2025-06-09- KSR - Hour 1

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

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, June the ninth. I'm Matt Jones here in Nashville, Tennessee, where this past weekend was CMA Fest and now I'm doing this show and then.

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Speaker 5: Heading back to Kentucky. You can give a shout.

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Speaker 4: Clark's Pumping Shop phone line A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five to four in this edition sponsored by the t J Smith Loves. If you call TJ, He'll make them pay. Ryan is in Lexington Shannon is in Louisville. Ryan, I spent I guess what, two days really Saturday and Sunday here in Nashville for CMA Fest, which was an absolute mass of humanity, the likes of which I'm not sure I've ever seen.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I was in New Orleans once for Marty Gras, and maybe that's the best way I can describe it.

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Speaker 5: But people absolutely everywhere.

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Speaker 4: And while I had, you know, a good time, you gotta want this, and the people that do this for four straight days, I have no idea how they do it, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 6: Those massive amounts of people all over the place, and you and Myron stuck out like a sore throam walking around your cowboy hats on.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I did. I think, why does he say that shit got Should we go ahead? I mean only got acted one minute ago? Should we go ahead?

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Speaker 5: And muting No.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why I would say that Iron stuck stuck stuck out. But I don't know why I would have stuck out. There were people in cowboy hats everywhere in National There's two different kinds of people in in Nashville. Now you've got like you've got like, well, actually three different guys. You've got people who are just dressed you know, normally tends to be I think a lot of older people. Actually for CMA fests, there were a lot of like, you know, people my parents' age or maybe a little younger that were walking around. Then you have the people who are wearing cowboy hats. I think a lot of them are like me. They're kind of shdning cost plane a little bit, you know, like they're not really cowboys, but they're kind of playing the thing.

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Speaker 5: And then there's like this.

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Speaker 4: Bro country group of like people who kind of look like Morgan Wallen. Right, They're wearing like a hat, a trucker hat. They have a mustache and it might be backwards. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: Not the mustache, the hat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the mustache is not backwards, not on the back there head. But there's like three, I think there's like three different groups of dudes. And then the girls, the women, they kind of all look the same. They all have boots, skirt, some of them wear a hat, some of them don't. Like they kind of all look the same in some ways. But that's really Nashville now. So no I don't think now Myron stuck out because his jeans were tucked into his.

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Speaker 3: Boots, which was a look that I thought was well, look, look, that.

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Speaker 4: Was a look that I didn't necessarily think was the best. But otherwise I thought we fitted well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a cowboy, so I wasn't going to judge, but I thought, that doesn't really look right. I don't think you're supposed to do that, But again, I'm not a cowboy.

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Speaker 5: What do I know?

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Speaker 3: Maybe you are all.

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Speaker 4: The person I've ever seen do it was Ron DeSantis that one time we had the white boots on it and tucked him into his.

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Speaker 3: I've tell you, yeah, what do you do though?

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Speaker 2: You got to show the boots off if you pull the pants over the boots, like okay.

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Speaker 4: So I asked this on the show yesterday because it looked to me when he had shinn and his boots tucked, his jeans tucked into the boot, it didn't look comfortable, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: Kind of to me it looked awkward.

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Speaker 4: But I was told that there you know, when you get new boots, and this would make sense to me, and his were new. They if until you break them in, they could tear your calves up if you think about it. Yeah, like think about it. They would rub up against your calves and your leg So I guess I could see that, but I look, no one else was doing it, Like everyone else had their jeans over the boots, and Ryan, I think that's probably the better look. Now, why would you say I wouldn't have fit in? I actually think you know, this may surprise you, Ryan. I don't get a lot of compliments on my hoodie in shorts look when I.

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Speaker 5: Go out in public.

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Speaker 4: But I got more compliments on looking like people thinking I looked good he with that look than anything I do.

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Speaker 6: We've had people say that before, said, hey man, you need to wear that cowboy hat more often than again. But just you guys trying to be a cowboy.

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Speaker 4: No, but no one hears a cowboy like like this is not I mean, right, Shannon, This place.

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Speaker 5: Has changed a lot.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, even.

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Speaker 5: In the last five years. I mean Broadway.

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Speaker 4: We've talked about this before, but these bars used to all be honky talks. Now they're all they're all country like, they're all you know, Morganwall and Eric Church, Blakeshell, Toby Keith, Jelly Roll, like, they all have their own places, Miranda Lambert like, and they're all We went to three different bars Shannon before we heard country music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 5: They're literally they sound like Alice Blue Gown.

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Speaker 4: But you could play. I'm not saying that it's to put down. You could play down here. They're playing that kind of music in these bars. They're not playing Toby Keith, they're playing Blink one eight two. So Shannon, there's no reason you couldn't play in these bars.

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Speaker 5: One.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought maybe only during the SEC tournament. KSR is going on, can we play there? But if you're telling me that, maybe you definitely could play.

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Speaker 4: You know, we went to as much as it pains my soul, I think the best bar here, in my opinion, is kid Rock's bar. Actually, we Byron and I went into like all of them, and there was a band. It was two guys, well it was a bunch of people, but two main singers. One of them looked like Luke Combs and one of them looked like Tony really from Around the Horse, I'm serious. And then last night it was the same two guys and they both were sounded like great like they both to me, they both could should already.

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Speaker 5: Be stars, that's how good a singers they were.

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Speaker 4: And I was sitting there thinking, though, with the music they were playing, there's no reason Shannon couldn't play here, like this is Shannon's music, Like this is exactly what you do with Alice Bluege.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to get my agent on the phone right now.

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Speaker 2: And because Goshville, you know, I couldn't mistake you with that cowboy head. I couldn't mistake you for maybe like a country singer if I didn't know who you were.

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Speaker 5: And the older one right, like what career?

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say that, but yes, jic.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm fine with that because the younger ones are wearing the trucker hats backwards, right, So uh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well let me tell you a couple of cool things.

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Speaker 4: First of all, so we did the show the Sunday Morns of Matt Myron at the CMA Fanfare, which is you know, Ryan, they used to do this with the SEC tournament a lot. They turned the Convention Center into a fan fast. They know they don't do that anymore, do they.

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Speaker 6: I think they have COVID they cut it out. I don't think they've had that since COVID.

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Speaker 5: It was very cool at times.

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Speaker 4: Well they do this with CMA fast and it's much bigger, so like it's this huge convention center. You can go and buy you know, cowboy hats, you could all the country stars have like an apparel place. You know, you can go get Miranda Lambert Bras or whatever shit right, you can go get that kind of those kind of things. Yeah, and then they have ways for you to do autographs. So there's like lines everywhere to meet this or that country singer. Shinnon I saw was almost gott in that line. I was like, I'd like to meet Sheen and Noah, but the line was too long.

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't like lines. But the ESPN Radio had a setup and the only shows.

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Speaker 4: Here were Marty Ghee were here Saturday and we were here yesterday.

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Speaker 5: And I have to tell you.

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Speaker 4: You know, I shouldn't like have this stuff make me this happy, but it kind of did. It was kind of cool Ryan to walk up to the official ESPN Radio booth. They had a banner that said Sunday Morning with Matt and Myron all that. They had a wood carving that said Sunday Morning with Matt and Myron and it was this is a difference between iHeart and ESPN. It was only for this event, like they're never gonna use it again. So when it was over, I asked if I could take it home. So I now have this wooden carving that someone has done that says Sunday Morning with Matt and Myron, and they just let me take it home. And Ryan, I actually think it's gonna bekind of an awesome keepsake.

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie to you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw the photo of your of the set up there and it's pretty amazing, and you're like, hell, that's what big time radio is all about, and not just throwing down your equipment on the side of a road with this metal, full out chairs to sit in.

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Speaker 4: They had a trailer Shannon that they drove from Connecticut just for Marty and McGee and me and Myron.

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Speaker 5: That was it. They drove it all the way here. There was a staff here.

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Speaker 4: Like when I got up, they met me in the lobby and they were like, would you like anything, mister Jones, would you like a car?

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Speaker 5: I'm like, you guys, don't do that.

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Speaker 4: Get in the car and I drive everybody to go get me Donald's if you don't have to.

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Speaker 5: Call me mister Jones. But Shannon, it was very cool.

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Speaker 4: I had a wonderful It was a wonderful experience actually, and people came.

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Speaker 5: That was the other thing.

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Speaker 4: People came. They said, okay, you're gonna do the show. This is Central time. So they said, you're gonna do the show from nine to twelve, and then we're gonna have a meet and greet from one to two. Immediately, Shannon, I'm nervous about the meetings because I'm worried no one's gonna meet and fewer are gonna greet, you know, because I hadn't even publicized it.

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Speaker 5: To my shock, like seventy five people showed up.

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Speaker 3: Wow, nice, that's all good.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now, I think part of it is there are just people there and then they go, well, there's people in line to see that guy. I guess I need.

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Speaker 5: To see that.

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Speaker 3: He must be somebody important.

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Speaker 5: But no, that's.

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Speaker 4: Exactly what I think they say, because I got the feeling that half the people came up didn't know who we were.

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Speaker 5: But that's okay, So.

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Speaker 2: What do you do? You signed something, you take a picture with them, what do you do?

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Speaker 5: We posed?

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Speaker 4: It was they had us posing with with Matt Myren thing and then the SEC Championship trophy. So I think part of it, Channon, some people just wanted the picture with the SEC champions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like, hey, man, did you get up my picture here? I'm trying to get out for this trophy.

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Speaker 4: But you know what they were had to get the SEC Championship trophy and me and Myra, but that's what you.

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Speaker 2: Have to saw your set up there and it was amazing and I was, I was, I was happy for you.

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Speaker 3: I was like, man, that is really cool. So I'm glad that they.

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Speaker 4: And I want to thank the people, the Kentucky fans that did take the time to come out there and fought through those crowds to come.

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Speaker 5: And say hello.

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Speaker 4: That was that was really it was really neat and uh it was you know, yes, we had we had Ryan personal security for me and Lyron.

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Speaker 5: Trust me, I didn't need it.

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Speaker 4: Nobody was like nobody was coming up to But then it was it's kind of learning rin how the other half.

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Speaker 5: Lives in the in these scenarios.

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Speaker 6: I guess, you know, like the other radio shows. Maybe, uh, Laura rut.

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Speaker 5: Was there apparently earlier in the week and apparently.

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Speaker 6: She needed the secure Huh.

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Speaker 5: I was kind of told Shandon maybe some creep o's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, keep the guys away from keep.

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Speaker 4: He had to kind of keep the guys away from Laura from Laura Roads, which I which I totally understand. And then Saturday night we got to hang out with Marty and McGee So that was that was neat Those are really nice guys. I mean I like both those guys a lot, and it was just it was just an excellent time. And then last night I went to the concert. Now it wasn't exactly my lineup, Shannon, right, it was it was Luke, Bryan, Dirk's, Bentley h Ash He's fine, Ashley McBride, Bailey Zimmerman who just stopped right there with Bailey, and and then Zach. It was that top was first, actually was second. Rodney Atkins. Do you know who Rodney? He sings that What's it go? Does he sing?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: He's well he might, but he sings I've been watching you.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be cheesiest country song I've ever.

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Speaker 4: Heard of my life with you on Okay, First of all, he's from Tennessee right next to Middle, so you're not gonna hear me talk trash about a dude from Harroget, Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: I don't really like his music, but Shannon, I actually do like that song. I do.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I kind of do. And now let me ask you what you thought about this, because I thought about you when he did this. He's got a good voice, right, Sure, it looks he's kind of he's my age. You were talking about looking like a cowboy. I kind of look like him a little bit, not like look like you, but.

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Speaker 5: We were dressed alike, you know what I mean. So he gets up.

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Speaker 4: Everybody in this concert only sings like five or six songs. I didn't know any of his songs, and but he finished with that one. And because I like that song, I'm kind of excited to see it. And then he says, this is a special moment for me. I wrote this song about my kid, and now I'm here at CMA Fest. This is the only time I've played Nissan Stadium. Everybody bring out my kid, all right? His son comes out, wow, twenty years old, and his son Shannon sings.

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Speaker 5: That part okay, the part where.

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Speaker 4: So the sun comes out and says, I've been watching you dad, Ain't that cool?

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Speaker 5: Which is actually very sweet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 4: With one problem. His kid can't really sing. And I don't say that to be mean to him. I don't think he mean. I don't think he is a singer. Right, He's dressed just in a shirt. He looks like a normal kid, college kid.

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Speaker 5: Now. They clearly kind of auto tune to try to help him, right.

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Speaker 4: But I wanted to, Shan and see the guy sing it, you know. So it was a really neat moment that his kid was singing. I actually thought that was very cool. But I had conflicted emotion, Shann, because I wanted to see him sing. This is the only time I'm ever gonna see him sing that song.

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Speaker 3: It turns out Bo can't sing a lick.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to say a lick. He was fine, he honestly, Shannon, he probably would sound like I.

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Speaker 5: Would sound in that moment.

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Speaker 4: Right, not completely out of tune, but not singing at Nissan Stadium. But Ryan, should I be disappointed that I wanted to see Rodney Atkins do it, not his kid.

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Speaker 6: Man, I hear Rodney Atkins singing on the radio, You guys witnessed a special moment, a father son moment. I'm kind of even jealous that I didn't get to see it. I got chili.

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Speaker 5: You would have cried. You would have cried he wrote the song. I cried, did you really.

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Speaker 6: You gotta hear this song? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Well, so he had said his son had never done it.

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Speaker 4: Shit, his son had never sang with him, and he debuted him at Nissan Stadium in front of seventy thousand people.

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Speaker 3: That's quite a place to debut.

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Speaker 5: It's quite a place to sing.

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Speaker 3: You know, try it out at kid Rocks Bar first and then.

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Speaker 5: Maybe go to kid Rocks Bar first. But it was very sweet. It was.

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Speaker 4: And then Zach Topp came on after loved it. I mean I loved it, loved Zach Topp did a great job, and in the moment he was done, Ryan I was out skipped, Bailey Zimmerman, skip Luke Bryant, skipped all of them and went back and had a good evening. But this was an awesome experience. If you're a country music fan, I would say you should.

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Speaker 5: Come to this sometime.

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Speaker 4: It's a little much like I don't know if I'll do it again unless the ESPN brings me down here again. But Ryanie was one of those things that it was cool to be here. This is Nashville at its most Nashville these last few days.

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Speaker 6: So you said you there last night. Do they do this like Friday night, Sunday night and Sunday night then in Nissan.

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Speaker 5: Stadium and Thursday night on Thursday night?

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Speaker 4: Four straight days of this non stop and there's music NonStop starting at ten am until midnight. You could conceivably Ryan listen to music the whole time.

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Speaker 6: I gotta ask you, were you able to interview Shaboozi? Did he make it?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about the interviews in a minute, Okay, but yeah, so thanks to the ESPN for bringing me, and really thank you to those of you that came out. That meant a lot to me, those of you that took the time.

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Speaker 5: To do it. It was very cool. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine to eight oh twenty two eighty seven here at CMA Fest.

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Speaker 5: This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: So there you go, Shan So this is this song, right, and he comes out and he's singing it and then his son.

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Speaker 5: Does the other part, which you'll which we'll get to in just second.

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Speaker 4: So it was you know, apparently I just found out from my mom that Rodney Atkins dad dated her best friend. Oh wow, so now you gotta be Vettlan Now, I mean like him even more right, Like he was kind of walking the streets of Middlesbrough doing his thing back in the day, Shannon.

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Speaker 2: Right, yep, what does it like? Seven points of separation? How do you say it?

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Speaker 5: Six degrees?

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Speaker 3: It's yeah something all right?

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Speaker 4: So this was the part I wanted him to sing that his son sand see, I'm kind of like you, Ryan, I do like this song. I don't understand why I shot Shannon's hating on it.

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Speaker 5: It's that sentimental. I don't have a kid. I just think it's a good song.

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Speaker 4: It's upbeat, and you know, I'm just saying it's it's okay that top debut his new song. I guarantee you it's gonna be hit, a hit. I could just you know how you can hear a song, Shane, You just know it's gonna be a hit. It's called like I don't know something in tan lines, Sunshine and te But like just the way you could just tell it sounded like an Alan Jackson song.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a hit.

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Speaker 4: And uh, anyway, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: Last thing about this, and then we'll move to sports.

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Speaker 4: You know the song that I don't like a lot, which is Applebee's on a Date Night? You know that song, right fancy? So when we get when I get there yesterday to do ESPN, They're like, Walker Hayes is gonna be on the show. And I went, oh no.

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Speaker 5: Because I know the KSR listeners know I.

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Speaker 4: Make fun of that song. I mean, Ryan, I think it's the worst song maybe ever released, write the Applebee's song. But then he comes on and this is the problem Shanning with meeting people. I kind of like he was really not no, I mean he was, and he was a good guest. He was funny, he was humble, And now I don't know if I can hate on it anymore, Like this is why you shouldn't meet people, because I've always hated that song. But he was so nice to he was such a good guess. He's one of the better guests we've ever had. Have you ever had that happen with Shannon with somebody that you had to interview and then you didn't think.

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Speaker 5: You liked him, and then all of a sudden they were like cool and you felt like you had to like him.

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Speaker 2: I've had the opposite happen, like, oh really who may or James Keenan from Tool came on and he kind of was a Tool and he.

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Speaker 4: Was a tool his band name well, I mean he said he told you that that's true of the group. But Ryan he he, he came on and he kind of was like, yeah, I got lucky with this song.

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Speaker 5: You know, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: I was, and then I said, well you had a career before, and he was like not really, no one liked me. And then I put this song out and I ended up kind of like and the guy. And so now I don't know if I can make fun of the Applebee song anymore.

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Speaker 6: Well, maybe he need to go into his catalog and find a song you do like so you can go back.

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Speaker 5: I don't care. There's not gonna be one. See.

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Speaker 2: You can celebrate though the man from the song, like you can like somebody personally but not like the song.

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Speaker 5: I think it's true.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there are people who like I don't like their politics, but I think they're nice.

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Speaker 6: Pe sure, yeah, yeah, And.

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Speaker 5: There's people I don't like their sports team.

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Speaker 4: But I think they're they're so You're right, I guess like Pat Kelsey, Yeah, seems like a really good dude.

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Speaker 2: Well, since I know that, Louisville, since I know that you love the song, now, I'll just play it for you.

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Speaker 5: Please don't because it's it's it's really a terrible song. I mean it is. But he was really a good guy, all right.

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Speaker 4: Mark Pope had his first camp ryan of his UK, at least that I know of.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he did some last summer, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: But he had his first camp of this summer and they opened it to the media and we saw a lot of pressed up, a couple of things stuck stuck out to me, number one, it looks like once again we have a team full of guys that are gonna be great. And I'm not even talking about playing, just in their relating. There were so many stories that came in on the text machine and feel free to send more seven seven two seven seven four five two five four of kids working with people who listen to Show's kids and how great they were. Brandon Garrison, Jaden Quaintan's Jalen Lowe. I saw all of these stories that seemed awesome. And then Mark Pope saw a kid wearing red socks, Yeah, said you cannot wear red at Kentucky things. It made the kid change socks into white socks, which I thought was kind of really charming, and also says he gets the rivalry. You know, last year's team was extremely likable. Obviously Mark is very likable, and it looks like Ryan, we're gonna get another group of those.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, kind of a first taste of it really wasn't it. Kind of see how they interact with everybody at one of these camp thees father son, Cam's father daughter camps that they're doing, everybody gets to have a good time, and it was all over social media and everything just seemed like it was just it was just fun. It's what I did.

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Speaker 4: It's big personalities. You know, there's an inn there's a video online of otega Oway interviewing Mark Pope and asking him what he was, what he thought when Oway decided to come back, And I thought that was a cool interaction. You know, you have to win the games, you have to win the games, but in addition to winning games, when you can get a group of guys that connect to this state as a personality, and Mark obviously already does. That's when this state falls in love with teams.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, and it feels like.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna happen again. It feels like they have done it again, at least from the dudes that I saw.

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Speaker 5: And you gotta love that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know we say this all the time, but this dude gets what it is to have this job, and I love that.

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Speaker 5: We'll take a break right back. Take a call it s ksr.

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00:22:59
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Speaker 4: So I guess he debuted. Zack topped this song last night. Tell me Shannon this. Alan Jackson could have put this out in nineteen ninety five.

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Speaker 3: Right, sounds a lot like Chattahoochee.

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Speaker 4: It is turned up. I mean seriously, that sounds like nineties country. Like that song could have come out in nineteen ninety five. It would have been on CMT. There would have been some video with a guy like water skiing and cowboy.

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Speaker 5: Boots and it would have been it would have been huge.

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Speaker 2: Right according to YouTube, it came out an hour ago. It was just posted a new single I guess just just came out.

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Speaker 5: What's it called good Times and tam Lines.

00:23:41
Speaker 4: I'm telling you Ryan, it will be that will be popular because they're still on it.

00:23:47
Speaker 6: There's obviously still a market for songs like this. You'd think there'd be one part of Broadway or a couple of bars would just dedicate themselves to this kind of news.

00:23:55
Speaker 4: That's Broadway has been. There's one bar left, that Roberts Bar, and that's about it. What person says, Matt, I feel like Broadway's been ruined. I don't think I'll ever go back. It has been to me. But you know what, they ain't changing it, Shanning, because there are people everywhere. Yeah, and it's not going. It's not going anywhere. They are probably printing money. As we hit the road this summer and take the show throughout the state, the KSR crew wants to remind you to buckle up, put your phone down, obey the speed limit, and always travel sober. This message has brought to you by Team Kentucky in the Office of Highway Safety. Another person writes, Matt, my kid was at the Mark Pope camp. They were there last year and been at the last few cal Perry's. This group may be as good as any I've seen since the Fox Monk Bam group in terms of interacting with the kids.

00:24:42
Speaker 5: I think fans are gonna love this team. Yeah.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: I mean if you've been there, you probably know these players more than I do at this point. Ryan, But that you know, UK fans will love that if that ends up being the case.

00:24:53
Speaker 6: Like I said, this seem like everything that was posted it was just a fun atmosphere, you know, the basketball secondary. You want these kids to come in and have fun, a good time. I saw like Dad's dancing, trying to do some TikTok dances and things. So that's what it's all about.

00:25:05
Speaker 4: I think at this age, Shannon, the Reds are back, Yeah right, the dominant.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: No, they won it. They swept them.

00:25:17
Speaker 4: And it all started Friday night with me sitting in the rain. I mean it not only rained, Ryan, it poured Friday night, and the rain the Reds did something I think was a little slick. I'll ask you all what you think. They're down three to two in the sixth inning, it starts pouring. I don't mean kind of raining, I mean pouring. Like everyone left. I stayed out in the crowd. I got drenched. I've never been that wet at a sporting event. And then I had to drive back home soaked the entire way, but I wanted to stay out. The Reds got up to hitting the bottom of the sixth and it's raining so hard.

00:25:56
Speaker 5: I'm shocked. They can play.

00:25:58
Speaker 4: Literally, you can see light, you can see lightning, you can hear thunder. I don't know what it takes to stop a game. You remember the Southern miss football game for Kentucky where they kept stopping it and it was sonny outside.

00:26:11
Speaker 5: This was rain, lightning, thunder.

00:26:13
Speaker 4: But the Reds are down one, and I think they're afraid that if they stop the game, it'll be a loss. So they finished the half inning Christian and Carcion. Strand hits a home run which ties the game and inn. The moment he does it, Ryan, they postponed the game and they move it to the next day because it's tied three to three. Then the next day they win, They win the next two. It might have turned the season around. We'll see, probably not, but it could have. But I can't believe they let.

00:26:43
Speaker 5: Him keep playing.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: It was a torrential downpour and they waited till that Christian and Carci on Strand hit the home run, and then postponed the game because I think if they had done it before we lost.

00:26:56
Speaker 5: Are the Reds are you allowed to do that?

00:26:58
Speaker 4: Like keep playing until you win, until you tie the game, and then stop.

00:27:02
Speaker 6: The weird Party said that when there's lightning in the area, that's usually the that's it. They cancel it right then. So either the umpires didn't see it or they were just purposely ignored it.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: No way, they didn't see the Redstone.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: Though.

00:27:15
Speaker 3: It's all up to the umpires to make it.

00:27:17
Speaker 6: So said, not the Reds that decide the mPire. I tell you what the empires. I can tell you what they were thinking. One more out and we can call this game. One more out, we can call this game. And then because the Reds.

00:27:27
Speaker 4: Hit it with two outs, they hit the home run with two outs and literally could have saved the season. Shit, I mean, if they lose that game, I don't know, I mean maybe you know who knows. But there was lightning, there was thunder. As soon as they stopped it. The heavens open. I'm telling you, I've never been that wet before, but it was kind of a cool moment, and then it led to them winning all weekend and shinning their back and the summer of Ally is back.

00:27:58
Speaker 2: I saw a stat about La the other day made me think of you. He has struck out already in his career more times than Tony gwyn did in his entire career.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: That's an amazing statu I mean, it's more of amazing for Tony.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: Gwyn testament to Tony Gwynn, But I.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Mean that you could play that long and not strike out. He strikes out too much, but he's still a great player.

00:28:20
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a dude.

00:28:20
Speaker 4: When he's on base, anything can happen, which is what makes you excited. But that's just a testament to Tony Gwynn. He played what sixteen years or.

00:28:28
Speaker 3: Something something crazy like that.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: It's that is an insane statistic. Tony Gwinn, Yeah, I saw that too. That's that's amazing. Who's up next.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: Let's go to Jonathan Jonathan go ahead, Jonathan.

00:28:41
Speaker 7: Hey, Matt, more than y'all, thanks for taking the call. I had a couple questions on the nil settlement, which I'm sure he'll be getting into later.

00:28:49
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start that in the second hour, but feel free to ask it.

00:28:52
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks, So my first question is why is it not an option to cap the individual programs like cap back basketball, cap baseball? Is that because you're limiting the top athletes? And then second question is it's like ten years down the road of Saint John's Yukon. All these guys are spending you eighteen to twenty million on their rosters in Kentucky's left at five million, and we're falling behind, like just not able to compete. How do you think the university responds?

00:29:22
Speaker 4: Both I think are good questions. The first question, I'll I'll get it more into this in the second hour. But the quick answer to your first question is, I think this entire house settlement will get challenged in court, and I don't know if it'll be upheld or not, but I think in order for it to be upheld for sure, Congress is going to have to pass legislation, and that's the next step. If Congress has passes the legislation, then yes, I think they would be able to cap at per sport. The issue is, and you may have heard this in my interview with Ross Dellinger, Kentucky basketball is one of the groups that don't.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: Want to cap it.

00:30:01
Speaker 4: The SEC was gonna cap the amount of money for every sport, and apparently Kentucky basketball was the main entity in the room at the SEC meetings saying don't do that. And apparently Kentucky basketball won the day. So and it's probably because Kentucky basketball didn't want to be capped.

00:30:20
Speaker 5: They wanted to have a chance to get more money.

00:30:23
Speaker 4: That's to your second question, what happens if Saint John's and Yukon spend eighteen million and we spend five.

00:30:29
Speaker 5: Kentucky at that point is going.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: To push to try to have the rules changed, or they're going to try to make up the money by doing nil. By getting these companies to put ads, we might have all of our ads in all of our media outlets be swarmed with uk players to try to get them there. That the whole Saint John's, Yukon, Villanova, Gonzaga teams without major football programs and the amount of money they can spend is in college basketball gonna be a fascinating thing to watch because I'm with you if Saint John's side spend fifteen million dollars on a basketball team and we can only spend five. Sorry, I'm with you. There's no way Kentucky and Kentucky fans can can can let that continue to happen.

00:31:16
Speaker 7: Got it, appreciate it?

00:31:17
Speaker 5: Call Yeah.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: That to me, Ryan is the thing when we talk about all the settlement in the second hour, that's the biggest question I have, at least as it pertains to college basketball.

00:31:27
Speaker 6: And as much as we love the Kentucky Wildcat basketball program, we don't want to see another team at have more revenue coming in to get better players.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: A whole other conference.

00:31:37
Speaker 4: What if the whole Big East can do whatever they want and then we're stuck spending less because we spend so much on football.

00:31:45
Speaker 6: It's not gonna sit well and just won't.

00:31:46
Speaker 4: I can't imagine Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, even Indiana. I cannot imagine Ryan those schools just sitting back and saying we're gonna be cool with the Big E spending two to three times the money we spend.

00:32:03
Speaker 6: And well, that's not gonna be cool. They're gonna be upset and on our fan base will be irate when they find out we lose their top recruit because Connecticut gave him more money than we did.

00:32:12
Speaker 4: Not just more money, could give them twice as much money, twice as much money. I mean that that there's a world where that could happen. And yeah, I just I don't see how our fans.

00:32:26
Speaker 5: I don't see how our fans will deal with that.

00:32:28
Speaker 4: This in you know, this nil settlement Friday night, and we kind of tried to prepare you for.

00:32:34
Speaker 5: It last week.

00:32:36
Speaker 4: It fundamentally changes college sports going forward. And I think in the long run it's more fair and it's going to help Kentucky in the long run. But in the short run, we as an institution have decisions to make from now until July first, some of which I'm sure have already been made, just haven't been announced, that will determine the future of pretty much all of the programs at Kentucky. You know, they're gonna invest in Kentucky football. Although Shannon and I was shocked at how little the people in Somerset wanted to invest in Kentucky football.

00:33:15
Speaker 2: Did that surprise you, Well, no, not me, because that's what I suggested. But I think, you know, everybody's kind of ready to just put all the money into basketball.

00:33:22
Speaker 4: And you know, I mean sixty percent of the people said put all the money into basketball. That was an amazing thing to see. But I think it's clear Kentucky's gonna spend money on football, and they're gonna spend money on men's basketball. I think they're gonna spend money probably on women's basketball too, but I don't know what's gonna happen to the other sports. And you know, schools are not gonna be able to be good at everything.

00:33:49
Speaker 5: They're just not. There's no way in the current system that you can be.

00:33:53
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00:34:28
Speaker 5: A couple open lines, slow phones on a Monday, come join us.

00:34:31
Speaker 4: It's Kentucky Sports Radio. So you're trying to you're trying to get me to have a negative reaction after this guy.

00:34:37
Speaker 6: Was so nigh Yeah, a little catchy.

00:34:41
Speaker 5: No, it's not all right. Just he's a nice guy. Nice. I'm not gonna talk about the merits of this song because it's horrible.

00:34:51
Speaker 6: Did they play it by the show is what yesterday?

00:34:56
Speaker 5: What about it?

00:34:56
Speaker 4: Oh?

00:34:57
Speaker 5: No, we didn't. Yeah, we played it as he came in, and I can be.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Like, oh, Walker, yeah, maybe Applebee's on the date that you know. I had to like act like Shannon, I really you've done that before, right.

00:35:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got it?

00:35:14
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:35:15
Speaker 5: What's that baby bougie?

00:35:17
Speaker 7: You know?

00:35:17
Speaker 2: And I'm like you rolling your eyes because that's how you really feel about it.

00:35:22
Speaker 4: But then I did like him, so after that I was fine and able to you know, uh, move forward right across the street from where I'm staying. Uh here, I mean at this hotel called the Noel. They're building a Dolly Parton hotel. Shannon, that's kind.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: Of cool, that would be really cool.

00:35:37
Speaker 4: Yeah dollars, Yeah, I mean have it like I would stay in the Dolly Parton Hotel. One person says, Matt, how can the Big East spend twenty two million dollars if they don't have football revenue? Well, I mean they can't unless somebody donates it. I mean that'll be the thing, Ryan, is, do these schools like Connecticut or Saint John's have a guy, because you're right, Saint John's and you are not going to bring in the amount of money to hand over players twenty million dollars. You know, Saint John's one of the things you have to think about. They're in New York City. Everything costs more in New York City. So the budget I heard Steve Macielo say this on an interview, the budget for everything for Saint John's is like double what it is for a lot of schools because they have to be in New York City and all the costs that come with that. With that said, though, if some donor is like, I want to win a national championship, here's twenty million dollars, then that's how they would do it. But they do have the problem Ryan that like we we get in like we bring in like fifty million dollars from our TV deal and Saint John's and Yukon Ryan they don't do that. So it would have to be a donor that would do it.

00:36:44
Speaker 6: And you've mentioned Saint John's, that Radipolli guy he wants to give what twenty million and said that only for basketball only.

00:36:50
Speaker 4: He can do that now, right, But well he's but it's it's twenty million over like five years or whatever.

00:36:55
Speaker 5: So he's given like four million dollars a year or which.

00:36:58
Speaker 4: Is still a lot, but probably wouldn't change the dynamics versus Kentucky Ryde all that much. The question will be can they find is will some person just say, you know, let's just go all in and try to win the whole thing.

00:37:12
Speaker 6: Well, I mean there are some Kentucky donors that are have some pretty deep pockets.

00:37:15
Speaker 4: But that's yeah, But Kentucky, now, we can't do that exactly the same. And we'll get to this at eleven. But the debt, like, we can't in theory just write a collective check now anymore, you have to do it for actual ads. Well, I'll talk about that in the second hour. Like it's actually gonna be harder in some ways for Kentucky to do it. But like I said, well, we'll get to that. So I'm gonna ask you to a question there were The weekend of the Belmont Stakes is actually usually one of the most underrated big time sporting weekends of the year because there's a lot of stuff going on during the weekend. So I'm gonna go over all the things that went on. You tell me interested in it or not? All right, Let's start with the NBA Finals last night, Oklahoma City pretty much led the whole game after losing Game one in an epically big joke.

00:38:05
Speaker 5: Are you are you guys into the NBA Finals or not? Ryan?

00:38:09
Speaker 6: Yes, just because I'm a Patress fan and I'm big into make dime into.

00:38:12
Speaker 5: It, you're following it big time. Oh yeah, all right, Shannon, yep.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: I've watched the first two games. I'll plan on watching the others as well. And you know, if Indiana can get one of these next two home games coming up, things are gonna get really interesting.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, then it's a series.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: I think Oklahoma City is a lot better, but Indiana has a way of eking these things out. You know, last night, Channing, it was a fourteen point game in the fourth quarter, and I still wasn't ready to give up.

00:38:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, because of the way.

00:38:38
Speaker 2: Yeah we've already seen them come back from you know, down seven with two minutes to go and yeah, what twenty I think another game. So yeah, you can't ever turn it off at the end because you never know what's gonna happen.

00:38:48
Speaker 4: I'm pulling for the Thunder because of the UK guys, But uh, I do think it's interest, so we're all interested in that hockey. Edmonton and Florida have probably played the two best Game one and two's in like thirty years. Both of them went into multiple overtimes Game three tonight.

00:39:04
Speaker 5: Do you care? Ryan? I do not.

00:39:06
Speaker 6: The only reason I would have cared if you're Candran and we'd be rooted for the other team.

00:39:12
Speaker 5: Shannon, do you care? Yeah?

00:39:14
Speaker 2: I keep reading the same thing you were just saying, like how amazing these games have been.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: I just it's just hard for me to get into hockey. I want to be into it, but I'm not.

00:39:22
Speaker 5: I don't.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: I don't really care.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: I've enjoyed it.

00:39:24
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say yes, I mean, turn it on in the if you're not a big hockey persoon, just turn on to the third period. These teams are good. They got two of the best players in the league. Connor McDavid's like Gretzky esque. You know, just turned on the third period. I bet you'll like it. What about the uh French Open? Let you five and a half hour finals? Big time tennis people Alcaaz and Center Center say that one of the best matches in the history of the sport yesterday with five and a half hours, and then Coco Goff won the women's title. An American? Uh, Ryan, do you care.

00:39:55
Speaker 6: I put it on when I want to take a nap?

00:40:02
Speaker 5: All right? He doesn't? What about you?

00:40:03
Speaker 3: Shit, I'll be honest.

00:40:04
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what was going on, so I can't say I'm interested. I can't pretend to be interested if I didn't even know what was happening.

00:40:11
Speaker 5: I liked tennis.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: I didn't watch a lot of the tournament, but I did watch some of the finals yesterday. It was an epic match, like about ten years ago or fifteen years ago. Federan Nadal had a match like that at Wimbledon. If you like tennis, that's probably I mean. The one dude was serving forty love to win the match, Center and then he lost it. It was if you like tennis, it was great. I went about the Belmont Stakes, Journalism and Sovereignty. They got at the top of the back stretch, these two great horses, and either one of them could have won.

00:40:43
Speaker 5: Did you care about the Belmont?

00:40:45
Speaker 6: I did that? Probably maybe my second one. I go Pacers Thunder one Belmont two, because it was kind of a winner, winner take all. You know, they got the Derby winner, the previous winner, and it came down to those two coming down the stretch. I thought it was good dress.

00:40:56
Speaker 4: What you wanted, right, you wanted to know those two set up, and then it happened Sovereignty won, Shannon, Did you did you care about that?

00:41:04
Speaker 3: Well, Sovereignty didn't run on the Prikness.

00:41:06
Speaker 2: H He wasn't interested in running in that, so I wasn't interested in watching him in the Bellbots.

00:41:10
Speaker 4: I don't know if the horse himself wasn't interesting. I don't The horse management was like, you know what, nay, I'm not going to be part.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: I think that's what happened. He said, I need some rust, I'm taking a vacation, I'm not going to run. So no, I was not interested in that.

00:41:23
Speaker 5: What about you?

00:41:24
Speaker 7: Uh?

00:41:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was interested. I mean I love the idea. It's good for the sport.

00:41:30
Speaker 5: I'm with you.

00:41:31
Speaker 4: I heard you say on the pre pre show, Shannon, that it almost makes me more upset than he didn't run in the pre Yeah, because I want history now because she won two of three, so that that's frustrating.

00:41:43
Speaker 3: It's not fair to the horse.

00:41:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fair to player, and it's not when it's not fair to the horse, I do wonder if they look back and wish they had run into previous But they had a chance, I mean had a chance to make history. We know so justified American pharaoh and secretariat in Seattle Slough.

00:42:03
Speaker 5: He had a chance to be one of those horses. It's not gonna happen.

00:42:06
Speaker 4: We'll talk about the NIL agreement from Friday and more the Kentucky Sports Radio