2025-08-12- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. It is Tuesday, August the twelfth. I'm Matt Jones on a beautiful day once again in Lexington, Kentucky. We are two and a half weeks from start football. We're two weeks from the opening of Ksbar. We are three and a half weeks from the start of the NFL season. You know, we are like two weeks before our first NFL podcast tape. There's a lot going on, but today we're here with you. If I'm nine Clark's Pup Punch Up Full nine, If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Avis not auto glass. Text machine is seven seven to two seven seven four five two five four. In this disition sponsor by the t J. Smith officer called TJ. I'll make them pay. Ryan is gone, I've got Drew, I've got Shannon. I have fourteen topics. Uh. They are of various significance, from very significant to not significant at all. I think we'll do one of these where you just will say a number, OK, and I'll do them. Is that alright with you, Shannon?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure. I want to make sure it's okay with you. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm the most important one here, so yeah, sure it's okay with me.

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Speaker 2: But before we do that, I want to tell a quick story. Can I tell a story before? I sort of thing? So you know, we went to Pittsburgh for the Reds game. Did the show there yesterday. I made a mistake before the show started. I didn't look at the checkout time of the Airbnb's supposed to be ten. That seems early. I agree, I assume eleven. Wouldn't you always assume? I always assume every hotel is noon. But that's become a change. I think when I was younger, every hotel said noon, and now they're like eleven. And now some of them, Shannon, are starting to creep to ten, and I would argue that should be illegal.

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Speaker 3: Well minus ten, oh, yours is ten on Earth, herbnb is ten.

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Speaker 2: Why do you want some everybody out so quick?

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Speaker 3: Because you got to give the cleaning person enough time to come in because check in time is three o'clock and some of these people that clean I have to do like five six condos, so they're scrambling. You got to give them enough time.

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Speaker 2: Well I did not know. So I was doing the show and then moments before we said we started, the guy just walked in. And I want you to imagine again when you're like running in Airbnb and you walk in and a person's doing a radio show in your house and it looks it looks straight, you know, yeah yeah, And I was like, sir, I'm doing a radio show, and he just he goes okay, and then he just walked away. And so I was like, to finish the show yesterday, and you got friends with their knives out and got their knives out, and then it's it's it's a whole thing. So we get in the car. Soon it's over and we drive back. My buddy wanted to go to the Reds game and the Snoop Dogg concert last night, so we're trying to get home in time for for the do O double G. By the way, I heard that that that stadium was full. I heard that maybe some families didn't know the kind of concert Snoop puts on, and that some families may have left in the middle of it. Shannon, I put that on the family, right if you if you don't know what Snoop Dogg does, that's on you. That's not on the raids. But there were people complaining how could the Reds have him? I would argue, it's on them, Shannon. Don't you think Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean I think you should know when it's Snoop Dogg night at Great American Ballpark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think you think this is going to be family dog It's it's it's Snoop dog I mean literally, murder was the case that they gave him, and he was charged with murder. So I don't know. I just when does the concert fit into the night. Is it like the seventh inning stretches? The game last night went really quick, so they had a long delay before they start the game. But what they do is when the game is over, they open parts of the field people can run on it, and then they let everybody move to the side so that they can see. But I mean, tickets were going for hundreds of dollars. People wanted to see Snoop Dog. But anyway, so we're driving back and I forgot to do something that I always do, which is when I get a rental car, Shane and get satellite radio because I want to be able to flip the music and I like, you know, this is going to shock you. I like having the control of the music, et cetera. Forgot to do that. So that meant, you know, it's either listened to FM and AM stations in Western Pennsylvania. I've already listened to most of my podcast. Plus, they don't want to hear these are not like hardcore sports people is they don't want to hear Bill Simmons or that Pittsburgh show we listened to the day. They don't want to hear Mark Madden. So what I did is I was like, all right, I'm going to turn on sports radio because I never listened to it. Now's the moment. The first thing I do is turn on New York sports talk radio just to listen to them. Why about the Yankees and the Mets. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you I highly recommend when a team is losing that's high profile. Shannon turned on their radio. Right pick the city that's had the biggest heartbreak recently. Turn on sports radio there, Drew. I find it very fun. And when it's New York and they're like fire everybody because the Mets and the Yankees they're stinking right now, that's great entertaining. A good meltdown could be entertaining, as long as it's not your your team exactly as everyone else is misery. When we're losing, it's not good. Then I flipped to National Sports Radio. It's just so boring, and I'm not I mean, I know I do it, but for in general, like they don't have the passion, you know, when it's all Patrick Mahomes and Dak Prescott training camp. But believe me, because I have to do it. I know what it is. So then I decided to do something I don't do a lot. Shannon and my our old boss here used to say don't talk about competition, right, but you know what, like that's part of it, right, like you do you do talk about I have not listened to the Cutman, Alan Cutler, in like ever, at least certainly in many, many years. And he comes on, I think right after that, on another station. So I thought, you know what, Chen and I never listened to the Cutman. Everything I hear always has filter.

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Speaker 3: You get no filter, and he gets he's no filter.

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Speaker 2: I need no filter. I think I had heard one segment once because it was like, you know, I don't remember why i'd heard it, but but so I turned on the podcast for no filter. Alan Cutler is still so Alan Cutler. And let me say, as someone who who I grew up watching Alan Culor, so I find Alan Cutler entertaining with his Alan cutlerness. People think I talk a lot. He doesn't stop talking. There's like no commercials, I mean, don't you agree? And and and there is some person on the show named Jimmy. Oh yeah, Jimmy, Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, Well you do it, Jimmy. Jimmy, far as I can tell, doesn't speak, but but but he's he's always talking about Jimmy but I'm listening. He's talking about UK football. He's going into a lot of detail about UK football. I mean he he is like just UK football football. And then all of a sudden, we're like twenty five minutes in and you know, time is passing. I'm looking at the you know, I'm driving through now Zanesville, Ohio. I'm like, isn't that where the monkey ate the people's face? Do you remember that? Remember that the monkey escaped? I don't remember. It happened as I had a zoo. A guy had a zoo, I think, and somebody came and opened all the doors and the animals just took over town. I mean, I think it's a Robin Williams movie. But then I also, I'm telling you Janesville Museum, I'm telling you look it up. Zanesville, Ohio. There was like an animal takeover. One of them became mayor, and it was a whole It was a it was a whole thing. Forty eight animals were killed by law enforcement because they were just running around. It was in Zanesville.

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Speaker 3: But then one of it. You said that all those animals got killed, but one animal had their last life, right was the one that ate the man's face.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember if that's the same story. There was a time and animal ate a woman's face. This is not sweet or anything, but like, I don't know if that was in Zanesville or if that was in a different place. Point being when I drive through Sanesville, I always think of that story. So I'm driving through Zanesville. If you've made that drive from Pittsburgh to Columbus, not a lot of things to look at. Alan Cutler's talking about football Jimmy. He's just sitting there doing Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. And then all of a sudden again I'm just trying to enjoy my drive, Shinn, and he just starts attacking me.

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Speaker 3: About what.

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Speaker 2: Out of nowhere, He just starts attacking me, and he's like, you know, when I don't know what's going on, I say, what's not going well? I say it like nobody would ever accuse me of ever acting like I know what's happening and I don't know. Maybe then he goes, but you know who does, that's Matt Joe. I'm just driving through Saintsville, Ohio. Catch it the definition of catching strays? He just starts blasting me, and he's like Mat Joe's always saying saying he knows everything. He doesn't know everything. Yeah he's got good ratings. What's that have to do with anything? He was, but he doesn't know anything. Just remember that, right, Jimmy, Right, Jimmy, what do you say, dear Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. And it's like it's like two and a half minutes of me just catching strays and my friend Tall is sitting at the front seat with me, and in classic him, every time Cutler say it says something, he just looks at me and goes boo yah in your face like he's like cutman, no filter, and he's just so I'm just taking it the whole way and shit, And I didn't do anything to him. I haven't. I haven't said one bad word about him. And here I am in a Ohio just taking it from Cutler for two or three minutes and then he moves on and goles. But but but I love Matt Jones. Back back to UK football.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever consider it calling in at anyone?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Well actually I did, because he asked for calls. No one called. I was gonna call like Matt from Lexington and then but I but I didn't because you know, I was watching out for the animals in the street in Zanesville. But it's just you know, here, you think you have a relaxing Monday drive turn on. That's what I get for turning on sports radio. Why did I turn it on? I should have just listened to Willie's Road Health. And you know when we leave here, I'd say most days on my drive home, I go to the cup Man usually Clay and Buck come on, and I'm like, oh crap, and I need I need some sports talking, and cut Man's there for me. Clay no filter, Well, well no filter so there. So anyway, I didn't like that. That would be weird. You just think you're going to tune in and hear what they have to say about camp and start talking. Because they were just talking when I was on the New York States. They were just talking about Juan Soda and they think it's really funny that he only hit solo home runs. So one guy's like Wan solo and then they just crack up. I'm used to that level of banter. And then they're like Matt Jones knows well.

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Speaker 3: Billy was telling me that he had something to say about me, saying I don't know anything about sports.

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Speaker 2: And all this, and that we acknowledge it. We don't know anything.

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Speaker 3: I forgot. I didn't you know know that Cutlers played college sports or any kind of sports.

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Speaker 2: Listen, Jimmy, we we don't know anything. I want to be very clear. Everyone listening to this knows we have no knowledge. You hear, Ryan and list It's the preamble to the constitution. He can't he can't say anything. The whole year of Kobe bray An entire year, I was the eleventh man on the Middlesborough High School team. They asked me to be a manager politely. So you're not listening to this show for expertise, you're listening for entertainment. I still I've called our quarterback Zach Calzada all year. We're gonna get you there, Will and Nick Calzada, your boys, Eric, Zach Calzada. There's actually someone on cast board whose user name is Nick Calzada. Will Wolford, in your honor, he proved your point. So it is Zach. It is Zach, not Nick, not Nick. You you usually say Nick. Okay, Zach Calson. This is a sorter proof. I don't of all the things you could accuse us of, I don't think it's a thing like we know more sports now. Since you brought up Nick, since you brought up Zach Calzada, there's a lot of rumblings that this job is not his yet, that Cutter Cutter Peanut Butter has been has like that has been better in camp. I mean, let's be real. If you talk to people that have been there, there are people who say Cutter Bowley has been better. I think the plan is still to start Zach. But if you ask the people that go to camp and the people that are in practice, they will tell you Cutter Bowley has been better. Do you think there's a chance we get to that first game and Cutter Cutter Peanut Butter is starting.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think Cutter will play at some point in the year. But what if he is better, If he's better, should you not start him or is it just you? I wouldn't week one, Okay, if you've invested in Calzada, he's got one year. Cutters your future. If you throw him out there, if he's been better, all five weeks are all six weeks A kad like, how much how much do you have to see? I mean, if that were the case, then you'd start him. But he's been with the twos a lot. The two practices I went to, he did look great, but Kaalzada is taking the snaps the first and Cutter as everything I've heard around him, he has the right attitude. He knew when Kalzada signed that Kalzada would likely be the first quarterback and that Bowie's the long term option. And by all accounts it sounds like he's patient and knows that he's the future and he's not in a hurry. But I mean, yeah, if he were just absolutely killing it every day, you'd have to go. I just think, if I think, you have to think about it, because if you talk to it again, they don't open the practice, so it's hard to really know. But if you talk to the people that go, they will all say they'll make sure nobody's looking, they'll make sure Jimmy's not there, and then they'll say Cutter's been better. He has looked awesome. Without a doubt. This is the best two deep they've had of the Stoops era. The quarterback situations better than it's been in the Stoops era. That' seen like bold statement. I can't think of a second option that has been this close to the first option. And then even behind them, you got bo Allen and you're fifteen and a couple freshmen that look all right. Hey, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, we are going to be filtered all day, just so you know, full of filter. Uh, it is me, it is Shannon, it is Zach. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, takey Sports Radio. If I'm notine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text ma sheet seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. What person rides Matt? I do listen to the cut man sometimes he takes shots at you all the time, and Shannon, actually he doesn't say much bad about uh Drew o' ryan. Also, no one takes more shots at you on there than Brad Taylor. Who's Brad Taylor?

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Speaker 3: That's all you need to say?

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Speaker 2: Who is that?

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Speaker 3: Who can?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not even being a jerk.

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Speaker 3: Who is I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the guy that follows color on that station, on what stage on his station? He has a there's a person named Brad Taylor that has a show. It's like a gambling thing, he always says. The blogger boys across town. Blogger boys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you do listen to this stuff, then you're all in.

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Speaker 2: I turn it off when Brad Taylor starts. I do listen to Color. Blogger boy. I haven't been called a blogger in a long time either. The last time I would say I'm regular in quite some time. The blogger boys, Actually that would be that sounds like, yeah, that would be a Color does reference the show a lot. It's not always negative, but he does bring us up a lot. Uh, what's rights? I feel like Shannon was about to cook and you cut him off being upset about Color. No, I want you go. I like when you get angry.

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Speaker 3: He is an old man. He's so insignificant. Nobody even listens to him, except for apparently you and Drew. It was one day, I you know, if the tree falls into forest, nobody hears ITHA what's the matter?

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Speaker 2: I love it? All right? What before I go? The phones here? One to fourteen? Uh, Shandon, I'll let you pick first. Yep.

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Speaker 3: I'll go number three.

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Speaker 2: Number three. John Gruden says he wants to coach in the SEC. Let's say we go three and nine, knowing he has said I want to coach in the SEC, and there are only sixteen schools and there's going to be only probably two that have an opening, maybe three. Do we start to hear all of that at the end of the year. If we were to go three and I've already seen fans making memes and he's photoshopped on the sideline. I think Gruden's entertaining, and I think he's doing well in media with Barstool. I don't know that you can hire a guy who hasn't coached college since the eighties. That's not what I asked you. I asked you, if we go three and nine, how much of that it will be out there? Shannon, you're shaking yes.

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Speaker 3: That would be my first call. I would love to have John Gruden here. I think we'd be crazy not to want to have him here.

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Speaker 2: You get John Gruden or John some Raw, Let's say they both would say yes.

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Speaker 3: Gruden all day, not even a question.

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Speaker 2: If some araws on the table, I don't even consider what I do is offer him a coordinator position and coached college in almost forty years football though. Yeah, but a college game is I'm not trying. I'm not trying to run stough so off. I'm just saying to you, at the end of this football season, after that statement, they are going to be at least one or two SEC fan bases that are going to be having this conversation. And if you were to place Vegas odds on which one is most likely to have it, we would probably be the odds on favorite would probably be US in Arkansas if we're being if we're being honest, well, I don't think ten or more of those schools can even consider him because they're a lot further along than we are. It would have to be a looking at. I think it's UK and Arkansas would be the two that would would look at.

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Speaker 3: Imagine Arkansas gets them, has a great you know, great success, great run with Gruden, and it could have been US.

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Speaker 2: But remember this is a school Mitch Barnar are almost hired Bill Parcells. Let's just keep that in mind. People forget about that. It's one of the great kind of in the back of UK history moments is that they had Bill Parcells on a plane to bring him here and then Jerry Jones called and they flipped around and went to Dallas. People don't remember that, but that's true. So I want Mark Soops to be here. Hopefully we go nine and three with Nick Kyle Zond but nevertheless, but I'm telling you that if things go the opposite way that conversation that that will occur. Noah, go ahead, Noah.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, I want to get your opinion on this. And I apologize if you guys have already talked about us this in the past, but I want to I want you, I want to hear from you guys when you think of from last year's marsh or Big Blue Madness where we had a big asb glass for that for that you had put in I don't know what you guys thinking of, like that's something of like you think UK should be putting in for or hear your opinion, and then I'll think of, like what if that's on us maybe trying again for the future, because in my mind I'm thinking, obviously this is something that's gonna get to ooz and ohs as a fan really cool at the same time and correct me if I'm wrong. But it feels like that's taking up around not like ninety percent of your entire production budget.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, everything will anything. Everything cool. If you do it too much, will not be cool. Like I mean, the Soldier Boy was cool at one point and then they played it so much. Now you can't do the Soldier Boy and it'd be cool. I appreciate the call. I feel like every influencer like you got it and you don't. So I think the key is to always make something different and exciting. So do you do the floor again? If you can make something different, make it interesting, sure, but they'll come a point you have to come to something else. I just want them to always be like going for whatever the next thing is. Sometimes it might not work, but keep it up. We didn't. We did that in the early cal years. Then we kind of didn't for a while. It got stale. It was good to see them go back to that. I hope they continue to do that. You have to be on the cutting edge. And when you're on the cutting edge, sometimes you're gonna swing in me. That's okay. You keep going and keep taking another at bad at it. Now the floor is very cool for something like madness, and I'm with you if it can keep advancing. I can't remember exactly the tricks they did, but if they could, like have you know spots pop up or you know, you get a five pointer from a random circle that pops up, things like that, that would be unique. But if it's just continues to be videos, that might get a little stale. But I wouldn't mind them trying a few more times. Pretty impressive. Just keep pushing the envelope. That's I think, how you make it to where you go? Ooh, what's next? That's what you want to do. A fun story about that court. My neighbor installed it and he dropped one of the panels. They're very expensive. Jay, go ahead, Jay.

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, calling you off from the beautiful Sunshine State this morning. I'm originally from Funny County, but my family's on vacation down here and I had nothing to do today, kind of a bad weather day. So I'm going to Gainsville to see the Tom Peggy childhood house.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's kind of cool, Ben Hill.

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Speaker 7: Griffin Stadium and see if I can't get him get year's ear for a minute. But uh yeah, I just wanted to say.

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Speaker 2: That is kind of cool. I would like to do that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm super stoked about it. Real quick. Uh, I heard of the great vind that you're you're mcpride entity of mcddonald's was the same people that funded Tennessee's McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: You're breaking up, man, I don't know where you are, if you're out on the beach or something. Yeah, I said Tom Petty's house. Sorry, we had to back down because we can't hear you, Jimmy. So I'm uh, that's the end of the line. I would love to go. I would love to go to uh, you know, to to the Tom Petty house. But don't come around here no more with that phone because it's not working. We don't mention that company. By the way, that is cool when they do that at the Florida game and they play his songs. I got stoops video to it when we want down there. That was awesome. Yeah, that's it. That is very cool. We'll take a break very back, Okay, I sorry. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

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Speaker 3: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. Yeah, this is that's a wonderful. So, I mean we've talked about this a lot. Tom Petty's a top five artists for me. First concert I went to, first time I in person smelled what marijuana smelled like, like just really in person to be like, oh, that's what it is. You know, your first dance with Mary Jene well done. See, that's why you gotta have the true He just he's good at it. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, one person says Matt. I listened to a lot of local shows in both Lexington and Louisville. I do find it kind of sad. They all mention you a lot. I never really hear you mention them. That's true completely, Well, I don't know if it's true they mentioned me. I don't listen to it, but I don't.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: When we got started many years ago, Dow remembers this, we just took shots at people, and I always have regretted some of that because I thought, like, why did I do that? And it was but if you look at it, it was just trying to like build our thing. Almost all of those people are no longer in media. Alan Cutor is probably the last one, and so the same thing is true with the new people now, like they got to find a way. I mean, the reality is, and I don't say this to be mean to any of them, there's not one local show in Lexington or Louisville that rates anything on any radar except I think Drew Diener does a little bit maybe, and then that has shows. They're not really sports though, they but nobody else does. So Like I get it. They're trying to it is what it is, you know, but I don't know who they are. Like I didn't know who Brad Taylor was. Honestly, I didn't know there was a person named Brad Taylor. And Wendsey on after Color, well, I don't know what that is. What time is that? I guess Colors two hours? I think so two? Yeah? Okay, Well I wish him the best, Shannon, because I don't know. And the day like I, if you think about it, you've known me a long time, Shannon. I don't squabble with anybody locally anymore. No, but you, oh for sure, like Kyle Tucker. Yeah, and then well what's funny is they all just ended up where we were after criticizing us for years, the Herald, the Courier, all of them have just ended up doing the exact same thing KSR does, just not as good. So for years we were told we were evil, and now they all just do the same thing. I saw ESPN the other day's hiring a twenty two year old TikTok person. Saw that they should. But like they're just now doing what the barstools of the world did just later. And that's what happened here locally, right, like they just and but the difference between us and them is we saw it coming and I knew that wasn't going to work, and so you know, so I do not take it personal, although I was just driving through Zanesville. All right, what one thirteen give it to me. I'm lucky number ten, number ten. Let's see thirteen. Uh, this is a little complicated, tall what let's take a call and then I'll go to it. Andy, go ahead, Andy.

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Speaker 4: Hey, guys, hey, uh. I spent sixteen years living in Jamesville, and I was like five minutes from where the zoo animals got let out and the guy let them out.

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Speaker 2: Were you there when they let him out? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I was. I lived about five minutes from the guy's house.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so what happened? Tell me? So they say, hey, forty six zoo animals are out. What did you do?

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Speaker 4: I stayed in the house.

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Speaker 2: Were you nervous? Were you nervous? There's not going to be an elephant outside?

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Speaker 4: No, because I really didn't know exactly what was going on until after the back and you know, looking to it on the news and I had people calling me from Kentucky and from other states. That I knew is that if I was okay and everything, what turned out? I guess the guy was kind of well, it was a sad story. He uh, he was facing charges and let all his animals out and committed suicide.

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Speaker 2: No well way to bring it down. And I was just trying to eat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean that's what happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well the truth is the truth.

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Speaker 4: Some of the animals rescues.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that's good. All right, Thank you, Andy, five nine twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, don't you feel it's disrespectful that you and Drews call Zach Calzada nick. I do not do it on purpose. I will get it right. It is Zach. I want him to be successful. I want him to kill. You know, he was on the show. He seemed like a nice kid. I want him to be successful. I also want Kentucky to win, and if Cutter Bowley is better, he should play you. There is a fallacy and poker called the fallacy of the sunk cost, which is you've got so much money in you feel like I have to do this. Because the money is in, you have to know when to fold them right. You have to know when it's so when it doesn't work. Now, I'm not saying whether they are at all with with with Calzada, but if Cutter's better, it doesn't matter what you paid in N I L or anything else. You have to do what's right. We'll see what it is. I'm not taking a position, but I don't think we should be stuck on it has to be this guy because he was who it was supposed to be. Yeah, and Cutter Cutter looks really good. I worry that if, like let's say, the line doesn't pan out or it's just not a good year. Cutter is your future. If you put him behind a bad line and he has a bad year, that can derail his futures. So that's why I say, But see, but he may not be here anyway. I mean, I I don't I think you're right about that, but I don't think you can do that in today's college football, in today's college football where people can leave any year, Shannon, I think you gotta do for this year. You can't assume for the future. None of these dudes may be here next year. So like, you have to do what's best for the team that's on the field that year, because you don't even know if you're gonna have these guys the next.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Cutter may stick around, and we may end up going to the transfer portal and getting somebody better, and then Cutter has to sit again. And there's a lot riding on this season. Let's put the best guys that we have out there from the very beginning. I don't care if he was supposed to be the starter or not. If another guy's better, put him out there.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: I mean, to your point, I get what you're saying, which is you don't want to get cut or hurt. But let's say you keep Cutter on the bench, you don't get him hurt, and then he leaves, what good did it do you. I'm with you, and I think Calzada is still maybe even better than him, Like Kalzada has been good too. It's just Cutter's turned heads because what we saw last year. You know, he's thrown into tough spots Florida at Texas. He looks much better than he did in those games, and it's exciting to see him. It's not that Kalzada has been bad or anything. And honestly, they're gonna run so much. I could be quarterback. It is gonna be run. Kalsada said himself, We're gonna run a lot, so what's the point is? And then with six wide receivers if we're not gonna throw the ball, well, Calzada he's even said interviews on media today, we're gonna run, run, run, and we're gonna hit a play action where I can show off my arm. So he's he is a good deep ball threat and I think that's where he's gonna come into play. But it is gonna be run. And then lose twenty seven to six just seems like the most disappointing thing. I think we lose nineteen to twenty, it's gonna be like those games. Well, I mean that's at least competitive all right, So you the one you picked there, number ten. Do you all use the website letterbox D your letter boxed? No, never heard of it. I'm just gonna tell you be careful if you get on it. So I guess it's like a social media site for movies. Okay, So you make an account and you rate all the movies you've ever seen. First of all, when you start that process, that takes a long time because you've seen a lot of movies. But if I just sit here and say, name the movies you've seen, it's kind of hard to come up just with movies off the top of your head. I sat there one day, next thing I know, I was two hundred movies in continuing to write. It's on a zero to five star scale. And you sit there and you go, okay, is Winning Crasher is better than Step Brothers? Or is it the same or is it worse? And you're doing it, and then it gives you recommendations, and then you can follow people, and you can follow your friends and Shannon see what movies they like and what they've reviewed. And it sounds stupid, but then once you get on, I'm on there. I'm Matt Jones, KSR. I don't care if you follow me or not. It doesn't matter. I'm not asking you to. I'm just saying, like, I think the only thing I like is just going back and going Did I like Avatar? Was it a two? Well?

00:31:41
Speaker 4: No two?

00:31:42
Speaker 2: And I have no two. So there's decimals. I feel like, just fox hals, okay, have you can do halves.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: Like if you're deciding to go back and watch a movie you've already seen, like, why would I do that?

00:31:51
Speaker 2: I hate? Why would I do that? Exactly? You can go back and look at keep something. But the thing is, there's a big upfront cost in trying to remember all the movies that you've want, right. I just I'm sitting there going, yeah, I did see Three Men and a Baby. I don't remember my reaction to it, but I did see it. And I've probably rated hundreds of movies, and there's still a ton to do because you don't remember. And then in theory, as things come out, you do them more. But I'm still trying to catch up.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: I'm up to three eighty four on but I do IMDb. But it's similar to what you're talking about.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Letterbox is a cool one.

00:32:24
Speaker 3: Now just so you don't know, I don't care. What's cool.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: I want you to follow me. Shit, yeah, I want you and to be letterboxed friends.

00:32:32
Speaker 3: I allow have to get on there.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: Then get on letterbox and also then people can create their lists like the fifty best movies of all time and all that. I think she could. I think you would love it. It's got It's very much a Drew Franklin. I'm just a point. I didn't already know about it. Yeah, well, it's just I'm telling you though. If you get on it, it's it's it's addicting because then it just just you just want to make sure you have all your movies if you've ever dominated a trivia night or you know every word of the pre But like our man Ryan Lemon, the National Civics b is Thursday four to six at the Kentucky State Fair. It's like a spelling bee, but about civics, constitution, and our democracy. There are people from all over the country coming to the South wing of the Kentucky State Fair four to six pm Thursday. It is the National Civics Be brought to you by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce because understanding government is important and community matters, as do funnel cakes. It is Thursday, August twenty first, four to six the Kentucky Civics Bee and then, by the way, Friday, KSR is at the State Fair. Looking forward to it. Yeah, so one of my favorites of the year, KASAR is Friday at the State Fair. Between now and then, I'll let you know where at the State Fair it is. But be ready to This is our yearly State Fair show. Do you think the one guy is gonna come by?

00:33:45
Speaker 3: I was about to ask you the same question.

00:33:48
Speaker 2: He's gonna come by, isn't he the guy?

00:33:50
Speaker 3: I think he got banned from there was last I.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: Bet he's there. I think they I think they bann him and then he gets he comes back the next.

00:33:55
Speaker 3: Year until he gets banned.

00:33:59
Speaker 2: I bet he's gonna to be there. But anyway, we will be there Friday. That's the it's a second It opens Thursday, so this is the second day of the fair. We'll be there Friday for KSR. We'll take a break, be right back to Tekey sports Radio. Welcome back. Take you sports radio. Doesn't look like a lot of your on letterbox. It's all right. You can thank me later. Actually the message board had several people say they're on there, okay machines. Usually when I say something like that, like I had four people write me they were from Zanesville. I thought there'd be people sort of saying letter but but I guess not. But I understand maybe I'm on the cutting edge.

00:34:32
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: One person got Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Jimmy the dude. You guys are nuts. We're three weeks before the season and you're already trashing the starting quarterback and manufacturing to controversy. This is the reason some people hate KSR. The negativity. It's not negativity, it's a conversation. Remember last year I got trashed for saying there was a way we could go to the playoff. That was being too positive. What people don't like is not the negativity or positivity. They don't like when people disagree with them, whatever position they have. If I don't have that position, then that's somehow a fault in my personality. Obviously it comes through in politics a lot, but it also comes through in sports. Ask some people they'll go KSR sunshine pumpers and they're too positive. Ask other people and they're too negative. The reality is what some people want. Most people don't. Most people enjoy hearing different conversations. But what some people want, like you, sir, is you just want people to agree with you. And if you want that, then just talk into a recording and just listen to yourself back. That'll be the easiest way for you to make sure you get somebody that agrees with you on every state. Had someone write mean just the other day about how negative am about UK football at the time, and I'm like, two years ago, I booked a room in Atlanta before the season. You wouldn't go on that one basketball game because it was the same day as a championship. What do you want from me? We're giving you what our raw emotion is. Last year I went the season ready to punch people in the face and was like we could go nine and three. And that video is still floating around the internet and people still make fun of it. This year, I don't feel as positive. I'm just telling you what I feel.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: Video yesterday that came out. No people are saying two and ten now after that video, Yeah.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: I mean that video, well, let's just say it was one of the topics. Let's just talk about for a second. So that video, you know, Shannon tweeted it out. Well done, Shannon, that was great, Thanks for that. And then Mario put out the video of us talking about it, so I got some information on what happened. The one of the two guys at wanted to do it.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: He's off the team.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: I think it's our starting line I think it's our starting linebacker. They were trying apparently to recreate like a sorority rush video.

00:36:46
Speaker 3: At the time.

00:36:46
Speaker 1: Bro.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, but right there before we'll stop, that's when someone has to go, we're secn tell about you. Now. I'm not sure that Dick but Cuss and ray lewis like, I'm not sure that they recreate a lot of sorority rush videos. Now listen, I will do the stupidest stuff imaginable, and I'm okay with it. And this show does stupid stuff and I'm okay with it. I just don't know that that was the moment, it being like introducing the team, let's do it. I am told this. I cannot confirm, but I've heard this from two different sources that the video was put out early by the kid. Then UK tweeted it out or something or retweeted it or I don't know if they somehow UK put it up and I was told someone showed it to the coaching staff and the staff demanded it be taken down as they should and was not happy it got put up. That's what I was told. Now I don't know. I can't swear to that. I do think that the kid put it out first, but I was told that someone one of the compeats me on the coaching staff was like, what are you doing? Take that day?

00:37:57
Speaker 3: You know how they have like reaction videos on YouTube. I would love to have a reaction video of Mark stops video the first time.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Did you imagine that's the BBN United video behind the scenes I want? And it was the yes, show me that stuff. You want to get me to subscribe to bb in United. You show me Mark Stoops watching that video. There's a guy you show me the first time. Mark Stoops goes to that player and was like, what are you doing? There's a funny video that we cannot possibly share because of the language. But there's a guy on TikTok that has a reaction to it and he's just screaming that Kentucky, I saw it there, like you have one month to get to Conference USA. Listen, I understand. Hey, this will be fun. Let's recreate the Zeta video. I get it. Okay, you can't put that out in the Kentucky like. Do that on your own time, you.

00:38:56
Speaker 3: Know, do it after the season.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: Nine, do it at the bowl game. Yeah, okay, we're heard. We're trying not to go to Toledo keeps gaining on us in the points spread every day. Oh did you see the Toledo update? Yeh, that's one of the lists. I can't think about it right now. Let's go to Scott. Go ahead, Scott, Hey, good.

00:39:17
Speaker 5: Morning, guys. Got a two part question for you. Then I'll hang up and listen. Off Off, Is there another college uh sports team that does a four hour talk show five days a week? And if there's not, what a college team do you think could Yeah.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: I mean there's a few, they're not. There is no college sports team in the United States that has a show as popular as this one. And there is no one close. You know, we when we got bought by on three, I now have access to all the numbers on all this ks are. The website gets more trafficked than every other every other whip college sports website and cut and it is not closed. No one is if within, no one's within the ballpark subscribers to the pay site. We're not in the top five because we've been free for so long, but in like a year and a half we got to where we're competitive. There's there's a handful above us, but when it comes to daily traffic, nothing's close to Kasar. When it comes to radio, there is no local college sports show in America. I want you to focus on this and other people can play it, and you're gonna be wrong. There's no college sports show in America that gets half the listeners KSR half. There's a couple, like in Columbus and in a couple other places that also have pro sports teams that might get more than half, but nobody gets more than this. I've said this before. This is the number one locally rated sports show in the country. There's a few shows in big cities, like in New York, where the total listeners is higher, but it's because their population is like five times us ten times. So my point is no, and Kentucky Sports is the reason I'm not sitting here just bragging on us. It's Kentucky Sports, our fans care more than anyone else cares. In Alabama, Auburn, their fans care, but it's like they don't consume it like we did. You've seen it, like there's no way to call. We have access to the numbers of every website, every radio show in the country, and they're not even close.

00:41:30
Speaker 3: Any radio show. They can go out every Friday and have one hundred people at a remote at ten o'clock in the morning, there's not another one. There's not another one.

00:41:38
Speaker 2: Think about Indianapolis last year when we played Tennessee. We're not even in our state and they were lined up a block down the road and couldn't get in. That's a combination of I think we do a good job, but it's also this fan base. This fan base. Don't ever let anyone tell you anything negative about Kentucky fans and how much they care. Nobody cares more than us. Nobody on the basketball side, nobody's close. Nobody's close. The only one that's I mean, there's nobody close, Kansas, Indiana, Yukon. Still, this is the number one fan base is Kentucky, and it's amazing. If I'm nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven we'll take a break. We got to talk about can openers and how you tyres Maxie. I feel for him, I've been there. We'll be right back.