2025-09-4- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome back our number two Turkey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven here at the Mint in Bowling Green where you could come and watch the games, place wagers. It's all here right off I sixty five on Scottsville Road near the mall.

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Speaker 3: We got representatives from DraftKings, we got hats, we got all kinds of happy things here. Join us big Kentucky crowd, and don't forget you can also the Kentucky down Sports. The racetrack is not very far away. It's an exciting day. Mario did his first dad. We got all these folks here and uh found out that tomorrow Uh at country Boy when we do our yearly Country Boy. So Steven Sackham Souls is gonna come to get and say meet the fans before the first Old Miss game. So you can come see Sackam tomorrow. Uh he will be Uh, he'll be joining us during the game. I'll be only the.

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Speaker 4: Second third player we've had on the show.

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Speaker 3: So he had a big first week and gets to celebrate with us at Country Boy tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: If Alex Afari was the star of the defense, Souls was like one a. He was awesome coming from the edge every play. You look over his number thirty five press and a quarterback. So I'm excited to get to know him tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was on the team a year ago, had one sack, but definitely his stocks shot straight up last Saturday in a game going in we knew didn't know a lot about the team. We knew some guys would step up make a name for themselves, and he took big advantage with two strip sacks.

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Speaker 3: That wasn't the biggest story yesterday though, was not was not our NFL podcast. Sometimes you know the Harald Leader, it's not what it once was, but sometimes it.

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Speaker 4: Breaks stories that matter, folks.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday was one of those days that I'm very thankful we have the Lex and Hair Leader because it gave us this headline, Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: Those are the kind of stories that make me believe in the mainstream media right gets a lot of heat, But who else is gonna who else is gonna break drunk Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster.

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Speaker 5: Local journalism matters local.

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Speaker 3: So in Wincha, Eric, excuse mean, Whitesburg, Kentucky. I guess they have a distill I didn't even know you could make moonshine. Well, actually I did, but I didn't know they had distilleries in Whitesburg, but they do, and I guess. So the story is a raccoon went into the dumpster at the distillery where they had dumped a bunch of peaches that had been soaked in the moonshine. So I guess to make peach moonshine. They had soaked all these peaches, and then I guess they threw them away and the raccoon ate all the peaches, and the raccoon ate so many peaches that it drank so much that it like killed itself. But this, which is what a way to go if you're in the raccoon community. Poor poor Stanley, you know, he just ate was reading his regular peaches. This woman, and what's not in the story is how this woman like got with the raccoon, you know what I mean, Like, what how did they meet each other? But the raccoon woman sees the raccoon says, I want to save that raccoon. First of all, kudos to that woman. That's a different set of personality traits than I have. If I see a raccoon that looks to be dead, I'm just going let it rest in peace. This woman sees a raccoon that looks to be dead and says, I can do something about this. She goes up to it. There's video on TikTok. She kind of gives it. I don't know what do you call it? CPR? Right, yeah, she gives it CPR. I don't know if that included mouth to mouth. They didn't show it, but it said that she gets it going. And then you see the raccoon kind of coming to looked a little bit like Mario did on her trip to Seattle, where it was like where it was like, oh, what's happening now?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 3: And next thing you know, it's back to normal. Harold Leader does the story. So people say there's no feel good journalism anymore.

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Speaker 4: I felt better her yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Just want to ride for that raccoon though, I mean, you go back to I don't know where raccoons live. The raccoon holler, I mean, do it? Do the other raccoons even believe you did? All this happened? That's true, This teach collection that made me feel great, and I'll wake up and this woman's giving me mouth to mouth behind the dump streue and here I am.

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Speaker 4: I guess she wasn't worried about rabies. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I just my grandmother acted like every animal always had rabies and made me want to stay away from all of them I think that's why I'm scared of every animal. But like she apparently didn't care because she's all up in the raccoon making sure everything's going okay.

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Speaker 5: So how many peaches did she eat? I wonder if she had been.

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Speaker 3: In the she just do a tour with tasting okay, So there she was like, I feel your paining raccoon.

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Speaker 4: But what a good samaritan.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine how many people see a raccoon and just be like I want to help it, Like, what a good samaritan?

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm picturing the raccoon passed out drunk in her front yard kind a picture.

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Speaker 3: You can see the video. There is live video of it happening. They don't I don't think they show the mouth to mouth, at least in the video that I saw.

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Speaker 4: But there is video of.

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Speaker 3: This raccoon struggling and then she's helping it and then she cheers like it exists.

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Speaker 4: You can watch it.

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Speaker 2: Now. They can have this loving relationship the rest of the raccoon's life. He can come by for dinner every now and then and hang out with with the lady that said he's life.

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Speaker 4: Well good, good for this, that's awesome. I'm with you.

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Speaker 5: If I see a dead raccoon. I just saw a dead raccoon. Not much I can do about it. I wouldn't even know the first thing to do.

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Speaker 2: And then the heck of way to go get going out eating drunk with getting drunk on peaches.

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Speaker 4: I could see that happening to you.

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Speaker 3: I could see giving you you g and going Let's not just think about how it ended. Let's think about actually it ended fittingly doing what he loves.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: A couple of the lines eight, five, nine, two, eighth, twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 4: Who's up next?

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Speaker 2: Chie Wu?

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Speaker 4: Is up next? Chie Wu? How are you?

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Speaker 6: Hey, Matt? Thanks for taking my call. Man, appreciate that. Jimmy Arterton, she was a bond girl, met the Lovely Uh, Strawberry Fields and Quantumum Solace.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like you were a fan. Just by the tone of voice. I guess you you you.

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Speaker 6: Liked her, Yes, sir, she's uh, she's been a few other movies, but yeah, Strawberry Miss Miss Strawberry Fields, top notch. Uh, Jimmy Jimmy Whalen was in uh uh what is it? Thrones? Ah, Yeah, she was in the Thrones. Mini series on HBO.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate Amma, I am dB page from you.

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Speaker 6: My my my concern with the football team. I like the defensive line. I think the defensive line is pretty stout, especially against the run. I'm worried about the secondary. I don't have much confidence.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah, I appreciate the Coachy Wode secondary. We kind of went into the year going, well, that should be a strength. We got a lot of guys back, and then to the extent the defense had a weakness, it seemed to be the secondary is do you think these guys again, a lot of them local, a lot of them returners, do you think they can step up against what is a very good old miss receiving corps.

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Speaker 2: I have all the confidence again in our secondary. I know, maybe they didn't looked like superstars against Leedo, but they didn't have to against Toledo. I think those guys, those four guys they start out there, are talented enough that they can win a lot of games for this team. A couple of plaguely end up in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: They're by far the most experienced group. I mean, we know all the name has been watching them for a few years, but they've all just been good. Somebody needs a couple of somebodies need to make a jump this year from what they've been and become special. Like Jaq Hardaway. I know he had the big interception last week that's kind of helped out by the pass rush, but he especially being the lead corner now and needs to take another step forward from what he's been. He's that tall cornerback that Mark Stoop's likes.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: He's a guy that's gonna be critical. Had a big play, a big play, not tak anything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Todd Bryant, guy that's played since he was a true freshman. He's been fine. He's another one who taking another joke forward this season if they're gonna really be something if.

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Speaker 4: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: Memphis is bringing Cali Perry back to uh FedEx fednix whatever for him. Memphis will play Arkansas in an exhibition game. I find this fascinating because you know the relationship between Kentucky and Arkansas, Kentucky and col clearly not good right now. But I think everybody foresees a time then it will be civil. But I mean you with Memphis it looked like it might never be civil. Remember he put them on probation, he left the It wasn't like this. He left them right after going to the National Championship game, or a year after going to the National Championship game. And then they were gonna retires Jersey and the city winning so much up and uproar that they decided not to. Now is it a destone Drew? Is it Memphis? And is Cow like mending all fences?

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Speaker 5: I guess I was actually watching a clip before I came in here if he was on with Gary Parrish doing an interview about his Memphis days and what was like leaving there.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I watched that clip.

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Speaker 3: For those of you that haven't seen it, it's so cap it is.

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Speaker 4: It is so.

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Speaker 3: Same same, like changing families, lives.

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Speaker 4: We all eat.

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Speaker 3: I mean it would literally it's been like six months since I thought of Cow, and he has not changed one bit.

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Speaker 5: They mentioned how Arkansas he didn't have the headwinds that he had at his old job. Nothing that's holding him back now at Fayetteville.

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Speaker 4: So good for him.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad we were such I'm glad we were such an obstacle that was in his way hold.

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Speaker 3: What does he mean by a headwind? The fact that, like what is I often wonder what he's even talking about.

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Speaker 5: Well, I say that about a lot of things, but that was that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we live literally, are spending more money when there. We may be spending more money on Nisle than any school in the country. If we're not, we're right there with everybody else. What's he talking about?

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Speaker 5: I guess he likes his chicken money better. We don't have chicken.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think what he's talking about is that he and Mitch Barnhardt didn't get along, and then maybe he's talking about the fact that maybe he's talking about us, but.

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Speaker 4: Like it, it's such an excuse. You just sucked the last few years. You just did.

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Speaker 3: You were awesome before that, you sucked the last few years, Like why not own it?

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Speaker 4: Why can't he take ownership of that?

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Speaker 2: He never will, and I think that's I think that he's trying to blame it on a lot of roadblocks, the fans, the administration, the media, whatever kind of held him back a little bit. Maybe that's what he's talking about. But even though this is an exhibition game, it'll be the biggest Memphis games that he was coach at Memphis. I mean, that place will be packed because he's coming back into town.

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Speaker 3: It's looking like every time, I mean, Duke is now playing an exhibition game against Tennessee. Obviously we're playing Purdue in Georgetown, it's looking like the days of playing Trancy and and you know Center and all that looks like the days of that are gone. Does that make you sad at all? That's probably looks like that's probably never happening again.

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Speaker 2: It does a little bit because I enjoyed those games with against Georgetown, Trancy, Kentucky, Wesleyan. So maybe if they played this one against those schools and then one against a perdu or at Georgetown, maybe split it up that way. I think I would. I would probably appreciate that more.

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Speaker 3: Mark Pope said we should play four and twur against really good teams and two not.

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Speaker 4: They should let us play four.

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Speaker 2: Now do you like that better?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I would be just excited about Kentucky State or Georgetown. It was cool if those schools get to go to RUP. But I thought about those games two days before they tipped off I've been thinking about this Perdue game since it's been announced. I think this is the way to go. The NCAA obviously doesn't care anymore. You used to have to have a little charity aspect or there was some rule. Now they're like whatever, just go play each other.

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Speaker 4: Would you retire?

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question on retiring cows Jersey. I think most people believe, well, we will do it one day. Yeah, most people believe we should do it when he's still you know, there to be there.

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Speaker 4: Except would you do it while he was at Arkansas?

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Speaker 2: No, you don't do it while he's at Arkansas. Like Tubby, you don't do it till you went.

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Speaker 3: What if he left Arkansas and went to a team like Saint John's, would you do it then?

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Speaker 2: Nope, Nope. I think you gotta wait until either he's retired or he's coaching a place like Tubby was. At high point.

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Speaker 4: I think you would do it at a high point.

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Speaker 5: I think it goes back to Clarion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bring Clarion there you go.

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Speaker 4: It's just like, no way in competition you would do it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You can't bring in a team you're competing against on the floor and with recruits, not against cows. Wait, just it'll like you said, it'll happen, give it some time, time heels all wound. It'll happen one day and we'll all celebrate him when he does it. But it's years away from now.

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Speaker 8: Ye.

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 5: You definitely can't do it if he has any kind of team that's competing against you whatsoever, on the court, in recruiting in the conference, you don't give him that moment he was there.

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Speaker 3: I was asked by some on another show, is there is there pressure on Mark to win down there this year? Like it would be? Would it be bad if he's going two against cal It's got a great look.

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Speaker 5: But okay, let's say if and when's the sec and you know you you won the Champions Classic and you beat Louisville, I mean, it would stink. But is at the end of the world if you had told me that.

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Speaker 3: We would lose at home to Arkansas pretty substantially.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we were down the whole game.

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Speaker 5: With DJ Wagner shooting out of his mind.

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Speaker 3: And yet our fan and yet our fans never seemed to really like he doesn't get any criticism for it. We had already beaten Duke Louisville, and we didn't know what I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, that's why we didn't.

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Speaker 3: But like if you said at the beginning the year that it happened, I don't think people would have believed you. But because we beat Duke Louisville, Florida, et cetera, it ended up not Gonzaga, it ended up not making the uh you know, the same, the same stuff. Clayton Crum was found on a simple idea, all leather goods should last a lifetime to make everything from bags, belts, wallets and more.

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Speaker 3: Matt is the guy in the corner with a cowboy hat, Lane Kiffin in disguise.

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Speaker 2: Uh got the old miss sweater on.

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Speaker 4: You know what that kind.

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Speaker 3: Of looks like Lane Kiffing in disguise, fake mustache, cowboy, cowboy hat, old bit. Are you here trying to scout the game?

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Speaker 4: Sir? I think you are. You look like Lane Kiffin.

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Speaker 5: It's my god. We talked during the break chat with him.

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Speaker 4: Was it Lane Kiffin?

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Speaker 5: No, well, he did give some Lane kiff the box, but huge Jared Lorenzen fan.

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Speaker 4: Oh good.

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Speaker 5: He bought a Jared Lorenzen practice jersey and it had Jared's name and number written on it like it's his actual one. He got it for two dollars in like a flea market.

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Speaker 3: So oh, he's two dollars very excited. Well, but thank you all, Well, thank you very much for coming. They can't hear you over the radio. I have to talk to you after the show's over.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you about we're talking about Jared Lorenzen. Mario for the first time in his life, watched the Jared Lorenzon highlights driving down here this morning. We got his name came up and he's never seen the video. He was like Screaming's like.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, look at him.

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Speaker 6: Oh he's huge.

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Speaker 2: Oh look what he did, and he's like gonna watch it for the first time.

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Speaker 3: He has, in my opinion, the best. I mean, John Wall and him have the best highlight videos. Yeah, it's in part because hey, you can't believe anybody's moving like that.

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Speaker 4: And then b that.

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Speaker 3: Pass where he throws it behind his hand, which is the most ridiculous thing in the world.

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Speaker 4: And they also drew he completed it against Georgia.

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Speaker 5: Pass over his head, just bulldozing over a lineman fighting, throwing it a mile he no one should have played that way, but I did. That highlight will live on forever.

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Speaker 4: That's an amazing There won't be another one.

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Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt, why should I listen to the new NFL show? You've bragged about doing no research for your NFL ESPN show.

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Speaker 4: Very good point, but I'll give you two counters.

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Speaker 3: One, I read a book for this one o the Warren Sharp book, which we quote on the show. And second, it's entertaining even if you don't if you don't think we know anything, because we have fun doing it. But yes, it's a fair point. But I did read a book for this one a big book. It was a big It was thick and I read it. A lot of numbers color coded. There's a lot of stats of football way beyond.

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Speaker 2: Our football for nerds. Is that what you're in?

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Speaker 3: Basically it's called Warren Sharp Football something like that might have a different title. One person writes, Matt, you often said cowhad didn't have support from the boosters at the end.

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Speaker 4: Is it right?

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Speaker 3: Isn't it right that he was operating with head wins maybe a little, but they were created by himself, right?

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Speaker 4: I mean you can't you know, you can't.

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Speaker 3: Scream at your wife every night and call her names and then go, well, she doesn't love me. Well, maybe because you're acting like a jerk. I mean, the the he he did have bad Listen, all of his bad relationships. I'm not gonna say they were all all parts of it his fault. But there comes a point where when you have a bad relationship with your boss, and you have a bad relationship with the boosters, and you have a bad relationship with the media, and you even have a bad relationship with the fan site that literally did whatever you want it for eight or ten years, maybe at some point you have to look in the mirror and see what part you had in creating all At some point, it's not everyone else's fault, Drew, it might be yours at some point.

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Speaker 5: And it's not even just all the main characters, just people going and doing their daily job around that building. We're pretty exhausted at how things were there at the end.

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Speaker 4: Everyone at the end was exhausted. Who's up next? Rick? John?

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Speaker 3: Is next?

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Speaker 4: John? Go ahead? John?

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Speaker 9: Hey, I got excuse me, sorry, I have two questions for you. I saw a clip on Andy and Alri today that said a troop Soups has fired his buyo. It would be thirty two million dollars in due within six weeks. Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is true.

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Speaker 3: Mitch Bartnheer has many strengths, but a weakness is contract negotiation, because most other schools have it to where if you pay for five years the buy else to do. Like Alabama's coach they've talked about. It's not seventy million right at once, it's over a course of years. Mark Stoops's contract. I was told I didn't realize this for a long time. We're required to pay it all within six months. Terrible negotiation.

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Speaker 7: Six weeks The other one six weeks, so it six weeks.

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Speaker 9: Well good, yeah, it would be like it would be immediately. So you pretty much need the money beforehand, and you.

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Speaker 3: Can't offset it if it gets another job like that. That's the other thing want of the contracts. You can offset if they go get another job. Can't do it if you pay them within six weeks when we lost on the second. That's an important point, by the way, Mitch does them any things well, but we gave some ridiculous contracts to Stoops and CaAl EF. I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Mario did the ad. I don't know how you can miss it.

00:24:25
Speaker 3: Plus it's Eagles Cowboys, so let's go ahead and make the pick Eagles or Cowboys tonight in the opening game of the NFL season.

00:24:33
Speaker 2: Eagles don't. I'm I discussed.

00:24:37
Speaker 4: I discussed.

00:24:38
Speaker 2: I am disgusted over Dallas. I never will pick Dallas to win anything. Why are you disgusted? I grew up a Washington Redskins fan, so I go anti Cowboy from the moment I was born.

00:24:48
Speaker 3: I never ever though, you always claim to be a Washington fan, and I never hear you talk about them. You don't like it's I've never seen you wear one piece of merchandise.

00:24:58
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, and then the Colts moved Indianapolis, so I became a Colts fan. They hate the Cowboys, still hate the Cowboys.

00:25:05
Speaker 4: So you gave up your team, Yeah, but you kept your.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: Hare hatred for the Cowboys because I hate Perdue, just a certain team. Think you hate when you when you're.

00:25:12
Speaker 4: A cheer for Indiana, we still hate Perdue? Is that not? That seems odd to to to lose the love but keep the hate.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: No, It's permanent, permanent in my brain.

00:25:24
Speaker 4: All right, fair enough, who you got?

00:25:27
Speaker 5: I will be rooting for the Star, but uh, not a lot of hope. I will say they cover the eight and a half. It's a big spread, but Eagles are winning the game.

00:25:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take the Eagles to win. Uh.

00:25:37
Speaker 3: I think they go back to the super Bowl and then they lose in the Super Bowl to the Buffalo Bills. I think this is the year the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen win a title.

00:25:46
Speaker 4: Who's your Super Bowl pick? Chiefs?

00:25:50
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how you can pick against them. Probably Chiefs and Eagles. Those are that's the smart picks you got.

00:25:55
Speaker 4: The Chiefs win it.

00:25:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you think it's repeat super Bowl? It happened a long time. Last repete super Bowl was what Cowboys Bills in the early nineties.

00:26:03
Speaker 2: I think thought because that young love of Taylor and Kelsey the end of the dight, those two young kids are gonna will that team to another super Bowl title.

00:26:09
Speaker 3: It is his last year and she might be playing the Super Bowl as the halftime show.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: So what about you?

00:26:14
Speaker 5: I have Bills getting over the hump. I don't want to be laying and picked the Eagles their big favorite. I'll say the Lions out of the NFC Bill's lines, good pick, but Josh Allen finally gets his ring.

00:26:25
Speaker 3: I would also say, my my out of nowhere's pick. Nowhere's out of nowhere pick if he's healthy, Matthew Stafford Bill's rams, that would be my out of left field pick that they uh they go to the Super Bowl. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt that.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: Buyout can't be true. Tell me how it.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: Is that we would owe the money at the moment, because remember Mark Stoops had a lot. Mark Stoops had a lot of leverage and he worked it very well. And he also, I've said this a lot, he has the best agent, Jimmy Sexton, who is the agent to Nick Saban and like he's the best agent football. He is also he was Bob Stoop's agent, and he is Mark's agent.

00:27:11
Speaker 4: Mark might be his lowest client he has in terms of coaches.

00:27:15
Speaker 3: And I don't mean it has a put down because the guy has like the biggest coaches in the game, but he has a lot of leverage, and I think Drew that was part of how that happened.

00:27:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not many agents that a lot of people know encounter their own celebrity, but he's he's one of them. And I'm sure when he saw Mitch bart Hurt across from that table, he was looking at his lips because he's done that many times before and know what to do.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: I mean, most of these contracts, Like remember that when Jimbo Fisher got that deal for one hundred million dollars, that was that guy. I think Debor at Alabama who got the seventy.

00:27:46
Speaker 4: Million dollar deal, I think that was him.

00:27:48
Speaker 3: Like get he does most of the a lot of the big college football deals.

00:27:51
Speaker 2: I've not heard of a buyout though it has to be paid within six weeks. That one kind of caught me off guard a little bit. Have you heard that before?

00:27:58
Speaker 3: I didn't know that until like a month. The only reason I'm even saying it, I didn't know it until a couple months ago, and then Ari Wasserman and Andy Staples mentioned it yesterday. They're the first people I've heard really talk about it publicly like that, because I think it might be buried in some because I've not even seen it, but they mentioned it yesterday, and I'd heard that a couple months ago, because I'd always assume, well, you can pay it over time. If anybody else hires him, you can get No, it's six I'm told, and I think that's what Ari and Andy what they reported yesterday.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: It's six weeks.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: And these guys that cover other coaches contracts, I don't. I'm not looking at other coaches contracts, but they talk about how wild this is to have it written that way, and what a bad spot Kentucky's in if he gets to that point.

00:28:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to know one thing that might get kind of lost in the news stuff. But I do think it's interesting if you're like me and you're trying to follow in IL, the commission that is regulating in IL and is like supposed to make sure that if you get it an IL deal, it's actually for a real ad and they're not just paying you to play. You know, a lot of us, myself included, have been skeptical of whether that's gonna be weird.

00:29:10
Speaker 4: They just released their first report.

00:29:13
Speaker 3: And out of I want to say, it was something like three hundred and eighty five deals that have been sent to the commission. Now, I remember most players that are playing right now, they got paid before this commission went into place. You've heard us talk about how that's why all these people got.

00:29:30
Speaker 4: So much money this year. Next year it'll be different.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: But out of the three hundred and eighty five deals drew, one hundred and forty were declined as being not real deals, which is like thirty eight percent of the deals got declined for not being real deals and said no, you can't give it to them.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: That's interesting to me.

00:29:54
Speaker 3: I mean that that says like there's some teeth to this. If they're turning down thirty eight percent of the deals, that's a lot. And the average deal, well, let's just take a guess the average deal for a power for player. Remember this is not the money they're getting as part of rev share. This is the Nile deal they're getting. Do you know what the average deal is? And presumably now, these are not the deals that like ks Bar is doing with plays. This is a deal that like collectives or big sponsors are doing with players.

00:30:31
Speaker 4: Take a guess at what the average is.

00:30:34
Speaker 5: Four that's I was gonna say twenty thousand, Say twenty thousand, you're much closer.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: The average deal is only twenty eight thousand dollars. So what I think is interesting and about that is it says a there are going to be limits on this money thing. I was kind of skeptical that can happen. Now, it's still got to get upheld in court. There's still a lot of places, but at least this commission is putting limits on it. In second, not as much money as I think people think. I mean, some of the top guys are gonna make crazy amounts of money. But if the average power for player is making twenty eight thousand dollars, you.

00:31:16
Speaker 4: Know, maybe Kentucky can compete.

00:31:19
Speaker 3: You know, maybe it's not quite as crazy as everyone just kind of thinks.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: Like you who said four hundred thousand.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: Bucks, I thought for sure the number would be a lot lower. You said they've got denied. I'm surprised they denied that many. I thought they would probably just rubber stamp a lot of these deals, but obviously they're really looking into it and trying to keep it from it.

00:31:38
Speaker 3: I thought nothing would get denied. The fact that thirty seven percent's got.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: Denied, yeah that's a lot.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: You know, that's a lot I'm surprised, but that needs to happen, because I was worried about guys signing deals with a T shirt company for five million, knowing they're not going to sell a tiny percentage of that in actual T shirts. It's just getting them to play. So I'm glad they're at least looking at, you know, if it's compared to actual market you and trying to see if it's a real deal.

00:32:01
Speaker 4: Who's up next? Jake is up next? Jake? Go ahead, Jake, bring the excitement.

00:32:08
Speaker 10: Hey more than Matt, first time caller, a long time listener.

00:32:11
Speaker 4: Who are Okay, it's different, Jake, but go ahead, Hey, Matt.

00:32:16
Speaker 10: I actually wanted to continue the scene a little bit of this week regarding the kind of complaints about the Krogerfield atmosphere, but I want to take in a little bit of different directions. So I was watching the Florida State Alabama football game this weekend, and Florida State has this really cool tradition where Chief Osciola comes out onto the field on a horse with a flaming spear and throws the spear into the ground while the crowd is shouting renegade into their their Tomahawk Chat. So it got me thinking, you know, the state of Kentucky has such a cool tradition of forced culture where you know, we breed horses. We obviously race the horses as well, and it's like Kentucky Derby Keen when it's such you know, has the university thought about, you know, having a jockey on a horse lead the team out of the tunnel for like a pregame tradition or you know, any other kind of horse homage to bring not only the state culture together but also rile up the crowd before a game.

00:33:11
Speaker 3: The question Ryan, you've you've been going those games longer than anybody, or at least longer anybody on the show. Have they ever done anything with a horse.

00:33:19
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything that Kentucky's down.

00:33:21
Speaker 4: I know we did our uniforms as a horse one time.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: But I can't remember a horse being I could.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: See and I appreciate the call, Drew.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: I could see having a couple of horses lead the team out with jockeys on them with the flags.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: You don't like it, Marsha, Well, I learned yesterday.

00:33:43
Speaker 3: I mean I actually think that seems cool. I mean, maybe they can't do it for logistical reasons. But like in theory, I could see that being cool.

00:33:52
Speaker 5: I learned yesterday there's a question and easement. They're allowed to just ride them that's in downtown.

00:33:58
Speaker 3: If they get this, uniforse still can't stop them, you could just take your horse.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: It does seem like something obvious. We're the supposed to be the horse capital of the world and we don't utilize the I mean.

00:34:09
Speaker 4: Just just okay, just picture for a second.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, but just picture for a second. The idea of the team is standing there. We've seen it their their backstage. Normally what happens is two cheerleaders or whatever lead with the flags. What if as the players ran out the it's a little thing, but it was jockeys holding the UK flags and they lead them running out.

00:34:36
Speaker 5: Why is that full sprint?

00:34:38
Speaker 4: Why is that crazy?

00:34:39
Speaker 5: It's not.

00:34:41
Speaker 3: I understand, but like, but I do think the callers point about the horse.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: I mean, we're doing something.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: We've tried to do that stupid rare rare with the cat thing that didn't work.

00:34:53
Speaker 4: Why not can horses.

00:34:57
Speaker 5: When it gets in I mean there.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Are horses, they have been in public.

00:35:01
Speaker 5: I mean, even better, let's get a starting gate and put our players in it now, then gate and then they just all run out.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: I don't know if I like that vision.

00:35:10
Speaker 5: Back to the horse, then back to the horse, just thinking.

00:35:12
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I'm not saying we have to do it. This is the first I've ever heard of. It was this guy talking. But Ryan, am I crazy that that could be cool?

00:35:20
Speaker 2: I think it could be cool. You'd have to get like maybe in an old, easy going horse, and they're not gonna run out there far away.

00:35:27
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, Florida State does it. Clearly there are horses that that can handle it.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: They can handle the noise and the excitement, and there are more people at the derby than they're at the game.

00:35:37
Speaker 4: I feel like they're gonna be able to handle right.

00:35:40
Speaker 5: I'm in if Mark Stoops rides of the horse.

00:35:44
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhart comes out of the tunnel on the horse.

00:35:46
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:35:47
Speaker 3: To the caller, Jake, I liked your idea. Let me just out of curiosity, how many of you liked the idea?

00:35:52
Speaker 2: Raise your hat kind of like it?

00:35:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's well only half What do you all have that's a better idea? Over here? You pass a real walk We're trying to do something out the drum.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: They want to bring the drum back.

00:36:03
Speaker 4: I hate the drum. Hey f I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

00:36:07
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00:36:55
Speaker 4: I was just saying to him, we're trying.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: You know, Saturday, we're gonna have a lot of people at the bar and everybody is ordering the burgers because they're good, but like they take a while, so we're bringing in an extra, bringing an extra like grills and stuff. And what I what we didn't think of those is everybody's already rented a lot of them for the tailgates, so we're we're like buying them, and so then we have to go and cook on it all day Friday to get a grease in there, you know, and get it to where it'll where it'll be good. So it's you just don't think about these things. Like the restaurant businesses I've learned is the one thing where every day.

00:37:27
Speaker 4: Is just a problem.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: There's no day that it's not a problem. Uh in that business. The people I run this, I'm sure know that, am I right? Every day is a problem of some sort.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: You gotta think about where you gonna put the grilled into once you find it.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: Like we we got we finally got when we ran out of tator kegs. I advertise them, then we ran out, so we finally we got some more there there today.

00:37:50
Speaker 4: But like it's all everything's a problem.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: I like, there's a lot of what are we out of today? Who didn't show up for work. Yeah, why isn't this working? Being out of stuff is good? Like things are going well since we open, but it's still like it's just it's always something.

00:38:05
Speaker 3: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Who's up next?

00:38:10
Speaker 4: Donnie is up next? Donnie go ahead, Donnie, Good morning.

00:38:14
Speaker 8: Matt Jones blowing green so piggybacking on a guy from yesterday. Around the third down they do the blue White.

00:38:21
Speaker 7: How about do the.

00:38:22
Speaker 8: Packers fight song? Instead of going go pack Go, we go go big blue, you know with my facing royal the Packers song.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: I think the Packers fight song is kind of cheesy. I'm not gonna lie now. It works for them because they've had it for so long, but I don't think today. I think if you introduced that song today, a lot of people would look at each other and go, why are we doing this?

00:38:45
Speaker 7: You know?

00:38:45
Speaker 8: Okay playing ba How about getting a SoundBite of col going go and just flop it, you know, while you know, not bad.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: That's kind of funny.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Walk a Waka Flaka who does who Does?

00:39:03
Speaker 3: Grocery Party is actually coincidentally playing in Lexington the day of the Tennessee Tech Game.

00:39:09
Speaker 4: Just for that can't be a coincidence.

00:39:11
Speaker 3: I would think they're probably going to bring him to that game, or at least maybe they were until they got rid of the song.

00:39:16
Speaker 4: But they're bringing it back.

00:39:18
Speaker 5: So if they don't have him just come across the street. That's a day game and he's at Manchester Music Hall that night. It's right there in front of you. I hope they've already booked fit.

00:39:27
Speaker 4: Yeah. He seemed to have a good time when he was here the last time.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: So they've got to bring it back. I mean, they just have to. I don't think there's any doubt in my mind that that's one thing that least with like he said, the thing we did that nobody else does bring it back.

00:39:38
Speaker 4: What do you think that you? I mean, are we sold out Saturday?

00:39:42
Speaker 2: No, I haven't heard. It's not.

00:39:44
Speaker 5: It's a pretty cheap.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: I mean I get it, but that's odd to me. I mean this is like, this.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Is a huge game, but it also should showcase to UK where people are on this program.

00:39:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you're not sold out.

00:39:57
Speaker 3: For the first big game of the year against Old miss on national television, like that should.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: Tell you where If you don't know where your fan.

00:40:05
Speaker 5: Base is like Drew, that should tell you in three point thirty, that's the Street thirty perfect time you can get a long tailgate in and still have dinner and your night afterwards. I mean, for years we didn't get three thirty games because it was the one CBS marquee game.

00:40:19
Speaker 4: We're never in it.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: Now we're lucky to get in that ABC rotation. You gotta enjoy it.

00:40:23
Speaker 3: You got the number two announcing team doing it. You got Sean mcdonnald and Greg McElroy. I mean, that's there, that's the number two announcing team behind Herb Street and Fowler. And you know, if you can't sell that game out there, you do need to look in the mirror and go what is going on? Because that's I mean, that's not good. Who's next?

00:40:43
Speaker 4: Waw? Is up next? Waw? What's up?

00:40:47
Speaker 7: Good morning, gentlemen. Hey. Circling back to the horses at the football game, Murray State does it, Texas Tech does it, but take it a step further. Have two horses, one jockey in UK blue, the other jockey in the visiting team's colors, and of course they rush across the field and the UK jockey always wins.

00:41:09
Speaker 3: Okay, So like like the old Louisville and Cincinnati boat race where the Louisville one always wins.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?

00:41:17
Speaker 8: Yeah?

00:41:17
Speaker 4: I got that. I'm okay with that. I appreciate, appreciate the call.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: I'd like to I thought when he said two horses, one jockey, I was like, now that'll be something to see if we could do that give people's attention.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not just try something something like that, something different to add to the excitement environment at Kroger Field. Anything I think would be an addition.

00:41:38
Speaker 4: I really like that guy's that guy's idea.

00:41:41
Speaker 3: Okay, So tomorrow we are a country boy in Georgetown. We're gonna have Steve Sackem Souls joining us to talk, and I'm gonna be giving away tickets to the game. I'm gonna be giving away fifty yard line second road tickets from Commonwealth Causes to someone there tomorrow. Remember we got folks, we got the bar tonight with an NFL football game.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: I'm still not.

00:42:06
Speaker 3: To the point where I'm picking Kentucky to win against Ole Miss, but I think Ryan it's gonna be a good game.

00:42:11
Speaker 4: That's where I am right now.

00:42:12
Speaker 2: I think it'll be a good game. That's why I think our crowd can help. You know, despite if it's gonna be rain raining, a little rain in the afternoon, I think crowd can get you gonna help this team. Defense is gonna do their job. Offense needs to try to answer the ball.

00:42:23
Speaker 3: Any chance you're gonna get to the point where you think they were. Kentucky can win.

00:42:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know that I'm gonna be expecting to win, but I don't think they'll get blown out, blown out. I think maybe it won't come down the last play like the last four, but I think in the fourth quarter of Kentucky will be in the game.

00:42:38
Speaker 3: Thanks to the mint here in Bowling Green, thank you all very much for coming your great crowd with the with the Draft Kings folks here from all over, we really appreciate you showing up. We will see you later. This is been Kentucky Sports Radio tomorrow in Georgetown.