KSR - 2026-01-26- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk Kentucky's win over Ole Miss, the Kentucky snowstorm, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Matt Jones. You can give a shout in Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-254. And this is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call T.J. I'll make them pay all across Kentucky. Many of you are stuck in your house. Some of you are not. But in Louisville, I think most people are in Lexington.

I think most people are and in the surrounding area. And we didn't get as much snow as they said, but we did get a lot of it. and enough to shut the city down. Ryan is at his house. Shannon already heard something falling in the background before we even start. But Ryan, how was your weekend alone? I hated it. Turn him down.

Good night. Move your stuff down. All right. Go ahead. I hated it. I haven't. You're still really loud. You got to turn down, right.

I don't know if you've ever used that equipment. But you were screaming. That's a normal setting. So what you're saying is you hated it. All right. Go ahead now. I hated it. I've not had face-to-face communication with anybody in like now almost 24 hours.

I hate it. I'm going crazy. I'm bored out of my mind. What do you mean 24 hours? It started something. 48 hours. Yeah, since Saturday after the Kentucky game, I've not seen a human being. Okay.

Shannon, am I the only one that thinks he's still like? He's a little loud. Like, yeah, he's still screaming. Yeah, maybe move the microphone back from your mouth or something. All right. How's that? This is Radio 101. I know.

I mean, we're teaching Ryan how to turn on his equipment right from the start. Okay. So you've been by yourself. Let's just talk about what's happened here with snow. All right. So we got, I think, Louisville here in Louisville, Shannon. See, listen to those dogs. His dogs are barking.

He is an absolute disaster from moment one. And absolute disasters. His dogs are going nuts in the background. I don't know if people can hear that. But Shannon, six inches in Louisville. Right. Looks like about four in Lexington. We did meet.

You're all just madness. And unfortunately, Shannon, it doesn't look like anyone was close. Nobody was close. I mean, Jim Cantorri is sort of close, but he doesn't even count because he was disqualified. Well, he turned it in late. Yeah, he turned in his homework too late. But I think this goes to show you what I've thought a long time is that none of these guys really know what's going on. I'm not going to do that to them.

I am not. I think that's rude, Shannon. All these people volunteer. No, I'm being serious. All these people volunteered their time to do this. and I think you still say it is clearly the case that

these folks are, it's not as scientific as we think. Like, I mean, every single person except Jim Cantori and Ryan Hall, y'all, had at least 10 inches in both cities. So, clearly they all thought that, and it ends up

not happening. I'm going to, but I'm going to celebrate who did win. Our winner is TG. Shuck from W.S. you TVQ. TG Shuck. He had the lowest total for Lexington, and he had the, excuse me, he had the lowest total for Louisville

and one of the lowest totals for Lexington. He comes within 0.1 point. He beats Ryan Hall, y'all by 0.1 point, saving the local meteorologist. Otherwise, it would have been the two national guys, Ryan, that ended up coming 1-2. T. he picked the Lexington Humane Society as his charity. That's 10,000 comes from Commonwealth Causes, ServePro, and Me. And then we had White Greer-Maggard, the dentist office, come in at the last minute,

offer 5,000 for second. And Ryan Hall, y'all picked Rubicon USA, an organization I wasn't familiar with, but works with veterans. That's his second place, so he'll get 5,000. And Lexington Humane Society gets $10,000. Thanks, Ryan. to TG Shuck. All the guys had a great attitude about it.

They knew it was for fun. They knew it was for a great cause. TG is one of like just two of our contestants has actually worked in both markets. Maybe that played in his favorite a little bit. Oh, you think that was a hell? Ooh, interesting. You think by working in both markets,

he had sort of, there was no full road game for him. Yeah, I think him and Justin Logan are the only two that have worked actually in both markets, and they were both kind of low on their predictions. So maybe that played into it a little bit. These guys, you know, there are allegations out there. Shannon, that there are, sometimes meteorologists can be snow hoax. Yes.

There's allegations. This does seem to suggest that they do enjoy picking high totals. Do you agree with that? Yes. And I wonder if in the future some of these meteorologists are going to reel it back a little bit and come back to reality and maybe not project such high totals because of what happened here. But it's better to project high and it go low than the other way, right? I mean. Because if people are not ready and then they get stuck, isn't that worse?

I guess it is. But look, I mean, like at the end of the show on Friday, we all gave our snow total predictions. I don't even have Doppler radar and I got closer than some of these guys did. You did, but that doesn't mean anything. It's a one-time guess. Now, Ryan, you have for decades been on the thing that you can't predict Mother Nature. I feel like you probably think this was a vindication for you. I do

You know the The good thing was They saw it coming They warned us We were gone The snowstorm was coming But you just can't predict Mother Nature

You had no idea How much he was going to dump on you It's a ridiculous notion They can tell you what's doing Right now They can't tell you What's going to do This time tomorrow

You just can't But you You worked in a business I did That this is a key part Of the economics Of that business Succeeding

Local TV news Is weather Do you not worry That like you're undercutting the very foundation of the business you came up in? More people tune in to local news because of weather more than anything. Weather drives people to your local newscast. You can't deny that.

And you're saying it's wrong. And they don't know what they're doing. Like I said, they saw it coming. They warned us it was coming. I mean, they all gave us a heads up. Hey, there's a chance for a lot of snow coming. And that's good. We need to know that.

When a hurricane's coming in, hey, there's a chance this hurricane can come and hit Florida. But then it will make a right-hand turn and go a different direction. It is odd to me, Shannon, that we don't. It feels like everything in life, the science gets more and more science-y. But I'm not sure that's true about the weather. It feels like the more we learn, we still are just as close as we were before, right? You would think that now you would be able to get it down to like the, the, the, of an inch like we were asking. You could pinpoint it down, but you can't. You can't. And I think

what happened is it just all shifted up north in Indiana. It went north. But even a lot of those places didn't get quite as much. I know in New York City they were expecting a foot and they got like six inches. Now, having said that, we got six inches here in Louisville. And it makes me wonder what a foot would look like, Shannon. Because the town has shut down over six inches. Oh yeah. If we got as much that they were projecting, forget about it. Like, nobody would be, I probably wouldn't be here at work right now. Yeah, because six inches, yesterday I did one of my favorite things to do, which is when you have a big snow like this, Shannon, I like to go out and walk up and down

Bardstown Road, you know, a very busy road. Because you can walk in the middle of the street and no one's there. Right. And it's, I find it amazingly peaceful, okay, to be on a major street and no one be there. and I actually find it, I don't know if this seems weird to you all, I actually find it oddly beautiful to be somewhere that's normally a lot of people and it's completely empty and silent. Shannon, it's one of my favorite things to do, and I got to do that yesterday afternoon. I took a little walk last night downtown stayed overnight at one of the hotels here, but I took a walk down to Country Boy Brewing, and it was cool to just see all the snow. And like you said, not many people out. Maybe a couple of people here or there, but it was really nice to.

It was completely empty. Every business on Bardstown Road, every single one was closed except the subway. The woman, so subway was open. So I thought I'll go into subway. And a boy. Because it's open and I'll get a sub. And I asked the woman, it was probably 2 o'clock. And I asked the woman, when did you open?

Or how many people have been here? And she goes, you're number three. And she was there. and I got a sub and I gave her a big tip and I sat there I sat there for a long time no one else came in Ryan but I enjoy I haven't eaten it subway in a long time I'm going to admit but it was actually the chicken terriaki sub was pretty good chick a sweet onion chicken terriaki I know you'd eventually come around to the subway train well when nothing else is open Shannon it's a great place to come Former winner of the KSR Food Bracket Challenge.

It's right. Still one of the... Thanks to Ryan and I, voting that one through. Still one of the worst culinary, culinary predictions that have ever happened. There was a time where I ate there like twice a week for years because it was right down from the radio station at our old location, but I haven't eaten there in years now. So, all right, so where, what is it now? Do you think this city will open today? I feel like, you know, there are cars now on the street that I'm on. People are starting to clean off their cars.

Do you think the city turns to normal? They say that it is going to be like down the negative degrees tonight, Ryan. What are your thoughts on that? Well, at least, you know, they couldn't catch up cleaning the roads because it just kept snowing. They'd clean it off, then it gets some more snow. Now they got the ice on top of it. That's what's kind of scary. Like my neighborhood has not been touched at all because there's nobody getting out.

out because it's just nothing but a sheet of ice. So the main thoroughfares, I watched the news last night. It looks like on the interstate, like one lane on the interstate was clear, but I don't know about the other main streets. Are people, you're downtown. Are people out right now, Shannon? Not many this morning. I mean, I walked over, you know, it was around 6.30 this morning,

so I haven't been out since then, but there were very few people out. The problem is, like, it's not going to get above freezing until next week at some point. So all this ice and stuff is just going to stay there. Just stay there. And schools are already closed in Jefferson County for tomorrow. They're already close tomorrow as well. Yeah. Yep.

Well, there you go. Well, we are here, and by here I mean my house. We will be, you know, keeping you up through the day and we'll talk about the game, et cetera. I want to go back for a second, though, to our weatherman thing. TG. Shuck winning, Ryan. Let's talk to it for, because people may not know who this is. He was in Lexington for a long time, am I right? And then did he leave?

Did he retire? What happened? grew up in Lexington, was a kicker at Lafayette High School, kicked at Georgetown College, held the Georgetown College scoring record for years and years and years as a kicker. Was a meteorologist at WKYT, went to WHAS and Louisville for a long time, came back to WTVQ here in Lexington. All right, so he is on WTVQ. This is almost Shannon like a Kurt Signetti situation in Indiana.

All right. WTVQ is underfunded, sort of like Indiana football, right? Often forgotten. considered the third TV station far behind WKYT and WLEX, rarely gets the respect it deserves. And it's often an afterthought when talking about Lexington News, sports, and weather. And TG Shuck comes back, goes to this underdeveloped program and takes them to the national championship. And it shows in the new age of weather, anyone, like Kirk Signetti, Shannon, anyone can do it. T.G. Shuck has been able to do it today.

His odds were not good. I mean, everybody was counting them out. He was one of the largest underdogs. One of the biggest underdogs on the board. Yep. And somehow it comes from behind and is able to win this thing. And $10,000 going to charity is pretty awesome for him. To the Lexington Humane Society.

Ryan, you are a big Lexington Humane Society person. Are you happy they got the money? Super happy for it. I was talking to TG last night. He used to be on their board. And so this very near and dear to his heart, the Lexington Humane Society. So, you know, he and I used to do the Sunday morning sports talk radio show on WLAP for like three years together.

He and I did it every Sunday morning. Really? You and Shuck? Yep, me and T.G. Shuck. Wow. How about that? I'm sure you talk of everything he knows. What did you talk to him about? Well, UK football, you know, on Sunday morning after a UK football game, you get to play Monday morning quarterback on Sunday morning.

So we used to get a ton of calls on that show. It was really popular. Are you going to do anything about those dogs? Are you just going to let them yap the entire show? Yeah, during the commercial break, they must have gotten out. Can you take them to the Lexington Humane Society, maybe? That's where they came from. Have you noticed over the years?

He always says that the dogs happen to get out the moment the show starts. How does that work? What do you put them in? Like, how do they always get out? I'm upstairs, and they're downstairs, and I've got a fence, a gate blocking off the stairs, and they're so smart they can figure out how to get around that gate. Have you thought about getting a better gate? I'm going to have to, or I'll just throw them outside.

But they're like, they're all three. Oh, well, there's a good ad for the Lexington Humane Society. Throw out in the gold. Throw your dogs out in the snow. Great. This is what happens when we let him by himself. 8.59-280-2287. Congrats to TG. Shuck.

Yeah. Thank you to Commonwealth Causes and Serve Pro and White Greer-Magger for joining us. I now have to Shannon write a check to dogs. Oh, I know you love that, right? There's one thing I love. It's giving animals money. It's for the puppies. But TG Shuck does it.

And Ryan Hall, y'all, with his computers and Pikeville second. Thank you to everybody else that participated. And all of you who joined. This went viral all over the internet this weekend. And it was because of you guys, we appreciate it. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. This is KS up.

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One person writes, Matt, everyone's gotten soft. 40 years ago, six inches would just be normal. No one would change their life. I don't believe that at least. I hate when people say things like that. About 40 years ago, I would like, no. First of all, the streets would have been worse. Yeah, because we had no idea how to handle it.

The streets would have been worse. There was less four-wheel drive in cars. Are you kidding me? I hate when people say things like that. Yeah, that's ridiculous because, yeah, I mean, even like 20 years ago, the way we handle the roads and stuff is differently. Different than how they did that. Ryan, you're old enough to remember 40 years ago. It would have been worse, right?

There was a snowstorm 40 years ago, like it was in 1978, and we went to school in January for two days. We got stuck at home, only went to school for two days. So, yes, it was not worse. I mean, it was not worse today. It was just as bad back then as it is today. We actually may have gotten lucky. I mean, let's talk about what happened to the north and the south of us. They got 16 inches in Columbus, Ohio.

That would have shut this state down for a week. But what about to the south? Have you all seen the pictures and videos in Oxford, Mississippi? Is all the ice and stuff that came through? Oh, my goodness. That's the worst ice I've ever seen. Look up if you have not seen Oxford, Mississippi. Two inches of ice.

The entire square, like down in the center of town, which for those of you who have ever been there for a UK football game or whatever you've seen, trees down everywhere. There are 30,000 houses that get electrical service in Oxford, and Ryan, 29,500 are without power. Oh, my. And you look at it, you look at the pictures and video. That's not getting cleaned up for a lot.

long time. There are trees in the middle of like every street. I have a couple friends that live there. I feel really sorry for the, like that. I don't think that place is going to be completely fixed for a long time. It takes weeks. You're right, because those tree limbs, they break and fall on power lines. When I get the power, people have to get down there and fix it. I think there's still like a bunch of people down in southeast of Kentucky without power right now just in Kentucky. Yeah, just like in southern, like, you know, like what, Wayne County and places like that, I think is where a lot of it is. But you look at Oxford, Mississippi. I mean, that looks, that's as bad as I've ever seen, Shannon.

An entire light pole has just fallen over onto the streets from the ice. That's crazy. You're seeing trees just bend it. They got literally two inches of ice. There was a guy down there who just shows himself walking through trees and pulling it. and I couldn't believe it. So that area of the country, everybody certainly, you know, have prayers there. 859-280-2287.

I was in part because you couldn't go anywhere, watched a lot of TV and read a lot. Let's start with the game. All right. As bad a basketball game as I've ever seen, Kentucky and Ole Miss. Right. I mean, I'm serious. Can you think of a worst basketball game? No.

I mean, we won, but it was an awful game. Wasn't pretty. Hard to watch at times. At times. It was awful. A lot of missed shots. I mean, it was. A lot of miss shots.

I mean, we won, but a ton of foul shots, a ton of miss shots. I mean, I'm glad we won. But I will say the first half is the worst half of basketball I've ever seen. The second half got a little bit better. But Ryan, it's one of those. We're just glad you're win. And in my opinion, you just throw away the tape and you don't ever watch it again. Amen.

That's what I was going to say. Who cares as long as you got the W at home. You had to get that one against Ole Miss with your schedule coming up. Had a couple guys that didn't play very well, but a couple other guys kind of stepped up for Kentucky. So that was kind of good to see. Well, let's talk about who's good. O-A, second half showed Ryan why he's the MVP preseason all SEC, et cetera.

Yeah, he didn't hit a field goal, the first half, and then he kind of just took over, put him on his shoulders. But he had, what, 23 points? 23 points ended up with it. The thing I like about him, man, he's getting to the free throw line. I think he shot like 12, 13 free throws. He's getting found and going to the basket. Colin Chandler hit a couple of big shots, which were important.

You got pretty good minutes from your bigs. The, you know, the worst hooking call in the history of basketball shit. That hook, to call that an and won on O way, it still makes me mad now. Had we lost that game? I might have gotten sued again. I'm just saying. That's how bad that call was. That was bad.

Can you not challenge that or I don't know. Challenge foul calls. I guess you can't on something like even if it's a hook and hold. I mean, it wasn't a hook and hold. I think people keep saying that's a different thing. It was a hook. But he, I mean, it was clearly a hook. But Ryan, if you don't want to call the hook, okay, whatever.

But you can't call the foul on Oway in the part of it, right? Yeah, that was blatantly obvious. I mean, it was right there to there was not like there was in a crowd of people. It was just a one-on-one. saw it. Everybody in the gym saw it. We all saw it on TV. All right. What about the booing of Travis Perry? I'm kind of ashamed and embarrassed of our fan base a little bit. I mean, I wasn't there, but I heard it was mainly just the students maybe were doing it. I may be wrong. That's what I heard, but then in the postgame show, some people called and said it was many much more than the students.

Okay. But nevertheless, it was some group of people. Go ahead. I mean, he is our state's all-time high school leading score. We love that. that kid for four years. I can understand maybe a little when they introduced him to starting lineup, but every time he touched it during the game, that kind of made my stomach turn a little bit, to be honest. All right, Shannon, I would think you have the opposite. I'm okay with it.

Look, he chose to leave. He wanted to go to Oleness, and when he comes back, he should expect to get booed. Yeah, he's still a Kentucky, and he's always going to be that, but he's playing for the other team now, so I'm perfectly fine with it. What about the argument, though? well, you're not booing the other guys that play for Obis. You're only booing the guy that played here. Yeah, because we need you on this year's team.

Yeah, but I don't think fans were upset. I don't think most fans were like, please Travis stay. Right? I think most fans were fine with him leaving. I'm just tired of like, don't boo these poor kids. These poor kids are making more money than a lot of us will ever make in our lifetime. And so I'm not going to be one of these people who are like, like don't boo the guy.

If you want to boo him, boom, boom, I'm not saying I would boo him, but I'm okay with other fans doing it. Yeah, I wouldn't boo him. I think it was, I think it was a little bit of poor form to do it the whole time, but I will also say this. I think it was done Ryan to rattle him, and that might have worked because he was completely discombobulated when he played and didn't play a lot. Open the game with the air ball three.

Yeah. So it could be the case, Ryan, that it worked. his five seconds into the game, he shoots the first shot of the game, and it's an airball if he just got booed when he got introduced. I think it definitely got in his head a little bit. Didn't score a point the whole game. So then is it okay if it had an effect on the game in a positive manner? Well, I'm kind of like you. I can kind of see doing it when he introduced, but I just can't believe they did it throughout the whole game.

I just, if they told you, if you boo him, he will miss every shot. Are you booing him? Are we still winning the game? I'm not booing. We don't know. Boom. I think at that point, then you might have to do it to win. We'll be right back. 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. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-2-80-2287. Text machine, 772-7-4. What person writes, Matt, I see T.J. Shuck's picture. How does Ryan Liman think that he looks like that guy? That guy is in good.

shape and has a chiseled jaw. I never said, I thought I did, but I've been confused for him for 25 years. You did notice how he inserted, though, people say, Shamed. Yeah. I've been confused with Bradley Cooper for about the last 10 years too. That's kind of what. He didn't say people confuse him with Kevin Harnett. Right.

He said T.G. Shuck. Yeah. Who would you have bet on? Were you going to bet on the Shuck? or who are you going to place your bed on? I probably would have gone with my buddy Bill Mex if I worked with him for 12 years. That's what I probably would have relied on.

Okay. Well, it wasn't able to get the victory. One person writes, Matt, there's 150,000 people in Nashville without power. Any chance our game against Vandy tomorrow is postponed. I haven't heard that. I guess that's always possible, Ryan. I don't think they'll have any problem getting there, but then again, I don't know about the power situation.

What do you think? I didn't think about that. I don't know what the Vanderbilt campus and what their situation is, but yeah, they got to fly out this afternoon to get down there. I don't know. I can see them maybe moving the game.

I mean, the game's Tuesday. The problem is the game's on ESPN, right? So ESPN's going to be very hesitant to move it to a different day. That's true. In theory, you could move it to the next day, but then ESPN loses their game. I wonder if that will have, like, any change on,

like what the attendance is for that game. Maybe more people will come out if they don't have power or are they less likely to come out. I probably won't have much of an impact. I mean, you know, Vandy, most of those students can just walk to the game. I think there probably a lot of Kentucky fans are there. Yeah, it might have an impact on if Kentucky fans can get there. You know, so I don't know. That's interesting.

The game is not until tomorrow night at 9 o'clock. So I think we'll probably have to see how the day goes over the course of this. One person writes, Matt, have you done anything to, to shovel your sidewalks or fix your car. Well, I mean, you could probably guess the answer to that question. I went outside with a brush last night, Shannon, and brushed the snowmaw. What did a hairbrush? No, it's like, I don't know, like it's a brush.

Not a hairbrush, but it's a big brush like you would brush. A broom? It's not a broom, but like, think, it's just a brush. It's a big brush. What do you think you're going to do with six inches of snow with a brush? Well, I brushed all the snow off the front windshield. You can brush your teeth? What are you going to do?

I brushed all the, it's not, it's a big brush. It's not like a little brush. Okay. And I brushed it all off. Yeah. So it's not on there. Do you own a shovel? No.

So there's no chance you could shovel yourself out if you need it to get your car out of the snow. No, I mean, I have to use my foot. Was he, were you the one using a credit card trying to scrape the eyes off of your windshield a couple years ago? Yes. One time. One time. One time. So what are you going to do to get the ice off your car?

You got the snow off. What about the ice? It doesn't seem to... Shannon, it didn't have ice on the car last night. It might now, but it was just all snow. And that's part of why I went and brushed it so it wouldn't freeze. Yeah. And you're going to walk where you go anyway, probably today.

So you're in good shape. You're okay. Yeah. Now, apparently there's a new ordinance in Lexington that passed last year, Ryan, that says if you get four inches of snow, you have to shove. your sidewalk. Did you know this? I did not know this. I've never heard this. So this, I don't know if this is in Louisville. But in Lexington, last year, a city ordinance was passed that if at least four inches of snow are on the ground, you have to shovel the sidewalk

in front of your house. Or what? Are they going to come arrest you? I think it's a ticket. They're going to ticket you. So you think somebody's going to go around and. Look, there's a story in the heral leader this morning right next to the story about. the girl's new t-shirt that says Millie Bobby Brown. Yeah, that says you need to shovel. And it even says go help your elderly neighbors do it. Yeah.

But suggested that it was now in effect. I didn't know this. And I bet you most people in Lexington don't know it. But apparently if you do not shovel in front of your house, the sidewalk, Ryan, you can now get a ticket. I want to know what you're doing walking out in front of my house, my sidewalk when it's got four inches of snow and it's 12 degrees outside. Yeah, they got to go out and measure to see if you get four inches in your driveway?

No, no. The four inches is a citywide thing, and it has been, again, according to this story, it has been triggered. So, Ryan, unless you want to go to the pokey, you need to go out there and start shoveling, I think. So they want me to risk injury slipping on the ice and cracking my head. It's not me. I'm just telling you what this article says. If you went to jail, at least you'd have somebody to hang out with.

You wouldn't be by yourself. Look at it like that. I just can't believe there would be somebody actually going door to door to see if you've shut up. They haven't said. They have not said that, like, they're going door to door. Yeah. But it does, this article, I read it this morning, said that that exists. That is, there's an ordinance.

Now, it doesn't say about Louisville. I don't know if Louisville has one, but that Lexington has that ordinance. I just don't understand why I have to risk injury to prevent somebody else from slipping in when they're walking around when it's 12 degrees outside. Because that's what society is. But it's your driveway. You're not going to be in my driveway. Not the driveway. It's the sidewalk.

He doesn't have to do his driveway. He has to do his sidewalk. I got you. I don't know. I kind of felt like that should be the city's thing. I mean, the city owns the sidewalk, right? City owns the sidewalk.

Do I have to shovel my sidewalk with more, here. This is a story with more than five inches of snow. many area roads and sidewalks are impassable. Lexington has a plan for clearing city-owned sidewalks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A city ordinance says private sidewalks in front of homes and businesses must be cleared within 24 hours after the snow stops. Well, they can kiss my butt. I'm not getting out there and doing it. I am not doing it.

When did you become like, this is a law? Do you just think you can just say to authorities, I'm flaunting the law? I'm near the... Which, are you going to go up to the police officers and say, police officer, you can kiss my butt? I'm not going to shovel my sidewalk. I'll say, look, and you want to shovel the snow, get to it. But the police officer is going to say the losses you have to shovel it.

Well, kiss my butt. I am not going to risk a heart attack and slip and fall on the ice. I'm close to the elderly age. I'm not going to get out there and get a heart attack shoveling that snow. Listen, you should take the... Who's your city council member? I don't know. You should take your complaints to them, but as of right now, there is a, here, I just got this message.

I walked my dog yesterday. It would be nice for people like Ryan to clear their sidewalks so that my dog and I can walk up the sidewalks. We're not responsible for your dog, though. Your dog can go take a hike somewhere else. It doesn't need to be walking on my driveway to begin with. It's not your driveway. Well, it's your sidewalk. I know, but the sidewalk goes through my driveway.

All right. I'm just saying, Ryan has officially told the Lexington police to kiss. his butt. Yeah. I am not doing it. I'm just telling you, I'm reading the rule. Who's up first? Let's go to Jonathan.

Jonathan. Go ahead, Jonathan. It's actually safer to walk on the snow right now the way it is and to walk on a shoveled sidewalk. I think that's probably right, yeah. You've got actually more of a chance of slipping and busting your ear in on that thing you do just walking on packed in snow. So are you telling the people to kiss your butt too, sir?

uh yeah as a matter of fact that's a boy yeah the movement has begun dual birds to them uh got my question is what was the what was the actual official snowfall total i haven't heard

for some reason so the official one that i have is that Louisville airport said 6.1 and lexington said uh 4.1 but they but even that's a little It won't change the winner either way unless Louisville gets over like 10, which is not going to happen. Or where did T.G. Shuck ended up winning. I thought that Ryan Hall, y'all, actually had seven inches. He did, but he was way over in Louisville. Okay, so if it was just Lexington, Ryan Hall, y'all would have been the winner, but he was so far off in Louisville. T.G. had it much lower in Louisville, so T.G. was overall less off. Yeah, Ryan said 13.7, Ryan Hall.

Yeah, Ryan Hall was too high in Louisville. So he was point, when you add him up, T.G. was point one closer than Ryan Hall. Oh, okay. Well, the other thing I was going to say, just to talk about this Travis Perry deal the other day, you know, yeah, I've probably booed some people that over, over times that maybe I shouldn't have. But I wouldn't have booed that kid the other day. I mean, he's a Kentucky kid. And, you know, he played. here last year, I think, in a pretty serviceable role considering the situation.

And did, I thought, pretty good. And if we had him right now, him being a point guard, you know, we're point guard shy right now. He might not be the best guy on the team, but he would still be a serviceable player to have here. And a player that you would have here for four years. He would get some minutes probably. I don't know how many, but he would get some minutes. So I understand, I actually, and I appreciate the call, sir. I understand both sides of it.

I can understand why the kids did it. I can understand why people like Ryan don't like it. You know, it's just kind of one of those things. And I think people feel more empowered to boo now in the NIL RevShare era, maybe than they did before. Ring in the New Year with a new ride at Don Franklin. Choose from thousands of new and certified pre-owned vehicles. Go the distance with power train protection on certified pre-owned,

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They want to come kiss my butt? I don't think that's what he meant. I think it's what he means. If you're going to challenge that you're going to violate the resolution, I don't think he literally said he was going to come and do that. Well, I can see there's no snow tracks in my driveway, nothing on my sidewalk, or anybody coming around my area, so I ain't shelling it. One person says, I'm a first responder.

It's nice to have the sidewalk cleared because what if Ryan has a heart attack and we have to get into his house? It's true. Wear your snow boots. It's only going to hurt you. Wear your snow boots and be careful when you're walking up my house. ice covered driveway. All right, there you go.

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Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. A lot of people weighing in on Ryan's refusal to shovel his sidewalk. You got some supporters, you got some detractors, just so you know. I mean, it's eventually going to melt. Well, I got to get out there. It's not going to melt for like a week and a half. Well, then stay inside.

Don't walk for a week and a half. You're going to have to leave your house at some point in the next week and a half. I think that's probably the case. All right. Meteorologist Madness, $10,000 going to charity to the winner. And our winner, joining us now on the phone from WTVQ, TG Thunder Shuck, who got the victory. TG, congrats on the win.

Thanks, Matt. I actually don't know whether to say thank you or apologize or in which order. Well, no, you won. You ended up now. Now, everyone was off by a decent amount. Why do you think that? Why did that happen? Well, I was going to explain that.

First off, yes, everybody missed it by a country mile. The weather service did. All the TV people did. Internet people did. The reason that it happened was this. It was the timing of the storm relative to when we had to have our picks in. Because the show, your final show of the week was on Friday morning. The snow didn't start until Saturday afternoon.

What changed from, and again, in support of all my illustrious weather colleague that were nice enough to do this contest. Yes. We were literally all in the same boat. Let's say, for example, the snow was going to start on a Wednesday, afternoon. Well, you got a show on Wednesday morning. You would have had us have our picks in 10, 10, 30, 11 o'clock and talk about it, what, four to six hours before it started snowing. What changed between when we locked it in on Friday morning and when everything started on Saturday, it was trending that way and it went full bore Friday night into Saturday morning, that dreaded warm nose that we all love to talk

about. I've seen it a thousand times. It always works up to the I-64 corridor at the last minute. I mean, Ryan talked about it, what, last hour. He and I did the sports radio show here on LAP 25 years ago. I mean, I've been doing this around here collectively between Lexington and Louisville, 20 years here, six years over at WHAS. It always happens. And that's what impacted my, quote, combined total. So it was a warm. So the warm, The warm nose comes, pushes it north. But just that, why do you think, I mean, you guys all know the warm nose is coming? Was it warm, nosier this time than more to other times?

It eventually got there, but see, we use guidance. And let me emphasize that's all these different models that people throw around and talk around about. and you see floating around the internet. Again, that's just guidance. It's not the Sabbath, so to speak. Literally, some of them were still kicking out 14, 15, 16 inches of snow, even as late as Friday afternoon and Friday evening. But, again, I guarantee you if you would have had everybody have their picks in

by, say, Saturday morning by 1130, they would have been reduced by probably a third, across the board because everything was cutting down the overall snow total and bringing that icing farther north. And again, keeping our eye on the ball here, has the system been hugely disruptive and impactful? Absolutely. It's a mess. I just say I'll work last night and the road crews have done an amazing job. I know there's tons of people sitting in the dark and cold down in southern Kentucky. and that's awful, but people get so caught up in the snow totals, and obviously the KSR curse of focusing on. It's a curse.

I would have to say. Yeah, I think you guys were all great sports to do it, okay? Like I do. I mean, it was we raised money for charity. It also, I think, brought awareness to people of what was coming, et cetera. So I don't, I don't criticize you all at all for being all. As a matter of fact, listen, it comes with the territory, you know. It's an occupational hazard.

I've been doing this so long. There's rarely a day that goes by that I'm not burned in effigy. Well, you're not by me. I'm actually, because I just got a couple of minutes left, I'm here to praise T.G. Shuck. I did not know you were back on Lexington TV until this contest. And when I learned, it made me happy because you have a great name, T.G. Thundershuck. And then you pick the Lexington Humane Society.

So in the last minute or two here, I want to actually praise you for not only winning, but for being a good sport and enjoying it. And then I want you to tell me why you picked the Lexington Humane Society. Well, first of all, I appreciate that greatly. I love how my odds were like plus 4,000. I didn't do that. That's Jay and Lyndon who did that. Yeah, I'm one of the only two matches besides Justin Logan that work both in Lexington and Louisville and they've been doing it that long. Seems to help.

Should have been a favorite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. And Nick Rouse, thank you for the support for calling that out on Thursday night of the long odds. But to Matt's point, Lexington Humane Society, I was on the board between 2000 and 2006. Alan Stein was on there with me as well and a number of other, you know, civic leaders here in Lexington. We strategic plan, fundraised, and got that new shelter, which is going on 20 years old now, built while I was on the board, which was all volunteers, of course, because, the old one had fallen into hard times. It was dilapidated, very much needed. So I always have had a soft spot for animals and have animals myself, of course, and being a part of that was really something special. So I don't even like animals, T.G. And now I'm writing a check to the Lexington Humane Society because of you. So seriously, thank you very much for doing it. Thank you for

letting everybody know what's going to happen in the weather. And quickly, is it going to be like stupid cold over the next few days? That's what I was going to say. Impact, impact, impact. Yeah, wind chills tomorrow morning, 10, 15, possibly 20 below will probably go below zero tonight. And we're going to be around zero for the morning low because of this ice and snowback every morning all the way into the weekend. Oh, my. It does not sound fun.

Well, it's not fun. All right. Well, T.G. Thank you. Congratulations. And celebrate your victory. And we appreciate it. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Good to talk to you. There you go. Mine is 20, Shannon. In other words, there's going to be a big heat wave coming through. It'll probably be 70. Why do you got to do that? Why do you got to do that? Take a break. Hour number two right after this, KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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