2025-08-22- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome Everyone is Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, August of twenty second here in Louisville, Kentucky at the Volunteers of America Community Care Campus in downtown Louisville, in on Breckenridge Street, where we have a great crowd hit here this morning for I guess this is the official what grand opening?

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Speaker 3: Am I right about?

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Speaker 2: No, it's just an official wonderful moment here at the Community Care campus to show it off to people. Great crowd at Kentucky fans here in Louisville, got mat owns, Ryan Lemon and Shannon the Dude you can give shouting Clark's pumping chop phone line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, a vision auto glass text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. In this dish sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office. If you called TJ will make them pay. We are on the Kentucky Office a Highway Safety Safe Summer Driving tour and in a great building here in facility off Breckinridge Street. Brian, good to see you this morning when you're UK baseball Jersey.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of a cool little event center. We're up on a stage right now. It's got a little like a mosh pit here in front of us and orchestra seting is kind of a.

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Speaker 2: I don't I would not call the place that they do they work on the Louisville homelessness crisis, a mosh pit. But nevertheless it is uh. It is a facility here, that's one way to put it. Shannon, Yeah, but it is very nice.

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Speaker 3: In this bill, I.

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Speaker 5: Will echo that very nice facility. Looks like maybe a place where we could put the band up here one day. I would like to maybe come out of ice, bring the band and play here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is in the Smoke Town neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: It is a partnership between Volunteers of America and Louisville Metro. It provides a central space for people experiencing homelessness to access shelter, medical care, and other services. And there's a great group of folks tonight here, So we're gonna have coming through here today. First of all, the Mayor Craig Greenberger for Louisville is gonna stop by.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've known him for years, been my friend for years. He's been trying.

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Speaker 2: He's been always like when do I get to come on the show, and I always say never.

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Speaker 3: But today I actually am gonna have him on.

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Speaker 2: And then Richie Farmer is in the house as well.

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Speaker 3: How many people are here from Clay County?

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Speaker 6: Holler?

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Speaker 3: Because if from Clay cany, I should be able to hear you when you holler.

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Speaker 7: Buck right there next to him is of course.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: First of all, you're from Clay County. You can do better than that.

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Speaker 2: Better you dress him up and they lose their Clay County roots, except for Richie because he didn't dress up, which I like that. But Clay County and Louisville are partner partner cities, partner places with Manchester and Louisville.

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Speaker 3: I think that's very cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Richie was telling me there's a Volunteers of America Center in Manchester where we did actually did a show there one day. Yes, there's the Volunteers of America Center in Lexington. I'm some friends of mine are here from Lexington to help support the center here.

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Speaker 2: So thank you all very much for all coming out and joining us today. And guys, this is the last day before college football actually begins. There will be games tomorrow, including Billy Rutledge's Western Kentucky Hilltoppers will be playing their first game, but games start tomorrow, and you know we are eight days away from college football beginning here in Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: Are you start? Are you getting excited?

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Speaker 8: I gotta be honest, I'm really starting to get excited.

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Speaker 4: And the closer we get to kick off for UK, the more and more optimistic I become about our season.

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Speaker 8: I'm buying into it. I gotta be honest.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean this.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you this city is optimistic about their other team, but does feel like our fans are getting a little bit more optimistic about our team and a little less. I think they're getting more scared for the Toledo game, but more optimistic about the city.

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Speaker 7: It's sort of rents and repeat.

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Speaker 5: We do this every year where we come off of maybe a mediocre season or last year not a great season at all, and we're all gloom and doom. But then you know, it's a week or two before the college football season, and we talk ourselves into being excited because why not enjoy it?

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Speaker 7: Right, it's here, it's got any you might as well enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. There's no reason to be miserable. We're playing either way, so let's go do it.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 2: There was some big news announced yesterday which I think is probably the most important thing to lead with, which is the SEC announces that starting next year, they will go to nine conference games.

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Speaker 3: So that is, first of all.

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Speaker 2: One more conference game than we've been playing really for our entire history until you go back to the eighties when they played everybody none conference games. The schedule will break out. You will play three teams every single year. You will have three opponents that are your yearly opponents, then the other six will alternate year out a year. What it does mean is you will play every team in the SEC once every two years, and you will host every team in the SEC once during a four year period. So the theory is, if one of you all send your kids to college or I.

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Speaker 3: Don't see high schoolers here, they should be in school.

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Speaker 2: But if they were here when they went to college, they would get to see every SEC team play in Kroger Field at least once before they graduate. So let's talk about positives and negatives. Positives. I do like the fact you know that we will get to host every team Texas. There was a stat Texas A and M has been in the SEC since twenty twelve and has never hosted Georgia once during that whole time, never once played thirteen years, never hosted them. You know we we have have we hosted Texas A and M. I don't think we have ever hosted Texas A and M during that period of time.

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Speaker 3: So stuff like that will go away.

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Speaker 2: Also, you're gonna get three teams on your schedule every year. We're gonna talk about which three we think Kentucky will get. Negatives, We're gonna lose a gimme game. We always say the.

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Speaker 3: Three stinky teams. Now that's gonna be two teams.

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Speaker 2: Because the S is also going to require that you play one major non conference opponent every year for US, at least for the next four years, it is Louisville because we are locked into that schedule.

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Speaker 3: Be interesting.

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Speaker 2: They had talked about doing an SEC Big Ten Challenge, and if they did that that would mean eleven games like that. But at least for now, the Louisville series stays on for four years, but the chances for Kentucky to get to six wins get a bowl, they become harder. Now overall, do you like it or not the change to non conference gig?

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Speaker 4: I guess as a fan, I like it. I'm in favor of it. I'm like everybody else. As soon as I heard, I thought, oh, Louisville games in jeopardy. But then we can understand a little bit, get into a little bit more that they have to play a Power five team. Mitch Barnhart said the louisvill game would stay. Make me feel good about it. Maybe the only guy that does it.

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Speaker 2: Mitch Martinhart. Let me be clear about saying the Louisville game. He said we have four years left on the contract. He didn't say we're definitely gonna play the Louisville game. He said we have four years left on the contract, so I think he was leaving open happens after that, But I.

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Speaker 4: Guess I'll like it more when I find out who our three common opponents will be. You know, hopefully, you know, I know we're gonna get into it, but hopefully that'll hell add to the excitement of what's gonna happen now on the SEC football schedule.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for for Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: You know, Mitch Barnhardt acknowledged in an interview last night he was against it.

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Speaker 3: He does not want but he was basically outvoted. He was, He's against it.

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Speaker 2: His reasoning was he didn't say we need the three stinky teams, but I think that's what he implied. And then the other thing is, you know, there have been a lot there's every other year in Kentucky football.

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Speaker 3: Now we get eight home games.

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Speaker 2: It is going to be impossible for us to get eight home games anymore. We basically will have seven every year because with nine games one year, you'll have five home games in conference.

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Speaker 3: When you'll have your one year, you'll have four.

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Speaker 2: And they're gonna make it to where Kentucky when they have Louisville at home, that's when they get four. So basically we will have seven home games every year and there'll be no year shinning that we get eight, which sometimes is a big advantage to as.

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Speaker 5: A fan like this, if you said to me, you get another Eastern Michigan type game or a better caliber team in the SEC than I would say, or even if it's you know, Vanderbilt for insidence, whoever it may be, I still like the balance of the schedule better. I think, no matter what, you have to keep that Lovell game on the schedule. Agree, and I don't think that Barnhart maybe agrees with us, but I think that you got to preserve that that rivalry game.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've taken to view, at least for a long time that if Kentucky football is not gonna win a national championship, which I have a hard time ever seeing us doing, then let's at least make it entertaining, right, I mean, let's at least make it entertaining. So you know, my guess, Ryan, is what happens is you know how we always play a team like Tennessee Tech at the end of the year, like the year before the game before Louisville, we play some Murray State or Tennessee Tech.

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Speaker 3: My guess is that.

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Speaker 2: Game's now going away basically that you are gonna in that spot play a conference team, and you know, most of the time those games, nobody's excited about them anyway. So I guess that's how it works out.

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Speaker 4: You know, it does keep you know, South Can I can play Clemson. You know Georgia, it plays Georgia Tech. Florida Places Florida State. Those those rivalries that have developed over the years. At least those are still intact. Do you worry though, if they go to this big ten thing that that's when the Louisville game would.

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Speaker 2: Maybe possibly if they do that SEC big ten thing, I could see Kentucky ending.

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Speaker 3: The Louisville series. But we're still years away from that.

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Speaker 2: And to be quite frank with you, I kind of don't think Mitch Barnhardt will be the AD in four years when they make that decision, Shannon, So it'll probably be the next person that ends up deciding that.

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Speaker 5: I could see that, And of course we all know why this is happening, right. It all comes down to the money. Fifty to eighty million dollars the ESPN said they would give the SEC if they would add one more conference game.

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Speaker 2: It's exactly basically, if you want to do the simplest math here, this decision makes Kentucky an extra five million dollars a year. I mean, that's essentially why they're why they're doing this as the ESPN agrees to give more money.

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Speaker 3: Now, the big question is who will Kentucky get.

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Speaker 2: Is their three opponents. So it's hard, it's complicated, but here's the process. They basically want every team in the SEC to asit. They have divided the SEC teams into basically groups of three. They want each SEC team to have as one of their three primary opponents. One team in each group. So one team is the elite group, one team is the middle group, one team is the bottom five, bottom six group. They're not telling us what those groups are, probably because they don't want to make the programs.

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Speaker 7: Mad, but you can figure it out.

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Speaker 3: But you can kind of figure it out.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you could kind of figure out that it's probably Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, and somebody else in the top group. The middle group is probably a butt, and then the bottom group is probably Vandy, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Sentacky Missouri.

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Speaker 3: That's just my guess. That's just my guess as to what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: So knowing that, then they also want to uh, they also want to preserve rivalries, right, so they're trying to figure out how do you preserve rivalry? So most people think are rival because they've given every team one rival to preserve. It's Auburn and Alabama, right, Mississippi and Mississippi State. You got Texas and Oklahoma. They're doing like Texas A and M and and ARC. So they have those ours even though I don't necessarily consider them a rival ours when you do the math is South Carolina because to be quite frank with you, we're the only teams.

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Speaker 7: Left by default.

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Speaker 3: It's true. They hand they hand everybody a rival.

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Speaker 2: Missouri gets Arkansas A and M gets LSU, Texas gets Oklahoma. The only two teams left are US in South Carolina. So I think you can take it to the bank that one of our teams is South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: South Carolina is put in that middle tier team. So there's our middle tier team, right, makes sense. I think that's how it works.

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Speaker 3: Now. You look at like Vandy.

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Speaker 2: I would love to have Vandy, but Vandy's got teams they have to play, They have to play Tennessee, they have to play Old miss. Most of the projections I've seen have said Kentucky's teams will be will be South Carolina, Georgia, and then either Vandy or Mississippi State. Mississippi State not being a rival, but they gotta give Mississippi State to somebody, and so there we are. So if it ends up being what I think, most projections tend to have US as Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Tennessee is not one of them because Tennessee has Alabama, Vandy, and they want to have Florida some people think is their third one instead of US. If we don't get Tennessee and we get Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi State is our three, what do you think?

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Speaker 4: I gotta admit, I know Tennessee kind of has owned US over the last thirty years, but I would miss that series.

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Speaker 8: I would miss that game for.

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Speaker 3: You'd still play them every other year, you just wouldn't play them.

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Speaker 4: Every Yeah, So I guess answer your question, I would not be in favor of that. I would rather have Tennessee other than obviously than Georgia, who's been a powerhouse. I was afraid they might stick us with Missouri because Missouri considers us arrival even though we don't consider them rival.

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Speaker 3: So I'm the opposite of him. Yeah, I'd like.

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Speaker 2: To have the three easiest teams. We can have me too, right, So I'd love to have Missouri right, give me Missouri, give me Vandy. I'll take Mississippi State. That might be the three worst teams in the conference. I would love to do that. I in theory, do I want to play Tennessee, Yes, But I think the fact we have to play South Carolina is gonna make it hard to play Tennessee because Tennessee's gonna be in that middle pack of teams. So I think we're gonna end up. I think I think we're getting Georgia and South Carolina and then we're either gonna get Bandy Mississippi State. Maybe Missouri will get one of those three as our third. That's my guess.

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Speaker 5: And if that's true, for those of you complaining about the strength of schedule this year, will wait till now next year and every year after that. If you're gonna get Georgia every single year, on.

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Speaker 3: You, So we have to get one of those teams.

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Speaker 2: So if I but Tennessee's not gonna be in that top in the middle, the top group's gonna be Alabama, LSU, Texas Georgia, and then probably Texas A and M or a team like that.

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Speaker 7: I'd rather have, like an A and M or even an L have A and M.

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Speaker 2: But we're not rivals with them. They're on the other side, like they as far away from here as you can be. So who I actually think we get. We can beat Mississippi State every year, and we can be competitive with South Carolina every year, So I'm actually okay with that group.

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Speaker 8: You know that we're not that far removal. We used to own South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: We've been in like what five out of six six years, so kind of owned this.

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Speaker 8: Last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: So bring them on.

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Speaker 2: But the most obvious thing is you might see the end of the yearly Tennessee series, which I don't know what the stat is. I bet we've played Tennessee every year ever since the beginning, right, I mean, I don't know you does anybody remember a year we didn't play Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: And we there may now be a year where we where we don't play Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: And your folks down in Bell County, the folks in Clay County. I mean, that's the game, man. The Tennessee game has always been the game.

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Speaker 2: But as Richie knows, we always lost. So you know, not having to play it ain't the worst thing in the world. A fund nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are here at Volunteers of America Mid State in Louisville at the Community Center Campus downtown. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio work.

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Speaker 3: Come back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live.

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Speaker 2: Volunteers of America founded one hundred and twenty five years ago, America's oldest nonprofit helping hands service thousands of people every year. They help, including in this community. They serve Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Clark and Floyd Counties in southern Indiana. I just saw all kinds of dignitaries. You got the Senate President Robert Steivers over there. You got Craig Greenberg's the mayor's coming. Buck Stivers is.

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Speaker 8: Here, Oh Bucks Divers.

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Speaker 2: If Buck Stivers Dan now you know they'll let anybody into this city.

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Speaker 7: Uh glad to see we dressed for the occasion.

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Speaker 3: That's all.

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Speaker 2: You know what, Speaking of dignitaries, my interview with Congressman Andrew Barr is up on the Interrupted with Matt Jones podcast.

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Speaker 3: Uh you could see you can.

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Speaker 2: Hear the moments when Billy wanted to crawl under the table. But uh, I actually think it's it's it's it's, it's it's a I think it's a good podcast. It was good back and forth. I appreciate him doing it, and uh check it out. And then next week Governor Andy Basheer will be on with me as well on the podcast.

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Speaker 8: Did he get a little contentious with anybody?

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Speaker 2: They never got contentious. We're not like fighting with each other. But we disagreed about some stuff. So that's but that's all.

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Speaker 5: I lay a good combative interview, challenge people on things.

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Speaker 3: Hey, fum nine to A twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: I gotta ask you, this was now night two of you being without Josiah in your in your house. You were at the bar sort of helping with the dinner last night, so you you got to work your way through the evening.

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Speaker 3: What was it like when you got back home been at casbar last night.

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Speaker 8: Great distraction kind of kept me my mind occupied. But then I go home and the house is just quiet and empty.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be like that. I hate it.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm not kiddy.

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Speaker 10: I hate it.

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Speaker 8: So I got I got telling myself.

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Speaker 3: No, wait, man, what did you do?

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Speaker 4: Like two o'clock in the morning, dead asleep? I wake up. I think my phone's ringing. I thought it was him. I thought he was calling me. He's in trouble, he needs me. Of course the phone wasn't ringing. I don't I dreamt it. I guess the phone was ringing.

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Speaker 2: So he's already he's been in college two nights. I've already gotten updates. He's been at two parties.

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Speaker 7: I think he's at a barn party the very first night.

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Speaker 5: I think he's two hours after you dropped him off, he was already partying.

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Speaker 2: Uh did anybody see the picture I put up last night? So I was driving. We had our listener dinner last night, and thank you to all of those, to all of you who thank you, to those who came. I hope you enjoyed it. Yesterday evening we got got big praises on the food, a little slow, but we're going to improve that when we get started. But on my drive home, I'm pulling out for those of you know Lex and pulling out on Virginia Avenue. Look up towards turn right because I was gonna drive home.

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Speaker 3: There was traffic on Broadway.

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Speaker 2: Turn right and now you're looking at like the UK hospital when you pull out there on Virginia Avenue. Up above, they have a drone wildcat. Oh all right, so it's like that. I guess it was for new students because it was like a blue drone Wildcat in lights. So I pulled into the center lane, got out of the car I was gonna I took I was gonna take a picture, so I took a picture. Now I want you to go, if you can't, go to my Twitter and look at the drone wildcat.

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Speaker 3: Okay, first of all, very cool idea.

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Speaker 2: Right at school starting, let's put a drone wildcat up, let's look at it, and et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Shannon loved the idea, the execution.

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Speaker 2: It kind of looks like for those of you because now chet Liman was the first one to point this out. That episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza becomes like an underwear model and the way he poses, and it's that cat is kind of in a very sassy pose there.

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Speaker 3: Don't you feel like.

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Speaker 7: I'm seeing a little too much underbelly of the cat?

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Speaker 10: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: The cat like there's too much underbelly the cat seems.

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Speaker 2: I just think it's sassy. It's kind of looking at you like mayor.

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Speaker 7: Is that what you get? I wish it made that sound effect.

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Speaker 3: I think that cat that's not a r.

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Speaker 7: No, that's not any cat Maror. He's smiling at you.

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Speaker 4: He is kind of smiling, a winking as you a little bit and a happy face.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of flirting. He thinks like he's a cat. I think that's you know, he's ready to party. I think that's a good look. So how long is this thing going to stay up there just for last night? Or is it it only works at night?

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Speaker 3: I assume.

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Speaker 5: So I didn't know they're gonna put it back up tonight where people could see it maybe.

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Speaker 2: But it was a cool thing they did. I just thought that was a cat that was, you know, just a it was a little sassy cat.

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Speaker 4: That's a good comparison to the George because stands in the looks on Seinfeld depictual he took of him.

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Speaker 10: That's what kind of looks like.

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Speaker 8: I guess it's part of k Week.

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Speaker 4: They've got events every night this week with the incoming freshman in New Students.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ef, I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. I don't know if you heard. You might want to get this on your way out. This is the kind of promotion I think Shannon would like. But I'm gonna see if you will do what is necessary to get it.

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Speaker 3: At Krispy Kream tomorrow, if you walk in, you can get a free donut. So that sounds like something you like. Yeah, yeah, free donut just.

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Speaker 2: Walk in on a Saturday at Krispy Kreme. Sounds great. Just one catch when you walk up to the uh. When you walk up to the front to get your donut, you have to announce.

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Speaker 3: What house, what Harry Potter house you are in?

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Speaker 2: Oh, because the four donuts are each associated with what house you are in. Now, let me be clear, I don't even really know what that sentenced means either. Okay, I know that there are four houses. I think one of them is like Slithering and one of them is like Papa and then there's something else, there's there's I think there's four of them, but you're supposed to pick which one.

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Speaker 3: The only reason I know.

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Speaker 2: This is I took my ex girlfriend to Harry Potter World one time. If you had to go to this place and you got the wand based on which house you were in, and it was a whole thing, kids were going crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's very dorky. So here's my question for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, would you, even though you think Harry Potter's dorky, would you have the Would you degrade yourself to pick a house so you can get a free donut?

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Speaker 5: What's the going rate for a donut these days? A dollar fifty? Absolutely not. I'm gonna say I'll pay for the glades. Give me one of those, So you won't say which house. I'm not gonna say, I'm in hermie Own's house.

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Speaker 2: Oh hermione, I think, Oh yeah, Hermione.

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Speaker 5: How funny is somebody come up and cuss me out because I didn't get the name right?

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Speaker 10: Would you?

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Speaker 3: Would you want to go put your Harry Potter house on?

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Speaker 4: I won I would not do it. And two I'm still not ready eat another donut?

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Speaker 3: That's true?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think you'll get back to donuts at all.

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Speaker 3: I hope so.

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Speaker 4: I love donuts, but I am not there yet. You haven't eaten one often. They had some Jeff donuts last night at the restaurant. I no way, I am not having a donut.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you so sill sick.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Saturday, you know, I have a couple of friends who are going to do the challenge.

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Speaker 8: You'll get a get a bucket beside him.

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Speaker 10: They ain't haven't it well?

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Speaker 2: They think they can do it. They think you were not successful. I, by the way, would go. Somebody just needs to teach me what the four houses are because I don't want to go in and say one and it be embarrassed.

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Speaker 7: You already know one.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like I don't anybody a Harry Potter person here? Is that the Slythering Like they're the bad people right there? They're what Slytherin? They're the bad people? Yeah, I don't want to be that, So I got to pick one of the other ones.

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Speaker 7: Better learn your houses?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I better figure it out.

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Speaker 2: If I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven, We're gonna take a break when we come back. I'm gonna bring Richie up here and talk a little basketball. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live in Louisville at Volunteers of America.

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Speaker 3: Word, I'm back.

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Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the Volunteers of America Community Care Campus in Louisville. This is a campus which is being turned into a former hotel building on the site converted to a full service shelter with twenty nine units. It's specifically for families with children. It'll also help those who have chronic homelessness in a medical and behavioral health clinic and a medical facility all here, plus a community gathering space that we are at. Everybody here give a big round of applause to my good friend from Clay County, Richie Farmer, who is here.

00:23:39
Speaker 10: Hefew, Richie, you.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: Had some big moments in this city.

00:23:42
Speaker 2: Right of the Clay County Ballard games there weren't both at Freedom Hall, right.

00:23:48
Speaker 11: Yeah, we played my senior year, we played Ballard in the state finals here. We ended up losing that game, obviously, And we also played the l I t here yes, which my senior year, which was one of the best tournaments that I was ever a part of.

00:24:06
Speaker 2: So tell me so you know, I was sitting here saying it's odd. On the on the surface, it's odd to have all you guys from Clay County here in Louisville.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: But one of your one of.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: The assistant former assistant coaches here at Clay County, said, you know, Clay County and Louisville have a bond going back to Clay County Ballard back in the way.

00:24:22
Speaker 10: We have a bond going going way back.

00:24:25
Speaker 11: And uh, you know, I I used to tell the guys when we came here, you know, a lot of teams from from the mountains. Uh, they would be a little bit intimidated to come to Louisville. Were you intimidated?

00:24:37
Speaker 10: Not at all?

00:24:39
Speaker 11: You know, because you know we felt like that in any game that you know, we had a chance, and uh coach Keith really did a great job of having us prepared, and uh, we came up here.

00:24:51
Speaker 10: To show them what we were all about.

00:24:55
Speaker 3: We came up here in those little shorts. I almost show them what it's all.

00:24:59
Speaker 11: We We wanted to show on what it's all about and take the trophy back to the mountain.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: I understand, Well that's good. Yeah, Before I want to talk some basketball with you.

00:25:07
Speaker 3: But one little serious thing. You and I.

00:25:09
Speaker 2: I was talking with somebody back there, and you and I have had this conversation. We're from Eastern Kentucky. I now live in Louisville. But a lot of the problems that this place deals with and that we deal with in the mountains, yes, two on paper, people would say completely different places, right, predominantly African American in downtown Louisville predominantly white, and Clay County, et cetera. But a lot of the problems that people that those areas deal with are very similar, very and a lot. And I actually that's why I've always said the connection. We shouldn't be separated, we should be together because we deal with.

00:25:45
Speaker 3: A lot of the same stuff.

00:25:46
Speaker 11: We deal with a whole lot of the same things. And that's kind of what you know. With Jennifer Hancock, what she's doing. I think she has kind of built a bridge between Louisville and Eastern Kentucky. And I can tell you the thing that really excites me. They do so many wonderful things, but I know she and the organization have been such a part of the community, and they've been really involved in trying to help get some other things done, and we really appreciate it.

00:26:15
Speaker 10: Then that's why we're here today.

00:26:17
Speaker 3: So let's talk a little basketball.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: I know you, I know you've loved every Kentucky team. I know you've loved every Kentucky coach. But I get a feeling and you and I don't even think have talked about this, but I got a feeling that Richie Farmer was really happy when Mark Pope became the coach.

00:26:33
Speaker 3: Am I right about that?

00:26:34
Speaker 10: You are exactly right about that?

00:26:36
Speaker 11: And you know I've said there's been a few times like when coach Patino came, he was the exact right coach at the exact right time. Same thing with Cal and I think with Mark Pope, we couldn't have had a better person. And you know, we've talked a little bit about it. A lot of people was kind of like scratching their head when it first happened, Like I was one of h and I was one of them, and oh yes I was.

00:27:03
Speaker 3: I was like what, yeah, I mean.

00:27:06
Speaker 11: Because you were you were hearing all these different names, and then all of a sudden, you know, the more I got to thinking about it, the more it made sense. And uh and I'm telling you that he has done a phenomenal job. And what he did, you know, in his first year was enough to get everybody excited because, uh, you know, he comes in, he has no staff, he has no players, and in thirty days, Uh uh he put together a pretty good uh, a pretty good deal.

00:27:33
Speaker 2: After during those last few caliars, I remember you and I would have conversations and you would point things out to me that were concerns to you that then.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: Showed themselves later.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: But that you, because you played basketball so long, you kind of saw coming. When you watched that team last year and you were watching the way Mark Pope coached and the way they played, what did you think about it?

00:27:55
Speaker 3: Like?

00:27:55
Speaker 2: What did you see that made you excited? Was there anything you were concerned about?

00:27:59
Speaker 10: What? What?

00:27:59
Speaker 3: What was well?

00:28:00
Speaker 11: I think I think that he plays a style that the that the kids really like to play. And uh, it's a matter of him getting you know, the right guys to fit his system. And I think he did a phenomenal job of doing that in a in a short amount of time for the first year. But uh, with what he's done and in this off season, with bringing in all these different guys and I can tell you, being an Eastern Kentucky kid, I can tell you I'm really excited about what I'm hearing about Trent.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: Right, so you believe me I was gonna ask you about Trent. Do I mean thirteenth Region we got we.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Gotta pull for our own first of all. I mean Trent is the biggest.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: I mean Reid is as well, although like you know, London's kind of right there on the edge, but Reid was thirteenth Region too, but Trent no of being from Harlan. I mean, I gotta think, like you just gotta love having him there.

00:28:55
Speaker 11: Oh, I love him, and you know, he's Here's one thing that I'm a lot of people don't realize about Trent. Trent is a big guy. Trent's probably six six six seven, you know, somewhere in sixty six and uh, I mean he's a two hundred and twenty five thirty pounds. He's a big kid, and and he's very athletic. But I'm excited about the way I'm hearing he's shooting the ball. They're saying that he may be one of our better three point shooters this year.

00:29:24
Speaker 3: So he's shoot it as well as Richie well.

00:29:30
Speaker 11: I don't know, but from what I'm hearing, it could be could be the case. And he starts ragining threes Eastern Kentucky. Will we you know, we will invade Lexington, that's for sure.

00:29:41
Speaker 2: No, I think that's uh, that's probably true, that that that'll happen.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Do you.

00:29:46
Speaker 2: Know, you watch their style and the way they play and the way they kind of try to spread it out and get shooters. I feel we were talking the other day about big dudes who would play well under Pope. Under Pope, I feel like Richie would have seen some minutes there under Pope.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: Like I think that it might have been a good style for you too.

00:30:01
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would have loved to have played in that style. And you know, I played with a guy in Ashbourne that you know, really would I mean, you know about a perfect four perfect four for for Mark Pope was Jamal Mashburn.

00:30:16
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, he could do it all, and I mean he loved to shoot the three, but uh uh, you.

00:30:22
Speaker 11: You get to run in the offense through him. It would have been fun to fun to play with.

00:30:26
Speaker 2: You played for Rick Patino. Obviously we're in Louisville where he coached. He seems like he's now backing good graces with Big Blue Nation after all these years. I mean I was one of his harshest critics and now I was like rooting for Saint John's in the in the tournament. Does it make you happy that the university and the fans have kind of re embraced Rick?

00:30:48
Speaker 11: It really does, you know, because, uh, you know, that was my coach and I've always had a really good relationship with him, and uh, and we've talked throughout everything, and you know, he even through the times when he was at Louisville, I was always, you know, a Coach Patino fan, except for that one game.

00:31:07
Speaker 10: You know, he always knew that.

00:31:09
Speaker 11: But I think, you know, last year when they introduced coach Pope and and Coach Patino was there, I think that he was just so happy the way exception, I mean, it just meant so much to him and so much so much to all of us.

00:31:26
Speaker 3: So how are we going to be this year?

00:31:27
Speaker 2: Good group of players you got, we got obviously Otega back, you mentioned Trent, Colin Chandler back, Brandon Garrison back, and then a new group of guys Jalen Lowell point guard. I'm very excited about hearing really good things.

00:31:41
Speaker 3: What do you think about this girl?

00:31:43
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's if everything goes well and they developed the way that they can have the potential to over the year. I think we've got the potential to be a Final four team.

00:31:54
Speaker 3: Do you like? I mean, you're old school.

00:31:56
Speaker 2: We were talking the other day Ryan about people who would have killed it inn IL if n Io had been available.

00:32:02
Speaker 3: I think Richie might have done.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: Some some milk ads or something back in the day. Do you ever sit there and go, why couldn't I have played during in IL?

00:32:10
Speaker 3: I feel like it would have been a good run for you.

00:32:12
Speaker 11: I'm still trying to figure out how I can get in on that, man. I mean, because you know I can tell you that. I mean, there's a lot of people. There was one of the guys that's over in sports Information with UK there's like, oh my god, maybe have been Brooks down and he said, if if we'd have had nil during when Richie was here, he would have been retired.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: I mean, I want you to think about what that ninety two team, the four of you that were seniors, the I mean the ad campaign shit and the unforgettable skin done. Yeah, plus Mashburn on a national level could have just absolutely crushed it.

00:32:50
Speaker 10: And there was some characters there too.

00:32:52
Speaker 11: I mean we I think we would have we would have really embraced the nil and would have done well.

00:32:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much, Richie Farmer, everybody UK legend. You know what we will pay if you were late. You've heard me talk about a State renovations. But here's something you may not know. If they go over the promise project Coaliche completion date, they'll pay you one hundred dollars a day.

00:33:16
Speaker 3: That's amazing, that is awesome.

00:33:18
Speaker 7: I don't know anybody else that does that.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: So every day they're late, listen, it's somebody who's had to do some construction with the people are always late. But now you get one hundred dollars back a day. That's its State renovations. You go to a state r e n os dot com slash KSR. They will do kitchens, bathrooms, whatever your project and they're serious about keeping it on track. A state renos dot com slash KSR. When they tell you to finish the job, they will. We'll take a break. Take your calls. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty sevens KSR.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: Working back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:33:53
Speaker 2: Here at Volunteers America Mid States Community Care Campus. You can donate to a great cause voa me dot org. I want to thank Dean Dorton, First National Bank of Manchester and Dave Flannery Veterans Support Fun for making today's event possible. We'll be talking to the mayor here at the start of the second hour. I gotta give him a hard time about our wrestling venture. Speaking of wrestling, you just told me I forgot this. Still, I forgot this when when we first got into OVW you wrestled Richie Farmer as the two celebrity managers in a match, and I'd forgotten during the match Shira, who everybody knows from the Wrestlers Show, Shira actually legitimately separated his shoulder during the match, like there was a he tripped wrong, he got hurt, and the referees had to look at Richie and Ryan and say, you all got to kill time.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: And I'd forgotten for like two or three minutes.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: You two just ran around chasing each other like little children.

00:34:58
Speaker 3: It was a great moment.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was managed Shira. He was managing Shotgun Tony gunn.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: We had done it.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: We had already finished our little thing. I kicked Richie's ass. We about to leave the stage, and then the referee comes over, like gets in our in our ear.

00:35:09
Speaker 8: He's really hurt, he's really hurt.

00:35:11
Speaker 3: Keep going, keep going, and you all, like I jumped.

00:35:14
Speaker 2: Your guys done a really good job of acting. For like ten seconds. You did something, and then you didn't know what to do, so you just.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: Start running around in surface.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just let running around over and over.

00:35:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they didn't know what to do. They never been in that situation before the first time.

00:35:30
Speaker 3: Cookies on top of him's great.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: I'm wearing, by the way, before you go the phones, I'm wearing my red shirt. Red's only a half game back, by the way, that's right. We're the Mets loss last night. We're only half game back. We played the Diamondbacks, they played the Braves. I'm gonna root for you guys again to get you know.

00:35:47
Speaker 5: I'm tired of carrying you guys into the postseason and we were single handedly trying to shove you in there, and you guys gotta keep winning.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: The red signs called up a new picture, and I need you to look him up.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Uh. At some point his.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: Name is Zach Maxwell, all right, and they call him big Sugar.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: All right?

00:36:07
Speaker 2: Are we already have scuz Bucket and now we got big Sugar. If you look at him, he looks like a big sugar. He's got a big old belly. He's got a neck beard.

00:36:16
Speaker 7: Looks like an AI generated picture. Look at that.

00:36:21
Speaker 3: He's got a big neck. Well, he's a big sugar.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: And uh, I don't know if he's any good, but I'm just gonna tell you I hope he's good so that I can have two people in the bullpen.

00:36:30
Speaker 3: I like the scuzz Bucket and big big Sugar. He's got a big belly on him.

00:36:38
Speaker 2: That's all right, though, I'm okay with the big belly. You don't have to be in good shape to throw a baseball, right, And he was at Georgia Tech.

00:36:44
Speaker 3: That's right. He's big Sugar, Big Sugar. Watch out for him.

00:36:48
Speaker 7: I hope it works out for you, guys.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: You gotta love a big sugar. Who's up first?

00:36:53
Speaker 8: Got Jacob first?

00:36:54
Speaker 3: Jake, Go ahead, Jake.

00:36:57
Speaker 9: Good morning, guys. The four Harry Potter houses are Gryffindor Slytherin hupple Puff and it's break and clall. But you just think Kentucky is a Gryffindor and Louisville is Slytherin. That's that's all you need to know.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: Well, this kid right here is where the Kentucky shirt said he was Slytherin. So he wanted to be a bad guy. So so we we are Gryffindor. Is that what you're saying? So when I go get a donut tomorrow, I asked for Gryffindor.

00:37:22
Speaker 9: Right, yeah, all right, good guys. The other thing I had Ryan, you need to watch the Bill's Hard Knocks to distract you from your lowliness. There's uh, there's features on Maxwell and there's a lot on Ray Davis even sings with Dion.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:37:36
Speaker 9: Do you guys think that helps with recruiting that all or just the overall prestige of the football program.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: Well, certainly doesn't hurt.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call for people who don't know Hard Knocks covering the Bills and all three. I think last show didn't mention a lot of them, but the first two shows had a lot of the Kentucky guys, especially Ray Davis for the Store for the reasons everybody remembers when he was here about his background. But I've heard less buzz about this version of Hard Knocks than any I can remember. I think when the Giants GM and coach got embarrassed during the Saquon Barkley thing. Now it feels like they're showing less and less good stuff. But with that said, it can't hurt that they picked the team that has three Kentucky football players. Ryan and the three Kentucky football players are actually being highlighted on the show.

00:38:22
Speaker 4: Every high school football kid watches Hard Knocks, every one of them. So the fact that there is that right, oh yeah, man, they love that eat that stuff up. So that's if they're showing these Kentucky guys. Of course, I think they could do nothing but help.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Certainly nothing hurt they hurt.

00:38:37
Speaker 5: You know, I forgot that it was even going on, to be honest with you. To your point, I think that that's it's getting less publicity than it has in the past few.

00:38:44
Speaker 3: But Maxwell Harrison and Ray Davis.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: You ought to watch it if you can't, they both are very heavily featured, both of them. Ray Davis, I think is probably one of the two or three people they're most centered on on the entire show.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: So very cool for Kentucky football. Who's next? Bob is up next? Bob? Go ahead, Bob.

00:39:04
Speaker 6: Morning. Guess are hey by building? The building you're in there is that the old Male High School? I went to Max.

00:39:14
Speaker 3: It's next to us, and it's next to us. This is an old hotel.

00:39:21
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I was remembering the high schools right there. But anyway, one of the best athletes to come out of Kentucky came from Mayo Highs was Kenny Coon. He was an all around athletes.

00:39:36
Speaker 3: They've had a lot of them from Male High School.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: Right.

00:39:38
Speaker 3: You had what Michael Bush did, Darryl Griffith go to Mayl.

00:39:42
Speaker 6: Yes, he did well, but these were he wasn't all around. He was an all stater in three sports. And the last one I've heard talk about in Kentucky. Uh, but he Volunteers of America took over Male High School and the part of it. Anyway, I was just reminiscing, and I went to manual graduate during fifty one.

00:40:09
Speaker 2: Which fifty one. You don't sound a day over thirty, Bob. I do not believe you graduated in fifty one.

00:40:16
Speaker 7: Madison sounds older than you.

00:40:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, yeah, you're not gonna convince me. Fifty one. Now, wait a minute. If you graduated in.

00:40:22
Speaker 2: Fifty one, wow, that would mean you are I hang on, just say, don't tell me. That would mean fifty one. That's forty nine plus twenty five.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: That's seventy four. That does that mean you're like ninety two, ninety one, ninety Well, Bob.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling, and I appreciate the call. Ninety one years young and still call and still going.

00:40:45
Speaker 4: Proves what you said, an older gentleman maybe over then eighty.

00:40:47
Speaker 10: You're gonna let him talk.

00:40:48
Speaker 8: You didn't want to cut him off.

00:40:50
Speaker 3: Well, you know he was reminiscing. It's all right, nothing wrong with that. What's that? Who's next? Will is up? Will just got about a minute? Go ahead.

00:40:58
Speaker 6: Well, I wanted to tell you that next Sunday, Augusta is hosting the fifty second annual Frog Derby, where they shut down Main Street and race frogs in the middle of the street.

00:41:08
Speaker 3: Yes, we've heard about.

00:41:09
Speaker 9: The local funeral home brought it back.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's in Augusta, Kentucky.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, so they have a frog Derby the f they this is George Clooney's hometown, shut down the town and they let frogs race down the street.

00:41:27
Speaker 3: Does that sound like something you would go to.

00:41:28
Speaker 7: No, okay, I would go.

00:41:31
Speaker 3: I think that Scar. Are you gonna go, sir.

00:41:35
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm gonna go. I've gone there every year. This is the fifty second annual, so it's been frogs have been passed down for generations.

00:41:43
Speaker 2: Well that means okay, I appreciate the call. George Clooney probably went to that when he was a kid. You would when you want to be a part of that tradition.

00:41:49
Speaker 3: Ryan, No, I do go.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: Down playing the jumping out the other day that where you threw this stupid thing.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: That's the dainty fast. It's no fun though. There's not no sillier than the dainty fast.

00:42:08
Speaker 8: Watching frogs jump down.

00:42:11
Speaker 2: You don't let you don't love our small towns. We will take a break, come back our number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.