2025-07-02- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: It is number two.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio eight five' nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four Here at High Bramble Park in Versales. Opah's Ice House is here with meat market. They got some food they're cooking up you can get here. That'll be available as well. I think it's available now, but when the show is over all kinds of folks here celebrating twelve thirty on Saturday is the opening as part of the uh Kentucky Proud series of races, and this is the Woodford leg of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Opah's Ice House is gonna have a permanent restaurant here on the facility. That's how much this place is gonna grow and blossom over the eat in the next couple of months.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. One eight FI.

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Speaker 3: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. I have a Louisville fan. Nick Coffee says to me, Somato, Samuel's probably the best Louisville freshman. If so, then I would say the brown kid has a chance to be better. But we're still gonna beat them in the Young Center. I don't care what any of them say. We I had Louisville fans crowing at me yesterday. They were very upset because I said I didn't know any of the Louisville players. So I'll ask you, Ryan, you are a basketball savant, do you know any of the Louisville players?

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Speaker 2: Next year?

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Speaker 1: You got the kids come into the freshman named Brown.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we just talked about him. What about the what about the rest of the roster.

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Speaker 1: I'm uh, I'm gonna need need some time to go to the website probably and look those guys up.

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Speaker 3: They got the kid what's the kid's name that had the blonde DoD hair that got hurt during the tournament prior, so he's good.

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Speaker 2: I think the kid from Byu what was his name?

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Speaker 3: He didn't play last year, Khalifa, he played for Pope, and then besides him, I can't name another player.

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Speaker 2: Nope.

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Speaker 3: I mean doesn't mean they won't be good, but I think one of their kids came from Virginia. Maybe did they have a person transfer from Virginia?

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Speaker 1: Somebody shaking there.

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Speaker 3: Somebody says he asked, Yeah, that's the only other one I would know, and I don't know his name.

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Speaker 2: So it's no offense. They're projected top ten.

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Speaker 3: I believe they're gonna be good, but I think Louisville fans live in a deluded world where they think anyone outside of their fan base cares like no one in that no one cares about Louisville outside of the Cardinal Felt fan base nationally. Nobody cares locally. We only care to like beat you and make fun of you.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not exactly sure why why they would be surprised.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't know the players, and by the way, the whole Well, Matt, you don't know ball.

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Speaker 2: That's okay.

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Speaker 3: I don't know ball, and I still get to do this and you get to sit at home.

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Speaker 1: They don't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to know your team to know that historically Louisville is not as good as Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: With the transfer portal this time of year, I think fans sometimes don't know the members on their own team, like I don't.

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Speaker 2: Don't.

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Speaker 1: I can't think I could name all the guys on o r UK team. But like a lot of fans this time of year, it's a new team every year.

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Speaker 2: It's a different era.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we got to talk just second because I was off yesterday. Vince Merrows, goodbye, uh Vince Marrow's goodbye, so they it's kind of surprising to me the media can get this. But the media was able to get the text message that Vince Marrow sent to UK about saying he's leaving.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: This is on Thursday. I just want to remind you the timeframe. It had been announced on Monday that he was leaving, but you may remember on Thursday they had not made an official announcement yet. So here's the text message, Mark Hill. That's for people who don't know. Mark Hill is Mitch Barnhardt's number two basically at UK. He writes, Vince, let me know when we can chat about moving on, and then he writes car any devices, keys, et cetera, all the things.

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Speaker 2: Vince then responds K.

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Speaker 3: Good responsky, and then thirty minutes later, Hey Mark, today is my last day UK. Thanks for everything, and then Mark responds thanks, let me know when you want to get your ford ex to my house, which is kind of funny, like these guys all make all this money and they're still like, hey man, will you bring my car back to me?

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Speaker 2: You have UK's car now.

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Speaker 3: I was told by the way that Vince had had given notice to UK before that, but they needed some sort of official document. I guess the official document is that text message?

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Speaker 2: What did you make of that back and forth?

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Speaker 1: I guess they do need to have it in writings in some capacity. So did legal terms? Does a text message count as legal count?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So maybe that covers it right there.

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Speaker 3: So that it was reported that Vince con Vince's contract at Louisville was only eight hundred thousand dollars a year. Remember he was paid one point three million at Kentucky. So yesterday Louisville fans were very much crowing, oh, he came here for a half a million less. Turns out that was also not exactly correct. Football Scoop reported that he's making eight hundred thou from the university, but quote four hundred thousand from another source, which to me sounds like some donor is probably paying vents directly the other four hundred thousand dollars. That's not completely uncommon, but to me, I'm glad the University of Kentucky doesn't do that yet, although I could see us doing it one day, because you do not want to have a donor who basically is funding the position and then has veto power over whether or not you keep or lose the person, but apparently four hundred thousand of it played. And then he has incentives that if they win the acc et cetera, he could make up.

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Speaker 2: To ryan two million dollars.

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Speaker 3: So I can understand if he had incentives to go up to two million dollars, why UK would say we're not doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I can see, you know, the came out that the uh, the contract was comparable at Louisville what he was making at Kentucky. So I believe that what you were saying that it is probably around one point three that at what he was gonna end up getting at Louisville. And if he gets to a point where we have boosters hiring coaches and you're just asking for fire, You're just asking for trouble, it is gonna.

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Speaker 3: It is inevitable in college sports that we're gonna have more public private partnerships. I've told you, I think there's gonna be private entities that invest in in schools that are gonna own a piece of the athletic department.

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Speaker 2: That's inevitable.

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Speaker 3: But I would say this, these schools gotta be real, real careful, really, because when you start making it to where you know, Ryan Lemon is paying for half of my coaches? Am I in charge? Ors Ryan Lemon in charge? At that point?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: Am I the one that gets am I the athletic director? What if what if I hire you know, what if I hire Mario and Mario does something that I think is against the university's values. And I say, we have to get let Mario go. And you say, but I like Mario, He's staying. What's what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 1: He stays where I pull my money in stay.

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Speaker 3: I mean, some of that already occurs, but it's a whole other level when you're actually paying officially the same threw your private funds. I just think that's a good way to really you gotta be careful about that.

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Speaker 2: And this is gonna happen with all schools coming up.

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Speaker 1: It happens, you know, you know, at the high school level. So time I win booster clubs, you know, the booster club president may have a son that he wants to play, so he's gonna donate a lot of money to the program expecting his son to play.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Jesser scored one point at the NBA Celebrity All Star Game, whoa, and you are trying to tell me he's going to score more than ten.

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Speaker 1: Kane Brown is a hell of a defender.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead? Eric.

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, So this may be an unpopular opinion with people over fifty, but I just took two minutes and did a Google Earth search over Kroger Field, Michigan Stadium, Nyland Stadium, and USC and the only stadium with all that concrete for parking is Kentucky. Walk a little bit and have better things around the stadium. Younger people want to see cool stuff and do cool things.

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Speaker 4: They don't just want to just.

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Speaker 5: Sit there and stand in a hot concrete.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you, but here's what I would say to you. First of all, USC has no atmosphere at their games, so they're a bad example. Michigan and Tennessee are good. But the thing about Michigan and Tennessee that they have that we don't, to be fair, is they have parking all over campus. So they don't have park right next to the stadium, but they have places to park in ann Arbor and Knoxville, in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: If you think about it.

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Speaker 3: Outside of that parking lot across the stadium, where is their public parking for.

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Speaker 2: The UK games?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a garage on campus, but you can't. I mean, it's not that big.

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Speaker 2: And then probably the closest is the ks Bar parking lot or the mall.

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Speaker 3: I mean, sir, there's just nowhere to park. Remember the area around UK's campus. Those are neighborhoods or it's the actual campus. There's really nowhere for people to park.

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Speaker 4: I get that.

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Speaker 5: I just wonder can they not erect more parking garages. If they're going to be building other things in that area, they might.

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Speaker 3: But if you want to create an atmosphere, erecting a lot of parking garages ain't gonna exactly make the atmosphere fun.

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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to take a tailgate in.

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Speaker 3: A garage, so you know, I appreciate the cool There's no I mean, there's no easy answer to this, But I tell you what was better when we had grass and we had an environment, and there were places to park, and there were places for people to tailgate.

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Speaker 1: Parking is a one hundred legit concern or not just a football games, but on campus and that area especially. You know, students are parking in that parking lot. Now during at Kroger Field, can take more spaces away, it's gonna make it worse over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, someday when school's going on, just drive on UK's campus and see if you can find.

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Speaker 2: A place to park. Ain't gonna happen, Like it's not, Like it's not happening.

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Speaker 3: So now add seventy thousand people to the city, most of whom are from out of town, and you know there's a reason why caspar we we're what six blocks away, eight blocks away, and that place is full because what because what? What?

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Speaker 2: Else? Where else are people gonna go?

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Speaker 1: And UK hospital keeps expanding out then down on wall or Avenue. They're taking up more of the spaces that people were using for parking. It's a legit concern, more so than the taigating area. The parking may even be a bigger concern.

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Speaker 2: He just brought us some food. This is the Opah's ice house.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward eating this that looks that looks insanely good. But you can't bring it in the middle of a segment when I'm trying to talk and all this food smells that good. Who's next?

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Speaker 1: Bill?

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Speaker 2: Bill? Go ahead, Bill, I can't hear you. I'm on the radio, Opah. Bill, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Matt, just calling in for middlesbrough Man. I just want to say I'm a big fan of you all, and thank you for doing that article about me saying other or not.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, hang on, just a second, Hang on a second.

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Speaker 3: Are you Bill Taylor with the Appalachian Heathens?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, nice, nice?

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Speaker 2: All right? Yeah, man, Well Bill, I didn't know. Well what a surprise.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So wait a minute, why have a lot of stuff I want to ask you can you can you hang on a second and I'll let me take and then all right, just hang on just a second.

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Speaker 2: What a nice surprise?

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Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio quarterback.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio Bill john Is that's Bill. I assume yes, Bill Taylor uh with his band the apple Atchian Heathens. All right, so Bill, I got a couple of quick questions for you. First of all, thank you for calling. Then how did you end up on America's Got Talent?

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you for having me brother. I've been a fan for a long time. So my tedcock man. I started getting a few videos that started seeing quite a few views, and I got a recruiter reach out to me. And at first it was just like, you know, if you'd be interested, do you want to go to Hollywood? I said, yeah, it'd be awesome. I didn't think nothing of it. And about two weeks later she said, well, I thought to my producers, would you like to go to Hollywood. I was like that, yeah, yeah, I'll come.

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Speaker 3: So then they bring you and your band to Hollywood. How long have you guys been playing?

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Speaker 4: We've been playing together for about it's coming up on about three years now.

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Speaker 2: Three years. And you did you all grow up in Middlesbrough?

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Speaker 4: No, just me and my drummer Joe Cox.

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Speaker 2: So where'd you go to high school?

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Speaker 5: Bill?

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Speaker 2: Are you Middlesboro, Bell County or Pineville?

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Speaker 4: That's a little loaded question, ma'am. We went over My dad was a rufer and we moved around a lot, but I ended up at Bell Canny my sophomore year and ended up graduating there.

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Speaker 3: All right, I might act like you went to Middlesborough for the Hey Joe did all right? Well good, I'm glad Joe went there. You got a bob cat and a jacket. All right, So you go out there, right before you walk on stage. How nervous are you?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I shake him, I leave on the tree. Brother.

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Speaker 3: I bet you were, because you know, Simon call can can be a harsh critic. You got out there, You're going at first a cappella. Were you worried at all about hitting that note?

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Speaker 4: Not really, ma'am. Once I get to the part of where I'm saying, I'm just closed my eus and I just kind of just zone out, and uh, you know that's what happened there. And as soon as I heard the cab start reacting, I just got in my comfort zone. And if you know, we did what we always do. We just performed.

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Speaker 3: So could you tell that you had killed it? Like when it was over, did you think, Okay, I'm we're getting yess.

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Speaker 4: I feel like it. I mean, you know, Simon was on his feet applaud and so I was like, okay, yeah we did pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well if you get him, okay, so when is the next round?

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Speaker 4: So I don't know the exact date, but I know lives are in August September. I've been talking to a an alumni that was on there two years ago, and he told me that I would probably know something in July, sometime this month. Uh, I mean it's but once I know, everybody's gonna know, I promise you.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you better tell me because I'm I'm definitely gonna be uh trying to get everybody on board. Do you know what your next song is gonna be? You didn't knock it on Heaven's door?

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 4: Are you?

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking for the next one?

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Speaker 4: I don't know at the moment. Man, Well, we'll just have to see what they what they It's up to them just as much as it is to me. We're thinking about original, but I can't say which one it is.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well that's all right now. You're also if you tell me this right, aren't you playing Saturday night in Lexington?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I'm playing at the Borough with Clarks Exton and Jonathan Cox seven pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, so that's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: So you're at the Borough Saturday night, seven o'clock I actually may try to stop by there see some Bell County folks. So you got this group, you go to the next thing. What is the ultimate prize? I haven't watched AGT in a while, Like, what do you win?

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Speaker 4: If you win it, I'm it, So you win a million dollars and uh, you know I I slit from it with my band members and stuff. But the biggest thing I want from it, man, is to start a career to where all I'm ever having the day was play music. That's what I want.

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Speaker 2: Well, I want that for you.

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Speaker 3: And listen as a fellow Middlesbrough and the moment you went on stage, my phone blew up with people from all over going there's somebody from Middlesborough. There's somebody from Middlesbrough. My mom was like, somebody from Middlesborough. Everybody was insane excited. I hope you feel that in the community. It's kind of crazy.

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Speaker 4: You just had to go right back to work, right yeah, man, And the love online is just beyond what I'd ever anticipated. I thought it might get a million views. Bro, We're almost a ten million, right man.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Good for you, and I know a lot of that is our community.

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Speaker 2: No, it didn't.

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Speaker 3: Listen, the community rallied around it. I'm gonna be pulling for you. Keep in touch with this Bill and good luck on America's got talent.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely Buddy and cast by ninety.

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Speaker 6: There you go.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Bill Taylor with Bill Taylor and the Appalachian. He what a nice surprise. We had talked about him coming on, but I didn't know he was calling today. That's great, You know, it is so cool.

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Speaker 1: There are these people like Bill that are just small town musicians across this state. He's getting his chance to show it on a national stage. You have to love that. You have to be pulling for a guy like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I certainly am.

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Speaker 3: Somebody else that kind of created success for their own got hurt last night?

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Speaker 2: Did you see Red Panda?

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Speaker 1: No, did she get hurt?

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Speaker 3: Red Panda fell at the women's at the WNBA game. Fell and looks like she may have hurt her wrist or something. She had to be kind of helped off the court. How many of you know who Red Panda is?

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Speaker 2: Raise your head? Okay, a lot of people, So Red Panda.

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Speaker 3: She's probably the best halftime show with the best halftime show. She gets on a big tall unicycle and she like juggles plates and she bounces cups on her head and she kicks things out.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, she was just getting started.

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Speaker 3: She really was just starting to go, and it just I don't know if something broke or whatever, but she just fell wow, and she ended up getting hurt. Myron was telling me on the show last night she works three hundred and ten days a year at sporting events, and I mean, hopefully she's not out too long.

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Speaker 2: Her doctor's gonna have to step up.

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Speaker 1: Most of us have seen her perform a dozen times and you can't take her eyes off her man, and she does that last move perfect every I don't know how, she's just take it.

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Speaker 3: Every she'll put like a cup on her foot, yep, she'll have cups on her head and she'll take she's she's pedaling with one foot and the other foot she kicks the cups in the hair up in the air and they flip up and then they land on top of her cups on her head.

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Speaker 1: It's an amazing while she's balancing on a unicycle that's uh, the expanded version of a unicycle. She's just been. I think she's been to the UK she has, Yes she has.

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Speaker 3: I think she's been the UK Games, Yes she's. We've seen her at a number of Deaths. Sorry, spent the SEC Tournament a couple of times. She's the best.

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Speaker 1: She is the absolutely their.

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Speaker 2: Other favorite halftime type shows.

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Speaker 1: I like the dogs that catch the frisbees and jump off the guy's back and run around to all of his body. I like that guy. I like the Firecracker jump rope girls though it was probably one of my favorite ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are good.

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Speaker 3: What about like the contortionists? Do you like the people that do contortion things?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Because I can't do any of that.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I like, uh, there's the guy. I don't think he's been a ruppery, but a guy that does, Simon says, And you think it sounds like Simon says, I know you think it doesn't gonna be very good. It's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: I can't be good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it doesn't sound good, but it is hilarious. I also like the.

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Speaker 3: Guy that does the painting in like a minute. You ever seen that? Yeah, like he'll paint. I think he's Drew's friend.

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Speaker 1: Well, Aaron Kaiger is the guy that paints and he paints upside down, and then he'll yeah, he.

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Speaker 3: Paints upside down, and then he'll flip it over. But then there's like he's one of them, and then there's another one that'll paint like a masterpiece in like thirty like a minute.

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Speaker 1: How about the slam dunk guys that bounce off the trampolines.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little over that now, the slam dunk, because like we've seen all that. I think I like the creative ones. I used to do a halftime show. I used to be like that one until I got fired. Yeah, once you make Katina Pale jokes in front of little children, it's a good way to get fired. Unfortunately, I still think they should bring you back.

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Speaker 2: Who's next? Doing great? Doing great?

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Matt, I'm doing great. I hope you're as doing well. I got a good, good question for you, ready, yes, all right. So let's say you have a significant amount of money online. I don't know what that is relative to you.

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Speaker 4: One dollar, ten.

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Speaker 6: Dollars, one thousand dollars, dollars, million dollars, whoever. That is if you had to bet a significant all right, well, if you had to bet a relatively significant amount of money, on UK football, either going under two and a half wins or over six and a half wins if your life was on the line, if you had a significant line, Yes, either under two and a half wins or over six and a half win is your only choice?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what would you have?

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Speaker 3: Those are my two choices, then I'm going under. Well, if those are my only two choices, I mean, I you know, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Think either of those results are likely.

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Speaker 3: Now, if you said to me under two and a half or over five and a half.

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Speaker 2: I'd take the over.

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Speaker 3: But if you're getting over six and a half, trying to find seven wins on this schedule is really really hard to me. You're shaking your head. Do you disagree with me? I don't know how you get to seven? I mean, if we do, then I'm gonna be so happy. You could have the money, but you can give no because I have to heartbreak. I'm sorry it cuts off everybody, including mart Pope. We'll take a break here back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio here at High Bramble Park in Woodford County, part of the Kentucky Office a Highway Safety KSR. Safe Summer Driving tour. This segment is sponsored by Club Blue, the official andile fundraising partner of the University of Kentucky, and Bespoken Spirits. They just started an ultra premium Club Blue Bourbon Club Blue whiskey UH Chalk clucks in at over eight years old. UH comes packaged in a handcrafted wooden box and it's a collector's item for Club Blue. It's blue and white, it's a basketball bottle and it's sharp. Grab yours now at Club blueil dot com or at Liquor Barn. Portion of the proceeds go to UK Athletics and it is a cool They've made the bottle really neat and it's the UK basketball Club Blue Bourbon ryde.

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Speaker 1: They do great things when you were in the Kentucky athletes. We should support them as much as we can because there are vital to what we're trying to do at Kentucky.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: With that all right, before I go to the phones, we want to tell you quick thing. Saturday, when I was in I was in Philadelphia. I went and saw the Club World Cup. Two Brazilian teams played soccer against each other.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: Okay, it was part of this tournament.

00:24:31
Speaker 3: It was Paul Maris and Bota Bota Foga or Bota Fogo, something like.

00:24:38
Speaker 2: That point being.

00:24:39
Speaker 3: One of them were green and the other one wore black and white. And it was approximately one hundred and fifty five degrees in Philadelphia at that stadium during the game.

00:24:49
Speaker 2: It was noon, there was no shade, the sun was going down.

00:24:54
Speaker 3: I got tickets and I went because I just wanted to see the environment. I'm just telling you, if you get a chance in your life, whether you like soccer or not, you have to find a way to go to environments like this. Okay, this is two Brazilian teams playing in America, but there's probably forty thousand people there, probably ninety five percent of them are Brazilian. I gotta give Brazilian people credit. They know how to do sports in a way that like, we can't handle this game. At the end of regulation, the score was zero zero, so not a whole lot happened, but it was the most fun.

00:25:34
Speaker 4: Right.

00:25:34
Speaker 3: When I say they sing and dance the whole game, I mean they sing and dance the whole game, not.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: Part of the game, the whole game.

00:25:43
Speaker 3: Paul Marris had more people, so they had this song and I can't do it, but it was like da da da da da da da da, and like and it would. They would do it for twenty seconds, pause and start it over, and then pause and start it over. And they did it over and over. That would sound monotonous, but it wasn't because everyone in the crowd, literally everyone danced the whole time. Sitting right in front of me was a mother, a father, and two like ten year old kids. I watched the four of them dance the entire game. They never stopped, They swayed to the beat. They did that Brazilian what do you call the dance? The Brazilian dance.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: The Brazilian dance rumba? Is that a thing?

00:26:30
Speaker 3: I don't know, point being, it was like to a certain beat. Their hips, they kind of would whatever, and they all seemed to know it. And I had the most fun. Next thing, you know, I was up dancing Ryan and I'm not even a bread but I learned the thing and I walked away, bought up Paul Mayris hoodie, and I had the best time.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: So I would really encourage if you get a chance to go to something like that. The World Cup is here next year.

00:26:56
Speaker 3: If one of the countries that has a cool you know, fan base comes, save your money and go.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: I think it'll be.

00:27:01
Speaker 1: As we think. We do it right here in the United States. We ain't close. They take it to a different level the international soccer scene.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Take the best student sections in America, all right, So take Penn State football during a wide out, Take Duke basketball, take Kansas, take whatever you want. Take them at their best, and then imagine doing it the entire game and never stop them.

00:27:26
Speaker 2: That's what they are like. And it was a lot of fun.

00:27:28
Speaker 1: It's crazy you had two Brazilian teas playing in Philadelphia.

00:27:32
Speaker 2: It just happened to draw it.

00:27:33
Speaker 3: And I don't know if the people were Brazilian that lived in America or people that came from Brazil, but either way, it was a lot of fun.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: Who's next, Andrew? Andrew? Go ahead, Andrew, Yes.

00:27:44
Speaker 7: I got a football point in a basketball question. I think if Wildcats don't reach six wins this season, I hope it's a great season, then we should try to get John Summer all of the or Deion Sanders, Well, we're not basketball and basketball. Who you think will have a better season, Jalen Lowe or Boogie Flann. Thanks you'all have a great day.

00:28:07
Speaker 2: On the first thing.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not the first person to talk say that about John Summer All. That's been something a lot of people have said. It'll just depend on what happens with Mark. I think Jalen low has a better year. I think Boogie Flann will be. It's gonna be tough for cow because think Boogie Flann's gonna be better at Florida than he was at Arkansas. And that'll be like a wise, he's so much better at Florida than he was at Arkansas. But I think Jalen Lowe, Boogie Flann's a better NBA prospect. Jalen Lowe will be a better college player next year in my opinion.

00:28:38
Speaker 1: Well, you've said it a million times. He has to be good for the Kentucky basketball team to be good next year. But Boogie Flann, I'm with you. I think he'll probably flourish at Florida. You know, he got hurt, missed a lot of time in Arkansas. I was kind of impressed when he came back and played for Arkansas. You know, he kind of fit. It was all right, he did all right.

00:28:53
Speaker 3: I'm cash, I'm like buying all the Jalen Lowe stock.

00:28:58
Speaker 2: I can't like everybody.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: Anybody that doesn't believe in Jalen Lowe sell it to me.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: I've talked with Mark Pope about him quite a bit. I've heard people talk about what he does in practice. The stat where Mark Pope won me over on Jalen Lowe was he said Jalen Lowe was one of the worst players in the country at taking tough shots. He was in the bottom five percent. And Mark Pope said, some people look at that and say, well, you don't want that guy.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: He takes bad shots.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: He was like, what I look at is if we can get him in a system where he doesn't have to take bad shots, then how efficient he is, because he said he was in the top five percent in America when.

00:29:42
Speaker 2: He took good shots.

00:29:43
Speaker 3: So he said, my job as a coach is just to make him take good shots instead of bad shots. And he said the first thing I looked at was is this a good kid? Does he want to win? Is he selfish?

00:29:55
Speaker 2: And when the answers to those were what I liked.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: He said, I think I'm a good enough coach to make him take good bos shots instead of bad shots.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: When I heard that, I was like, I'm all in.

00:30:03
Speaker 1: Yeh, I me Jyalen Low didn't he say something like, you know, a lot of his bad shots were late in the shot clock. They were so poor offensively he had to force up a shot late in the shot clock. And that's why he.

00:30:13
Speaker 3: Said, when Jalen Low takes bad shots, he takes the worst shots imaginable. But when he takes good shots, he makes them at an amazing rate. And so when I heard that, I'm in, and uh, let's just hope he takes good shots. Who's next, Cindy, Cindy, go ahead, Cindy.

00:30:32
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, and thanks for taking my call. First off, I wanted to express my concern over Red Panda, but you've already covered that and hopefully she'll recover in time for basketball. The second point I want to make, or second questions is this past weekend, there was a golf tournament here in western Kentucky. The winners scored twenty one under in the first flight. There was a group that, based on my observation of the scoring, did not sand bag. They shot twenty two under, but they were not declared the winner because of the flight they were in and I just thoughts about that, and I'll hang up and listen.

00:31:18
Speaker 3: I think when you choose Okay, interesting question, not one I thought i'd give. When you choose a flight, that's the one you're in.

00:31:25
Speaker 1: Yep.

00:31:25
Speaker 3: So if you end up choosing a flight lower, sounds like to me they might have been sandbagging a team shooting twenty two under, not in the championship flight.

00:31:33
Speaker 2: But that's the one you pick. That's the one you're in.

00:31:36
Speaker 3: You can't cross flight or else why even have flights to begin with?

00:31:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a twenty two under in the lower flight, you win that flight. That's what you chose to play in that flight. If you want to play with the big boys, the championship flight, then you maybe could have won that one. But whoever shot the twenty one under that one wins that championship flight.

00:31:52
Speaker 3: I'm gonna preach for thirty seconds and then I'll shut up and we'll have a good final segment. I'm gonna do a podcast maybe with Billy tomorrow. If not, we'll do it first to next week about all the various health care stuff. But this weekend there's a very important vote in Congress about healthcare that will affect this state in ways people don't even realize. If you live in a small town and you have a hospital, you need to pay attention to what happens this weekend because we have state representatives in our state who we rely on rural hospitals as much as any state in the country, and we have representatives in our state who are about to vote for something that will have small town hospitals close all across this state. And they know it and they're doing it anyway. So Brett Guthrie, Jamie Comer, How Rogers, and Andy Barr, the four of you are making the decision this weekend. You guys are gonna decide this weekend whether or not there's gonna be poor people who voted for Donald Trump all over the state that you're gonna take health care from. Andy Barr, Jamie Comer, Brett Guthrie, and Hal Rogers. It's the four of you. You know what you should do, and we'll find out this weekend. If you do it, we'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. What a bag it is Kentucky Sports Radio. I do like that song now Gonna lie to you that's become like that's become like the Maga anthem, But I'll still sing it because I think it is an awesome song song I do like Toby Keith.

00:33:29
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00:33:30
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00:34:04
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00:34:07
Speaker 3: Tomorrow we are off, but we will be replaying the KSR the day after we beat Oklahoma and the SEC Tournament the O Way game, so you'll get to hear that energy and then Friday, on the fourth, we're playing the game the KSR the day after we beat Illinois and the NCAA tournament, So you can celebrate two of the most exciting wins of the year tomorrow with what we did exactly the day after, and later on this summer, we've gone back. I have found the show we did after the twenty twelve National Championship where Drew and I were had stayed up all night and we're sitting in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans, laying on the floor because we've been kicked out of our room.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: We found that show and we will play that later on this summer.

00:34:57
Speaker 1: I love that show, that post game that night after the one, and then the show the next morning, or two of my favorite castAR shows ever, I UH do.

00:35:04
Speaker 3: Also, because a couple of people asked, I didn't mention everybody. The only reason I didn't mention Thomas Massey and Morgan McGarvey is they've already said they're gonna vote no. Big shout out to Thomas Massey UH for, even though he and I disagree, for having UH principles on things.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Derek, Derek, go ahead, Derek.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: Hi, what's up? By a shout out to dull boy down in Aligator Alfatrians down there?

00:35:29
Speaker 3: Hi.

00:35:29
Speaker 4: But quick question, if some ofer all came back, would he bring Neil Brown as I'll.

00:35:36
Speaker 2: See, no Neil Brown. Where is Neil Brown right now?

00:35:40
Speaker 1: He's out of coaching? You know you gotta let go at West Virginia. I think he's still out of Hell.

00:35:43
Speaker 3: I say no, I mean I I think that's unlikely, but I you know, I guess you could.

00:35:49
Speaker 2: You can't ever say say certain.

00:35:51
Speaker 3: My guess is, if I'm Neil Brown, he's gonna end up going to some power program and being the offensive coordinator. I would think that his next step is you go to a top ten or fifteen program that needs a OC and he's the OC. That's that's my guess. I don't know that for sure, but that would be my guess. Now, could it be Kentucky? I mean I guess I said no. Maybe I shouldn't say no as quickly. I guess it's plausible.

00:36:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk yourself into it. I was getting ready to say, well, Kentucky is in the SEC, the best football conference.

00:36:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean OC shut reaction was no, he wouldn't do that, but I guess it all depends on what options he would have.

00:36:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he's from here, played at Boyle County, played at UK, coached here at UK. That John Summerll thing is not gonna go away. It's gonna have legs as long as Kentucky struggles and they have success down there.

00:36:36
Speaker 3: Well, he's also turned down. He's also turned down other jobs that people would think maybe he would take, which makes people think he would be waiting for the Kentucky job. I don't know if he is, but I think that's probably the what reason people think that.

00:36:51
Speaker 1: And I think you know, he's had great success at Troy, he has success at Tulane. He's gonna get picked up by somebody. So people are in Kentucky fans. Could he struggled, they were gonna Kentucky to go after him.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: What what are you doing for the Fourth of July?

00:37:03
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you asked that because at Well, Indiana, Matt has maybe the greatest Fourth of July celebration ever.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: They had doubt that's true.

00:37:11
Speaker 1: They have demolition derby, they have a truck and tractor pool, they have they have bingo funnel cake bingo.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course it's the greatest Fourth of July ever.

00:37:21
Speaker 1: So I'm toying about going back to the Otwall fourth of July for the first time in like fifteen years. Well, I'm toying.

00:37:28
Speaker 2: You want to do well, you haven't been in a long time.

00:37:30
Speaker 1: That it's been at least fifteen years. So I've been this.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: One of your like eight hometowns.

00:37:33
Speaker 1: Yes, well, Indiana population four hundred. Take my parents there, get a funnel cake and some more.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: You get a funnel cake.

00:37:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'll be a great time.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: Well, good, why, I hope you What are you doing?

00:37:43
Speaker 3: I've always had bad luck on the Fourth of July, so I tend to try to stay to myself.

00:37:49
Speaker 1: Bad luck What do you mean?

00:37:50
Speaker 3: I mean, I've had two girlfriends that I break up on the fourth of July, so like Fourth of July and New Year's Eve have pretty consistently not worked doubt well for me.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: So I try to stay low key on both of those.

00:38:03
Speaker 1: You're living a location extent where you could watch the fireworks.

00:38:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate fireworks. They're they're they're stupid, like you just shoot them. Oh, look there's lights, that's nice, and you know, people shoot them all hours of the night.

00:38:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh, I'll probably fourth of July.

00:38:19
Speaker 3: I like if I had a boat, if I'd like that, but I don't know, and none of my friends they all got rid of their boats.

00:38:26
Speaker 1: So well, don't try to drive through downtown Louisville and thunder over Louisville coming up this weekend. I tried to do that one year and it was just a disaster.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: Thunder over Louisville.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: What they called the fireworks show.

00:38:36
Speaker 2: That's an April. That's in April.

00:38:38
Speaker 1: Oh no, skip that then, Actually you can drive down.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: You don't have to avoid Louisville for thunder over Louisville since it was three months.

00:38:45
Speaker 1: I thought they had some big massive fireworks thing on the fourth of July.

00:38:48
Speaker 2: No, that's that's in April. He's right, who's next? Kentucky Cat? Kentucky Cat? How are you.

00:38:56
Speaker 4: Good? How are you doing good? Might be a or unpopular, I guess opinion. But I'm just no farmer from Burbick County. But I don't know the money dollars and all that. But what would be wrong with UK building on Mitch Martin Artsdial building a new basketball arena out there? By the football field where they could keep all the money from the seating and stuff instead of paying the up arena the rent. And you know, they could take all that money in and then every they can be right there together with the football field, the basketball court, you know, and yeah, stuff like that.

00:39:28
Speaker 3: Nothing would be wrong with it in theory. In practice, do you have the money to pay for a basketball arena? I mean there are two reasons. One would be the money to actually build it. But then the second is, I think there's a good citizen part of it, which is, if you take Rupp Arena out of downtown, are you really kind of screwing downtown Lexington? In terms of downtown Lexington has basically a lot of the city is planned around having arena there. And does that really hurt the city that you that you're in. I think those are the two big issues.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: I mean, he's already talking about, you know, maybe building a hotel and restaurants and stuff, coming up with the money somewhere, you know, to do that. I just thought, maybe they put it all together, it will be a better atmosphere.

00:40:15
Speaker 2: But I think the idea.

00:40:16
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call of you partner with the private business to put a hotel or a restaurant building arena is a whole another set of money, and since they're already raising their cost, I think that'd be difficult for him to do.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: And they just spent millions of dollars renovating Rapperina University, Kentucky has moved a lot of their offices and their media facilities down there to that facility at Raparina. I think that'd be a hard part sell.

00:40:39
Speaker 3: And with that, I mean, I do think that area down there, with that amphitheater and stuff, I mean, I.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Do think that will become more of a too.

00:40:47
Speaker 3: I mean, I do think that's gonna be an area that's gonna be kind of more popular.

00:40:50
Speaker 1: And if you build a basketball arena out there, he's talking about again, you got the parking problem where you're gonna put all these people.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: That's true.

00:40:55
Speaker 3: If you put it arena there, there's gonna really be nowhere for anyone to park. So it's it's kind of a catch twenty two. You want to put stuff out there to make it better, but the more you take, the more difficulties you have with the same problems you have now, who's next, Oh empty, oh empty, that's okay, we only have a minute left. I'm on the radio tonight seven to ten with Myron. We had a lot of fun last night, probably the most I've laughed doing ESPN ever. We're gonna do it again tonight. There ain't nothing to talk about, so you can expect it will be stupid, but will be fun. Then Saturday, right here, Ryan, the kickoff of Harness Racing or harness Racing here in Versaill.

00:41:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, Harness Racing returns back to Woodford County for the first time in like fifty years. It's gonna be right right there on that track right there, so it could be a big day.

00:41:39
Speaker 3: It could very well be a big day. I want to thank you to this crowd. Look what at a great crowd out here, great crowd. Thank you to Opah's Ice House for the food. And now I remember we are off tomorrow and Friday, but we will be back on Monday, and we're gonna have an announcement Monday of something we're gonna be doing in the next few weeks which is gonna be very exciting. We're gonna be doing to travel weekend around the state. Are you ready for it?

00:42:02
Speaker 1: I guess I'm ready for it. Yes, you don't even know what.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: It is, so you better. You better be excited. We will see you later.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: Enjoy your fourth of July, Enjoy your time here at Woodford Co.

00:42:12
Speaker 4: Candy.

00:42:12
Speaker 2: This has been Kentucky Sports Radio