2024-10-02- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: We welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, October the second. It is Rashashana. Did you have that on? Did you know that? I didn't know that? It is for all of our Jewish listeners. You can give some shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That's a five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. In this edition sponsored by the t J Smith Loves they called TJ. He'll make them pay. We are chaos and grill. It is wings day dollar wings all day, and tonight with trivia, it is a feast of wings in your mouth. And Ryan Lemon is here with me. I was looking here at the crowd. We've got people from Louisville, got people from Lexington, we got people from Spencer County. Yeah, and then Mount Washington, Mount.

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Speaker 5: Washington, Sount Washington to Mount Washington.

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Speaker 4: Now, the Spencer County made me think about when I was doing the book, the hardest Counties to write something about, because you know, you had to think of something everywhere, and I went to Spencer County and it was just it was just pleasant. It was just nice. I didn't see any like real problems, and I didn't see anything that I needed to fix, and I didn't see anything to complain about, and nothing crazy happened to me. And I was like, what am I gonna write in Spencer County? And Spencer County was like me. For me and Tomlin, it was a thorn in our side throughout the process. And I remember one time looking at him and going, we just got to write something about Spencer County because and then we got there.

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Speaker 5: Spencer County is one of those kinds of Kentucky where most people have heard of it, but they couldn't probably pick it out on a map.

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Speaker 4: Ye Town, Taylorsville, Taylorsville. Yes, and I went there and I was like, well this is good. What now?

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Speaker 3: So Spencer County is the most perfect place in all that.

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Speaker 4: I say it's the most perfect place. I just think the Spencer County might be the most like median placed, not not mid. I'm saying like like like just median, not mids saying they're mid. I'm not saying they're mid. I mean that's also where we stopped the KSR Counties thing because I didn't know what to say. With JD.

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Speaker 5: Shelburn, we picked it up. He was waiting on deck for two years.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, when I think of that, I think of that was probably the trickiest one to write about. Mario is joining us today. Uh, Mario, always looking fashionable. Nice to have you on here. I've not done a show with you really since you first started.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for having me. I know me and Ryan we had a few shows over the summer. Yes, first time with Matt, so this should be interesting. Are you getting excited Saturday? Navy Air Force? Are you are you feeling. Are you feeling the excitement game of the week? Matta?

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Speaker 4: The game is it noon. I have already told the bar to expect it to be out to the road. There'll be so many people. Yeah, I expect that. I don't. You're gonna try to make that happen though, Right, So you're saying if people come watch Navy Air Force, I'm gonna say I will say it is a testament to that they like Mario. Now if they.

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Speaker 7: Don't, I don't want to take all the credit for it.

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Speaker 4: Matt. Well, you're gonna take all the blane if you. Yeah, you might as well take the credit because if you, if you, because you're gonna take the blade. I mean, it's noon, it's Navy Air Force.

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Speaker 7: I think people will show up.

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Speaker 4: You think they will. I think they will. You think they will, Ryan.

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Speaker 5: I think they will because you know, I got a lot of feedback. You guys may have to let people appreciate the fact we're recognizing that this is a big game for people in the Army and Air Force and in the armed forces.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you think the Army people are excited about it.

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Speaker 5: They're not playing, no, but they I think my brother though still enjoys watching when like Navy plays air Force.

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Speaker 4: Army and Navy are both undefeated. I don't know what the air Force is, but I know that Army and Navy are defeated, and a lot of people are like, I think it's sweet that Mario recognized the Veterans national TV game. Matt, it's on CBS, that's true. I know it's It's on national television. So so we'll see noon Saturday.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be good.

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Speaker 4: Did you put out a poster.

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Speaker 7: For it or anything? Did you see it on my person?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 4: I didn't you put out a poster for the game. I was a kidding Game of the week. Stop.

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Speaker 5: We got to help. I'm helping him promoter. Let's help him.

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Speaker 4: You got all right, We'll see, we'll see if you get listen. I appreciate your spirits. I mean, all right, So Ryan, we're midweek. It is ask anything Wednesday. You can ask any questions of the four of us. We're willing to answer whatever unless we say no. But that you can ask whatever you want me, Ryan, Shannon, and Mario. I had a question that people did want to know, which is there are still people, Mario who don't totally know you and trying to learn about you. And so I have a couple of questions that someone wrote the other day that I thought this would be good. Are you ready? All right? So, Mario, where are you from? People always ask me?

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Speaker 7: I'm from Long Island, New York, originally.

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Speaker 4: From Long Island, New York, where Hempstead, New York. So tell people about Hempstead, New York.

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Speaker 6: So Hempstead, it's really I say, Hempstead, it's really Roosevelt. That's the smaller town. We got a lot of people, famous people from there. Who's from Eddie Murphy's from there, Julia?

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Speaker 4: That's a good jay.

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Speaker 2: Isn't Howard Stern from there? I hear him talk about Roosevelt all the time.

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Speaker 4: I think he meant that's I think it was his school, Like OK.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's like a smaller town, smaller town within Hempstead.

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Speaker 4: But now that you moved to Florida.

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Speaker 7: Florida, Daytona Beach, Florida, when did you move there?

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Speaker 4: How old were you? Twelve?

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Speaker 7: Thirteen years old?

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Speaker 4: So do you consider Long Island home or do you consider Florida home?

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Speaker 6: I want to say Long Island because if you're from New York like you you.

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Speaker 7: Rep that rip that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Are you a Knicks fan?

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Speaker 7: I'm not.

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Speaker 6: My brother is, though, So who do you cheer for up there? I'm a Players fan, so I'm like, is that a restaurant? So I like the players, man, I like to watch some of my favorite players.

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Speaker 4: Who are your favorite players?

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Speaker 6: Lebron's probably one of my favorite players. Okay, so wherever he goes, I'm kind of the fan. Did you like Kentucky when you were young? Absolutely? That's the team that I played. When I'm playing on the video game Matt College Hoops two K, I'm Kentucky John Wall, you know DeMarcus Cousin, that was my team.

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Speaker 4: Those are your guys, I think Ryan. I think John Wall reached Kentucky to a whole group of people that that that didn't before. Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 7: I would.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad that John Wall played before. You know, you were a baby when he was playing and then he recognized that.

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Speaker 4: Right, So how did you end up in Kentucky? So?

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Speaker 6: I got to Kentucky because my brother was actually at Morehead State at the time.

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Speaker 4: Your brother played basketball for mos.

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Speaker 6: Right for Morehead State, and I went up here because I was a Kentucky fan, and I could be close to my brother, and I thought it was a good.

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Speaker 4: I think your brother was on the team that went to the Bahamas when Kentucky went to the Bahamas, right.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure if he was on the team twenty fifteen. He may have been.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was on the team because we rode the plane Ryan, not you, but me and my friends rode the plane with that Morehead State team and we partied with the Morehead State State team at olives in the in the resort. I probably partied with your brother and didn't.

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Speaker 7: Even know he did. I don't know, maybe you did.

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, there wasn't there one Morehead State guy. You guys kind of bothered with hub.

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Speaker 4: I don't remember his name, I have his picture, but he was awesome. He had his eyes where he just had these very powerful eyes. I can't remember the kid's name, but we really liked him a lot. All right, And what and you went to UK?

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Speaker 7: I went to the UK. What did you major history? Major?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you're majored in history.

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Speaker 7: It's a little bit different than what I'm doing now. But what's your favorite part of history? American history?

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Speaker 4: Okay, so that's a country. But like a time, what's the time you're in?

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Speaker 6: So revolution, a little bit of a Civil war reconstruction around that area.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so do you know that stuff pretty well? Yeah, you know it better than Ryan. Yeah, I would say I know, I know you do.

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Speaker 5: And my dad was a history teacher.

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Speaker 4: I was a subject to it every day when I want to play basketball.

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Speaker 3: Indiana, Yeah, Bobby hit him, hit him in the head.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we got well, Indiana, there's a chicken place that we understand.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you just stepped up my whole life and your thirty second sentence.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's you. I think I got it all. Okay. And then, uh, last thing, how did you get the job with ks R? I like, from your perspective, from my perspective, it really started.

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Speaker 6: Uh well, I reached out to Matt I tell I told the story on the pre show a few months back.

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Speaker 7: I reached out to Matt, didn't reple he didn't reply.

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Speaker 6: At first, and then uh, he reached out back to me a few months later.

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Speaker 7: You know, he liked what I what I was doing, you know with my.

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Speaker 6: Podcast and my other shows as well, and then we kind of developed a relationship where he was like my mentor. He's given me advice on the side. This is way before the even job or anything like that. He's been kind of like my mentor. And and then he he said he needed somebody to do social media. I said that I I think I would be a good fit.

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Speaker 7: And we're here now. So that's well.

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Speaker 4: You had me on your podcast. Yeah, you came to my house and you had all this equipment and I was.

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Speaker 7: Like, wow, that was stressful.

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Speaker 4: You know what things can work, it can look good. And uh it went from there where You've done a great job.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I don't like that you're becoming more popular than we are, but otherwise, uh, we do. We do enjoy having you know that.

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Speaker 5: Then when he first started getting on the air with us and join us, the number one question we got from everybody, all the ladies if Mario was single.

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Speaker 4: Now he's got You've got you got a woman? You she did? She did, and let you out of her side.

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Speaker 7: She doesn't.

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Speaker 6: I'm surprised she's supposed to come here today, so I'm not sure she was.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, she was gonna make a public appearing. So what does she think about all this?

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Speaker 7: She just she's happy for me.

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Speaker 4: She's a but like, you work weird at this job gives you weird hours. Does that bother her at all?

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Speaker 7: Sometimes?

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Speaker 6: But she understands that it's a little bit different now that I'm in this this space. She she she gets it, but it is tough. It's a little bit different compared to what I was, what I used to work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, why I so, I ryan. Look, I'm always constantly searching trying to find like, who are the next people?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 4: You know? And so I there everybody who does media. I'm not gonna say everybody, but most people who do I'm aware of them. I watch their stuff. I make a mental note if they say I suck that, I keep that in my mind. But no more importantly, I'm seeing are they doing stuff like that I think we would be good at. Like there's a kid right now who the Kentucky Colonel TikTok. Have you seen the Kentucky Colonel TikTok? You may have forgotten about the Kentucky That kid who does the Kentucky Colonel TikTok?

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Speaker 7: He gets really good stuff, does he?

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Speaker 4: And so? And I'm like, well, what is he doing that makes that work? And then you know, so there are people. So I'm always looking at that.

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Speaker 6: That's good, you should. I'm glad you're looking for the next generation.

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Speaker 4: Well, I can't do this forever. I mean, you got to know when to pass the torch to somebody else. And I'm always kind of looking so that we can incorporate them, maybe the best ones and the things.

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Speaker 5: That we do right, And like we said this not long ago, you're your focus lately have been just kind of find a way to attract the newer audience, especially like the younger audience.

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Speaker 4: Well, the younger audience is hard because, like they didn't grow up A lot of people that are younger didn't grow up reading blogs, right, Okay, so like that's a lot of them didn't grow up reading period. To be quite frank with you, I mean, there was a story in Atlantic magazine about at the elite universities like Columbia, Harvard, Yale, et cetera, they're getting allegedly the smartest students in the country, but they've never read a book, Like they've never read like a classic novel. Because in high school they don't read books, which blows my mind. But in high school, they'd like give them excerpts of books. They don't have them read the whole book. So when they get to like an English class at one of these elite universities, they're realizing that they're students. Ryan have never really read a whole book, which I think is like bizarre. I mean, you do you read?

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Speaker 6: No, not really, But when I got to college, that's when I started reading a lot.

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Speaker 7: Like I had to read the entire book in college.

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Speaker 4: High school, yes, you do, that's.

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Speaker 6: They give you paragraphs to kind of study in high school. But then as soon as you got to college, you gotta reade.

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Speaker 4: That's amazing to me, but it also but like you can sit there and be the old man on going on today they don't read, or you can say, okay, we have to try to attract them to what we do. How do we read? And Ryan, I think the mistake when I was coming up, the mistake the old media made, the newspapers, et cetera. And the reason they've kind of become irrelevant is they still believed the audience was supposed to like what they did, rather than giving the audience what they wanted. And we gave the audience what they wanted, and like, we gave them fun and they wanted them to like this, and the audience chose us. Well, I don't want to make the same mistake and continue giving people what I think they should want. You, ultimately, Ryan, have to give them what they actually.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can't sit back and you know, rest on your laurels that people are always just gonna stay there. You know, you got to it find a way to attract. You got to continually evolve.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, well, it's good to have you A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. When we come back, I want to go over Ryan. We are five of the twelve games in. It's not quite halfway. It's kind of halfway, and we're at a block I'm gonna get. I want us to give football team grade. I love this football season. Grades at the halfway point. I think it's a tough grade. Yeah, Actually, we'll figure it out right for this is Casser, Welcome back. Take you sports radio here at Chaos Bar and Grill. I hope everybody's doing well out there. It is fall break start today tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: County been on fall break all this.

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Speaker 7: Week, the whole week. The whole week.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, whole week.

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Speaker 7: I did see.

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Speaker 4: Today is my Georgetown class and they get on fall break as soon as my class ends.

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Speaker 7: Oh.

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Speaker 4: This happens every year and they always look at me like, okay, can you wrap this up?

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Speaker 7: We want to go home.

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Speaker 4: They always because because class starts on my class and it ends, they hate it every time. We're gonna have that again today before we get to our grades. If I'm nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven, ask anything Wednesday? One person rites, Matt, you talked about the legislator that's banned from f Foxy girls. Remember we talked about that. Number One are you all banned from anywhere? And two? Is there any public business in Kentucky you'd be scared to go in? All right? First of all, are any of you banned from a bit from a business.

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Speaker 7: I'm not banned from anywhere? What about you? Ryan?

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Speaker 5: I think I was jokingly banned from Woodson Ben Resort that one time after my boys stole a couple of golf carts.

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Speaker 4: Not not not one golf cart, Sandon, Yeah, a couple of multiple, multiple golf carts. But you're now back.

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Speaker 5: I think I'm back in good Year and I feel like there could be banned from somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Not banned from any business only Rosie O'Donnell's Twitter account.

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Speaker 4: From Okay, I got you. I'm not banned from anywhere. Now that's a better question. Is there any public business that you wouldn't go into because you were like scared?

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Speaker 5: I don't think so.

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Speaker 6: I don't feel like I'm ever scared to go in somewhere like especially a public business.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't. I mean, I feel like I don't know that I would. I don't know that I would go in Foxy Girls, but I don't. I don't. I wouldn't be scared, Shannon, Are you is anywhere you're scared of going in?

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Speaker 9: Little?

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Speaker 2: Maybe only like a cockfighting ring or something like that, if that's interesting.

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Speaker 4: Would want Yeah, i'd I'd just be scared to going there because I wouldn't want to get a rest.

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Speaker 3: Well that's it, But no, I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Here's what I think. I think most people when they talk about parts of Kentucky they think are dangerous, whether they're talking about the West End in Louisville or deep in Appalachia. I think you would be surprised how comfortable you would feel at any business. Now, there are neighborhoods at night where people live that may like I wouldn't go up in the hollers if you didn't know somebody after dark, unless you knew where you were going and you knew somebody. And I wouldn't go to certain clubs at or you know, or not clubs, but like certain neighborhoods every night if you don't know somebody. But ryan as far as a business, I think I'd be fine.

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Speaker 5: I'm kind of with you, like lift some of these bars and some certain parts of town, like late at night. I don't think i'd go in there by myself.

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Speaker 4: I think there's anywhere in Lexington you'd be scared to go. Louisville a little different. Lexington, Well, there's a couple neighborhoods. I wouldn't walk around late at night in bars. I can't think of a bar in those neighborhoods.

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Speaker 7: Lexington, ye, no.

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Speaker 5: But Louisville yes.

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Speaker 4: All right. Let's talk about great Okay UK football three and two. When the season started, I think most people thought we'd be three and two. South Carolina game awful performance. One of the worst performances I think of the of the Stoops are, if not the worst oh Miss game, probably the best win of the Stoops era. If you look at it, those things are three weeks apart. Kind of an amazing thing. It's amazing in the middle. You play Georgia to a one point game at home, a Georgia team that's in the top five in the country. When you add all of that together, Shannon, I make you give the team of well, really, I can make you get Stoops in the staff a grade? Yeah, what are you giving them?

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Speaker 2: I think overall, you look at the record, that's what I had him at three and two. The games are just interchangeable. I just had South Carolina as a win and Ole Miss as a loss. So I'm going to go probably a solid B. Feel good about that.

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Speaker 4: You did give a solid B. All right, Mario, what's your grade you get? I'm going a reason why you're an easy grader. I understand.

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Speaker 6: The reason why is because I believe that the coaching staff is still justin.

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Speaker 7: We saw Mark Stoops. You know, a lot of.

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Speaker 6: The fans said that he should have went for it, and you know, he adjusted an ole Miss and he went for it. You know, I have to say a minus. You know, they played Georgia really well, and they're continuing to get better. The defense's top ten defense in the in the in the country. In my opinion, offense is improving. Brock has shown that he's he can be consistent and throw the ball well, so I give it a A minus. Overall, I think that they they're going to continue to get better as the season goes on.

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Speaker 5: Ryan, I'm gonna go right in the middle. I'm gonna go B plus. And it just because that South Carolina game. I mean, they you know, there was no fight. Many got hit in the mouth and they didn't hit back, and I just can't get I can't give that a pass. Yet that's still on my mind that that happens. So I'm gonna give him a B plus.

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Speaker 4: So I think about it like the way that I am a professor can give grades. All right, going into the Old Miss game, I'm probably giving them a c uh maybe even a C minus. They passed because they played Georgia close, but other than that, nothing was really impressive. But then it's almost like I gave him a paper and once it showed me that they didn't cheat with AI, they wrote one of the best papers any student I've ever had is wrint.

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Speaker 5: That's a great comparison.

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Speaker 4: All of a sudden, I get a paper that makes me go, why didn't you write this before? Were you not trying? Did you not do research?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 4: What? What is this? But then I get this paper and I sit there and say, well, objectively, this is the best paper any student of mine has ever written. I have to give him credit for that. So I probably give him a B plus because I say, I'm not giving you an A because you have to bring it every single time. Yes, But at the same time, I have to acknowledge that I haven't seen a paper or in this case, Ryan a game as well as I saw last Saturday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're acknowledging the great game, the great paper, but yet you still had a bad game and a bad paper just three weeks ago. And you gotta get can't get. I can't get past that.

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Speaker 4: So I give him a B plus. But what's amazing is I think if you had told me when I was doing the pregame show in Oxford, if you had asked me to do this, I think I would have literally given him like a C minus. I would have oh yeah, because I think it was I think the season was a disaster till that point. The only reason you didn't get an F is because you played Georgia close. I mean the day we lose to an Ohio or Southern Miss, that's a season that to me, especially this Southern this is like the worst Southern Miss team they've ever had, so, you know, but then South Carolina, it's not just we lost. We lost thirty one to seven.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, didn't compete, didn't compete, but then you win this game.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go a B plus, which is just an amazing turnaround. I think that was part of what was so exciting to me about Oxford is it was so unexpected, very unexpected, and what ryan just such a huge turnaround of thought.

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Speaker 5: I think most fans will probably agree with us. You know, we were so upset and we heard people call in and say, everyone will sell I'm not going back to a game. I'm gonna sell my season tickets now though, after that game, at that Whole Miss game, man, everybody's back on board and like there's ready to go.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna be favored absent something crazy, We're gonna be favored in our next three games. Yes, Vandy Florida and all. If they were to win all three of those and we do the two thirds of the season, mark, will you give them an A, then.

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Speaker 5: I'll probably jump them up. Definitely do an A minus A minus?

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Speaker 4: Are what about you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Definitely go higher. You got you gotta win those three games, though, don't you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I think if they win those three games the season, you know, the season isn't a because for me this you I always said that the bet this season is a success. If we go eight and four because of how hard our schedule was. I mean, we we played three of the t We're gonna play three of the top seven teams in the country on the road and then play the two of the last three years national championship at home. You can't go into those and think you're gonna win any of those games, right, So if you finish eight and four, then you have really done something. And if they're six and two with Tennessee, Murray State, Texas and Louisville to come, Mario to me.

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Speaker 7: You're on the way.

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Speaker 4: They right there, You're right where you're supposed to be. So if they win the next three, they would jump up to an eight at least for me. We'll take your calls, ask your question or whatever if you agree. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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00:23:08
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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. My uncle there. Nice to see you. One person. Let's see one person, writes Matt. You all are already lying about the band. Ryan Lemon's been paying. Banned from the Little League World Series?

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Speaker 5: Forgot about that?

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Speaker 4: Yes, you are banned. That's now technically that's not in Kentucky. But you are definitely banned from the Little League World.

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Speaker 5: Did we all get banned? Our whole group?

00:23:39
Speaker 4: I think you're the one that they're on tape. You're the one that was on the field or on tape. Ryan. Oh that's before you were here. Yeah. Ryan ran the bases of the Little League World Series and the Home Department of Homeland Security called me and threatened this was it not that sounds like a made up sentence. Not a made up sentences completely true?

00:23:56
Speaker 7: Was it worth it? Ryan?

00:23:57
Speaker 4: Eighty was yeah, and the set the Department of Homelands Security called while people were spraying hair on Ryan Lemon's heads.

00:24:04
Speaker 7: The funniest thing we know.

00:24:06
Speaker 5: We did that show on the front porch of that house there, and we hear you in the kitchen and you're like, scream with this guy. You mean to really tell me you gotta get the National Department of Security on a fifty five year old, balding, chubby, white guy running bases.

00:24:21
Speaker 4: I didn't say that. I didn't. I didn't say. Uh. Drew Franklin, as people reminded me, is banned from the SkyDome in Toronto.

00:24:27
Speaker 7: That's true.

00:24:27
Speaker 4: That is right, He's banned from the sky So that's so the two of you are the two people that.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: Are almost got banned from Canada. Didn't you one time?

00:24:35
Speaker 4: Well, we don't talk about that a lot. That's yeah.

00:24:37
Speaker 3: That's an entire country, that's a whole country.

00:24:39
Speaker 4: But we're good. I think I'm I've been back since then. I think I'm fine. Uh. One person writes, Matt, I don't believe you that you would go to any business. I do not believe you would go to a club in the West End. I've been to clubs in the list. I mean, I don't. I've been with someone who was taking me. There's a business guy there who wanted me to see his place. I went on a night and it was it was kind of awesome, like it was for like like it was for older black people who like are dressed up and like there was jazz playing, and it was like everybody was fashionable and I didn't fit in. But like because I didn't fit in, they really kind of liked me even more, you know what I mean, Mario, Like they were like, look at this white guy, how in the world did he end up here? So so, yes, I have been there.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: And I could see you doing that and not having an issue with it whatsoever now.

00:25:30
Speaker 4: And I used to say to Ricky Jones, you know Ricky Jones, my friend that's professor in Louisville. He'd always be like, man, I'm not going in the hills. You couldn't make me go in the hills. And I'm I said, you'd be fine. They would love you, people would be nice to you. You don't, You've just never been. People are scared about what they don't know, Ryan, And if you've never been, then you get scared, but once you go, it'll be fine.

00:25:50
Speaker 5: Do you feel like you have to have that wingman that you do?

00:25:53
Speaker 4: You do have to somebody who like greases the path? Yeah, I do agree with they kids walk in solo by yourself. But if you got somebody, you know, Maria like vouching for you. If you go to RJ, make sure somebody from RJ knows who you are. Yeah, I think it'll work all right. Who's up first? Shit? Price, price, go ahead price? Hey guys, how's it going doing good? I got a music.

00:26:19
Speaker 9: Recommendation for you, Matt. I went to Saturday Night in Charleston, West Virginia and saw a girl see Ara of Farrell and uh, I know that.

00:26:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard.

00:26:29
Speaker 3: I've heard of Sierra Ferrells beyond.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just that's what I was gonna say. I thought she wasn't burn and beyond very good. Yes, I do know her.

00:26:37
Speaker 9: One of the best shows I've ever been to. I've seen Tyler a bunch and different places, and she's one of the best I've ever seen. So I didn't know if you knew. I never heard you all mentioning on the show or nothing.

00:26:47
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. There you go ask anything. I guess you ask anything was do you know who Siera Fairs? And you didn't know who? That was? All right? Before we go. The other call I was, if you've seen this story about the Divingbacks owner what he did yesterday? You see this. The Diamondbacks owner's named Jordan Is. I don't know his name, but they have a player named Jordan Montgomery. I guess they paid him like eighteen and a half million dollars this year, which for the Diamondbacks is a lot. They basically spent all their excess money on this guy. I don't know anything about him. I don't even know what position he plays, but apparently he's not been good. He's been a bust. They interviewed the Diamondbacks on it. They didn't make the playoffs because the Braves of Mets split that double header. So they interview the owner and he's given his end the season thing, and he was like, all right, everybody that wants to criticize me for signing Jordan Montgomery, I get it. That didn't work out. He's not been good. There's just one problem. He's still on the team till next year. He's still on the team for twenty twenty five, and Mario, the owner has come out publicly in God, yeah he's not good. Signing him was a mistake.

00:27:53
Speaker 7: That's such a bad situation. You don't say that to the.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Press, so you can't bring him back, like bright, are you just gonna do? You just shan him pain to go away?

00:28:02
Speaker 7: Like you can't.

00:28:03
Speaker 4: The owner was like, he stinks.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was a stupid comment. But if I'm that player, I'm coming back having the best season ever and going somewhere else and making a lot of money after that.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: See, that's what I was going to say. That just gave me motivation. I'm Jordan Montgomery. I'm going to prove this guy wrong and I'm going to be a superstar for somebody. Yeah, beat you when we play.

00:28:20
Speaker 2: And at the end of next season, you're gonna want to resign me, and I'm not going to I'm going somewhere else.

00:28:24
Speaker 4: So you're saying it's like a major league situation where the owner says something bad about you and that makes you want to play better.

00:28:31
Speaker 5: Absolutely, So that's how I took it.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I wouldn't you and I have different reactions. I would have probably gone and yelled at him and said, if you don't have my support, then why do I want to be here? But he's getting eighteen million dollars.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: I don't know why the owner of your team, but the guy is still on.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: And see the reports are the owner didn't realize he had another year with which may mean he's not a very good if he has to pay a dude eighteen million dollars for another year and doesn't know who's that. Jeremy, Jeremy, go ahead, Jeremy, Hey, Matt.

00:29:01
Speaker 8: In November, I'm going to a panel on the show Wrestlers, and yesterday they announced that Al Haley, Maria Duck, and Maximo We're going to be on it. I wanted to know, is there an inside question from either you were Shayning that I could ask any of them at the panel.

00:29:18
Speaker 4: That's a good question. I don't know. Let me, I have to think about it. So there's a wrestler's there's a panel from the people from Wrestlers. Where is this.

00:29:29
Speaker 8: Winston Salem hard to Wrestle Cade Weekend?

00:29:31
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well, I appreciate what he thinks about.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: Matt Jones.

00:29:37
Speaker 4: Actually, that's probably a good question if you really want the most honest answer, ask alify what he thinks about me. That's probably a really good question. He sounds good.

00:29:47
Speaker 5: I appreciate ask al Snow, did Shannon cry when he when you beat him?

00:29:52
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well we saw that on on camera down and uh it took By the way, it's still blows my mind when I meet people that know me only from that like that, Like.

00:30:07
Speaker 7: It's still is.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: It's so crazy for people who are in those kinds of shows. It has to be so weird to all of a sudden just get because I'm used to being recognized for Kentucky, but for the wrestling, that's so odd.

00:30:20
Speaker 7: We were in Milwaukee.

00:30:21
Speaker 6: Do you remember when we were in Milwaukee and somebody came up to you and they recognized you.

00:30:25
Speaker 7: Yes, from that Netflix, Just from Netflix.

00:30:28
Speaker 4: I just find that really straight.

00:30:29
Speaker 5: That well, we said this on the show. We were having that pizza in Chicago, and our waitresses like staring at you guys, like, wait a minute, are you the guy from Wrestlers. I'm watching with my boyfriend right now.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: You know, I watch. I will say I turned that back on a couple of nights when I was in Europe. You know, just trying to sleep, and I would like, before I go to sleep, i'd watch something, and I turned a couple of those episodes on because you know, I watched it. I watched almost the whole thing the first day because I was so nervous about it. And then I actually didn't go back and watch it for a long time, huh. And I went back and watched a couple of them, and a couple things struck me. One like, I can see the stress I had on my face during that, Yeah you.

00:31:09
Speaker 7: Know what I mean.

00:31:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you go back and if you were to watch that, I look worse than I, Like, like, I can see the stress I was under on my face, which ultimately is what I think led to that seizure that was on camera, is that that couple of months I had felt such pressure to I wanted that show to be good, and I wanted everything, and so you can see that. And then, you know, sometimes you watch yourself and you see yourself doing something and you go, why did I do that? You know, like why, Like that's so uncharacteristic of me to say that or to have that reaction, And you know, for some people that's the only thing they'll ever know about you. It's that And it has actually allowed me to have some sympathy for people I see on shows because it's so easy to go, oh, that person's that, that person's that. But I mean, if your worst moment was filmed, how would you act?

00:32:07
Speaker 7: Sure, Yeah, you know what I mean exactly.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: And they got at least for two or three months a couple times where I probably wasn't at my best, and then it's on screen.

00:32:14
Speaker 5: Well, I think you know, we've talked privately with Shannon Drew and all of us together, how during that time you had the stress not just the Netflix show, but of the OBIW organization. You know, you took it on and they were struggling, and you were trying to make it something the restaurant we were coming off COVID, you know, we were really trying to make it something.

00:32:30
Speaker 4: That created this whole summer thing for when they were here. And then at the very beginning, the director says, now I need you to be in it too, basically because originally I didn't. I didn't think i'd be in it. Yeah, And he's like, now you need to be in it because you're a central part of this. And so then all of a sudden, but you can just see it on my face. Like if you go back, do you know what I mean? Did you notice that when you watched it?

00:32:55
Speaker 5: I saw it firsthand and up close and personal. But then you do see it in the series, you realize how much stressed you were in every day. It wasn't just when they were filming.

00:33:03
Speaker 7: It was every day.

00:33:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was every single day. On a different note, Shady Rays, we have our remote there on Friday. It's in Lexington. They're gonna give away tons of sunglasses. It's out there at the summit. Should be great. It's always one of our really differ remotes. Yes, Shady Rays has the best sunglass at the best price. They have new University of Kentucky sunglasses. They do UK blue and white. They gave us a couple of samples. They'll be out there. I think they're debuting on Friday. Ok. There it is Shady Rays. Shady rays dot Com. Be the first one to get the UK blue and white sunglasses. I was wearing one in a picture the other day. Yeah, shady rays dot Com remote is there on Friday. We'll take a break and be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back, Tuke you Sports Radio Ask Anything Wednesday, eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. One person says, Matt. People ask you sometimes if you had to live anywhere in Kentucky it was a small town, where would you live? You guys always say Bardstown or day Bill. Yeah, so my question is different, different. If you had to live in far eastern or far western Kentucky, and Matt, you can't live in Middlesborough, where would you, guys choose to live western Kentucky. I would probably choose Paducah or Owensboro.

00:34:16
Speaker 5: I would pick Owensboro if you're gonna let me count that as well one of your homes.

00:34:20
Speaker 4: You can't pick it, so, youth.

00:34:21
Speaker 5: Well, Paduca Paduca's beautiful, or downtown Paduca's nicer.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: If you've never been to Paduca, it's nicer than you think. Huh, you you have have You've never been out there?

00:34:30
Speaker 7: I've never been to Paduca.

00:34:31
Speaker 4: No, yeah, you've never been. Like when we went to Bowling Green, that was the farthest west you've been, all right, So you haven't gone to any of those places. What about eastern Kentucky.

00:34:40
Speaker 5: That's a tough one. Trying to think of a town I would let you go first.

00:34:45
Speaker 4: Well I can't. You don't want to answer, dude.

00:34:48
Speaker 5: Well, I'm trying to think of a town that would I were living in, like I You know, my my good friend Tim from Powell County lives in Stanton.

00:34:56
Speaker 7: You know, so what's wrong?

00:34:58
Speaker 4: Stand?

00:34:58
Speaker 5: Well that was that's my leading candidate right now, Stanton.

00:35:00
Speaker 4: A right still Stanton.

00:35:01
Speaker 5: There you go, you know, close to Natural Bridge and kind of beautiful part of the state.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: Well, if I can't live in Middlesborough, then'm probably gonna choose Pineval. But you're probably not gonna let me live in Pineval either, because it's just close to Middlesborough.

00:35:12
Speaker 7: Well you can.

00:35:13
Speaker 5: It's the safest place to live with the rock on a chain.

00:35:17
Speaker 4: The rocks on a chain not gonna fall on me.

00:35:19
Speaker 5: That's a safe place to We go to take.

00:35:20
Speaker 4: You to chain rock, Mario, do you know about chain rocks. There's a rock, Boy, there's a rock. It was about to fall on the city of Pineval. It was hovering over. How big is this rock? We're talking rocks so big. Pineval goes away, and you know what they decide to do, these genius people in Pineval. They take a chain and they put the rock and they chain the rock to the ground so the rock will not fall, and it saves the town of Pinewoy. And it's still there. You can go see chain Rock.

00:35:54
Speaker 5: Thank God that lug Chain's gonna save the rock from destroying the town of Pineval.

00:36:00
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:36:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say maybe Corbin, Well, yeah, Corbyn would be my number one pick. Probably.

00:36:06
Speaker 5: I didn't say I don't think of that as really as eastern Kentucky.

00:36:08
Speaker 4: I think Corbin is London is where you have. I do think Corbin is Eastern Kentucky. London's kind of no so uh. I also could live I could live down on the lake in like Monicello.

00:36:21
Speaker 5: See you get you consider that Eastern Kentucky.

00:36:23
Speaker 4: I never have thinking I consider Mana. I consider Monaicello Eastern Kentucky. Yeah, you get to the rest of the lake. I don't really, but I consider Mona. Sell you're not gonna you're not putting it in there.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: Well, where are you from?

00:36:36
Speaker 4: You're from Spencer County. You don't get to this side. What's in eastern Kentucky. Did you watch the vice presidential debate?

00:36:42
Speaker 5: I did not watch one second of it. Then I'm glad I didn't.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: Shannon did you watch it?

00:36:47
Speaker 3: No, I was too busy watching the Braves lose Shannon.

00:36:49
Speaker 4: Did you watch? Or excuse me, Mario, did you watch?

00:36:51
Speaker 7: I saw clips of it on social media.

00:36:53
Speaker 4: See that's how most of people live, that's how they do it. I watched like ten minutes.

00:36:57
Speaker 5: What do you think?

00:36:59
Speaker 4: Just what I thought? JD. Vance is really good at that. Like it's you know, I've known him, he's smart. He's been on TV a lot over the years. He knows how to do that, so it really was a good format for him. I thought he did well. The ten minutes I saw were kind of in the middle. I heard Walls started poorly, but then by the time I saw him, he was fine. Like I think, I think it's all about, like the stage debates a skill, right, Like I think Harris is a better debater than Trump, although Trump sometimes can be a better public speaker than Harris. I think Walls might be a better public speaker than Vance, but Vance is a better debater than Walls. They each have sort of a different strength. But what was interesting to me is they were being nice to each other. They were being cordial, respect they were being respectful, they were being friendly, And I was like this is what it used to be like, right, go back sometime and watch the Obama McCain or Obama Romney debate and see how far we've gotten away from that. Like, they were very nice to eat each other, and so it was nice to see two guys. I mean, I don't I don't like JD. Vans, but I do like that they were respectful to each other like an actual debate. It was an actual debate, like you were actually could know what they meant, and they weren't just calling each other a farthead. And I just thought, like, I just thought it was like Ryan, that's what it used to be like. And I hope, I honestly hope in the post Trump era we go back to that. I don't know if we will, but tonight last night actually gave me some hope.

00:38:31
Speaker 7: That we might.

00:38:32
Speaker 5: And they kept the mics on the whole time, so they cut.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Them off once.

00:38:38
Speaker 3: They were trying to talk.

00:38:39
Speaker 4: They talk, and they just both turned they turned both their mind.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, a right, nobody can hear you stop talking?

00:38:46
Speaker 4: Who's up next, leg Litt? How are you?

00:38:50
Speaker 9: Hey?

00:38:50
Speaker 7: Matt?

00:38:51
Speaker 3: You all might need to think about this for a little bit, But who's the most underappreciated player or staff member in Kentucky sports history that doesn't get enough credit.

00:39:00
Speaker 4: Underappreciated player or staff member in UK sports history. Well, it's hard to compare sports, so let's start with basketball. I think the most underappreciated player in Kentucky history is Keith Bogans. Just maybe he's maybe I say that so much that he's going to start being appreciated, But he's the fourth leading scorer of all time. He was on multiple really good teams. I'm gonna say Keith Bogan's staff member maybe Leonard Hamilton. Ryan, Oh, that's.

00:39:31
Speaker 5: A good one.

00:39:32
Speaker 4: I mean he was a great recruiter.

00:39:34
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:39:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, All the players that played during that era praise Leonard Hamilton for what he did here at Kentucky.

00:39:40
Speaker 4: Do you have anybody that you would add for basketball? Keith Bogan was the first one.

00:39:44
Speaker 5: I mean, he's the highest scoring guard in UK basketball history and most people probably don't even know that.

00:39:49
Speaker 4: I would also say Julius Randall if you look at his stats and the fact that while Aaron Harrison made the shots, Randall was the best player on that team. Randall has the record for most double doubles. Will Oscar broke it so second most double doubles ever in a season, took a team to a national championship game. Everybody remembers the Twins, but they don't always remember how good Julius Randall was.

00:40:14
Speaker 5: He carried that team to the final game.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: As far as football, most underrated football.

00:40:19
Speaker 5: Player, Wow, I must say Anthony White because he played in the air raid. But yet he still had like over two thousand receiving yards and two thousand rushing yards, but he got overshadowed because of Couch and the receivers.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: That's interesting. I like that one.

00:40:34
Speaker 5: Always felt like he didn't the league get.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: Can I give you one that comes to mind?

00:40:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dereck Locke. That's another good one.

00:40:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, Derek Lock was a great running back that played and ran back kicks and all kinds of stuff. And I bet most people don't even remember he was on the team. Remember how fast.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: He was on the UK track team?

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Even what about staff member for football? That one might be a little harder for me.

00:40:56
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to think about that one a little bit.

00:40:58
Speaker 4: I'll tell you one I think is underappreciated. I don't know if he's underrated. Is Eddie Grant? I think Eddie Grant was a successful offensive coordinator, and behind the scenes he has set up to where UK's ni l has been in the last couple of years, to where we can have a roster like we have. He runs that. Basically, I think Eddie Grant is underappreciated. I mean, how many guys are offensive coordinators get fired and stay and stay in order like most people would never have the humility to do.

00:41:31
Speaker 5: That, stay and found a new role, that.

00:41:34
Speaker 4: New role, embraced it, did it like that's that takes a lot of humility to take that kind of demotion and sit and work with your replacement.

00:41:46
Speaker 7: Pride man talking about pride.

00:41:48
Speaker 4: I mean you really so, I'm gonna say Eddie Grant for.

00:41:51
Speaker 5: That, I was I don't people are gonna scream at me, but I was gonna say joker. As an offensive coordinator. It was a very good offensive coordinat recruiter, but for whatever reason, it didn't translate when he became the head coach.

00:42:04
Speaker 4: And I will say, I mean, we all appreciate Vince and we should. We also should appreciate Brad White. I mean, we've put together a number of the best defenses Kentucky has had year after year. He turned down the LSU defensive coordinator job to stay here. That's pretty good too, right he is.

00:42:23
Speaker 5: He's made made some money this year.

00:42:25
Speaker 4: That's right. We'll take a break, come back, talk a little basketball, our number two