2025-04-11- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome into Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin here filling in
one last time for Matt Jones and everyone else that
took vacation this week. I got another fun show planned
on a Friday with Billy our Sports Here. We're in studio.
I just set down like thirty seconds ago, so I'm
a little out of breath, but we're gonna have a
fun time Billy Today, we're as usual sponsored by TJ Smith,
personal injury lawyer. What will TJ do with If you

(00:52):
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absolutely make them pay. We want to hear from you
on the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line eight five nine
to A two two eight seven, we'll have our Whiskey
Thief call of the day. And if you want to
text Matt on the a Vision Autoglass text machine, he's
still over looking at Tulips in Amsterdam with his fellowship friends.
You can reach out to him there. But it gonna
be a fun one. I had a big plan for

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you know, Lexington turns two hundred and fifty this year, Billy.
I don't know if you've seen them all, but town's
all about Lexton's birthday coming up. So I wanted to
do a celebration of Lexington. I even invited the Mayor
to come on and give her some of her favorite
Lexington things. She was gonna be here at eleven, and
she asked if she could do ten fifteen, and it's like, okay,
we'll make that work. And then the Kayden Lewis news

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dropped in the middle of the night, so I hope
she has a Kayden Lewis takes when she gets here.
But Mayor Linda Gordon will be joining us. Like I said,
we'll get her takes on Lexington. We'll share some of
our favorite things about Lexington. And I have a ticket giveaway.
You gotta giveaway today. Tick. Actually, I wasn't gonna say
ticket giveaway is gonna surprise everyone. I have a giveaway.
Just pretend I didn't say ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
We'll scratch that out. But I was trying to think
of a game. I was over here in the other
room coming up with it on the fly. I think
I'm gonna reward people that listen to the whole show. Okay,
I like that. So I'm gonna give a buzzword in
each segment, and you gotta know the of the first hour.
You gotta know all four buzzwords, one for each segment.
The second hour, we'll take calls and you cannot participate
unless you know all four of the buzzwords. Oh okay,

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So if you're out there, just write it down. If
you're driving, make a mintal note until you can pull over.
It won't be complicated words, just one word a segment.
I'll let you know which word it is, and then
we'll have some calls and one lucky caller will will
you know win if they're.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
The mayor of Lexington and a giveaway On the final
day of Drew Palooza.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I mean, what more could you want? You came up
with a game we're gonna try to get to. Probably
won't because I overprogram all of this and we got
thrown off with you Kaden Lewis news. But it's gonna
be a fun day. I guess we're calling it Drew
Palooza's last ride, my last last time in charge. But
I guess we do have to start with the big news. Think. Yeah,
we've had a lot of news, a lot of basketball

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this week. I was excited to get extra goofy today,
but yep, more news dropped last night. First, I want
to apologize to at Kevin Miller seven, longtime listener. He
tweets us a lot. After yesterday's show, he tweeted, Drew
Palooza started with great news and the commitment. Hopefully it
ends with good news in a commitment on Friday. Well, Kevin, At,
we actually went the other direction. Instead of a plus

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one today, Kentucky basketball is a minus one. We learned
last night to Kayden Lewis, the four star point guard
from DC who has been committed to Kentucky since November.
He looked around at that roster and said, I'm out.
He decommitted from the Cats. He's the number thirty two
incoming freshman in the class fifth rank point guard, a
guy we were very excited about having he and Jasper Johnson.

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Pope spoke hoghy of them as a future backcourt, but
last night he stepped away and reopened his recruitment. He
will not be a Wildcat. He put a little memo
out that said, I'll always be grateful to Coach Pope
and the entire Kentucky staff for believing in me. Is
clear Kentucky is a special place with an amazing fan base.
But as I reflect on what is best for my future,
I have decided to reopen my recruitment. It's an incredibly

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difficult decision, but after a lot of discussion with my
family and people I trust, I feel it's necessary. It's
not in any way a reflection of negative feelings towards
Coach Pope in Kentucky. I appreciate your understanding exciting for
what the future holds. We didn't see that one coming,
Billy No, and it's disappointing.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I mean, this is a freshman that was going to
come in that understood what it means to be a
part of BBN. His family was a big fan of
what the Kentucky basketball program does in the stage that
it sets for others.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
But I'm not that worried.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
I have the confidence that Pope will be able to
reload find another person in the transfer portal. Ultimately it
will be okay. But overall disappointing that he wasn't willing
to compete. I found a quote when he signed that
he said, they want me to come in and play
a priority role right away. There's a starting spot and
he wants me to take it. I want to come
in and run the team. And obviously with the addition

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of Jalen Lowe, I guess he just thought that he
wasn't going to be the starting point guard.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah. My take on it is it definitely hurts to
lose a kid that was committed for five We're all
excited about him. He was probably gonna I know he
said he wanted to start right away. I think that
was unlikely he was. I think the plan was to
make him the starting point guard his sophomore year in
twenty six twenty seven, after a kind of a year
and being in the system as a backup. I think
Pope was supposed to go out and get a senior,

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and when you miss on Dent and maybe some others,
he goes and gets Jayalen low who's a junior to here.
Now that's thrown off the math in the timeline. So
my guess on the outside looking in is Kayden Lewis
was ready to back up whoever they got out of
the portal, learn and then be the guy in two years.
But now with Low here, you know he could end
up being a two year point guard. That probably is
the plan. So it stinks to lose him. I'm not

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going to act like it's nothing, but I don't know
that it'll have a huge impact on next season. I
think they'll go out, they'll find someone in the portal
that's excited to come play ten fifteen minutes at Kentucky,
be a good backup to low They got other guards
that can do it. But you know, it does stink
overall because we were excited to have him, and I
think he was going to be the guy two years
from now. I suppose we won't really know how it

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shakes out. So he's a sophomore and Lowe's a senior
to know how he won that one. Because right now
he's a freshman. He could show up and be a
freshman phenom right, or he could be someone that needs
some time. But it did stink seeing that news pop
up late last night. Yeah, we'll see where he falls.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
You know, there's been rubblings about Yukon and that was
in his recruitment back when he committed back to Kentucky.
But I'm with you, I think that Pope will find
somebody in the portal. Do you call kirkriesa back?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean that, I'll admit that popped in my head
pretty quickly, because they're gonna need that type. They're gonna
need an old guy who just wants to get a
little NIO money in his last ride, doesn't have to
be the star, happy to come off the bench, maybe
can go chase a final four. There's probably several people
in college basketball that aren't even in the portal that
would love that spot. So I don't think they'll have

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any trouble filling it. But I did think of Kirk
right away. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I mean, maybe that's like getting back with your ex,
but I don't know if there were hard feelings there.
I feel like he loved the university, but Matt has
eluded some maybe things behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I don't know. It's it's just a strange time.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean, the portals still open for another what eleven
days or so, and and guys that are entering the
portal maybe haven't even done that yet. So it's just
the strange time. But you know, drew Palooza ending with
a d commitment. I did not see that coming after
all the positive momentum we had.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Drew.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I feel bad. You know, we've added I think two players.
You're still plast one three players. Yeah, well if you count,
wasn't there one last Saturday? And lo Low was on Saturday,
So I'm weekend. I'm still We're still in the green.
But as as keV Miller seven suggested, you know, I
wanted to come here and one one last addition to

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the roster before I disappear. And I just feel like
I'll let everyone down.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well that and if we don't get to alien talk
in the second hour, you'll let some more people.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
People are mad about that. Again, I have way too
much in my notes. I wanted to do Aliens. I
really want to talk about Lexington. As I said, the
mayor is going to be joining us soon. We were
shooting to do that eleven, but she needed to come
in a little earlier, which is fine. We'll get her
a Kaden.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Lewis takes and alien takes.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
No, we're just going to talk aliens with Mayor Linda Gorton.
But it's gonna be a fun show. Like I said,
you want to listen to the whole show. I'm going
to drop a buzzword every action. We'll just do it
right now. What's your first first segment? If you're driving,
do not write it. I get ready, right, buckle up,
put your phone down. If you're driving, just memorize it
or tell it to everyone in the car with you,
memorize it together, and then write it down when you

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get parked. But uh, just for this segment, the buzzword
is lady, lady, lady. It's pretty easy, right you remember lady?
Easy easy. I'm not trying to like confuse anyone, you know,
not to really use your brain here, Just lady. Who's that?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Lady?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Exactly? Lady? Remember lady. If you're listening, you'll need to
remember it in the second hour if you want to
win our contest. But yeah, we're going to get to
a lot about Lexington celebrating that two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
I want to list some my favorite restaurants and places
because people ask me all the time, where do you
like to go? Where should I go before the game?
What do you do in your free time? And I

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try to respond to a lot of them. But now
that I have this platform, I'll just tell you and
you all can figure it out and go from there. Billy,
you haven't lived in Lexington long, but I know you
like living here. I'm gonna get some of your your
favorite places, what you like to do. I got a
couple spots, not all golf courses. And you can't just
read our sponsors. I mean, I know we like our sponsors. Damn.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Okay, Well then I'll get it out of the way now,
like you should go to a Talx and Poppies and
all the great places.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I guess, John, Yeah, yeah, No, I mean we
love the ones that support us. Those are genuine. But
we're gonna branch out and tell you about some others
that we don't always tell people.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Sounds good.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Maybe maybe some Lexington ghosts those exists. I could combine
you know that I saw on Reddit, which is the
most reliable website on Earth. Earlier this week that people
were freaking out about a UFO over Lexington.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Over Lexington.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think it was just someone with a drone. But
you know, we'll get whacky if we need to here
on a Friday, maybe do some alien ghosts Lexington talk,
but be a big Lexington Day. We'll do a little
more about a kayd and Lewis. Like I said, Linda
Gordon will be here in here soon. It's gonna be
a fun last Friday before the boys get back. I
actually heard from Ryan Lemon last night, so I know
he's alive. He asked me a question about the Masters,

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just out of the blue. That's the only thing he's communicated,
so I I correct. I answered that. But that's that
was my at least proof of life on Ryan and
Shannon down there. Yeah, I saw a seagull pooped on
him yesterday. Oh I didn't see that.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, Shannon posted a picture.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, I did see a picture. Yoga girl posted a
picture of Ryan and Shannon together. Are they holding hands? Yeah?
I mean it's a big ocean, guys, you don't have
to stand that close together when you're in it. It
looked like they were hugging. I saw that twenty yards
out in the water. They're they're pretty close to uh
getting a banana boat and floating around. I think looks
like the guys are having a good time. Ryan also

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tweeted a picture of him eating a sandwich and Shannon
eating a sandwich. I don't know if it was blurry
because he had mayo on his lens or if that's
kind of how Ryan's vision looks after a few marks today,
But it looks like they're having fun before they join
us next week. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Somebody said that he took that picture with a seashell
and it kind of looks like, well, we do miss him.
We've had fun, but it'd be good to get him
back on Monday. Let's let's take a quick break because
I'm a little worried about running into the uh the
herd break with with Mary. Yeah we are going to Yeah,
that would be the worst. So let's let's cut out
a little earlier now so we have more time with her.
Talk a little lexton. Like I said, big show plans,

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So tune in and remember, lady, we'll be right back.
Welcome back in to Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin with
Billy Rudlige on the last day of Drew Palooza. And
now we're happy to be joined by our by our
special guest, Lexington Mayor Linda Gordon. Linda, it's good to
have you in here.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Thanks for making the trip up to the iHeart Studios
to celebrate Lexingon with us for a segment.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, I'm thrilled to be here.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
I didn't know it was a palooza though, well it
Drew Paloza.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That wasn't the plan, but listeners named it that, so
we just went with it.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
It works.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
We'll get you a T shirt on the way out
and maybe a poster. But I wanted we're talking about
Lexington today and who knows Lexingon as well as you,
so I wanted to get some things, uh not so serious,
just more things like what are your favorite restaurants, what's this?
What's that? But I want to start with the excitement
around you. K basketball. You're a UK graduate if I'm
not mistaken. I don't know if you get to attend

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many games. But are you Are you caught up in
the Mark Pope pipe after the last season?

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh I am.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
I am right there with everybody. I bleed blue. My
husband's a graduate, our kids are graduates.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
We are all in.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
We go to a lot of the games, and Mark
Pope is he's a phenomenal coach and a phenomenal human being.
And when he first came, I went last summer to
visit him and welcome him to our city, welcome him back, right,
and he one of the one of the first things
he said is how can I help you? He's such

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a he has a giving mentality, but he is also
a man, I think, a very high character, don't you.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Absolutely we all see that. I think that's part of
the excitement. It's been revamped up here lately.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, and so we're gonna see what this new team
looks like.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
It's kind of fun, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's hard to keep up when we had news drop
last night. Now, I'm not going to have you break
down the I don't want to put you on the spot.
I'm sure you have strong opinions about the roster right now,
but you mentioned mentioned welcoming Pope back to Lexton. My
next question is I want to pretend like Billy here
does not know anything about Lexington. Just pretend he's an

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alien that has never heard of our beautiful city. How
would you describe Lexington to to young billy here?

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Well, first, I would say, where in the heck have
you been? We are a great city, billy. Lots of food, restaurants,
local restaurants, lots of uh facilities for bike riding, pedestrians.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Going to ride your bike.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
The the restaurant scene, I think is just phenomenal here.
It's highly educated city. The downtown's vibrant, it is alive.
I've had some unnamed other mayors in town after five
and they have been shocked at how busy our downtown is.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
It's really great. A lot going on sports.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
If you like sports, this is the place to be
because we've got it all here.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, I'm gonna put you on the spot with some
some restaurants. I consider myself a bit of a foodie.
You know, if you're going out, whether it be meeting
with other mayors or just taking the family out, can
you name drop some some places you like to go?
Is that putting you on the spot?

Speaker 6 (14:21):
You're asking me to name drop in a city with
all kinds of I mean Italian, I have my favorite
Italian restaurants.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
You want me to really say them, don't you.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, I know you love them all, but maybe.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Sa so so uh fella.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
And my daughter's high school class started Goodfellas on the street.
We all love good Fellas, of course everybody does. We've
I've got my favorite place for ahi tuna.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Do you like ah?

Speaker 6 (14:49):
Of course, my gosh, We've got it all. Brunch places,
We've got after hours places go have some appetizer and
a drink. And you really, I know you're dying for
me to say that.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's okay. I understand if we don't. We don't want
you to put others.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Because so many that's true.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
How about when you were at UK a student just
a few years ago, were there any places that you
like to go that are maybe gone and you wish
you could bring back. Did you have any places you'd
frequent when you were in school?

Speaker 5 (15:18):
There?

Speaker 6 (15:18):
There are so On South Lime, there was a place
called Doodle's Pizza. Now this is going way back, and
Doodles had the thickest cheese on top.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Of course I love cheese.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
But at that time my husband and I were dating
and we were young, and I could share a large
pizza with it right on. So that one's gone. I really,
We've thought about that a lot over the years.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
And.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Did you ever I shouldn't maybe mention this, but only
the people who are a long time ago will remember
shoes shoes s. I think it was s h U
E S or something. It was right across from the
Med Center and on Friday night, all the nursing students
which I was one, and the med students would go

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and they had pizza and big pictures of beer and
it was the end of the week and the stress
levels were high.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
It was fun place to go.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
You know, I don't know if you have the power
to do this, but I miss the old KA layer
that was by Hagen Hall, which also isn't here. I
don't know if you can pull any stream. There's there's
a new k layer, which is fine, but I missed
the original maybe the original ovids, those were good ones.
If you had like a free day with no obligations,
what do you think you would do in Lexington?

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, well, the first thing is I'm not setting an
alarm clock. We all kind of get that right. I
won't set an alarm clock. And then I'll have a
leisurely morning having my coffee and reading the paper and
I like to work a puzzle. I mean a you know,
crossword puzzle.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I do the New York Times Mini every morning.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
And then I would probably have a friend or two
or three and go out to brunch at one of
my favorite places, take a long walk. I like to
walk in the Arboretum. Have you ever been over there?
Of course yep, and just kind of putts around, read
a book.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
I might go to a movie. I love movies. I
don't have a lot.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Of time for them, but since I have a day
off compliments of.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Years, yeah, no obligations, yep, it.

Speaker 6 (17:29):
Would be great that way. And then I'd probably go
out to dinner with my husband.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
We would not.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Cook too many options. Right here, it's Keenland season. You
mentioned you're busy and don't get days off, But do
you get to enjoy Keenland? I do.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
I will be going in a day or two. I
can't remember exactly when, but I love Keenland, and you
know Keenland. So when I grew up, I was growing
up in Ohio. I'm an import A long time ago,
and no one up there could understand why do you
talk about horses because they're not horse country like we are,

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and it's very special, and Keenland has this beautiful new
edition which I can't wait to see. Plus they give
back big time to our community. They give a ton
of money to nonprofits and other entities. They're a real
good community partner. But I love the racing, don't you.

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It's very special, and whenever I go, I always like
to go down to the rail at least once and
hear the snorting and the hoof beats as the horses
come by there. It's just very it's really unique.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Winners because I'm not I can pick the last place
horse anytime you want, but I don't do well well.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
You have to look at the name.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Of course, if there's a gray, you you know you
pick the gray. But I'm not very good at it.
I just do it more on sentimental things that I like.
So it's good though. It's really fun.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You mentioned giving back to the community. I've told my
listeners this week. I recently accepted a acting role at
the Lexa and Children's Theater. In fact, my costume fitting
is right after the show. This is a big deal.
And I saw in past performances you were listed as one.
Do you did you do that? Do you have any tips,
any acting tips.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I did that twice.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
So I was in The Little Mermaid and then before that,
I was in Alice in Wonderland, Okay, and that was
really fun. That's where I met Jeremy Ashby the chef.
It's where I met Peter Bainiac who was a ver
Old leader. Craig Camak was in it. We had we
had some fun times. And you know, there was a

(19:43):
there was a little tea ceremony with the teapot and
it might have had some special bluegrass tea.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh I hope I get some blue grass tea. And Romeo?

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Oh is it Romeo and Julie?

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Are you rome I did not get Romeo. I don't.
I don't think I had the jaw structure to be Romeo. Yeah,
I'm count Parish. I think I think I die. I
think I think I'm going. I don't know that to
script yet. That was my next question, Well, now, how
prepared do I need to be for this?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Well? Not real prepared?

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Okay, good cool, But what you need to do is
speak loudly, which you can do okay, so everybody hears you.
And then the bad thing was during Alice in Wonderland,
a fella in the audience passed out, so the whole
thing stopped. It kind of you know, it was kind
of bad. They had to get him out with ems

(20:33):
and then we restarted the play.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Wow, was it from the blue grass tea? Did he
have too much bluegrass tea?

Speaker 5 (20:38):
No, he was He was an observer. He was not
in it.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
I tell you just have fun and you you know,
know a little bit about your lines, but I shouldn't
say that.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
They probably want you to memorize.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Well. We had lexing and actor Josh Hopkins on earlier
in the week and he told me I should already
know my lines at this point because it's in two weeks.
And he told me to bring out my drewness. And
I don't really know what that means, but you know,
he's a Hollywood actor, So I actually like your advice better.
If you'll be fine, just have some of the teeth.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's it's a great it's a great thing.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
And you know, knowing you're in that, I maybe ought
to come see that cackle from the audience, right, this could.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Be the beginning of an acting career. I might leave,
I might join the other guys and just leave Billy here.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
You might love it.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Speaking of the other guys, you've had fun on the
show before, You've been very good to us. You named
it Shannon the due day when he did his fifty
mile walk. We were proud of him and one of
my favorites. You and the wrestler Kane.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Oh my god, of.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Course I remember. I'll grew up watching wrestling and there
you are standing next to Kane and you all had
a bet. Huh I forget, did you? I forgot? Yeah?
Okay do we?

Speaker 6 (21:47):
He had to put on a UK T shirt and
of course we had to find one that would fit.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
He's about twice as tall as me. Right, Oh yeah,
but that was fun.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
I won the bet and he put on the T
shirt and I'll never forget.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
We've got a picture of from the back him.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
I'm standing beside him and he's showing off his UK blue.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
I was so happy.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'd have had a really hard time wearing.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh yeah, and you could take Kane if a fight
broke out too, Oh yeah, we got well, we had
your back.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah, I you know, I would have to think about
my technique. I used to, so you probably don't know,
little known I have a brown belt in karate yekwondo.
I could still do my roundabout kick.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
We're up and gets a hard break. I hate to
get cut off, but thank you for coming in today.
Really appreciate. We're going to keep talking about Lexington for
everyone listening at home.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
The keyword in this segment is universal. So right that
down we're doing. We're doing a game. But thank you again, Mayor.
We really appreciate. I wish we could stay longer. We
got to take a quick break, and Billy and I
will be right back.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Thanks Drew.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I am not Matt Jones. We'll keep correcting that this
week until I can get my own little bumper there, Billy.
Maybe for next Drew Palooza, we can have that deep voice.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Gmbilly is on it.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, good job. I will say, Billy, you feel like
you're you're weighed down today. It looks like you're weighed
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Speaker 3 (23:51):
Sound like stone Cold a little bit there?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
What what? That was fun having Mayor Gordon. I wish
we could have had her a little longer. That heard
break and Waite's for no one. But she had some
meetings to get to stuff a lot more important than us.
But it is a fun time around Lexington with the
two hundred and fiftieth celebration going on. There's events all month,
next month, all summer. Go to visit lex dot com
to check it out. She gave us these very cool

(24:15):
two fifty lex pins. Yes you wearing yours yet? No,
not yet, I'll put it on.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Though.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
She is very nice, but I did feel like she
was a little bit like your parent saying who their
favorite kid is with the restaurants.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, I was trying. I was trying.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
I didn't want to say names, but I understand that
you don't want to put anybody down.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I thought about continuing to press her a little bit,
but it was clear she didn't want to name specific restaurants.
But it was fun hearing from her. As we continue
the Lexton celebration, let's just talk a little Lexington before
we get to the second hour, and we'll get wacky
and talk about golf and other things. We'll do a
whole hour of Lexington. Billy, you know you're you sponsor Italx,
which I'm sure you love love. I celebrated a birthday

(24:53):
there a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it right
here on the corner. We could walk and get lunch
there today if you want to. But let's say you
and Marissa are going out out a place that doesn't
pay you. What what do you all like to do
in lection? I know you haven't been here too many years,
but you've been here long enough to get a feel
for the place.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, it's funny because the Tallex was our favorite restaurant
before I ever sponsored it, So that's where it initially went,
but I'm not saying that just because I'm a company man.
A couple other places that we've been to. I think
there's some obvious ones when you go for fine dining,
like Jeff Rubies and Tony's, But like when you find
like the Carsons, when you come here and you find
like a Ramsey's, maybe for like a lunch, I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's something with restaurants with the guy's name in it.
I feel like that there's something to it there. So
those are in my top three. Of course you've partaken
in those, right, I know you're a regular Jeff Rubies.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'll pop in there from time to time. You're right
about Carsons, though, it's anytime anyone asks for suggestion, it's
usually top of my list. Also, it helps that it's downtown.
Most of the time people are asking me they're going
to a game or something at RUP right, I usually
steer them that direction, one off the grid that a
lot of people might not know about. I hope I'm
not giving away too many secrets. What's that if you're
downtown near up Bootle Lounge.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Boot Lou I've never been to Boodle Lounge.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's pretty good sushi over our Mill Street. Is it sushi?
It is sushi. It's not that big of a place,
so that right now I have friends that are probably
mad at the radio that I'm giving away our secrets.
Check out boot A Lounge. Also went to in that
area again, the downtown restaurants here. This one just opened
fairly recently. I went to a place called three ten
the other day. It's on Short Street. Bow buns. You

(26:26):
like bow buns? I do, yeah, go get some bow
buns at three ten.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
See, I'm righting now, not only the buzzwords of the day,
but restaurants. So I can check out and thanks for
mom me, let's go and get this bus.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Do you want to give your buzzword now?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah. We want to make sure everybody's listening the whole time.
This one is I guess it's actually two words, white house,
white house. Okay, don't say the other two. We can't
be letting people know what they've been. You got to
listen the whole time.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I wonder if there's a theme with these words.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
There could be, there could not be. If you haven't
been able to tell this week been a little chaotic
my brain. I feel like it's going into a thousand places.
So maybe these words are just what's popping in my head.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
So let's say Drew Franklin's getting a sandwich. You got
like a deli spot or like a cheeseburger you really
like in town.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I never thought you'd ask what. I'm gonna try to
go there before my costume fitting. Big Blue Deli right now,
been there yet? I have?

Speaker 4 (27:16):
They had a Mario sandwich there for a limited time
that I'd love to get sometime. Main Street Deli is
one that's right here in the city center is another
one that you should check out if you haven't. You know,
we've had a sponsor on the pre show in the past,
North Lime Coffee and donuts, but also Spaldings. Has to
be brought up if you're a bakery donut type of
guy in the morning, right.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'm gonna pull a Mayor Gordon here when it comes
to election donuts. You can't make me say one's better
than the other. We have an incredible doles. Wow, we
have an incredible donut scene. Frank's Spaldings north Lime already
started naming. I'm gonna leave some out. The one that
just opened by Chaos Bar Jeff's. I haven't been to that.
I'm worried about my guy Ryan. He's going to Jeff's
a little too often. I mean it's at least once

(27:58):
a week. He walks in with a bag in his
hand and he's gotten me an apple fritter.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
He's a big apple fretter to start the day. McDonald's
iced coffee.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's Ryan Lemon. And you got your pizza spots. Pizza spots,
we're also overwhelmed by pizza.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
I mean, I mean Linda mentioned good Fellas. I think
that's that's iconic, right, I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's one of my good drinking spot too. If you
go to the one on in the Distillery District, no
one's got a little bit more going on. Not the
og over here, the little one. You don't be drinking
in there. Yeah that, Just get your slice and go
over there, especially late at night. We don't want any trouble.
But one in Distillery district's good. I find myself at
a rolling oven over They have several but a mere twin.

(28:38):
If you want to find me out, good chance in there.
It's pretty close to the house. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
I think this is a chain, but i've been to
is it like red Tomato or something like.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Also by my house. Yeah, pizza boy, my house. You
got a lot of restaurants.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Linda was right, I mean this is a great scene
for food.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, of course, Chaos Bar. Gotta go to k if
you're going to a game.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Come on, can we can we include Proud Mary Barbecue
in that list. I know it's a little outside of town,
but they've been underwater.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yes, I feel like I feel terrible for Proud Mary.
I go there every labor date, no memorial date. I
get those backwards, which is one in September. I don't
Labor day. No, really, they're they're bad underwater right now.
That on a serious note, hope things straightened out there.
I have a Proud Mary story. I wasn't gonna say,
but since you brought it up, I'm not proud of this.

(29:28):
I walked out on a tab there last fall. Yeah,
me and my dad and my wife, we went every
every labor slash Memorial day, whichever it is. They have
a Jimmy Buffett party with the conquer Public, you cover
band they got. They have multiple bars, and I had
like a tab at this bar where we ate lunch
because we got there early in eight, but then the
party moves downstairs, so I'm getting some margs over at

(29:50):
this bar. It was just we had a good time.
We'll leave it with that. But then I get home
and I look at my credit card statement and there
was just like one charge from Proud Mary's for like
thirty dollars. I'm like, oh, I did a lot more
than thirty. But being the kind hearted, responsible, honest person
I am, I spent the next two weeks trying to
get someone on the phone, and I finally just went
down there and said, I owe you all money, and
they found the tab that I walked out on and

(30:11):
I paid it. But UH got a good connection there.
I always have a good time there, and I hope
they get things straightened up.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
You're a good man. And it was not intentional.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
It was always definitely not intentional. We were singing cheeseburger
and Paradise. You know, if things got a little blurry,
I just forgot to close out. But if you've ever
accidentally walked out on a tab, hopefully you've never done
it intentionally. You should always make good on that because
you know the person needed a tip. I didn't at
the time. I had tip there. I had to make
up for my tip be good to your restaurants.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Let me give you another category. Yeah, because you are
the one that comes in last after a night out.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
What's the bar? See?

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Like, give me a couple of bars that Drew would
hit on a normal well.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I mentioned Mayor Twin. There's a new country Boy popping
up over by me. It's gonna put another country Boy
location and Lexing. Yeah, breaking news, winding on ah. They
put it on social media yesterday. It's like this huge facility.
I was driving to the show and saw a country
Boy logo on the side of this new building and
I texted DH right away, what the hell is this?

(31:08):
But it's pickleball, golf simulators and a country Boy tap room.
What Yeah, That's really all I know right now, other
than the fact that I'm gonna live there when it opens.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Talk about another company that's growing. They opened a tap
room in Louisville now at another location in Lexington.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Can't go wrong with country Boy.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Also, I like old Tommy bars. Okay. When I go
to New York, I always go to mcsorley's. It's the
oldest bar in New York. It's been there since like
eighteen fifty. We don't have one that old, but Chevy
Chase Chase said, has got to be close. I was
there to watch the Final four. That's been there since
nineteen thirty three. They do fun things like a Pappy
van Winkle. It'll give it away, but you can get

(31:45):
one poor for like costs, so it's just a few bucks.
There's been horses in there saddled up. Have you ever
been to a bar and rides a horse in an
orders a bar in the bar. I don't think they've
done that recently, but there are pictures of a dude
just on a horse, bellied up against the bar, trying
to get a drink.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, if anywhere, I mean Lexington, Kentucky, right, Charlie Brown's
is around the.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Right cross street right for a bar. The White Russians.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Harvey's at the Grove is right down here. I think
that's kind of a hole in the wall spot that
not a lot of people know.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I have a Cci story. Since you set me up
for it, Chevy Chesson, I was gonna tell. When I
was there watching the Final Four, I met some women
there whose father had just passed away. There they're paying
tribute to him. He was a CCI legend, and in
talking to them, I learned that he is actually just
a lexing and legend and maybe like one of the
bigger legends of all time. I'm gonna tell you quickly

(32:35):
because they sent me a lot of information. I'm gonna
just try to get the important stuff. Let me tell
you about Charlie Chalkeye Cornet Chalki Cornet cast away a
few weeks ago at ninety two years old. He'd be
even at ninety two, he would be in n CCI,
but his daughter stood out. They had homemade Houston hats
with like duct tape that said Houston on them over
whatever was on there. He must hate Duke so much

(32:57):
they made Houston hats. But in meeting them, I learned
so much about this guy. He was an Ashland Tomcat,
played two sports there. Then he went to the Navy.
And why I was in the Navy. He grew four
inches playing basketball on the aircraft carrier team. So he's
out there just balling, taking people to school while serving
in the Navy, like Anthony Davis, just growing. Yes, he
is the Anthony Davis of the Navy, is what they

(33:18):
actually call him. He comes back to Kentucky on the
GI Bill and then he just starts schooling the Fidland
five and whatever is the equivalent of the JC back then,
just you know, scrimmaging the guys that are on the
Fidland five. He's just working them left and right. And
UK assistant Harry Lancaster even said where the hell did
this guy come from and told him to come back
to play on varsity. He said, dress for varsity. We

(33:40):
need you. But they only had a walk on spot
and he was pretty broke and he couldn't afford what
it would take to be a basketball player on his
own dime. I think they said a lot of it
was going hungry. He couldn't keep the weight, but Rupp
offered him a walk on spot twice. He was that good.
Never really got to follow through it other than a
few weeks here and there. Now, this part of the
story is confirmed by Jim Host, Mister Jim Host and

(34:03):
Ralph Hacker. If you can't believe mister Jim Host and
Ralph Hacker, what do we do? This isn't Drew Franklin
telling you this. This is through family, through lore, through
mister Jim Host and Ralph Hacker. After school, he was
still a UK fan still lived in Lexing. Was that
Chevy Chase in all the time. But in nineteen eighty three,

(34:23):
Indiana came to town to Rup. We hate the Hoosiers, right,
hate the Hoogiers. Well, Chalk and his buddy's got a
suite at the Hyatt right there by Rup, and they
quickly learned that Bob Knight was in the suite beneath him.
So they partied all night long, playing beach music, stomping,
making all the noise they could to distract Bob Knight.
And this gets better. Bob steps out on his balcony

(34:47):
to have a sick late night sick. I'm sure he's
nervous playing the Cats. The next day, Chalk had to
break the seal. So let's just say Chalk off his
balcony above Bob Knight on his balcony. What went to
the restroom outdoors off the side of his balcony with
Bob Knight beneath him? Again, this is confirmed. This isn't

(35:08):
me making things up for radio, but Bob Knight. You know,
I don't know Bob got that much sleep that night.
I don't know if he had to shower. I don't
know what kind of contact was made in that situation.
But things like that don't happen anymore.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Bob Knight catching a stream from old Chalk Eye a
floor below at the Hyatt before the game the next day.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
So there you go. Next day Kentucky won fifty nine
to fifty four. Eat it, Bob Knight and the Captain
RP of Chalk. I actually he did this topical. As
I'm looking at the Masters on TV. He had a
Thursday Master's party at his house every year. If I'm
not mistaken, I wasn't there yesterday, but I think Chevy
Chase in did the first annual Chalk's Memorial Chili Dog
Party yesterday for the Master.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
A chili dog party in your memory. I can't think
of nothing more than I would want.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Now, there's a scholarship in his name for underprivileged students
from eastern Kentucky. Like he was so wanted to shout
out Chalk there. After meeting daughters at CCI, they gave
me a bumper sticker that said he says I got
drunk with Chalk or I drank with Chalk. There's a
big poster of them in there. But to answer your
question about a good drinking spot, if you're not from
Lexington and want kind of some Lexington history, you should

(36:13):
pop into Cci.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Sounds like a Lexington legend.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, how about that? Yeah? Could you imagine someone doing
at the Hyatt with like Todd Golden on the balcony
beneath them.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Now, I can definitely see the upstairs neighbor behavior. I mean,
we've heard of fire alarms being pulled and antics to
get people to stay awake during the night before, but
the stream from a floor above, that's that is legendary stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Also being offered a walk on spot twice past eight five.
But just no, I'll just sit here and work them
in the in the campus whatever the gym was back then.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Zach tawe before zach Town.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Here you go. Maybe zach Taw has that future. Yeah,
we'll come back with a little more Lexidon. Billy's got
a game for us. We got people doing Chalk's move
at the Masters into a creek. We don't we don't
condone that, but we'll be right back. This is KSR.
Welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin on our last day
alone where everyone comes back most everyone. Matt will have

(37:04):
another week, but we'll have Ryan and Shannon back Ronald
drive the show next week. Today we're celebrating Lexington turning
two hundred and fifty this year. Love me some Lexington here.
In a couple months, I will have lived in Lexington
more than I lived in Madisonville. It just feels weird,
is that? Right? As Lexington has become home. My parents
moved here. I've been here almost twenty years. It's right
around the corner. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
And you've had some great memories, right, I mean you've
gotten married in this town and I have ripped your
pants in this town.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
My pants in this town.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
I mean, which time are you referring to? Well, I
know of the one time. So it's music month in Lexton.
Like going on could be part of the gamer' plan.
I don't know, wink wink, But do.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
You want to have the buzzword?

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Do you want to do? Me to drop it now?
The fourth buzz word will be given away a little
bit if you don't already know, so I'll save it
for the end of the segment. Don't let me forget that.
I won't let you forget. But a lot of music
things going on to Lexington. Visit lex dot com check
it out. Let's do some notable Lexingtonians. In fact, in
googling athletes because I didn't want to miss any I
found a KSR post from five years ago called Ryan

(38:06):
Lemon's top lex and An Athletes. No, I thought, what
why am I looking anywhere else? If Ryan Lemmon has
already done the show prep for me. Ryan Lemmon, who
is on his six Marguerite and Panama City right now,
did show prep for us today several years ago. So
we're just gonna trust his top five. Yes, if we
forget anyone out there, yell at Ryan, I'm just reading
straight from Ryan's list.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I did mix up his order though, just because you know,
I wasn't sure if he listened to him, like as
an actual ranking wasn't clear. But I'm just gonna start
with our dear Yeah, in no order, in no order,
Jack Gibbons, great stuff gotta be on the list, of course,
broad Station High School. Goose was Golden Faces Golden forty
one points in nineteen seventy eight. Eat It, Duke now
killing it? Now kill Keller.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Do you get to have many interactions with Jack? I know,
Oh yeah, a lot. I've had him on the pre
show a couple of Times. Just such a genuine guy.
You know, talk to him in pre and post game
as well. He's always helping with doing this with Andrew
Cappus and stuff. Will always give you the time of day.
And he's also a golf coach. I think he's the
coach at a high school.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Let's go golf with Jackson Times. Set up, Billy what
I'm saying. Also, bron Station DERMONDI Dawson Pro Football Hall
of Fame, seven time NFL Pro Bowler. He's in the
Steelers Ring of Honor in the NFL All Decade Team
in the nineteen nineties. Maybe one of the best offensive
linemen to ever play in the NFL right here at Lexingtonian.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Quite an impressive list so far. You can get me
two strong names.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
And Ryan has given you the two names. I'm just
reading them. That's true.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Ryan is doing this.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Tyson Gay Lafayette High School. Second fastest man ever, Fastest
American in one hundred meters nine point six to nine seconds.
Only Usain Bolt was faster.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Did not know he was from Alexico.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, that's as Ryan notes in his notes here. Second
fastest man alive. I don't think he ever got the
Gold medal, but won gold in the Olympics, but in
several other events World Championships Holly Holly decorated Track and
Field Star.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
You dedicate your life to this craft and you just
happen to be at the same time that bolts running. Yeah,
that he takes all your records.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Fastest American we'll call him there, Yeah, fast Fastest Lexingtonian
John T. Bone Shelby, Henry Clay, two time World Series champ.
One one is an ol oriole and one is a
Dodger in the eighties and one of his sons, at
least one of his sons went on to play for UK.
But a baseball legend here. I think Ryan might even
have him first be in baseball.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Well that's a Ryan Lemon ranking then and cool to
win with two different teams.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's Impressive's right?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
And Ryan's last one is Frank Minifield from Henry Clay
played college football at Louisville, made four NFL Pro Bowls
and the nineteen eighties All Decade Team defensive back. So
other than going to Louisville, we'll let that slide. But
another football legend from here in Lexington.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Pretty good list, a lot of professional success with the
athletes listed.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Absolutely. How about since it's music month, you want to
do some musicians, Yes, would love to. We have not one,
but two Backstreet Boys.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
There's two backs.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Show me another city that had two Backstreet Boys born
in one of them mathematically Kevin Richardson Friend of the Program.
He went to Estell County High School, and I did
thorough research to make sure he was born in Lexington,
and the internet seems seems pretty clear he's he's Lexing
and born even though he didn't go to school here. Okay,
so we're gonna claim here. And his cousin Brian Latrell
went to Tates Creek. Kevin even called Brian's like, hey,

(41:14):
we got a spot opening. Backstree Boys, get out here.
It's gonna it's gonna be awesome. And then that, of
course worked out, so two Backstree boys. And then another
friend of the program has been on this show, Chris Kle,
the bassis for five Finger Death Punch, went to the
Lafayette Wow talk about it.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Uh, completely different genre, but yes, oh, I.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Just realized I gotta do my buzzword. Let me okay,
don't forget your I think it's gonna give it away
last buzzword. You got to know all four to call
in and then second hour, yorn yo, you are apostphe
end so we had well I almost read them all,
not read them all. Write that one down. If you've
been listening since the beginning, you should have all four
buzzwords and we'll tell you how you can enter to
win this contest. For now, we'll take another break. Billy

(41:54):
and I will be right back with maybe more lexingon,
but definitely more on the masters to Kayden Lewis News
around BBN as we enjoyed the last day of Drew Palooza.
This is Drew and Billy downtown lexing in iHeart Studio.
We'll be right back