2025-07-07- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes one of the rising stars of kill Tony Casey Rocket July tenth through the twelfth. Then catch Lexington first timer Marcus D. Wiley June seventeenth through the nineteenth and as seen on ag T don't miss the amazing psychic comedian Peter Antonio July twenty fifth and twenty six four. Tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called eight five, nine two seven one choke 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.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, July seventh, time Matt Jones here in Lexington, Kentucky, where we are ready for another week. Everybody's here this week you can give us a show on the Clark's Puppet Shop fall line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the T. J. Smith Lavish called TJAM make them pay full house today all five in the in the building. We are getting close to where we're like all geared up for August. I'll be gone next week, but then otherwise we're here. It's it's almost football season. I mean it's coming. And guys, how was your your Fourth of July? Ryan? I saw you went to Otwell, Indiana.

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Speaker 6: That's a tradition like none other, the Well Fourth of July celebration, the parade. You know there are the fifteen fire trucks, people riding their horses down mainting.

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Speaker 5: Do you know anyone that lives there anymore?

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Speaker 2: I think I know any like three people that I saw up there.

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Speaker 5: So you just went up there? Just did you go by yourself?

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Speaker 6: My parents we went to Jassford. I got my parents from the three of us win.

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Speaker 5: So that's beautiful, Drew. You went out to all those the scenery in the American Southwest which we'd been to before. Right, bad Lands.

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Speaker 7: Bad Lands had a very patriotic break. I saw Mount Rushmore. I'd never seen that before. Trump on there yet he was not there yet. He's pretty impressive to see that. I went and.

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Speaker 8: Saw of the four people on Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 5: Oh you got it, don't like you saw it? Ryan? There are four people on Mount.

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Speaker 6: Rush Right, Abraham Lincoln, yep, Theodore Roosevelt okay, uh, George Washington okay.

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Speaker 2: And the fourth one is John Adams.

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Speaker 5: I don't think John Adams is on there. Who's the fourth one?

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Speaker 9: Wait?

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Speaker 5: Which one? Did you?

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Speaker 7: You said Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Washington?

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Speaker 6: Those was the fourth I said Washington, not Jefferson.

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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so you didn't get Jefferson. I had a cool moment.

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Speaker 7: We had an Airbnb facing Mount Rushmore, but at night you couldn't see it. We were wondering if they like, turn it on just because just pitch black. So I played Whitney Houston super Bowl anthem on my phone. I'll show it to you. Right when he gets the end of our song, they lit up Mount Rushmore, which cheered like we did it on our back.

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Speaker 2: Think they heard you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well that's good.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 7: I also got to see two historic baseball teams. The Rockies hosted the White Sox's not the Summer of the Rockies. Oh way, you got the two worst teams in the league. I went there on the fourth of July. I went for the fireworks, sold out crowd for a team on pace to lose one hundred and twenty five games and a team on pace.

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Speaker 4: To they were there for the fireworks.

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Speaker 5: Clearly, that's kind of that's kind of nice though, to see the two worst teams play, that's that's kind of exciting. Shannon, What did you do?

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Speaker 3: Went down to Panama City Beach, Florida, hung out with Lauri Morgan.

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Speaker 4: She was right next to me.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I really wanted to go over and get a selfie, but other people were bothering her. And I don't know how you are when you see like a celebrity, I don't want to go up and be I.

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Speaker 5: Used to be the bag. I used to be a big Like, there's the celebrity, I want a picture with them. Now I feel like I'm imposing. I try not to do it. Now there are some people I'll do it with. Louri Morgan's an interesting one because I would have thought you could get a picture with Louri Morgan, Like, she didn't get asked a lot, right, So you're telling me she gets asked a lot.

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Speaker 3: Well, the way that I saw that she was, there was somebody posting on social media and I'm going, well, that's right across from where I'm at.

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Speaker 10: No.

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Speaker 5: No, someone called her out for being at the what a restaurant?

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Speaker 3: No, she's just on the beach, just sitting there, like on the beach with everybody else.

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Speaker 5: Posted on social media, Louri Morgan is at the beach.

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Speaker 3: Well, does it change her mind if I told you that she had a giant tent on the beach that said Keith Whitley on the side of it, like it was probably his merch tint that he used when he was on Twitter.

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Speaker 5: Now this is getting dark. You're telling me Lori Morgan. Yes, who how old is Lori Morgan?

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Speaker 4: She's probably in her sixties.

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Speaker 5: You're telling me Lori Morgan. Is she just on the bench on the beach hanging.

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Speaker 11: Out, Yes, just with like a couple of friends. Now, so she's not like selling merchandise. No, she's she's hanging out on the beach with her friends. Yes, and she's under a Keith Whitley tent.

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Speaker 3: A giant tent that says Keith Whitley on it. I think she owns one of the houses right across from the condo complex.

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Speaker 11: That's really really standard, Like Keith Whitley is her I agree, ex boyfriend?

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Speaker 4: She's already married.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and she married now, well, he.

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Speaker 3: Just passed away this year, this year, but you know, she'd been merrily five or six times.

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Speaker 4: But it is sort of strange that Keith Whitley's tent.

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Speaker 5: It's weird because when Keith Whitley died, they weren't together.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, and it kind of I'm sorry, I can't skip over this.

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Speaker 5: That's really strange. And like when you say a Keith Whitley tint, is it like a tour tent?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, like if you would sell like okay.

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Speaker 5: Wait, if you're sell merchandise, like when.

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Speaker 3: We do remote you know, we have those big tents. It was about that size, but a little bit bigger, and it has his name on it. And I feel like that's calling attention to her. When you see, oh, Keith Whitley tent, that's got to be somebody an.

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Speaker 5: Attention to something. That's really strange.

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Speaker 4: To me because that's how I knew, That's how I knew where she was. Let's got to be And I look.

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Speaker 5: So who on social media posted Lori Morgan's at this beach? We don't know Laurie Morgan because Mario is looking like, who are these people? Loory Morgan's an old country singer who was dating Keith Whitley, a Kentucky and he died. What would you say? People drinking hard and drink dranking himself to death has always been this story. I don't know if that's actually a technical term, but and in his one of his final songs, he sings tell Loriie I love her yeah, which is one of maybe the saddest songs of all time. And now that's thirty years later. She's sitting on the beach in Panama City with a Keith Whitley tin yep.

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Speaker 4: And I'll screenshot the picture.

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Speaker 5: So so you see it on social media and then you're like, well, I'm gonna go over there.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was right across the street from my my condo. I'm going, okay, there's these big beach houses. I'll start up digging a little bit. And she owns one of those houses right across from the conto.

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Speaker 5: Did you go?

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Speaker 3: I went over there and I saw her. I I don't want to So what did you say to her? I saw her from a like she was twenty she was.

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Speaker 4: You know, twenty yards away from me. But I didn't go up and bother her. I'm like, well, there she is.

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Speaker 12: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is.

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Speaker 5: That is quite a story. That's a better story than anything I am.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm confused by this tint. Yeah, so he died in like nineteen ninety is the tent that old or did at some point after his death? Did someone make a custom Keith Whitley tent?

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Speaker 8: I don't, Yeah, And it's a that have to be like a forty.

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Speaker 5: Year someone nail you. And I'm a big Keith Whitley fan, and I like Lori Morgan, That's a really bizarre story to me, and I'm gonna have to take a while to process.

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Speaker 13: Well.

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Speaker 5: On the fourth of July, I went walking through Louisville. They had in uh Paris Town, which is a part of Louisville that they sort of created out of nowhere, Shane, And that was not a phrase I ever heard until about five or six years ago. They were like, this part of town is called Paris Town, and here's a Paris Town Hall and a Paris Town village. And I was like, you never called it that for a long time. Sure, But but Jumpe Matteo went to Paris Town and I saw. I didn't stay for it, but they had they were having that night. They claimed the National donut eating contest. Oh, I'm throwing the channel flag on the weather. It was national. It was sponsored by Jeff's Donuts, which is a Louisville donuts place, right, so I don't know if they get spot, but they were having it that night. Yeah, and you had ten minutes to eat as many glazed donuts as you could. And I went inside. You could pre purchase a donut just to see what people were eating. And it was a big, thick donut. Okay, so think about like the biggest donut you would buy over the counter donuts glaze. Now, I didn't watch the finals, but I was thinking to myself, let's just take us, okay, not professionals, because you would have had to sit and watch in the hot. It was ninety four degrees in the heat to eat big old, thick glazed donuts. How many think you think you could eat in ten.

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Speaker 2: And ten minutes? You know, I'm a donut guy.

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Speaker 6: I love donuts, But after about three or four I get this, like the meat sweats, I start sweating and getting sugar high.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I could probably only eat ten, ten.

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Speaker 5: Tens a lot. I mean it's a minute, I mean ten on those. I mean those chips, don't know are fit you? You could eat ten? We're doing this. That's it, all right. So here's what.

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Speaker 8: There are neighbor at cast Bar, and they'll do this.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure they would do this. Would you would you try? We would set it up outside of because yeah, there are neighbor at Caspar. We'll set it up outside in the heat so that you can recreate the temperature. Would you this week do the ten donuts in ten minutes?

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Speaker 6: I would absolutely try it just to eat the donuts?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this.

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Speaker 5: You would do it for the food?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean if I tap out it five, I still got.

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Speaker 5: No do you have to put put your whole?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 5: No, no, you're not taking them home with you. If you don't eat them in the ten minutes, they're done. This is not just a way for you to get twelve glades.

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Speaker 6: Now they're puting it on my play, don't I get to keep it to go by?

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna see. So you think you could do it?

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Speaker 2: I probably could not, but I would give it a shot.

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Speaker 5: You give it a shot, like a real shot. Yes, ten glazed donuts and I would give it a shot. We're doing that we're doing that this week.

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Speaker 2: I would give it a shot.

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Speaker 5: What do you think, Shannon, We're doing that this week?

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Speaker 4: Oh, let's do it.

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Speaker 5: Anybody remote this week?

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Speaker 6: My house?

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Speaker 5: Perfect.

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Speaker 8: That's when we can run inside.

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Speaker 5: If you today at the remote, okay, some you figure out how to get us the donuts? All right, you will eat ten outside at your house.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna try it. I'm saying I can do it. I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 4: Does anybody else think they can top ten?

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Speaker 7: No way, I was gonna add. I've done many food challenges in the past. I used to be good at this. I was gonna say five, and I thought that was gonna be difficult. You going with ten?

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Speaker 8: Once you get two or three down, that's gonna stud real hard.

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Speaker 5: These are these are thick. Yeah, I mean, just to eat the ten donuts, you're gonna put on five pounds.

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Speaker 2: I say, I get sweat after eight, two or three donuts.

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Speaker 5: I mean that may be a complete exaggeration. I just made up five pounds. That's probably not how much you would put on, but whatever it is, it's gonna. I mean, your stomach.

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Speaker 7: Will explode eight minutes in you have already had eight donuts.

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Speaker 8: You're telling me you could eat two.

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Speaker 2: More probablys, but I would give.

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Speaker 5: We're doing it at ten thirty am. Okay, Friday, tell you what.

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Speaker 7: I'll go get the donuts. You'll get that. Don't want Ryan have to leave his house to get the Mario lives over by me. None of us are close to it. I will personally make sure the donuts are there.

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Speaker 5: Look at that. Drew will get the donuts. Bloody, No, no, I already told you. Why are you switching it to Spalding. Jeffs is the one that did it, and Jeffs is the one we had the other day. They're thick. Okay, I want you because I want you to eat the big thick ones like you.

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Speaker 6: So if I get if I get five done, you're doing ten. Well, there's no way I could probably do ten and ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: Well, come up with ten. You came up with ten. You're now like arguing with you yourself. You're the one that said ten.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I maybe over exaggerated my.

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Speaker 5: You got ten and ten minutes. That is Friday on the show.

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Speaker 2: Joey Chestnut dips it in water.

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Speaker 5: Did I try to hear you got to do that? That sounds gross in and of itself. No eat it ten. I don't know. I didn't see water on the stage, so I don't think you were allowed to do it in water. Somebody, if you were there at the Paris Town thing, let me know what the winner got, what the winter got. I don't even know what the answer was, but I saw it and I thought, boy in the summer, in this heat. I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I'm excited for Ryan to try, and I don't know if I'll go just glaze you said, ten, glaze you.

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Speaker 2: Realize I'll be done the rest of the show.

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Speaker 5: Everyone like you after the colonoscopy, but just pre sugar rush. Yeah, it'll be fun. We got another hour after the show, all right. So the big story besides the fourth of July, Kentucky gets a major commitment. Uh. Kentucky gets the commitment from quarterback Matt Panatowski Ponatowski Pontoski pana TOASKI I believe isn't that what I said? Yeah, you're right on it, Okay, Matt Ponatowski.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 5: He is from Cincinnati. Top ten quarterback in America would be one of the handful, if not the highest ranked quarterback Kentucky's ever had committed not from the state of Kentucky. Cincinnati's close, but it's technically not in the state, so I think he passes that test. He is also a top baseball store star. He is the reigning Gatorade National Player of the Year in both football and baseball. ACMI Ohio Player of the Year in both football.

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Speaker 2: And baseball as a junior. He won that.

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Speaker 5: As a junior, he won Shannon both of them all and Ohio's at Ohio's pretty good. He is coming to Kentucky. I'm not surprised because we'd heard this was gonna happen, but this is a major, major get for UK Football's a huge get.

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Speaker 7: He comes from Archbishop Mueller in Cincinnati that just puts out football producks. They're a powerhouse, but they play in a difficult league in Ohio. And he still won those awards. He was mister football. I think they were a runner up in the state championship. He had four thousand something yards with like three interceptions and five touchdowns. Went to the Elite eleven camp earlier this summer and was the most accurate passer there. Didn't win the MVP award, but still turned a bunch of heads and just added to his resume. I know it's hard to get really excited about UK football right now, in the middle of all the motivated talk and this season ahead, but this is a gigantic commitment.

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Speaker 5: I do want to get excited. Okay, take a break. We're going to have a minute to get excited. Okay, because this is worthy of getting excited. All the negative Nellies and cynical Cindy's, which I have been one at times and will be one again. You should take a couple hours off because had they gotten this kid two years ago, we'd be doing a parade. So we should not do a parade right now, because it is a pretty impressive for Kentucky. And we'll talk more about why and Laurie Morgan's tent and Rhyme's donuts. That's next here a chaazo was never good anyway. Tuesday I get a little sideways. Wednesday feel better just for a spite.

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Speaker 2: Be great on the podcast.

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Speaker 5: That's right. Thursday and Friday take too long Before I know it. Great song. I gotta stop because I remember the podcast won't have the music and it might not sound as good. A cappella.

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Speaker 2: Oh it sounds great.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna play tell Laurie I love her? And I was like, are you gonna depress everyone?

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Speaker 4: I know we could do that next.

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Speaker 5: I've never played that song. I told the story of that song and then played it to probably twenty people over the years, some of whom don't even know country music, and they all say, that's the most depressing thing I've ever heard, Like because he recorded it right before he died.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like a tape recorder or something like.

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Speaker 5: A tape recorder, and the premise is I may leave the earth, but just make sure Laurie knows I love.

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Speaker 4: Her some deep stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're right, there is something about that recorder.

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Speaker 5: We're married, by the way, I was wrong. Apparently they were married. They were separated, but married.

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Speaker 6: When it's haunting because it's a tape, it's a tape recorder, and you can tell you it's like you just kind of feel like he's alone in a room by himself, down.

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Speaker 2: In the basement.

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Speaker 5: That's the saddest song of all time.

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Speaker 2: It's sad.

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Speaker 5: Is there a sadder song than that?

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Speaker 7: Knowing how his life ended shortly after he sing it?

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Speaker 5: Shannon, you're a big music guy, Yeah, sadder song than tell Laurie I love her with considering circumstances, etcetera.

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Speaker 4: That would be hard to think of one.

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Speaker 5: I know, yeah, like that.

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Speaker 8: Tell her She's the only girl for me.

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Speaker 5: Seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in the text machine. Is there a song sadder than tell Laurie I Love her? I don't think there is. I mean, there are songs that will make you cry, but that one.

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Speaker 6: I've always wondered about that song too. He you know, if he did it in a tape recorder and just left it there, somebody had to stumble across and probably find it.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've heard mixed things about what happened in that when he recorded it and all that, but still said, all right, real quick, let's go back to the quarterback. Kentucky football is right now at the lowest point since Mark Stoops took over. Even in the first couple of years, there was at least the excitement of what might be. That's all gone. And you just two weeks ago or two and a half weeks ago, lost your head recruiter and lifelong friend of Stoops, so like you couldn't have been at a lower point. And since then, they've gotten a number of commitments, some of which are impressive, some of which were lower rated, but they've at least shown life. But now to get at this point a four star quarterback who plays both sports that will uplift both sports, and to get him over major programs, all of whom wanted him when he's not very far away and has to know the perception of the program right now, I think is an amazing accomplishment. And I think for as much as we've criticized Mark Stoops and everybody, as much as they've gotten, you know, a lot of heat, and I think a lot of it deserved, there should be a minute Drew to sit there and go, this is quite an accomplishment.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: I know you can say, well, he isn't here yet, he could always leave. That's true. You could say that about any commitment ever. And if you want to take the position I will never care about anyone that ever commits because they might not come here fair enough, then just skip recruiting season. But if you're gonna care about recruiting at all, and I don't know how as a fan you can't care about it at all, then you have to say this is a pretty amazing accomplishment from an embattled staff.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a remarkable get with uh just where he's ranked, what he's already done in Ohio and how as you said, he knows what's going around you ka football from an hour away, and he didn't. Maybe he's not a lifelong fan, but he knows where things are right now, and he committed to a coordinator who's still pretty unproven here last year did not go well on Hamden's first season, even though he's a little handcuffed with the circumstances for him to make that commitment.

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Speaker 8: It is a big get. And I'm with you.

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Speaker 7: I've I've been as down as anyone on Kentucky football, but you have to be excited about this, even though it is for on down the road a little bit. Yeah, I mean like, that's the biggest get since Tim Couch at quarterback.

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Speaker 5: It is out of high and Drew Barker is the only other one that had this ranking, but both those guys were from Kentucky. Yeah, right, you know I said the negative Nelly's in the cynical Cindy's I had a cynical Cindy, send me Eric, send me something during the break that has the rankings of the quarterbacks history. That's fine, all that's true. We're gonna have plenty of time to complain about it. But Ryan, I do think if you are going to complain about things, you also have to acknowledge when somebody does something good. You can't just be like everything's bad and then something be balanced. And this is an amazing pickup for you.

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Speaker 2: My two big takeaways.

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Speaker 6: I love the fact that the two programs, benjie On and Stoops had to work together on this to get this kid. They both had to work together. It's huge for both, gonna play both, gonna play both.

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Speaker 5: He said he wants to get drafted in both like Kyler Murton.

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Speaker 6: So I think both coaches kind of had to agree. You know, I understand that this is what this kid's about. We want this kid. We have to agree to it. But the perception for both programs that they can pull out this type of kid, especially for football, They're gonna use that now and go recruit other kids.

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Speaker 5: They huge. I mean, this is a huge get and it shows some life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it does.

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Speaker 5: And listen, a lot of recruiting now is money. But my guess is what makes this more impressive to me is this is not the case like some of the guys I think the staff has gotten. We just probably priorities them more than other guys and gave him more money. That's my guess. Some of these three star dudes, these high three star dudes, we probably just offered them more than other good programs. But this kid was probably offered a lot of money by everybody. Yeah for sure, right this, when you get to the top level kids, to some extent, money is not even the reason. Basketball might be a little different, but in football, all these programs would have offered him a lot of money, which means he picked Kentucky because he wanted to come or wanted to come here. I'm going to assume he's gonna come until he does.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he had several offers, but the main three that Kentucky beat out in the end were Oregon and Alabama. I think we're all pretty aware of how I heard of them, how they do art and football in Arkansas was the other school SEC football but also just nearly won the College World Series. He was really considering them for baseball too, So in both sports you beat out some of the top programs that are in the country.

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Speaker 5: It's a huge, successful thing. And I would just say I looked at the comments when I posted it. Most were positive, but there were some oh last four eight thirty nine. Okay, fine, there's gonna be plenty of time for that. But take just a minute to be happy, right, same thing happened at the end of cal There's a group of people that wanted cow gone for so much that they couldn't even root the successes on. You gotta root the successes on and then at the end of the year you evaluate where you are. But you got to take a moment to enjoy the successes. If you don't enjoy the successes, why are you even a fan? Why are you even a fan? I mean, if we beat old miss are you're gonna go five o night, Like, just take a minute and be happy. There are gonna be plenty of time probably to be sad.

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Speaker 6: I think it shows too they can get big time kids without vents.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's another thing you can get. This is a big time kid from Ohio that you did not get with it.

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Speaker 2: I think that's big.

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Speaker 5: That is big. I didn't even think about the Ohio part. That's big. Yeah, that is big.

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Speaker 7: Also, a lot of The criticism is, you know, stoops work ethic. Are they recruiting well over there? And you can't still talk trash a little bit when they go out and get a commitment like this shows they are doing something.

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Speaker 5: He stopped loving her today. Oh yeah, my mom suggests that's a good one.

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Speaker 14: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I still feel like tell Laurie I love her. Sadder, but that's a good call from my mom. Be right back.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: See. I think it's the fact that it's like, I think the fact that's on like a tape recorder makes it sadder. Yeah, you know what I mean. It's not produced at all.

00:23:35
Speaker 8: It's kind of gently plucking those streams.

00:23:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it feels like he's just sitting there being sad and and like just the words where he says, tell Laurie, I love her, Tell Laurie, I need her. What's it? It's like, tell Laurie I give anything I do just to see her. Oh this one. See that's that's haunting right there is because it's like I'm in a terrible place and if I could just see her, So I so what it's all background to say, Shannon, it's so weird to then think there's a tent on a beach.

00:24:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know somebody pointed out that it was I guess the anniversary of his death.

00:24:28
Speaker 4: So maybe she was the tent out for that.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:24:33
Speaker 4: I guess everybody's got a different way of grieving.

00:24:35
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean that's true. You don't want to judge people's I.

00:24:39
Speaker 2: Ask you a question for you to switch subjects.

00:24:41
Speaker 6: The Keith Whitley Museum like was in like where that Carter County they caught on fire or something.

00:24:45
Speaker 2: Did they ever rebuild it.

00:24:46
Speaker 5: Or they was in It's Elliott County?

00:24:48
Speaker 12: Right?

00:24:49
Speaker 2: Is it Elliott County?

00:24:49
Speaker 5: Okause he didn't. He live in Sandy Hook where rockets from Sandy Hook.

00:24:53
Speaker 6: And remember that museum we stopped in we were over there.

00:24:55
Speaker 5: Well, it wasn't a museum. It was a restaurant.

00:24:57
Speaker 6: Yes, remember it was like a museum.

00:25:01
Speaker 5: It was. It was literally like a Hamburger place. They just had a lot of pictures of him. You're I love Keith Whitley. I love that Hamburger place. But you're being very generous and calling it a museum. It was like a steak shack.

00:25:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's part museum for him. I wonder whatever happened. Everything, It was just pictures of him. It wasn't like it wasn't a it was it was picture. They probably have other cop uh Tears in Heaven sad song, Yeah, a Warren z Von That's a great one, Shannon, keep Me in your Heart. He sang that right before he died of cancer, and it was basically like, uh, I know I'm about to die, Please just remember I'm here.

00:25:49
Speaker 5: You should see. He sang that on David Letterman like a month before he died, because he was like David Letterman's favorite artist. And it's brutally sad. I'm not trying to bring the mood down.

00:26:01
Speaker 4: Everything songs today, That's what I'm playing. The sad.

00:26:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, So let's let's uh, let's talk for the donuts just second before I go to the phone. Tends a lot your Your girlfriend's trying to talk to you out of it.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: Yoga girl is begging me.

00:26:15
Speaker 6: She doesn't do not do it, and she if I do it, she goes make sure there's somebody there with the insulin standing by.

00:26:23
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll get the insulin all you know you don't have diabetes.

00:26:26
Speaker 8: No, you will after this though on Friday.

00:26:29
Speaker 7: I mean you also can't get in the pool for thirty minutes after you that's true.

00:26:34
Speaker 5: You can't make sure you can't get we don't want to cramps? Is that true? By the way, people their whole lives is that? Is that? Is that a thing?

00:26:41
Speaker 6: I think it's an old wives tale, I really do.

00:26:43
Speaker 5: Who came up with it?

00:26:44
Speaker 4: I no wife?

00:26:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, an old grandma you've always just dated you get stand of the pool for thirty.

00:26:49
Speaker 5: Minutes, no cramps. Well, I'm excited for you to do it. I think timing wise is not an issue. You have enough time. You don't need to scarf it down. The question just is can you physically do it? Like you don't need the Joey chestnut and just you. The question is just can you physically hold that amount of food?

00:27:10
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the answer is gonna be a big fat no.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: Well no, you have to go into the mindset that you can do. Okay, you can if you go in like if if you if your mind tells you you can't, then you can.

00:27:20
Speaker 2: So I have to believe I can do it.

00:27:22
Speaker 8: You like these big ice coffees in the morning.

00:27:27
Speaker 5: What would make you to where you would feel more motivated? If I gave you a financial reward? What if Mark Stoops were there? What if I said, what if I gave you? What if I say I'll give you two hundred dollars if you do Oh.

00:27:42
Speaker 8: What about a per donut?

00:27:44
Speaker 5: No, I'm not doing that. That's two thousand dollars. But what about if I said, you get two hundred dollars if you do it.

00:27:51
Speaker 6: I think I'll be as wiped out as Shannon was on his walk and you gave him five thousand dollars.

00:27:55
Speaker 5: Well, but I have a sponor I don't have a do If Joffs Donuts wants to sponsor trying to.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: Compare eating ten donuts to walking fifty miles, don't even even start with me.

00:28:05
Speaker 5: If Jeff's Donuts wants to give us a grand to do it, but I personally will give you two hundred dollars if you do it.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: I will give it my best shots.

00:28:14
Speaker 5: You don't seem like are you rich now? You don't need two hundred dollars.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: I absolutely need two hundred dollars Are you kidding?

00:28:19
Speaker 8: Or buy a lot of Jeff's donuts.

00:28:21
Speaker 5: That would be your classic ride thing. He did it, got the two hundred dollars and wouldn't bought more donuts. Let's go to John. Go ahead, John, John, go ahead?

00:28:33
Speaker 13: Yeah, Hello man, can you hear me?

00:28:35
Speaker 5: Yes? Go ahead?

00:28:37
Speaker 13: Okay, Oh yeah, hello? Is your renovation is gonna lie? It's we are.

00:28:44
Speaker 5: We're scheduled right now to open. We're looking at August the twenty sixth, that week, but we're gonna do some special things leading up to it, including some stuff for fans. Actually, I'll probably announce some of that early later later this week, like some early openings for people who listen to the show.

00:29:04
Speaker 13: Okay, all right, the other quarterback slash Baseball Superstars A good pickups for football team and.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: Well, yes, I mean I don't know how long I appreciate the call. It's at least probably. I mean, when does he play two three years from now? I mean it's gonna be a while, insentially enough. It also says for a quarterback, you don't commit unless you think Mark Stoops that Bush Hampton's gonna be here, And that's a long time to wait.

00:29:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, it shows that they really are trying to turn things around there also, not just with him, but I think he said it too. A lot of these guys have committed and there's been feels like fifteen in the last month. They all talk about the culture at Kentucky and how it stood out. I don't know if that's a message that they're intentionally telling them to work into their comments, or if they're really seeing something behind closed doors that looks makes the operation look a lot better than it's been.

00:29:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have one person right say they might chip in another one hundred dollars. Oh my, now you're up to three.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: It's getting more enticing.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: No, no, you're doing this is not that. This isn't to talk you into it. You're just getting offered rewards.

00:30:05
Speaker 3: Eat eat eat donuts like you're do that.

00:30:09
Speaker 5: I've already said, yes you can.

00:30:10
Speaker 6: I'm doing it. I'm going for it. I just I need to get motivated to do ten.

00:30:14
Speaker 5: So if you were hungry you said you could do ten.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was exaggerating. I'm sure a little bit.

00:30:20
Speaker 7: When you go to Jeff's. Because you go to Jeffs, you do like two three. How many are you eating a normal sitting one.

00:30:26
Speaker 5: Come on, now, you just gotta do nine more. It's nine more in ten minutes. I've watched you on the show.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: You eat one like a week ago before we left, when they brought him out.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: You've eat That's true. We had some at the standard brag track there Wednesday.

00:30:41
Speaker 5: So you've just wanted you basically eat two every Friday.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I got to figure in it.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: Eight more, Jerry, go ahead, Jerry, Matt Yes, talk Jerry.

00:30:56
Speaker 15: Hey, al right, sorry Matt, Hey, uh I. I'm excited to see this quarterback come here. I just run over the years of these recruits the way they can.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: But why do you have to do the butt? I'm being dead serious when it's negative, Jerry, you are always adamant to be negative. You're always quick to say things are bad. You're always quick to, like if we lose a game, call and blast them. And I'm fine with that, Like, I know that when Jerry's on there'll be some negativity, and I'm cool with that. But when something positive happens, why is your initial inclination within one and a half seconds to say butt and then something negative. Why can't you just take a minute to say you've talked about culture on this show a lot. This is a good sign.

00:31:43
Speaker 15: Well, well i'll put it when I saw it. He signed yesterday. I wasn't pulled up the two fifty rankings for classes for that for next year, with all these guys that they've had.

00:31:55
Speaker 5: Commitments, I'll just say this.

00:31:57
Speaker 13: Positive hey.

00:32:01
Speaker 15: For him, Yes, but this class is still ain't forty fourth.

00:32:04
Speaker 5: See, I can't do that. You appreciate the call, Jerry. I can't do this. The class doesn't. It has struggled. But you get a piece of positive news. And when you get one piece of positive news and the only thing you can say is negative news. I don't know how people can be a fan like that, Shan and I don't like if everything is negative.

00:32:25
Speaker 4: Why do you watch it? Be a fan.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: I can't not take Donald Trump as president. Every day he drives me crazy. With that said, you do have to be you do have to say, okay, well the border crossings are down, the illegal boy give him credit for that. There's something right like, you have to do that. I hate when people get so into their frame of mind that you can't say anything positive. Doesn't mean you have to like, you can still think Mark Stoops should be fired. But you can say, well, at least it's good news. We get this guy. Why can't you do that?

00:33:01
Speaker 10: Did?

00:33:02
Speaker 2: I don't get it either.

00:33:02
Speaker 6: If it's been over this program has been begging for some good news for over a year.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: You got it, man.

00:33:07
Speaker 6: You got this top notch recruit that most people places in the country would want to have it.

00:33:11
Speaker 2: Kentucky got him.

00:33:12
Speaker 7: I think the answer on the Stoop situation is some people almost don't want him to have success.

00:33:17
Speaker 5: And when you're in that point, I had this mindset with cal that last year. When you're in the point that you're rooting for him to fail so you'll be right, that's a you problem. Right. If you want to be right so much that you'll cut your nose off your face, then that's a U problem. If you hate the president so much that you want there to be bad news so they get criticized, that's a you problem, that's not a them problem. And there are some people like that with Mark Stoops, and I think you're going in the wrong direction when you do that. When does the law familiar game start? Right? April eighteenth, Friday, April eighteenth, That is not that's a there's not one word there, that's correct, Friday July Friday, April the eighteenth.

00:34:09
Speaker 6: I can't I know exactly when my mind did that of it.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: When your mind did it? It did it ten seconds ago?

00:34:14
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still on April football. The last time we had some good news April of last year.

00:34:20
Speaker 5: Bryan. I was hoping Ryan would like a contribute, and Friday April the eighteenth was not. Lave Familia starts Friday July eighteenth, but Thursday, July the seventeenth is a public bourbon bottle signing Bespoken Spirits at gray Line. All four Club Blue bourbon bottles will be ready for purchase and the players will be there to sign. That includes the Harrison Twins, Archie Goodwin, Annsley, Almanor, de Ron Lamb, Willie Caldy signed DeAndre Liggins. About this, said Keith Whitley Khalil Whitney.

00:34:55
Speaker 2: The heck of a get they.

00:34:56
Speaker 5: Get Friday July the eighteenth, or excuse me, Thursday July seventeenth, the night before the first game at gray Line Station in Lexington. Come get Club Club Blue bourbon bottles and get them signed by the former players. That's a lot of people to get to be there to meet them. That is Thursday, July seventeenth at Gray Line at six o'clock. We'll take a break right back, Chiozar, welcome back, take any sports radio. I'm not gonna play this song because it is a bummer, but it's a good one to listen to if you want. If you're in a bumming mood, warns zvone, keep me. I'm telling you that's like the saddest David Letterman appearance.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: You want to be depressed. If you're already depressed, I want to be more depressed.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: Listen, listen to just play.

00:35:40
Speaker 5: The playlist playlist we picked today the most depressing. What person, writes Matt Jerry would be the kind of person who would win the power ball and then complain about the taxes. Yes, that's a good example. That's a perfect example. That's exactly what he would do.

00:35:57
Speaker 7: It's like when we've had contests in the past for something free. Oh that day doesn't work out, that's too far to drive.

00:36:03
Speaker 5: You win it. You went in the war, You win a thing, and then you go. I mean where the seats at? When people do wear the seats.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: I always have the same answer facing the stage, where.

00:36:14
Speaker 5: The seats at Yeah, people, your Reds tickets? Where are they? You mean the free ones?

00:36:22
Speaker 8: That's a day game though I can't do day games.

00:36:25
Speaker 5: That's yeah, So Marcia she Marcia was at the show on Friday. Marcia said, Hey, I'm gonna go to the Reds game Monday. Are you gonna be there? And I said, you know, I'm not sure, but if I don't go, you can have my So she wasn't even asking, she was just gonna say that. She would say, Hi, So I've decided to go tonight. So I text she. I text her and said, Okay, I've decided to go Monday, but if you want, you could have Wednesdays. She said, Oh, I would love it. That's like, that's that's the attitude day, that's the attitude d They're free yeah, right and marsh of all people, that's right. All right, we got a bunch of people out here. I want to give him a chance. So this, let's put the thirty second shot clock on. All right, ready, Shannon Gary in Orlando, go.

00:37:10
Speaker 16: Well, get after good morning, guys.

00:37:11
Speaker 13: Two quick stories.

00:37:14
Speaker 16: Years ago, all right, Mower High School years ago had Gary Faust as a coach. They contacted a friend of mine who was an assistant at a small school in Kentuckians had come up and look at these kids. So he goes up and watch them play this game. And the kids never gotten the game. And he went to Foust after the game and he said, hey, man, he said, I came up here and the kids ever even got on the field. He said, I said they were good enough to play for you.

00:37:41
Speaker 5: Do you feel it coming felt back? He was coming through one story, Shandon. I mean, I knew guys in thirty seconds, so you get two stories? Didn't you get him through one? And I don't even know the ending of that one? And most people listen don't even know who Gary Faust is.

00:37:56
Speaker 2: Now, I want to know who the two kids were.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: Did they get the coach noted Sime. Alright, you can't be greg thirty seconds go.

00:38:09
Speaker 10: All right, we got to focus on this athleticism for mister Ryan Lemon.

00:38:12
Speaker 14: He can do it.

00:38:13
Speaker 10: He can do the donut challenge, but he's got a practice. That's the secret of Joey Chestnut. He does practice. Okay, you gotta we gotta work with Jeff. We gotta get you a dozen a day, buddy. You gotta start taking down a real quick, real quick assists. I got, I got ten seconds left? Go what you got to say?

00:38:30
Speaker 12: Sam?

00:38:32
Speaker 5: Cat do cats? There you go? Appreciates calling all right, even gets to go. Do you do need to practice like do throat exercises?

00:38:45
Speaker 6: My dad even sent me a text, not a smart idea Ryan smartest.

00:38:52
Speaker 8: I can hear it in his voice too, right, yeah, smartest?

00:38:56
Speaker 5: Thirty seconds, Mike, Mike.

00:39:02
Speaker 14: Matt, listen, hello, go back. Can you hear me?

00:39:08
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty seconds?

00:39:10
Speaker 14: Oh okay, so listen.

00:39:12
Speaker 17: I haven't on good authority. You've been given Rich Barnhard a lot of credit for being forward thinking, which is good. But I haven't on good authority of a certain high networth individual that might be an NBA owner came to the Kentucky Football Association Athletic Association and offered to give him a lot of money.

00:39:31
Speaker 5: I wish to again, I would wonder, I wonder where that was going on. Yes, that would have start, that would have I'd actually wonder what you say, who could be a net owner that would want to give UK athletics money? Do we have any UK people who own a team? Not owners?

00:39:49
Speaker 8: That's coming to mind.

00:39:51
Speaker 5: I can't think of who that would.

00:39:52
Speaker 8: Be put them back on it.

00:39:54
Speaker 5: It was intriguing. Listen, I gave him thirty s. That was intriguing, though, Mark thirty seconds.

00:40:00
Speaker 9: Ryan, just take the donuts to put him in two stacks to five, flatten them with your hand.

00:40:05
Speaker 5: Be done. Okay, First, I don't like your little You don't need to practice. You don't need to practice. All right, well, I mean listen, that would be I appreciate the call. That is, I guess, a good piece of advice. It's kind of gross, but all right.

00:40:22
Speaker 2: I like that idea. Though, mash them together.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: You're doing it either way. Okay. By the way, if you mash them two hundred dollars off the table, please go ahead.

00:40:32
Speaker 9: Hey, I hate the Vince left. I don't think it's the end of the world. I think with the transfer portal is more important. Plus, if I believe what I read, I would want to be choosing my own wide receivers. If I'm the receivers coach or running backs coach, I wouldn't want Vince telling me here's the kid, you make it work. So I don't think it's that big a deal. I think we're gonna have a decent season.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: I understand that viewpoint. I actually don't think I appreciate the call. I don't think that's a crazy viewpoint, especially the portal art. I think the portal's gonna become even more important. It already is even more important than high school recruiting. A right, Jay Rock thirty seconds?

00:41:08
Speaker 12: Hello, Hello, Yes, hein Matthew, Matthew that hey, hey man, I want some RESK tickets, but I want to sit in the bleacher Tyler.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: That's why he's the best caller we have.

00:41:25
Speaker 5: He is the best. He is a good caller. I agree. If I'm nine eight twenty two, we've got one more. Anthony thirty seconds, Right, yeah, Ryan, what's going on?

00:41:36
Speaker 12: Man?

00:41:36
Speaker 14: It's is heavy Jones, Man, I think we need to uh really get back to the basics and really hit this transfer a portal really hard, because we're fool if we think we're gonna really look to the future with a freshman quarterback. I mean, did we forget about Clutter Bowley? Already? We had twenty losses the last three years. This program is in a lot of trouble we got I mean.

00:41:57
Speaker 5: Listen, first of all, he's not slive next year, He's not starting next year. I appreciate the call. I mean either Cutter Bowley or if they don't think it's Cutter Bowley, they will get one out of the portal. Sure he's not starting next year, but that doesn't mean it's not a good person to have. Right, everybody always wants Cutter Bowlie to play. I do too, Well, when did we get Cutter Bowley out of high school? Yep? I think you in a perfect world, you get somebody out of high school, and then you get somebody out of the portal, and you make that work.

00:42:24
Speaker 2: That's how you got it.

00:42:25
Speaker 5: That's how you make it work. And they feel like they got their high school guy. Well, we'll take a break and come back. This is our number two Tucky Sports Radio