KSR - 2026-01-21- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, January the 21st. I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill on a snowy, nasty little morning. But you can come in and see us. It's Wings Day, Dollar Wings All Day, getting ready for the game tonight, where our pregame show starts at 4.30.

It's just us. So come say hi to us this morning. We'd love to see you. We got traped through the snow. A lot of bad traffic in Lexington today. Celebrating the lock of the year last night. I hope you bet it. I did bet it, and I told you I used my draft king's little boosty boost even on the lock of the year.

Shannon, never get the lock of the year wrong. That is 67 years in a row, but the lock of the year is hit. You get the lock all the time wrong. I've never gotten the lock of the year wrong. That's why they do one a year. You've got to go back to 1961 to find one that. didn't hit. Really?

What was that game? Yeah. What was that game? City College in New York and somebody? Interesting enough, yes. Versus Villanova. I got that wrong. But now, Drew,

locks of the year. Well, you're undefeated on your lock of this year. Past years, I don't know the record. That's a good pick. Big win. He teased it. He said there may be a second lock of the year coming. Yeah.

No, I'll do it. I mean, we're hot. For locks of the year. Because I just knew Cal wins games like that at home. And Vandy, you know, I think Vandy, you know, I think Vandy. had a little bit of Vandy hype, maybe a little more than they should have. And so now they're coming down to Earth, and this is kind of what I thought would happen.

They're crashing to Earth, Shannon. That's three straight losses for the former undefeated 16 and O Vandy Comptor. That's right. Yeah, but still 16 and three doesn't look too bad. Maybe they can win 16, lose 16. And then that would be very Vandy if that happened. And there would be very few teams in history that have ever done that. I'm really excited because I would like to know the two reasons I'm excited.

I can't wait to hear this. probably the best night of sleep I've had in, I don't know, years, maybe pre-COVID. Because you knew you hit the lock of the year, so you rested. It wasn't even that. I did not sleep at all the night before, which is a terrible thing to do. Yesterday was miserable. I don't know if you had any time. You know, when I was in college, you could do an all-nighter, Shannon.

And, you know, you'd be tired, but you'd move through it, right? Yeah. Not now. Not this stage of life. Yes. All day yesterday. I just felt like I was living in a dream bubble, but it was a bubble I didn't want to be in. I couldn't fall asleep, but I also wasn't really awake.

And I just was, like, bumping into people and just telling them to move. And then last night, I felt like I was getting sick. You know, when you're cold and hot, a little back and forth? That's not, you shouldn't be like that. You shouldn't be like that. But like, you're sweating because you're hot, but then you need a lot of clothes, which just makes you hotter because you're cold. It's the worst. And I had that, and I thought,

am I getting sick. And I was like, dude, do I have COVID? Right? That's what I kept wearing. So I just went around smelling everything. Yeah. I probably smelled everything in my house 50 times last night. Because when I had COVID twice, I couldn't smell anything.

I mean, that's your, that's your COVID test. Just smell your dirty laundry and candle. Yes, I was walking. I was smelling the stuff that had been in the refrigerator for a while. Yeah. If you can't smell your refrigerator, then you definitely have something. But I just kept smelling and I thought, okay, then I feel good. Went to bed last night at 10, and I did not move until 9 this morning.

Wow. Knocked you out. Knocked you out. And so now you can probably see the energy. I was crashing yesterday. Even the last 30 minutes of the show, we won't put yesterday in the best of because in the last 30 minutes of show I could barely stay awake. I was ready for Bob and Jamestown to call. That's how I was.

You pulled it off. I didn't really realize you were crashing yesterday. But now, ready to go. So that's number one. Okay. Number two. we are getting ready for about a once every five-year weatherman Super Bowl. Yes.

You know? No doubt. Weathermen, we've talked about them over the years. Ryan has no respect for them. I have the most respect. They have these moments, tornadoes, storms, where they have to come. They don't have a lot of prep. But snowstorms are why they exist, Drew.

Snowstorms are why they get out of bed at night, don't you think? That's why they have the job. It's like Super Bowl week. They should all have to have a moment. media scrum today to talk about it because it's why everybody wants to know them you want to know the snow and the snow is coming Friday night through Monday and there is a lot of talk that this could be like a once a decade event yeah parts of people they're projecting in parts two feet two feet yes here I think it's like eight to 12 or eight to 14 but like down in east southeastern Kentucky

they're projecting 18 to 24. They're saying Nashville could get more snow than it's ever gotten ever. Because it's going to snow Saturday, and then you're going to get that same amount on Sunday, back-to-back days. So it's supposed to be the most snow anybody's ever seen. So I care about snow, but I could probably walk to everything I need. I much more care about the fighting from the weatherman. So, Shannon, I think we should introduce all of our combatants.

Yeah. Okay. For what this is going to be like. Don't you agree? Let's go. All right. Now, I'm going to do Lexington, Louisville, and then Wildcard. Okay.

Okay. Let's start with Lexington. Is this like a sponsor's example? No, no. This is just, these are your contenders. Okay. Everybody needs to follow all these people. I'm going to have to look so on up as we go.

Yes. Because all of these people are going to be in our lives. Now, in Lexington, we have two main forces. On the one hand, Chris Bailey. Chris Bailey, you could argue, is Kentucky's weatherman. from eastern Kentucky online all the time likes to make UK basketball

references even said the other night should I put Knoxville on my weather map because Kentucky clearly owns it he also has Kentucky weather and he literally he literally somehow got Kentucky weather so when he writes something

people think it is God speaking it is Kentucky weather he's a little saucy rolls the sleeves up I would argue early. First sleeve roller in an emergency. But he's very, like you sending pictures of your driveway and you'll be like, it's snowing two inches in Herodzburg and he retweets. Oh, you're going to retweet. He wants everybody to see. If you put a ruler in the snow, you're going to retweet. Oh, if you get a ruler in the snow or your, your kid is like laying down, you can only see

your kid's nose, like that he's going to love it. He is in some ways the people's weather man. And he did a 30-minute special last night on Tuesday. to preview this storm that's coming in. Already, Shannon, doing snow previews four days out. That's when you know you're dedicated to the bit. So this is, I would argue in some ways, he's like the, you know, the Alabama of weather. Standing across the street from him is Bill Meck. I like Bill Meg.

Looks like your middle school science teacher. Right? Got his pocket protector, his square glasses, but very sneakily funny. Yes, he is. Right? Very. Keeps it on the DL,

but then sometime we'll just stab you right in the kidney. You know, odd climate change denier weather man. Don't see a lot of those. No, you don't. You don't see a lot of those people who see the weather, watch it and go, this isn't happening. But when the TV comes on, he takes up the room. Yes, he does.

He and Bailey don't like each other. but they kind of, I think they respect each other. Probably. Because they don't talk a lot of trash about each other. Right. Do you agree? I agree. Bill's been here the longest.

He's got the seniority on everybody in this town. Kind of reminds me of Mitch and Cal. You know, they don't like each other. But they get along. They don't go send Christmas cards, but they'll go on the TV show together and sit uncomfortably next to each other. You agree with these so far? I agree with that. They're also just a big part of our community.

You can go out to like, what's that used to be at Lexington Green? Bill Mex just hosting a concert. Yes. He's the, he's them. They're very Lexington. Tell Gates every UK football game, Bill does. He's old Lexington, too. Like the powers that be Shannon in Lexington, they're MEC people.

The old money is mech people. Bailey is the masses. Gotcha. All right. Now, is there anyone else left in Lexington? Is T.G. Thundersruck. Yes. T.G. Shuck is Channel 36.

All right. Here's what T. T.J. Thunderstruck is. He's like Philip Rivers. You thought he left, but he came back to show the next generation weather can still happen. There you go. Thunderstruck is from years ago. I thought he was out of our lives.

But he's come back. I think he sees this storm as a chance to get back on that level with those top two. Alexan and native, he sits on the sidelines and one of these young kids goes to another city. They're like, call in Thundershock. We've got to bring him back. And that's what ABC did. What was the guy there, Dylan Goday? I guess he's gone.

T.G.G. Shuck comes back. So you could argue as good a lineup in Lexington as you have. Now let's go to Llew. We got to mention one more guy in Lexington because he's your dad's favorite weatherman. Did he like Jim Calhoun? Jim Calhoun, the coach of Connecticut? Oh, no. Caldwell.

Jim Caldwell? He doesn't do it anymore. He retired. Oh, he retired. I was going to add that to. I would like to think, though, Jim Calhoun is one of the contenders, too. Yeah, he's just waiting there over there by the green screen. Matt Bailey, Chuck, and now throw Jim Calhoun in there, too.

I just remember your dad saying that one time. He liked Jim Caldwell, but he retired just recently. Okay, I didn't realize that. I was going to bring that up about Bailey. His team has taken a big hit here. I know it's 1v1 at the top, but Bailey is missing his pippin in the weather room. But for this, you don't go second street. This is all starters until the overtime is over.

Because if Bill Mac's been here the longest, the morning weather guy. I don't care of it. You're starting too many people. I'm talking about the main people. Tom Ackerman's not getting screen time during this. This is meck time, okay? Yeah. All right.

Now, let's go to Louisville. In Louisville, you have the sauciest one. Oh, yeah. This is Dennis Rodman. He's the bad boy pissed in the weather. He married Carmen Elektra. That's exactly. He right now is dating Tate McCray.

He's in Vegas during the snowstorm. Mark Weinberg. Trash talking. Middle fingers up to all of them. gets invited to none of their Christmas parties. All he wants is accuracy, right? He says you all keeps trying to scare everybody. He's oddly the most provocative,

but the most conservative in his predictions. Because he thinks all of you, that people are like snowhoes. That's what they call them? He calls them? I'm calling them. Okay. That they just throw out big snow reports,

get people scared, and then it doesn't snow that. They want the ratings. They want the ratings. He's not about them. the ratings. He's about the accuracy. Clickbait. And then he'll go home. Yeah. Go ahead. With Carmen Electric.

Yeah. Hates weather apps. He's already tweeted about that. He hates that we have Apple, like, apps. He hates apps. He hates chat, GPT. He's like, listen to us. I didn't go to 10 years of weather school for you to get on Google and replace me. That's right. Yeah. So he is the bad boy. Weinberg and Bailey clearly would like to murder each other. They're the two most online of all these people, and they clearly want to murder.

The most vocal for sure. He's always throwing little pot shots at Bailey. Another one, kind of coming from the outside, two-time Emmy winner. While these people are getting the glory, he's getting the hardware. Bryce Jones at WDRB. Okay. Listener of this show. Two-time Emmy Wimmer.

and Emmy winner just goes under the radar, throws out the snow. All right? He's won to watch in this battle this week. SEC guy, Mississippi State. Went to Mississippi State. And then finally, from the way outside, sitting at his computer with a camera on him, Ryan Hall, y'all. Oh, yeah.

The favor of them in some ways of the mountains and the every man. He is just online. I don't think he has any training, does he? I don't know if he does or not. He's pretty accurate. He's a lot of bots. He just gets the model, sits there in a very monotone fashion, and tells you exactly what's going to happen.

He has become more and more the young people's weather person. Do you agree with that? Yeah, and where is he based on? Pikeville, Ashland? Where is he over there? He does weather all over the country, and he's sitting in Patful. Wow. And he just started it as a hobby, from what I understand,

like just kind of doing it because he's a hobby of his. And now he is the Jim Cantori of Pike County. I got to tell you, I go to Ryan Hall, y'all, for my weather reports, including last night when I saw he wasn't live. Instead of going to TV, I just assumed there was nothing to talk about. I went to YouTube. He wasn't live, and I thought, no weather. I'll just go back to my life.

Didn't even look at the TV. He goes live or it's not happening. Yeah, I saw Jim Cantorries in Nashville. That can't be good if he's going to be in Nashville. Yeah, they think Nashville could get more snow. than it's ever gotten ever. My goodness. It's actually Tennessee's going to get destroyed,

but we're going to get a lot, it looks like. Are you all prepared? Oh, no. I mean, what am I going to get your milk and bread today? I don't, I know. He doesn't drink milk. Yeah, I'm not, I mean, I'm going to hope DoorDash is working that day. I tip well on snow days.

Yeah, people working. So I just, that's the setup for the Snowmageddon coming. Those are your contenders. And we'll see who comes out well. And they'll be on 48 hours straight. And I want to say, when you see, this is to you all, when you see them sniping at each other, tag me. Okay, I want to retweet the snipes.

Any little grudges. And send me the Euro model and the nom model and the Bop model and the Bop model and the Kook model. Like, they have all these models. I'm in. I saw your tweet last night. You're already poking a bear a little bit. trying to get ready to get started. Bailey and Weinberg

need to just go at each other now. You got two days here to get at it. Can I YouTube multi-view the weather channels like I would games? Instead of watching four games at once, can I just keep eyes on all the weathermen at once? Since this one's going to be long, they have fewer and fewer clothes as the night goes on.

Oh, yeah. They're going to be in their boxers by Sunday. I don't need that. Yes, you do. You want a hot bill. Mac action. 859-280-2-807. Cats play tonight against Texas.

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Worse here, not as bad in Nashville. So first of all, that's a shot for Ryan Hall. He's now calling it in more north. I haven't heard the other guys say that yet. I hadn't heard anybody say anything about that. Yes. One person says, Matt, your new term is going to catch on snow hoes. That's just what Mark Weinberg claims they are.

I'm not saying they are. What? I don't know if the term they're going to latch on to. Well, they're just, they're very snow active. A friend of mine text said, Ryan Hall's got like over 2 million subscribers. Three million. That's amazing. He's got like a team.

But he doesn't just do Kentucky. He does, I think, the whole country. Oh, I've gotten locked in where I've turned him on, thinking it's Kentucky and it's Nebraska and I'm like I'll just watch this anyway. He goes into detail and he looks and he looks at the towns and he asks people what they're doing. Apparently he did was a meteorologist at WYMT for a short minute before he went on his own and branched out. Well, good for him. People are writing to me about who they like.

One person says, Matt, you left out the King of Louisville weather, John Belski. Who's that? He retired 17 years ago. He retired 17 years ago. That's why I left him out. Just asked Shane about him during the break. John Bilski and Captain Reed. Jay Cardosie is one you could add in.

What's Jay say? Oh, that's his phrase? What's Jay say? Okay, I'm mad at him because he has a phrase. He has a phrase. Okay, he gets in it. If you have a phrase, I'm in. Catchphrase, yeah.

If you have a catch phrase. Wouldn't you want to know what Jay says? What? What Jay says? Yeah, wouldn't you want to know what he says? Oh, look at his segment. He does it like. Oh, wait a.

He has, oh. It's like blues clues. He's got graphics. He's got blues. Oh, he's got an umbrella. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my. Oh, now that's, okay, he's on the list.

Yeah. Jay Cardozy coming out of nowhere with his own special effects team. Holy cow. Animated intro. What does Jay say? All right. I didn't know we had this. So now we got Mac, Bailey, Weinberg, Jones, Hall, y'all, and Cardozy, all going at it.

Battle Royale. UK versus Texas. Tonight, 7 o'clock, Texas has the fourth rated offense since conference play begins in college basketball. They are, I believe, three and two, but could be better. I think they lost a game right at the end. It's a game where we should win, but it's also a game we could easily drop. And if you look at the calendar and you look at the schedule, it's a game we need to win. These next two at home will be two of our three easiest home games of the rest of the conference schedule,

and also our games that are crucial to getting where we need to be. Do you feel good? I think Texas is probably the best team in the SEC that we don't talk about. That nobody talks about. They are sneaky good. They beat Alabama at Alabama. They beat Vanderbilt when Vanderbilt was rolling. They almost beat Texas A&M that's turned out to be a really good team.

Bucky ball down there. Sean Miller is the new coach of Texas, and I think he's got them rolling. Yeah, they're tough. They just lost A&M, but it was like a three-point game, and I think A&M is very good. their losses have all been to good teams in close games. They played Yukon close, played Duke close. They whipped Vandy, and then they won in Tuscalo, where we lost by 15. This is not any kind of pushover team we can look past.

I'll admit I'm a little worried, even though it's a home game. I'm going to pick Kentucky to win, but I worry about a hangover after all the fun we've had and getting back home because this is no joke, and some of their biggest wins have been on the road. I'm definitely worried. I mean, this is a Texas team that has improved throughout the year. they can score. So if you fall behind, they're a tough team to come back on because they can score. They're kind of like, I mean, I don't think they're as good offensively as Louisville was at the

beginning of the year. But it's a similar kind of thing where you just, even if you start playing well, they're going to put buckets in. So you've got to stay with them. I do think the crowd needs to be an advantage, but it makes me wonder about the snow, et cetera. Now, I know it's not supposed to snow anymore today, but do you get out? Do you go to the game?

I'll be interested to see what it's like in here before the game. that usually gives us an indication. But I do think, Ryan, this is one that could go either way and the cats have to treat it seriously, even after this three-game winning streak. And you said something very important. If they get down by 17 again in the first half, Texas is a team that's not going to have a low.

They can score a lot of points in a hurry. You can't afford to get down early in a game like this because it's tough as hell to try to claw back out of it. Has anyone asked Mark why we start poorly? They have, you know, we get, you know, super incredible. special how we turn it around. But I mean, it's consistent. I know, but we don't have an answer.

He hasn't given it a clear. I mean, I agree they're super incredible happy time fun in the second half, but if we could just be average and not poopy time awful in the first half, it would be even better. It blows my mind how it's happened this many times. It's a year and a half. And after the LSU game, we're like, this cannot happen again. And then three days later, to the credit they won,

but they went and just had another first half done right after that. I don't understand. And at this point, if he had answers, I think it would have already started to improve. He had a first half dud against Missouri, first half dud against Alabama. So four of the five SEC games first half duds. They even trailed Mississippi State. I wouldn't call it a dud, but they were up early. Yeah, but like five.

It wasn't like something. And then first half dud against Gonzaga, first half dud against St. John's, first half dud against Michigan State, first half dud against Louisville. Maybe it's some magic. Whatever he's doing it at halftime. Maybe that's what we should be. I understand, but you can do both. You can applaud whatever he does at halftown and go,

how about we don't fall down 15 points in the first half? Just no way to live. Yeah, you can. That's exactly right. Like, you can go and, like, sleep two and a half hours and inject, you know, caffeine. And then go, at some point, people are going to go, how about you just sleep a little bit? Like I said, tonight tonight, you can't afford to get down big

because this team can score a lot of points and score in a hurry. They lead the country and free throws. Bill Mac has issued a statement. Okay. This came out last night. It's all over the internet weatherverse of something big coming out this weekend. While it's a decent baddest storm will be somewhere, details are impossible at this point. Don't just fall for model data for clicks.

Don't change your plans, but stay weather aware. Well, I think that's kind of a responsible thing to say. I mean, it is just Wednesday. It's also a very generic thing to say. like it. There could be Shannon a storm somewhere. Could be. Maybe not. Maybe so. Just be aware. They've had some

downs. Isn't it all model data? I mean, we're not fortune tellers. They're using some form of model. I don't know. It's going to be great. We'll take a break. Be right back. KS.R. 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. Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio. 280 2287. The text machine is 772-774-5-254. We do have some breaking news. Running on-na! Charles Bediaco has been granted a temporary restraining order that will allow him to play for Alabama basketball this season. It'll be in order for 10, it'll be in effect for 10 days, and then a hearing will decide for sure on January 27. he is the player who played at Alabama for a couple years, went to the G League, still has a semester left in his eligibility and is asked to come back and play for that semester.

Never played a game in the NBA. I just find it hard to accept this situation. When you play a professional basketball, you're a professional contract, you're allowed to come back just because you're not any good? Yes. Is that what happened to Yelovich? I mean, he's a professional, not in the NBA, but he's still a professional. That's the thing that, like, I understand why this would bother people.

The one guy didn't bother me who never went to college. I can understand why it would bother you if a player came here, went to the G-League for a couple of years and came back. Yeah. However, Shannon's right. That's what happens in Europe. Like, I mean, the difference between the outrage fans feel about this and what's happened when Europe for the last 15 years is, we don't know what happens in Europe because we don't follow it. So when a guy comes from Europe, it's like he's coming from, you know, space. So we don't have any previous thoughts about him because we didn't know.

You know what I mean? I mean, we were all out. What I would say to Kentucky fans when you get outraged about this is, remember how we were all outraged about Ennis Cantor? Oh, yeah. Well, he'd been a professional. He'd been a pro for two, he'd been playing for two years. And we wanted him to play here. So it is weird.

This is weird because he did play. college basketball for two years and then went but he would have one semester left do we have any players that would fit this i was trying to think do we have any players who've gone to the NBA but then did not play yet that would still be within their five-year eligibility path it would still be in their path i mean like maybe uh well no he i was going to say davy on mince but he would be in his path e j montgomery would have some years left he left early and never played Yeah, but I don't think he's got his five years, though. I think he was pre-COVID.

It would have to be someone that played during that first year of COVID. As odd as it sounds, I actually think the first year of COVID guys would still be eligible. Yeah, he played. Sorry, played a little bit. It had to be a freshman your first year of COVID. So I don't know of a guy that I think we have eligible. I can't think of any. I don't think we do.

but does this bother you this guy may get to play it this doesn't smell right it just doesn't feel right that he played college ball went to play pro ball and anyone's come back and play college ball this doesn't seem right but do you have a logical reason or it just doesn't seem right just doesn't seem right okay the thing i don't like is the end season stuff like okay if you need a big man that's your fault you didn't build enough team if it's January whatever and you are down a big man tough luck i think that's how it should be I don't think that when classes have started, if you don't like your roster and there's... But we did that.

We did that with Big Z. And I've made fun of that endlessly since we did it, because that was ridiculous. I just think that, I'm sorry your team's not good or you had an injury in January. I don't think you should get to go shopping when, you know, we're a third of the way through conference play already. Yeah. Well, if this was September and they're adding him, I can hear you out, but I don't like how you can just go add players from anywhere. I do think it's a very unique set of circumstances because... COVID, which makes people's timelines run longer, that'll end this year.

I've said this before. I don't think this is going to come up in the future because I don't think kids are going to go to the G league. Like, I don't think kids are going to go to the G league out of high school anymore. There's something that's going to happen. And so now, you know, it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers other people. I will acknowledge this seems different because he played a couple years. It does seem different. I'm not someone that thinks they should go to school.

But also, I mean, he should have at least attended a course. class in the last year. He's going to go to class this year. He's already registered. That's what I mean. It is January 21st. Well, he registered apparently at the beginning of the semester because he was playing. I think that part is outrored. The mid-year, we're not good enough. Let's go find someone. I'm sure he's going to do well in class. If you transfer schools in the middle of the year, don't you have to sit out that semester after you transfer? Who? Who? He transferred from eastern to western a kid. Don't you have to sit out? Well, why does that? I actually don't think you do right now. I think they're changing the rules to

where you do. Start next year you do. You'd be eligible. immediately when you transfer? I think this year it is, but I literally think they're going to change that rule for next year. Because no one had ever done it. Yeah. And I think now they're changing the rule. Where you could be eligible at Christmas break if you transfer. I don't like a season where I watched Alabama play five games before Christmas.

And now if I watch them, I'm going to be like, all right, where did this dude? Who is he? Why do they get to add a guy with, you know, 15 games? Well, I would be all right with that guy, though, if it was a point guard. I was thinking, did Ty Ty, Washington ever play in the NBA? Yeah. he did play I think almost all

those guys have played at least a game who's up first Ryan Ryan go ahead Ryan Ty would be

Ty would be great hey Matt I got to share a funny story that kind of leads into a public apology okay but you got to go for it

go so Ryan's got his phrases you know Holiday Inn Express picking on his belly button he said picking him

and you guys were making fun of him and I was feeling bad for him so I found his number online and I text them hey buddy love you all hail the king of belly button lent and I got

a reply back that said this is David Spencer so I'd like to apologize David Spencer for texting you at midnight about Thunder Button Lent and how much I love you that's it appreciate the call I like that David Spencer so yeah that would be weird

if you got to message you from somebody that just said you're the king of belly button Lent you might have made that person self-conscious I don't know who David Spencer is, but I'm sure I've got he's got a little sense of humor to him now. Oh, let me say something. I'm going to use this example. What are you doing next week? Doing the show.

But do you have plans during the week? Not that I am aware. We are doing the Ryan Lemon Eat by Yourself Challenge next week. Oh. Next week. Monday through Friday of next week. People thought we'd forgotten it. Yeah, I thought you forgot.

Now, we had health issues, and then it was Christmas. And then so next week, Monday through Friday, Ryan Lemon will eat alone every night. Drew, you and I are going to figure out where he's going. I want a good mix of him occasionally going to a good restaurant where no one's there, just him, occasionally having to go with a place with a lot of people,

but he still has to sit by himself. But next week, Ryan Lemon eats alone, and we'll film some of it during the week as well. Five days, five restaurants, you buy yourself. I immediately got hot. My body got hot and I started to sweat a little bit. I just don't like it. I don't think

There's going to be, this is going to be any fun? I'm not going to enjoy it. It's going to be awful. Yes, all that's true. So that's why we're doing it. So we're going to, this week, you're going to do that. Are you excited? Well, if we're stuck in our homes on Monday, then you're going to walk to a place that you can eat by yourself.

You probably won't have to worry about many people. You'll support a business that's not doing well that day. Yeah, it's going to be hard. You can't get in. So you'll be able to go in and keep them afloat. That server will love seeing you? So it's going to be very exciting. but I didn't want people to think

I thought you forgot. I know you did, but that's one of the reasons why we're doing it again is I wanted to make sure you knew that that's what we were going to do. So congratulations. Well, great, thanks.

Appreciate that. What do you think's going to happen? You're just going to eat and go home. What's the downside? This blows my mind, the fear you have in this. I just don't like hanging out by myself, period. You're going to hang out by yourself. And I'm going to say,

if you see Ryan at a restaurant, feel free to say hello, but do not sit with him. He has to sit by himself. That's part of the thing. If you sit down with him and help him, no, that's the point. You can come say hello, then get the hell out. This is Ryan Lemon by himself. I'm literally sweating right now.

Just thinking about it. So, next week. Next week. I'm giving you a little bit of time for five days. Monday through Friday. Okay. Who's up next? Robert.

Robert. Go ahead, Robert. Hey, Matt, I got a question. So over the summer, you had said that you thought about putting a mural outside of the restaurant. And I'm coming tonight. Me and my buddy are going to the game. Just curious, if you guys had to pick four athletes to put it on a mural outside of the restaurant, who would each of your all pick me?

That's a great question. So if I were to do a KSR, this is not history of UK mural. This would be kind of history of KSR. So I would leave it to our era, right? Appreciate the call. So if I were to do, I'm not going to do, why do four? Let's do six. Here's who would be on my mount of KSR thing.

I would go Anthony Davis, John Wall, DeMarcus cousins. I would then Benny Sneff. Those are the ones I know I want on there. Who would be my other two? He doesn't fit your mold, but I'm putting Jared on there 1,000% even though he's not the years. Well, he hosted shows from here, so I'll put Jared. Jared's on there.

I like that. I got maybe Ryan Howard from the women's basketball team. But I don't really know her at all. So, like, part of this is also like we have some connection to the person. We do. We'd be nice to have a women's athlete. if you think maybe she would be the one. Yeah.

Or you could do, we did like Georgia Amor a lot. We did. She was good. Yeah. Sydney McLaughlin, I did a bunch of TV interviews with her. I think she's got to be on the mural, for sure. So you say, what about Sydney, Jared, Benny, Wal Davis Cousins? I like it.

I like it. And then on the pillars when you walk in, Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas. He'll be like, why do you have the Miami coach? You just don't understand. Maybe Reed Shepherd on a corner pillar over there. But he's got to have an Arkansas shirt on. No, no, no, no, no. Those days are over.

He threw the Louisville shirt. He had a heck of a game last night. Yes, he did. He basically won them that game last night. He scored 12 in the fourth quarter or something like that? Yes, he did. Serve pros is the number one choice in cleanup and restoration. There are big storms coming.

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Yeah. No. First of all, you're not allowed to. You have to do it by yourself. And secondly, he's way too manly for you. He's a firefighter. You need to hang out with the weathermen. I like Chris Bailey and Bill Beck.

I know you do. One person writes, Matt, you always give your opinion. on everything, but you've been very quiet on what happened with Minnesota and Don Lemon. What do you think? I don't know what they're talking about. I don't know on that either. What's that with Don Lemon? Is that the guy

from CNN? Yeah. What'd he do? I don't know. I barely know who Don't Lemon is. I don't know about Don't think I know about Don Lemon is he would come on CNN after the ball, and he'd be in New Orleans. He'd do the central time zone, and he'd be really drunk. Yeah. And, like, do, he'd be

really, like if you thought Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen were drunk, by the time they got to Don Lemon, he was like, oh my goodness, get that microphone from him. And then, but I don't know what he did in Minnesota. I don't either. Whatever he did, don't do it. Unless it was good, then do it. But it sounds like it was. Whatever he did, don't do it.

It's frowned upon. Unless it was good. Yeah, if he donated something. He got in trouble. He said something. I don't even know if he don't see it in anymore. There's a massive takedown that apparently could lead to over 200 arrests in Kentucky for catfish harvesting. Really?

Yes. There's your really for today. Really? Did he really? I don't know what catfish harvesting is, but I read the article trying to understand it. It seems like, you know, I guess everyone, if you're in public waterways, you can get so many catfish. Right? I think so.

There's a maximum amount of catfish. fish you can get, which would make sense, right? You can't have them all. You can't, you just can't sit there and go here, fishy, fishy, and you take all of our catfish. The argument is they would take the public catfish and then put it in a

private lake and harvest them. Yeah. What? You know what happened? Yeah, well, I did said, you didn't know. What do you know? Well, I don't know what these fish farms are. They may have a pond full of catfish. They may have a pond full of a different kind of fish, and then another

another kind of fish, they raise them and sell them to these restaurants. But what did they do that was illegal? I'm not so sure what it is. It's illegal about it. I was trying to tell you. Well, tell me. Why is it illegal? I think the allegation is that they took too many of the public ones

and then they put them in their private ones to act like they had grown them. That sounds illegal. And it was harvesting, but they've already arrested like 100 people and they say when the probe is over, maybe 2,000 people in Kentucky. could be arrested for catfish harvesting. So there's someone listening right now. Who knows they harvested some catfish? And they're like, oh no, am I on this list?

Sleeping with one eye open. So you know what? That's exactly right, which I believe catfish do. They do. So you now are going to need to be like the catfish because they say there are 10 times as many people implicated as those that have been arrested so far. I think there are some fish farms in Kentucky that are very,

crucial to sending fresh fish to like Chicago, New York. Well, they may get out of fish. You know a lot about this. You know what cities they're going to? I think a lot of these fish farms are like in western Kentucky, too. How do you know? I don't know. First of all, I don't know that you know.

I mean, you may just be saying it with confidence. I know there's some big fish farms in western Kentucky that farm out their fish to Chicago or New York. Are they doing it the legal way or the illegal way? That I don't know. Well, if you are an illegal catfish, Harvester. Drew, you've been put on notice here on KSR. Because they say there are 2,000 of people that say there's got to be people listening who this applies to. They're coming for you.

If I'm someone that's participated in this, I think I might be on a list. I'm filling my pond with dirt right now. My catfish are getting buried with it. I don't think that's going to help if you kill all the catfish. I'm trying to stay out of prison. I don't think that's what they want. I'm burying the product. Okay. I don't think that's. the goal they're looking for. Who's up next?

David. David. Go ahead, David. Hey, guys. How you doing? Always a great day when Kentucky plays, huh? Yes. Hey, I just wanted to give a shout out to K.S. or Stephen Peek's video with his grandfather. I know you mentioned

that Matt, but anybody that hasn't seen that needs to watch it. Maybe you can get an insight to what Kentucky basketball means to people. Yes, I love to. I totally agree with you. Stephen Peek with his grandfather watching the end of that game, and then he, it was great.

Stephen did an amazing job, and you're exactly right. That is what Big Blue Nation and Kentucky fandom is for a large percentage of people. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Don Lemon apparently invaded a Baptist church with protesters to disrupt the church. service. I don't think you should do that.

It's frowned upon. Like I said, don't me. But why did they do it? Do we know? I don't know. Shame when you're done. I'm not going to watch him anymore. I'll tell you that much.

Well, what channel was he on now? CNN. I think he got fired in CNN six years ago. Well, I'm not going to watch him on his new channel either. So, yeah. One person writes, how can you all not know this? this. It's been all over the internet. Well, it's not been on my part of the internet.

I didn't know. Did you know? About Don Lemon? Yeah. No, not until you said it. Honestly, I had not thought of him since he left CNN. I've not thought of him ever until this moment. So he's not been on my algorithm. Yeah. So now he will be because we've talked about it and our phones have heard it.

It's going to keep showing up. And so it'll show it and I can know how mad I am. We all have our own news cycles and algorithms. My new cycle yesterday was all about the fact that people think Belichick and Tom Brady are friends again because Belichick's girlfriend was hanging out with Alex Earle at the double date set up here? Well, the guys aren't in the picture, but Belichick and Alex Earl, Belichick's girlfriend, what's her name, Jordan? Jordan, Hudson, and Alex Earl were sitting next to each other at the national championship game. And so they were like, oh, that must mean that Belichick and Brady are friends again.

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