2025-08-28- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Date: August 28, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Shannon, Drew, Ryan
Location: KS Bar & Grill, Lexington
Episode Highlights: Birthday banter, UK football, Lee Corso’s legacy, Mark Pope & Kentucky basketball, local stories, and more

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Overview

The first hour of today’s KSR features a lively, wide-ranging discussion centered on Matt Jones’ birthday, Kentucky football predictions, Kentucky basketball under Mark Pope, Lee Corso’s iconic role in college football, and plenty of local color. The crew broadcasts live from KS Bar and Grill, mixing sports talk with personal anecdotes, regional shoutouts, and memorable moments. The tone is typical KSR: witty, playful, and deeply Kentucky.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Matt Jones’ Birthday & Rituals

• Banter about Matt’s age | [01:19–01:31]

  • Joking confusion over how old Matt really is: “If you said 54, that was very rude. That’s 51.”—Matt
  • Shannon and Drew reminisce about memorable childhood gifts and parties, leading to Matt admitting he doesn’t remember specific presents but recalls breaking his leg at a birthday party in Cynthiana | [03:36–04:32]

• The importance of Facebook birthdays | [06:50–07:28]

  • Matt reflects on how Facebook revolutionized remembering birthdays:

    “Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because...now they pop up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I worked with as a law clerk. I’ll say hello to you.” —Matt [06:53]

  • Drew notes the routine of yearly greetings from people you only connect with on birthdays.

2. Food Talk: Dairy Queen Blizzard Cake & Wings Day

• Unexpected birthday treat: Matt raves about receiving an M&M Blizzard Cake from Dairy Queen, reparing their distressed relationship (“I have been slightly disparaging to the Dairy Queen...but highly recommend the Blizzard cake.”—Matt [02:07–03:14])
• KS Bar “Wings Day” confusion: A listener mistakenly thought wings were a dollar for a whole order, not per wing, which Matt finds hilarious and clarifies for future reference | [24:06–26:20]

3. Lee Corso and College Football Pregame Shows

• Anticipation for Saturday, Game Day, and Corso’s final pick | [10:18–11:16]
  • Matt and the crew reflect on Corso’s tradition and emotional weight of his last appearance possibly mirroring his first pick with the Buckeyes.
• Favorite Corso moments | [11:16–12:36]
  • Matt: “I kind of like it when he had the little kid on and he kind of yelled at him...‘Not so fast, midget.’”
  • Drew: Loves Corso’s on-air gaffe with the megaphone: “And he said, f it! And everyone on set loses it.”
• Corso’s Impact on Sports Media | [13:18–14:33]
  • Matt: “I would argue the most important announcers to their sport in history—Dick Vitale for basketball, John Madden for NFL, and Lee Corso for college football...it’s really Corso and Barkley.”
• Herbstreit’s role in supporting Corso during recent years is described as “beautiful and very sweet.” [14:33–14:38]

4. Mark Pope & Kentucky Basketball

• Jay Bilas on Mark Pope’s relentless positivity | [16:39–18:53]
  • Bilas praises Pope’s consistently positive, affirming coaching style.
  • Matt aspires to use more affirming language in his own life:

    “He said he’s never seen a coach that was more affirming...I’d like to figure out how to be able to do that.” —Matt [18:07–18:38]

• Analytical approach to roster construction | [20:55–22:53]
  • Bilas notes Pope targets players for specific, analytic roles—like choosing Ansley Almanor for his corner three-point shooting.
  • Drew: Pope’s recruiting file at Peach Jam was a foot thick—much more data-driven than peers.
  • Matt: “He is going to do this specific thing...That’s a good way to think about it.”

5. Local Anecdotes & Life in Kentucky

• Neighborhood politics & KS Bar’s relaunch | [19:06–20:35; 24:06–26:20]
  • Matt tells a story about a neighbor Wanda organizing a community meeting over parking issues and debates whether he should attend.
  • Pride in reopening KS Bar and customer appreciation for wings.
• Soccer upsets in Europe as a metaphor for sports joy | [26:30–30:34]
  • Matt passionately describes a Kazakh club’s Champions League win:

    “That, Ryan Lemon, is what sports is about. That is what sports are about. They’re just losing their mind.” [29:47]

  • Playful suggestion to use that audio for UK’s future upsets.

6. The Weirdness of Trades in Sports

• Matt and the crew muse about how bizarre it is that players can be traded across the country with zero say—drawing a funny analogy to having to move a KS Bar server to Monticello’s Walmart instantly | [30:53–33:23]
  • “Imagine just lifting up your whole family not knowing how long you’d be playing for the Raptors.” —Drew [33:13]

7. Kentucky Football & Players in the Pros

• Practice squads and notable achievements | [33:42–34:49]
  • Shoutouts to former UK players finding NFL squad spots—including Zion Childress (“undrafted and made the Cowboys regular roster as an undrafted free agent. That’s very rare”—Matt [34:13]) and Dane Key named a Nebraska captain.

8. UK Football Predictions & Home-Field Weather

• Five-win scenario for Kentucky | [37:41–38:43]
  • Caller lists predicted wins; Matt and Drew discuss likely “must-win” games and how cold weather could work against Florida in November.

9. Offbeat: Gold Digger Jewelry Trademark

• Bill Belichick’s girlfriend files to trademark ‘Gold Digger’ jewelry | [39:57–41:23]
  • Matt: “If you’re gonna get called [a gold digger] anyway, why not embrace it?”
  • Shannon/drew: Debate if this is marketing genius (“There’s a world for anything”).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On birthday gifts and memory:

  “I'm sure it was something probably to do with UK, like maybe tickets to a game or something, but I don't remember.” —Matt [03:55]

• On Facebook and birthdays:

  “Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because...now they pop up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I worked with as a law clerk. I'll say hello to you.” —Matt [06:53]

• On Lee Corso's legacy:

  “I would argue the most important announcers to their sport in history...Dick Vitale...John Madden...and Lee Corso for college football. And he’s not even announced, you know, just doing the studio kind of like the way Barkley is with the NBA.” —Matt [13:18–14:33]

• On Mark Pope's coaching:

  “He says he's never seen a coach who coaches with more positivity...he, like, doesn't use the negative. He always uses the positive.” —(Paraphrasing Jay Bilas, via Matt) [17:36]

• On uniting over food:

  “I'm glad he's appreciative. What an appreciative guy. Yes...See, this is why we reopened this place. How appreciative. Guys like this, right?” —Matt [25:11]

• On the joy of sports upsets:

  “That is what sports is about. They're just losing their mind.” —Matt, on the Kazakh soccer call [29:47]

• On the concept of trades:

  “We accept in sports this idea that you can be traded to a different city without your consent and you just have to go...” —Matt [31:02]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Birthday banter & gifts: [01:19–05:29]
• Facebook & birthday rituals: [06:50–08:00]
• Wings Day Story: [24:06–26:20]
• Lee Corso college football/legacy: [10:18–14:33]
• Jay Bilas on Mark Pope & analytics: [16:39–22:53]
• Kazakhstan soccer victory/Sports joy: [26:30–30:34]
• Sports trading analogies: [30:53–33:23]
• NFL/UK player updates: [33:42–34:49]
• UK Football schedule predictions: [37:41–39:10]
• Gold Digger Jewelry trademark: [39:57–41:23]

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Tone & Style

Conversational, quick-witted, and rooted in Kentucky life and sports culture—filled with personal touches, listener interaction, and insider humor.

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Useful For:

• UK and college sports fans
• Listeners interested in sports broadcasting media
• Those who enjoy “slice-of-life” Kentucky stories
• Anyone wanting local restaurant insights and community flavor

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Note: This summary skips ads, show intros/outros, and focuses solely on the substance of the discussion. For the full Kentucky experience, join a broadcast at KS Bar & Grill or catch the next KSR hour!

Transcript

[Matt Jones]

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[Producer/Announcer]

This is Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm Matt Jones here live at the KS Bar and Grill. Day three of us being open, you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That is 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Lofts. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. We got folks here from Indianapolis and Carlisle, Kentucky, the far end of the state here. Uk, you're good. Carlisle is a great place. I've been there. Well, I've been every county and it here. Ryan and Drew. Shannon's in studio. Ryan's wearing his Middlesboro High School T shirt, ready to go two days before kickoff of a UK football.

[Shannon]

This is in honor of what Shannon said, your 54th birthday today. Happy birthday.

[Matt Jones]

And if you said 54, that was very rude. That's 51.

[Producer/Announcer]

I'm sorry.

[Matt Jones]

That it's not. It is if it's 47 or as they say on Facebook, 43. Okay. And, yeah, nobody's worried about specifics. And yeah, thank you very much.

[Shannon]

Happy birthday. Well, I'd like to ask you a few questions.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, who said you are allowed to do.

[Shannon]

We're gonna hijack the show because it's your birthday.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, before you do that, real quick, let me say my mom's coming here for. For lunch. She and I are gonna get lunch for. For my birthday. We. We. I don't know when it'll come out, but we're doing our first NFL podcast today.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

So I'm a little, you know, a little bit nervous about that. And then. But last night I got a cake. Somebody bought me a cake which I didn't know existed, and I want to recommend. Okay. Because I've over the years, been slightly disparaging to the Dairy Queen because, you know, they would sometimes tow people and sometimes, like we just talked about yesterday, about how the blizzard machine is always broken and all that unbeknownst to me, when I was talking about it, somebody. Yes. Last night got me a cake that was an Eminem blizzard cake. Oh, highly recognized. I did not know. I knew they did birthday cakes. I did not know that they would make like a layer of it. A blizzard. You're shaking your head. You said you hadn't had an Oreo one, dude.

[Shannon]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

I listen, highly recommend if you, if you're a blizzard person, you. Because you get, you get like, it gets blizzard mixed in with other things and all of a sudden it's like, oh my. So let me just say Eminem blizzard cake, Ryan, I highly recommend.

[Shannon]

Sounds fantastic. Is the ice cream, like the creamy ice cream in the blizzard?

[Matt Jones]

So there's ice cream, blizzard ice cream and like. So it's like regular ice cream, blizzard ice cream and then other stuff. And that's the case.

[Drew]

You cut it in half. It's like in levels.

[Matt Jones]

It's in levels. It's like in layers. Layers. There you go. Exactly right. So anyway, that was. I'm a big fan of it. All right, now go ahead.

[Shannon]

I want to ask you a couple questions because this got me thinking. My birthday last week, somebody asked me, do you. What's your most special gift you got as a kid? As a bird? You remember. Was there something that you got that you really like? You still remember?

[Matt Jones]

You know, let's see, you're gonna. You say that you're gonna put me in the spot because I'm gon see my mom earlier. I don't really remember.

[Shannon]

You remember one special.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I'm sure it was something probably to do with uk, like, like maybe tickets to a game or something, but I don't remember. I mean, you remember gifts from when you were a child.

[Shannon]

I remember getting my baseball glove and I was like 8 years old and I slept with it every night. I loved it so much.

[Matt Jones]

Still do.

[Shannon]

I still do.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. That's been part of your problem.

[Shannon]

Did you ever have a birthday party that you remember? Like a big celebration?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, there would be, you know, you get kids there and. Yeah, I had those when I was growing up. I think I broke my leg at one of them.

[Shannon]

One of your birthday parties?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I think so. I think that was when I was really young, when I lived in Cynthiana. I feel like I. I feel like I broke my leg at a birthday.

[Shannon]

Did you do that?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. Somebody, like maybe the probus kids knocked me down the steps or something like that. I think that might have happened.

[Shannon]

Was there ever a special birthday kiss from a Girl.

[Matt Jones]

No. No. Do you remember what I looked like when I was younger? You think anybody would.

[Shannon]

I may have seen some of those pictures on Twitter just while ago.

[Matt Jones]

Let me just tell you, those were not. There was. They were not lining up down the street at that age for that to happen.

[Shannon]

And our birthdays are like, right before school usually.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, that was always something that bummed me out.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

You know, now they start school early, but when I was a kid, you started school after Labor Day. So I never got to have the birthday thing that everybody got to have because, you know, when you were in school and it was somebody's birthday, big deal, big sing. You'd have a little party. I didn't. I never got that. I was always like, they. You didn't even get at the beginning of the year. Oh, by the way, here's the people who passed during the summer. You didn't get that. So I. That did annoy me. There was never a birthday sort of acknowledgement when I was in school.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I was going to ask the same for me being on the 18th. There's a 20th. I wonder if you ever had a birthday party. You got to celebrate at school.

[Matt Jones]

We've talked about. There's a lot of people that are born at the end of August, like, a lot of people. Why we've talked about it. It's Thanksgiving.

[Shannon]

Yes, it is.

[Matt Jones]

And then at the end of September, it's. It's Christmas slash New Year's. But there's a lot of people, like, most of my friends are born in, like, this two or three week period. You included.

[Shannon]

Chris Tomlin Marie.

[Matt Jones]

Chris Tomlin Farmer. Yes. The turkey hunter.

[Shannon]

Hunter hubby.

[Matt Jones]

They're all in this little period right now. Yes.

[Shannon]

So was there ever something that you did on your birthday? You don't remember a birthday present or anything you did?

[Matt Jones]

I just said no. I mean, you got to be something. See, he planned this, Shannon. And he doesn't have the ability to pivot right. Like. Like he doesn't understand that if I don't have an answer, there's got to be. But if you keep asking me, I'm not going to have it. No, just. I understood the question, Drew. I just don't. I don't answer. I don't. I'm not unlike you. I'm not materialistic.

[Shannon]

Why? I want to go down memory road with you a little bit for your birthday.

[Matt Jones]

Memory Lane. Yeah, Memory Road. It's right off Memory. Memory Lane just pulls off right off Memory Road. Memory Interstate. Yeah. But I appreciate it. You have always done a good job over the years of, like, you've done, like, things on my birthday or whatever. And I. I do always appreciate it.

[Shannon]

Well, we're trying today. There's still some efforting going on, but we'll.

[Matt Jones]

So that means that won't happen. Shannon. But that's okay. He still. I know. He mean. That's the good thing about you. You're very thoughtful. You know, you wake up Drew, and you see people, you're like, oh, I haven't thought of that person. That's very nice of you to say. Happy Birthday. Facebook was the best thing to happen to birthdays because I don't know about y'. All. I didn't know. I. I didn't remember anybody's birthday. Anybody. Like, I. I would be like, okay, my mom's is January 21st. You know, like, that was. I was terrible about it. But now they pop up and you go, oh, hi, Reggie Skinner that I worked with as a law clerk. I'll say hello to you. Like, things like that.

[Drew]

Yeah. Facebook's clutch. Even birthdays, I think I know. I will go to Facebook just to make sure. Double, double check.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Also, like, people you don't stay in touch with in a while, they'll send you a happy birthday message. And your last message was, like, you telling them happy birthday or them happy birthday a year ago.

[Matt Jones]

Like, sitting here looking at my. You're exactly right. Like, sitting here looking at my phone. Their names of people. Oh, hello, high school friend Allison Cook. Thank you for acknowledging my birthday. It's been a while since we've talked. That's nice. You know, I. That's good to kind of reconnect with people.

[Shannon]

Remember when I first started with you, one of your daily rituals was to go down Facebook and read people's birthdays on the show.

[Matt Jones]

My first message I got this morning was from Slice, and I looked. And the last message I got from Slice was last year on my birthday. So Slice does remember the birthdays. That's nice.

[Drew]

It finally ended, but I had, like, an eight year run of Shane Boyd saying, happy birthday, bro. I could show you the screenshot. There were no conversations. It was happy birthday, bro. And me saying, thanks, man, for almost a decade.

[Matt Jones]

Thanks, man's a good response.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The one thing I don't like that close. You know, the one thing I don't like on the text, when you just say happy Birthday, they add balloons. You know what I mean? Like, they add balloons and confetti. And so you get up in the morning, you look at it, it's just balloons and confetti everywhere and it's just, you know, I mean, that was an addition. I don't know that the text people, the text app needed.

[Drew]

Your Twitter profile will do that today. If your birthday's in there, someone goes to your page, it throws confetti and balloons.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, does it? Okay, well, anyway, everybody's very festive. Everybody's very festive. Thanks to Corey Price for finding the picture of me with the bowl on my head. In high school when I got the scholarship to or college to study at Oxford, I'd forgotten. Well, I knew I went, but I forgot. I forgotten. It was in the newspaper and all that. That was nice.

[Drew]

The only people make fun of the bowl they were in at that time. Everybody I knew had the bowl. I had the bowl. You had to get the chili bowl haircut in that era.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that was the, that was what you did in the 90s. It was how you kind of showed you were.

[Drew]

Cool.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean kind of cool like walking. Maybe not on Cool Lane, but maybe on Cool Road Road. Yeah, like that. So.

[Shannon]

Well, happy birthday. Hope you get to enjoy it today and all you got to do. Are you doing ESPN today?

[Matt Jones]

Also not doing espn. Thank goodness. I mean that, that three hours of ESPN the last two days was, was very, very tiring. But it was nice to be in here. We had people in here all day yesterday and it was nice to. They would come up during the breaks and, and people seem to be happy in here. Yesterday it was nice. It's nice everybody. And we'll be here today and then, you know, Saturday, Saturday, game day breakfast. Mario's taking pictures of the breakfast today, getting ready and we. Our pregame show will start at 8:30 on Saturday morning.

[Drew]

I'm ready. I don't, I don't want to wait around all day. Save that for later in the season. I'll watch Game Day another time. I want to wake up and get right.

[Matt Jones]

You're not going to watch Game Day for the Corso stuff. I mean, you're talking to you all. Well, but, but I mean we'll be done at 10:30. I mean I, I would think if you love college football at like 11:55, you gotta watch the final Corso thing where he picks the team. Right. I mean, I feel like that's going to be kind of very emotional, isn't it?

[Shannon]

And if I understand, that's where he did his first one, right? Ohio.

[Matt Jones]

That's where he did his first one back in the. I think early to mid. Not like, 1995, maybe was where he did his first one. And he's gonna finish with it here.

[Shannon]

So there's no way he doesn't pick the buckeyes again. Probably put them.

[Matt Jones]

See, I feel like he. He's the kind of dude who, on his way out, might say, hook aboard. I mean, I feel like that's kind of his thing. Right.

[Drew]

I could see him doing it one last time, getting spicy, getting the crowd going, and maybe even if it's a negative reaction, but I don't think it's a lock that he puts on the buckeye hat just because that's the.

[Matt Jones]

What is your. What's your favorite Corso moment? I mean, if you think about all the years that he did it, I kind of like it when he had the little kid on and he kind of yelled at him. You know what I mean? I think he says, what? Not so fast, midget. That's what he says to him. The kid looks at him like, what are you doing? That was, I think, like, at Harvard. Yale was.

[Shannon]

Where was it really?

[Matt Jones]

I think it might have been. And I like that one. And then I like when he. They would bring a live animal.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And whether it was a duck or a cow. I don't know if there was a cow.

[Producer/Announcer]

He cut a promo on the Georgia Bulldog and called it ugly.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He called the promo. I also liked when they would bring on a celebrity. This happened a lot in recent years as he got kind of older, and he clearly. Shannon, didn't know who the celebrity was.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And he would just sort of look at him perplexed, like, who is this person?

[Producer/Announcer]

Are you important?

[Matt Jones]

I really enjoyed that they'd bring on, like, a tiktoker. No. I remember they did PFT commenter @james Madison, and he clearly was like, who is this person? Why is his son. Why are his sunglasses on? Drew always enjoyed that.

[Drew]

My favorite. You can't really repeat it on radio, but he was doing a game, and he changed his pick. He picked up, like, a megaphone and then threw it.

[Matt Jones]

And he said, ah.

[Drew]

And he said, f it. And everyone on set loses because you cannot say that because it came from Corso.

[Matt Jones]

They got away with it. Yeah, he got away with it. So I love that dude. And it's crazy to think that he was a former Louisville.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

An Indiana coach. I mean, that's where he came from. Was coaching Louisville in Indiana. And when he was at Louisville, people say he was like Rick Patino. Like, he would, like, was, like, slick Italian, thought he was cool. And now he just seems so goofy. You could have never imagined Ryan Rick Pitino becoming what Lee Corso became.

[Shannon]

No. I remember when he was the head coach in Indiana, he came to speak to the last Otwell High School athletic basketball. When my dad was the coach, they got him to come down, he did it to little bitty Otwell Indiana High School. And he was like a rock star. He was a rock star and he was just a football coach in Indiana.

[Matt Jones]

I would argue the most important announcers to their sport in history, number one is Dick Vital with college basketball. Dick Vital, in my opinion, was a massive part of making college basketball thing. I think John Madden for the NFL is a massive one. And then I would argue Lee Corso for college. For college football is. And he's not even announced, you know, just, just doing the. The studio kind of like the way Barkley is with the NBA. He was so good on the studio that I think it in some ways helped make the sport made that show, you know. Oh. I mean, that show. That show and the TNT NBA show are the only pregame shows even worth thinking about watching. Wouldn't you agree?

[Drew]

And every other one tries to steal.

[Matt Jones]

They try to get there. Yeah. And they can't. And honestly, those personalities, if you're honest about it, really, it's really Corso, you know, Embark.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Like, like Kenny Smith and Herb street are good with them, but if they weren't on there, you could skip them. It's really Corso and Barkley. It'll be interesting to see. I mean, McAfee, maybe that helps it work with game day in the future. But for me, Corso and Barkley are the two best people that have ever done a studio show ever.

[Shannon]

And you've talked about this. Kirk Herbstreak kind of supporting Corso. Beautiful couple years.

[Matt Jones]

It's beautiful.

[Shannon]

Very touching.

[Matt Jones]

It is. It is very, very sweet. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. We'll talk a little bit about UK Toledo and football, some basketball news. Jay Billis had some really interesting things to say about Mark Pope, which I want to get to. We're here at KS Bar. Come see us have lunch at Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine. 772-774-5254. One person writes, Matt, maybe what Ryan meant was what's the best experience from a party on your birthday? Well, probably drew the best experience. I can't say on the air. But the funniest experience one of them might have been a couple of years ago with, with Ryan when we all went down to Middlesboro in a bus and. And their wives got in a fight. All of them, like, every single one of them got in a fight, including people, like, some of them separating and driving back to Lexington in separate cars. Like, it was. It was amazing. They all got to fight. Except the one person most likely to get in a fight with his significant other, Ryan. He was the only one.

[Drew]

Thank you very much.

[Matt Jones]

I was sitting there watching my friends drop like flies. And Ryan, of all people, Shannon, somehow did not end up fighting with his. With his girlfriend.

[Producer/Announcer]

I mean, if you could have gotten.

[Matt Jones]

That on draft, Vegas, odds on that would have been unbelievable. Because if you go through history, Ryan Lemon, that is his role on all trips is to fight with his significant other. And then that one some. And you were, like, taking Glee.

[Shannon]

Oh, I was.

[Matt Jones]

And we stopped at BUC EE's. And I remember one of you kind of bit the, like, not really bit, but was like, took a little snipe and I went, oh, it's gonna break. We're only 30 minutes from home, and it's gonna fall apart. And you hung on. After all those years, you were sitting.

[Shannon]

Right behind us in the front of the bus while we were like, I was high fiving you.

[Matt Jones]

Like, you couldn't believe. All this kept happening everywhere, and they just kept hanging on and were able to do it. Jay Billis was on a KSR podcast with Jacob Polachek, and he was talking about Mark Pope. And he said two things about Mark Pope that I were. That I thought was interesting. One, he said that Mark Pope coaches. And I think his wording was with relentless positivity. He says he's never seen a coach who coaches with more positivity, that when he wants to get something to a player, he doesn't say, don't do this. He says, do this. And he says, like, you're good at this. That he, like, doesn't use the negative. He always uses the positive. And Bill has said he's never seen a coach that was more affirming in the way he tells people what to do and that he thinks it leads his players to play better. I thought that was interesting.

[Drew]

Yeah, he had great comments. I do have to correct you. It was with Jack on sources.

[Matt Jones]

Sorry.

[Drew]

Yeah. No, good.

[Matt Jones]

Good for Jack.

[Drew]

No, he's raving about how, like, really the Kentucky job, no one is cut out for it. It's so demanding. I mean, everything it takes to have that job. Sure, there's been guys have been successful, but no one's going to be perfect at it. But he was talking about how just Pope, if anyone's as close to being made for the job, he's handling it really well. And it's things like that that got him off to a great start. Yeah, home run higher. We all feel that way, but Bill is adding to it. Just makes it feel even more like the right move.

[Matt Jones]

Bill has said he. Whatever it is Mark Pope wants to accomplish, he tries to find a way to say it in words that are affirming. And when I read that last night, I was thinking, man, I'd like to figure out how to be able to do that. Like, rather than say, I mean, that's not gonna happen with Ryan, but with other people, like, if there's a way to say something in a lifting up rather than a take, like, you know, not even taking down, but just negative way, I think that's a really good. Because I can see why people would respond to that better.

[Shannon]

And it's such a refreshing way of coaching because we know for years and years and years, it's the coaches method was we got to tear you down, we got to break you down and then build you back up, and we have to point out your mistakes and what you're doing wrong so you can correct it on your own. I like. I like this approach, and I hope other coaches take it.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know if I can take that approach with the whole parking situation on my street. I don't think I can build those people up. By the way, the. Have we talked about the letter that was on my door? No, no.

[Drew]

We heard about the signs. Not a letter.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, I'm gonna have to digress. Just a second for Mark Pope are. You know, I don't want to get involved in anything community. But. But. But this issue, it's a pressing issue. This is issue is on. I come home the other day. There's a letter that someone on my street has written. I think her name was Wanda. And it said. And it said. And I wanted to say, please help me, Wanda. Right? It said, we all know what's going on. This is frustrating. I've organized a meeting with the city count with or with our local council member. It had the date and said, write me if you want to come. I'm very torn.

[Shannon]

You got to go.

[Matt Jones]

But I don't even want to know who my city council member is. Like, I don't care. Right. I don't Want to get involved in any of this local government. I don't want to get involved.

[Drew]

It's the government that matters.

[Matt Jones]

It is. It's actually more important to people's daily lives, honestly, than usually the Fed or State is. But with that said, I don't want to get involved. But she had an email and she said she had a list of all the houses and said, I hope to hear from all of you. So I feel like she's doing a check list, Shannon. And I feel like if I don't. If I don't check. So I emailed her meeting is tonight. She never got back to me. So I guess they looked at my email and thought, well, we don't need him.

[Producer/Announcer]

Well, that's a good thing that you're out, then.

[Matt Jones]

That's my out. I tried. They won't tell some meetings tonight, but I don't know where it is, so I guess I'm not going.

[Shannon]

They. I'm sure they feel like they need you to give them a little clout, a little power when they meet with the city.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe they don't want me to, like, mess it up. They're like, oh, if he gets involved, then it's a whole nother thing. Right.

[Shannon]

Are the signs still posted in the back?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but they're cardboard.

[Shannon]

That's what I'm saying.

[Matt Jones]

Like, that they're not official, you know, by.

[Shannon]

And rip those up.

[Matt Jones]

They're not official car signs. But anyway, so I have to decide that. All right. Second thing that Mark Pope said is he said that he was amazed at the analytic approach that. That Pope took to recruiting in the Portal, and he used Ansley Almanor as an example. He said something basically like, when Pope got Ansley Almanor, I thought, what are you doing? Like, that kid cannot play at Kentucky. But he said Pope had a specific thing he thought Al Manor could do. Shoot threes, stand in the corner, pass. And he was like. And then it worked to perfection, he said. Then I realized maybe the way to look at the portal is to look at it like baseball GMs do, where you go, well, this can be a guy that you know is a pinch hitter versus lefties and that he thinks Pope, that eventually all coaches will do that. But Pope was maybe the first one to see it like that.

[Drew]

That sounds a lot like, I can't remember if it was Myron or someone we had on last summer. They had just seen Pope at the Peach Jam, and we've been there a million times. Coaches are there to be seen shaking hands, smiling, said Pope. Had like a envelope that was, you know, almost a foot thick of profiles on all the players, what he wanted and like no one else has anything in their lap. And here's Pope with basically brought his desk with as he's recruiting and analyzing talent.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Which I think would mean when you look at this coming year's team, we sit there and look and go, okay, what's this guy? What's this guy's going to do? Pope probably has with most of the guys he brought in, he is going to do this specific thing. I have him for this specific thing. Even if he's not as good as X person, I want him for this. And that's a good way to think about it.

[Shannon]

We amazed at how he constructed that roster last year for exactly what you said. I need a point guard that can do this and this. I need a 5 guy that can pass. I need a 4 guy that can shoot in the corner specifically go get guys just to do those roles.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Not superstars.

[Matt Jones]

So I thought the Bills interview was very interesting. You ought to check it out on sources say. We'll take a break. Take your calls. 859-28022 87 KSR TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

[Shannon]

Call TJ. He'll make him pay.

[Producer/Announcer]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Here at the KS Bar and Grill we are open for lunch. Come and remember. Well, we're not open. We will be open in 30 minutes. And remember that we'll be here for the pregame show. Should be a fun day. I mean like I know we've said this over and over. You can't ask for better weather than it's going to be here Saturday. So weather won't be any impact. I saw that our defense coordinator said we're going to play lots of people to try to wear them down.

[Drew]

I like that, especially the weather. Like both those statements. I even double checked the weather again this morning. Supposed to be like 75 right at kickoff. Beautiful sunshine. Can't wait for that. And I want to see the depth on that defense. I think that we're going to get back to the defense being the strength of the team and that will, that will start here in 48 hours. Ready to see it hit them hard.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I think this is a team like we've said before is going to win games. You're going to, you're going to have to win them like 13 to 1221 to 20. We're not maybe score a lot of points, but we can hold teams in there without a lot of points.

[Matt Jones]

That guy right there had a great interaction with me last night. So you came here last night for Wings Day, right? And he writes me, and, you know, this made me feel good. Like, listen, part of reopening this restaurant, it's like, I have a lot of pride in this place. I want people to like it. I don't. I mean, like, as a financial thing, like a restaurant is, even when it's good, like, you're. You're scraping by, right? Like, unless you're, you know, massive. It is what it is. It's. It's. It's. It's a. It's. It's a labor of love. So this guy writes me, he's like, the wings are awesome. We got great reviews on the food yesterday, which made me happy, but wings are awesome. Thank you so much. And this is the best deal I've ever seen. And I was like, yeah, dollar wings on Wednesday. That's a good deal. I mean, honestly, most places it's like a dollar fifty. So that's a pretty good deal, right? I'm like, I'm glad he's appreciative. What an appreciative guy. Yes. And I remember thinking to myself, see, this is why we reopened this place. How appreciative. Guys like this, right? Then about an hour later, I get another text message from him that says, I kind of feel stupid about what I said. And I'm like, oh, no. So here's what he said. Here's was his initial one, Matt, you guys have just given the best deal of all time. All time with Wings Day. I got three things of wings, and it's the literal best bang for a buck I've ever had. The key word. There was a buck. He writes me later, matt, I'm so stupid. And yes, you can make fun of me for being that naive, but I thought it was a dollar for an order of wings, not a dollar for each wing. Too good to be true. It was still great, but I'm kicking myself. I gotta look you in the eye and say, that was very nice, but you thought I was gonna give you 10 wings for a dollar. That would have been three of them. So that would have been $3, and you would have gotten 30. I loved it. You still made me feel good. But I was like, you know what? May have to make sure we articulate the right word.

[Drew]

I saw the graphic. It says, a dollar for all wings. But that means types, boneless, bone in flavors, all. All the options.

[Matt Jones]

You were very nice. I thought that was. It was still worth it. Okay, good. But it made me laugh. Okay. You know, I love the. The soccer cups in Europe.

[Shannon]

Oh, yes you do.

[Matt Jones]

Why do I love the soccer cups in Europe?

[Shannon]

The fans and the announcers and the.

[Matt Jones]

Little teams get a chance to have big upsets. Right. That's what I like. And remember in some of these countries you get like teams that would be like the ksbar team gets to play against the Yankees and they get a chance. So in Britain, one of the great upsets of all time, Grimsby Town, which is a town of like 16,000 people. So what's a town in Kentucky that has 16,000 people?

[Shannon]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

I don't even know. Let's just say what Ashland sounds good. Does that sound about right? Ashland would be playing Manchester United. And Grimsby Town beat him.

[Shannon]

Oh, they did.

[Matt Jones]

And they beat him. And the place goes crazy. There's videos online. They storm the field. Although imagine it's not college kids, but it's old men with guts that storm the field. It's a great video, but that's still not the most entertaining anyone. The Champions League, Ryan, they take teams from every country in Europe and of course the teams in the big countries do better. England, Spain, France, Germany, etc. But these little other countries, they get a chance to.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And the. The wit. The team that won the Kazakhstan league.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I think their name, right, Shane, is it K E I R A T. Is that right?

[Producer/Announcer]

K A I. Yes. R A T. K A I. R A T. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

They were playing a match that if they won they get to move to the group stage where the money just for coming in last is more than their entire team is worth. Wow. Okay, so this is like the biggest moment in Kazakhstan soccer history. All they have to do is. Is they've got this one penalty kick and if they make it, they. They get to go.

[Shannon]

Comes down to a penalty kick.

[Matt Jones]

Now granted, this is a language we do not know, but you don't need to know the language to hear the excitement of Kazakhstan in this moment. Go ahead and play that. To me, that ride living is what sports is about. That's awesome. That is what sports is about. They're just losing their mind. Still going. They're scre. They scream. So now what happens is I think today they have a draw. They have a draw where they'll decide what eight teams in Europe they play and four of those teams will have to come to their little stadium. So you Might have a situation where like Liverpool or Real Madrid has to come to their little stadium in Kazakhstan and listen to those guys scream. And I, I love it like that. That, Drew, is what sports are about.

[Drew]

Absolutely. They even. They had it ripped away from a little, I think, man, you scored twice.

[Matt Jones]

That was a different game. This is the Kazakhstan.

[Drew]

Okay, well, regardless, you know, you think you even have a little bit of remote chance. It's like a moral victory, but then for. It's actually at the crossbar at the.

[Matt Jones]

End and then the script. So when we get a big win, Shannon, I want you to save that. That's what I want to play. If we, if we beat Texas or we beat Tennessee or Florida, that would. That's the reaction.

[Drew]

You said you didn't know the language. I don't think they were saying words. That's just yell.

[Matt Jones]

Just losing their minds. That is not a language, Shannon. That's just. That's just visceral screaming. Right?

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, but that works across any language.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly.

[Drew]

So remember that. That's going to be Tom Leach and Jeff Pocoro after the Texas game.

[Matt Jones]

Get ready. I hope that's right. So congratulations to whatever that team is in Kazakhstan. Who's up first?

[Producer/Announcer]

Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan. Go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt.

[Caller]

Happy birthday.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you very much.

[Caller]

So you were talking the other day about an NFL player being traded.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller]

And I can't remember who, but that doesn't matter. It dawned on me how odd the whole concept of trading is of players. And I mean, what if that was just like that in society? You just had to tell your wife, I've been traded to the Walmart in Monticello and we got.

[Matt Jones]

You know what? It's funny you say that. I totally agree with you about that and have had that thought. I appreciate the call we accept in sports. This idea that you can be traded to a different city without your consent and you just have to go like the next day. Right. You live in like, just imagine tomorrow. Shannon. I traded Ryan.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

To a radio station in Seattle for.

[Producer/Announcer]

For someone else name later.

[Matt Jones]

And I. And they say to him, you need to report to Seattle for work on Thursday. Like, that would be wild. Isn't it? And in sports that just happens. Okay, Ryan, go to Seattle. Hope you enjoyed your time in Kentucky. And then.

[Shannon]

Yeah, that's why you see these emotional goodbyes sometimes, because these are your. Your teammates, your friends, your.

[Matt Jones]

Your family. But it's not even just that. Your whole life, like, you know that house you love no more? Get rid of it. You're going to Seattle.

[Shannon]

Find you something in Seattle.

[Matt Jones]

He's exactly right. It's funny he says that, because I've had that thought in my life, how weird it is. Okay? And even, like, he mentioned Walmart. Let's just say you work at Walmart in Monticello. And they go, all right, you'll be at Walmart in New Mexico tomorrow. Enjoy yourself.

[Drew]

When sports, we think about it from the roster, change the jersey, what it does for the team. But, I mean, these people have families. Imagine you got a kid in school in Phoenix, and you get traded to Toronto. That's a pretty big change for everyone around you.

[Matt Jones]

That's another good point. You could have to leave the country. True.

[Drew]

They're talking about putting teams in Mexico City.

[Matt Jones]

You literally could just be like, all right, now, go get your Canadian. Go get your passport, honey, we're living in Canada. Like, that's.

[Drew]

That is the whole family.

[Matt Jones]

It is. It's just accepted. But it is very strange that, really.

[Drew]

That'S why I assume a lot of them have to just get an apartment and leave life back where they were for a long time so they can get it figured out. They can't imagine just lifting up your whole family not knowing how long you'd be playing for the Raptors.

[Matt Jones]

There's somebody who has told me, I think a lot of the Bengals, they live in an apartment complex there in Newport, Kentucky, and just so that they can, if need be, go somewhere.

[Shannon]

That's what Devin does with the Broncos. They have, like, a community of townhomes and condos. Again, a lot of the players just live there just during the season.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, they announced yesterday, all the NFL teams announced their practice squads. A lot of Kentucky guys found places. Dumas Johnson is on one. The Packers. Yeah. Quentin Bohanna got picked up by one. And you got to give a shout out to a guy who played for Kentucky last year, Zion Childress, who was undrafted and made the Cowboys regular roster as an undrafted free agent. That's very rare. And Zion Childress from last year's team did that.

[Shannon]

A guy I thought would get drafted in the late round. So, yeah, obviously talented enough and good enough, went to camp, earned the right to earn that spot on the roster. So congratulations to him.

[Matt Jones]

You know, Mike Edwards got cut, but then he made the Chiefs practice squad. Darian Canard is in Green Bay.

[Drew]

Eli Cox made the Texans practice squad.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, Eli Cox did okay.

[Drew]

They waved him, then brought him back on practice squad, which is common.

[Matt Jones]

And by the way, I saw Dane Key was named a captain of Nebraska. That's quite an accomplishment for a guy that just transferred in.

[Shannon]

Yeah, he just showed up in January and his teammates six. Six months later voted him one of the six captains. I mean, I'm so proud.

[Matt Jones]

When are you going to Nebraska? They play Cincinnati.

[Shannon]

What, tonight?

[Matt Jones]

Tonight?

[Shannon]

They played this night tonight in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Why didn't you go?

[Shannon]

I had two tickets. I got the show to do. It's your birthday.

[Drew]

You could leave after the show.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, you could still get there. If you leave right now. I bet you could get there.

[Shannon]

We got a big show tomorrow with cornbread.

[Matt Jones]

He drive up through the night. No. You're gonna be excited to watch it, though.

[Shannon]

I can't wait to watch it.

[Matt Jones]

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[Drew]

It's worried. They thought you might have put them on the trading block when you referenced their Walmart.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, some of y' all gonna have to give us somebody back in order for that. That trade to be made.

[Shannon]

So, like, yeah, here at KS Bar, we have some servers maybe have to skip out for a couple weeks or like we just go make a trade. We can trade you for somebody down in Monticello to come up and work at our restaurant for a couple weeks.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. That's true. That's exactly right.

[Shannon]

I like that a lot.

[Matt Jones]

Sometimes, Shannon, it sounds like he. He like stepped out for a segment and came back you know, I think he did. I think like I can tell and I can even tell your facial expression when it's happening. It's that one.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Your mouth is open, your tongue is on the bottom of your teeth. But I can see it, right? You can see it. You know the facial expression. When his mind is somewhere else and is his tongue is on his teeth, he's just looking. That's when you know he's not here with us at this moment. We have to give him a minute to come back.

[Drew]

Yeah, but we know he'll be right back.

[Matt Jones]

He'll be back. Yeah, he just, he's pro. But the, and the thing is he's like Homer Simpson. He's probably like thinking about a donut.

[Drew]

Or something like the Happy Gilmore happy place up there.

[Matt Jones]

He's.

[Drew]

Whatever he wants to do.

[Matt Jones]

He's up there doing Mario notes. Yeah, you've seen that look, right? That's why he's not consistent. Is the right Mario not consistent. Who's up next?

[Producer/Announcer]

Cameron.

[Matt Jones]

Cameron. Go ahead. Cameron.

[Producer/Announcer]

Cameron.

[Matt Jones]

Cameron.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday. Matt, can you hear me?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller]

Just a couple quick things. Yeah, just a couple quick things. You know Kentucky football, I see them winning five games this year. Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Tennessee Tech, Auburn and Vandy. Do you think that's plausible?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller]

Second of all, don't sleep on that Dairy Queen chicken tender basket. It's one of the best fast food items out there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we had a bunch of people take up for the Dairy Queen fast chicken tender basket. There are people who are, who are fans of that. They like the gravy. I mean, those are the five. Drew, if you were going to say Kentucky, appreciate the call. Was going to win five. Those are the five you'd pick, the three stinky teams, Auburn and Vandy, I mean that's what you would pick. I'm picking though, I'm picking the three sticky teams, Vandy and Florida. But you know the path to six is when those five with it includes Auburn and then Steel one. That's the path to six. Yeah.

[Drew]

I have the three stinky Vandy in Florida. I feel good about the Florida game. I know that's crazy. They're like ranked 15th right now. But I think we're going to see them slowly get worse. Their coach has been living on the hot seat. It's in Lexington in November when Florida never plays here.

[Matt Jones]

November, Never played here in November.

[Drew]

I'm looking at that as the marquee went on the schedule, not counting Louisville of course. And then Getting Vandy on the road.

[Matt Jones]

We want it to be really cold for that game. We want the cold front to come in Florida here in November. That's. That's what we'd like to see happen.

[Shannon]

I read this story where, like, the last time Florida came here in November, Frank Kersey, I think, was a coach, and they flipped Fields, made the Florida team be in the shade on the one side of the field, and the Kentucky team took the side. Other side on the. In the sun just to make them a little colder during the game. We should do the same thing.

[Matt Jones]

I would agree. I agree. Like, let's do whatever gamesmanship we can do. My hope is you get to that point. Fans are still engaged in the season because you can have a big crowd advantage for. For that game as well.

[Drew]

Fill the stadium. We can all just blow, you know, try to make it even colder in there when Florida has the ball. I remember that date, the Vandy game a few years ago, because it was my day after my wedding. It was snowing pretty bad in Lexington, so maybe we could get some snow in early November.

[Matt Jones]

Did you see the story about Bill Belichick and his girlfriend and what they've done, the trademark they filed?

[Drew]

I have. Tell us about it.

[Matt Jones]

This is a. This is great. I have to tell you, I've completely flipped on the girlfriend from, like, I don't know what's going on to. I've decided she might be the best, like, business person I know. She has filed for a trademark for the word gold digger to sell on jewelry, the Jordan, under Bill Belichick's company's name, Gold Digger Jewelry.

[Shannon]

Kind of brilliant.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, it is. I mean, I know you're shaking your head, but at the same time, if you're gonna get called that anyway, why not embrace it? Like, if you're like. Like, she's not gonna be able to stop people from calling her. That's. Let me tell you something, ma'. Am. You'd be surprised. There are women that will buy it, I bet you. I mean, I know you don't think they will, but, Drew, what do you think?

[Drew]

There's a world full of gold.

[Matt Jones]

There's a world. There's a world for anything. There's a world of people. I don't care what it is. There's a world of people who buy it. I actually think it's smart now. It's hilarious to me. It's gonna be in Bill Belichick's name. Like, that's what's hilarious to me, is that he is his lawyer's gonna have to go before the trademark board and argue that Bill Belichick deserves that. But I do think that's funny. Yeah.

[Drew]

His lawyers probably thinking that we're just gonna retire and go off into the sunset. Now Jordan's got the keys to the company, doing all kinds of stuff.

[Matt Jones]

You like it?

[Shannon]

He had to sign off on it. So, I mean, I think he's embraced. Like I said, why don't I just embrace it and go for it, make money off it? Because you're right. I guarantee there's a big market for women out there that would buy that.

[Matt Jones]

I'm shocked it doesn't already exist. Shannon, you know what? I'm kind of surprised. Like, if nobody's done it, I'm kind of surprised nobody has, because I feel like, Shannon, there is a market for it.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, there definitely is. This is just another example on how she will do literally anything he tells her or she tells him. She tells him.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I was about to say, I don't think this was Bill Belichick's idea.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

[Matt Jones]

Although that would be funny if it was.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If Bill Belichick was the one that came up with it, that would make it even more funny. She's. And you.

[Drew]

I don't really call her a villain, but she is leaning into this villain role or whatever it is.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, She's. Remember, they open.

[Drew]

She's embracing it.

[Matt Jones]

They open on Monday Night Football.

[Drew]

The only game that.

[Matt Jones]

The only game that night is North Carolina with Belichick. You don't think she's going to end up on the screen at some point during that game?

[Shannon]

Oh, of course she will.

[Matt Jones]

I think she will. We'll take a break. Hour number two, KS Bar, is opening. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.