2025-07-18- KSR - Hour 1

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

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: All right, good morning, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, Grandpa's and grandma's, aunts and uncles. It is the Friday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, July eighteenth, Ry Lemon, Shannon the Dude, Drew Franklin. Matt is his last day of his vacation. Of course, there's some more vacation coming up, I think in September from young Matthew Harper Jones.

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Speaker 5: But he's off this week, Big one in September, Big one in septembery Foundation.

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Speaker 4: You know, if only, if only, he would count the vacation days he takes versus the vacation days at Shannon takes.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I could count them up right now. Who took eight weeks of vacation? No, ten weeks of age?

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Speaker 6: Not me? Not me?

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Speaker 4: So Keeckyports Radio, sponsored as always by our good friend TJ. Smith, called the TJ. Smith Office, and he'll watch Shannon. He'll make them pay, make them pay. Our Clark's Puppy shop phone numbers eight five nine two eight Oho two to eight seven. It's eight five nine two eight o cats. A vision glass text machine has been my cell phone this week and it it blew up yesterday. We'll get into that in a little bit, and then, of course we'll have our whiskey thief call the day. So, guys, uh, it's Friday. We're usually on remote location. We have a rare studio show in the summer on a Friday, and we walk in and Wild Eggs has loaded up with breakfast stuff or there's all kinds of food out there from Wild Eggs. Once again, Shannon's not here. Of course, MAT's not here, Mario's not here, So it leaves it all for Drew and Billy and I eat to eat the rest of it.

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Speaker 7: Today, when I was walking through the parking, my stomach did a little rumble. I didn't eat breakfast and I thought, oh man, I might not make it to noon. I'm hurting. I had no idea I would go up that elevator. So what is there like ten different meals over there? The whole table's covered.

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Speaker 4: It's their summer menu, and they brought like every new item on their summer menu for us to try.

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Speaker 7: I'm working my way. I'm about a third of the way through all of them. Maybe by the end of the show, I'll have all of a down show.

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Speaker 2: See like how many things from Wild Eggs Ryan can eat in ten minutes?

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Speaker 4: No, yeah, no, no, hush your mouth, cush your mouth. But we do have a wild Eggs contest we're going to talk about here in just a minute. I'm really excited about it, so just just hang on for that. But really, there's guys, there's there's two topics to open the show, and you can pick which one you want to talk about, Mark Stoops, UK football at SEC Media Days or Archie Goodwin.

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Speaker 5: Those are the those are the two.

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Speaker 7: Stories, not the couple of the cold Play concert.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get to that number one where.

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Speaker 5: We're going to get to that on that one. But yeah, okayah if I will say but I was just kidding.

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Speaker 4: Go say you you pick which which of those three stories you want to start with, Drew.

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Speaker 7: We'll save the astronomer, you know, build up anticipation.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 7: Uh, the story sweeping uh Sweeping America is uh, you know TBT and Archie. That's good, but that's later tonight. So let's start with what's already happened with Stoops yesterday at MEETIA Days. Okay, let's just go ahead and get get Mark out of the way.

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Speaker 4: He spoke to uh some meet local media before he went to the podium.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 4: I didn't listen to anything said in the podium, but I listened to we said in local media cause I thought that's when we get the good stuff.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I listened to the podium and not the local media. So if we put our brains together, it's like we were there.

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Speaker 4: So it looked like it was like Nick roush Adam Luckett, John Hale, Dick Gabriel, probably some other local TV guys, all the all the big stars.

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Speaker 7: Stephen Peak, don't forget Steven p he's.

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Speaker 5: One of his videotape and I think that we watched the video.

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Speaker 7: Of hardest working crew in Atlanta this week.

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Speaker 4: But I think, to me, as a fan, Stoops had a little chip on his shoulder yesterday, and that's what I want to see. I want to seem kind of mad, kind of angry, kind of ticked off about this whole motivated meme that's going around and everything. I heard some things from him yesterday that as a fan I needed to do. I needed to hear my coach ticked off. And I think ticked off, Mark.

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Speaker 7: Like ticked off.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I lean a little the other direction.

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Speaker 7: He for the first time commented on the motivated talk. It's been a meme since the spring. I was hoping he would laugh it off and you know, be a good sport. No, he does not seem to like that whatsoever. Does not care for the motivated talk. In fact, Nick Roush salute to Nick Roush, very first question in the ballroom live on SEC Network, OMNI Atlanta, completely full of people in media and I'm watching and I hear first question, get a little mike little tap, Nick Roush, Kentucky Sports Radio. Nice Mark, how motivated would you say you are Jesus nick. I mean, you couldn't even wait three questions. But Stoops made it clear he's not a huge fan of that. In fact, I think he said the media is having fun with it. Here's quote, Oh you got it dialed up?

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 4: I'll play along and let the media have their fun and take their shots, and that's cool with me.

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Speaker 2: Sounds that's motivation right there. That sounds like a motivated Mark stupients not. I think he's ticked off. But you know, when you're motivated, you can't get ticked off easily. I think that shows as a level of motivation. Drew.

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Speaker 7: I don't like how he's blaming the media. Sure, I've participated in it. I did a motivated mean yesterday. But this started with the fan base on Twitter. Yes, it went for months before we leaned into it at all, just here recently. So yes, have I have I made a motivated joke. I've made several. But it's not a media thing. This is your whole fan base. You got to pay attention to your audience. This is being said by everyone, or at least the big online presence.

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Speaker 4: So he followed that up. He says, maybe y'all just looking for some AMMO. And he said it wasn't his intention to lay low this offseason.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he did say he's with motivation. It's what it's been every year. Nothing's changed. Trying to silence our memes, he said grateful a lot. So maybe we start the grateful Stoops meaning.

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Speaker 5: He did say he'd rather be grateful Mark Stoops the motivated Mark.

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Speaker 7: So I think yesterday was the turning of the page from motivated Mark Stoops to grateful Mark Stoops. And then yeah, he even though we all think he's laying low this offseason, he said, no, this has been operation as usual. Nothing's changed. We're just trying to get better. I know there's a narrative out there that I'm kind of hiding from making headlines and doing interviews, but he denied it.

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Speaker 4: I got said, Shan, I heard some things I need to hear because it was like almost like a sense of urgency with Stoops yesterday, Like he knows that last year was unacceptable and he knows he mentioned several times about the strength of the schedule so hard this year, Yet he kind of came across as like a guy that is kind of ticked off. At the world and I'm gonna prove you wrong.

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Speaker 5: Kind of guy.

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Speaker 2: I think he said fourth and one mentality, So, you know, I think that's good self awareness. You know, he realizes that there's a lot of urgency going into the season. Going back to the grateful Mark stoops though, like, how do we do that meme? Do we do like praying hands like a Mark students with the breaking hands?

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Speaker 3: He's grateful, like grateful? Ye, how do we How do we show.

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Speaker 7: That brain hands throwing your hands in the air, hugging, just being thankful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I like that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know, though, Ryan, that I heard anything that's going to change my mind on how I think the season is going to go.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you did though, you think you.

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Speaker 5: Did well as far as the wins and losses. Maybe not.

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Speaker 4: But I heard some things from him that make me think that he ain't happy.

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Speaker 5: And he's going to work his butt off to try to keep it from being that beat like that.

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Speaker 3: I like that mentality.

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Speaker 5: I do too.

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Speaker 7: I wish I had those same glasses. I saw it as similar to kind of cow with all the media, the radio shows are saying this, but it's really this, you know, they let them have their jokes. They're not really fans. I'm starting to get more of the defensive of just the headlines around him. That's more of the vibe I got.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: One of the I think the biggest criticisms of coach stops has been like things are haven't been great. But he's like, yeah, but we won ten games. Yeah, but no, Tennessee's you're right.

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Speaker 2: You got to go out there and you just got to win the games. That's the only thing that's going to flip this fan base.

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Speaker 7: He also says he don't want headlines, but he cussed, and if you cuss on the podium at SEC Media Days, he said the S word, not scrimmage from yesterday, the actual S word. And that's not a big deal. We're all adults. But when you say it at the podium at SEC Media Days on live TV, that's a headline. And that went everywhere, not just with Kentucky people, all media down there. So he wants to lay low, but he said this blank's hard or something like that. And when you throw that quote out there, you've that's a headline that's not ks R or spiraling something. If you say this blank is hard on the stage at SEC media days. You've now made a headline.

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Speaker 5: Willie Kylie Stein said that word here yesterday on our own shows.

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Speaker 2: It gets dumped here. But now, of course it's hard, though, I mean, that's what you signed up for. That's why you're making millions upon millions of dollars. You're not making that salary to play in an easy conference.

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Speaker 3: We all know it's hard. It's the SEC, but that's what you signed up for.

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Speaker 4: So already in two months and spring practice to now, I already feel better about the team. And I know by the time and kickoff the season starts, I'm going to be back on board.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Man, six wins, seven wins, let's go. I know I'm going to talk myself into because I'm already halfway there.

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Speaker 7: I feel like you're with Matt and the Reds. You're Matt in the Reds with Kentucky Football. I feel like one time there, we'll do predictions one week in your your bowl game, and predictions another week maybe two wins. Now now you're back, you're back on.

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Speaker 5: Back on After what I heard yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Grate foot stoops has you background.

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Speaker 4: And the backpacks that had their digital numbers on the back of the back.

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Speaker 7: And started on these backpacks. What are we doing? What are we doing?

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Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like that.

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Speaker 7: It felt very unserious to me.

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Speaker 4: It almost seemed like, uh, something you would have for your elementary school kids.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, like that, like I expect metle kids walking in showing off their backpacks.

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Speaker 4: My backpack, it's got my phone number, my address on the digital street in the back.

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Speaker 2: Here's my emergency contact information in case I get lost, you know that type of thing.

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Speaker 6: Though.

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Speaker 7: At West Broadway Elementary School, I had a backpack. It was a G Shannon. You would have loved it. You like jeeps and like the it was the back though. And then I had like a clear thing from my windshield and you could see in my backpack. I could also hit a button and turn on my brake lights. I feel like that's what Kentucky football was doing yesterday. But I was in first grade and they're at SEC media Days.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. I think they're right.

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Speaker 4: They would been a hit with the elementary school students, not with maybe college athletes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I have been a little critical of SEC media Days. I will say Josh kattis really all of them, but Katis especially did a good job of explaining how he feels there's truly been a transition from all the problems last year to accountability and having a better locker room. And if anyone hadn't seen it yet, I can't remember exactly what video. There's a ton of interviews yesterday. It might have been with SEC Network.

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Speaker 5: It's on Lane.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, then there's SEC Network. We have it on the website. But Josh Kattis did a really good job speaking on behalf of the locker room. So I'm getting my backpack jokes off. But there were good parts of yesterday and I thought that was a highlight.

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Speaker 4: And if there's two guys I think you can trust off his football team, it's Josh Kattis and Ty Bryant, who was on the show with you in April. They both kind of said the same thing. Man, things are different. They've changed some things and we're not going to have maybe some issues we've had the last couple of years.

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Speaker 7: And Jordan love It and Alex Safari, who were also there yesterday, they also were speaking about it too. I just thought Katus especially did a job of explaining how he sees a difference him being a senior and he saw the dip the last two years and he seems to really believe things have changed behind the scenes. We don't know how that'll translate onto wins and losses, but it seems like they really did clean that up from a year ago.

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Speaker 4: So we've got a couple more football you know, we've been so basketball heavy this week with the TBT tournament, all the TBT guys, we brought in a lot of basketball. We're going to kind of football heavy today. So we've got Landon Young is going to join us at ten thirty. Just found out he was in town.

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Speaker 5: Let's have him on. So he's going to come on.

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Speaker 4: And then at eleven o'clock, Aiden Larros, the punter with the zero toughness rating, is going to come on Drew to defend himself. So it's a kind of a football heavy show today.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing from Aiden Laros. I've I've played the game a little bit since they came out. I don't feel like he's much tougher than they gave him credit. I mean, then you see the.

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Speaker 5: Video UK put out, he's checking the balls off his chest.

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Speaker 3: I think we should.

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Speaker 2: Prove that he is a tough guy as a matter of fact, Drew, you tell me if this is a good idea or now it would be better if Mario were here.

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Speaker 3: But I think that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you should arm rustle Aiden and let's see if he can beat you in an arm wrestling contest, you know, because we can show how much tougher he actually is than what the video games get him credit for.

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Speaker 7: I would happily do that, but it's my phone, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he can't come in. He's got to call into.

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Speaker 4: We can set that up though, Yeah, and then media day coming up there. He looks like a kind of a big tough guy, you know. He's now a little skinny, little kicker punter. He's a kind of a He's Australian or is a New Zealand, South Africa, South Africa.

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Speaker 3: Other part of the planet.

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Speaker 7: So we can bring up since it's just verbal, you know, we could bring up situations where you would need to be tough and ask him what he would do in this situation. There was no toughness test, no tougher punter in the world than Glenn Pakalak. He would punt it eighty yards and then go down and knock your jock off.

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Speaker 4: If you tried to return to one of his punts Mass day with like Asda, so would Max Duffy.

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Speaker 5: I still take.

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Speaker 4: Glenn Pacalac over all of them. So so yeah, Landing Young at ten thirty aid and Larros at eleven.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And then like I said, we got to get some really kind of some funny stuff about the the kiss Cam, Kiss Cam.

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Speaker 4: We got a game tonight, got a game tonight, got to talk about Archie Goodwin. But we go back to Wild egg before we go to the commercial break. My son Josiah works for Wild Eggs. He's got a one hundred dollars gift card in his pocket right now, and he's working at wild Eggs right now. Oh okay, the first person that can find Josiah at wild Eggs, he's gonna give you that one hundred dollars gift card.

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Speaker 7: I like this game.

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Speaker 4: I love this game. He's in on it, he knows it. He's got the gift card in his pocket right now. So if you want a one hundred dollar gift card from Wild Eggs, go find my son Josiah.

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Speaker 5: No hints, I'm not gonna tell you where he is. I'm gonna tell you what he's doing. You gotta go find him and you get a one hundred dollars gift card.

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Speaker 7: And if he is in the act of carrying a tray full of French toasters something, please at least let him, you know, do his job.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, don't stick your hand down his pay don't tackle him. Yeah what his pocket? Le'll stick your hand down his cricket. He's got food, Why he's carrying food?

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Speaker 3: Hopefully, don't talk about ten roof Nashville.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's true, So so go find your side. It's find Josiah for a one hundred dollars Wild Day's gift card. All right, we'll take our first break. Come back eight five nine two A two to eight seven. It's eight five nine two ao cats. It's grateful Mark Stoops not motivated, Mark Stup.

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Speaker 7: Grateful memes. They're pretty funny.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll get closing a lot more when we come back on Kentucky's Sports Radio. All right, welcome back Kentucky's Sports Radio. Freaky Friday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Shannon here in the studio today after being out at the Chas Bar last couple of days interviewing some T and T guys already grateful Mark Stoops is taking off. I mean I've got three or four memes already about it. So I think Drew, that's gonna.

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Speaker 5: That's gonna. I think our fan base will have a little fun with that today this weekend.

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Speaker 7: If he if his goal was to get the motivated Mark Stoops to end, it works.

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Speaker 5: It works. Just going to yeah, you said you had an update on the backpack, I do.

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Speaker 7: Every one that went to SEC media days got a backpack for showing up the three players from every team. So it turns out they just threw Kentucky under the bus by featuring them to show off the back back backpacks because other fan bases, including Tennessee's message board other fan bases, were making fun of Kentucky's backpacks. But it turns out everyone there got one. Kentucky was just the example they used.

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Speaker 5: So let me get this right.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky is the very last team on the very last day of se TU football media Day.

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Speaker 5: They were third to last after okay, last day, last day.

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Speaker 4: I wait to the last day to show pictures of student athletes in these backpacks, and it just happened to be the Kentucky.

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Speaker 7: I think the SEC's mocking us.

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Speaker 5: I think so.

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Speaker 7: I think they always showed my apologies to the three young men wearing them Catus Afari and I love it. I apologize. I thought it was a Kentucky only thing and we were trying to distract with our backpacks. But no, this was the SEC and they've they've thrown Kentucky under the bus.

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Speaker 4: So do we blame Tom Hart, Darry Noka and Peter Burns that Who are going to blame here? Yep, Cole Kublick, Chris Doran, Chris Doring, We're blaming them all? Well, listen, Lang, Paul, Paul finebaumb So there you go.

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Speaker 7: Randall Cobb. I watched Randall Cobb on the COVERAG yesterday. He's really good at that, and talking to him at Derby, I don't know how far he wants to pursue it. He enjoys doing it, but he's he's really good at being an SEC network analyst.

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Speaker 5: From him, I do want to mention.

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Speaker 4: Before the guys went to SEC Football Media Days, Coach Stoops and several of the players went to beat meet some special Olympic kids, spent the whole afternoon with them. Had lunch with them, played games with them, and just if you saw that, I mean it is warms your heart when you see something like that. So I mean we forget that these players are really eighteen, nineteen twenty year old kids and to see them interact with some special Olympians, and like I said, Stoops was there almost all day eight lunch with him. It just made my heart warm to see that and read about that what they did with those kids.

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Speaker 7: Definitely, and they do so much of that that doesen't get to social media never know about. You know, every once in a while we'll see pictures of something or a video, but that goes on constantly with most, if not all players on the team. I know Caatus I keep bringing him up. He's very active, been that way his whole career. He even talked about that yesterday about why he does it. But they do a good job of giving back to the community where it's children, hospital, special Olympics, ron On McDonald, whatever it is, they're very involved.

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Speaker 4: One more give back kind of thing happened for UK football. If you remember the name Scott Mitchell, he was a receiver in like two thousand and four, two thousand and five.

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Speaker 5: Here Kentucky rich Brooks first recruiting class. Rich rich Brooks first recruiting class.

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Speaker 7: You're right, Juco Transfer.

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Speaker 4: He made news, national news when he chased down an arsonist out in California. I think him and his lady friend. I don't know they're married or dating, but their lady friend, they were down on a walk or maybe a jog or something, and they saw hike a little hike and they saw somebody, actually Shannon start a fire. After California just had these devastating fires. This dude's up in the in the canyon in the mountain and trying to start a fire. Took off and Scott Mitchell chased him down and kind of held him at bay till the police came in and arrested the guy. A hero man, he was a hero.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I like that is a crazy story.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he could have potentially saved a lot of people's lives and a lot of homes.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just had this huge wildfire and this guy is just trying to start a fire out out in the middle of the woods.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and just lit a dry tree out there in California.

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Speaker 4: And then tried to take off and just let the fire, you know, engulf the countryside again, and Scott Mitchell chased him down and held him till the police came to arrest the guy.

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Speaker 7: I like, Mitchell said, the guy was about one hundred and fifty yards away and he still caught him. And his direct quote NBC was, I didn't know I still had it. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 5: Well he was.

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Speaker 4: I on the story I saw it was advertised as a former University Kentucky football player.

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Speaker 7: The headline X Kentucky football player chases down arsonists.

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Speaker 4: I know Coach Brooks tweeted about it, kind of congratulating him, and you can see you could feel he felt like a proud papa that one of his own did this on the behalf of other people.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Mitchell was only here two years. I know some people had mentioned online they didn't remember him. But he played if he didn't start every game in those two years, so he played a lot, played a lot, had a touchdown in the Governor's Cup from Andre Woodson. Three career touchdowns and then moves back home to California. Is chasing down Arsness eight five nine.

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Speaker 4: Two o two two eighty seven. That's our Clark's pumping shop phone number. Before we get to the calls and the landing young to Obama the hour, we do need to kind of hit on what Archie Goodwin said on here yesterday.

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Speaker 5: The text machine.

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Speaker 4: Blew up, my cell phone blew up, social media blew up, and I think the general consensus, guys, I want both of you to comment on it.

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Speaker 5: You just had.

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Speaker 4: He gave us a different perspective of what happened that season from his point of view as an eighteen year old kid.

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Speaker 5: And you could see it. You could.

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Speaker 4: You could see he's sitting there, a thirty year old man just being raw and open and sincere about feelings he's been dealing with for twelve years. And drew you and I saw him. You can see his body language he as he opened up, you could tell it was it still hurts him today.

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Speaker 5: And he came across.

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Speaker 4: I think most people left the interview saying I am now an Archie Goodwin fan for life.

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Speaker 7: There's people online apologizing for being too critical back in was it twenty twelve thirteen? Yeah, I said, the moment it was over, that's the best interview we've had with a player. And I don't even think it's close after going back and listening to it, and during the break he let out an excel and even told us, like, I've waited since I played here to let that out and tell my side, because at the time, you can't just what you're doing an interview's post game. You can't be like, I'm not playing the right position. You're kind of controlled. But now twelve years later he's like, I finally got to explain why it didn't work out the way I wanted it to, why I did this what I thought should have worked out, and just his explanation. He's a very intelligent guy, and I just talked about that team he went by, went through some colpoint guards like everybody was downhill until you listen, but he was crafty you get in the lane. But after that, cow kind of got away from that, very knowledgeable of all things. And then even during the break, we were talking about DeMarcus and some incidents de Marcus had recently, and Archie's getting into what why he thinks Demarcus's brain ticks the way it does, and I'm just like, you were not the eighteen year old that we were trying to get anything out of when you're here for a year. But I loved every minute of hearing from him, especially the part the big takeaway everyone had about why his one season didn't go the way he wanted.

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Speaker 5: To Shannon, what was your takeaway sitting there listening to it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I agree with Drew.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think he was probably the best player interview we've ever had on ks are very well spoken. He went into a long explanation, you know, explaining his side of things, and you know, it's probably something you can't say when Calipari is the coach here. But now that Calipari has moved on, I think we're gonna get a lot more stories from behind the scenes and what went on with players during that time. But I thought he was great on the show.

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Speaker 7: And he was trying to because he kept saying, I might throw on call into the bus. That's up for the listener to de side. But he really wasn't trying to trash cal even though some of what he's saying it kind of has a negative, you know, twist to how cow was running the team.

00:22:02
Speaker 4: I couldn't help but feel for the guy. You could hear the painting his voice, you could see his body language. It really hurts him to this day that he couldn't do for Big Blue Nation what he wanted to do while he was here. And I think it was good therapy for him to get that off his chest.

00:22:16
Speaker 7: Definitely. I think they could lose by fifty tonight, which isn't gonna happen, but they could be out tonight. And this was a successful week for Archie good when just interacting with the fans and telling his story.

00:22:25
Speaker 4: I thought Khalil Whitney was good the day before that talking about his troubles Archie yesterday, that one SoundBite went six minutes long, and you and I just let him go.

00:22:33
Speaker 5: Just let him go and works through some things. And he was doing his own podcast.

00:22:36
Speaker 4: We were listening he was, and you could see he would go, you know, walking through it.

00:22:41
Speaker 5: It was really an amazing kind of watch.

00:22:43
Speaker 7: I hated when he said Cal told him, well Ryan has to be the point guard.

00:22:46
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:22:46
Speaker 7: Oh, I didn't want to hear that.

00:22:47
Speaker 4: Didn't have to do anything, all right, Well, take our break, come back, big old Landing, young gonna join us talking at the UK football in his career.

00:22:53
Speaker 5: We come back. I'll got back a sports.

00:22:54
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00:23:00
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00:23:03
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:05
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back, Matt Jones. Still off. This is the last day of his week vacation before football starts. Ryan Drew and Shannon here in studio today and journey to say kind of how this happened. You and I were working at kas Bar and Grill last week, kind of going through some of the photos. We go up in the attic and there's this monster poster of Landing Young, Like, it's what three feet by four feet?

00:23:28
Speaker 5: I mean it's a big one.

00:23:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, big poster.

00:23:30
Speaker 5: So I called it.

00:23:30
Speaker 7: It's Landing Young gotta be big.

00:23:31
Speaker 5: That's true. The man is big.

00:23:33
Speaker 4: So I called his dad, Randall, and I said, hey, man, we got this great picture of landing. We've just been sitting up here since we're nuns remodeling. Would you like it? And he said sure? And then during the course conversation, he goes, yeah, Land's here right now. I'm like, what said, Yeah, he's been farming all summer he's here. Yeah, of course, So I called him, got him to come on Landing it's man, it's good to catch up with you. I can't believe you're getting ready to strike your fifth year in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. But uh, but uh, congratulations on a great career. You're a dad now you got a second kid on the way. It just blows my mind. Landing Young's a grown man now, pushing what twenty seven years old or whatever.

00:24:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll be twenty eight this year here in August.

00:24:15
Speaker 5: Dude, that's crazy. Huh.

00:24:16
Speaker 4: But you've been with the Saints ever since you left UK signed with them again, so I guess you like what's happening down there.

00:24:23
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:24:24
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And you know, obviously we had a rough patch last year, but we got a new young coach in from Philly and they obviously just got off a stellar season. So we're excited to kind of see what he brings to the program and the culture down there and try to turn things around a little bit.

00:24:39
Speaker 7: Hey, land and Drew Franklin here, we want to hear a little bit about your time with the Saints. But first, just you being a good Kentucky boy. What's it like being in Louisiana for so long?

00:24:47
Speaker 10: Now?

00:24:47
Speaker 7: Is that starting to feel like home. He gets to do any farming down there or anything to feel like you're back in the bluegrass.

00:24:54
Speaker 9: I get to get a little fishing in. That's about it. To make me feel like I'm back in Kentucky. But you know, we were scared to death going down there when I first got drafted there just you know, coming from a small town living in Lexington, you know a lot of my life too, and you know, going to a big, big city like New Orleans, it just it was it was very Uh it was a lot to handle. And uh, you know, then coming after the fourth year and not knowing if we were going to sign back or not. You know, we were sitting there crying thinking about telling our neighbors by and you know, all the people we met and the friends we made down there. It definitely has become a part of our routine. We love it down there, and we love the people, We love the culture, and we love New Orleans.

00:25:32
Speaker 5: Now.

00:25:33
Speaker 4: So when you were what elementary school did you go to here in town? Pick it the well At Piccadom Elementary School. Third grade, they say, Landon, what do you want to be when you grow up? I would bet one hundred to one odds, and on one to one odds that you said, I want to be a farmer and an NFL football player, and probably the farmer was more important than the NFL football player.

00:25:54
Speaker 9: It's funny because I don't remember what ages switched off, but for the longest time I wanted to ride bulls in the rodeo. And then I got big and they said, well, we're gonna need some bigger bulls.

00:26:09
Speaker 7: I'd like to give that a try.

00:26:10
Speaker 9: I always wanted, yeah, exactly, And I always wanted to farm, you know, I Dad we were always on the farm on the weekends all the way up through college ball in tag got drafted, and uh, you know, I'd always you know, done a little bit with Dad here and there and heard his stories, heard my granddad's stories, and I kind of wanted to fall in their footsteps always and uh uh kind of take that over. So you know that's uh, we're starting to do that a little bit. We've we've bought our first heart of cattle and we're we're getting back into it.

00:26:35
Speaker 5: So and surely now you're your farm's in Grayson County.

00:26:39
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we uh about two hours west of Lexington, and uh we we raised cattle there. My dad used to raise a bunch of pigs and cattle. Uh my great granddad used to have an orchard down there and uh raised a lot of apple, pear, peach and everything. And uh but now we're we're just doing uh freezer beef until I'm done playing. So anybody who wants a half hole of beat, we raise it. We'll sell it to you, good quality Kentucky may Kentucky butcher product, like the shout out.

00:27:10
Speaker 7: And I also loved just NFL players just farming in the in the off season.

00:27:14
Speaker 5: Farms, happy year places football half a year.

00:27:16
Speaker 7: You're a veteran New Orleans now, But when you first got there, after your your nice career here at Kentucky, you're on that offensive line. What was your kind of wake up moment? Was there a defensive lineman you faced that was just a freak of nature, or was there a moment in camp where or anything where you really said, oh, yeah, this is this is the league.

00:27:36
Speaker 9: I will say because obviously I wasn't a Day one starter, but I was always on special teams starting off the season, and uh so my kind of welcome to the NFL moment was one of I think It was my first or second game. We played Tampa Bay and I was on field goal, playing right guard, right next to the snapper, and I had VDA Bay and a Domicus who lined up against me. And I was like, wow, that is a large mass of human right across from me. And I was sitting there and I was like, you know, maybe this isn't for me.

00:28:11
Speaker 7: We'll see after this play.

00:28:13
Speaker 9: And I did all right, But yeah, those two guys they called a V technique on their side of the ball against me on that field goal. I was like, man, this is different. And just from that, I didn't even have to play an actual snap offense. I just those guys lined against me. And I was like, yeah, here, it is welcome now.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: When you were here, you and Drake and these guys kind of set the foundation for the Big Blue Wall. Kentucky kind of came known for the Big Blue Wall. Came olne you the last couple of years, that's kind of been maybe an achilles heel of the football program.

00:28:48
Speaker 5: You watching from.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: Afar doing what you did when you were here to help establish that tradition of the Big Blue Wall. What's been the problem and how can they fix it?

00:28:57
Speaker 6: You know?

00:28:58
Speaker 9: I think a lot of it's just it's unity. It's got coming back to it. And you remember all those guys when we were here, between Drake Logan, DK, even Nick Haynes, Col Moser, all those guys, we were all super close. And you know, some of these guys may be close, but it wasn't a whole unit closeness like we had back then. And that's the number one thing that's going to make your O line work well together is having unity outside of the field. And I've been able to spend a little bit of time with these guys, and you know, it's a whole different different thing in college football mouth. You know, now the nil's come out now that all these coaches changes and everything like that. But Slarman did a really really good job of, you know, instilling that unity between all of us and saying, no matter what happens, whether you fail, whether you lose a block, everyone's gonna lose a block, go out there with the mindset that you're better than the person across from you. And that's what made us really good. So we didn't care about losing, We didn't care about this, that or the other. We were going out there and we knew that whether we lost one rep, two reps, five reps, we were still better than that person across from us. And you know, we lived with that pride and that pride for the university, for the state, for our families, and you know, some of its ebbs and flows of players and recruiting. But I definitely I've been able to spend a little big time with these guys this last offseason and hopefully we're we're starting to turn turn it around and get that unity back between the offensive line.

00:30:26
Speaker 7: Offensive lineman that's not a position where you see they're the star of the team very often. So your group was very unique in that Kentucky was branded around you guys and being the big blue wall, and other teams knew if you were playing Kentucky you were having to deal with that offensive line. You mentioned being proud. Was there just an extra sense of pride knowing that, like the offensive lines kind of were the stars of those teams and that the success or even the failures, that all kind of fell on you all a little more than it hasn't in most programs and most cultures.

00:30:56
Speaker 9: One hundred percent. And that's what we signed up for. You know, we wanted to make being an old lineman look fun, and it is fun. You know when you sit in those meeting rooms with us, like, we have a blast. We joke around and I always say that every single level you go to, it's different people. It's a same people, different faces, and those are the good offensive line rooms when you can still joke around, you can have fun and make being an old lineman fun. That's what we signed up for at the end of the day, is to be the be the get no congratulations on whatever, and take all the blame at the end of the day. And we got to be okay with that. But you know, when we started being you know, embracing that role at the UK and we were just out there having fun, you know, having competitions between each other and everything like that, you obviously saw the what happened in turn. You know, we we went out there and we won games, and we rushed for a lot of yards and we got to know be known as you know, a really good offensive line that a lot of teams didn't really want to go against.

00:31:55
Speaker 6: And so.

00:31:58
Speaker 9: It was just it was a blast playing and like I said, it's that pride that kind of carried us through those years at UK.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Well man, I appreciate you taking some time off your tractor to come and talk to us a little bit. It's some beef, I asked him. I said, what you been doing this summer farming? I've been doing farming, you know, to get ready. Of course, your athletic career didn't start a piccadom. They started with the South Lexington Legends eight year old All Star team. He was my first baseman. Looked me right in the eye. He's eight years old. He's looked me right in the eye. And Landing, we're so proud of you. The city of Lexton's proud of you. Lafayett High School's proud of you. Jesse Clark Middle School's proud of you. UK's proud of you. You guys set the tradition that we still li is today. Everybody still talks about the big Blue Wall and really happy to hear you're doing well and your dad, now your kids, and just really proud of them.

00:32:40
Speaker 5: The man you've become.

00:32:42
Speaker 9: I appreciate it, and I appreciate you'll have me on the show all.

00:32:44
Speaker 4: Right, Landing, young ladies, gentle Wan, the pride of Lexton, you know, lexington't went for years and years and years and didn't produce an NFL player. And now in the last couple of years they got Landing, Young Jed Willis, Devin Key, Lucky Jackson, all about the same age, all at once. And Landing was kind of the leader of all those guys.

00:33:03
Speaker 7: Had a Damien Harris in there, Damien Harris, Dane Key next year. I think so nice little Kentucky pipeline. I like that he lined up against uh Dominic and Sue and considered selling beef full time. While his hands in the dirt, He's looking at Sue, but his brain is going, maybe I should farm.

00:33:19
Speaker 4: Maybe Farmer's not a bad option after all. All right, we'll take our break, come back, we will. We will go to the phone line. Whop up the phone lines right now, eight five nine two, eight oh two to eight seven. It's eight five nine towheitto catch Ryan Drew and Shannon and were right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio, Ryan Drew and Shannon here. We're in studio today. And I love that whole group. Landing, Young Cash, Daniel, Drake Jackson, those three Kentucky kids, they just brought a work ethic and a blue collar attitude to the team.

00:33:45
Speaker 5: It's kind of been missing the last couple of years.

00:33:47
Speaker 7: I feel like, yeah, and it's just we all know, it's just a little different when they're one of us out there. And that recruiting colass was special. Kentucky had a lot of good contributors from the state in that.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: Era eight five nine two o two two eight seven. Case he's been holding for a while. So how are you, Casey?

00:34:03
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning fellas. So I was wondering if you guys had watched The Spies because Shane Gillis I thought killed it, and there was a lot of mixed reaction on Twitter. But I wanted to see he picked at a couple of arkentechy guys. He kind of poked at Carl and poked at s g a a little bit. I thought he was funny. So I just wanted to see what you guys thought. And I hope you guys have a great weekend.

00:34:24
Speaker 5: Go care, Thanks, Thanks, Casey had a good weekend.

00:34:26
Speaker 4: Also, Yeah, Drew brought this up during one of the commercial breaks, told us one of the jokes, you can say that joke.

00:34:30
Speaker 7: Did you hear to answer a question. I really enjoyed it. It was very awkward. Without being there, you can't tell how like bad they're bombing or forgetting applause, So it's hard to really tell if it was as awkward as it felt on TV. But he had some He had some jokes that every setting you're kind of whoa surprise? He said that one on in Disney Network.

00:34:50
Speaker 5: Here, Uh what saying about Carl?

00:34:53
Speaker 7: Oh no, don't let me pick on Carl. He said, Carl Towns is here, Hey girl, Sorry Carl? Uh that you know that became a Carl trend there through the playoffs a little bit says to Carl. He said, he gave a shout out to Shay and said everyone sitting around him in foul trouble. He did do the Norm McDonald oj joke that was very controversial at the Spies in the mid nineties. He brought it back at the end as he was walking off, he said, I have one more joke, and he did it, which I loved as a NORM guy. That one. All the Norm fans appreciated that one because it was a nod to him.

00:35:28
Speaker 5: Say, that's what it was a nod to Norm McDonald's so.

00:35:30
Speaker 7: He brought that one back. That's a famous Espie moment, the one I told Ryan during the break that I'll repeat here on the show. It's so stupid. It's the most childish of the jokes he made. But he was talking about, uh, show hey a Tani and how he has a bookie and then he said, a bookie that's what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. I enjoyed that one, but.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: Uh, it's very were they there was Bill and his.

00:35:54
Speaker 7: I they didn't show them that most people he talked about, they showed they were there. Yeah, and a lot of uncomfortable face is Yeah, it was one of those I like uncomfortable comedies. So I enjoyed it. It was even being at home watching it, like, oh, my goodness, is this he has to feel so awkward up there because it didn't feel like he was getting laughs and he was pushing the envelope a little bit. Even would apologize for one after he said it, But overall I enjoyed it.

00:36:16
Speaker 5: Is it up there when Norm McDonald did it and then no, nothing really.

00:36:19
Speaker 7: Know, but it is that Casey said, you either loved it or you hated it. A lot of people absolutely hated it, and some people kind of enjoy that kind of humor and the kind of the tension in the room.

00:36:30
Speaker 4: While we're talking about TV shows, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert is getting canceled and starting next May may have.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty six.

00:36:38
Speaker 4: I gotta admit I've probably seen that show two times, maybe three. I just didn't care for it. Do either one of you guys watch it? Is that something that's gonna bother you?

00:36:48
Speaker 3: God to watch it? And I was like, this is terrible. Who is watching this? And so will? I won't miss him at all personally.

00:36:54
Speaker 7: So I used to not even regularly, but I would semi frequently only watch guess it's called the Colbert Rapport on Comedy Central. Yeah, back in like college. I since he moved to CBS, has it even CBBS?

00:37:10
Speaker 5: I believe.

00:37:10
Speaker 7: I don't know that. I've seen it twice and he did that with a decade more.

00:37:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's been on forever, and I was a pretty.

00:37:16
Speaker 7: Frequent Letterman watcher. I just I don't know if it's that style of TV or him, I don't know what, but I did not follow him.

00:37:25
Speaker 2: It was like a big political rant. I'm like, this guy He's just obnoxious, so I could. I had to turn it off every time I try to watch any of it.

00:37:32
Speaker 7: Do those shows even work anymore?

00:37:34
Speaker 5: I just get ready to say that. I know Jimmy Fallon right ses Seth Meyers still do his show. I have no idea.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: I mean Jimmy Kimmell, Yeah, Kimbell definitely does.

00:37:43
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:37:44
Speaker 7: It seems since they're not replacing it, maybe CBS recognizes that that model sucks.

00:37:49
Speaker 5: Boy, it used to work. That was the hit.

00:37:50
Speaker 6: Oh.

00:37:50
Speaker 7: I used to be in the Letterman Lenno Battles after.

00:37:53
Speaker 4: The after the local news at Evansville. We game on at ten o'clock, so it started at ten thirty. Yeah, Johnny Carson or Jay Lennel and then David Letterman right after that.

00:38:01
Speaker 5: Everybody watched that every every night.

00:38:03
Speaker 2: Some of these guys they put on it like one thirty in the morning. I'm going to who was watching this? Remember Carson Daily used to have a show It started at like two o'clock in the morning, and it was like thirty minutes. Like, really, they're gonna put They're gonna have a show on and it's only on for thirty minutes.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: I think he was watching that I think Carson Daily is one of the most operated people I've ever seen in my life.

00:38:21
Speaker 7: You weren't trioga.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Dry, no, no personality, not charismatic because I think my little Carson Daily way.

00:38:29
Speaker 3: I feel about Drew Carey hosting The Right.

00:38:32
Speaker 7: Do we need to add Carson Daly to Ryan's list?

00:38:35
Speaker 5: I think we do that felt personal.

00:38:37
Speaker 9: Well.

00:38:38
Speaker 5: I just always felt like, man, how's this guy doing on?

00:38:40
Speaker 7: What do you watch them on?

00:38:41
Speaker 6: It?

00:38:41
Speaker 7: I don't even know where I would consume Carson Daily.

00:38:43
Speaker 4: He's on the Today's Show, I think on the Day Show now he used to do the voice, all the MTV stuff he used to do.

00:38:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just used to watch him after school counting down for my favorite music videos. Haven't kept up with them much since these late night shows though. They only get like one good segment anyway, and then it's on social media in the morning that I think that's what's really killing them.

00:39:03
Speaker 5: Recap seven, Who's next?

00:39:05
Speaker 2: Syeing Marcia, Marcia, go ahead, Marcia, Good morning everyone.

00:39:13
Speaker 10: I have two things.

00:39:14
Speaker 6: Two things.

00:39:15
Speaker 10: First, I want to wish happy anniversary to Robert and Misty English four years.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: Nice mister.

00:39:24
Speaker 6: We'll see them, Yes, we'll see them tonight. At the TVT game, and I have something to say about the TVT.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: Go ahead.

00:39:33
Speaker 10: My favorite thing in the world is seeing former players, Okay play. I love seeing our former players. However, if most of the games you see them, like at that Tates Clear game the other night, they're just out there having a good time. Do you want to see defense and rebound, You're gonna be frustrated. See I get frustrated. Kendall was fussing at me at that game the other night.

00:39:59
Speaker 6: Mama, I'm down because I want to see defense. When you go to them TBT games, it's for real, they playing and you're seeing. I'm getting two things at once. I'm seeing former players and they playing, and I'm so excited. I can't wait for tonight. And even though Old beating Louisville was the cream, I just seen Louisville lose and don't have to look at they spitting the ugly faces.

00:40:28
Speaker 5: Larcia.

00:40:29
Speaker 4: If there's anybody who wants to who's excited about it, you're you were a girl. I knew it was going to be there tonight supporting the team. You were there every game last year, so enjoyed a in tonight.

00:40:39
Speaker 6: I sure will love you guys love you mars.

00:40:41
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: And happy thing that Willie was talking about, they're going to be locked down defensively, you know he's talking about that on the show yesterday.

00:40:47
Speaker 4: Well even Andrew Harrison said that something about, you know, the defense are gonna play. So maybe, uh, maybe Sean Woods is trying to change the focus of.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: The team a little bit, even though it's a TBT tournament.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: My biggest takeaway from that was Willie saying that he doesn't even pick up a basketball until he goes out there, Like you think that these guys are probably practicing somewhere and they're just like, I guess they had that scrimmage or I can't say scrimmage, they had that get together. But you know, he's like, he doesn't even touch a basketball, he said.

00:41:12
Speaker 5: He said he didn't even own.

00:41:13
Speaker 7: A basketball, just like riding a bike. That's what he said.

00:41:16
Speaker 4: Okay, people think he was on the golf course yesterday when he called us, and you know.

00:41:21
Speaker 7: I did hear him mower.

00:41:22
Speaker 5: We thought of golf cart, golf cart.

00:41:24
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, playing it back in my head, that was definitely a golf.

00:41:26
Speaker 4: Golf Yeah, I agree, he was playing golf it was supposedly meeting with somebody.

00:41:31
Speaker 7: Well, you can't play by yourself, that's no fun. So he met someone at the golf course.

00:41:34
Speaker 4: But I was glad to believe it was meeting like a recruit or a current player, or so maybe he's playing golf with somebody.

00:41:40
Speaker 7: Yesterday, I think you're you're realizing in this moment that you got played.

00:41:43
Speaker 5: I didn't get played.

00:41:44
Speaker 7: He had to get his eighteen holes in for thirty six. Actually, I think yesterday he confessed to multiple rounds a day.

00:41:51
Speaker 5: Well, that's what he was doing.

00:41:52
Speaker 3: That's what that sound was.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: That sound was him and the golf course.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Clubs were rattling around in the bag yep.

00:41:57
Speaker 7: And at one moment I heard a mower, but then the motor said on it different. So he was by a lawnmower on the course. Then fired up his golf cart.

00:42:04
Speaker 5: We got it. We're on look at this, he told reporters. All right, well take our break. We come back.

00:42:10
Speaker 4: The least toughest man in all of EA college football sports video game, Aiden Larros, Kentucky's punter, joins us we come back.

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