan's just made that up. Well, I don't want to say he did zero research. He knew there was a website, but that one specifically, it was like, because I said Ryan was traditional media. See, I kind of think in his mind, Ryan already turned it into that he knew him. No, he just wanted to know what made the blog kind of take over for traditional media in Lexington.

It's good to know Ryan took that well. Oh, 859-28022. Just let Ryan cook. One person said, Matt, you and Drew need to pick the restaurants. He's just trying to go to places where he'll know. people. I think there's a true. Yeah, we're not going to. He doesn't get to go to restaurants on Lee's Town Road. I need people to know these restaurants he named. That's where I live, you lived. I've been in all of them a million times. He'll know the server. He'll know everybody.

Yeah, we're not doing it. We're taking him to the other side of town where people don't know him. Yeah, Lees Town Road, it'll just be like cheers. He'll know all those people. And all his neighbors are there. All his neighbors are there. That's exactly right. We can't do that. It's ask anything Tuesday. We will let's go. Let's just get started. Let's go to Billy and Georgetown. Go ahead, Billy. Hey, man. How's it going? Good.

I just got a little bit of info on Malachi, Moreno. Okay. I mean, they could have discussed it, but fortunately, my son was at Big Blue Madness was one of the kids that was chosen to be one of the honorary assistant coaches. And he actually got the, he was the one that judged the dunk contest. But on the elevator ride down, it was Jason Hart. I was talking with them, and my son actually was wearing a great crossing shirt. We're from Georgetown, and I mentioned to him.

I said, hey, you know, we're from Georgetown. You know, we're really big fans of Malachi. And I said, you know, we've heard a lot of good things about him. And he said that he arrived on campus physically prepared and had actually packed on 24 pounds since arriving on campus. Well, it looks like it to me. So what's your question? I don't know, that was just my comment. I think that that has a, I know it's Ask Anything Tuesday, but I'm actually a podcast listener.

And the last time I called in was back when Ryan Timmons. All right. Well, I appreciate it for football. Well, I appreciate the call. He does look like he has put on. I mean, I can't get over, Drew, how different he is from two years ago when he played in the high school state tournament. I mean, and this goes to show that sometimes with these younger guys, you can't just take your initial view and go with it because I left the high school state

tournament going, I don't see how that kids ranked 24th in the country. And then didn't watch him play last year until the, what was it, the Nike classic or whatever that he played in. And I was like, okay, he's gotten better. But he's infinitely better. And he'll play a lot this year. And he's going to be great. Definitely.

He's always been skilled and had the size advantage and knew there was potential. But even like, I feel like I watched him at a, at a. a game at Lexington Catholic his senior year. Somewhere in person, I don't remember the exact moment. I remember thinking, this guy's good, but he will get thrown around in college basketball. Just too thin. I knew he'd get there, but I was a freshman year. He was getting thrown around by Lyon County, and the tallest dude was like 6'3, and I thought

this just this isn't going to work. Yeah, credit to him for bulking up. No kidding. I mean, and credit to his brother, I talked to his brother at Pro Day and how proud he was of him, credit to everybody, because he arrived on campus a different person than I saw at the end of his junior year. Crease, go ahead, Chris. Good morning, guys.

I do haven't asked anything Tuesday question, and I promise you it's not me being negative. My question is, is anyone at this point even a little bit worried about recruiting for next year? I'm not worried, but I do wonder about it. I mean, they don't have a commitment yet. They, but I would say the two or three people

that people have felt the best at about haven't made a decision. yet. So there's still a what, I think if you were to have said, what, two months ago, who's the most likely UK class? You would have picked probably three guys, what you would have picked Stokes.

Who else? Rippey's the guard been watching. Well, I mean, months ago, Kenny was still in the mix, but he's now out. Yeah. And then what about this kid that's going to decide this week between Kentucky and USC Collins? What do you think it's going to happen with him? The buzz has been good about him.

Yeah. USC's one of those schools that we just saw last cycle, though. I mean, a bag can... You never know. But I think it's fair to wonder, but I also think in today's day and age, if you don't get players, the portals makes it different. And we're going to have a lot of guys return,

Kreis, which I think is another thing to think about. That is true. And then also, lastly, did you guys happen to watch any of the Arkansas, Memphis game last night? I know that it's just an exhibition, but they're athletic and they're big. They look good. They look good. I appreciate the call. I mean, both the game they play, other night against who did they play Cincinnati then they played Memphis Arkansas Cal may have a good team he looks like he has one of his better teams in terms of

athleticism I still think they won't be able to shoot and they'll finish you know they'll lose games they shouldn't but this this Cal team I think is better drew than last year's Cal team and it looks like he hit on his guards at least with Malik Thomas the one we gave a shovel in a construction vest here when he was visiting so it worked his little construction vest worked It did, and he had a big game. He looks like he'll be one of those freshmen that can play in college basketball. Are you over rooting against Cal or do you still root against Cal?

Like when Arkansas plays, last year I rooted hard against them every game. Am I going to do that again? For me and I expected this, the moment once we got past the Lexington game, I didn't think about him again until the tournament. Yeah, that's not true, at least for me. I rooted again. I mean, I wanted Bill Self to beat him. But I wanted St. John's to beat him. Are you like sitting down and watching them?

I wasn't good. I mean, I was actively rooting against him in the tournament. I didn't do that. No, I said until the tournament. Until the tournament, I probably didn't watch it. But I definitely, I was, I've never been a bigger fan of the toupee than I was in the first round. Yeah, no, no, definitely the tournament.

I mean, you and I watched the St. John's game together and we were both pulling hard for St. John. I'm saying between November and February, I probably won't think about him once. But at SEC tournament and March Madness, yeah, I'll be rooting against them. I'm still going to be rooting against them. Is that bad? I mean, I want him to lose. I mean, if I'm going to be honest, I'm still going to be rooting against them.

Like when they're playing, because this is going to happen, they're going to play like Belmont. They're going to be down three with eight minutes to go. And then I'm going to turn it on and be pulling for it. Like, I'm going to do it. See, my situation is I want them to lose, but I'm not going to turn it on. Like, I just don't care to watch. I guess I mean, I want them to lose every game, but I'm not.

I'm not going to be following Arkansas blogs and Twitters and watching games. Yeah, I mean, it's probably not a good characteristic that I'm going to, but I'm going to, I'm going to root against them. You know, it took me, it took me 15 years to stop rooting against Rick. It's true. Now I root for Rick. So maybe that'll switch in a few years, but I'm, I'm going to be rooting against them. 859-2-2-827.

We'll take a break. Be right back, KSA. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 8-5-9-2-8027. Here's some ask anything questions on the air or on the text machine. What person writes, Matt, what do you think of the Pat Kelsey Bill Self interaction? I think it was nothing. I think it was just like an account online that was fake, faked everybody and made it seem like they were fighting.

But I think it was a normal post-game interaction. Seth Davis got got got. It's amazing how gullible people are. And I'm not saying I've never fallen for anything, but like people now will fall. You go on Facebook. It's just old people falling for stuff. that you're like, come on, man. Just, just, you got to, you got to do better than that.

But Seth Davis falling for it was bad. So I think it's nothing. One person writes, Matt, Rick, when he's on here, is always mysterious to me. Can Rick give us a 20-second bio of who he is? All right, Rick, 20 seconds on who you are. How old are you are, where you're from, etc. Okay, well, first of all, I'm 73 years old. All right.

Born and raised here in Louisville. I was in radio in my younger days when I had more hair. And when it was brown, I was a top 40 DJ. Oh, wow. Here, do a voice, like, when you were doing top 40, do a voice for me. You mean like this. Okay, so I introduced the song. Okay, let's see here.

Okay. And we've got Bon Jovi coming up next with Legendary. How's that? It's good. That's good. I can see why it worked. It did at the time. No, it worked. It works for me now. Well, we appreciate you filling in, Rick. Do you enjoy KSR?

Oh, sure. Okay, good. Well, we enjoy having you. Ryan's back. How are the 13 minutes of alone time? I got really sleepy. The first four minutes flew by. Those last nine minutes were awful. So you just fall asleep if you don't do anything?

I was laying back, had my feet up. I was about to fall asleep. What went through your mind during the time? Well, you know, you immediately try to reach for your phone. Like, oh, today's Devin Key's birthday. I need to wish him happy birthday. I don't have my phone. I haven't checked Twitter today.

I don't have my phone. You know, immediately I think we're addicted to our phones. Okay. So you had a hard time with you. Yeah, I did read the entire label to this water bottle. Did you know there's a spot on the water bottle where you can put your name? I didn't know that either. Did anybody ever know that?

See, but these are the kind of things you can learn if you start to spend more time with yourself. You can pick up things like, hey, I could write my name on the water ball. Yes. It's like if you got a team, the team mom can write Matthew on one, Drew on one, so we don't drink each other's water. See, these are the kind of insight. There's a legit spot. Look at that little white label right there.

It's not this interesting. Like that's three days, but it's still this is what you can do. I just think how much you would know if you just sat around all the time thinking I can see why solitary confinement is a good punishment in prison because that's it's not a good punishment no one considers it a good it's actually literally a bad it's awful it's actually torture I was tortured then I was just in there for 13 minutes and you also weren't in prison yeah 859 2807 guy I let me real quick let me talk a second about stoops. Yesterday, yesterday did his radio show. He said many things, but he was asked kind of about the roster. And he said he liked the roster, like the young guys, and then said, we did as good as we could have in building the roster. What do you think that means?

Set it on his coaches show. I will note on his coach's show, not one phone call. I felt bad for Bob and Jamestown. Didn't even get through. They're not even answering the phone. We're at the stage of we're not answering the phone. which is always a bad stage. I mean, if you go back through history, go back to Tubby Smith.

Yeah. The moment they stop answering the phone, it's a bad sign. Happened with Tubby, happened with Cal, happened with Gillespie, happened with Joker. As a matter of fact, I think you could argue that the most obvious sign it is ending is when they stop answering the phone on the show. Am I wrong about that? Good point.

Because every single person I just mentioned that happened to. tubby Gillespie Cal joker at some point they stopped taking calls

and the moment they did that it was like you knew it was over when you don't even answer Bob and Jamestown's call and he's on the phone

right here I haven't gone to him might not got to him for a while he might still be on this phone line from last night but when you don't answer

these calls Ryan that says to me it's over and I always wonder does the directive come from the coach or is it coming from JMI

or the athletic department Somebody's making that directive. Whoever it's coming from knows we can't let somebody get through here. We know with this, it might be like when they close Waffle House during a hurricane. You know it's going to be a bad one? Yeah. The moment they stop taking phone calls on the call-in show, you know it's over, right? You mean it's not authentic when they say, oh, we have a submission online.

How good do the young receivers? Yeah, I mean, no one texts in. No one's falling for that. No one is texting into the show and saying how good are the young receivers. Who is sending that in? No one's sending that in. I like we're supposed to believe, though, when they'll have a few online questions that are just all positive,

it's like, I can't be all of them. When I heard he wasn't taking it, I knew it was over. Yeah. Now, Bob and James Town, let's put him on. Bob and Jamestown, there's also apparently, they're not taking calls on the pregame show anymore for basketball. I feel like that's a direct.

Rex shot at you, Bob, because you call every pregame show. Are you upset that what was a tradition for 75 years seems to have ended? It was nice. I loved it. Got to know the coaches, got to know all the fans out there. But I'm talking about the basketball pregame show. They're not taking calls anymore. Dave and Cameron said no more calls this year.

Well, I mean, nothing stays the same. It's all about. It's not, though, an incentive for you to call here more, just for the record. Anyway, now that we're in the World Series, what do you think about the baseball challenge, nine beers, nine hot dogs, and nine innings? Well, I certainly couldn't do it. I appreciate the call. I know a person that's done it.

I won't say who. I don't want to embarrass them. And they did it. And we're very successful. For me, neither of those sounds appealing. The hot dogs, and then I would, there's no way I could drink nine beers of anything. When do we play the hard games? Yo, you think you could do it easy?

He's the one guy in the team you could do it. Now, I've got the Uber ready. I won't be. You could, so you, but you could do the nine hot dogs too? The hot dogs, the beers, yes. The hot dogs never had to do anything like that. I think so. I have to see how big the hot dog is.

Yeah. I think that would start to get really gross. like ending six. Could I trade more beers for a hot dog? You'd have to do nine beers, nine hot dogs. Hope nobody was trying it last night. That would have been an adventure. No, they couldn't have done it.

Yeah, 18. The person did it that you know how far can they get gone? Were they still going strong at nine? I mean, they were thinking about doing it for a double header. And they could have. Jackie, go ahead, Jackie. Hey, guys. I wanted to talk a little bit, and Matt, I need your advice on something about another part of football that nobody really thinks about.

So I run a nonprofit for a softball facility in Bursales, and it took us a year to get on the docket to work a Kentucky football game, and we finally do. And it's a Tennessee tech game. Now, I'm supposed to bring 20 people to work concession. and we're supposed to get a portion of this concession money. I'm going to have more people in the concession stands than are in the stands. Yeah, that's bad luck. I'm sorry about that. That's bad luck.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what to tell you because I don't think there's going to be anything that'll change that. But that's really bad luck because, you know, you were excited to do it, be a good fundraiser, but I don't know what I don't think we're going to have a great crowd. The only way I could see Tennessee Tech being a great crowd is if they announced stupid. is leaving and they kind of do it as like a send off and let ever then I could see people going you know what let's go give the man a round of applause for many years of work here that's it that's the only way it could happen it's senior day so they can maybe have a celebration that way kind of promote it one last

hurrah I still don't think that would pack the stadium but it would probably do better than if you didn't I agree but I'm sorry Jackie that stinks yeah I just don't know what to do It's just hard because it was the one game that we got. Yeah, well, you can't, I mean, you can't not show up. So you got to take it. Exactly. Well, I will tell anybody that goes to go buy concessions from you. Well, thank you, Matt.

I appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate it. There you go. Because that's usually a good fundraiser for organizations and groups and teams to be able to do a game like that. You get stuck with that game. I'll go by something. You will?

We should all go. It'll be one of a handful of people there. I'll send you something to buy for someone else. Maybe one of our football players would leave at halftime and you go to their. It does think she mentioned being senior day. I mean, it's going to stink. The animosities with the coach, for those seniors are going to feel it. I've said this for 10 years.

Part of this is on UK. You've got to stop scheduling those games at the end of the year. You've got to stop scheduling a game that nobody wants to happen as your last home game. Nobody wants to see Kentucky play Tennessee Tech. Nobody. Nobody. If you're going to do that, do it the first or second game of the year when we're excited. Do not do it at the last game.

Y'all are asking for this situation when you do this. What's the thinking? Try to break up the tough part in the tail into the schedule? The thinking is take a game off before the Louisville game or something. And a lot of SEC teams are doing it. And I think it's nonsense. I think it's just complete nonsense to play that game that late of the year. Hey, Big Blue Nation, basketball's back.

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This week's episode, Noam Weissman. He has a podcast called Unpacking Israeli History. I got him to come on and talk about the Israel-Palestine situation and whether or not the peace can hold. What's interesting is that's an area of politics that I don't know a lot about. It's part of why I had him on. He's in my fellowship group. We're friends.

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what percentage chance Andy Bashir is the next president of the United States? Uh, low. Two. I mean, because like, first of all, it's like 50-50 the Democrat or Republican wins.

So start with that. And then it's like, what are the chances he gets the Democratic nominee? And I would say like three or four percent. So then split it in half and it's like two percent. I feel like that's a good number, right? 2%?

Yeah. I mean, that's a higher percentage than we have. Maybe. I might go three. You're going up to three. Yeah. All right. So you're saying three.

Just doing my math. Yeah. I'll go to. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You're going three. What about you?

I'm going to go 2.5. 2.5? Yeah. All right. 2.5. Three. So here's the question. Do you think maybe not this term, but maybe in the future he could be president?

Does your percentage go up any at all? I think you just have a really hard time with the Democratic property. Like, I think it's very hard for someone like him to win a Democratic problem. He's in a red state. But you never know. I mean, things can change. If you had asked me in 2013, what are the chances Donald Trump would be president?

I would have said 0.1. And then he was. So like, you never know, right? I'm voting for Andy if he runs. He's got my vote. All right. So now he's up to 1. And to 1%. All right. You don't count as a whole percent. Oh, okay. You just, you count as one vote. One person writes, Matt, I think it's really strange

that you root against Arkansas. in games. I root for Cala Perry every time he coaches as long as it's not against us. Yeah, I think that's strange. I don't know. How many fans do you, how many Kentucky fans out there you think root actively for Cal in Arkansas that aren't friends with Cal that don't have a personal relationship with it? Are there- Not many. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. If you do, write me. Just write the text machine. 772, 7754. Do you root for Arkansas?

I can understand having no opinion. But I don't understand those who would actively root because it only hurts our program if he does well. You know, when Tubby left and went to Minnesota, I was different. I rooted for Tubby at Minnesota. I did too. That's different to me. Cal going to a conference rival in Arkansas. I think Toby's different.

I do too. Because he wasn't in conference. Yeah. We kind of wanted him. him to go. I mean, I guess we kind of wanted Cal to go to, but it was different. He's not in our conference. Tubby wasn't going to talk trash about us.

Tubby didn't say like the game continues just a different location. For me, if Cal had gone to Minnesota, maybe it's different. It's Arkansas. They're on the schedule. They're trying to get ahead of us in seating. I mean, they're literally a rival in the conference and have been for a long time. I want them to

lose every game. Yeah. Steve, go ahead, Steve. morning guys so what benefit did UK gain from Stoops's contract i mean he can leave it anytime without penalty the university is locked into a 40 million dollar commitment is this the worst structured contract in sports history i don't know about sports history but it's the worst and appreciate the call it's the worst one i can think of with UK because you're right he could have still left we locked him in without locking him in so The answer to the question is we kept him from leaving in theory. But if he could still leave, I do think it was,

we will rue the day that Mitch Barnhart signed the deal to pay the buyout up front. And one of these days, he is going to have to answer that question. He cannot hide forever from answering that question. I don't expect him to answer it right now because he can't say, like, I'm bringing him back, I'm not. But one day I'm going to ask him the question on the air. How did you sign a contract where the buyout was due at once? And I don't know what he's going to be able to say to defend it. And I'm going to ask you.

It has to be asked. It has to be asked. The buyout number is huge, but there are a lot of those out there. But we're the only one that said it's due within 60 days. Yes. Yeah, having a buyout in a contract is not unusual. And you got, if you're Mitch Barnhart, you got duped on that. You got duped.

You did. I mean, if Brian Kelly didn't have to sign that, then neither did Marks to. Yeah. Right? Even going back to that day when they were 5 and 0, just beat Florida, that's still... You still didn't have to do that. Didn't have to do that. Jim, go ahead, Jim.

Yeah, I'm Ryan's age. And, Ryan, I think whatever you want to do to make yourself happy do it. But if you're going to do this where you've got to eat by yourself, how about Matt when he goes to a game, not read cosmopolitan or the National Inquire or something like that to make it even. I do it all the time. I'd bring magazine something. I don't bring them every game. I enjoy the crack of the bat and the thwop of the ball in the glove.

And I don't read cosmopolitan. I read the New Yorker or Bloomberg. I read actual intellectual exorcical. sizes, Steve. I don't know how intellectual the New Yorker is. Well, try reading some time and then see if it is. See if you can get through. I have it.

You have it? I have a New Yorker. I've read the Post. What was your favorite New Yorker article? I haven't read it in years. I read the Post every day, though. Okay, well, that's really intellectual. The New York Post.

Yeah, okay, I appreciate the call. I thought you took an erotic novel one time. I did not take an ironic. Well, I took a book. That's true. I took a book called All Fours, which is not a book that I recommend. But it had some themes. There were some themes.

Okay. Yeah, that was probably not one I would normally take to a baseball game. But I did not take Cosmapolitan. We'll take a break. Take your calls. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy,

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