2024-09-11- KSR - Hour 1

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk about the Presidential debate, UK Football, and remembering 9/11.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Now here's Matt Jones.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, September the eleventh.
I am Matt Jones here on an absolutely beautiful day
again in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the Chaos Bar
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(00:26):
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It is uh midweek. We're gonna make this an Ask

(00:48):
Anything Wednesday. Okay, all right, so we haven't done one
of these in a few weeks. Any question you want
to ask, You can ask about football if you want,
or you can just ask about whatever whatever it is
you want to do. Ask Anything, Wednesday, eight twenty two
eighty seven. You know, most people probably went into work
today Drew. They said, hey, did you watch the debate?

(01:09):
Are you getting ready for the Kentucky Georgia game. We
walk in here to the bar and Shannon, I wish
you could have seen Ryan. They are they're cleaning the
windows right now, these nice fellas. And Ryan is as
mesmerized as anything I've ever seen in my life. Like
he is just staring at it. Like you know, how
if you were to see, I don't know, a giraffe,

(01:31):
and how excited you would be. Yeah, that's how Ryan
is right now. Wouldn't you be, like if a giraffe
walk through here, you'd be pretty excited.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Couple weeks ago?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. But these guys, it's they do
a great job. It's like an art. There's no ever
a seam, a crease, nothing. It's like we all watch
our car windshields and there's always a little seam, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
But I mean they're pro like this is what they
do so much.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I was watching him. It's like it's like an art.
They they're like they do.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I mean you you have been entranced by for fifteen minutes,
like you Like I was trying to talk to him, Shanon,
and he just was like he would not quiet.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Man, I'm watching him windows.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, but you were like a child. Is
this maybe this was the career you wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Here's my future right here.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
But I mean you just you are mes mura.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, seem like he goes watch him, he goes to
the left, think goes school to the right, Yeah, goes down.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think what you're doing is you're making sure he
gets you know, they're even doesn't miss a spot.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
But like you are looking at well, I mean, I'm
it's it's nice. I just I've never seen you more
care about anything.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
To be fair, I am mesmerized about like the window
cleaners on like the sides of hotels and like.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sky like that is one that is different.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's maybe not as fascinating.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, my college roommate moved to Denver. He does that
on the side of the.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Tallest that people do that. But I mean, you know,
they say, watch watch you here. Look like.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
No streaks anywhere, not a streak on any of these
windows anywhere, professionals right here.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I understand that. Okay, Well A five nine, two, eight,
twenty to eighty seven. Uh, you said you did not
watch the debate.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I did not. I've heard a lot about it, heard
reports this morning. But you didn't watch it?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
What?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Just that curious? What did you watch?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I didn't watch any TV last night. What did you
do at nine o'clock?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Did you just go to someone's house and watch them
clean the windows and stairs?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I was putting together a shelf thing for yoga girl
to put in her Oh, you're doing like hand manual labor?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yes, okay, and how'd that go?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Perfect? I didn't put together two of them. They're like perfect?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well good? What about you? Did you watch it?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
I caught a little bit of it. I eventually switched
over to Chimp Crazy on HBO. It's a little more
interested in that. I understand, great, great series. But I
saw twenty to thirty minutes. Okay, yeah, I'm rewatching White
Lotus season two.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I was getting back into that. Did I didn't watch it?
I got updates. I did spend a lot of time
watching the post reaction like from people, because I like,
I feel like that's you know, like I said, nobody's
gonna change her mind. So I feel like every it's
interesting to hear what these people say. Shannon, did you watch.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Probably about ninety five percent of it at one point
I had to get up to use the restroom. I
missed that part, but.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I didn't That's all right, you can miss that part.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Did you do?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Did you do a scorecard?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I did?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I don't know that it's my best work because it
wasn't a great debate really, but I'll make it as
entertaining later on in the show.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
We'll do it later on the show. I would give
it a little tease. My mom, specifically last night called
me and said, will Shandon be doing a scorecard? And
I said, I said yes, So so that's the So
I didn't see it, so I can't really comment on
the specifics. It looks like the consensus tends to be
that that Harris won I tweeted something. It's seems like

(04:55):
a lot of the people on on Trump's side are
saying that they cheated, and generally speaking, and when you
say the refs cheated, you lost the game, like and
people would write me and go, you got sued by
ref And I was like, yeah, it was after a
game we lost. You know, I didn't get sued by raft. Like,
no one sued me after the twenty twelve National Championship

(05:17):
because you know what we want. So so that's the
but but to be fair, I didn't see it the
same person. There's one person in my life that I
feel like is kind of neutral, Ryan and they're the
one that wrote me after the Biden Trump election and
said Biden is not alive and you need to get
him out. And then last night he said Harris won

(05:39):
by a lot. So that's basically I'm using they were
pretty consistent on both of those.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I just know going into last night, Harris's camp saying
this is one and only debate, Trump wanted more. Now
this morning, I've already heard Trump saying, eh, maybe no
more debates and Harris is wanting more. That tells me
I think I know how it went last night.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, so there you go. We'll wait for Shane and
scorecard to UH to see the UH. I will say,
I didn't know that there was a controversy about people
eating dogs and cats until last night, and so then
I got to re reading on that and that seems
really stupid. What what do you mean? What what happened?

Speaker 4 (06:17):
I was putting together a shelf.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
You gotta well, I just I saw a clip of
Trump saying someone eats dogs and I was like, all right, well,
what in the world is that about? And I guess
there was a story and it ended up being false,
but they're still repeating I don't I don't know detail
something about Ohio.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Ohio.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
That immigrants, Yeah, Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats.
It turns out it was actually an American who ate
a cat, and uh it was.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It was.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's exactly although alf was an immigrant, was he was
a Well we never heard. I don't know when we
watched it they talked about his legal status, did they
on the show?

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I don't think as I don't know if we know
either way.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So that's that was going on. And we'll get Shannon
scorecard later. And then I listened to a couple of
podcasts yesterday Ryan Ryan Russillo. Do you know who that is? Yes,
now he's on the Ringer. I listened to some of
his podcasts and he said the South Carolina defensive line
against the UK offensive line was He said, you will

(07:26):
never in college football see an offensive line get more
dominated in college football than what South Carolina did to Kentucky.
Do you agree with that statement.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, it sure felt like it watching the game. I
mean Kentucky could not do anything offensively, ended up having
to go put two tight ends and just try to
run the football.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
He said it was, but you didn't answer my question.
He said it was the most dominating performance by defensive
line that he's ever seen. Drew, do you agree with that?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Surely there's been worse, but it's hard dark against it.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And do you remember a worse one for us? Knowing?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
What makes it so bad is this kid's gonna be special.
But that was a true freshman and an eighteen year
old going against some guys that have been here several years,
and he was whoever they tried to match up didn't
stand a chance.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
The fact that it's even a conversation is not a
great sign. The fact that he could say that and
you wouldn't just go, excuse me, sir.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
There was one other one that was worse. I mean, yeah,
even being said out loud is awful.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, he said, I don't know how bad Kentucky's offensive
line is, but I've never seen a team get dominated
like that.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
I mean, the five rating lives in my brain that
Cock Scott, and I love him. He's one of my favorites.
He's much better than that, but five as a great five.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
And one clip and we had three guys trying to
guard that one freshman dude and he still got through.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah. I don't know that you'll see. And that's what
makes it hard. I think for fans to feel good
is how you go, how's it gonna get better? Right?
I mean, how's that gonna get better?

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Well?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Eric Wilford said, we have to start winning our one
on ones.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, okay, thank you, Eric, I got it. I mean
that's fair enough. You also have to get you know,
to win an election, you have to get more votes
than the other guy. I get it. But that's not
that that doesn't that doesn't answer the question. Eric.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, well, I'm just I'm just relaying what came out
of yesterday's practices. They're focused on winning one on once.
I did like hearing that Eli Cox and the veterans
were very upset. Came in, didn't even have to be
yelled at. But who are they upset at? I mean,
they were the ones that didn't I'm aware of, but
you would think people that played that much football. I mean,
it shouldn't have happened, but a bounce back would be ahead. Unfortunately,

(09:43):
Number one Georgia is the next opponent.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean that's I don't know. I saw a
few minutes. They replayed part of it yesterday on like
ESPN U and I saw a few minutes of it,
and I'm now more we're confident in my opinion that
I don't think we can say anything about about Vandergriff.
I genuinely don't think he had a chance. I mean

(10:08):
eighty percent of the plays, it was blown up before
he could even yeah, get I mean like he had
no chance. So I'm not saying he's good, but I
really don't think I can say Ryan one thing about
him one way or the other, same thing with most
of the receipts, Like I know that there were there's
a clip I've retweeted at Van Hiles talking about Barry

(10:28):
on Brown, and I'm not saying that's not that like
saying he wasn't trying, and I'm not saying that's not legitimate.
But I put I've decided I put eighty percent of
this on how awful our offensive line was.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I think it all starts right there, exactly what you said,
because how many times you see Brock dropping back and
having to throw off his back foot because he's about
to get shmeared.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
And it also then affects you even when the when
it's not as bad, because he would start running backwards early.
It's almost like he was expecting to have to do it,
even at time drew that I don't know that he did.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, I mean they talk about quarterbacks seeing ghosts late
in that game. You know, he was scrambling from defenders
that weren't there on that particular play just because he
was so used to being swarmed right away. Receivers couldn't
even run their full route before he's getting mobbed. It's
while a lot of people wish him to had gone
to something a little quicker, And it was funny here
in Kentucky fans say they want screens after you years.
What I'm saying stock the screens. We are pretty good

(11:23):
to do something a little quicker when he had no time.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
We are pretty good about wanting whatever it is is
the exact opposite of what we're doing. You know, we
were and then it was like, all right, we're gonna
have to throw, and then when we throw, people are like, well,
we're gonna have to run, and then we throw the
tight ends. You know, we used to throw screens all
the time. We stopped. Now why don't we throw screens?
I mean we we do. If we're fair, sort of

(11:47):
want the exact opposite of what we're doing at any
given moment.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
We love the Wildcat, No, we hate the wildcat. Why
aren't we running the wildcat? Never run the wildcat? You
know we're we're a flaky bunch.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
But it's also proof that, like, ultimately what we want
to do is I mean, for all this talk about
style of play, winning cures everything, right, I mean, yet
last year the basketball team could not have played more fun.
And then when we lost, people are like, well, you
just never get the ball inside.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
And that's at least for me, that's an all time
favorite roster in basketball. Like that was fun, and then it.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Just, oh, I think that was you could I certainly
would say I've never had a backcourt I liked more
than than last year's in terms of just being, you know,
enjoying a team. I don't think I'll ever have a
backcourt I liked as much as reed Robin Antonio. And
we still lost to Oakland. And that's the way you

(12:39):
gotta win.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
You gotta win. And you know, late in the game,
they finally made the change, like I said, when they
put the two tight ends and we ran it eleven
times in a row and moved the football whimpsit came in.
He was running running the football, so like they finally
found an answer to move it a little bit. But
it was way too late by then, way too.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Way too late. I feel like I've asked this too.
Or where did Hugo.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Go Kansas State? Because they said with dudes, and then
they came and took one of the guys that were
on that team.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Interesting, that's a dude that'll be a guy in like
ten years. We go, oh yeah, uh, Hugo, he played here?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (13:15):
When you said his name, I had to stop and
think about who you were talking about.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
In the Calira. Who's the guy that is most Oh yeah,
he played here.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I always say it will for eternity be Isaiah Jackson,
a man that is in the NBA playing regular first
round pick, first round pick.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I think we always call that the BJ Boston team,
and Isaiah Jackson was the highest pick on that team.
We net like, you're exactly right. He is completely forgotten
for a guy that was a first round pick.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
I know people that have gone to Pacers games and
be like, man, that guy sounds familiar. That's the second course, like,
oh yeah he played Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Uh, I don't really like him. I remember that year
wanting him to play more. I think that was one
of my first big he was used.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I tend to forget, uh, Like, I know you don't
because of your connection, but it's very easy to forget
that Michael Molin was on the team and played a lot, right, Like,
it's very easy to forget. Oh yeah, that guy played
here and then went play play here.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah, he had the cursive. If he missed one shot,
Cayle would not look at him for two weeks.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, that's exactly right. If I'm nine two eight oh
twenty two eighty seven, text machine is seven seven two
seven seven four five to two five four. It is
ask anything Wednesday. We will take your calls. Uh. Later
we'll get Shannon scorecard and we're gonna check in with basketball.
We haven't talked about him in about a week and
a half. Some updates on that as well. This is
Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio. They are

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clean windows, though I'm not gonna lee to tell you professionals. Yes,
they are professionals. No streaks.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah, I'm very impressive.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, i'd give him a shout out. They already left,
They're in and out.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
It didn't take me long.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
You're right, not take very long. They got this whole
thing done quickly. Uh, in and out. One person writes, Matt,
you're a stinking liberal.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
One of those that I'm want to turn you guys off,
turn it off.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
If that's if you listen, I almost can I say
something with love? Yes, my text machine and Twitter is
filled with you folks, not you folks, the vast majority
of your wonderful but with a handful of folks who
get on me about this and that. And I hear
the phrase snowflakes all the time about my side, and
guess what, my side has a lot of snowflakes. We

(15:33):
have a lot of people who get offended by things
that are too quick. But here's what one of things,
those of you who say I'm gonna turn you off,
you are a snowflake like you can't hear one thing
you disagree with without going on, I'm turning this off.
Isn't that, Shannon?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
What a snowflake is yeah, I think that's the definition
of it.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's the very definition is that, like you can't hear
something you disagree. I didn't even watch the debate. I'm
just saying in general, when you write me and say
the real loser of the debate or the ABC moderators,
when you are complaining about the refs you lost, Okay,
you lost, Now was it fair? I don't know, I
didn't watch it. But by its very nature, when you

(16:12):
complain about the moderators or the officials you lost, it's okay,
we lose some, Right, it's right, you lose some. But
when you always every time you lose, say it's you know,
I have callers the postgame show every game, every game
it was the official's fault. Yep, Well here's the problem.
When you do it every game the game where it

(16:34):
is the officials fault, nobody believes that trade, right, Nobody
believes you because you've said it all the time. Man
that applies to him a little bit. When it's always
somebody else's fault, then even if it is somebody else's fault,
people aren't gonna believe you at some point. And that's
my only thing I didn't even watch it. Maybe maybe
the moderators were biased. I don't know. But every time

(16:56):
he loses, he complains that somebody's out to getting or
somebody cheated, or somebody cheated, and that, like, come on,
at some point, sometimes you lose.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
I don't know how to great moderator. But the guy
David Great on twenty twenty. I didn't about the Great
on twenty twenty. I didn't know who either of those.
It's the twenty twenty guess it's his name, David. Something
doesn't he do?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Like the Evening News?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't even know it was. So who does the
major networks evening news? He talks about this game? Lester
Holt still do it? Yes? NBC? Okay? Who does abclack?
Guy does ABC?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
David thought he was name m O I R I
think Mr m O I R you I R you are?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Is that mirror he's usually telling me about murder?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
And then who does CBS? Nora O'Donnell? Ye think?

Speaker 4 (17:46):
So she comes on after Sunday morning.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
There's a guy with gray hair, Bob Saggat, Stevenson rust
Bob Saga.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Are you talking about Bob Schneider? I think he's been
dead for twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, I can see his face when IM sure of
his name. The guy that does it for CBS.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
There's a guy named Bob.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I think his names Bob.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, I think.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I watched my local I get my my Amber phil Pott,
get I get my Lexington out of.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Who doest ones? Now? You got because Nancy Cox is gone?
So who does CBS?

Speaker 6 (18:18):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Sam Dick and Barbara Bailey?

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Amber's on there, Am Amber phil Pott?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
He does? Who does so? Who does l e X?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Larry Smith and Larry Smith?

Speaker 4 (18:29):
He's he's a legend, legend.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
What was that the African American guy?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, he's a sports big career.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm not for sure who they put in? Nanty, Nancy Spot.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Okay, Mary, Joe Perno, no no. And then who's on ABC?
You can say any names that I wouldn't know for sure.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, I know Doug Heide's wife do the morning show
in the noon show.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
But we've learned about them.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, you've told us about them a lot. Who does
the nightly news?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Jeffcorrel does sports love Jeff?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
So, So we're we're we're plugged in to the local news,
to Reddit all right, who's up for ship and ask
anything with Wednesday?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Let's start with Trevor.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Trevor, go ahead, Trevor.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
How you guys doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Doing good? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
M What is your all favorite depression meal? You know
you just feel sad and yeah, you just eat something
that makes it for me?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, yeah, sorry.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
It started last year after Missouri loss. Something about a
beef and cheddar from our beast. This makes me a
little happy.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
All right, I see that. I appreciate. I appreciate the
call that's beef and cheddar. I mind, Skyline. I think
when you're depressed, you want something heavy that will make
you like, fall into bed and go to sleep. Skyline
does that for me? Do you have one? Shennon?

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Probably just a frozen pizza. It's good sometimes when you're
not feeling too happy.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
It makes me.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Happy because you don't have to leave your house, right,
you can just throw it in there. Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I go the sweet route, chocolate chip cookies, whatever, brownie,
whatever I've got laying around, I'm going for that. You
want something makes you happy, make you feel good.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I usually order from somewhere and order way too much.
Probably pizza I'll get like two pizzas breadsticks and just
make myself.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Sick, yeah, even more depressed.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, it's true. It's weird because you don't feel good. Yeah,
and so you just decide. I'll tell you what it
will make me happy. I'll get fatter. That'll be That'll
be the thing. Then happy, Yeah, fat and happy. That's
exactly exactly right. If I'm nine two eighty seven. What's next?

Speaker 6 (20:42):
NOA, NOA, go ahead, Hey Matt for some long time?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Who are what's up?

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well?

Speaker 6 (20:50):
I work in sports analytics, and I have just two
quick questions. One basketball?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Okay, in sports analytics? What does that mean?

Speaker 6 (21:01):
I worked for a company that was in the sports
analytics space, and I'm actually about to start a job
at the NBA.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh well, that's very cool, Okay, got you all right?
Go ahead? Uh?

Speaker 6 (21:12):
For football? What is the Stuke staff use any sort
of analytics? I mean from from just like the arid offense,
to like our punting stats to the defense on third downs?
Like it just seems that just like analytics can alone
can solve a lot of this stuff.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I think they do. There's a first of all, I
know that Mark Stoops has embraced analytics and said, I
want all these numbers, so I don't think they're like
cal who just ignored them. Now the question though, when
they have the numbers, do they then use them to
make the decisions, which ultimately is probably the most important
staff I don't know the answer to that. I think

(21:52):
I think that they have people who do in the staff,
but I don't know if the whole staff does. Mark Pope,
on the other hand, that's gonna be the most analytics
driven staff we've ever had, and maybe the most analytics
driven staff in the country.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, and I'm gonna be gonna be My next question
is if cal One and we says where were nine?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Mark nine?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I put him nine. Natoates is probably a little more.
Mark's probably a nine because there's still some Patino inning
that makes them do some things. But I you're gonna
see they're gonna be telling you numbers and it's gonna
be completely different than what we've been used to. Uh
in the mask standpoint, We'll be right back. TJ. Smith,
personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them pay.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Here's Matt Jones.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. They found nine two, eight,
twenty two eighty seven couple names of random people that
you forget played here. Sasha Kaleia Jones is a really
good one.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I was getting ready to add to our conversation.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Easy to forget he was he that he was here,
but he was here.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Two years, wouldn't he? Another guy is gonna admit was E. J. Montgomery.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't forget that one he played, I mean he played,
he started that last year. It the other one, Cam Fletcher.
Cam Fletcher is one that's easy to forget. And he
dates or did date Angel Rees. He also just went
home during the season. Yeah, he just remember he just left.

(23:26):
Was like, I'll be back in a few weeks. You know,
we'll be here when you get back. Just whenever, whenever
you want to.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
He left the bench during the middle of a game, right,
and then after that game the standards.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, that's that's exactly right. Uh. One person writes on
the text machine, Matt, Uh, what do you think about
the Fayette County School Board deleting their Twitter account and
saying they won't post there anymore. Yeah? I think that's
a mistake. I mean Twitter, Twitter stinks, but uh, you know,
your your job is to get information out, you know,

(24:04):
like I'm not I wish I wasn't. I don't want
to be on there, but for this job, you need
to be on there. And I feel like if you're
the school board or school district, when you need to
get information out, you need to do it in all
places you can. So you should post it on all
social media sites, send it to the news sites.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
So I think that's probably a mistake, Drew. Even did
they give a reason? Are they getting a lot of
bitcoin dms?

Speaker 2 (24:26):
I get it big coins are just like you know,
among other dms. Oh yeah, well I.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Don't know if they gave it.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Like on Twitter, where you get like you see message requests,
which is people you don't know Shannon writing you right,
and it's always like how are you doing today, buddy?
And it's just a picture of someone, and like there's
like thousands of those and a.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Lot of I visited your website. I like your website, Yes, Like,
can I help you promote your You know it's all spam.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
You cannot eat them, but that's my answer in my head.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, yeah, I mean you know you cannot, but but
but yes, I mean, I guess that's what it was.
But if I were in the school district, I would
still say, ultimately, your job is to get information out,
so you need to use all the platforms that exist.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know, as a parent. There's been a couple of
times where I've gone to their Twitter account to try
to get information, and I remember it was like there
was a there were buses that were running lake there
was a bad wreck I think on the interstates, and
buses got stuck on the interstate. There was also a
time though, where a student brought a weapon to Frederick
Douglas High School, and I remember getting on their Twitter account.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know, county schools they text info too, write, don't
they don't. They send a text and everybody gets it.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's an automatic get an email and a text, especially
like weather delays and things like that and welcome back
to school.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
See that's such a change from when when we were
kids and we just had to turn on w m
i K radio and hope the guy would tell us
we were out of school. Shadded like now they now
they get text directly to their phone.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
I remember watching on TV it would scroll the counties
and alphabet the order and you would wait for your
county to come.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Out, and now it's much much better. But yeah, answered
that is they probably should stay on.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
It'd be alphabetical and it would I would turn it
on and catch the county after mine. It's like I
gotta sitd Hopkins is on there.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
But what the joy you got when you saw your
county on there?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Uh? Eight, I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. Still haven't
found a guy in London. No, there was a story
that the people of Livingstone, which is the town I
guess we keep saying it's London, but I think he
was actually closer to Livingston. Uh that that all the
business in town, like everything shut down. Yeah, like everybody
is staying in their house locked down. That's uh like

(26:38):
how long? Can they can't do that forever? Right?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Like?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
At some point they're gonna have to continue on with life, right.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah, But I kind of get it. If I were
in the area with a guy that's just shooting randomly,
you know, I'm not gonna be out doing my nightly walk.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
So how long? How long would you go Shannon? Before
you would say Okay, I feel comfortable enough like going
and just living my regular life.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I would say maybe a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't like, so two weeks, you would you would
close anything down for two weeks.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I mean you got to be cautious, right, because what
if you don't and this guy just starts opening and
fire again on people, then they're gonna say, well, why
didn't you have a closed I would rather do it
out of an abundant time.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, you don't want to make the mistake. Yeah, I
don't know. But like, kids are pretty high, he's not
Livingston anymore.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Chands are pretty high. Yeah, he just don't know here.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
But I mean should everyone everywhere? I mean he could
be anywhere? So like how like should everyone in eastern
Kentucky and everyone in central Kentucky just close everything down?
I mean like he could literally be anywhere.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, I'm not going out in mowing my lawn the
next couple of weeks if I'm in that area, you know,
like I'm not gonna go out and be doing yard work.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
So okay, I don't know though, I mean I'm not
If people are scared, I don't want to tell them, like,
you know, don't be But it's just an interesting question
of chances is not there? But you Yeah, we have
no idea where he is, and but chances are high
he's not staying in the town where this occurred. But

(28:08):
at the same time, I mean, if you're there and
you're nervous, I mean, but I just don't know how
long you can do It's been five days. I don't
know how long you can live your life, Like, I.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Don't think there's a magic number or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, well, but but it's a practical They're gonna have
to make a decision at some point. How long are
you gonna have your schools club?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
That's what I was gonna say. The schools, I guess
because there was a word. I guess he's got connection
with a couple of different schools, so they're keeping those,
you know, like he had kids in one school, step
kids in another, or something like that, so they're trying
to keep those school systems closed. I can see that,
you know, for fear that maybe he would come again.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
How long are you gonna do that?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
How long you're gonna do it?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't know. I mean, you can't. It's sort of
I mean, it's a similar question on a much smaller
scale of what everybody dealt with in COVID, Like, how
long are you going to live like that? At some
point you have to you have to kind of nod.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
The good thing is they can do virtual learning because
of COVID, right, they have the ability to do.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, but that just I mean, I think one thing
we've learned from COVID is that stuff doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
It was awful.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I mean, the one thing that everyone should know is
for whether closing the schools for as long as we
did was a good or bad decision. The virtual learning
stuff doesn't work. It just doesn't. I mean, am I right?
That's pretty much universally agreed upon.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Now, yes, it was a disaster.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
People who have kids, nobody thought that worked. Well.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Oh they're on their leftop for like an hour, maybe
a day.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean, it's hard enough. I teach it. It's hard
enough to keep people's attention when you're standing right in
front of them. Sometimes I just want to dance to
get everybody's attention again, Like, I can't imagine having to
do that with thirty people on a screen and some
of them be seven years old, like Drew. I just
can't see that working.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Then we fumbled work from home pretty bad. With everyone
bragging about how little they work.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
By the way, I you are to find an issue,
I lean right on work from home. The work from
home thing. Stop. You're never going to convince me people
work nearly as hard from home, of course, not like
when I see Elon Musk most of the time, I'm like, dude,
shut up. But on that I agree with him. Like

(30:09):
the work from home, it's not the same. I mean,
if I hope people get to do it, if you want.
But I think all of us, if we look in
the mirror, we do not work as hard from home
as we would if we were there.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Well, remember all the tiktoks of people that would just
brag Like I checked my email and then I went
outside and met my friends and went to brunch, and
then I came back and checked the email. Everyone completely
fumbled having that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah, so I don't buy that at all. Who's next
to a lot TikTok? Jim, Jim, go ahead, Jim, A Hi,
how are you all doing today? Good? What's going on?

Speaker 7 (30:43):
Well? Two questions. I'm off uklum and first time caller
who and I live up in northern Kentucky. But I
have two questions for you all. Do you think because
it seems like I mean, I've been a season ticket
holder since I graduated in ninety two, so I'm showing
my age. I'm old enough to know when Ryan Lemon
worked at wl X eight games.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Okay, so that's your question.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Oh sorry, Do you think that Stoops has been prepared
in important games and prepares his players? And also do
you also think that he hamstrings and handcuffs is offensive coordinators?
And I'll hang up.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, I mean, I think the players most of the
time and have have been prepared. I think that I
do think the co coordinators. I think I think the
teams are prepared. Now you know, do they execute and
does I don't know, Drew, I don't know what you think.
My problem with Stoops has never been like pregame prep. Okay,

(31:42):
that was a problem I had with Cal at the end.
I didn't feel like the players had game plans necessarily
knew what was going on. I did think Cal sometimes
was good at adjusting in the game. I actually think
Stoops is the opposite. I think they are very prepared
going into the game. I don't I think his weakness
is pivoting in the game. That's always been my feeling.
What about yours?

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, I agree with that a little bit. But people
saying like, does he get them ready for big games?
I mean, think about every time we've played Louisville, there's
not a big game on the schedule in Kentucky is
fired up for those That's why they've won so many.
They seem to care about it a lot more than
the other side. And you know he's got other big
wins Florida, LSU, So I think you gets them ready.
I think it's more so we see that talent gap

(32:23):
when you're playing the Georgia's and the other big teams.
But none of that is an excuse for whatever happened
last Saturday.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Do you do you think he has them prepared for games?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I think they're prepared. My problem was they just didn't
chill up, didn't compete. It's like they didn't were not
they just didn't bring it. And we talked about, well
they didn't bring it. That might be preparation. Maybe maybe
that is part of it, but we've kind of gone
into this this week. There's always like one game where
they just kind of lay an egg and for I
don't know what that reason is, but.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
It's usually not the second game of the year, and
it's usually not South Carolina, although it has been a
little bit in the last two years.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Your first SEC game, I mean, I think they do.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I mean there's two different kinds of preparation. There's the
mental what's our game plan? I think UK does a
pretty good job of getting these guys to know the
game plan and be set sure. Then there's the are
you mentally ready to play? I generally think Stoops has
been pretty good at that too. I don't think that
was good Saturday. Now why I don't really know either,

(33:24):
But I've always thought Stoops's weakness as a coach has
been in game adjustments. Always, even even the years we
were good, I've always thought that was his weakness. They
you know, think about the coming out of half and
how the other I mean even this game it was
ten to same, it's still a game coming out of half,
and then we just get run off the field in
the second half.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, some in game stuff like actually we scored against
Southern Miss, but I think about the before the first
half or before halftime of pretty much every game.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's been awful these years. They did score in Southern Miss.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
But That's why I can actually remember one bush Hampon
punching the end zone before that. The end of the
second quarter has been brutal for a long time.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Brutal last three or four minutes the second quarter. I
just seem to give up a what over the years? Yeah,
our numbers have We.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Heard Freddy say that the middle eight, the last four
of the first but I.

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Speaker 8 (34:48):
We'll be ready, little Darryl Worley, Right, make sure you
haven't forgotten.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
We have not the what twenty third anniversary of nine
to eleven today? Somebody asked on the text machine seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four Matt,
what would you rank the biggest events that have happened
in your lifetime as far as how you remember them? Well,
historically that's a different conversation. But the where was I

(35:22):
when it happened moment nine eleven is clearly number one
for me. The Challenger exploding is probably number two. Oh yes,
I have a very distinct memory of sitting and watching
the Challenger explosion. But nine to eleven is clearly number one.

(35:43):
You know. The thing I'll always remember as I was
in law school, and I went to the library after
I saw it, and there was a girl crying at
a table, and I started talking to her. And she
had a brother that worked in the building. Oh, and
she didn't know what the she had The brother ended
up living, but at the moment she didn't know, and
she was crying watching the coverage, trying to figure out
if her brother was alive. That's I will always remember that.

(36:08):
I'm trying to think what else.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
The SEC tournament when everything just started shutting down for.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
The SEC tournament? Are you talking about the cod for COVID. No,
we're at a game and everything just started shutting down.
The day that morning we're in the conference room when
Shannon steals the hand sanitizer from the SEC officer trying
to help. Yes, uh no, that morning when Tom Hart
comes in and the governor and everything slow. Yeah, and
the night before when Rudy Gobert touches Trump closes the

(36:36):
border and Tom hanks there. It was a moment of
is the world falling apart? Over those periods of time? Yeah,
what else sticks.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Out those the top three? But then like for me,
like I know the Oklahoma City bombing that day.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
See, I don't remember that as well, but that was
that very powerful for you.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
O J.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Simpson. J. Simpson's a big one. OJ. The O. J.
Simpson car chase and the verdict and the verdict. Yeah
unless you that's one if you live through you certainly remember. Yeah.
I remember where I was for both of those. That's
a good one.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
I was young and I can remember them cutting into
like fourth grade, we're watching it on TV.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Oh yeah, the uh OJ's you know, in turn OJ's
a big one. I mean, it doesn't matter like the
rest of these, but it certainly captured America.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
It's probably fourth on our list because it did everybody.
You were glued to the TV. They had watch parties
to watch that verdict.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
When it was for me, I would actually think I
might even put it like nine eleven is number one. Yeah,
for me, probably challenges number two because I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, number two.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
And then I kind of wonder if OJ's number three
even more than because it was just such a like
the whole country you followed.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
That uh verdict and then Bronco. I think Bronco Chase.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Bronco to me was bigger because you couldn't believe O. J.
Simpson was in a Bronco and you didn't know what
was going to happen.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Right on the list is just when Trump got shot
at just recently. I mean everyone was tuned into the
coverage trying to figure out everything going on there.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, I see, I wasn't around the television were that,
So I don't don't. I didn't really.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Remember Reagan got when it first happened. I mean, everybody
was glued into whatever they could tune into.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Reagan, John Lennon. Both of those were big deals.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, John Lynn. They broke into Monday night football, they did.

Speaker 9 (38:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, So who's up next, Shannon Justin? Justin? Go ahead, Joe, Hey,
what's up guys?

Speaker 9 (38:21):
When you guys were talking about when an offensive line
got dominated fine defensive line, I ra reminded of the
Iowa Music City bulgaan that was just just like the
South Carolina game but didn't have an attention.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, I don't I didn't see that. It's quite the
same because we were we didn't have a quarterback that game.
I mean we were. It was piniful offense, But I
don't know that it was just on the offensive line.
That was just we just didn't have an offense. Remember
we were justin Wade. It was a quiet I mean, yeah,
you talk about one in a few years who played
starting quarterback for Kentucky and the Music City Bowl against

(38:58):
Iowa in twenty years, see if people can remember it
was Destined.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
White or with starting running back Jutan MacLean.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, I just I think that was a bigger thing
for me and as to why that happened. But go ahead,
and I have a question.

Speaker 9 (39:11):
We used to live in Tennessee right on the Kentucky
border by Hawkinsville, but we moved out here to Missouri,
and we're big Kentucky fans all our lives. And the
only college is around here is Arkansas Oklahoma now in Missouri,
and we went to the Missouri Kentucky game.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
A couple of years back.

Speaker 9 (39:28):
Oh, that was pretty hostile. But I was wondering what
game we should go to or if we should travel
to rough.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
For this season? What game would you go.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
To Oklahoma or at Missouri?

Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's well, we don't play Missouri this year. Are you
talking about basketball?

Speaker 9 (39:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Basketball, I'd say Oklahoma just because like we've never even
never been, like we've never played there. I appreciate the call.
I think it'll be exciting to play in the new arena.
I think it'll be exciting to you know, I don't
know if they're going to be good or not, but
I think they'll be there for that game because it's Kentucky.
So if you're talking about Oklahoma Missouri, we'll play Missouri. Well,
we'll play them both probably all the time, but Oklahoma

(40:05):
would be the one.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
I would go to That's it. That's the answer. Yeah,
first time there, it'll be it'll be crazy. It'll be
a crazy atmosphere for Kentucky to go to Oklahoma for
the first time. So I think, yeah, if you're picking
between those two, that's the one you want to go to.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
The case for at Missouri is it's a Saturday. I
think Oklahoma's a big week and it's the last game
of the regular season. We're ending the year in Columbia.
Missouri really phils random.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
But we also will need to have had a good
year for people like like, if we haven't had a
great year, their crab might not care. Whereas I believe
Oklahoma's pretty early in our in our schedule.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
I think it's in February. I know exactly why.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, I like for me personally, I like going to
new places. But so I think Oklahoma, of those two
would be the one that I would pick. Who's next, Jordan, Jordan,
Go ahead, Jordan. Hey, guys, gotta ask anything.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
Okay, So if you woke up tomorrow morning and you
were blind, what is the most most complex task.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
You could do without being able to see? So, like
no preparation, you got to traverse your own house and everything.
I feel pretty confident I could.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Probably make a sandwich. But that's probably where I.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Draw the line.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
You know, I appreciate the call. I think I've told
this before, but when I was on the DC Circuit,
there was a judge named Judge Tatle who was blind
and he would get on the metro in Maryland and
come to the courthouse in d C by himself on
the subway.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
I sit, and he did it every day, and he
was a federal judge, and I used to just be
amazed by but he remembered the amount of steps, he
knew exactly where he was going. And I remember thinking, man,
you must be able to pick up some amazing like
if that's sure. And he did it every single day,
it's amazing. That is that is amazing. I don't think
I could do one tenth of one hundredth percent of that.

(42:00):
We'll take a break, talk some basketball.