2025-10-15- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, October the fifteenth. I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill. It is Wingsday, Dollar Wings all day, Mario sh this is the UH. You can give a shits, ask anything Wednesday on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four In this edition sponsored by the t J. Smith Office. If you called TJ, He'll make them pay. Dollar wings all day and night. Here at the bar and Burgers and were ready to go. We got Ryan Lemon's former news directors in the house. How are you doing?

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Speaker 5: First ever news director John Stern from Channel seven Eyewitness News in Evansville. It was eyewitness Oh, eyewitnessed.

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Speaker 4: What news did you witness when you were.

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Speaker 5: There's all kind of news going on.

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Speaker 4: It was the biggest news story while you worked in Evansville.

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Speaker 5: Well, there was a horrific plane crash.

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Speaker 4: Well, way to bring the mood down on the show. Okay, but I did ask.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, that was that. That was tough. That shook the whole community for a long.

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Speaker 4: What about the biggest sports story?

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Speaker 5: Well, Don Mattingly had just, you know, became famous and was like tearing up the American Lady with the Yankees when I was working there.

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Speaker 4: So why was that a big story in Evansville?

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's from Evansville. I'm sorry, Okay, he's an Evansville guy.

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Speaker 4: I just thought you just anything Don Mattingly did, well, big deal. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: I used to be an eyewitness to Ryan on Eyewitness News. Watched him every night.

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Speaker 4: Wow, got of the Scott Rowland highlights.

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Speaker 5: Scott Rowling, you gay, Scott rolled his first ever TV interview. I gave Walter McCarty his first ever TV interview.

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Speaker 4: So you're you're saying Walter McCarty, Scott Rowland and Don Mattingly all owe something to you.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, yes, God's started them on their way.

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Speaker 4: Well good, well if I'm nine two eight h h twenty two eighty seven, it is a beautiful day outside. We are two days away from a huge weekend in Lexington. You've got the Blue White game. Uh, You've got the UK Texas. It's gonna be its parents weekend. Adam Sandler is in town Thursday night, U Drew. I think this is one of Keenland. This is one of the big weekends you had in Lexi October in the city.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun for everyone participating, but to anyone just trying to get around town and.

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Speaker 4: Live their regular life, terrible.

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Speaker 6: I'm expecting absolute chaos. But it is good for election. This will be one of the biggest weekends of the year. This will be a great weekend here at the bar too. That's what I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 4: The pregame was seven o'clock game against Texas. You know you're we'll have people in here the night before because the blue white and parents we get coming to town and then all day Saturday. The reason, uh, you know, because when we reopened this we we had some talks about, you know, do we wanna do we want to keep doing this, and we keep doing it for days like Saturday, where this place is is a whole lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: It becomes a special place to be on game day. You do your pregame, you're tailgating here, and then go to the game and it sounds like there's gonna be a really good crowd. I mean, tickets are kind of hard to get, and the ones that are get are expensive because people are gobbling them up.

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Speaker 4: Can I tell a quick story? I wasn't gonna tell this story, but I feel like I'm gonna want to.

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Speaker 5: It's a storytelling uncle Matt.

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Speaker 4: All right, So this is a true story. Happened to me on uh on last week? All right. So I got a phone call from my agent on Thursday and he said, hey, Matt, Uh, there's somebody that wants to talk to you. It's it's it's fairly important, and you need to keep your phone on you all day, like as soon as they call you need to be able to answer. This was a media person like, so I can't really say what it is. You just have to just just assume, big deal, big media person. I say, okay. They're like, and look if he calls her in the show, you got to find a way to jump off the show and take the call.

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Speaker 5: You told me the other day to be ready.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I was like, I may have to jump and take a call. All right, So get through the morning, no call, show, no call, get to the afternoon. I have to go, uh to the to the doctor, trying to figure out, you know, trying to uh make sure these floaters I have are okay, and they're OKAYO right, but I'm going But I say the doctor, I'm like, listen, doc, I hate to do this, but if I get a phone call, I have to take it, okay, Yeah, And he was like all right, fine whatever. Of course, during the show, phone rings, and I know from earlier that the person called me he's gonna have a two O two number, right, Okay, phone rings two O two number. I look at the doctor, I'm like, I'm sorry, I have to take this call. I feel bad, but I have to. Hello, sperson goes hey, Matt, what's up, but like in a familiar way.

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Speaker 5: Uh huh.

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Speaker 4: So I'm you know, remember me, I'm thinking this is media person. Then the guy goes, so, what do you know about sperm racing?

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Speaker 5: Sperm racing?

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Speaker 4: Sperm racing? You would like to bring it to ks Bar the day of the Texas game.

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Speaker 5: Sperm racing?

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Speaker 4: Yes? And I said, who is this? It was not my boss, It was not the media person. This was just some random person and they were wanting to set up in the parking lot something to talk about male infertility and have an eight hundred person tailgate here about sperm racing. I said, sir, can I call you back? I'm in the doctor. I get off the phone. Call back now. I want you to think. Here's the thing. You know, You're in a little tiny office with the doctor. He heard all that, and I said, and I looked, and I could tell by his face he's wanting to I could tell he'd heard it and he's wanted to talk about it. And he goes, so was that implance? So was that important? And I said that was not the media person. I don't know what it was. So I had to decline. Drew that event here in the parking lot for UK Texas. I said, we're already going to be very crowded. We can't have that. But somewhere in Lexington is an eight hundred person event happening on Saturday. In terms of the things that are going to be happening in this city.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad you explained it, as you know, trying to help people with health issues. I didn't know where we were going. This is a restaurant that would hurt our health score.

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Speaker 4: That was hard.

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Speaker 6: That makes a little more sense. I would call it something differently, you know what.

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Speaker 4: I think they do it to get your attention, but I think it's gonna I think that backfires, in my opinion. But they wanted to take up the whole parking lot to do it, and I was like you, not only it's.

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Speaker 5: Good for a health score, We're a restaurant, you know.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, never ended up. I turned that down, right. I hope you're okay.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're usually open to any kind of propop to that. I'm open to that.

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Speaker 4: We were not open to that, all right. I wanna For the last few weeks, or the last couple weeks, we've been talking a lot about the Stoop situation. I thought to myself yesterday I do not want to open with that again. But then I don't think we have a choice because and again I want to give credit to Harold Leader. Here, they got Mitch Barnhart for an interview, and Mitch Barnhart made a couple of quotes that I think we just have to discuss. He's asked about basically about the Stoop situation and the contract, and I'm gonna read you both both things. Now. This is all in the Hair Leader. You can read. John Hale has an interview. John Hale does two stories, one of which is he traces Mark Stoop's contract from the first one to now so you can see see how it's advanced. It's kind of fascinating. But let's start with the most important question, which is he was asked if about his confidence in Mark Stoops. Here's Mitch Barnhart's quote, and I want to get your two euros take on it. Quote, Mark is working hard. Can I promise everything that everybody wants me to promise? No, there's no promise. We can play our hearts out and go have one tough moment that goes against you in a game and all of a sudden, you find yourself with a loss that you didn't want. And that doesn't mean you didn't give effort, you didn't your work your way through it. But Mark and his guys are working hard. Now. I have a reaction to that, Drew, what's yours? Well?

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Speaker 6: First, I rolled my eyes because kind of back to work and we're working is getting They're big on getting back to work on Monday. I've been like that for a long time. It kind of just feels like Barnhart's throwing out a little bit of support for Stoops and just gonna let the result tell the end of the tell the story at the end of the season, And is how I took it.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a lot of support. He was like, I mean, it's kind of just kicking it down to I mean, he says we can play our hearts out and then not win. I mean that's it's almost like he's like acknowledging he may not win very many games the rest of the year.

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Speaker 6: At least he's saying, I'm gonna we got his back. But uh, it wasn't vote of confidence, but it just seems like he's he's will know at the end of the year, So he's gonna let him play it out and the wins will tell the story.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there was. That was no vote of confidence at all for your coach. I read it. I took it as like, like, I'm gonna use you as an example. You were just talking about you in high school basketball. You know, the guy that sits at the end of.

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Speaker 4: The good sign for Mark Stoops if you're using my high school basketball career as an example.

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Speaker 5: The guy that sits at the end of the bench. Good guy. Man, he works hard. He really a hard worker. No, you're never gonna get on the floor, not gonna be able to play, but boy, you sure are a hard worker. That's how I heard that terogram.

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Speaker 4: You know, well, that's not a good sign for his future because they did ask me to be a manager halfway through my career, so I don't know that that will help him now. The next so part two of the article came out today, and I think it's the more important part. He traces Mark Stoops Mark Stoop's time here. By the way, do you know what Mark soops first deal with Kentucky was No, five years, eleven million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Wow, he makes that pretty much almost makes any.

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Speaker 4: Five years eleven million dollars. Now he's making over nine million dollars every season. But this is the key people may not remember. At the end of the twenty twenty one season, he signed an extension. Okay, so he signed an extension that was very similar to his other extensions. It had a buy out of around twenty twenty five million dollars, and it was very similar to the other season. He was making like seven million a year, et cetera. We win the first four games of the twenty twenty two season. Do you remember who we beat? Miami of Ohio. Youngstown was the other one. Mike Florida was the big one, Florida, and then one more so three bad teams in Florida. All right, at four and oh, we give him another extension. Now here's this extension raises the buyout from twenty five million right now to thirty eight million. So raises is it by thirteen years, makes the buyout do within sixty days of leaving, and extends him for three more years. John Hall asked Mitch Barnard, why did you do that? Four games into the season. This was after we blocked that kick, you remember, and ran it back for the against Florida. Here was his answer. We were four and oh going and and by the way, we signed the contract. Do you remember three days later we lost to Vandy at home. That was the kind of the start of the slide. We're six and twenty in the sec since that contract. He said, we were four and oh going into that and there was a lot of talk around our program and a lot of talk about Mark being in the running for other jobs. This is the key quote. Our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't lose a guy that had been so beneficial to our program, And so we walked through that. We were thankful to be able to sceer him as our football coach and keep him around and make sure he's a Wildcat. And I'm still proud of that today.

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Speaker 5: Ooh could have gone without that last sentence.

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Speaker 4: There's an unnecessary sentence there. That last sentence is a sentence that's getting some traction online. Two things that I want to ask you about that. What about the first comment our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't lose a guy. Do you think that was true? Four games into the twenty twenty two season.

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to remember. I mean, we'd just come off the Citrus Bold win with Will Levis. The year before, we had ten wins. Now we're four and all the next year we're talking about building a statue for the guy. I think he's the greatest coach in the history of college football.

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Speaker 4: But do you think you need to do it right then? Because because you do it on a Tuesday, we lose at home to Vandy the next week. I think there's a really good chance you don't give him that. Yes, if you lost to Vane, waited one more week, if you had waited one more week, well.

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Speaker 6: If they truly did it after four and oh, I have the schedule, now you're three of your four wins were Miami, Youngstown and Northern Illinois. Yeah left out Northern Illinois, but they were eighth in the country. I guess with that Florida win. But if it was truly after four wins, then they went lost loss, win, lost, lost.

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Speaker 4: Loss, Like, yeah, well we lost to Vandy and then we lost.

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Speaker 6: As this was next open, then South Carolina next, because it didn't come out till before the Vandy game. But Barheart said after four games, they did it behind closed doors. After four games didn't come We all found out before the Vandi John Hill makes the point they didn't do an announcement. It was only found out because somebody requested something else and it was added on to it. So this extension that supposedly our fans wanted us to do, they didn't even make a public.

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Speaker 4: Announcement about it. I think that's important if you're gonna say, because look, I like, but this is kind of I want to say. I think this is kind of a BS thing to say. If you're gonna say our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't lose the guy, then why didn't you announce it. It only came out because they requested some other public contract and it was an added to it, and we found out. You're right before the Vandy game, which was later in the year. But clearly you didn't do this because there was a clamoring for him to stay. You didn't even make a public announcement.

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Speaker 6: About it, right writing history, If all the fans wanted it, you would have made graphics and paraded that around.

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Speaker 4: This was because hey, fans, we want you to know we've got him. We wouldn't have found out because Bob asked for the file about and then they accidentally I don't remember they accidentally or intentionally, but they mark Stoop's contract was part of that ran.

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Speaker 5: I think Mitch Barnott was so afraid of losing Stoops and losing cal Perry. He made these ridiculous off these contract because he didn't He don't want me to the guy that let Caliperry go to the U.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't it just be more honest to go that? Yeah the end to say I'm still proud of it, that worries me. Yeah, if you still think that was a good deal, Like I can accept people might make mistakes, but Drew, if you still think that was a good decision. Where we're sitting right now, I don't know what to say at that point.

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Speaker 6: Now we all know the results, and now that I'm looking at the schedule on him saying it was done after four games in that same month, they lost to Tennessee forty four to six. With two other wins that month, it seems the moment pen went to paper, it just completely flipped the switch. Winning went to losing instantly.

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Speaker 5: Got hurt, got hurt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So you know, so if you read those articles, it doesn't seem like to me he's going Mark Stoops will be here until the end of time. But he's also and I feel like it's just deja vus. John cal Perry, Mark Stoops, and Mitch Barnhardt all have extremely different personalities. They're not in any way the same person, but they all have that stubborn streak where they can't just say we made a mistake. And I know he can't come out and say I made a mistake. I mean, I I don't expect him to do that when he's here, but the I'm still proud of that. It continues this view of people who are just like, well, I don't I don't mess up everything else goes wrong. I am perfect, and I that that just that just annoys me. We'll take a break. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four us KSR. Good song choice, shit and not gonna lie. Perfect for what we were talking about. This is uh, what's his name? Now? Tell me this sack? You got it? Mag Davis? That's right. Yeah, he looks so good in his genes. I think he says at some point, doesn't he Shannon. Yeah, eight five, nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Scare Fest is this weekend too. You said that's where ever Buddy's in there. Halloween cost It's.

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Speaker 5: Like comic Con for Halloween. Just a lot of boos and vendor son Halloween stuff, but people come dressed in their costume.

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Speaker 2: There's actors and stuff from like movies that will be there too.

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Speaker 5: And that's this weekend, this weekend too, not Adam Sandler Thursday night Scarefest. I think Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Drew, you made a very good point that I want to say. Mitch Barnhardt in that article, he has one more thing that's important. He says, he's sort of explaining the dip in how Kentucky has performed, and I want you to I want to read you this quote. If everybody will reflect on the program that Mark inherited, where he took us eight straight years. By the way, he doesn't have a clause after that, that's not a sentence, but nevertheless it's what he says. If everyone will reflect on the program that Stoops inherited and where he took us for eight straight years, then the changes in the world of college athletics occurred, and it was a struggle for us for a couple of years just to try and find our way. So in the middle part we all were fine and everything was good, and now we're having to adjust. I think it isn't it worth noting that the struggles which is what he's talking about within IL, everyone myself included in us, we're warning Mitch that we were behind, Like everybody was saying, Mitch, you are behind, and he was insisting he wasn't. And now he's using the excuse of being behind as an excuse when at the time he was saying he wasn't behind honestly.

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Speaker 6: Of everything in this interview, the stoop stuff, all of it, the nil part stood out to me the most because I was thinking, in real time, felt like every morning we're being like, is Michigan to say anything about in IL, like other ads are making videos telling fans can participate, Yeah, And.

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Speaker 4: How can you be doing and then use the fact that you chose to be behind as an excuse? You did that? Remember we saw we were here. Now I give him a lot of credit, he's reverse course, but the reason there was that two year dip was you. I mean That's actually something I don't blame Mark for. We were two years behind on NIL because Mitch and Cal would not embrace it at first. Now, Mark tried to embrace it at first, the university foughting. He did it privately, and he kind of kept the program afloat for in like twenty two or like twenty two and twenty three on his own, and then it kind of I think hit us last year. But that's on Mitch in some ways, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was openly critical of in IL. Remember he talked about there thought there'd be problems in the locker room and things that happened if they went that rout. So he tried to stay away from it as long as he possibly could, I think.

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Speaker 6: And there's so many other schools just being open about it. Tennessee, especially their ad was like making videos and playing in the stadium like fans, we need your money, and it was just silent over here because they were afraid to get involved.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I actually don't. I mean, I'm glad they did the interview. I think John Hall did a good job with it, and I guess I'm glad he did it, but I actually don't think he helped himself at all.

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Speaker 5: You just that one line there at the end, then that one sentence, and I'm still proud of this contract. That line right there alone is what's going to be.

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Speaker 4: So if you were trying to read the tea leaves and say, does this sound like a coach who would make a change at the end of or at ad that would make a change at the end of the year, what would you say.

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Speaker 5: From what you just read? No?

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Speaker 4: Did you read the whole story?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: I didn't even he know this second story came out this morning, the one yesterday.

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Speaker 4: You read the story, would you what would you take about it?

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Speaker 6: I would I've always wondered, what like a five win or if it's close, like if four wins. It seems like if it's close, Mitch would lean keeping him. I still think if it's if you don't win an SEC game, he's made it to where you have to make a move. But it does sound like if it's kind of one, if it's on the fence, I think Mitch would lean towards keeping him a little bit.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly how I read it. I kind of read it as if it's three or four, he doesn't have a choice. If it's six, he's keeping him. And then the question was what would happen if it's five. If you read that, I think five sounds like he would lean to.

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Speaker 6: Keep it like they're they're working there. We improved from last year. Big On will ignore the fact that we fell so far, but with three or four.

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Speaker 4: I don't there's nothing that you can There's nothing they.

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Speaker 6: That'll take care of itself. The pressure will be so bad if they don't win more games.

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Speaker 4: And you made a good point when we made that extension to go from twenty five million dollars by out to thirty eight. I think I put in my tweet ten. What what Mitch meant was ten or it was lat like, so that was that was I misread that. So it was twenty five to thirty eight. But that addition, the week before we had only beaten Northern Illinois by seven points. So Mitch is also I think, playing with history to say the fans were asking for it. I don't think the fans were against it. But he was not there. We were not standing outside the gates going to extend. Mark stoops right now.

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Speaker 6: And when he says four and oh, you think, oh, we're four and oh, I think noting that three of those were the cupcake teams that season. We're in the first four games is an important details. Beat Florida, Yeah, and that's that was huge, not taking that away from him, But the other three, you know, there are different versions of four and oh in football.

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Speaker 4: I totally agree with that.

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Speaker 5: Well, we talked about the Lordell when I remember we struggled to beat Youngstown State that day ruha at Crogerfield.

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Speaker 4: Did we Yeah? Came close.

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Speaker 5: It was close for a while. I was sitting right behind all the Stoops family and people, and they were like laughing and goofing off.

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Speaker 4: Because that was the one that he had won. That was the big homecoming where they had the party and all that. Yep, that's when Mark Stoop's friend knocked Max across the room. Really have we never told that before? I don't know if all this story yeah, never mind wow A five nine twenty two eighty seven. Uh the text machine at seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We'll take your calls on this. Plus. Yesterday UK basketball got in front of the media at SEC Media Day and there was one universal thing. Every single person said the same thing, and it was the number nine. They all said it. It's clearly being ingrained in them Title nine, not Title nine, the law, but the win Title nine. That was the message. We'll talk about it next here, Okayazar TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back at his Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna go the phones. Ask anything Wednesday. Text machine seven seven two four five two five four quickly wanted to ask you, Ryan, did you hear about what happened in London with the rapper that closed down the interstate to do a music video and got arrested.

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Speaker 5: I saw this story, but I don't know who the rapper was.

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Speaker 4: The rapper was Armani White.

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Speaker 5: I don't know this person.

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Speaker 4: Armani White was driving down the interstate apparently stopped right there next to like Exit forty one or whatever, just got out of his car, blocked the interstate and started filming a music.

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Speaker 5: Video, got up on the concrete wall or shot on the.

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Speaker 4: Concrete wall, was filming the music video. Traffic stopped and the city police in London arrested him, and now he has being He's going to be charged with something. I'm not exactly sure, but basically you can't just stop on the interstate and film a music video. London has had the craziest both you know, had the tragedy of the tornado. You've been they've been trying to impeep to the mayor. They impeached him. Now he's back. You have the videos of the city council people getting in fights with people in the parking lot, and now rappers stopping on the interstate to do videos.

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Speaker 6: I really need to see the video of this come out. I'm not encouraging you should do it, but I'm wondering if he's trying to do like a play on London. We have a Paris, Like jay Z has a lyric in London. I pulled the bins up. Is this guy just trying to shortcut all of our you know, London, Paris, all these things and make make it around the world.

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Speaker 4: Dad, Do we have one of those?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we do, Yeah, But the audacity to just pull over on the interstate and just think this is my set to make a video.

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Speaker 4: So that's like a bunch shot like he got taken to the Laurel County Correctional Facility. He's uh is Armani White? Is he a big rapper? President? Because he is a little bit?

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Speaker 5: Because the story called him a quote famous rapper.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, but I didn't know if that was just like somebody got asked to write it. Who doesn't know who a famous rapper is?

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Speaker 6: But I saw he's opening for te Pain currently, so I don't know.

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Speaker 2: As one single, it says that peaked at number fifty eight on the Billboard.

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Speaker 4: So you got up to fifty eight on the bill so famous. But the thing is, you can't just be stopping on the interstate in London and think you can just film a music video. You have to have a permit for that in the city of London.

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Speaker 6: But now that he's done it, I think we should let him finish the production. He can't go do it again. But let's let's get the final problem.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting arrested should be part of the video.

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Speaker 4: It should be they should have kept the camera rolling.

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Speaker 5: Yes, they should have.

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Speaker 4: I would think who's up first? Shit, Trevor, Trevvor, go ahead, Trevor.

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Speaker 8: Hey man, this is Trevor out of London. First off, what is it always do.

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Speaker 4: And so you're in London? What a coincidence? I bet the words spread. I bet the words spread quickly.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it did, and it was It's all over the Facebook and stuff. But my question for yeah, my question is so towards the end there with Cal, the relationship between Stoops and cow seemed to be a little bit weird, a little bit off. Yeah, between the two. So with Pope being so positive and it seems like everybody loves him and we're in the transition from football to basketball and Stoops with the with the fans, is the kind of on the outs. What's the relationship like between Stoops and.

00:26:38
Speaker 4: I've heard the relationship between Stoops and Pope is great. I've not heard one. I appreciate the call. Pope I think gets along with everybody, you know, and to be fair to Cal, I think that was like that with him for a long time. I think the moment the relationship col when we've talked about Cal's relationship with the Booster, with eight with everybody, that's when it started getting worse with the other coaches as well. I mean, there was a time coaches could bring their recruits to go see Cal. I think that stopped after COVID, but Stoops and Cow's relationship became very, very toxic at the end. You saw it get public after the basketball school comment, But the reason that comment came about is it had been very toxic the year before that anyway, for a variety of reasons. I think the Stoops Cal toxicity really started within IL. I mean Cal had the belief that few k football should get nothing. I mean that was his kind of belief. His belief was, look, well he said it right, we're a basketball school. Yeah, so the idea that we're giving money to football, what are you doing? I don't think that's been Mark Pope's view at all. And so Pope and Stoops have gone. But you have done well. But Stoops and Cow was a very very toxic relationship. And then of course it got public ryan when those comments were made, but it was toxic before that.

00:28:05
Speaker 5: Early in Cal's tenure, he was great. He would not just entertain football recruits, he would entertain volleyball recruits, tennis recruits.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: The coaches would.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: Bring people in and he would try to sell the university.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: Cal was very gracious when we were losing he liked it. No, I mean he could like he was. He was very gracious to Joker, He was gracious to stupents in those early years. I think that season, I think what happened is when we had with those that Will Levis year. Remember our basketball team was stinking.

00:28:35
Speaker 5: Just come off that bad what nine and sixteen.

00:28:37
Speaker 4: Size, So this you gotta remember where we were were then the basketball team had just had that awful year. Then here comes this Will Levish year where we're great and this kind of felt a little bit like a football school for a year or two, right, and then Cal's struggling and he's getting fan pushback for the first time, and I think that's when the tension really really mounted.

00:29:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've heard of riffs also behind the scenes. We've talked a lot about how Cal and Barnhardt weren't exactly close, and Cal would go rogue and wanted to run basketball as his own thing, and that would lead to times where there's like a UK athletics coaching event and everybody's there and it's like we're where's Cal, But Stoops is there and everyone else is there, and it kind of just them getting annoyed of like Cal kind of being off on himself over there with the basketball offices where everybody else was still doing a lot of things together.

00:29:25
Speaker 4: And it's like, and I'm there, you could also, I don't think you could underestimate the role that the high school cafeteria, that is Jeff Ruby's played in that. I mean, I'm not kidding, like you know what I mean. I mean, Jeff Rubies, every Friday Saturday night would be the football and basketball staff. And while the staffs kind of got along, there was some football people on this side of the room, basketball people on this side of the room. Basketball people would sit in a private room in the back. Football people would sit with the people, right, And I think, I know that sounds dumb, but at the end of the day, these are just human beings, right, And there was a mean girl's cafeteria sense a little bit with the staffs, Is that fair to say?

00:30:10
Speaker 5: And you know you're you're closer to Vince than anybody, and Vince is the king down there. Jeff Rubies I never thought though he had a problem with anybody with basketball.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: He towards the end didn't like cow. He loved the rest of the staff. Uh, But towards the end I mean when he lost, Vince was the kind of last cow holdout and he even lost him kind at the end. But I'm not trying to Cow lost everybody at the end. I mean, name me someone involved with UK Athletics that by the end was a cow defender. Actually, I have one, and his name's Mitch Barnhardt. Until even one he did but that but on a personal level, he didn't like him. That's true.

00:30:49
Speaker 6: That goes way back because they just didn't have much of a working relationship.

00:30:52
Speaker 4: I don't think there was one really at the end. I mean, maybe somebody could could make me think of one, but I I can't think of one at the end. Who's up next? Dan, Dan? Go ahead?

00:31:03
Speaker 7: Dan, Hey, I'd have a comment in a question. I'm not sure what would be excitable, what would motivate Virginia Tech like their fan base, why why would they be excited about Stukes? And my question is I think Stukes, you know, he should go to a major program, but become the defensive coordinator. In a dream world, I'd love to see him become the DC at Louisville and that way we could just kind of.

00:31:30
Speaker 4: If Mark Steukes became the defensive coordinator at Louisville, that would be that would certainly add a ramp up the right. I think he is kind of born to some extent, he'll I mean, if he wanted to, and I appreciate the Calle drew, if he wanted to when he left here, he could be the defensive coordinator and a big time program. He could do it anywhere.

00:31:47
Speaker 6: But when you've been the boss for so long, you've got millions on top of your millions on top of your millions, would you want to go work for someone else at a lesser position in the same field.

00:31:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I want to do that. He's making nine million dollars a year. If he becomes the defensive coordinator at Bayama, what's he making million and a half two? I mean, that's a huge that's a huge go down, right.

00:32:14
Speaker 5: Unless he is going to do it for a year or two with hopes of getting another head coaching job somewhere else.

00:32:18
Speaker 4: He'll get one one day if he wants. I mean, first of all, we're acting like he's done. He's he may be the coach here for a long time.

00:32:24
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know if it got to that point you really wanted to just get on a staff. So we found another job. I could see Kirby. He and Kirby are close. I could see him puttinghim there. But if it were me and I were him in this world to end soon, I would take my money and enjoy the beach.

00:32:37
Speaker 4: By the way, Kirby is still insisting he did not call a timeout. It's crazy.

00:32:40
Speaker 5: They're just video evidence showing you calling this time out.

00:32:44
Speaker 4: In his press conference, they were like, we saw you make a tea and he was like, no, you didn't. It's mouthing time out.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: It was an optical illusion.

00:32:58
Speaker 4: It was an optical illusion. I mean, yeah, it was ai. He still says no. I was just saying they were clapping, and is this the sound for clapping? This is the tea with your hand.

00:33:08
Speaker 6: While yelling time out, yelling time in his ear while.

00:33:12
Speaker 4: Running towards the rest.

00:33:12
Speaker 5: What a lie?

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Like?

00:33:14
Speaker 5: What?

00:33:15
Speaker 4: What an absolute lie? I've always liked Kirby smart, but that's like the linest thing I've ever seen.

00:33:20
Speaker 6: A simple You caught me heat of the moment being competitive.

00:33:23
Speaker 4: I'm wrong, you got me? No, just say just something like that. And I was trying to pull like I was trying to pull one on you. Did you see what Lane Kiffin said about it? Did you see that? Somebody asked Sharon, I couldn't believe Lake Kivin said this. Somebody asked Lane Kiffin they played Georgia this weekend. Who burns more calories during the game? You are Kirby Smith or Kirby Smart. And his answer was, I just saw Kirby Smart's press conference this morning. Doesn't look like to me he's burned too many few, too many?

00:33:54
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, he burns a lot from all that clapping he does.

00:33:58
Speaker 4: I mean, whoa. Everybody says they're friends and he's kidding, but still that was kind.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: Of I've gotten where I really enjoy Lankift. I hated him at Tennessee and he's just so open and the stuff like this and picking on fine Bomb.

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00:35:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, the right Levan Dream Team needs to bounce back. We did not do well in the finals you had this last week.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: There were what thirty one teams? You came in like twenty.

00:35:17
Speaker 5: Eight I think so yeah, maybe even twenty ninth.

00:35:21
Speaker 4: Are you gonna be here tonight?

00:35:23
Speaker 5: I can't make it tonight, but the Dream Team is still active. We're gonna come back and qualify one of these Wednesday nights.

00:35:27
Speaker 4: All right, Well, come on out. You can call in this afternoon later and make your reservation or come out. That should be should be able to seat you regardless, and should be a good crowd to seven.

00:35:38
Speaker 6: Getting a lot of the Wings Day deals too.

00:35:41
Speaker 4: Yep, Adam Sandler's here to mind? Would you want to see Adam Sandler?

00:35:45
Speaker 5: I actually would like to go on. I have son Gavin's work in the concert, you know, setting up the stage and stuff. But that's something I think I would want to go.

00:35:51
Speaker 4: I mean, what do you have to do? I mean, you clearly you have no one at home. I mean you've you've been very clear that you just sit and stare into space. Why don't you just go?

00:36:00
Speaker 5: Well, my parents are coming in tonight, so they would like it, probably big.

00:36:04
Speaker 4: Lunch Lady Land fans.

00:36:05
Speaker 5: Probably, they would like it, probably more than I would.

00:36:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, so why don't you take them? That would be a nice sun thing to do. I mean, I'm sure we can if you're where I can see you in your head. How much is a good cost? Like? I couldnot? I mean we could, we could find a way to get you tickets.

00:36:19
Speaker 5: I'll check with them when they come in the night and see if they want to go tomorrow.

00:36:22
Speaker 3: Somebody with free tickets?

00:36:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, if only you knew somebody that gives one way on the pre show like every day, it feels like you could.

00:36:28
Speaker 5: They did give away a lot of those tickets. I don't think they offered us any at all, did they?

00:36:31
Speaker 4: Because you haven't asked, gonna give you one? I mean, they don't just like come to your house and go, Ryan? Would you like these tickets? Like you do? Have to? You do have to take some initiative.

00:36:40
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna check. I want to work on this. I would like to. I would personally like to go.

00:36:44
Speaker 4: He acts like this is an unfixable solution shaped yeah. I like, like if one could figure out how you get them saying Lork ten years, how would that possibly work.

00:36:55
Speaker 3: I don't think he wants to go that bad.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: I don't think so. And he's gonna blame his parents, even though your parents probably would like to go.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: Are you gonna try to go?

00:37:03
Speaker 4: I can't, but I would like I genuinely, I mean would go if I have to go to Louisville Thursday evening or I would definitely do it.

00:37:10
Speaker 5: Did you ever watch The Happy Gilmour two?

00:37:13
Speaker 4: Uh? No, not yet.

00:37:15
Speaker 5: I watched it. It's it was good for about halfway and then it kind of got a little little off the rails a little bit.

00:37:21
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw the Lexington is going to do a massive renovation of New Circle Roads over there where all the traffic lights are. They're going to try to make it to where if you've ever been over there during rush hour, don't there's traffic lights, and then it's danger and it's just just like people running out in the street. I mean it's it's it's literally from like Richmond Road to what Brian to Bryan's station, basically that whole and all that. So anyway, they're gonna do a massive renovation, so they're having uh uh. They've put out what they're gonna do, and they're inviting public comment on whether it's a good idea. And I had somebody write me last night and say, for a man that wants to be mayor and who has had strong opinions about traffic, Ryan, do you think you should publicly comment on the New Circle renovation. It would be a good chance for you to show your city leadership skills.

00:38:18
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate you asking me my advice on because I really put a lot of thought in processing. I got a team working on it right now. I've always thought since I moved to electing, why is this supposed to be this this bypass around the city of Lexxington, and yet half of it is loaded with all these stoplights over there.

00:38:32
Speaker 4: Well that's what they're gonna try to fix.

00:38:33
Speaker 5: Get rid of them.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Okay, how would you do it? Like it's you can't just take them away? Are their businesses over there? You have to crosswalks. They're crosswalks. I mean there are people that that's the only way. That's the only way you can get from one side of town to the other. So what what would you do.

00:38:47
Speaker 5: I'm going to like build one of these well, like we have on the other side, just build the intersections that are up you got to exit off down to get to the lower level. I'm gonna build a lot of the intersections on all those stoplights. We're having a lot of intersections where you egged off though right now there where they have a stoplight, We're gonna have the intersection there's no stoplight.

00:39:05
Speaker 7: You know.

00:39:05
Speaker 4: Then what are you gonna do about the businesses?

00:39:07
Speaker 5: Well, they're gonna still survive because you're gonna be able to exit off the new Circle Road. And get down there to them. We're gonna we're gonna raise it. We're gonna raise new Circle Road.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: You're gonna build like a mountains of multi level Yeah wow, it may be way up in the sky, but we're gonna get you over that.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: All that traffic and all of.

00:39:24
Speaker 4: Sudden this is sound.

00:39:27
Speaker 6: So the road is up in the air, the road is up in the air. What about a what about a pedestrian bridge on the current road where they could go over?

00:39:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, it ofss the street.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: It's like that.

00:39:37
Speaker 4: Seems like it'd be a little cheaper than taking the.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: Whole road up on that side of the new Circle road. It is like Frogger with guys trying to cross across the road at crazy places. So we're gonna have our own little walkway areas when down on the you know, not only up upside air stuff.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: If I May is one of your advisors, they have a system that they've used people with actual archit textual skills to come out on my tea my team. Wouldn't it be easier to go look at theirs and comment than for you to out of the blue create a new system.

00:40:10
Speaker 5: Well see where we're testing it right now in Least Town Road. We're gonna build that double diamond over there with the overpass, so we're gonna do a lot of that.

00:40:17
Speaker 4: That's the problem. But again you're missing the point. On Lee'stown Road. There are no businesses on New Circle Road. The problem here is the businesses are on New Circle Road. They're not off of New Circle Road, they're on them. What are you gonna do for them that they're gonna give about Popeyes and Little Caesars.

00:40:33
Speaker 5: They're gonna be okay. Now, the sidewalk in front of them, that may be gone. We may be doing a way out sidewalk.

00:40:39
Speaker 4: Do you hate sidewalks? Sidewalks not less.

00:40:44
Speaker 5: The people don't walk on sidewalks. They just want to walk right across the street.

00:40:47
Speaker 4: On sidewalks.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: They don't go down to the legal area. They just cross wherever.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: They are walking on sidewalks everywhere right now, Yeah, not in Lexington.

00:40:56
Speaker 5: We're not big sidewalk people. We just like to walk across the road.

00:40:59
Speaker 4: He's hurting his pat I'm worried.

00:41:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's NeXT's Justin?

00:41:05
Speaker 4: Justin? Go ahead, Justin.

00:41:08
Speaker 8: Hey, I've been listening for a few years and I was wondering, where did you come up with a hua. Whenever someone says first time long time, you know, I.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: Don't remember they uh uh. There was a there was like an ESPN show that people would say first time, long time, and then they'd hit a button and a sound came, and so maybe maybe I just at one point did it. It's just kind of it just kind of happened, you know, you don't all of a sudden you're just doing it all the time.

00:41:38
Speaker 8: Oh okay, well that's all I appreciate it, all right.

00:41:40
Speaker 5: With the Fabulous Sports, Babe, you'd call her show first time long time a bam, she'd hit one of those soud machines.

00:41:47
Speaker 4: First of all, I've never won. I've never one time listened to The Fabulous Sports. I know it didn't come from The Fabulous Sports.

00:41:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what she used to hit the first time long time. She'd hit a button and all these sound effects would go off.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: I believe you, But that's not where I got it, because I've never listened to that.

00:42:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think by the time we started, she was long gone. She was super popular for a long time, like in the late eighties, early nineties, like super popular.

00:42:13
Speaker 4: I mean, I know who she is. She was the first national sports show. Yeah, syndicated, Yeah, first name. A lot of people don't realize that first national syndicated sports daily show was a woman. A lot of people don't know that we do those noises again though, sounds like nonet of sound effect that I don't make any of those sounds. We'll take a break of me right back