2024-10-17- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome everyone.

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Speaker 4: It is our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Far be it from me to criticize my colleagues at ESPN, But there's literally right now a topic. Would you rather have Patrick Mahomes or Brock Party this week?

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Speaker 5: Are you crazy?

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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes? I think he's I think he's pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes might be the best.

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Speaker 4: Like it's him or Brady Like you wanted to say, well, I'd rather have Brock Party.

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Speaker 6: I want to hear the argument somebody's much better give to give. Take Brock Party over Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 5: What would the argument be?

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Speaker 7: I mean, Party's great, but Mahomes is an all timer. So I don't know what you could possibly be debating here.

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Speaker 4: I can't either anyway, if I'm not two eight oh twenty two eighty seven people continuing to give me things that they think fans should know.

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Speaker 5: A lot. What about Malik Monk getting forty seven on North Carolina.

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you, I've said this before, that is the best best regular season game I've ever seen live. It was unbelievable what he did that day.

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Speaker 5: Allen Cutler chasing Billy Gillespie.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a that's an al theimer. That's an al Teimer. I'm trying to think of something in the last five years and the public will remember. But something that I remember was the shutdown at the SEC tournament from COVID.

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Speaker 4: That's definitely one. That's definitely one I will remember, whether or not that feeling we all had, Yeah, it was very much, very very much crazy. All right, let's talk about a couple other things here. We do want to mention. I want more than mention. I do want to sort of remember uh Lonnie Dimmrie, who was a UK reporter. He did football and basketball, but his real focus was football. And it's a pretty he had a pretty amazing story of a life. He passed away. He fell I think at the UK Alabama basketball game last year, and and and struggled at after that some and passed away, passed away yesterday. Lonnie, like was a self taught guy. He went to he was in the military. He then worked for a while for IBM and at some point decided in the eighties he wanted to sports right and he wanted to be a newspaper writer, so he wrote for I think a community the Community Voice, which I believe was like a black newspaper in town. He would do sports and he would do movie reviews. Never got to read his movie reviews, but I wanted to. He covered UK football for forty plus years. Nicest man ever ask any football player. They all loved him like he got to know all of them for a long time. He did a postgame radio show on one of the other stations with Larry Glover after games. If you followed UK sports, you at some point have read or remember Lonnie. Worked for The Cat's Pause for a little while, worked for Kentucky Sports Report for a little while. He was very friendly and friends with me and all three of us. Honestly, came in here not that long ago and just showed up one day, came in, sat down, talked to us for five minutes, walked out. But it was good to see him. But Ryan, I know you knew him for a long time. Very sad news and my prayers and condolences to the family of one of really the greats of being around UK sports, specifically UK football, Lonnie Demmer.

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Speaker 6: This one hurts, I mean it really does. We all know Lonnie. I remember Bill Curry, I think giving the nickname the Mayor because he was kind of the Mayor, of all the UK Press Corps and Rich Brooks. I used to kid him all the time, say, Lonnie, I don't know who you write for, but you're always here. He must be here for the free food in the hard time. I want to tell you about Lonnie. You know, before segregation, there were two black high schools in Lexington, Paul Laurrene Dunbar and Frederick Douglas High School. Lonnie was one of the best athletes to ever come out of Frederick Douglas High School. But it was before segregation, so nobody got the during during segregation. Yeah. So he it was a football track. So like you said, he went to the military. Well then they had their own little athletic teams. Whatever post he was at to play football. He was so good. Other posts would like trade for him to using in their game.

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Speaker 5: Really.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So when the new Frederick Doug was opened here in town, they invited all the living alumni back for their first home football game, and some of them were in wheelchairs, some of them were on walkers. But Lonnie was right there, walked out on the field and after the game I saw him and he was crying. He said, I got my school back. I got my alma mater back.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: It was just such a great story. So we're all gonna miss him. Just such a great guy. You gave him your Dodgers tickets every year, every year.

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Speaker 4: When the Reds would play the Dodgers. He was a huge Dodgers fan. I would give him a Dodgers game and he would go up there and it would be so sweet. He would take pictures selfies of him sitting down the field.

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Speaker 6: But I think it was fitting last night when you sent me the note that he had passed. I was watching the Dodgers and that's just you know, something was near and dearies UK and the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: My sign Sea was Bylanie at most games. Every single time he would walk up to me, have you seen and would name a movie. No, I haven't seen that one yet. Tell me ten minutes about the movie whether I should see it or not see it.

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Speaker 5: Back in the.

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Speaker 4: Day, back in the day, they would do for these local media outlets that reviewed movies. They would have a like a Tuesday afternoon showing of movies coming out Friday so that they could watch it so they could write the reviews.

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Speaker 5: And Lonnie did it for a while, but then long after.

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Speaker 4: He was stopped writing, they would still let him come and he would go see Lonnie would go see every movie, like every single movie. And we tried to get him to write for k I wanted him to do movie reviews for KSR. We never could quite get him. He said he was too busy. Yeah, I miss that the most. It really bothers me.

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Speaker 7: I always told him I'd go to Wheelers with him, and that hurt me pretty bad. Last night, but you mentioned Selfie's I'm not exact I have an album. I probably had thirty pictures of me. I tweeted eight of them last night. I can't just tweet all of these photos. But love that guy. I'm gonna miss him. My favorite story was just last year. Uh you know, we're one of the last leave Reppern and we look over and there's a phone and I learned that it's Lonnie's and UK people are gone. It's middle of the night, so I'm like, guess I'll take Lonnie's phone. I don't know who else I would give it to. And I get home and that thing is dinging all night. I can't get the pass code, can't do anything.

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Speaker 5: You remember Ryan. The next morning, I think I called Larry Vaught.

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Speaker 7: I'm trying to find people to find Lonnie finally get in touch with his daughter. But I just had Lonnie's phone for twenty four hours and it would ping every minute or two and I could not shut that ping up where it get logged in.

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Speaker 5: That was my guy. Everybody loved Lonnie.

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Speaker 4: So God bless his family and rest in peace to one of the true UK football UK football legends.

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Speaker 5: Who's next, Shit, Darryl? Darryl, go ahead, Darryl.

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Speaker 8: One couple of other things from the Rough era. There was one year back in the fifties that we were the number one team in the nation and they would, uh, the n C Double Way kind of stacked against us. From what I've read that if you had any players that graduated, you couldn't they could not play in the n C Double Way. So Rough turned down the Yeah, no, yeah.

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Speaker 4: We played in the n I T What. Yeah, it was like what one of those years like in the early fifties.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: And then as far as pat Riley, there was something I think he actually started and he's but he jumped center because he had he was like Jerry West. He has really good pops to him. But it showed a pitcher and the Harold Leader maybe twenty five or thirty years ago, of him jumping center and of course when the ball goes up, everybody's looking at the ball. It had him going up and his and as he was trying to tap it with his right hand, his left hand was pulling the competitor. I think it was a Tennessee player down at some.

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Speaker 5: Time, a little sneaky player.

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Speaker 4: I like that. That's that's good. Well, ye sure, yeah, right, appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: I got working one more Lonnie thing. It came from Corey Price forgot to mention this. I didn't know this, but Corey's did a nice tribute to Lonnie. Did you know he coached the Blue White football game?

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Speaker 5: I did hear that? And Donnie dem re Versus Rick Bosylannie dimri Versus Rick.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine if tomorrow they asked me versus Ryan coaching the Blue White game, it would not go well for either of us.

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Speaker 5: But yes, I've never heard that, So Corey two, that's crazy.

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Speaker 6: I'd forgotten that. That little nugget. Yeah, like you said, Lonnie used to do postgame radio shows. I still don't know really who he wrote for. I don't know if I ever saw anything.

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Speaker 5: He ever wrote.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I got a question for you, Kentucky. We talked about yesterday, number eight in the SEC. Here's my question for you. Let's say we're number twenty three in the AP pole going into the season. When we look back at the end of the year, well, we think we were underrated or overrated at twenty three underrated, So basically that means, do you think we will be a sixth seed? Do you think will be better than a sixth seed or worse than a sixth seed in the tournament, which is what a number twenty three ranked team would be in the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna go to little underrated, but not by much. I kind of had it in my head they're around twenty to begin with, so twenty third is just a little bitlow. So I'm gonna say they're a little underrated.

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Speaker 4: So that means you're gonna because part of what I want you to do is predict the seed we'll have in the NCAA tournament, So you're gonna predict like a five seed five seed?

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, what about you Drew. I think they're a little underrated.

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Speaker 7: I'm just thinking back to Pope last year with BYU was picked to be at the bottom of the Big twelve, and then I don't remember exactly where they started their top twenty team at the end of the year in ken Palm with not having as good of a roster as he has in Kentucky. So that's that's my optimism. And I think they're a little underrated. I mean, it's fine right now, but I think they'll play their way up and be in a better spot by the end of the year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in a set, So what seed in the tournament? I'll go four. Four.

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Speaker 4: That's I think it's a little underrated and I'm gonna put us as a four seed in the tournament. I think we're gonna have some hiccups in the SEC, but I think we're also gonna beat some teams down. I think when you look at the early season games like between Duke and Gonzaga, I think we'll win one of those.

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Speaker 5: But I also think and like then when we play Ohio State and.

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Speaker 4: Clemson will lose one of those, right, Like, I think it'll be one of those things where we pull some games off we shouldn't, we lose some games we shouldn't, and uh, we'll end up about a four seed.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of my prediction.

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Speaker 6: I think that's fair and I think you know, the analysis where the SEC is just there's just some really, really good teams in the SEC this year. We mentioned them the other day, even like Texas and Texas A and M. These teams are really good this year. Arkansas is gonna be good this year. So yeah, they'll they'll stump their toll a little.

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Speaker 4: Any Katz said the two hardest teams in college basketball to predict what they're gonna do this year are Arkansas and Kentucky. And that's probably true. Yeah, Like I could see Arkansas putting it together and being good. I could see him missing the tournament, you know, like it's it's I'd be surprised if we missed the tournament.

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Speaker 5: I'd also be surprised if we were like.

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Speaker 4: A one or two seed. I just don't think I think we're a player short. I don't think we have a person. You know, like last year, Antonio Reeves could shift it into another gear and by the end of the year, Reed Shepherd and Rob could shift it in.

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Speaker 5: I just don't know if we have a dude that can do that this year Drew. Maybe we do, but I just I don't know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree that it's a high enough floor that they'll be in the tournament. I mean, there's so much experience guys that have played good basketball just at schools that are in his pursuits of Kentucky. I mean, Lamon Butler has played in the National Championship Game. That's a guy that knows how that's true. So I don't think, you know, Cal there was some bad losses early on because the guys were young, and we hear the wait till March. They're young, these guys have played enough basketball. There shouldn't be too many hiccups.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't expect us to lose. Yeah, that's how learning the system and things they'll take.

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Speaker 4: I don't expect us to lose to like a u n C. Wilmington this year. I mean, I don't think that's gonna happen. But I do think, like take Ohio State, we should be better than them. We're playing them in Madison Square Garden. But it wouldn't shot me if they upset us and beat us. But at the same time, it wouldn't shot me if we went and beat Gonzaga. Yeah, honestly, because it's not gonna be at the Kennel or whatever. It's gonna be at the Seattle Arena.

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Speaker 6: So the way this team can shoot, they're gonna there's gonna be a night we know that's coming where they are going to shoot lights out and cannot lose to anybody.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, who's next, Grover, Grover? Go ahead, Grover, Matt.

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Speaker 9: I want to I want to pass my condolences on too Lonnie's family. In nineteen sixty nine, I was at Shilveley Sports Center where the football team practiced, and Lonnie walked up to me, didn't know me, and he befriended me and we were friends fifty five years.

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Speaker 5: God bless him.

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Speaker 9: And I want to congratulate you, Matt on your knowledge of UK basketball history. You've really worked hard to do that. But I want to bring up I got my UK alumni magazine today and there's the affection on Memorial Coliseum and there's a picture of coach Rupp and they spelled his name like Adolf Kettler.

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Speaker 5: Oh, well, that's not good UK basketball history.

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Speaker 4: Where am I I've been weak on and still in weak on UK football history.

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Speaker 5: But I my grandfather, I you know, I had to sit and listen to him.

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Speaker 4: Talk about like playing Elgin Baylor in fifty eight in Seattle, and he could remember how the game went.

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Speaker 5: And so I've kind of I've always known that stuff pretty well.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, but I will acknowledge my football history prior to how mummy is not great my knowledge of because because when I was a kid, like it just wasn't a thing to be honest with you, like the games. The games came on after I went to bed on tape delay, and I just never saw him play.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 7: I like going back and learning about things before I can remember it. So I've gone back and watched more UK basketball games I can remember.

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Speaker 5: It's easy to.

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Speaker 7: Find those things. They are finding the UK football histories, the lays basketball. I mean, you can go on YouTube like Kyle Macy's interviewed every player you can think of, if you can watch as many basketball interviews as you want, but the football history is just a little harder to do up.

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Speaker 4: And everybody, like a lot of y'all remember this, Like when I was a kid in the eighties, and nineties, The only game all year that was live on television was Kentucky Tennessee and we'd lose by forty.

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Speaker 5: That was the only game all season that was live.

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Speaker 4: You had to watch it like on delay. I mean, who's gonna sit and watch a game where we lost by thirty you know? So I just never I just never saw them, to be honest.

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Speaker 6: How many times after the news of Rob Bromley coming on to do the UK tape delay game of the game that got beat by thirty points.

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Speaker 4: One of the few games I remember watching on tape delay was Kentucky Indiana and we won three to nothing.

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Speaker 6: It's one of the worst college I was at that game, one of the worst games ever.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: It is Tucky Sports Radio A five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We're gonna do again our final finalist for the Blue White Experience, which is tomorrow night fall, Tomorrow night club, Blueinisle dot Com. But we're gonna get up. We have three finalists so far from this show. We have three finalists from the TikTok. If you haven't seen if you won, go to my TikTok and you'll see me picking the the.

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Speaker 5: The winners. Here's something crazy. So I scrolled through.

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Speaker 4: I scrolled through the first time because we were figuring out how we were gonna film it, and I practiced.

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Speaker 5: I was like, this is not the real winners, okay. So I picked three people. One of them.

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Speaker 4: The thing was you were supposed to tag who you would take with you to the game. So one of them was this person. I don't know the person's name. Let's say it was like Mary and it said Mary, and it said at Emily Sharp, we're going to the game. And I was like, oh, I know, Emily, that's kind of that's kind of cool. But sorry, Emily, you didn't win. So then we do it for real second take, and I'm like, this one's for real. Do it and it's Emily Sharp picking someone else besides.

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Speaker 5: The person.

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Speaker 4: Who had picked her. So Emily Sharp is the finalist, but someone else tagged her. But when she did it, she add someone else. So I don't remember who the person was that tagged Emily, but Emily didn't tag you.

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Speaker 5: So if Emily wins, now it's out there a little drama. I kind of like that.

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Speaker 4: We'll find out if they win, however, but we will do that one more time. One more question for Ryan. Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do. So because not everybody can get through on the phone, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm actually gonna get two more finalists the one on the phone, but you know, we play what does Ryan think?

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Speaker 5: The answer is.

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Speaker 4: Seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. I want you all to write in with your suggestion of what the question should be for Ryan. All right, and whichever one I pick you will also be a finalist for these tickets.

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Speaker 5: Does that make sense.

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Speaker 4: So if the first person who writes the question I pick, or at least the one I see, I'm sorry if you be like, I'm gonna do the best I can with this.

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Speaker 5: But the one I picked to read you will be a finalist makes sense?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And then they pick the winner tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow morning, I will pick the winner and we'll go from there.

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Speaker 4: So seven seven two seven seven four five two five four write in with the question you would ask Ryan Drew in this game.

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Speaker 7: Said yesterday, this is my favorite game we play. I like this new wrinkle to get two winners out of it, and I'm looking forward to seeing what we get.

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Speaker 5: So we'll see what we get.

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Speaker 4: Tom Brady is being approved as one of the new owners of the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Speaker 5: Whatever who cares.

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Speaker 4: But as part of the rules, he a cannot have any association with gambling, which means his DraftKings sponsorship is over.

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Speaker 5: He was a DraftKings guy number two.

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Speaker 4: He's not allowed to sit in on team meetings before the games he calls, which means basically the thing everyone does to prep he's not allowed to do it. He's not allowed to criticize other owners, players, or referees.

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Speaker 5: How is he gonna be an announcer?

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Speaker 6: How can you do your job as a color analyst If you can't do that, you can't sit in on these prep meetings to get ready to call the game.

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Speaker 4: I mean, how can you call a game and you can't criticize a player, a coach, a referee, Like.

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Speaker 5: What's he doing in the game to begin with? Like what's he gonna say?

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Speaker 7: Well, for Tom Brady, he would have to be very good at explaining what's happening or telling stories, and having watched at least three or four full games with him already, he's not very good at that.

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Speaker 5: So I don't just think.

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Speaker 4: About it as a practical matter. He sees a play, quarterback throws it to a receiver, receiver drops it. Is he not supposed to say you should have caught that? Like, is he not supposed to say anything?

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Speaker 7: That's why he's sitting there. He's supposed to he is supposed to do, but he's also not supposed to do because the rules.

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Speaker 6: Now you're the analyst, you's got to break it down what you just saw, and if he can't do it accurately.

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Speaker 5: So I just don't know. To me, I don't know how he can do his job.

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Speaker 7: Don't either that, And they tell those announcers so much in those meetings. Those bouncers know a lot going in for the broadcast. And if he's just in the dark because they don't want to tell the other team because he's with the Raiders, I don't know how.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I've said this on the show yet. Did I say about the Bowl thing, Shannon?

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Speaker 5: If I told the story yet about me and the Bowl game, I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 4: ESPN Radio, at least as of now, is going to have Myron and I call a Bowl game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, you've not said that at all on ESPN Radio. Do you know they have all the Bowl games on the radio. They're gonna have me and Myron call a Bowl game. Now.

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Speaker 4: They haven't said which one. They said they'll figure out which one once the matchups come out. I can tell you I'm sure we're at the bottom of the pecking order. I mean, I'm sure pick the worst bowl that they have that will be the one they assign us. But as part of it, we either have to go to Bristol and do it from Bristol, or we go to the game and if we go to the game, we like go through the thing where we meet with the coaches for the game, and.

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Speaker 5: They tell us all the little wrinkles and all that. I have to tell you.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait. But one thing that worries me. They want me to do play by play. I'm about I've never done play by play for any game of any kind ever. Okay, I've never done play by play for high school. I've never done play by play for college. I've never even done play by play.

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Speaker 5: For like youth league. And they want me to give my debut doing play by play on national radio.

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Speaker 4: They're like, you think you can handle that, And of course I've learned over the years just say yes, yes, you just say yes.

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Speaker 5: Worry about the details later.

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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna tell you I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pick a game and just like practice and act like I'm really doing it.

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Speaker 6: To try to get myself for how tom Each got started, went to some high school games, set in the corner and practice watching the game.

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Speaker 5: That's what you can do.

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Speaker 6: But all that great experience you got with YAMT doing the thirteenth Region.

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Speaker 5: But I didn't do play by play transfer to color. That's different. I've called you may not remember this. I called like five UK basketball games color before.

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Speaker 6: Do you remember that?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: One year Dave Baker did play by play and me and Robbie Moss did color.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, do you remember that? Do you remember that?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 5: Anyway, just something to watch. We'll be right back. TJ.

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Speaker 5: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 10: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: I really liked this song shit, and I think it's good.

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Speaker 10: Yeah it is now that we know who sings.

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Speaker 5: It, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 4: Uh if if I'm not two eight twenty two eighty seven, I think I think I found my winner here seven seven two seven seven four five two five. I'm not gonna say it yet, but I think I found my uh my winner for the question. I think it's a really good one for for Ryan to see how he does.

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Speaker 6: I got a great night's sleep last night, so I feel like I'm gonna come a little closer this time a holiday and express.

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Speaker 4: One first rights, Mat I do the play by play for our high school football team. I don't think you realize how hard it is if you've never done it. Oh, I realized it.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I'm gonna be good at it. I mean, I don't really know anything about the plays.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna ask you that when they when they get out there, what are you looking for? I'm gonna be looking for. Yeah, goes in motion? What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Two tight in formation? You know, going in motion? They're they're playing Tampa two defense.

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Speaker 10: You know what you should do? Really, just called Tom Leach and have a conversation with him.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna fit because I want this to do well. If we do well, maybe they'll use this.

00:24:48
Speaker 6: Absolutely so.

00:24:49
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna I will tell you this, whatever two teams were playing, I'm gonna know more about those two teams than anyone on earth.

00:24:57
Speaker 6: I told you, I've had to do play by play for swimming and tennis.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: Before I think I could do tennis.

00:25:02
Speaker 10: How you swimming?

00:25:03
Speaker 5: What do you say?

00:25:06
Speaker 11: Here?

00:25:06
Speaker 4: He goes, Look at him. Boy, that's a breaststroke if I've ever seen one.

00:25:11
Speaker 5: But what do you say? Well?

00:25:14
Speaker 6: Tom each told me you make sure you mentioned every kid's name. That's all Mom and dad wanted here they just want to hear their kids name to just make sure you mentioned them one time. Matt Jones and Lane four has got some you know, some room to make up. But looking Lane five, Drew Franklin is killing.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: It all right, Well all right, I feel like I could do that.

00:25:31
Speaker 4: Uh Draft Kings pick of the night Tonight's Thursday Night Football.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: Who's playing tonight?

00:25:38
Speaker 6: Broncos and.

00:25:40
Speaker 5: Saints.

00:25:41
Speaker 6: He's going back to uh Broncos and Saint.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: Broncos and Saints. So Broncos and Saints tonight. The Broncos are a three point favorite. Go to Draft Kings, use co ks R bet five get two hundred dollars. Who's winning Broncos.

00:25:54
Speaker 6: Saints, Devin Key and the Broncos. Another big win there, that kind of bow Nicks has kind of found himself a little bit. So go Broncos.

00:26:02
Speaker 5: I'll take the home dog here. I'll take a little New Orleans. Give me a Thursday night team at home, that's an underdog. I'm taking them.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: Spencer Rattler gets his first win, and I will take the Saints at home.

00:26:14
Speaker 5: What about you? Shit?

00:26:16
Speaker 10: Hate to go against your Ryan, but I think I'm taking the Saints too at home.

00:26:19
Speaker 5: So three Picks for the Saints, Ryan for the Broncos. Oh Nicks versus Spencer Rattler in an NFL Oregon in South Carolina playing in the NFL. Who's up next? Let's go to Bill, Bill, Go ahead, Bill.

00:26:33
Speaker 11: Good morning, guys. Hey, just a couple of things. First, first time I've actually gotten to get through. I've been listening forever. My mother was a cheerleader at the University of Kentucky for four years while Ruff was there, And so my next door neighbor was Louis Dafter growing up. And the one the one thing that I think they'll remember in fifty years is catch by ninety Who can forget.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: That Cat's by ninety is good. They'll probably still be saying that in fifty years. Well, that's cool. Louis Dampier in the Cheerleader. I appreciate, appreciate.

00:27:08
Speaker 5: The call I had, somebody had, the Marty Gral miracle, the big, the big comeback. Yeah, we mentioned that. Yeah, we mentioned that Dark Midfield's dunk. Who's the last forever too? Oh my, yeah, Dirt Minifield's dunk should be.

00:27:20
Speaker 4: I think there's still people, Mario, you ever seen Dirt Minifields dunk where he like looks like he's levitating in air. Look it up best Dunk and google Dirt Minifields dunk. It's still like, it doesn't feel like real life.

00:27:35
Speaker 7: I don't know who posted it, but it popped up on a random basketball video account recently and I thought, yes.

00:27:42
Speaker 4: Young Dick Vitale announcing the game too. That's like a very young Vitale just well, I mean young announcer. I don't know if he was a young person at the time, but it was one of it was an early game of his because that was in what the early eighties. Yeah, it's one of his early ESPN games when he does the dunk and he and he says, he'll say something like Joe Be's got the Thoroughbreds or something running this year.

00:28:06
Speaker 5: So who's next, Tommy, Tommy, go ahead, Tommy.

00:28:10
Speaker 12: H Do you know the story of how pat Riley got the UK.

00:28:16
Speaker 5: Car?

00:28:19
Speaker 6: No?

00:28:19
Speaker 11: Uh.

00:28:20
Speaker 13: There was a guy that owned the bar I think it was connected in New York, somewhere in New York state, and he was channel Surfinger whatever on the radio and he found this ball game on and he started listening to it, and of course it was UK playing somebody and k wood Letford was announcing. Well, the guy that owned the bar fell in love with Ky wood Leedford's announcing, and he started listening to Kentucky games all the time. And then they had a pretty good high school player up there named pat Riley. And I don't know how had it happened, but because of this guy at the bar, he got worded the UK.

00:29:02
Speaker 5: And that's how pat Riley is that right? I did not know that. That's a really interesting story, sir.

00:29:06
Speaker 4: That'll be my Kentucky branded story of the It should be Whiskey Thief story of the day for Whiskey Thief.

00:29:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've heard that story. It was eighty four to b h AS. The signal was so strong they could pick it up in Schenectady, New York. Somehow pat Riley, I'm affiliated with it and started listening to the games. I think with this guy.

00:29:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, I used to travel and out.

00:29:24
Speaker 8: Uh.

00:29:24
Speaker 13: We worked twelve states and I would listen to w h AS in different places.

00:29:30
Speaker 5: Remember one time we heard thank you for the story, sir. I appreciate it. You look at my Do you like that? Dirk? You like that? Mario? He just capped him right, on his head, didn't he Yeah, but we would.

00:29:43
Speaker 4: We were in were we in like New Mexico that one time and we listened to a Kentucky game. We could hear it over the air in New Mexico. Once on one of our road.

00:29:52
Speaker 6: Ridriving across New Mexico, you pulled, you pulled that game on the radio and we could hear it clear on eighty four h as.

00:29:58
Speaker 5: That's amazing, It is amazing about it.

00:30:00
Speaker 4: The story I've heard about eighty four a whas, which is kind of an interesting story, is that during the Eisenhower administration, they set up they wanted to have, you know, when you'll hear the emergency broadcast system. They wanted to set up on radio a broadcast system where every part of America if the government needed to like put out you know, there's were being attacked or something, that every part of America could hear the signal.

00:30:30
Speaker 5: And what was happening is all.

00:30:32
Speaker 4: These radio stations were overpowering each other at night and you couldn't hear anything. So they picked ten radio stations in America that at night were allowed to power up instead of powered down, so that every piece of America could be covered and eight forty WHAS in Louisville was one of those ten stations that is allowed at night to power up, whereas other AM stations have to power down. And now that law is still in effect, which is why you can hear eight forty all over the Midwest and the South. And then if you ever, if you're ever like me and you're driving, turn on your AM at night, there's like a handful of stations that you will hear that play sort of all over.

00:31:18
Speaker 6: That story is dead on right, you know, just by the luck of the draw eighty for HS was the one they picked back in the day, he'd be one of those ten stations.

00:31:25
Speaker 4: So I've always thought that was kind of a neat story, And now forty WHS has this huge signal because of that.

00:31:31
Speaker 7: I remember that time we're on the road trip. I think that's actually how I learned how radios work, even though I was taking five years into radio at that point. But that was amazing being so far away and here in our local what's wrong here?

00:31:41
Speaker 5: What are you looking at? What are you doing?

00:31:42
Speaker 6: I think the cord may have come out of it.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: Hey, Mario, replug that cord in over there right now, Ryan screwed it up.

00:31:48
Speaker 5: All right, there you go. Who's up next? Bob, Bob, go ahead, Bob.

00:31:52
Speaker 6: That's not it, No, it must be down here.

00:31:54
Speaker 12: Good more, good mornings. Did you ever know the NBC tournament was played in Jefferson County in Louisville.

00:32:05
Speaker 5: I didn't know that.

00:32:06
Speaker 12: Yes, and Ruff had more wins in seven years in the late fifties and sixties, and Kelif Curry had in eleven years. First eleven years he was here.

00:32:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, a little different competition though.

00:32:22
Speaker 4: I mean, I will say, to be fair to col Wins, before integration, it was a different sport.

00:32:30
Speaker 12: And the football. I haven't played with a few of the guys that was on the winning team for Kentucky in fifty one. Some of the boys and to the twins Harry and Larry Jones have played. Harry was given one A because he was older.

00:32:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've heard that one before. They were one in one A. That's right, Yeah, Well I appreciate it that they were from Cork Corby.

00:32:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, in as it's one of the undertold stories of UK football.

00:33:02
Speaker 5: One in one A that were the two teams Clayton and Cream. Do you like a good leather? Good? Right? Oh?

00:33:08
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00:33:08
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00:34:09
Speaker 5: You know, we haven't seen that a whole lot over the.

00:34:12
Speaker 6: It's not gonna be streamed at all anywhere, right, people keep asking me if they can watch it.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: From what I understand, it is not stream so it is just at Memorial Coliseum, you know. So people have asked about parking if you're coming, My suggestion would be to park in this lot right here and walk. I think that's gonna be your best best your suggestion if you go, because it's just a few blocks down here, and you're not gonna be able to park on campus. I mean, you're just not like, so just don't even try. So I would say, your best bet park here. We'd love for you to eat here, but then walk there. I think that's gonna be your best bet, don't you.

00:34:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, come here, pregame here and get your pregame meal, and.

00:34:51
Speaker 4: Then we just walk over because I, like I said, I you're not there's nowhere to park over there during games. And that's probably gonna be true for women basketball as well in volleyball, etcetera. All Right, so here's the question. I want you to write your answer down, don't say it out loud, all right the question, and I liked it last year in twenty twenty four at the Kentucky Derby. How many mint julips did they sell? How many mint julips did they sell last year at the Kentucky Derby. Now remember, for those of you on the phone, you're not guessing the right answer, You're guessing what Ryan thinks the right answer is. All right, so I need you to Ryan before I do this, I need you to write down what you think the right answer is. Don't say it, but write it down. Okay, all right, there we go. All right, Ryan has written his answer down. Let's go to the phone.

00:35:51
Speaker 10: Who's up first, Steven?

00:35:52
Speaker 5: Steven, where are you from the bank? You Bank? Where is you bank? Uh?

00:36:01
Speaker 8: Just north of Summer, said about fifteen minutes or so.

00:36:04
Speaker 5: I have never heard of you bank.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, Well yeah, we'll be there tomorrow at Don Franklin for the remote. I did not know that U Bank was a place. All right, Well, so for the pride of you Bank, what's your guess?

00:36:17
Speaker 11: Let's go with about one hundred and eighty five thousand.

00:36:19
Speaker 5: One hundred and eighty five thousand is Stephen from U Bank's guests. What about you, sir.

00:36:25
Speaker 10: Next, all right, let's go to Ryan.

00:36:27
Speaker 5: Ryan. Where are you from? Russell Springs? Russell?

00:36:31
Speaker 4: Another one from down in the in that area, Russell Springs. Okay, what what is your guess?

00:36:38
Speaker 5: I will say one hundred and five thousand, one hundred and five thousand, all right, So there's our Russell Springs guests. Who's next? Robert, Robert, Robert? Where are you from? Yeah?

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Shut out Evansville? Okay, Now, Robert, who would you take, by the way, if you get to go to this? Uh?

00:36:57
Speaker 7: Probably my best friend Rondo the dieargan.

00:37:00
Speaker 5: Your best friend? What's his name? Romundo? Hey, Ramundo? I like, all right, what's your guess? I would say one hundred and one hundred and six thousand.

00:37:14
Speaker 4: He's doing a little Bob Barker going one up there on Ryan? Just a second ago, a little price, is right?

00:37:19
Speaker 5: All right? Who's next?

00:37:21
Speaker 10: Parker?

00:37:21
Speaker 5: Parker? Now, Parker, by the way, is here in the bar?

00:37:26
Speaker 6: Yes he is.

00:37:27
Speaker 5: I don't know how he got through.

00:37:29
Speaker 4: I made him step outside because he can't be in here because there would be an echo.

00:37:33
Speaker 6: But Parker at the bar got through.

00:37:37
Speaker 5: Parker, what is your guess?

00:37:41
Speaker 12: I think Ryan's gonna go with fifty thousand.

00:37:43
Speaker 4: Fifty thousand, So Parker's taking the go low, assuming Ryan doesn't know strategy.

00:37:50
Speaker 6: I was way under yesterday.

00:37:51
Speaker 5: Yes, but what if it is low? What if people don't drink as many minutes?

00:37:55
Speaker 8: True?

00:37:55
Speaker 5: Who knows? All right? What's next? Matt? Matt? What's what? What's where you from?

00:38:01
Speaker 12: I'm from Casey County, Baby.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: Casey County Apple Festival time. The only show we've ever done from a funeral home?

00:38:09
Speaker 5: Was it Casey? It was in Casey County?

00:38:12
Speaker 6: God, I was there?

00:38:13
Speaker 12: There you go?

00:38:14
Speaker 5: What is what's your guess?

00:38:16
Speaker 6: I'm going to go with twenty seven thousand.

00:38:20
Speaker 4: Twenty seven thousand, he's even undercutting Parker as the guess.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: All right. And finally, who's last? Rick? Rick? Is this Rick our producer?

00:38:31
Speaker 3: Not today?

00:38:32
Speaker 5: Okay? You where are you from?

00:38:35
Speaker 12: Bowling Green?

00:38:36
Speaker 5: Bowling Green? And what's your guess?

00:38:39
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say.

00:38:42
Speaker 11: He thinks there's a lot of drinkers, one hundred and ninety thousand, one.

00:38:45
Speaker 4: Hundred and ninety thousand, So he guesses the highest number, all right, So we have guesses everywhere from twenty seven to one hundred and ninety thousand. Now, first of all, Ryan, the correct answer well, actually, I'm gonna let you give your guess first, and I want you to walk us through how you got to your guess.

00:39:04
Speaker 6: I guessed one hundred and twenty five thousand because I was thinking that's an average about one a person, because some people may drink two, some people may drink zero. So I went with one hundred and twenty five thousand.

00:39:16
Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty five thousand, the correct answer according to Churchill downs in twenty twenty four, one hundred.

00:39:26
Speaker 5: And twenty four thousand, nine hundred and twenty. Wow.

00:39:31
Speaker 10: Wow, it's stilling over though.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: Ryan only missed it by eighty How about that? Wow? WHOA, that's good. It's been a big numbers guy.

00:39:43
Speaker 4: That's the best guess you have ever given for anything in your life, and that is the hardest one.

00:39:51
Speaker 6: I think it just goes to show you. I don't know mileage, I don't know time, but I know alcohol damage.

00:39:55
Speaker 5: Derby, Derby, get big Derby. What an unbelievable success story.

00:40:00
Speaker 6: Well, my strategy worked out that time.

00:40:03
Speaker 5: You only were off by eighty.

00:40:06
Speaker 4: I mean, Shannon, there are groups of people who could have dranked the other eighty and he'd have been exactly right.

00:40:12
Speaker 10: I am extremely impressed.

00:40:14
Speaker 4: I am extremely impressed too. Now our winner, it looks like is going to be Ryan from Russell Springs.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: Ryan, are you there?

00:40:22
Speaker 8: Yeah?

00:40:23
Speaker 4: Congratulations, Thank you sir, who knew that you would get it when Ryan actually got it correct?

00:40:31
Speaker 6: It's the Ryan mind mailed right there.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: All right, So Ryan, hang on, give your information to Shannon and we'll let you know tomorrow whether or not you're the winner.

00:40:41
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks sir. There you go. How about that?

00:40:45
Speaker 6: Well, you know yesterday I was I was a little off yesterday and maybe even have been a little off the day before. But I'm a Thursday.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: Guy, your servant, that's what you are.

00:40:53
Speaker 6: That's right, park A nice job you.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: Thank you for participating, even though you were not able to win. I can't believe how close you got on that.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: We didn't react, but I wrote it down.

00:41:02
Speaker 5: Well, there was part of me going, did he know the answer to this?

00:41:07
Speaker 6: Like I, that's crazy, you got you were within eighty I was just thinking about one a person. There's like one hundred and twenty five thousand usually go right.

00:41:14
Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess that was my logic too, but I didn't know how many people went. Yeah, I like the one of person. Well, so there you go, Shannon, Are you impressed deserves an award? Yeah?

00:41:25
Speaker 3: I mean like, did are you sure you didn't look this up like around Derby time and remembered it, or like.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, is there a possibility you had heard that stat before?

00:41:32
Speaker 6: No, I drink I hate I hate mint jewelry.

00:41:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that you always bring that up.

00:41:38
Speaker 6: So I drank one one time, and I remember telling myself I am never gonna have this ever again. So I know there's gotta be some people like me that don't.

00:41:45
Speaker 4: So he just assumes that twenty five thousand drink this one time, never drinks it again.

00:41:50
Speaker 6: But other people like him gonna drink probably too, you know too.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: So there you go.

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00:42:35
Speaker 5: That works tomorrow. But thank you all very much.

00:42:37
Speaker 4: Congrats to Ryan who has proven to be the biggest genius when it comes to mint julips of anyone we've ever seen.

00:42:43
Speaker 5: Shout out, let's go great ending there. We'll see you later. This is MIN Kentucky Sports Radio.