May 6, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Drew, Shannon, and Mario talk about the Draft Kings event in Arizona, Kentucky Basketball's new commitment, and take your calls.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Comedy Up Broadway in Lexington welcomes Ginger Billy May ninth
through the eleventh, then from White Famous, catch Jay Farrow
ME sixteenth and seventeenth, and don't miss Rocky Dan Davis
ME twenty third and twenty fourth. Comedy Off Broadway opened
in downtown Lexington in nineteen eighty seven and they're still
bringing the best and stand up comedy to the area
(00:20):
thirty eight years later. Call eight five nine two seven
to one joke or visit Comedy Up Broadway dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Comedy Off Bay presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, May.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
The sixth, Here in Scottsdale, Arizona, beautiful Scottsdale, where it
is not even seven o'clock. Well, I guess it is
seven o'clock in the morning. Here you can give shot
the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line that is eight five
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will
take your calls, so go ahead and get in. I've
got some complaints that haven't taken enough calls. I need
to talk to the people. So eight five nine two
(00:58):
eight oh twenty two eighty seven, and we'll take your
calls up early. Uh eVision auto glass text machine seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four. In
this disition spots about t J. Smith office. You called TJ.
He'll make them pay. Here with Drew and Mario in Scottsdale.
Shannon is back in Kentucky. These guys are getting on
a plane and going back this afternoon. I'm going back
on Thursday. All of us will be in Owensboro on Friday.
(01:21):
That made it sound like I wasn't gonna be there
at the Skins Cancer Center. But I will be there.
Mario just has to pick me up at eleven o'clock
at night at the airport in Cincinnati, and then we
have to drive to Owensboro orw That'll be heck for
drive Thursday, won't it.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's a lot of driving eleven pm.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And owens in Cincinnati and then go all the way
to Owensboro that night. We'll get there late, but that's okay.
You may hear in my voice a little bit of
struggle because we're all pretty tired. It is because it's
seven o'clock in the morning here. But drew a lot
of fun last night.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I had an absolute blast yesterday. I mean our pool
day felt like a day in itself. It felt like
two different, completely different days, but we strung them all together.
We're a little worn out, but we had so much fun.
You guys look so nice. I normally just see you
Matt in a hoodie. Mario. You know, we never get
dressed up, but uh, black tie affair. It felt felt
a lot different. We looked good. I mean the three
(02:16):
of us walked down. I mean, first of all, you
got to start with Mario. I mean his jacket. He
had strangers. Mario'shannon could have hooked up with every forty
five year old.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Woman in Scotts felt like women there.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So yeah, I mean like literally everybody.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They were like all the women like my age to
Ryan's age, were just going, you look good, and then
all of a sudden there'd be like a little tinkle
in their voice, and then they would be like, can
I buy you a drink at this free bar?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Mario, all the they were out for.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You, like women your age. They're a lot older.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
We're a lot older.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
You don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
When we were outside and when the woman came up
to Mario and said, your drink's empty, and then walked
all the way back in, got him a drinking, came
back out. I'm thinking, my goodness, boy, oh what do you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Got going on to that? That jacket had him going? Then,
you know, I don't usually dress like that. Sways, the
person that said the Swede was maybe a little hot
for Arizona, I think they were a little right about that,
especially since I didn't know the party was gonna be outside.
I was subburb it was I was sunburn. Within forty
five minutes, they were giving away hats, and after forty
(03:26):
five minutes, I said, I wanted to get a hat
because there's parts of my head that they're going, what's
going on over there?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So so but otherwise a lot of.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Fun, right, It's so fun, man, You see that. I
don't know, like I have so many different favorite parts
about the day. I love the fact that we all
dress before.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You said, yeah, well, go go ahead. Don't give you
any specific people we met. But besides that, go ahead, don't.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Spill, don't spell, because I have a big takeaway, but
go ahead. I was just gonna talk about our outfits.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Man, The way we showed up in the red carpet,
and you know it took photos and everything like that,
and it was like an event that was too long,
you know, we got we were there for like two
or three hours and then we got up out of there.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It was awesome, right, let's start with it was interesting,
Shannon to go to this with Mario. Okay, because you're
still there, Shannon, want to make sure, like this is
a barstool event, So I think you can agree, Mario.
Mostly white people right, right, like a lot of white people.
There was like four black people in the building, but
(04:26):
they all love Mario. I mean, Mario became like Mario
was like the guest of honor there. When we walk in,
we want to take a picture, Shannon on the red carpet, right,
because the three of us are dressed up. There's a
draft Kings barstool logo, there's a red carpet. So the
official red carpet walk had ended. But Shannon, you understand,
(04:47):
we wanted to take a picture of us, right, but
there's nobody there. The photographers have already gone inside. So
Mario is just looking for somebody to take a picture.
You know who he asked to take our picture, Shannon.
A Hall of Fame wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. He doesn't
know who he is because he's too old.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So Larry's the top.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Larry Fitzgerald looks at I mean, Maria looks at Larry Fitzgerald.
It's like looking at Jerry Rice and going, Jerry Rice,
can I have a picture and then just holding.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Him the phone and asking him to take it, which.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Is exactly what he did. He asked Larry Fitzgerald to
take our pictures. No, Larry just walked on, but his
buddy took the picture. But that's when you hang out
with him, you understand he doesn't know anybody. Drew like,
if they're older than twenty seven, he does not know
who they are.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
In the moment he did to know. We go to
the bar and I looked at him. I was like,
do you realize that's probably a top five NFL wide
receiver that you just talked to. He's like, oh, that
guy's a receiver as the game's retired, but that is
a legend that you spoke to familiar.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I've definitely seen him on TV or something like that.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
So then we got inside and you know, it was
it was an interesting group because you and I wonder
Drew before we went like why did they ask us
to be here. I still don't really know the answer
to that question, because even though it was a lot
of fun, I still don't really know what it was.
I mean, everybody was just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Even the barstool guys weren't real strue what was going on.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't think anybody really knew what was happening. It
was just like a party, which I guess is what
the met gal is. You know, the met galley. Everybody
sees everybody walk in, but then you don't really know
what's going on inside. Are they looking at art? Are
they just just standing there? That's kind of how this was.
You walk inside. At least there were games on, right
the Knicks played the Celtics, the Nuggets played the Thunder
(06:39):
and so there were games on. But otherwise, you know,
you're just standing there. And it was interesting to me
because I only knew a handful of people, but I
ended up in a lot of conversations. And there are
conversations where you just don't know what to say to people,
right Like, you go, hey you, I know you, and
(07:00):
they're like, hey, you're the Kentucky guy. It's good to
talk to you, right like, right nice. I mean you
just you kind of run out of things to say.
I think after a while.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, looking back, if someone were asking me like, what
did you all do? I kind of we just mingled,
and I don't like to mingle, but we mean big
barstool personalities. We're like, what's up? What do we do here?
And they're like, we don't know. Hi, Uh did you
get the sushi? All right, good talk, move.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
On to the nose.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They did have no shin and they did have a
lot of food.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's all they had.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Like they had a chef hand rolling sushi while you
were there, you know, they had they had a lot
of food. It was an open bar. They gave away
okay when you got there, you could scan your phone
shan And they were just having a little contest where
you would pick the games that were on that night. Yeah,
and there's probably what two hundred people at that party,
(07:53):
maybe a hundred of them are barstool employees, and they're
not allowed to be in the contest. So you're talking
about like one hundred people. And somebody was gonna win
twenty five thousand dollars out of that and second place
was like ten thousand dollars. And third place was seven
thousand dollars. And so that's like an when we walk in,
we go, what an amazing contest? You know what we did? Shannon?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
All three of us forgot that. I once took a
picture like three of us, and I think most people
didn't enter. So somebody won twenty five thousand dollars, probably
with not much competition. You know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It was actually woke up this morning kicking myself like
did you forget to ever enter that?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Because like all those women that was overwhelmed by everything
going on, That's what it was. Yeah, all those women
that were there, I bet they didn't enter it all that,
and then you know the Barcelol employees couldn't. I'm doubting
Larry Fitzgerald and the athlete Steve Nash. I don't think they.
I don't think they entered it. So so Shannon, somebody
just probably walked in there and was just scanned their
thing and won twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
So I gotta ask you, though, the guy with the
green silk suit, who is who is that?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's Jerry.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That's Jerry. You know who it is. That's Jerry. O'Connell Jr.
That's Jerry O'Connell Jr. Yeah, he was there, the actor
from our childhood, from Lost.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Boys and all that.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
There's a perfect example. Okay, here's a perfect example what
I'm talking about. Jerry O'Connell Jr. Shannon. I've seen that
guy since I was a child, right as an actor.
He's been an actor our whole lives. There he is
in a green mesh suit for reasons I don't totally understand,
and he's watching the Nick Celtics game and he's going crazy.
(09:34):
I'm standing behind him most of the night. When it's over,
you know, we're in a position where it's just me
and him, and I go, hey, Jerry, I'm Matt. He
couldn't be nicer. He looks at me and he's like,
hey man, what do you do? I'm like, Kentucky. Oh,
He's like, you're the guy Kentucky Sports Radio. I was
surprised he knew who I was. Yeah, But then, like,
(09:55):
what do you say to Jerry O'Connell after that? I
can say, I love you and Lost Boys, you know
what I mean. I don't want to be like, well,
what do you have in common with him?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
You know nothing.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I mean, I just I was like, what about that game?
Jerry O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
J you know, he looked like he was living his
best life. He was enjoying whatever was going on on
that mome man.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He was fun. He I joke about We didn't really
know what to say, but then we started talking about
sports and it was great, and he talked about how
he said he would like to come on the show sometime,
so I'll have him on the show.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He's nice dude. He was a very nice guy.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
But it's just you start this conversation, you don't want
to be like I know you from a movie when
you were nice, Like, there just comes a point like
what do you say?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
He set the tone for me after Mario's awkward red
carpet inter actually asking Larry Fitzgerald take a picture. We
weren't in the building for thirty seconds, and Mario and
I just ended up talking to Jerry O'Connell. He could
have been nicer, but it did get to a point
where even like pat Us on the back, like, well
see you guys later, We've run out of things to say.
But at that moment, my brain was like, what is
life right now? What is going on, Shannon, we have
(10:58):
to talk about our guy Drew. Okay, he was a commercial.
I was having a good time sharing.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You know, I've known Drew for like sixteen seventeen years
as part of KSR, and I've known Drew in like
his Drew stages where he like was Drew, you know,
every night Drew Franklin story. I mean I could, I
could write a book and Drew Franklin stories from that era.
Good times. He's a different Drew now, still fun still funny,
(11:29):
still awesome, still great friend, but not quite the Drew.
Like he's not you know what I'm saying. He's not
Nolan Ryan thowing at I haven't lost the fest. He's
still you know, he's just kind of I just don't
send me out much. I mean, he's not Greg Maddox
painting the corners, but he's like he's like smokes when
(11:50):
they send him to the bullpen. You know what, That's
what he is.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, a couple more slaughters and fork balls.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yes, exactly right. Well, last night he reared back for
a Nolan Ryan at forty no hitter. Okay, like he
Drew was throwing as fast.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
But my line as I haven't lost a step. I
just looked before I take one.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
No, it's the old Toby Key song. I ain't as
good as I once was, but on as good one.
I got it when I get called up as I
ever was. Last night Drew was on one. He was
definitely on one man. I think the correct word is
even sent this to my wife and others. I was
absolutely folded at that event, and it all hit him.
When we were talking to Dave Portnoy, we got in
(12:30):
like a fifteen or twenty minute conversation. He and I
talked a lot about what it's like to own a
company and the good and the bad and the up
and down, and it was actually a really interesting conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Drew started it completely Mario.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Coherent, normal as ever, normal, you know, just talking, Drew's
coming in here and there by the end he was like.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Have they partner?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I got a little, I got a little.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Songs the hey they part and I wasn't bad. Then
them harshes go around and around. You just go and
then by and then Mario and were like, you know,
I think it's time, Yeah, you gotta go.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think we probably ought to go back to the hotel.
And he was like dang, hey, you listen did your
impersonations yesterday?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't know I was gonna be today.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It wasn't bad bad.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Mario was pretty bad. It was pretty fast.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He just and then thank you Drafty Express for me.
And then we ended up. Mario and I like, let's
go get an uber, let's talk to go, It's time
to go. Let's go true when you like something to eat,
that actually was my problem.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I did not eat all day and am tequilos.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
So so we we went got something to eat and
then it was a little more calm and we finished
the eating. But it was a lot of fun. Uh.
You met what had to be one of your heroes, Ario,
which I wanted to talk about. That was a cute
moment and the other stuff that went on. Plus Kentucky
gets a basketball player. We we are giddy. I'm here
with Drew Franklin and Otis from the Frandy Griffiths Show.
(14:12):
We'll be right back Kentucky Sports.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Hey, Drew Franklin lived this last night at the barstools,
making me feel No, you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
You shouldn't You were fun. You only told me and
Mario the same story on the.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Radio because I know I've already said it to you all.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, no, I want you. Here's what I want you to do.
In a second. I want you to tell the story
you told us ten times on the radio because it
is nice. But first, a bunch of people on the
text machine writing seven seven two seven seven four five
two five for one person, one of many says that
Matt Jerry O'Connell was not in Lost Boys. He was
in stand by Me. That would have been good to
(15:01):
know yesterday, because I do think I said to him
he was the lost boy.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You told him he was in a movie that he
didn't know what he was even in that.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I don't think he wasn't. Yeah, I think I said
something like I don't remember exactly how it came up,
but I think I may have said the word lost boys.
He was very nice, Yeah, but he he didn't he
didn't correct me. And but I think I did say
it to him in the course of a longer conversation. Yeah,
I had a couple of those. Actually, there was a
(15:31):
there was a woman there that works at barstool that
I called the wrong name twice. I thought her name
was something else, and we I had a good conversation
with her, and now I called her the I think
I think I thought she was the other person the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You did that in Milwaukee too, I think I.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Thought, you know, I did do it Milwaukee to a
sideline before. I thought that was Tracy Wolfson, and it
was not nice, like layah, and like I know this woman.
I know Tracy Wolfson. I don't know the person I
was talking to, which made it clear why she looked
(16:13):
like she. I wanted to respond, was like I didn't
know me, and then she didn't because it was not
who I thought it were. I did the exact same
thing with one of those women last night. I kept
calling her one thing and it was not her. That
with you, man, I don't know, all right, tell the
audience what you said to us forty five times last night?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I just kept started. Even when we went to Old
Town afterwards, I felt like I just I was pulled
my string and I'm gonna say it one more time,
but I have.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
One more in me.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Okay, Gilly, so Shandon, do you know who Gilly is?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I didn't don't feel bad. I didn't know who he
was either.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
He's like a big hats he's like a big podcast star.
He was with Shador Sanders on Draft Knight. He even
big Guy in the big Hat with Shador Sanders on
Draft Night.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Remembering the background was guy big Hat. That's who it was.
He's a big Eagles fan. Super Bowl celebration, he's in
the locker room.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Mario wanted to meet him going in, and that's who
Mario knew of all the people that would be there.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
He's a legend, man. He's like a legend, especially like
in the black community. He's a huge legend.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
So exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
But you said he was one of the biggest black
podcast Yes, yes, okay, iks so go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
This feels so awkward saying to you guys, I'm talking
to the listeners, not you too. We meet him like
we did everybody with awkward conversations. But this man was
so nice. He did not have to do this. He
pulled Mario aside. Matt went in. I kind of just
took a few steps away, was hanging out just a
few little bit away from them. He talked to Mario
for at least twenty minutes, giving him advice. How can
(17:41):
I help you this that we just met, just I
could not get over how nice Gilly was tomorrow and us.
He was nice to me. I mean I talked to
him plenty, but of all the interactions last night, I
could not get over what a nice guy that was.
He's alright. I can end up linking up with Mario
on Mario's podcast or something down the road, but Gilly
(18:05):
out there. I know if some of our listeners probably
know him. You know him for the big hats. There's
not a better person on earth than Gilly. I walked
in knowing who he was, and then I'm a big fan.
I'm now his biggest fan. He was so good to Mario.
I was I was like Mario's dad. I was taking
candid pictures of those two. I have ten pictures. He
(18:27):
tells you that ten times, of course, of one. I'm
not gonna apologize for now.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
It was it was he kind of took like a
big uncle energy with you, and you loved it like
your star.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, this is somebody who I grew up watching. You know,
you see him on pol His advice. He took you
inside and he gave you advice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
He said, obviously his first advice.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
He was like be known in the state, like you
guys got to be known in the state and try
to be as known as possible in the state.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And I was like, well, we're pretty known to state already.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
And he's like, okay, then value, he said, value is
the key, Like make sure you provide value. If you're
working for these guys, whatever you do, provide value. That
was his biggest thing. And I was like, okay. He
was like, because you don't, He said, you don't want
to be like I remember you telling me, Matt a
few weeks ago, you don't want to be replaceable?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Was long, No, that's the advice I always give people.
Younger people. They say to me, what's the biggest piece
of advice you can give? And I said, I don't
care what your job is. Whatever your job is, whether
you're in media, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're working
you know, as a bank teller, what you pick the job,
make yourself irreplaceable because as an employer, you there are
(19:38):
certain people you cannot replace. Like I in every job
that I have, there's somebody there that if we lost them,
it would not be the same. And so you don't
And my thing is you want to make sure you're
that person Gilly's advice to you was add value in
everything you do. And those are actually two really good
pieces of advice. Like not trying to be you know,
(19:59):
Tony Robber here, but they really are.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah. And I took it, took it all, you know.
And he was a good dude.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Man.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I love the way he didn't know us, came came
over to us and talked with us for like twenty
five minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We had a great conversation with him.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I'll give you the best example of somebody making themselves irreplaceable.
iHeart used to have shennon phone lines. Yeah that were
that were well, they were weird.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
A guy set up our phone system at iHeart to
where he was the only person that knew how to
use it.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Remember this shit. Yeah, and he like set up in
it and he set it up much more elaborately than
it needed to be so that no one else could
fix the phone system but him, And so when when
cuts were made, he'd always get capped because they're like, well,
you can't replace him if we lose the phone system.
And then finally, I don't know what he did, but
(20:52):
something happened where they had to separate it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Remember our phones were down for like two or three days.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
That shit.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Remember we couldn't take homes for.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
On planet Earth. Who knew how to fix it?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, AT and T and then the phone company was.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Like, what is this system?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Who did this?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
And he had done it so that's a little sneaky
way to do it, but he had done it to
where he like was irreplaceable. And then finally when it
had to happen, we were, we were. We replaced him
for a while.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, exactly, Well, Gilly's irreplaceable to me, Like my brother
in law is an Eagles fan and Gilly's probably one
of the more famous Eagles fans. He's like, well, let's
send him a video, like just he was just doing
so much. That was so nice.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
And the crazy part is you see that on camera,
like when you watch his podcast, he acts just like that,
and when you see it in person, like it's I know,
you didn't really know.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Who he was, but like hearing his stories, he said,
You're like you should be the one on TV talking
about it.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Were great. There were some other people that I thought
just as were much nice and that with thought. I
mean Portnoy like we talked twenty minutes. I mean we
talked about Drew was done at the end of that
twenty minute.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Did you tell the only story.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
He did?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Actually, I think he did.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Talked to the whoever the kid is that does the
I don't know Josh Richards best friend.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Did you know when I knew when he was really gone?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
When we tried to take a selfie with Josh Richards
and Drew had it on video and we were standing
there for like.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
All right, wear this second, just staring at.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
The Jerry looks at this guy, all right, Shannon, Josh Richards.
He's like a TikTok guy, right, and he does he
does a podcast.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
The direction of this conversation.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
But Drew meets him just immediately takes a vape with it.
I don't know how it happened, but Drew's just vaping
with this guy, Josh. How many times you have the
opportunity I didn't even know Drew vapepe with a TikTok
star and then when it's over, goes, hey can I
get a selfie?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And he just turns it on video.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Let's let's go.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
This is not about me, this is about Gilly, and
we'll take a break.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Very back.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Sorry TJ.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Smith personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I feel sorry for the podcast people because Shannon's been
on roll with the music lately in terms of it
being like, I mean, this is a great pick over
and over again for an irreplaceable going in the break,
Shannon is Shannon's killing it. I am going to go
the phones. Ay if I'm nine to two eight twenty
two eighty seven, Well, we got one or two people
on there, get on there because I do want to
go real quick. I want to do a couple of
questions here that people, uh wrote in. One person writes Matt,
(23:37):
I saw you on the live stream a few times
talking to Rico Bosco. Uh. It was weird seeing all
those people and then seeing you on it too. Yeah.
We made a few of those shots just standing behind
because the Knicks and Celtics Shannon were in an amazing game.
Oh yeah yeah, and the people, yeah yeah. Half the
people there were Knicks fans and half the people there
were Celtics fans, and so that was kind of kind
(23:58):
of cool to watch. One person says Matt did you
meet Frank the Tank. I know a lot of you
don't know who these people are, but but you know
some people do, yes, and he was. He was very nice.
We liked him.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I had to help him. His pants were like he
was having a pant situation, so I helped. I tried
to help him a little bit.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I'm so hesitant to say anything, but everyone really was nice.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Frank.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I know him just a little bit from social media,
but we sat and talked to him forever about his
weight loss journey and how he's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, Dana Beers, I got to I got to do
a beer.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I beat him, by the way. Thank you to all
the people on social media who went frame by frame
and figured out though I won by a millisecond on.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That one person rights. What about uh the Sydney Thomas
we met her, it was she's beautiful. She and there
are a lot of beautiful people there, a lot of everybody, Yeah, everybody.
There are a lot of beautiful people. The older ones
really like Mario. Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
There was a moment where Mario and I even said
to him as right after we were talking to Gilly,
who by the way, was so nice.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Tomorrow, there we.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Go but we went. We went to this couch and
we're like, hey, man, because can we sit here for
a second. And the guy's I was training this morning.
I'm a little sore. Turns out he's just this huge
UFC fighter tomorrow and I just pull up and sit
with him on his couch. Just people everywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
No, it was, it was.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It was weird. They they had a lot of beautiful people,
but you know, everybody was everybody was looking good. He
don't look good for one night. Look good. So we'll
have I'll talk a little bit more about a couple
more things from there later in the show. But U yesterday,
Rhese Potter from Lexington Catholic High School became the thirteenth
(25:30):
player in the UK class. He ends up kind of
replacing Travis Perry. He's a Lexington kid. He had been
made I think a pretty big offer from Washington to
come play. I was told Hubert Davis. Carolina fans are
mad that I said this, but I'll trust my source
over random tar heel in your eye person that that
(25:51):
Hubert Davis had kind of made him a priority. Uh,
I know, Louisville and Yukon had reached out to him.
I don't know if they offered him, but uh, he
picks K and I would think it almost a significantly
I don't will say significantly less, but a less amount
because he bled blue. He was offered a campus tour
and he said, I don't need one. I grew up here,
I know it that down the street. He's down the street,
(26:14):
and so he is our new player. Do you like
the addition for the roster? I do you know this
next season.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I don't expect him to be in with five minutes
left in a tournament game or anything, but he's a
good beast to put on the bench and maybe develop
over time he can step out shoot the three. I
like just the Kentucky connection, especially losing Travis Perry. You're
I consider him maybe the thirteenth man in all due
respect to him, but it's good to have a Kentucky
kid there. Like I said, just just right down the
road playing a high school ball Catholic. I'm sure a
(26:43):
lot of people know who he is, so it's good
to have him on the team. Big local guy, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
I like to see that and lexing the Catholic, like
Drew said, you know, in his height seven to one, Yeah,
you get your adding depth to Brandon Garrett shot forty three,
taking shoot a little bit too, you know, so I like,
I like to pick up a local guy to place
replace another local guy. So I think it was a
game and if and I think the theory is if
you get a big that's hurt, he becomes a potential
backup and uh who knows, you know, if he plays well.
(27:11):
This is probably a two or two year uh thing.
I think they still might add one more after some
conversations yesterday, but it's a kid that wouldn't be thought to.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Be an immediate contributor. So I think you have the
team for next year as an immediate There's another kid
that might be like, let's see what happens with you
is as a longer term option.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
But I do think you know you got your group.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
What court is stacked a lot of people. I mean,
there's not a better front court in the country.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Talk about size too, We got a lot more size
compared to last season.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So yeah, it should be fun. Well we'll talk I'm
sure going into October about what the what this team
ceiling is. But I feel really good about it. I
mean I feel like they have one of everything. If
Aberdeen and Williams especially can become really really good three
point shooters to where it's a regular thing, then I
(28:11):
think they got one of everything you want. My only
concern is from a team that had so much shooting
last year, do you have enough shooting.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
With this group?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
But they got all pretty much all of them can
do it. The question is do you have a Kobe
braa kind of guy that gets you the shot you
need in a pinch. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I mean we're all being optimistic because we're fans of
the team, Like you assume that Jalen Lowe will be
a little more efficient than he was at Pittsburgh where
his teammates were just were absolute trash and he's having
to play hero ball. You get him in a good
system with pieces around him, you think he'll be better.
My biggest thing is Yellovich, which, by the way, they
put out a statement that he's signed and they put
the pronunciation guy, and we've been saying it right, even
(28:53):
Ron Lemon's been getting his name right.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yellovich.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, we don't really know how he's going to translate
to college ball. There's a chance where he's really good.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Now, there's a chance he's really good, which is hard
to know. There's a chance you have a Z situation
where he has like an amazing game and then has
two the next game.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
But there, yeah, and we don't know what's really good too.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
So every year there's a freshman in the SEC that
wasn't five star that everyone was just like wow. Last
year Jeremiah Fears at Oklahoma, he wasn't top fifty. Dude
was a stud. Before that, you had Josh Hubbard. I
think he was barely top one hundred. I mean, there's
a chance Jasper, you know, he's in the twenty five range.
There's a chance Jasper surprises people how good he is defensively,
(29:34):
He's got to get a little better, but he might
be a lights out shore would be well.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
So it should be exciting.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And your Kentucky basketball team, with the possible exception of
one long term piece I think is now here for you.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It's up first, Shit, Jacob, Jacob, how are you?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Jacob?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven?
Speaker 11 (29:51):
Go ahead, Hi, good morning, Matt. I hope you and
Drew and Mario had a incredible time in the console
area at two quick doms. I just want to mention
a couple of great restaurant restaurant options in scott Stale
if you have the time, I recommend Ocean forty four,
Ran Scene or Cafe Monarch Listen in Scottsville area.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I just wrote those.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
Lastly, Yeah, those are great, great options I definitely recommend.
And lastly, I just want to mention that Drew's acting
experience inspired me to sign up and I auditioned this
weekend for play later this summer at Lexington Chron's Theater.
So ill we do its very.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Thanks well, thank you very much, and appreciate, appreciate the call.
Look at you, you are inspiring the youth, aspiring the
people you're you're you're with these people like Gilly was
with Mario, dude throw an inspiration.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Well that that actually meant a lot to me. That
uh me embarrassing myself on stage open the door for
someone else.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
And I just can't get over how nice Gill is. Okay,
you gotta stop, like you really got to stop. Eight
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven couple op with
lines give us a shout. You know, I know we've
been talking a lot the last few days, but I
do want to talk to you folks. We just had
to We've just had a lot to a lot to say.
Are you all did you? Have you all enjoyed your
trip here? I know you're going back. It's probably been
(31:09):
my favorite trip so far.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Really, yeah, you're because you were starstruck.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah, starstruck. You know I've never been out here, and
you know this is cool.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
This is cool.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
We can't pass the cactus without Mario getting out and
take a picture.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
You really love you. You look at everything with such
a childlike wonder. It makes me happy, like you really
do like you you have such this I'm being serious,
I'm not being sarcastic. You have such a positive outlook
and such a positive energy like youll Shannon, He'll sit
there and pump you up, you know what I mean,
(31:43):
Like like he'll look at me when I come downstairs
in my jacket and go, okay, here we go, watch out.
This is the and and you know it's like a
it's like a little over the top, but it also
makes you go, you know what I do.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Look like you're supposed to sposed to do that, Shannon.
That it's good to have somebody like that.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
You need a hype man, We.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
All need a Mario just following us around telling us
that day.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
That's exactly right. Well, thanks to Draft Kings. Speaking to DraftKings,
you can go to the Draft Kings sports book. Uh,
download it. Bet five dollars, get two hundred dollars Draft Kings.
You know, hey, what how can you do anything except
to say thank you to a company that brings us
out here. And with the NBA grind gone, you got
the playoffs ready new customers. Bet five dollars to get
(32:26):
two hundred dollars in bonus bets. Instantly download the Draft
Kings sports book and make it happen. And uh remember
with DraftKings, the crown is yours. If you have a
gaming problem, call one a here Gamber eighteen plus Kentucky only,
lgebt SI supply new customers only, Bone spaks by one
hundred and sixty eight hours after issue traditional term Responsible
Gaming Resources CEE, DKNG, dot CO, slash audio.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
We will take a break, take.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Your calls in, get into some other stuff, including could
there be a KSR after us we are gone. It's
a question that NBC seems to have an answer for it.
We'll be right back to Kazar. I really liked this song, Shannon,
and you probably didn't even know that. Oh you could guess.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Glenn Campbell.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Good, Glenn Campbell, Right, yeah, it is this. I will
say this about this area. I could see how somebody
would want to live here.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
I know, in July and August they say it's like
one hundred plus degrees and kind of miserable. But right now,
I can't imagine whether you would like more than this
every day eighty degrees, like a breeze every single day.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I mean, that would be amazing, and I think we're
hitting it perfectly. I think it was like one hundred
to day before we got here. We are here in
their best weather. I could live at this resort. I
went around the Lazy River yesterday. There's not much I
love more than the la but this man loves a
lazy rust and there was I did a couple of
great laps. Also, I met people from Madisonville and the
Lazy River. What are the odds? What a small world?
(33:49):
But I mean Madisonville, Kentucky in the wind.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Also, and there's a law firm that is having their.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Partner retreat here. Ye, So partner retreat law firms basically
bring all the people and They're just like, let's spend
three days doing meetings. But really it's just an excuse
to make the associates stay and work and they go
party for three or four days. So there's a the
law firm Goodwin Proctor is here. I don't know anything
about Goodwin Proctor. They might be nice people, there might
(34:16):
be a good Win Proctor person listening. I'm just gonna
tell you, y'all got a law firm full of nerdy
people that are just getting hammered in this place. I'm
just saying, like it's you, you're you know, I'm right.
Like they just walking around here first of all, like
they own it. They even brought Shannon. They brought their
own pillows to put on the communal sofas.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Right, Yeah, like OT buy the pool. All the pillows
say Goodwin on it.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I feel like I work for Goodman Goodwin proc.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Yeah, there's thousands of people here. The only five people
that don't work for them are the three of us,
Roy Williams and Austin River. Everyone else walking around.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Williams and Austin Rivers are here, and then every lawyer
from Goodwin. So I'm just gonna say this to the
people who work for good Win Proctor, who aren't here.
Y'all be careful because they spending your money. The signs
that they and they're not like print out signs with
tape like the signage in the hotels is believable. How
much money though, whatever, Goodwin Proctor is spending.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
A lot of money. Good for y'all. So congratulations. Who's
up next, John, John?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Go ahead? John?
Speaker 10 (35:26):
Hey, guys, recall, I got a quick concern and he's
gonna question about and I or my concern is that
Jayden Quaintens doesn't have to play at Kentucky to be
a first round pick in the NBA next year. And
I'm not saying he'd be the furious character for doing that,
but there's a world where.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I might think about it. There's a lot of people,
though that could apply to that have had wonderful, wonderful
careers here. John Wall didn't have to play here, but
he has.
Speaker 10 (35:54):
He has an injury though, that's.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Fine, But why if he if he didn't, I am
going to operating under the assumption that not everyone in
the world is stupid and that U K knows exactly
what you just said and would not have signed him
unless they believed firmly that he is going to play.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Yeah, I do. I do believe that we have Mark
Pope's coach and that and that our former coach. But also, uh,
do you know how the ni L has structured to
the players. Do the players have to play to get paid?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Because there are no rules?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Because there are no rules, the deal can be structured
however the two parties agree, and uh, you know, I
think I can't tell you what what Jaden Quainton's deal
or any deal is, because ultimately they're private contracts, at
least for now. One day. I think that's going to change.
But so I don't know. I would think though a
kid coming off an injury, who has the talent you're
(36:59):
talking about. I know the person that is negotiating these contracts,
and he is an extremely smart person. And then Mark Pope,
I know, is extremely smart. I gotta think they've thought
through that. Now, if he ends up coming, takes the money,
doesn't play, then I'll reserve the right to criticize. But
I'm not gonna assume that's the case, considering they know
(37:21):
everything you just said, right right?
Speaker 10 (37:25):
Do you know if there is insurance policies too?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yes, well to protect the school.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Again, these are not schools that are doing this, these
are collectives. Do they have an insurance policy? I don't know.
I would assume yeah, because most businesses do. But I
don't know if there's nil collective insurance policies. I don't know.
I mean, I tell you, usually speaking, if you want insurance,
(37:52):
somebody will find a way to sell it to you.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
But I don't know what if there is that. Yeah,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
With quaintance, I've seen some people like the caller, they're
wondering if it's gonna be a shad and sharp situation.
But I think he actually has to prove that he's healthy.
I think the injury makes it more likely they has
to play because they knew what he was before the injury.
But now he needs to go out and show I'm
still good. I recovering.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So much of what he was good was his athleticist.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yeah, if you don't have that, then that that would
be a I think he has to go out and
do it to make that.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
You're probably right. Who's next, Parker, Parker, Go ahead, Parker.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Hey, guys, real quick, I want to take you too
much of your time about at the end of the
hour here when it comes to at the end of
the season for everybody, usually they go on like a
signing tour or like a farewell tour. Have you guys
heard anything from the guys that.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I appreciate it?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Thanks guy.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm hoping they'll do something because obviously I'd like to
do something at the bar. But I think what's probably
changed this a little bit, Drew, is that now they
make money and they're signing tours.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
They probably used to make these kids.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I don't know, fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars maybe As
for the less popular players, I just don't know if
these dudes like, do you like, do you want to
come to ksbar and make four or five thousand dollars
to sign for a night? If you just made a
million dollars, I mean I would, but I could see
(39:17):
why there would be kids that wouldn't want, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Yeah, and you know, they would finish their careers and
they'd go to Pikeville, Madisonville, owens Bro they'd be all
over the state and it was a bit of a grind.
And as you're saying, nothing to make it telling like
they don't want to do that, but they've got a
lot of money now and other deals in place that
they don't really and I would say have to do.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
That for a lot of those players in Cow's era
where they were really like like Anthony Davis knew he
was about to be the number one pick, right, I mean,
Devin Booker knew he was gonna be picked.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Hy.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
You know, guys like Amari and Jackson Robinson, they need
to go have good workouts and stuff, not just for
NBA futures, but even for overseas futures, like they need
they they kind of have to grind. And so that
time where they could have gone to Anisonville or Hopkinsville
and signed, it might be to go work with with
(40:03):
a trainer.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
Feel like they're probably focused on different things right now,
draft process, overseas process, rather than probably signing.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It really depends on the player.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Can we say the one person we met last night
Mario that did not like us?
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Who wasn't I know exactly who you're about to say.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
L Shan Shannon, I didn't know this was a person,
but apparently there's a former U of L player, what's
his name? Chris Brickley Chris Brickley, who trains the NBA guys,
huge following, huge following, like, look him up, Shannon, Chris Brickley.
He's got like a million.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
Followers on the tatted guy all tatted. He's in the
NBA two K for the young folks. Yeah, he's in
the NBA two K just because he trains the guys.
Do you see shann all Right? So he was there.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
I didn't know who he was. Mario was like, Hey,
that dude right there played at U of L and
so I thought, well, give me a Kentucky guy. So
I went up to him. And I have seen this
before where I walk up and it takes a second
for somebody to place me and then they're like, oh,
I don't like you.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
And he played at Louisville eight.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
To eleven, which is when I was on Louisville. The
hardest was probably that era. Right, he was on the
stripper he was on the team. He was on the
stripper era team And I said, I'm Matt Jones KSR.
And he gave me one of those I know who
you are. He said that, He's like, I know who
you are. I was like, oh, okay, it's like that now.
(41:28):
Then he was very nice, but it was clear true
that he was, like, you're the Kentucky dude who used
to run that mouth. He didn't. He was completely nice,
but it was clear that's a dude who knows KSR.
Not for positive reasons.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Yeah, I was kind of behind you all when that
conversation started, and you could almost see his face like
the switch, like wait a minute, I know who this
guy is. He was nice talk tomorrow for a while.
Wasn't as nice as Gilly, who was very nice tomorrow,
but he definitely knew KSR and from uh when we
were at our not worse, but when the two fass
were going right at it.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
If you're telling me, when did I talk the most
trash to Louisville, it was eight to eleven because they
were down cal had just got really nine ten eleven twelve.
You know, then they won in thirteen, But nine ten
eleven twelve is when I talked the most trash, and
that's when he played. He had the look of somebody
(42:23):
who remembers that we'll be right back Sciazar
Comedy Up Broadway in Lexington welcomes Ginger Billy May ninth
through the eleventh, then from White Famous, catch Jay Farrow
ME sixteenth and seventeenth, and don't miss Rocky Dan Davis
ME twenty third and twenty fourth. Comedy Off Broadway opened
in downtown Lexington in nineteen eighty seven and they're still
bringing the best and stand up comedy to the area
(00:20):
thirty eight years later. Call eight five nine two seven
to one joke or visit Comedy Up Broadway dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Comedy Off Bay presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, May.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
The sixth, Here in Scottsdale, Arizona, beautiful Scottsdale, where it
is not even seven o'clock. Well, I guess it is
seven o'clock in the morning. Here you can give shot
the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line that is eight five
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will
take your calls, so go ahead and get in. I've
got some complaints that haven't taken enough calls. I need
to talk to the people. So eight five nine two
(00:58):
eight oh twenty two eighty seven, and we'll take your
calls up early. Uh eVision auto glass text machine seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four. In
this disition spots about t J. Smith office. You called TJ.
He'll make them pay. Here with Drew and Mario in Scottsdale.
Shannon is back in Kentucky. These guys are getting on
a plane and going back this afternoon. I'm going back
on Thursday. All of us will be in Owensboro on Friday.
(01:21):
That made it sound like I wasn't gonna be there
at the Skins Cancer Center. But I will be there.
Mario just has to pick me up at eleven o'clock
at night at the airport in Cincinnati, and then we
have to drive to Owensboro orw That'll be heck for
drive Thursday, won't it.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's a lot of driving eleven pm.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And owens in Cincinnati and then go all the way
to Owensboro that night. We'll get there late, but that's okay.
You may hear in my voice a little bit of
struggle because we're all pretty tired. It is because it's
seven o'clock in the morning here. But drew a lot
of fun last night.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I had an absolute blast yesterday. I mean our pool
day felt like a day in itself. It felt like
two different, completely different days, but we strung them all together.
We're a little worn out, but we had so much fun.
You guys look so nice. I normally just see you
Matt in a hoodie. Mario. You know, we never get
dressed up, but uh, black tie affair. It felt felt
a lot different. We looked good. I mean the three
(02:16):
of us walked down. I mean, first of all, you
got to start with Mario. I mean his jacket. He
had strangers. Mario'shannon could have hooked up with every forty
five year old.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Woman in Scotts felt like women there.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So yeah, I mean like literally everybody.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They were like all the women like my age to
Ryan's age, were just going, you look good, and then
all of a sudden there'd be like a little tinkle
in their voice, and then they would be like, can
I buy you a drink at this free bar?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Mario, all the they were out for.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You, like women your age. They're a lot older.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
We're a lot older.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
You don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
When we were outside and when the woman came up
to Mario and said, your drink's empty, and then walked
all the way back in, got him a drinking, came
back out. I'm thinking, my goodness, boy, oh what do you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Got going on to that? That jacket had him going? Then,
you know, I don't usually dress like that. Sways, the
person that said the Swede was maybe a little hot
for Arizona, I think they were a little right about that,
especially since I didn't know the party was gonna be outside.
I was subburb it was I was sunburn. Within forty
five minutes, they were giving away hats, and after forty
(03:26):
five minutes, I said, I wanted to get a hat
because there's parts of my head that they're going, what's
going on over there?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So so but otherwise a lot of.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Fun, right, It's so fun, man, You see that. I
don't know, like I have so many different favorite parts
about the day. I love the fact that we all
dress before.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You said, yeah, well, go go ahead. Don't give you
any specific people we met. But besides that, go ahead, don't.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Spill, don't spell, because I have a big takeaway, but
go ahead. I was just gonna talk about our outfits.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Man, The way we showed up in the red carpet,
and you know it took photos and everything like that,
and it was like an event that was too long,
you know, we got we were there for like two
or three hours and then we got up out of there.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It was awesome, right, let's start with it was interesting,
Shannon to go to this with Mario. Okay, because you're
still there, Shannon, want to make sure, like this is
a barstool event, So I think you can agree, Mario.
Mostly white people right, right, like a lot of white people.
There was like four black people in the building, but
(04:26):
they all love Mario. I mean, Mario became like Mario
was like the guest of honor there. When we walk in,
we want to take a picture, Shannon on the red carpet, right,
because the three of us are dressed up. There's a
draft Kings barstool logo, there's a red carpet. So the
official red carpet walk had ended. But Shannon, you understand,
(04:47):
we wanted to take a picture of us, right, but
there's nobody there. The photographers have already gone inside. So
Mario is just looking for somebody to take a picture.
You know who he asked to take our picture, Shannon.
A Hall of Fame wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. He doesn't
know who he is because he's too old.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So Larry's the top.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Larry Fitzgerald looks at I mean, Maria looks at Larry Fitzgerald.
It's like looking at Jerry Rice and going, Jerry Rice,
can I have a picture and then just holding.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Him the phone and asking him to take it, which.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Is exactly what he did. He asked Larry Fitzgerald to
take our pictures. No, Larry just walked on, but his
buddy took the picture. But that's when you hang out
with him, you understand he doesn't know anybody. Drew like,
if they're older than twenty seven, he does not know
who they are.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
In the moment he did to know. We go to
the bar and I looked at him. I was like,
do you realize that's probably a top five NFL wide
receiver that you just talked to. He's like, oh, that
guy's a receiver as the game's retired, but that is
a legend that you spoke to familiar.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I've definitely seen him on TV or something like that.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
So then we got inside and you know, it was
it was an interesting group because you and I wonder
Drew before we went like why did they ask us
to be here. I still don't really know the answer
to that question, because even though it was a lot
of fun, I still don't really know what it was.
I mean, everybody was just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Even the barstool guys weren't real strue what was going on.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't think anybody really knew what was happening. It
was just like a party, which I guess is what
the met gal is. You know, the met galley. Everybody
sees everybody walk in, but then you don't really know
what's going on inside. Are they looking at art? Are
they just just standing there? That's kind of how this was.
You walk inside. At least there were games on, right
the Knicks played the Celtics, the Nuggets played the Thunder
(06:39):
and so there were games on. But otherwise, you know,
you're just standing there. And it was interesting to me
because I only knew a handful of people, but I
ended up in a lot of conversations. And there are
conversations where you just don't know what to say to people,
right Like, you go, hey you, I know you, and
(07:00):
they're like, hey, you're the Kentucky guy. It's good to
talk to you, right like, right nice. I mean you
just you kind of run out of things to say.
I think after a while.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, looking back, if someone were asking me like, what
did you all do? I kind of we just mingled,
and I don't like to mingle, but we mean big
barstool personalities. We're like, what's up? What do we do here?
And they're like, we don't know. Hi, Uh did you
get the sushi? All right, good talk, move.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
On to the nose.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They did have no shin and they did have a
lot of food.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's all they had.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Like they had a chef hand rolling sushi while you
were there, you know, they had they had a lot
of food. It was an open bar. They gave away
okay when you got there, you could scan your phone
shan And they were just having a little contest where
you would pick the games that were on that night. Yeah,
and there's probably what two hundred people at that party,
(07:53):
maybe a hundred of them are barstool employees, and they're
not allowed to be in the contest. So you're talking
about like one hundred people. And somebody was gonna win
twenty five thousand dollars out of that and second place
was like ten thousand dollars. And third place was seven
thousand dollars. And so that's like an when we walk in,
we go, what an amazing contest? You know what we did? Shannon?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
All three of us forgot that. I once took a
picture like three of us, and I think most people
didn't enter. So somebody won twenty five thousand dollars, probably
with not much competition. You know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It was actually woke up this morning kicking myself like
did you forget to ever enter that?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Because like all those women that was overwhelmed by everything
going on, That's what it was. Yeah, all those women
that were there, I bet they didn't enter it all that,
and then you know the Barcelol employees couldn't. I'm doubting
Larry Fitzgerald and the athlete Steve Nash. I don't think they.
I don't think they entered it. So so Shannon, somebody
just probably walked in there and was just scanned their
thing and won twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
So I gotta ask you, though, the guy with the
green silk suit, who is who is that?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's Jerry.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That's Jerry. You know who it is. That's Jerry. O'Connell Jr.
That's Jerry O'Connell Jr. Yeah, he was there, the actor
from our childhood, from Lost.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Boys and all that.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
There's a perfect example. Okay, here's a perfect example what
I'm talking about. Jerry O'Connell Jr. Shannon. I've seen that
guy since I was a child, right as an actor.
He's been an actor our whole lives. There he is
in a green mesh suit for reasons I don't totally understand,
and he's watching the Nick Celtics game and he's going crazy.
(09:34):
I'm standing behind him most of the night. When it's over,
you know, we're in a position where it's just me
and him, and I go, hey, Jerry, I'm Matt. He
couldn't be nicer. He looks at me and he's like,
hey man, what do you do? I'm like, Kentucky. Oh,
He's like, you're the guy Kentucky Sports Radio. I was
surprised he knew who I was. Yeah, But then, like,
(09:55):
what do you say to Jerry O'Connell after that? I
can say, I love you and Lost Boys, you know
what I mean. I don't want to be like, well,
what do you have in common with him?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
You know nothing.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I mean, I just I was like, what about that game?
Jerry O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
J you know, he looked like he was living his
best life. He was enjoying whatever was going on on
that mome man.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He was fun. He I joke about We didn't really
know what to say, but then we started talking about
sports and it was great, and he talked about how
he said he would like to come on the show sometime,
so I'll have him on the show.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He's nice dude. He was a very nice guy.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
But it's just you start this conversation, you don't want
to be like I know you from a movie when
you were nice, Like, there just comes a point like
what do you say?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
He set the tone for me after Mario's awkward red
carpet inter actually asking Larry Fitzgerald take a picture. We
weren't in the building for thirty seconds, and Mario and
I just ended up talking to Jerry O'Connell. He could
have been nicer, but it did get to a point
where even like pat Us on the back, like, well
see you guys later, We've run out of things to say.
But at that moment, my brain was like, what is
life right now? What is going on, Shannon, we have
(10:58):
to talk about our guy Drew. Okay, he was a commercial.
I was having a good time sharing.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You know, I've known Drew for like sixteen seventeen years
as part of KSR, and I've known Drew in like
his Drew stages where he like was Drew, you know,
every night Drew Franklin story. I mean I could, I
could write a book and Drew Franklin stories from that era.
Good times. He's a different Drew now, still fun still funny,
(11:29):
still awesome, still great friend, but not quite the Drew.
Like he's not you know what I'm saying. He's not
Nolan Ryan thowing at I haven't lost the fest. He's
still you know, he's just kind of I just don't
send me out much. I mean, he's not Greg Maddox
painting the corners, but he's like he's like smokes when
(11:50):
they send him to the bullpen. You know what, That's
what he is.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, a couple more slaughters and fork balls.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yes, exactly right. Well, last night he reared back for
a Nolan Ryan at forty no hitter. Okay, like he
Drew was throwing as fast.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
But my line as I haven't lost a step. I
just looked before I take one.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
No, it's the old Toby Key song. I ain't as
good as I once was, but on as good one.
I got it when I get called up as I
ever was. Last night Drew was on one. He was
definitely on one man. I think the correct word is
even sent this to my wife and others. I was
absolutely folded at that event, and it all hit him.
When we were talking to Dave Portnoy, we got in
(12:30):
like a fifteen or twenty minute conversation. He and I
talked a lot about what it's like to own a
company and the good and the bad and the up
and down, and it was actually a really interesting conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Drew started it completely Mario.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Coherent, normal as ever, normal, you know, just talking, Drew's
coming in here and there by the end he was like.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Have they partner?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I got a little, I got a little.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Songs the hey they part and I wasn't bad. Then
them harshes go around and around. You just go and
then by and then Mario and were like, you know,
I think it's time, Yeah, you gotta go.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think we probably ought to go back to the hotel.
And he was like dang, hey, you listen did your
impersonations yesterday?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't know I was gonna be today.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It wasn't bad bad.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Mario was pretty bad. It was pretty fast.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He just and then thank you Drafty Express for me.
And then we ended up. Mario and I like, let's
go get an uber, let's talk to go, It's time
to go. Let's go true when you like something to eat,
that actually was my problem.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I did not eat all day and am tequilos.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
So so we we went got something to eat and
then it was a little more calm and we finished
the eating. But it was a lot of fun. Uh.
You met what had to be one of your heroes, Ario,
which I wanted to talk about. That was a cute
moment and the other stuff that went on. Plus Kentucky
gets a basketball player. We we are giddy. I'm here
with Drew Franklin and Otis from the Frandy Griffiths Show.
(14:12):
We'll be right back Kentucky Sports.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Hey, Drew Franklin lived this last night at the barstools,
making me feel No, you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
You shouldn't You were fun. You only told me and
Mario the same story on the.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Radio because I know I've already said it to you all.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, no, I want you. Here's what I want you to do.
In a second. I want you to tell the story
you told us ten times on the radio because it
is nice. But first, a bunch of people on the
text machine writing seven seven two seven seven four five
two five for one person, one of many says that
Matt Jerry O'Connell was not in Lost Boys. He was
in stand by Me. That would have been good to
(15:01):
know yesterday, because I do think I said to him
he was the lost boy.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You told him he was in a movie that he
didn't know what he was even in that.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I don't think he wasn't. Yeah, I think I said
something like I don't remember exactly how it came up,
but I think I may have said the word lost boys.
He was very nice, Yeah, but he he didn't he
didn't correct me. And but I think I did say
it to him in the course of a longer conversation. Yeah,
I had a couple of those. Actually, there was a
(15:31):
there was a woman there that works at barstool that
I called the wrong name twice. I thought her name
was something else, and we I had a good conversation
with her, and now I called her the I think
I think I thought she was the other person the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You did that in Milwaukee too, I think I.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Thought, you know, I did do it Milwaukee to a
sideline before. I thought that was Tracy Wolfson, and it
was not nice, like layah, and like I know this woman.
I know Tracy Wolfson. I don't know the person I
was talking to, which made it clear why she looked
(16:13):
like she. I wanted to respond, was like I didn't
know me, and then she didn't because it was not
who I thought it were. I did the exact same
thing with one of those women last night. I kept
calling her one thing and it was not her. That
with you, man, I don't know, all right, tell the
audience what you said to us forty five times last night?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I just kept started. Even when we went to Old
Town afterwards, I felt like I just I was pulled
my string and I'm gonna say it one more time,
but I have.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
One more in me.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Okay, Gilly, so Shandon, do you know who Gilly is?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I didn't don't feel bad. I didn't know who he
was either.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
He's like a big hats he's like a big podcast star.
He was with Shador Sanders on Draft Knight. He even
big Guy in the big Hat with Shador Sanders on
Draft Night.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Remembering the background was guy big Hat. That's who it was.
He's a big Eagles fan. Super Bowl celebration, he's in
the locker room.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Mario wanted to meet him going in, and that's who
Mario knew of all the people that would be there.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
He's a legend, man. He's like a legend, especially like
in the black community. He's a huge legend.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
So exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
But you said he was one of the biggest black
podcast Yes, yes, okay, iks so go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
This feels so awkward saying to you guys, I'm talking
to the listeners, not you too. We meet him like
we did everybody with awkward conversations. But this man was
so nice. He did not have to do this. He
pulled Mario aside. Matt went in. I kind of just
took a few steps away, was hanging out just a
few little bit away from them. He talked to Mario
for at least twenty minutes, giving him advice. How can
(17:41):
I help you this that we just met, just I
could not get over how nice Gilly was tomorrow and us.
He was nice to me. I mean I talked to
him plenty, but of all the interactions last night, I
could not get over what a nice guy that was.
He's alright. I can end up linking up with Mario
on Mario's podcast or something down the road, but Gilly
(18:05):
out there. I know if some of our listeners probably
know him. You know him for the big hats. There's
not a better person on earth than Gilly. I walked
in knowing who he was, and then I'm a big fan.
I'm now his biggest fan. He was so good to Mario.
I was I was like Mario's dad. I was taking
candid pictures of those two. I have ten pictures. He
(18:27):
tells you that ten times, of course, of one. I'm
not gonna apologize for now.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
It was it was he kind of took like a
big uncle energy with you, and you loved it like
your star.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, this is somebody who I grew up watching. You know,
you see him on pol His advice. He took you
inside and he gave you advice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
He said, obviously his first advice.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
He was like be known in the state, like you
guys got to be known in the state and try
to be as known as possible in the state.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And I was like, well, we're pretty known to state already.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
And he's like, okay, then value, he said, value is
the key, Like make sure you provide value. If you're
working for these guys, whatever you do, provide value. That
was his biggest thing. And I was like, okay. He
was like, because you don't, He said, you don't want
to be like I remember you telling me, Matt a
few weeks ago, you don't want to be replaceable?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Was long, No, that's the advice I always give people.
Younger people. They say to me, what's the biggest piece
of advice you can give? And I said, I don't
care what your job is. Whatever your job is, whether
you're in media, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're working
you know, as a bank teller, what you pick the job,
make yourself irreplaceable because as an employer, you there are
(19:38):
certain people you cannot replace. Like I in every job
that I have, there's somebody there that if we lost them,
it would not be the same. And so you don't
And my thing is you want to make sure you're
that person Gilly's advice to you was add value in
everything you do. And those are actually two really good
pieces of advice. Like not trying to be you know,
(19:59):
Tony Robber here, but they really are.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah. And I took it, took it all, you know.
And he was a good dude.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Man.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I love the way he didn't know us, came came
over to us and talked with us for like twenty
five minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We had a great conversation with him.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I'll give you the best example of somebody making themselves irreplaceable.
iHeart used to have shennon phone lines. Yeah that were
that were well, they were weird.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
A guy set up our phone system at iHeart to
where he was the only person that knew how to
use it.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Remember this shit. Yeah, and he like set up in
it and he set it up much more elaborately than
it needed to be so that no one else could
fix the phone system but him, And so when when
cuts were made, he'd always get capped because they're like, well,
you can't replace him if we lose the phone system.
And then finally, I don't know what he did, but
(20:52):
something happened where they had to separate it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Remember our phones were down for like two or three days.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
That shit.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Remember we couldn't take homes for.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
On planet Earth. Who knew how to fix it?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, AT and T and then the phone company was.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Like, what is this system?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Who did this?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
And he had done it so that's a little sneaky
way to do it, but he had done it to
where he like was irreplaceable. And then finally when it
had to happen, we were, we were. We replaced him
for a while.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, exactly, Well, Gilly's irreplaceable to me, Like my brother
in law is an Eagles fan and Gilly's probably one
of the more famous Eagles fans. He's like, well, let's
send him a video, like just he was just doing
so much. That was so nice.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
And the crazy part is you see that on camera,
like when you watch his podcast, he acts just like that,
and when you see it in person, like it's I know,
you didn't really know.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Who he was, but like hearing his stories, he said,
You're like you should be the one on TV talking
about it.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Were great. There were some other people that I thought
just as were much nice and that with thought. I
mean Portnoy like we talked twenty minutes. I mean we
talked about Drew was done at the end of that
twenty minute.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Did you tell the only story.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
He did?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Actually, I think he did.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Talked to the whoever the kid is that does the
I don't know Josh Richards best friend.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Did you know when I knew when he was really gone?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
When we tried to take a selfie with Josh Richards
and Drew had it on video and we were standing
there for like.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
All right, wear this second, just staring at.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
The Jerry looks at this guy, all right, Shannon, Josh Richards.
He's like a TikTok guy, right, and he does he
does a podcast.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
The direction of this conversation.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
But Drew meets him just immediately takes a vape with it.
I don't know how it happened, but Drew's just vaping
with this guy, Josh. How many times you have the
opportunity I didn't even know Drew vapepe with a TikTok
star and then when it's over, goes, hey can I
get a selfie?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And he just turns it on video.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Let's let's go.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
This is not about me, this is about Gilly, and
we'll take a break.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Very back.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Sorry TJ.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Smith personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I feel sorry for the podcast people because Shannon's been
on roll with the music lately in terms of it
being like, I mean, this is a great pick over
and over again for an irreplaceable going in the break,
Shannon is Shannon's killing it. I am going to go
the phones. Ay if I'm nine to two eight twenty
two eighty seven, Well, we got one or two people
on there, get on there because I do want to
go real quick. I want to do a couple of
questions here that people, uh wrote in. One person writes Matt,
(23:37):
I saw you on the live stream a few times
talking to Rico Bosco. Uh. It was weird seeing all
those people and then seeing you on it too. Yeah.
We made a few of those shots just standing behind
because the Knicks and Celtics Shannon were in an amazing game.
Oh yeah yeah, and the people, yeah yeah. Half the
people there were Knicks fans and half the people there
were Celtics fans, and so that was kind of kind
(23:58):
of cool to watch. One person says Matt did you
meet Frank the Tank. I know a lot of you
don't know who these people are, but but you know
some people do, yes, and he was. He was very nice.
We liked him.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I had to help him. His pants were like he
was having a pant situation, so I helped. I tried
to help him a little bit.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I'm so hesitant to say anything, but everyone really was nice.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Frank.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I know him just a little bit from social media,
but we sat and talked to him forever about his
weight loss journey and how he's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, Dana Beers, I got to I got to do
a beer.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I beat him, by the way. Thank you to all
the people on social media who went frame by frame
and figured out though I won by a millisecond on.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That one person rights. What about uh the Sydney Thomas
we met her, it was she's beautiful. She and there
are a lot of beautiful people there, a lot of everybody, Yeah, everybody.
There are a lot of beautiful people. The older ones
really like Mario. Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
There was a moment where Mario and I even said
to him as right after we were talking to Gilly,
who by the way, was so nice.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Tomorrow, there we.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Go but we went. We went to this couch and
we're like, hey, man, because can we sit here for
a second. And the guy's I was training this morning.
I'm a little sore. Turns out he's just this huge
UFC fighter tomorrow and I just pull up and sit
with him on his couch. Just people everywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
No, it was, it was.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It was weird. They they had a lot of beautiful people,
but you know, everybody was everybody was looking good. He
don't look good for one night. Look good. So we'll
have I'll talk a little bit more about a couple
more things from there later in the show. But U yesterday,
Rhese Potter from Lexington Catholic High School became the thirteenth
(25:30):
player in the UK class. He ends up kind of
replacing Travis Perry. He's a Lexington kid. He had been
made I think a pretty big offer from Washington to
come play. I was told Hubert Davis. Carolina fans are
mad that I said this, but I'll trust my source
over random tar heel in your eye person that that
(25:51):
Hubert Davis had kind of made him a priority. Uh,
I know, Louisville and Yukon had reached out to him.
I don't know if they offered him, but uh, he
picks K and I would think it almost a significantly
I don't will say significantly less, but a less amount
because he bled blue. He was offered a campus tour
and he said, I don't need one. I grew up here,
I know it that down the street. He's down the street,
(26:14):
and so he is our new player. Do you like
the addition for the roster? I do you know this
next season.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I don't expect him to be in with five minutes
left in a tournament game or anything, but he's a
good beast to put on the bench and maybe develop
over time he can step out shoot the three. I
like just the Kentucky connection, especially losing Travis Perry. You're
I consider him maybe the thirteenth man in all due
respect to him, but it's good to have a Kentucky
kid there. Like I said, just just right down the
road playing a high school ball Catholic. I'm sure a
(26:43):
lot of people know who he is, so it's good
to have him on the team. Big local guy, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
I like to see that and lexing the Catholic, like
Drew said, you know, in his height seven to one, Yeah,
you get your adding depth to Brandon Garrett shot forty three,
taking shoot a little bit too, you know, so I like,
I like to pick up a local guy to place
replace another local guy. So I think it was a
game and if and I think the theory is if
you get a big that's hurt, he becomes a potential
backup and uh who knows, you know, if he plays well.
(27:11):
This is probably a two or two year uh thing.
I think they still might add one more after some
conversations yesterday, but it's a kid that wouldn't be thought to.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Be an immediate contributor. So I think you have the
team for next year as an immediate There's another kid
that might be like, let's see what happens with you
is as a longer term option.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
But I do think you know you got your group.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
What court is stacked a lot of people. I mean,
there's not a better front court in the country.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Talk about size too, We got a lot more size
compared to last season.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So yeah, it should be fun. Well we'll talk I'm
sure going into October about what the what this team
ceiling is. But I feel really good about it. I
mean I feel like they have one of everything. If
Aberdeen and Williams especially can become really really good three
point shooters to where it's a regular thing, then I
(28:11):
think they got one of everything you want. My only
concern is from a team that had so much shooting
last year, do you have enough shooting.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
With this group?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
But they got all pretty much all of them can
do it. The question is do you have a Kobe
braa kind of guy that gets you the shot you
need in a pinch. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I mean we're all being optimistic because we're fans of
the team, Like you assume that Jalen Lowe will be
a little more efficient than he was at Pittsburgh where
his teammates were just were absolute trash and he's having
to play hero ball. You get him in a good
system with pieces around him, you think he'll be better.
My biggest thing is Yellovich, which, by the way, they
put out a statement that he's signed and they put
the pronunciation guy, and we've been saying it right, even
(28:53):
Ron Lemon's been getting his name right.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yellovich.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, we don't really know how he's going to translate
to college ball. There's a chance where he's really good.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Now, there's a chance he's really good, which is hard
to know. There's a chance you have a Z situation
where he has like an amazing game and then has
two the next game.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
But there, yeah, and we don't know what's really good too.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
So every year there's a freshman in the SEC that
wasn't five star that everyone was just like wow. Last
year Jeremiah Fears at Oklahoma, he wasn't top fifty. Dude
was a stud. Before that, you had Josh Hubbard. I
think he was barely top one hundred. I mean, there's
a chance Jasper, you know, he's in the twenty five range.
There's a chance Jasper surprises people how good he is defensively,
(29:34):
He's got to get a little better, but he might
be a lights out shore would be well.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
So it should be exciting.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And your Kentucky basketball team, with the possible exception of
one long term piece I think is now here for you.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It's up first, Shit, Jacob, Jacob, how are you?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Jacob?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven?
Speaker 11 (29:51):
Go ahead, Hi, good morning, Matt. I hope you and
Drew and Mario had a incredible time in the console
area at two quick doms. I just want to mention
a couple of great restaurant restaurant options in scott Stale
if you have the time, I recommend Ocean forty four,
Ran Scene or Cafe Monarch Listen in Scottsville area.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I just wrote those.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
Lastly, Yeah, those are great, great options I definitely recommend.
And lastly, I just want to mention that Drew's acting
experience inspired me to sign up and I auditioned this
weekend for play later this summer at Lexington Chron's Theater.
So ill we do its very.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Thanks well, thank you very much, and appreciate, appreciate the call.
Look at you, you are inspiring the youth, aspiring the
people you're you're you're with these people like Gilly was
with Mario, dude throw an inspiration.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Well that that actually meant a lot to me. That
uh me embarrassing myself on stage open the door for
someone else.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
And I just can't get over how nice Gill is. Okay,
you gotta stop, like you really got to stop. Eight
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven couple op with
lines give us a shout. You know, I know we've
been talking a lot the last few days, but I
do want to talk to you folks. We just had
to We've just had a lot to a lot to say.
Are you all did you? Have you all enjoyed your
trip here? I know you're going back. It's probably been
(31:09):
my favorite trip so far.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Really, yeah, you're because you were starstruck.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah, starstruck. You know I've never been out here, and
you know this is cool.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
This is cool.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
We can't pass the cactus without Mario getting out and
take a picture.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
You really love you. You look at everything with such
a childlike wonder. It makes me happy, like you really
do like you you have such this I'm being serious,
I'm not being sarcastic. You have such a positive outlook
and such a positive energy like youll Shannon, He'll sit
there and pump you up, you know what I mean,
(31:43):
Like like he'll look at me when I come downstairs
in my jacket and go, okay, here we go, watch out.
This is the and and you know it's like a
it's like a little over the top, but it also
makes you go, you know what I do.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Look like you're supposed to sposed to do that, Shannon.
That it's good to have somebody like that.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
You need a hype man, We.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
All need a Mario just following us around telling us
that day.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
That's exactly right. Well, thanks to Draft Kings. Speaking to DraftKings,
you can go to the Draft Kings sports book. Uh,
download it. Bet five dollars, get two hundred dollars Draft Kings.
You know, hey, what how can you do anything except
to say thank you to a company that brings us
out here. And with the NBA grind gone, you got
the playoffs ready new customers. Bet five dollars to get
(32:26):
two hundred dollars in bonus bets. Instantly download the Draft
Kings sports book and make it happen. And uh remember
with DraftKings, the crown is yours. If you have a
gaming problem, call one a here Gamber eighteen plus Kentucky only,
lgebt SI supply new customers only, Bone spaks by one
hundred and sixty eight hours after issue traditional term Responsible
Gaming Resources CEE, DKNG, dot CO, slash audio.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
We will take a break, take.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Your calls in, get into some other stuff, including could
there be a KSR after us we are gone. It's
a question that NBC seems to have an answer for it.
We'll be right back to Kazar. I really liked this song, Shannon,
and you probably didn't even know that. Oh you could guess.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Glenn Campbell.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Good, Glenn Campbell, Right, yeah, it is this. I will
say this about this area. I could see how somebody
would want to live here.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
I know, in July and August they say it's like
one hundred plus degrees and kind of miserable. But right now,
I can't imagine whether you would like more than this
every day eighty degrees, like a breeze every single day.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I mean, that would be amazing, and I think we're
hitting it perfectly. I think it was like one hundred
to day before we got here. We are here in
their best weather. I could live at this resort. I
went around the Lazy River yesterday. There's not much I
love more than the la but this man loves a
lazy rust and there was I did a couple of
great laps. Also, I met people from Madisonville and the
Lazy River. What are the odds? What a small world?
(33:49):
But I mean Madisonville, Kentucky in the wind.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Also, and there's a law firm that is having their.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Partner retreat here. Ye, So partner retreat law firms basically
bring all the people and They're just like, let's spend
three days doing meetings. But really it's just an excuse
to make the associates stay and work and they go
party for three or four days. So there's a the
law firm Goodwin Proctor is here. I don't know anything
about Goodwin Proctor. They might be nice people, there might
(34:16):
be a good Win Proctor person listening. I'm just gonna
tell you, y'all got a law firm full of nerdy
people that are just getting hammered in this place. I'm
just saying, like it's you, you're you know, I'm right.
Like they just walking around here first of all, like
they own it. They even brought Shannon. They brought their
own pillows to put on the communal sofas.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Right, Yeah, like OT buy the pool. All the pillows
say Goodwin on it.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I feel like I work for Goodman Goodwin proc.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Yeah, there's thousands of people here. The only five people
that don't work for them are the three of us,
Roy Williams and Austin River. Everyone else walking around.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Williams and Austin Rivers are here, and then every lawyer
from Goodwin. So I'm just gonna say this to the
people who work for good Win Proctor, who aren't here.
Y'all be careful because they spending your money. The signs
that they and they're not like print out signs with
tape like the signage in the hotels is believable. How
much money though, whatever, Goodwin Proctor is spending.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
A lot of money. Good for y'all. So congratulations. Who's
up next, John, John?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Go ahead? John?
Speaker 10 (35:26):
Hey, guys, recall, I got a quick concern and he's
gonna question about and I or my concern is that
Jayden Quaintens doesn't have to play at Kentucky to be
a first round pick in the NBA next year. And
I'm not saying he'd be the furious character for doing that,
but there's a world where.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I might think about it. There's a lot of people,
though that could apply to that have had wonderful, wonderful
careers here. John Wall didn't have to play here, but
he has.
Speaker 10 (35:54):
He has an injury though, that's.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Fine, But why if he if he didn't, I am
going to operating under the assumption that not everyone in
the world is stupid and that U K knows exactly
what you just said and would not have signed him
unless they believed firmly that he is going to play.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Yeah, I do. I do believe that we have Mark
Pope's coach and that and that our former coach. But also, uh,
do you know how the ni L has structured to
the players. Do the players have to play to get paid?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Because there are no rules?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Because there are no rules, the deal can be structured
however the two parties agree, and uh, you know, I
think I can't tell you what what Jaden Quainton's deal
or any deal is, because ultimately they're private contracts, at
least for now. One day. I think that's going to change.
But so I don't know. I would think though a
kid coming off an injury, who has the talent you're
(36:59):
talking about. I know the person that is negotiating these contracts,
and he is an extremely smart person. And then Mark Pope,
I know, is extremely smart. I gotta think they've thought
through that. Now, if he ends up coming, takes the money,
doesn't play, then I'll reserve the right to criticize. But
I'm not gonna assume that's the case, considering they know
(37:21):
everything you just said, right right?
Speaker 10 (37:25):
Do you know if there is insurance policies too?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yes, well to protect the school.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Again, these are not schools that are doing this, these
are collectives. Do they have an insurance policy? I don't know.
I would assume yeah, because most businesses do. But I
don't know if there's nil collective insurance policies. I don't know.
I mean, I tell you, usually speaking, if you want insurance,
(37:52):
somebody will find a way to sell it to you.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
But I don't know what if there is that. Yeah,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
With quaintance, I've seen some people like the caller, they're
wondering if it's gonna be a shad and sharp situation.
But I think he actually has to prove that he's healthy.
I think the injury makes it more likely they has
to play because they knew what he was before the injury.
But now he needs to go out and show I'm
still good. I recovering.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So much of what he was good was his athleticist.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yeah, if you don't have that, then that that would
be a I think he has to go out and
do it to make that.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
You're probably right. Who's next, Parker, Parker, Go ahead, Parker.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Hey, guys, real quick, I want to take you too
much of your time about at the end of the
hour here when it comes to at the end of
the season for everybody, usually they go on like a
signing tour or like a farewell tour. Have you guys
heard anything from the guys that.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I appreciate it?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Thanks guy.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm hoping they'll do something because obviously I'd like to
do something at the bar. But I think what's probably
changed this a little bit, Drew, is that now they
make money and they're signing tours.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
They probably used to make these kids.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I don't know, fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars maybe As
for the less popular players, I just don't know if
these dudes like, do you like, do you want to
come to ksbar and make four or five thousand dollars
to sign for a night? If you just made a
million dollars, I mean I would, but I could see
(39:17):
why there would be kids that wouldn't want, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Yeah, and you know, they would finish their careers and
they'd go to Pikeville, Madisonville, owens Bro they'd be all
over the state and it was a bit of a grind.
And as you're saying, nothing to make it telling like
they don't want to do that, but they've got a
lot of money now and other deals in place that
they don't really and I would say have to do.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
That for a lot of those players in Cow's era
where they were really like like Anthony Davis knew he
was about to be the number one pick, right, I mean,
Devin Booker knew he was gonna be picked.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Hy.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
You know, guys like Amari and Jackson Robinson, they need
to go have good workouts and stuff, not just for
NBA futures, but even for overseas futures, like they need
they they kind of have to grind. And so that
time where they could have gone to Anisonville or Hopkinsville
and signed, it might be to go work with with
(40:03):
a trainer.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
Feel like they're probably focused on different things right now,
draft process, overseas process, rather than probably signing.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It really depends on the player.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Can we say the one person we met last night
Mario that did not like us?
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Who wasn't I know exactly who you're about to say.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
L Shan Shannon, I didn't know this was a person,
but apparently there's a former U of L player, what's
his name? Chris Brickley Chris Brickley, who trains the NBA guys,
huge following, huge following, like, look him up, Shannon, Chris Brickley.
He's got like a million.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
Followers on the tatted guy all tatted. He's in the
NBA two K for the young folks. Yeah, he's in
the NBA two K just because he trains the guys.
Do you see shann all Right? So he was there.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
I didn't know who he was. Mario was like, Hey,
that dude right there played at U of L and
so I thought, well, give me a Kentucky guy. So
I went up to him. And I have seen this
before where I walk up and it takes a second
for somebody to place me and then they're like, oh,
I don't like you.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
And he played at Louisville eight.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
To eleven, which is when I was on Louisville. The
hardest was probably that era. Right, he was on the
stripper he was on the team. He was on the
stripper era team And I said, I'm Matt Jones KSR.
And he gave me one of those I know who
you are. He said that, He's like, I know who
you are. I was like, oh, okay, it's like that now.
(41:28):
Then he was very nice, but it was clear true
that he was, like, you're the Kentucky dude who used
to run that mouth. He didn't. He was completely nice,
but it was clear that's a dude who knows KSR.
Not for positive reasons.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Yeah, I was kind of behind you all when that
conversation started, and you could almost see his face like
the switch, like wait a minute, I know who this
guy is. He was nice talk tomorrow for a while.
Wasn't as nice as Gilly, who was very nice tomorrow,
but he definitely knew KSR and from uh when we
were at our not worse, but when the two fass
were going right at it.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
If you're telling me, when did I talk the most
trash to Louisville, it was eight to eleven because they
were down cal had just got really nine ten eleven twelve.
You know, then they won in thirteen, But nine ten
eleven twelve is when I talked the most trash, and
that's when he played. He had the look of somebody
(42:23):
who remembers that we'll be right back Sciazar
Host
Matt Jones
Popular Podcasts
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com