2025-10-27- KSR - Hour 2

Matt talks UK basketball with actor Josh Hopkins. 

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Quarterback It's Kentucky Sports Radio Hour number two. We're gonna
do some basketball this hour and joining us one of
the longtime friends of all things KSR actor you knowing
from uh Cougar Town and many other projects. Lexingtonian Josh Hopkins, Josh,
I remember visiting you in years past and like going

(01:21):
out in LA and Austin with all your acting friends
and seeming cool. And now you and I are talking
about back pain.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yep, that's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
That's how you know we're getting old.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
I feel for you, man, because I've gone through it.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes, you've had it.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, and it doesn't it doesn't get better. Doesn't get better.
I mean in little increments it gets better. But yeah,
it's that's gonna be very nice to be your friend
for life, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And that's what I was hoping for. It's no, that's
what I would like, all right. So I want to
talk about you, and I want to talk about what
you're doing with Lexington because you are the voice of
the City of Lexington for it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Think about all the famous Lexingtonians they picked you to
be the voice of Lexington's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary documentary.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
I don't know if they picked me, but they got me.
There was probably a lot of a lot of a
lot of couldn't make it, but let's call it out
of work actor. He'll be there.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
But you also are a huge UK basketball fan.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I am so join us.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
In talking about that performance. Friday night. The Cats win
seventy eight sixty five and against the number one team
in the country and dominate with two of our three
best players not on the floor, not don't have our
point guard except for Aberdeen. Nobody plays for more than
twenty three minutes, and we kind of roll from start

(02:47):
to finish. We get contributions from everybody. Our freshmen look amazing,
the run that takes away the over the game where
we go from five up to fourteen up. Three kids
from Kentucky are on the floor, Josh, I mean it
was one of those great Kentucky Knights. Even though it's
an exhibition.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
It was it. I mean I tried not to get
too excited after one exhibition game. Remember that's what it was,
an exhibition game. I don't know if please don't so, no,
I'm not. It matters what are you telling, But listen,
I'm the tight that I was so excited. I was like,

(03:26):
maybe Jayden and Jalen, maybe they're going to mess up
our chemistry. Yeah, I'm I'm so happy. I'm protecting myself.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right, I got I gave my spiel on the
post game, Ryan, what'd you think of it?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
I love the pace they played, I love the defensive
pressure they played. And everybody, all the college basketball experts,
consensus number one team in America, no question about, is Purdue.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And we made them look silly at times.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Our defensive pressure just totally took them out of everything
they were trying to do, which really kind of surprised me.
And like you said, you do it without Low, you
do without Quainton's Olwa was.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
On limited minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, and you still looked like you were the dominant
team by far.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
I was shocked at how easy it was to score
against them. I mean, we didn't even shoot the ball
that well, and they could not guard us like no chance.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
No, and the ball movement to have been the first
exhibition game in October was impressive. They were just so
far along. We knew that'd be the case with a
good Ex's and Oes coach and then being older, but
they're even farther along than I expected. And you know,
I don't mean to go back and make this comparison,
but I think back to like, well, we haven't practiced
this yet, or don't do this against us, or we

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haven't done defense. That team last night or Friday night
was firing on all cylinders against the number one team
in the country. You know, they weren't perfect and the
second half got sloppy, but they just still seem so
advanced for a team that tendam started the season.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yet and it was the number one team in the
country that has old guys. These are not new dudes,
like they're not trying to learn each other. So let's
do this. Everybody gets one player that impressed them, and
you can't pick who other people picked Josh he or
the new guy.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Let you go first, Mo Diabate Really yeah yeah he
He only played limited minutes because he was in foul trouble,
still had nine rebounds. When was the last time I
ask you this, when's the last time we had a
basketball team that you thought would beat up could beat
up the other team in a fight in a Just

(05:26):
put him in a room and who comes out like
DeMarcus and wall yeaheah, maybe that's it.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
I mean, yeah, that that was when you had bledsoe
it was over. But I mean we got some men
O way, diobate, Denzel, we win fights. We haven't had
a team that would win a fist fight in decades.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Diabate, what about you?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
You gonna let me pick. I'm gonna pick Jasper. The
guy came out, ran the show, hit the three, very
confident shooting in the basketball. Then he called his own
number one late in the game. Then he threw the
alley oop dunk. I mean that dude has got it.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
He he is going to be. He's a superstar in
the making.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
I'll take the birthday boy. Then Malachi Marino. I knew
he would push Garrison and take some minutes from some
people when I didn't expect him to be physically ready
as a freshman. Bad dude's playing and he looked good
Friday night and like four to five from the field,
had some big dunks. I like, they did that little
I don't know if y'all saw on social media. They
followed him all day and had some game highlights. It's
just a big night for him. So I was impressed.

(06:28):
He would have been my pick I thought he was.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
He's so much better than I thought he oh, yes,
and I am really really impressed. Then I'll the only
one I'll pick left. I'll say Aberdeen just because he
played such good defense. We obviously played the most minutes,
made shots, but really, I mean his defense, he's he's
gonna be the dude he. With he and Oway, you
now have two guys who can guard good perimeter threats.

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Last year we really didn't have that. Oway was one,
but if he was in foul, trouble or the other
team had two guards. Like that's why we struggle sometimes
with Tennessee. We just they had too many guards for us.
With now you've got two of those at least. So
I really liked that. Uh what about like Yellovich, he's
gonna play, which I wouldn't have thought.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
I couldn't believe that well he handled the ball, Yes,
I had. That was because this is the first time
really seeing him. I see little clips of practice, but
I couldn't tell the way he handled the ball like
his literal handles. I was like really impressed with Mo too.
I didn't know he could bring the ball up like
that and push it. So that was two real good
surprises for.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Me, Pope, said Colin Chandler. Was the mvpoint and an
awesome dunk. Though that was quite a dunk. It was
a fun two points, but he was rebounding to doing
a little bit of everything.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
As someone who picked him as MVP and want him
to have a big game, I wish he had more
than the two, but he still looks good.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Talk about the environment, I mean, you were there.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
It did not disappoint. I expected to walk into what
felt like a February game against you know, Lord or something,
and it didn't let us down. They were so rowdy
in there after the game. I hate to skip over
through the game, but just after, even in the concourse
at halftime, when I'm walking around, just people shouting things,
people running up showing me where they bet them they're
gonna win the national championship during the game, showing me

(08:16):
their bet slips. There was just so much excitement and
optimism around the place all night long.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Loved. I love that it sold out. I love that
we're into it, and I do love that we're overreacting
like we should overreact. That's the number one team to me.
I don't want people to skip over. I said this
on the pregame show for Football, but Matt Paynter said
it best. Matt Painter, produced coach, said this could have
been worse. He was like, are we played our best guys?

(08:47):
They didn't. He said, we played our guys thirty minutes.
They played their guys half the game. He says, they
didn't shoot well. He said they dominated us, and two
of their best players weren't there.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
That was what was exciting to me because be one thing,
we know this it's going in our question was shooting
right with this team, and I think like, oh, we're
gonna be fine. Pope's offense and these guys, he's gonna
get them shots. But the fact that we weren't like
nineteen for thirty, you know that would be yeah, nine
for twenty nine. And we did that because if we

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had just hit shots and they didn't, that's just one night,
that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
But that was well, just think about last year. If
we were nine for twenty nine, last year, we lose, true, right,
we would lose that game. Yeah, nine for twenty nine.
This year you win by thirteen against the number one
team in the country.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
And I think the thing that surprised me the most.
Purdue is known for the rebounding best rebounding team in
the Big Ten, one of the best rebounding teams in
the country, and we out rebounded them when they had
guys seven foot four out there, and we're still out
toughed them.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Ten offensive rebounds for us, seven for them.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
That was one of the really impressive things about the
performance of Malchi, because that's one of the top front
courts in the nation.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah. And he was going strong to the board, yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh yeah. And for him to come in and play
like that against them, yeah, makes it even more impressive.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
So now does everything get ramped up in your mind?

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yes? Oh yes, yes, because we're starving for it. We
are starving. It's been a tough football season, so how
can you now?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
We haven't been to a Final four since twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I can't wait for the Georgetown game on Thursday. That's
all excited.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm actually very excited about it too. I'm scouting Georgetown.
We might what kind of sets do they run?

Speaker 5 (10:35):
We might see the weekend of the SEC tournament. I
don't even remember those days. I can't even remember a
Saturday in Nashville, which that's actually I say that often.
But no, they I knew they were going to be
good and a contender, probably even better than ninth. The
way they blew out number one. It reminded me when
you're talking about Matt Painters saying it could have been worse.

(10:56):
It reminded me when the twenty fifteen team when they
like Kansas and Bill self just had this look of shock,
like I don't know what I was supposed to do
against that. Painter kind of had a little bit of
that talking about the team after the game.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Do you like I always go into a season going, Okay,
do I think this team could win it? The last
team I went into the season definitively thinking they could
win it was twenty seventeen. Then over the course of
twenty nineteen they kind of convinced me they could and

(11:29):
so by the time the tournament happened, I believe they
could win it. Do you believe this team could win it?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, We're deeper than anyone and grown men.
We've got grown men.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
And we've got like precocious young kids and grown men.
We have You could argue we have the perfect mix
of a roster, even age wise.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
The roster that he put together this year I think
will go down in UK history when it's all said
and done.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Because he's too deep history. Yeah, the fact that UK history,
like you said he did you just.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Say UK history. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Because he's got the guys returning, you know, Taga, Garrison, Chandler, Noah,
he's got the new guys, Jasper Malachi, even Hawthorne. And
he's got these transfer guys. He brought in these older
transfer guys. The way he constructed this roster, I think
is just going to be remembered. It's just phenomenal with
his history history, freshman transfers, returners. That's just a perfect,

(12:27):
perfect blend. It's like a good coffee. It is like
a good coffee. Yeah, it's a perfect blend. It's a
good six dollars cup of coffee.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Okay, this team can percolate.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Do your expectations change? Yes?

Speaker 5 (12:42):
I said people were betting the national championship at halftime.
I am one of those people. I made that bet.
I changed my season predictions. We had a video to
make for the KSR website where we give our season prediction.
I had a script before the Predue game. After the
pre game Perdue game, threw the script away. The strip
change changed it to National champs I think I have
them losing like three or four games. I'm just too

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excited after seeing.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
The Do you change your prediction of losses for the year.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I never had a prediction of losses, but I do want.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Come on you. You and I talk all the time
about these games. You're telling me you didn't have a prediction.
You haven't said, oh, they're only gonna lose two or no.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I haven't really, I just was waiting to. I always
believe this team is going to be really good. I
trust in Pope. I trust he gets the guys he wants,
not all the best guys. He sees his needs and
he goes for it. I mean, sure we missed. We
saw his miss on a couple guys in the portal,
but I mean it was guys you're gonna miss. But

(13:43):
he went out and got guys he wanted. He didn't
he said no to people. Is my point.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
What if I told you going into the game, going
into the season, that your three best players at least
from pedigree, Jalen Lowe, Jaden Quaintance and uh oteg O Way,
the three of them in a game, you would have
seventeen minutes and ten points.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
They co're probably gonna lose.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
They you're probably gonna get blown out.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
How many times in Kentucky history of the three best
players for a team that combined for ten points and
then they've won a game against a better team than that.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, you could argue that the our two best players
did not even play in that game, and you beat
the number one team in the country.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Two of three. I can't. You can't leave out o
take I think when you do that.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
I watched highlights of Jade and Quaintin's on Saturday. Somebody
had tweeted them and I was watching, like, I don't
know how you put I mean, I know how we're
gonna put it in there, But for other teams, I
don't know what I just saw against Purdue and then
you add his shot blocking and everything else.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Try to guard him. Wow, Yeah, they're so Purdue. Listen,
I'll never believe in Purdue me neither. They're so slow.
They're always slow.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
That wasn't the number one team, That wasn't the number
one team.

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(15:17):
take a break. More basketball excitement with our man Josh
Hopkins KSR. Welcome back in his Kentucky sports radio. The
Athletic has just put Kentucky up to number two in
their college basketball ratings. CJ. Moore, who's the writer for
The Athletic, says, Purdue was trying to win and had
no chance. I don't know how Kentucky can't be ranked higher.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Impressive, so they got number one.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Houston.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I didn't look at the articles. I just thought we
were number two. Yeah, probably mean yes, before we keep
going you you were also friends with our friend Manny,
and you were saying a couple of things. A lot
of people listening know Manny Robertson, but just even if
you don't, everybody has a friend like this. I liked
what you said.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, he's you know, I grew up His brother, Scottie
is a year younger than I. We played little league
bast baseball against each other gardenside. I mean, I've known
him a long time. He used to go spend the
night over there, and Manny was that's when he was
younger and could. He was like, come on, guys, I

(16:21):
want to go over here. You know we played nerf
basketball and stuff. So I've known many a long time.
One of my favorite people, a lovely human being. Just
a few days before his passing was my birthday, September twelfth,
and so at midnight, as he was to do with
so many I don't know thousands of people, hundreds of people,

(16:42):
he would text them at midnight right on their birthday.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, he did that all the time. You would get
he'd be always be like my mom and him would
be the first birthday text I would get.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
And everyone in his world will miss him the most
at midnight.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
On their birthday.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
And You'll never I will never not think.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I want you to do this for the audience because
you can say, talk about our guy Drew here on that.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Day, Well Drew and he became very close. That made
me really happy. And Drew was here with tears in
his eyes for people that can't see him. And I
thought about I thought about him a lot the last
few weeks because I think about Manny a lot, and
Drew spoke at his funeral and absolutely knocked it out

(17:34):
of the park. He was, He was incredible. All of
Manny's friends were I mess him every day and especially
on weekends like this because he could the Cats lost
the biggest fan. I mean, he could only be tied.
And I would have talked to him this weekend. Just

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where are you watching? Are you going? What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is his Willlhouse.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean, and I know a lot of people
really missed him this weekend. And I'll forever love him,
and I love his brother Scotty, and I love his
mother and I loved their father. And you know, I'm
glad we got to say something on here because he
was he was the best and the biggest fan and

(18:24):
I'll always love him.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, well that's well said. Great and also you you
know we should mention you know you lost not that
long ago your father as well, state representative from Lexington
served in the house. Also big UK fan probably helped
you get in that. So uh that's you know, that's
been a tough one too for you.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, yeah, you know, obviously think about my dad every day.
But uh, how about those Cats? Good team?

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I'm actually crying over the football.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
It just happened until those teams are not about I started.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
I pulled up the box score and I was like, oh,
fifty six points.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Start crying again. Eight eight oh twenty two? Man, yeah,
twenty two eighty seven? Uh one person rites, Matt. Do
you think Mark Pope now feels how excited this fan
base could get after that game? I think he knew,
I mean even here in ninety six, so I think
he got a sense of where it could be. You
know you mentioned the depth thing. Twenty fifteen had many

(19:32):
more stars. Okay, so I'm not gonna I that that
will always be the biggest collection of stars can tall
and well, ninety six is probably either right there or second.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Well, I ask you this with this team bo.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Wait mane, let me make my point.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
But I'm sorry, sorry, so I'm show stuff on MATS.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I do think, though, when you get down to eleven,
twelve and thirteen on, this team might be better than
those teams. Okay, so the star power on twenty fifteen
or ninety six is certainly better than this one. But
I want you to think about who the eleventh When
when Low and Quaintance get here? Who are the eleventh
and twelfth men? Yellovich, Cam Williams, Brayden Hawthorne is going

(20:18):
to be the thirteenth man?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Who would start on most teams?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, Josha, that's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
It is crazy and the crazy parts we don't know.
Yellovich could end up starting, could I mean, we really wims.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Could end up being the sixth man. I don't know.
I mean it could be. It could be anybody. We
don't really know.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
I thought Trent Noah and Malacomarino, we're just gonna be like, sorry,
we love you. This year, probably not gonna see a
lot of the floor, but next year you're gonna be
a big piece of this. No, they're gonna be a
big piece of this. They they're still in minutes. Cam Williams,
I still need to see a little more from him,
But with his potential on there, He's even in some
NBA draft conversations for on down the road. If he

(20:58):
flips the switch, Pope's actually got a minutes problem that
he has to figure out here, how about Trent Noah's starting?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Loved it?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
If you were somebody that didn't know who these guys were.
They took the names off the back of the jerseys.
You would think the second five was better than the
first five. I think in that game they that combination
of Marino and Chandler and Jasper and those guys came
out played second five.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
You mentioned that they played their best players.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
We didn't.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Only three players played more than twenty minutes for Kentucky,
and Trent Noah and Malachomarno were two of them.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
All right, So back to Noah. Would you have thought
he was gonna start? We've been sitting there going who's
going to be the fifth starter?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Would you have thought it was gonna be Trent Noah? Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I think he's earned it. You know, we kept hearing
all these reports all summer long, the TBT guys talking
about how great of a play he was the best
player on the Florida Tennant in that scrimmage. I think
he's earned that right to at least have a chance
to be that guy.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
You're a Kentucky guy, Like, it feels good to have
three Kentucky guys be on the floor.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Feel real good?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
It really does, Like, I I don't it shouldn't matter,
but it kind of. You see three dudes from Kentucky
on the floor and being good, not just mopping up minutes.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Oh yeah, it feels real. It feels great to everybody,
you know. It's like, uh, the Pelfrey and feld House. Yes,
Reggie Hanson.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, that's the last time there have been UK play
Kentucky players that have mattered this much. We've had teams
like that Stockton Carrier, Blevin's team had a lot of
Kentucky games, but I mean we've never had this many
on a team where they mattered the way these three
guys do since probably since the ninety two team.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Right, those three guys are starters in most cases most
seasons that they're freshman.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, I mean if they were to come back, yeah,
they all three probably would start for next year, right Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
And then Jasper, at least Friday looks like he might
have some real star power.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
I mean, I was seeing were you sell.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I was seeing and couldn't help it. He just had
a little fifty.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
He was and the crowd got into him and he
you could see he was kind of feeling it. He's
gonna be like doing him. There's gonna be a game
where Pope's gonna have to go all right, dude, slow down,
like you know that's gonna happen. Mario was so excited,
like he's not winning with Brownie, but he's winning with
Jasper and that was exciting for that Lob.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
That's just kind of be the exclamation boy tonight.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
We're gonna have.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Some superstar moments with that kid.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Let me, Oh, you're we're gonna when we come back.
I'm gonna know. Do you think there's an NBA starter
on our roster?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
It's a good question. We will deal with that and
a couple other things. Look at you with the teases.
There you go. We'll be right back. Scasre Welker back
Turkey Sports Radio. I wish we had the mic so
on during the break.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Good second.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
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to do me well, I know, but they lied to you.
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somewhere yeah, so they don't all show upright. I need
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(24:02):
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Speaker 2 (24:13):
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Speaker 4 (24:17):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (24:19):
He makes fun of how I say it.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
He thinks it's you say Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.

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which I watched on TV A five T two A

(24:48):
twenty two eighty seven. Uh, did you enjoy the Tennessee game?

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Hot take? Yeah, we scored thirty four points and some
like long plays, breakaway stuff. Yeah it was I love yes, yes, yes,
I mean so it was way better than I thought.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
We lost by twenty two.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, I stand behind what it was at least entertaining.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, that's one way to look at it. I felt
like they scored though the moment they got the ball.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
They did, and I thought it was a play too late.
I thought, I know, we knew what was going to happen.
This team is always there, built the Texas game, the
Texas game, right. I was in Austin at a sports
bar watching alone in my Kentucky shirt, and when we
scored to tie it, I did cartwheel in front of

(25:47):
the big screen like I was looking to get beat up. Yeah,
and uh but I never boughty. I'm fifty five years old.
I've seen Giggs from the one three times again, Tennessee.
I've seen us intercept the past in the bowl game
against Clemson and then fumble it and give them four

(26:08):
more downs to school.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
All.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
You live in Austin, which has now become the cool
place to live. You were early in that though, you
were early in all the sort of Hollywood types moving
to Austin.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, I'm super cool.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, you feel super cool, like until you hang out
with like you were, like somebody like James Marsden. Then
you don't feel cool.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Right. It's a tough best friend to have I gotta
tell you, it's like he's beautiful and he's a movie star.
He's like a real movie yeah, you know, and like
and like I'm not kidding, the best singer I've ever seen.

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And he can just pick up the guitar and go, well,
I don't know how the song goes, and just I'll
figure it out and play it. And girls are just
staring at him, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Mine, Like you're an act and you're a handsome guy
and you go out but like you literally for people
don't know James Marston, just look him up. You've seen
him and stuff before. You're literally like with you. But
time's three, first of all, back up, second, moll.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
It's time five. I mean times ten. He's my best
one of my best friends, and he'll just be like
talking to me and I'll get lost, Like, look at him.
I don't even know what he's saying. I'm like his skin,
those crystal blue eyes, lips.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, I mean again, completely heterosexual. But the eyes he's
got like Pierre. And you're right, he can sing. That's
the crazy part. The singing is not fair Drew to
say you shouldn't be able to be an actor and
be able to sing like that, and he doesn't even
do it. It's just for fun.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
And they've asked him to do albums and stuff. He's like, no,
I'd be like, okay, look at I take lessons and
do an album. But here's what really annoys me, as
an actor who's dyslexic and has a hard time memorizing.
I got to really go over it and go over
and go over, and he I asked him once he goes, no,

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the only time I I mess up a line is
when I forget to turn the page in my mind.
Oh you really a photographic memory. So he's just like,
all right, I got it. And I'm like, now now
you're gonna get your butt get fighting word. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Now. He's also like so nice, I've been with you
and we sit there and people just come up to
him non stop, and he's always nice to him.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
He's an incredibly great guys R. Yeah. So is Chris Pine.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yes, you had him on.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
That was That's probably the most star studded show. That
was the one you host.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
That's the only thing I could bring to it, you
asked me. I was in l A at a studio, like, uh,
who can I get to be here because thank you
you did that with me. I did remotely yea, because
you were like you could just handle it alone. I'm like,
are you kidding? What am I going to I've never
done anything like that.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, tell people you did a documentary. You're the voice
of a documentary, two hundred and fifty years of Lexington.
Explain what that is, because I think our listeners, folks,
if you haven't seen this yet it's on KT. I
think this is like, if you're someone who cares about Kentucky,
it's great. Tell people what it is.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Okay, it's Lexington two hundred and fifty years. It's PBS
documentary done here by Kat celebrating the anniversary of two
hundred and fifty years of Lexington. And it is so fascinating. Look,
I drive around the city now and I look at
it completely differently, Like this building was built here. It starts,

(29:55):
I mean in the beginning, William McConnell and some settlers
are in the woods here and they decide to name
this place Lexington, after the Battle of Lexington, which really
initially started the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
So that's what's named for mm HM.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
And it's there's a lot of there's like seventeen Lexington's
in the country. This is the first one that was
named before the end of the war, and so it
was named for the Battle of Lexington. And it starts there,
I mean, the beginning and details. Everything is so many
interesting things.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
We'll give people one or two examples. Give us an
example of something Lexington wise that people would find interesting.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
I mean, well, it goes through great times and like cholera,
how it hit Lexington.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
It didn't go well here, no, this was this.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Escape Lexington actually was great. Well no, no, but it's
not that's a that's a bad say, like, hey, it
talked about colera. Yeah no. But I even down to
two dumb things like they're like, and that's they named

(31:13):
it high Street and I was like, what because it
goes up the hill.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Oh so they named it high Street literally because it's hie. Yeah,
well there you go, here you go.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
But it's obviously more poignant things than that. Yes, but
that was one of the dumb things where you're like, colloquially,
you just learned the words, you know, you don't think
about it. I didn't think about Clay's Mill and Parker's
Mill being named that because at then there were the
big mills. I was like, that's the name of the street.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Uh, most people moved here made their money.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
This was huge.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Hemp was absolutely drove industry here and money. Henry Klay
moved here and then got into Hemp.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Oh, Henry Clay was a hemper. Did he do corn breads?

Speaker 4 (32:02):
I don't know about that. Yeah, but he was a huge.
It talks all about his history. It Mary Todd Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Oh wait a minute, now, Ryan's had some conflict with
Mary Todd Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
She was a Civil War Hussies. What she was doing,
She's jumping from man to man? What's wrong with her?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Okay? Anyway, Oh, here's something. Did you know? In eighteen
seventy eight, the General Assembly put the University of Kentucky,
which was not called that yet, it was called the
Agriculture and Mechanical University's right, put it up for bid.

(32:42):
We almost lost it.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
The University of Kentucky was for sale.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Eighteen seventy eight, for sale throughout the state. Louisville bid.
We had to.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Oh, so you're saying the University of Kentucky might have
moved to a different city.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yes, like Louisville. Or we had to bid against Louisville
put up a bid. We almost lost it eighteen seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
We had imagine, oh.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
My goodness, probably wouldn't even like them. I'd have a
different team.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Think about that.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'd be a hilltopper.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
So next Louisville version you see, just remember that it's
like hates, You're the same person.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
We outbid you, we bid you. So tell people where
they can watch it.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
So it's on KT. You can watch it on a
KT dot org or or or PBS or the apps. Also,
like for my friends who are old like me and
challenged with online stuff, it's on KT all the time.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
So you can go to the KT website. I looked yesterday.
All three episodes are online. Or it's on KT all
the time. You can record it. Josh, you you voiced
over all of it?

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yes, yes, I did. How long did that take a
long time?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
I voiced? I voiced over my book. I found it
to be one of the longer and that was in
my voice, and it took forever. Did you did you
find that hard? Oh?

Speaker 4 (34:01):
As I mentioned before, I'm dyslexic, and I really really
feel for the technicians and the producers who had to go.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Through that way. If you as dyslexic, how do how
were you able to do it? I don't. I don't
know a whole lot about dyslexia.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Uh, slowly and messed up a lot, and then became
frustrated with myself and through fits in front of grown
people that were like, what is he doing He's grown? Yes, yes, yes,
And I've always done that with that. Yeah, I tried
not to. Oh yeah, yeah, it's uh. I really I

(34:35):
feel for the producer Matt grimm And and his team
had to at one point, I mean we were I
was in a studio separated by glass. At one point
I got up, as a grown man and threw my
pen at the as hard as I could at the wall.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
So that's something you've had to deal with, like your
whole lot. Yeah, well, but you obviously got through it
because it's great. It's great.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, I still deal with but at least now I know. Yeah,
when I was, when you were a kid, you nine,
I was like I would throw fits and people are like, hey,
this kid's got the problems, But I was so mad
at myself.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Really interesting, Well, we're going to talk a little bit
more with you about that it's on kt and online
and then on the show show as well. We got
a couple of people who want to say hello. We
will get to them and be right back to the SCSR.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Well, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight
twenty two eighty seven. All right, a couple of things here.
First of all, you should want I didn't interview with
Josh on the Interrupted with Matt Jones podcast that I
think is the best one we've done the whole time.
And I don't want to get into all this today,
but Josh was part of a movie that Alec Baldwin

(35:44):
movie Rust, and he was there and we talked a
lot about it. You couldn't have been better on that,
So I recommend to people that you go and listen
to that. I really thank you for doing it. I
think it was it's our I think it's our most
listened to episode, and it should be because you were
great on Well.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Thank you for having me and I I really enjoyed it,
and usually I don't enjoy talking about myself like that.
You're you were very good.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
And by the way, the most recent episode is with
my friend Noam Wiseman, highly recommend it. Uh, it's it's
about the Israel Palestine thing. You should check it out.
Nome is in that Aspen fellowship with me. Our new
cover zero episode is out as well. You just told me,
uh that you're in a You're in Bad Monkey, which
is a show I really like with Vince Vaughan. You're

(36:26):
you're gonna you're filming episodes.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yes, Apple TV. I'm on a few episodes this season.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
And you said you're about to go film a scene
with John Malkovich.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Yeah, I'm scared to death. I would be scared of
Josh Hopkins. I'll be like, oh boy, you today, I'll
be that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
You think you could get him root for the Cats,
that's your project, get job Malkovich to be a Kentucky fan.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
I met him once in a lobby in New York hotel.
I don't know how. We were sitting next up one another.
I was with Marston actually, and he was wearing a
seersucker suit and I said, nice suit, and he goes,
did you know that seersucker means milk and honey?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
So you're saying he's maybe as you as quirky as
we think he is.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, I was like I was like, I didn't know that,
but you did not let me down, John Mackovich.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
I wanted you to be a certain way and you
are that way. How many scenes do you have with me?

Speaker 4 (37:33):
I don't know yet. I haven't read that episode, but
I just know I do and I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
See the face you are a little excited, all right.
You did ask the question, what do we have a
UK player on this team who will start in the NBA?
What do we think?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Well, that you were talking about twenty fifteen and it
was deep burns up, but that had one that had
a lot of play.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
I mean that had maybe two potential Hall of famers,
you know, in Carl Towns and Devin Booker. I don't
know on starter.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
I think there are some contributors, but it probably have
to be Jasper Johnson if someone was gonna do it first.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
You're setting nods, Well, how many people will make any
like play in the NBA? Jasper will, I'm Adam Marino,
I will Jayden Quainton's certainly Will Quaintons could be a starter. Yeah,

(38:28):
so he would be the one. But those are the three.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Then there's other guys that maybe they could be a
role player in the NBA, like you think Otega Aberdeen
do abataking those guys find a roster spot.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
There's a spot for Colin Chandler on the Utah Jets.
He has the athleticism, so there's there's a place for him.
There's confident we can find him room there, and I
and I think he's capable.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
David, go ahead, David.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
Josh, thanks so much for being just the delusional as
a Kentucky fan as we all are in putting it
on a national stage. And I get so excited anytime
I see you on television representing that Kentucky and so forth.
But uh, and that delusion moves on, dude.

Speaker 6 (39:17):
Yes, we're winning number nine this year, and I'm gonna
go ahead and start the train right now. As far
as naming a nickname for this team, and so hear
me out, Mark always talks about forty days and why
he chose the number forty one and so forth, and
the rain coming.

Speaker 7 (39:37):
For forty days and forty nine. We call it the
Mark put a little dashing between the M and the
art because we got two by two the money.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
I understand it's cute, but I appreciate the call. I'm
not doing the mark as the nickname.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Also, I have to say thank you very much for
those words.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
I appreciate the car, but like I like, we do
have two of everything, and we have a Noah.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Nine.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
He wears number nine.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
No Kentucky kid.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Those Mark's pretty good. By the way, in terms of
getting Kentucky on the national stage, it was because of you.
What's the show that where the where? There was a
big scene about Kentucky basketball the Marsden show.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Oh Paradise.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
So this cause of people all who watched Paradise. It
was a very popular show. Note there's a whole scene
about the Lightner shot and breaking their heart and all that.
That was because of you.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
I've been on Conan twice and Kimmel and Generous and
both of the I don't know, I can't tell them apart,
but the the Voice and the girls, you know, like.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
The view names are.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
The Voice and the girls.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
And the and I've never not talked about Kentucky, So
you're least as what I do, no matter. I presented
Ellen on her show with a engraved Battle.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Of Woodford and then she smack you in the face.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
Then she yelled it out. You get getting out of here.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
But it's not just paradise. You always have a little something.
I remember what was the Quantico. There's like a UK something.
There's always all Easter eggs. If John negotiate that into
the contract.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
I just I get with the art directors and go, hey,
put up there. I've graduate you got to do it.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
For Bad Monkey. If there's some Kentucky thing in there,
then immediately more people are gonna watch Bad Monkey because
there's going to be a cat's thing.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
That's a great point.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Maybe Malcovich should wear a Trent Noah shirt. I don't
know what this is. I don't know if that fits
his character.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Trent no what is.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Pop is dope shirt? Well, I need to do a
Kentucky Chamber, but I don't have the script. So the
Kentucky Chamber is carrying about lots of issues in Kentucky
right including housing. You know, they want to bring commune,
city and business together for a better future. You can
learn more at ky Chamber dot com. Can't you watch
that website again? It's ky Chamber dot com. It's the

(42:07):
Kentucky Chamber building for a better tomorrow for Kentucky. At
the Kentucky Chamber, they're doing great.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Things down there.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
They are business advancing Kentucky. That's exactly right. Well, Josh, thank.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
You very much, very well, thanks for having me and
it's great.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
To see you and hopefully we'll see you. Do we
play at Texas? Know we did last year and lost.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
That was fun.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
A and M though we had a game.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Maybe we got a football game down there next fall
at Texas.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Oh yeah, playing them again.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
So thank you very much. We will see you all tomorrow.
We'll be at the bar on Wednesday and Thursday. This
is being Kentucky Sports Radio.