July 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are joined by John Michael Montgomery to talk about his Farewell Tour and more.
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Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio Now happy to be joined
in studio by one of you know. Luke Combe said
this week Kentucky produced better country music than anywhere else,
and one of those names is sitting in studio with us,
John Michael Montgomery.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Did you know he said that? By the way, I
did not. That's nice to know. Absolutely, yeah, I mean
I happen to agree with him.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I mean just think about it. Okay, go through history,
Loretta Lynn, Keith Whitley. You know Dwight Yoakam was kind
of born West Virginia but also here a lot. Then
you got the Osbourne's, and then you even more recently,
Tyler Childers, Chris Stapleton, you your brother, Uh, you know,
Jorjah Simpson, the Judds. I mean, it just goes on
and on and on. What do you what do you
attribute that to?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Oh? Gosh, I don't know. I think he and elder Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I think a lot of Irish people moved into the
mountains of Kentucky actually right, you know, back in the day. Uh,
and it just you know, they are very music you know,
if you're I've never been to Ireland, but I've been
overseas where you know. I mean, Irish people are very talented.
You know, I love Irish.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You can't go into a barn island without people.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean, but my knowledge of it is that
they moved and loved the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee
and all and it just kind of slowly spread, you know,
the rest over Kentucky, and I think all that heritage
and background probably is a.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Lot behind it.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Uh uh you know, I mean, you know Tom t Hall, I.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Was gonna kill me for not mentioning Tom ty Hall,
who's saying my uncle's witty.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I love you did, thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So we were just sitting here. Shannon is a music guy.
He's you can't see him, he's in a little but
he and I were sitting here talking about all of
his songs. Of your career and when what was your
first hit? Lifes of Dance? Lifees of Dance? So for
a huge hit when Life Sedance starts rising. If I
had told John Michael Montgomery at that moment that you
were gonna have the career you had, would you have
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believed me?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I you know, when we did the first album, uh,
you know, I had never really sang a song quite
like Life of Dance.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I did Southern rock songs from Bob Seekers and George
Straits and and Lionel Richie love songs and you know
all that you didn't Richie, Yeah, stuck on you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And he's gonna pull one of those December.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Twelve, him and George you know, I mean George Trade,
and I mean obviously you know, Keith and all that
came along in the eighties, but in the seventies and
stuff like that. You know, I just, uh, I had
never really sang a philosophal song like.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Lives of Dance.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
The producer brought it to me in I was like, yeah, man,
it's kind of cool, you know.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
So I cut it.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And then he also brought a song called Alove the
Way He Loved Me to the table, which I was like,
I love that one, you know, and and I was like,
you know, so I assumed that that ballad was going
to be the first song off of the album. And
that's what I was pulling for because that's what I
you know, it's what I really love to do, to
sing good love song. They said, no, we're going to
go with this song Lives of Dance, you know, and
I went pretty good decision though. Okay, I was like,
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you know, I mean, I was like, I thought it.
I thought it would be the ballad, and they said, no,
it's mid tempo. The ballat's you know, you're a new
artist and we don't want to put a four minute
song ballad out first for you. We want to this
Life of Dance mid tempo. It's uh, we think it
will do well for you. I was like, okay, well,
you know, I'm new. They've been doing it. Producers in
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the label. Let's said let's go for it. And it
took a while when it first came out. The Life
of Dance did to finally get up.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The charge philosophical, I mean, it's you know, it's you
sitting there, and it's you can relate it to a
lot of things in your life. It has withstood the
test of time. Then I would say, when I think
of you, you've got that one. You've got sold right,
I think be my baby tonight. And then I swear,
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those are the four that to me kind of stick out.
And do you agree that those if you were to
sit there and do the mount rushmore of John Michael
Montgomery songs.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Are always think those four would probably be in any
I mean, when I Love the Way He Loved Me
went number one for me off, I thought, well, that's
gonna be my career song, you know, number one hit
for my first number. And then I Swear came out
and it just went to the next level.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
How did it happen that that wasn't there was an
alt for one or something version of that and yours
out at the same time.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, what happened is I had put the song out first.
The writer had had the song in his back pocket,
that had written the song and it it actually had
been around for Nashville for a while, and I was
writing with him and he said, hey, I got this song.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I said.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
He said, I think it's perfect for you. I'm not
with a publishing company that you know, they don't push
it anymore. And he said, I think your voice is perfect.
So he played it for me on a little cassette
player and I was like, oh, it's beautiful. So we
end up cutting it and a month after it was
out and when it was storming up the charts, my
Rick Blackburn of Atlantic Records called me into his office.
(06:23):
You know, it's like, Hey, just want to let you
know there's another version of icewear coming out from a
label Atlantic New York, a group and it's a you know,
pop a RB song and everything. I just want to know,
let you know in case we didn't want to make
you mad about it or whatever. And I was like, no, man,
it's a great song. Hey, you know, I'm not a
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popping RB singer. Let them rock and roll.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But that's so rare to have two songs that were
massive hits. The only other one I could think of
is that Trisha Yearwood leonn rhymes when they both sing
that song that was in Armageddon. I can't remember, but like.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Well I had two of them. The other one was
I Can Love You Like That. They covered that too, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
For one day. Did you ever sing with them about
Did you ever sing it together?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Well, what we did we did a little video thing, okay.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You know out in California where we talked a little
bit about I swear and now it all happened, and
we did, you know, sing a little bit. But that's
about it. I've never done any shows with him or anything.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So Grundy County auction Channon que up the where he
goes so fast right there? All right, so this is
I mean, everybody knows this song and you did you
have to learn to do the.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Did you kind of like all my songs? I tell people,
it's like when I listened to songs so I want
to cut, I put them in. I put them in
my CD player, and I put them on, uh where
they would as soon as I started my vehicle up,
that song would start playing. And after two or three
weeks if I did it, either burnt I got burnt
out on it, or I still loved it. I was
going to cut it, and but basically I thought, I
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swear it was going to be the song everybody recognized
me by for the rest of my career. But sold
is actually the one?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Is that the one that was?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So you're playing a concert now? Is that the one
everybody goes crazy?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah? Because you fast?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
You go right here.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Oh it's awesome to nip some hair, blue eyes, and
I'm about to give them.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
My good bath. That was better well done that?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Uh? Yeah, you know, I mean it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I can't say that it was easy, but I had
listened to it so many times over and over again.
And then by the time I got in the studio, uh,
you know, I was prepared to you know, tackle it
and uh uh. It's funny though, I mean, I you know,
they give you the words and everything like that to
read and all that stuff, But when I go in there,
(08:40):
I mean, I want to be able to I want
the song to Literally I've lived with it long enough
that you know, uh that it's just like any favorite
song that you have that growing up, you listen to
it so many times it becomes part of you, you know.
And I think that was part of my success being
in the studio. As a matter of fact, was I
just you know, I didn't like people handing me songs
(09:01):
last minute, going hey, here's a hit for you. You know,
I know you're going to the studio this week, and
I'm like, dude, I'm probably had to feel it. Yeah,
I had to live with it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I feel it's like, you know, just like going ever
get tired of a song.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You ever get you ever like and you don't have
to say which one, but you ever get one where
you're like, man, I've sung that so much, I can't
do it anymore.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
No, That's the reason I listened to it so much.
I had that little thing where if I can get
if a song can stick with me for two or
three weeks straight without me finally going Okay, I'm tired
of hearing it, then it's probably a good you know, uh,
a good way to avoid having songs on your albums
that you're like, now, I really liked it at first,
(09:40):
but now I hate it.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm exhausted. You are a Kentuckian through and through. Still
live in Nicholasville.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, born in Danville.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
My mom and dad, my dad Mom from Danville, dad's
from Garrett County, so.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
You know, me and they were born in Danville.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
And then of course you know they both picked and
sing and had job day jobs.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
And and we moved.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
We moved from Garrett County to uh, I mean Bull
County to Garrett County, the innto Justman County, back to
Bull County, back to Jack Garrett County, back to Yeah,
I mean, we we rented a lot, you know, so
I mean, if the rent went up, you're going we
picked up the music equipment that we used for chairs on.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Boiled Garrett Jess Triangle. It's the big triangle.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
It's hard to tell when people say, well, where's where
are you from? Where'd you go to school at? And
I'm like, well, that's kind of complicated. I went to
I went to you know, uh Jestsman Grade School, Uh,
Damble Grade School, Garrett Junior High, Jarrett Garrett High, Jessman High.
You know, so I got we you know, we our
roots run deep in that central Kentucky park and uh,
(10:43):
you know, I get advice to my high school reunions
from lots.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Of school But you haven't left.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I mean a lot of people would when you, when
they have success, they go to Nashville and stay you
you always kept the kept roots here.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, you know, and I at first I was dead
set on moving to Nashville.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I just thought that's what you had to do, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Okay, I got a record deal, which I didn't go
to Nashville to get. They came up and found me,
you know, at Austin City there in Lexington.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Is that where you got You got discovered at Austin.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yeah, you know. Me and my brother we were weekend Warriors.
Another guy named Tim Williams played base and we had
a little three piece and we we played weekends all
over Central Kentucky, Frankfort someone said, you know, and Richmond,
and we were trying to get into the what we
called the uh be the house band you know in
(11:32):
Lexington because back then, house bands you know, played five
nights a week, get on stage of nine, you know,
four sets one. You didn't have to carry your equipment around.
You didn't have to have a U haul to go,
you know, load in, load out. So we finally got uh,
you know, the job at Austin City Saloon. Greg Austin
uh you know, played there for years and I used
to go in and sitting with him. Great dude, and
(11:54):
uh when they ended up selling it, he left, you know,
my brother Eddie was like, hey, I think you know
the new owner, I think he might give us a
chance to play Austin City five nights a week and
we can have a full time gig.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And that was when, I mean, that was when Austin
City was Austin City. Like I mean, it's still good,
it's still but back then it'd be like every night
of the week.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Greg made it very popular, and so when we got there,
I had kind of an idea of what the you know,
it was basically a college crowd that he drew and
they loved it, you know, and a lot of two
step in line dancing music. And so when I when
we started, that's when I hired Troy, uh you know,
so me and Eddie Timm and then Troy hired Troy Men,
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Me and Troy would go in and.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Say, does you all three worked together?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Yeah? Yeah, we yes. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
My first band, Young Country, it was me. It was
John Michael Montgomery and Young Country. My brother played drums,
Troy played rhythm guitar, Jim played bass. I had a
guy from Eastern Kentucky played keyboards for me, and they're
actually at one time a guy named Danny Williams, which
used to be was exile in for a while.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know. We called himself Willie Daniels I think at
the time.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
But yeah, we just got in there and started playing
music and you know playing.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
It's a pretty talented group.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I mean, four guys just playing at Austin City. One
of them is Exile, two of them are Montgomery Gentry
and the other one is John Michael Montgomery. I mean
the people that went and saw that group, it was
a band, go into three different groups that become huge.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, you know, I mean literally lighting and struck three times.
I mean it happened for me.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You know, it's funny because I saw this. I saw
these guys come in. It was on a slow night
and one you know, well it was one guy actually,
and he was kind of dressed up and I've never
seen him in there before. So me and my brother
always got off stage and said, you know, said hi
to the people that came in. And so this guy said, yeah,
I'm from Atlantic Records. Were down here at this other bar.
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Down here, we're listening to a guy doing a showcase.
And he's like, now, I wasn't that impressed. And so
one of the waitresses come up said, if you want
to hear the best singer in town and go down
to Auston City's a guy named John Michael Montgomery.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And you know, wow, did you ever find that waitress?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Now, I'd give her a real big tip right now.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Like life can change on just something something like that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Oh, I mean yeah that I tell this story all
the time, Like you said, I mean, my my theory
and philosophy was you know, it's like I just wanted
to I didn't know if I'd ever get a record
it or not, but I knew I wouldn't get one
if I never if I you know, didn't go do it.
You know, I was young, guy, wasn't married, didn't have
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any kids, and you know, my mom and dad got
married very young and they had kids, and it made
it tough for dad. You know, he wanted to make
it in the business. But when you got three kids,
if he you know.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So your dad tried to make it as well.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, my dad so proud to have two sons.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, you know, he got to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Unfortunately died from prostate cancer, you know, in ninety four,
but my my hits came out in ninety two, ninety three,
and ninety four, so he got to see all that
happen and uh vindicated, you know, because a lot of
people it was like Harold, that's my dad, names like
you need to get a real job. That music ain't
gonna take you nowhere, you know, and and same thing
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to my mom. But you know, so when I made it,
obviously he was very well vindicated. But unfortunate passed away
and Eddie and Troy got together. You know, Eddie went
out and rode with me for a little while, but
him and Troy hooked back up became a duo and
went back to Austin City and then they got some record. Yeah,
and you know, so that means literally three guys on that.
That's amazing, you know, in the same spot.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It was.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Really It's a really cool story, no doubt about it.
People say you need to write a book, you know,
and I'm like, well, maybe one.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Day you should.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
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John's a big fan and his farewell concert at Rupperina
in December. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tukey
Sports Radio. John Michael Montgomery joining us. All right, so
you're doing your final show at Rupperina is this like
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final final.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm not touring him nowhere after this year? Okay, yeah,
you know, if I do a show it's called my
I'm you know, I got the itch and I was like, look,
I just need to get on stage once, you know,
just to get that out or whatever.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
But I touring wise.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You know, it's just sixty years old. I'm thirty three
years beating a black top out there, you know, the
old body. You know, you bench like any athlete, you know,
you pro athlete or whatever. I mean, you look in
the mirror one day and he goes, I mean, I'm
I just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Anymore time they go hard on my body, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, and but yeah, you know, I was it's been
thirty years since I played RUP. You know, in ninety four,
I was opening up reball over the country and she
came in to RUP and I was got to open
up for her. Whether the next year I went out
on my own. I swear it was big, so you know,
all that stuff was just going through the roof. And
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so they booked Reperena for me in ninety five. The
headline so that was, you know, to me, I was like,
if I never get to play another place, Reperena. That's
my if I find out tomorrow, if I please let
it be after the get my Reperena show in you
know and uh so, which was incredible. And then of course,
like I said, that was thirty years ago, so it's
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really a thirty year you know, this will be thirty
year celebration.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
So you haven't played it since ninety five?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
No, No, I my brother and Troy you know, had
some shows there with Lennard Skinner and stuff, you know,
and i'd go there and maybe you know, be part
of that. But I've not done a concert at Repeerena
and I and so for me, my dream last show
obviously would be Reperena.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
So it was able to work it out where we could.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
But that's awesome. So it's you Eddie, it's your son
in law.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, Travis Denning and my son Walker.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And Walker, so not only do you get to play Rupperena,
you get to do it with your family.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Absolutely gonna be a complete family affair, and you know
my of course, speaking of families, I mean you know
my daughter Madison, which you know you know, she got
married a couple of years ago and swore she would
never have any kids and then about two and a
half weeks ago she had had a little grand baby girl.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
All right, what's her name?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Charlotte Lane and Charlotte Lane, Dinny and so uh so
I didn't know if I was ever going to be
a grandpa or not. So you know, about nine you know,
about nine months ago when they let us know how we,
me and Crystal were tickled to death obviously, So yeah,
I got I still go. I'm gonna have a lot
going on after the tour is over.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
At it, I can tell you that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
But I mean, that is so cool that you're gonna
get to do your final show right close to where
you grew up with your brother, with your son and
with your son in law. I mean, like, isn't that
the American dream? To get to play the place you
idolized with your family? As if I just can't imagine
a better way to go.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Out, I mean definitely. I mean, uh, you know, you
never think about, you know, when you're out there touring.
You're so grateful that I got the opportunity to, you know,
get a record deal and have hits and do something,
you know, because I never I tell people all the time,
I was not one of them artists like, hey, you know,
one of these days, I'm going to be a big star.
I just I just I was one of them kind
of guy that's like, well, you know, there's something special
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about those people.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
You know. It probably ain't ever gonna happen to me.
I'm you know, and why would it, you know?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
And uh although exile guys, you know, they would come
by the bar from time to time, JP and all them,
and you know, stop in say hi to us, and
we just thought that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
We were like, wow, man, we got you know, these
famous guys you know, coming in and stopping to see us,
you know, and and uh so uh but you know,
and talk about touring. I mean, I think they've been
turned for like fifty years, you know. But I just
know I know what my body tells me. You know,
I'm like, you know this is and plus I had
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a bad bus wreck a couple of years ago, broke
for ribs up, you know. And when you're laying on
the side of your on your side with four broken
ribs looking out a bus windshield down seventy five and
you're fifty seven to fifty eight years old, you're going
I don't know, how much longer I can do this?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Thankfully you're you're recovering. Let me ask you. I want
to ask quickly about UK. You got UK here on
you love it? Mark Pope?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I love Mark Pope.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, I think he was an absolute fabulous hire. Me
and my brother are through the roof on him. And
you know, I keep up with some of the recruits
the best I can, you know, I mean as a
day's world. I mean they're coming and going right and left,
you know, and so but no, I think you know obviously,
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I mean when he was playing for you UK back
you know, of course, I go all the way back
to Rick Roby and Mike Phillips and Kyle Mazy you know, uh,
you know that's my favorite team. I you know, I
was in like grade school, I think, O we're in
Danville and the team came by after they won the
national championship and Jack Gibbons I think, and all come
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by and spoke to the kids and stuff, you know,
and we were like, no way man, you know, uh
just uh uh. But yeah, Pope was on that you know,
national championship team. I mean, you know when you bleed blue,
I mean, you know, like you know and he does.
I mean he is uh, he's a true blue, you know.
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I mean, you know, everything he's got and loves is
about UK basketball winning and you know, and of course
you know I love some Mark Stoops too, and you
know that's that's a yeah. He's I just I loved
Kentucky football as much as I do anything growing up
those games.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
He narrates the intro right that.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Lexington.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Can you give us what what he got?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
The intro?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
You do? Yeah, well, my memory ain't as good as
it used to be. I'd be able to well you
and I also got robbed. We won at the PGA Tour.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
At the PGA Tour event, Nicholas Field, me, you, Tubby
Smith and Rick D's won the pro am and they
wouldn't give it to us because they said the celebrity
team can't win.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
And it made it we won.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Gave us all this hope up front and then just
ripped it right out from underneath our feet. And I
think the best story I ever heard was Vince gi
Will won. He got a hold in one and it
was like he won a house. It was like two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars home. And so you know
at the end of the round and he's like, hey,
look what I want to name.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Sorry, it's in the.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You didn't apparently didn't read between the lines that celebrities
can't don't get Well that's.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
What they.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Me.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
We all, Rick Jesus is great, but you and me
and Tubby play better than we've ever played. Then they
took it away from Sean. Thank you. Tickets are on
sale now. I'm a taking baster. Come see him. I
can't wait to watch it. John, great having you, Thank
you very much, appreciate it. We'll take a break, be
right back. KSR.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
TJ. Smith personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them
pay now.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's
Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
This is I do love this song, Shan. This is
that Letters from Home right?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, he's got somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I think it's really pretty. Yeah, it's great. I mean
I won't just sit and listen to it because now
on the podcast you just get silenced. But but I
still I do really like that. That was awesome, great
having him in.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Dude, it was fantastic. I love hearing those stories. You know,
Kentucky has produced a lot of country music stars, but
for the Lectington area, him and he's brother and Troy
Gentry that they you know, they're at the top of
the list.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Is just going to Austin City and they're they're playing
late eighty and then all of a sudden they all
end up being stars.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I was excited to have him on already because you know,
we all love his music. But those stories he was telling,
I want to hear it more. That was great too.
Like the waitress just saying, why don't you go on
down the street listen to this guy instead?
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Speaker 4 (24:49):
All right, so let's I got to read you this.
You don't even know about this yet, Drew, but you
know we're doing as we announced earlier this week, we're
doing an NFL podcast. It's now not official, but you know,
our excitement is official. If they if they decide not
to do it, then we'll just be crying. So so anyway,
(25:09):
they were we're supposed to have a content meeting this week.
I guess one of the people, uh, you know, they
had the thing at the NFL, the the shooter that
came to the South, So everything's gotten kind of pushed
back a little bit. Uh and uh. But someone at
iHeart who is also part of this, wrote today to
suggest names. Shannon, and I need you to to hear
(25:35):
these news.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Now. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Not making fun of these, No, we're work shopping.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But so thank Mario, these are not gonna be it,
at least if I have anything to say about it.
Number one the NFL Show with Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Let you know what it is, the most basic, generic
name you could possibly.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Are just like the subject of remo or was that
actually that was one of the four choices? Bluegrass Blitz boy,
I don't know, Thank you to ever submitted these the NFL.
According to Matt and Drew.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, people get paid to come up with these ideas.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And then finally Jones in for the NFL, so that
guy doesn't get to decide today. Okay, So I mean,
I I'm I think what we could say is if
people have suggestions, it's still an open form at this point, Shannon,
(26:47):
I think we could still say that the four that
have officially come in they could be beaten by other suggestions.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We need like a good brainstorming session, because whoever came
up with those clearly didn't put a whole lot of
thought into it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Which of those is the worst? Bluegrass Blitz the NFL
Show with Matt Jones? What was the third one? According
to Matt and Drew and then Jones in for the NFL, the.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
NFL is the absolute worst.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
By far by far.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Jones in for the NFL is that can't be the
first of all, that's a good way for the podcast
to fail on launch, because I don't care if it
was the best show in the world. If I saw
Jones in for the NFL, I'm not listening. I'm not
even gonna listen. I'm on.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'd be embarrassed to type that into my search bar
just to have that in my history, jonesing for the NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Not every show can be the sports Mob with Matt
and Robb.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
But see, I feel like sports Mob with Matt and
Rob is Harvard compared to this very true?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
What about the alliteration of the Bluegrass Blitz? A little
double b there rolls off the tongue. It's awful.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
If I'm in one of the other forty nine states,
why am I listening to the Bluegrass Bliz?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Sounds Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
It's a very Kentucky specific And the whole point of
this is to sort of expand our horizons. So I
don't bring this up. I'm not to, like, you know,
make fun of the person who suggested it, but I
guess I'm kind of making fun of the person, like.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
This is like how you come up with this?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Are the processes, and I feel like we could do
better than this, So so it's not your trouble.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
I've eliminated a few users submissions too. Someone said, uh,
tush pushing. I was like, yeah, I don't know that,
we want to be toush pushing.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Honestly, I agree with you, But honestly, tush pushing would get.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Yeah, there's a connotation there I don't want to commit to.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
If people too did to tush pushing, they might think
it's like the gay NFL.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
It's like two gay guys.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Talk about the NFL.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
We already have that broke. Yeah, you know, yeah, let's
just not do that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I just I don't it's a clever name, but I
just think like that would might get us a different.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Fan base pants to listen to that push. Somebody suggested
one career catch, because in fifth grade I caught a pass,
So between the two of us, one career catch not bad.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think that would be better though, if, like, you know,
we had someone on who actually had made an NFL
catch and it was just literally they had made one
fifth grade catch probably, So anyway, that's where we are
right now. Uh, the early suggestions, I think, can all
ryan be topped?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, as you know, ESPN likes to use the host
names in the title, so they're gonna find a way
to probably put Matt and Drew together.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I actually would argue, as bad as Jones is, the
NFL show with Matt Jones is maybe the most like
my mother could come up with that now, but you know,
don't even need to know anything. That's like literally the
most basic basketball. I thought that's what with Ryan. I
(30:08):
thought that's what it was called before we start thinking
the names. That's why I thought it was the email subject.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
You know, I think that's very straight.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Simplicity does work. Look at the name of this show,
Kentucky's Sports Radio. It's nothing fancy about it. It says
what it is.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That's actually a really good point. Yeah, but two interesting
things about that Kentucky Sports Radio. You people would say, oh,
it is what it is, but there's a strong argument
that none of those words completely apply. It started as
a website with no radio, with no radio, so Kentucky
Sports Radio originally wasn't even radio.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
For years, I felt like I had to explain that
every week to someone.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, it's a website, and we still to this day.
When I go to the SEC Tournament, I have to
explain to the people at the SCC there's a Kentucky
Sports Radio website and there's a Kentucky sports radio radio show,
and they're not even owned by the same people, and
they just look at him and go the same thing.
I'm like, no, they're different things. I don't even own
(31:10):
the website anymore. Secondly, we don't always talk about Kentucky.
And third, as many of you remind me daily on Twitter,
I don't always stick to sports really, so it is
not necessarily the simple explanation.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Remind you you had a wrestling show on Netflix called Wrestlers.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
All right, that one I'm leaning into the NFL show. Now,
that's true. I remember when they told me that name.
I was like, you sure Wrestlers, can't you sure we
can come up with.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
You know, this podcast?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
His show before was just called cheer.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Right true? So I mean he did have a thing.
Did you see Will Levis's uh did I did?
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
No one he was gonna get showed. I believe that
he needed it. But the timing I wondered if it
was maybe a long term play too, to help him
out next year take the season off. They put that
picture out, It's like, yes, please get surgery right away.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
We see it. His his shoulder looks like I don't know,
it looks like he got hit by bat.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
It's like a bone sticking up, Like.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
There's a bone sticking up, and then it has like
a valley and then another thing like I don't even know.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
How a nailbow or a shoulder gets like.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't either, Ryan. So here's what I don't understand.
Why did he wait someone to have certain like that
looks awful?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And if he's throwing shoulder, that's why. How do you
even I could have even played at all with the
way that it was before this?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Yeah, I mean he needs to get that taken out.
I've never seen anything like that. I don't know how
he didn't do it immediately when that happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But for a while a lot of people have said, uh,
he's just having the surgery to get out of playing
because he's not gonna be the starter. Do you feel
like now he needs the surgery. I mean, there's no
way he can look like that and play football.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I think he had it like that last year, but
that needs to get taken care of. I still think
it's smart of him to have the surgery now, but
he still needs the surgery, regardless of what it's going
to do for him long term.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
But this didn't get like that.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's such a weird look. Had to take some sort
of hit, some kind of bone got displaced in there
or something. It's weirdly.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
I hope will get better. I will say to you
that is you know, you don't I don't know what
you do when someone hurts. I don't know if you
just look at him and go. But I think that's
what I would do. If I saw will Evis, I
would just be like.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Oh yeah, it's like as I'm talking about you, you probably knows.
I keep rubbing my shoulder. It's like purple. Just to
look at it. It hurts just.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Thinking about it right now.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It does?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
It really does tell me about Stockton Morgan or did
you already do it?
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Did that all?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Well, then you know what.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Let's take a break. I've got If I'm nine two
eight out, that's right, I was doing something else. If
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we
will take a break. Right back to cancel. Drew had
a good suggestion right there, covers zero or a good
one because we don't know anything, Shane, and so cover zero.
We've covered zero things in our life. Well we're covering it.
(34:06):
But we've played zero minutes, so we've played zero minutes actually,
but the ones i've you'll put in takes I don't.
I don't dislike that. With seven, can let me give
the number? Seven two seven seven four five two five four.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Is it live? We'll be live.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's gonna eventually be live on YouTube on Sunday nights,
but for I think initially to be podcasts till we
know what the cover we're doing, which may.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Take a while.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
With this crew. If you can see by the initial suggestions,
we'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I think it'd be awesome when it's live, though, see
you guys.
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Speaker 4 (35:18):
All right. By the way, we'll do a second part
of Ask Anything Wednesday tomorrow since we had John Michael's thing. Well,
we'll do it tomorrow as well because we are in studio.
All right, So let me let me give you a
couple other little things. Did you see the baseball player
Shannon who got traded in the middle of a doubleheader?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
No, I didn't see this.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
So he played for the Orioles and they were playing
the Blue Jays, and in game one he played the
game for the Oriols. But then in between the games
he got traded to the Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Yeah, just walk right across.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
So he literally walked across the field, changed uniforms, and
even though he didn't get in, he was available for
the Blue Jays in game too.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm mad at the Blue ja they didn't put him in.
Why wouldn't theyut him at least just a pitch hit
or something.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like this happened like last year, like same situation where
that happened.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I guess it's just when you're right before the trade deadline,
you're in the same place as the other guy, and
you're like, we're here, yeah, we might as well make
a trade with each other.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
What are you think saw I liked when he walks
by his bullpen, they're just laughing, they're waving at him,
and he looks so confused, and he kind of salutes
him and he just goes and walks across the field.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And how did they have a uniform for him?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I think they can dial those up pretty quick.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But they were in the other city. Oh yeah, they
were the Rotea though that Toronto and you're in Baltimore.
How did they get a uniform for him in between
the games? And he pitched in the first game, so
he pitched for the Orioles, which also presumably they knew
the trade was happening. Do you think the general manager
(36:56):
when he saw him come in, was like, stop, don't
beat us. We got you in just a minute. Corey
whispers like, you're on our team, help us. I just
think that's a crazy scenario.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It is really crazy. Years ago, the one dude, I
think Joel Youngblood got a hit in the AFTERNUE for
one team, got traded, went into that team that night,
got another hit.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Well, we told the story, or at least I told the story.
Maybe on ESPN, maybe it was here. I can't remember.
There was. There's in history there was a guy who
played for both teams in the same.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Game, in the same game.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, he played for one team. It was a rain delay.
He was traded during the rain delay, and then the
next day finished the game for the other team, and
he was allowed to play for both teams. Now, Major
League Baseball had to make a rule Shannon, that you
can't play for both teams in a game.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, that's I think it should be that way because
then you can disabotage the.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Entire thing of that pain. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I remember that.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
That was fairly recent, maybe last season.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
It was. It wasn't all that wasn't all that long ago.
But that did that did happen, so.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
This guy can do It was a double header, two
different games.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
It's two different games. It's two completely different games.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I should have put him in something just.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
To make it. Yeah, just to make it whatever. I
also want to give one quick shout out for you know, I,
because I've been I'm in the business and have been
for a few years. I give I have sympathies for
independent restaurants, right like people who are doing their own thing.
Yesterday I was walking to my the sauna place that's
on campus, which is, you know, about a couple mile
(38:28):
walk from me, and I walked by a place that
I don't know if people know exist but has, but
I saw it, and I go when I walk back,
I'm gonna eat there. It's on campus. Do you know
what Peruvian chicken is?
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Do not?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Oh, it's like rotisserie chicken with spices, and it's called
Peruvian chicken. Like over by the old iHeart louis Remember
the Yummy Poy I took you two. That's next. iHeart
the Old iHeart building in Louisville. That's so good. Still there,
it's awesome. I don't get there a lot anymore because
if we moved our buildings. But it's called Yummy Point
(38:59):
LEXI now has a new place like that, okay, and
it's right there on campus. And what used to be
what is it mellow mushroom? You know, I'm talking about
that pizza place and it's I don't have an endorsement
with these people or anything. I just stopped an eight.
I was like the only person there, and they said
they just opened, and the woman said, we're having a
hard time getting people who know us. I'm getting nothing
(39:20):
for this except I it's good. It's good for you
because it's peruvi like, it's not fried. It's rotisserie chicken,
and it's called poyo Azul, which I think means blue chicken.
It's actually a good name if you're gonna be on campus,
right blue chicken. And I just would say that woman
was very nice working there and the food was really good,
(39:44):
and so I'm just throwing it out there everybody, he says.
She said, we know we're hoping things pick up when
school gets here, so I hope they do for for them.
But it's good because we don't have a that I know.
I don't think there's a Peruvian place in Lexing too.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I'm not aware of one, and so I'm.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Giving them a shout out. Uh azul right there next
to Target on campus.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
I've driven by it many times. I eat on campus
somehow often that I plan to get over there. It
looks good.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It is good, and it's relatively inexpensive too for what
you're getting, honestly, so healthy.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Yeah, I think it is healthy. All right, let's go
to James.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Go ahead, James, Yeah, are you hearing me? I've still
got you, Okay? And anyway, I was thinking about the name.
How about the NFL playbook with Matt and Drew.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I mean, it feels like that was similar to those
other ones, so uh, but yeah, a playbook seems like
a generic I appreciate the call, I like the idea,
but it seems like a generic name.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
I think we got to do something. That's that's why
I like Cover zero.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Because it's like kind of unique and well, we're gonna fight.
We're gonna figure out.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
What kind of making fun of you guys, making you know, we're.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Gonna have to exactly we don't, I mean we don't
know it.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Like it's literally you're going to cover nothing.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Yeah, exactly right, we are going to.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I think it's the name.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
We are gonna cover nothing, Cover zero with two zero
no safeties. We are not safeties.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I mean, that's a podcast about NFL and theory.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
In theory just like cover zero is a defense in theory.
I think I'm in not just because I came up
with pretty good. Now I want to hear other ones,
but I think it's uh, I think I think it's
a pretty good one.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
There's also the problem. I feel like they're every term
in football has a podcast like the Unsportsman, like all
the you know, all the terms football kind of covers.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
I don't think.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
So that's another I was looking to see if cover
zero has been used.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Okay, and also in theory, people would go, oh, they're
using a football term. These are probably smart football people.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
You're gonna them that's right.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Well, but it's both.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
It's a double It's like it sounds like we know
what we're talking about, but secretly we're acknowledging we don't.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
And then we won't put our pictures up, so they'll
just assume it's these two safeties that played football tactics.
They might think we play yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Until we start talking, Yes, we're we're cover zero.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
We were used to be the safeties they left on
the bench.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
I mean, I mean, I don't think it's bad. All right,
Thank you all very much. Thanks to John Michael Montgomery
for coming Remember we are at football Media Day on Friday.
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Speaker 4 (01:05):
Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio Now happy to be joined
in studio by one of you know. Luke Combe said
this week Kentucky produced better country music than anywhere else,
and one of those names is sitting in studio with us,
John Michael Montgomery.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Did you know he said that? By the way, I
did not. That's nice to know. Absolutely, yeah, I mean
I happen to agree with him.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I mean just think about it. Okay, go through history,
Loretta Lynn, Keith Whitley. You know Dwight Yoakam was kind
of born West Virginia but also here a lot. Then
you got the Osbourne's, and then you even more recently,
Tyler Childers, Chris Stapleton, you your brother, Uh, you know,
Jorjah Simpson, the Judds. I mean, it just goes on
and on and on. What do you what do you
attribute that to?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Oh? Gosh, I don't know. I think he and elder Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I think a lot of Irish people moved into the
mountains of Kentucky actually right, you know, back in the day. Uh,
and it just you know, they are very music you know,
if you're I've never been to Ireland, but I've been
overseas where you know. I mean, Irish people are very talented.
You know, I love Irish.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You can't go into a barn island without people.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean, but my knowledge of it is that
they moved and loved the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee
and all and it just kind of slowly spread, you know,
the rest over Kentucky, and I think all that heritage
and background probably is a.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Lot behind it.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Uh uh you know, I mean, you know Tom t Hall, I.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Was gonna kill me for not mentioning Tom ty Hall,
who's saying my uncle's witty.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I love you did, thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So we were just sitting here. Shannon is a music guy.
He's you can't see him, he's in a little but
he and I were sitting here talking about all of
his songs. Of your career and when what was your
first hit? Lifes of Dance? Lifees of Dance? So for
a huge hit when Life Sedance starts rising. If I
had told John Michael Montgomery at that moment that you
were gonna have the career you had, would you have
(03:15):
believed me?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I you know, when we did the first album, uh,
you know, I had never really sang a song quite
like Life of Dance.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I did Southern rock songs from Bob Seekers and George
Straits and and Lionel Richie love songs and you know
all that you didn't Richie, Yeah, stuck on you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And he's gonna pull one of those December.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Twelve, him and George you know, I mean George Trade,
and I mean obviously you know, Keith and all that
came along in the eighties, but in the seventies and
stuff like that. You know, I just, uh, I had
never really sang a philosophal song like.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Lives of Dance.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
The producer brought it to me in I was like, yeah, man,
it's kind of cool, you know.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
So I cut it.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And then he also brought a song called Alove the
Way He Loved Me to the table, which I was like,
I love that one, you know, and and I was like,
you know, so I assumed that that ballad was going
to be the first song off of the album. And
that's what I was pulling for because that's what I
you know, it's what I really love to do, to
sing good love song. They said, no, we're going to
go with this song Lives of Dance, you know, and
I went pretty good decision though. Okay, I was like,
(04:29):
you know, I mean, I was like, I thought it.
I thought it would be the ballad, and they said, no,
it's mid tempo. The ballat's you know, you're a new
artist and we don't want to put a four minute
song ballad out first for you. We want to this
Life of Dance mid tempo. It's uh, we think it
will do well for you. I was like, okay, well,
you know, I'm new. They've been doing it. Producers in
(04:52):
the label. Let's said let's go for it. And it
took a while when it first came out. The Life
of Dance did to finally get up.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The charge philosophical, I mean, it's you know, it's you
sitting there, and it's you can relate it to a
lot of things in your life. It has withstood the
test of time. Then I would say, when I think
of you, you've got that one. You've got sold right,
I think be my baby tonight. And then I swear,
(05:20):
those are the four that to me kind of stick out.
And do you agree that those if you were to
sit there and do the mount rushmore of John Michael
Montgomery songs.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Are always think those four would probably be in any
I mean, when I Love the Way He Loved Me
went number one for me off, I thought, well, that's
gonna be my career song, you know, number one hit
for my first number. And then I Swear came out
and it just went to the next level.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
How did it happen that that wasn't there was an
alt for one or something version of that and yours
out at the same time.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, what happened is I had put the song out first.
The writer had had the song in his back pocket,
that had written the song and it it actually had
been around for Nashville for a while, and I was
writing with him and he said, hey, I got this song.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I said.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
He said, I think it's perfect for you. I'm not
with a publishing company that you know, they don't push
it anymore. And he said, I think your voice is perfect.
So he played it for me on a little cassette
player and I was like, oh, it's beautiful. So we
end up cutting it and a month after it was
out and when it was storming up the charts, my
Rick Blackburn of Atlantic Records called me into his office.
(06:23):
You know, it's like, Hey, just want to let you
know there's another version of icewear coming out from a
label Atlantic New York, a group and it's a you know,
pop a RB song and everything. I just want to know,
let you know in case we didn't want to make
you mad about it or whatever. And I was like, no, man,
it's a great song. Hey, you know, I'm not a
(06:44):
popping RB singer. Let them rock and roll.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But that's so rare to have two songs that were
massive hits. The only other one I could think of
is that Trisha Yearwood leonn rhymes when they both sing
that song that was in Armageddon. I can't remember, but like.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Well I had two of them. The other one was
I Can Love You Like That. They covered that too, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
For one day. Did you ever sing with them about
Did you ever sing it together?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Well, what we did we did a little video thing, okay.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You know out in California where we talked a little
bit about I swear and now it all happened, and
we did, you know, sing a little bit. But that's
about it. I've never done any shows with him or anything.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So Grundy County auction Channon que up the where he
goes so fast right there? All right, so this is
I mean, everybody knows this song and you did you
have to learn to do the.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Did you kind of like all my songs? I tell people,
it's like when I listened to songs so I want
to cut, I put them in. I put them in
my CD player, and I put them on, uh where
they would as soon as I started my vehicle up,
that song would start playing. And after two or three
weeks if I did it, either burnt I got burnt
out on it, or I still loved it. I was
going to cut it, and but basically I thought, I
(07:52):
swear it was going to be the song everybody recognized
me by for the rest of my career. But sold
is actually the one?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Is that the one that was?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So you're playing a concert now? Is that the one
everybody goes crazy?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah? Because you fast?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
You go right here.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Oh it's awesome to nip some hair, blue eyes, and
I'm about to give them.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
My good bath. That was better well done that?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Uh? Yeah, you know, I mean it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I can't say that it was easy, but I had
listened to it so many times over and over again.
And then by the time I got in the studio, uh,
you know, I was prepared to you know, tackle it
and uh uh. It's funny though, I mean, I you know,
they give you the words and everything like that to
read and all that stuff, But when I go in there,
(08:40):
I mean, I want to be able to I want
the song to Literally I've lived with it long enough
that you know, uh that it's just like any favorite
song that you have that growing up, you listen to
it so many times it becomes part of you, you know.
And I think that was part of my success being
in the studio. As a matter of fact, was I
just you know, I didn't like people handing me songs
(09:01):
last minute, going hey, here's a hit for you. You know,
I know you're going to the studio this week, and
I'm like, dude, I'm probably had to feel it. Yeah,
I had to live with it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I feel it's like, you know, just like going ever
get tired of a song.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You ever get you ever like and you don't have
to say which one, but you ever get one where
you're like, man, I've sung that so much, I can't
do it anymore.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
No, That's the reason I listened to it so much.
I had that little thing where if I can get
if a song can stick with me for two or
three weeks straight without me finally going Okay, I'm tired
of hearing it, then it's probably a good you know, uh,
a good way to avoid having songs on your albums
that you're like, now, I really liked it at first,
(09:40):
but now I hate it.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm exhausted. You are a Kentuckian through and through. Still
live in Nicholasville.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, born in Danville.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
My mom and dad, my dad Mom from Danville, dad's
from Garrett County, so.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
You know, me and they were born in Danville.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
And then of course you know they both picked and
sing and had job day jobs.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
And and we moved.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
We moved from Garrett County to uh, I mean Bull
County to Garrett County, the innto Justman County, back to
Bull County, back to Jack Garrett County, back to Yeah,
I mean, we we rented a lot, you know, so
I mean, if the rent went up, you're going we
picked up the music equipment that we used for chairs on.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Boiled Garrett Jess Triangle. It's the big triangle.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
It's hard to tell when people say, well, where's where
are you from? Where'd you go to school at? And
I'm like, well, that's kind of complicated. I went to
I went to you know, uh Jestsman Grade School, Uh,
Damble Grade School, Garrett Junior High, Jarrett Garrett High, Jessman High.
You know, so I got we you know, we our
roots run deep in that central Kentucky park and uh,
(10:43):
you know, I get advice to my high school reunions
from lots.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Of school But you haven't left.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I mean a lot of people would when you, when
they have success, they go to Nashville and stay you
you always kept the kept roots here.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, you know, and I at first I was dead
set on moving to Nashville.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I just thought that's what you had to do, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Okay, I got a record deal, which I didn't go
to Nashville to get. They came up and found me,
you know, at Austin City there in Lexington.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Is that where you got You got discovered at Austin.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yeah, you know. Me and my brother we were weekend Warriors.
Another guy named Tim Williams played base and we had
a little three piece and we we played weekends all
over Central Kentucky, Frankfort someone said, you know, and Richmond,
and we were trying to get into the what we
called the uh be the house band you know in
(11:32):
Lexington because back then, house bands you know, played five
nights a week, get on stage of nine, you know,
four sets one. You didn't have to carry your equipment around.
You didn't have to have a U haul to go,
you know, load in, load out. So we finally got uh,
you know, the job at Austin City Saloon. Greg Austin
uh you know, played there for years and I used
to go in and sitting with him. Great dude, and
(11:54):
uh when they ended up selling it, he left, you know,
my brother Eddie was like, hey, I think you know
the new owner, I think he might give us a
chance to play Austin City five nights a week and
we can have a full time gig.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And that was when, I mean, that was when Austin
City was Austin City. Like I mean, it's still good,
it's still but back then it'd be like every night
of the week.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Greg made it very popular, and so when we got there,
I had kind of an idea of what the you know,
it was basically a college crowd that he drew and
they loved it, you know, and a lot of two
step in line dancing music. And so when I when
we started, that's when I hired Troy, uh you know,
so me and Eddie Timm and then Troy hired Troy Men,
(12:36):
Me and Troy would go in and.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Say, does you all three worked together?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Yeah? Yeah, we yes. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
My first band, Young Country, it was me. It was
John Michael Montgomery and Young Country. My brother played drums,
Troy played rhythm guitar, Jim played bass. I had a
guy from Eastern Kentucky played keyboards for me, and they're
actually at one time a guy named Danny Williams, which
used to be was exile in for a while.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know. We called himself Willie Daniels I think at
the time.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
But yeah, we just got in there and started playing
music and you know playing.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
It's a pretty talented group.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I mean, four guys just playing at Austin City. One
of them is Exile, two of them are Montgomery Gentry
and the other one is John Michael Montgomery. I mean
the people that went and saw that group, it was
a band, go into three different groups that become huge.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, you know, I mean literally lighting and struck three times.
I mean it happened for me.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You know, it's funny because I saw this. I saw
these guys come in. It was on a slow night
and one you know, well it was one guy actually,
and he was kind of dressed up and I've never
seen him in there before. So me and my brother
always got off stage and said, you know, said hi
to the people that came in. And so this guy said, yeah,
I'm from Atlantic Records. Were down here at this other bar.
(13:50):
Down here, we're listening to a guy doing a showcase.
And he's like, now, I wasn't that impressed. And so
one of the waitresses come up said, if you want
to hear the best singer in town and go down
to Auston City's a guy named John Michael Montgomery.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And you know, wow, did you ever find that waitress?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Now, I'd give her a real big tip right now.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Like life can change on just something something like that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Oh, I mean yeah that I tell this story all
the time, Like you said, I mean, my my theory
and philosophy was you know, it's like I just wanted
to I didn't know if I'd ever get a record
it or not, but I knew I wouldn't get one
if I never if I you know, didn't go do it.
You know, I was young, guy, wasn't married, didn't have
(14:33):
any kids, and you know, my mom and dad got
married very young and they had kids, and it made
it tough for dad. You know, he wanted to make
it in the business. But when you got three kids,
if he you know.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So your dad tried to make it as well.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, my dad so proud to have two sons.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, you know, he got to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Unfortunately died from prostate cancer, you know, in ninety four,
but my my hits came out in ninety two, ninety three,
and ninety four, so he got to see all that
happen and uh vindicated, you know, because a lot of
people it was like Harold, that's my dad, names like
you need to get a real job. That music ain't
gonna take you nowhere, you know, and and same thing
(15:07):
to my mom. But you know, so when I made it,
obviously he was very well vindicated. But unfortunate passed away
and Eddie and Troy got together. You know, Eddie went
out and rode with me for a little while, but
him and Troy hooked back up became a duo and
went back to Austin City and then they got some record. Yeah,
and you know, so that means literally three guys on that.
That's amazing, you know, in the same spot.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It was.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Really It's a really cool story, no doubt about it.
People say you need to write a book, you know,
and I'm like, well, maybe one.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Day you should.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It's if anybody, if I can do it, you certainly
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John's a big fan and his farewell concert at Rupperina
in December. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tukey
Sports Radio. John Michael Montgomery joining us. All right, so
you're doing your final show at Rupperina is this like
(16:18):
final final.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm not touring him nowhere after this year? Okay, yeah,
you know, if I do a show it's called my
I'm you know, I got the itch and I was like, look,
I just need to get on stage once, you know,
just to get that out or whatever.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
But I touring wise.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You know, it's just sixty years old. I'm thirty three
years beating a black top out there, you know, the
old body. You know, you bench like any athlete, you know,
you pro athlete or whatever. I mean, you look in
the mirror one day and he goes, I mean, I'm
I just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Anymore time they go hard on my body, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, and but yeah, you know, I was it's been
thirty years since I played RUP. You know, in ninety four,
I was opening up reball over the country and she
came in to RUP and I was got to open
up for her. Whether the next year I went out
on my own. I swear it was big, so you know,
all that stuff was just going through the roof. And
(17:11):
so they booked Reperena for me in ninety five. The
headline so that was, you know, to me, I was like,
if I never get to play another place, Reperena. That's
my if I find out tomorrow, if I please let
it be after the get my Reperena show in you
know and uh so, which was incredible. And then of course,
like I said, that was thirty years ago, so it's
(17:33):
really a thirty year you know, this will be thirty
year celebration.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
So you haven't played it since ninety five?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
No, No, I my brother and Troy you know, had
some shows there with Lennard Skinner and stuff, you know,
and i'd go there and maybe you know, be part
of that. But I've not done a concert at Repeerena
and I and so for me, my dream last show
obviously would be Reperena.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
So it was able to work it out where we could.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
But that's awesome. So it's you Eddie, it's your son
in law.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, Travis Denning and my son Walker.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And Walker, so not only do you get to play Rupperena,
you get to do it with your family.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Absolutely gonna be a complete family affair, and you know
my of course, speaking of families, I mean you know
my daughter Madison, which you know you know, she got
married a couple of years ago and swore she would
never have any kids and then about two and a
half weeks ago she had had a little grand baby girl.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
All right, what's her name?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Charlotte Lane and Charlotte Lane, Dinny and so uh so
I didn't know if I was ever going to be
a grandpa or not. So you know, about nine you know,
about nine months ago when they let us know how we,
me and Crystal were tickled to death obviously, So yeah,
I got I still go. I'm gonna have a lot
going on after the tour is over.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
At it, I can tell you that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
But I mean, that is so cool that you're gonna
get to do your final show right close to where
you grew up with your brother, with your son and
with your son in law. I mean, like, isn't that
the American dream? To get to play the place you
idolized with your family? As if I just can't imagine
a better way to go.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Out, I mean definitely. I mean, uh, you know, you
never think about, you know, when you're out there touring.
You're so grateful that I got the opportunity to, you know,
get a record deal and have hits and do something,
you know, because I never I tell people all the time,
I was not one of them artists like, hey, you know,
one of these days, I'm going to be a big star.
I just I just I was one of them kind
of guy that's like, well, you know, there's something special
(19:34):
about those people.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
You know. It probably ain't ever gonna happen to me.
I'm you know, and why would it, you know?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
And uh although exile guys, you know, they would come
by the bar from time to time, JP and all them,
and you know, stop in say hi to us, and
we just thought that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
We were like, wow, man, we got you know, these
famous guys you know, coming in and stopping to see us,
you know, and and uh so uh but you know,
and talk about touring. I mean, I think they've been
turned for like fifty years, you know. But I just
know I know what my body tells me. You know,
I'm like, you know this is and plus I had
(20:12):
a bad bus wreck a couple of years ago, broke
for ribs up, you know. And when you're laying on
the side of your on your side with four broken
ribs looking out a bus windshield down seventy five and
you're fifty seven to fifty eight years old, you're going
I don't know, how much longer I can do this?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Thankfully you're you're recovering. Let me ask you. I want
to ask quickly about UK. You got UK here on
you love it? Mark Pope?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I love Mark Pope.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, I think he was an absolute fabulous hire. Me
and my brother are through the roof on him. And
you know, I keep up with some of the recruits
the best I can, you know, I mean as a
day's world. I mean they're coming and going right and left,
you know, and so but no, I think you know obviously,
(20:58):
I mean when he was playing for you UK back
you know, of course, I go all the way back
to Rick Roby and Mike Phillips and Kyle Mazy you know, uh,
you know that's my favorite team. I you know, I
was in like grade school, I think, O we're in
Danville and the team came by after they won the
national championship and Jack Gibbons I think, and all come
(21:23):
by and spoke to the kids and stuff, you know,
and we were like, no way man, you know, uh
just uh uh. But yeah, Pope was on that you know,
national championship team. I mean, you know when you bleed blue,
I mean, you know, like you know and he does.
I mean he is uh, he's a true blue, you know.
(21:43):
I mean, you know, everything he's got and loves is
about UK basketball winning and you know, and of course
you know I love some Mark Stoops too, and you
know that's that's a yeah. He's I just I loved
Kentucky football as much as I do anything growing up
those games.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
He narrates the intro right that.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Lexington.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Can you give us what what he got?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
The intro?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
You do? Yeah, well, my memory ain't as good as
it used to be. I'd be able to well you
and I also got robbed. We won at the PGA Tour.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
At the PGA Tour event, Nicholas Field, me, you, Tubby
Smith and Rick D's won the pro am and they
wouldn't give it to us because they said the celebrity
team can't win.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
And it made it we won.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Gave us all this hope up front and then just
ripped it right out from underneath our feet. And I
think the best story I ever heard was Vince gi
Will won. He got a hold in one and it
was like he won a house. It was like two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars home. And so you know
at the end of the round and he's like, hey,
look what I want to name.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Sorry, it's in the.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You didn't apparently didn't read between the lines that celebrities
can't don't get Well that's.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
What they.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Me.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
We all, Rick Jesus is great, but you and me
and Tubby play better than we've ever played. Then they
took it away from Sean. Thank you. Tickets are on
sale now. I'm a taking baster. Come see him. I
can't wait to watch it. John, great having you, Thank
you very much, appreciate it. We'll take a break, be
right back. KSR.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
TJ. Smith personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them
pay now.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's
Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
This is I do love this song, Shan. This is
that Letters from Home right?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, he's got somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I think it's really pretty. Yeah, it's great. I mean
I won't just sit and listen to it because now
on the podcast you just get silenced. But but I
still I do really like that. That was awesome, great
having him in.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Dude, it was fantastic. I love hearing those stories. You know,
Kentucky has produced a lot of country music stars, but
for the Lectington area, him and he's brother and Troy
Gentry that they you know, they're at the top of
the list.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Is just going to Austin City and they're they're playing
late eighty and then all of a sudden they all
end up being stars.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I was excited to have him on already because you know,
we all love his music. But those stories he was telling,
I want to hear it more. That was great too.
Like the waitress just saying, why don't you go on
down the street listen to this guy instead?
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Speaker 4 (24:49):
All right, so let's I got to read you this.
You don't even know about this yet, Drew, but you
know we're doing as we announced earlier this week, we're
doing an NFL podcast. It's now not official, but you know,
our excitement is official. If they if they decide not
to do it, then we'll just be crying. So so anyway,
(25:09):
they were we're supposed to have a content meeting this week.
I guess one of the people, uh, you know, they
had the thing at the NFL, the the shooter that
came to the South, So everything's gotten kind of pushed
back a little bit. Uh and uh. But someone at
iHeart who is also part of this, wrote today to
suggest names. Shannon, and I need you to to hear
(25:35):
these news.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Now. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Not making fun of these, No, we're work shopping.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But so thank Mario, these are not gonna be it,
at least if I have anything to say about it.
Number one the NFL Show with Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Let you know what it is, the most basic, generic
name you could possibly.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Are just like the subject of remo or was that
actually that was one of the four choices? Bluegrass Blitz boy,
I don't know, Thank you to ever submitted these the NFL.
According to Matt and Drew.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, people get paid to come up with these ideas.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And then finally Jones in for the NFL, so that
guy doesn't get to decide today. Okay, So I mean,
I I'm I think what we could say is if
people have suggestions, it's still an open form at this point, Shannon,
(26:47):
I think we could still say that the four that
have officially come in they could be beaten by other suggestions.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We need like a good brainstorming session, because whoever came
up with those clearly didn't put a whole lot of
thought into it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Which of those is the worst? Bluegrass Blitz the NFL
Show with Matt Jones? What was the third one? According
to Matt and Drew and then Jones in for the NFL, the.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
NFL is the absolute worst.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
By far by far.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Jones in for the NFL is that can't be the
first of all, that's a good way for the podcast
to fail on launch, because I don't care if it
was the best show in the world. If I saw
Jones in for the NFL, I'm not listening. I'm not
even gonna listen. I'm on.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'd be embarrassed to type that into my search bar
just to have that in my history, jonesing for the NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Not every show can be the sports Mob with Matt
and Robb.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
But see, I feel like sports Mob with Matt and
Rob is Harvard compared to this very true?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
What about the alliteration of the Bluegrass Blitz? A little
double b there rolls off the tongue. It's awful.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
If I'm in one of the other forty nine states,
why am I listening to the Bluegrass Bliz?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Sounds Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
It's a very Kentucky specific And the whole point of
this is to sort of expand our horizons. So I
don't bring this up. I'm not to, like, you know,
make fun of the person who suggested it, but I
guess I'm kind of making fun of the person, like.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
This is like how you come up with this?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Are the processes, and I feel like we could do
better than this, So so it's not your trouble.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
I've eliminated a few users submissions too. Someone said, uh,
tush pushing. I was like, yeah, I don't know that,
we want to be toush pushing.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Honestly, I agree with you, But honestly, tush pushing would get.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Yeah, there's a connotation there I don't want to commit to.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
If people too did to tush pushing, they might think
it's like the gay NFL.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
It's like two gay guys.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Talk about the NFL.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
We already have that broke. Yeah, you know, yeah, let's
just not do that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I just I don't it's a clever name, but I
just think like that would might get us a different.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Fan base pants to listen to that push. Somebody suggested
one career catch, because in fifth grade I caught a pass,
So between the two of us, one career catch not bad.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think that would be better though, if, like, you know,
we had someone on who actually had made an NFL
catch and it was just literally they had made one
fifth grade catch probably, So anyway, that's where we are
right now. Uh, the early suggestions, I think, can all
ryan be topped?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, as you know, ESPN likes to use the host
names in the title, so they're gonna find a way
to probably put Matt and Drew together.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I actually would argue, as bad as Jones is, the
NFL show with Matt Jones is maybe the most like
my mother could come up with that now, but you know,
don't even need to know anything. That's like literally the
most basic basketball. I thought that's what with Ryan. I
(30:08):
thought that's what it was called before we start thinking
the names. That's why I thought it was the email subject.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
You know, I think that's very straight.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Simplicity does work. Look at the name of this show,
Kentucky's Sports Radio. It's nothing fancy about it. It says
what it is.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That's actually a really good point. Yeah, but two interesting
things about that Kentucky Sports Radio. You people would say, oh,
it is what it is, but there's a strong argument
that none of those words completely apply. It started as
a website with no radio, with no radio, so Kentucky
Sports Radio originally wasn't even radio.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
For years, I felt like I had to explain that
every week to someone.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, it's a website, and we still to this day.
When I go to the SEC Tournament, I have to
explain to the people at the SCC there's a Kentucky
Sports Radio website and there's a Kentucky sports radio radio show,
and they're not even owned by the same people, and
they just look at him and go the same thing.
I'm like, no, they're different things. I don't even own
(31:10):
the website anymore. Secondly, we don't always talk about Kentucky.
And third, as many of you remind me daily on Twitter,
I don't always stick to sports really, so it is
not necessarily the simple explanation.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Remind you you had a wrestling show on Netflix called Wrestlers.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
All right, that one I'm leaning into the NFL show. Now,
that's true. I remember when they told me that name.
I was like, you sure Wrestlers, can't you sure we
can come up with.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
You know, this podcast?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
His show before was just called cheer.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Right true? So I mean he did have a thing.
Did you see Will Levis's uh did I did?
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
No one he was gonna get showed. I believe that
he needed it. But the timing I wondered if it
was maybe a long term play too, to help him
out next year take the season off. They put that
picture out, It's like, yes, please get surgery right away.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
We see it. His his shoulder looks like I don't know,
it looks like he got hit by bat.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
It's like a bone sticking up, Like.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
There's a bone sticking up, and then it has like
a valley and then another thing like I don't even know.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
How a nailbow or a shoulder gets like.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't either, Ryan. So here's what I don't understand.
Why did he wait someone to have certain like that
looks awful?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And if he's throwing shoulder, that's why. How do you
even I could have even played at all with the
way that it was before this?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Yeah, I mean he needs to get that taken out.
I've never seen anything like that. I don't know how
he didn't do it immediately when that happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But for a while a lot of people have said, uh,
he's just having the surgery to get out of playing
because he's not gonna be the starter. Do you feel
like now he needs the surgery. I mean, there's no
way he can look like that and play football.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I think he had it like that last year, but
that needs to get taken care of. I still think
it's smart of him to have the surgery now, but
he still needs the surgery, regardless of what it's going
to do for him long term.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
But this didn't get like that.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's such a weird look. Had to take some sort
of hit, some kind of bone got displaced in there
or something. It's weirdly.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
I hope will get better. I will say to you
that is you know, you don't I don't know what
you do when someone hurts. I don't know if you
just look at him and go. But I think that's
what I would do. If I saw will Evis, I
would just be like.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Oh yeah, it's like as I'm talking about you, you probably knows.
I keep rubbing my shoulder. It's like purple. Just to
look at it. It hurts just.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Thinking about it right now.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It does?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
It really does tell me about Stockton Morgan or did
you already do it?
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Did that all?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Well, then you know what.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Let's take a break. I've got If I'm nine two
eight out, that's right, I was doing something else. If
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we
will take a break. Right back to cancel. Drew had
a good suggestion right there, covers zero or a good
one because we don't know anything, Shane, and so cover zero.
We've covered zero things in our life. Well we're covering it.
(34:06):
But we've played zero minutes, so we've played zero minutes actually,
but the ones i've you'll put in takes I don't.
I don't dislike that. With seven, can let me give
the number? Seven two seven seven four five two five four.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Is it live? We'll be live.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's gonna eventually be live on YouTube on Sunday nights,
but for I think initially to be podcasts till we
know what the cover we're doing, which may.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Take a while.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
With this crew. If you can see by the initial suggestions,
we'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I think it'd be awesome when it's live, though, see
you guys.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
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Speaker 2 (35:12):
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this is amazing, this raffle they have that is able
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Speaker 4 (35:18):
All right. By the way, we'll do a second part
of Ask Anything Wednesday tomorrow since we had John Michael's thing. Well,
we'll do it tomorrow as well because we are in studio.
All right, So let me let me give you a
couple other little things. Did you see the baseball player
Shannon who got traded in the middle of a doubleheader?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
No, I didn't see this.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
So he played for the Orioles and they were playing
the Blue Jays, and in game one he played the
game for the Oriols. But then in between the games
he got traded to the Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Yeah, just walk right across.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
So he literally walked across the field, changed uniforms, and
even though he didn't get in, he was available for
the Blue Jays in game too.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm mad at the Blue ja they didn't put him in.
Why wouldn't theyut him at least just a pitch hit
or something.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like this happened like last year, like same situation where
that happened.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I guess it's just when you're right before the trade deadline,
you're in the same place as the other guy, and
you're like, we're here, yeah, we might as well make
a trade with each other.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
What are you think saw I liked when he walks
by his bullpen, they're just laughing, they're waving at him,
and he looks so confused, and he kind of salutes
him and he just goes and walks across the field.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And how did they have a uniform for him?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I think they can dial those up pretty quick.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But they were in the other city. Oh yeah, they
were the Rotea though that Toronto and you're in Baltimore.
How did they get a uniform for him in between
the games? And he pitched in the first game, so
he pitched for the Orioles, which also presumably they knew
the trade was happening. Do you think the general manager
(36:56):
when he saw him come in, was like, stop, don't
beat us. We got you in just a minute. Corey
whispers like, you're on our team, help us. I just
think that's a crazy scenario.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It is really crazy. Years ago, the one dude, I
think Joel Youngblood got a hit in the AFTERNUE for
one team, got traded, went into that team that night,
got another hit.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Well, we told the story, or at least I told the story.
Maybe on ESPN, maybe it was here. I can't remember.
There was. There's in history there was a guy who
played for both teams in the same.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Game, in the same game.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, he played for one team. It was a rain delay.
He was traded during the rain delay, and then the
next day finished the game for the other team, and
he was allowed to play for both teams. Now, Major
League Baseball had to make a rule Shannon, that you
can't play for both teams in a game.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, that's I think it should be that way because
then you can disabotage the.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Entire thing of that pain. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I remember that.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
That was fairly recent, maybe last season.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
It was. It wasn't all that wasn't all that long ago.
But that did that did happen, so.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
This guy can do It was a double header, two
different games.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
It's two different games. It's two completely different games.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I should have put him in something just.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
To make it. Yeah, just to make it whatever. I
also want to give one quick shout out for you know, I,
because I've been I'm in the business and have been
for a few years. I give I have sympathies for
independent restaurants, right like people who are doing their own thing.
Yesterday I was walking to my the sauna place that's
on campus, which is, you know, about a couple mile
(38:28):
walk from me, and I walked by a place that
I don't know if people know exist but has, but
I saw it, and I go when I walk back,
I'm gonna eat there. It's on campus. Do you know
what Peruvian chicken is?
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Do not?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Oh, it's like rotisserie chicken with spices, and it's called
Peruvian chicken. Like over by the old iHeart louis Remember
the Yummy Poy I took you two. That's next. iHeart
the Old iHeart building in Louisville. That's so good. Still there,
it's awesome. I don't get there a lot anymore because
if we moved our buildings. But it's called Yummy Point
(38:59):
LEXI now has a new place like that, okay, and
it's right there on campus. And what used to be
what is it mellow mushroom? You know, I'm talking about
that pizza place and it's I don't have an endorsement
with these people or anything. I just stopped an eight.
I was like the only person there, and they said
they just opened, and the woman said, we're having a
hard time getting people who know us. I'm getting nothing
(39:20):
for this except I it's good. It's good for you
because it's peruvi like, it's not fried. It's rotisserie chicken,
and it's called poyo Azul, which I think means blue chicken.
It's actually a good name if you're gonna be on campus,
right blue chicken. And I just would say that woman
was very nice working there and the food was really good,
(39:44):
and so I'm just throwing it out there everybody, he says.
She said, we know we're hoping things pick up when
school gets here, so I hope they do for for them.
But it's good because we don't have a that I know.
I don't think there's a Peruvian place in Lexing too.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I'm not aware of one, and so I'm.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Giving them a shout out. Uh azul right there next
to Target on campus.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
I've driven by it many times. I eat on campus
somehow often that I plan to get over there. It
looks good.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It is good, and it's relatively inexpensive too for what
you're getting, honestly, so healthy.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Yeah, I think it is healthy. All right, let's go
to James.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Go ahead, James, Yeah, are you hearing me? I've still
got you, Okay? And anyway, I was thinking about the name.
How about the NFL playbook with Matt and Drew.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I mean, it feels like that was similar to those
other ones, so uh, but yeah, a playbook seems like
a generic I appreciate the call, I like the idea,
but it seems like a generic name.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
I think we got to do something. That's that's why
I like Cover zero.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Because it's like kind of unique and well, we're gonna fight.
We're gonna figure out.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
What kind of making fun of you guys, making you know, we're.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Gonna have to exactly we don't, I mean we don't
know it.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Like it's literally you're going to cover nothing.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Yeah, exactly right, we are going to.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I think it's the name.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
We are gonna cover nothing, Cover zero with two zero
no safeties. We are not safeties.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I mean, that's a podcast about NFL and theory.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
In theory just like cover zero is a defense in theory.
I think I'm in not just because I came up
with pretty good. Now I want to hear other ones,
but I think it's uh, I think I think it's
a pretty good one.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
There's also the problem. I feel like they're every term
in football has a podcast like the Unsportsman, like all
the you know, all the terms football kind of covers.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
I don't think.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
So that's another I was looking to see if cover
zero has been used.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Okay, and also in theory, people would go, oh, they're
using a football term. These are probably smart football people.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
You're gonna them that's right.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Well, but it's both.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
It's a double It's like it sounds like we know
what we're talking about, but secretly we're acknowledging we don't.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
And then we won't put our pictures up, so they'll
just assume it's these two safeties that played football tactics.
They might think we play yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Until we start talking, Yes, we're we're cover zero.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
We were used to be the safeties they left on
the bench.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
I mean, I mean, I don't think it's bad. All right,
Thank you all very much. Thanks to John Michael Montgomery
for coming Remember we are at football Media Day on Friday.
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