2025-02-26- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio, present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, it is Wings Day. Come on out and have wings dollar wings for us here Mario, you guys, if you're gonna chatter, head on to the other side of the place, all right, not right here in the middle of the microphones. Uh, it is a it is a beautiful uh day here in in Lexington. It's yesterday, got up to seventy I was walking around people in shorts.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait, Drew and not going to the UK baseball game today. I can't play today.

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Speaker 4: What time's that game? Four o'clock, four o'clock.

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Speaker 5: Our pregame show will be at six point thirty. Are they gonna boot the baseball game off the air if it's not done?

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Speaker 4: Didn't think about that.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if the baseball game is on a different channel like they put it on ninety eight point five or something.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure. One person rights and goes Matt.

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Speaker 5: If you don't mind, I'll bring you all actual information on your plane stuff. I work in playing technology. Used to work at the FAA, but retired last year. First of all, there are not more near misses now, we're just paying more attention to it. There were actually so far in twenty twenty five about on the same pace as the last few years, and it's been going down since the nineteen nineties in near missus.

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Speaker 4: So that's good news.

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Speaker 2: If it's accurate news.

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Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you believe this person?

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Speaker 2: Well, if he's in the flight industry, maybe he's wanting us to think that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, do you just like not believe anything anyone says, Like.

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Speaker 2: Unless it's on the Internet, that I believe it.

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Speaker 5: But that's what's interesting about you, Like someone can be an actual expert. You really represent modern American problem ways, Like someone can be an actual expert and you don't believe them, but you could see just a shiny graphic with flowers on it on the Internet and you'll believe it.

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Speaker 4: Like old people.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to be mean to, but like that's kind of an older generation. Well they have started to distrust everyone except things that show up on their Facebook page and then they totally believe that. I just find that an interesting dynamic, Like I can understand you don't believe anything. I think that's a bad way to live life. But I could understand it, but like to not believe people who it's their job. But then your aunt sends you a graphic and you retweet that, and then when you go that's not right, people are like ew, you know, it's like I just find that Ryan is.

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Speaker 6: That Sadly, there are a lot of people who think that if it's on a graphic with words, it has to be official. When anyone with a computer it can put anything on a graphic and put it on Facebook.

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Speaker 4: Anyone can put anything. Let me finish what he said here.

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Speaker 5: He said in the late nineteen seventies, the plane industry was deregulated. What led them to happen was in the next ten or fifteen years the industry exploded. More private aircraft led to more flights, aircraft expansion, et cetera. We added hundreds of FAA agents during that time and that's how flights became safer. However, those people are now reaching their retirement age, and the retirements in the last three to five years have exploded. We are not replacing them, and that does make it a little bit more dangerous.

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Speaker 4: So that's an interesting See.

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Speaker 2: I buy that every line. He just said everyonere He just said, right, but.

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Speaker 4: You didn't buy the first part.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm telling you, if there were close calls in this day and age, we would all know about there's somebody on that.

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Speaker 5: He says, there are thirteen hundred close calls a year. That's that's that does make okay, But you just said we would know about it.

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Speaker 4: How would you know?

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Speaker 2: I think because the people everything that happens. No, I think the people on the plane would put it out there.

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Speaker 4: And then but how would you find out?

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Speaker 2: Well, I know when I'm coming down to land. Oh, how would I find out what they did?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So let's say the internet, but.

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Speaker 4: You can't read the entire internet. So like if there was a okay, let's just.

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Speaker 5: Take that that that thing that happened yesterday. Yeah, what if there just wasn't a video, you think you'd still know? I think that they would be be reported on news. Ago, Then how do you explain there's thirteen hundred a year.

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Speaker 2: I can't. That's crazy, honest.

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Speaker 3: Did you even know about it until Matt talked about it last hour?

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't, Well, I did heard about it on the morning news.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I didn't even hear about it on the Matt's Report.

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Speaker 4: Say like, I think sometimes what you choose to hot. Let me give you a perfect example of this.

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Speaker 5: Let's take let's take like the intricacies of Kentucky basketball. Okay, okay, when there is like a team turmoil, we may if we let's say there's a fight, if it doesn't get out, does that make it any less of a fight.

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Speaker 4: Let's say Jackson Robinson and Lamont.

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Speaker 5: Butler got in a fist fight, all right, and let's say somebody found out and it got reported. We would go, oh, no, this team is internal, they don't like each other, blah blah blah. But that same fight could happen and it doesn't get out, and it doesn't make it any less of turmoil. You just don't know about it. And I think sometimes we act like we know everything. We don't know.

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Speaker 4: How many people knew what was really happening.

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Speaker 6: With cal the last few years, No, not many, not many.

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Speaker 4: And it was a disaster.

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Speaker 5: But because the general public didn't know, they didn't act like it was a big deal.

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Speaker 4: So it may just be these happen all the time. It's just now we know, and.

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Speaker 2: It supports you. Dante has said, Man there's a fight at football practice just about every single day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we never hear it and we never hear about it. Yeah, but so nobody goes the team's in turmoil. But if one of them leaked out on a video, we discuss it for a month.

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Speaker 6: Well, there was that video that came out of a fight in the locker room UK a couple of years ago, and it was everywhere. But you know, as to your point, if it had been a video, that fight still happened.

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Speaker 5: And the problem that video came out, it was like three years on the team anymore.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't even the current team.

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Speaker 5: So so anyway, I that actually that message makes me feel better because I bet you there are close calls all the time.

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Speaker 2: It makes me feel worse if they're really thirteen hundred close calls a year.

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Speaker 4: But that's the thing. Would you rather know or not know?

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Speaker 2: I probably would not. I wouldn't want to know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you on that, Like it's like what knowing how? What's how your food is made? Besides the food at CHAOSBO.

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Speaker 3: You also got to think about how Yeah, I think about how many flights are thirteen calls?

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Speaker 4: Thirteen hundred close calls.

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Speaker 5: How many flights are there a day, like a good jillion thirteen hundred close calls may not be that much.

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Speaker 2: It feels like that's a lot.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing about you is that facts don't matter.

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Speaker 5: It's just how you feel. Yes, and that's what you care about. Okay, did you see the Georgia Florida game last night? It's now on the replay right here. Georgia was up twenty six in the first half, just absolutely annihilated them. Florida then came back with a minute and a half left, took the lead and had two free throws to make it a three point lead.

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Speaker 4: They make one of two. Flora, Georgia comes down.

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Speaker 5: They bring in the little dude and named Blue or whatever that killed us. He hits a three. They take the lead in Georgia after giving up a twenty six point lead, ends up still winning.

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Speaker 4: Here's the interesting part of the game to me. The ad got on the mic. Did you see this?

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Speaker 5: He got on the mic and said, please, this was during a timeout. Please don't storm the court. As a matter of fact, if you'll wait until after the Florida team gets to their thing, then you storm the court and we'll give somebody here ten thousand dollars. Oh, and that's what they did. The fans actually let Florida get off the court, waited ninety seconds, and then stormed them.

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Speaker 2: Then it's okay.

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Speaker 4: Now, we just talked about this the other day with Vandy.

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Speaker 5: If we thought that would work, Drew, it actually worked last night.

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Speaker 6: It's now happened twice too. Was did Missouri do it recently? But so I just kept him off the court. Yeah, it's kind of neat. In the video, the students are so antsy. They're almost like dogs being held back, and the ad standing there with his arms up and then he just lowers his arms and then there they go and they dodge the fine. It seems like that's that's gonna be the way to do it.

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Speaker 2: That may be the future now for storm court. Storming is doing it that way.

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Speaker 4: But it's not quite as exuberant. It's like playing that moment.

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Speaker 6: But they still get to have your phone on the court. You just got wait a little longer.

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Speaker 5: So I was watching the game and I could hear in the background what the ad was saying, because they were, you know, the announcers were talking over huh, And I heard him say we will give like, what was it, ten thousand dollars or something to a student if you won't do it.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, well, that's just not gonna work. And it did and then it did. Wow. So I just found that kind of interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think for for people like at Georgia, they're going to listen because they don't get to do it very often, you know what I mean. They're like, Okay, we're going to do this the right way, so we can do it again next time.

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Speaker 6: I saw Kirby Smart also said something to he was part of with the ad and getting everybody to stay back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like, we need to win a title. Y'all shot up speaking to that.

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Speaker 5: I think an interesting little news story that may have gotten overlooked the University of Georgia announced that of the twenty two million dollars you can give to players next year to athletes, they're going to have thirteen point five to football. Now you can do the math, that's probably like what fifty eight sixty percent something like that. I think the assumption will be if Georgia does that, then that's kind of what everybody's gonna do.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you think they set the point.

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Speaker 4: Let's I think so.

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Speaker 5: I think if they're doing thirteen point five, that's probably an SEC directive. They're just the first to say it, and they're probably all going to do the same thing. What I find interesting about that is that is actually less than I thought. I thought the football was gonna do like fifteen or sixteen of the twenty two thirteen point five, which says to me, I think the SEC is gonna put more money in basketball than I thought, probably put some in women's basketball, in baseball, But thirteen point five of the twenty two million towards football.

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Speaker 4: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 2: I thought it would be higher football and the SEC is king. I really thought that number would be closer to May sixteen seventeen million, to be honest.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if the basketball is getting like three million, I feel like for Georgia basketball to split up three million, that's higher than I would have thought it'd be. I thought they'd really focus on football.

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Speaker 4: Did they say that's what basketball was?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 6: I saw a tweet like the whole breakdown win it was women's just under a million, like nine hundred thousand.

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Speaker 4: What about baseball?

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Speaker 6: I think it said like the rest will split I don't remember exactly. I just remember the men's basketball was right at three million.

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Speaker 5: Well, thirteen and a half million for football, Like I said, that's about two and a half I thought. I thought it could be up to seventy five percent for football. So basketball. I think what's interesting is maybe because of the taste of success they've had this year, the SEC is like, we're gonna spend money on basketball.

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Speaker 2: So the SECL said a ceilings like Alabama can't say hate Georgia's just given thirteen and a half million, we're fifteen million.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they could. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't think they but I do think that being the first one out and it being the program that's been the most consistently good was probably.

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Speaker 4: Intentional and it came out. Gotch, who's up next, Let's go to Mark? Mark, go ahead and Mark.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, how you guys doing good? I know I'm not suppoed to say that. The first person that comes to mind when you talk about Oklahoma that you guys have probably never heard of it is a great artist who's a Texas legend named Jamie Richards.

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Speaker 5: Well, if he's a Texas legend, why would he come to mine with Oklahoma.

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Speaker 8: Because he's from Oklahoma. And then he went then he went to Nashville, and he was too country for Nashville. He wouldn't buy into the Nuevo country, and so he went to Texas. And he has a number of Texas chart number one hits. And I think you would like him based on the way you describe your music tastes.

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Speaker 4: And what's his name?

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Speaker 8: That's number one, Jamie Richards.

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Speaker 4: All right, I'll look it up. What's your second thing?

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Speaker 8: The second thing is I would like to know from Ryan how you get from Kentucky to Missouri without going through either Tennessee or Illinois unless you get on a ferry.

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Speaker 4: He's probably right about that.

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Speaker 2: There's no way to get from far western Kentucky into.

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Speaker 4: The bridges are in Illinois and then in Tennessee. So he's right. You have to the Mississippi.

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Speaker 8: You get well, or you got about thirty seconds in Illinois if you If that bridge is open, it goes into Missouri.

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Speaker 4: But but you have to appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: So there you go. So your friend that told you that fact was lying to.

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Speaker 2: You, We could You can still do it. You just got to take your car on a ferry fairy from Kentucky crossed the river and get off in Missouri.

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Speaker 4: And there's a ferry from from Oh, that's.

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Speaker 2: What we're saying. That's the only way he could do it.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, is there a fairy?

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. Yeah, sounds like your friendly.

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Speaker 5: Wrong And once again you will believe anything that's right. It's on my phone if it was Oh.

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Speaker 6: Text, Ryan's some scoop and it's getting rid on kamos, it's getting.

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Speaker 2: D I get stuff all the time. I know they're trying to bait me.

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Speaker 4: Let me get Let me say this.

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Speaker 5: I got a text message last night at seven fifteen that said Butler and Robinson will play tomorrow from the text machine a number I had not gotten before.

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Speaker 4: But for some reason.

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Speaker 5: I was like, this feels like some So I texted two people I thought would know.

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Speaker 4: Didn't get a reply, which made me.

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Speaker 5: Think there's probably right. And then he came out like an hour and a half later. So whoever you are that sent that nice scoop, it was about number is one to remember an hour and a half before the thing came out. Uh, if you're exercise anymore or need to heal your body hid and saved money.

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Speaker 2: Always a bunch of wings.

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Speaker 4: We'll take a break. Right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine, two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, there is a fairy the Dorena Hickman Ferry goes from Kentucky to Missouri Hickman Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go. Eat it collar.

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Speaker 4: Also also Matt eat it call. Okay, yes you're.

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Speaker 3: Ready to pay me your million dollars. No Dolly is not listed as a performer on that song.

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Speaker 4: No I don't care or not. That was your voice. It was not real.

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Speaker 2: It was it was not had to be another singer that sounds like Dolly.

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Speaker 5: That was either Dolly or it was someone it was not. First of all, there was harmony. There were two voices. It couldn't have both been Riba.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it can be when you're recording.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't care what's listed. I'm okay. That that was after the show's right. What's the name of the song?

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Speaker 3: No you in Oklahoma?

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Speaker 4: No you in Oklahoma. We'll look it up. If I'm not, you can look it up. I'm gonna listen to it.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you, Dolly, Mike, come on, Matt knows more than the internet.

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Speaker 2: Sha, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Vince Gill is from Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: That's another one. Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, and Reba McIntyre.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty good group. Carry Underwood and Carrie Underwood. Yeah, that's a pretty good group, all right.

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Speaker 5: So he wrote me a game with more see if these if these stats make you feel better or work, Okay, Matt, what is described as an emergency might not be what you excuse. What is subscribed as a close call might not be what you consider a close call. We use it as a certain thing. The situation that you saw on video is what we call an emergency situation, something that could lead to a deadly interaction. There are on average three to five of those a month, and there are four point five million flights in a month. Yes, okay, so let's say that there's three a month, four point five million. That would be one point one in every one point five million flights.

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Speaker 4: Does that make you feel better? It makes me.

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Speaker 2: Feel a ton better. Actually, so they're counting near misses. Is one that maybe they're miles away from you, Joe, but it's still in the FFA guidelines. That's a near miss.

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Speaker 5: One and one point five million. And then even from that, we hadn't had a crash since like two thousand and three or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember that.

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Speaker 5: Crash by the way in three or what I think? Actually, maybe do you remember when right after nine to eleven a plane crashed in New York City? Do you all did, like I thine, like that's a forgotten thing in history, crashed in like a neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: I don't even remember that.

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Speaker 5: Do you all not remember that it was a commercial plane crashed in like the Bronx or something where.

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Speaker 4: It ran into birds. That's exactly what it was.

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Speaker 5: But it wasn't long after nine to eleven, so people thought it was like but it wasn't it ran into birds.

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Speaker 2: When did Sully land the plane on the Hudson.

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Speaker 5: That was a few years after that. After that, Yeah, that was a few years after that. It's weird all that happened right out right out of New York. But anyway, So now do you feel better?

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Speaker 4: I do?

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Speaker 2: Actually, that does make me feel a little better. And I believe what he says. Did you get it on your phone?

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Speaker 6: I like how quickly he changes his tune on things on the show, like a f the other show.

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Speaker 5: You when you get on the internet, do you believe? Like, like, what what does it take for Ryan Lemon to belie leave something?

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Speaker 2: If it was a website that I trust? Okay, So what are the websites you trust?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 6: What's the Ryan Lemon internet browsing experience?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: What's so? So you with some of it?

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Speaker 6: We don't need all of it?

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Speaker 2: Connect you sports radio? Wikipedia? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Wikipedia?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I trust the Week.

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Speaker 4: Do you understand anyone can change Wikipedia?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I believe ninety eight percent of it. Okay, Wikipedia, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, I mean that's I'll give you ninety eight percent, but I'd still would be kissing about Wikipedia.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what else?

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Speaker 2: I don't do a lot of web surfing.

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Speaker 4: So you just go to KSR and Wikipedia for all your information.

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Speaker 2: Bluegrass Realtors dot com, Bank of Lexington dot org.

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Speaker 4: Well then how do you find out the news?

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Speaker 2: I listened to the morning radio show and listen to the pre show.

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Speaker 7: For news.

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Speaker 5: Do you know where the news on the morning radio show comes from?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's on my iHeart app. Not so it comes from the iHeart News.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, do you know do you know who's reading you the news in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know that person, but you believe it. Totally believe him. Okay, trusted news source to iHeart Media.

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Speaker 4: The NFL Combine starts today.

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Speaker 5: Kentucky has four guys in it, uh Dion Walker, Maxwell Harrison, Eli Cox, and uh Dumas Johnson. It's interesting Maxwell Harriston is playing himself onto the edge of a first round pick. He's kind of like probably early second Dion Walker has faught. I mean, now he could have a great combine, but he has fallen not only out of the first round in mel Kuiper's draft, he's not even amongst the top seventy five players. And I'll remind you mel Kiper had Dean Walker sixth in the country coming into this year and now doesn't even have him amongst the top seventy five players. Eli Cox has moved into the top ten of sinners in America. Doomas Johnson considered more to be like fourth or fifth round. What do you think of our UK guys? And to me, the story is Maxwell's rise and really Dion's fall.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Maxwell's rise. You know, we wanted more of him last year. I'm happy for him, and it looks like he's gonna, you know, have a great spot and when it get to the draft. But it's kind of like, man, I wish we just had him, had that top thirty of him all last year. And Dion's fall that's gonna be one of the biggest talking points when they really get into this. I mean, you don't usually see a guy projected top ten fall to a completely different day like he has.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Dion's fall is Matt mel Kiper was the guy who for moment one sort of said this, Dion Walker is special. He released his first mock draft last year had Dion Walker going sixth in the draft, and he was not even listed yesterday amongst his top sixty prospects. And then I did a little more research and I think he had him like seventy fifth or something.

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Speaker 2: I think of the blame goes to Dion I just don't think he dedicated himself this past season, didn't work as hard as he should have. I think he thought it was just gonna be guaranteed he was gonna be a top draft pick. I think he slacked off a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Do you think he believed his own hype.

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Speaker 2: I believe he did. Yeah. I think he thought, I'm a superstar. I'm gonna go high in the draft. I don't need to do this.

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Speaker 5: And I mean we saw the work ethic issues during the season. I mean they showed themselves on the field. There would be plays he would just take off like right in the middle, like while.

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Speaker 4: He was playing.

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Speaker 2: You don't think GM see that. When I watch a game film, they see guy take a playoff.

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Speaker 6: I think the staff had to coddle him a little bit. And you can go back in time and Stoops was talking about I had to take Dion out of practice because he was dominating. Everyone was because he was dominating or Dion just wasn't bringing it that day. Is kind of what you wonder because now he's getting these interviews in this combine and they're just looking at you for what you are, and he is just dropping and everything you see.

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Speaker 5: He still is an amazing physical spec and so if he has a great combine, he might play his way back up to a higher thing. But but it is kind of crazy how far he's following. Congrats to Kentucky's Eli Cox for like he's playing himself into a draft pope.

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Speaker 6: I remember when he's committed. It's kind of like, is this guy gonna see the field? He might not even been a two star. He went to our Citrus Bowls show at ten roof in Orlando with his dad just as a high school kidw this is on.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: Draft boards, and they took him away to some center. They brought him back to center. Now he's gonna play in the NFL.

00:23:21
Speaker 5: Yeah, So congrats to those guys. We will take a break, take a calls Kentucky and in Oklahoma. Tonight's KSR.

00:23:28
Speaker 4: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make him pay.

00:23:32
Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Doctor Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:38
Speaker 4: All right, I like this song. Who sings this? Uh?

00:23:41
Speaker 3: This is David Frizzle and Shelley West.

00:23:44
Speaker 5: David Frizzle. I only know those names from Willie's Roadhouse. Wow Frizzel, I think is how it said. Okay, uh wow, you're the reason God made Oklahoma. Okay, a little update. The plane that crashting Queens was not birds. It was pilot are Sully was birds. So Sully hit the birds and went into water. The plane that crashed it was in Queens, not the Bronx. Two hundred and sixty people died, including seven on the ground, and people just don't remember that. And it was like it was not long after nine eleven. Is that why we don't really remember it? We were sold probably, but I remember when it happened at people being scared, like the attacks.

00:24:26
Speaker 4: Are still coming.

00:24:26
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

00:24:27
Speaker 4: You know because it was again in New York.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: Just a couple of months after nine to eleven.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so you know, I flying in New York a lot the New York. New York's probably the only place I've ever flown that when you're flying in there, if you look out your window, you'll see other planes, like like there's cause you know, there's three, there's JFK LaGuardia, there's Newark and they and when when you land, you circle the city if you're going into jail and you I don't think I've ever flown and not seen other planes.

00:24:58
Speaker 4: Like you don't see that everywhere.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: You don't, but in New York, I mean, there's so much air traffic you will see planes around.

00:25:04
Speaker 2: That's gotta be a little freaky.

00:25:06
Speaker 5: And also if you ever if you, I mean everyone that's ever flown out of Atlanta or Chicago or it's always fascinating to me, Drew, how quickly they take off, like one goes, next, one goes, next, one go. I mean they are like if you where were we We were somewhere. We stayed a hotel right next to the airport, and you just sit there. Every twenty seconds.

00:25:27
Speaker 6: Another one would go, you know, especially up there in that city, just one after another all day long. I don't know how many there are, but that's gotta be a lot.

00:25:35
Speaker 5: Do you know about the controversy Ryan in Louisville about potholes.

00:25:39
Speaker 2: No, I don't know this.

00:25:41
Speaker 5: Some some Instagram and social media accounts have been focusing on on Louisville potholes. Okay, they say there are too many potholes in Louisville and they are encouraging people to send.

00:25:52
Speaker 4: In pictures of their potholes.

00:25:53
Speaker 5: So if you go online now to Instagram or Twitter or even TikTok, everyone is posting their Louisville really And I don't know if Louisville has worse potholes than everywhere else, but if you go online, there's a lot of potholes. So last time I was in Louisville, I started driving around and I was like, man, they're right, there's a.

00:26:13
Speaker 4: Lot of potholes. And I hate.

00:26:18
Speaker 5: Potholes because they'll screw up your car. But do you think Lexington is a big pothole city? People are claiming Louisvill's a big pothole city.

00:26:25
Speaker 4: Do you think Lexington is?

00:26:26
Speaker 2: I mean this time of year, they're showing up everywhere because of the winner. But I don't So how does a pothole occur? I think like the asphalt during the cold winter, it did construct constricts canink the right words, and that starts cracks which lead to potholes.

00:26:42
Speaker 5: So you think it gets the ground gets cold, and then what compresses.

00:26:48
Speaker 2: And then it cracks and I think the cracks so it expands. Well, it's like it's pulling and put a pulling apart. They're constructing. It's constricting.

00:26:57
Speaker 4: Well, constricting would mean like come to get like make smaller.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the word I'm looking for. It's I don't know, you contracting where you know when it gets cold?

00:27:09
Speaker 4: Where you saying's happening when it gets cold? What happens?

00:27:11
Speaker 2: I think the asphalt contracts causes cracks which leads to the holes. That's what I'm going with.

00:27:17
Speaker 4: Okay. I don't know if that's true or not. I go with it. But it does happen after cold a lot.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: And so people are literally driving around Louisville Drew looking for potholes and going and then placing the street and posting them everywhere. And I think the city has said now, the city I think, is getting involved in and say go ahead and do it and we'll try to fill them all you.

00:27:38
Speaker 6: I've seen some other smaller towns du with the gimmicks, like they'll plant flowers in a pothole, try to draw attention to it, make it a little like an actual flower pot. Really, Yeah, didn't Dominoes have some?

00:27:51
Speaker 5: I think Domino's there was a time when you bought a pizza, they'd fill a pothole or something, right, I believe. So, I feel like that's one thing a mayor can do like that affects people's lives, fill their potholes.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: There'll be a lot of asphalt trucks out when when the weather struts warming up, filling these holes up everywhere.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, with the process the science you're talking.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so it can expand during the summer, can.

00:28:15
Speaker 5: Track and then what makes it crack the contraction? Okay, you know, I don't know if that's right or not, but I like your explanation.

00:28:25
Speaker 4: Who's next, Alan, Go ahead?

00:28:28
Speaker 7: Alan hey Man. First off, congrats on the new contract extension. I know that Big Blue Nation all had a big cyber relief knowing our show is going to be on for another five years.

00:28:38
Speaker 4: Thank you, and thanks to all the people, by the way who wrote in.

00:28:41
Speaker 5: Like last night, the text machine was just full of people writing messages about the show and when they first listened, and a lot of really really sweet messages I wrote some people back. I couldn't write them all, but those of you that talked about how much the show meant to you in various things, just from the bottom of my heart, I really appreciate It's nice.

00:29:00
Speaker 4: Go ahead.

00:29:02
Speaker 7: Yes, and you often referenced the lawsuit that you and Drew had against the referee from the North Carolina Elite eight game, and I wasn't a daily listener at that time. I don't know if you can speak of it or not, but can you say what you all did that he sued you for and what the verdict or outcome of that was.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, my lawyer may be wishing, but we already won, so it's okay. So in twenty seventeen, Kentucky played North Carolina in the Elite eight. I thought there were a couple of calls by an official that were very detrimental.

00:29:35
Speaker 4: We heard the official and cal Perry going at each other.

00:29:39
Speaker 5: I was sitting behind the bench a little bit during that game, so when it was over on the postgame show, we were doing it from what ten roof Memphis?

00:29:48
Speaker 4: Maybe is that right?

00:29:50
Speaker 6: That's exactly right?

00:29:51
Speaker 5: And we were doing it for ten roof Memphis. I was very frustrated. So I was like, these calls stink, blah blah blah. This is the referee that I think made a couple big call that stink.

00:30:01
Speaker 4: And that was that. Then I was so depressed about the loss.

00:30:04
Speaker 5: I turned my phone off and like we drove back home and I just like tuned out the world. Next morning, I wake up and dead Spin has a story about how all these UK fans have found this referees' business and our same bad things, and they showed all the things they did. I woke up still frustrated. I was kind of mad that Drew had not posted that. I was like, that is a Drew Franklin post. How did dead Spin beat us to this? So I called Drew and Drew was kind of still in the mood where he was bummed out to and I was like, hey, Drew, do a post on this. It's already been on dead Spin. I think you then posted after dead Span about it. That morning, we get on the radio, we talk about the game, and we read some of the comments that people were posting, and we said, now, you shouldn't do this.

00:31:00
Speaker 6: Said that several times said it.

00:31:01
Speaker 5: I think the court said, we said it like nine times. You shouldn't do this, but some of these are kind of funny, and it was like, you know, well, I mean the audio you can't hear now. But it was just us last it was us reading the comments other people had done. The ref claimed that after we did that, then more people made comments, which may be true, I don't know. But he then sued us, saying it was our fault that any of the comments had been made and that we had defamed him, ignoring that over half the comments occurred before we even said anything.

00:31:41
Speaker 6: We were recapping.

00:31:41
Speaker 5: We were recapping the comments. So then he files a suiting court. He files it in Nebraska. We have no connection to Nebraska, so I have to hire a lawyer, who then hires a lawyer in Nebraska. None of this, by the way, was cheap. They moved the case to Kentucky, but that costs money. The District court here rules for us. It goes to the Sixth Circuit and three judges rule and an opinion was written that basically said, the act of reading the comments that other people make is not defaming them, and even more importantly, for the first time in American History wrote that officials referees are public figures, which means in order to defame them, you have to you have to talk about them with malice and be false. It his first time officials had ever been called a public figure. It's actually still cited most recent sports law textbook I taught at Georgetown. They cite our case. Yes in the textbook, so we won. It got dismissed, but it costs quite a bit of money to defend.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: So that is.

00:32:50
Speaker 5: The referee story from North Carolina. And he sued me. He sued ks are me and Drew including one of the things he suited us about. We didn't even say, Lee Cruse said, not even me, but he sed he sued me and Drew personally.

00:33:08
Speaker 6: One thing, it was funny. I wouldn't even on the show that day. I did the website that had a pretty good defense. Wasn't there, But he had a pretty good defense.

00:33:16
Speaker 2: They could pull up the entire radio show and listen to it, you know exactly what.

00:33:20
Speaker 4: Was Yeah, there was one more thing too.

00:33:22
Speaker 5: There was a YouTube video that some kid had put out with all of the calls, and at the end of it, it was like seven minutes long. And we had linked to his YouTube video and at the end of his video was like contact info for the ref which that kid shouldn't have put on there. But the court also said linking to a video is not the same as if you put the video up. So I mean, these were even though we laugh about it, they were actually some really important legal principles that came from that case. That you have a First Amendment right to critic size officials, and that reading social media comments that are negative does not then make you responsible for the comments. Those were two things that I don't think had ever been decided in the law that were decided by our case.

00:34:15
Speaker 6: I still waiting on all those follow up stories about how the case was settled. Lots of people wanted to write that we were getting sued and where that we're bad people, but we didn't get the follow ups when we.

00:34:23
Speaker 5: And I would argue the only person that committed defamation was Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated did a cover story about bad fan behavior that was basically based around me and Drew and everything they put in there. They wrote the referees' allegations as facts. They didn't say he alleges this, They said it was true, and I called the and I called the SI reporter and I was like, how can you say this? We have this stuff on audio, like there's a record, I'll send it to you. You can listen to it. And he just refused to He refused.

00:35:01
Speaker 4: To hear it. And that was one time where I was like, your Sports Illustrated.

00:35:05
Speaker 5: You took allegations, published them not as allegations, you published them as facts and used us as me and Drew as an example of what's bad about fans.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: It was such a big deal. We have my famous photo for Fort Center. But I also remember it was on the scrolling Tom Square, the ABC News Tom Square headlines thing. It had our names in Tom Square as part of that lawsuit.

00:35:27
Speaker 5: You can read the case. The case is online if you ever. It's actually very well written. The guy you could tell the judge really wanted to be fun with it. And it's called Higgins Versus. It's either Higgins versus Jones or Higgins versus Kentucky Sports Radio. I can't remember which one it is, but you can read the case. It's online.

00:35:44
Speaker 4: Now.

00:35:45
Speaker 7: That was I remember the YouTube video.

00:35:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I didn't do the YouTube video. That was the thing. I mean, I appreciate the call.

00:35:53
Speaker 5: I had nothing to do with the YouTube video, but that got brought part of the suit as if I had made it, which.

00:35:58
Speaker 4: I didn't make.

00:35:59
Speaker 6: When's the last time you made a YouTube video?

00:36:01
Speaker 4: Never? I don't know how. Yeah, I don't know how to make it YouTube. It's another good defense in the case. Yeah, tell me about stock Mortgages, Doctor Mortgage.

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00:36:25
Speaker 5: I sometimes forget that, you know, it's twenty twenty five, that we have listeners like who weren't listening there and things that are like so a part of the show and who we are. That was twenty seventeen, and that was eight years ago. There are probably a lot of people that that was the first time you ever, you know, heard that story.

00:36:42
Speaker 6: I actually enjoyed. I don't remember who started. Maybe Mario and on that bridge yesterday, tell us about the first time you started listening. I loved reading that, but it did open my mind to like, there were some people that started like just this past summer, and we take free. I just assume they know a lot of our stories and inside jokes we make from here there.

00:36:57
Speaker 5: But there's still been a couple of times in the last five years that we picked up a completely new audience. COVID was a big one because a lot of people just had never heard of start listening during COVID, and then the col Leaving Pope search we picked up a whole I mean we talked about it. This fall was the best ratings we've ever had, and the only and second place was last spring. So you know, we I do have to try to remember we always we have a different audience sometimes. Who's up there? No, Well, we'll take a break, We'll be right back. It's Kaosark. Welcome back Tekey Sports Radio eight five, nine, twenty.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: Two eighty seven. Who's this Whalen? Whalen? What's it called?

00:37:39
Speaker 3: Oklahoma Sunshine?

00:37:40
Speaker 4: Whalen, Jenny, Oklahoma Sunshine? There you go, all right, So, uh, we learned a lot about Oklahoma today, don't you think.

00:37:47
Speaker 2: Corey Price, of course found the last time we played Oklahoma. It was in the Brandon Night season, in the Mali imitation.

00:37:53
Speaker 4: I was at that game. I forgot it. I was at that game, Yeah, I was. I was there.

00:38:01
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00:38:41
Speaker 2: These raffles are incredible. The bourbon that they get and these raffles time after time is amazing.

00:38:46
Speaker 4: One person rights Matt.

00:38:47
Speaker 5: I'm a civil engineer with thirty years experience in highway construction. What happens is water will get into the poorest parts of asphalt, it freezes, which causes it to expand, not constrict ryan then when cars drive over it, it loosens it. Kentucky has more freezing and drying than almost any other state, and that's why we have so many potholes.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Well, what was the story you told a couple years ago? Puddles on I seventy one were so bad that they were causing rex or causing blowout.

00:39:16
Speaker 4: It caused me to have a blowout tire.

00:39:20
Speaker 5: I used to say, I seventy one from Louisville to Cincinnati was the worst road in America. And to their credit, I think Jim Gray was listening that day. No, I think he was. And it's much better now.

00:39:31
Speaker 4: Is it? But it used to be awful.

00:39:35
Speaker 6: I think, didn't they Let's start on it shortly after the show it was.

00:39:38
Speaker 4: It is much better now than it used to be. Who's next?

00:39:42
Speaker 3: Let's go to Shane from Greason.

00:39:44
Speaker 5: Shane, go ahead, Shane, Hey, how's it going today?

00:39:48
Speaker 4: Failers good?

00:39:50
Speaker 9: He as always Today is my birthday and as always. I always wish yeah, it as always every year once okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I always wish to kay it's a for a big win, you know on my birthday if they play always you know that's what I want.

00:40:08
Speaker 5: Well for you, Shame and Grayson, We're gonna win tonight for you on your birthday.

00:40:14
Speaker 9: That's awesome. Hey, since it's my birthday. Hey, what's the best gift or surprise if you guys ever got on your own birthday? And I'll hang out and listen.

00:40:26
Speaker 5: Oh wow, what's the best gift or surprise you ever got on?

00:40:29
Speaker 4: Well?

00:40:30
Speaker 5: You one time for my birthday did something where people called in and then my mom called in.

00:40:34
Speaker 4: That was really nice. That was That was your fortieth birth my fortieth birthday. My fortieth birthday was great. You all did that.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: We opened this restaurant on my on my fortieth birthday weekend, I had like people called it my non real life wedding reception.

00:40:48
Speaker 4: Where are we in? So yeah, that's probably that's probably my best one. What about you?

00:40:52
Speaker 2: I I'm sorry, I don't remember. I remember. I think I got a baseball glove on my birthday one time when I was a kid, I remember that there's a picture of me staying with a birthday cake in front of me and a brand new baseball level my hands.

00:41:05
Speaker 4: So some of us have special moments. You have a baseball glove. What about you.

00:41:10
Speaker 6: I'd say my best gift was my first car was my birthday present, ninety eight Camray. I mean I could still drive that. If I had wrecked it, I'd still be driving it. But that was that was a birthday present from my parents.

00:41:21
Speaker 4: They last a long time.

00:41:22
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, if if I hadn't have been hitted at an intersection here in Lexi, I'd probably still be driving it.

00:41:27
Speaker 4: Shannon and I have a quick question.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: My neighbor, Yeah, has to smoke weed every moment of everything my front yard. My front yard like is literally the weediest smell that ever existed.

00:41:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, So what's your question?

00:41:44
Speaker 4: Do you just have to deal with it? Like I can't. I can't just go.

00:41:47
Speaker 5: Hey man, it's seven am, like maybe yeah, because he like seeps into it, you know. It's it's like getting the point where it's coming close to seeping into the house and I and I'm like a dog, I can smell it.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just have to deal with it.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: I mean, he on the door and ask, you know, for him to blow the smoke the other way. But I don't think it's gonna work like that. Maybe just get some for breeze and suck it up. I guess it's the only thing you can do at this point.

00:42:13
Speaker 4: Here's the second thing.

00:42:14
Speaker 5: So you know, I have a lot of shoes, and I've done this thing where like I'm one in one out now. Yeah, So I decided I got some new ones. So I decided to get rid of of one. I had some boots, you know, I bought new boots. I took some my old timberlands, and I did what I do sometime, which is leave it on the street for people. Saw a man walk up, homeless man. He stopped. I thought, good, this man's gonna get these shoes.

00:42:39
Speaker 4: I feel good. You know what he did.

00:42:40
Speaker 5: He picked one of them up and threw it.

00:42:44
Speaker 6: It's the worst thing you can do.

00:42:46
Speaker 4: I was like, you just he just threw it. That was it. Now nobody gets Nobody gets it. Six point thirty pregame show. This has been a Kentucky sports radio