2025-07-02- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Jones here in Woodford County, Kentucky, just outside of Versales at the new High Bramble Park, Harness racing has come to Woodford County.

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Speaker 2: I had no idea this was here. Chances are you listening.

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Speaker 3: You didn't know either, but you can find out by going on pay Paynes Mill Road just past the Bluegrass Parkway. You can give a Seana Clarks Puppy Shop phone line aight 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.

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Speaker 3: We are on the Kentucky Office, a Highway Safety KSR Safe Summer Driving tour around Kentucky, and we're not far from Lexington. But I have to tell you it's always cool to get to know what's going on. High Bramble Park a harness racing track being built in Woodford County, and by being built, it looks like might be finishing like today. UH opens on Saturday as part of the Woodford County Fair. Ryan Lemon, you are, hopefully, when the show is over, gonna be riding around on one of these harness racing I don't know what do you call them carts?

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Speaker 4: Is it a sulky?

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Speaker 2: It's a sulky.

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Speaker 4: That's that's the proper term, a sulky. Is it really? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I did not know it was a sulky.

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Speaker 3: Where you're gonna be sulking around UH in just a little bit. How about this place just right outside of Lexington, close to Keenland.

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Speaker 5: Massive facility they're about to have out here, And like you said, you're driving down for sales Road ninety nine percent of people have no idea.

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Speaker 4: This is out here off Paines Mill Road.

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Speaker 5: The first horse just got on the track a week ago because the weather kind of lay their contraction.

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Speaker 4: So that's how new this facility is.

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Speaker 5: They've got expansion plans coming up while a horse barns up already. They're gonna build horse barns in the back on the side. It's gonna be massive when they get finished.

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Speaker 3: All right, So let me first of all, if you would like to come join us today. A lot of you wrote me this ain't the easiest place to find. It will be because it will be on Apple Maps, but it's not yet, so you can get it on waves. But what you just put in Paines like pay any Paines Mill Road and turn off Versales Road and you will be able to find it. And then you just drive back here and here it is, and it's a beautiful facility. It opens on Saturday, July fifth, starting at twelve thirty. It's free racing.

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Speaker 2: You'll be able. Let me tell you what you can get set all right. Tell me you.

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Speaker 3: Cannot only get free gourmet bites or front some gourmet bites, not free food trucks. Kids can play with inflatables, and there are some Kentucky artists playing, George Molten and then Kyle Eldridge and the Kentucky Cowhans, which is a good name.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: We have the Appalachian Heathens from Middlesborough and America's got talent and now you got the cow Hans here at High Bramble Park.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a huge day Saturday out here as part of the Woodford County Fair.

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Speaker 4: Twenty eight races they're gonna have out here on there.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of race. It's twenty eight races.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of races.

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Speaker 2: Where are all these horses are?

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Speaker 3: They just gonna have the same horses race twenty eight times and see which one can hang in there.

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Speaker 5: They're in the training room right now getting rubbed down, an ice treatment and massage.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna need it.

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Speaker 3: We're twenty eight races on Saturday, the Woodford County Fair, Woodford County Fair leg of the Kentucky Proud Series. You know OVW Wrestling. We've done the Woodford County Fair a lot. It's always been a good event. And this weekend part of the fourth of July.

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Speaker 5: We know, like really right now in Kentucky. The only harness racing that is active is it Red Mile?

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Speaker 2: Is there none? I don't think that's right.

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Speaker 5: There's other there's like the they said Marion County Fair has theirs is one down in western Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Uh, clo the So then why'd you say Grove?

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Speaker 3: Why'd you say it was the only was the Man of War?

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Speaker 5: Because the one a Red Miles kind of the main harness in Kentucky. This one's gonna be like a rival facility. And I think this one's gonna be bigger and better than that one.

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Speaker 3: Oh arrival, Yes, look at you starting the rivalry already.

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Speaker 5: Well you know if Red Miles number one right now, guess what high Ramble Park's coming?

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Speaker 2: I'm coming after park? All right. Well, we got free coffee.

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Speaker 3: We got free donuts here as well today, So come on out and see us. Just turn on paynes Mill Road.

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Speaker 4: Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Last night I told you I drove.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I drove from New York City back to Kentucky, which is a long drive.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And and I actually had to get back in time to do ESPN at seven o'clock at night. So that was drove a little bit of it. The night before went to Hagar'stown, Maryland. Not the most beautiful city in the world. It is a city, but.

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Speaker 2: UH drove through massive rainstorms.

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Speaker 3: West Virginia has been under construction since nineteen eighty three and is still under construction.

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Speaker 2: They seem to never get it fixed.

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Speaker 3: But UH pulled in, got here, did ESPN last night, and now happy to be with you today.

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Speaker 5: I was actually a little worried about you because the weather was so bad, awful they canceled all the flood of the flights in Philadelphia, New York were being canceled, and I thought, I thought you kind of flew up there.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know you drove.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, about you going back for today, I was I had other plans, but you know what, we had to make it to High Bradble Park.

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Speaker 2: So we did right, But but.

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Speaker 3: It was that's a beautiful drive, but it is not beautiful when it is absolutely pouring rain.

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Speaker 2: Lead.

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Speaker 4: You saw a couple accidents, even.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw one one bad accident. Got CP crawled through the window to get out.

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Speaker 2: I went over.

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Speaker 3: It was I mean, the guy looks like he's okay, so I can say it's funny. Now he wrecks in front of me. He like he tries to merge over, there's somebody there, so he kind of loses control of his car and he flips. And when you see it, I was like, oh no, So it's pouring rain, right, and uh, I'm I'm about to pass it, and the car's there, and I'm thinking, well, I mean, you can't just leave the car like you gotta be like a good citizen. He's in that car, he or she and it doesn't look good and it had a trailer on the back.

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Speaker 2: So I pull over.

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Speaker 3: But then it occurs to me when I get to the car, I'm gonna have no idea what to do, Like there's gonna be I'm really not gonna be able to help the situation at all. And then as I'm walking up to the car, rain pouring down, dude like climbs out of the of the the passing of the driver's window and and he's fine except for the fact that he just wrecked his car.

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Speaker 5: Need to think his guardian Angel, could it sound like that was awful? That's us A good situations do end very very badly, all right.

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Speaker 3: So we have a lot of stuff we want to get to, but first I want to bring uh, Mario. Up here, Mario, I want you to come here, because this is the first story I think is undoubtedly I need a young person on the show moment. Uh So, yesterday I get these little news alerts on my phone and a news alert comes that says YouTube basketball sensation Jesser to join lah Familia for the TBT tournament. And lots of those words did not mean anything to me. I don't know what it means to be a YouTube basketball sensation, and I don't know who Jesser is. But I've learned that Jesser is a twenty six year old YouTube star with thirty one million followers, and he is going to play with the Kentucky Alumni basketball team. Now you are also that age. Were you excited to hear about Jesser?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was.

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Speaker 6: I was surprised a little bit at first, but overall, man, I'm exed. I'm really ecstatic to see him in a lat familiar jersey. It's gonna be incredible.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm gonna guess ninety five percent of the people listening to show either don't know who he is, or if they do, don't understand why he's on the team. So explain to explain to old people what it is that Jesser why it matter?

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Speaker 6: Well, first, first of all, he's not a professional basketball player, but.

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Speaker 2: He could ball. The more reason did not be on the team. He can ball a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Okay, that's more than the average person, I would say, I would hope. So I think lot Familia's way of bringing him in was more of an exposure thing. They want to use his following. They know that, you know him just being there.

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Speaker 2: So he's not good at basketball. He's not terrible. I mean that's not a good sign.

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Speaker 6: Terrible compared to the guys on Lat Familia, He's I'm not gonna say he's as.

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Speaker 2: Good as the Harrison Twins.

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Speaker 3: No, No, is he as good as anyone on the team.

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Speaker 4: Probably not.

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Speaker 6: No, he's a level lower. I would say he's a level now.

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Speaker 5: He did play in the NBA Celebrity All Star Game. I saw him take king the hoop.

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Speaker 2: He took Kane Brown to the hoop.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So I mean, well I didn't realize he took Okay, sorry, let me take it back.

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Speaker 2: So what will he do on the team. Will he get to play? Of course?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Of course? He just said he wasn't good.

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Speaker 6: I mean when they're up by twenty, like, they might throw him in for the ELI ending.

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Speaker 2: You know, have have you know? I think that's something different.

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Speaker 6: No, they they don't have him ending. They'll have him in there, you know, they might sub him in. Who knows if he competes Shoanwoods.

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Speaker 2: Might play him. I don't, I don't know. Okay, all right, So what is he famous for?

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Speaker 6: So he does he's a content creator on YouTube. He does all sorts of videos.

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Speaker 2: But like, what what does he do? He does? He have a talent.

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Speaker 3: Content creation. He's created, but that's not a talent. What does he do in the content?

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Speaker 2: He is?

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Speaker 6: His personality. I would say little kids love him. I've heard that, but I'm gonna ask you again what does he do? And what does he talks about stuff? It's really his personality. He has, you know, a bright personality that you.

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Speaker 2: Like it and you think it's a good addition. I think it's a great addition, Ryan to you? Does it bother you at all? That this is love familiar?

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Speaker 3: The Kentucky basket ball team and we have Jesser the YouTube star.

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Speaker 4: I ask you before we started, should I be embarrassed? I don't know who Jesser is.

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Speaker 2: Shit.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you, be honest, how many people in here when they heard the announcement yesterday knew who Jesser was. Hey, here he is two people? Three people? All right, so three people knew who he was. That's that sort of confirms my ninety five percent wouldn't. So no, I didn't know either.

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Speaker 5: Well, Shawn Woods was on the show yesterday and he hinted and kind of teased us there was another guy getting ready to come out.

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Speaker 4: So I was getting all these messages.

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Speaker 5: I hope's John wall I hope it's Booky Cousins Hopus, Darius Miller, and it's a guy YouTube star that I've never heard of in my life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so bad thing. I think it's gonna be great, man, you think it's gonna be great. I think it's gonna be great. Oh, we're gonna be in no seats. Okay.

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Speaker 3: So they offered, just so you know, law Familia offered us to have Jesser on the show today, and I said, I'd like to have Jesster on the show, but I'm gonna need some time to learn what to say to this.

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Speaker 2: Person or or who he is, so we couldn't do it today.

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Speaker 3: So when I have Jesser on the show, Mario, what in the world am I'm going.

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Speaker 2: To ask this kid?

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Speaker 6: You ask him how does it feel to to First of all, you ask him, how did this happen?

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Speaker 2: How? How did you do? You know how it happened? You're the city, You're the person that has all that infu.

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Speaker 6: I know he has connections with Willie Cauley.

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Speaker 4: Style their friends.

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Speaker 3: So apparently he and Willie Colley Stein play video games together, right, they do videos.

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Speaker 6: He's had him on a newrost amounts of videos of that Jesser has made.

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Speaker 3: So okay, they have a big and then what else would you ask Jesser since you're the one that told me to have him.

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Speaker 6: On, Yeah, I would ask him, like, what's your goal at do you think are you here to compete? Are you gonna be like like trying to obviously play? I know you everybody wants to play for this one million dollar prize, but like, so do you think of get minutes?

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, is it good for UK basketball that he will be on Do you think it will make it'll.

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Speaker 6: Get Yeah, it's great. It's something different it's something different that has I was telling Billy earlier, I said, when's the last time we had a content creator suit up in a TVT tournament game.

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Speaker 2: That's history, though, Man, I love it's history.

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Speaker 7: Listen to you.

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Speaker 3: It's it's something tournament's issue.

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Speaker 2: It's been around for like four years, and.

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Speaker 6: They're they're doing They're killing it. Man, they're keeping there.

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Speaker 2: This is history. Do you feel it? Do you feel the history? No, not at all.

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Speaker 4: Obviously they've got their squad.

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Speaker 3: This guy goes it's the greatest moment in UK basketball history, has surpassed the twenty ten NBA Draft to become the greatest moment in the UK basketball Okay, well, I'm glad you're here to give us that info. Uh and and Ryan, this will be I do think I saw videos last night on TikTok of kids excited that he's on it. And so if kids like it and and it'll do like make UK fans that are kids excited, then that I'm talking.

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Speaker 6: I think you should watch some of his videos on I won't.

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Speaker 5: I won't, but I saw one yesterday I think it was he had he took a bunch of like elementary school kids and he played a bunch of senior citizens in a game of basketball, and he was like.

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Speaker 3: Actually content, Yeah, really they had kids play senior citizens.

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Speaker 2: Huh yeah.

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Speaker 4: He was like in the middle of it and kind of commentating during the game.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd be honest with you, that does sound interesting to me. Who won? I didn't watch that much of it. I didn't go then there you go. You know what you watch the night? You know what You've won?

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Speaker 4: Me over?

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Speaker 3: Little kids versus old people in a basketball game sounds actually really fascinating to me.

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Speaker 2: How old are we talking?

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Speaker 4: They were elementary kids?

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Speaker 2: Were the senior citizens?

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Speaker 4: Oh they were.

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Speaker 5: Probably in their sixties and seventies. They were a lot of them were gray. But they were talking smack with each other.

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Speaker 3: All right, now, this sounds great. I have completely flipped on jess little kids versus senior.

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Speaker 2: Citizens basketball game?

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Speaker 4: Does he are most of his content surrounded basketball for.

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Speaker 6: The most part? NBA two K you know basketball? Yeah, I would say that.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, all right, well so UK basketball continuing the tradition of being on the forefront of everything. Thank you very much, Mario. I appreciate. Now that's not the only in which yeah, I give him a round of the balls. That's not the only way Mario's gonna go ride around on a horse or on a horse and sussy, sulky, sulky. Mitch Bardenhart gave an interview yesterday that did not get a lot of attention that I think is actually very interesting talking about the future of UK sports. And I know sometimes talking about the money and all that is boring, but I do want to talk about what he said because I was surprised by it and I think it'll be important going forward. We will do that here at High Bramble Park in for sales. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Wa. I'm back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at High Bramble Park. Perfect day for a live show, outdoors, not too hot. We're under a tent, got merchandise, got food. Mario's about to get on a sulky. He is on a sulky right now. He's gonna take a ride around the around the track. That's kind of exciting.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it ever done that You've ever been in a sulky on a horness race?

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Speaker 2: Horness on a horness race, no, or a harness race. No, it is I have not looks kind of fun. How fast do they go?

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Speaker 4: That's it. That's pretty much it. And there you know, there's pacers and there's trotters. They're trying to tell me.

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Speaker 5: Pacers lead with their left leg in front four at the same time. Trotters do opposite leg at a time.

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Speaker 2: I like watching you act it out. So are these pacers or are these trotter?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so they have both. They have both, they have both.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that one. Looks like that's got to be to trotter.

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Speaker 2: Wow, they're making some speed.

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Speaker 3: Mario when he when he grew up in New York, I bet that's what he not he would be doing at some point eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one of before we go to the phones, I want to read one thing, all right. So Mitch Barnhart did an interview with CBS where they asked him about this whole Champions Blue.

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Speaker 2: Thing that he started, the kind of new.

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Speaker 3: Private entity that they're doing for UK athletics, and apparently a lot he was kind of on the forefront of this, and a lot of colleges are trying to decide whether to copy, but let me give you. I'm gonna give you some quotes that I think fans will find interesting and maybe, like Mitch Barnhart said, you know, look, we got to raise twenty point five million dollars in revenue to pay these players now, and it's different than what it used to be.

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Speaker 2: And here's what they said.

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Speaker 3: We are not going to our fan base and saying hey, our expenses have gone up, we need more money. That is not fair to our fan base. And frankly, it's not going to be viable in our state. Our opportunities because of population are not as many. So they have decided to do and he says public private partnerships will be really important for us. We're going to take the area around our football stadium and there are opportunities in that land space for us to do things to create a relationship with local businesses that want to be a part of US business. Because businesses can incorporate our football itself. There are opportunities for hotel, motel lodging. We don't have any on campus now, and they can partner and make it happen around the football stadium. There also can be restaurants and shopping and this is a way for us to raise revenue in order to meet the new requirements, potentially hotels, motels around the stadium, restaurants and shopping. That land is owned by UK and basically UK athletics, and they're saying we will create a commercial situation that basically funds these increased costs of UK Athletics.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of that?

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Speaker 5: I understand they have to raise this money somehow. I mean, they've got to do something right. But immediately I'm hearing fans like, man, they're just taking more of our tailgate space away as well, you know, more and more of it just keep disappearing, disapreeing. That's why I go to the UK football game to tailgate visit with my family and friends and then go to the game.

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Speaker 4: And they're keep taking it away from us.

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Speaker 3: So what would be better? I mean, I will say I'm very skeptical. I think I tell actually on campus will do really well. I Mean, one of the odd things about about University of Kentucky is our hotels are not really close to the campus at all. They're either downtown or they're out on the edges of town. That hotel next to Cass Bar, that Holiday Inn is like the only hotel that's anywhere close to campus, So actually thinking of having a hotel, I actually think that can really work. I'm very skeptical about how whether restaurants can work there for a variety of reasons.

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Speaker 2: But what else do we want them to do if we don't want them to raise ticket prices?

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Speaker 3: I agree with you about the tailgate scene, but I'll be honest with you, I think they already ruined that, and I don't think it's coming back like I think they the day they took that grass out, and they ain't gonna all of a sudden go, why don't we just start taking less parking spots and putting grass.

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Speaker 2: In the day they took that out, they ruined it.

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Speaker 3: If they're going to ruin it, how about we at least make something for people to do over there. I guess I understand that that's better than raising ticket prices, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think I said they've they've they've got to do something, and we've seen it work. Like you know, the Reds have that kind of their little area close to the stadium. The Cardinals have something outside of Bush Stadium.

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Speaker 3: But the problem for Kentucky football is so the Reds have that area of the stadium. But guess how many home games you have a year for the Reds a lot more. You have eighty one home games, then you have another ten Bengals games. Now you're at ninety one UK football games. The basketball arena is not in the same place, right, so what you at Tennessee the basketball arena and the football stadium are close enough next to each other you can work. But yeah, I mean there's at Kama Stadium, there's eight games a year at most. This year there's only seven. He did say he wants to have more concerts like Tyler Childers, that they would bring in more and more concerts. That's good, you know, I.

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Speaker 5: Kind of I lovely what Kentucky's doing with their athletic complex, with the baseball field, the soft faull field, the soccer field, the football field all kind of there together, But there's not a lot of area for like, you know, student use that area for parking. You know, you keep taking that stuff away, it's just gonna get kind of more more of a lockjam during on game days.

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Speaker 3: What I took away from Barnhart's interview is that all of US with UK fans have to realize Kentucky, the university, has a choice if they want to compete in sports.

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Speaker 2: He's right, we're not a big enough state, like we're not Ohio state.

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Speaker 3: We can't just we don't have twenty million people that live in the state, right, we have to figure out creative ways. I don't know if this will be what will work or not, but I do like that they're trying something. You know, what's our population of Kentucky, Just for comparison's sake, what's the population. It's like six five and a half million, four point five.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Do you know what the population of New York City is?

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Speaker 3: It's eight million, right, so that's one city that has almost double the population of US.

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Speaker 2: If we are going to be able to compete, they're gonna have to do things like this. You said it.

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Speaker 4: They have to do something.

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Speaker 5: And you don't want to raise ticket prizes and keep gouging there our fan base, you know, donate more money, more money, more money. They have to do something, and maybe this may be the only option they've got.

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Speaker 3: I do appreciate Barnhart, to me, was always behind on an aisle. I do appreciate that now it's in. They are like, we're going to be the leader, We're not gonna be a follower. And I actually think that's positive. Who's up next, Kelly, Kelly, Go ahead, Kelly.

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Speaker 8: Hey head two quick pair of two quick questions, one para feel. So I'm going to the Kentucky Gonzaga game in Nashville. Yeah, and I was planning on wearing a hoodie down there. But the hoodie has the checkerboard emblem on it.

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Speaker 2: If it's all you got, If it's all you got, I'm okay with it.

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Speaker 8: But if you can get something that it's the best quality that I have, Yeah, Well you got.

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Speaker 2: To decide do you want to have good quality or do you want to look like a dork. It's up to you. It's up to you. No, I'm just kidding. Listen.

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Speaker 3: The checkerboard is fine. It's it's it's now that it's not the official uniforms. The shirt can almost be retro.

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Speaker 2: So I'm good with it. What's your other question?

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Speaker 8: If you if you saw the rest of my attire, you would know I've never really shot away from looking like a dork. The other thing is right right. The other thing is I root for the Cleveland Browns in football in addition to Kentucky. Both of those teams are probably gonna suck this year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Is it a fair or is this foul to adopt the Buffalo Bills as my second favorite team given that they have Hairston Walker and David Well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can root for those guys, but if you're gonna My view is if you're gonna adopt the new team, they gotta stink when you adopt them. You cannot adopt the team when they're doing well and the Bills are good now. So can you root for the UK guys, Yes, but you cannot be a Bills fan. You got to adopt the team.

00:22:52
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Be right back.

00:22:54
Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Quarterback Tucky Sports Radio. Here hide Bramble Park, Saturday, twelve thirty. Bring your family. It is free and open the public. The grand opening of the harness racing track here in Woodford County and for sales. It's going to be a beautiful place already great Mario and Billy been riding around on a Sussey yep and sulky sulky and uh it's a beautiful day.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: Not too hot yet fake.

00:23:23
Speaker 3: David Beckham just let me know that UK raise their prices on football and basketball tickets today. So the timing for me saying they wouldn't do that was not great, but I wasn't. I wasn't aware of that, So I mean, some of that's probably to be expected.

00:23:38
Speaker 2: But if we'll we'll see.

00:23:39
Speaker 3: I don't know that raising tickets on football this year is the greatest decision in the world, but we'll find out.

00:23:45
Speaker 5: So when you're telling the story, I meanly started thinking where are they going to do this. They want to build it by the stadium.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: Okay, I can't really picture where it's going to be either, I mean without just taking the entire.

00:23:56
Speaker 2: I mean if it were my money, okay, were my money.

00:24:01
Speaker 3: Having been in the restaurant business and in the restaurant business, I would not want to put a restaurant where they're going. I definitely would want to put a hotel because I do think a hotel would kill it right there. I mean I think a hotel just like when parents come and visit their kids, you know, just that football back like, I think a hotel there. The city could use a hotel there. Any First of all, there's not a hotel rooms in the city to begin with, and then you put some there, I think that would kill it.

00:24:29
Speaker 4: You know, they had that hotel there at the corner of Waller and Nicholas Field Road, but they closed many many years ago, So you're right, there's really nothing around the area.

00:24:36
Speaker 2: It's a different city now than it was there.

00:24:38
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, it's it's.

00:24:40
Speaker 2: A little bit of different city. By the way, we do have some breaking news. This isn't.

00:24:44
Speaker 9: This.

00:24:45
Speaker 2: I'm not this is okay. I tell I was gonna not do that for this one.

00:24:50
Speaker 3: But uh, Pump p Diddy found guilty on two of the five counts in his federal charges. The two he's found guilty of prostitution related charges, but the more serious ones, the ones that could have kept him in jail for the rest of his life, were acketeering and a couple of the others he's actually found not guilty of.

00:25:09
Speaker 2: So probably for him, a little bit of a win could have been a lot worse.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: Kind of had a cliffhanger. Yesterday they came back said that we've got a verdict on four of the five charges. Judge says, get back in the delivered delivery.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: Interesting, they said they had a verdict on four of the five.

00:25:25
Speaker 3: But then when they gave the verdict three three, well, I guess they could have had a verdict on four and they.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: Were split on which one b the way. Uh. Hell, he's in.

00:25:36
Speaker 3: Jail, that's but he got a lot less than he could have gotten if he had gotten the sex trafficking and the rico.

00:25:43
Speaker 2: Okay, uh eight nine twenty two eighty seven? Do you have what I was gonna play?

00:25:47
Speaker 6: There?

00:25:47
Speaker 2: See, I'll come. I'll come back to this. Who's up next, Jake? Jake? Go ahead, Jake.

00:25:54
Speaker 8: Hi.

00:25:54
Speaker 10: I just wanted to I just wanted to call in and give you some background info on that jester that committed to La Familia.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: Go for it.

00:26:02
Speaker 10: He started out as a two K you thwoer. He was playing the game two K and kind of blew up and got his name out there. And now he's just a basketball content creator like Mario's dead. He he he plays one dy one's, he'll he'll play in some fivety five games and stuff like that. I've been watching him for years. I think he will surprise all of you guys in the tournament.

00:26:22
Speaker 2: No, I mean I will see they play well.

00:26:25
Speaker 3: I mean he's playing against dude, Like, there's a difference between a guy who's good down at the YMCA, or even a guy who's good in high school and Willie cally.

00:26:38
Speaker 2: Stott right in the hair.

00:26:40
Speaker 10: But he will hit the open shot.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: Okay, but I mean, first of all, he'll hit the open shot.

00:26:45
Speaker 3: Let's see if he'll hit the open shot when a six' ten dude is flying at him with, That, like there's a difference between hitting the open shot and hitting the open. Shot when Montres harrell is talking trash in front of fifteen thousand, people that's a different.

00:26:59
Speaker 2: THING i hear.

00:27:02
Speaker 10: You But i'm gonna call back when he averages.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: Twenty oh what what's this guy's? Name what's this guy's?

00:27:08
Speaker 4: Name?

00:27:09
Speaker 2: John this Is, Jake. Jake i'll go.

00:27:11
Speaker 3: Farther if he averages ten throughout the, tournament, Ten i'll give you one thousand.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: Dollars, oh that's.

00:27:22
Speaker 10: EVENT i will take on.

00:27:23
Speaker 2: That but if he.

00:27:25
Speaker 3: Doesn't if he, doesn't you owe me twenty. Dollars So i'm giving you basically fifty to one. Odds, okay are you?

00:27:36
Speaker 10: In this sounds? Good i'm in all.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: Right take his number, There, john because he's paying me my twenty dollars when he doesn't average ten.

00:27:45
Speaker 10: Points, again you some money, bags aren't.

00:27:48
Speaker 2: YOU i just want your twenty.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: Dollars it's you're giving me free twenty, Dollars so go ahead take his money, back all?

00:27:55
Speaker 5: Right hang, on maybe you should watch that video of him taking Game brown before you go spending off all your money on this sort of.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: Thing, well if he Took Kane, brown would you take that?

00:28:04
Speaker 4: Bad, NO i don't think he'll get ten minutes a, game let alone average ten.

00:28:08
Speaker 5: Points gain you like you said. It these guys played in THE. Nba Even Deron lamb played in THE. Nba take the.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: Worst dude on Law familia and he would come to your pickup game and wreck everyone that's. Playing, OKAY i don't know who our worst player, is but take the worst, one whoever it, is and he would wreck.

00:28:28
Speaker 5: EVERYBODY i had a guy during the break said he just made a good video of basketball playing the squid. Games he took the squid games and made a version of the of.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Basketball somebody did send me the it's apparently ten year olds versus seventy year. OLDS i am watching. THAT i do think that has the potential to be very. Entertaining all.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: Right but So Bobby, bones you Know Bobby, bones the radio.

00:28:49
Speaker 4: Host oh, yeah definitely friend of, mine Like Bobby.

00:28:52
Speaker 3: Bones but he did a video a couple of days ago on his he does a sports show where he ranked the five annoying fan bases in.

00:29:01
Speaker 2: Sports he had The Philadelphia eagles number, four he.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: Had The, yankees he Had duke, basketball and he Had tennessee.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: Football and then he got to number one and he said.

00:29:13
Speaker 9: This the number one most annoying fan base in all of sports is and they show up by the, hundreds and it's like a virus that takes over wherever they're going Into and It's kentucky basketball. Man and let's say there are ten Thousand kentucky basketball fans IF i were to do the math Sixteenth oh, Come, bin there're the.

00:29:38
Speaker 4: One, yeah there you.

00:29:40
Speaker 2: Go all, Right, So Bobby, BONES i have a message To Bobby.

00:29:46
Speaker 3: Bones you, Know, BOBBY i like, You but first of, all when you say hundreds Of kentucky, fans let's change that to thousands or tens of.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: THOUSANDS i know you're used to.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: Being At, arkansas where collectively you have forty to sixty people in the state who care about, it but In kentucky it's a different. Thing, Secondly, bobby you're a great radio, host but you also do stand up. Comedy i've seen you do stand up. COMEDY i went it was very. Nice the ten thousand people's sixteenth joke is why we don't know you for stand up comedy and we actually know you for being a music. Bidja it's a very terrible. Joke but let me just say, this there's nothing wrong and there's no reason for you to be angry that you got our coach after we wanted rid of.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: Him you have. Him that's.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: Nice in his first, year he had GOTTEN nnba draft picks for fifteen straight. Years comes To, arkansas the street breaks in his first. Year he goes To arkansas and he ends up with less draft picks Than Mark, pope who replaced him At. Kentucky it is okay for you to be hurt by the fact that your programs are not as good As, kentucky's but.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: Those SHOTS i will not.

00:30:54
Speaker 3: ALLOW i would rank the five most annoying fan, bases But arkansas would not make it because they're fans that isn't even on my. Radar because there's a fan base that we don't know anything. About so take duke, Basketball, Yes tennessee. Football, yes you want to throw The yankees. In, yes you want to throw The eagles.

00:31:15
Speaker 1: In.

00:31:15
Speaker 3: Yes guess what the common denominator of all those programs or franchises that, matter the one that doesn't is The.

00:31:22
Speaker 2: Arkansas, razorbacks which is why you're not on the. List, well ride. Back what else is sports? Radio? Look come?

00:31:31
Speaker 3: Back it Is Kentucky Sports radio here live at Hand High Bramble.

00:31:34
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00:31:39
Speaker 3: Com learn more about the beautiful racing facility out, here and they have a lot of sponsors this weekend for the.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: Opening it's at twelve thirty On.

00:31:49
Speaker 3: Saturday hope folks come out and enjoy this new facility in The lexington.

00:31:53
Speaker 5: Area, yeah twenty eight races On, saturday part of The County fair series where it's like it's gonna be some of the harness racers from across the state are Gonna i'm here and compete On.

00:32:01
Speaker 4: Saturday right here on this.

00:32:01
Speaker 3: Track one person, Writes, matt you are wrong About. Jesser you're gonna end up paying that bet kid can. Ball another person Says MATT i play With Daniel orton pick. Up he can't even get time ON, tbt and no one can score against him in our. Game jesser stands no. Chance, mario you're A jesser, advocate just like you're A brownie. Advocate can, well he scored more than ten points a? Game, No, okay that's WHY i feel very. CONFIDENT i don't think he'll play more than ten minutes a.

00:32:29
Speaker 2: Game, YEAH i think that's. UH i think that's very.

00:32:32
Speaker 3: Unlikely big, weekend or actually big day today for My Cincinnati. Reds, okay they have a double header. Today they're down one nothing in the first. Game it got rained out after the third. Inning play two games against The Red. Sox we Gotta i'm, Sitting i'm already scheduled watching all. Right we got we gotta. Split at least if we win them, both that's, Great but we can't lose them. BOTH i feel like if we lose them, BOTH i might have to be back out on The, reds so we need to make. Sure we mean to make sure we at least win one of them today against The Red.

00:33:03
Speaker 5: Sox i'm glad you're talking about The, reds CAUSE i did want to ask, you how'd your Boy Chase burns do the other?

00:33:07
Speaker 3: Night didn't have a good, game didn't have a good, game only got one out the entire, game didn't make it out of the first.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Game he got a red sat on back.

00:33:15
Speaker 3: There did you see The Red sox broadcast says they think he was tipping his, pitches so that he was doing something that let The Red sox know what he was about to throw. Accidentally so they showed The Red sox would be like in the on deck. Circle they were, whispering and The Red sox announcer, said we don't want to say what it, is but it looks like he's tipping his. Pitches Terry francona was asked about after the. Game he wouldn't say, yes but he kind of insinuated we got to work on that with. Him so maybe he was accidentally telling them what he was going to throw before he.

00:33:47
Speaker 5: Threw makes sense because it was batting. Practice, man they were just teeing off on. HIM i THINK i saw staut We hinly threw one strike because they hit everything else that was a.

00:33:55
Speaker 2: Strike, yeah so but this is a, big big. Deal cannot lose both of.

00:33:59
Speaker 3: These we lose both of, THEM i might have to be back out AND i don't want to be out because they're a lot of fun.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: THERE i really enjoy, them BUT i might have to be back out.

00:34:07
Speaker 4: There you've got A red's purse right. There even look at, that you have A reds.

00:34:10
Speaker 2: Purse, well that's actually, uh that's actually very. Nice I've I'VE i have.

00:34:16
Speaker 3: Enjoyed i've enjoyed watching them this year so. Much and the good thing is they're. Young even if even if it doesn't work out this, year they've got a couple more. Years like they pretty much have everybody good locked up under. Contract they got a chance to be good for the next couple.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: WEEKS i did See Spincer, STEER i think was The Major League Baseball player of The week because he Had.

00:34:35
Speaker 2: Yeah Spencer steer been been doing. WELL i never. SO i have a rule of.

00:34:41
Speaker 3: Thumb when somebody passes, away every single person deserves at least a minute of either saying something nice about them or don't say anything at.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: All So i'm not gonna violate, this BUT i do have to note that one of my favorite things to say.

00:34:59
Speaker 3: The person that said it passed, Away jimmy swaggered the minister WHEN i was a, child the teleevangelist who was WHEN i was a, Kid you guys would. KNOW i was ON tv all the, time like he. Was like when you thought of, Evangelists Billy graham was number. One he was kind of the classy. One and then there was Like Jim baker And Jimmy. Swagger AND i was, shocked like two years ago to learn That Jim baker And Jimmy swagger were even still. ALIVE i had no idea That Jim baker is still. Alive, wow But Jimmy swagger passed away ninety years. Old if you, want you can. Look he had a very checkered. History but he also said the line that you've heard me do that IMPRESSION i can, do Which i'm not going to do in front of everybody because it puts me on the. Spot but the eye have sinned against, you my, lord which is one of my favorite videos of all.

00:35:49
Speaker 2: Time sorry to, see, though even though he was a little bit of a crook and a con, man it was sorry to see that he passed away at ninety years.

00:35:56
Speaker 5: Old you're, right there was a time a lot of us Remember, Billy jimmy Shoe, marlowe there it, is there it.

00:36:03
Speaker 4: IS i thought you were gonna do.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: It, SORRY i just SAID i. Forgot OH i. KNOW i, Say, look there was.

00:36:10
Speaker 5: A time but one of those three guys had a. Show we all watched. It, man we didn't have cable. Television he had those three networks and it was. ON i remember sitting with my parents Watching Jimmy. Swagger, yeah my grandma was Very my grandma was very.

00:36:22
Speaker 3: Surprised she, GOES i remember she asked me WHEN i was a little, kid and you gotta REMEMBER i was like nine or something ten and chucked at me and she, goes do you Think Jimmy swagger did?

00:36:33
Speaker 2: That AND i MEAN i didn't really know what that.

00:36:36
Speaker 3: Meant huh at nine or ten years, old he was apologizing for like he, said he sinned against His. LORD i assume he probably did. It but, uh rest in peace To Jimmy. Swagger who's, Next, Dallas, dallas go, Ahead.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: Dallas hey, man what's one little? Brother what's?

00:36:56
Speaker 9: Up?

00:36:58
Speaker 7: WELL i just want to know what do you think is starting five for basketball is gonna? Be and do you think the football team is gonna make a bowl game this?

00:37:07
Speaker 2: Year because on the second. One SO i, mean oh my, god does that surprise?

00:37:14
Speaker 7: You, YEAH i think we got some good transfers and guys coming in this.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: Year all, Right, WELL i like the. Positivity how many wins do you think we're gonna, Have, Lord.

00:37:25
Speaker 7: I'd say six and six will.

00:37:27
Speaker 8: Barely we'll make the That Liberty bowl or.

00:37:31
Speaker 3: Something, well, listen if we make if we're six and six with the schedule we have and make The Liberty, BOWL i, think, honestly that's a.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: Success to be quite frank with, YOU.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: I do think it's worth noting that they flipped the receiver, yesterday a four star receiver flipped From auburn To. KENTUCKY i, mean Since vince, left you do have to say that the, recruiting they've gone from two commitments to twelve in the course of in the course of like a week and a.

00:38:01
Speaker 5: HALF i don't know who this guy, is BUT i Heard Tom leach talking about it this. Morning apparently you, know all miss one and em you know this is a is a, player this.

00:38:07
Speaker 2: Is this is the best commitment they've got so. FAR i believe it.

00:38:10
Speaker 5: Might be the best commitment that that guy in the right tackle they got that came in From New Mexico. State those may be the leaders in the transfer portal. Class so let's talk about basketball for a. Second Jalen.

00:38:19
Speaker 3: Lowe, So Jalen lowe said that he thought This kentucky team had the line up to be to play for a national. Championship he, said we will have the best backcourt in the, country best backcourt in the. Country and then he went through and Said Trent noah is the best shooter that he's ever seen in his. Life, wow said he in all of his playing, basketball nobody better Than Trent. Noah so the question, was what do we think the starting lineup would. Be i'm still Going Jalen.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: Lowe i'm now.

00:38:52
Speaker 3: SWITCHING i Had Jasper. Johnson i'm gonna switch and Go Denzel. ABERDEEN i Watched Jessper johnson a little bit in The TEAM. USA i still think he's gonna be really. Good he's probably a notch below WHERE i thought he. Was So i'm gonna put him at like the sixth, man And i'll switch to what you And drew had With aberdeen and then Go, Oway Mohammed diabat And Brandon.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: Garrison do you have any difference from?

00:39:15
Speaker 5: That, NO i think Until Jaden quayton gets, healthy that's the starting. LINEUP i think that's exactly who they go, with and with yellowch if he ever makes it back over, HERE i think maybe he's.

00:39:22
Speaker 4: Gonna maybe push for a starting position as.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: Well in my hotel, ROOM i Watched Jasper johnson a part of both of his, games AND i love the kids. ATHLETICISM i think he's GONNA i think he's gonna be really.

00:39:35
Speaker 2: GOOD i kind of THINK i we'll. See he may want to be a one and. Done he looks to me to be like a two year. Dude but he looks to me like a.

00:39:48
Speaker 3: Dude, Again i've only watched a couple, games but he looks to me like a two year.

00:39:52
Speaker 2: Dude that maybe is gonna be more of a six or seventh man than than THAN i.

00:39:58
Speaker 5: Thought, YEAH i think he's LIKE i said, earlier he's gonna get better and. BETTER i think it's gonna he gets bigger and. Stronger you get him to THE, uk they get him on the workout, program he muscles up a little, bit he becomes that much more valuable as a.

00:40:09
Speaker 4: Player i'll tell you who's.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: GOOD i don't want him to be.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: Good kick going To louisvill's good kick going To louis' is gonna be a. PROBLEM i, mean that brown, kid he's the best player On TEAM, usa and he'll be the best Freshman louisvill's.

00:40:26
Speaker 2: HAD i don't.

00:40:29
Speaker 3: KNOW i, mean he might be the best Freshman louisve's had in Since Purvose else.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: He's that. Good uh, yeah, NO i mean he's He's, look he's gonna be a lot like all of.

00:40:43
Speaker 3: Those cal freshmen in the sense of he'll be, inconsistent he won't be good the like he'll have his, moment but like as far as a raw, talent that, dude that's the best FRESHMAN i can think.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: Of can you think of a freshman they had that's Better Donovan? Mitchell did he come out as a freshman or did he play two?

00:41:02
Speaker 4: Years Merrek patino thought he needed to stay and he ended up.

00:41:05
Speaker 2: Leaving, actually Did Domin mitchell play one or? Two?

00:41:09
Speaker 3: Two and he Got, YEAH i, mean certainly the best Since Donovan. Mitchell i'll but he's gonna be. GOOD i MEAN i wish he, wasn't but he. Is he'll be their best.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: Player it looked Like jasper may have gotten hurt right at the end of the, game he.

00:41:21
Speaker 2: Had something on his.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: Wrist you, know we're In Jasper Johnson country by the way over here in for. Sales that's exactly. Right, yeah so, yeah he walked off the floor with ice on his. Wrist so hopefully that's just a Temporary we'll. SEE i mean they play, AGAIN i think, tomorrow so we'll see if he.

00:41:38
Speaker 5: Plays he had a good game with eleven points in eleven, minutes hit a big bucket right at the end of the first.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: Half, yeah it was like a sixty point. Win but, yeah he played His if you want to watch him play his game, yesterday WHICH i have to be, FAIR i haven't seen the highlights of that, game that was his best game so. Far you can go TO Usa basketball and all of those games are on.

00:41:56
Speaker 4: There he's going to be a superstar. Someday we just just pay attention to what he, does because, man this guy's gonna be a. Superstar, YEAH i.

00:42:02
Speaker 2: Mean he's don't get me, Wrong he's gonna play a lot and be good next. Year BUT i THINK i may move the starter To. Aberdeen we're gonna take a break and be right.

00:42:10
Speaker 3: Back we are here At High bramble parking for sales At Kentucky Sports radio