5-23-25 KSR Hour 1

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, May the twenty third. I'm Matt Jones here under the shadow of Chain Rock in downtown Pineville, Kentucky for the Mountain Laurel Festival. Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Through Franklin and Shannon the Dude. It is what Friday, May the twenty third, and a beautiful day here in southeastern Kentucky. You can give it Shallow Clarks pupe chop line eight five nine eighth twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four in this diition sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 2: Smith lawfas if you call TJ. He'll make them pay. Ryan.

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Speaker 5: No, we are in Bell County, which is where I grew up, in the county seat of Pineval, where just two buildings down, I once practiced law at the Jones and Bruce law firm that is now host a subway signed they really are, but before that it was quite a law firm.

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Speaker 2: And we're glad to be here.

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Speaker 5: I think Russ that I think this is our first show in Pinevale. I've done a number of them in Middlesbrough, but I don't think I've ever done a show in Pinevale.

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Speaker 2: First one today.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of fun to watch you walk around. You got a little pepping your step. You're back home, You're shaking hands with people you haven't seen in a long time. And when you told me your law office was right there, right there was that the claw.

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Speaker 5: Wow, the claw was more of a mark. This was this was Jones and Bruce Y Me and Johnny Bruce. We had practice right, we had two affiliates. We had one like most big law firms, we had an office in Louisville and one in Pineville. Those are the two affiliates and uh, yes, we did here for two years. This courthouse right here is where my mom practiced law for when I was growing up.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they use it for now, but right here in the same town.

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Speaker 5: This is true one of the nicer little town squares I think we see in Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, we got here very early.

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Speaker 8: I've been here at least an hour walking around and I was telling uh, right.

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Speaker 7: And the guys.

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Speaker 8: It kind of feels like a movie set. It's just a place where it's all on one spot. You got, you got, where's the mayor?

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Speaker 2: Where's the mayor?

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Speaker 5: All right, well vote him out, but if when he comes, I'm just kidding. Now your shoe all should be trying to get movie. This does look like a movie set.

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Speaker 2: In some ways.

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Speaker 5: You can get a lifetime movie hereuntains. They do them all lagrange. There's no reason they can't come down here.

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Speaker 4: Show it right here at this theater right here behind us.

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Speaker 5: It is a beautiful of the way the mountains, absolutely the way they surround it.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: Last night I have to ask you, Shannon, I drove down here, uh during the day to Pine Mountain State Resort Park, and it's it's a beautiful view up there. I hadn't been there in years. I used to go there a lot when I was a kid. But as I was making those last five miles up the hills, I was thinking, you know, when it's dark, this is gonna be quite a drive. And Shannon, you've never.

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Speaker 2: Made it right? You made it last night? Did you drive off the mountain? I did not.

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Speaker 3: I came close a couple of times. You're right though, some very windy roads. If you were not familiar, you got to really pay attention. Buckle up, put your phone down. But yeah, it was a good drive here last night, and had a nice day at the Pine Mountain Resort.

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Speaker 5: That's exactly right. So I was there as well. And we are right outside the Bell Theater. If you're around the neighborhood, come on out. Eight five, nine, two eighty seven. We were here for the Mount Laurel Festival, one of the state's oldest festivals. It goes on now through Sunday. It has been called Ryan America's the Queen Ceremony, which is in the Pine in the Amphitheater up here. It is been called America's best outdoor beauty pageant.

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Speaker 2: Have you did you know that?

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Speaker 6: I didn't know that, But that's why I know. The Mount Lawreal Festival is for the beauty pageant.

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Speaker 2: I think they did.

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Speaker 6: They crown the princess tonight, the high school princess tonight, then the college queen will be tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And it's a big deal here.

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Speaker 5: It is a big deal. Yeah, you know, the governor used to come every year. Have you've been able to keep that tradition up? Or is uh Andy and them? As he stopped coming?

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Speaker 2: Andy? He comes everywhere you go. The governor comes every year.

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Speaker 5: And I bet my mom used to say, if the governor doesn't come, he can expect to not win Bell County then, or at least not win Pineville the next time he comes back. I did my research.

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Speaker 8: I guess maybe on Saturday, the governor's here and all the pageant contestants they do a little curtsy for him as part of the process.

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Speaker 7: I found it very interesting.

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Speaker 8: Most festivals like have a pageant one night and it's just part of a bigger event. But this pageant has a festival. It's all about the pageant here.

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Speaker 2: Who's the singer? Usually you all have a said is there a singer.

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Speaker 7: Nadolah was last night?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, yeah we missed it.

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Speaker 2: Roses, Hang on just a second.

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Speaker 5: You had in and Doah here last night and no one told me are you here?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 4: You know with the Pine Mountain Resort, I don't have.

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Speaker 5: Done and seen two dozen roses and it might have changed my mind and I didn't.

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Speaker 7: That's how they let it off.

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Speaker 5: Now I'm officially angry about that. I love shitting Doah.

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Speaker 6: Oh well, I think they had Luke Bryan when before he blew up?

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah he was. He was here before he blew up. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: They're bringing us lemonade. So it's a festival. So there are food trucks.

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Speaker 2: And and all that. There rides, bouncy house and all of and all the other thing.

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Speaker 6: Thank the Lord, that chain is still securing that rock right.

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Speaker 2: Up the hill, this rock.

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Speaker 5: If you were on the other side of this building, chain rock is over there. When it's over, we'll walk over so you can see that you're protected from the from the rock falling.

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Speaker 2: And if it did. Look at these, look at these right, you'll be crushed.

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Speaker 5: You you'd be absolutely and thankfully Ryan, it's it's it's been protected.

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Speaker 4: Did they ever like update the chain or is it the same same change?

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Speaker 6: But it's so strong it does such a great job they don't need to change it.

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Speaker 2: It's protecting this city for years.

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Speaker 4: I need a chain like that too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what I need it for. I just need it.

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Speaker 5: Are you excited that you're in It looks like maybe the Jones and Bruce has now been turned to an airbnb, so you could.

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Speaker 2: You could stay there, And like, this is where Matt practice law at one point.

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Speaker 6: That's why I said, you kind of got a little pep in your step. You're kind of back home your mom. This is where she used to drag you to all the court cases. Make you sit back in the building and watched more court. Boy, Like that's you asked how I ended up a dork. You could thank that building right there for me having to sit and watch court when.

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Speaker 2: I was a kid.

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Speaker 8: I've actually been in that building with you for court. I don't know why, but one time you brought me and I just watched Karen.

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Speaker 2: Why did we do that?

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Speaker 7: I'm not real sure, but I had a good time. It was so fun being here.

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Speaker 8: Well, and with Ryan, he has his two things moment he gets in the car, we're talking about chain rock. I drove today, but the flood walls too.

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Speaker 5: Was to point it out, Tomorrio, Russ, when was the last time the floodball has been closed?

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Speaker 2: February? He was closed this February. Yeah, during all the you all closed it.

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Speaker 6: It's been closed twice since they built it, and well the last time was in February.

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Speaker 2: The mayor's right there. Oh, there's the mayor.

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Speaker 5: All right, the mayor. Well, so they closed. So there's your question. You asked when it was closed.

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Speaker 2: It's been closed.

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Speaker 6: Well, they had that devastating flood in nineteen seventy seven. They built the floodgate in seventy eight. They land closed it twice. So it's protecting the town. Got a chain got flood dates. Pineville safe, Fine, Bulle is safe.

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Speaker 5: Thank goodness. Well, thank you all very much for bringing us here. I'm serious about that. It's always nice, uh to come back home, and you appreciate I'll tell you guys are here because there's some high school kids here. You guys will appreciate it more when you're older. I know when I was here in high school, Russ, you were probably like this. You were like, ah, I gotta go do something else, gotta go do something else. You appreciate it more when you've been gone and come back. So thank you all very much. Now, yesterday on the show, we had Mark Pope. Ryan great response to the interview. All day and night. People seemed to love Mark. I mean, how can you not love him? And I think you saw over the course of the hour in fifteen minutes like why he's connected so well with the fan base.

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Speaker 6: The overall theme that people talk to me about that interview yesterday with Mark Pope was that he was just talking with us, not talking down to us, And I think that came across to interview. You just seemed like you and him were just sitting at a table just kind of yacking it up, and we were across that way.

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Speaker 5: We were, and Mario showed my thigh on the video a lot, But otherwise I thought he was great. Now, there's a few things he wanted to say that I wanted to kind of that I thought were interesting, kind of newsy things. Let's start with he said in you know, during the portal season, there was this narrative started mostly by Louisville fans, that he was whiffing on guys right, like he was recruiting somebody, we wouldn't get him, and people would say, oh, he's with with with he noted yesterday. And by the way, I tried to say at the time, because I heard the same thing that a lot of it is they don't know any of these guys in the portal. They've seen them play, but they haven't recruited. They don't know them, so they meet them and sometimes they say, that's not somebody for us.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll just give you one. That was the case.

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Speaker 5: What was the kid's name, the point guard from Georgia that went somewhere else, Silas Silas Dimrie. That was a kid that I know. Pope didn't say this, but I know they met with and they were just like, yeah, I just don't think it's gonna be a fit. Nice to meet you, thinks. I think I think maybe even went down there, yeah like praise, like, what are you doing for dinner? I'll be there here he wait for dinner and I don't know what they ate. But for whatever reason, and maybe it didn't sit well in the stomach. It was not it didn't work. It was interesting to hear him Drew talk about that yesterday.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm glad he said that when when the portal season was at full speed. I even said, I don't think some of our fans are built for this. Because there would be a tweet Mark Pope zoomed player X, and then that player five days later would commit somewhere else. Everyone just assumed Pope couldn't get him. But sometimes five minutes into conversation, if the kids say I wanted this much money in this many shots, You're like.

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Speaker 7: Well, I don't know, I don't think that's gonna line up with what we want.

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Speaker 8: You just shake hands and go on your way. And that probably happened more times than we'll ever know.

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Speaker 2: I think it happened quite a bit.

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Speaker 5: I'm not I mean, I do think there was a couple cases, like the kid from sam Houston State, where they wanted someone and they picked another school, maybe they got out bit or whatever. But there were some that the kid wanted to come here and they said no. Then the second thing, Ryan he said he begged Travis Perry to stay. Those were his words. We begged him to stay, but ultimately he wanted something else from his basketball career than us now I'll give a little side think they begged him to stay, but we also probably weren't willing to match the money that Old Miss was gonna pay because they probably didn't see him as one of the eight to ten best players on the team. But what did you think about Mark saying he begged Travis Perry to stay?

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Speaker 6: It was kind of refreshing to hear a coach be that open and candid talk about a player that was leaving your program. But you know, Mark said to you, my soul was crushed. I think he has to word to.

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Speaker 2: Use, devastating, he said, Yeah, he said devastated.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it just kind of and it was being sincere.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he was making up.

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Speaker 6: That was Mark Pope being sincere that it devastated him that a player that he really liked was gonna leave the program.

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Speaker 5: Shandy, were you surprised he said, he was devastated by Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like that's a little extreme, but that's Mark Pope's personality, right. So ultimately, though, you have to just let the kid do what he wants to do. Would we love to have him here, yes, But how much of a role would he have really had on this team? If he had just stayed for this next season. And I think that's probably why Travis Ferry left.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think he would have had a big one, but I did think, you know, I drew. I thought it was weird at the time that Perry didn't release the statement when he left, Mark didn't release his statement that when when he laughed. I think there was some I don't want to say ill will, but there was some frustration maybe on both sides. It's nice to it was nice to hear him publicly acknowledge, Hey, we wanted him.

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Speaker 2: It just didn't happen.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I went to scenario like, hey, we're looking at this guy or this guy and just numbers aren't ad enough. You might want to look somewhere else. It's sound like even Travis was a part of the plan. Even though he's not gonna be one of the first guys off the bench, Pope still saw a long term vision for him and Travis just won something a little sooner.

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Speaker 5: Then he talked about scheduling, said he you know, we play thirty one regular season games a year. He said he wished we played thirty five, that he actually would like there to be forty and he said, if we can get to thirty five, his quote was, we'll go play home and home with Yukon. We'll go play home and home with Kansas. He didn't say Duke, which makes me wonder if he was sneaking that maybe that's gonna happen as it is. I hope that's what he meant. But he also and he said we'll go play in Maui. We can do that if we go to thirty five. I love that, Ryan, because we just had a coach who we could have gone to fifty games and he wouldn't have played a home and home at Yukon or any of those places.

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Speaker 2: It was nice to hear him say.

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Speaker 6: That as a fan. That was my biggest takeaway that got me the most excited everything he said yesterday is that, yeah, he's not gonna shy away from playing the big boys like we have in the pass load up with teams that we are gonna be by fifty and order him not to play z own.

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Speaker 2: But he hope was like, absolutely, what about that, Shannon?

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Speaker 5: He he kind of said something that that we didn't know, which is when we went to the Bahamas and we beat all those pro teams by fifty that he had made them not play zone. Pope said that he was like, when they got down there, cal Goes, we paid for your trip.

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Speaker 2: You can't play zone.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand how that helps you at all as a program.

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Speaker 2: Well, we saw it when we played zone during the season. We were never rot.

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Speaker 3: You're putting restrictions on your opponents. I don't know how that benefits you at all.

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Speaker 8: That made me angrier than it should happen, because that's well I know of at least three times that happened. It makes me wonder was it every exhibition, because when you go beat a team by fifty points and we're getting excited thinking you have something. We assumed you were playing by the rules of basketball as they're written, but it was almost like he was covering them up to build up hype. Kentucky State they did that.

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Speaker 2: It's Kentucky they did straight up.

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Speaker 7: I'm getting worked up now thinking about it.

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Speaker 5: It does make you mad. Well, I appreciate Mark doing it. We'll talk more in a little bit about the other stuff he did. We are here in Pineville, Kentucky. It's a Mount Laurel festival. What's your name here? Noock Central Crazy Chase, you got how old are you? Seventeen? Shannon, Look at that mustache. You couldn't grow that mustache right now in the water in Barberville and Pinevial. You can get that mustache at seventeen years old. Now, Chase, you're sitting in the front row, and I said to you, if you sit in the front row, you have to be loud. So when I say we're leaving, people are supposed to clap. You have to be the loudest.

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Speaker 2: He's no Central crazy.

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Speaker 5: I woant you to be as good at clapping as you are a growing facial hair. You're the president of the Mustache Club, President of the NOx Central Mustache Club.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people in that club.

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Speaker 5: By the way, I can tell you we will take a break and be back here in Pineville. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. There you go, Chase waterback, It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Pineville at the Mount Laurel Festival, right down the street from the lie Speranza. You know we've talked about right and everyone has a different ranking of lies speranzas. There are now multiple Russ Thompson says Pineville's got the best lie speranza.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that?

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Speaker 6: No, I'm gonna go with Larry Larry Blondell. He says, the best one is in Middlesborough. That's the only one he's ever gonna go to. That's the best list, one of the.

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Speaker 5: Roses, which is not even Roses anymore. Right, that's it else, That's exactly right. My mom wanted me to say to everybody here, she would have been here, but she's at Wheaton and the Wheaton Divinity School.

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Speaker 2: But she did. She's well, she didn't like what I said.

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Speaker 5: She was in college. She wanted to be clear. I said that she was in the Divinity School. She didn't really like my joke.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 5: I want to throw this out ry and you get to throw it into Okay. I was up at Pine Mountain Lodge last night looking out the mountain, and I thought to myself, this is one of the five probably most beautiful views in Kentucky, which leads me to if we people ask me this all the time, if they wanted to take a view to the prettiest parts of Kentucky, where would they go? So I'm gonna say two of them are in this county or close. One of them is up there at the Pine Mountain Lodge. I think the Pinnacle and Cumberland Gap, which is technically Tennessee, but we'll claim it, okay.

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Speaker 2: I think is the second one. Another one for me is.

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Speaker 5: In Whitesburg when you go up one nineteen, there's this view you can pull over and you look over the mountains, and I think it might that might be the most beautiful view in Kentucky. What else would you put on that list? Those three for me are definite, and they're all in eastern Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: What would you put?

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Speaker 6: I put Lake Cumberland there in Cumberland Falls, definitely.

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Speaker 2: The Cumberland Falls view, I agree, absolutely.

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Speaker 6: I even put the Kentucky Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake over there. But you're right, we take it for granted. Kentucky is so beautiful in certain areas. We take it for granted, and when people come to visit, they're like always blown away by the beauty of this state.

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Speaker 5: And then that part in Pike County that's kind of off. Is it called the breaks?

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Speaker 2: Is that? What is that? What it's called? All right? So if you were to want to take a drive, I've had you do this drive before.

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Speaker 7: Drew we've done every drive meta, No.

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Speaker 2: But you did it with Abby once, right, that was the Pinnacle. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think if you took a drive, you come go down seventy five, get off an exit twenty nine, come through here, go to the Pinnacle, go to Pine Mountain, then up through Harlan Whitesburg to Pikeville and the brakes Ryan.

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Speaker 2: I think that is like the best Eastern Kentucky drive you could tech.

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Speaker 6: You brought us over here one time in the fall and he's just blown away. When the trees start changing colors, it is unbelievably beautiful over here.

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Speaker 5: So when people ask me that, and they asked me that all the time, that's the drive seventy five to twenty five, e up one nineteen to Pike.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the drive.

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Speaker 8: In twenty twenty when we couldn't leave our homes or go places, we drove all the way to Virginia and hit all those stops. But one day we drove just to the Pinnacle and it was like Chevy chasing vacation. They were closed for maintenance that one day, so we drove two hours and then just drove straight back home. But Pinnacle, I haven't done them all but that one's time all.

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Speaker 5: This, uh, Shake gil Just Alexander before we go the phones eight five, nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven Shake gil Just Alexander was named MVP yesterday. Fair give a round of applause for that. How about this first ever player to play at Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: To be at the MVP of the NBA.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of an amazing stat And think about all the guys that have come through.

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Speaker 2: Here over the years.

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Speaker 5: You know, Dan Ansel's, Kenny Walker, Jamal mash from Jack Gibbons, Anthony Davis, John Wall.

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Speaker 2: If I told you when they enrolled in school, right.

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Speaker 5: That the first one to be the MVP would be Shake Gilles Alexander, you never have believed.

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Speaker 2: Never ever.

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Speaker 6: You just take the cow guys. He may be the tenth one. I would have guessed, probably so many guys ahead him that would have won the MVP. And then he played like an MVP last night, got the trophy, had thirty eight points in the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was nice to see his his his teammates how into it they were, Shannon, they were going crazy for him. I mean, just go back and think about Shake Gilles Alexander, for second, grows up in Canada, ends up down in Tennessee, doesn't make the McDonald's American team on a UK team filled with top recruits, he was considered like the afterthought. Remember that was like Kevin Knox, Quade Green, was that Khalil Whitney. Maybe okay, but there were like four guys that were considered a lead. And then they're like, oh, yeah, there's this guy named Shay Alexander and now Shannon.

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Speaker 2: He ends up in pretty MVP. Pretty amazing rise by that guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look at his journey, I mean you could have gotten really good eyes on DraftKings for him to be the first guy out of all those Caliperio guys to end up being the MVP and the NBA. We were talking about him on the pre show a little bit. He's becoming of those guys that's so tough to defend that he he frustrates the defense to where they end up making fouls, you know, like.

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Speaker 2: To the ground, right.

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Speaker 5: But I also think about this, this is the thing people forget about him. He's one of the few MVPs to win their MVP award with a different team first than drafted them. He was drafted by the Clippers and traded after for a year. I mean they they that's you don't see guys that good and forget traded early in their career. And he they I'm not gonna say they gave up on him. They were trying to get Paul George, but nevertheless Drew. That's you know, he was traded like if the clip you wish to think the Clippers wish they had him back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I saw a graphic on social media yesterday showing that trade. Peop were wonder if it's the worst trade ever because the Thunder got so many picks in Shae and they've basically built their success right now and having draft picks and guys come through their system. So uh, for Shay to just be part of a trail, he's like one of seven or eight pieces in it to be MVP, that's nuts.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: By the way, send me on the text machine the best views in Kentucky seven seven five two five four. We are at a carnival. You know, the Mount Lawel Festival has carnival stuff. What's your favorite thing to eat at a carnival. I have a feeling you eat all of this stuff and that's terrible, like a deep fried Oreo or a deep fried.

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Speaker 4: Twinky cheese fries, bacon ranch cheese fry.

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Speaker 2: Get a bucket.

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Speaker 8: Look at the size of that bucket of I mean that would take ten people to eat that. So I'm gonna get one.

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Speaker 6: The greasier the better when it comes to carnival foods. But the funnel cakes to go to. You gotta get a funnel cake when you go into place like this, don't you take.

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Speaker 2: A good fun Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, covered in all that powdered sugar.

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Speaker 2: Do they they have corn dogs? Right?

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Speaker 5: You can't get a corn dog too many places on earth except a carnival and a corn Do you like a good corner?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's my go to.

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Speaker 3: We got some lemonade right here, fresh freshly squeezed limonade. I don't know why it tastes better when freshly squeezed.

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Speaker 5: They still chase right, They still serve corn dogs in high school cafeterias. Unfortunately, how's a big thing in Middlesbrough Corn dog Day?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, French froes.

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Speaker 5: The attendance was, the attendance was always up on corn dog days.

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Speaker 8: Hey, you don't know what you have till it's gone. I miss regular corn dogs in my life. That's why today there's probably eight food trucks. I'm gonna get one thing.

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Speaker 7: At each of them. We're just gonna do Award Pineville there.

00:21:51
Speaker 2: All right, Well that'd be a good video for does the food trucks? Who's up first? Kentucky Joe. Good Kentucky Joe. Go for it, Kentucky Joe. All right? So Liam, Yeah, are you there? Joe?

00:22:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm here.

00:22:12
Speaker 2: Wait a minute. I'm not gonna wait. I Can'm not gonna wait on you. We are on live radio, Joe, I can't wait on you.

00:22:20
Speaker 10: Hey, hey, you hear me now?

00:22:22
Speaker 9: Yes, okay, I'm by the window.

00:22:26
Speaker 2: Thank goodness. I'm glad you're by the wind.

00:22:28
Speaker 4: Don't jump out it.

00:22:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, amen, Amen. In a red week, you made you made me cry Monday with the show down there and London. But you're you're you're making me mile today.

00:22:46
Speaker 2: I mean we're good.

00:22:48
Speaker 9: It's uh hey, hey, hey, the clogging concerned a right.

00:22:52
Speaker 5: Joe enjoyed the weather, have a good time. We'll take a break and be right back. It's scars are.

00:22:59
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00:23:02
Speaker 2: He'll make them.

00:23:02
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00:23:04
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00:23:07
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:08
Speaker 2: Look, I'm back.

00:23:08
Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the Mount Laurel Festival.

00:23:12
Speaker 2: Liam's playing that Rick music today. Liam? Where are you getting this?

00:23:16
Speaker 5: First of all, Liam, this is his first day ever doing the show by himself.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: Liam, tell the audience about you. Who are you? How old are you? Liam? Liam?

00:23:25
Speaker 7: I'm twenty three.

00:23:27
Speaker 2: I'm a scholar, read a few books back in the day. You're a scholar? H Is that what you said?

00:23:32
Speaker 5: You're a sallar? Okay, Liam the scholar twenty three years old? Where are you from?

00:23:36
Speaker 2: Liam? Northern Kentucky?

00:23:38
Speaker 5: I went to Simon from Northern Kentucky, went to Simon, Kentton. All right, So why did you play that song? That's like old people music?

00:23:45
Speaker 2: Did you?

00:23:46
Speaker 4: It's baby making music?

00:23:47
Speaker 2: Yeah? What why'd you pick that? Because those telephone issues? So mister telephone man, there's something wrong with my line. Oh look at that meeting than I was? All right? Liam? Good, I take it back? Well done? All right?

00:24:03
Speaker 5: So, Uh, I asked you the best views in Kentucky. I've already given you Pine Mountain, the Pinnacle, the breaks. Uh, By the way, Tyler Childers has multiple songs about the breaks because he would go there, uh when he was when he was young. All right, here's some of the answers. See what you think, Ryan Clayburne Farm in Paris.

00:24:19
Speaker 2: Beautiful, absolutely beauty.

00:24:20
Speaker 5: I drove by there like two weeks ago as the sun was setting. You're exactly right, absolutely beautiful. Red River Gorge.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: That's another great one.

00:24:28
Speaker 6: I don't know why we didn't even think of that, yell with the natural bridge and the gorge.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: Yes, mammoth cave. I guess you're inside the cave. But if if you're in the cave, that beautiful.

00:24:40
Speaker 4: Cave, as Pope would call it.

00:24:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, did you was it all right? Channing? You thought I made fun of Pope for all his beautiful.

00:24:46
Speaker 3: I love that part of it. It was so lighthearted. I don't think you could have done that with Caliperry.

00:24:50
Speaker 5: No.

00:24:50
Speaker 4: I think Calipari would have gotten stood up.

00:24:52
Speaker 5: I'll tell you one thing you couldn't have done with cal was when I sort of questioned his substitution patterns and.

00:24:59
Speaker 4: It's three He said, poor coaching.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: But I said to him, hey, you said you were gonna shoot thirty threes.

00:25:06
Speaker 5: You didn't shoot thirty threes and I I mean he acknowledged it and then gave an answer.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: But Drew, isn't that's what a coach should do, right, I.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: Mean, rather than get angry and goes, are you a basketball?

00:25:17
Speaker 2: Benny?

00:25:18
Speaker 5: Did you like when he said still one of the maddest times he's ever made me when he looked at Tyler Thompson said, did you even watch the games? And I wanted to just mess up his terrible hair. Well, it's great, he has great hair, but mess it up, make it. I wanted to make it terrible.

00:25:32
Speaker 2: Pope handles it the right way. Okay, here's why I do that. I thought that was great.

00:25:36
Speaker 8: I thought that, and I think a lot of people did. We We had a board thread kind of reacting reacting to the whole interview, and a lot of people mentioned that you couldn't have done that with Callie. Would have gotten very defensive, might have pulled your credential. Uh, you definitely would have been in trouble.

00:25:47
Speaker 5: Definitely H eight five nine twenty two eighty sevens Cope open lines give us a shout A little slow on the uh phone this morning, Kentucky player next year Aberdeen, so sorry, first name of Denzel. He went with the rest of the Florida Gators to the White House because they won the national championships, so they get to visit the White House. Denzel Aberdeen, who even though he's transferring, he helped win the title.

00:26:14
Speaker 2: So he goes. Two funny things that happened. First of all, well, first of all.

00:26:18
Speaker 5: Trump mentioned him in the speech he did, as you know as having played.

00:26:23
Speaker 2: Well. Two interesting things.

00:26:25
Speaker 5: First of all, they did the gator chomp while they were taking the picture, and he was the only guy on the team, Ryan that didn't do the gator chomp. Everyone else did. He just stood there. You think that was like a little You think that was on purpose?

00:26:42
Speaker 6: What do you think he kind of won me over when he did that. The whole teams doing it but him. That tells me his loyalty is now with the Kentucky Wildcats. He's not gonna do that for the Florida game.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: Did you like that, Drew?

00:26:52
Speaker 7: Oh, of course, I mean that's a kid.

00:26:53
Speaker 8: He grew up in Florida, Orlando, Ryan's favorite city, Florida state champion, played three years as a Gator and wore ring He's like, no, I'm a cat, now I can't Gator Trump.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: Then the other great moment from the Gator visit is, what's the guy who's seven foot nine or whatever? Have you seen this time? Yeah?

00:27:16
Speaker 5: He goes to shake Donald Trump's hand and Donald stays sitting in the chair, and the visual of this seven foot nine man reaching down to shake hands is one of the better video clips I've ever seen.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: Did you see that?

00:27:33
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:27:33
Speaker 2: That is it's hilarious.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: Probably good that Trump didn't stand up, because that would just make here's the.

00:27:40
Speaker 2: Thing, So Trump is my height?

00:27:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, Trump Trump sixty three, sixty four, he's kind of I think he and I, I mean, we don't have anything to come basically the same person, but if but we're about the same height. But a dude that talk can make you look short. I mean, go look at the picture of me with Mark Pope. He makes me look short. Seven foot nine. Guy can make you look really short if you're And I don't think he would.

00:28:03
Speaker 3: Have lied down the last thing you wanted as the president of somebody towering over you.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: So I mean, I think that's why.

00:28:07
Speaker 2: So you think he sat down on purpose? Of course, I think that's probably right with all those tall people.

00:28:12
Speaker 8: My favorite moment was when he asked, he said, where's Aberdeen? Aberdeen kind of stood Ford raised his hand and he said, I have a house in Aberdeen, Scotland. And that was like, that's what he had to say to him.

00:28:20
Speaker 5: But yeah, that was gonna be nice and not say what was I just thought that was neat Where's Aberdeen?

00:28:25
Speaker 2: I have a house at Aberdeen, Scotland.

00:28:27
Speaker 5: But hopefully Ryan he gets to go to the White House again next year and he's visiting with us as we win the time.

00:28:34
Speaker 6: You know, I'm still kind of amazed that he picked Kentucky. You know, he looked at the roster, but if he wants to be a part of that team, he's got it. He's gonna I Like I said, I think they may start him. Otega and low both got to go small a little bit and start those three guys.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Liam, Bruce? Bruce? Go ahead, Bruce, Matt.

00:28:54
Speaker 10: Did you know that Bell County and Pineville started high school for wrestling teams recently?

00:29:00
Speaker 5: You all have a high school wrestling team in Pineville? I did not know that, Bruce. Thank you for letting me know. Why do you know that.

00:29:07
Speaker 10: Well, I was going to say, well, apparently that the Millsborough students are two weeks especially they're nineteen ninety eight alumni to have a wrestling team.

00:29:17
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Shade Growing, Clearly, you're not talking about me. I did not graduate nineteen ninety eight. I graduated nineteen ninety six with Lawrence Mowers, who's sitting here in the crowd right now.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: So so that was close to.

00:29:33
Speaker 10: Being anything in the late nineties. How about that anything in the late nineties.

00:29:37
Speaker 2: Well, good, I didn't realize that growing. Yes, go ahead.

00:29:40
Speaker 10: One more things. There's a very good possibility that pickleball is going to be adopted as a high school athletic sports.

00:29:49
Speaker 2: Not undermine dead body.

00:29:54
Speaker 11: That's some schedtle, but the high school pickleball is going to be a four in the spring. I wouldn't play for you to broadcast the state championship.

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Oh we gotta do it, no doubt.

00:30:06
Speaker 5: Half a million dollars, we'll do it. First of all, I'm not appreciate the call. That's not true?

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Is it? We're not Russ shaking his head, they're.

00:30:14
Speaker 5: Gonna do high school pickleball? What has happened to this state? I thought we were are you Are you being real? When are we gonna have high school ping pong?

00:30:24
Speaker 2: Is that what's I.

00:30:26
Speaker 7: Thought pickleball was for old people?

00:30:28
Speaker 5: Thenis kids can play tennis like pickleballs for old people.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Not a lot of overhead. You already got the court. Is there even a pick a ball court down here? Hopefully not? Uh?

00:30:40
Speaker 7: No building.

00:30:41
Speaker 6: You played high school basketball against Russ Thompson. I think he had twenty four points that day.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: He was good. I was not good. So Russ was.

00:30:49
Speaker 7: Russ was a good basketball player.

00:30:51
Speaker 6: I was like, uh, all American class James.

00:30:54
Speaker 5: Johnson on the bench, just taunting him from the background.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: I didn't I was not a big player.

00:30:59
Speaker 7: You're a real player, though every team needs.

00:31:01
Speaker 2: My roll was to clap and be uh.

00:31:05
Speaker 7: Gpa, this is frile.

00:31:07
Speaker 5: This is the nineteen seventy two Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival program. And uh, just so you know, the winner of the nineteen seventy two Mount Laurel Queen was Wanda Sioux Styles from Midway College Fox.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:31:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was quite the looker back in nineteen s.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: You know, I mean Wanda Just so you know, Wanda Sue would now be seventy six years old.

00:31:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, a seventy six year old Fox.

00:31:33
Speaker 2: I like in the.

00:31:34
Speaker 8: Front of that program, it shows people that participated, like Rup is listed. There's a lot of big time names of people that have been directors and.

00:31:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this is they have to the list of directors for the for the for the pageant.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: You know who's so let me read you some.

00:31:47
Speaker 5: Of the people that were directors for the Mount Laurel Pageant in nineteen seventy two. Eight off up, yeah, oh was one of the directors Oscar Robertson. Really is that the Oscar Robertson or is that some guy here named Oscar Robertson's me?

00:32:04
Speaker 2: You all had Oscar Robertson on the board of directors. Wow?

00:32:09
Speaker 4: How about that? You get pope on there.

00:32:11
Speaker 7: That's Kirt Combs. He's got like a high Ary Comb's former governor that too. Wow.

00:32:17
Speaker 2: He also has a highway. William T. Young. Yes, big horse guy.

00:32:21
Speaker 7: Big library guy. Love that library.

00:32:23
Speaker 5: But I also recognize some Middlesborough names here, Kirby Smith and all this. So anyway, uh, nineteen seventy two Mountain Aurel Festival. It's eight five nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven we are here in Pineville, right here in southeastern Kentucky.

00:32:37
Speaker 2: Will take a break and be right back.

00:32:38
Speaker 5: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, Liam, welcome back Tucky Swarts Radio.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Great song. I think I like.

00:32:47
Speaker 5: Listen, I think I like Liam Shannon. That's a song that Tyler wrote about the breaks. He's like, he's following in your foot stats. You better watch yourself. This might be a younger Shannon.

00:32:56
Speaker 2: The dude.

00:32:57
Speaker 4: He knows what you like, so he's he's sucking up right now, is what he's doing.

00:33:01
Speaker 5: I am just like our president. I'm here to be bought stuff overpaying for sunglasses and check out Shady Rays and independent American owned company start right here in Kentucky. Premium polarized shades. I'm wearing them right now because it is a beautiful day here in Pineville. Try the entire collection at shady rays dot com. They're in Lexington, Louisville and online and they also have a blue and white collection as well.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: It is Shady Rays.

00:33:25
Speaker 5: Speaking of that, one person writes me and says, my brother and I have a bet for one hundred and.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: Fifty dollars, Drew.

00:33:30
Speaker 7: It's a lot of money, Matt.

00:33:31
Speaker 2: You have to decide it. We got in this argument last night.

00:33:35
Speaker 5: If you were the athletic director at Kentucky and Donald Trump wanted to come to a Kentucky basketball game, would you say yes or no? All right, so that's the bet. Well, let's say before I answer, what do you think my answer would be? Knowing my feelings about he, would I say yes or no? If I was the athletic director at Donald Trump coming to a UK game, shit.

00:33:58
Speaker 4: You'd say yes?

00:33:59
Speaker 2: What would I say? He's still the president of the United States? You would say yes?

00:34:02
Speaker 7: I think you would also say yes.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: I would definitely. I would definitely say yes.

00:34:06
Speaker 5: So whichever of you bet, it would be a hassle, right, it would make it a hassle for everybody. And but yes, if he's the president, you would invite him, especially if you're a public university that takes federal funds, then yes, I would say that, no matter who the president, unless you know, no matter who the president was, yes, you would invite.

00:34:28
Speaker 3: Put him on the bench, make him the fifteenth man, give him a jersey, you know, put him out there.

00:34:32
Speaker 7: You be a good fifteenth man.

00:34:35
Speaker 5: I don't know if i'd have n't be the watch that might be a little different, but of course you would definitely invite him. So whoever got that one hundred and fifty dollars? All right, let me give you a fairness situation, Channing. You tell me how they should have ruled Class A Region one Track championship.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: I like it already. So this is Western Kentucky. This happened on Saturday.

00:34:58
Speaker 5: Class A Region one State Track Championship or regional track Championship. They have all the races, okay, one hundred meters, two hundred meters, fifty. I don't know what all they have, but they had all the ones they had. Then when it was over, the people who come in first and second they move on to the state tournament.

00:35:17
Speaker 2: They find out though, the next day.

00:35:19
Speaker 5: That the timing equipment was broken, that they were off on the timing equipment. Now, the timing equipment in the finals, they crossed a tape so you could see who won. But in the preliminaries the timing equipment may have been off. And so now they are making everyone come.

00:35:40
Speaker 4: Back as they should yep next.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: Week and run it all again.

00:35:46
Speaker 5: So the people that were in first and second no longer get to go to state. They gotta do it again, and they're making everybody come back. Good decision, bad decision.

00:35:57
Speaker 3: So you're saying even the people that weren't the people that were just racing and clearly finished.

00:36:02
Speaker 5: So they had like preliminaries, if you made it based on top okay, that was screwed up. Now the finals races were the first and second place people went.

00:36:13
Speaker 2: They it right now.

00:36:16
Speaker 5: I've heard people write me say, look, none of the people that got out of the preliminaries, they weren't going to the finals anyway, but they're still running the whole thing again.

00:36:26
Speaker 2: I think that they should run it.

00:36:27
Speaker 3: I think we got to run it back to make sure it's legit. Otherwise those times mean nothing. So if you're the top two runners, though, naturally, you should still finish when we run it back again, you should still finish in the top two.

00:36:39
Speaker 5: Or mister high school sports Ryan, run it back again or say, well, it's like basketball.

00:36:44
Speaker 2: Ref may get the call wrong, but it is what it is.

00:36:47
Speaker 6: I thought you start telling the story, you were going to tell us that they are just gonna take it, even though they had admitted timing malfunctions. I thought they were going to take the finals as they were. The fact they're going to redo it. I think that's the right decision. I mean, if you got the extra weekend before the state finals anyway, why not do it.

00:37:00
Speaker 5: But what if you came in second in a close race, you run it back and now you come in third.

00:37:06
Speaker 6: Tough finished second this time? Be faster, Yeah, be faster.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna go.

00:37:12
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna go the other direction. Congratulations to our winners. Sorry, our equipment messed up. That's life. Whoops, will do better next year.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: But it's these kids senior year of high school.

00:37:20
Speaker 5: There are one chance to be and play in the glory of the state tournament like I did in doubles tennis when I lost six to oh, six to oh to a group of eighth graders. They could have well, they could. They're not gonna get to have that minute. It's sad, but I mean it's tough luck. I mean I would be very upset whoever messed this up. We didn't ever equipment right, But you've already crowned a winner. I say, too bad.

00:37:44
Speaker 4: What what's your decision?

00:37:46
Speaker 5: So normally, if the whole thing, if the finals were timed, I would agree with you all run it back. But if the if the finals race was like whoever got there first, and we know, then I say, look, those were gonna be the ones.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: That would have made it. Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: And but don't those preliminaries matter because that depends on who gets in.

00:38:09
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna feel like, if you weren't good enough to come in like far ahead in the preliminaries, you weren't gonna win the finals.

00:38:16
Speaker 8: I'm assuming it was kind of clear even if the tomes were off a little bit.

00:38:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's interesting all those people have to come back.

00:38:22
Speaker 5: Some people apparently missed their high school graduation to go the last time, and now they.

00:38:28
Speaker 2: Have to go back. And we're split too, So we're split to too. We'll have to go. How many of you would make them run it back? Raise your hand, not one person.

00:38:36
Speaker 5: How many of you would say it is what it is? Get over it, kids, Wow? Unanimous?

00:38:42
Speaker 2: Look, and you talk about being in the minorities, No one agrees.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: The only two in Pineval the entire city, say they should have to come by.

00:38:52
Speaker 5: Let me tell you what they don't give out in Pineville, participation trophies I can see that there are none of those in fine bol Who's.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: Up next, Aaron? Aaron? Wow, I didn't expect me neither, Aaron, go ahead, erin.

00:39:06
Speaker 10: Yeah, do you in three years do you expect this show to be in a current form with you as the host?

00:39:14
Speaker 2: You know something? I don't know. What are you talking about? Aaron?

00:39:18
Speaker 10: Do you do you plan on being the host in three years?

00:39:21
Speaker 2: All right, so it's three years.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: That would be twenty six, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, So you're talking about twenty eight. Yeah, if you, I'll be uh yeah, I mean you're just.

00:39:34
Speaker 2: Not a five year deal. Yeah, No, I mean I'm gonna go.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: Like you know, I kind of look at things in blocks and I've kind of I think absent getting fired.

00:39:43
Speaker 2: I think through twenty eight is a pretty good bet.

00:39:48
Speaker 9: But not after it.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. That's four year. What are you gonna be doing in four years? I don't, you know, I don't I don't know.

00:39:57
Speaker 10: Okay, we'll see in three years.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: Yes, he knows something we don't know. That was kind of ominous.

00:40:06
Speaker 6: It will see you in three years, Like he knows what's gonna happen in three years?

00:40:11
Speaker 7: Just right to the point too. Yeah, I don't know that was really that was about you.

00:40:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, well hopefully hopefully he doesn't know anything I know. But why not, I mean, I'll go at least through through then.

00:40:24
Speaker 6: If not, this office is still opening, you, Johnny Bruce.

00:40:27
Speaker 2: They've turned it into an airbnb. I don't think I can go back to Uh do you.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: Think they charge more for that airbnb? Knowing the history that you once practice law there?

00:40:35
Speaker 2: I would make you a bet.

00:40:36
Speaker 5: There's not one person here and maybe not one person in this town that knew that that was where my office was. I mean I didn't even get the right building the first time. So uh so, Yeah, I don't think it's a it's a historical monument.

00:40:49
Speaker 6: Former home of the Claw Office. Come and stay here.

00:40:54
Speaker 2: For me.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: We have This is really more Braves Country than Red's Rights. How many Brace fans here? How many Reds? Okay, so split? Most people seem agnostic, But if you're a Reds fan, to me, Ryan, this is the weekend that decides whether or not I give.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: Up on the tall we go.

00:41:16
Speaker 5: We hosting the Cubs for a three game series, have a five and a half game lead on us. We at least gotta win two of three. We can't slip farther behind them, or it may just be time to say that's it. You gotta win at least two out of three this weekend at home against the Cup.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: And what are the Reds.

00:41:33
Speaker 6: They've lost twelve their last fifteen or something.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: Is that right?

00:41:36
Speaker 2: You don't know? We won five in rows just a little while back.

00:41:39
Speaker 4: They're only one game behind five hundred.

00:41:41
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, we won five row and Hunter Green comes back tonight that he pitches tonight, so that's good. But I do think Ryan, this is a big series for us against the Cubs. I'm going tonight to the game. Huge series because if you lose.

00:41:55
Speaker 6: This, when you're down eight games and they're out one hundred more games, there's only sixty games into the Sun Red steink.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: They're like your Canes, they're steink. Yeah, No, the Canes have stunk. I don't want to talk about that.

00:42:07
Speaker 5: We will take a break, come back our number two here in Pineville.

00:42:10
Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio.