December 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Phillip Rivers coming out of retirement, Weird Al, and all the latest news.
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
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Speaker 6 (01:16):
We've got I've got some couple things.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
First of all, Shannon, people are saying you're wrong, Tiger
does go to the runner.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They say Google's wrong. Do you believe they're wrong? They're Googles.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think they're wrong. Google's got it right. They don't
know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I got heard from a couple of umpires said they're
that the myth. Well are saying Google's right, Google's right,
that the runner has to beat the throw to be out.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean to be to be safe. The runner
has to beat the throw to be safe.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So I need to start saying tie goes to the fielder. Yeah,
after all these years I've said the wrong thing. It's
gonna be hard to get.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Onire always said if it's a tie, he definitely gonna
be out. We're trying to get the game over as
fast as possible.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, it sounds like referees are on the same page.
Imagine that.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah, all right, lots of facts about cal Poly Okay
and Luisa Bispo apparently one of the most beautiful parts
of California, on the on.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
The beach, on the oh nice.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It is the school where the people in Big Bang
Theory went to school.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Okay, do you all don't? Did you know that? I've
never seen it, but now I know I was right.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
They were in the twenty fourteen tournament and were cal Polly.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Slow, so you couldn't have made that up.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
There's who knew that Kristen Smart was murdered at cal
Poly In your Own Backyard podcast solved the case.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I've listened to that podcast. Actually, did you know that?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I never I didn't connect the school, but I'm very
aware of that that story.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
One person writes, I think cal Poly is.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
What that means is the people that go there also
hook up with people from other university.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I did have a couple of famous alumniss like, that's
probably true, right, Who are.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Some famous alumnus?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
John Madden he went to cal Poly, Ozzie Smith, and
here's a big one, weird al Yankovic.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Weird. That's a pretty good three.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
First of all, I would argue John Madden and Ozzy
Smith for a college that we don't know is a
pretty amazing one to two sports punch.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, it is one of the greatest short stops in
history of baseball, one of the greatest NFL coaches ever.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's it. And what didn't he? John Madden was also
a good player, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm I'm sure about that. And one of the greatest
performances performers of all time. Weird Ow.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I can get behind that.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I knew a guy I went to college with that.
You know how people will follow fish on tour. Yeah,
he followed weird Al for a few.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Weeks, coming into popular enough to play the KFC center.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Just stopping not playing the young Si. No, he's not.
There's no way he can fill up the ym sin.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I mean maybe they curtain off the top part, but
he is playing the young center.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Wow, weird Owl.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Is playing the young sinner? Who is going to weird
Al in twenty twenty five? Me, let's all go, Okay,
you all can say you'd go, but where would any
of you actually leave your house?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Buy tickets and go see weird If I do. If
I knew he was doing Amish Paradise, I'm in there,
of course.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, of course he's gonna do it. What else is
he gonna do? Eat it like a surgeon, like a surgeon.
Did you ever see this, the mockumentary about weird al No?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I saw it. So why don't you go? He's playing
in Louisville? I should you say?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
If I got free tickets in their decent seats, I
would meet channel. You'd go, sound like we should all go?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well, sounds like they fill it if everyone gets free seats.
If they don't get free seats.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Uh, maybe not.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Let's do a couple of other things real quick. Uh
Sharon is it Sharon or Sharon?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Charon Moore?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
The coach at Michigan. That story disintegrated quickly. I mean,
I gets going yesterday he gets fired for having a
relationship with a staffer, and then it goes from he
has a relationship with a staffer and he's fired to
uh to he quickly goes over to.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
In prison, in jail for assault. Not good.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I was like the afternoon we saw that there were
parting ways for cause. I was like, man, what could
the couse be?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
And a little bit later that comes out the rumor.
Then a couple hours later he's been detained by police
and was like, what is going on in ann Arbor?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
It just kept going. It was like a trickle a
few minutes got worse.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So, I mean, that's that situation is very serious. Don't
want to make light of it. But let's go to
the second situation, which then is who's going to be
the Michigan coach?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Kind of you missed your window of bringing in a
big name coach er somebody would excite the fan base
for sure.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean who do you get?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Like everyone, Penn Steak got turned down by everyone, So
like there's some talk that the Alabama coach might.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Uh the Michigan Just at this stage, it'd be hard
to get anywhere I really want. I mean, Penn State
was a joke until they finally made the hire last week.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know. What do you do?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Do you just have an interim coach next season and
give you a year to search for a new hed, But.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Your Michigan, I mean, you're Michigan. You gotta go.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I mean, can you imagine if we at Kentucky were
just like we're gonna get an interim coach.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
This would be the equivalent of us.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
In like June our basketball coach getting you know, having
this happen after signing day, after the portal's over, and well,
I guess the portal hasn't opened yet, so they still
got the chance to come. That's part of why you
gotta move quick. Is the portal's gonna open here in
a in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I mean, do you just call the people that turn
down Penn State and hope that they like Michigan better?
Just get that by you got another race? The Cripple
Cookies guy get involved again.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, even some of the guys at Penn State went
after have re signed new deals at their current school.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
I don't know. I mean they're I don't know what
they're gonna do. Mark Stoops wow on the list.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What if Mark Stoops sends up the defensive coordinator at
Texas A and M.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
He wouldn't want to go to Texas A and M.
I can't. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
So anyway, that's a that's a tough, tough story. Now
something else makes me upset. I got my hopes up.
I shouldn't have let it happen. I get my hopes up.
The Threads were gonna sign Kyle Schwarber and then they didn't.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It turns out they offered close to the same amount
of money. He decided to stay in Philadelphia. So I
now can't stand that guy because he came up and
he was like, I'd love to play in my home city.
I'm from here. This would be awesome, it would be
a dream come true. And now the story comes out
yesterday they offered him the same amount of money as.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
The Phillies and he's just stayed there.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Go to Philadelphia, Ty went to Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
What a liar he was, so boo Kyle Schwarber, I
didn't realize how excited Reds fans where and thought this
would happen. My friends that are Red slash Bengals fans
were absolutely crushed from Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And he's like one of the best.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
He would hit five hundred home runs a year in
that ballpark because it's so small, and he would kill it.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
He's exactly what we need.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like if we had him, I think we'd have a
chance to be next to the Dodgers, the best team
in the National League.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
But now we don't have him, we're gonna stink again.
And he he lied. Kyle Lyar can even can he
come home after this. No, it's not allowed to be
that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He can't come come home for Christmas next week.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Now I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I just do have season tickets to watch the Reds.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And by the way, they didn't sign him. Guess when
my season ticket deposit was due yesterday Monday.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And I paid it, they got me again. Sales guy
loves you Monday, He's like, well, you put your deposit.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
In good to team him up with the La those
two guys in the lineup would have created a lot
of excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You say, where's your deposit on Schwarber. Apparently we can't
blame them. They offered the same amount of money. This
is on Snotter there in.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The phillies of all teams. I don't care. I just
I want it. Why can't they be good? I just
want them to be good. I'd like to go to
games where they're good.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I mean I know they were and then like when
they got good was when I was in South.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Africa last year. I haven't They're never good when I'm here.
I feel like, why can't they be good? As all
of my sports teams the last two years? That's every
t you're a Braves fan, you all been good in the.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Kentucky football, Kentucky basketball, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's true. Eight eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
One person writes, mad I heard you talk on cover
zero about your new car. You better do maintenance on
it or you'll be in trouble. That's you saw my
new car out there?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
What's nice? I was afraid to park near it. Yeah,
I don't want anybody here.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I was gonna park it over at the Sonic to
keep people from getting near it because I because it's
gonna it's gonna get messed up.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
But I just want it to last as long as
it can.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You talking about bells and whistles. I mean, you've got
an LCD screen there as your monitor, and it's like
I got all everything on it.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But they were very much like you have to do
the mate, Like this is a car that if you
don't do the maintenance, it will punch you in the face.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Like you've got to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And I even bought the little package that comes with
it so that I could just drop the car off
and run away and come back and get it.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
You gotta remember to actually do that, though, well, apparently.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Like I've got an app and it'll just start yelling
at you when it's it's time.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He's got an app? Now is that good? That's it.
You're welcome to the modern world. Do you have an app?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, okay, I don't forget. They've had my oil change
and maintenance my car.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Now every time I turn it on, it tells you
what it needs. It's like, give me soda. It's a
perfect car for you, though, No, it is.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
It is.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
But then actually have to go and do it.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
That's the big part. When it's beeping at you, will
you then take that next stuff? You need to take
it out.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You need the car to drive itself to get the
oil change.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Totally. You should have got a self driving car to
go get its own. Yeah, you could do it while
I'm asleep, go home, get the oil change.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And then I saw someone right even say you should
get a battery powered car, because then you could just
plug it in. I wonder if I no, he will
not plug it in, and then the next day he'll
come out to a dead battery and come out its
own is to Mario.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Come get me. I would never plug it in ever.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Did you get everything out of your old car.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
No, I just you know, it was totaled, and I
just was like, I've not wanted to clean this car out.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
They can have it.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
He got the important stuff out like the expir didn't
get the important stuff out.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I got my I got what do you want?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He say, the expired skin stuff out, like the exparted
skinspired skins I left in.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
There's a lot of mementos in there.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Someone's gonna buy that car in auction and have like
the key to Somerset and a chair for the laural
rumbles from Picklesburg.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Would you like to know the three things I did
take out of my car? Yeah, that's it. I had
gone to the dry cleaner.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I took my golf clubs, and I made sure to
take the Conway Twitty cookbook.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Tells you your three items out of the car. That
was and I left two hundred other things in the car,
but I made sure to take those.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Thres Where was the was it in the glove box
with like the information of the car? Where did you
even have a Conway Twitty cookbook in there?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was in the backseat. So when I got in
the wreck, the stuff went everywhere in the car. I
think it was already everywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It shuffled it around and brought like switch switch to
other spot.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
The Conway Twitty Cookbook was right there in a prominent spot,
saying like, don't leave me.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
It's like a message. It was, and I did not
I listened to it. Who's up next? Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Hey, I guess h two quick things, Matt. I'm not
really sure how confident I would be with taking Billy
as my stat guy for your game, because days ago,
even after all this time of working with him for
you guys, he told Shanna on the pre show he
thought you and my Ram were doing the TV broadcast.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He did say that he didn't We're not doing the
TV broadcast.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I tried to say it was radio. He's like, no,
I'm pretty sure it's TV.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
No, wait a minute, Bill, he thinks we're doing the
TV broadcast. Yeah, Well he can't be my stats guy
if he doesn't even know what the medium is. Well,
you're not gonna put us on the TV broadcast. I've
never even done a radio broadcast. You think they're gonna
put me on the TV. No, I'm on the radio broadcast.
You're hopefully we'll sync it up to your television, but
(13:36):
I'm on the radio.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
You should tell your stats guy. I heard this on
the pre show. Shan was trying to correct him, but
stat boy was certain. Shandon, thank you for trying to correct.
We're already correcting my stats guy.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, he's already wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
He's already wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You should want to do the TV broadcast because it's easier.
You can see the action on radio, you gotta describe
it in detail.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I've decided we're just gonna go off guard. I'm taking calls, Billy,
go to screen calls and be your stat guy.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Just think about that for a minute, though.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Don't you think it'd be kind of fun in a
game to take calls, like to hear from Western and
Southern misfans their reactions during the game.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, we want to hear the game you're trying to do.
I mean, you're trying to do the manning broadcast on
the radio, is what you're trying to do. It sounds
like that, doesn't worry.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Do you really want to hear the game? It's Western
and Southern myss?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, if you're listening on the radio, you want to, right, fine.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I thought Shannon would like my idea of taking calls.
I think it's a good.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Idea, idea if you were like, because I mean, if
Western and Southern miss fans really care, they're going to
listen to.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Their local broadcast, right, So take calls.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I expect first quarter you're talking about what happened to
the McDonald's drive through and what the Reds did overnight.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
This you're just gonna turn it into Kannon would like that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Actually sounds like you're trying to get out of doing
play by play to me.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well, because I don't know how good I'm gonna be
at it, So we'll see who's next. Mike, Mike, go
ahead and Mike, uh yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
If y'all have heard anything on football recruiting.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Well, since will Stein, no, I appreciate the call. They kept,
drew most of their class together for football. They lost
I think one or two guys. Then they got this kid,
the four star wide receiver. What about post then, I mean,
there's not a lot of guys to get because most
of them signed on signing days.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
So yeah, we're kind of wait for the portal window now.
I mean Kenny Darby, the receiver that had offers from
all most of the big names. That was the big
get that kind of surprised everyone. But now you wait
and get Will back from Oregon and get these coordinators
and everyone to work and fill it out with the
portal classes.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And I think for recruiting next year, you're not gonna
see him get really involved until he's done at Oregon.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I just I don't you know, I don't know how
that would happen. Yeah, it'll get real newsy around New
Year's when when the portal certainly will.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, that's why, you know, he's kind of crucial for
him to get some guys and his staff a GM
and off and accordingly start doing some stuff behind the
scenes while he's still out working in Oregon.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean, we're gonna be very active in the portal.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
We're probably gonna end up getting a lot of guys
because he's gonna want to bring in his players. You know,
I think Kentucky will be I think we'll have a
very active and hopefully successful portal year.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you think he'll bring some guys from Oregon with.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yes, of course, and probably that quarterback, right, isn't that
what we think he's I would suspect he bring a
quarterback to compete.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I don't know that, even though he's spoken hoighly of
boldly when he gets the chance. But you know, he
talks about recruiting Kentucky and he'll be in with some
freshman but he needs to rent win right away, and
that'll require going out and get some guys that are.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Raised next year. Yeah.
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We'll take a break of your right. Back's Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I wasn't gonna
leave this. Conway Twittiess Cookbook is an interesting read. Some
(17:13):
not culturally appropriate things to say anymore from Conway. Written
in the seventies in a cookbook.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
How can you be controversial in a cookbook?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
The way he describes some of the ethnic foods from
other countries. I don't think he meant anything by it,
but you know how like your grandparents might have said
things and you're like, we don't say that anymore, granny.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
That's kind of how Conway talked. So there's more to
it than just like half a cup of sugar.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Yeah, he'd be like, well, I mean, I don't need
to say it, but he'd he'd make color commentary.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Okay, there's some editorial stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
He wouldn't just do the he would give Conway's thoughts
on the dishes, okay, And sometimes you would go, Conway,
you know you you can't do that.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Just tell me how much broth and I don't need
to know your thoughts on some of these other things.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
So did you put it in the back of the
new car? Is that where it's gonna rest? Now? No? No, no,
I'm going to keep this car clean. You're learning how
to cook Conway's Wow, that didn't work as well as
this as this is.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
If I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, one person
rides Matt, you should take calls during the broadcast.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I think it's great. Don't listen to Shannon. He wears
a speedo.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I just want to know how that works, Like, how
are you gonna take phone calls when you're trying to
call it?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Well, you actually, yeah, you'd come back from break and
you'd go, you know, it's uh. Southern Miss takes over
at their own thirty three yard line. It's gonna be
first and ten before we do this play. Let's go
out to Johnny in Bowling Green, Johnny, how do you
feel about how the Hilltoppers doing?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
And then we go right back to the game.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The whole point is, though, knowing what happens in the game,
we won't know what happened when you're talking to Johnny.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
And I'll go while Johnny was talking, they ran for
four yards now, second and six from thirty seven.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
You'll butt into whatever Johnny's saying to let people know exactly.
I'll be like, this is what happened.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
But let's let Johnny tell us about what he had
for lunch.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Aboutleven in a while, there could be a place to
take a couple of calls during the game. There's a
little dead time when they're reviewing a call.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It goes to make a revolutionary broadcast. Most people say,
the start to big things is the New Orleans Boat.
Oh wow, twenty fifth year inniversary.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
This is a big deal. It is a big deal.
How early, Like you have to get there, Like there's
like meetings with coaches and stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
So yoga game is on the twenty the game. I'm
gonna miss the yoga. The yoga is on the twenty first.
I don't get to go to the yoga, but the
twenty third is the game. We have to be there
to meet with the staves, the staffs. On the twenty second.
I don't know what to say to those people.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
How are you all doing? You want to call into
our show, give you the hot line live from the sidelines. Yeah,
so we do it.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We meet with this half on the twenty second. There's
a dinner that night, New Orleans Bowl dinner. I bet
that's good, to be honest with you, Yeah, And then
the game's on it. I have to fly home on
Christmas Eve. Anybody ever been in airport on Christmas Eve?
I feel like that'll be will be great. Probably won't
be the best experience in the world.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But you know, just what you do in the certain life.
This is the life of the New Orleans Bowl commentator.
Who's next?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
DG?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
DG, What's up? DG?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
I just first off shout out to Jack and Jacob,
the people of Kentucky. We needed that, uh and for
the ones who are giving pushback on that, we needed
to hear. We was all wondering, like, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Yeah, I guess my thought.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
My question for you all is, you know you talked
about there being a fix, the fix with JMI and Pope.
With that fix, how soon is that fix gonna be?
Do you think I do know something we could fix
so we get Collins and Stokes because ye happen is
moving on to you know, let's say we don't get
(21:04):
these top recruits, Well, then we have another year where
we don't have that guy, that dude that y'all keep
referring to, and then we're looking at year three with Pope,
and you know, I just I guess that's my question.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Is totally fair question.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I think they're in a tough spot here, Ryan, because
they need to get at least one or two of
these top high school guys, or or they need to
kill the portal, but they're gonna have a problem because
they've kind of overpaid in the portal maybe this year,
and so guys made demand more money that like it's
gonna be. It's a tough situation. But the thing is,
I do think it's fixable. I don't think this season
(21:39):
this year is over beat Indiana Saturday. That gets some
folks back, get some you know, the conference, like we've
talked about, is not as good as it's been in
years past. There's there's some movement you can make. But
so I don't think it's old. He thinks it's over
These are fixable.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Problems, like you've kind of alluded to. They're kind of
easy fit really unless you go out and get the
Collins kid. Maybe you know this week, I think a
lot of people fill up more favorably about what we're
doing in the basketball program than we do right now.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Oh, if you get him, then I think it's a
you get one of these guys. I think it's a
different Drew, it's different. Part of what's hard for people.
I think part of what made last week so bad
is you played in North Carolina. Who has this Caleb
Wilson kid that should be here now he didn't play
great against US, but he's clearly a top talent. That's
the kind of kid that should be here. He goes
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to North Carolina, you lose them at home. Then you
play Gonzaga and you're not even competitive. So you play
a North Carolina team that got an elite recruit and
you didn't, and they beat you. And then you play
a Gonzaga team built with homegrown guys and portal guys
and they destroy you. And then there's like a well
what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
And I don't love the one of the big portal
misses is coming to town on Saturday, and that adds
to the well we want to talk about that, But
there is something to like getting Collins. One thing Cal
was good at is when they were losing or bad
news would come out, he wasn't gonna He'd go out
and get a commitment and show, you know, we're still
doing all right, We're okay. Pope needs to land one
quickly to put this to bee.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And in twenty thirteen, when we had such a bad year,
he brought in arguably his most talented class of all
time for the twenty fourteen season, right, so you know
we need we need a dose of good news. I
want to talk about the IU part Mark's story. Had
an interesting column today. We'll deal with it. Right after
this Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
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Speaker 6 (23:37):
Wearing back Tekee Sports Radio. Is this I assume weird now? Yes?
Sounds great.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
What's it called my bologna?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
That's great? We gotta go, you can go. I'm going
to go there.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I like weird al fine, but I can't devote an
evening to weird ow.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
He's got to be seventies. He's still performing doing these songs.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yes, that's the point. I'm not going. I'm not going.
I mean, I appreciate that you want to. I'd like
to go.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Stavros is coming here. I'd like to see that. Can
somebody get me tickets to that?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
To what he's like? A comedian? Stavros? Yeah, he's coming
to the Opera House. Never heard of him? Good venue,
I never heard of it. You just go to weird now.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm weird.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
And plowing so long that even Ezekiel thinks that my
mind is gone and what a great song.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
A couple of things in terms of for you to
listen to them. In the next two days, our cover
zero is out. I had to miss a couple episodes,
but I'm back from uh we had. We had a
lot of fun yesterday. If you're not listening to NFL
Cover zero, it doesn't matter if you're an NFL fan
or not. As a matter of fact, you'll probably like
it better if you're not, because we're not talking about that.
But the new s episode is really fun, and Drew
(24:53):
and I tell stories including we talked Drew dad stuff
and uh so check it out. And then today my
interrupted podcast comes out. I had Terry Miners on and
it actually is. We talk a lot about Kentucky stuff,
but also Terry gets kind of emotional, and I was
surprised how much I talked to him about you know,
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he has thirteen brothers and sisters. He's one of fourteen kids.
I was just like, how does that work? Fourteen kids?
He told me not to do the spoiler for the podcast.
Fourteen kids there are something like eighty like grandkids or
(25:34):
something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Wow, you got that's our football team there.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That's crazy. I said, do you all ever get together?
And he was like, well, during Christmas we'll do something.
And he was like, we rent out a gym. You'd
have to Yeah, where else would you put eighty grandkids?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
They rent out a gym to see each other? Isn't
that wild? It's awesome, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And he's been on the air now in WHS for
forty years.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
He'll be on he started in Lexington in nineteen seventy seven.
Next year will be his fiftieth year on the radio.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
That's crazy, isn't that insane?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And a super nice guy, super nice, So like I
think you'll I think folks will really enjoy it. We
had a really good conversation yesterday. He cried at one point,
did he yeah, because we got he got emotionally. He
start we were talking about my dad, which led him
to start talking about his family and it's it's just
a really sweet So I recommend that's the Interrupted podcast.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Will absolutely check it out. And he's as genuine as
you hear on the radio.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Is he's as nice as it come. Philip Rivers is
coming back to play in the NFL. He has not
played a football game since twenty twenty one, Speaking to
somebody who's got like fifteen kids.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
How many kids does he have?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I think he has ten. He's got ten kids, and
he's leaving them. That's why he's coming back, is he
got to get out of the house ten kids. He
has not played a game since twenty twenty one, and
he's coming back and may start this week for the
Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
There's no way that works.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Right, unlikely, but I'm rooting for it. I mean, he's
basically admitted I'm fat now, I'm not gonna be running.
I might play not in the best shape. He like
you said, he had to have just been tired. I
bet he's been throwing the football two hundred times in
the backyard. He's like, if I'm gonna be throwing this much,
I should at least go back to the league.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
But he's got to be like, you can't just all
of a sudden be on NFL speed if you've for
five years been sitting around.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I actually think it would be a bad sign for
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
If he's good, the guys can just come off their
couch and then five years later be good.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
These backups like the one he's now competing with Riley
Leonard who's a rookie. There has to be like it
has to be so deflating that they're like, you know,
we'll just call this guy that's been.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
This old man that's down at the street.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Like, I'm gonna watch it because I'm fascinated as to
what's gonna happen, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I have one hundred percent gonna watch it, and I'm
pulling for the guy. I mean, we just saw Joe
Flacco in his forties.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Have some Flacco had been like on rosters. This guy's
not done anything for five years in his forties.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm pulling for him. The Colts were desperate. All three
other quarterbacks on the roster are hurt.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
They had nowhere to go. They had somewhere to go.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean they didn't have to. I mean, they're not
gonna was why a tittle not available?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
You know, they're not out of it. What if he
strings together a few wins?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Have playoff Philip Rivers at age forty four.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
That's another thing, Like it's not like he's just filling
in the time.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
They are. They are in the playoffs right very much.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
It's a pretty amazing story. I can't think of anything
like that. Can you think of somebody having that much
time off? I mean, like Michael Jordan was off for
two years, but he played baseball. I mean he didn't
just completely completely stop being an athlete. I can't remember anything.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Like this before.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I think he's been coaching high school football, right, so
he's been on the football field throwing around.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Okay, but I mean, do you want Mark Stoops to
play for the Colts tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I mean, like a little different than a defensive end
coming at you. I think that's the same thing, is it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I'm pulling for him. I hope they win. I don't
know who they play, but I'm pulling for so.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I think they're at Seattle. It's a big game. Put
him on the road. It'st the hard defense. I'm all,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Bet as Oversne.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, you to care of the old man back then?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Can you exactly?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Can you imagine like your offensive line for a nursing home,
and you're like, can you all please not hurt him?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Maybe they're more motivated, you know, Yeah, all right, Well
we'll see who's next, Sean, Sean, go ahead, Sean.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
I say, you start talking about Philip Rivers and I
have to change well, I was gonna say, whenever he
goes in the very first play, they need to take
the film clip of the longest yard when Burt Reynolds
goes in. You got Rob Schneider up there. That's right,
should ass across the and then Ryan, you're right. When
I watched Godfather, probably first time and maybe the eighties,
(30:00):
I too said, hey there's fish.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, I'll let you go. Oh.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
One thing about him, and I love Mark Pope, but
the one thing about Mark Pope when this recruiting part
is if he had stayed in medical school, he would
still be the same Kentucky fan as a doctor as
he is as our coach.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
I don't think you're ever going to get that emotion
out of it. And I absolutely think we need to
follow like the NIL of college football. We go get
us a general manner, sanager, and we quit thinking this
is amateur sports and is the big blue corporation and
it's got to be ran like one.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No, it does.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You're exactly right, and I appreciate the call, and I
think you're about I mean, this is my opinion, and
I could be wrong.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
We're about to see a sea shift if you go
back to October. Let's just pick a day October first
of this year.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
By the time we get to October first of next year,
I think you're gonna have seen as dramatic a shift
in UK Athletics as you have seen since integration. And
what I mean by that is we will have a
new football coach. I think we will have a completely
(31:15):
new structure of the entire football operation, and I mean
how it's run, who oversees it, how they get players.
I think you're gonna have a new athletic director. I
think you're gonna have a new president. I think you're
gonna have you already have this new Champion's Blue structure.
(31:36):
I think you're gonna have a JMI arrangement that will
still exist, but I think will be in a different
form than was announced six months ago because they don't
have a choice. And I think you're going to see
a completely different UK Athletics. Now. The question is do
you set that comple that's happening no matter what. So
(31:58):
the question is are you gonna set that up for
the modern era and in a way that can really succeed,
or you're going to try to hold on to the
past and come out crippled and it'll be up to
the decision makers to decide that. But you know change
is coming. You know, what is the Bob Dylan song?
(32:20):
The times they are are changing? And so the question
is what I think in the Bob Dylan song does
he says Shannon, you can get with the new or
be out like the old.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But the times like that's happening.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
And so the question I think, Drew is just how
UK handles what I think is about to be a
seismic shift.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
In the university. Yep.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
And there's already been a seismic shift around him with everything,
and we're behind on that. And I hope the new
blood wants to be more of, you know, at the forefront,
cutting edge than we've kind of had someone that just
reacts everything and kind of dips a toe in. Well,
let's wait and see how this goes. Then I'll commit.
I want someone that's a little more innovative and exciting.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
And I hope they do it.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I mean I hope they already did the football part.
I mean, getting rid of Stoops was it like a
gutsy thing to do in some ways because you had
to pay the buy out and you had to do
all this stuff that was step one. Mitch I think
is going to retire. I think he needs to, but
I also think he will. I think you're gonna get
(33:19):
a new president. I think you're just getting it's it's
gonna be a complete change. And then the question is
that next generation what do they decide to do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So if this next generation coming in, it would be
more advantageous for you. Cat likes to hire somebody from outside,
not promotes within.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Yeah, I think I've given my opinion on that.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
If you're when you're picking an athletic director, I think
there's a couple people that should be in the mix
because of what they've done here. But I also think
you need to talk to people outside the mix, and
then you need to have people who decide which one
of you few are the ones to best do it.
You know, I've heard people say about the basketball GM thing.
(33:59):
They say, why don't we get Nazi Muhammad or why
don't we get Rajon Rondo. I'm not saying Nazi Muhammad
couldn't do it. I'm not saying rageon Ron. But here's
what I would say to you. That's old thinking. Okay,
that's thinking of I want somebody I've heard of to
do this. Chances are the best person to be the
basketball GM is somebody no one here has ever heard of, right, Right,
(34:23):
it's some business person who understands negotiating contracts. Right Like,
the most powerful person in sports media is a person
that not one of you have ever heard of.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
His name is Michael Klein.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
He was actually my agent, and he left because he
made so much money with pardon my take and Pat
McAfee and all these people, he didn't need to be
an agent anymore. He now runs like multiple times, he
basically has his hand on everything that happens to media,
and not one of you would ever know who he is. Right,
that's we need a GM. Probably drew that nobody knows
who they are. That's just really good at that job.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
It's because all of this is so new, you don't
really want anyone that was good at the old stuff
or you're familiar with because.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Times have changed.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
That's part of the reason we want change just throughout
UK athletics, because so many people are in the same
seat they were twenty years ago, but the job is
nothing like it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
That It's exactly right, You're exactly right.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
It's the guy who was the best at managing, you know,
an assembly line, and now he's in charge of AI.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Well, it's not the same job, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And so if they get Nazi Muhammad al supporting, but like,
we need to think bigger than that. We need to
get someone who this is perfectly situated for this and
I don't know who that is, but hopefully the people
that pick them, you know, will.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
And I don't think it's a bad thing to say
Popen good or that good at this, good at that.
I've thought this since Nil popped up. Great head coaches
probably shouldn't be good at the other side.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
That's a lot to know.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
There's not a perfect coach that's great at contracts, great
at x's, and o's great at relationships. It needs to
be divvied up because there's so much more to it
than I'm just drawing plays and trying to win games.
And no one, even Nick Saban, isn't good at every
little thing you have to do. Now, that's why he left.
He knew he wasn't good on the Nile and it
didn't like it.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Everybody will tell you the best college football agent in
the country's a guy named Jimmy Sexton.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Anybody ever he may know what he looks like. No,
I don't. He may ever see him on TV. He
may see he doesn't want to. What is it again?
I feel like I coached quote Cal a lot real
Gee's move silo. We're not going to give that to Cal.
It's a little win. I heard real GE's moving and
(36:33):
g's moving silence like Lasagna. I don't know what that
means because because the G is silent.
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right back, ks R, welcome back and take you sports radio.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
What do you think immediately when you hear this song? Yes, yes,
I mean that's why I think. I don't know if
anybody else does.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I do immediately think Antonio Hall, he don't know, dude, like, that.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Is a deep cut. Though AJ Stewart was here yesterday.
That was a deep cut too. I walked past him
three different times in here and did not know that
was a I couldn't believe that was a J. Stewart
Martin though, but I didn't. I didn't know it was
him when he first walked in. Let me.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I mean, we talk about Patrick Patterson and J. Lucas
being old school KSR, and that's true, but AJ Stewart
is the oldest school KSR. Like, when I think of
the first recruits that we followed at KSR, there are
two names that come to mind. One we got and
we did AJ Stewart, and again this is before y'all
(38:04):
were involved.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
But the second one is.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
The name of a kid that only old school internet
following recruits people remember Marshall Moses.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Wow, do you remember Marshall Moses. I remember that name.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Don't remember anything about the story, but I remember that name.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I don't remember where he went to school either.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I don't know what happened to him, but he was
like the first He and AJ Stewart were like the
first recruits that we at KSR really connected to. So
when I saw AJ yesterday. At first I didn't recognize him.
Of course he knew Mario and I was like, wow, AJ,
and he was like really nice, said he's followed us
all these years, and like, you know, I went to
(38:45):
the Marshall County Hoops Fest in two thousand and six,
drove across the state to watch AJ Stewart play a
game in two thousand and six.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
So it was neat seeing him there.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
I'm on the big wall back here. A Mario introduced
me to him. I had no idea who he was.
I saw your tweet your selfie with him.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Like that was AJ Stewart. What great memory? Though, I
love A.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
AJ Stewart was one of the nicest he did. He
and Billy didn't get along, so he's one.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Of the players that didn't get the end of Tubby
or the beginning of col He was just here for
Billy's two years.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Wow, that's it. But I really like four star recruit.
If I'm not mistaken, it was a beginning. It was
a beginn at this in Florida.
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Speaker 6 (39:48):
Who's next, Shannon, Let's go to Adam, Adam, go ahead, Adam,
what's up about?
Speaker 8 (39:55):
How about Tyrone Nash for.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Good one?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
That's a good name from the past. I'm trying to
think what was Darius Rice is another one from that
era that's sort of names in that time of recruiting.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
We go ahead, Hey, how would you like to be
a young sound safe that you know you signed on
to this football contract. It's play UK with your buddies
Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow and now the new young
Will Sin's gonna come in and hang seventy on you.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Hope he does. Hope he does.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Those are one of appreciate the call. Only two games.
I think we're sure to win next year, so I'm
I'm for it. Let's kill that's crush Youngs down State.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, I mean that game's completely different now, and just
the getting excited about scoring seventy I know that's extreme,
but just scoring points. Like I love where Stoops took us.
He took us to new heights. But like the stat
of being zero to forty nine if you're down by
two touchdowns, I'm excited for that to change, where we.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Can light up the scoreboard. Can I make your prediction
of something that's going to happen in the football world
in recruiting, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Will Stein and Vince Merrill gonna be chirping at each
other for like the next three years, don't you think?
Because Will stett because Vince was subtweeting Will's press conference
and Will's gonna fire back.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
Will Stein versus Vince Marrow is actually gonna be.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Fun, especially the first time they go head to head
for recruit some kid out of Louisville or something, and
Will and him are both going after that kid, and.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
They're kind of on each other's turfs. You know, Vince still,
you know Lexington still play honing him in his brain,
but Will is very tired into the Louisville scene.
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Speaker 6 (41:47):
I don't know how that works.
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the Minnesota Governor's race?
Speaker 6 (41:58):
I think that's on the app.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Falcon Bucks tonight, Bucks are what a three and a
half and a half point favorite?
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Who you got? I'm going Baker Mayfield in the Bucks.
Let's go. I'm going Falcons. Yeah, the Bucks.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Billy has convinced me they stink, although he did think
my game was on television. So I don't know if
I should if I should listen to him, but I'm
gonna take the Falcons to cover.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
I'll say the Falcons cover just because the Bucks have
gone the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Shanton give me Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
All right, Hey, tomorrow we will be at ks Bar
a rare Friday show here. Watch out for the snow tonight.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Everybody be uh be.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
Careful Kats and cal Polly. Ozzie Madden goes against US
at three point thirty. Turn it on, We'll see you later.
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
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Speaker 6 (01:16):
We've got I've got some couple things.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
First of all, Shannon, people are saying you're wrong, Tiger
does go to the runner.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They say Google's wrong. Do you believe they're wrong? They're Googles.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think they're wrong. Google's got it right. They don't
know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I got heard from a couple of umpires said they're
that the myth. Well are saying Google's right, Google's right,
that the runner has to beat the throw to be out.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean to be to be safe. The runner
has to beat the throw to be safe.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So I need to start saying tie goes to the fielder. Yeah,
after all these years I've said the wrong thing. It's
gonna be hard to get.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Onire always said if it's a tie, he definitely gonna
be out. We're trying to get the game over as
fast as possible.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, it sounds like referees are on the same page.
Imagine that.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah, all right, lots of facts about cal Poly Okay
and Luisa Bispo apparently one of the most beautiful parts
of California, on the on.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
The beach, on the oh nice.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It is the school where the people in Big Bang
Theory went to school.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Okay, do you all don't? Did you know that? I've
never seen it, but now I know I was right.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
They were in the twenty fourteen tournament and were cal Polly.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Slow, so you couldn't have made that up.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
There's who knew that Kristen Smart was murdered at cal
Poly In your Own Backyard podcast solved the case.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I've listened to that podcast. Actually, did you know that?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I never I didn't connect the school, but I'm very
aware of that that story.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
One person writes, I think cal Poly is.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
What that means is the people that go there also
hook up with people from other university.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I did have a couple of famous alumniss like, that's
probably true, right, Who are.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Some famous alumnus?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
John Madden he went to cal Poly, Ozzie Smith, and
here's a big one, weird al Yankovic.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Weird. That's a pretty good three.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
First of all, I would argue John Madden and Ozzy
Smith for a college that we don't know is a
pretty amazing one to two sports punch.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, it is one of the greatest short stops in
history of baseball, one of the greatest NFL coaches ever.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's it. And what didn't he? John Madden was also
a good player, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm I'm sure about that. And one of the greatest
performances performers of all time. Weird Ow.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I can get behind that.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I knew a guy I went to college with that.
You know how people will follow fish on tour. Yeah,
he followed weird Al for a few.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Weeks, coming into popular enough to play the KFC center.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Just stopping not playing the young Si. No, he's not.
There's no way he can fill up the ym sin.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I mean maybe they curtain off the top part, but
he is playing the young center.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Wow, weird Owl.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Is playing the young sinner? Who is going to weird
Al in twenty twenty five? Me, let's all go, Okay,
you all can say you'd go, but where would any
of you actually leave your house?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Buy tickets and go see weird If I do. If
I knew he was doing Amish Paradise, I'm in there,
of course.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, of course he's gonna do it. What else is
he gonna do? Eat it like a surgeon, like a surgeon.
Did you ever see this, the mockumentary about weird al No?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I saw it. So why don't you go? He's playing
in Louisville? I should you say?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
If I got free tickets in their decent seats, I
would meet channel. You'd go, sound like we should all go?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well, sounds like they fill it if everyone gets free seats.
If they don't get free seats.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Uh, maybe not.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Let's do a couple of other things real quick. Uh
Sharon is it Sharon or Sharon?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Charon Moore?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
The coach at Michigan. That story disintegrated quickly. I mean,
I gets going yesterday he gets fired for having a
relationship with a staffer, and then it goes from he
has a relationship with a staffer and he's fired to
uh to he quickly goes over to.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
In prison, in jail for assault. Not good.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I was like the afternoon we saw that there were
parting ways for cause. I was like, man, what could
the couse be?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
And a little bit later that comes out the rumor.
Then a couple hours later he's been detained by police
and was like, what is going on in ann Arbor?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
It just kept going. It was like a trickle a
few minutes got worse.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So, I mean, that's that situation is very serious. Don't
want to make light of it. But let's go to
the second situation, which then is who's going to be
the Michigan coach?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Kind of you missed your window of bringing in a
big name coach er somebody would excite the fan base
for sure.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean who do you get?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Like everyone, Penn Steak got turned down by everyone, So
like there's some talk that the Alabama coach might.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Uh the Michigan Just at this stage, it'd be hard
to get anywhere I really want. I mean, Penn State
was a joke until they finally made the hire last week.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know. What do you do?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Do you just have an interim coach next season and
give you a year to search for a new hed, But.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Your Michigan, I mean, you're Michigan. You gotta go.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I mean, can you imagine if we at Kentucky were
just like we're gonna get an interim coach.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
This would be the equivalent of us.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
In like June our basketball coach getting you know, having
this happen after signing day, after the portal's over, and well,
I guess the portal hasn't opened yet, so they still
got the chance to come. That's part of why you
gotta move quick. Is the portal's gonna open here in
a in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I mean, do you just call the people that turn
down Penn State and hope that they like Michigan better?
Just get that by you got another race? The Cripple
Cookies guy get involved again.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, even some of the guys at Penn State went
after have re signed new deals at their current school.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
I don't know. I mean they're I don't know what
they're gonna do. Mark Stoops wow on the list.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What if Mark Stoops sends up the defensive coordinator at
Texas A and M.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
He wouldn't want to go to Texas A and M.
I can't. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
So anyway, that's a that's a tough, tough story. Now
something else makes me upset. I got my hopes up.
I shouldn't have let it happen. I get my hopes up.
The Threads were gonna sign Kyle Schwarber and then they didn't.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It turns out they offered close to the same amount
of money. He decided to stay in Philadelphia. So I
now can't stand that guy because he came up and
he was like, I'd love to play in my home city.
I'm from here. This would be awesome, it would be
a dream come true. And now the story comes out
yesterday they offered him the same amount of money as.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
The Phillies and he's just stayed there.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Go to Philadelphia, Ty went to Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
What a liar he was, so boo Kyle Schwarber, I
didn't realize how excited Reds fans where and thought this
would happen. My friends that are Red slash Bengals fans
were absolutely crushed from Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And he's like one of the best.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
He would hit five hundred home runs a year in
that ballpark because it's so small, and he would kill it.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
He's exactly what we need.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like if we had him, I think we'd have a
chance to be next to the Dodgers, the best team
in the National League.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
But now we don't have him, we're gonna stink again.
And he he lied. Kyle Lyar can even can he
come home after this. No, it's not allowed to be
that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He can't come come home for Christmas next week.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Now I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I just do have season tickets to watch the Reds.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And by the way, they didn't sign him. Guess when
my season ticket deposit was due yesterday Monday.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And I paid it, they got me again. Sales guy
loves you Monday, He's like, well, you put your deposit.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
In good to team him up with the La those
two guys in the lineup would have created a lot
of excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You say, where's your deposit on Schwarber. Apparently we can't
blame them. They offered the same amount of money. This
is on Snotter there in.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The phillies of all teams. I don't care. I just
I want it. Why can't they be good? I just
want them to be good. I'd like to go to
games where they're good.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I mean I know they were and then like when
they got good was when I was in South.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Africa last year. I haven't They're never good when I'm here.
I feel like, why can't they be good? As all
of my sports teams the last two years? That's every
t you're a Braves fan, you all been good in the.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Kentucky football, Kentucky basketball, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's true. Eight eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
One person writes, mad I heard you talk on cover
zero about your new car. You better do maintenance on
it or you'll be in trouble. That's you saw my
new car out there?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
What's nice? I was afraid to park near it. Yeah,
I don't want anybody here.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I was gonna park it over at the Sonic to
keep people from getting near it because I because it's
gonna it's gonna get messed up.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
But I just want it to last as long as
it can.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You talking about bells and whistles. I mean, you've got
an LCD screen there as your monitor, and it's like
I got all everything on it.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But they were very much like you have to do
the mate, Like this is a car that if you
don't do the maintenance, it will punch you in the face.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Like you've got to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And I even bought the little package that comes with
it so that I could just drop the car off
and run away and come back and get it.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
You gotta remember to actually do that, though, well, apparently.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Like I've got an app and it'll just start yelling
at you when it's it's time.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He's got an app? Now is that good? That's it.
You're welcome to the modern world. Do you have an app?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, okay, I don't forget. They've had my oil change
and maintenance my car.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Now every time I turn it on, it tells you
what it needs. It's like, give me soda. It's a
perfect car for you, though, No, it is.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
It is.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
But then actually have to go and do it.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
That's the big part. When it's beeping at you, will
you then take that next stuff? You need to take
it out.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You need the car to drive itself to get the
oil change.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Totally. You should have got a self driving car to
go get its own. Yeah, you could do it while
I'm asleep, go home, get the oil change.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And then I saw someone right even say you should
get a battery powered car, because then you could just
plug it in. I wonder if I no, he will
not plug it in, and then the next day he'll
come out to a dead battery and come out its
own is to Mario.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Come get me. I would never plug it in ever.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Did you get everything out of your old car.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
No, I just you know, it was totaled, and I
just was like, I've not wanted to clean this car out.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
They can have it.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
He got the important stuff out like the expir didn't
get the important stuff out.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I got my I got what do you want?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He say, the expired skin stuff out, like the exparted
skinspired skins I left in.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
There's a lot of mementos in there.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Someone's gonna buy that car in auction and have like
the key to Somerset and a chair for the laural
rumbles from Picklesburg.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Would you like to know the three things I did
take out of my car? Yeah, that's it. I had
gone to the dry cleaner.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I took my golf clubs, and I made sure to
take the Conway Twitty cookbook.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Tells you your three items out of the car. That
was and I left two hundred other things in the car,
but I made sure to take those.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Thres Where was the was it in the glove box
with like the information of the car? Where did you
even have a Conway Twitty cookbook in there?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was in the backseat. So when I got in
the wreck, the stuff went everywhere in the car. I
think it was already everywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It shuffled it around and brought like switch switch to
other spot.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
The Conway Twitty Cookbook was right there in a prominent spot,
saying like, don't leave me.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
It's like a message. It was, and I did not
I listened to it. Who's up next? Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Hey, I guess h two quick things, Matt. I'm not
really sure how confident I would be with taking Billy
as my stat guy for your game, because days ago,
even after all this time of working with him for
you guys, he told Shanna on the pre show he
thought you and my Ram were doing the TV broadcast.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He did say that he didn't We're not doing the
TV broadcast.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I tried to say it was radio. He's like, no,
I'm pretty sure it's TV.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
No, wait a minute, Bill, he thinks we're doing the
TV broadcast. Yeah, Well he can't be my stats guy
if he doesn't even know what the medium is. Well,
you're not gonna put us on the TV broadcast. I've
never even done a radio broadcast. You think they're gonna
put me on the TV. No, I'm on the radio broadcast.
You're hopefully we'll sync it up to your television, but
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I'm on the radio.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
You should tell your stats guy. I heard this on
the pre show. Shan was trying to correct him, but
stat boy was certain. Shandon, thank you for trying to correct.
We're already correcting my stats guy.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, he's already wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
He's already wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You should want to do the TV broadcast because it's easier.
You can see the action on radio, you gotta describe
it in detail.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I've decided we're just gonna go off guard. I'm taking calls, Billy,
go to screen calls and be your stat guy.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Just think about that for a minute, though.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Don't you think it'd be kind of fun in a
game to take calls, like to hear from Western and
Southern misfans their reactions during the game.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, we want to hear the game you're trying to do.
I mean, you're trying to do the manning broadcast on
the radio, is what you're trying to do. It sounds
like that, doesn't worry.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Do you really want to hear the game? It's Western
and Southern myss?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, if you're listening on the radio, you want to, right, fine.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I thought Shannon would like my idea of taking calls.
I think it's a good.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Idea, idea if you were like, because I mean, if
Western and Southern miss fans really care, they're going to
listen to.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Their local broadcast, right, So take calls.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I expect first quarter you're talking about what happened to
the McDonald's drive through and what the Reds did overnight.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
This you're just gonna turn it into Kannon would like that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Actually sounds like you're trying to get out of doing
play by play to me.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well, because I don't know how good I'm gonna be
at it, So we'll see who's next. Mike, Mike, go
ahead and Mike, uh yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
If y'all have heard anything on football recruiting.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Well, since will Stein, no, I appreciate the call. They kept,
drew most of their class together for football. They lost
I think one or two guys. Then they got this kid,
the four star wide receiver. What about post then, I mean,
there's not a lot of guys to get because most
of them signed on signing days.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
So yeah, we're kind of wait for the portal window now.
I mean Kenny Darby, the receiver that had offers from
all most of the big names. That was the big
get that kind of surprised everyone. But now you wait
and get Will back from Oregon and get these coordinators
and everyone to work and fill it out with the
portal classes.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And I think for recruiting next year, you're not gonna
see him get really involved until he's done at Oregon.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I just I don't you know, I don't know how
that would happen. Yeah, it'll get real newsy around New
Year's when when the portal certainly will.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, that's why, you know, he's kind of crucial for
him to get some guys and his staff a GM
and off and accordingly start doing some stuff behind the
scenes while he's still out working in Oregon.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean, we're gonna be very active in the portal.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
We're probably gonna end up getting a lot of guys
because he's gonna want to bring in his players. You know,
I think Kentucky will be I think we'll have a
very active and hopefully successful portal year.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you think he'll bring some guys from Oregon with.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yes, of course, and probably that quarterback, right, isn't that
what we think he's I would suspect he bring a
quarterback to compete.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I don't know that, even though he's spoken hoighly of
boldly when he gets the chance. But you know, he
talks about recruiting Kentucky and he'll be in with some
freshman but he needs to rent win right away, and
that'll require going out and get some guys that are.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Raised next year. Yeah.
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We'll take a break of your right. Back's Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I wasn't gonna
leave this. Conway Twittiess Cookbook is an interesting read. Some
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not culturally appropriate things to say anymore from Conway. Written
in the seventies in a cookbook.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
How can you be controversial in a cookbook?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
The way he describes some of the ethnic foods from
other countries. I don't think he meant anything by it,
but you know how like your grandparents might have said
things and you're like, we don't say that anymore, granny.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
That's kind of how Conway talked. So there's more to
it than just like half a cup of sugar.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Yeah, he'd be like, well, I mean, I don't need
to say it, but he'd he'd make color commentary.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Okay, there's some editorial stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
He wouldn't just do the he would give Conway's thoughts
on the dishes, okay, And sometimes you would go, Conway,
you know you you can't do that.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Just tell me how much broth and I don't need
to know your thoughts on some of these other things.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
So did you put it in the back of the
new car? Is that where it's gonna rest? Now? No? No, no,
I'm going to keep this car clean. You're learning how
to cook Conway's Wow, that didn't work as well as
this as this is.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
If I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, one person
rides Matt, you should take calls during the broadcast.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I think it's great. Don't listen to Shannon. He wears
a speedo.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I just want to know how that works, Like, how
are you gonna take phone calls when you're trying to
call it?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Well, you actually, yeah, you'd come back from break and
you'd go, you know, it's uh. Southern Miss takes over
at their own thirty three yard line. It's gonna be
first and ten before we do this play. Let's go
out to Johnny in Bowling Green, Johnny, how do you
feel about how the Hilltoppers doing?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
And then we go right back to the game.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The whole point is, though, knowing what happens in the game,
we won't know what happened when you're talking to Johnny.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
And I'll go while Johnny was talking, they ran for
four yards now, second and six from thirty seven.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
You'll butt into whatever Johnny's saying to let people know exactly.
I'll be like, this is what happened.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
But let's let Johnny tell us about what he had
for lunch.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Aboutleven in a while, there could be a place to
take a couple of calls during the game. There's a
little dead time when they're reviewing a call.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It goes to make a revolutionary broadcast. Most people say,
the start to big things is the New Orleans Boat.
Oh wow, twenty fifth year inniversary.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
This is a big deal. It is a big deal.
How early, Like you have to get there, Like there's
like meetings with coaches and stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
So yoga game is on the twenty the game. I'm
gonna miss the yoga. The yoga is on the twenty first.
I don't get to go to the yoga, but the
twenty third is the game. We have to be there
to meet with the staves, the staffs. On the twenty second.
I don't know what to say to those people.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
How are you all doing? You want to call into
our show, give you the hot line live from the sidelines. Yeah,
so we do it.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We meet with this half on the twenty second. There's
a dinner that night, New Orleans Bowl dinner. I bet
that's good, to be honest with you, Yeah, And then
the game's on it. I have to fly home on
Christmas Eve. Anybody ever been in airport on Christmas Eve?
I feel like that'll be will be great. Probably won't
be the best experience in the world.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But you know, just what you do in the certain life.
This is the life of the New Orleans Bowl commentator.
Who's next?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
DG?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
DG, What's up? DG?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
I just first off shout out to Jack and Jacob,
the people of Kentucky. We needed that, uh and for
the ones who are giving pushback on that, we needed
to hear. We was all wondering, like, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Yeah, I guess my thought.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
My question for you all is, you know you talked
about there being a fix, the fix with JMI and Pope.
With that fix, how soon is that fix gonna be?
Do you think I do know something we could fix
so we get Collins and Stokes because ye happen is
moving on to you know, let's say we don't get
(21:04):
these top recruits, Well, then we have another year where
we don't have that guy, that dude that y'all keep
referring to, and then we're looking at year three with Pope,
and you know, I just I guess that's my question.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Is totally fair question.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I think they're in a tough spot here, Ryan, because
they need to get at least one or two of
these top high school guys, or or they need to
kill the portal, but they're gonna have a problem because
they've kind of overpaid in the portal maybe this year,
and so guys made demand more money that like it's
gonna be. It's a tough situation. But the thing is,
I do think it's fixable. I don't think this season
(21:39):
this year is over beat Indiana Saturday. That gets some
folks back, get some you know, the conference, like we've
talked about, is not as good as it's been in
years past. There's there's some movement you can make. But
so I don't think it's old. He thinks it's over
These are fixable.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Problems, like you've kind of alluded to. They're kind of
easy fit really unless you go out and get the
Collins kid. Maybe you know this week, I think a
lot of people fill up more favorably about what we're
doing in the basketball program than we do right now.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Oh, if you get him, then I think it's a
you get one of these guys. I think it's a
different Drew, it's different. Part of what's hard for people.
I think part of what made last week so bad
is you played in North Carolina. Who has this Caleb
Wilson kid that should be here now he didn't play
great against US, but he's clearly a top talent. That's
the kind of kid that should be here. He goes
(22:31):
to North Carolina, you lose them at home. Then you
play Gonzaga and you're not even competitive. So you play
a North Carolina team that got an elite recruit and
you didn't, and they beat you. And then you play
a Gonzaga team built with homegrown guys and portal guys
and they destroy you. And then there's like a well
what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
And I don't love the one of the big portal
misses is coming to town on Saturday, and that adds
to the well we want to talk about that, But
there is something to like getting Collins. One thing Cal
was good at is when they were losing or bad
news would come out, he wasn't gonna He'd go out
and get a commitment and show, you know, we're still
doing all right, We're okay. Pope needs to land one
quickly to put this to bee.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And in twenty thirteen, when we had such a bad year,
he brought in arguably his most talented class of all
time for the twenty fourteen season, right, so you know
we need we need a dose of good news. I
want to talk about the IU part Mark's story. Had
an interesting column today. We'll deal with it. Right after
this Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (23:56):
He's got to be seventies. He's still performing doing these songs.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yes, that's the point. I'm not going. I'm not going.
I mean, I appreciate that you want to. I'd like
to go.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Stavros is coming here. I'd like to see that. Can
somebody get me tickets to that?
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I never heard of it. You just go to weird now.
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Speaker 7 (24:25):
And plowing so long that even Ezekiel thinks that my
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Speaker 5 (24:31):
A couple of things in terms of for you to
listen to them. In the next two days, our cover
zero is out. I had to miss a couple episodes,
but I'm back from uh we had. We had a
lot of fun yesterday. If you're not listening to NFL
Cover zero, it doesn't matter if you're an NFL fan
or not. As a matter of fact, you'll probably like
it better if you're not, because we're not talking about that.
But the new s episode is really fun, and Drew
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and I tell stories including we talked Drew dad stuff
and uh so check it out. And then today my
interrupted podcast comes out. I had Terry Miners on and
it actually is. We talk a lot about Kentucky stuff,
but also Terry gets kind of emotional, and I was
surprised how much I talked to him about you know,
(25:13):
he has thirteen brothers and sisters. He's one of fourteen kids.
I was just like, how does that work? Fourteen kids?
He told me not to do the spoiler for the podcast.
Fourteen kids there are something like eighty like grandkids or
(25:34):
something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Wow, you got that's our football team there.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That's crazy. I said, do you all ever get together?
And he was like, well, during Christmas we'll do something.
And he was like, we rent out a gym. You'd
have to Yeah, where else would you put eighty grandkids?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
They rent out a gym to see each other? Isn't
that wild? It's awesome, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And he's been on the air now in WHS for
forty years.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
He'll be on he started in Lexington in nineteen seventy seven.
Next year will be his fiftieth year on the radio.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
That's crazy, isn't that insane?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And a super nice guy, super nice, So like I
think you'll I think folks will really enjoy it. We
had a really good conversation yesterday. He cried at one point,
did he yeah, because we got he got emotionally. He
start we were talking about my dad, which led him
to start talking about his family and it's it's just
a really sweet So I recommend that's the Interrupted podcast.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Will absolutely check it out. And he's as genuine as
you hear on the radio.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Is he's as nice as it come. Philip Rivers is
coming back to play in the NFL. He has not
played a football game since twenty twenty one, Speaking to
somebody who's got like fifteen kids.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
How many kids does he have?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I think he has ten. He's got ten kids, and
he's leaving them. That's why he's coming back, is he
got to get out of the house ten kids. He
has not played a game since twenty twenty one, and
he's coming back and may start this week for the
Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
There's no way that works.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Right, unlikely, but I'm rooting for it. I mean, he's
basically admitted I'm fat now, I'm not gonna be running.
I might play not in the best shape. He like
you said, he had to have just been tired. I
bet he's been throwing the football two hundred times in
the backyard. He's like, if I'm gonna be throwing this much,
I should at least go back to the league.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
But he's got to be like, you can't just all
of a sudden be on NFL speed if you've for
five years been sitting around.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I actually think it would be a bad sign for
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
If he's good, the guys can just come off their
couch and then five years later be good.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
These backups like the one he's now competing with Riley
Leonard who's a rookie. There has to be like it
has to be so deflating that they're like, you know,
we'll just call this guy that's been.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
This old man that's down at the street.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Like, I'm gonna watch it because I'm fascinated as to
what's gonna happen, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I have one hundred percent gonna watch it, and I'm
pulling for the guy. I mean, we just saw Joe
Flacco in his forties.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Have some Flacco had been like on rosters. This guy's
not done anything for five years in his forties.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm pulling for him. The Colts were desperate. All three
other quarterbacks on the roster are hurt.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
They had nowhere to go. They had somewhere to go.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean they didn't have to. I mean, they're not
gonna was why a tittle not available?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
You know, they're not out of it. What if he
strings together a few wins?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Have playoff Philip Rivers at age forty four.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
That's another thing, Like it's not like he's just filling
in the time.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
They are. They are in the playoffs right very much.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
It's a pretty amazing story. I can't think of anything
like that. Can you think of somebody having that much
time off? I mean, like Michael Jordan was off for
two years, but he played baseball. I mean he didn't
just completely completely stop being an athlete. I can't remember anything.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Like this before.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I think he's been coaching high school football, right, so
he's been on the football field throwing around.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Okay, but I mean, do you want Mark Stoops to
play for the Colts tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I mean, like a little different than a defensive end
coming at you. I think that's the same thing, is it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I'm pulling for him. I hope they win. I don't
know who they play, but I'm pulling for so.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I think they're at Seattle. It's a big game. Put
him on the road. It'st the hard defense. I'm all,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Bet as Oversne.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, you to care of the old man back then?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Can you exactly?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Can you imagine like your offensive line for a nursing home,
and you're like, can you all please not hurt him?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Maybe they're more motivated, you know, Yeah, all right, Well
we'll see who's next, Sean, Sean, go ahead, Sean.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
I say, you start talking about Philip Rivers and I
have to change well, I was gonna say, whenever he
goes in the very first play, they need to take
the film clip of the longest yard when Burt Reynolds
goes in. You got Rob Schneider up there. That's right,
should ass across the and then Ryan, you're right. When
I watched Godfather, probably first time and maybe the eighties,
(30:00):
I too said, hey there's fish.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, I'll let you go. Oh.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
One thing about him, and I love Mark Pope, but
the one thing about Mark Pope when this recruiting part
is if he had stayed in medical school, he would
still be the same Kentucky fan as a doctor as
he is as our coach.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
I don't think you're ever going to get that emotion
out of it. And I absolutely think we need to
follow like the NIL of college football. We go get
us a general manner, sanager, and we quit thinking this
is amateur sports and is the big blue corporation and
it's got to be ran like one.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No, it does.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You're exactly right, and I appreciate the call, and I
think you're about I mean, this is my opinion, and
I could be wrong.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
We're about to see a sea shift if you go
back to October. Let's just pick a day October first
of this year.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
By the time we get to October first of next year,
I think you're gonna have seen as dramatic a shift
in UK Athletics as you have seen since integration. And
what I mean by that is we will have a
new football coach. I think we will have a completely
(31:15):
new structure of the entire football operation, and I mean
how it's run, who oversees it, how they get players.
I think you're gonna have a new athletic director. I
think you're gonna have a new president. I think you're
gonna have you already have this new Champion's Blue structure.
(31:36):
I think you're gonna have a JMI arrangement that will
still exist, but I think will be in a different
form than was announced six months ago because they don't
have a choice. And I think you're going to see
a completely different UK Athletics. Now. The question is do
you set that comple that's happening no matter what. So
(31:58):
the question is are you gonna set that up for
the modern era and in a way that can really succeed,
or you're going to try to hold on to the
past and come out crippled and it'll be up to
the decision makers to decide that. But you know change
is coming. You know, what is the Bob Dylan song?
(32:20):
The times they are are changing? And so the question
is what I think in the Bob Dylan song does
he says Shannon, you can get with the new or
be out like the old.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But the times like that's happening.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
And so the question I think, Drew is just how
UK handles what I think is about to be a
seismic shift.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
In the university. Yep.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
And there's already been a seismic shift around him with everything,
and we're behind on that. And I hope the new
blood wants to be more of, you know, at the forefront,
cutting edge than we've kind of had someone that just
reacts everything and kind of dips a toe in. Well,
let's wait and see how this goes. Then I'll commit.
I want someone that's a little more innovative and exciting.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
And I hope they do it.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I mean I hope they already did the football part.
I mean, getting rid of Stoops was it like a
gutsy thing to do in some ways because you had
to pay the buy out and you had to do
all this stuff that was step one. Mitch I think
is going to retire. I think he needs to, but
I also think he will. I think you're gonna get
(33:19):
a new president. I think you're just getting it's it's
gonna be a complete change. And then the question is
that next generation what do they decide to do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So if this next generation coming in, it would be
more advantageous for you. Cat likes to hire somebody from outside,
not promotes within.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Yeah, I think I've given my opinion on that.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
If you're when you're picking an athletic director, I think
there's a couple people that should be in the mix
because of what they've done here. But I also think
you need to talk to people outside the mix, and
then you need to have people who decide which one
of you few are the ones to best do it.
You know, I've heard people say about the basketball GM thing.
(33:59):
They say, why don't we get Nazi Muhammad or why
don't we get Rajon Rondo. I'm not saying Nazi Muhammad
couldn't do it. I'm not saying rageon Ron. But here's
what I would say to you. That's old thinking. Okay,
that's thinking of I want somebody I've heard of to
do this. Chances are the best person to be the
basketball GM is somebody no one here has ever heard of, right, Right,
(34:23):
it's some business person who understands negotiating contracts. Right Like,
the most powerful person in sports media is a person
that not one of you have ever heard of.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
His name is Michael Klein.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
He was actually my agent, and he left because he
made so much money with pardon my take and Pat
McAfee and all these people, he didn't need to be
an agent anymore. He now runs like multiple times, he
basically has his hand on everything that happens to media,
and not one of you would ever know who he is. Right,
that's we need a GM. Probably drew that nobody knows
who they are. That's just really good at that job.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
It's because all of this is so new, you don't
really want anyone that was good at the old stuff
or you're familiar with because.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Times have changed.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
That's part of the reason we want change just throughout
UK athletics, because so many people are in the same
seat they were twenty years ago, but the job is
nothing like it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
That It's exactly right, You're exactly right.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
It's the guy who was the best at managing, you know,
an assembly line, and now he's in charge of AI.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Well, it's not the same job, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And so if they get Nazi Muhammad al supporting, but like,
we need to think bigger than that. We need to
get someone who this is perfectly situated for this and
I don't know who that is, but hopefully the people
that pick them, you know, will.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
And I don't think it's a bad thing to say
Popen good or that good at this, good at that.
I've thought this since Nil popped up. Great head coaches
probably shouldn't be good at the other side.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
That's a lot to know.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
There's not a perfect coach that's great at contracts, great
at x's, and o's great at relationships. It needs to
be divvied up because there's so much more to it
than I'm just drawing plays and trying to win games.
And no one, even Nick Saban, isn't good at every
little thing you have to do. Now, that's why he left.
He knew he wasn't good on the Nile and it
didn't like it.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Everybody will tell you the best college football agent in
the country's a guy named Jimmy Sexton.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Anybody ever he may know what he looks like. No,
I don't. He may ever see him on TV. He
may see he doesn't want to. What is it again?
I feel like I coached quote Cal a lot real
Gee's move silo. We're not going to give that to Cal.
It's a little win. I heard real GE's moving and
(36:33):
g's moving silence like Lasagna. I don't know what that
means because because the G is silent.
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(37:01):
right back, ks R, welcome back and take you sports radio.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
What do you think immediately when you hear this song? Yes, yes,
I mean that's why I think. I don't know if
anybody else does.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I do immediately think Antonio Hall, he don't know, dude, like, that.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Is a deep cut. Though AJ Stewart was here yesterday.
That was a deep cut too. I walked past him
three different times in here and did not know that
was a I couldn't believe that was a J. Stewart
Martin though, but I didn't. I didn't know it was
him when he first walked in. Let me.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I mean, we talk about Patrick Patterson and J. Lucas
being old school KSR, and that's true, but AJ Stewart
is the oldest school KSR. Like, when I think of
the first recruits that we followed at KSR, there are
two names that come to mind. One we got and
we did AJ Stewart, and again this is before y'all
(38:04):
were involved.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
But the second one is.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
The name of a kid that only old school internet
following recruits people remember Marshall Moses.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Wow, do you remember Marshall Moses. I remember that name.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Don't remember anything about the story, but I remember that name.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I don't remember where he went to school either.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I don't know what happened to him, but he was
like the first He and AJ Stewart were like the
first recruits that we at KSR really connected to. So
when I saw AJ yesterday. At first I didn't recognize him.
Of course he knew Mario and I was like, wow, AJ,
and he was like really nice, said he's followed us
all these years, and like, you know, I went to
(38:45):
the Marshall County Hoops Fest in two thousand and six,
drove across the state to watch AJ Stewart play a
game in two thousand and six.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
So it was neat seeing him there.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
I'm on the big wall back here. A Mario introduced
me to him. I had no idea who he was.
I saw your tweet your selfie with him.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Like that was AJ Stewart. What great memory? Though, I
love A.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
AJ Stewart was one of the nicest he did. He
and Billy didn't get along, so he's one.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Of the players that didn't get the end of Tubby
or the beginning of col He was just here for
Billy's two years.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Wow, that's it. But I really like four star recruit.
If I'm not mistaken, it was a beginning. It was
a beginn at this in Florida.
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Speaker 6 (39:48):
Who's next, Shannon, Let's go to Adam, Adam, go ahead, Adam,
what's up about?
Speaker 8 (39:55):
How about Tyrone Nash for.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Good one?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
That's a good name from the past. I'm trying to
think what was Darius Rice is another one from that
era that's sort of names in that time of recruiting.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
We go ahead, Hey, how would you like to be
a young sound safe that you know you signed on
to this football contract. It's play UK with your buddies
Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow and now the new young
Will Sin's gonna come in and hang seventy on you.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Hope he does. Hope he does.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Those are one of appreciate the call. Only two games.
I think we're sure to win next year, so I'm
I'm for it. Let's kill that's crush Youngs down State.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, I mean that game's completely different now, and just
the getting excited about scoring seventy I know that's extreme,
but just scoring points. Like I love where Stoops took us.
He took us to new heights. But like the stat
of being zero to forty nine if you're down by
two touchdowns, I'm excited for that to change, where we.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Can light up the scoreboard. Can I make your prediction
of something that's going to happen in the football world
in recruiting, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Will Stein and Vince Merrill gonna be chirping at each
other for like the next three years, don't you think?
Because Will stett because Vince was subtweeting Will's press conference
and Will's gonna fire back.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
Will Stein versus Vince Marrow is actually gonna be.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Fun, especially the first time they go head to head
for recruit some kid out of Louisville or something, and
Will and him are both going after that kid, and.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
They're kind of on each other's turfs. You know, Vince still,
you know Lexington still play honing him in his brain,
but Will is very tired into the Louisville scene.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
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Speaker 6 (41:47):
I don't know how that works.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
There's no rules anymore. I guess you can just do
whatever you want. All right, let's do our pick for DraftKings,
and that was not our pick. Who's going to win
the Minnesota Governor's race?
Speaker 6 (41:58):
I think that's on the app.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Falcon Bucks tonight, Bucks are what a three and a
half and a half point favorite?
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Who you got? I'm going Baker Mayfield in the Bucks.
Let's go. I'm going Falcons. Yeah, the Bucks.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Billy has convinced me they stink, although he did think
my game was on television. So I don't know if
I should if I should listen to him, but I'm
gonna take the Falcons to cover.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
I'll say the Falcons cover just because the Bucks have
gone the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Shanton give me Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
All right, Hey, tomorrow we will be at ks Bar
a rare Friday show here. Watch out for the snow tonight.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Everybody be uh be.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
Careful Kats and cal Polly. Ozzie Madden goes against US
at three point thirty. Turn it on, We'll see you later.
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The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.