2025-10-28- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome Back number two.

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Speaker 3: Take e Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four Here enjoying a nice Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: I was looking.

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Speaker 3: Sunday morning was on this screen right here, and I just said, what I saw, a nice Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Matt Ryan and drew.

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Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt Ryan is right, it's better to be social than by yourself. Why do I actually agree with disagree with that in theory. I think we're like communal beings who should be with other people. I'm just saying, you have to be alone sometimes, right If people who are alone all the time, I don't think that's healthy.

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Speaker 1: Eth I don't either.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, I don't think.

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Speaker 3: It's healthy to be like constantly by yourself. I actually think that's bad behavior too. But I think it's like a bouce.

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Speaker 1: I think the fact I've been around kids and wives and family my whole life, I've never really had to ever ever be by myself. That's why I'm having a hard time adjusting to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're gonna get you there. Next week is a good start.

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Speaker 1: How many days I gotta do this? Seven seven days?

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Speaker 2: Seven. You're gonna love it. You're gonna start doing it all the time.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. I did you were?

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Speaker 3: He wasn't Drakes last night on a Monday night party and at like eight thirty at night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Can you go to Drakes after you did the jeff Donuts challenge?

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Speaker 1: I mean you did?

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Speaker 2: Have you had any donuts since then?

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Speaker 1: The guy that brought the donuts to the show, I had one of those.

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Speaker 3: I've had the first donut you've had since you did the donuts?

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Speaker 2: Yees?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And I can't eat a regular glazed donut maybe ever again?

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Speaker 2: Really you don't think you can?

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Speaker 1: Maybe my mouth slobber flobber?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what is flabber?

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Speaker 1: Slobber?

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Speaker 3: Okay, there have been three people that I know of that have tried to do the challenge since you with those Jeff's donuts, and no one has six.

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Speaker 1: Nobody can do it. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So we may have picked an impossible challenge in hindsight, and it wasn't even the case when the challenge is made.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. But the Jeff's donuts are just a different animal. It donut exactly. Uh.

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Speaker 3: It seems like very few people are rooting for cow I've gotten probably one hundred and fifty messages, and it looks like maybe four people rooting for him.

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Speaker 1: I saw the one guy sent me a message. He goes I did last year when they had like several of our former players and our former recruits.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that makes some sense, like if because if you like to do or or the yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: But now those big z's gone. A dude's gone.

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Speaker 2: He's not going anywhere. He's still there.

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Speaker 3: Poor Wagner man. I want to actually he is one. I do hope plays well. I would like him to play well because he seems like a good guy to me, and I think, you know, it's not his fault that people thought he was better than he is, right.

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Speaker 2: I actually wanted him to get away from that.

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Speaker 3: Operation, even though I wanted them to lose. I felt bad when he had that one on one buzzer beater that never stood a chance in the tournament last year, the last shot they took of the season. Yea, even though a horrible shot and it was very on John Caliperi in that position. I felt bad that Wagner had to be the one to go through that.

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Speaker 1: But he played great against US at Rupparino Man.

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Speaker 3: Two things I think are interesting. First of all, I want to give a shout out to Mark Pope. This is like, this doesn't affect most people, but I think most people will appreciate what this symbolizes, which is Mark Pope has invited the people that follow the media that covers UK basketball to come to a press conference and practice tomorrow and bring one member of their family or if they have children, bring all of their children. So basically, he's allowing people who cover the games to bring their kids to practice. And in my case, I'm bringing my parents. Larry is eighty eight years old and he's never gotten to see how awesome is that? And now tomorrow I'm gonna get to take him and my mom to RUP to see UK practice. My guess is I'll probably get a chance to introduce them to Mark Pope. They're gonna be like through the roof excited, and other people are going to get to bring their kids, etc. Now I know a lot of people are like, oh, who cares, it's the media, But two things. One, this is just kind for a lot of these people. This job takes them away from their families, and like you get to bring their families. But two, it's also smart in the sense of, like, if it's a good pr move, right, all these people are gonna be writing about you if you do something really nice for them. Sometimes it makes it harder, But just on a personal level, I just want to think him because my parents are so excited about it, right, And I'm sure there are people who are doing this who like their kids, are now excited about and it's a regular practice. I just think Ryan, that's the kind of thing small gestures in life can go really a long way, and that's a small gesture that for a lot of people will matter a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yea. And I think Pope gets what UK basketball means to every generation, Like you're gonna bring your dad, I'm bringing my son.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: He extends all the way from an eighteen year old to an eighty eight year old because that's what Kentucky basketball means. So you're going, I'm going with Josiah Okay, good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What about you? Are you going? I'm going? Yeah? Very cool. Everything you said, And it's just so different.

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Speaker 5: Than what was so different. He used to be so different. I'm gonna tell them noon, I'll get there at one. They can wait and then I'll talk about him behind their backs. Now it's like a genuine appreciation for the media, and it's been that way. I'll start with he's on time, but also he's talked to people just thanking them for covering the team. There's been a lot more pro media stuff from him, and part of it is a pr move, I get it, But I do think he has a genuine appreciation for the people writing the stories and telling the stories of his players.

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Speaker 2: He's done that.

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Speaker 3: I think something similar with various people that work in the building, Like whatever people do in the building, they've gotten to do something like that. I don't even know that I've heard that. I don't, you know, So I just I think that's very cool. But it's also a symbolic gesture to me of how he understands the program. He understands that this is bigger than him, and I just I think it's really nice And I'm looking forward to tomorrow Larry looking at me and going, now.

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Speaker 2: Who's that guy? Will now he'll know who Trent no Is does.

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Speaker 3: That'll be the one player he'll know because he's from Harley, but everybody else I might we're not allowed to live stream it, But I would like to live stream Larry watching.

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Speaker 2: Practice Larry Camy.

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Speaker 3: I think the Larry Larry commentary wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

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Speaker 1: Just the fact he's inviting us to watch practice is open it up, you know.

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Speaker 2: And by the way that they get to come to press conference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Are asking a question, I'm I'm gonna see it.

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Speaker 3: My mom ask a question, she'll ask. I'm gonna say, Mom, you get my question. She was a prosecutor, she could ask her court during if she won, she.

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Speaker 1: Could probably relate to Pope on that level.

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Speaker 3: Yes, second little story I wanted to get your take on. In Lexington yesterday, a couple or excuse me, in Richmond, a couple showed up at the Texas Roadhouse.

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Speaker 2: Is there a Texas Roadhouse in Richmond?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: A couple showed up at the Texas Roadhouse in Richmond and told the owners that this was their five hundred and thirty third different location that they've been to the Texas Roadhouse. They travel America and only eat at Texas Roadhouses, with the goal of visiting every city that has a Texas Roadhouse. They were in Richmond Kentucky this week, it's number five hundred and thirty three. Here's my question for you, is that cool or not cool?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with cool. I wish there's something I could do when I retire. Let's just get in our RV. Let's just drive across the country. See these little towns I might pick uping different than a Texas roadhouse.

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Speaker 2: No, no, that's why I'm asking.

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Speaker 3: Of course, traveling to all these towns, that's cool, that's cool, But what if it requires you to eat at the Texas roadhouse in all of these towns. You get to go to all these places with all this cuisine, but you have to eat the same food.

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Speaker 1: They do have really good roles.

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Speaker 3: Really really, would they be really good? Five hundred and thirty three straight days?

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Speaker 1: That's pushing it, Grue.

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Speaker 5: I've been following their journey for a long time. I'm actually I was trying to see if they're eating the same meal, because that would be tough.

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Speaker 2: To pull up.

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Speaker 1: It'll be tough.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's very cool they're doing it.

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Speaker 5: They got through little Texas roadhouse hats. They're probably getting welcomed every time they show up in a new one. Ryan's right the roles. I don't know how they're not eight hundred pounds right now, but I think it's cool that they're doing it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's very cool that they're using something to encourage them to see the country. Yes, yeah, COVID ruined this, so we didn't do it. But my friends and I had made a decision that we were going to pick a random day of the year, and we were trying to think, what is something that's everywhere in the country, and we realized WWF WW is everywhere in the country. So we were going to just pick a random day in the country in the year, like February sixth, and go look and wherever WWE was that day. That's where we were going to make our next group vacation. Not to see WWE, but that's how we were going to rather than sit and go, oh, let's go here, let's go there, and then you could end up somewhere that you otherwise would never go.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: That's why I love our KSR road trips exactly.

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Speaker 3: So we did it, and we came up the first time it was Richmond, Virginia, and we were like, well, we would never go to Richmond Virginia. But now we'll go to Richmond, Virginia. And we scheduled it, but then COVID hit and that we didn't get to go, and now we haven't restarted that. But I do like the idea of using the Texas Roadhouse because most people, like they wouldn't Those people probably would have never visited Richmond, Kentucky otherwise correct, and now they do it because of Texas road I.

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Speaker 1: Get experienced, Well, Kentucky life is about a little bit, you know. I'm sure they spent the night in Kentucky. You're close to it, close to Richmond.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I like the idea.

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Speaker 3: I could not go to all these places and continue to eat at the Texas Roadhouse.

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Speaker 5: I wonder what their doctor says about it, like, hey, I love you're doing this. It's good you're out being active, but you're having a lot of blooming onions.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you were to go to Richmond, though, and eat the most the best Richmond place. Where would you where would we pay? What's the best restaurant in Richmond?

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Speaker 1: What's the wing place? Like the one place got the good wing Richmond Garden, Madison Garden, Madison.

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Speaker 2: Garden, Madison Garden. Where's that they.

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Speaker 1: Have probably the outside of our wings at kas Bar. Maybe their number two is that I've never heard of it close to downtown.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen you this excited about a place.

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Speaker 1: It's really good. It's kind of a hole in the wall type of place, and you go a lot. I've been a couple of years since I've been down the Madison Guard Madison Garden.

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Speaker 2: Because of Madison County.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, so if I go that, get the wings, it's gonna be worth The wings are worth it, all right.

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Speaker 3: Madison Garden. Congrats on the free plug from Ryan Lemon.

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Speaker 5: Do you know a place I don't eat in Richmond much because I live so close to there. I think my last two meals in Richmond were at Hooters. I'm not gonna recommend Hooters.

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Speaker 2: There is I feel like I met the Richmond Caynes all the time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a there's a Mexican restaurant in Richmond they're really proud of. I think Gruden even name dropped it in his unboxing. Does that ring a bell?

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Speaker 2: There's a Mexican restaurant in Richmond.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna John he unboxed the the e k U stuff and even name dropped the restaurant. I saw a lot of people replied, Oh, he knows Richmond.

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Speaker 3: You know what that is. I want to go there too, So I'm gonna go. What I'm talking about Fiesta. Maybe that's every Mexican. I'm just telling you something like her name dropped it. He's like, I know the I got a question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have we ever done a show in Richmond?

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Speaker 2: Once?

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Speaker 3: We did it at that bar? Remember they had a there, they had a bar or something we did.

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Speaker 1: I'm drawing flapping, Rick.

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Speaker 2: Why did all those people drop off the phone at the same time.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do this.

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Speaker 2: You hang up on all those people.

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Speaker 3: I'm still still Five people dropped off within two seconds of each other.

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Speaker 1: They're driving to Madison Garden for lunch.

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Speaker 3: Okay, twenty two eighty seven. Well, the one person that remained was Jay Rock, So go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Jay Rock.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, y'all. It's been a while. I've been listening on podcasts and I never got to congratulate you on your twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: There's two there's two things that stood at the most in these twenty years to me, and the first time I mean y'all helping people get through stuff was back in January nineteen eighty six when the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up.

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Speaker 8: I didn't know where to go, but y'all were.

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Speaker 9: Y'all were there for we.

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Speaker 2: Did We weren't on. That wasn't us. We weren't on back then.

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Speaker 8: Well, all the other people were saying it was before two thousand when he was on. And then in ninety one when we was going across the desert in Operation Desert Storm, y'all y'all just wheeled us through.

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Speaker 2: Man, Well, you're you're very welcome for both of those. I wasn't. I don't don't. I don't think that was us. But okay.

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Speaker 5: We did have a few people on the twenty year anniversary day, so they've been listening for longer than it's existed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but if they want to believe this show is only fifteen years, the website is twenty years.

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Speaker 2: The show's anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Hits in November, coming up, right, Yeah, we'll, we'll.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about I'm doing my list of what I think I've been working on, the twenty best shows.

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Speaker 1: Of alt Oh, that'll be a good list.

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Speaker 3: And I've been trying to make sure I don't miss any huh. But I'm kind of going back through the archives and this is just my list. Somebody will probably remind me of something. Yes, what do you think will be number one? I've already picked my number one. What do you think my number one is?

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Speaker 1: Oh, my number one is not gonna be your number one?

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Speaker 2: What's your number?

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Speaker 1: I still think our number one shows we did after the tornado and Sandy Sandy Hook where cal Pierry flew in, we had that I got that fundraiser. Rose kind of helps set all that up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not gonna be my number one, but it's gonna be on the list. That one's gonna be on the list.

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Speaker 1: That's probably the show I'm the most proud of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he flew in on a helicopter.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the first one that came to mind. And we've done other fundraisers since, but that's the first time we really did something big with the platform that will help out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that one stands out all right, Well, you'll have to see by number one. Yeah, that's on the list, but that's not h that's not my number one. Shady raise if you need sunglasses, go to shady Rais dot com. They have the best glasses at the best price, is the best return policy, and it's a Kentucky company. Shady Rais dot com. There's no reason to have sun in your eyes. Why pay a zillion dollars for sunglasses? You can look great for an affordable price. Go to shady rays dot com. Use my promo code kt KSR. It is Shady Rais. We'll take a break, take your calls. Ask anything. Tuesday, Turkey Sports.

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Speaker 2: Radio, Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio A five, nine, two, eight, twenty two eighty seven. Gotten a lot of affirmations on Madison Garden.

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Speaker 1: Now it's really good. They're kind of famous.

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Speaker 2: I still haven't seen anybody say the Mexican restauran. I think you, Oh I did. I got someone said Casa before I even said it on this Casa Fiesta, something like the Cosa something just Casa.

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Speaker 5: Half of it's there, okay, all right, So it has a house in it, yeah, house of Mexican food.

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Speaker 2: Every time.

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Speaker 3: Madison Garden is named because the owners are from New York and it's named after Madison Square Garden, but they couldn't call it square.

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Speaker 1: Ah, I didn't know that. See learn something every day.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, we got folks on here to ask anything. Uh, Tuesday, let's go to Matt. Go ahead, Matt, Hey, guys, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Hey guys, I've had a rough morning and I appreciate you all. I swear your show cheers me up even on those bad days.

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Speaker 2: You know, well, I'm good. What's your question?

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Speaker 6: My question is where do you see? Do you want your let me see if I can word this cry, do you want your KSR Matt Jones show to go to TV?

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'd like it if they just had a camera, like like when they show just radio shows on TV.

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Speaker 2: I've done TV now.

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Speaker 3: Twice, one not so successfully, one I think was pretty successful.

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Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 3: An everyday grind and there's so much that goes into it and you can't be as creative as I like. So if they put TV cameras on here and it was just a like they just filmed us while we're doing this, I'd be good with it. But what I want to do a TV show again, probably not in the short term, maybe one day, but not right now.

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Speaker 1: And if we do a live streaming show. Does that takeaway from the radio listenership kind of the novelty?

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Speaker 2: Oh, you just add them together.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's the same reason why we talk about on you know how Monday night football, they'ugh sometimes have two games together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, the reason they do it is it splits the audience, but then they add the audience up together and it's more than the one game would have been. So yeah, I mean it's kind of silly. We don't stream this show live on YouTube. We should, but our company just hasn't done it yet. But they will. I mean that's gonna happen one day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it has to, has to.

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Speaker 2: That's just kind of how I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet either. Yeah, we're still working on just getting the equipment that we have to worry we.

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Speaker 3: Still are trying to make it to wear. On my Cover zero podcast, the camera is not up my nose.

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Speaker 2: We look like we were crying again on the new one. Again.

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Speaker 3: It is unbelievable to me how close that camera is to my face.

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Speaker 1: You guys are just very sad when you're talking about football game.

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Speaker 3: And I don't like it's like we there's nothing we could do about, although I think we're trying to do so. They're supposed to be working on that this week. All they are okay, And by they, I'm looking at Mario standing right in front of me.

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Speaker 2: He a billy are supposed to.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard the podcast yet, but what were your take on the Steelers' uniforms the other night?

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Speaker 2: Hideous? Hideous? Why'd they do that? And they're r ruin a big moment.

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Speaker 5: It's Aaron Rodgers versus the Packers. I mean I would like for it to kind of look like Steelers are playing the Packers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks those uniforms look like when they don't have the rights to the uniforms on video games and they just put random colors in shapes on uniforms.

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Speaker 2: That's what it looked like.

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Speaker 5: Do that at one o'clock against a team that doesn't matter, not primetime Rogers Reunion videously ugly.

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Speaker 2: Joey, go ahead, Joey.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, I have a great restaurant for you and Richmond. It's right behind the Walgreens. It's a Mexican place called the Waveos.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Wavos like eggs or New AVOs.

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Speaker 10: New New wavos, new wavos, new eggs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, what makes it so good?

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Speaker 10: And it's they have the best margaritas in Richmond.

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Speaker 2: Well, there you go.

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Speaker 3: I mean that should be a sign and appreciate the call best margarite is in Richmond.

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Speaker 5: Let's check that out. I don't know if it's better than Casa something, but it's in the conversation.

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Speaker 3: I think they should have a sign best margarite is in Richmond. How many people are up for grabs on that.

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Speaker 2: They should do that? I mean, no one can.

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Speaker 3: Well that's now been said on the radio, that's true. You could just say, as heard on KSR, that's right, and then you haven't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't the way.

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Speaker 3: I didn't expect the Richmond dining scene to come up this much today.

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Speaker 5: That reminds me of still my favorite sign in Lection, and I think I've said it on the show, but Charlie says the famous fish sandwich. Like everybody's known about Charlie's in Lection forever. Big Cahuna across the street has a huge sign that says second best fish sandwich in Lexton. Yep, And I love it.

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Speaker 2: It makes me want to go there instead of Charlie's.

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Speaker 5: Just because they're They did that acknowledging their neighbor, because their neighbors they're like, I'm not stepping on your art.

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Speaker 2: Are his second best? But they're proudly claiming the second best.

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Speaker 3: Well that's David Letterman did that once when Jay Leno beat David Letterman in the ratings. Uh, he put up a billboard that said we're number one, and it was him, it was him, smiling. And then Dave Letterman bought the billboard a few feet behind him and it said we're number two, and he just held it up with a smile. And I actually think that's what you do. That's that's the way you handle it. Kip, go ahead, Kip.

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Speaker 9: Hey, what's up? Man?

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Speaker 11: It's actually Tip, But no big deal. All right, listen man, Hey, I've got a couple of stats for you that I want to just throw out there, and then I've got a question at the end that since it is the question of the day, if you compare Mark stoops seven first seven years to Rich Brooks seven year tenure, you'll see that they're identicals as far as Bowl games and games are pretty much identical. Yeah, take following six years and what has spoke Stups really done. We've not done much at all, not even a division title.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not fair, though, that's not fair. You're right about Stoops' first seven years and Rich Brooks they are crazy identical. But then you're leaving out that after those seven years, Stoops had two years of ten wins.

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Speaker 11: Rich Brooks never had that one of them got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not listening to that.

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Speaker 3: That's nobody cares about whether Chris Rodriguez went and went and signed in at the Health Office. But that doesn't diminish sir, that doesn't diminish his coaching. That Chris Rodriguez didn't sign in at UK Health. We've won the Citrus Bowl twice, do you. I mean, I say this with respect, but that is so unfair to Stupis. It is so unfair to Stoops too. I appreciate the call. It is so unfair to Stoops to leave out his two best years. Yep, Okay, I mean you should certainly throw in these bad years, but you cannot say I'm going to ignore his two best years. He was the same as Rich Brooks and then he got bad. No, he was the same as Rich Brooks. Then he got better than Rich Brooks took a story we've never been before, and now he's gotten worse. So make of that whatever you will, but you can't change the facts and then go, well, Chris Rodriguez didn't sign in at UK Healthcare, so he's not a good coach.

00:23:19
Speaker 2: That's just not fair. We'll be right back, Welcome back.

00:23:22
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio five nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four One person rights, Matt, what's one business idea you're passionate about you always wanted to pursue, but you don't think will or would work out?

00:23:40
Speaker 1: Good question for you.

00:23:43
Speaker 3: That's a good question. Yeah, that's a really good question. I mean I wish that, Uh. I have worked on over the years a script for a TV series. Yeah, and I've worked on it based on my book sort of. I wanted it to be the story of like Me, but more entertaining, so it would be like fictional version of what I did. Like radio hosts, decides to run for Senate, thinks about run for Senate, travels the state, uh huh, has a dude following him to dig up info, but then becomes friends with the guy and then like all the people you meet around the state and all the weird things that happen make it like kind of a comedy, yeah, slash drama.

00:24:32
Speaker 1: It's kind of a good idea, no, I think.

00:24:34
Speaker 3: And I've had people interested, and there's a comedy writer I've worked with on it. I think it's you know, all those things are a long shot to happen. What I need to do is like just take like a month and go somewhere and work on it, because the problem is you just get busy and it gets put in the back burner.

00:24:50
Speaker 2: So I would love to do something like that.

00:24:51
Speaker 3: I'd love to have some sort of creative project like that that I could that I could work on. But it's due. I think it would work. I think we could do something good, but I think the chances of it happening are a long shot. Yeah, but I've like taken meetings on it that they say, you know.

00:25:07
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. I was trying to think where you're gonna go with that. I thought maybe you might say, might have one to on a minor league baseball team.

00:25:14
Speaker 3: I would love to do something like that. I did that kind of with OVW huh. But now that I've done it, I know, and you know, we still are minority owners, but I now know the kind of thing that could work. Yeah, so I would love to get involved in one of You know, I was very very close you all know this, to being a part owner of a European soccer team. Yes, yeah, like a lower division and that was very close to happening, and I got that would have been fun.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: It didn't end up working for a variety of reasons.

00:25:44
Speaker 1: But I could see you're doing that though.

00:25:46
Speaker 2: That would be.

00:25:46
Speaker 3: Cool, just to have it in a random country. So that was a that was a neat opportunity that kind of fell through. What about you? What would you want to do.

00:25:54
Speaker 5: I'm eventually going to open a food truck that's only opened late night after bars and just go hang out downtown and make time.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: I goes for drunk people. You would want to do that when you're old? Yeah? What else am I going to do? You'd want to have a that'd be relaxing, a late night food truck. Yeah, just hang out?

00:26:08
Speaker 1: What's up?

00:26:09
Speaker 2: That's cool? I can see I can actually see you do.

00:26:12
Speaker 5: There's like a hot dog guy down there that's killing it, right, now and put him on. Notice, I'm a park right next to taco truck is coming.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Drew's taco truck. I bet you could make good tacos. What about you?

00:26:21
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the driver for Drew's taco shut truck well this year.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: Like, what would you want to do?

00:26:27
Speaker 3: Ryan Lemon gets to do anything he wants for a few years.

00:26:32
Speaker 2: What would you want to do?

00:26:33
Speaker 1: Coach? Coach baseball?

00:26:36
Speaker 2: Coach, coach kids, or like be a major league coach.

00:26:38
Speaker 1: That would be like a youth basketball coach.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: You can do that now, coach.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have the time right now. If you're down the road, that's something I'd like to do. You know, do you have the time. I'm a busy man. You gotta take that afternoon nap every day.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you have the time.

00:26:53
Speaker 3: Like I feel like if that was something you really wanted to pull off, you could do well.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: They play in the evenings. You know, we got these post games pregames.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: I was now in the evenings, you do a postgame show like three a year.

00:27:03
Speaker 5: If I can't get my food license from my truck, I really want to. It's more of just to do it and say I did it. I want to try stand up comedy one time.

00:27:13
Speaker 2: I'd love to see you.

00:27:13
Speaker 5: I've been on amateur Night many times. I've had friends do it. Like the amateur Night you.

00:27:18
Speaker 2: Go in knowing it's this isn't a professional. I just want to get up there and see how done it? Twice?

00:27:25
Speaker 3: I killed it once and I was like, this is what I'm gonna do for my life. And then I bombed the second time, and I was like, I ain't never doing that again.

00:27:33
Speaker 2: See I'm weird. I think be fun. Yeah, I don't know, man, I would have thought that.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: But then I did it, and I saw people's I did the exact same.

00:27:43
Speaker 1: Set and it bombed the second time, and.

00:27:45
Speaker 3: It killed the first time, and it bombed the second time. And I don't know why one or the other, but it was when I lived in DC. I did it in DC, and the feeling when you tell a joke and everyone just sits there and looks it is the I'm not kidding you, It's one of the worst feelings on earth. And I just was like, I can never feel that feeling again.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: See, I want to live in that. I want that. Okay, well, then you should do it.

00:28:13
Speaker 5: I will say, when we roasted you, I worked really hard on some jokes, and when you work on a joke and deliver and get a pop, that's a high. I still chase that, like one of them was a Bevin joke, and there had been some topical that day that fit perfectly. Is a little bit of luck. But I remember that room erupting and I thought that was pretty fun. I want to do that again.

00:28:32
Speaker 3: That roast was a lot of fun. And it's kind of crazy to look back on that we did that. How many people were there packed? It was packed, and that was the case of some people killed it and some people bombed. And when you watch people bomb it was so uncomfortable. But when you like but like when Mary Joe Perino killed it, it was cool. Yeah, watching her just get up there and nail it.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: I remember there was a table of Lovell donors right in front of me, and I made a little joke and I intentionally stared at them, and that felt so good, Like that.

00:29:01
Speaker 2: Was like, that was a high.

00:29:03
Speaker 3: Making the joke about Denny Crumb paying for vaudeville like prostitutes back in the day for U of L and then looking at him and giving him giving me.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: The look of disdain. I was like, but it was a lot of fun.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: Well you did the fancy farms. Why did the fancy farm it? Fancy Farm was one of my favorite days ever because I did kill and I loved it. Jokes and they had to sit there. I had to look at all the they had to sit there and wallow in it. The politicians. That's one of my favorite days. And now they don't let them do it. That's after me. They won't let him do that, like they tell jokes, but they're you're not allowed to have people like me do it.

00:29:46
Speaker 1: That's what made Fancy Farm.

00:29:48
Speaker 3: Mitch allegedly told the people at Fancy Farm, if you ever have him back, I'll never come back. Well he's out now, Yeah, now it's over, So why not let's go to Tom. Go ahead, Tom, Hey, Matt.

00:30:03
Speaker 4: It's a little bit outdated, but the Texas game is really a you know, a microcosm of house Toots coach and the fact that statistically we ran all over them, but you know, got beat, and we got beat because a lot of things that should be done aren't. We had fourth and one a couple of.

00:30:24
Speaker 7: Times and failed.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: Yes, and every coach at every level has plays that you should.

00:30:34
Speaker 7: Be able to run on fourth and one if.

00:30:36
Speaker 12: You have to win the game.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: You've got a play in your pocket.

00:30:41
Speaker 9: That you know is gonna work.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: You've worked on it for months, saving it for that situation. We kicked a long field goal with thirteen seconds, didn't even take a shot at it.

00:30:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was okay with that. But that but your your point is valid. Okay, your point is valid, and it has been the point that I think a lot of people have had.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: For a while.

00:31:09
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call that Texas game was a microcosm drew of all the mistakes, a lot of the things we saw, and if you look at the last two or three years, third and one and fourth and one has been just a backbreaker for stoops.

00:31:25
Speaker 5: It was a lot like the Georgia game last year. And if I'm not mistaken, the Georgia game last year, they got down to the one and didn't have points. I hate to call the guy out, but you went shopping in the portal to get a running back to punch it in from the one. In the Texas game, we all know how it ends. You don't punch it in from the one. That goal line has just been an issue when you don't have a Benny or a Chris Rodriguez, they just have been unable to punch it in, especially in the two years of Bush and It.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: You know that Georgia game last year, you might have had a chance to win if you did it?

00:31:52
Speaker 2: Was it? What game? Was it?

00:31:54
Speaker 3: Like Will Levis's year? Didn't we have a year or the game at Old Miss that time? Remember we had a Dan's freshman year.

00:32:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, should have won.

00:32:02
Speaker 3: Couldn't get in from the one like the one has been a huge thing for us over the years.

00:32:08
Speaker 1: Like Drew said, they went out and got Daldell who was supposed to be that guy to get us that one yard, that two yard when we.

00:32:12
Speaker 3: Needed And that moment is why you wrote him a check. That Texas a game, That's why he's on the team there. You know what what about Lexington Sporting League?

00:32:22
Speaker 1: What about it?

00:32:22
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00:32:25
Speaker 1: How about you know that?

00:32:26
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00:32:43
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00:32:44
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00:33:02
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00:33:07
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00:33:10
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00:33:10
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00:33:12
Speaker 3: Kiozar Techi Sports Radio a fi'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven The Text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four of this segment sponsored by Clayton and Crum. Found it on a simple idea, all leather good should last a lifetime. Everything for bags, bought, belts, walts and more. Best parts. They're doing it right here in Kentucky. Check them out Claytoncrem dot com, Crummy dot com, or visit their flagship store two sixteen South Shelby Street in New lou in Louisville, the quality leather goods built to last at Clayton and Krem. One person rides Matt. You didn't let that guy finish. He was going to make the point that rich Brooks left the program better than Mark Stoops. Will I don't think that was the point he was gonna make. He said that they had the same uh. He said he had they had the same record, and then Stoops went downhill. Stoops has gone downhill. But I also don't think you can leave out those two years where he was good. He is going to leave the program worse than rich Brooks did, And that's a fair critique. I mean, that's like, if you want to make that critique, that's a completely fair critique. There are also people go, well Stoops did it when the SEC was a little easier. Maybe that's probably true, But I would also argue that the SEC, the top of the SEC is weaker than it's ever been this year, meaning like Vandy can be at the top.

00:34:32
Speaker 1: Of the SEC, they are the top of the SEC.

00:34:35
Speaker 3: So, yes, we were fortunate in that Florida, Tennessee, Missouri Vandy were not great. But also there were a group of teams that we simply would have had no chance of beating like Alabama and LSU in Georgia. I think this year, if you took the Benny Snell team Ryan and played this year in the SEC, you'd have a shot to make the playoffs.

00:34:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why you can't. You can't take that away from Stoops. Yes, they're struggling right now, but you can't take away what he did here and what he's the records and the teams that he put together here.

00:35:08
Speaker 3: You have to judge people fairly. People did this at the end of cal too. They acted like he was he was never good. You can't do that. You have to acknowledge that he's good. But you then have to acknowledge what's the situation right now, And it's not good, No.

00:35:24
Speaker 5: Not at all, and it's looking like it'll end about like Jokers last season did. But we all had quite a bit of fun going to ah straight Bowl games. I can't act like that didn't happen. I mean, Mark Stoops won more Bowl games than Rich Brooks went to and I know their bowl games aren't the end of the world, but it was a pretty fun run when he had it going.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: Three years ago, the summer before the season three years ago, there was a legitimate debate in this fan base about the whole football basketball school commercation, and people took sides. And I don't think it was good for the program, but you could legitimately have the conversation about are we a basketball school or are we bow or you know, like we you that's crazy to think.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: About right now.

00:36:04
Speaker 1: Texas A and M wanted to hire him, you know, and he's highly respected.

00:36:07
Speaker 3: What he did here, that's amazing. And now there eight no yes and they ended up probably doing the right thing in hindsight.

00:36:15
Speaker 2: True, go ahead, true.

00:36:18
Speaker 12: Hey man, I want to glad to let you for twenty years, for you have many people last ma'am, and you'll have put a great staff together. And I liked y'all. True, y'all not fake. Y'all have been a blessing to me and I hope twenty more years. But let's get down to the get down. Matt Jones. I want to I want to ask you a question, yes, and I want to care our people, and I want to hold you response. You know what you said, I can.

00:36:49
Speaker 9: Ask you a question, all right, we gotta ask you.

00:36:51
Speaker 12: Hold up, Are you still gonna hold up to me what you said to me six months ago.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: Remind me what I said.

00:37:01
Speaker 12: You said, if Kentucky and Indiana play, you would brave me and give me two tickets and miss Me and Mistruth can come and meet you, a ks R. Are you going to keep your.

00:37:14
Speaker 2: Did I say that?

00:37:16
Speaker 6: I know?

00:37:18
Speaker 3: I know I would have said that I'd love to meet you and your wife, and I probably would have said that I would try to.

00:37:26
Speaker 2: Get you tickets.

00:37:28
Speaker 3: But I don't know that I would have said I would definitely get you tickets.

00:37:33
Speaker 12: Man, I wrote that down on my bucket list. I got a list.

00:37:37
Speaker 6: Man.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: All right, well, there's a different day that truth. I would love for.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: You to get to see Kentucky and Indiana play, and I would love to get to see you. But I also don't what you telling me. I said something I didn't say. So are you sure I said that?

00:37:57
Speaker 12: You here? I'm gonna tell you what, man.

00:37:59
Speaker 3: Do you have the day? Let me put like this. Do you have the day that I said you said you wrote it down? Do you have the day that you think I said it?

00:38:07
Speaker 12: No, I don't have. I don't have the damn road. When When When Kentucky and any end of saying the contract I called in because I didn't know you. The one told me I didn't know about it, and I started talking.

00:38:23
Speaker 10: Let me up.

00:38:24
Speaker 3: Let me do some research, but let me do hang on, hang on, let me do some research. If I said it, I will certainly do it. If I didn't say it, I might still do it because I like you, But I need to go look at the research.

00:38:40
Speaker 12: Okay, man, let me put this. I'm gonna leave with this if you don't do it. But one thing I have say I could say to you, Matt Joe, I don't like Kentucky sports like cutting up with you. But one thing I loved about chaos or when I came on this earth, I can meet Kentucky fan and man it go pass boards. I have built a relationship to this show radios acting stupid with you. We are changing people life, man, and that's what I like about you.

00:39:10
Speaker 4: Man.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Well, that's very nice in you.

00:39:12
Speaker 12: You we we are we You're an idiot when it comes knowing about Indiana.

00:39:17
Speaker 3: Okay, and why would you throw that almost had me getting you tickets? Like when you said that line, you were very close to me going all right, and then you have to call me an idiot at the end of it.

00:39:28
Speaker 2: Truth that was the smartest.

00:39:31
Speaker 12: But you know, but you know, you know I'm not fake. We keep it. That's why they called me the truth. I keep it real like you keep it real and you love people, Matt Joe, Like I said, if you still don't give me tickets to Indy, oua Kentucky, you have gave me a platform me.

00:39:46
Speaker 3: Let me look at it, and in truth, I'd like to be able to help you. Let me look at it and we'll talk a little later.

00:39:50
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, go Indiana football team with a NASA chepter. Go hooterers.

00:39:56
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. Do you think I said that.

00:39:59
Speaker 1: I don't remember that happening.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: I mean I might have.

00:40:03
Speaker 3: That's the kind of thing I would say sometimes, But I don't know that I would have volunteered to give tickets to an Indiana fan in rup to a Kentucky game.

00:40:15
Speaker 1: See I remembered it. He said he was coming to the game, and you said you would treat him ks bar or something like that.

00:40:20
Speaker 3: Certainly, I'm sure I said that, yeah, and I would I'll still do that.

00:40:26
Speaker 2: I don't know about the tickets.

00:40:27
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: I say that I.

00:40:29
Speaker 5: Don't remember you saying it, but also don't think truth the type that would just pull out of thin air.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: His name's truth. Good point to exactly. His name is not I'm Alie. His name's the truth.

00:40:47
Speaker 5: I believe him even name aside. I don't think he would make that up.

00:40:51
Speaker 3: I don't prove I'm willing to do it. He did call me an idiot, though, at the end, I feel like that wasn't the smartest thing to do.

00:40:59
Speaker 9: Kevin, go ahead, Kevin, Uh, yeah, this is uh. You told me I could come watch you teach class too, and you never came through. You always had an excuse. I'm kidding. I know how that goes. I gotta I switch my ask anything question. If you did have a screenplay that you wrote, if ben Afplack is unavailable, who would play you?

00:41:20
Speaker 2: No, it's a great question. I don't know.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: Dave Fleming, Okay, you know what you don't have to do. I'm getting a I'm getting somebody. Well, they would need to be somebody that was about that age when I did it, right, so you'd be like late thirties, early forties. I'd want them to be handsome, just so I didn't just for my own self esteem.

00:41:39
Speaker 2: Who are we thinking? But not two hands, because they've got.

00:41:43
Speaker 1: To be like.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: Josh. Believe somehow Josh's older than that though.

00:41:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, who'd you say?

00:41:51
Speaker 5: I said, it's got to be believable. I mean, you don't want to you can't roll out Michael B. Jordan there for you know, think it should be Michael B. I think it's gotta be someone a little bit like Michael B. Jordan would be perfect.

00:42:02
Speaker 1: The dude that plays young Sheldon there you go.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't need this from you, all right, I gotta go meet this boss here.

00:42:12
Speaker 1: Good luck.

00:42:13
Speaker 3: So it's the end of the show that flew by. It did fly by. That's what happens when we're here in Louisville. We will tomorrow be at the Bar, Thursday at the Bar as well Friday at Whiskey Thiefy.

00:42:23
Speaker 2: Yeah right, and they're gonna.

00:42:26
Speaker 3: Be giving away Whiskey Thief glasses. That'll that's a really great show. You They also get you liquored up during the show. That's exactly right. So we will see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio