2026-05-01- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome every one, Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, May the first I met Jones. It is Oaks Day in Kentucky, the start of Derby season weekend, also the first day of the second third of the year, and also Billy's birthday. Happy Birthday to Billy, Happy Birthday, Billy, I noticed Shannon didn't class Birthday. Shop phone line eighty five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four In this disition sponsored by the t J. Smith Loves It's called TJL. Make them pay Billy, how old are you thirty one, thirty one years old and getting married in August. Right, that's right.

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Speaker 5: I've got the reversible quarter zip on today. So it is a festive occasion.

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Speaker 4: That's your that's your Oaks geer.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I'm not going to the Oaks today, but this is just uh what I'm wearing.

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Speaker 4: All right now? You two, you and Mario are both going.

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Speaker 5: To the Derby Big Day tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: The rio's job is to get social media content. Your job, as I understand it, is to interview the jockey so that you can be around somebody your height.

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Speaker 5: Hold on now, like I'm not that short, I'm five ten, that's average build. But yes, I will be in the infield interviewing the drunkest people that you see and the jockeys.

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Speaker 4: In I think I ask you this a lot. How many years have you interviewed the jockeys?

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Speaker 5: This will be my third year doing it, and what.

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Speaker 4: Have you had? Have you gotten a rapport with them? Like Irad or Teaz? Does he she see you and go what up? Billy?

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Speaker 5: So the last two years I've interviewed the winner before the actual race. So Brian Hernandez Junior one on this interview one jockey all no, no, I interviewed about like five, but like I've gotten the.

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Speaker 4: Winner if he gets five. Yeah, yeah, I mean if you get all of the jockeys, you're going to have interviewed the winner.

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Speaker 5: But then you can replay that interview and say, this was the derby winning jockey. So Brian Hernandez Junior, my guy is out there, he said, we have a close rapport. And then and then Junior Alvarado won it on sovereignty last year and I interviewed him.

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Speaker 4: So, so who are you going to interview this year?

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Speaker 5: I have no clue. It's usually just whoever I make like awkward eye contact with.

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Speaker 4: And has anyone turned you down? Yes?

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Speaker 5: Who the non English speaking jockeys.

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Speaker 4: It's probably well, I mean that's understandable. They don't understand if they don't know. Do you think any of them, though, are faking the fact that they don't know English so they don't have to talk to you. I hope not. That would be uh.

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Speaker 3: Aprecio, it doesn't work, Yeah, like like who is it?

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Speaker 4: There's there were some baseball but they said Ellie was doing that his first year. Ellie kind of could speak English, but kind of couldn't and then like when he doesn't when to talk to somebody, he'd be like, yeah, I know inglas.

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Speaker 6: After a bad game, you don't want to sit there and talk about it. I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: Well, you could maybe bring a translator because you because I would assume there are multiple jockeys now that don't speak English, right there?

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Speaker 5: There are several there, there are several that will be making their Kentucky Derby debut.

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Speaker 4: Who give me who some of them?

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Speaker 5: I don't know it off the top.

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Speaker 4: Of you're not really prepared.

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Speaker 3: I'm prepared.

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Speaker 5: I'm prepared, But like, I don't think you have to know a bunch about horse racing to be able to give a good interview. I mean, can you ask the jockey how you feeling? Like that's a terrible question. Yeah, I mean that's like that, Yes, you're right, anybody could do that. But that's like saying anyone could do anything badly in order to do a good interview. Well, you know what, so I think you would probably go up and go. So like whatever, jock who's on renegade? What's the jockey on renegade? Because I know it's a favorite, go up and go, not not sure on that.

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Speaker 4: All right? So you're on the Derby Mount for Renegade today, the favorite. You drew the poll. That's obviously something that people say is a negative. How are you gonna make this a positive today? I like that.

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Speaker 5: I like that question.

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Speaker 4: Or you can look at him and go, how are you feeling?

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Speaker 5: How's the track running right now? It's a little muddy out there? Will that change your strategy in the right Well it was last year, Matt. I'm just saying trying to let you know how I get into the mind of the jockey from the w h AS interview. But these guys like they want to be interviewed right like this is. It's not like a coach giving coach.

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Speaker 4: So have you gotten to talk to Irad Ortiz? He's famously prickly. I have not. He is You got to talk to Shannon. He's he's avoiding that. He's avoiding the prickly one.

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Speaker 3: That's who's gonna be on Renegade.

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Speaker 4: So ira so perfect. You got to interview Iraan he's on Renegade. I don't know if he speaks English, but I know I'm sure he speaks it a little bit. And he is the favorite and He's known as the prickly guy. If you don't come away with an Irad interview, because you know if people some people think he cheats.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that, so Billy, if you were, if you were serious about this, you would learn their language.

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Speaker 4: That's right, I should learn basic Spanish.

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Speaker 5: I'm not here to bring up his cheating allegations though, So.

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Speaker 4: Donde la biblioteca and they go, what why are you asking me where the library is? But that's you know, you gotta you gotta have something. You better interview Irad Orte. I'll get I I'm going to be very disappointed because he is the you know some of the jockeys, he'll hit him with.

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Speaker 5: The whip that's out of bounds. But I'm not bringing that up.

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Speaker 4: Matt.

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Speaker 5: We're not talking about jockey.

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Speaker 4: I would say Mike Wallace would bring it up. Run don't you think.

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Speaker 6: Well, this is not sixty minutes, this is w h as at the track all day on Derby day.

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Speaker 4: Jockeys, if you if.

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Speaker 5: You interview Irad Ortiz, text me I will send the hopefully video. If Mario was able to get.

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Speaker 4: A car, you need to get him an Irad Ortiz. I think that would be exciting. All right, So today is is Oaks Day. That means a couple of things. First of all, U t Big Hair is going to be on. Shannon believes he's going to finally this year get a horse right.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't. He's never got no horse right in all these years on he.

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Speaker 4: Really has it. I think you know, he wins Ryan the National Handicap contest, but he never wins on this show. He's been making Derby picks and Oak picks and Braeders cup picks on this show, and I don't think he's ever gotten one.

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Speaker 3: I wait for his picks. Don't pick, not picking that guy.

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Speaker 4: I feel like this is going to be his year. So I'm bringing back the one more crack added. No, no, I've been bringing bull think. I think Kentucky Joe should call in. Well, Kentucky Joe was actually on hold nice perfect over Big Tucky. Joe's won a couple of times Big Here's one no times, so so we will have them on. I'm taking the view today like this is a pot this is like this is also giveaway day, so I have here's what I have to do. I have to give away three things I'm going to go from what I think is the small the smallest to the biggest. We have two tickets to give away to theo Vaughn at the Lexington Opera.

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Speaker 3: That's what I hear.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you almost caused a fight on the pre show this morning.

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Speaker 2: Why because those theo von tickets were supposed to be for the pre show and you came in and just took them from us.

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Speaker 4: I didn't take them, I asked, went Billy Forum Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Well I found out a minute before we go on the pre show.

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Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell your co hosts I was taking I was taking the pre show.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know he would base the entire show on a game to give away those tickets. I thought he might bring in three or four topics besides the entire shows based around those tickets.

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Speaker 4: But okay, you two are gonna have to go to CAW's all right. I can't. I can't inter. I can't be here to watch you two fight. That hurts me. So so we're gonna do. And I've got a four pack of good seats for SmackDown Friday night. You can bring your your family, or your friends, or your or your girlfriends whatever. Uh for SmackDown here in Lexington a four pack ata they call it a family four pack. Okay, that is Friday, May twenty second, Right, and then finally the big prize. This is a big prize. We haven't given away a lot of prizes of this size away in a while. I'm giving away a team to the KSR Golf Screw. Oh my, wow, wow, a team. This is a big prize.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it is. Usually it's hard to get in the KSR Gospel.

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Speaker 4: Well, this year I asked them to save me too. We'll give one more away in a few while.

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Speaker 6: And Witch Scrambles is four the one in Lexington. Okay, you club, right, you club.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to give away a team to the KSR Golf Screw. Big. So the question is going to be how are we going to give these way? And uh, I don't really have an answer for that question, but I'm gonna figure it out as we go.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, Well, you know Shannon's contest went so well this morning was.

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Speaker 4: Yes that people kept sending me horse names no prize. Yeah, so you did the contest with no prize.

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Speaker 3: Well we thought we had you know, we didn't have anything.

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Speaker 4: To get you did a great a contest with no prize.

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Speaker 3: If somebody didn't take them from us.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've got them and I have no contest.

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Speaker 3: I've hoarded all the tickets and have no way to give them away. Great Joe, Well.

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Speaker 7: You know what.

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Speaker 4: A loud me. That's the way it goes. Now. I have a lot of small topics here. The goal today is to sort of be to be like uplifting, not so much like we're going to have to act like whatever's happening with with basketball or whatever is great, but just we're going to try to stay on uplifting topics because it's Friday, and it's Oaks Day and it's Billy's birthday, and I want to do that. But before we do that, I do have to talk about one story that is sad but also fascinating, which was you know there was a bank robbery yesterday? Oh yes, in Beria there was a bank robbery, two people killed, which is like, when I think of bab I didn't know people still did bank robberies. I like, when's last time you've heard of of a bank robbery? Like maybe one a year in Lexington around here, some guy walking, but never one a year in Lexington, but that always.

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Speaker 6: Catched a guy like within minutes, and it's no big.

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Speaker 4: Not think there's one a year in Lexington close to it. I feel like that would make the whole banking game in Lexington much more. Yeah, there's several that they Jenny, do you remember one a year in Lexington?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 2: But now I'm curious to find out how many on average there are in Lexington or just in general.

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Speaker 4: Why are we focusing on this? One wasn't even in the Lexington This one was in Beria, tight knit community. It sounds very sad. Two employees, Yes, but then the guy got away for a little while. So I was about to try to get on the Interstate last night at like nine ten, and they had blocked it. You couldn't get on, and they said it's not safe to go on the Interstate right now, and I was like why because there were still cars going by, and they were like, there's about to be a high speed chase. And literally, while I was sitting there trying to turn on the interstate, fifteen police cars going one hundred and twenty miles an hour were just one after another flying down the intersteck. Wow. And then I assumed they were chasing somebody, although I didn't see that car, and then I heard like a few minutes later that somewhere they had like cornered the person, and I guess they've been arrested. Is that correct? I think it's like it was like, so, I'm assuming this was the same thing because I know they went on a chase, but maybe it wasn't. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: But somebody saw on social media it was an incident on off Brian Station Road that was related to that bankrupt I don't know if that was.

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Speaker 4: So that Maybe that wasn't what the high speed chase was.

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Speaker 6: Well maybe you got off the interstate and.

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Speaker 4: Went to Brian's Station R. Yeah, well, you know, sad situation, very sad. But I didn't. I just had no idea that that was still a thing people tried to do. How do people think they're going to get away with that? Do shinning people get away with it?

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Speaker 3: I think sometimes?

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Speaker 4: But today you mean people get away with bank robberies in twenty twenty six, I mean, I know, like while Bill Hickock would do it, yeah, but in twenty twenty six, do people get away with it?

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Speaker 3: I think some people probably have.

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Speaker 4: There were it looks like I mean, according to Ryan, there's one every week somewhere in Lexington. Okay.

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Speaker 2: According to some quick research there were two last year in Lexing.

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Speaker 6: Yes, but they're usually not real successful because they've got the camera catches the guy and somebody will call in and say, I know who that guy is, and well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's twenty twenty six. There's cameras everywhere. I mean, it's fascinating thing. Get away with it.

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Speaker 6: Anything the exploding die pack and the money they give them, you know, and they guy it.

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Speaker 4: Says they still so they do the exploding dipath. Yes, yeah, so why do people think they can do it? Desperate?

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Speaker 5: Not in the right frame of mind if you're going to do something like that.

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Speaker 4: Well, sad story, So prayer to everybody in Bria. They have caught the person.

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Speaker 6: They said it was earn an arrest, but had they come out and said it was the definite the bank robber.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who. I don't know. They didn't tell me, I will say, Shannon. I went to the Herald Leader today to read about it. They didn't even have a story on it. Well I had to go to I went to they had it, but like how do you not have a story? I mean, I understand. I don't blame the writers at the Herald Leader because they've been bought by this multinational corporation and they're just stripping it, so I don't blame it. But how is there not a story? Bria? Right down? Like? I don't understand how that didn't get in there? I mean maybe it's there now, but earlier this morning it wasn't, and I didn't understand that. But anyway, if I'm nine, uh two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five for uh. We've got a lot of stuff to get to work, to give away this stuff Oaks picks and Billy's birthday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I forgot to get you a press. I didn't expect one.

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Speaker 4: It's okay, I gotta I gotta dyke coke in the fridge and give you actually had it wrapped down. I'm gonna get Billy a present.

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Speaker 3: Give tickets exactly.

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Speaker 4: Would you like to take a family of four to smack? We'll take me. We'll be right back. Scales are welcome back. Take e sports radio. If I'm nine two oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five for so, I guess the the high speed chase was related to bank robbery. The guy crashed out next to Brian's Station road and then took off on foot. That's what it was, Okay. So, and you saw the police officers. I saw the car. They were flying, I mean, like and what And they were trying to keep other people from like going into the interstate. But there were people who are already on this interstate. Do I assume you know, I get I get it. I guess if they're officers go one hundred and twenty, they don't want people trying to merge onto the interstate. Yeah, but I couldn't believe how fast. And it was just one. It was one after another, just a ton of cars. And I guess he must have crashed not very far, really close. I was getting on on New Towns. I had to be really I'd like I really could have been. Yeah. So I guess thank you lady for not making me, letting me go on the road. Apparently there are two thousand bank robberies in America a year, but in twenty nineteen there were eighteen thousands, So that's a huge go down. It's like a huge decrease over the course of years.

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Speaker 5: I think you just have to imagine that technology is too good nowadays to do something like that. I'm surprised the numbers that high.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one person, right, Billy mentioning cameras everywhere reminds me of the absurdity of Nancy Guthrie still not being found. That's unbelievable to me, Shannon, that they never were able to find that one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they got that ring doorbell camera and really that's the only thing that they have is that video.

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Speaker 4: And the guy just looked like a goober. He just had a on his head.

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Speaker 3: And he.

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Speaker 2: Picked up flowers off the lands out of the landscaping to cover up the ring camera.

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Speaker 4: Like this guy, it's worked.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Still, we were talking about the oaks and you asked me so so Dave Portnoy from Barstow as a horse running Shannon. One of the all time great awkward Billy moments was at the Super Bowl when we ran into Dave Portnoy because he was so excited to meet Dave port and he goes, I'd really like to meet him, So I said, you know what, I'll introduce you to him.

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Speaker 5: Remember I have my sunglasses on for reasons at the party. It's like disorienting. I don't know where I'm at.

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Speaker 4: You could have taken them off.

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Speaker 5: No, committed to the bit. They were actually prescriptions, I think.

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Speaker 4: So we walked over there, Shannon, and I was like, all right, I'm gonna introducing him. But I said to Billy, like, you know, don't don't embarrass me, right because I'm bringing this crew. So I so he knows Drew. So I go, So I say hey, and Drew say says he. And then I'm like, and this is Mario, and you know Mario, Shannon, he can handle it. Yeah, he doesn't even know who Dave port No is like it was just funny. He has no didn't if it's a white guy. Mario didn't know. He doesn't, he doesn't know, He has no idea. And then and then I go and I show Billy and Billy is like, hello over miss for then you look at him and you say, I'm a big fan. What did you say? Keep up the good work?

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Speaker 3: What's the pizza?

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Speaker 4: D now? Listen not need not like I'm a big fan. You just said keep up the good work. That looked at you like what.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was definitely like a what did you just say to me? It was really the second line I went with. The first line was going to be to get out the digital business card, but I refrained from that. I did not go that. Right, good work, but I did go keep it.

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Speaker 4: Today, I'll tell him that you said to keep.

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Speaker 5: Please and tell him his horse isn't gonna win.

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Speaker 4: Eight nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven. Before we go the phones real quick, I do have to mention what I think is a big rhyme piece of college basketball. Okay, which is this deal Duke signed yesterday?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yes, you know, we we've talked a lot about how you know, anytime there are major transitions in sports, the first entities that really jump on it get dividends for a long time. For Kentucky Cow got one and done before everybody else, and we it paid dividends for a long time, absolutely right when the sport integrated bill, you know, UCLA really picked up on it very quickly, and it paid dividends for a long time. Right, you can go through you've listened to the show. You've heard me do that before. In this in il era, it's this is this is happening now, and the question is what schools are everybody has to do it, but what schools are going to do it in a unique way to pay dividends? And when I saw this deal yesterday, at first I see a deal that says Duke's going to play three games on Amazon, and I was like, well, that's interesting. I don't know how big a deal that is. How many people are going to turn on Amazon and watch it? Right, three good games? But who cares? But then I read the details, and when I read the details, I think it is a transformational deal that if other schools aren't right now meeting to try to figure out how they do it, they're a mistake. Amazon is not only going to show three Duke games next year and presumably years to come, but they are going to pay the Duke players Nile money to promote the games on the Amazon platform. Now, I want to quickly tell you why that's a big deal. This week I actually kind of took a crash course in inil from some people that work in it to just learn what's going on and long star very short. One of the things is this clearing house that decides whether or not an idea all deals will pass. One of the things they look at is your market. So if I pay Billy to do an AD in Lexington, what is an AD in Lexington worth? Right, So then you can see whether you're overpaying them and whether they'll strike it down. Well, this is what's brilliant about Duke. Amazon can pay them literally whatever, because the marketplaces the whole world, right. An AD on Amazon goes everywhere in the world. So I don't know what they've agreed to pay Duke, but there will really be no limitation what they can pay them because they don't have to say what an AD is worth in Durham, North Carolina. They get to say what an AD is worth in the entire world. Right. So Amazon has free reign to write Duke of check probably for whatever they want, and they can. Amazon can directly pay the Duke players. Think about that. That's brilliant. Then the game is going to be broadcast all around the world. College basketball is not broadcast around the world, But all of a sudden, if you're in any other country in the world and you want to watch a college basketball game, now you're gonna have an option, and it's Duke. So you could see how there could be a scenario where the like in a lot of the world college basketball is Duke. You know what I mean, It means Duke. It's brilliant and I think that schools like Kentucky you better find something like this. I'm not saying it has to be a game on a streaming platform, but they're head of basketball operations. This woman, her name is Rachel Baker, and that's the woman they hired from Nike. Correct. You got to say that's one of the best hires. And by the way, we have no one in a position like this, we don't even have it that we have the right person. We have no one in a position like this. You got to give them credit because they now have one of the largest corporations in the world directly paying their players.

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Speaker 6: Unbelieve I hate to applaud Duke, but this is unbelievably an outstanding deal for them. Get out in front of it early. The gal that did, the lady that put this together is just a genius. Can't you can't, gal, I think you're the only one that doesn't like me saying refer to herself as a gal this morning.

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Speaker 4: Look, I can maybe I'm the only one. I saw both Shannon and Billy's face. Crea, you hate it. I just I just gal. But it is brilliant. This babe duke like no, just just woman, lady, brilliant.

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Speaker 5: Kentucky is a global brand. They need to get into partnership.

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Speaker 4: This is a different game changer. So I do think a game changer. We'll take the calls. Be right back kids.

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Speaker 4: He'll make them.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back, Turkey Sports Radio. Did you say there's a horse called Sister Jean right there today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in the first race. Uh yeah, twelve to one.

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Speaker 4: I wonder if she'll tweet about it.

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Speaker 3: She might from heaven.

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Speaker 4: She should tweet about it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how the is up there, but we'll see.

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Speaker 4: What were you saying you you were making everybody you liked my landscaping with.

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Speaker 6: Your house yesterday? Walk up the driveway. The landscaping is all mulched, and all the weeds are pulled, and then I know it's the little fountain is going. It's operational. Yeah, walk in your house and the pool. You got four waterfalls in your pool?

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Speaker 4: Waterfall?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, waterfalls in waterfalls, mountains and waterfalls.

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Speaker 5: What are we doing here, Matt?

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Speaker 4: I mean, what's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with it. I will point out them like that, my nice one single piece of furniture. But the house looks awesome. Just sit and look at the waterfalls. But you know you shouldn't go chasing those villages. Don't worry about that. If I'm nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven, one person rites Matt, how can Duke do that? With their deal with ESPN because it was a good loophole. So people, I don't think understand. Kentucky owes ESPN the rights to the games that are at home, So any game in Lexington has to be on ESPN, the SEC network, et cetera. But when they play on the road or on a neutral side, those games can be on any network. Now, Kentucky promises ESPN so many games of content a year, so so many home games. Right, So what Duke did is Duke. So Kentucky and Duke both have the ability to play two games that are not ESPN games. Duke wanted to play three, so they went to ESPN and East Penn said, if you'll play in one of our ESPN owned tournaments in other years, we'll let you do it. But that's why Kentucky. So for instance, this year, our non ESPN games are the CBS Classic, right, and then when we play at Indiana. See, that was one of the things about the Indiana series. I don't like the Indiana series, not because I don't care, it's just like it's we get to play two games a year that are not on ESPN. Presumably you could sell them to other networks, but the Indiana game, we're giving that to them right, right, So we're playing a true road game and it'll be on like Fox because we have to play under the Indiana schedule, their deal, because it's their deal, because it's on their floor.

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Speaker 5: So we're looking back, bringing back a historic rivalry that may not matter anymore. Instead, we should should have been looking, for my.

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Speaker 4: Opinion, we should have been looking forward now. Jack Pilgrim reported that we were in talks with Netflix in twenty twenty two to do something like this and that UK vetoed it, saying they wanted to play more home games. Well, in hindsight, that's a huge mistake. If that's true. If Jack's right, now I don't. I mean, if he says that, I'm sure he is right, that's a mistake. So should they go back and try to negotiate you I I hope so. I mean, like, you know, time's wasting, But.

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Speaker 5: Especially when the home games are the BBN Invitation.

00:26:20
Speaker 4: Well that's what I'm saying. If you use those home games to play somebody, great, I'll get it. But if we're using them to play, you know, the BBN Invitational, which is probably what we're doing honestly, is we're using him play the BBN Invitational, then I don't like that at all. I think that's a mistake. So it's just it's an interesting you know, this was I think a very very smart thing to do. But for me, even more than the games, it's just a signal of thinking about things in a different way right now. I had a lot of people write me and say, see, this is why college basketball's falling apart. If you want to hate college basketball as it is, that's fine. I mean, it's up to you. You can like what you want to like, but it ain't changing, right, and so you just need to decide if you like maybe the sport's not for you anymore. And if it's not, that's fine. It's for me. And my point is I want us to be good. So if this is gonna be how it is, go win. Will Stein has the best thing. Will Stein says, I have opinions on what the rules should be, but I'm going to win under the rules that they have.

00:27:23
Speaker 6: That's right, right, So be proactive and get out in front of some of this like Duke.

00:27:27
Speaker 5: Just did, and be enthusiastic about it. I think that comes through you.

00:27:30
Speaker 4: And see the other reason we had to make the change from Mitch is Mitch's was in an era of who don't like this? Ere both slow down? And I'm arguing speed up because.

00:27:43
Speaker 6: Though I would say the Duke, the majority of the Duke fan base would be jumping up and down ecstatic about it.

00:27:47
Speaker 4: Beg for forgiveness, don't ask for permission. Mitch isn't asked for permission.

00:27:52
Speaker 5: You've got me in trouble with that. What do I mean that line?

00:27:56
Speaker 3: I knew we should, but you don't see there.

00:28:00
Speaker 4: You are not Duke. Okay, Billy Duke should be begging for forgiveness, asking permission. You're lehigh. You have to be careful.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got in that helicopter and threw pigs from the sky. I heard didn't really like that. That was a ask for a forgiveness, not permission.

00:28:18
Speaker 8: Did you.

00:28:18
Speaker 4: But you didn't have permission to throw pigs from the sky.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: No I didn't.

00:28:21
Speaker 5: I just did it anyway.

00:28:22
Speaker 4: Now, but you don't have that leverage.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: Just throw bacon on people's heads.

00:28:25
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Morris. Go ahead, Morris.

00:28:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got to offer for KSRS. So this year, I think we're gonna have a good team, maybe a great team, but we can need your help to put them over the top. You know, I know there's a journalistic integrity, but I feel like I've been listening to the show for a long time. I feel like there's guys who get their hands dirty if it'll mean helping to put the team.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: Over the top. So here's the offer.

00:28:49
Speaker 7: Last year's Kentucky team I think was really impacted by the twenty two million dollars narrative. It affected the fans' perception, made our guys super tight in games. We lost games that we probably shoul didn't have because of how tight they were. So I need someone at ks are to write three articles this year. First one that says that Duke in Florida and Louisville all have thirty million dollars pay rolls. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. People will let you.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: You know that, Like, what's your point? What do you get a like? I mean, we're not going to write things that aren't true. So what's the next one?

00:29:19
Speaker 8: No?

00:29:20
Speaker 7: No, I get that. I get that. But if we could just put some of that same pressure, that twenty two million dollar pressure, we.

00:29:25
Speaker 4: Didn't lose because of twenty two million dollar pressure. We lost because we weren't Our roster was not constructed correctly. I mean that. And if you came my argument about the twenty two million dollars, if you k if that narrative was wrong, why didn't they say it was wrong? They never said it was wrong. And by the way, I don't know if it was right or not, but all year long, U K if that not narrative was wrong, they could have said it, and not one time did somebody get up and say they didn't. So I think UK wanted people to think they spent twenty two million dollars, don't you we're in Kentucky. I think they wanted to say, look, we're the big doll ry and it backfired on them. But that's not Kasar's fault. That's UK basketball.

00:30:05
Speaker 7: So do you think the thirty million dollar tag would put pressure because it has.

00:30:10
Speaker 4: To be true Florida, it has to be true. If it is true, then yeah, it probably would. But just saying something because because Florida would probably come out and say it's not true. And I, by the way, I don't think it is true. I don't think they spent thirty million dollars. I think and I appreciate the call. I think they have a culture where they're probably spending a lot of money. But a lot of those guys want to be there. I mean, let's be real, if we got to be honest with ourselves, Denzel Aberdeen left here because he wanted to go back there. Yep, that's just true. He went back. All these guys had other options, they all went back. They clearly liked being there. That's the culture we need to put here. You know, it is the case that a lot of these guys go and chase a bag, but clearly some guys, some teams have a way of getting guys to stay. Yes, that needs to be us. You know, Aberdeen left and went back and his girlfriend is still here. She is well. I mean that says something, doesn't it. Yeah.

00:31:11
Speaker 5: And look, if you're trying to avoid pressure, Kentucky, he's just not the place for you.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: This is no and I agree with that too. If you're trying to avoid pressure this, you can't come here. I mean I wish you could, but you can't. Timothy, go ahead, Timothy, Hey, Matt.

00:31:24
Speaker 9: A couple of things. Why in the world is DA Derek Anderson Dall on the coaching staff? What do we gotta do to get him involved? And you know Pope has talked about his ninety six text group, you know, and that they're hard on him. That's in private. However, how do you think it's sat with Pope and the staff DA's interview?

00:31:46
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I don't know if I don't know Mark well enough to know, like would that had bothered him or not? I bet he was okay with it, but I don't know him, so I don't know. As far as having Derek on the staff, I appreciate the call. I'd be fine with it, but I also you know, there's probably a lot of people that want that job. I mean, I'd be fine with it, but I'm also I mean, we have to be very careful that we don't get into this mindset that we want them because they went here. That's that's caused those problems. Get the best guy, Get the best guy if that's Derek Giddy, but if it's not, you know, well, who should be our GM John Wall? Who should be our assistant coach? Rondo? Who should be our next assistant coach? Derek? We can get beyond the guys that went here, right right? I mean, the woman that's running that basketball operations came from Nike. She came from Nike. No playing duke, she had no duke connection.

00:32:48
Speaker 5: Well, they heard the head coach based off that logic.

00:32:50
Speaker 4: And it may be worked and good, but normally it doesn't. In Shire's case, it may have worked, but I can give you a lot of example where it didn't.

00:33:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I hope Kentucky's not that next example.

00:33:03
Speaker 4: I hope so too. I mean that we'll see bluegrass, go ahead.

00:33:06
Speaker 8: Bluegrass, Hey, what's going on?

00:33:09
Speaker 4: Fellas?

00:33:10
Speaker 8: I think was gonna be about identity. My take was gonna be about our identity today. And then I sort of realized I've been missing something from you guys, like you guys have got an identity. Like I know, Matt, I know I might not agree with half the stuff, but I know you're spitting facts and your knowledgeable cat And I love Ryan how he brings in his humor with the no nonsense, you know, strong opinion. We've got Dann comes up, yes, yes, no nonsense. But Shannon is just a strong opinion. Shannon is a strong opinion. I guess we could say no, well, we won't say that. But you know where I'm going miss with this. You know who's missing? Who's missing? While I'm getting that Mario Mario, I love this cat man. You know, he keeps us cool and hip and he gets you all with the no hell and Billy, you know he's coming off the bench. She's a sixth man. You know he's not gonna take the leaves.

00:34:10
Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, he's exactly he keeps yes.

00:34:13
Speaker 8: But this is where I'm getting at. We're missing Drew. And I've never seen like a sports talk show, and I've been listening to a lot of people for a lot of years that it actually does take every one of you guys and that's what makes.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: But it's very kind. No, I mean, we do miss Drew, but but he's had a baby. What do you want me to do?

00:34:35
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, I think no, it's great. But I'm just saying it takes every one of you all to make your alls magic and it really does, like it really does. Well, let me get you the identity real quick. Uh you know, I haven't called in a while, but let's.

00:34:52
Speaker 4: I gave you a minute to say the show wasn't good without Drew, So got quickly.

00:35:00
Speaker 8: Do we have an identity? That's what I'm worried about, Like, I mean, do we know we're going Creators now?

00:35:07
Speaker 4: I don't know because I've not seen Creators now. Yeah, I've not seen guys play, so I don't know.

00:35:14
Speaker 8: All right, I'll get off her Phillis, But yeah, it takes all of you all to make your magic.

00:35:20
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

00:35:22
Speaker 5: Appreciate it's a missing piece of this show. It's just not the same.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: You know, the show just isn't the same. Uh, Drew will be back hopefully in not next week, but the week after that. I told Debbie Green, I told you about Debbie Green was bringing in the Green a while back. She buys ads on the show for a lot of businesses. And I told you about the various businesses that she has worked with that have seen the impact skyrocket from being on the show. Well, she's in Lexington. It's called Bringing in the Green. If you want to use a business to see where to advertise in the city, not just on KSR, but other places as well, and actually used your marketing for your dollars correctly, go to Bringing in the Green dot Com slash KSR. She'll give you a free one hour marketing consolation if you're with KSR Bringing in the Green dot Com slash KSR. If I had a business and I wanted to figure out where to spend my money, this is who I would use. And that's not even just for the ad, it's also just true in life. Bringing in the Green dot Com slash KSR. We'll take a break and be right back here on Hoax Day. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Take you Sports Radio a f I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. The Shannon. The picture Shannon I put up on Twitter of Trent Noah with that is the mayor of Pineville.

00:36:43
Speaker 3: Are you sure that's not Ryan Lemon.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: I mean it is Ryan. It's Ryan if he were like a nineteen eighties televangelist.

00:36:53
Speaker 5: I mean it does look like you.

00:36:55
Speaker 4: I mean like that, Like, okays, First, what's crazy is I know this man, Scott Natan, he's the mayor of Pinevale and I've known him like my whole life. Have you ever once thought that we looking like I've never thought that he has more hair than you.

00:37:12
Speaker 2: But he's like, take put your hand and cover up the hair from like the forehead down.

00:37:16
Speaker 4: It looks exactly It looks exactly like you, Like you know, we always talk about doppel gangers, but that's as much of one as I've ever seen. So I sent it to my mom, who knows Scott Maiden really well, and she was like, I've known him forever. I never thought he looked like Ryan. But in that picture picture we're twins. We're twins. And if they're at chain Rock, what are the chances to be a chain Rock trit Noah had to get his driver's license renewed at Chain Rock.

00:37:43
Speaker 5: I regret not going to see that rock when we were out there in Pineville.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: Well, Ryan was there in a red past yesterday for people who haven't seen it. You got to go on social media. If you're on Facebook, go to Scott Maiden's profile and he's that's Ryan.

00:37:56
Speaker 6: That looks just like I admit myself, it looks like me. If you from a distance, he hold it up right there.

00:38:02
Speaker 9: Yea.

00:38:02
Speaker 3: If he ever robbed a bank, they go out here, you're in trouble.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right. So I listened to this podcast, or have started listening to it a lot because I've gotten way too into hockey spitting chick lits. And they had a question on there the other day that was what movie If you could pick one movie in history that you'd like to be on the set while they made it? Oh wow, what would you want to do? Great question you can answer on the text machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four what move? You can pick any movie in history and you get to be there while they're making it. What are you gonna do? I think you can go first? You want me to go?

00:38:41
Speaker 5: I think you mentioned it the other day. I would go pulp fiction. Pulp fiction, the Wolf, Samuel Jackson, like the actor, Yeah, the actors, Tarantino directing in his prime. I think that'd be a great one to be on.

00:38:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of before he blew up too. I mean not that that movie kind of was what made his career before. All right, so fiction, what about you see?

00:39:01
Speaker 6: I'd probably pick a baseball movie and go to all these great old baseball ballparks.

00:39:05
Speaker 4: What what baseball movie? Like Jackie Robinson movie? You'd want to go to the Jackie Robinson movie?

00:39:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, because they shoot him in these different ballparks.

00:39:14
Speaker 4: These old ballparks are just gonna go into the ballpark. Yeah, I mean you do that now.

00:39:19
Speaker 6: But not these like you know, as a situation where there's a game going on.

00:39:25
Speaker 4: It's not a real game, I know, but it is.

00:39:28
Speaker 6: I think I would definitely pick a ballpark movie.

00:39:30
Speaker 4: That's a horrible answer. What about you, Shandon.

00:39:32
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of like something that would be more interesting than the answer that initially came up with. My favorite movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

00:39:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wouldn't be a great I.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: Would like to be there, but I don't think it would be like the most because.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: I thought these were good answers. Yeah, Animal House because apparently it was just like a two months part.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: That would be fun.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: I'd be perfect Pie, I think would be fun.

00:39:53
Speaker 4: Well, but in a manimal house, they really party during the whole Yeah, like they were all it was like, you know, all these people from like Saturday Night like and Caddy Shacks apparently like that too.

00:40:02
Speaker 6: I saw a documentary making a Caddy Shack and the Animal House were apparently like NonStop wild.

00:40:08
Speaker 4: Then one guy said he'd like to see war movies film, but especially back before they were done with CGI, so like Saving Private Ryan or these movies were there. I think he said Brave Heart, where you'd have to see these elaborate scenes getting I think it would be cool. This is my answer. Nobody said this apocalypse. Now have you ever read about what that was like? No, they were all like in the Jungles and they kind of went crazy and Marlon Brando was acting insane and they had to like they really were bombing parts of these places to actually try to create it, and apparently just the making of it was just utter chaos, which I think would be fascinating.

00:40:51
Speaker 2: I think any horror movie would be hilarious to be to watch because of all the behind the scenes stuff.

00:40:57
Speaker 4: Because what it would take to do.

00:40:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine on the scene of like Chucky and they've got to take this doll.

00:41:02
Speaker 4: And then you have to act like Yeah, I like that. That's a that's a good one. I mean, Godfather would be cool, like to have gone to when all those dudes were acting in their prime into wild back in time and do that.

00:41:18
Speaker 5: You mentioned party movies. I thought of old school, I mean will around the school.

00:41:22
Speaker 4: Would have been fun at that time. So yeah, it's a good question. I'm sure people will have the answer. You can go on it real quick. Let's go to Howard. Go ahead, Howard, Howard. All right, let's go to quickly TJ. TJ. Forty seconds.

00:41:44
Speaker 10: Come man, Sorry, I was just calling to see you about the SmackDown tickets. I've been in and out of patience, so I didn't know if you were doing a contest or what I've missed it.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: Where do you live?

00:41:59
Speaker 10: Sorry?

00:42:00
Speaker 4: Where do you live?

00:42:01
Speaker 10: In London?

00:42:02
Speaker 4: I'm a home and we do not even hang on? What do you do? What do you do? TJ? What do you do? You said you had patience? What do you do?

00:42:08
Speaker 10: I'm a nurse. I'm a homehelder, all right.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: Because you're a nurse and you're in the thirteenth region and you seem sweet, we will give you the SmackDown. Wow. Wow mean I'm in a good move. Yeah. Now, I'm not doing it for anybody. No one else called for the tickets till I have next call for TJ because she works in London. Then I'm gonna go ahead and do it.