2025-05-19- KSR - Hour 2

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Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by
Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
We're gome back.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio Hour number two Monday, uh
je May the nineteenth, right before Memorial Day weekend coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
That's this weekend. A lot of people don't realize that.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I didn't you apparently, I thought we had two weekends
before Memorial Day.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
We do not.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
We are here in London, Kentucky, right outside the subdivision
with the greatest storm damage. I do want to mention
though there the other places were hit. We mentioned Pulaski County,
I believe Russell County.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
And then there was one in the kind of central
part of the state as well, so you know that
was a that was also a wild night. I will
say I saw the guy.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
That Ryan Hall, y'all. That dude had a big impact.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I think he was the very first person, he and
one or two of the weather people on TV to
say that there was a it was a tornado. They
actually said it before the National Weather Service did, which
is a testament to those guys.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I mean, that guy's sitting in his house in Pike.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Bowls streaming uh and really I think doing a public
service for folks.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, A lot of people tuned in. I was watching
Bill Meck and you could tell his personality change when
he saw that started in Adare County. That's kind of
when he picked it up. And as they went through
Somerset and in London.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
On the ground for an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's amazing. That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, that is amazing. An hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
They said, you've got the the satellite pictures. Now you
can see a path through the Daniel Boone Forest where
that tornado went through.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean you're also you do.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Thank god though, I mean that it goes through a
forest and not through you know, towns, Yeah, because that
could have been even more horrendous.

Speaker 7 (02:45):
I was out of town, so I couldn't watch the
local news coverage, but a friend texted me that he
was watching Bill Meck and said, Bill at one point
was just speechless, like you couldn't even believe what was happening.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, just so great.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
And they think it registered at least in F three,
and they are wondering if when it got to summer
set and London area that could have even gotten to
an F four. They don't know that for sure, but
it was an F three for a lot of it.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
We talked about this, but doesn't it seem like Kentucky
all of a sudden is like Tornado Alley.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Definitely are.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
I mean, there's no doubt Tornado Alley has kind of
moved from the Oklahoma Kansas to here, and I mean,
you know it has. I don't know how anybody can
doubt that. I mean, this is gonna be I think
Bashir said, since twenty twenty one, we've had fourteen federally

(03:31):
declared natural disasters.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's amazing for our little state. They have to go
through that and keep getting taken punch after punch after punch.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
But the tornado thing is particularly bad because these houses,
a lot of them are not built because we were
not in the so like I was talking to someone
who's in construction who said houses since nineteen ninety were
built up to code, but a lot of the ones
built before that, we were not considered part of the
Tornado base Alley back at that point, so that a

(04:02):
lot of them are not built with the standards you
would build a house today, not that it could have
withheld stood this, but still that makes it worse in
some ways.

Speaker 7 (04:12):
That in Oklahoma. The I guess former Tornado Alley. I
was reading up on this yesterday. A lot of that
was just land like there weren't even communities around where
they would get hit often. And obviously, as we're seeing here,
this is a very populated area.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, Ef, I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven.
Who's up next, Shannon, Paul, Paul?

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Go ahead, Paul, Hey, I just want to say you
guys are doing a great job covering this situation. I'm
calling because, uh, I'm down in Russell County, but I've
been through this twice in my life. We lost two
homes to wildfires. And what these people are in for,
you know, in the next several weeks and months, no

(04:52):
description can can really give justice to what they're going
to have to deal with. So, you know, I wanted
to say that you had mentioned Clolothing might be something
that's getting in the way, but having been through this,
I would encourage clothing, water, and emotional support for the
people because that's going to be the most difficult thing
that they're going to be dealing with in all of this.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Paul, I think we may have lost connection with the guys,
but yeah, they're just saying don't bring into use clothing.
That's what they're asking for right now. If you have
new clothing, you can bring that. But yeah, it's they're
going to need a lot of help from the community.
I know they're going to get it too, so Paul,
we appreciate it. I'll try to get reconnected with the guys.
Eight five nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Tell

(05:35):
you what, let's go ahead and take a break. I'll
see if I can get reconnected with them. Otherwise you're
just gonna listen to me babbelon. So we'll try to
reconnect with the guys out there, and we'll take your calls.
Coming up next here on KSR.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Welcome back.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Just so people know we
got disconnected.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
We didn't know.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
We had like a three minute conversation that none of
you heard that. It was a great I thought it
was some of the best conversations we'd had about We
talked about UK baseball just gone well into a into
the ether. But we're back now. Eight five nine, twenty
two eighty seven. I missed I guess Paul's call. Sorry
about that, Paul. One of the things I did say, though,

(06:16):
is I had a couple of people asking me how
they could come see us. I think this probably is
not the day to come see It's just because the
traffic on this road is such that getting here I
think would be very difficult, uh for folks. So I
would say, you know, come see us and will be
at the Mount Laurel Festival on Friday. You can come
now or come then. But Mario is out walking around.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
He was saying to me like never seen like you know,
this is a completely different world for him.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
And he was just like you could see it emotionally
affecting him.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And this these are not city streets to this neighborhood.
They're like just single lane neighborhood streets. Yeah, and you
got to keep him clean for the relief workers to
get in and out of here.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
We were standing here looking out and he came and
put his arm around me, and he was like, this
is just so sad man.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
I can I mean, I can see it like it's
it really is sad. It's any you don't feel it
till you're you're here, it really, I mean it made
me when I came Saturday, you know that, Like I said,
that'll be a scene. I remember my entire life Saturday.
I mean it's awful. Now, don't get me wrong, it's
still awful. But Saturday, you could just feel the area

(07:26):
is still experiencing like the raw emotion of it, right,
I mean you could stand there were people everywhere, like
people everywhere. I think there were family members still at
that point trying to figure out what was going on,
like where their family was. And it was just it was,
like I said, I mean, that's one that I'll I'll
remember for a long time. I mean it was it

(07:47):
was awful. It was awful, and I you know, I
walked around and I talked to some people, and then
you know, people are just in shock, like it's just
it's you know, their lives will never be this name.
That's the thing about it, all this that really sticks
to me. People's lives will never be the same in
the short term when you lose everything.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
You know, we drove when we first got here, you
said turn here, and when we turned, the air got
sucked out of the car. We were all speechless, none
of us set a word. Just looking at it. It is
so horrifying and very very sad when you see the
people that have lost everything.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, all right, so just switching gears for a second,
and then I'll go the phones a f I'm nine
two eighth twenty two eighty seven. We we did have
a two or three minute conversation that none of you
heard about UK Baseball.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Great conversation.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Run it back.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
They got swept, but D one baseball, Shannon, and are
we still here before I have this conversation?

Speaker 7 (08:38):
Who?

Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
H D one baseball? Has them qualified still for the tournament?
And not even as one of the last four in
right that we will be in the tournament?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
They play Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Uh, they got swept by Vandy, but they play Oklahoma
in the tournament SEC tournament tomorrow. They play them tomorrow. Uh,
do you feel good that we're going to get in?
I feel good now. I think the sweep of Oklahoma
probably got him in. And they played Vandy they had
two of the three games, one going into the ninth inning,
I think, and on Thursday night and Saturday night and
just couldn't hang on. But now they play Oklahoma team

(09:14):
it's got a top ten pitcher that you just be
Now you gotta try to beat him four times in
a row.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
But they won't pitch him because he doesn't have the
rest yet.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, so I mean they'll get somebody out that this
will be a midweek starter game to start, and then
that they would pitch their best guys like Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
So is it still first round? Is one and done?
And then it goes double elimination.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Everyone is now in the tournament and it's single elimination
first time this year.

Speaker 9 (09:40):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
I guess we gotta stick to the script from from
our three minute conversation. But going back to the weekend
series with Vandy, to lose the way they did that
was just crushing. I hope they have a little more
luck going to the postseason to lose, especially Thursday when
you led for the entire game.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Led by five twice last year.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yeah, then lose on a walk off, So maybe their
fortune will reverse into Hoover.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I gave it a stat. There have been thirty SEC
games Shannon uk Is played in. They have led at
some point in twenty seven of the thirty games, and
yet they're thirteen and seventeen.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
You know, in the gotta come down to the bullpen.
Just not be able to hold the fort down, just.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Some bad line in the bullpen.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah, but but listen, Minji on and I said this
before Minjeon told me a Chipotle. He thought this was
gonna be a major rebuilding year. So if he gets
him in the tournament, that's a plus. That's that's a
plus to me. Also, Shannon, the Reds are back.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, I see that.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Wow, sweet completely back on board. Sweep in the Guard, summer,
Valley's back on. It's also the summer of Willie Benson.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, he's on fire right now.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
One four straight.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Remember I said they need to go four and two
in their homestand I didn't think it would be lose
the first two to the White Sox and then sweep
first place Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Now you get you know what coming up to though,
So you're.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
But with that, but without Paul Skeins. He pitched yesterday,
so I don't even have to play play against so in.
But we've been losing to the bad teams. That's the problem.
We beat the good teams, we lose the bad teams.
But the Reds are back to being the best team
in the league.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Just so I'm prepared. How long is the summer of Elly?

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Gonna see what happens at the series against and then
they play the Cubs, who are in first place. They
play at home this weekend, so this is kind of
a defining week. This is one that'll have to look
in the mirror and talk to themselves about.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
If it doesn't work, Ryan, I'm gonna predict on Monday,
a week from today, well we want to have a
show on Tuesday. A week from today, the summer of
the Reds will be over.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'm done with the Reds. I'm done. They're out. They're over.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
But they're five hundred now twenty four and twenty four.
I went to the game Friday night and it was
it was a big win.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Their bullpen pitched seventeen innings in those three games this weekend,
only allow one run in seventeen innings.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
That's pretty good for a bullpen.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Maybe the UK can get some tips from that bullpen.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Will Benson four home runs. I got to listen to
the call of all three. So there's this website that'll
do the Reds TV's radio and then the TV and
radio from the other team for big plays for the Rents.
For Will Benson's fourth home run in three games, the
Guardians radio broadcast, the guy just goes Will Benson's up?

(12:14):
Are you kidding me? They threw him a slider again.
Four home runs, four sliders, and then Shannon he goes,
I don't know what the scouting report on Benson was,
but throw it away and burn it.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Broadcaster says that.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
The Homer broadcaster was like, what are you all doing
throwing him the same slider four times?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I really like that.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
I like, you know, we have to watch one hundred
and sixty two games, Drew. Sometimes you're probably like, I've
had enough of this, And I.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
Like when my my broadcast team has the emotion like that.
The neutral parties, that's no fun. I want to fill
the frustration of the joy from whoever's calling the guests.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
And then finally, Mike Canes made the Eastern Conference Finals,
big win against the Capitals. They now play the Florida Panthers,
UH in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
This is a This is big for our franchise.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for us too,
and we're still finding our way in play the Panthers,
the defending Cup champions, but we're still cane tested.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I guess you're going to Miami to watch one of
the games.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Well, so Game one and two is in Carolina, but
it's during this week so I can't go. Then Game
three is Saturday, but it's in Miami during Memorial Day.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Weekend, which feels like, oh.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
You should go Miami during Memorial Day weekend. I know
I can't, Like I can't all crypto bro in Miami
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
It sounds like a party, Like why would you not
want to be there?

Speaker 5 (13:44):
It sounds first of all, I can't even imagine what
the hotel rooms would be like in Miami during Memorial
Day weekend.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
I was there last year in Fort Lauderdale when the
Panthers won. They get into it down there. It was
a wild scene when they think Game four is Memorial
Day night.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I need to be here then five.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
If they get to a game seven, it is in Raleigh,
and it is that next weekend. And if we don't
go to the NCAA what baseball tournament, then I might
go to a game seven.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
But if we can do a.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
Double header baseball, if it is Coastal Carolina, you know what.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
If they play Coastal Carolina, we can maybe drive up
there for Game seven.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Everything's on the way when you're driving, it's all just everything.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
It's just it's just a matter of if you want
to get there or not. So.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Uh So, Gocaines go, Reds go UK Baseball. My teams
Ryan are trying to make or are doing well.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
The Reds are just fortunate there in that weak division
with the Cardinals and the Pirates and the Brewers are
all kind of average baseball team. Somebody asks you, this
is the Cardinal fan, I'm still talking about.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
The summer of Valley. Who's next? Shn Raven, go ahead.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
Raven, Hey, it's raising fields from Pikeville and uh we
just went through all the flooding on February fifth, dighths
and going through something like that, I just wanted to
call him for just a second, and I really want
to commend our governor. I do not agree with his

(15:07):
politics at all, but I tell you what, every time
I see a natural disaster in our state, and now
I have witnessed one and been part of it. Our
home was completely messed up through the flood, and I
just want to commend our governor because as soon as

(15:27):
anything happens, he's one of the first ones on the ground.
And again, you know, politics aside, just knowing that we
got a governor that does everything possible. He did the
same thing here in Pike County to get funds available

(15:49):
get FEMA on the ground, and I just want I
just wanted to commend him publicly that I appreciate that,
and I know a whole lot of other people do also,
But also just to let the folks into London and
that surrounding area. I've been a pastor for over thirty years.

(16:11):
I've just want them to know that they're in our
prayers and just put their trust in the Lord's I
don't know anything else that we can do.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Just pray for God bless you. Man.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
I really appreciate that calling. You're exactly right. I mean,
at the end of the day, this is a you know,
if you're a religious person, which I am, that's really
all you can do because you do look at things
like this and say it feels so you know, I
felt this way when I was in the eastern Kentucky
during the floods in twenty twenty two, and you just

(16:45):
feel like it's just unfair. It's just unfair, and it
keeps hitting regions like Breathitt County in Pike County and
Laurel County, and you know out in Callaway County and
Dawson springs it. It doesn't it doesn't feel fair, and
it's not. But that's really all we can do. And
on that point about the governor, you know, I've always

(17:10):
liked him. I don't know him well, but I've always
liked him. But he Ryan is at his best in
these moments. And I've watched him. I watched him do
this in Breadthack County and those and I watched it Saturday.
The way he comforts people in these situations, and this
isn't with the camera on right, this is just him
walking around.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I just think is really commendable.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
You know, there's it's easy to get caught up in
politics of what your position on this stance is, but
on some level, especially when you're a state official, it's
just about making people feel cared for and doing what
he talked about about getting relief and Kentucky and I
think a lot of people deserve credit for this. How

(17:52):
Rogers deserves credit for this, Mitch McConnell deserves credit for this.
Ran Paul deserves credit for this, and Andy B.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Sheer.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
They have got Kentucky has gotten federal relief quicker than
almost any other state. In all of these there are
still states that have had issues that can't get relief
for various reasons, but Kentucky, and in part probably because
those people are known. I mean, how Rogers is the
senior guy out appropriations, Mitch has been the Senate leader,

(18:19):
and I Vasheer, you know, has I think done a
really great job, like Kentucky has been able to get relief.
And I think that will happen probably here earlier than
it would in other places as well because of that, because.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Like I said, they work together in a situation.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Really do I think they really do. I think you can.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
You can feel really good about it, even even if
one of those people I named is somebody you don't like.
There is an advantage to having that connection. And I
think there's an advantage sometimes in Kentucky with the with
the Republican federal people and the Democrat being the governor,

(18:56):
that we have connections to both parties, right, so whoever's
in charge, you can actually I mean, it's just natural.
I think they get attention quicker, so I really do
come ind them and I do think. I mean, listen, man,
Animscher took office and two months later we had COVID
and we've had fourteen natural disasters since then. I mean,
it's kind of unbelievable what he's had.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
I was just thinking that from when Andy started, he
could not have imagined all the things that have been
put on his plate.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
It really is unbelievable. Who's neck eight five?

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Okay, a couple open lines eight five to nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The you know, the
interstate is right here. One of the things that's happened.
And I get I understand this is people kind of
they can't help, but look as they go by, and
it really has bunched up in It was really like
that Saturday bunched up the interstate because.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
You can see this damage driving on the interstate.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, comes up up on you all of a sudden.
You come back, all of a sudden, there's a big
gap in the trees. You see these trees that are
missing all their upper limbs, and now you realize, oh,
that's it. So you want to take a look at it.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Well, yeah, I mean right here that used to be trees. Yeah, okay,
I mean you look, you go, there's trees going all
the way down in the election. This gap right here,
which is a major gap, which looks like it was intentional.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Is from the sore.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, we've been sent here.

Speaker 7 (20:15):
I didn't even register that was the kind of the
top of the path on this hill here right there
at the interstate.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
So you're driving on the Interstate and all of a
sudden you see that natchal inchtink is to look at it.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
But I mean, there would have been a time that
this neighborhood would have been You couldn't have really seen
it from the interstate from the trees, and now the
trees are all cleared out, and actually you can because
you're looking around.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
The cleanup has really picked up since we did our
lap before the show. I mean, it is active all
around the place right now, with people some look to
be middle school kids, all the way through the big
electrical trucks showing up.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yeah, this definitely is.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
You can see literally since we've gotten here, you can
see the community has has has come here in large numbers.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
That's probably a guy from the Letto community right there
with a truck load full of just debris and lumber,
just getting it out of here, just hauling it off.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, that's another thing you think about, where do they
take all of this stuff? Like I'm I guess a
land land or something, but like this is.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Gonna be be a lot of stuff to take everywhere.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
I also think it helps to Kentucky. We got a
lot of blue collar workers with trucks just ready to
go and get over here and help. You've seen like Rian,
just point out that guy just filled up the back
and wherever he's taking it, he's getting on out here.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
I do need to ask you about your car, why, Channon.
I don't know what the legal limit of tent on
your windows are, but whatever it is, Ryan, there's no
way your car like passes the law.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm gonna take the fifth because it is Josiah's car,
and oh.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
That makes it better. Yeah, you gotta be cool have
the ten.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
But I mean you can't, Channon. I was standing right
outside the wind. You can't see it.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Can't at all.

Speaker 7 (21:58):
We thought we were getting in a random car. Were
afraid to open the door.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Or just the front you can see, but besides, you
can't see anything.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
We picked us up at Matt's and Matt and I
weren't sure if that was Ryan in the car.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I didn't know who it was from from what I understand,
that's as dark as you can get without being over
the limit, says who says the people that did it?

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Says? What people?

Speaker 5 (22:26):
Did you go to a professional place of business or
did you go to someone's house?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
I went to shell her Automotive.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
You don't have to say the place, but they I mean,
if you say the place and they.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Was to I trust them. They're good people.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Maybe more people go get ten windows?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Who get ten windows?

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Speaker 4 (23:30):
Here's Matt Jones, welcome back.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
It is the KSR in London, Kentucky. At the Family Dollar.
People have started showing up with the boxes and the
plastic tots. So that's good seeing a lot more of
those being brought by.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
It made sense what sunder Storms was saying. They're trying
to load things up because the rain coming in these roofs.
A lot of the roofs are gone or have big
gaping holes in them, trying to say what they can.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
If I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. One
person writes, Matt, you are gonna be at the Mount
Laurel Festival. Is Alice Blue Gown playing?

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Are you playing? By the way?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Not that one, But we'll be in Summerset the weekend
after that, so we will be playing that Friday, June
the sixth and Somerset at the Virginia.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Okay, good, yeah, there you go playing in Friday. That's
what I like to hear. A couple more things and
we'll go to the phone. Here prayers out to former
President Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer, an aggressive form
of prostate cancer. He's eighty two years old and that
just came out. So prayers up to him and his family.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
The aggressive form of cancers has already gotten into his bone.
I mean that's scary.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Yeah, very scary.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
They got some treatments. I guess they're trying to analyze
see what they will work for him.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
But yeah, I mean you would assume as a former president,
probably gets the best treatment that you can you can get.
But that's very sad.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Definitely, cancers is awful, awful, awful. I had family members
go through prostate cancer.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yeah, it is. It's terrible.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
On a completely different note, I watched the first of
a three episode series that has kind.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Of captivated me.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Okay, it's called Ben laden Manhunts Number One on Netflix.
If you get on there, you'll see it. But it's
just about how they tried to find Ben Lauden, and
I have to say there was a lot more into it.
You know, you watch that movie, you just think, well,
they just dropped into that house in Pakistan and there
you go. But the first part of it's about nine
to eleven. There's some stuff I didn't know about nine

(25:29):
to eleven. I also didn't There's just a lot. I mean,
I don't want to spoil it, but there's a lot.
They go into some specifics that I had never heard
that I found really interesting.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Have you seen you?

Speaker 6 (25:38):
No?

Speaker 7 (25:39):
I started to turn it on last night, and I
had to be up very early this morning. I'm like,
I don't need to get locked in.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
You like, when you start, you're gonna keep going.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
I knew exactly what happened, but I've seen enough clips.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm very interested.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Might even do that tonight. But it's, uh, it looks good. Yeah,
so it is. It is very very very well done.
I'm just through.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
I'm only to two thousand and three, so you know,
they did it like eleven, so I'm still got eight
years of But basically I didn't know. In like two
thousand and two, two thousand and three, they had him cornered.
They were like on top of a mountain and they
saw Bin lined in like eight hundred of his people below,
and they bombed it, apparently thinking they had wiped them out,

(26:21):
but they had underground caves and a bunch of them
got away, and once they got away, they in the cave.
They had no idea where he was, and it took
him years to find him again. So they sawing like
they saw him from the top of a mountain in
like two thousand and three, and they asked, according to
the CIA people, they asked the Defense Department to send
people in Marines. They said no, and so they felt

(26:41):
like they had to bomb him to have any chance,
and he got away in an underground cave system.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Is this show going to end with the rock explaining
his tweet?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
That's a good question, A good question. Interested in learning
how that was. But they said they were. They thought
they had him, and then when they went down to
look at everything, they say, all that he had he
had created in like a year, this cave system that
that got him.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Out, what eight years? Right to try to find him again?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
There?

Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, from there, I have eight more years to get him.
But that's where I am right now.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Good places.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah, apparently, they said. George W.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Bush had a cabinet meeting after nine to eleven where
he said something like, all right, where how are we
going to get these guys? How we going to find
bid Lawden? And they looked at the Defense Secretary was
Don Rumsfeld, and he said something like, in order for
us to invade Afghanistan to get him, it will take
about six months. And Bush apparently said something like that's

(27:37):
two long. And then the guy in the CIA, who's
this dude that is kind of the main interviewer and
the thing, he goes, you give him six months or
you give me six weeks, I'll have his eyeballs to
you in a platter.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Now it did only take him ten years from.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Then this attitude, that's the attitude you want to have.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Apparently, then Bush looks at him and goes, I like it.
What you can totally see him say, go get any
put the CIA in charge of it.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
Because of that, there's some bad dudes that pulled that off.
I'm sure there's a lot of cool anyway, it's a
cool thing to see. If I'm not two eight twenty
two eighty seven. Who's up next, Derek, Derek, go ahead, Derek.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Hey, guys, I just wanted to say my thoughts and
prayers are with all the people in London and Somerset
and the surrounding areas. I'm a local associate pastor here
in Lexington and we sent a crew of men and
women and we joined with another church out of West

(28:34):
Liberty and we combined a crew to come down there
to put hands and feed on the ground to help
out and we just I just want to show love
and we feel their pain.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Well, that's very kind of you.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
And since the Senator was on, I've gotten a couple
of messages that that that Operations Enter which is next
to Calvary Baptist Church. They do if people want to come,
They do have things for people to do. They would
just ask that you go there first before you just
show up somewhere unless you know somebody, so yes, but

(29:17):
they and I do think, you know, today if people
are in a driveable area, today is kind of the day.
And I keep seeing and I appreciate the call. I
keep seeing these homige people, like I don't know where
they're from around I don't there's not a lot of
homage people right here, are there in this part of
the state.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
I'm not aware of an omage community behind those neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
But I mean that's I don't know.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
For some reason, that's really touching to me to see
all the homage people here because we've seen quite a
few of them since we've been here, including kids. It's right, yeah,
in those because you can tell by the hats, right.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
That was one of the first groups we saw on
our driving around, right in the middle of a pile,
digging through it to try to help out whatever they
can do.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, let's switch to sports for a second. Shannon, we
got some breaking. You want to go ahead and give
me the thing?

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, running a.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Draft Kings has put out the first line of the
year for Kentucky football, Kentucky and Toledo. Shannon, you didn't
hear us talking about it. We already did. So you
want to take a guess as to what DraftKings says
the line is for Kentucky Toledo.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'll say Kentucky six and a half.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Wow, you are definitely not confident. Yea six and a half.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I thought this was well, man, I tell about how
Toledo could beat us. I mean, six and a half
is like a crazy number.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Well, it's twelve and a half. Twelve and a half,
which I thought was.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
A little low and disrespectful. Well, Shannon would have been
much more disrespectful. What do you think about twelve and
a half?

Speaker 7 (30:47):
Well, we had this conversation last week and I said,
it'll probably be around seventeen. You know, normally these first
games it's twenty something. You know, you're trying to cover
a big spread and make a few dollars getting behind
the Cats. But seeing twelve and a half for a
non conference opponent like that, that's not the most comforting number.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Twelve and a half one where would you put your
hard earned dollar?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
But that's a good number because Kentucky has trouble covering
this first game. They always win, but it's always like
you said, in the twenties, and they don't cover.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
So would you go to Kentucky or Toledo?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I picked the fifth.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
He wants to say, he wants to say Toledo, but
we know how negative he's been, Shannon, so now he's
has time.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Obviously I would take Toledo because I thought six and
a half, So I mean.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
All right, you're taking you.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
I'm down on the Cats as much as anyone, but
at twelve and a half, I think I'd have to
bet them and just hope the Kalsada experience gets off
with a great start.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
That's number a good calzata with hot sauce, and.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
If they don't cover, we got bigger problems than the
money I would lose on that spread.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah. Maybe, So how about how about.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
The Preakness was an awesome raise, awesome race.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
After we said nobody would watch it, Shannon, it ended
up being awesome. Journalism, man, it looks like, you know,
there was some been in racing there right there that
was who was in the wrong. Do you think the
guy that came over or journalism's jockey for forcing his
way through.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
It's kind of like a zipper kind of like a
zipper merge. I don't blame.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
It was a zipper merge, but he didn't let him
zipper margin. He was like, no, you're not getting through here.
To me, that's what made the race entertaining? Was that move?

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well yeah, but it's dangerous. I mean those horses could have.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Fallen, could have just a little bumpers like Benny Snail
busted through the live scrimmage. Just get out of the way,
let me go, baby.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, it was quite a thing.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
And then he basically almost came to a stop and
then started back and then found a gear, found another gear.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
I'm not a historian on on racing, but that's gotta
be one of the more exciting finishes.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
I would think I've never seen her come back like
there was that year, what was it? A Fleet Alex
almost fell? Do you remember that? Have you ever seen
that one? Im go back and look, I don't remember
what racing is one of the Triple Crown races. A
Fleet Alex like almost ghost to one knee and comes
back and win and wins, and this is this is
probably the thing that's most like that.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
But I don't think you'd catch him.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, with fifty yards to go, there's not he didn't
have a prayer to catching that horse. And somehow he
caught him at the wire.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Caught him right there at the wire. It was a
good call to who the prenous guy?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Now? That pretanus guy was great.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
He was like, like you read in the newspaper, he
got he got.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Really that dude's good. I don't know his name. That
dude is really good.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
So now are you more likely to watch journalism versus
sovereignty in the Belmont kind of each of one one?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yep? You know they came down to the wire and
the derby and they're gonna go ahead to head again
and each have one win. I'm gonna I probably would
watch it where I wouldn't have before if this hadn't happened.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah, I found out, by the way, next year the
Preakness is at Laurel, not at Pimlico because they're tearing
down Pimlico and building it back up.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
And the belmonts at Saratoga. So this hole.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
We can't move the Triple Crown races because of tradition
next year two of the three, and the Belmont's not
even the same distance next year, and this year Belmont's
not a mile a half.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's my own court. So all this about all. We
can't change anything.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
They're changing two of the three races next year the
tracks and one of them the distance. But don't you
dare change the day. Don't you change a Saturday? Do
not you I agreed with Randy Moss. Randy Moss said,
we have and not Randy Moss football player, the other
cash we have a way to fix this. And I
think he said we are hand cut. We are self
handcuffing ourselves by tradition.

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renos dot com A five nine twenty two eighty seven
one person rights Matt. I watched the Manhunt documentary and
one of the things I thought was interesting was that
it was at all the warnings we had about nine
to eleven that we ignore.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
We had a lot.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
There was a group in the CIA of and it
ended up it was all women and they worked specifically
on al Qaeda, and they had warnings for six months.
They said saying we might get attacked by planes. They're
planning a big attack, and they said they kept going
to the CIA and FBI heads and it just never
got passed.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Up the chain.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
It's not a good look.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Apparently they were somebody that walked into one of the
offices and they had stacks of paper. This was like
three weeks before nine to eleven. Somebody goes, what are
all those stacks of paper? And he says, I want
there to be written proof that I've tried to warn
people about all my goodness. Wow, So yeah, that makes
you the worst terrorist attack in our history. And we
had little heads up on it. Yeah, there is also

(36:44):
you know, when you watch it, George Bush comes off
like a little bit reckless in terms of stuff. But
he also delivers a line I'd forgot about, which is
when he speaks to Congress right after nine to eleven,
he gives a line that's a pretty amazing line.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
He goes, we will bring.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Who did this to uh, we will bring who did
this to justice, and if that does not happen, we
will bring justice to them. It's like, whoa, that's a
pretty great line by who by by former president books.

Speaker 7 (37:16):
Yeah, they're probably in their caves and get that clip like, oh,
we're in trouble.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Well, I mean that was one of the things is
they couldn't figure out he remember, he would put all
those videos out and they couldn't figure it out. They
finally figured out where he was at one point by
looking in the background one person like dip their shoulder
in and buy the shirt they were wearing. They could
tell where they were. You're kidding.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Yeah, And if not for that, they would have had
no leads.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Well, yeah, they get those dolls. I remember seeing those
videos and they were there.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
He didn't know it was being recorded. He just walked
in and that shirt had a logo of a team
that was in a town, which is where they were kidding.
So interesting stuff. Who's up next, Ryan?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Go ahead? Ryan.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
Hey, this is Ryan Anderson with Jack an Energy cooperative
where the power provider for the area impacted by the tornado.
Just wanted to call in and give an update. Okay,
you know we've you know, I mean, you guys are
out there, you've seen the extreme devastation that that our
members have experiencing. As a co op. You know, we're
we're in the community all the time, and just wanted

(38:19):
to to let everybody know we've got well over one
hundred personnel out in that area today working to rebuild back.
You know, we've got poles and wires that are just
totally gone, totally missing. So we're we're starting to rebuild
process back and we'll work around the clock to get
people get power restored to that area to those that
can receive it as quickly as we can. Just wanted

(38:40):
to wanted to give a shout out. You know, we've
got first responders, linemen that are working around the clock.
They're tired, and just to shout out to all the
all the hard work that's going on to help people recover.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Well, thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
And we see these trucks everywhere, so I we appreciate
all you're doing and thank you for coming.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Mario has been walking around the.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Neighborhood, uh for the last couple of hours, so while
we've been doing the show, so I want him to
hop on. He just walked back. Mario, you've been walking
back there for the last couple of hours. What you know,
you've never even been down here? What's your what's your
thought of what you saw?

Speaker 12 (39:16):
Absolutely devastating, absolutely devastating. Like it's pretty hard to put
in the words of what I see, but like everything's.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
Completely destroyed pretty much.

Speaker 12 (39:26):
And I think I think that really stood stood out
to me the most is the people it's still strong
there are they know they did. I've talked to a
few people down there, and you know, they they described
it as a nightmare. That was the main thing, you know,
they said that this is absolutely like a nightmare. And
then for me, as like a twenty five year old
dude being able to come here and see this, it's

(39:48):
another example that proves like tomorrow is not really promised,
Like you don't know exactly what can happen, you know,
in the future.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
So you got it.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
You can't take your life for granted.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
In general, I can hell over the last few hours,
this has made you kind of emotional, hasn't Yeah?

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Absolutely, man?

Speaker 12 (40:05):
This Uh I always hear about tornado warnings and all this,
but you know, I'm not I'm not gonna say I
don't take it seriously or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
But we get him so much. It's like, you know,
it's a part of life.

Speaker 12 (40:15):
But to actually see these people, you know, experience this
and go through this, you see how serious the tornado
can be and how destructive it can be.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Like in general, you were walking past through the neighborhoods
as people are cleaning up, was it Is it just
a sad Yeah.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
It's sad. It's absolutely one hundred percent sad.

Speaker 12 (40:31):
I mean, did people these people are telling me how
like they had someone you know, they were stuck in
rubble like like their legs were almost cut off, and
you know, they they came together with their family and
they had to sit with them in passing like like
as he passed away, like someone sat with the person
with their legs under rubby.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Man, you talk to someone who they sat with their
family member as they passed.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (40:54):
Yeah, their neighbors and family member and their legs were
covered like they they were in rubble.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
I was there.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
This is what they're telling me.

Speaker 12 (41:01):
And their legs are covered under rubble and they they
sat with them as he passed. Like It's those type
of stories that just like blew me away. Really hard
to put into words. In general, you just gotta you
gotta be thankful for life.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Man.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
You never know when when when life is gonna hit
you like this.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Yeah, that's awful. Well, appreciate you coming down here as well.
Thank you Mario, and listen, thank all of you who
have written over the last couple of days who were
asking you know what.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
What what what do you? What do you what you
can do?

Speaker 5 (41:34):
And all of that and and and as we said,
we we've given in the short term.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Hopefully there'll be more things as we go. Uh. Final
thoughts guys.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
Well, as Mario said it, you know, you hate you
have to have a tragedy like this to remind you,
but just appreciate what you have. You know, we all
complained about little daily problems, but you know there's there's
bigger things that out there. That are much more unfortunate tragic.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Hashtag London strong man. These are some proud people and
they will regroup and rebuild and be better than ever.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Yeah, and my prayers to everyone around here, not just
in London, but Somerset in the other areas.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
You know, this is uh.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Will we will uh, We'll fight through this and we'll
be here to help however we can. But you know,
when you go to when you go to bed tonight
and you say your prayers, keep keep these people in
mind because there's a lot of them and it's going
to be a long long time. And as with all
these tragedies, we'll we'll go away, we'll go on with
our lives, but it will still be a part for

(42:29):
these folks for a long time. So thank you folks
for indulging us while we came down here, Senator Brandon Storm,
and we will see tomorrow we'll be back at the bar.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
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