2025-09-10- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: From Hit Comedy Specials and social Media Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Kelsey Cook September eleventh through the thirteenth, The Cats Rising Comedy Star and UK grad jowe yin summers September nineteenth and twentieth, and from TV and the Movies. Don't miss Kevin Farley September twenty fifth through the twenty seventh. Four Tickets to all comedy Off Broadway shows call E five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com.

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Speaker 2: Comedy Off Bay.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, September the tenth. I'm Matt Jones. I am in New York City right next to the ESPN studios in Seaport.

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Speaker 6: Where Ryan lemon Are and Drew Frankliner and Lexington.

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Speaker 5: You give Seana Clark's puppet shop phone line A from Non 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 the editions by the t J Smith. Lovas you called TJ, He'll make them pay. It is wings day at chos Bar and grill Dollar Wings all day and night. If you eat in you you can't get them delivered to you. But starting next week, Shannon, you'll be able to get Ryan lemon delivered to your house.

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Speaker 6: Oh wow, right, more about that. We're gonna talk more about this tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: This is a whole game plan that is certain to be a disaster, but it is something that we're we're gonna try next week. But for today, Uh, dollar Wings all day and night. Ryan is here, Drew, Shannon, guys. Uh took a flight here yesterday. We are two days away from South Africa. My car, my Safari pants came in.

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Speaker 2: They did, okay, all.

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Speaker 6: Ready to go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got my Safari pants, two pairs of Safari pants and now ready for whatever's next.

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Speaker 7: So you got your Safari pants, and now you gotta find you some boots up in New York somewhere.

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Speaker 6: Before you find boots, you know, most people come to New York City.

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Speaker 5: Drew for their boots when they want to go boot shopping, They're like, what's better than New New York City? But I actually have a place that's been recommended to me in New York that specializes in safari shoes? Is it that only in New York City could you get that specialization?

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Speaker 8: Wre you giving you a walk a little Madison ab maybe a little fifth.

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Speaker 5: Go And I don't think it's there, it's in I don't know. I guess it's in the safari part of town. I haven't looked up where it is yet, but it's time Square. I found a hat where I put the hat on my little safari hat and somebody said that aged you fifteen years just putting that hat on your head.

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Speaker 6: But that's good, though, because that's what you're supposed to do.

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Speaker 5: You know, you got I gotta go out on the open plains, go see the uh the lion.

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Speaker 6: There's no tiger.

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Speaker 5: It's lion, rhino, hippo, giraffe, giraffe and buffalo. And then also they have an elephant. But that's not I think part of the Big five. So Shannon, those are the group.

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Speaker 3: Well you'll think it's part of the Big five if you look over and there's an elephant standing right next to you about to squash you.

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Speaker 5: I think they only have though I was reading I read that book The Elephant Whisper, and I think there's only elephants like in certain places because because you know, if the elephants get away, Shannon, that can be bad.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, feel like you can do about it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think they only have those in a few places.

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Speaker 4: Well that's that's good. And you know you're in New York City.

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Speaker 3: If you can't find it there, then you're not gonna find it anywhere.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Ryan Lemon.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so I just sprung this upon you four minutes ago, so I'm sure you've had a lot of time to think about it or have you even looked at your phone yet?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were curious.

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Speaker 6: Well go ahead, what do you mean you were curious?

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Speaker 7: But we didn't know if you want us to do football only or most sports basketball?

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Speaker 6: I'll explain.

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Speaker 5: So, so, uh, you know, we don't have a monopoly on good ideas. Other people have good ideas too, and we need to recognize what other people have good ideas. So the folks there at bb in tonight, which includes former KSR Superstar employee Maggie Davis, they've been doing this thing where they were ranking the top all the people that work on the show their top five you moments since twenty twenty.

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Speaker 6: But basically, Shannon, it's their top twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Moments since COVID, right, because COVID obviously was a huge disruption in.

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Speaker 6: All of sports and we are now five years from it.

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Speaker 5: And actually it was starting about this time in twenty twenty that people tried to get some normalcy in their lives. So what are the top five moments in UK sports since twenty twenty? So I thought what I would do is I'd give you my top five and then I didn't give Shannon the homework because he was on the air. So Ryan Drew, you can give your top five, right, and we'll see to see what we've missed. All right, So here I thought this was a great idea.

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Speaker 6: They did.

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Speaker 5: So here's my top five. I'm gonna give two honorable mentions. Okay, these are not in my top five, and honorable mentions. Number one, when the UK women's team won the SEC tournament that one year, right, they when they came out of that you remember what I'm talking about, when they hit the shot at the buzzer. We weren't even good and we went on a run with Ryan Howard won the SEC tournament. I remember watching those games getting excited. It was really the kyra Elz really her only highlight during her time, but I enjoyed that. And then the other one is the UK women's volleyball team Ryan winning the national championship, right, I mean that was one of the first full bar moments we had after COVID. The celebration was wild and Kentucky gets a banner in volleyball. Those are my two honorable mentioned moments And part of the reason I bring the second one up is Craig Skinner, the UK volleyball coach, will be on here at ten thirty.

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Speaker 7: Well, he's as hot as anybody right now as far as bullying the volleyball world, So you got to be good interview with him.

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Speaker 6: Do you agree with those spots, Drew? I do.

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Speaker 8: I like you, including the women's game I'll give you Drayna Edwards and her famous postgame interview where she was screaming on the SEC network after HiT's a big three to win.

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Speaker 6: That's right, all right? So now let's go through my top five.

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Speaker 5: Number five, I'm going to say our series of Tennessee road wins in basketball the last three years, three years in a row, we went into Tennessee with seasons where we thought, well, there's no way we're winning this year, and then we went and won. Three years ago, it was when they first put in Antonio Reeves and those guys into the game and CJ. Frederick in a game that nobody thought we were gonna win, and we went on the road and won. And then two years ago, same thing. Reed Shepherd and Antonio Reeves play well down there and we win. And then this year, a ragtag Kentucky team at the time, with multiple guys out and Trent and Noah coming off the bench, goes and gets a victory that literally no one thought. I was actually in New York watching it at Madison Square Garden when it happened. Those are my number five's I'm gonna collectively say the last three years of Tennessee road wins. Number four for me is gonna be football twenty twenty three against u of L, a season that seemed over. I think there's a decent chance Mark Stoops was leaving if we lost this game, and again with no one thinking we would go on the road beat Louisville. Turn a season into a season where you go to a bowl game and actually get a little momentum on the program. It didn't end up lasting, but nevertheless, it was an exciting one for me. Number Three Florida Football. We've had a couple of good wins at home against Florida Football, but the one that's for me is when Wallace getting to get the kick block run it back. I think that's in twenty twenty one, probably the loudest that stadium has been since COVID. The moment where he picks up the kick runs it back is literally top three or four Kroger Field explosion moment that I can remember. That's number three for me. Number two is last year Duke in Kentucky in the Champions Classic. Another game where I don't think many of us thought we're gonna win. Cooper Flag making his debut, Mark Pope era making their major debut and getting a win that I think made people will any people who were at all holding out on the Mark Pope higher, I think that game put it over the top. And that was a postgame show. I believe that ended at about two thirty in the morning, but with people being pretty excited. And then Number one for me, and it's not even close, is the Mark Pope press conference when he was hired. I was on a podcast last night with these guys up to No Good, and I said, I think that was the moment that BBN as an entity felt like it did when I was a kid. For the first time in a long time, twenty three thousand people spontaneously gather like at a tent revival in rupp Ana and have this moment of collective just a collective excitement that I think will be hard to ever recreate, and like all the great moments, you couldn't plan it. It just kind of happened. And for me, that's number one. So those are my top five. Ryan Drew, what about you?

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Speaker 2: Here me go if you're ready far away.

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Speaker 7: I also had an honorable mention and it is the Duke Duke Kentucky game because that was put an honorable mention because I'm kind of selfish with my top five that I picked, so but I think that definitely needs deserves me in because they did kind of solidify the hire of Mark Pope and kind of set them on that pass. So that's my honorable mention. Number five. Dane Key starts his UK football career scoring a touchdown in his first four games. People forget that as a freshman his first four games. He had a touchdown each of the first four games. That's that's number five for me. I know it's kind of personal and it's selfish, but that's number five. Number four Kentucky winning at Florida in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: I was there with Josiah.

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Speaker 7: We flew down there, Dane scored a touchdown and to win at the swamp and shut them up and celebrate on their on their field for the first time and maybe my lifetime.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was that was elevens.

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Speaker 5: Well, we had beaten him a few years back with Terry Wilson and those guys, but you weren't there. But that was the Levis Richardson battle. Remember that was the who's better with these guys and we were able to win. Alright, what's next?

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Speaker 2: Number three?

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Speaker 7: I put the UK baseball team going to the College Baseball World Series for the first time in school history. I mean, to me, being a baseball guy, that was pretty special and that.

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Speaker 6: Would have been higher for me.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't here, So for me, that's a hard one to put down, but it probably deserves to be in the top five.

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Speaker 6: I just wasn't here.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't remember and I didn't have time to look up who do we beat in the super Regional? I know we beat like Indiana West Virginia in the games in Lexington.

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Speaker 6: Who do we beat in the super that was in its state? Again? Okay, all right? So yes, what's number two?

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Speaker 2: Number two?

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Speaker 7: When we beat you mentioned this beating Florida at home, storming the field, that was kind of a signature moment. I think for Stupids' is maybe his biggest home win when he beat Florida at home. So that's number two for me because I was there with Jill Siah. We stormed the field with everybody pretty cool. And then number one I had the same thing you did as the Mark Pope rally when he got announced as head coach. I think that is, without a doubt, the best UK moment since COVID.

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Speaker 8: All right, Drew, I think mine is a lot of what you've said in just different orders, but I'll start at the top because we all swept with Mark Pope at number one. Was didn't even have to think about it. My brain immediately went to that Sunday write it down in SHARPI is my number one moment in the last five years. Then I went Baseball to Omaha. I didn't I didn't get to go to Omahall, but I was there for every moment of the run in Lexington.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 8: That was about as much fun as I've had an Kentucky fan in a long time. Wish I could have gone to Omahall, but it's still number two for me. Number three I don't think you all mentioned this one. I have the Citrus Bowl win over Iowa.

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Speaker 6: When we's to go, we.

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Speaker 8: Wind down, broke ankles on the final drive to set up Rodriguez to punch it in. That was the second ten win season for Stoops, something that that's possible, and that.

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Speaker 5: Would have been my next honorable mention because I do think that's a great one.

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Speaker 6: It was. I don't know if.

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Speaker 5: It'll be the last real bowl game like that that matters, but it did feel like it mattered a lot.

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Speaker 6: That's a good one and.

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Speaker 8: The way it played out that Iowa dB had been talking trash and Yandelle just shattered his ankles there at the goal line.

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Speaker 6: Four.

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Speaker 8: I have the Champions Classic Duke last year. It's only the second time Kentucky had beaten Duke since nineteen ninety eight, So that one was long overdue. They had our number for a long time, and then at number five. I don't think this was mentioned either. When Levis ran all over Louisville. In Louisville, Kentucky scored for fifty two points. I think he had four rushing touchdowns. The big hurdle, they just absolutely hurdle, demolished, destroyed them. That's one of the few times Mark Stoops actually ran up a score a little bit. Uh, maybe one of the highest scoring games Stoops has ever coached. And then I'll throw in an honorable mention for Ryan. He reminded me of that Florida game with the Dane touchdown. Personally, I was on my bachelor party and I got on top of the bar and we were losing our damn minds when Dane scored. So it was a fun night.

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Speaker 5: There you go. So that's your uh, that's our top five. If there's one that you forget, let me know, but shout out to BBN tonight. I like having those memories, and you know, one of the things, at least on the basketball side, there are no real huge postseason moments. I'm hoping when we do this at the end of the decade and we actually include the entire decade. We will be able to say, because if you did this from like two thousand and ten to twenty twenty, most of your basketball moments are gonna be in the postseason. Football moments would have still still probably been regular season, but basketball moments would have been in the postseason. Hopefully we'll be able to get some of those A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Craig Skinner is gonna join us at ten thirty. The UK volleyball team plays a third game against a top ten team tonight.

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Speaker 6: Again on national television.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk about how he ended up doing that that schedule, and there are football new news, there's basketball news, and there's other things for us to make fun of it.

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Speaker 6: We'll take a break and be right back. It's KISR. Welcome back and is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Was there a commercial in that segment chatting about someone stealing your house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't quite understand it, but I guess somebody could come in and just steal your house.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that was a thing.

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Speaker 3: Like I thought that, I mean, steal your house I guess they somehow get the topic or metaphor. I guess somehow they get no, like, actually take your house, they get your title. From what I understand, I could be wrong, they take the title of your house and then they have the documentation that says they own the house, and then you get the house.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Against that, really against that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So what how do you stop that from halving?

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Speaker 4: I guess I guess you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think that's at cornbread m dot com KSR.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, but so there was a commercial on how to stop it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think you got to call that eight hundred number and you can keep.

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Speaker 6: Your house and they'll stop it. I don't want to be Just for the record, I'm engaged. I don't.

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Speaker 5: I know people don't want me to to go into politics here, but I'm against people stealing each other's houses.

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Speaker 6: Let me go on record as being clear about that.

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Speaker 5: One person writes, Matt, you didn't it shows your bias against non basketball sports that you didn't even have the College World Series in your top five.

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Speaker 6: Be better. I always love when people say be better.

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Speaker 5: That's a very condescending thing to say, and I think that's why it makes me laugh. I wasn't here, so like I freely grant that I was. I try should be on the list. But I was in when they won the region super Regional. I was at the first couple of games. When they won the super Regional, I was in transit, and then I did see the game where they beat NC State in Greece, but then I didn't have access to the rest of the game, so I wasn't there. But Drew you had it at number two, so it was clearly a big deal.

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Speaker 8: Yes, and it was Oregon State in Lexington, n C State in Omaha, so.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I watched them beat NC State in their first College World Series. So it was Oregon State in the super Oregon State was the big that was in Lexington.

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Speaker 6: That was awesome, huge.

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Speaker 8: We got We got there like two and a half hours before the game, just to be ready.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Eight, I'm twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, you all have all these moments from Pope. You never give cal Perry his due. Well, I mean, but what do what? What is the Cali Perry game since since COVID? I mean, I mentioned those two road wins at Tennessee that those were both him.

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Speaker 8: I considered winning at Kansas. I almost had it instead of oh that's a good.

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Speaker 6: One, yeah, because they beat him by a lot. I almost put that one right.

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Speaker 5: So there's Oscar and Severe and what Keon Jos had a big game.

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Speaker 8: I think Jacob Toppin played Will Brooks had a huge game.

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Speaker 2: But we were trying to think of I was trying to think of a Caliperry game.

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Speaker 6: That's a good one though. That Kansas game is a good call.

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Speaker 7: And the only one other one I came up was when Reid had like forty eight down an old miss or something on the road.

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Speaker 2: It was like, you know, just some try think of.

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Speaker 7: What comes out Reves Reeves.

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Speaker 5: Had, but then Reeves have like forty five at Arkansas or something.

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Speaker 2: That in Arkansas. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there's also when they won at Auburn is a big underdog and Cal did the oh look at everybody's here to see me lose because they won that big game, and then I think they lost the next move.

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Speaker 7: I admit I do think that was a big win. I do kind of miss Cal when he does kind of stuff like that. Guy always made me laugh.

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Speaker 6: You like you missed the swaggy cat.

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Speaker 2: Swaggy cow. Yeah I missed that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, ef, I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. If you have one, throw it in there. Let's talk for just a second about Drew the UK practice facility. So Mitch, Mitch talked to the press yesterday while we were on the show, so I didn't see these quotes tool after the show about the UK Healthcare and the basketball arena. And for me, just from what I've heard, and this is just my opinion, I think the basketball practice facility with UK Healthcare seems like a win win for everybody. You know, UK Healthcare I think gonna end up taking most of the costs, not all, but most It'll be. It's gonna be a good advertisement for them. I mean, the idea I'm sure for them is, hey, you need some sort of medical procedure done on you when you tear your acl with Shannon playing pickleball. Come to the UK Healthcare facility. And oh, by the way, you're gonna be next door to the practice facility, right, I mean, I think that's what people are gonna don't you think that's the business idea of it.

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Speaker 6: And I would think people would do that. I totally understand that.

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Speaker 5: Mitch also then said it's part of a greater plan for that whole entertainment district. Now I'm on record as being a little skeptical that's gonna work. I Mean, he says he wants to create an area like the area in Milwaukee around the arena where Drew and I and Ryan you were there too for the basketball tournament, right yep, and then around Indianapolis for their basketball arena. He wants to do that basically on campus between Memorial Coliseum and Kroger Field. And there's a lot of things in the way to me. I mean, one would be Drew that there's a lot of campus. Is there you just gonna get.

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Speaker 6: Rid of all that, you know? I mean, that's a lot of the campus.

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Speaker 5: The second thing is there's a difference between like a downtown area and I don't know whether to what extent on your college campus you want.

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Speaker 6: Citizens just walking up and down shop.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if you really do you really want to turn your college campus into a commercial district. I'm not sure that that's I don't know what do you think about that?

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Speaker 8: I'm with you. I'm having a hard time picturing it, and the examples you give those are major cities with you know, a lot around there where it's not just the games. I mean there's stuff going on all the time where people would go use those I don't see how that would work in the middle of the UK's campus. Are we just going to throw up a big Dave and busters there? Like I'm having a hard time picturing what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 5: The vision stuff is the I mean, are you just tearing down those school buildings? I mean, there's a lot of stuff if you're I mean, I think the thought process is from where the old baseball stadium is until up until Memorial some way you would have a commercial hotel, restaurant path. But A, I just don't know where you would put it there, and they didn't give any plans as to where you would put it. But B I don't know, Shannon, if you want everyone walking that campus at night?

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Speaker 6: Do you?

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Speaker 4: Probably not?

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Speaker 3: And I'm not as familiar with the setup as you guys are, but it doesn't seem like that would be an area that you would want a lot of people going through.

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Speaker 6: Now, he said, he was acknowledged.

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Speaker 5: He goes, it's a place for us to have a better basketball facility, and to raise revenue. I mean, it's clear that they are getting into the business of we are now an entertainment entity, and so we have to like get into a lot of other stuff outside of just the sports. And I'm sure he probably does have to do that. I mean, I think doing this downtown would make a lot of sense. I don't know if doing it right there will make sense, but I do think Ryan the part about the basketball facility will be good for everybody involved.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we we all know these cities that have done this in a downtown setting, close to an arena, bars, restaurants, hotels, all kind of together.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of with Drew.

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Speaker 7: I'm having a hard time kind of picturing this area they're talking about over there on campus.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what's going to.

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Speaker 7: Drive you out there on a non game day, you know, on game days, I'm gonna hear that you're.

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Speaker 8: Going right around the library dorms.

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Speaker 5: I think they're just gonna say, you know what, why do we even need this library anymore?

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Speaker 10: That is the David bus Sorry there, you just get rid of the library. Mad Busters, William T and Busters put it and build it now. And like Ryan said, football, what does this look like? On a Monday night in June, drive people.

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Speaker 2: Out there that that's part of town. There's nothing there.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's something you know that part the thing about the campus area is from from May till September it's empty, Like like that area is empty. You can walk down Euclid on a July night and like you could play football in the middle of the street, like nobody's there. And I just think that I don't know how that works. At the same time, though, you know that Mitch was almost hinting that if they don't do that, it's hard to get this facility. So, I mean, it kind of feels like it's one of those things that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 6: He says.

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Speaker 5: It's six months before they even announce a perspective plan. It sounds like they're going to create a plan, Shannon, to make a plan.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so we'll see what.

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Speaker 5: The plan is. It's a concept of a plan and we'll see if that ends up happening. Craig Skinner will join us and a lot of goofy stuff. In the second hour, KSR.

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Speaker 6: TJ.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back at his Kentucky Sports Radio UK volleyball coach and I guess take on the world. Who bring it on? If you're in the top five, top seven, Craig Skinner will say, come on, we'll play you. He joins us here on the radio. Craig, I didn't analyze your schedule before the season, but now every weekend I turned it on. You're gonna be on national TV. You're playing another top team. I'm sure that was on purpose. What was the reasoning?

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Speaker 11: A little insanity, But I'll I'm like I said a couple of weeks ago, I'll take fifty percent of the credit. We always want to schedule tough, and but when you get invited to neutral side events promoted by other people and it's a nationally televised event, you can't say no. And so you know, like this one was is the acc SEC Challenge and the Nebraska match was a Nashville Sports Council and so ended up and didn't realize that to some point out that we're playing all final four teams from last year.

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Speaker 9: So here we go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean you you beat Penn State, the defending national champ. You had Nebraska two sets to zero, and now you're gonna play Pitt. Let me ask you about let's just go those in order. Nebraska, you're up to zero. I mean, everybody knows Nebraska is the power historically in volleyball, especially in recent years. I mean, did you think you had a team that would come out that good against a crowd that was you know, mostly Nebraska fans and packed like I mean, that had to make you happy about your team, and then why wasn't Why don't you think you were able to finish it off at the end?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, great question. I mean I didn't know.

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Speaker 11: You never really know you're playing against yourself in preseason and we played one match.

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Speaker 9: Nebraska had played three up to that point. You know, never really knew.

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Speaker 11: I knew we had two outside hitters, and Eva Hudson and Brooklyn Brooklyn delay that you're always gonna have a chance in matches if you have two people in that position that can termine it like they do.

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Speaker 9: So I think we came out hot.

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Speaker 11: I think we put them on their heels and and then you know, they started to figure out what our system was and and got the right people in the right places, and and we didn't adjust quick enough at the end and had some chances in the fourth set. And you know, but I think it gave our team some confidence knowing that can compete with anybody.

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Speaker 9: But you know, tonight would be another test.

00:25:28
Speaker 11: And you know, we're just a friend of mine just text me earlier and said, we were on all bench this morning.

00:25:33
Speaker 9: We're trying to get one of those. We can get in the top five.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: So well, and you still have a Louisville Right, that's another I mean, your schedule's crazy because you're still gonna play Louisville. Then you're gonna have I guess Texas is in the top ten in the SEC, so you're gonna end in the I guess what, Florida's just outside of it. You could end up with six, what six games against teams in the top ten this year.

00:25:55
Speaker 11: We have Fit tonight, then we have SMU on Saturday at home at three o'clock and they just beat tech A and M who's top ten.

00:26:01
Speaker 9: Uh swept them. Uh. Then we have Houston, then we have Louisville.

00:26:05
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's it's pretty crazy, to be honest with you. You know, I the thing about I think this team as we have a bunch of alpha competitors and they do not want to have any part of losing. And so I think that, you know, we're gonna give ourselves a chance each match. It's just closing the deal when when you need to, and and so you know, I definitely want to go into battle with this group of people.

00:26:27
Speaker 6: Uh, Brooklyn, she's good. What's her like? Lay? Is that? Right?

00:26:32
Speaker 9: Delay?

00:26:33
Speaker 6: Delay?

00:26:33
Speaker 5: She's gonna be Ryan with you guys at Clark's Puppet Shop Friday.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I believe Brooklyn's coming in. Molly is it? Tuoso coach? They're both too of them going to be there.

00:26:41
Speaker 9: I think tuzzo tuzzo.

00:26:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to forgive us, I mean collectively our pronunciations. You listen to this show, you know, I mean we don't get we don't we don't get anybody's name, right, But both they I watched the third set maybe I was the Jinks the third set to the Nebraska, and you mentioned how hard well they were hitting too. You have some again I don't know these positions, but where you the Spiker.

00:27:08
Speaker 6: I'll just say that it.

00:27:09
Speaker 5: Feels like how many players have you had that's hit as hard as they do.

00:27:13
Speaker 6: You mentioned that a minute ago.

00:27:17
Speaker 4: You're not very many.

00:27:18
Speaker 9: I mean, they are definitely at the top of the list.

00:27:20
Speaker 11: And we've had several that you know that can you know, hit with the same velocity, but it's consistent, it's with range.

00:27:26
Speaker 9: It's very low air.

00:27:27
Speaker 11: You got some kids that blast the ball that you never know exactly where it's going. So these guys have a good idea where it's going and they can put heat on it. But they can also throw, you know, like a pitcher in baseball. They can throw a change up and drop it in you know where the defenders aren't. So they got some variety in their game and got a lot of lot of tools in there in their box, and you know, fun to watch, and again you want them in your foxhole.

00:27:51
Speaker 5: When this whole nil thing started, I think, my guess is you tell me if I'm wrong about this, But my guess is coaches in sports like volleyball had to sit here and think, Okay, where are we going to be on the university priority list? Because I sort of said at the time, I think universities are all gonna have to choose to commit to football. And then they'll get to pick a couple other sports and then some of the others. It may it may be who knows, how did you think it was gonna go? And how has UK volleyball set up in this new NIL rev share era.

00:28:26
Speaker 11: Yeah, you never know exactly you know where you're gonna end up. And you know, I don't envy the position that ads are in. I mean it's like, ultimately you're picking children in terms of how you want to prioritize. You know what the athletic department looks like. I mean, we have always been taken care of by Mitch and our administration. We've always been put in position to recruit the best players and this is no different.

00:28:51
Speaker 9: And we've have great classes.

00:28:53
Speaker 11: In twenty five, another one in twenty six, and even you know we've worked it on twenty twenty seven. So you know, we've always been supported, We've always had the chance to compete for SEC and national championships and you know, of course, you know we have to adapt as coaches. I mean, it's it's ridiculous how much we've had to adapt in the last five or six years. Not just the game itself, which you always have to, but the climate and landscape, and and so you know, not everyone's making a million dollars, but you've got to make sure that every player on your roster feels valued.

00:29:25
Speaker 5: And do you think Kentucky Volleyball is set up to do that going forward? Yes, well there you go. That's not like wow, I think the start. First of all, I like the quiet confidence there, Drew. You can hear it in his voice, didn't you.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

00:29:39
Speaker 6: I love that you were.

00:29:41
Speaker 5: Getting fired up, by the way in that game in Nashville, the announceers, we're noting that you've got that fire in your belly. I think that's fun to way. That's That's a big part of how you coach, isn't it.

00:29:52
Speaker 9: You know, some people say have some fires. Some people I'm too calm.

00:29:55
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, it's it's I think the biggest thing for me is you've got to allow your players to play free inside the lines. If they're paying attention to me, then their attention is in the wrong place. And so there's definitely a time a need for some fire and some choice words, and we'll certainly deliver that when it's needed. But between the lines, if we haven't.

00:30:14
Speaker 9: If they haven't learned.

00:30:15
Speaker 11: We haven't taught in practice, so it's their moment to get out there and do things and if some intensity level is needed, we'll we'll make sure we provide something.

00:30:23
Speaker 5: It is UK and Pitt tonight six point thirty on ESPN. It's a doubleheader. Louisville plays after US. It's in Fort Worth, Top seven matchup Kentucky, number three in the country. Craig, great start to the season. Good luck and I'm sure we'll be talking to you later as the year goes on.

00:30:41
Speaker 9: I appreciate, appreciate you guys. Have a great day.

00:30:43
Speaker 6: There you go tonight ESPN. I know what you're gonna be doing tonight, Ryan, right, I'm.

00:30:48
Speaker 2: Telling you, man, it's exciting to watch.

00:30:50
Speaker 7: They've made a lot of volleyball fans out of a lot of a UK fan just because it is you get kind of addicted to it. It's so exciting and fun and fast paced, and they're so good.

00:31:00
Speaker 5: I like volleyball, Shanning because people clap after every play. It's got to be the most positive affirming sport.

00:31:06
Speaker 4: Oh, you don't clap after every playing football.

00:31:08
Speaker 2: No.

00:31:10
Speaker 5: The girls on the volleyball team both teams, whether you score or not they give each other a high five. Is there any sport where people are more positive, Shannon than that one?

00:31:20
Speaker 6: So positive? No matter what?

00:31:21
Speaker 4: Probably not.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: And it's kind of akin to like when a guy misses a free throw and they still go give them a high five.

00:31:27
Speaker 4: Don't get me out of five. I just missed a free throw.

00:31:28
Speaker 6: I don't imagine in basketball if you did that after every.

00:31:31
Speaker 2: Play the bounds and you can get to a little huddle.

00:31:35
Speaker 6: On you know what, it's okay, We're still We're still doing it.

00:31:39
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00:32:14
Speaker 6: This is KSR. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Channon. Tell tell everyone what you said to me during the break?

00:32:21
Speaker 3: Oh, I told Matt that he's great at interviewing people about things he has no idea about.

00:32:27
Speaker 4: That's clear about volleyball.

00:32:30
Speaker 3: But he you navigated the interview well, so I was getting you very nice.

00:32:33
Speaker 6: What do you mean I have no idea about? What did I say, Jesse? I had no idea about ball?

00:32:37
Speaker 3: Well, you know the one, the the the Spike, Spiker, the Spiker.

00:32:41
Speaker 5: That's what they go by, don't they te Don't they go by the Spiker?

00:32:46
Speaker 6: On KR? They do?

00:32:47
Speaker 4: That was the quote, the Spiker.

00:32:51
Speaker 6: Would you have said, smarty pants you?

00:32:53
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have known what to ask him.

00:32:55
Speaker 6: Hey, what's the what's the correct term? I know the.

00:32:58
Speaker 2: Outside hitter inside hit her. They don't go to center. No, I don't call them a spiker.

00:33:03
Speaker 6: No, they call them the Laredo see coloredo. The Laredo is Bero. Listen.

00:33:15
Speaker 7: I think you did a good job because my I had a news director and told me no, just enough to fake it, and I think you faked it over.

00:33:20
Speaker 6: I wasn't faking it.

00:33:21
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I'm saying, like I bet you, most people at home, Shannon think they're the Spiker, right.

00:33:26
Speaker 4: Sure, No, I was giving you there was a compliment. It wasn't okay, it wasn't a dig Torrero Librero.

00:33:34
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, little Libero, the Berro.

00:33:39
Speaker 8: They wear a different jersey. Their defense good.

00:33:42
Speaker 6: I understand. I'm a fan of hers.

00:33:46
Speaker 5: Anyway, if I'm not two eight oh twenty two, I have to make fun of one of my friends here, Shannon, you Bourbon and Beyond starts what tomorrow?

00:33:52
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:33:53
Speaker 4: That's right?

00:33:53
Speaker 6: Is that right?

00:33:53
Speaker 9: That's right?

00:33:54
Speaker 6: I looked at it. A lot of nineties bands.

00:33:56
Speaker 5: You got to Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler Collective, so.

00:34:00
Speaker 3: Old, Yeah, Third Eye, Blinda Blond, Melon's Coming.

00:34:06
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:34:06
Speaker 6: Hasn't that guy been dead for thirty five years? Yes?

00:34:09
Speaker 3: But you know they get other singers and move on. Yeah, that happens in bends.

00:34:13
Speaker 6: So who are the big ones? You've got Sturgel ye? Uh? Who else?

00:34:17
Speaker 3: Jack White, the Noah Khan, Noah Khan, the Lumineers.

00:34:23
Speaker 6: I like the Benson Boone. Isn't that right?

00:34:26
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:34:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the guy.

00:34:27
Speaker 6: That do does backflips.

00:34:29
Speaker 8: I'm going for Benson Boone. I've never been Oh, you're first Bourbon beyond I'm going for Benson Boone and the Lumineers. Why you like to wear those suits with that backflip? He did it the Grammy's is still one of the coolest. Their front flip up. It's still on the coolest things I've ever seen. Hoping he does the front flip and.

00:34:46
Speaker 6: Then I want to make okay, go ahead.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: The biggest one is fish and they get like fish, They get like three and a half hours because they just jammed straight.

00:34:54
Speaker 6: No, but that's just because they're all on drugs.

00:34:56
Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's like, like, I mean, that's their fans, right, They're all just gonna be running around.

00:35:02
Speaker 6: Am I wrong? You agree with me?

00:35:04
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I'm.

00:35:07
Speaker 6: Just talking about the people who are like, isn't that Ryan.

00:35:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, if you did a drug test there, you would probably strike gold.

00:35:13
Speaker 4: But yeah, they get they get the rent.

00:35:14
Speaker 6: That was what they were known for. You're acting like I'm saying something controversial.

00:35:17
Speaker 4: I didn't know.

00:35:18
Speaker 12: I'm not.

00:35:18
Speaker 4: I don't I'm not acting like anything. But all right, so.

00:35:21
Speaker 5: Our mayor, as you know, my co owner at O b W Craig Greenberg. I want everybody real quick. We're gonna take a call. And while you do that, I just want you to go to his Twitter account. Okay, Louisville Mayor, it's a video.

00:35:34
Speaker 6: Don't even watch the video.

00:35:35
Speaker 5: Just pull the video up and then pause it when the camera is on him, because I need to talk about this, but I need you all to see it.

00:35:42
Speaker 6: While I'm talking about it.

00:35:44
Speaker 5: So pull up Louisville mayor Twitter account the video he just did with I guess Danny Wimmer, I guess that's the purbon of young guy. Pull that out and while you're doing it, I'll take a call.

00:35:51
Speaker 6: Who's next?

00:35:52
Speaker 4: Okay, Crypto cowboy, Crypto cowboy?

00:35:54
Speaker 12: How are you good? How are you Matt? Good morning? I wanted to just a good thank you asking I wanted to quickly discuss your upcoming trip to South Africa. Years back, when I was in college, I went on a twenty two day long missions trip to South Africa. And we flew out of Atlanta NonStop into Johannesburg and then we'll spend a week in Cape Town and then we ended in Durban, which, by the way, I don't know if that's where you're snorkeling. But that is the on the Indian Ocean, Durban is and that is the Shark capital.

00:36:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think I'm going there. I don't think that's where I'm going.

00:36:32
Speaker 12: I got you, so I wanted to ask you. You said your flat was fifteen hours. I remember my flight from Atlanta being substantially longer than fifteen hours.

00:36:41
Speaker 6: I got faster, stop, I got faster.

00:36:44
Speaker 12: I got you. I was curious about that because that flight was brutal for us, and hours was closer to nineteen or twenty hours. I remember.

00:36:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I got a faster plane. I asked him to go faster. The jet stream, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:36:57
Speaker 5: You got to understand the jet stream man, and the and the curve mature of the of the ocean and the land.

00:37:02
Speaker 6: And I think that's why.

00:37:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's like fifteen hours and forty minutes maybe something like that.

00:37:09
Speaker 12: Oh man, I'm glad you bought the first class ticket. Your big long legs will definitely appreciate that.

00:37:14
Speaker 6: Well, thank you, sir, and I appreciate you listening.

00:37:17
Speaker 12: Yeah, enjoy, enjoy your trip. We did go to a place called Shaka Land and our tour guide told us again it was a missions trip. One out of every two people at Chaka land at HIV, so it's very interesting antibacterial.

00:37:34
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate the call. All right, So are you looking at the thing there of Craig? Yes, yes, I'll see. Okay, So you know, I love Craig. I think he's been a good mayor. But why is he wearing an affliction T shirt?

00:37:50
Speaker 4: You don't like that old English font?

00:37:52
Speaker 7: No?

00:37:52
Speaker 5: First of all, I know it's the South end, like that's the south end of Louisville. Yeah, But but the Craig I know, Shannon, where's suite right?

00:38:01
Speaker 6: He's like you know that ye always got a collared shirt.

00:38:05
Speaker 4: But he's a politician. He's trying to appeal to you know people shirt.

00:38:11
Speaker 6: Come on, Craig is not an affliction shirt.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: Guy.

00:38:14
Speaker 5: If I showed up at Bourbonham Beyond and I had that shirt on, you would make fun of me.

00:38:21
Speaker 4: Of course I would, Yeah, I would.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: It's a lot more like there's look at that's like Donald Trump showing up in that shirt?

00:38:32
Speaker 6: Is it not.

00:38:34
Speaker 3: True?

00:38:34
Speaker 6: You know what I'm talking about? Expect shirt?

00:38:37
Speaker 4: No, that's that.

00:38:38
Speaker 8: But he's he's at a rock concert. He's dressed for the event.

00:38:41
Speaker 6: He's not at a meeting. Shirt you dressed like?

00:38:43
Speaker 5: You just wear like I could show up in a Mega Death T shirt.

00:38:47
Speaker 8: I mean where else would you wear a Mega Death T shirt?

00:38:49
Speaker 2: A rock concert?

00:38:50
Speaker 8: By Now, if he if he wore that to give a speech downtown about a new business coming to Kentucky, that'd be a little weird. But I think he's just trying to fit in with the atmospheress for the shirt.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: So you would want your your politician to wear the clothes of where they go, no matter where they go. So he goes to a rap concert, he should dress like Snoop.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolute gold chains hanging off his neck.

00:39:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't.

00:39:17
Speaker 4: I could seem surprised.

00:39:18
Speaker 6: I thought you both would say, just be proud of who you self is.

00:39:24
Speaker 5: But you're saying blending where the where the Affliction T shirt?

00:39:28
Speaker 6: I like it.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: He looks trying to fit in. He's got his jeans on and.

00:39:33
Speaker 6: Take the I'll take the I think I'm more right than you. I don't think you.

00:39:36
Speaker 5: Are being nice because you love Craig and so do we. But if Linda Gordon showed up at Bourbon and Beyond and that you'd be good with.

00:39:44
Speaker 8: Oh, I'd buyer a tall beer and we get what would you wear to Bourbon and beyond? I need to know. I don't know what to wear. Am I not allowed to wear my affliction?

00:39:56
Speaker 5: Sure?

00:39:56
Speaker 6: The reason I don't go is I wouldn't know what.

00:40:00
Speaker 4: In a T shirt?

00:40:01
Speaker 5: In short, I would probably wear some form of a long sleeve hoodie T shirt and shorts or jean. I probably wear jeans since it's like a con. But I can tell you I would not pull out an affliction T shirt.

00:40:13
Speaker 8: He is wearing some some Dad tennis shoes and Dad jeans with his Affliction T shirt. But he's just he's trying.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: He's rocking, all right, That's fine. He's got Shandon's approval. Shandon's the expert out there at Larger than Life. Who's next, Sam Sam? Go ahead, Sam Sam?

00:40:30
Speaker 13: Hey man, I agree with you. Always thought they were called power strikers anyway. Second thing is, my daughter does a lot of those. My daughter does a lot of those trips with her friends and stuff. And about two years ago she was in Zimbabwe for a safari. She calls me and we video text and she's woke up in the middle of the night because they're camping and doing the overnight and there's like a hundred zebras outside the tents and they're making a lot of noise with gas and other things. You know, just being the kind of the man you are, You comfortable sleeping in a tent with a hundred zebras around you?

00:41:03
Speaker 5: No, but you know what part of it is like getting out of your comfort zone. You know, you only live once, So I mean, I appreciate the call. There's a big world.

00:41:13
Speaker 6: I'm blessed enough to get a chance to do it.

00:41:15
Speaker 5: I mean I would I just choose on my own to go to South Africa during football season. Probably not, But then this fellowship came. This is where the meeting is. Originally it was supposed to be in Israel. I'd rather go to South Africa right now than Israel, so you know, so I'm going, and it's'll be odd because I don't know, I'll probably never go there again, so might as well.

00:41:41
Speaker 6: You know, I'm a big believer.

00:41:43
Speaker 5: Whatever it is, like, as long as you're not hurting anybody, give it a shot.

00:41:49
Speaker 6: We only are around this place one time.

00:41:51
Speaker 5: It's a huge world out there, and most people are don't get a chance to do any of it, and so if you can, you should. And if I end up happened to hang out with a zebra, then Ryan, I'll hang out with zebra.

00:42:03
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:42:04
Speaker 5: I'll put on my stripes, we'll race. I'll take an ambient and tell him I can beat him on a spring.

00:42:09
Speaker 7: Why you've got ten of the ladies to protect you when you're there in that area and your in your tent.

00:42:15
Speaker 6: Yeah. They're great, very chatty, chanting in the group chats.

00:42:18
Speaker 4: Very chat chime in every now and then.

00:42:20
Speaker 6: I don't chime in.

00:42:21
Speaker 5: I don't chime They're very upset because one person hasn't joined the group chat, and I'm like, can you just let them be?

00:42:26
Speaker 6: We don't even know each other yet. There may be a little chatty for me in the group chat. We'll be right back. Hour two.