2025-10-02- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Date: October 2, 2025
Hosts: Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)

Episode Overview

This episode of KSR, minus regular host Matt Jones, sees Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, and Shannon the Dude steering lively conversation about the UK (University of Kentucky) football team’s current woes, recapping some off-air hijinks, speculating about the future of coach Mark Stoops, and mixing in listener calls and central Kentucky color. With basketball season and key coaching interviews on the horizon, the hour feels both anxious and tradition-heavy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Off-Air Antics and Shannon's Man Cave

• The crew recounts their visit to Shannon’s home in Mount Washington, marking their first on-site show at his “man cave.”
  • Moped adventures: Ryan’s “badass” moped ride (“Women love a man on a motorcycle.” – Shannon, 06:17), causing neighbors to stir as he drove down the street singing "Born to Be Wild."
  • Backyard football: Spirals compared between Ryan, Shannon, Mario, and Billy, with Shannon claiming the best throw (06:48), and some good-natured ribbing about football prowess.
  • Pumpkin gifts: Shannon handed out pumpkins for Halloween carving, and Ryan put his on display for neighbor envy (08:55).

2. UK Football: State of the Program and Stoops’ Future

• Listener frustration is high due to the troubled offense and recent performance against South Carolina. Defensive prowess is acknowledged but rarely considered enough to rescue the season.
• Ryan relays the argument of a defensive-minded friend: Kentucky’s defense is still capable of keeping games close even if the offense struggles. (“This defense is still an elite defense that can still keep you in some games.” – Ryan, 10:08)
• Drew and Shannon remain skeptical (“I can get behind this being a good defense… I just, I don’t know if it’s good enough to go actually win a game for an offense that is quite the opposite.” – Drew, 11:42; “To me, the problem is the offense.” – Shannon, 12:32), noting that statistics on scoring under offensive coordinator Bush are damning.

Notable Segment:

Kentucky’s Defensive Hope

• [09:46]–[13:44]: The crew debates if good defense can salvage the season or if looming locker room issues, lack of touchdowns, and Georgia’s dominance make hope futile.

On Mark Stoops' Buyout:

• Multiple callers ask: Is it even possible to fire Stoops given the $38m buyout?
  • Both Ryan and Drew agree that Stoops is not likely to step down himself and that UK is contractually bound, likening the situation to a “hostage” scenario. (“He ain’t stepping down… 9 million a year and a 38 million dollar buyout, I’m not stepping down. Stoops is not stupid.” – Ryan, 21:59)
  • Alternative solutions like moving Stoops into an administrative role are floated but deemed unlikely unless Stoops agrees.

3. Fan Frustrations and Emotional Pulse

• The Aviation Glass Text Machine is cited as overwhelmingly negative, though Ryan shares one optimistic fan message as a “unicorn.” (“Negativity sells these days. Go cats.” – fan via text, 18:50)
• Listeners express concern that, absent a spark, the program risks sinking into irrelevance or necessitating costly leadership change.

Quotes:

• “He's starting to feel so eerily familiar to the end of the Cal era, where people slowly started turning against the guy that we idolized.” – Ryan, 32:02
• “A new football coach is much more important than this entertainment district around the stadium.” – Ryan, 32:44

4. Call-in Highlights

• Several callers vent about contract terms, coaching legacies, and whether administration would ever “pony up” for a buyout or court changes through the entertainment complex instead of football.
• A comedic moment occurs when a listener, Jake, tries to invite himself over to Shannon’s house. (“Have you ever known a bad Jake? Jakes are all good guys.” – Ryan, 33:55)
• Discussion also touches on recent local events, like Northern Lights sightings and curiosity over failed attempts to see the International Space Station.

5. Lexington Traditions and Nostalgia Game

• Drew quizzes Ryan on Lexington’s oldest continuously operating businesses, sparking nostalgia and local pride:
  • Notable mentions: Barney Miller, P-Rats, Columbia Steakhouse, Chevy Chase Inn, Transylvania University, Wheeler Pharmacy, Red Mile, Lexington Cemetery, Thoroughbred Restaurant.
  • “Wheeler Pharmacy… That group still gets together. Who all used to be in the Wheeler Pharmacy group?” – Drew, 47:56

6. Playoff Recaps and Cincinnati Reds

• The Reds' season ends abruptly with a short-lived playoff appearance. Reflection is tinged with resignation, including mention of their long postseason drought.

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• On Moped Antics:
  “Riding this moped… I'm a badass. Women love a man on a motorcycle. And people are like, what is going on over there? What is this guy?”
  – Shannon the Dude, [06:17]

• On Stoops’ Buyout:
  “He ain’t stepping down… 9 million a year and a 38 million dollar buyout, I’m not stepping down. Stoops is not stupid.”
  – Ryan Lemon, [21:59]

• On Fans' Frustration:
  "He's starting to feel so eerily familiar to the end of the Cal era, where people slowly started turning against the guy that we idolized."
  – Ryan Lemon, [32:02]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [03:02–09:09] – Recap of Mount Washington man cave outing, moped story, football spirals, and pumpkins
• [09:09–13:44] – Deep dive into Kentucky football, defense vs. offense debate, and Stoops' future
• [18:29–22:05] – More fan reaction, reading texts, revisiting defense, and buyout implications
• [23:39–25:05] – Listener calls analyze Stoops’s play calling, future, and legacy
• [35:31–37:22] – Local color: International Space Station, pickleball outings
• [45:29–48:44] – Nostalgia quiz: Oldest Lexington businesses
• [48:53–50:04] – Callers respond to Arkansas’s coaching decisions, Kentucky’s future
• Throughout – Aviation Glass Text Machine readouts, reinforcing tone of fan pessimism

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Tone & Atmosphere

• The episode captures a blend of frustration, resignation, nostalgia, and gallows humor. The hosts keep things light with personal stories but don’t shy away from honest assessments of the football program’s difficulties.
• Much of the language retains the hosts’ colloquial, self-deprecating style, illustrated by the ribbing about moped adventures, playful takes on contracts (“contract, was that like a Freudian slip?” – Shannon, 22:21), and call-in banter.

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Memorable Moments

• Ryan’s Moped Escapade: Set the relaxed and humorous tone opening the show.
• Fan Message Unicorn: Illustrates dominant mood—rare optimism among widespread negativity.
• Nostalgia Game with Lexington’s Longest-running Businesses: Bridging community and KSR’s place in local culture.
• Caller Jake's Quest to Visit Shannon: Added levity to the hour.

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Coming Up

• Teased future segments include an hour with EKU football coach Walt Wells and a call-in from Richie Farmer about UK basketball practice, signaling more of the blend between football anxiety and basketball anticipation.

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Summary prepared for KSR Hour 1, October 2, 2025 – covering all core sports discussion, fan mood, show traditions, and natural KSR banter.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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[Ryan Lemon]

Diplo?

[Diplo]

I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

It was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Shannon the Dude]

This is Kentucky sports Radio presented by Stockton mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, grandpas, grandmas, aunts and uncles. This is not Matt Jones. This is Ryan Lemon. I'm here with Drew Franklin and Shannon the dude for another edition of Kentucky sports radio. It is Thursday, October 2nd. We appreciate everybody tuning in today, as always. Kentucky sports radio is sponsored by the TJ Smith law office called TJ Shannon. What's he do?

[Shannon the Dude]

He'll make him pay.

[Ryan Lemon]

He will absolutely make him pay. We've got our avision glass text machine, which I brought it again. I've got it right here in my pocket.

[Shannon the Dude]

Consistency.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, here's what I did. I had it sitting out in the counter. I put my car keys right on top of it.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, that's a good move.

[Ryan Lemon]

So I knew if I picked up my car keys, I had to see it and I would pick it up.

[Drew Franklin]

So the avision glass text machine is 502-735-3680. It's hard to give a phone number in that pattern, but it works.

[Ryan Lemon]

You remember?

[Drew Franklin]

It does. It's stupid, but it works.

[Ryan Lemon]

And the Clark's puppet shop phone number is 8592-8022-8785-9280. Cats. All right. Kind of got a hodgepodge of stuff coming on today. Richie Farmer wants to call in and tell us what he saw at basketball practice. Remember when he was here with Buck Stivers? He's we were going. They were going to practice after the show. So he wants to report on kind of some things he saw. We got a report on what I did, what we all did after the show yesterday. First of all, Shannon, thank you for hosting us yesterday. That was a lot of fun to be in your man cave, your garage. I really enjoyed that.

[Shannon the Dude]

Thank you guys for coming out. It was lot of fun. Really enjoyed it. And first time we ever did a show in Mount Washington. Hopefully not our last, though.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, it's the first time we've done a show at Your house. We know when. Nobody ever been to your house. That man cave you put together is kind of an awesome. Now I see why your neighbors are always coming over, wanting to watch the games at your place.

[Shannon the Dude]

And, you know, last night I was sitting there watching the reds, and then I look over, and here comes one of my neighbors, about half drunk. He's probably about two or three beers in. Hey, man, you got any more beer in that frit? Yeah, come on over. Let's sit down at the pub. Let's have a beer and watch the game. So it never fails.

[Ryan Lemon]

So when the show was over, Drew, you, you had to bust out of there.

[Drew Franklin]

I had to get back.

[Ryan Lemon]

We got the moped.

[Drew Franklin]

Busy day. Yeah, I missed the moped. Fun.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm sure.

[Drew Franklin]

I heard a brief mention of the pre show, setting it up. Then I had to get out of my car. But it sounds like it didn't go swimmingly.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, of course it did.

[Shannon the Dude]

Well, no, you nearly as soon as you fired right into my next door neighbor.

[Ryan Lemon]

Exaggerating the howling.

[Shannon the Dude]

No, you were inches away for running into a brick wall head first.

[Drew Franklin]

I believe Shannon.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, they are so exaggerating that, you know, when I first got on it, it's safety precautions. Supposed to check your mirrors, check your.

[Drew Franklin]

Brakes, buckle up, put your phone down.

[Ryan Lemon]

So I'm kind of checking all that. And I did make a wide turn as I go down the drive, but I didn't come close to hitting the house or anything. Went up and down the street there that Shannon lives on, waving at some neighbors. Yellow screen. One of your neighbors in the garage. I'm hollering at him, yo, what up, dude? Having a good time.

[Shannon the Dude]

Immediately started disrupting everybody in the neighborhood. You were singing Born Wild at the top of your lungs, going up and down the street. You were honking at people. People were honking back at you. It was chaos that you created on my nice, sleepy little street. You just stirred everybody up.

[Ryan Lemon]

Was there something very liberating about, you know, your hair flowing in the wind? I got my flip flops on. I got my baseball hat on backwards. I'm enjoying life, riding Shannon's best.

[Shannon the Dude]

Riding this moped going, I'm a badass. Women love a man on a motorcycle. And people are like, what is going on over there? What is this guy?

[Ryan Lemon]

Apologize to your neighbors.

[Drew Franklin]

Moon on a Wednesday. But here's.

[Ryan Lemon]

Here's what else we did. Shannon got a football out. We threw the football out in the backyard. Mario, Billy, Shannon, and me. I just tossed the football back and forth out in his Backyard out there. It was. It was a lot of fun.

[Shannon the Dude]

Who would you say has the best spiral out of me? Yourself? Mario and Billy rank the spirals.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'd say you're probably number one.

[Shannon the Dude]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

Shane's still got a pretty good arm. Yeah, he'd just be a pitcher in college. He's still got a pretty good arm.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

I can throw a good spiral, but I've lost a lot on my fastball. I can't really throw it very far. I can't go very hard.

[Drew Franklin]

Lost your zip?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah. Mario and Billy are three and four. I'm gonna say that's it.

[Drew Franklin]

Hold on. That sounded like a. There might be a gap between 2 and 3 and 4.

[Ryan Lemon]

There's a little bit of a gap there. I want to say Mario 3, Billy 4. What do you about you, Shannon?

[Shannon the Dude]

I was going to flip it because Mario, when he throws a football, looks like the wounded duck, you know, it's, like, wobbly.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay. I had it in my head the other way around. So that was Mario that was throwing the bad spiral.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Shannon the Dude]

Mario would just kind of hear, like, you know, do, like, a little shovel pass to me and let me throw it back to you guys, but. Yeah, I never was a quarterback, though. Never did play football, but.

[Drew Franklin]

Sounds like you all had a big day.

[Ryan Lemon]

It was fun. It was a lot of fun.

[Drew Franklin]

Also sounds like you need your own moped in town. I need to see you going down Main street singing Born to be Wild with your head on.

[Ryan Lemon]

You know, Dante's got one. He rides his moped from his house to my house and hidden to his. Go see his grandkids. So maybe I can borrow his and just ride around the neighborhood.

[Shannon the Dude]

You know, I know that John Caliperi had a Vespa, but I. I've seen, like, one picture of. I can't imagine Caliperi riding a Vespa through the streets of Lexington.

[Drew Franklin]

He wrote it a lot.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he did.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

He wouldn't, like, leave his neighborhood. Like, you wouldn't see him on New Circle.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, he's going up shin away. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

He had some friends in the neighborhood. He'd ride it over to their house. So if you. If you were in that little. You could see Cal on any given.

[Ryan Lemon]

Day, and apparently quite often during the summer and stuff, he'd ride that Vesper out there everywhere. So.

[Drew Franklin]

So you gotta. You gotta step up, Ryan. It's your time. Well, here's Lexington needs you riding around like you're in a biker gang.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'll borrow Dante's Vespa or Moped right around my neighborhood. But here's the one thing you really missed out on. Shannon gave us all one of these pumpkins.

[Drew Franklin]

Actually, I got on the Gene Snyder. I have Mount Washington in my rear view mirror, a little tear in my eye that I had to leave early and I thought Shannon offered me a pumpkin and I ran out of there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he was all one of his prized pumpkins.

[Shannon the Dude]

That's right. Now I want to see what you do with it. I want to see how good your carving skills are when it comes, you know, closer to Halloween. I want to see what you do with it. Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I've got it displayed proudly right in front of my house right now out on the sidewalk. So all my neighbors can be jealous of this great pumpkin that I've got sitting on my sidewalk.

[Shannon the Dude]

They'll probably want to take it and smash it on your door after you, you know, blast Darius Rucker at 2:00 in the morning.

[Ryan Lemon]

That happens, too.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

So good show to the Channing yesterday. We appreciate it. Today's show. You know, every year, EKU football coach Walt Wells likes to come in on the show. Usually it's during his bye week or before a big game. Well, this is their bye week. So he's going to come in and sit with us from like 11 to 12, talk about the Colonels and talk about the state of college football right now. You know, the thing that even they deal with the EKU level. So I'm looking forward to having Coach Wells on again with us.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, it's become a bit of a tradition. We've got to know him really well. Yeah, you mentioned sometimes in the past he's been hyping up a big rivalry. But it'll still be good to hear what's going on over there and have him. Maybe he'll give his thoughts on Kentucky, too. You know, he was on the staff at one point.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, let's talk about Kentucky, because I had a guy that knows a lot more football than me. He tried to.

[Drew Franklin]

Where did you ever find someone that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Truly knows more football than me? He's a defensive guy.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

And he was. This was, this was, this was the pitch he gave me to not give up on this team just yet.

[Drew Franklin]

All right, let me hear it. I need to. I'm wounded like, like many others.

[Ryan Lemon]

He said, ryan, listen, this defense is still really good. I said, man, they looked awful against South Carolina. He goes, you know, I know you think that, but listen, they didn't give up that scoop and score. They didn't give up that pick six, another interception led to a very short field. You take wiggle, 21 points, the game is really 14 to 10, 14 to 13. He said this defense is still an elite defense that can still keep you in some games. What are your thoughts about his pitch to me about don't give up yet because the defense is could get you a couple wins.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm with you on the defense being good and maybe they can win some games. Heck, at halftime in South Carolina, Kentucky had outgained South Carolina. Right is when you, when you have back to back defensive scores, doesn't matter who you're playing. It's going to be hard to win that game. South Carolina didn't score at all in the third quarter. Would they have like three points in the second half?

[Ryan Lemon]

Three points in the whole second half. Defense kept them out of the end zone.

[Drew Franklin]

You can even go back to the home game. Is defense setting the offense up in good field position with the first quarter takeaways? I mean how many times did you know would Todd Bryant have two in the first quarter? You got Jake Q. Hardaway on the first throw of the season setting the offense up in good shape. So yeah, I completely believe that the defense is one of the better ones Kentucky's had, especially the front, you know, Sellers pretty special. They had him dead rights a couple times and he just made some plays and turned them into big gains. But I can get behind this being a good defense. I just, I don't know if it's good enough to go actually win a game for an offense that is quite the opposite.

[Ryan Lemon]

Very true.

[Drew Franklin]

The we keep saying it, but the fact that they don't have more than two touchdowns in 11 Power Four games under Bush, I mean, how do you not get more than two touchdowns?

[Ryan Lemon]

So he was trying to tell me, you know, maybe they still are not going to have to beat Georgia or Texas, but they still have enough talent. They could beat Florida, Auburn, some of these other games coming up and we were kind of counting them out already.

[Drew Franklin]

I think Kentucky would beat Florida if you can stay together until that game comes around. It's in the middle of November. It's if you don't win before that. How does your locker room look if you've just gotten your butt kicked throughout October? But yeah, I'm not writing them out on a few games. I don't think they're going to win this coming weekend or the next couple weekends. But if they can stick together and still have a sign of life in November, it gets a little more winnable.

[Ryan Lemon]

Shannon what are your thoughts about his argument to me about don't give up yet because the defense is elite?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Shannon the Dude]

I mean, I could be talked into the defense being, you know, serviceable, but that's not the problem. To me, the problem is the offense. So when your defense, again, you just said it. They gave up 14 points and we still lost the game. That's the bigger problem. How do you fix the offense? You're putting a ton of pressure on your defense when your offense doesn't have the capability of scoring more than 13 points. So that's what keeps me pessimistic about what's still ahead in the season.

[Ryan Lemon]

You know, last year you played Georgia and the final score was 13 to 12.

[Drew Franklin]

That's exciting. And we got Hosed Zion Childress that should have stood. And then, you know, we all wish Stoops been a little more aggressive there at the end. You had Georgia last year.

[Ryan Lemon]

You had Georgia last year at home. You had a chance to be on that fourth down, get a first down, put some points on the board, a field goal. You can win the game. Knock off Georgia for the first time in forever. You know, Georgia's beaten Kentucky now 15 times in a row. Fifteen times in a row.

[Drew Franklin]

The last time they beat Georgia, wasn't it a freshman quarterback?

[Ryan Lemon]

Was it Morgan Newton?

[Drew Franklin]

Newton Morton?

[Ryan Lemon]

Newton went on the road and I think so.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, I'm not gonna sit here and predict beating Georgia, but it is another level. But it is at least a talent or a style matchup that's been good in the past.

[Ryan Lemon]

So what do you think?

[Drew Franklin]

Definitely not a talent matchup.

[Ryan Lemon]

Are you. Are you completely checked out on the team? Are you still calling little hope. Do you think the defense is leading up to maybe get you a couple wins that we already trying to think it not going to happen. Where you stand on it. I know the fan base has been very brutal on the text machine. Aviation brutal. That's why it's hard to even mention some of the things they say because it's not pretty.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. And you know, I'm not going to say Stoops has been defensive, but he has noted. And there's a little bit of truth to this. Like not just jumping on that football last week and punting and getting out of there or a deflected interception. Some of the stuff, I'm not defending the offense at all. They've been crap. But some stuff is just piling on with luck too. I mean, like if Pete just picks up that ball or don't even pick it up, just Lands on it like.

[Ryan Lemon]

He was almost even on top of putting your belly button.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. So even though I think the coaching has been very poor, there's also been the bad luck factor, at least last week because you're not going to beat anybody with the mistakes that were made in that second quarter.

[Ryan Lemon]

So we'll go to the phone lines and take your call. We'll take a lot of calls today. If you got something you need to get off your chest about the UK football team. 859-280-2287. But before we go to the break, Drew, we need to give a pep talk. Get well wishes to Our girl, Kelly McDowell, super, super fan of KSR, works here at KS Bar and Grill. She's having some health issues. She's back in the hospital. So, Kelly, we're all thinking about you. We're praying for you. Need you back in here on Saturday for game day. So get well soon and hope she's up and going pretty soon.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, we're thinking about you, Kelly. Get better. We'll see you out here at KS Bar as soon as you can.

[Ryan Lemon]

We'll take our break. Come back. Ryan, Drew and Shannon. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together, Diplo?

[Diplo]

Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show, one of them. And I think he's just a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell. And I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that can carry it. And I came to his house, I had a show, I pulled up real quick. He about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus. And we had like three hours play the record for him. We kind of like got a scratch and then he handled on his own on the road.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

Yeah, it was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house and I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. And then now we're here playing it live.

[Bobby Bones]

You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.

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[Ryan Lemon]

You know I had my my hair just flowing in the wind, my hat on backwards, flip flops, my form fitting Cincinnati Reds jersey jersey. It was all ready to go man. Let's talk. We'll talk about the red in just a minute, but I do need to read this from the a Vision Glass text machine which I brought today. Drew, this is the first one.

[Drew Franklin]

We're proud of you.

[Ryan Lemon]

This one says I must disagree. Ryan, you are selective with the text machine messages you Report. I have texted both lines several times. Both text machine lines several times. I still support this team. I pay for my tickets. I will be in the stands all season. Our defense is very good. Eddie Graham was the best OC we ever had. He could adjust to the talent. I am not alone in supporting his team. Negativity sells these days. Go cats. So there are people out there that are very, very still on board with this team.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, why don't you read more of those texts? You're filtering them. You're putting a negative spin on this for. For clicks and listens. Ryan.

[Ryan Lemon]

I feel it. I don't want to burst his bubble, but that's like the only one I've got.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I think. I think that's a unicorn.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

So the defense has been good, though not perfect. They've given up too many explosive plays, especially to, like an Eastern Michigan team. They're a little banged up in that game. Tackling could be better, but overall they. They've held the team up as best they could.

[Ryan Lemon]

You're right. There was some poor tackling in the South Carolina game.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, they got tackling. Brad White was livid after the Eastern Michigan game. So it's not all. All rainbows for the defense.

[Ryan Lemon]

But you know who had maybe the best tackle in the entire game against South Carolina?

[Drew Franklin]

Who's that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Zero toughness punter Aiden Laross. Clock somebody on a punt return and I think. I think it was a dude that returned three punts for touchdown. Already this year he's going up the middle. La Ross just clocked him. No way, dude. Shannon, that guy gets a zero on toughness next year on that video game.

[Shannon the Dude]

No, no, no. Obviously that was a big mistake that he's a tough guy. You know, we talked about his D rugby, Right. He's a tough guy. There's no doubt.

[Drew Franklin]

Also, he's having a great year punting, kicker being perfect.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't want to get back to where we're getting compliments on our punters and kickers and that's it. Starting to feel that way.

[Shannon the Dude]

A little pun are used, but yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Those guys, in a year where we're a little disappointed now it's gone so far. Those guys have been great.

[Ryan Lemon]

Callway. Yeah, he's been awesome. Yeah. Of course we're going to jinx him right now, but he's.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

Bright spot.

[Drew Franklin]

Even had the rare doink that goes in. That's when you just. You got the magic. When you've got the doink, that's a make.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right. Before we get to the Reds. We get a couple calls on real quick. Who we got? Shannon.

[Shannon the Dude]

Let's go to Hunter.

[Ryan Lemon]

Hunter, go ahead, Hunter. Hey, Hunter.

[Caller (various callers)]

Hey, guys. It's been a long time coming. How are you guys doing today?

[Ryan Lemon]

All right. Appreciate you calling.

[Caller (various callers)]

Hey, so my question is. I have a comment. Question. So my question is, even if we were to go, you know, 3 and 9 or whatever it is, is there even any way to get the buyout done? Because from what it looks like to me, it looks like Stoops the balls in soups court, like we are kind of held hostage. And the reality is, is the longer that he stays here, the worse his reputation is going to be. But he also is making, you know.

[Ryan Lemon]

9 million a year.

[Caller (various callers)]

So, like, even if we were to do that bad, is there even any way Mitch can raise that money to do his buyout?

[Ryan Lemon]

Good question. I think it's a very legitimate question because if you go 3 and 9, you got to make a move that is unacceptable. But Mark, like a lot of people on this, on the Texas scene, thankful Stoops needs to step down. He needs to fall on the sword. Step down. He ain't stepping down.

[Drew Franklin]

He's not. I'm not stepping down. If you're paying me 9 million a year.

[Ryan Lemon]

9 million a year and a 38 million dollar buyout, I'm not stepping down. Stoops is not stupid.

[Drew Franklin]

I know. And when they sign that contract, contract that says we owe you this After 60 days, I'm not budging on that either. Our deal is our deal. You signed it. If you want to fire me, fire me. I'm walking away with 38 million and I need it in a hurry.

[Shannon the Dude]

We're saying contract, was that like a Freudian slip?

[Ryan Lemon]

So.

[Drew Franklin]

So I. But, you know, people do say wonder about his legacy. He doesn't want to leave it worse than he had it. I get all that. But at the same time, that is a lot of money.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes, it is.

[Drew Franklin]

Where you might. And I don't know what's between his ears, but I think a lot of people would go, my legacy. Or just keep riding this out as they're paying me 9 million. He's got UK wrapped around his finger.

[Ryan Lemon]

So the caller has a great question. Can that 38 million be generated within 60 days to buy him out?

[Drew Franklin]

That's. That's way above what I would even know. I would hope that seeing how the results have been last year and kind of heading this direction, that Mitch has at least got a little bit of a plan in place or some Some phone calls he know he can make if it is a 3 and 9 season.

[Ryan Lemon]

Now this is what I thought I had because Bruce Pearls wanted, gave me the idea could they slide Mark into an administrative role where you don't have to pay that buyout. You take him off the sideline but you put him as.

[Drew Franklin]

I think he'd have to agree to that. I mean again, why you, you sign that deal, why would he budge really at all? Maybe budge a little bit if it's 3 and 9, but that's, that's negotiating and he won big time at the table a few years ago.

[Ryan Lemon]

Who we got next? Shannon?

[Shannon the Dude]

Let's go to Jerry.

[Ryan Lemon]

Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry.

[Caller (various callers)]

Hey, Ryan. I told like I told Drew, serious, you know, Matt was gonna be crap for being so negative full season and I would love to be calling right now and you guys just laughing at me and give me crap because I didn't want to be right. But it. But unfortunately that coaching is so bad on offense that even though our defense is good, that was my fear all year, they would be good enough to overcome our coaching, quite frankly on offense. And now we're kind of stuck with it for the rest of the year. And as far as Stoops goes, the pro, the problem with Stoops right now, I mean I'm not on the nation on the firemark suits bandwagon, but he, he's going to have to be self reflective enough to realize that he screwed this up about kind of that pony up comment and really screwed up when he brought Wolfer back here. And he's going to have to admit to himself that he screwed it up and fix it and I don't know that he's capable of doing that. And so we'll, we'll see what happens the rest of the year. Football's oblong. Like Bill Curry said, funny things can happen. But I think if you're expecting more than a wing, it's Tennessee Tech or whatever. I think you're just being too overly optimistic. We'll see.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, Jerry. Appreciate it. Yeah, you know, Jerry said some things early before the season we didn't really agree with. Now they're kind of coming to truition. Truition, Fruition. I almost said truthful. Fruition went with truition. Like your contract.

[Drew Franklin]

We're on one today.

[Ryan Lemon]

I. There is no easy answer right now. There's just not. Rich Brooks used to say all the time we can't go to the waiver wire. We are, we are, we are warts. We got everybody's got warts. We got warts. There's nothing you can do right now.

[Drew Franklin]

And we all know that schedule. We've known the schedule for a while. We knew that you really needed to get Ole Miss at home or South Carolina to kind of keep it together a little bit longer before you hit this October gauntlet.

[Ryan Lemon]

And now you got Georgia this weekend and then there's another bye week. Oh yeah. Midnight Madness is that week from Saturday, the week your football team is off that you're fans are grumbling basketball seasons getting ready to start. Horrible timing for the football program to be struggling right when basketball is getting ready to start. So I don't know, the scheduling, the schedule didn't help him any. No.

[Drew Franklin]

I did mention this yesterday though. There's not a game where the crowd can really send a message and be empty because Tennessee and Texas are going to be full no matter what. People have planned trips for that. I mean there's going to be a lot of the opponents and for that one, you know, it's Keeneland season. I don't think that's one where you're going to see a lot of empty seats because people are upset. But if we had like a, you know, Eastern Michigan coming up or Toledo or something else, I think there'd be a statement made with attendance. But it'll be a while before we actually see that. Could be all the way in November.

[Ryan Lemon]

We got to talk about the Reds short lived playoff series. They got in the playoffs and out of the playoffs before Matt even got home.

[Shannon the Dude]

I mean that's very impressive.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

The summer of Ellie became the fall of Ellie became the October of Ellie became it's over for Ellie. They got beat last night by the Dodgers. Two games. Two and done. Now the other three wild card playoffs are all went to game three. All three of them did. But the Reds bowed out last night. Tried to stay up and watch. They went up two to nothing to start. I thought maybe they're going to force a game three. Nope. Done.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know that anyone really expected they'd win that series or even win a game. But you know, at least as a guy who's a fan of a lot of teams that suck right now, at least you got a few days of excitement you got in the playoffs. What was that like the fifth time in 30 years?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah. They hadn't won a playoff game since 2012 was the last time they actually won a playoff game.

[Drew Franklin]

It hadn't won a series since 95. Now that streak's still alive. But I would say the run of, you know, the excitement of being on the bubble and then getting in, watching the Mets lose as you're going getting hot at the end of the season and then having a few days to look forward to it and the excitement of a playoff game. I. I can't speak for Reds fans, but most are probably still happy of how it ended. No, they weren't going to win the World Series. You got to lose at some point.

[Ryan Lemon]

Shannon had to play the. Maybe the best team in the National League the last decade. Dodgers.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah. I mean, you have to score a lot of runs to beat the Dodgers. But I think, you know, in his first year as the manager, Terry Francona taking the Reds to the playoffs, it's big. It's big. Yeah, exactly. So it gives you something to build on for next year and just enough, you know, to keep Matt hanging on for more season tickets.

[Drew Franklin]

Got some young talent you're excited about.

[Ryan Lemon]

Young talent. And your Braves fired their manager yesterday.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, well, I think he.

[Shannon the Dude]

He transitioned into another role. I think.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't think.

[Shannon the Dude]

I don't know if they officially fired him, but he's like. I don't know what the word was.

[Drew Franklin]

He got repurposed.

[Shannon the Dude]

There you go.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's what Mark Pope.

[Drew Franklin]

He's now in account.

[Ryan Lemon]

Mark Pope, Mark Stoops maybe needs to do for the football program. Get repurposed somewhere over there at uk. So Reds done for the season. I hate that Matt was not here to enjoy it. I really hate that for him. He was a big fan.

[Drew Franklin]

He wanted to party tonight.

[Ryan Lemon]

Tonight we'll take our break. Come back. Ryan, Drew and Shannon. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. he'll make him pay.

[Shannon the Dude]

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

[Ryan Lemon]

Matt Jones back tomorrow and he will be at Shady Rays at Oxmoor Mall. We've done a couple shows there, always have good crowds. But I think if you live in the Louisville area, come out to this show. I think that would be really a cool little thing for Matt to come back home after his trip, have a huge crowd there. I'm sure he's got a ton of stories he wants to share with us. So if you're not doing anything tomorrow morning, come on out to Shady Rays at Oxmoor Mall. Come out to the show and support Matt's return back to the airwaves. Back to the show tomorrow.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, we've gotten a little to Louisville a little bit lately, but still not nearly enough. True. So it'd be just good to get the city of Louisville because we usually get good turnouts, have a lot of listeners we know there that we only see at Louisville shows. So I'm looking forward to making another trip.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, what if I told you, Drew, you need to stop overpaying for sunglasses?

[Drew Franklin]

I do need to.

[Ryan Lemon]

Are you tired of buying expensive sunglasses?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes. Exhausted from it.

[Ryan Lemon]

You lose them, break them bottom of Lake Tahoe. Never even wear them because you don't want to get them dirty. Well, guess what? You need Shady Rays. How about that for a transition? Shady Rays is an independent American owned company that started right here in Kentucky. Their big warehouse is right there on i64. We passed it yesterday going to Shannon's garage. Shady Rays has premium polarized shades for every activity. Running, fishing, biking, golfing, doing it, ksr, you name it. From their tangle free aviators that won't get stuck in your hair to their color rush lenses that provide ultimate color enhanced visibility, every member of the family can find their perfect pair. Shader Rays offers the best protection program in the industry with lost and broken replacements. So take on your next adventure with the team that has your back and little nugget here. I'm gonna wear some brand new Shady Rays to the show tomorrow. They're prescription Shady Rays.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, look at you.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, how about that? They made me some prescription shady raised sunglasses. I'll have them on. We have to keep the women off of me.

[Drew Franklin]

That'll be a tall task, but I think you can handle it.

[Shannon the Dude]

Only if you ride in on my moped.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, ladies love a badass on a moped. 859-280-2287. Let's get a call up Shannon. Who we got?

[Shannon the Dude]

Let's go to Ch.

[Drew Franklin]

Chase.

[Ryan Lemon]

Chase. Go ahead, Chase.

[Caller (various callers)]

Hey, how's it going, fellas?

[Ryan Lemon]

How are you, Chase?

[Caller (various callers)]

Doing great. Hey, you know, I'm. I'm 26 years old and for most of my adult life, Stoops Ball is all I've known at Kentucky. And you know, I. I just think it's time because if we keep letting him hang around, I'm afraid that we're going to end up in an Oklahoma State situation with Gundy where they let him stay too long and kind of forced their hand. And if we're really serious about Kentucky football, Indiana showed you how to build a program quickly. You get a coach from a group of five school maybe down in New Orleans and pray that he brings all of his players with him if we're being serious about it. So.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, Chase. Appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, Indiana, they're ranked top 10 again this year. Made the playoffs last year. Indiana football, and they're top 10 again this year. But we're not. We're just a couple years removed from wanting to build a statue for Mark Stoops. He did things here that this program at this university I thought could never be done. He did it, but now it's starting. I said this the other day. He's starting to feel so eerily familiar to the end of the cow era, where people slowly started turning against the guy that we idolized. I feel the same thing's happening now.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I mean, two 10 win seasons, one of them not even that long ago, that got him the contract. I mean, we all know what he did here. He took him to new heights. But at some point you have to say, is the person in charge the best to lead us into the future? It's the same thing with Cal. Everybody knows how good Cal was, but the results started dropping and it's like, well, he's still the best option. And it got to where a lot of people felt he wasn't. And he kind of felt that too and stepped away. It's feeling that way with Stoops. He's had a couple opportunities the last few years to prove that, you know, still got it, that he can go out in the portal and find a good quarterback, especially put things together. But it's looking like this is going to be a third straight disappointing year.

[Ryan Lemon]

So here's another common thread on the aviation glass tax machine. A new football coach is much more important than this entertainment district around the stadium. That entertainment project may be a white elephant if you don't put more exciting product on the field.

[Drew Franklin]

Someone on the postgame show asked me, how could we spend 36 million on the entertainment district and not just pay Stoops. And you know, there's a big difference. And building infrastructure and entertainment and an experience and just paying a guy to go disappear. It's a pretty big difference.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

So I don't think those two are correlated.

[Ryan Lemon]

859-280-2287. Who's next? Shannon.

[Shannon the Dude]

Jake.

[Ryan Lemon]

Jake. Go ahead, Jake.

[Caller (various callers)]

I just had a quick question for Shannon. It seemed like y' all had so much fun yesterday at his house. I just wanted to know, can I please come over?

[Shannon the Dude]

You just want to come to my house?

[Caller (various callers)]

Yes, please.

[Shannon the Dude]

Where do you even live? Do you live in Mount Washington?

[Caller (various callers)]

I live in New Albany, but I'm in Louisville all the time, close to Mount Washington.

[Shannon the Dude]

I don't know what do you think Ryan shall allow just random listeners to come to my house?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, this guy sounds like he's pretty harmless. He's. Want to have a beer with you and watch a ball game.

[Shannon the Dude]

You don't know Jake.

[Ryan Lemon]

Have you ever known a bad Jake? Jakes are all good guys.

[Caller (various callers)]

Thank you. Yeah, from State Farm. Look at him.

[Shannon the Dude]

That's true. Yeah. Jake the Snake was a bad guy. Yeah, I don't know. I tell you what, Jake, how about you just go to Ryan's house and we'll call it even?

[Caller (various callers)]

Well, that was my next question. If you said no, I was gonna see if I go to Ryan.

[Shannon the Dude]

Go to Ryan's house, you can start a grease fire and stir up some neighbors.

[Ryan Lemon]

We'll. We'll hook you up at some point. Appreciate it.

[Drew Franklin]

Check Gyllenhaal.

[Ryan Lemon]

Very true. Yoga girl's son is named Jake. He's a good guy. All kind of Jake's.

[Drew Franklin]

Sounds like Jake's head in your house.

[Ryan Lemon]

859-280-2287. Did any either one of you see this International Space Station? It's been flying across the sky the last couple nights. Did you go out and take a look at it?

[Drew Franklin]

I did not. Didn't even know about it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Are you one of the people that when there's, like, something you. You know, the stars or whatever, you go out and just stare in the sky and look for it? Oh, no, because I usually don't. I wait for the pictures to pop up.

[Ryan Lemon]

But I was with some people last night that. That were. That.

[Drew Franklin]

How'd it look?

[Ryan Lemon]

We didn't see it.

[Shannon the Dude]

When you say the International Space Station flew by, I mean, isn't it always up there?

[Ryan Lemon]

But it's always not visible to, I guess, us in this part of the country. And then with the way the.

[Drew Franklin]

The Earth is tilted, sounds like it still wasn't visible.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think it was a little too cloudy last night to see it, but they saw it, like, two nights ago.

[Shannon the Dude]

What does it look like? Just a big star.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's just. Well, it doesn't blink. It's just like a solid light that just goes across the sky. You know, like an airplane is different. It blinks and a star doesn't move. This light is moving. So they saw it two nights ago, but couldn't see it. I just wonder if anybody else got to see it last couple days.

[Shannon the Dude]

Look, it's a common thing to see that, no? Or am I wrong?

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know. I remember there were some news stories, like Tuesday or Wednesday is your chance to see the space station, I think.

[Ryan Lemon]

Like, the orbit rotates. Like, it's not always over Kentucky, I guess.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. I did not step out and see it. How long did you try?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, my friend had an app, and it had exact. Exact minute. We're supposed to be outside where we live to go see it, and we missed it.

[Drew Franklin]

Sounds like a good app.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Now, usually that stuff, you know, I'm into the aliens and the spaceships we have. We have one of those heading our way. I might look forward, but just looking up and seeing a light in the sky has never really done it for me.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I wanted to see it. I mean, we spend all this time waiting on it. I want to go at least see the light, go across the sky a little bit.

[Shannon the Dude]

But, like, the northern lights, I think that's really, really cool. Like the green and stuff. But that's, like, in Alaska, right? I mean, you don't really get that here, do we? Or do we?

[Drew Franklin]

No, I've never seen.

[Shannon the Dude]

That's a Norway thing.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

And before that exciting experience with the space station I had last night, we went to the Country Boy pickleball facility.

[Drew Franklin]

You were there last night?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. Why did you go last night?

[Drew Franklin]

I got to the parking lot and didn't go in.

[Ryan Lemon]

Really.

[Drew Franklin]

I was by myself and I was like, just head on home. You're probably not gonna know anyone in there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, no, it was a bunch of old channel 18 sports guys. Oh.

[Drew Franklin]

I was, like, literally parked on my way home from doing the podcast. I was gonna go in for a beer because Abby was working late. And I just. I sat there, I looked at it like, no, I'm going home.

[Ryan Lemon]

I wish I would have known that. It was Cutler Punk, Keith Farmer, me and yoga Girl just, we. We didn't go to play pickleball. We went to just have a drink and eat. And the food was really good there. Absolutely.

[Drew Franklin]

Actually, it's an awesome place.

[Ryan Lemon]

It is an awesome place.

[Drew Franklin]

You didn't get the urge to pickleball, though. Well, when you're in there, you can't help but kind of want to get a racket, a paddle.

[Ryan Lemon]

A paddle or paddle. Shannon introduced me to pickleball at the Daytona Panama City Beach. He killed me.

[Shannon the Dude]

I paddled Ryan so hard he tore his hamstring and I think retired on the spot right there from.

[Ryan Lemon]

But it is kind of fun. It is kind of fun.

[Drew Franklin]

I'll do it again. I still haven't recovered from Shannon and I thought we were supposed to play one pre show listener, but there was, like, A line of them. We ran a gauntlet, having never played before and didn't even really stretch. We did like seven straight matches. I haven't recovered from that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I don't know if you've seen Alan Cutler lately. He hasn't shaved or cut his hair in, like, four years. He's a massive caveman right now.

[Shannon the Dude]

Did you tell him I said hi?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he did ask about Shannon. Yeah, he said you and, you know, you and him, you guys had a kind of back and forth. You guys waited till I was on vacation. You had the back and forth with Cutler When I was on vacation, there.

[Shannon the Dude]

Was no back and forth, really. I mean, you know, he had some choice words for me. I had some for him. And that was really it.

[Ryan Lemon]

And one more news item before we go to a break. Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman announced they've decided to split. One of the country music Hollywood power couples been together forever. Decide that enough's enough splitting up. What do you think? Do you have big thoughts on Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman?

[Drew Franklin]

I don't really get into the Hollywood stuff. I kind of forgot they even existed. But I did. See, I'm trying to make sure that I didn't fall for something online. There was some clause in their contract. Have you seen this?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

So that's real news before I start.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I saw this. I saw something, too. I don't know if it's true or not.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we'll just say it anyway. I saw that.

[Shannon the Dude]

Is there buyout? Is there a buyout?

[Drew Franklin]

No, there was a. There was a claw. Do we trust the Love London Evening Standard? I think it's a very respectable Hindustan Times.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, we'll roll with it.

[Drew Franklin]

There was a clause in their agreement that she would pay him every year that he didn't do cocaine. Did you see that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. I don't know what the money amount was.

[Drew Franklin]

600,000 a year.

[Ryan Lemon]

But they had it written in a contract. If he stayed off cocaine, she would pay him. Kind of entice him to stay off cocaine.

[Shannon the Dude]

I wonder how that works. Like, go back and do drug tests. Like, look up his nostril, make sure there's no white substance up there. Like, how would they even know?

[Ryan Lemon]

I guess when you're talking that kind of money, you do have to maybe pass a drug test. I would say.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. He's. He's been sober since 2006. So she's paid him $11 million to be sober. Wow. But it was, like, in their marriage agreement. Yeah.

[Shannon the Dude]

Geez.

[Ryan Lemon]

I really thought those crazy kids Had a chance. You know, they live in Brentwood, Tennessee. They would go to their kids high school basketball games, their kids high school plays. Like, they were very active as mom and dad with their kids going to school down there in Brentwood.

[Shannon the Dude]

How do you. How do you think he was able to keep that active lifestyle?

[Drew Franklin]

I have a way I want to go with this conversation, but I'm afraid to ask Ryan. Yeah, I feel like a good way to turn this into a good radio discussion. If you were hadn't had a clause in a marriage relationship, what would you get paid to not do again? But I'm worried that if I ask you that, I'm going to get an answer that we don't want. But, like, let's say you and yoga girl got married tomorrow and she said, I will pay you $60,000 a year if you don't do this for a year. What's the. I'm gonna regret this, Shannon, but what's the Ryan thing? That would be in the clause. I assume you don't have a coke problem.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, I don't do drugs.

[Drew Franklin]

Is there anything where I've.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'd say one. One small part of the clause may be to keep my shirt on.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

Stop undressing in public. Maybe. Probably the biggest one.

[Drew Franklin]

Maybe no mommy squammys.

[Shannon the Dude]

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's the one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Keep your clothes on in the pool. Keep your clothes on in public.

[Drew Franklin]

Keep your clothes on in the pool.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I've been known to skinny dip a time or two. Oh.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, your trunks.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. No more calling Matt Daddy would probably be your next I heart contract.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, that might be another one. Try to keep from not getting a ticket every. Every year of your life. A speeding ticket might be enough. That's what it be each year. I don't get a speeding ticket. That's when I get my bonus.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. Well, it's an interesting clause in the Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban.

[Ryan Lemon]

You know, I got another ticket. Like, I don't know if you're on that day two weeks ago.

[Drew Franklin]

What?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

No, I didn't know this.

[Ryan Lemon]

I thought you were off that day. I got. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, let's talk about it. Did you say it on the show?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, well, if you already said the show, we won't repeat it.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, we'll take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines. Drew's got an interesting little game he wants to play with us. You want to do that next segment?

[Drew Franklin]

Whatever.

[Ryan Lemon]

Let's do your game next. All right, We're Right back. Ryan, Drew and Shannon, this is Kentucky Sports Radio.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together, Diplo?

[Diplo]

Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show, one of them. And I think he's just the guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell and I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that could carry it. And I came to his house, I had a show, I pulled up real quick, he was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours play the record for him. We kind of like got a scratch and then he handled it on his own on the road.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

Yeah, it was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house and went like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. And then now we're here playing it live.

[Bobby Bones]

You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcasts. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade Hybrid.

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[Ryan Lemon]

Welcome back. Ryan, Drew and Shannon here. Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287 Text Machine Aviation glass text machine lit up apparently the northern lights could be seen from Northern Kentucky last year. Bunch of people saw the northern lights last year in Northern Kentucky. I didn't realize that neither. There we go. And apparently for those of you who tried to get your Blue White tickets that went on pre sale to the members this morning, it's been a disaster.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh great.

[Ryan Lemon]

Apparently it has not gone well. The person says they called the ticketing office and they're aware of the issues but it's not fixed. So if you're trying to get tickets to the Blue White game through their pre sale for their members, it's a disaster. All right, Drew, you said you had a nice little game, you wanted us to play this show. So what do you got?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I hate calling it a game. It's not really a game. But I was reading local journalism earlier this week. The Lexington Herald Leader. You familiar?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm very familiar with Lexington Herald Leader, yes.

[Drew Franklin]

They listed the Lexington's oldest businesses that are that still operate today and I thought that'd be a fun game. Well, I just called it a game. Fun to see if you could guess them.

[Ryan Lemon]

How many did they list?

[Drew Franklin]

Let's see, there's about just doing this on the fly. I'd say there's close to 20, but it's a lot of things I think you would get. So I'm putting you on the spot a little bit. But do you have any guesses? It doesn't. There's some restaurants, there's A little bit. Everything I know, Matt. I think a few months ago we did some of the oldest restaurants. There are some restaurants on here, but it's just any business that's been around in Lexington the longest and still operating.

[Ryan Lemon]

Barney Miller.

[Drew Franklin]

Barney Miller. That's one.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's what I thought it'd be.

[Drew Franklin]

They're not in order by oldest to.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, they're not. Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

But I can. I can give you the year. It has the year. They're just not in order.

[Ryan Lemon]

Is P rats on there?

[Drew Franklin]

P Rats is on there. Look at this. Barney Miller's 1922. P Rats. 1946.

[Ryan Lemon]

Columbia Steakhouse.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, my goodness. Did you read this?

[Ryan Lemon]

No.

[Drew Franklin]

1948.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm about to run out of choices here.

[Drew Franklin]

I think you've got a couple. One one of these places I've been to you with. Been in there with you several times.

[Ryan Lemon]

The. The Chevy Chase Inn.

[Drew Franklin]

That's another winner. 1933. One of my favorite places in Lexington. Shout out CCI. One of them is a. Is a college. I'll give you a hint.

[Ryan Lemon]

Transylvania University.

[Drew Franklin]

Transy.

[Ryan Lemon]

I didn't think about transy.

[Drew Franklin]

1780.

[Ryan Lemon]

Wow. How about a car dealership? Family car dealership?

[Drew Franklin]

I'm scrolling fast. No, how about a place you once worked?

[Ryan Lemon]

Channel 18.

[Drew Franklin]

Channel 18 is on the list. Lexington's first TV station. 1955.

[Ryan Lemon]

How about WVOK?

[Drew Franklin]

No, they only have the one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay, let me.

[Drew Franklin]

Let me read you the rest. You got any more guesses?

[Ryan Lemon]

Shannon, you got any guesses?

[Shannon the Dude]

No. No, I don't know anymore.

[Drew Franklin]

Some of our favorites. How about Thoroughbred Restaurant?

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, my goodness.

[Drew Franklin]

You and I have been there together more times than we could possibly count. 1954. You mentioned Columbia's Chevy Chase in. I was trying to get that. More things people realized the Red Mile.

[Ryan Lemon]

They should have said that.

[Drew Franklin]

1875, Lexington Cemetery. 1850.

[Ryan Lemon]

I wouldn't think that would be a business, but I guess it is.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, those are. Those are pretty much the main ones. Bluegrass Airport, Farmers Jewelry. Wheeler Pharmacy.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, Wheels.

[Drew Franklin]

That's a good one.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's a good one.

[Drew Franklin]

In fact, I see Tubby Smith was just there last week.

[Ryan Lemon]

Did he go?

[Drew Franklin]

That group still gets together. Who all used to be in the Wheeler Pharmacy group?

[Ryan Lemon]

Oscar Combs, Lonnie Demery. Trying to think who else.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, it would rotate. Yeah, those were some of the hits, but yeah. Anyway, I just. I found it very interesting that some of those places that we still frequent are Lexington's old businesses that are still operating.

[Ryan Lemon]

Still operating.

[Drew Franklin]

I need to get to the Wheeler Circle. Lonnie invited me shortly before he passed and it killed me that I didn't get to go.

[Ryan Lemon]

I used to go a lot.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I've still not done it at the lunch count. I think Tom Leach goes occasionally.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, maybe a little. Ralph Hacker, Jim Host.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that group, that's where all the stories are told.

[Ryan Lemon]

All the big stories. Ira Combs, rip It's that couple of these guys we've mentioned are no longer with AS Ira and Lonnie.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, but Tubby was just there in there a week ago and went to the Kentucky Roadshow card shop.

[Ryan Lemon]

859-280-2287. We got a quick. Got time for a quick call? Shannon, who we got?

[Shannon the Dude]

Let's go to Mark.

[Ryan Lemon]

Mark, you got about a minute?

[Caller (various callers)]

Okay. This isn't what I called about, but was Millwards on the list?

[Drew Franklin]

It was, it was okay. I unfortunately had to just deal with them.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, yeah.

[Caller (various callers)]

Oh yeah, I'm sorry about that, but good guess.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, it's another one.

[Caller (various callers)]

So the question I had, it was just kind of tongue in cheek is, you know, Arkansas, I think just fired their football coach. What are the chances Cal is, you know, gonna ask them to pony up and bring stoops over to their program?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'd say that chance is slim and none.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I've seen a few Kentucky fans wishing for that, but I don't expect that to happen.

[Ryan Lemon]

How about Cal has to work now with Bobby Petrino though. That is a little humorous about that.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, they're going to be like doing car dealership videos together, maybe walking the line of the tight plant with hairnets on, promoting local businesses.

[Ryan Lemon]

I mean, Arkansas, I know they just said interim coach, but they gave him a five year deal. I think he's locked in now. I think he's gonna be the guy.

[Drew Franklin]

So they let him fire people? He went right in. Fired the staff.

[Ryan Lemon]

Exactly.

[Drew Franklin]

Our caller mentioned Millward Funeral Home is 1 on this list. It says that is the 37th oldest business in the entire United States.

[Ryan Lemon]

Millward Funeral Home.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, well, continuously operating.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

1825. Fun fact.

[Ryan Lemon]

Very good. All right, we got Eku head football coach Walt Wells is going to join us here. Talk about the colonel season there. This their bye week this week. Comes in every year about this time. Kind of talked to us, brought some.

[Drew Franklin]

Swag, some hats I guess that bring gifts.

[Ryan Lemon]

We'll ask him about the summer of Ellie. I'm sure he has a lot to say about that.

[Drew Franklin]

Have we heard from Richie? So you're going to drop some, some knowledge on us later.

[Ryan Lemon]

Have you Heard from Richie yet, Shannon? He said he was going to call in when he kind of had a free minute.

[Shannon the Dude]

I hear from Richie every day. Haven't heard from him today, though.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, he had some stuff going on. Him and Buck had some business going on. They were moving and shaking down there in Clay county, in Manchester. But he says he's going to call in because he went to practice. After he's on the show with us, he's got some thoughts, things he wants to share with everybody. So I'm anxious to hear that. And don't forget, tomorrow we'll be at Shady Rays at Oxmoor Mall in Louisville. Come on out. I mean, we kind of welcome Matt back to Kentucky, back to the airwaves, back to the show. We always have a good crowd when we're out there, but we like to see everybody if we can. All right, we'll take our break. Come back. EKU head football coach Walt Wills will join us when we return. Ryan, Drew and Shannon, this is Kentucky Sports Radio.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo?

[Diplo]

I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

It was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house and I'm like, oh, hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay, you can.

[Bobby Bones]

Listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade Hybrid.

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