August 28, 2025 • 42 mins
KSR is Live at KSBar & Grille talking the UK Football, Lee Corso retiring, and Jay Bilas on Mark Pope.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome everyone on Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
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and car Lyle, Kentucky, the far end of the state.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Here, you can, you can, You're good. Carlisle is a
great place. I've been there.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well, I've been every county and it's uh here Ryan
and Drew Shannonson studio. Ryan's wearing his Middlesborough High School
T shirt ready to go two days before kickoff of
the UK football.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
This is in honor of what Shannon said, your fifty
fourth birthday today, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It was very rad Shannon. If you said fifty four,
that was very rude.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
One, I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Not it is if it's forty seven or as they
say on Facebook, forty three and yeah, nobody's worried about
specifics and uh yeah I have it.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you very much, Happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well, i'd like to ask you a few questions. First
of all, who said you are allowed to do we're
gonna hijack the show because it's your birthday.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Okay, Well before you do that real quick, let me say, uh,
my mom's coming here for lunch.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
She and I are going to get lunch for birthday.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We I don't know when it'll come out, but we're
doing our first NFL podcast today. Yes, so I'm a
little you know, a little bit nervous about that. And
then but last night I got a cake. Somebody bought
me a cake which I didn't know existed. And I
want to recommend, okay, because I've over the years been
(02:21):
slightly disparaging to the dairy queen because you know, they
would sometimes tell people and sometimes, like we just talked
about yesterday aboutw the blizzard machine is always broken and
all that unknownst to me when I was talking about it. Somebody,
yes last night got me a cake that was an
eminem blizzard cake.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Highly, I did not know. I knew they did birthday cakes.
I did not know that they would make like a
layer of it a blizzard. You're shaking your head. You
said you hadn't had an oreo one, dude. Wow, I listen.
Highly recommend if you if you're a blizzard person, you
because you get you get like it gets blizzard mixed
(03:07):
in with other things and all of a sudden it's like,
oh my, so let me just say M and M
blizzard cake.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Ryan, I highly.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Reckomm it sounds fantastic. Is the ice cream, like the
creamy ice cream.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And so there's ice cream Blizzard ice cream and like
so it's like regular ice cream, Blizzard ice cream, and
then other.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Stuff and that's the cake. If you cut it in half.
It's like in levels. It's in levels.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's like in layers. Let layers there you go exactly right.
So anyway, that was I'm a big fan of it
all right, Now, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I want to ask you a couple of questions because
this got me thinking my birthday last week, somebody asked me,
do you what's your most special gift you got as
a kid? As a bird?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You remember?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Was there something that you got that you really like?
You still remember?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know, and see you're gonna you say that you're
gonna put me in the spot because I'm gonna see
my mom earlier.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't really.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Remember remember one special game.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I'm sure it was something probably to do with UK,
like like maybe tickets to a game or something, but
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, you remember gifts from when you were a child.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I remember getting my baseball glove and I was like
eight years old, and I slept with it every night.
I loved it so much.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I still do. I still do. Yeah, that's been part
of your problem.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Did you ever have a birthday party that you remember,
like a big celebration.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, there would be.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You know, you get kids there and uh yeah, I
had those when I was growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think I broke my leg at.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
One of them, actually, at one of your birthday parties.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, I think so. I think I was when I
was really young, when I lived in Cynthiana. I feel
like I feel like I broke my leg at a
birthday with I don't know, somebody, like maybe the Probist
kids knocked me down the steps or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think that might have happened.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Was there ever a special birthday kiss from a girl?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh? Yeah? Do you remember what I looked like when
I was younger you're thinking.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
About I may have seen some of those pictures on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let me just tell you those where not there was.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
They were not lining up down the street at that
age for that to happen.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
And our birthdays are like right before school usually.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, well that was only something that bum out. Yes,
you know now they start school early, but when I
was a kid, you started school after labor Day. So
I never got to have the birthday thing that everybody
got to have because you know, when you were in
school and it was somebody's birthday, big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Big already seeing you'd have a little party. I didn't.
I never got that.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I was always like they you didn't even get at
the beginning of the year. Oh, by the way, here's
the people who passed during the summer. You didn't get that.
So I if that did annoy me. There was never
a birthday sort of acknowledgment when I was in school.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, I was that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I was gonna ask you the same for me being
on the eighteenth. There's a twentieth I wonder if you
ever had a birthday party you got to celebrate at school.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We've talked about there's a lot of people that are
born at the end of August, like a lot of people. Oh, why,
we've talked about it. It's Thanksgiving, yes it is, and
then at the end of September it's it's Christmas, last
New Year's But there's a lot of people, like most.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Of my friends are born in like this two or
three week period.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
You included Chris Tomlin, Marie.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Chris Thomas f Yes, uh, the Turkey, Hunter, Hunter a Hubby,
they're all in this little period right now.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yes, So, was there ever something that you did on
your birthday? You don't remember a birthday present or anything
you did. I just said no, I mean the way
you gotta be something. See, he planned this, Shannon, and
he doesn't have the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Ability to pivot right like like he doesn't understand that
if I don't have an answer.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But if you keep.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Asking me, I'm not gonna just I understood the question, Drew,
I just don't. I don't have an answer.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't. I'm not unlike you. I'm not materialistic.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I want to go down memory road with you, a
little bit of your birthday memory lane, memory road, right
off memory memory lane just pulls off right off road,
memory interstate.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, but I appreciate you have always done a good
job over the years of like you've done like things
on my birthday or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I do always appreciate.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
What we're trying today. There's still some efforting going on.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But so that means that won't happen Shannon.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But that's okay because he's I know, he means that's
the good thing about you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You're very thoughtful.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You know, you wake up Drew and you see people
You're like, oh, I haven't thought of that person.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's very nice for you to say happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because
I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I didn't remember anybody's birthday. Anybody like I would be like, Okay,
my mom's is January twenty first, you know, like that
was I was terrible about it. But now they pop
up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I
worked with as a claw clerk, I'll say hello to you,
like things.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Like, yeah, Facebook's clutch. Even birthdays, I think I know,
I will go to Facebook just.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
To make sure, double double check. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Also, like people you don't stay in touch with in
a while, they'll send you a happy birthday message, and
your last message was like you telling them happy birthday,
or them you're telling your birthday year.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Ago, like sitting here looking at my sitting you're exactly
a right, like sitting here looking at my phone.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They're names of people.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh hello, high school friend, Alison Cook, thank you for
acknowledging my birthday. It's been a while since we've talked.
That's nice, you know, that's good to kind of reconnect
with people.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Remember well I first started with you. One of your
daily rituals was to go down Facebook and read people's
birthdays on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
My first message I got this morning was from Slice.
Really and I looked and the last message I got
from Slice was last year on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So Slice does remember the birthdays. That's nice.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It finally ended, but I had like an eight year
run of Shane Boyd saying happy birthday, Bro. I could
show you the screenshot with There were no conversations. It
was happy birthday, Bro, and me saying thanks Man for
almost a day.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thanks Man's a good response. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The one thing I don't when I got close, you know,
the one thing I don't like on the text when
you just say happy birthday, they add balloons, you know
what I mean, Like they add balloons in confetti, and
so you get up in the morning, you look at
it, it's just balloons and confetti everywhere, and it's just you know, I.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Mean, that was an addition. I don't know that the text,
the text app needed.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Your Twitter profile will do that today if your birthdays
and there one goes to your page, it throws confetti and.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Balloons, does it okay? Well? Anyway, thanks very festive. Everybody's
very fastive.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Thanks to Corey Price for finding the picture of me
with the bowl on my head in high school. When
I got the scholarship to or College to study at Oxford,
i'd forgotten.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Uh well, I knew I went, but I forgot it
with talks. I had forgotten it was in the newspaper
and uh all that that was nice? Then? Want people
make fun of the bowl they were in at that time?
Everybody I knew had the bowl. I had the bowl.
You had to get the chili bowl haircutt in that era.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, that was the that was what you did in
the nineties. It was how you kind of showed you
were so we were cool. Cool, I mean kind of cool,
like walking maybe not on cool lane, but maybe on
cool road road.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah like that. So well, happy birthday. I hope you get
to enjoyed it today and I got to do it.
You do an ESPN today?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Also not doing ESPN, thank goodness.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I mean that that three hours of ESPN the last
two days was was very, very tiring, but it was nice.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
To be in here.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We had people in here all day yesterday and it
was nice to they would come up during the breaks
and people seem to be happy.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
In here yesterday. It was nice.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It's nice everybody and we'll be here today and then
you know, Saturday, Saturday Game Day breakfast. Mario's taking pictures
of the breakfast today, getting ready, and.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We our pregame show will start eight thirty on Saturday morning.
I'm ready. I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I don't want to wait around all day. Save that
for later in the season. I'll watch game Day another time.
I want to wake up and get ready. You're not
gonna watch game day for the Corso stuff. I mean,
you're talking to you all.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'll try well, but I mean we'll be done at
ten thirty. I mean, I would think if you love
college football at like eleven fifty five, you gotta watch
the final Courso thing where he picks the team, right,
I mean, I feel like that's gonna be kind of
very emotional, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And if I understand, that's where he did his first one, right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's where he did his first one back in the
I think early to midnight, like nineteen ninety five maybe
was where he did his first one. And he's gonna
finish with it here, so.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
There's no way he doesn't pick the Buckeyes again. Probably
put that.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
See, I feel like he's the kind of dude who
on his way out might say hook a bars.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I feel like that's kind of his thing, right.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I could see him doing it one last time, getting spicy,
getting the crowd going, and maybe even if it's a
negative reaction. But I don't think it's a lock that
he puts on the bucket hat just because that's the
what is.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Your what's your favorite Corso moment?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean, if you think about all the years that
he did it, I kind of like it when he
had the little kid on and he kind of yelled
at him, you know what I mean. I think he says,
what not so fast? That's what he says to him.
The kid looks at him like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That was I think like.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Harvard Yale was where it wasn't really I think it
might have been.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And I like that one.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And then I like when he they would bring a
live animal and whether it was a duck or a cow,
I don't know if there was a cow.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Promo on the Georgia Bulldog and called it ugly, Yeah,
he called.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I also liked when they would bring on a celebrity.
This happened a lot in recent years as he got
kind of older and he clearly Shannon didn't know who
the celebrity was, and he would just sort of look
at him perplexed.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Like.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Who is this person? I really enjoyed that they bring
on like a TikToker.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I remember they did PFT commenter at James Madison, and
he clearly was like, who is this person? Why is
his son? Why is sunglasses on? You've always enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That my favorite.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
You can't really repeat it on radio, but he was
doing a game and he changed his pick. He picked
up like a megaphone and then threw it and he
said ah, and he said and everyone on set losing
loses because you cannot say that because it came from
courso that he with it. Yeah, he got away with it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So uh. I love that dude.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And it's crazy to think that he was a former
Louisville an Indiana coach. I mean that's where he came from,
was coaching Louisville in Indiana. And when he was at Louisville,
people say he was like Rick Patino, like he would.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Like was like slick Italian thought he was cool. Now
it just seems so goofy.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You could have never imagine Ryan Rick Patino becoming what
Lee Corso became.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I remember when he was the head coach in Indiana,
he came to speak to the last Otwell High School
athletic basketball banquet when my dad was a coach. That
got him to come down. He did it to the
little bitty Otwell, Indiana High School and he was like
a rock star. He was a rock star and he
was just a football coach in Indiana.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I would argue the most important announcers to their sport
in history, Number one is Dick Vitau.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
With college basketball, Dick Vitaue.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
In my opinion, was a massive part of making college
basketball things. I think John Madden for the NFL is
a massive one. And then I would argue Lee Corso
for college for college football is and he's not even
an announcement, you know, just doing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The studio, kind of like the way Barkley is with
the NBA.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
He was so good on the studio that I think
in some ways helped make the sport.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Made that show, you know, Oh, I mean that show.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That show and the TNT NBA Show are the only
pregame shows even worth thinking about watching, would.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Agree, And every other one tries to still they try
they can't there, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And they can't.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And honestly with if you're honest about it, really it's
really Corso, you know in Barkley. Yeah, like Kenny Smith
and Herb Street are good with them, but if they
weren't on there, you could skip them. It's really Corso
and Barkley. It'll be interesting to see. I mean McAfee
maybe that helps it work with Game Day in the future,
(14:27):
but for me, Corso and Barkley are the two best people.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That have ever done a studio show ever.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And you've talked about this, Kirk kurr Street kind of
supporting Corso's It's beautiful, very touching, it is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It is very very sweet.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
text machine is seven seven to two seven seven four
five two five four. We'll talk a little bit about
UK Toledo and football, some basketball news. Jay Billis had
some really interesting things to say about Mark Pope, which
I want to get to.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We're here at KOs bark come to see us have lunch.
A Kentucky Sports Radio run back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, text
Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five
four what person rights, Matt. Maybe what Ryan meant was,
what's the best experience from a party on your birthday?
We'll probably drew the best experience. I can't stay on
the air, uh. But the funniest experience one of them
(15:22):
might have been a couple of years ago with Ryan
when we all went down to Middlesbrough in a bus
and all of my friends and their wives got in
a fight. All of them, like every single one of
them got in a fight, including people like some of
them separating and driving back to Lexington in separate cars like.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Like it was. It was amazing. They all got in
a fight except the one person most.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Likely to get in a fight with this significant other, Ryan,
He was the only one you very much. I was
sitting there watching my friends drop like flies, and Ryan,
of all people shenn and somehow did not end up
fighting with his with his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, if you could have gotten that on.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Drafting, oddsbel killed it because if you go through history,
Ryan Lemon, that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Is his role on all trips.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Is to fight with his significant other. And then that
one some and you were like taking glee. I was,
and we stopped at Bucky's and I remember one of
you kind of bit the like not really bit, but
was like I took a little snipe and I went, oh,
it's gonna break.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We're only thirty.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Minutes from home and it's gonna fall apart. And you
hung on after all those years, you.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Were sitting right behind us in the front of the
bus while we were like, I was high five in
you like this.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Going on kept happening everywhere, and they kept hanging on,
and Uh, We're able to do it. Ja Phillis was
on a KSR podcast with Jacob uh Polo Check and
he was talking about Mark Pope, and he said two
things about Mark Pope, uh that I were that I
thought was interesting. One he said that Mark Pope coaches
(17:01):
and I think his wording was with relentless positivity. He
says he's never seen a coach who coaches with more positivity.
That when he wants to get something to a player,
he doesn't say don't do this, he says do this,
and he says like, you're good at this, That he
(17:21):
like doesn't use the negative, he always uses the positive.
And Bill said he's never seen a coach that was
more affirming in the way he tells people what to do,
and that he thinks it leads his players to play better.
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, he had great comments. I do have to correct you.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
It was with Jack on sources, so sorry, which like
that's right, Yeah, no, good, good, good for Jack. No,
he's raving about how, like, really the Kentucky job and
no one has cut out for it. It's so demanding,
I mean, everything it takes to have that job. Sure
there's been guys that have been successful, but no one's
gonna be perfect at it. But he was talking about
how just Pope, if anyone's is close to being made
for the job, he's handling it really well. And it's
(17:58):
things like that that got them off to a great start. Yeah,
it's close, you're going a home run higher and we
all feel that way, but Bill is adding to it
just makes him feel even more.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Like the right movie.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Bill said, he whatever it is Mark Pope wants to accomplish,
he tries to find a way to say it in
words that are affirming. And when I read that last night,
I was thinking, man, I'd like to figure out how
to be able to do that, like.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Rather than say, I mean if that's not gonna happen
with Ryan, but with other people.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Like if there's a way to say something in a
lifting up rather than a take like, you know, not
even taking down, but just negative way, I think that's
a really good because I can see why people would
respond to that better.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And it's such a refreshing way of coaching because we
know for years and years years it's the coach's method
was we got to tear you down. We gotta break
you down and then build you back up, and we
have to plant your mistakes and what you're doing wrong
so you can correct it on your own. I like
this approach, and I hope other coaches take it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I don't know if I can take that approach with
the whole parking situation on my street, I don't think
I can build those people up. By the way, the
have we talked about the letter that was on my door?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No? No, we heard about the signs, not a letter. Okay,
I'm gonna have to digress just a second from Mark Pope.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You know, I don't want to get involved in anything community,
but but but.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
This issue, it's pressing issue.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
This is issue is I come home the other day there's
a letter that someone on my street has written. I
think her name was Wanda, and it said and it's said,
and I wanted to say, please help me Wanda.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Right, Uh, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Said, we all know what's going on. This is frustrating.
I've organized a meeting with the city count with or
with our local council member. It had the date and said, write.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Me if you want to come. I'm very torn. You
got you gotta go.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But I don't even want to know who my city
council member is, Like, I don't care, right, I don't
want to get it involved in any of this local government.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I don't want to get involved. It's the government that matters.
It is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's actually more important to people's daily lives, honestly than
usually the fed or state is.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But with that said, I don't want to get involved.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But she had an email and she said she had
a list of all the houses and said I hope
to hear from all of you. So I feel like
she's doing a check it list, and I feel like
if I don't, if I don't check, So I emailed
her meeting is tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She never got back to me, so I guess they
looked at my email. And thought, well, we don't need him.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, that's a good thing that you're out.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Then that's out.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I tried, and they won't tell the meetings tonight, but
I don't know where it is, so I guess I'm
not going.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I'm sure they feel like they need you to give
them a little cloud, a little power when they meet
with the city.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Maybe they don't want me to like mess it up.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
They're like, oh, if he gets involved, then it's a
whole nother thing, right.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Or are the signs still posted in the back? Yeah,
but they're cardboards.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What I'm saying that they're not official. It's a story.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
They're not official card and signs. But anyway, so I
have to aside that, all right. Second thing that Mark
Pope said is he said that he was amazed at
the analytic approach that Pope took to recruiting in the Portal,
and he used Ansley Almonor as an example. He said
something basically like, when Pope got Annsley Almanor, I thought.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Like that kid cannot play at Kentucky. But he said
Pope had a specific thing. He thought al Minor could do,
choot threes standing in the corner passed, and he was like,
and then it worked to perfection. He said, Then I
realized maybe the way to look at the portal is
to look at it like baseball gms do, where you go, well,
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this can be a guy that you know is a
pinch hitter versus lefties, and that he thinks Pope that
eventually all coaches will do that. But Pope was maybe
the first one to see it like that.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
That sounds a lot like I can't remember it was
Myron or someone we had on last summer. They had
just seen Pope with the peach jam and we've been
there a million times. Coaches are there to be seen
shaking hands, smiling, said. Pope had like an envelope that was,
you know, almost a foot thick of profiles on all
the players what he wanted and like no one else
has anything in their lap. And here's Pope with basically
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brought us desk with him as he's recruiting and analyzing talent.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, and which I think would mean when you look
at this coming year's team, we sit there and look
and go, Okay, what's this guy, what's this guy's gonna do?
Pope probably has with most of the guys he brought in.
He is going to do this specific thing. I have
him for this specific thing, even if he's not as
good as X person.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I want him for this. And that's a good way
to think about.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We amazed at how you constructed that roster last year
for exactly what you said. I need a point guard
that can do this and this. I need a five
guy that can pass. I need a four guy that
get shoot in the corner. Specifically, go get guys just
to do those roles. Yeah, not superstars.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So I thought the Billis interview was very interesting, y'all.
To check it out on sources say, we'll take a break.
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight
twenty two eighty seven. Here at the KS Bar and grill.
We are open for lunch. Come and see us, and
remember well we're not open. We will be open in
thirty minutes, and remember that we'll be here for the
pregame show. Should be a fun day. I mean, like,
I know, we've said this over and over. You can't
ask for better weather than's gonna be here Saturday, so
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weather won't be any impact. I saw that our defense
coordinator said we're gonna play lots of people to try
to wear them down.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I like that, especially the weather, like both those statements.
Even double check the weather again this morning. It's supposed
to be like seventy five right at kickoff. Beautiful sunshine.
Can't wait for that. And uh, I want to see
the depth on that defense. I think that we're gonna
get back to the defense being the strength of the team,
and that will that will start here in forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Ready to see it hit them hard?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, I think this is a team, Like we've said before,
we're gonna to win games. You're gonna they're gonna have
to win them like thirteen to twelve, twenty one to twenty.
We're not maybe score a lot of points, but we
can hold teams in early without a lot of points.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
That guy right there had a great interaction with me
last night. So you came here last night for wednsday, right,
and he writes me and you know this made.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Me feel good.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Like listen, part of reopening this restaurant is like, I
have a lot of pride in this place.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I want people to like it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean, like as a financial thing, like a restaurant is,
even when it's good, like you, you're scraping by, right,
like unless you're you know, a massive it is what
it is, it's a it's it's a labor of love.
So this guy writes me, He's like, the wings are awesome.
We got great reviews on the food yesterday, which made
me happy. But wings are awesome, Thank you so much.
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And this is the best deal I've ever seen. And
I was like, yeah, you know, the dollar wings on Wednesday.
That's a good deal. I mean, honestly, most places it's
like a dollar fifty, So that's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Right. I'm like, I'm glad he's appreciative. What an appreciative guy.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yes, And I remember thinking to myself, see this, this
is why we reopen this place.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
How appreciative guys like this?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Right Then, about an hour later, I get another text
message from him that says I kind of feel stupid
about what I said, And I'm like, oh, no, So
here's what he said. Here's what was his initial one. Matt,
you guys have just given the best deal of all time,
all time with wings Day. I got three things of
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wings and it's the literal little best.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Bang for a buck I've ever had. The keyword there
was a buck, he.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Writes me later, Matt, I'm so stupid, and yes, you
can make fun of me for being not naive, but
I thought it was a dollar for an order of wings,
not a dollar for each wing. Too good to be true.
It was still great, but I'm kicking myself. I gotta
look at you, Anye and say, that was very nice.
But you thought I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Give you ten wings for a dollar.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That would have been of them, so that would have
been three dollars and you would have gotten thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You still made me feel good, but I was like,
you know what, may have to make sure we articulate
the right word.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I saw the graphic.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
It's as a dollar for all wings, but that means types, boneless, bone,
in flavors, all the options.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
He was very nicetiated. I thought that was it was
still worth it. Okay, good, but it made me laugh. Okay,
you know I love the soccer Cups in Europe.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Oh yes you do.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Why do I love the soccer Cups in Europe?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The fans and the announcers and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
The little teams get a chance to have big upsets, right,
That's what I like. And remember in some of these
countries you get like teams that would be like the
ks Bar team gets to play.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Against the Yankees and they get a chance.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
So in Britain, one of the great upsets of all
time Grimsby Town, which is a town of like sixteen
thousand people. So what's a town in Kentucky as sixteen
thousand people?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Oh wow, I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Let's just say what Ashland?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That sound about right enough?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Ashland would be playing Manchester United and Grimsby Town beat
them all they did, and they beat him and the
place goes crazy. There's videos online they storm the field,
although imagine it's not college kids, but it's old men
with guts that storm the field. It's a great video,
but that's still not the most entertaining one. The Champions
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League Ryan they take teams from every country in Europe,
and of course the teams in the big countries do better. England, Spain, France, Germany,
et cetera. But these little other countries they get a
chance to. Yes, and the team that won the Kazakhstan League.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Okay, I think their name right, Shanon is it? K
e I r A T Is that right? Ka I Yes,
r A T k A r A T.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
They were playing a match that if they won, they
get to move to the group stage where the money
just for coming in last is more than their entire
team is worth. Okay, so this is like the biggest
moment in Kazakhstan soccer history. All they have to do
is is they've got this one penalty kick and if
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they make it, they they.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Get to go come down to a penalty kick.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Now, granted this is a language we do not know,
but you don't need to know the language to hear
the excitement of kazakh Stan in this moment.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Go ahead and play timberlan anbiakad intur, timber lan anarbiaka
maylarsa sonka.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But that to me, that rye living is what sports
is about. That's awesome, that is what sports is about.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
They're just losing their minds, still going, They're screamed, they
scream So now what happens is I think today they
have a draw. They have a draw where they'll decide
what eight teams in Europe they play, and four of
those teams will have to come to their little stadium.
All so you might have a situation where like Liverpool
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or Real Madrid has to come to their little stadium
in Kazakhstan and listen to those guys scream and I
love it like that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
That drew is what sports are about.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Absolutely, they even they had it ripped away from a
little I think, man, you scored twice.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's game. That's a different game. This is the Kazakhstan.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Okay, Well regardless, you know, you think you even have
a little bit of remote chance, like a moral victory,
but then for it's actually at the crossbar at the end.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
And then the screen. So when we get a big win, Shannon,
I want you to save that. That's what I want
to play if we if we beat Texas, or we
beat Tennessee or Florida, that one.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's the react you.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Said you didn't know the language. I don't think they
were saying word. That's just yelling at.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Just losing their minds.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That is not a life with Shannon that's just that's
just visceral screaming.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Right, But that works across any language exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So remember that that's gonna be Tom Leech and Jeff.
I hope that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
So congratulations to whatever that team is in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Who's up first? Ryan? Ryan? Go ahead? Ryan?
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Hey, Matt, happy birthday, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
So you were talking the other day about an NFL
player being traded, Yes, and I can't remember who, but
that doesn't matter. It dawned on me how odd the
whole concept of trading is of players, And I mean,
what if that was just like that in society? You
just agree you had to tell your wife, I've been
traded to the Walmart and Monticello.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
You know what's funny you say that. I totally agree
with you about that and have had that thought. I
appreciate the call we accept in sports, this idea that
you can be traded to a different city without your
consent and you just have to go like the next day,
right you live in Like just imagine tomorrow, Shannon, I
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traded Ryan to a radio station in Seattle for someone
else and I and they say to him, you need
to report to Seattle for work on Thursday. Like that
would be wild, isn't it? In sports that just happens. Okay, Ryan,
go to Seattle. Hope you enjoyed your time in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And then that's why you see these emotional goodbye sometimes
because these are your teammates, your friends, your family.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
But it's not even just that house, your whole life.
Like you know that house you love no more, get
rid of it, get rid of it. You're going to Seattle.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Find you something in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
He's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
It's funny, he says that because I've had that thought
in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
How weird it is?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Okay, And even like he mentioned Walmart, let's just say
you work at Walmart in Monticello and they go, all right,
you'll be at Walmart in New Mexico tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
When sports, we think about it from the roster, change
the jersey, what does for the team.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But I mean these people have families.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Imagine you've got a kid in school in Phoenix and
you get traded to Toronto. That's a pretty big change
for everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
That's another point you could have to leave the country. True,
they're talking about putting teams in Mexico City.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
You literally could just be like, all right, now, go
get your Canadian go get your passport. Honey, we're living
in Canada. Like that's that is the whole family.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
It's just accepted. But it is very strange.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Really.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
That's why I assume a lot of them have to
just get an apartment and leave life back where they
were for a long time so they can get it
figured out. You can't imagine just lifting up your whole family,
not knowing how long you'd be playing for the Raptors.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
There's somebody who has told me I think I think
a lot of the Bengals they live in an apartment
complex there in Newport, Kentucky, and just so that they can,
if need be go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
That's what Devin does with the Broncos. They have like
a community of townhomes and condos they're getting a lot
of the players just live there just during the season.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
By the way, they announced yesterday all the NFL teams
announced their practice squads.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A lot of Kentucky guys found places.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Dumas Johnson is on oneakers the Packers. Yeah, Quentin Bohanna
got picked up by one, And you got to give
a shout out to guy who played for Kentucky last year,
Zion Childress, who was undrafted and made the Cowboys regular
roster as an undrafted free agent. That's very rare. And
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Zion Childress from last year's team did that.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I thought would get drafted in the late round. So yeah,
obviously talented enough and good enough, went to camp, earned
the right, earned that spot on the roster, So congratulations
to him.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Mike Edwards got cut, but then he made the Chiefs
practice squad.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Darren Cannard is in Green Bay.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Eli Cox made the Texans practice squad. From Cox did okay,
they waived him and brought him back on practice squad,
which is common.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
And by the way, I saw Dane Key was named
a captain of Nebraska. That's quite an accomplishment for a
guy that just transferred in.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah, he just showed up in January and his teammates
six months later voted him one of the sixth captains.
The man, I'm so proud of you. When are you
going to Nebraska? They play Cincinnati? What tonight tonight? They
played to this today tonight in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Wow? Why didn't you go?
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I had two tickets. I got the show to do.
It's your birthday day.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You can leave after the show. Yeah, I mean you
can still get there if you leave right now. I
bet you could get there.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
We got a big show tomorrow with cornb Brad him.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Drive over through the night. No, you're gonna be excited
to watch it though.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
I can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five
two five four one person rights, Matt, I work at
the Walmart and Montasel. We'd be glad to have you here.
I think you would do a good job. Well, thank
you very much. See, you never know, you could say
anything and somebody might be literally working there. That's a
great thing about this show anything in Kentucky. You can
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get someone there that that's doing It's.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Worried that I thought you might have put them on
the trading block when you referenced the Walmart.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, well something y'all gonna have to give us somebody
back in order for that that trade to be made.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
So like, yeah, here a ks bar, we have some servers,
maybe have to skip out for a couple of weeks,
or like we just go make a trade. We can
trade you for somebody down to Monticello to come up
and work at our restaurant for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's true, that's true. That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
I like that a lot sometimes.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Sing it sounds like he like stepped out for a
segment and came back.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You know, I think he did.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I think like I can tell sometimes and I can
even tell your facial expression when it's happening. It's that
one your mouth is open, your tongue is on the
bottom of your table.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
But I can see it, right, you can see it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
The facial and when his mind is somewhere else and
his tongue is on his teeth.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
He's just looking.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
That's when you know he's not here with us at
this moment. We have to give him a minute to
come back.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But yeah, but we know he'll be right back. He'll
be back. Yeah, he just but he's he's probably but
the and the thing is, he's like Homer Simpson.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
He's probably like thinking about a donu or something like
a happy Gilmore happy play something.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
He's just whatever he wants to do. He's up there.
Mario knows you've seen that. Look right. That's why he's
not consistent.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Is the dry Mario not consistent.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Who's up next? Cameron Cameron? Go ahead, Cameron, Cameron, Cameron.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Hey, Matt, first of all, happy birthday, Thank you, Happy birthday, Matt.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Got it? Just a couple of quick things, Uh yeah,
just a couple quick things, you know. Kentucky football. I'll
see them winning five games this year. Toledo Eastern Michigan, Tennessee, Tech, Auburn,
and Bandy. Do you think that's plausible? And second of all,
don't sleep on that Dairy Queen chicken tender basket. It's
one of the best fast food items out there.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Yeah, we had a bunch of people take up for
the Dairy Queen fast chicken tender basket. There are people
who are who are fans of that. They like the gravy.
I mean, those are the five Drew. If you were
gonna say Kentucky appreciate the call, was gonna win five,
those are the five you'd pick, the three stinky teams
Auburn and Bandy. I mean, that's what you would pick.
I'm I'm I'm picking though. I'm picking the three stinky
teams Bandy in Florida. But you know the path to
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six is win those five that includes Auburn and then
steal one.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
That's the path to six. Yeah, I have the.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Three stinky Vandy in Florida. I feel good about the
Florida game. I know that's crazy. They're like ranked fifteenth
right now, but I think we're gonna see them slowly
get worse. Their coach has been living on the hot seat.
It's in Lexington in November, when Florida never plays.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Here, November played here in November years.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I'm looking at that as the Marquee went on the schedule,
not counting Louisville of course, and then getting Vandy on
the road.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
We want to be really cold for that game.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
We want the cold front to come in Florida here
in November.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's what we'd like to see. Half.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I read this story where like the last time Florida
came here in November, Frank Cercy, I think it was
a goach to the flipped fields, made the Florida team
be in the shade on the one side of the field,
on the Kentucky team took the side the other side
in the sun, just to make him a little colder
during the game. We should do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I would agree. I agree, So let's do whatever gamesmanship
we can do. My hope is you get to that
point fans are still engaged in the season because you
can have a big crowd advantage for that game as.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Well field the stadium.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
We can all just blow, you know, try to make
it even colder in there when Florida has the ball.
I remember that date the Vandy game a few years
ago because it was my day after my wedding. It
was snowing pretty bad in the Lexington, so maybe we
could get some snow in early November.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Did you see the story about Bill Belichick and his
girlfriend and what they've done the trademark they filed.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I have tell us about it. This is this great.
I have to tell you, I've completely flipped on the girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
From like I don't know what's going on to I've
decided she might be the best like business person.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
She has filed for a trademark for the word gold
digger to sell on jewelry the Jordans under Bill Belichick's
company's name gold Digger Jewelry. Kind of brilliant, I mean
it is. I mean, I know you're shaking your head.
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But at the same time, if you're gonna get called
that anyway, why not embrace it? Like if you're like, like,
she's not gonna be able to stop people from calling
her that. Let me tell you something, ma'am. You're you'd
be surprised there are women that will buy it.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I bet you. I mean, I know you don't think
they will, But Drew, what do you think there's a world.
There's a world.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's a world for anything. There's a world of people.
I don't care what it is, there's a world of
people who buy it. I actually think it's smart. Now,
it's hilarious to me, and it's gonna be in Bill
Belichick's name, Like, That's what's hilarious to me is that
he is good. His lawyer is gonna have to go
before the trademark board and argue that Bill Belichick deserves that.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
But I do think that's funny.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
Yas lawyers probably thinking. I thought we're just gonna retire
and go off into the sunset. Now Jordan's got the
keys to the company and doing all kinds of stuff
you like it.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
He had to sign off on it, so I mean,
I think he's, like I said, when I just embrace
it and go for it, make my off because you're right,
I guarantee there's a big market for women out there
that would buy that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm shocked it doesn't already exist. Shannon, Huh, you know
what I mean. I'm kind of surprised, Like if nobody's
done it, I'm kind of surprised nobody has because I
feel like Shannon, there is a market for it.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah, there definitely is.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
This is just another example on how she will do
literally anything he tells her or she tells him. She
tells him.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah, I was about to saying I don't think this
was Bill belichick idea, although that would be funny if
it was. Yeah, if film Belichick was the one that
came up with it, that would make it even more fun.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
And she's and I don't really call her a villain,
but she is leaning into this villain role or whatever
it is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yes, she remember they opened its embracing it. They open
on Monday night football. The only game that the only
game that night is North Carolina with Belichick. You don't
think she's going to end up on the screen at
some point during that game.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
Of course she will.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
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and car Lyle, Kentucky, the far end of the state.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Here, you can, you can, You're good. Carlisle is a
great place. I've been there.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well, I've been every county and it's uh here Ryan
and Drew Shannonson studio. Ryan's wearing his Middlesborough High School
T shirt ready to go two days before kickoff of
the UK football.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
This is in honor of what Shannon said, your fifty
fourth birthday today, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It was very rad Shannon. If you said fifty four,
that was very rude.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
One, I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Not it is if it's forty seven or as they
say on Facebook, forty three and yeah, nobody's worried about
specifics and uh yeah I have it.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you very much, Happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well, i'd like to ask you a few questions. First
of all, who said you are allowed to do we're
gonna hijack the show because it's your birthday.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Okay, Well before you do that real quick, let me say, uh,
my mom's coming here for lunch.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
She and I are going to get lunch for birthday.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We I don't know when it'll come out, but we're
doing our first NFL podcast today. Yes, so I'm a
little you know, a little bit nervous about that. And
then but last night I got a cake. Somebody bought
me a cake which I didn't know existed. And I
want to recommend, okay, because I've over the years been
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slightly disparaging to the dairy queen because you know, they
would sometimes tell people and sometimes, like we just talked
about yesterday aboutw the blizzard machine is always broken and
all that unknownst to me when I was talking about it. Somebody,
yes last night got me a cake that was an
eminem blizzard cake.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Highly, I did not know. I knew they did birthday cakes.
I did not know that they would make like a
layer of it a blizzard. You're shaking your head. You
said you hadn't had an oreo one, dude. Wow, I listen.
Highly recommend if you if you're a blizzard person, you
because you get you get like it gets blizzard mixed
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in with other things and all of a sudden it's like,
oh my, so let me just say M and M
blizzard cake.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Ryan, I highly.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Reckomm it sounds fantastic. Is the ice cream, like the
creamy ice cream.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And so there's ice cream Blizzard ice cream and like
so it's like regular ice cream, Blizzard ice cream, and
then other.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Stuff and that's the cake. If you cut it in half.
It's like in levels. It's in levels.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's like in layers. Let layers there you go exactly right.
So anyway, that was I'm a big fan of it
all right, Now, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I want to ask you a couple of questions because
this got me thinking my birthday last week, somebody asked me,
do you what's your most special gift you got as
a kid? As a bird?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You remember?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Was there something that you got that you really like?
You still remember?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know, and see you're gonna you say that you're
gonna put me in the spot because I'm gonna see
my mom earlier.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't really.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Remember remember one special game.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I'm sure it was something probably to do with UK,
like like maybe tickets to a game or something, but
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, you remember gifts from when you were a child.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I remember getting my baseball glove and I was like
eight years old, and I slept with it every night.
I loved it so much.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I still do. I still do. Yeah, that's been part
of your problem.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Did you ever have a birthday party that you remember,
like a big celebration.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, there would be.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You know, you get kids there and uh yeah, I
had those when I was growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think I broke my leg at.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
One of them, actually, at one of your birthday parties.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, I think so. I think I was when I
was really young, when I lived in Cynthiana. I feel
like I feel like I broke my leg at a
birthday with I don't know, somebody, like maybe the Probist
kids knocked me down the steps or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think that might have happened.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Was there ever a special birthday kiss from a girl?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh? Yeah? Do you remember what I looked like when
I was younger you're thinking.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
About I may have seen some of those pictures on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let me just tell you those where not there was.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
They were not lining up down the street at that
age for that to happen.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
And our birthdays are like right before school usually.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, well that was only something that bum out. Yes,
you know now they start school early, but when I
was a kid, you started school after labor Day. So
I never got to have the birthday thing that everybody
got to have because you know, when you were in
school and it was somebody's birthday, big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Big already seeing you'd have a little party. I didn't.
I never got that.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I was always like they you didn't even get at
the beginning of the year. Oh, by the way, here's
the people who passed during the summer. You didn't get that.
So I if that did annoy me. There was never
a birthday sort of acknowledgment when I was in school.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, I was that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I was gonna ask you the same for me being
on the eighteenth. There's a twentieth I wonder if you
ever had a birthday party you got to celebrate at school.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We've talked about there's a lot of people that are
born at the end of August, like a lot of people. Oh, why,
we've talked about it. It's Thanksgiving, yes it is, and
then at the end of September it's it's Christmas, last
New Year's But there's a lot of people, like most.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Of my friends are born in like this two or
three week period.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
You included Chris Tomlin, Marie.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Chris Thomas f Yes, uh, the Turkey, Hunter, Hunter a Hubby,
they're all in this little period right now.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yes, So, was there ever something that you did on
your birthday? You don't remember a birthday present or anything
you did. I just said no, I mean the way
you gotta be something. See, he planned this, Shannon, and
he doesn't have the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Ability to pivot right like like he doesn't understand that
if I don't have an answer.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But if you keep.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Asking me, I'm not gonna just I understood the question, Drew,
I just don't. I don't have an answer.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't. I'm not unlike you. I'm not materialistic.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I want to go down memory road with you, a
little bit of your birthday memory lane, memory road, right
off memory memory lane just pulls off right off road,
memory interstate.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, but I appreciate you have always done a good
job over the years of like you've done like things
on my birthday or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I do always appreciate.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
What we're trying today. There's still some efforting going on.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But so that means that won't happen Shannon.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But that's okay because he's I know, he means that's
the good thing about you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You're very thoughtful.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You know, you wake up Drew and you see people
You're like, oh, I haven't thought of that person.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's very nice for you to say happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because
I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I didn't remember anybody's birthday. Anybody like I would be like, Okay,
my mom's is January twenty first, you know, like that
was I was terrible about it. But now they pop
up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I
worked with as a claw clerk, I'll say hello to you,
like things.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Like, yeah, Facebook's clutch. Even birthdays, I think I know,
I will go to Facebook just.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
To make sure, double double check. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Also, like people you don't stay in touch with in
a while, they'll send you a happy birthday message, and
your last message was like you telling them happy birthday,
or them you're telling your birthday year.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Ago, like sitting here looking at my sitting you're exactly
a right, like sitting here looking at my phone.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They're names of people.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh hello, high school friend, Alison Cook, thank you for
acknowledging my birthday. It's been a while since we've talked.
That's nice, you know, that's good to kind of reconnect
with people.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Remember well I first started with you. One of your
daily rituals was to go down Facebook and read people's
birthdays on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
My first message I got this morning was from Slice.
Really and I looked and the last message I got
from Slice was last year on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So Slice does remember the birthdays. That's nice.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It finally ended, but I had like an eight year
run of Shane Boyd saying happy birthday, Bro. I could
show you the screenshot with There were no conversations. It
was happy birthday, Bro, and me saying thanks Man for
almost a day.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thanks Man's a good response. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The one thing I don't when I got close, you know,
the one thing I don't like on the text when
you just say happy birthday, they add balloons, you know
what I mean, Like they add balloons in confetti, and
so you get up in the morning, you look at
it, it's just balloons and confetti everywhere, and it's just you know, I.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Mean, that was an addition. I don't know that the text,
the text app needed.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Your Twitter profile will do that today if your birthdays
and there one goes to your page, it throws confetti and.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Balloons, does it okay? Well? Anyway, thanks very festive. Everybody's
very fastive.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Thanks to Corey Price for finding the picture of me
with the bowl on my head in high school. When
I got the scholarship to or College to study at Oxford,
i'd forgotten.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Uh well, I knew I went, but I forgot it
with talks. I had forgotten it was in the newspaper
and uh all that that was nice? Then? Want people
make fun of the bowl they were in at that time?
Everybody I knew had the bowl. I had the bowl.
You had to get the chili bowl haircutt in that era.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, that was the that was what you did in
the nineties. It was how you kind of showed you
were so we were cool. Cool, I mean kind of cool,
like walking maybe not on cool lane, but maybe on
cool road road.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah like that. So well, happy birthday. I hope you get
to enjoyed it today and I got to do it.
You do an ESPN today?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Also not doing ESPN, thank goodness.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I mean that that three hours of ESPN the last
two days was was very, very tiring, but it was nice.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
To be in here.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We had people in here all day yesterday and it
was nice to they would come up during the breaks
and people seem to be happy.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
In here yesterday. It was nice.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It's nice everybody and we'll be here today and then
you know, Saturday, Saturday Game Day breakfast. Mario's taking pictures
of the breakfast today, getting ready, and.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We our pregame show will start eight thirty on Saturday morning.
I'm ready. I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I don't want to wait around all day. Save that
for later in the season. I'll watch game Day another time.
I want to wake up and get ready. You're not
gonna watch game day for the Corso stuff. I mean,
you're talking to you all.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'll try well, but I mean we'll be done at
ten thirty. I mean, I would think if you love
college football at like eleven fifty five, you gotta watch
the final Courso thing where he picks the team, right,
I mean, I feel like that's gonna be kind of
very emotional, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And if I understand, that's where he did his first one, right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's where he did his first one back in the
I think early to midnight, like nineteen ninety five maybe
was where he did his first one. And he's gonna
finish with it here, so.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
There's no way he doesn't pick the Buckeyes again. Probably
put that.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
See, I feel like he's the kind of dude who
on his way out might say hook a bars.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I feel like that's kind of his thing, right.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I could see him doing it one last time, getting spicy,
getting the crowd going, and maybe even if it's a
negative reaction. But I don't think it's a lock that
he puts on the bucket hat just because that's the
what is.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Your what's your favorite Corso moment?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean, if you think about all the years that
he did it, I kind of like it when he
had the little kid on and he kind of yelled
at him, you know what I mean. I think he says,
what not so fast? That's what he says to him.
The kid looks at him like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That was I think like.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Harvard Yale was where it wasn't really I think it
might have been.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And I like that one.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And then I like when he they would bring a
live animal and whether it was a duck or a cow,
I don't know if there was a cow.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Promo on the Georgia Bulldog and called it ugly, Yeah,
he called.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I also liked when they would bring on a celebrity.
This happened a lot in recent years as he got
kind of older and he clearly Shannon didn't know who
the celebrity was, and he would just sort of look
at him perplexed.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Like.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Who is this person? I really enjoyed that they bring
on like a TikToker.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I remember they did PFT commenter at James Madison, and
he clearly was like, who is this person? Why is
his son? Why is sunglasses on? You've always enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That my favorite.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
You can't really repeat it on radio, but he was
doing a game and he changed his pick. He picked
up like a megaphone and then threw it and he
said ah, and he said and everyone on set losing
loses because you cannot say that because it came from
courso that he with it. Yeah, he got away with it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So uh. I love that dude.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And it's crazy to think that he was a former
Louisville an Indiana coach. I mean that's where he came from,
was coaching Louisville in Indiana. And when he was at Louisville,
people say he was like Rick Patino, like he would.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Like was like slick Italian thought he was cool. Now
it just seems so goofy.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You could have never imagine Ryan Rick Patino becoming what
Lee Corso became.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I remember when he was the head coach in Indiana,
he came to speak to the last Otwell High School
athletic basketball banquet when my dad was a coach. That
got him to come down. He did it to the
little bitty Otwell, Indiana High School and he was like
a rock star. He was a rock star and he
was just a football coach in Indiana.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I would argue the most important announcers to their sport
in history, Number one is Dick Vitau.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
With college basketball, Dick Vitaue.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
In my opinion, was a massive part of making college
basketball things. I think John Madden for the NFL is
a massive one. And then I would argue Lee Corso
for college for college football is and he's not even
an announcement, you know, just doing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The studio, kind of like the way Barkley is with
the NBA.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
He was so good on the studio that I think
in some ways helped make the sport.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Made that show, you know, Oh, I mean that show.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That show and the TNT NBA Show are the only
pregame shows even worth thinking about watching, would.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Agree, And every other one tries to still they try
they can't there, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And they can't.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And honestly with if you're honest about it, really it's
really Corso, you know in Barkley. Yeah, like Kenny Smith
and Herb Street are good with them, but if they
weren't on there, you could skip them. It's really Corso
and Barkley. It'll be interesting to see. I mean McAfee
maybe that helps it work with Game Day in the future,
(14:27):
but for me, Corso and Barkley are the two best people.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That have ever done a studio show ever.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And you've talked about this, Kirk kurr Street kind of
supporting Corso's It's beautiful, very touching, it is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It is very very sweet.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
text machine is seven seven to two seven seven four
five two five four. We'll talk a little bit about
UK Toledo and football, some basketball news. Jay Billis had
some really interesting things to say about Mark Pope, which
I want to get to.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We're here at KOs bark come to see us have lunch.
A Kentucky Sports Radio run back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, text
Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five
four what person rights, Matt. Maybe what Ryan meant was,
what's the best experience from a party on your birthday?
We'll probably drew the best experience. I can't stay on
the air, uh. But the funniest experience one of them
(15:22):
might have been a couple of years ago with Ryan
when we all went down to Middlesbrough in a bus
and all of my friends and their wives got in
a fight. All of them, like every single one of
them got in a fight, including people like some of
them separating and driving back to Lexington in separate cars like.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Like it was. It was amazing. They all got in
a fight except the one person most.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Likely to get in a fight with this significant other, Ryan,
He was the only one you very much. I was
sitting there watching my friends drop like flies, and Ryan,
of all people shenn and somehow did not end up
fighting with his with his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, if you could have gotten that on.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Drafting, oddsbel killed it because if you go through history,
Ryan Lemon, that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Is his role on all trips.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Is to fight with his significant other. And then that
one some and you were like taking glee. I was,
and we stopped at Bucky's and I remember one of
you kind of bit the like not really bit, but
was like I took a little snipe and I went, oh,
it's gonna break.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We're only thirty.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Minutes from home and it's gonna fall apart. And you
hung on after all those years, you.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Were sitting right behind us in the front of the
bus while we were like, I was high five in
you like this.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Going on kept happening everywhere, and they kept hanging on,
and Uh, We're able to do it. Ja Phillis was
on a KSR podcast with Jacob uh Polo Check and
he was talking about Mark Pope, and he said two
things about Mark Pope, uh that I were that I
thought was interesting. One he said that Mark Pope coaches
(17:01):
and I think his wording was with relentless positivity. He
says he's never seen a coach who coaches with more positivity.
That when he wants to get something to a player,
he doesn't say don't do this, he says do this,
and he says like, you're good at this, That he
(17:21):
like doesn't use the negative, he always uses the positive.
And Bill said he's never seen a coach that was
more affirming in the way he tells people what to do,
and that he thinks it leads his players to play better.
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, he had great comments. I do have to correct you.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
It was with Jack on sources, so sorry, which like
that's right, Yeah, no, good, good, good for Jack. No,
he's raving about how, like, really the Kentucky job and
no one has cut out for it. It's so demanding,
I mean, everything it takes to have that job. Sure
there's been guys that have been successful, but no one's
gonna be perfect at it. But he was talking about
how just Pope, if anyone's is close to being made
for the job, he's handling it really well. And it's
(17:58):
things like that that got them off to a great start. Yeah,
it's close, you're going a home run higher and we
all feel that way, but Bill is adding to it
just makes him feel even more.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Like the right movie.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Bill said, he whatever it is Mark Pope wants to accomplish,
he tries to find a way to say it in
words that are affirming. And when I read that last night,
I was thinking, man, I'd like to figure out how
to be able to do that, like.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Rather than say, I mean if that's not gonna happen
with Ryan, but with other people.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Like if there's a way to say something in a
lifting up rather than a take like, you know, not
even taking down, but just negative way, I think that's
a really good because I can see why people would
respond to that better.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And it's such a refreshing way of coaching because we
know for years and years years it's the coach's method
was we got to tear you down. We gotta break
you down and then build you back up, and we
have to plant your mistakes and what you're doing wrong
so you can correct it on your own. I like
this approach, and I hope other coaches take it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I don't know if I can take that approach with
the whole parking situation on my street, I don't think
I can build those people up. By the way, the
have we talked about the letter that was on my door?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No? No, we heard about the signs, not a letter. Okay,
I'm gonna have to digress just a second from Mark Pope.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You know, I don't want to get involved in anything community,
but but but.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
This issue, it's pressing issue.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
This is issue is I come home the other day there's
a letter that someone on my street has written. I
think her name was Wanda, and it said and it's said,
and I wanted to say, please help me Wanda.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Right, Uh, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Said, we all know what's going on. This is frustrating.
I've organized a meeting with the city count with or
with our local council member. It had the date and said, write.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Me if you want to come. I'm very torn. You
got you gotta go.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But I don't even want to know who my city
council member is, Like, I don't care, right, I don't
want to get it involved in any of this local government.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I don't want to get involved. It's the government that matters.
It is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's actually more important to people's daily lives, honestly than
usually the fed or state is.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But with that said, I don't want to get involved.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But she had an email and she said she had
a list of all the houses and said I hope
to hear from all of you. So I feel like
she's doing a check it list, and I feel like
if I don't, if I don't check, So I emailed
her meeting is tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She never got back to me, so I guess they
looked at my email. And thought, well, we don't need him.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, that's a good thing that you're out.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Then that's out.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I tried, and they won't tell the meetings tonight, but
I don't know where it is, so I guess I'm
not going.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I'm sure they feel like they need you to give
them a little cloud, a little power when they meet
with the city.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Maybe they don't want me to like mess it up.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
They're like, oh, if he gets involved, then it's a
whole nother thing, right.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Or are the signs still posted in the back? Yeah,
but they're cardboards.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What I'm saying that they're not official. It's a story.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
They're not official card and signs. But anyway, so I
have to aside that, all right. Second thing that Mark
Pope said is he said that he was amazed at
the analytic approach that Pope took to recruiting in the Portal,
and he used Ansley Almonor as an example. He said
something basically like, when Pope got Annsley Almanor, I thought.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Like that kid cannot play at Kentucky. But he said
Pope had a specific thing. He thought al Minor could do,
choot threes standing in the corner passed, and he was like,
and then it worked to perfection. He said, Then I
realized maybe the way to look at the portal is
to look at it like baseball gms do, where you go, well,
(21:44):
this can be a guy that you know is a
pinch hitter versus lefties, and that he thinks Pope that
eventually all coaches will do that. But Pope was maybe
the first one to see it like that.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
That sounds a lot like I can't remember it was
Myron or someone we had on last summer. They had
just seen Pope with the peach jam and we've been
there a million times. Coaches are there to be seen
shaking hands, smiling, said. Pope had like an envelope that was,
you know, almost a foot thick of profiles on all
the players what he wanted and like no one else
has anything in their lap. And here's Pope with basically
(22:17):
brought us desk with him as he's recruiting and analyzing talent.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, and which I think would mean when you look
at this coming year's team, we sit there and look
and go, Okay, what's this guy, what's this guy's gonna do?
Pope probably has with most of the guys he brought in.
He is going to do this specific thing. I have
him for this specific thing, even if he's not as
good as X person.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I want him for this. And that's a good way
to think about.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We amazed at how you constructed that roster last year
for exactly what you said. I need a point guard
that can do this and this. I need a five
guy that can pass. I need a four guy that
get shoot in the corner. Specifically, go get guys just
to do those roles. Yeah, not superstars.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So I thought the Billis interview was very interesting, y'all.
To check it out on sources say, we'll take a break.
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight
twenty two eighty seven. Here at the KS Bar and grill.
We are open for lunch. Come and see us, and
remember well we're not open. We will be open in
thirty minutes, and remember that we'll be here for the
pregame show. Should be a fun day. I mean, like,
I know, we've said this over and over. You can't
ask for better weather than's gonna be here Saturday, so
(23:30):
weather won't be any impact. I saw that our defense
coordinator said we're gonna play lots of people to try
to wear them down.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I like that, especially the weather, like both those statements.
Even double check the weather again this morning. It's supposed
to be like seventy five right at kickoff. Beautiful sunshine.
Can't wait for that. And uh, I want to see
the depth on that defense. I think that we're gonna
get back to the defense being the strength of the team,
and that will that will start here in forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Ready to see it hit them hard?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, I think this is a team, Like we've said before,
we're gonna to win games. You're gonna they're gonna have
to win them like thirteen to twelve, twenty one to twenty.
We're not maybe score a lot of points, but we
can hold teams in early without a lot of points.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
That guy right there had a great interaction with me
last night. So you came here last night for wednsday, right,
and he writes me and you know this made.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Me feel good.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Like listen, part of reopening this restaurant is like, I
have a lot of pride in this place.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I want people to like it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean, like as a financial thing, like a restaurant is,
even when it's good, like you, you're scraping by, right,
like unless you're you know, a massive it is what
it is, it's a it's it's a labor of love.
So this guy writes me, He's like, the wings are awesome.
We got great reviews on the food yesterday, which made
me happy. But wings are awesome, Thank you so much.
(24:43):
And this is the best deal I've ever seen. And
I was like, yeah, you know, the dollar wings on Wednesday.
That's a good deal. I mean, honestly, most places it's
like a dollar fifty, So that's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Right. I'm like, I'm glad he's appreciative. What an appreciative guy.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yes, And I remember thinking to myself, see this, this
is why we reopen this place.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
How appreciative guys like this?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Right Then, about an hour later, I get another text
message from him that says I kind of feel stupid
about what I said, And I'm like, oh, no, So
here's what he said. Here's what was his initial one. Matt,
you guys have just given the best deal of all time,
all time with wings Day. I got three things of
(25:26):
wings and it's the literal little best.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Bang for a buck I've ever had. The keyword there
was a buck, he.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Writes me later, Matt, I'm so stupid, and yes, you
can make fun of me for being not naive, but
I thought it was a dollar for an order of wings,
not a dollar for each wing. Too good to be true.
It was still great, but I'm kicking myself. I gotta
look at you, Anye and say, that was very nice.
But you thought I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Give you ten wings for a dollar.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That would have been of them, so that would have
been three dollars and you would have gotten thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You still made me feel good, but I was like,
you know what, may have to make sure we articulate
the right word.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I saw the graphic.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
It's as a dollar for all wings, but that means types, boneless, bone,
in flavors, all the options.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
He was very nicetiated. I thought that was it was
still worth it. Okay, good, but it made me laugh. Okay,
you know I love the soccer Cups in Europe.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Oh yes you do.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Why do I love the soccer Cups in Europe?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The fans and the announcers and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
The little teams get a chance to have big upsets, right,
That's what I like. And remember in some of these
countries you get like teams that would be like the
ks Bar team gets to play.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Against the Yankees and they get a chance.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
So in Britain, one of the great upsets of all
time Grimsby Town, which is a town of like sixteen
thousand people. So what's a town in Kentucky as sixteen
thousand people?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Oh wow, I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Let's just say what Ashland?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That sound about right enough?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Ashland would be playing Manchester United and Grimsby Town beat
them all they did, and they beat him and the
place goes crazy. There's videos online they storm the field,
although imagine it's not college kids, but it's old men
with guts that storm the field. It's a great video,
but that's still not the most entertaining one. The Champions
(27:30):
League Ryan they take teams from every country in Europe,
and of course the teams in the big countries do better. England, Spain, France, Germany,
et cetera. But these little other countries they get a
chance to. Yes, and the team that won the Kazakhstan League.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Okay, I think their name right, Shanon is it? K
e I r A T Is that right? Ka I Yes,
r A T k A r A T.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
They were playing a match that if they won, they
get to move to the group stage where the money
just for coming in last is more than their entire
team is worth. Okay, so this is like the biggest
moment in Kazakhstan soccer history. All they have to do
is is they've got this one penalty kick and if
(28:23):
they make it, they they.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Get to go come down to a penalty kick.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Now, granted this is a language we do not know,
but you don't need to know the language to hear
the excitement of kazakh Stan in this moment.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Go ahead and play timberlan anbiakad intur, timber lan anarbiaka
maylarsa sonka.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But that to me, that rye living is what sports
is about. That's awesome, that is what sports is about.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
They're just losing their minds, still going, They're screamed, they
scream So now what happens is I think today they
have a draw. They have a draw where they'll decide
what eight teams in Europe they play, and four of
those teams will have to come to their little stadium.
All so you might have a situation where like Liverpool
(29:36):
or Real Madrid has to come to their little stadium
in Kazakhstan and listen to those guys scream and I
love it like that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
That drew is what sports are about.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Absolutely, they even they had it ripped away from a
little I think, man, you scored twice.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's game. That's a different game. This is the Kazakhstan.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Okay, Well regardless, you know, you think you even have
a little bit of remote chance, like a moral victory,
but then for it's actually at the crossbar at the end.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
And then the screen. So when we get a big win, Shannon,
I want you to save that. That's what I want
to play if we if we beat Texas, or we
beat Tennessee or Florida, that one.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's the react you.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Said you didn't know the language. I don't think they
were saying word. That's just yelling at.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Just losing their minds.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That is not a life with Shannon that's just that's
just visceral screaming.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Right, But that works across any language exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So remember that that's gonna be Tom Leech and Jeff.
I hope that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
So congratulations to whatever that team is in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Who's up first? Ryan? Ryan? Go ahead? Ryan?
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Hey, Matt, happy birthday, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
So you were talking the other day about an NFL
player being traded, Yes, and I can't remember who, but
that doesn't matter. It dawned on me how odd the
whole concept of trading is of players, And I mean,
what if that was just like that in society? You
just agree you had to tell your wife, I've been
traded to the Walmart and Monticello.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
You know what's funny you say that. I totally agree
with you about that and have had that thought. I
appreciate the call we accept in sports, this idea that
you can be traded to a different city without your
consent and you just have to go like the next day,
right you live in Like just imagine tomorrow, Shannon, I
(31:45):
traded Ryan to a radio station in Seattle for someone
else and I and they say to him, you need
to report to Seattle for work on Thursday. Like that
would be wild, isn't it? In sports that just happens. Okay, Ryan,
go to Seattle. Hope you enjoyed your time in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And then that's why you see these emotional goodbye sometimes
because these are your teammates, your friends, your family.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
But it's not even just that house, your whole life.
Like you know that house you love no more, get
rid of it, get rid of it. You're going to Seattle.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Find you something in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
He's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
It's funny, he says that because I've had that thought
in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
How weird it is?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Okay, And even like he mentioned Walmart, let's just say
you work at Walmart in Monticello and they go, all right,
you'll be at Walmart in New Mexico tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
When sports, we think about it from the roster, change
the jersey, what does for the team.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But I mean these people have families.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Imagine you've got a kid in school in Phoenix and
you get traded to Toronto. That's a pretty big change
for everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
That's another point you could have to leave the country. True,
they're talking about putting teams in Mexico City.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
You literally could just be like, all right, now, go
get your Canadian go get your passport. Honey, we're living
in Canada. Like that's that is the whole family.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
It's just accepted. But it is very strange.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Really.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
That's why I assume a lot of them have to
just get an apartment and leave life back where they
were for a long time so they can get it
figured out. You can't imagine just lifting up your whole family,
not knowing how long you'd be playing for the Raptors.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
There's somebody who has told me I think I think
a lot of the Bengals they live in an apartment
complex there in Newport, Kentucky, and just so that they can,
if need be go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
That's what Devin does with the Broncos. They have like
a community of townhomes and condos they're getting a lot
of the players just live there just during the season.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
By the way, they announced yesterday all the NFL teams
announced their practice squads.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A lot of Kentucky guys found places.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Dumas Johnson is on oneakers the Packers. Yeah, Quentin Bohanna
got picked up by one, And you got to give
a shout out to guy who played for Kentucky last year,
Zion Childress, who was undrafted and made the Cowboys regular
roster as an undrafted free agent. That's very rare. And
(34:10):
Zion Childress from last year's team did that.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I thought would get drafted in the late round. So yeah,
obviously talented enough and good enough, went to camp, earned
the right, earned that spot on the roster, So congratulations
to him.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Mike Edwards got cut, but then he made the Chiefs
practice squad.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Darren Cannard is in Green Bay.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Eli Cox made the Texans practice squad. From Cox did okay,
they waived him and brought him back on practice squad,
which is common.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
And by the way, I saw Dane Key was named
a captain of Nebraska. That's quite an accomplishment for a
guy that just transferred in.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah, he just showed up in January and his teammates
six months later voted him one of the sixth captains.
The man, I'm so proud of you. When are you
going to Nebraska? They play Cincinnati? What tonight tonight? They
played to this today tonight in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Wow? Why didn't you go?
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I had two tickets. I got the show to do.
It's your birthday day.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You can leave after the show. Yeah, I mean you
can still get there if you leave right now. I
bet you could get there.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
We got a big show tomorrow with cornb Brad him.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Drive over through the night. No, you're gonna be excited
to watch it though.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
I can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
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a break right back here at Ks Bars, Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five
two five four one person rights, Matt, I work at
the Walmart and Montasel. We'd be glad to have you here.
I think you would do a good job. Well, thank
you very much. See, you never know, you could say
anything and somebody might be literally working there. That's a
great thing about this show anything in Kentucky. You can
(36:09):
get someone there that that's doing It's.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Worried that I thought you might have put them on
the trading block when you referenced the Walmart.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, well something y'all gonna have to give us somebody
back in order for that that trade to be made.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
So like, yeah, here a ks bar, we have some servers,
maybe have to skip out for a couple of weeks,
or like we just go make a trade. We can
trade you for somebody down to Monticello to come up
and work at our restaurant for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's true, that's true. That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
I like that a lot sometimes.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Sing it sounds like he like stepped out for a
segment and came back.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You know, I think he did.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I think like I can tell sometimes and I can
even tell your facial expression when it's happening. It's that
one your mouth is open, your tongue is on the
bottom of your table.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
But I can see it, right, you can see it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
The facial and when his mind is somewhere else and
his tongue is on his teeth.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
He's just looking.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
That's when you know he's not here with us at
this moment. We have to give him a minute to
come back.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But yeah, but we know he'll be right back. He'll
be back. Yeah, he just but he's he's probably but
the and the thing is, he's like Homer Simpson.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
He's probably like thinking about a donu or something like
a happy Gilmore happy play something.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
He's just whatever he wants to do. He's up there.
Mario knows you've seen that. Look right. That's why he's
not consistent.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Is the dry Mario not consistent.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Who's up next? Cameron Cameron? Go ahead, Cameron, Cameron, Cameron.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Hey, Matt, first of all, happy birthday, Thank you, Happy birthday, Matt.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Got it? Just a couple of quick things, Uh yeah,
just a couple quick things, you know. Kentucky football. I'll
see them winning five games this year. Toledo Eastern Michigan, Tennessee, Tech, Auburn,
and Bandy. Do you think that's plausible? And second of all,
don't sleep on that Dairy Queen chicken tender basket. It's
one of the best fast food items out there.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Yeah, we had a bunch of people take up for
the Dairy Queen fast chicken tender basket. There are people
who are who are fans of that. They like the gravy.
I mean, those are the five Drew. If you were
gonna say Kentucky appreciate the call, was gonna win five,
those are the five you'd pick, the three stinky teams
Auburn and Bandy. I mean, that's what you would pick.
I'm I'm I'm picking though. I'm picking the three stinky
teams Bandy in Florida. But you know the path to
(38:38):
six is win those five that includes Auburn and then
steal one.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
That's the path to six. Yeah, I have the.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Three stinky Vandy in Florida. I feel good about the
Florida game. I know that's crazy. They're like ranked fifteenth
right now, but I think we're gonna see them slowly
get worse. Their coach has been living on the hot seat.
It's in Lexington in November, when Florida never plays.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Here, November played here in November years.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I'm looking at that as the Marquee went on the schedule,
not counting Louisville of course, and then getting Vandy on
the road.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
We want to be really cold for that game.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
We want the cold front to come in Florida here
in November.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's what we'd like to see. Half.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I read this story where like the last time Florida
came here in November, Frank Cercy, I think it was
a goach to the flipped fields, made the Florida team
be in the shade on the one side of the field,
on the Kentucky team took the side the other side
in the sun, just to make him a little colder
during the game. We should do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I would agree. I agree, So let's do whatever gamesmanship
we can do. My hope is you get to that
point fans are still engaged in the season because you
can have a big crowd advantage for that game as.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Well field the stadium.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
We can all just blow, you know, try to make
it even colder in there when Florida has the ball.
I remember that date the Vandy game a few years
ago because it was my day after my wedding. It
was snowing pretty bad in the Lexington, so maybe we
could get some snow in early November.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Did you see the story about Bill Belichick and his
girlfriend and what they've done the trademark they filed.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I have tell us about it. This is this great.
I have to tell you, I've completely flipped on the girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
From like I don't know what's going on to I've
decided she might be the best like business person.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
She has filed for a trademark for the word gold
digger to sell on jewelry the Jordans under Bill Belichick's
company's name gold Digger Jewelry. Kind of brilliant, I mean
it is. I mean, I know you're shaking your head.
(40:36):
But at the same time, if you're gonna get called
that anyway, why not embrace it? Like if you're like, like,
she's not gonna be able to stop people from calling
her that. Let me tell you something, ma'am. You're you'd
be surprised there are women that will buy it.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I bet you. I mean, I know you don't think
they will, But Drew, what do you think there's a world.
There's a world.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's a world for anything. There's a world of people.
I don't care what it is, there's a world of
people who buy it. I actually think it's smart. Now,
it's hilarious to me, and it's gonna be in Bill
Belichick's name, Like, That's what's hilarious to me is that
he is good. His lawyer is gonna have to go
before the trademark board and argue that Bill Belichick deserves that.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
But I do think that's funny.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
Yas lawyers probably thinking. I thought we're just gonna retire
and go off into the sunset. Now Jordan's got the
keys to the company and doing all kinds of stuff
you like it.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
He had to sign off on it, so I mean,
I think he's, like I said, when I just embrace
it and go for it, make my off because you're right,
I guarantee there's a big market for women out there
that would buy that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm shocked it doesn't already exist. Shannon, Huh, you know
what I mean. I'm kind of surprised, Like if nobody's
done it, I'm kind of surprised nobody has because I
feel like Shannon, there is a market for it.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah, there definitely is.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
This is just another example on how she will do
literally anything he tells her or she tells him. She
tells him.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah, I was about to saying I don't think this
was Bill belichick idea, although that would be funny if
it was. Yeah, if film Belichick was the one that
came up with it, that would make it even more fun.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
And she's and I don't really call her a villain,
but she is leaning into this villain role or whatever
it is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yes, she remember they opened its embracing it. They open
on Monday night football. The only game that the only
game that night is North Carolina with Belichick. You don't
think she's going to end up on the screen at
some point during that game.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
Of course she will.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
I think she will. We'll take a break out Number two.
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