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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? 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.
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Diplo
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.
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Bobby Bones
I want to show you.
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Diplo
And I was like, okay.
- [00:23]
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 allnew Palisade Hybrid if you.
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Diplo
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Shannon
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Diplo
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
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Shannon
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Diplo
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Bobby Bones
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Shannon
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Diplo
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Shannon
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Bobby Bones
All right, welcome back. Our number two, Ryan, Drew and Shannon here of Kentucky Sports Radio. We mentioned Matt makes his return tomorrow our live show at Shady Rays at Oxmoor Mall in Louisville. But Drew, every year during the EKU football's bye week, we usually get to visit with their head coach Walt Wells. Guess what? Bye week this weekend, Walt Wells making a return trip. It's always good to kind of this has worked out. It's been several years in a row you've come in and sat with us on your bye week.
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Diplo
So no, we really appreciate you having us up because it's great for us to get, you know, EKU out there, right? And across the state. Nothing else goes across the state like this. I'll have you know I spent 10 years in bowling Green and I've spent, I don't know, 17 years up around this area. So I'll get people calling all the time. Hey, I just heard you on ksr, you know, and I appreciate the reach for our program in our university because it's, it's big time for us.
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Bobby Bones
Well, tell us about the EKU season. How you guys been doing so far?
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Diplo
We are. We're doing okay. We just won our we're two and O @ home. So we beat Houston Christian, who is used to be Houston Bad but it's famous for Bailey Zappi. And so we played them and then we beat Nicholls State last week, who is a team that has, you know, done a great job in the Southland Conference. And then we played Louisville, obviously, and didn't win that game. Lost a one game that lost, that we are disappointed in is against West Georgia, who's a ranked team in FCS and in our conference. And so we were playing well, had a touchdown, called back and kind of we're a young team right now, growing up, and we lost 27 seniors, which is rare in today's world. And so, you know, we kind of grew up on the road down in Carrollton, in Carrollton, Georgia, and then we played Marshall.
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Shannon
You opened the year at Louisville, as you mentioned. What's the importance of a game like that, kind of punching up, going to a Power 4 school for a team of your level. And have you ever had any success in one of those games over the years?
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Diplo
Well, over the years, definitely. As a player. I was at Austin Peay when we beat Kansas State, 1987. I don't know who was worse, them or us. But we won the game, which was incredible. Then as a coach at Western Kentucky, obviously, we came in here, I think it was 2012, Willie Taggarts last year, and upset Kentucky.
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Shannon
Yeah, we don't talk about that one.
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Diplo
And then, you know, we. We actually at eku beat Bowling Green State. And so it was year that I actually had my cardiac arrest. It was my first game. Gary Mcp was the acting coach, but I was back on the sidelines that game. So, you know, we every now and then you can sneak in and get one, but, you know, it's obviously, financially, it's big for our program and, you know, that goes to all athletics, not just football. And then, and then it gives our guys an opportunity to step up and see where they're at. Guys that think, you know, and then guys that are on the radars of the NFL scouts. I mean, we'll have every NFL team into our practices this year just like in the last that, you know, they get a chance to watch them against those type players and see how they fit. You know, basically they know that those are one and two game tests for them.
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Bobby Bones
Right.
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Diplo
You know, they're still going to watch every game, you know, at our level, but they want to see how they play against, you know, Isaac Brown and all those dudes. And they get in the hole with them one on one and can they make the play and different things like that depending on who they have. So, you know, two years ago we came in here and played Kentucky and it was, it was a good game for a while.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, it was. It was a scary game for a while. You guys came in here. I remember that.
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Diplo
And so it, you know, it's our guys get up for big time. Sure, they love it and our coaches love it because they want to prove who they can prove, you know, coach against sometimes.
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Shannon
You mentioned the NFL. I wasn't going to go this direction, but I'm a long suffering Titans fans. We've had some eastern Kentucky colonels recently. Yeah, I believe they played for you. I mean, Tim Boyle still on a roster out there. I think he was before you were a coach. But what's the sense of pride when you have a guy go from Eastern and get to the league?
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Diplo
Well, I'm born and raised Nashville too, so I'm a Titan fan. And so when.
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Shannon
We'll get through it.
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Diplo
When Matt and TK were down there, they both stayed for a year, year and a half or two years. And you know, that's Matt's from Nashville too. Matt Jackson was. So that was really prideful for me. And you know, my best friend's one of the media guys down in Nashville, does radio show, does all this. And so he would get them on and talk to him and do everything. So it's really prideful. But you know, I hate to see. I mean, I'm a Steve McNair fan, have been for a long time. I think he's one of the best quarterbacks to ever play in NFL. Of course, everybody thinks I'm an idiot when I say that, but he was tough. He carried that town. It's kind of funny, me and my brother, my dad bought us PSLs. So when they brought the Titans. And that means you had preferred seat license for two seats in the end zone. And the year they came is the year I got into college coaching. And so my brother was a longtime high school coach down there, so I never got to. And so I eventually I just said, hey man, you got them. You've been paying for them the whole time. You take them. And he passed a couple years ago, but his family still has them, I think. And, and so, you know, we've been that long in Nashville and we love it. And I'm for them. They were just asking me, these young guys with me, they were like, who'd you grow up, like in the Titans? I was like, well, no, because Titans didn't come till I was in, you know, probably my 30s, you know, I said I was a Raiders fan because the Raiders was my high school nickname, so I went with the Raiders.
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Bobby Bones
So you mentioned that game you came into over here to Kroger Field a couple years ago. Kind of put a little scare in Kentucky a little bit. You guys are on the schedule again in the next coming years, aren't you?
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Diplo
I think it's 28 or 29.
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Bobby Bones
I saw. I think they had the future schedules and I saw EKU on there. I mean, it's a big deal for a program like you guys when you get to go into a big SEC program and play them.
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Diplo
We're so thankful that Kentucky does it, because here's the deal for us. We don't have to spend a lot of money to come over here. The game day atmosphere, I mean, we're 20 minutes down the road, so are we gonna, you know, we're gonna stay at home. We're gonna, you know, have to do is rent the buses and the postgame meals. So it's almost like being at home for us and financially. And then. Then we. We get the financial windfall and we get to keep it. And then we get to come in. You know, we've got. We recruit the state pretty hard. We've got a lot of local guys.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Diplo
You know, Brady Hensley just had a big game last week against us from LCA.
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Bobby Bones
Did he? Good for him.
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Diplo
Yeah. He rushed for 148 yards.
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Bobby Bones
Wow.
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Diplo
Scored a touchdown. He's doing real well for us. And then Joe Slarman, John's son, is our. Is our second team center. And, you know, we've got other guys that are from, you know, Cadence, Miss from Taylor county, and. And I can go on and on. I'm gonna leave a bunch of guys out, but we have a lot of guys from the state of Kentucky that.
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Bobby Bones
Play for us that dreamed of one time playing at Kroger Field.
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Diplo
Everybody does. I mean, I grew up Nashville. My dad was the biggest Kentucky fan ever, but I grew up wanting to go to Tennessee, you know, and. Because if you grow up in Nashville, that's. Especially in the 80s, you know that when you came out in the 80s, that's what you did. You wanted to go play Tennessee. And so I understand that. And it's a great atmosphere. It's a. It's a. Hopefully a great game for us and. And for them, and. And everybody's satisfied. At the end of the day.
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Shannon
You ended up at Austin Peay, as you said, former Austin P. Ball boy here. Go, Govs. Let's go.
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Diplo
Oh, really?
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Shannon
But I saw their next on your schedule after this bye week coming into Richmond's play. What, what can fans just expect to see in that game and the rest of your home games?
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Diplo
Well, I think, you know we right now currently we're on a nine game win streak going all the way back at home, going back to 20, 23 and you know, I think you'll see a really good game. Austin Pease ranked, they upset Middle Tennessee earlier in the year, played Georgia well. So I mean they're, they're going to come in here. They got a transfer quarterback that's really good from Mississippi State. So they're going to come in here ready to go. Obviously we won last year in overtime on a walk off touchdown.
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Bobby Bones
So they're going to be mad coming at you.
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Diplo
So they're going to be. Yeah, they're going to be mad coming in here. Jeff Ferris, the head coach there has done a great job. I know him and his dad from my time at Tennessee and, and so you know they're going, they've got a really good football team now. They play West Georgia, who's ranked, also ranked ahead of them in our conference this weekend. So, you know, maybe we'll find out a little more about who both of them are as we move forward. We played West Georgia and that's the one team that beat us in fcs. So you know, I'm looking forward to it. But it's been good to have a week off. Like I said, we have a young team. So five games into it, it's been a hard run. Three of the games have been on the road and things like that. So to give them a break, we got practice. We had three days of practice. Today's the third day. And then give them a break for the weekend. They need it and it'll be good for them. Some of them will be going home and the rest of them will be sticking around.
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Bobby Bones
Now that's when you mentioned that game coming up on the 11th. You know, it's Kentucky's bye week and it's worked out a lot over the past couple years. When you come in here, a lot of Kentucky fans go watch your home game. Kentucky's off that weekend. Let's go watch EKU play. You usually get a lot of UK fans go down to Richmond to watch you guys play and it's going to be a big game against Austin Peay. So how can people get tickets and what's the best way to try to maybe get tickets to come to that game?
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Diplo
Well, right now we got a $5 special, so.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, goodness.
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Diplo
They can come get a single game ticket for $5. I mean, you can bring your whole family. And the food's cheap, the beverage is cheap, and they got all types of beverages that you want. They got adult to small children beverage. We got a fun zone for them. So all they have to do is go to Ekusports.com, go to the Ticket window or drop down and you can get your tickets right there. And they'll come straight to your phone, you know, buzz you in when you come here and all that. We're going to leave. I think Ray's here. Ray White, our ticket managers here. He's going to leave some free tickets here for y' all to give out throughout the next week if you want.
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Bobby Bones
Cool. Yeah.
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Diplo
And then, and then we'll. We'll continue to go through it, but it's easy. Eku sports.com is where they have to go and go to the tickets and then they can.
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Bobby Bones
It works out perfect. When Kentucky's off that bye week, people go travel down, watch a football game. It's a neat environment too. You guys have. I mean, it really is.
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Diplo
They do a great job. Our administration, you know, you've got the big colonel lot over there where the arena is. It's got all kinds. They'll have concerts, they'll have all different types of things going on. They let you, you know, enjoy yourself in cornhole and, you know, they have a kid zone there. They have a kid zone inside the stadium. So if you want to go turn your kids loose on the bouncy house for the whole game and you sit over there, you get the heel at the end zone.
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Bobby Bones
Right.
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Diplo
I mean, last game we had, we had an unbelievable crowd. And the end zone was parents weekend. The end zone was packed. Everybody had their, you know, blankets out, sitting on the end zone. Kind of like the old days.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Diplo
And. And so I felt really great about that. And then we actually, you know, played well and got the win, so it was a fun day. And then, you know, we have guys, if you want one game tickets for RVs, if you, if you used to tailgating over here and you want to bring your camper down and tailgate, I mean, we usually have about 20, 20 campers sitting out there. You know, I know a lot of former players had a barbecue rib cook off the other day.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, nice.
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Diplo
And, you know, I've got one with a bunch of other guys there in town that we. I don't ever get there until after the game, but my wife and all Our friends, they sit there and party and have a good time. Then we do our colonel walk right now.
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Bobby Bones
Colonel walk. Yeah. All right, we'll take our break. Come back. If you got questions for coach Walt Wells, go ahead and give us a call. 859-280-2287. Tell you what we'll do. We're going to take those tickets and give them away tonight at Thursday Night Football. We got. Usually we have a good crowd here for Thursday Night Football. That'll be one of the prizes we give away tonight.
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Diplo
That'd be awesome.
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Bobby Bones
Should be all right.
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Diplo
That'd be great.
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Bobby Bones
Ryan, Drew and Shane with EKU football coach Walt Wills. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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? 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.
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Diplo
Sound I wanted to do, and I.
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Bobby Bones
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.
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Diplo
Own on the road. Yeah, 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.
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Bobby Bones
I want to show you.
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Diplo
And I was like, okay. And then now we're here playing it live.
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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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Diplo
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Shannon
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Diplo
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
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Shannon
Ah, come on.
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Bobby Bones
Why is this taking so long?
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Shannon
This thing is ancient.
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Bobby Bones
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Shannon
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
Yeah, Austin Peay is having a great year. You know, we've got to continue to to we've got to continue to build this week and get ready for them for next week. But it should be a great game. There's not been a game since I've been there against them that hadn't been decided probably in either overtime or in the last possession. So, you know, I think that's you're going to watch a lot of good football players. You'll see some potential NFL players. You know, if you want to come tailgate, you can tailgate. There's plenty of things to do down in Richmond to have fun and watch games, and plenty of TVs around in the parking lots to watch the other games that are going on, too, because I'm sure there'll be some good games before our show start. But we start at 6 o' clock and so. So you've got all day to get your. You get your little kids football in and everything. We try to. We try to make it as fan friendly as we can and then get rolling at 6 and it should be a great game thrown off here.
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Shannon
Ryan, during the break, we're talking little Steve McNair, and he said, where are you from? And I said, madisonville. Turns out like his whole family's from Madisonville. We're over here talking about the schools his dad went to, all these connections. I'm like, I'm here to ask him about the Colonels. But I did. Not so many Madisonville connections during the break. We talked all the way through. We were late getting back to join you.
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Bobby Bones
Drew's pounding his chest. The maroons, are they six and six.
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Shannon
And, oh, best start since 1993.
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Diplo
We're hot.
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Richie Farmer
Oh, there.
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Diplo
I mean, the Madisonville Maroons. I used to go the Pirates Cove.
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Shannon
Oh, you know, Pirates Cove. We could do a whole show at the.
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Diplo
At the mall there. We. Oh, yeah, they would. My parents would drive me up. I would think it would be the worst week of my life. I always thought that when I first started, because I'm coming from Nashville. So I'm sitting here thinking, all right, we got this, we got that, we got Opryland, we got the wave pool, we've got the river behind us. We can go fit. We can do all this stuff. We're going to Hanson. What the heck am I gonna do? You know, Hanson's got a Walmart now.
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Shannon
They are, let's call them right there.
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Diplo
By the convenience center, which they called it a convenience center down there. And I was like, what is a convenience center? And it's basically where you take your trash. But it's a great town. I loved it every time. Every week I'd go up there and spend with my aunt and uncle and my cousin that was my age, you know, we'd always end up at the Pirates Cove. And I'd have to take, you know, a wad full of quarters and. And go over there and we play games and then we'd eat it. I think there was a Pizza Hut or Something in there. Godfather's godfather. Ryan.
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Shannon
I gotta pick my jaw off the floor with him. Name dropping Pirates Cove. I know that you know, everyone's not here to just hear our Madisonville references.
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Bobby Bones
But what's the Mexican restaurant you always, you say is the best restaurant in town? The Mexican restaurant?
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Shannon
Well, El Bracero, but we're going way.
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Diplo
Back before all that.
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Shannon
Pirates Cove is a deep cut for Madisonville.
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Diplo
Pirates Cove was. That's where all. I mean, when you went back. When I went back when I was in high school, that's where you went. You cruise the mall there and you stopped off into Pirates Cove, played some games.
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Shannon
Guy knows Madisonville now.
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Bobby Bones
You know that we've seen how the transfer portal has affected, you know, the power. Four schools in Kentucky, they pluck guys from like eku. How do you guys at EKU combat that?
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Diplo
Well, we just continue to. I mean, the, the thing about the transfer portal is it makes. Recruiting is always 24, 7, 365. Always. But now it's even more so because you have to be critical in your decision making. We lost. We've got a line. Our starting all conference linebacker last year is playing at Virginia right now. He starts on special teams and he plays a lot at linebacker. Our freshman all American offensive guard is. Went to Purdue and they plucked him out of here. You know, and so you just got to. I mean, it hurts you. It hurts your depth, it hurts what you do because you put the two years of development or one development into them. But you can get mad about it or you can just. I tell our coaches, and this is our philosophy, I don't. Right now it seems to be working decently is like, hey man, you're the head coach of your position, okay? And you have to understand that what we want and the length, the size, all the different things that we want, but you have to be ready to go. And we can't replace a starting sophomore or starting junior, you know, with a true freshman.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Diplo
You know, we're still going to recruit high schools. That's what we do. That's who we think we can develop and that's who's been our best players. But we're going to have to go in the portal and find guys that can come in and help us win. Like, our outside linebacker is playing really good for us, is a Cam junior. Cam originally signed and played for Cincinnati and then he came down and he's had success with us. He got a lot of scouts looking at him. Jaheim Ward. I recruited both his brothers. One of Them was J. Ward, who was committing, walking to commit to Kentucky when I was there and Matt House was recruiting him and somehow put a LSU hat on that day. And you know, between the, the parking lot in the table, he put a LSU hat off. I know what happened there, but I'm not. That was in exactly right. And then. And so Jaheem came from Austin Peay and came to play for us when they had a coaching change. And then, you know, we've got Vito Tisdale who's playing extremely high level right now. Every scout that comes in, the first person they talk about is Vito. Vito's got a pick six. He's got three or four picks already. He is really, really matured and really, really come around and he's been nothing but great for us. And then we got Tommy Ziesmer, you know, who used to play here, who's starting nose guard for us and really making a name for himself. And so, you know, there's a lot of Kentucky connections there, obviously because of my relationships up here and I can call and check on people, but I've known Vito since he was a ninth grader. So when he was leaving, when he left here, we tried to get him, but he wanted to go to Colorado. And when he left Colorado, I been the first one to offer him when I was at Tennessee in the ninth grade. And then my chief of staff, Jeff Griffith, who's a longtime high school coach in the state of Kentucky and down in Boulder Green High coach, Vito's dad.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, really?
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Diplo
So Vito's dad called him and here we go, you know, and Vito didn't look anywhere else. And you know, for all the things that have gone wrong for Vito, he's been nothing but great for us.
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Bobby Bones
That's good to hear.
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Diplo
And he's a high level player and I think he'll get. I'll be shocked if he didn't finish the way he's playing right now that he won't get an opportunity to play in the NFL.
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Shannon
His pick six was against Louisville, right?
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Diplo
Yeah.
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Shannon
A little extra to him on that.
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Diplo
One right before halftime. And so he had two right before, I mean, back to back series, he had two picks. He had the one pick six in that scored. And then Jaheem broke up a ball and it popped and he was covering the guy and they kind of broke it up and the ball just popped up and he was right there and took it and went. He had one last week for us that kept them out of the end zone. And you know, like I said, I mean he's very, very intelligent player. And he's got three hours. I'm gonna put it out here that he's gonna be an EKU graduate just to keep him. Keep his nose to the. But he was on our 3.0 board, too, so, I mean, he's doing great. He's doing really good. I'm proud of him.
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Shannon
You're talking about losing guys to other schools, other opportunities, and kind of tying in with Vito here. How often do you get the balance where you're able. Where a kid was stuck at a big school and didn't get as much of an opportunity there? Do you get to see a lot of times you're able to. Even though you don't love losing a player to those schools, that you're able to get something in return?
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Diplo
Well, the thing the most. The attitude you have to take is if you keep the old attitude that we all had as coaches, then you're going to be miserable. I mean, because you're going to sit here and you develop this kid. You do everything you can for him. I mean, Jaden Higgins is a prime example. I don't know if y' all know who Jaden Higgins is. He was a. He was the over first overall. He wasn't. He was in the second round, but he was the first pick for the Houston Texans last year in the NFL draft.
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Bobby Bones
Okay.
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Diplo
Jaden Higgins is from down around Miami. He. He had one offer coming out, and that was us.
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Bobby Bones
Wow.
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Diplo
One. One committable offer. And he came and played for us for two years with Parker McKinney and did a great job. All right. Comes in. Coach, I'm going in the portal. All right. Of course, that was right when the portal was kind of new. So I'm sitting there like, man, this kid is. You know, he just. I think he had like 900 yards receiving for us and 10 touchdowns. And I'm like, he's six, three, you know, 200 pounds. He can run like a gazelle. I get it. But, you know, I'm a little upset, you know, And. And so he goes. And. And he goes to. I was. You know, he had all these other offers. He goes to Iowa State and. Which was smart on his part. He needed to go somewhere where he could develop. He developed there. And like I said, he's a first. First pick for the Houston Texans this year. He's starting for them. And. And so, you know, that crushes you, right? Because you're sitting there like, we put two hard years of development into that young man, and you can't Just. Just can't replace that. You know, I don't care if the kid's dropping down from, from Alabama. If he's. I don't mean this to sound as bad as this sounds, but if he's dropping all the way down to us, he's probably not as good as Jaden Higgins. There's. There's issues whether it's talent or whether it's off the field academically, he can't learn from. Something is wrong, and you got to figure out what's wrong and try to fix it and grow him up. And you know that that's what you do is when you get guys from bigger schools to drop down and give them opportunity like Tommy Ziesman. Tommy's phenomenal young man. I mean, one of the best kids you'll ever be around. And he needed some opportunities. He came in and played in the spring and, you know, he's done a great. You know, he's been nothing but great for us, and he was a boundary in for us, but we had to move him to. We needed a nose guard, so we moved him to nose guard. And he's playing well. So, yes, it's. You just got to give up the attitude of. Of what you're losing these guys. And, and it's a. Everything's a yearly deal now. That's the negative of it all.
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Bobby Bones
Listen, we appreciate you coming in, coach. Go check them out. Eku sports.com. get tickets, go see him play Austin P on the 11th. We'll take our break, come back. 859-280-287. Richie Farmer's gonna give us a basketball report. We come back. Thanks, coach. It was awesome.
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Diplo
Thank you. Appreciate you.
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Welcome back. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin and Shannon the dude. Fun visiting with EKU football coach Walt Wells there for a couple segments getting these colonels ready. So there'll be a lot of people go down and watch him play. Austin peay on the 11th, I bet.
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Shannon
Definitely got a good season going. Had some tough competition early, so the record doesn't reflect it, but they're getting into the their conference and should do well.
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Bobby Bones
On a side note, I got a real estate deal right now and my buyers are using the UK Federal Credit Union. Anything you want to say about the UK Federal Credit Union, Drew?
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Shannon
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Bobby Bones
Busted.
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Shannon
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Diplo
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Shannon
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Bobby Bones
Back to you, Ryan, on the phone. We have celebrity hotline phone caller Richie Farmer, who was on the show the other day with Buck Stivers. Great show, Richie, by the way. Great feedback. Everybody loves hearing you and Buck kind of go back and forth and tell stories. But after you left the show, you guys went to practice and watched Mark Pope's squad practice a little bit. Do you got a little inside intel for us now?
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Richie Farmer
Well, again, thanks for having me. And Buck and I really had a good time. We always enjoyed that. And I think that. I really think that he gets a lot of feedback on his social media from all of that. So, anyway, we had a good time, but. But, you know, really at practice, what I saw was encouraging because it didn't change my mind any, that's for sure. You know, I don't know that there was anything crazy that I can tell you that a lot of folks may or may not know. But, you know, getting to see some of those guys for the first time was good. But I think Drew may like to hear this. And, you know, I've been. I've been a fan of this guy all along, but I really like the way Colin Chandler looks. You know, he. He was shooting the ball, and that was the other thing that I, you know, that I took away. I was a little bit worried about, you know, are we going to have enough shooters with the guys that we lost? But I was. I was very encouraged by what I saw because there were several guys that made a lot of shots. But. But Chandler, you know, he looked really good. They. They didn't do any real scrimmage or anything. It was more of a teaching day, and they were working on, you know, different drills and different things. But beforehand, before practice started, I got a chance to watch Jaden quaintness worked out for a little while, and my goodness, if he gets, when he gets healthy, he's. He's a beast and can do a lot of things and. But down low, he's. He's unbelievable. And he's. He's just, He's. He's a monster down there. But I, I liked what I saw there. But the other guy that I was really impressed with was yellow bit.
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Bobby Bones
He.
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Richie Farmer
He's a really good shooter, you know, and he's every bit of 6 10. I don't know what they list him, 610 or 6'11 maybe, but he's every bit of that and he can step out and shoot the ball and he's, he's powerful down on the block as well. So Aberdeen looked really, really good. My buddy Trent Noah from Eastern Kentucky, I mean, you know, everything they were saying about his shooting, he's. He's shooting the ball great and he looked great. So, you know, and, and one guy that nobody ever talks about that I thought looked really good yesterday was. Let's see here, Cam Williams.
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Bobby Bones
Cam Williams.
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Richie Farmer
You know, Cam Williams, he. That we've got a lot of length this year. We're. We're going to be long. And you know, that's where. That's where I was a little bit concerned about the shooting. But, you know, Cam Williams, Colin Chandler, Trent Noah, Denzel, Aberdeen, every. Jalen Lowe, everybody that I watched yesterday mode about, they can shoot it a little bit. He, you know, he looked good, but M.J. oh, you know, that's what that's going to be. The key to our team is how good is he going to be, you know, when the chips are down because he's. He's quick as a cat, he's crafty, you know, he's a lefty and he does a lot of things well. And you know, my point, and I'll saying that I wasn't disappointed is, you know, I kind of felt like when I saw all the pieces that I felt like we had a chance to make a, make a run at the final four and, and maybe a championship. And, you know, I didn't. I didn't see anything that discouraged me. But of course, all that is going to be based on the fact that, you know, how he puts all the pieces together and, you know, how everybody gel together and you know, all. All of that is based upon, you know, a lot of things going well and then obviously us getting and better as the year progresses. You know, that's. And I think we will because when you have that many players to play against. You know, every day in practice, you're going against somebody that, that you know is as good as you are and play the same spot you can. So you know, that, that, that brings out the competitiveness in you and it makes everybody better.
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Bobby Bones
Dude, we, we appreciate it.
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Richie Farmer
Exactly.
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Bobby Bones
We wanted to hear.
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Richie Farmer
Yep. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm really excited about it. I mean, I was, I saw what I was hoping to see and that's, that's a good thing. And they kind of answered my questions about, you know, shooting. We've got a lot of guys that, that can shoot the ball really well. So, you know, hopefully that'll carry over to games this year. But, but I'm really excited.
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Shannon
So was away a full participant. He's working his way back from. He's been in a boot all summer with a toe and I know that he's almost back to full, if not full speed. But was he, was he out there with everyone?
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Richie Farmer
Yeah, well, he was out there. He didn't take part in, you know, drills when there, if there was any contact or anything, but he did do a lot of things. You know, he, he's, he looked really good. Always going to be. He's going to be fine. I think they're just being cautious right now, not trying to push anything and let him get completely back.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, well, we appreciate it, Richie. A little inside intel from you guys went to practice after you were here the other day, so we appreciate you calling in and let's get your thoughts a little bit on what you saw from the castle. We appreciate it, buddy.
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Richie Farmer
Yeah. All right, ma'. Am. Thank you guys. And we look forward to maybe doing that again sometime.
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Bobby Bones
We will have you back, trust me. Richie Farmer and KSR co host. Yeah, now.
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Shannon
But I had lunch with, with those two after the show the other day. I've had, I've been blessed with a lot of Richie and Buck, who I called Rich and Bucky as we ended the show.
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Bobby Bones
I did want to get that insight because, you know, dude, Midnight Madness is a week from Saturday.
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Shannon
That's crazy.
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Bobby Bones
A week from Saturday is midnight Madden. We're in October. They have exhibition games in a couple weeks against Purdue coming up. I mean, we're right here on it.
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Shannon
Yeah, the Purdue. What is that, three weeks from tomorrow.
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Bobby Bones
Three weeks from tomorrow.
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Shannon
The number one team in college basketball will come to RUP arena in three weeks, play Kentucky three weeks from tomorrow. That is just a crazy thing to say out loud.
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Bobby Bones
Well, we got the.
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Shannon
Hopefully they got it figured out, but you know, the blue white stuff's ramping up. Yeah, it's on sale, but the fact that madness is eight days away and then blue, white, then Purdue, all within the next few weeks. Insane that it's right up here on us, but cannot wait to get it started.
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Bobby Bones
And he didn't say anything negative at all. Everything was positive about every player. Everything he saw was, like, positive enough to where he feels like he could support his thought they could go to the Final Four, maybe make a run in a national championship.
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Shannon
Now I'd like to get the Buck version. You know, Richie, you know, Buck knows ball too, but Richie, the former player, that's an opinion we take, you know, we trust more than others. But I'd like to get Buck's thoughts on Trent Noah looking good and how Buck was acting in there. I'm sure he was fired up and.
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Bobby Bones
Out of Richie's top three guys. You've been on the Chandler, Colin Chandler bandwagon. I've been on the Andres Yellow Vic bandwagon.
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Shannon
Yep.
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Bobby Bones
He said both those guys look good.
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Shannon
Well, some people that listen to this show for a long time, we know Ball well, that. But they know I don't just start making crazy predictions. But Nick Richards, I kind of went out, stuck my neck out there a little bit for Nick Richards said, y' all need to calm down. This guy's going to be fine. Sophomore Nick Richardson, he almost won SEC player of the year if not for Emmanuel quickley. They finished 1, 2. Now Chandler, I don't think that there's people that have were as negative towards him as Richards, but similar circumstances. He's a little late getting, Getting going, getting in the groove of college basketball. He's. He's my next breakout star.
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Bobby Bones
Well, he's gonna come off the bench. The thing that's good about that, he could play the point or the two or the three whenever you need him. He can back up Otega Lowe or Aberdeen, whoever those three guys are out there.
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Shannon
And, you know, Richie said he looked good. We've heard he's been a vocal leader. Yeah, I mean, you want that out of him. We saw a couple dunk highlights that they put in these short clips. He's going to dunk on someone's face this year. I thought we'd get one last year after he did it in the Blue White game when he dunked on Brandon Garrison, I think. But Colin Chandler has a poster in the making sooner than later.
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Bobby Bones
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Diplo
Sound I wanted to do and I.
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Bobby Bones
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 on his own on the road.
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Diplo
Yeah, 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.
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Bobby Bones
I want to you show you.
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Diplo
And I was like, okay. And then now we're here playing it live.
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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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Shannon
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Well, we're talking about DraftKings. Go and make our picks for the the baseball games. There's three wild card game three deciding games today. The Tigers, the Guardians, the Padres and the Cubs and the Red Sox and the Yankees. Of course. The Dodgers eliminated the Reds last night. Summer of LA has come to a close. So who you got? Tigers. Guardians. The tigers had a 15 game lead over the Guardians going into September and they collapsed. Guardians got hot and here they play each other in the first round of the wild card playoffs. So who you got?
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Shannon
I have already placed a bet on the Guardians. Turns out I'm probably going to jinx myself right now. I've done really well on DraftKings with baseball. Is baseball this easier? Am I just getting lucky?
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Bobby Bones
You're just a brilliant baseball mind.
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Shannon
I I didn't lock in until this week. I'm a playoff guy but so far so good and I'm on the Guardians in the in the early game today.
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Bobby Bones
Shannon the Tigers collapsed in the regular season.
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Diplo
They're going to collapse again today and.
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Bobby Bones
With Drew I'm taking the Guardians to win. I'm same way is that they they've been playing horrible baseball the whole month. They're not all of a sudden going to get good. Good. Go Guardians. We're all on the Guardians bandwagon.
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Shannon
Although I hate calling them Guardians.
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Bobby Bones
Still not used to that. They're. They're the Cleveland Indians. They're always commanders.
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Shannon
I got used to I say it but I still Guardians. I have to like pause and think of what I'm talking like what is it?
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Bobby Bones
Washington should have just gone with the football team. They went to Washington football team. That's what they should have stuck with.
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Shannon
Guardians I'm not used to but carry on.
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Bobby Bones
Padres Cubs. I'll go first. I hate the Cubs. I'll never pick the Cubs to win anything. So I'm going Padres. The Cubs could play anybody I'm picking against the Cubs, so I'm going all Padres today.
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Shannon
I'm not a. I'm not a Cubs hater. Outside with the Cubs. Big Cat finally won his 5050 raffle after 10 years of trying.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, did he?
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Shannon
Earlier this week. So there's. There's magic in Wrigley.
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Diplo
I am going to go, I think, with the Padres. Gonna be tough being on the road, but I think San Diego is the better team. I think they win today when the.
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Bobby Bones
Winner of this Padre, Cub series gets the Brewers. I believe that's correct because the Dodgers are going to play the Phillies. That's gonna be a great series. Dodgers, Phillies. So then the last game. The big one. Red Sox, Yankees. Not a lot of love loss when these two teams get together, Drew. They can play tiddlywinks and they can play whatever. They hate each other. So Red Sox, Yankees, who you got?
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Shannon
I'm torn. I've watched every pitch of the first two games. I love this rivalry, even though I really don't care about either side. I like either one. I just love how nasty it is.
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Bobby Bones
Kind of the same.
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Shannon
I'll say the Red Sox get the upset just to add some spice to. To the. To the rivalry.
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Bobby Bones
To Shannon.
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Diplo
It is the greatest rivalry in all of Major League Baseball. I hope the Red Sox win, but.
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Bobby Bones
I think the Yankees win at home tonight. Yeah, it's at home. That's the thing, that Yankee magic there. I'm a big Aaron Judge fan because he's an adopted kid, so he's not a kid anymore. He's a man. But I'm going to pick the Yankees as well. Of course, all these can be found on DraftKings. Go to DraftKings.com and make your bets. There is one football game tonight. The 49ers and the Rams on Thursday Night Football. We'll have a big watch party here tonight at KS Bar and Grill. I just got some EKU football tickets to give away tonight. I got some other goodies to give away. So the people that have been coming on Thursday Night Football, they know we've got some goodies to give away, so come on out and check it. So who you got tonight? Rams and 49ers.
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Shannon
Rams are going to win. It's a huge spread, though. It's like eight and a half. I'm not going to touch that one. The 49ers injury report is ruthless. Like every the other day or last Sunday, they couldn't even get into the medical tent because there were too many people already in the medical tent. They're. They're beating up pretty bad. I'll say the Rams win, but I have no idea about the eight and a half point spread. That's a big. That's a big numbers crop time game. Yeah, but Rams win this one, Shannon.
- [48:20]
Diplo
Yep, I agree. Give me the Rams on this one. I'll even take the points on it.
- [48:24]
Bobby Bones
I am, too. Rams and they cover. Yeah. Because the 49ers are just got too much going on right now.
- [48:29]
Shannon
You know, there's a whole breakdown of that game. On the new episode of NFL Cover Zero.
- [48:32]
Bobby Bones
Where could they get that this morning?
- [48:34]
Shannon
Apple podcast, I Heart Podcast. It's wherever you get your podcast.
- [48:38]
Bobby Bones
Who's on this Cover Zero podcast?
- [48:39]
Shannon
This one is NFL Cover Zero with Drew Franklin and Billy Rutledge. Matt was on his flight yesterday.
- [48:47]
Diplo
Couldn't.
- [48:47]
Shannon
Couldn't do the show. So we were like, all right, whatever. We're fine. And Billy and I just did it. We only took like an hour and a half. We had too many topics.
- [48:55]
Bobby Bones
I've had a topic on my list to get since the day Matt left. We've got like a couple minutes, but it involves you. Oh, you've told me this story. You've never told it on the air. It involves Adolph Rupp, a cat, and the Lexington Cemetery. Do we have time for you to tell it?
- [49:10]
Shannon
I can tell it, but it's so outrageous. No one believes it. But I'll tell you it. It's a hundred percent true. I used to live over. Near Lexington Cemetery.
- [49:17]
Bobby Bones
Yes.
- [49:18]
Shannon
And occasionally, like on a.
- [49:19]
Diplo
Well, not occasionally.
- [49:20]
Shannon
We did it once, but on a Sunday, Abby and I went and got coffee and we were just driving around Lexington Cemetery because it's really pretty in there. It's nice.
- [49:26]
Bobby Bones
Very beautiful in there, especially in the fall.
- [49:28]
Shannon
There's some famous famous headstones in there. We were looking for Rupp's grave and we couldn't find it. We were in there what felt like forever. And finally I'm like, let's just. Let's head back. I can't commit a whole Sunday to just driving around looking for Rupp's headstone.
- [49:41]
Diplo
This is a big place.
- [49:41]
Shannon
You get lost in there. We're heading to the main gate. We've given up. We're not looking anymore. And a cat runs across the road right in front of us.
- [49:49]
Bobby Bones
Is it a black cat?
- [49:51]
Shannon
I think so. This is where it's A little foggy because it was a holy crap moment in the day. I do think it was black, though. And I jokingly said, well, we should follow the cat at Saginus Rupp's grave. And I make a hard right on the road that I was about to pass to go back towards where we were in the cemetery. And I swear on everything, this cat ran right up and set on Adolph grave.
- [50:12]
Bobby Bones
Set on the grave, yes.
- [50:13]
Shannon
And we had like a moment where neither one of us spoke for like five minutes. Like, did we really just see that? Because, I mean, I don't even couldn't begin to guess how many graves in there. It's huge. I mean, we spent forever massive. And I was just kidding about following this cat. But everyone I know, you're rolling your eyes saying this is made up. Ran right up and set on his headstone.
- [50:33]
Bobby Bones
I got chili bumps right now.
- [50:34]
Shannon
I know it was very, very, very freaky.
- [50:37]
Bobby Bones
That was the ghost of Adolph Rupp leading you to his grave.
- [50:40]
Shannon
I don't know what it was, but that's exactly how it happened. We were on our way out and I jokingly did a hard right to follow this cat. Like maybe he'll take us. You know, just being silly. And then a few steps out of.
- [50:51]
Bobby Bones
All the graves in the cemetery, it's set on Adolph. Rough.
- [50:55]
Shannon
But that's the one you wanted me to get out. In the final moments before Matt returns.
- [50:58]
Bobby Bones
I thought we'd get to it on day one.
- [50:59]
Shannon
There you go.
- [51:00]
Bobby Bones
It made it all the way till day 21.
- [51:03]
Shannon
I thought we'd get to this big comet spaceship heading towards Earth. And we're not sure if it's a comet or a ship full of aliens. But maybe Matt's next three week vacation.
- [51:11]
Bobby Bones
Well, that with the International Space Station that I missed last night with it flying around in the sky up there, who knows?
- [51:16]
Shannon
Tomorrow we're back to the normal routine.
- [51:18]
Bobby Bones
Normal routine tomorrow. So listen, we got a good crowd here for lunch here at KS Bar and Grill. Come out on here for lunch. We got our watch party tonight for the rams and the 49ers. I already mentioned we're giving away some tickets and some other freebies to give away. And tomorrow we're at Shady Rays at Oxmoor Mall in Louisville. Matt's return to the show. Yay. Matt's back.
- [51:37]
Shannon
You're excited.
- [51:38]
Bobby Bones
I'm excited. So for Ryan, for Drew, for Shannon, thanks for everybody for putting up with this past couple weeks. Madison. Matt returns tomorrow. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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? 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.
- [52:01]
Diplo
Cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house and like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like I have a song that I want to show you.
- [52:08]
Bobby Bones
And I was like, okay, 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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Diplo
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