KSR - 9-10-2026 - KSR - HOUR 1

Episode Date: September 10, 2026

Talk of Will Stein saying this week's game should be "loud" and all students should wear white to this week's game, screenshots of QR codes don't work to get into Kroger Field, and Matt gets a Louisville Humidity hat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Comedy of Broadway. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday. September the 10th. I am Matt Jones here in Bristol, Connecticut, where it is a normal sunny day. Before on my last day here at ESPN, we got a great crowd of folks there in Louisville

as Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are all at whiskey thief at the Louisville Slugger Field. You can give a session out in the Clark's Pubbit Shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. The A-Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-744. And this is sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay, guys. You are at Slugger Field with Whiskey Thief. What is it like there today as Whiskey Thief becomes the official sponsor of Louisville

Slugger Field this year in the Louisville Bats? Man, I'm really sorry you couldn't be here because we're in the speakeasy that Whiskey Thief has made called The Backstop, which is literally a couple steps behind home plate. So for the folks that are sitting in the premium sweet seats right behind home plate, they have access to this area of the backstop. They've got free food, free drinks. It's an awesome little hideaway, getaway to enjoy when you come to Slugger Field. It's sponsored by Whiskey Thief. It's a speak easy. Drew, do I have to speak easy to get in, or is it?

What is it? I don't know, they'll let you in. It's similar to, you know, they have the whiskey thief seats similar where you sit at Reds games. You know how you just walk right back? That's what they have here at Louisville Sluggerfield with the backstop, food and drinking here. And then you can, like, run it out for events, too, if you want to have a birthday party. Matt, like, if you want to have a party and not have someone throw up on your rug, you could run out the backstop. That would be nice.

And then watch baseball here. So it's a very cool spot. You know, Matt, I always tell you there's a side door to every building. It turns out there's a side door here at Sluggerfield. There is. just come in the side door, you just slide right on in here. And we've got some tickets to give away for the backstop today. We got two pair of tickets to give away at some point.

Okay, all right. Well, we will do that for a game. I think they maybe close out the season this weekend. This weekend, that's right. It's a four-game series starting today. Four game series. So we'll give that away later. But thanks to Louisville Sluggerfield, Whiskey Thief, for having the guys out there.

This is my final day in Bristol. I'm actually at 5 o'clock as soon as Matt Meyron ends. jumping into a car, driving to Newark, New Jersey to get on a 930 plane to Cincinnati to then drive to Lexington to get ready to be in Georgetown tomorrow, Ryan, for the remote at Whiskey Thief, or excuse me, at Country Boy. So it's a long day of travel, but I'm excited because tomorrow is usually one of my favorite days of the year. Yeah, good luck getting there, man.

We're pulling for it because it is such a huge day. Our show at Country Boy is always one of our biggest shows of the year. and then of course we're leading up to the big game on Saturday, so we need you there, be a part of it. Yes, I'm looking forward to it. This is an exciting 48 hours. I mean, you can sort of sense that Kentucky's got a big day coming because as I've walked around this campus over the last 24 hours and then last night, a big group of people got together and watched the football game, everybody just kind of keeps looking at me and going, so does Kentucky have a chance Saturday?

You know, do they have a chance? And I drew, again, maybe it's delusional, but I've been looking at them and say, not only do we have a chance, I think we're going to win. And then they look at me and go, okay, calm down. But I don't know. I don't want to calm down, Drew. I think it can happen. Oh, we're not calming down.

Get out of here if you're trying to calm down. I have noticed it is the trendy pick as all the shows nationally start to lock in week two, who's picking us? Who's picking us? Who's picking us? one. Brandon Walker, I don't know if he picked the upset, but he kind of had Alabama on upset watch, a few other shows. I don't know if I've seen a firm Kentucky will win, but Alabama, when they're naming the teams that need to watch their back and need to be careful this week,

they have Alabama on upset watch, which, of course, us being fans and excited as we are, we're expecting that too, but we're not normally the brand you're seeing talked about early in the week looking ahead to a weekend like this. So, Ryan, I sat next to last night when the Patriots were playing the Seahawks, I sat next to Mike Golick. at the hotel bar watching the game. And let me just say, when you sit next to somebody that actually knows football, it makes you realize how unqualified I am every time I talk about football. Absolutely.

Right. Like he, you know how we watch and we see Romo and stuff and he calls plays before they happened and all that? Golick was the same way. Like he sees it. He, he, I mean, I don't know if you watch the game. They had a fourth and one with Jackson Smith. and Jigba and he caught it, big play during the game.

Golick called that. He called plays throughout. But during one of the commercial breaks, I said to him, okay, tell me about Kenny Minchie. Because, you know, he's a Notre Dame guy, right? True. Right. So, like, he's a Notre Dame guy. He does the Notre Dame.

He's Notre Dame's Jeff Piccolo. I don't know if you knew that, but he does the Notre Dame broadcast. And he obviously went there. And I said to him, you know, tell me about Kenny Minching because he was there a couple years. And he said, everyone at Notre Dame's pulling for Kenny Minchie, he said, I think he can be one of the top 15 quarterbacks in the country. It's just he never got the chance at Notre Dame. And he said, I think you guys are going to be really happy. You know, granted, we saw him play the first game. But hearing that, I don't know, it made me almost even more confident about Saturday

because, look, this is a guy that watched him practice for two years and really knows a lot about it. I have yet to hear one person that knows Notre Dame football that knew of Kenny Minchin he's up there say anything bad about him. Everybody praises him, said he was just a step behind car, or he would have been the starting quarterback last year in that great season they had, and probably again this year. So everybody seems like they love him. Something like Mike Golick says that, I think you'll stand up and listen because he knows football.

And, you know, they're starting a freshman quarterback, Drew, on the road. You know, if we can make the environment, you never know how guys are going to handle that. If we can come out early, play well, get loud, you might get that guy rattled you. Who knows? Yeah, he had a great game last week, but it was at home against East Carolina. Let's see how he handles going on the road in the SEC. It'll be up to Krogerfield to give, honestly, just put him in hell, make the environment as hard as possible to do his job. You want it to be hell.

I mean, make it chaos for him because it is his first true road start. And, you know, just as Mitchie's playing his first SEC team, at least he's got the home advantage. So if Kentucky's going to win, I think Rappell. rattling him will be a big part of it. I agree with you. I think the path to victory is rattling, is rattling him. You, Will Stein did a press conference tomorrow. By the way, I'm trying.

Well, I don't want to say that. Everybody just needs to stay tuned today. But, Shannon, Will Stein did a press conference where he was very much like, he was actively encouraging loud. He kept saying, loud, loud, he goes, This needs to be the loudest game in the history of Kroger Field. Those are strong words. I don't know if it's going to be the loudest game.

But he went on, I mean, he did it on his press conference Tuesday. And then last night in his call-in show, he just kept pounding that loud, loud, loud. I believe the game is sold out of primary tickets. Secondary tickets are still on sale. Am I right, Drew? Is it sold out on primary tickets? Last I heard there were like under 100 left or something like that. So I assume they're close to it if I hadn't done it already.

There were like 50 yesterday during the show. So I'm going to assume they're sold out or close. Shannon, does our fan base have it in us to be the loudest? Normally every loudest game I can think of in the history of that stadium was at night. This game is not at night. Do we have it in us Saturday during the day? I believe in our fan base. It's a new era, a lot of excitement after that first win on Saturday.

you know, they're going to Texas A&M of the week after this one, and that's going to be a crazy, crazy environment. We go on the road and we see all these fan bases that are so loud. Why not us? I think we can. And I think that if we can rattle them early, and as Will Stein wanted us to get there during the warmups and scream so loud that nobody has a voice on Monday or on Sunday morning,

I think we can absolutely do that. And I think they're going to be a big part of Kentucky if they can pull off this win. Yeah, so he basically wants Ryan people to be in. the stadium, I guess if you're talking about with the warm-ups, would that be 45 minutes before the game? Is that right? Probably, I guess that would do it. Yeah. Stop your tailgate early. Get inside the stadium. I try to rattle and be loud early. Can we do that? Can we get our people in the building at 245? It's a big ask. Yeah, it is. We have trouble. Because we are kind of a late arriving crowd. I mean, that's one of the things. Our crowd, like, you know, last game,

I had a lot of people complain to me about the ticket scanners, and it was like the lines were too long, but if you wait right until the last minute, I can see why that happens, you know. Here's what I would suggest. Just get to your tailgate party 45 minutes earlier. There you go. Just start what they're doing normally. Look at that big brain right there. 45 minutes earlier and you still get the exact same amount of tailgate time and you get in 45. Is that Shannon the brain? There you go. We're workshopping this.

Live on the radio. Live on the radio. Get there 45 minutes early. Drew, you're a tailgate guy. Can you get those people inside 45 minutes early? Oh, boy. I want to say yes, but no. No.

I mean, I was one of them for many years, usually waited until the last minute to run in because we're having fun outside. But I will say, Will Stahn asked. Jay Batt asked us to do one extra thing. This one time, let's try going in early. We can go back to our old format before, but that's. this one game, let's get in there. Everyone, figure out your QR codes Friday night. Nobody likes getting up there at the gate and they're like, honey, where'd I put my QR code? No, that's a big thing. That's a big thing. Everybody needs to pull out their QR code because the

worst is, then they get up there and they're like, where is the QR code? And then the internet's not great right there where you walk in. And it takes a while. And Drew, that backs everybody up. We can't have that happen. So collectively, let's make the effort. One time tomorrow, and if it works, we'll revisit it next time. But one time, let's give it a shot. Is that the only form of ticket now is the QR code? I don't think they take paper tickets anymore. Do they, Ryan, do they take paper tickets?

I've not seen any paper tickets for a couple of years. It's definitely the QR code. So just, yeah, pull it out the night before that morning before you leave because once you get to the stadium, it's tough to do that sometimes. I do miss. You can have your phone open all night. I mean, you have to, you're pulling it the night before. Why don't you just pull it?

Ryan, pullers right now just to be careful. Your phone will be dead by the time you get to the game. I think you need to pull your ticket right now. Leave it. Don't let your phone sleep. 48 hours early, Ryan, just to make sure you can get in. Ryan's like,

I need to get an Uber, but I cannot close my QR code to use other apps. There's been people just like me. You get to the stadium and you can't pull it up. I pull it up the night before and just leave it open. Do you really pull it up the night before? I've done that many times. That's why he doesn't return our calls that game.

one extra thing, like J-Batt said. This is what we need to do tomorrow. Follow Ryan's guidance here. Don't get weight stuck in line trying to pull it up. Don't get weight stuck in line? Yeah. Is that a sentence? Don't get weight stuck in line.

It is today. I swear we haven't been into the whiskey. Yeah. We haven't opened the first bottle yet. I promise. Don't get weight stuck in line. Add that. Whoever it is that does the Ryanisms,

please add that to the list because that's a great. Ryan Simmons. Okay, so they're also having a stripe out. Now, many of you have seen this, but if you have not, UK asked me to make this clear. So everyone listening, unless you are a student, for students, all the students wear white. Yep. That whole end zone is white. Okay. So everybody, so students, if you're listening, all of you wear white. So get out the white. You can do it again, whatever you wore last week. If your ticket is in a number. even numbered section and you're not a student. Blue. Blue. Okay. Even blue. Odd white. Say that again. Even blue. Blue. Odd white. White. That's it. There's no way that there's no, that's it. Now if you are in the rich people sections, okay, if you're in the like, what do you call them, the boxes. If you are on the boxes on the Kentucky side, blue. And if you're on the boxes on the visitor's side, white. Ryan, section 327.

What color am I wearing? There is no 327. Let's just say there was 127. Then you're wearing white. There you go. All right, there you go. You got it. Odd white.

So even blue, odd white, rich people boxes blue, Vister's side boxes white. White. That's what we're doing. They did pretty good during the white out. I was kind of impressed with our white out. I thought it looked really good. We've tried to do a thing like this before with the stripes, and it has never come close to working. This one's going to work because they've made it easier, right? Blue, white, and then, but students, if you're in, now students, if you're sitting in the regular crowd, you follow my rules.

But if you are in the end zone, all of you are white. All in zone is white. Holon zone is white, and the rest is, so there you go. One person writes, Matt, tell Boomer Ryan he can just screenshot his ticket, and then he doesn't have to have his phone on all night. Okay, here's the guy that he doesn't know what he's talking about because the screenshot won't work. You've got to have it active because there's a little like scanning bar that goes back and forth over your QR code. You have to have that pulled up.

The boomer says boom. Right, man, but do you know that like at the Reds games? But at the Reds games, I can screenshot them and they work. You can video record. You definitely can't do it at Commonwealth, Crogerfield. Are you sure about that? Yeah, you've got to have the little bar that goes back and forth. But the bar will go back and forth on a picture.

At the Reds games, I don't know if it'll do it at Kentucky. Yeah, tell Boomer to eat it. All right, we'll see. You're the Boomer. You're the Boomer. We'll see. 859-280-2287. We didn't get to take a lot of questions yesterday.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I am here in Bristol, Connecticut. Drew, you are at Whiskey Thief. Tell me about the games coming this weekend. The games coming up at Louisville Slugger Field this weekend, all four of them.

Yes, yes. We got Columbus coming in. They're going down. It should be a good crowd out here. Tickets are still available. Tonight's, is it 630s? Yeah, 630 tonight. As a ticket still available, come check out the backstop.

And, Matt, I got to tell you, I don't know how I've gone this long in my life without ever going to Louisville Slugger Field. This place, just in general, not just the backstop, is incredible for a minor league ballpark. Have you never been to? Never, never set foot here. We're going to get you into Louisville more often. Yeah, Littlebats games are nice. And with the new Whiskey Thief places, like, they're nice, Shannon. I walk down there once or twice a year.

I love it. Yeah. You're going to miss pet friendly night. I was going to say you would love it tonight. It's hops and hounds tonight. Perfect night for you, man. Yeah. That's a knot.

But did they have, I think, Saturday, they're doing that Louisville humidity thing. Louisville humidity, special jerseys and celebrating the high humidity, it says here in Kentucky. I need a Louisville humidity hat. Shannon, if you can find a way, you're good at finagling free things. Yeah. If you can find a way to get me a Louisville humidity hat today, I'll be your best for. Okay. I'll see if I can do that for you.

Because I do like those Louisville humidity hats. And a sweaty jersey. Yeah. All right. Everyone is telling me, Ryan is right. Screenshots do not work at Krogerfield. Mm-hmm. So do you want to tell Corey to eat it?

I did. Yeah, I said that. Corey, by the way, you called me a boomer. Eat it. Screenshots don't work. However, you can put it in your wallet. Your Google wallet. Do you know how to put the ticket in your wallet?

Yes. Yeah, you put it in your Google wallet. I've used that before also. They also have Apple wallets, Shannon, for people who have modern. phones. Yeah, I was going to say, I didn't realize that droids actually had wallets. Oh, yeah. You should feel good, Ryan. The ESPN Radio talent group chat is ruined because Mike Golick Sr. has an android. Everyone else does it, and he has ruined the group chat. It's always the old guy. It's all you, it's you old guys that do it every time.

I think it's because we're more experienced, so we have a better knowledge of what works and what's best, so that's why Mike Golick and I are really way ahead of the curve on this. One person writes, who is the key player for Kentucky to play well in order for us to win? That's a good question. I guess, Drew, I'm going to say our two corners in the secondary, Nichols and what's the other guy's name that was out? Sykes. Sykes. I think the two of them, they did not play against Youngstown.

I think our cornerbacks kind of got abused throughout the game. I think the two of them coming in and being much better is crucial for us to have any chance to stop their passing offense. What about you? Yeah, that's the answer. Alabama has one of the best receivers in the country. In Ryan Coleman Williams, used to be Ryan Williams, remember he had the big freshman season. Same year, Jeremiah Smith. He dropped a bunch of passes last week, though.

But he did. He had a sophomore slope with drops last year, so maybe he'll help us out. But, yeah, the corners are going to have to play well. And it sounds like both those guys will be available with Stein saying the team will be at full streak. So secondary can't get beat. Alabama's offense is going to score points. but we got to keep them in check a little bit.

Yeah, I agree. All right, who's up first, Rick? Cole is up first. Cole, go ahead, Cole. Hey, I had a football question for all y'all. Okay. So if you were offered six and six for this season or let it ride, you would take the six and six and six and run, right?

I would take the six and six, because I think six and six get you in a bowl game, which still has some positives, puts you on the right path. In order to get to six and six, going to have to have beaten some good teams. And you'll probably have, to get to six and six, you're probably going to have at least one signature win against somebody good.

So I think if you offered me six and six, I would take that right now. Oh, that leads me to my question. So assume two and no with the two cupcakes, you get to pick the other four wins. Which are y'all taken for the ideal six and six season? Okay. I appreciate the call. Do you mean ideal, I mean, ideal, I'm going to take the four best teams. But let me take practically ideal.

So, Ryan, I'm going to take the teams that I think we can beat that would be the best. I would love to see us beat Alabama to get the season momentum going well, beat Florida at home, Vandy at home, Louisville at home. I think that would be a really good, you take out Louisville, you take out Florida, you reestablish, you win home games, which is something we really struggled with over the last few years. That's probably my list. What about you?

If you could only win four. Yeah, I think you nailed it because if you can get Alabama and Florida and Louisville and I'll beat them at home, that's one of the greatest homes football seasons we've had maybe ever to knock off those three powerhouses like that. What would be your four? If it's just the dream season, it'd be Alabama, LSU, Louisville, and Tennessee. but like in your scenario where you're doing the most realistic and one we can achieve,

I'd maybe flip at South Carolina and Alabama than Vandy, Louisville, and what was our other one? Florida. Florida, yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, if you're saying what is the most realistic scenario than Drew's is, but I think Alabama and LSU, Shannon, it's not crazy you win one of those games at home. It's probably unlikely, but it's not crazy. and I think winning Saturday would be so great in terms of just injecting energy and life into this program. I think there's a lot there, but you win that game.

I think it just injects a whole other level. Give me the toughest teams that we play if I get to pick the four wins. So you want Alabama, LSU, A&M, Oklahoma? You know what? I could be talked into substituting Oklahoma for Louisville, because I think that game still matters, even though technically by the rankings, Oklahoma would be the better win. But yeah, give me those three and Louisville. I think that would be my bet.

You know, it's funny is if you were to beat Alabama, LSU A&M in Oklahoma, you'd be like six and one, and you would have playoff dreams. You would because you'd be sitting there looking at Florida, Vandy, Missouri, and you know, why can't we win those games? But then you've got to lose those games in this scenario. I know. I think oddly that would actually be disappointing. It would be. But can you imagine this fan base how excited we would be if we start at 6 and 1?

I mean, we'd be ready to throw a parade. I mean, that's not going to happen. Like, Mario, don't clip that. That's not going to happen. No, no. That's just if we had to choose. But if we had to choose, I mean, that's probably the most fun. 959-28027.

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We're hanging out, and Matt, I've got you a Louisville humidity hat right here in my hand. I just texted you a picture of it. I'll get that to you tomorrow at Country Board. Oh, please do. I love it. It is very nice. Thank you very much. and thank you to the folks there at the Bats.

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I've been known to do that a time or two. Yeah, I think I think. I don't know. I'm a boomer. I know it. I'm a boomer. Yes. Can you put Mario on real quick just a second? Yeah, come here, Mario. I have a question for Mario. Hang on. He's been it on. Okay, he's got it. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, Mario, how are you? I'm good. What's up, my man?

So I saw on the internet yesterday you had on your show the What's Next podcast, which, by the way, I recommend everyone listen. Mario has a podcast. What's Next? You had on someone named Buddha, Duff. Oh my goodness, you messed up his name. It's Bubba Dub. Bubba Dub. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you're good. It's not Buda Dub.

It's Bubba Dub. No, Bubba Dub. Okay, now, who is Bubba Dub? He's a social media comedian. And what does Bubba Dub do? He makes skits. He does, like, social media videos. He's on various podcasts.

Drew, have you ever heard of Bubba Dub? I am learning of Bubba Dub for the first time. Right now. So Bubba Dub, three men in the tub. Okay, he was on your... He was on your podcast. Seemed like a nice fella. Did you enjoy having him on?

Yeah, that was cool for me, man. I see him on my social media all the time, so it was awesome. So he got him on, and he picked Kentucky to beat Alabama, right? He did. He did, man. He's going to be at the game on Saturday, and he said he's got Kentucky. He's rolling with Kentucky. Is he at the game as a guest?

Like, is he... I believe he's going to be like a guest. Yeah, I think U.K. reached out to him. So does that do a lot of people know Bubba Dub? Yeah, yeah, for sure amount of people. This depends on the community. So you're bringing him in?

Bubba Dub. Yes, I believe so. Drew, this is a big game if we've got Bubba dub. Maybe Will Stein walks out with Bubba Dub. Is Bubba Dubb? Tim Couch, Craig East and Bubba Dub. We could have Bubba dub. I don't know if he's walking out with Will Stein, but we'll see.

Make it happen, Mario. So is he coming to Lexington just for the game, or does Bubba Dub have other affairs? So he's coming for the game, and then he has a comedy special on Sunday. Where's that? Comedy Off Broadway. Great spot. So he'll be at Comedy Off Broadway. Well, good.

Well, I was excited that you seemed really happy with Bubba Dub. It was the second happiest I've ever seen them when you met the guy when we were at the barstool party. Gilly. Yeah, Gilly. Gilly. Oh, wait, can I mention how nice gilly was tomorrow? Yes, you have mentioned, you have mentioned how nice gilies. Yes, you've mentioned that before.

Well, I'm glad you and Bubba Dub were able to get together, and I thought that was cool seeing you really happy with the Dube. Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate you reaching out and showing your support. That means a lot to me. Well, of course. You're not just the guy who threw up in my house. You are also the social media star of KSR.

Thank you, man. That means a lot. I appreciate it. All right, 88, 859-28027. Who's up next? Allison is up next. Allison, go ahead, Allison. Hey, guys, I just had something that I wanted to share with you really quickly.

My mom is a giant UK fan and has been a UK fan for the majority of her life. And over the last year and a half, she has been battling liver cancer. And right now as I speak, I'm standing at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she is undergoing a liver train split. She's already in surgery. And I just wanted to thank you guys for being a two-hour distraction for me and my family today. I can't wait until she wakes up and she can hear this call. And she can continue to laugh at Ryan and his PIP zero, his three-year-old Pib Zero.

It was so awful. Will you tell her when she wakes up how awful that Pib Zero tasted? I will. And this is just, like I said, I just thank you guys so much for being you, for being funny, for being two hours that I can just, you know, laugh and focus on the Bama game. And I know my dad's listening and he's just in the other room. So, but yeah, I just wanted to thank you guys. Well, thank you very much.

Thank you very much for calling. What was her name again? Her name is Debbie. I will be praying. for Debbie tonight and your family and I'm glad we can be of some help and thank you very much for calling. Thanks guys, go cats.

All right. 859-280-20-287. I'm sure everybody listening. Prayers up for Debbie and her recovery and we can't wait until she wakes up and watches us beat the tide on Saturday. Who's next? Mark Anthony is next. Mark Anthony. How are you, Mark Anthony?

Hey, Matthew, Ryan, Drew, Shannon. Hey, fellas. You know, as far as this noise, that the coach wants on Saturday. You know we can do it because it was only a few years ago that we had Florida commit. What was it, five or six or seven? It was a lot.

Yeah, it was a lot. It was just because of the noise we were making. That's what he's talking about. That's what we need. And along those lines, the blue, why? Can we wrap that up, retire it, give it a pension, and send it to Florida,

Because that's the awfulest thing that there is. I don't love that. I don't love it. I don't think it really works. I don't think it necessarily gets people hype. But I will say this. They're trying, Mark Anthony. And I think, you know, it's a, we don't want to penalize the school for trying.

And what I mean by that is, well, wait a minute. Hang on. They are actively trying to make that atmosphere better. And they're doing a lot of things. And some things didn't go perfectly. and I think people need to understand that when you're trying to do that, they're going to be hiccups,

and we can't, like, you know, be mad at the perfect, and we can't, like, aim for the perfect and get mad and accept that the good they're trying to do, it is good now, but they are trying to do better. That's my take on it. Well, I'm glad of that, and I'm not going to be at the game.

I may not be able to watch the game, but for on my television, because on Saturday, we're flying out to Seattle because Sundays are a 50th anniversary and there's some things you just got to make room for. You know what I'm saying? But I will sure be there in spirit and go. You got to get Wi-Fi on the plane at least.

I appreciate the call because you don't want to miss the game. You got to make it to where it's, you know, at least there. Hey, Ryan, one thing I wanted to say, since I'm here in the build, this building is actually very sad today with the news of the passing of Barry Melrose. Barry Melrose, ESPN's hockey analyst with the great hair and the suits he passed away at 70 years old of complications. Well, I mean, he had Parkinson's disease.

I don't know what the final reason was. But, you know, for most of my childhood and even into adulthood, to me, Ryan, Barry Melrose was hockey, right? It was like Wayne Gretzky and then on Sports Center, they would have Barry Melrose. And that's what I knew about hockey. was Barry Melrose. And I thought he was funny. And it seemed like everyone that was on ESPN liked him. And he always dressed so well. And he had a mullet as a grown man with slicked back hair. And I was like, I don't know about hockey, but I know this dude seems cool. He worked here forever. And I was at the

table last night with all these ESPN people. Even Mike Golick was like, oh, are you kidding me? He was such a great guy. Like he was really beloved. loved here and I loved watching him as a kid and I was sad to hear about the passing of Barry Melrose. For guys like you and me that know nothing about hockey, he made watching hockey cool because of what, like you said, how he looked, how he acted on set. They would come on with their little like, you know, sports center for hockey and if he's got it on, you watch it because of him. You didn't watch it because of him and what he was going to do and what he was going to say. Yes, I was a huge. Shannon, I feel like you would have been a barrier. You watch SportsCenter a ton as a kid, too.

I feel like you would have been a huge Barry Melrose guy. He is the only guy that when it comes to analyzing hockey that I'm even aware of. If it's like, if you need to know what's going on with the NHL, Barry Melrose is your guy. And I'm just really sad to hear that news. But I know he's going to be greatly missed there at ESPN. Yeah, and I always think of him with Steve Levy. That was the guy that would always be talking with him.

And he had a really nice statement last night. And so rest in peace to Barry. Elrose. Before every game, athletes gear up. A football player doesn't step on the field without having himself ready, and the same should be true for you. That's why the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center is there for you for sun protection as part of your everyday game plan. Wear sunscreen, protective clothing, and get yourself checked out at the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center in Bowling Green, Franklin, Glasgow, Owensboro, and Powderley. Go to Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.com, where you're more than just a patient, your family. We will take a break. Be right back. It's KSR.

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I never can be totally happy because then Drew, if I win, I still lose. You know what I mean? I get you. Well, you could drop him and pick up Drew Locke. I'm sure he's available. Yeah. Well, he looked pretty good at the fourth quarter. He looked okay. He looked okay. Did you guys ever pick a punishment for the worst team in your league? We haven't yet. We still, the problem is we don't know each other, so it's hard to do the really embarrassing things. Well, there's some things that are just universal. Like what? People would hate.

Well, I would say, No, that's not a punishment, first of all. This whole Waffle House thing, eat a waffle and you get an hour off your punishment. That's a reward. I kind of agree with you. I like Waffle-pressed. Well, I guess maybe some people would like that. I can't do that.

We have two women in the group. I can't be walking around tell people to get their nipple pierced. I'm a grown man. Shannon. I cannot go around like one guy's a doctor. I can't be like listen man, you got to get your nipple pierced. I don't know these people. Okay? Like I can't do that. You got to settle on something soon.

Yeah, we're going to wait until the standings are up. Yeah, then we'll figure it out. One person writes, Matt, how was your review with the ESPN execs? Ryan, I walked into a room of people yesterday, all the fancy people. Yes. To get the review. I was pretty nervous. Myron wore

a suit to the meeting. I was not dressed that way. Oh, no. And, but we got a good review. The numbers have been really good. They, I was surprised. Happy with what you guys are doing? Yeah. Said, don't change anything.

So, you know, that's good. Because we made fun of Stephen A. Smith's hairline yesterday. So, like, I feel like if they're good with that, then Drew, just keep it up, right? Yeah, maybe they're just happy someone in the buildings making front of Stephen A. Smith. It's just kind of. I don't know. I just let you. I feel like every day, if you listen to that show from 3 to 5,

every day I push it just a little bit more. Just a little bit more, Shannon. That's what you do. At some time I'm going to get smacked, but I haven't yet. They're talking to the principal's office. Did they make you sit down and listen to clips of the show back? See, that's the old school radio area. When I first started in radio, they would sit me down in an office and make me go back and listen to myself.

It was the most uncomfortable thing ever. They would say that, or you don't pronounce that right. And I hated it. I'm glad we don't do that anymore. We have one example of a KSR curse and maybe a one example of a KSR bump. Okay, you remember on the post game show, Ryan, the kid called in named Memphis because his dad like Nicholas Cage movies and he named him Memphis. Made me Memphis. Yeah.

Did you not hear that, Drew? No, no. A kid called in, his name was Memphis. And I was like, why are you named Memphis? And the kid didn't know. And he asked his dad and his dad goes, because I like the name God. a movie Gone in 60 Seconds and Nicholas Cage. All right.

Good. Which is an amazing reason. It's an amazing reason to name your kid Memphis. Gone in 60 seconds. Well, that's how he got here. Well, some people were worried it might have been where he was conceived. That was not what it was. It was because of Gone in 60 Seconds.

Well, if you didn't see, Nicholas Cage's house had a sinkhole yesterday. Did you see that? No, I didn't see that. Look at it. It's really... Wow. He got a big sinkhole in his house, which you don't... The whole house just sunk in?

I don't think it was all of it, but I think it's part of it. If you look at it, there's a sinkhole. CSR strikes again. So kind of a KSR starts. Now, KSR bump. Remember who I said I had a crush on yesterday? Do you remember? Dan Hathaway.

Dakota Johnson. Well, and Ann Hathaway, but Dakota Johnson, we talked about the banks. Yeah. Named the host of Saturday Night Live for the second episode of the season. That's definitely the KSR bump right there. So I guess you're going back to New York then, huh? I'm going to see if I can get tickets. That would be a good thing. Just stand outside the studio.

Yeah. The first three hosts, first three, first four hosts announced, Jalen Brunson for the season premiere. That's kind of crazy to me, isn't it? Jalen Brunson? He's obviously super popular right now in the city of New York, but what can he do in front of a TV camera? I'll be interested to see how he is. He's only the fifth basketball player of all times. to do it. Do you all, can you name the other four? We did this on ESPN. I know you can't name the fourth, but can you get three of them? Charles Barkley. Charles Berkeley has hosted it. I heard your bit,

so I'm going to sit this one out. All right, Drew, or excuse me, Ryan, Shannon, can you guess? Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan, that's two. Hmm. Somebody else that's a big personality. Yeah. Shaq? See, I thought Shaq. He's never done it. That surprised me. I would have thought Shaq would have been one. Magic Johnson? No. Good guess. The third is LeBron James. LeBron. Almost said him. See, that would have

been a good get. But the one you'll never get, Bill Russell. Wow. No, wasn't going to guess him. No. Drew, is that not shocking that Bill Russell hosted it? Yeah, because he seems to her, did play before Saturday Night Live even existed. He did.

He was retired and they had him hosted. And they had him host. Isn't that odd? That just seems really odd to me to have Bill Russell. But there you go. That's the group. And then Shang Gillis, Dakota Johnson, and the girl from that movie.

What's the obsession? Has anybody said, have any of you seen that? Yes. It ruined me. I was just talking about it yesterday again. I saw it a month ago and I haven't been right since. What is the premise? Is it a girl that?

Yeah, he wants this girl to be obsessed with him. So he makes a wish and then she gets way too. And I've never a horror movie has never bothered me in my life. They don't bother me whatsoever. This one has lingered. So that one scared you? Yes. And she deserves to win every award that she can win.

Wow. Okay. So she's hosting Saturday Night Live. So she, you you think she's good. What's her name? Couldn't tell you. And I hope I never think of her again because she's terrifying. But she's going to host Saturday Night Live now.

It is a really good movie. It is good. Andy Navarit. Is that right? Maybe. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Well, wow. I didn't know Drew like that. so much. Who's next? Pete is up next. Pete, go ahead, Pete. Hey, guys. I'm not that worried about the secondary this week. I mean, they need to play well, but DeBoer has only lost one game when they

rush for 125 yards as a team at Alabama. And they've never lost, they've never lost when they've rushed for 150 yards of the team. So I think last week we gave them the flats and the short than medium middle to make sure they didn't throw over the top any and gave some momentum and stuff. But we've got to stop the run this week. That's the key to the game is how Mincy handles pressure and stopping the run. I love that you had the stats. I appreciate the call.

Can we stop the run, Ryan, against these guys? Well, like I mentioned this yesterday, I have a defensive friend who said we played it kind of safe against Youngstown State. We could play it safe against them. Didn't blitz at all. Didn't really put any pressure on the quarter. back. So we really don't know what Jay Bateman's defense is going to be all about. We'll see it this time. And I think the college is right. I think if they stop the run and force Russell to make some throws, maybe he'll make a mistake. Maybe he'll make a bad read. We can get a turnover.

What do you mean you have a defensive friend? What does that mean? He played defense in college football. At UK? Yeah. I have a guess. Yeah. Not too hard to figure it out. I mean, is it key? Yes. Why don't you just say that? Well, you know, we can just, I mean, you just said it. So why don't you just say it? But you didn't protect your sources. You didn't protect your sources. Drew kind of figured it out.

So I'll get credit to Drew. Well, your best friend played football on defense for UK. Yes. It's pretty easy to connect with us. Yeah, I mean, you talk about Dante like, like he's your wife. It's a romance. Yeah. It's definite bromance.

Okay. So a source named Dante said we'd be better. All right. That's good to know. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour two, KSR. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B.

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