2025-05-16- KSR - Hour 1

KSR is Live at KSBar & Grille talking UK sports and parking lot juice.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, May to sixteenth.
Thank you all here at the Chaos Barn Grill. I'm
Matt Jones. It is a rainy day in Lexington, but
you can still come out and see us and have lunch.
I hope you will. I have a surprise for people
who come to the Chas Bar and Grill this weekend.
But I'll say that now Parks Puppyshop Faulk Line. By

(00:52):
the way, the interrupting thing is off now now I
can interrupt you today. I mean, I'm not saying I will,
but I can if I'm nine two eight zero twenty
to eighty seven. A vision auto glass text machine is
seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.
In this dish sponsored by the TJ Smith Lavas you
call Tj'll make them pay. We got folks here from Boston,
Southern Indiana, got a guy in a red shirt, all

(01:14):
kinds of stuff. Drew is only gonna be here for
one hour because he's getting on a plane in gallivanting
around America over this weekend and otherwise exciting times.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I want to I want to compliment you for a second.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The last couple of.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Days you said you were gonna go interrupt anybody, and
I thought, there's no chance in France he's ever gonna
go through with that, And somehow you did it and
it worked. So I was kind of proud of you
the last couple of days not interrupting people.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean, you know, don't get used to it,
but but I I it was good. It's nice to
converse with people. And uh, we'll do it again later
this summer. We got some things we have to do
this summer. You know, we have the Unpopular Opinion Day.
I always try to do this summer. I'm sure I'll
come up with a bracket that we will not finish
at some point and uh yeah, we'll we'll go from there.

(02:02):
But I I have enjoyed it. Nice to hear people.
First day, it calls little shaky, but then it got
a little better as we went on. The first day
was just older guys tell me about the young women
they date. But then it got a little It got
a little better after that.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
You know, me, I prefer the chaos. So yesterday, when
stuff's not working and you're taking Bob and Jamestown calls
in the first segment, that surprised even me. Yeah, that's
that's my kind of show. So I'm looking forward to
summer content, all.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Right, So I have something there. We're gonna talk UK
sports obviously, and getting a big sports weekend coming up.
My Canes made the Eastern Conference final, even the Reds
won man with the red we even won a game finally,
But that's not what I want to talk about, all right.
So yesterday my car was out here in the parking
lot and a guy came in and he said, Matt,
I hate to tell you this, but you have a flat. Yes,

(02:48):
And I thought he was lying, And then I went
outside and I did have a flat, big, big, nail
in the in my in my tire. Now. There are
only two car dealerships that I mess with in Kentucky, Okay.
One is, of course, Don Franklin, been a great advertiser.
Loved them set twenty seven locations. You know, they treat
you like family, right. The other is I have had

(03:10):
at various points in my life for a long time.
Alexis and the Lexington dealership has always been nice. And
the thing that's the best about them is that if
I have something, they'll come and fix it. Because this
may surprise you, Shen, and I can't. I can't fix
a tire, So I didn't know that. Yeah, well, I
mean I know you would have thought I could, but
I can't. So while we were doing the second hour,

(03:31):
they came, got the car, brought me, you know, a
loan for the day. Well, I had to go. I
had to go to Louisville. I had to do a
bunch of stuff, and so I still have it. I'm
gonna give it back today. But last night I got
back in town. It was a beautiful night, right. And
sometimes I like to just drive around see Lexington, sure,

(03:51):
listen to podcasts. I was out there in Paris Pike
out on all the like horse Farm. Oh yeah, roads,
beautiful roads they've given me. This is either a twenty
four or twenty five. Now I have a question. Do
any of you have a twenty four or twenty five car?
Do any of you have it? I need to I
almost planning on getting a car this summer or in

(04:13):
the fall, Drew. These cars are starting to get sassy,
all right, and I don't think I like it. These
cars are starting to be like a girlfriend telling me
how to drive. Okay, you get in this car, and now,
I maybe this may be something you're used to. I'm not.

(04:34):
The car will tell you to pay attention.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh yeah, if you start waking going no, I'm fine
with that.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
If you the car will look at you and say,
please face your eyes forward. Have you have you? If
you all have a car like this, this Lexus out
here will go driver in attention, beat, beat, beep, and
it'll just say, please look forward. If you just look
to the side, just to say, I don't know, just

(05:04):
there are things over there you might want to see.
Yet I have to look at a horse. It yells
at you and it beeps at you, and I don't
think you can turn it off. And as you may know,
sometimes I look away. Occasionally you've ridden with me, the
car just yells at you constantly and you can't turn
it off. And is this what it's gonna be? Is

(05:26):
the cars like get an attitude with us as the
year's going. I didn't realize they were doing that. Now.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
I didn't know i'd gotten that fancy. My car is
about to turn ten, so I'm just lucky to get
my phone to play music through it. But I have
seen some I've been driving them where, like a coffee
couple pop up and I'll be like, do you need
to pull over? Are you tired?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm like, what do you know about me? You know me?
Get it gets really sassy, it says one of them says,
please look straight ahead. First of all, it's a little
scary that it knows what I look. Yes, like it's
because they were right at that moment. I was looking
a little bit to the side. But is this gonna be?
What things are?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Cars?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And be like, sit up straight, you're slouching. That's bad posture.
I don't. I couldn't believe it. And I guess this
is normal for for cars, and I'm sure it's safe
but I felt like, you know how what people get
a dui and they'll make them blow into it to whatever.
These cars will say to you. If you don't look straight,
they're gonna make you pull over.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I didn't know, I along, Drew, I've got an old car.
I didn't know this was the technology they're using. Now
it feels like you've got your high school principal in
your front seat with you.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, it was like taking mom's ridding shotgun. The whole time.
It was like my old gym teacher who I took
drivers said with who was sitting there yelling at me.
So I didn't enjoy that second thing though. One of
the places, and I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to say
where this is, but I feel like it's part of
the story. Okay, New Circle Road out there, like uh,

(06:53):
next to Russell Cave. Okay, you know what I'm talking about.
Out there, there's you know, that's where some of the
more I don't know what you would say risk a
businesses in town? Yeah, is that fair to say for
people dance? But I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bar. Right.
They have a bunch of those out there. And I

(07:14):
was driving down Nicholas or on New Circle Road, coming
like towards let's say, you know, I'm forgetting roads, the
road to the Interstate that's right next to Yeah, the
next time new Townpike come from in between Paris Pike
and Newtownpike. And there's one of those dance establishments on

(07:36):
the right. And as I'm driving by, I look outside
and there's a man and his wife. And you all
may have seen this. They have seven jugs of juice.
Have you seen this?

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I think I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Like you know how when kids will have lemonade stands
and they'll have a jug of juice. This was a
grown man with seven different colors of juice in honestly
a strip club parking lot. Okay, seven different and he
had there were children there, and there was him, and
there was a food truck and it said in Spanish

(08:13):
basically juice, fruit juice. And I was thinking, those are
seven different out in the open jugs of juice in
a strip club parking lot on a Thursday night at
six point thirty in the evening.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's just pimp juice.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's the other shit, here's the thing. And there were
a line of people getting the juice, and they look
like people who had driven up to get the juice
and get back in their car. Well, of course I
look at it, and I'm like, this must be good.
I love juice, but I couldn't make myself go into

(08:58):
the parking lot and get the strip club juice that
was there. But it had this guy had multiple flavors
and a line of people that clearly this is a
thing that people get. Drew, You're the foodie of.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Lexing, and I love a good parking lot vendor that
might not be on the books. I love a shady
truck selling something all the back.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
So I went to the dairy Queen and I asked
the person in the drive through, because it's right across
the street, what's the deal with the Jews And they
said they're They're out there every night and it's very popular.
And I had no idea, And so I'm wondering if
anyone listening has ever had it, and would you trust it? Drew?

(09:46):
Would you would you see if you heard on like
Lexington foodies, that there is juice in a parking lot
of the Strip Club? Would you would you try it?

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Not only would I try it? When I'm back right. No,
they don't have to go into that. A staff that
place gives me dajavo anyway. But on Monday, I'm gonna
take Mario and Mario, let's sample all the juices for
a video.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Would you like that?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
We don't have to go into the pink building, but
just the juice truck.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I want to.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'll do it a tasting for for our I.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Mean you should. I freely admit I was fascinated. How
do people know about it? This was not like just
old guys standing in line. There were like, you know,
professional looking people eating juice or drinking juice out of
the parking lot. That was just in jugs, seven different colors,

(10:34):
and Ryan I wanted to stop, but then I was worried,
like you know, someone would take a picture, and I
was like, I'm not gonna stop there. But I did
wonder about it, and the car was yelling at me,
look straight ahead, stop looking at the juice. My eyes
up here, And I ended up not stopping. But I

(10:58):
didn't know.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
This was the thing, But I'm gonna go. I may
go tonight. I'm definitely on board with trying. Is that
ex yeah, yeah, oh yeah, where you said it?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Was well, okay if you go tonight because apparently they're
out there. Uh. The woman that dairy queen said Wednesday
through Saturday. Okay, so tonight is between those days.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
And obviously's good. If there's been a line there people
waiting to get it is obviously something that tasty.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
So will you text me and let me know how
it went?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yep, I definitely will.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Just the city of Lexington continues to surprise me. But
I don't think I've been more surprised than I was
last night looking at the.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Jews, I'm excited. It's gotta be good. If there are people,
will you think it's gotta be good. They probably don't
even care what that business is behind them because it's
not even really open during the day. They just see
an empty parking lot they can use. I don't think
there's a they're collaborating on this business.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
We'll see now. Part of the reason I went driving
around is I got frustrated that you're got Kirby Smart.
All right, Kirby Smart. Did you see his quote yesterday?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I heard he was on five.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, I didn't listen to it, but this is the
quote and he said this yesterday, and I it was
sitting by and I tweeted about it, and then I
guess Georgia fans all saw it, and next thing you know,
I was getting flooded by Georgia fans angry. Here was
this quote by Nil. I just want to be able
to have a freshman come in and not make more

(12:20):
than a senior, and like I'd like for other sports
to be able to survive. You know, we're on the
brink of probably one to two years away from a
lot of schools cutting sports. We need to change how
this has happened. So I read that, and on the surface,
people would look at that and go, well, that seems reasonable, right,
freshmen should make more than senior years. We don't want

(12:42):
to cut sports. I get that, But his primimise kind
of was we're gonna have to cut sports because we're
giving these kids too much money. Now, the last time
I checked, Drew, was anybody forcing these schools to give
kids money? Does Kirby Smart have to give freshmen more
than he does seniors? Is that rule that you have
to give a freshman more than seniors? So if Kirby

(13:03):
Smart is giving freshman more than he's given seniors, would
you agree with me? That that was his choice.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
It seems like a Kirby problem.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
It seems like Kirby problem. Nobody's making him do it.
He could pay the seniors more, he's choosing to do it.
But the second part of that is he says, we're
gonna have to cut sports. We need to do something
to stop it. Did I hear at any point Drew
during that conversation that he volunteered to cut some of
that ten million dollars a year salary. Did he say

(13:31):
that at any point? I didn't catch it. Did he
say I'll take nine millions so the track team can survive.
Did he say I'll take nine point five so the
tennis team will survive? How does he want to make
those teams survive? He wants to cut his player's money.
Wouldn't you agree there's a good chance his players make
less than him. Oh? Yeah, it infuriates me. First of all,

(13:53):
I agree with him. I want the lesser sports to survive.
I agree with him there needs to be some kind
of legislation. But I am so tired rhyminglemon of listening
to these coaches who make ten million dollars a year
to coach a game when they were making a million
dollars or two million dollars even fifteen or twenty years ago.

(14:15):
Their salaries have skyrocketed visa vis everything else. To say
that the way to fix the system is to stop
the players from making money, and nobody ever says, hey,
you know what, maybe we need to control the player salaries,
but you know who else's salary? We could controls the coaches.
Maybe these schools in order to keep tennis, golf, whatever,

(14:37):
should say we're gonna agree, we're not gonna pay coaches
more than I don't know, six million dollars a year.
Why don't they ever say that.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
They don't. They want to come across as a sympathetic creature,
but no, no, no, they don't.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
They want to protect their money and keep the kids
from making their Moneyely, that's what they want to do.
I'm fine with the system where we say, why don't
we control all these salaries a little bit, because I
think that's fair. But in capitalism you can't just do
that without having the employees have a say in that.
And these schools want these players to shut up, make

(15:14):
them shut up, take the money they're giving them. And oh,
by the way, Kirby I need an extension, give me
twelve million dollars a year. It's infuriating to me. I
am totally with the idea of the system needs to
be regulated, but I am so tired of these coaches,
especially the ones that make obscene salaries. Drew complaining about

(15:35):
the players making money and then complaining about the money
that they choose to give to the players.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
They don't have to do it, And it is ironic
coming from Kirby.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is he the highest paid He's the highs paid coach
in the country.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
If Kirby wants to save sports, maybe he could fly Southwest.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Maybe he makes him pay million dollars more a year
than anyone else at his university, not in sports. Now.
Does he deserve it? The market says he does. But
guess what the market says these players deserve it too,
because people are giving it to him, right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
And I don't know how he plans to or how
he says if freshman shouldn't get more than a senior.
I get you want to keep guys around, but if
you if you lead guys are worth what they're worth,
then you know it doesn't really matter what age are.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
You don't have to pay them, Kirby, Yeah, nobody's making
you do it. Pay the seniors. So I heard that quote,
and of course all the people online are like, good job,
Kirby's right, and then Kirby's going to ask for two
million dollars more a year next year.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
How did Georgia fans defend it? How do they do it?

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Because they don't. They don't think about it. They just
say I agree, And a lot of the Kentucky fans
defend it to and I just think it's ridiculous and
it's and I keep hearing coaches to do it, and
I think it's insane. We'll take a break eight five, nine,
twenty two eighty seven here at ks bar and grill.
Get a little dark outside, don't you. I can't wait
to go get on a flight. Well, very bad is

(16:56):
Kentucky sports Radio? Welcome back? Take you sports radio? Are
you really gonna go try that tonight? I this weekend.
If it's not tonight, it'll be this weekend for sure.
I want to see what I want to see what
it is.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
And I feel like you gotta try more than one.
If he's got six or seven of them, you gotta
try a couple.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Now, I mean, if you're gonna go all the way
over there, you might try. Absolutely said you got a
message about I have a text from a friend who
knows a friend. They actually say it is amazing and
the drink is, believe it or not, called horror Chatta Horchata.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, that's I looked it up. No, that's a real drink,
and it said no. Several people they goes and gets
drinks there hor chatta.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yep, what's it? What's it for?

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Like, what's in it?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
What's it for? It's for you to drink. Uh, the
specific cor chada. It looks like it's for various beverages.
So I don't know specifically what that means, but that's
what it's called. And uh, it's got five star reviews
from someone I trust.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
All Right, so there you go. Maybe I should have
stopped last night. All right, Ryan, I'm waiting on your okay,
and then crew, well, Drew and Mario can do a video.
I use Monday. I don't think they're open Monday, but whatever.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Present no mistake by the way that it's called that,
and they're at the parking lot of that establishment.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
You may be right about that, maybe right about that,
but We're not gonna, uh, we're not gonna worry about it.
What person rights? Matt. You say you're upset that the
coaches all complain about it, don't Kentucky coaches complain. I
actually have not heard Mark Pope complain? Have you? Does
anybody remember Mark Pope complain about it? Stoops definitely has,

(18:27):
But I don't think I've heard Mark Pope. As a
matter of fact, didn't Mark Pope just say a few
days ago, we're gonna pay the most money or whatever.
We're gonna be the best.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
I mean, yeah, someone asked what the budget is and
he did, like doctor Evil. He was like two hundred
million dollars, being sarcastic. But they said, no, of course,
we want to have the most they need.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
So, you know, we've talked about this a lot. I'm
not gonna go into extensive detail. There is a system
that needs to be fixed, and the way to fix
it is to go through Congress. And I've said this
a couple of times. Teds and Corey Booker are working
on it, and what I've heard from what they're doing,
I actually give them a lot of credit. The bill's

(19:05):
gonna have to be bipartisan because it's gonna take sixty
votes in the Senate. They're working on it. Hopefully it works.
If it doesn't, it doesn't. But I'll tell you what
won't work, just complaining about it, which is what Kirby
Smart and those guys do.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
And like I said, Kirby probably thought he was coming across,
you know, as a sympathetic guy on the Fine Bomb Show,
be a When you break it down what he said,
like you did, you understand he's not the only one.
He's not the only coaching thinks.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
They all think like But you know what, none of
them do offer to give back any of their money,
none of them and I'm not saying they should, but
then don't complyan playing when the other folks get theirs.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Thank you to the ladies of KSR. They made Shannon. Uh.
They're called pop dolls, Funko pops. Funko pops. They made
funko pops of me you, Drew and and and Ryan
and they and Mario too?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
What about Bill and Billy has one?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Look at this? Wow, that's a surprise. Nice mustache. Mine
has me with a cell phone and a whisk Uh,
yours has you very bald? But it also I didn't
get a good look at that bald, surprisingly bald. Actually,
what is in your hands?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
I got a headphones and one hand and a foam finger.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
In the other, okay, and then Drew's guy, my computer
because it's always with me, and then cash because I
gamble a lot. But also the beard is very grave,
making me feel even older.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, I mean it does. That's no, that's how accurate
it is. You have an ov W belt and a
beer so uh bi wrestler. That's exactly.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
You've got a good head of hair on you, Shannon.
It's a good looking uh.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Very much that. I'm gonna put this on my desk
and have it right there next to my Ellie de
la Cruz bobblehead doll. If I'm nine, Who's Who's Who's
up to sixty four?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
So I turned it ready on right?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (21:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
When he crushed one hit one out yesterday?

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Who's up? First? Ship Chicago Dan, Chicago Dan? How are you?

Speaker 6 (21:06):
I'm doing well? First time long times.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Somebody right here says, who are Horchata is the nectar
of the gods. There you go. I'm a very religious fella.
Nectar of the gods. I don't know if God would
put his nectar in the pony parking lot, but maybe
so you know, the Lord works in mysterious ways. I
remember that from the for this, so go ahead.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
Okay, So I claim to elaborate on the Strip Club
juice jugs. Okay, So they're called Aresca.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
They are.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
It's juice like fruits, juice that's blended and then mixed
with water. And it's basically like a dairy free smoothie
except for the aforementioned, which is the rice water, and
it's got cinnamon in it vanilla. Think of it kind
of like the after you eat your cinnamon post crunch,

(22:07):
the with's less.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, the sounds pretty good. I'm not gonna yeah, smoothie
without dairy and then rice water, that sounds pretty good. Yeah.
I saw their set. I'm just gonna tell you, I
respectfully to them. I don't think they're on door dash.
That's just my my my look at it. But but

(22:29):
I could be wrong. I'm not sure. Well, thank you,
uh for the information. Speaking of speaking of if you,
I just came into some Kentucky Purdue exhibition game. Good
ticket and I I'm gonna I'm going to give them
away to somebody and you have a chance to win
them this weekend, and I will explain how when we

(22:52):
come back to the break. Plus, UK basketball had somebody
write me an interesting question about next year. I want
to pull the fan base. See what they say. Right.
If this KSR TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ,
He'll make them pay.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Here's Matt Jones walking back in his Kentucky Sports Radio.
It is pouring outside in Lexington, apparently severe storms in
Boyle County and Garrett County. So I hope everybody is
okay all across the central Kentucky area. AF. I'm nine
two eight twenty two eighty seven Ryan. My My new
interview show debuted last night on the KHAS. The podcast

(23:32):
will come out this afternoon. It's not up on Apple
or Spotify yet, so I'll just send out the link
via social and hopefully the Apple. It takes like seventy
two hours for Apple and Spotify to approve the feeds.
But interviewed Baumani and I was really happy with it.
We did it. We Billy bought this new service where
we could see each other and talk and so we'll

(23:54):
have some video clips of it. It was. It was
really good, talked about a ton of stuff. But MANI
and I now known each other for twenty years and
it was neat to have him. He was my first
guest on the old podcast, so we made him the
first guest on the new one as well.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah. I didn't get to hear it live on WHAS,
so I was looking for the podcast last night. I'm
glad you said where the word it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well if you heard it on WHAS, we only got
to play like thirty six minutes of it. The whole
thing was about fifty five, So we're gonna put all
fifty five on pot podcast. Basically, I'm gonna do it
pretty much twice a week. One of the ones will
end up on HS and the other one will be
podcast only. And I already have my two guests for
next week too, So I.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Like starting with bo Money. I remember him in the
early KSR website days, being on live blogs. Even wrote
a few posts. You've had that connection for me. He
took a long time.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
He took some shots at people too. Yeah. He uh, Well,
I don't want to spoil it, but there's a couple
of things. I was kind of surprised. He uh, he
said it. So I think you'll you'll people will like
it if you hear it. There's a couple people that
are prominent in the sports media world that you'd be
You'll be surprised, He'll be some what he says.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
How did you guys hook up and become buddies?

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Like how that star? So when when when Bomani worked
at ESPN Tubby Smith last year at Kentucky we played
at North Carolina Do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
And we lost by a lot in that game, and
Bomani went for ESPN to cover the game, kind of
taking the UK fans are unreasonable for wanting Tubby to
be gone. And then he went and he saw how
bad we were and he basically wrote, well, maybe I
understand why Kentucky fans want Tubby to some of them

(25:32):
wanted to be gone. And he wrote that article and
when I when I read it, I had him on
my show. He was at that time just a writer,
and then he of course ended up blowing up. And
we've we've stayed. For instance, I remember one of our road.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Trips, we went to breakfast with them.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
We went and we went to breakfast in Durham, Durham,
North Carolina eight five nine, uh two eighth twenty two
eighty seven, So so feel free to check that out. Also,
if you this weekend, if you tonight, I'll even include
you all. If you do this, since you're here tonight, today,
tomorrow and Sunday, if you eat at kspar, take a picture,

(26:10):
take a picture of you being in here, right, and
you send it to me on the text machine, I'm
gonna draw one of those out and give u K
Purdue tickets for that opening exhibition game. So take a
picture of yourself this weekend, and let's see, let's put
something new in here so I know you were here
this weekend. Oh well, the menus are new, so like

(26:31):
have your menu in it. And uh, if you take
a picture of you here, send it to the text
machine wait till noon so that I can keep them
all straight. Seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four. And if you send a picture of you
in here one of those people, I'll give you K
Purdue tickets.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I think, even though it was an exhibition game, that
UK Purdue Exhibision game will be massive. I think it's
gonna be a big deal for the fans. I think
it'll be packed. I think it'll be a great environment,
even for an exhibition game.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, and since there's not a ton going on, this
is a good way to you can come visit and
see some of the things Ryan did over done has
done over here. You're such a good decorator.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, you know, I majored in that in Kentucky Western College.
Hath decor Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Who's up next session, Ethan, go ahead, Ethan. Hey, Matt.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
So some of these some of the sports teams, for example,
like Penn State's tennis team, when they have to travel
places all the way across country like u c LA,
you have to imagine that that cuts into their money
spending quite a bit. Without questions, why don't schools have
like each sport within the school, like they all have

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to be in the same conference.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, what I mean in the in Kentucky's case, Drew,
we are in the SEC, but there are a couple
of sports that were not. You know, I don't know
a lot of people don't realize. For men's soccer, we're
actually in Conference USA. I think we're not in the
because the SEC doesn't have enough men's soccer teams. There
might be another sport where we're in another conference. I'm

(28:01):
not sure what it is. I do wonder if one day,
like in the Big Ten, they say, look, let's divide
it up so our tennis team doesn't have to fly
to Washington, Oregon, UCLA USC because that's got to be
a ton of costs. But when you added those teams
to the conference, part of what you were doing was
forcing your teams. I mean I saw that the University

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of Washington last year, their basketball team flew something like
thirty five thousand miles during the course of the year.
That was the school chose to put that on their players,
and you can't now complain about the cost.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, when they did the realignment, I think that was
most people's first reaction, like, are they really going to
fly all the way across the country to play tennis
and then come right back, even the basketball teams. Was
it Mick Cronin who kind of put out their travel schedule. Yeah,
I don't have a lot of sympathy.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
For They said that's why they got out of the
CBS Classic. He was like, I can't add another trip
to the East Coast when I'm doing like seven or
seven or eight of them during the year, you know,
and the swimming and the tennis and all those teams
are also flying commercial. You know, those teams are flying
commercial cross country seven times a year.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, that's why the budget is so important. You know,
they joined the conference. They want this football money from
the conference. Yet they have to spread it out so
your other teams can survive and compete.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Weren't you bum Drew about the UK baseball team last
week watching the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I mean, five run lead twice. It just even when
it was getting a little tight and uncomfortable, Dan, I'm like, well,
they're gonna pull this off.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
And then with two outs with people who don't know,
they got up five to nothing. Then they were up
seven to two. They go into the ninth seven to five,
two outs, two strikes. Yeah, they're down to the final strike,
and then Vandy hits a three run home run to
beat him eight to seven. A lot of the national

(29:52):
people thought Kentucky because Vandy's top ten, Kentucky just needs
to win one of the three games to be in
the tournament. Just wine the three. This could have been
the one. I mean, it was right there for the
win and then they end up but that's a brutal.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Long they're at five to zero in like the first inning.
So it felt good all night. Even though they had
a bad I think it's the seventh they left Basis
let it out getting a run, he still thought, okay,
we got a two run cushion. And then to be
one strike away in that home run, I mean you
didn't even have to watch it. The moment the ball
hit the bat, it was like, that's it. There was
no doubt on that one. He popped it out the
left field.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
If they don't make the tournament, Ryan, and they probably
still will, but it's not assured. Unless they win one
of these games, that one is gonna probably stick with them.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, they just swept Oklahoma at home. People thought that, Okay,
that may get him in. But if they would have
won that game last night against number nine rank Vanderbilt
one strike away from ensuring you're in the NCAA tournament,
they still have.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Two more chances though. Yeah, but I mean, when you
get up five to nothing in the first inning, you
think that's the one that you're gonna get right there, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
To be a strike away, they pitching change a little
questionable there. I feel bad for the kid giving up
a three run bomb to lose the game. Like I said,
there was no doubt. When the ball hit the bat,
it was over. You didn't have to see it through.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
All right. So here's my question about UK basketball for
a second. So I think pretty much every fan would
say that Mark Pope's first year was a success. Would
you agree with that? Yeah, there's any you think he
has any outliers that don't believe year one was a success?

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Overall, absolutely a success.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I would say, if you were to do like they
do with presidents, the approval rating, wouldn't you say that
Mark Pope is now one hundred nine percent? I mean
high nineties, high nineties. So let's talk about year two.
Probably top two or three in money spent in the

(31:44):
transfer portal, if not number one, right there at the
top two or three, good recruiting class, top eight team
probably coming into the preseason in the rankings. What do
you think Mark Pope needs to do? Slash? What is
the expectation this year? If you were to say, if

(32:05):
I were to get a call from a national radio
show that says, Matt to make Mark Pope the fans
still happy? What does he need to do in year two?
What would you answer that question?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
That's a good question because obviously they're gonna be a
better team this year, so I think you still gotta
win these, you know, the higher profile games, the Louisville's,
the Gonzagas, the Indiana's, you gotta win them and from March,
and I think it all comes down again to March.
I think he's got to get probably to the to
the weekend, the final weekend, maybe even on the Sunday
this year. What the team he's got because the SEC.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Is what are you saying, you know he needs to
make the Is that the elite A?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
No, the SEC tournament? Yeah, the SEC Tourna. I think
he's gonna at least get to Sunday.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
And he's gotta get the championship.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, I think so, because the SEC is gonna be
down a little this year, not as strong as it
was last year. They'll gonna be good, but you may
have the best team in the league. And then when
it comes to the NCAA Tournament, I mean maybe you
think he's got to maybe sniff it at the final
four if they gotta beat on a buzzer beater, and
I'm not gonna be mad, but I think they gotta
be snipping at the final four.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
What do you think you can't ask him to do
much better than he did in the non conference last
year beating Duke gonzag and.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Louisville so bat Ohio state team. That's true.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
I did in factor that one in, but the what
were they ten and eight in the SEC? I think
you got to be in the mix for the regular
season championship, especially with the SEC being down. I think
you got to go to Nashville as the top two seed.
You know, Florida's defending champ and they reloaded. I'm not
gonna demand that Kentucky wins. I hope they win, but
you got to be in the conversation to get some
SEC rings again. And uh, definitely second weekend of the

(33:31):
tournament and you should be knocking on the door for
the final four.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah. For me, we need to contend for the SEC
regular season title, whether we win it or not. It's
been a few years since we've been playing for that title.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
I mean, well, we we were at two seed and
Cal's last year and in the SEC turn.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
We lost in the first round. Yeah, yeah, right, And
I believe the team that won won by a decent amount,
right three games. I want to see us I agree
with you, and that he's gonna have, if not the
best roster, the second best roster. I think we need
to be more consistent in the regular season. But the tournament,
I mean, do you think it is final four or

(34:12):
is it just get to that where games go either way?

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm kind of there. I mean, I think they got
a team good enough to make the final four. But
like I said, if they get they play a powerhouse
team in the lead eight and get beat in a
buzzer bill little in the final seconds, I think I'm
gonna be all happy with it. I'm not saying they
have to get to the final four to make me happy.
Just play at that level. Play at that final four level.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
It's hard to say you got to make the final
four because it's so random and hard to do that
even when you're in a top seed. But I think
you should be a top two seed in the tournament
to give yourself the best chance. I certainly be in
the lead eight and then whatever happens there as long
as you don't get blown out, you can live with it.
But I mean this hopefully we never have to we
did last year where it's like could we play on
Wednesday in Nashville or Thursday. You get a little pass

(34:53):
on the losing to Georgia and Ole Miss and being
in the middle of the pack in the conference. You
got to get back to competing for SEC championships.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Good things about Mark Pope is if he was sitting here,
he would agree with all this. He is the one
that says bring the expectations on. He doesn't say you
people are crazy, you need to lower your expectations. He says,
our expectations need to be high. Uh, and I appreciate that.
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Remember, I believe that's fifty per We will take a
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Take You Smarts Radio A five nine two eight oh
twenty seven. We were just talking about the PGA Championship
is going on at Quel Hollow and the players Drew
seem to hate the course, that it was really wet
because of rain, and they didn't let him do the

(36:09):
lift cleaning place every time somebody hit the ball and
come up with a big thing of mud, and they're
all they're all complaining about it. I was just saying,
you know, they always talk about valhalla, how it never works,
and we do arrest the players when they come, which
is not necessarily good. We got we need to stop
doing that. But outside of that, you know that they've
had Tiger win, they had Rory win, they had a

(36:31):
great leaderboard last year and then Xander won. I think
over what d Chambeau and then the first year we
had a Kentuckian with Kenny Perry. Yeah, so he lost,
but he was right there to the end. They you know,
ends up being pretty good when it's a Valhalla outside
of arresting the player.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
Yeah, if you just put that one thing aside, had
a good Ryder Cup there too. It's clear they're very
when you have Scotti Scheffler taking a microphone and just
complaining because he's usually a quiet whatever guy. You know,
he's the best of bunch. You don't have to play
about it. He was fired up about the conditions yesterday.
It's made for other than our boys in the top ten.
It's not a great leader poy like.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
I don't even know if I watch it this weekend
because the lead I don't know anyone on the leaderboard
except except the guys we know personally posting in there. Yeah,
I mean besides Yeger and posting like you have no
no interesting in Somebody suggested the name for the new show, Ryan,
I kind of lie, all right, Matt splaining like man's plaining.

(37:30):
Uh huh. But Matt's plaining because they say I would
like you know, people accuse me of Matt splaining. What
do you think about Matt Splaine.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
I don't hate it. I mean it's one of my
favorites so far, I think I've heard.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
I actually think it's pretty good. I'm not gonna lie
Drew and it would be unique. It might it might work.
That would be the leader for me.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
You are you sticking with lawyers, guns and money as
the song or is there a song?

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I think Billy forgot to put a song with it yesterday.
I think it just came in with my voice.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
I was a little worried yesterday when you said, how's
the podcast set up going? Because doesn't it take like
twenty four hours to approve that and.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Get takes seventy two hours.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah, So when he said I'll get to that today,
I thought, oh, he believe it.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Was a little stress yesterday.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
I think a little Yeah, the show fell apart. That
wasn't Billy's fault.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
He was.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
You should have seen him running around the Lexdent studio
trying to figure out.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
He was working hard. I think he was a little stressed.
The Ohio State Legislature is debating a bill today to
ban noon kickoffs in the state of Ohio. They want
to they're pass the bill that says no Ohio state
football game can start until three thirty. They're upset because
of their eight home games last year, five of them

(38:38):
were at noon, and if you remember, they always played
the Ohio State Michigan game at noon every year. The
Ohio State Legislature says it doesn't give our fans time
to get ready aka get drunk. It hurts our atmospheres.
The Big Ten is saying, hey, if you do that,
we're gonna stop giving you the big national slots because
our big national slot is noon. What do you think

(39:01):
about the Ohio state legislator saying no noon kickoffs? Would
you be for that? In Kentucky, I'm one of the
rare people.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I think that maybe I kind of like the noon
kickoffs here because we got a little pregame here at
the restaurant, go to the game, then you got tailgate,
but then you took out the evening to do whatever
else you want. Kind of makes it a fun side
of it. But I think they're right that it does hurt
the environment.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Noon game's environments are in football not as good now.
In basketball this year we actually had some good ones.
We beat the war at that one where the game
started at eleven am. But in football the environment is
not as good at noon.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
I understand why they want it to not have all neons,
but when the legislators started getting involved with stuff like this,
I just think, surely there's something else you could be
doing with your time. Then trying to figure out kickoffs
for the college football teams in your state.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
And then so we're being like sandwiched by weird state laws. Tennessee,
the state legislature yesterday passed the law, and I think
this one needs to get a lot more attention because
this one could blow up the whole college sports settlement.
Tennessee passed the state law that says schools in Tennessee

(40:10):
don't have to follow any of the NCAA rules. WHOA, yeah,
it's very Tennessee of them. Yeah, it is very Tennessee.
But it says they don't have to follow the settlement
on Nile and they don't have to follow the NCAA rules.
I mean, first of all, that is very Tennessee. You're right,

(40:33):
And it's also that could blow the whole thing up. Right,
if all these states say you don't have to Let's say,
let's say they pass legislation and let's say everybody agrees
to a set of rules. If tobacco chew and Tennessee
decides we're not going to do it and just pays double,
it blows the whole system up. Drew could then.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
The SEC or ever come from the top and then
just enforce.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I think the SEC would have to say, hey, if
Tennessee and Vandi, if you're not gonna do it, you
can't be in the SEC.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna let you play in our championship.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
The problem is some conference would then take them, and
you're right back to the same issue, Ryan, So, I
I don't know who pushed that. I don't know if
the Tennessee football basketball people pushed it. But that's a law,
like they're spending all this time trying to create a
system for everybody to follow. If Tennessee just decides we
ain't doing it, then I don't know what happens At

(41:29):
that point. They could literally they could ruin the whole thing.
Let them go then, yeah, kick them out of the SEC.
Said if you kick them out of the SEC, the
ACC is gonna take them, And you still have the
same problem, right You think they would not.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
They would just all the big conference would pass on
Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Got so much money and they got one hundred thousand
people in the stadium. Someone's gonna take them dying. The
ACC probably would take them in a heartbeat. So you
were going a very selfish thing by the Tennessee legislature
to do. I mean, everyone is kind of a green.
We gotta come up with something. You got one of

(42:08):
the most partisan Republican senators and Ted Cruz and one
of the most partisan Democrat ones and Corey Booker, and
they're at green. Let's do this together and let's make
it work. And then Tennessee's just gonna come around and say, well,
we're not gonna follow any of the rules.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
If you told me to guess the state that would
do it, Tennessee is a heavy favorite.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
That's actually probably true. Who's next, Shit, Dwayne, Dwayne, I
got about thirty seconds, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
Hey, I just want to ask questions. You told them
about Ted Cruz and Cory Booker. If they come to
you and said, Matt, what's the top two or three
things you would like to see, yeah, come out of
this legislation. What would they going to be the tour
you would like?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
I would say, if you want to create legislation that
can last, make the players sign two year contracts, the
schools have to guarantee they guarantee the scholarship for the
two years, one transfer, and then the money is twenty
two million dollar you distribute it in the law but
you give the players the ability to go get their

(43:06):
own endorsements, but they have to be real endorsements. That's
what I would do. We'll take a break, be right
back