2026-01-21- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Eda May, the Queen of Southern SaaS January fifteenth through the seventeenth. Then from Hulu and social media catches Zarn't a Guard January twenty third and twenty fourth, and from TV the Office and anchor Man don't miss David Keckner January thirtieth and thirty first. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call eight five, nine, two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com.

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Speaker 2: Comedy Off Byway.

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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. Well, welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, January the twenty first. I Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill on a snowy, nasty little morning. But you can come in and see us. It's Wingsday, Dollar Wings all day, getting ready for the game tonight where our pregame show starts at four point thirty. Uh, it's just us, So come say hi to us this morning. We'd love to see you. We got trape through the snow a lot of bad tracks in Lexington today celebrating the lock of the Year last night. I hope you bet it.

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Speaker 2: I did bet it, and I told you I used my draft kings little boosty boost even on the lock of.

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Speaker 4: The Yearnon, never get the lock of the year wrong. That is sixty seven years in a row. The lock of the year is hit.

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Speaker 2: You get the lock all the time.

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Speaker 5: Wrong.

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Speaker 4: I've never gotten the lock of the year wrong. That's why they do one a year. And you got to go back to nineteen sixty one to find one that didn't hit.

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Speaker 2: Well, really, what was that game? Yeah, well I was any college in New York and somebody.

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Speaker 4: Interesting enough, yes versus Villanova. I got that wrong, but now drew locks of the year.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're undefeated on your lock of this year. Past year is I don't know the record lets could pick when.

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Speaker 2: He teases, he said there may be a second Lock of the Year coming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'll do well. I mean we're hot for locks of the year because I just knew col wins games like that at home and Vandy. You know, I think Vandy had a little bit of Vandy hype, maybe a little more than they should have. And so now they're coming down to earth and this is kind of what I thought would happen.

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Speaker 3: They're crashing to earth, Shannon. That's three straight losses for the former undefeated sixteen and oh Vandy Cummons.

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Speaker 2: But still seventeen and three doesn't look too bad.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they could win sixteen, lose sixteen, and then that would be that would If that happened, it would be very few teas in history that have ever ever done that. I'm really excited because I would like to know the two reasons I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear this.

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Speaker 4: Number One, probably the best night of sleep I've had in I don't know years, maybe pre COVID.

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Speaker 2: Because you knew you hit the lock of the year, so you rested.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't even nay. I did not sleep at all the night before, which is a terrible thing to do. Yesterday was miserable. I don't know if you have any time. You know, when I was in college, you could do an all night or Shannon and it. You know you'd be tired, but you'd move through it. Right. Yeah, Not not now, Not not this stage of life. Yes, all day yesterday I just felt like I was living in a dream bubble. But it was a bubble. I didn't want to be in. I couldn't fall asleep, but I also wasn't really awake, and I just was like bumping into people and just telling them to move. And then last night I felt like I was getting sick. You know, when you're cold and hot a little back and forth. That's not you shouldn't be like that. You shouldn't be like that, Like you're sweating because you're hot, but then you need a lot of clothes, which just makes you hotter because you're coals. It's the worst. And I had that and I thought, oh, I'm not getting sick. And I was like, dude, I do I have COVID, right, that's what I could bring. So I just went around smelling everything. Yeah, I probably smelled everything in my house fifty times last night because when I had COVID twice, I couldn't smell anything. I mean, like, what's your.

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Speaker 3: That's your at your COVID test, just to smell your nerd.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was walking. I was smelling the stuff that had been the refrigerator for a while.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can't smell your refrigerator, then you definitely have something you can smell.

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Speaker 4: I just kept smelling and I thought, Okay, Then I feel good. Went to bed last night at ten and I did not move until nine this morning. Oh knocked you out, knock me out? And so now you can probably see the energy I was crashing yesterday, even the last thirty minutes of the show. We won't put yesterday in the best of because in the last thirty minutes the show I could barely stay awake. I was ready for Bob and Jamestown to call. That's how I was. You pulled it off.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really realize you were crashing yesterday.

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Speaker 4: But now ready to go. So that's number one. Okay, number two, We are getting ready for about a once every five year weather Man's super Bowl. Yeah, yeah, you know, no doubt weather Men. We've talked about him over the years. Ryan has no respect for him. I have the most respect. They have these moments, tornadoes, storms where they have to come. They don't have a lot of prep. But snowstorms are why they exist. Drue snowstorms are why they get out of bed at night. Don't you think that's why they have the job. It's like Super Bowl week. They should all have to have a media scrum today to talk about it, because it's why everybody wants to know him. You want to know the snow, and the snow is coming Friday night through Monday, and there is a lot of talk that this could be like a once a decade event. Yeah, parts of people. They're projecting in parts two feet two feet. Yes, here, I think it's like eight to twelve or eight to fourteen. But like down in east south eastern Kentucky, they're projecting eighteen to twenty four. They're saying Nashville could get more snow than it's ever gotten ever.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna snow Saturday and then you're gonna get that same amount on Sunday, Yes, back to back day.

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Speaker 4: So it's supposed to be the most snow anybody's ever seen.

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Speaker 6: So I.

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Speaker 4: Care about snow, but I could probably walk to everything I need. I much more care about the fighting from the weather. So, Shannon, I think we should introduce all of our combatants. Yeah, okay, for what this is gonna be like, don't you agree? Let's go all right now, I'm gonna do Lexington, Louisville, and then Wildcard. Okay, let's start with Lexington. Just like a sponsors, this is just these are your contenders. Everybody needs to follow all these people.

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Speaker 3: We have to look up as we go.

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Speaker 4: Yes, because all of these people are going to be in our lives now. In Lexington, we have two main forces. On the one hand, Chris Bailey, Chris Barrett Bailey, you could argue is Kentucky's weather man from the eastern Kentucky online all the time, likes to make UK basketball references. Even said the other night, should I put Knoxville on my weather map because Kentucky clearly owns it.

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Speaker 3: He also has Kentucky weather, and he literally Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: He literally somehow got Kentucky weather. So when when he writes something, people think it is God speaking, it is Kentucky weather. He's a little saucy rose the sleeves up. I would argue early first sleeve roller in an emergency. But he's very like you send him pictures of your driveway and you'd be like, it's snowing too in which is in Harrdsberg, and he retweets. He wants everybody if you get a ruler in the snow, or your your your kid is like laying down you can only see your kids nose like that. He's gonna love it. He is in some ways the people's weather mate.

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Speaker 2: And he did a thirty minute special last night on Tuesday to preview this storm that's coming in already shinning.

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Speaker 4: Doing snow previews four days, that's when you know, so this is I would argue in some ways, he's like the uh you know, the Alabama of Weather. Standing across the street from him is Bill Meck. I like Bill meg looks like your middle school science teacher. Right, got his pocket protector, his square glasses, but very sneakily funny, is right, very keeps it on the d L. But then sometime we'll just stab you right in the kidney, you know, odd climate change denier weather man. Don't see a lot of that, You don't. You don't see a lot of those people who see the weather watch it and go, this isn't happening. But when the TV comes on, he takes up the room, Yes he does. He and Bailey don't like each other, but they kind of I think they respect each other, probably because they don't talk a lot of trash about each.

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Speaker 2: Other, Right, do you agree? I agree. Bill's been here the longest, He's got the seniority on everybody in this town.

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Speaker 4: Kind of reminds me of Mitch and cow. You know they don't like each other, but they get go send Christmas cards, but they'll go on uh the TV show together and sit uncomfortably next to each other. You agree with these so far? I agree with that.

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Speaker 3: They're also just a big part of our community. Like you can go out to like, uh, what's it used to be?

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Speaker 4: Election?

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Speaker 3: Green Bill Mex just hosting a concert. Yes, he's the he's.

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Speaker 2: The tailgates every UK football game.

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Speaker 4: Bill. He's old lex like the the Powers that be Shannon in Lexington, they're mech people. Okay, the old money is mech people. Bailey is the masses? Gotcha? All right? Now? Is there anyone else left in lex Is TG Thunderstruck?

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Speaker 2: Yes? TG Shuck Is it Channel thirty six?

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Speaker 4: All right? Here's what TJ Thunderstruck is. He's like Philip Rivers. You thought he left, but he came back to show the next generation weather can still have there you go. Thunderstruck is from years ago. I thought he was out of our lives, but he's come back. Yeah. I think he sees this storm as a chance to get back on that level with those top.

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Speaker 3: Two alexingon Native he sits on the sidelines and one of these young kids goes to another city, They're like, call in thunderstruck without it, bring them back. And that's what ABC did. Who's the what was the guy there, Dylan Godey. I guess he's got.

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Speaker 4: He's gone TG Thunderstruck's back. So you could argue as good a line up in Lexington as you have. Now let's go to Louis.

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Speaker 2: We gotta baitch one more guy in Lexic because your dad's favorite weather man. Did he like Jim Calhoun?

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Speaker 4: Jim Calhoun, the coach of Connecticut?

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Speaker 2: Uh, Jim Callwell, Oh he retired.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna add that. I would like to think though Jim Calhoun is one of the contenders too. He's waiting give me the chuck and now throw Jim Calhoun in there too. I remember your dad saying that one he liked Jim Colwell, but he retired just recently. Okay, I didn't realize that I was gonna bring that up about Bailey. His team is taking a big hit here. I know it's one v one at the top, but Bailey is missing his pipping in the weather room. But now for this, you don't you don't go Second Street. This is all starters until the until the overtime is over.

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Speaker 2: Because if Bill Mack's been had the longest his the morning weather guy.

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Speaker 4: You're just hadding too many people. I'm talking about the main people. Tom Ackerman's not getting screen time during this. This is mac time. Okay, yeah, all right, Now let's go to Louisville. In Louisville, you have the sauciest one. It's the bad but this is Dennis Rodman. He's the bad boy piston of weather. He married Carmen Electra That's exactly he right now is dating Tate McCrae.

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Speaker 3: He's in Vegas during this.

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Speaker 4: Mark Weinberg trash talking mintle fingers up to all of them, gets invited to none of their Christmas parties. All he wants is accuracy, right, he says, you all keeps trying to scare everybody. He's he's oddly the most provocative but the most conservative in his predictions because he thinks all of you that people are like snowhose.

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Speaker 3: That's what they call them.

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Speaker 4: I'm calling them that they just throw out big snow reports, get people scared, and then it doesn't snow that they want the ratings. They want the ratings. He's not about the ratings, He's about the accuracy. And then he'll go home yea with Carmen Electric. Yeah, hates weather apps. He's already tweeted about that. He hates that we have Apple like apps. He hates apps. He hates chat GPT. He's like, listen to us, I didn't go to in years of weather school for you to get on Google and replace me. So so he is the bad boy. Weinberg and Bailey clearly would like to murder each other. They're the two most online of all these people, and they clearly want to murder.

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Speaker 2: Snow the most vocal for sure.

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Speaker 4: He's always throwing little potshots at Bailey. Another one kind of coming from the outside. Two time Emmy Wimmer, Emmy Winner. While these people are getting the glory, he's getting hardware. Bryce Jones at wdrb Okay listener of this show two time Emmy Wimmer and Emmy Winner just goes under the radar throws out the snow. All right, He's one to watch in this battle this week.

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Speaker 3: See guy Missisippi State.

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Speaker 4: I went to Mississippi State and then finally from the way outside sitting at his computer with a camera on me Ryan Hall y'all. Oh yeah, the favor of them in some ways, of the mountains and the everyman. He is just online. I don't think he has any training, does he?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he does or not. He's pretty accurate.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of bots.

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Speaker 4: He just gets the model, sits there in a very monotone fashion and tells you exactly what's gonna happen. He has become more and more the young people's weather person. Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And is he where's he based out of Pikeville, Ashland? Where is he over there?

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Speaker 4: He does weather all over the country and he's sitting in pipeful. Wow.

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Speaker 2: And he just started it as a hobby for what I understand, like just kind of doing it the hobby of his.

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Speaker 4: And now he is the Jim Canty of Pike County.

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you. I go to Ryan Hall y'all from my weather reports, including last night when I saw he wasn't live. Instead of going to TV, I just assumed there was nothing to talk about. I went to YouTube he wasn't live, and I thought, no other I'll just go back to my life.

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Speaker 4: So he doesn't even look at the TV. He goes live or it doesn't, it's not happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Jim Cantorre's in Nashville. That can't be good if he's going to be in Nashville.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they think they Nashville could get more snow than it's ever gotten ever, My goodness, it's actually Tennessee is gonna get destroyed, but we're gonna get a lot. It looks like, so are you all prepared? Oh no, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, what are you gonna get your milk and bread today?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I know he drinks he doesn't drink milk.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not, I'm not. I mean, I'm gonna hope door Dash is working that day. I tip well on snow days, Yeah, people working. So I just that's the setup for the snow m again coming. Those are your contenders and we'll see who comes out well.

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Speaker 2: And they'll be on forty eight hours straight.

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Speaker 4: And I want to say, when you see this is to you all, when you see them sniping at each other, tag me, okay, I want to retweet the snipes, any little grudges and send me the the euro Model and on Model and the and the Bop model and the Cook model like they have all these models. I want to I'm in I saw.

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Speaker 2: Your tweet last night. You're already poking the bear a little bit, trying to get it ready to get started.

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Speaker 4: All right, Bailey and Weinberg need to just go at each other. Now, you got two days here to get at it.

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Speaker 3: Can I YouTube multiview the weather channels like I would games instead of watching four games at once? Can I just keep eyes on all the weather minute once?

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Speaker 4: Since this one's gonna be long, You know they have fewer and fewer closed as the night goes on. Oh yeah, they're gonna be in their boxers, bye bye by Sunday. I don't need that. Yes, the one you want to hot Bill mckaction A five nine two twenty two eighty seven. Cats play tonight against Texas. We'll get you ready for that game here on KSR, Welcome back to you Sports Radio A five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Ryan Hall y'all weighing in saying the models have gone North Kentucky now in the center zone instead of Louisville or e Stid of Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Oh so it's gonna he's saying, it could be worse, worse here.

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Speaker 4: Not as bad as now. So that's so, first of all, that's a shot for Ryan Hall. He's now calling it more north. I haven't heard the other guys say that.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't heard anybody say anything about that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, one person says, Matt, your new term is going to catch on snow hose. They that's what. That's just what Mark Weinberg claims they are. I'm not saying that they.

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Speaker 2: Are what that's I don't know if the term they're going to go latch onto.

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Speaker 4: Well, they just they're very snow active.

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Speaker 2: Uh, friend of mine textand Ryan Hall's got like over two million subscribers, three million subscribers.

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Speaker 4: He's got like a team that's not he doesn't just do Kentucky. He's like, he does I think the whole country.

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Speaker 3: Oh I've gotten locked in where I've turned him on thinking it's Kentucky and it's Nebraska. And I'm like, I just watching this anyway.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in detail, and he looks and he looks at the towns and he asks people what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: Apparently he did. Was a meteorologist at w y MT for a short minute before he went on his own and branched out.

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Speaker 4: Good for him. Yeah, people are people are writing to me about who they like. One person says, Matt, you left out the King of Louisville Weather, John Belski, who's that?

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Speaker 2: He retired seventeen years ago.

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Speaker 4: He retired seventeen years ago. That's why I left.

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Speaker 2: I just asked you about him. To break John Belski and Captain j Cardozi is one you could add in.

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Speaker 1: What's j say?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Oh, that's his phrase? What's Jay saying? Okay? Man, he has a phrase. He has a phrase. Okay, he gets it. If you have a phrase, I mean catchphrase, if you have a catch phrase.

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Speaker 2: Would you want to know what Jay says?

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Speaker 4: What what Jay says? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: When you want to know what he says?

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Speaker 3: Look at his segment. He does it like he has old It's like blues clues.

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Speaker 4: He's got graph he's got blues and always kind of an umbrella. Oh my goodness, Oh now that's Oh that's okay. He's on the list. Yeah. J Cardozy coming out of nowhere with his own special effects team? Holy? What does Jay say? All right? I didn't know we had this, so now we got Max Bailey Weinberg Jones, Hall, y'all, and CARDOZI all going at it battle Royale UK versus Texas tonight seven o'clock. Texas has the fourth rated offense since conference play begins in college basketball. They are, I believe, three and two, but could be better. I think they lost a game right at the end. It's a game where we should win, but it's also a game we could easily drop. And if you look at the calendar and you look at the schedule, it's a game we need to win. These next two at home will be two of our three easiest home games of the rest of the conference schedule, and also are games that are crucial to getting to where we need to be. Do you feel good?

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Speaker 2: I think Texas is probably the best team in the SEC that we don't talk about, that nobody talks about. They're sneaky good. They beat Alabama at Alabama. They beat Vanderbilt when Vanderbilt was rolling, they almost beat Texas A and M. That's turned out to be a really good team. Bucket ball down there. Sean Miller is a new coach at Texas, and I think he's got them rolling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're tough. They just lost to a and M. But it was like a three point game, and I think A and M is very good. Their losses have all been to good teams in close games. They played Yukon close, played Duke close, they whipped Vandy, and then they won in Tuscaloosa where we lost by fifteen. This is not any kind of pushover team we can look past. I'll admit I'm a little worried. Even though it's a home game. I'm gonna pick Kentucky to win, but I worry about a hangover after all the fun we've had and getting back home because this is no joke and some of their biggest wins have been on the roads.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm definitely worried. I mean, this is a Texas team that has improved throughout the year. They can score, so if you fall behind, they're a tough team to come back on because they can score. They're kind of like I mean, I don't I don't think they're as good offensively as Louisville was at the beginning of the year, but it's a similar kind of thing where you just even even if you start playing well, they're gonna put buckets in so you've got to stay with them. I do think the crowd needs to be an advantage, but it makes me wonder about the snow, et cetera. Now I know it's not so snow anymore today, But do you get out, do you go to the game. I'll be interested to see what it's like in here before the game. That usually gives us an indication. But I do think Ryan, this is one that could go either way, and the Cats have to treat it seriously, even after this three game winning show.

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Speaker 2: And you said something very important that they get down by seventeen again in the first half. Texas as a team that's not gonna have a little man. They can they can score a lot of points in a hurry. You can't afford to get down early in a game like this because it's tough as hell to try to call back out of it.

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Speaker 4: And we want to ask Mark why we start poorly?

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Speaker 3: They have, you know, we get you know, super incredible special how we turn it around?

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's consistent answer. He doesn't give it an I mean, I agree, they're super incredible happy time fun uh in the second half. But if we could just be average and like not poopy time awful in the first half, it would be even better.

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Speaker 3: It blows my mind how it's happened this many times since a year and a half.

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Speaker 4: And after the.

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Speaker 3: LSU game, we're like, this cannot happen again. And then three days later, to the credit, they won, but they went and just had another first half dud right after that. I don't understand it at this point. If he had answers, I think he would have already started to improve.

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Speaker 4: They had a first half done against Missouri, first half done against Alabama. So four of the five SEC games first half.

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Speaker 3: Dating trailed Missippi State. I wouldn't call it a dud, but they were up in rup early.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not but like it wasn't like that. It wasn't like something other. And then first half doue against uh against Gonzaga, first half due against Saint John's, first half dud against Michigan State, first half doue against Louisville.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's some magic he's whatever he's doing at halftime. Maybe that's what we should be I understanding.

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Speaker 4: But well, you can do both. You can applaud whatever he does at halftime and go, how about we don't fall down fifteen points in the first half. There is no way to live just so you can't start second. I mean you can, that's exactly right. Like you can go and like sleep two and a half hours and inject you know, caffeine and then but at some point people gonna go, how about you just sleep a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Like I said tonight, tonight, you can't afford to get down big because this team can score a lot of points. It's going to hurry they lead to.

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Speaker 4: Mack has issued a statement. This came out last night. It's all over the internet weather versus of something big coming out this weekend. While it's a decent badest storm will be somewhere. Details are impossible at this point. Don't just fall for model data for clicks, don't change your plans, but stay weather aware.

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Speaker 2: Well that I think that's kind of a responsible thing to say. I mean, it is just Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: It's also a very generic thing to say. I like it. They'll be there, could be, Shannon, a storm somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Could be maybe not maybe, So just be aware.

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Speaker 4: Is it all model data?

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're not fortune tellers. They're using some form of model.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, it's gonna be great. We'll take a break right back. Cancer TJ. Smith with personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 2: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back Turkey Sports Radio A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four. We do have some breaking news running on a Charles Badiako has been granted a temporary restraining order that will allow him to play for Alabama basketball this season. Uh it is. It'll be an order for ten It'll be in effect for ten days, and then a hearing will decide for sure on January twenty seven. He is the player who played at Alabama for a couple of years, went to the G League, still has a semester left in his eligibility and is asked to come back and play for that semester. Never played a game in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: I just find it hard to accept this situation. When you play a professional basketball time, professional contract, you're allowed to come back just because you're not any good?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Is that what happened with Yellovich. I mean he's a professional, not in the NBA, but I mean that's the thing that like, I understand why this would bother people. The one guy didn't bother me, who never went to college, I can understand why it would bother you if a player came here, went to the G League for a couple of years, and came back. However, Shannon's right, that's what happens in Europe. Like what I mean, the difference between the outrage fans feel about this and what's happened when Europe for the last fifteen years is we don't know what happens in Europe because we don't follow it. So when a guy comes from Europe, it's like he's coming from you know, space, So we don't have any previous thoughts about him because we didn't know, you know what I mean. I mean, we were all out What I would say to Kentucky fans when you get outraged about this is remember how we were all outraged about Inn his canter. Yeah, well he'd been a professional. Uh huh, he'd been a profer to been playing for two years and we wanted him.

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Speaker 2: To play here.

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Speaker 4: So it is weird. This is weird because he did play college basketball for two years and then went, but he would have one semester left do we have any players that would fit this. I was trying to think, do you have any players who've gone to the NBA but then did not play yet that would still be within their five year eligibility path.

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Speaker 3: It would still be in their path.

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Speaker 4: I mean like maybe, uh, well, no, he I was gonna say davy On Mince, but he wouldn't be in a path. E J.

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Speaker 3: Montgomery would have some years left, Yeah, but I don't.

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Speaker 4: Think he's got his five years though I think he was. He was pre COVID. It would have to be someone that played during that first year of COVID. As odd as it sounds, I actually think the first year of COVID guys would still be eligible.

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Speaker 3: Olivia, Yeah, he played.

00:25:52
Speaker 4: It had to be a freshman, your first year of COVID. So I don't know of a guy that I think we have eligible. I can't think of. I don't think we do. But does this bother you? This my guy may it to play. It just doesn't smell right.

00:26:08
Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel right that he played college ball, went played pro ball, and I was come back and played college ball and this doesn't seem right.

00:26:16
Speaker 4: But you have a logical reason or it just doesn't seem it doesn't seem right. Okay.

00:26:21
Speaker 3: The thing I don't like is the end season stuff like, Okay, if you need a big man, that's your fault. You didn't build a go enough team. If it's January whatever and you are down a big man.

00:26:29
Speaker 4: Tough luck.

00:26:30
Speaker 3: I think that's how speak. I don't think that when classes have started, if you don't like your roster and there's but we did that, well, if that's fine, and I've made fun of that endlessly since we did it, because that was ridiculous. I just think that I'm sorry your team's not good or you had an injury in January. I don't think you should get to go shopping when you know we're a third of the way through conference play already.

00:26:51
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:26:51
Speaker 3: Well, if this was September and they're adding him, I can hear you out. But I don't like how you can just I.

00:26:58
Speaker 4: Do think it's a very unique set of circums dances because it COVID, which makes people's timelines run longer. That'll end this year. I've said this before. I don't think this is gonna come up in the future because I don't think kids are gonna go to the g League, Like, I don't think kids are gonna go to the G League out of highchool anymore or something that's gonna happen. And so now you know, it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers other people. I will acknowledge this seems different because he played a couple of years. It does seem different.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: Now I'm not someone that thinks they should go to school, but also, I mean, he should have at least attended a class in the last year or two.

00:27:33
Speaker 4: It's gonna go to class this year. He's already rest.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: I mean it is January twenty first.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: Well, he raised apparently at the beginning of the semester because he was playing.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: I think that part is out right. If the mid year we're not good enough, let's go find sure.

00:27:43
Speaker 4: He's gonna do well in class.

00:27:45
Speaker 2: If you transfer schools in the middle of the year, don't you have to sit out that semester if you transfer. If he transferred from Eastern to Western, a kid.

00:27:53
Speaker 4: Don't you after you get out? Well, what is it? Actually? Don't think you do right now. I think they're changing the rules to where you do the next year.

00:28:00
Speaker 2: You'd be eligible immediately when you trained.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: I think this year it is, but I literally think they're gonna change that for next year because no one had ever done it. And I think now they're changing.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: The rule where you could be eligible at Christmas break transfer.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: I don't like a season where I watched Alabama play five games before Christmas, and now if I watch them, I'm gonna be like, all right, where did this dude?

00:28:20
Speaker 4: Who is he?

00:28:20
Speaker 3: Why do they get to add a guy with you know, would be all right with.

00:28:24
Speaker 4: That guy though if it was a point guard.

00:28:27
Speaker 2: I was thinking, did ty Ty Washington ever play in the NBA?

00:28:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did play. I think almost all ago those guys have played at least a game. Who's up first, Ryan, Ryan? Go ahead? Ryan? Ty would be I would be great.

00:28:40
Speaker 7: Hey, Matt, I gotta share a funny story that kind of leads into a public apology.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: Okay, but you gotta go for it.

00:28:50
Speaker 7: So Ryan's got his phrases, you know, holiday and express picking of his belly button. He said, picking of his belly button the other day, and you guys were making fun of him, and I was feeling bad for him. I found his number online and I text him, Hey, buddy, love you all. Hail the King of belly button Lent, and I got a reply back that said, this is David Spencer. So I'd like to apologize with David Spencer or about better button LNT and how much I love.

00:29:17
Speaker 4: You appreciate the car. I like that, David Spencer. Huh So, yeah, that would be weird if you got a message you from somebody that just said you're the king of belly button Lent. You might have made that person self conscious.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: I don't know who David Spencer is, but I'm sure got he's got a little sense of humor to him there.

00:29:33
Speaker 4: Oh, let me say something. I'm gonna use this example. What are you doing next week doing the show? But do you have plans during the week?

00:29:41
Speaker 2: Not that I am aware.

00:29:42
Speaker 4: We are doing the Ryan Lemon Eat by Yourself Challenge next week next week Monday through Friday of next week. People thought we'd forgotten it. That just we forgot now we had health issues, and then it was Christmas and then so next week Monday through Friday, Ryan Lemmon will eat alone every night, Drew, you and I are gonna figure out where he's going. OK. I want a good mix of him occasionally going to a good restaurant where no one's there, just tim occasionally having to go with a place with a lot of people, but he still has to sit by himself. But next week, uh, Ryan Lemon eats alone and we'll film some of it uh during the week as well. Five days, five restaurants, you buy yourself.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: Immediately got hot, My body got hot en I started to sweat a little bit. I just don't like it. I don't think there's gonna be this is gonna be any fun. I'm not gonna enjoy it. It's gonna be awful.

00:30:34
Speaker 4: Yes, all that's true. So that's why we're doing it. So we're going to this week. You're gonna you're gonna do that? Are you excited?

00:30:41
Speaker 2: I want world for stuck in our homes on Monday, Then you're.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: Going to walk to a place that you can uh, that you can eat by yourself. You probably won't have to worry about many people.

00:30:50
Speaker 3: You'll support a business that's not doing well.

00:30:52
Speaker 4: That Yeah, it's gonna be hard.

00:30:53
Speaker 3: I can't get in, so you'll be able to go in and keep them afloat. That server will love seeing you. So it's gonna be very exciting. But I didn't want people to think about you forgot.

00:31:03
Speaker 4: I know you did, but that's one of the reasons why we're doing it again is I wanted to make sure you knew that that's what we were gonna do.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: So congratulations, Well great, thanks appreciate that.

00:31:12
Speaker 4: What do you think is gonna happen? You're just gonna eat and go home.

00:31:15
Speaker 3: It's just you do.

00:31:17
Speaker 4: What's the just blows my mind.

00:31:19
Speaker 3: The fear of you have in this.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: I just don't like hanging out by myself a period.

00:31:24
Speaker 4: You gotta hang out by yourself. And I must say, if you see Ryan at a restaurant, feel free to say hello, but do not sit with him. He has to sit by himself. That's part of the thing. If you sit down with him and help him know, that's the point you can come, say hello and get the hell out like this is. This is Ryan Lemon by himself.

00:31:46
Speaker 2: I'm literally sweating right now just thinking about it.

00:31:50
Speaker 4: So next week, next week, I'm giving you a little bit time for.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: Five days money through.

00:31:56
Speaker 4: Who's up next, Robert, Robert?

00:31:57
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Robert, Hey man, I got a question. So over the summer, you had said that you thought about putting a mural outside of the restaurant. And I'm coming tonight, Me and my buddy are going to the game. Just curious, if you guys had to pick four athletes to put on a mural outside of the restaurant, who would each of your all tis?

00:32:20
Speaker 4: That's a great question. So if I were to do a KSR, this is not history of UK mural. This would be kind of history of KSR. So I would leave it to our era right appreciate the call. So if I were to do I'm not gonna do four, why do four, let's do let's do six. Here's who would be on my amount of KSR things. I would go Anthony Davis, John Wall to Marcus Cousins. I would then Benny Snell. Those are the ones I know I want on there. Who'd be my other two? He doesn't fit your mold. I'm putting Jared on there one thousand percent, even though he's not the year. Well, he shows from here, so I'll put Jared. I think.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: Maybe Ryan Howard from they'll get with the women's basketball team, but I don't.

00:33:21
Speaker 4: Really know her at all. So like part of this is also like we have some connection to the purse kuh we do? We do be nice to have a women's athlete. If you think she maybe she would be the one. Yeah, or you could do uh, we did like Georgia Amore a lot. We did. She was good. Yeah, Sidney McLaughlin, I did a bunch of tvaters with you, interviews.

00:33:43
Speaker 2: I think she's got to be on the mural for sure.

00:33:45
Speaker 4: So you say, so what about Sidney, Jared, Benny, wal Davis Cousins. I like it. I like it with it. But and then on the pillars when you walk in Patrick Patterson and Jay Luke feel like, why do you have the Miami coach? You just you don't understand. Maybe read Shepherd on a corner pillar over there. But he's gonna have to have an Arkansas shirt on.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, the days are over. He threw the Loivel shirt.

00:34:14
Speaker 4: So you had a heck of a game last night. He Yeah, he basically won them that game last night.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: When he scored twelve in the fourth quarter or something like that.

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00:35:07
Speaker 2: He can come eat with me next week. He wants to come and hang out.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, First of all, you're not allowed to. You have to do it by yourself. And secondly, uh, he's way too mainly for you that you you couldn't you need to hang out with the weather man.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: I like Chris Bailey and Bill Matt.

00:35:27
Speaker 4: I know you do. One person writes Matt. You always give your opinion on everything, but you've been very quiet on what happened with Minnesota and Don Lemon. What do you think I don't know what they're talking about.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: I don't know that either.

00:35:40
Speaker 4: That what's that with Don Lemon? Is that the guy from CNN? Yeah, what did he do?

00:35:45
Speaker 2: I don't know who Don Lemon is.

00:35:47
Speaker 4: So only thing I know about Don Lemon is he would come on CNN after the ball and he'd be in New Orleans. He'd be he'd do the Central time Zone and he'd be really drunk. Yeah, and like he'd be really Like if you thought Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen were drunk by the time they got to Don Lemon, it was like, oh my goodness, get that microphone from him. Uh and then uh, but but I don't know what he did in Minnesota. I don't either.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Whatever he did, don't do it. Unless it was good, don't do it. But it sounds like it was. Whatever he did, don't do it. It's frowned upon unless it was good. Yeah, if he donated something, he.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: Got in trouble.

00:36:28
Speaker 2: He said something. I don't even know if anymore.

00:36:30
Speaker 4: Uh, there's a massive takedown that apparently could lead to over two hundred of rest in Kentucky for catfish harvesting. Really, yes, or's you're really for? To day? Really did he really did? He really? Uh. I don't know what catfish harvesting is, but I read the article trying to understand it. It seems like, you know, I guess everyone, if you're in public waterways, you can get so many catfish, right, I think, so there's a maximum amount of catfish you can get, which would make sense, right. You can't have them all, you can't. You just can't sit there and go hear, fishy, fishy, and you take all of our cat protect The argument is they would take the public catfish and then put it in a private lake and harvest them. Yeah what you know that you know what happened? Yeah, well I did, said, and you didn't know. What do you know? Oh? No?

00:37:22
Speaker 2: What these fish farms are they they may have a pond full of catfish, They have a pond full of a different kind of fish, and then another another kind of fish. They raise them and sell them to these restaurants.

00:37:33
Speaker 4: But what did they do that was illegal?

00:37:35
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure what it is that it's illegal about it.

00:37:38
Speaker 4: I was trying to tell you, Well, tell me. I think the allegation is that they took too many of the public ones and then they put them in their private ones to act like they had grown them. It sounds illegal and it was harvesting. But they they've already arrested like a hundred people, and they say when the probe is over, maybe two thousand people in Kentucky could be arrested for catfish harvesting. So there's someone listening right now who knows they harvested some catfish and they're like, oh, no, am I on this list sleeping with one eye open, so you know what, that's exactly right, which I believe catfish.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: Do they do.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: So you now are gonna need to be like the catfish, because they say there are ten times as many people implicated as those that have been arrested so far.

00:38:28
Speaker 2: I think there are some fish farms in Kentucky that are very crucial to sending fresh fish to like Chicago, New York.

00:38:35
Speaker 4: Well, they may get out of a lot.

00:38:36
Speaker 3: About this, you know what cities they're going to.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these fish farms like in western Kentucky too.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: How do you know, I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know that you know. I mean, you may just be saying it with confidence.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: I know there's some big fish farms in western Kentucky that farm out their fish to Chicago.

00:38:55
Speaker 4: Are they going to do it the legal way or illegal?

00:38:58
Speaker 6: That?

00:38:58
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Well, if you you are an illegal catfish harvester, Drew, you've been put on notice here on KSR because they say there are two thousand of people. Say there's got to be people listening. Who are this is applies to. They're coming for you.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: If I'm you know, if I'm someone that's participated in this, I think I might be on a list. I'm filling my pond with dirt right now. My catfish are getting buried.

00:39:24
Speaker 4: I don't think that's gonna help if you kill all the catfish. I'm trying to stay out of prison. I don't think that's what they want the product, Okay, I don't think that's the goal they're looking for. Who's up next, David? Go ahead, David, Hey, guys, how you doing?

00:39:39
Speaker 6: Always a great day in Kentucky?

00:39:40
Speaker 4: Play huh? Yes?

00:39:43
Speaker 6: I just wanted to give a shout out to Chaos or Stephens peaked video with his grandfather. I know you mentioned that, man, but anybody that ain't has it. Anybody that hasn't seen that needs to watch it that just maybe you can get an insight to what Kentucky basketball means.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: Yes, I loved it. I totally agree with you. Stephen Peak with his grandfather, uh watching the end of that game and and then he they was it was great. Stephen did an amazing job. And you're exactly right. That is what what Big Blue Nation and Kentucky fandom is for a large percentage of people appreciate it. Don Lemon apparently, uh uh invaded a Baptist church with protesters to disrupt the church service. I don't think you should do that. It's frowned upon. Like I said, don't But why did they do it? Do we know?

00:40:38
Speaker 2: I don't know. Shame on you doing.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna watch him anymore, I'll say that much.

00:40:46
Speaker 4: Well, what channel was he on now?

00:40:48
Speaker 3: CNN?

00:40:50
Speaker 4: I think apparently he got fired. Seeing he got fired and CNN.

00:40:53
Speaker 3: Six years ago, I'm not gonna watch him on his new channel.

00:40:59
Speaker 4: So so yeah, one person rights, How can you all not know this? It's been all over the internet. Well, it's not been on my part of the internet. I didn't know.

00:41:08
Speaker 2: Did you know about Don Lemon?

00:41:10
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:41:10
Speaker 2: No, not until you said it.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: Honestly, I had not thought of him since he left seeing it.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: I've not thought of him ever until this moment, so he's not been on my algorithm.

00:41:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, so now it will be because we've talked about it and our phones have heard it. It's gonna keep showing up, so it'll show it and I can know how mad I am.

00:41:29
Speaker 3: We all have our own news cycles and algorithms, and.

00:41:32
Speaker 4: My new cycle yesterday was all about the fact that people think Belichick and Tom Brady are friends again because Belichick's girlfriend was hanging out with Alex Earl at the little double date set up here. Well, the guys aren't in the picture, but Belichick and Alex Earl, Belichick's girlfriend what's his name, Jordan Jordan Hudson, and Alex Earl were sitting next to each other at the National Championship game, and so they were like, oh, that must mean that Belichick and Brady are friends again.

00:41:58
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were nowhere to be found.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: No, but maybe they were just like, it's the girls bringing them together.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

00:42:06
Speaker 4: These two old men who won't talk to each other, their young girlfriends will be who bring them together. See there's the update you care about. We'll take a break, be right back if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven Little UK football right after this