2025-10-28- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Date: October 28, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin
Podcast: KSR (by iHeartPodcasts & Sports Talk 790, WKRD-AM)
Theme: Ask Anything Tuesday – UK Sports and More

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Episode Overview

This lively episode, broadcast from the rare setting where all the KSR crew are together in the Louisville studio, centers on “Ask Anything Tuesday.” The hosts field questions about UK football and basketball, current events, and even personal challenges, while maintaining their trademark blend of humor, candid takes, and genuine Kentucky flavor.

Listeners are invited to join via phone and text, and the crew’s camaraderie shines as they discuss team news, local stories, personal anecdotes, and respond to callers’ questions and concerns, blending sports talk with classic Kentucky storytelling and irreverence.

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In-Studio, New Boss, and Louisville Traffic

Timestamps: [03:10]–[06:32]

• All KSR team present in Louisville studio – a rare event.
• Host Matt Jones reflects on the novelty:
  “We are all in the Louisville studios, which happens very rarely.” [03:12]
• The crew is in Louisville to meet a new regional boss (“over the entire Southeast”):
  • New boss wanted to meet the team separately (“divide and conquer”).
  • Ryan and Drew share impression:
    “He's really personal, really easy to talk to. I think he's going to be a good guy to work for.” — Ryan Lemond [05:00]
    • Drew notes they connected over golf; Ryan bonded over being St. Louis Cardinals fans.
    • There was curiosity about KSR’s humble origins (“Did you really start in a basement?”).
    • Boss asked about Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson’s recruitment “springboarding” the KSR website.
• Louisville traffic woes:
  • Drew laments it took 2 hours for Lexington-Louisville commute due to i64 being a “parking lot.”
    “I got here at 9:20. It took over two hours to get from Lexington to Louisville.” — Drew Franklin [05:49]

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Baseball Chat: World Series Heroics & Shohei Ohtani Debate

Timestamps: [06:47]–[11:18]

• The team discusses the epic, marathon World Series game (18 innings, lasting till early morning).
  • Matt admits: “I gave it 13 [innings] ... It was very exciting.” [07:31]
  • “Freddie Freeman wins it on a walk off in the bottom of the 18th.” — Ryan [07:38]
  • Shohei Ohtani sets a World Series record: nine times on base in one game, including four walks and four extra base hits.
  • The hosts marvel at Ohtani’s two-way prowess.
    • “He's the greatest baseball player ever.” — Ryan [08:52]
    • “Do you feel like he's the greatest ... of all time? ... Are you ready to put [him above] Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth ...?” — Matt [08:05]
• Consensus: Ohtani’s unique combination of elite pitching and hitting sets him apart from anyone in MLB history.
  • “He's doing what no one else does and is excellent at both.” — Drew [08:58]

Memorable Quotes:

• “He's a special player that we should really be able to appreciate what we're watching.” — Ryan [09:57]
• “Even I don’t love baseball, but if Ohtani’s at bat, you gotta lock in.” — Drew [10:11]

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The “Alone Week” Challenge for Ryan

Timestamps: [11:23]–[16:48]

• Matt challenges Ryan Lemond to dine alone at a different restaurant for seven days (“Eating Alone Week”), to foster self-reflection.
• Ryan is resistant: wants to stick to comfortable, familiar places (Drake’s, Applebee’s, El Mariachi), not explore new spots.
  • Matt jokes: “Wherever you want to eat. And you’re picking Applebee’s.” [12:13]
  • Drew quips about Applebee’s being like a Little League hangout: “Anytime you go to Applebee’s, it’s basically a little league team just about to go to a game starting. He’ll know the coaches and the players.” [13:15]
• Rules: Can’t invite friends to join, can interact with acquaintances only briefly. KS Bar allowed only on specific days.
• Alone time anxiety:
  • Ryan says, “I think I could do about 10 minutes [in silence].” [16:03]
  • Matt puts Ryan to the test, sending him to sit alone in an empty studio for 13 minutes.

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On-Air Alone: Ryan's Reflection

Timestamps: [31:04]–[32:35]

• Ryan reports back after “alone time” experiment in the studio:
  • “The first four minutes flew by. Those last nine minutes were awful.” [31:12]
  • “You immediately try to reach for your phone ... I think we’re addicted to our phones.” [31:21]
  • Only distraction: reading the label on his water bottle.
    • “Did you know there’s a spot on the water bottle where you can put your name?” [31:47]
• Drew: “Just think how much you would know if you just sat around all the time thinking.” [32:17]
• Matt: “No one considers [solitary confinement] a good punishment. It's actually literally a bad [one] ... It's actually torture.” [32:24]

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Ask Anything Tuesday: Callers, Basketball & Recruiting

Timestamps: [22:46]–[29:00]

• Caller “Billy in Georgetown” shares info on UK player Malachi Moreno bulking up since arrival.
  • Matt: “He has put on ... He has put on [weight]. ... He arrived on campus a different person than I saw at the end of his junior year.” [23:45, 25:03]
• Caller “Chris”: expresses mild concern over lack of recruiting commitments for next season.
  • Matt: “I do wonder about it ... the two or three people that people have felt the best at about haven’t made a decision yet.” [25:33]
  • The team feels the new transfer portal system changes the urgency and predicts several players to return.
  • Also discusses Arkansas’s athletic-looking team under Calipari in exhibition games. Matt confesses:
    “I was actively rooting against him.” [27:50]
    • The group debates whether to root for or against John Calipari now that he’s at Arkansas.

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Kentucky Football: Stoops’ Show Signals Trouble

Timestamps: [33:09]–[35:00]

• Matt addresses Mark Stoops’ coach’s show—specifically, no calls being taken:
  • “The moment they stop answering the phone, it’s a bad sign ... I think you could argue that the most obvious sign it is ending is when they stop answering the phone on the show.” [33:22]
• Drew and Ryan concur: when callers are shut out, it usually signifies a coach is nearing the end of his tenure.
• Matt likens it to a “closed Waffle House during a hurricane”—a strong indicator things are dire.

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Personal, Local, and Fun Segments

Timestamps: [37:10]–[39:49]

• Jackie from Versailles: shares fundraising woes working concessions for a UK football “buy” game with likely low attendance.

  • Crew sympathizes: “I'm sorry, Jackie. That stinks.” [38:34]
  • General agreement: scheduling such non-competitive games at the season’s end hurts morale and engagement.

• Lighthearted “Nine Beers, Nine Hot Dogs” baseball challenge:

  • Drew boasts, “I think so. I have to see how big the hot dog is.” [36:31]
  • Matt: “There’s no way I could drink nine beers of anything.” [36:21]

• “Ask Anything” Rapid Fire: Democratic politics, percentage chance Gov. Andy Beshear could be president (consensus: 2–3%), and rooting for/against Calipari.

• Rick's Radio Bio:

  • Veteran, age 73, Louisville native, former Top 40 DJ. Provides a sample of his old radio voice for the listeners. [30:09]

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Closing Thoughts and Podcast Plug

Timestamps: [43:50]–[47:31]

• Matt plugs his podcast “Interrupted by Matt Jones,” highlighting a recent episode on Israeli–Palestinian affairs, stressing openness, learning, and balance.
• Discusses fan opinions about rooting for former Kentucky coaches at new jobs:
  • “How many Kentucky fans out there, you think, root actively for Cal and Arkansas ...?” — Matt [46:46]
  • The prevailing sentiment is rivalry trumps personal loyalty, especially since Arkansas is an SEC foe.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Ohtani admiration:
  “He’s doing what no one else does and is excellent at both.” — Drew [08:58]
  “He's the greatest baseball player ever.” — Ryan [08:52]

• Dining Alone Challenge:
  “You’re picking Applebee’s?” — Matt [12:13]
  “I think I could do about 10 minutes [in silence].” — Ryan [16:03]

• Alone time effects:
  “I got really sleepy. The first four minutes flew by. Those last nine minutes were awful.” — Ryan [31:12]
  “You immediately try to reach for your phone ... I think we’re addicted to our phones.” — Ryan [31:21]

• Stoops/Coach Show:
  “The moment they stop answering the phone, it’s a bad sign.” — Matt [33:22]
  “It might be like when they close Waffle House during a hurricane, you know it’s going to be a bad one.” — Matt [34:14]

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Key Topics: Time-Stamped Highlights

| Segment | Time | Highlight | |---------------------------|------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | In studio with new boss | 03:10–06:32| KSR origins, impressions of management, and traffic stories | | Epic World Series talk | 06:47–11:18| Ohtani’s historic feat and MLB “GOAT” debate | | Alone Week challenge | 11:23–16:48| Ryan’s apprehension, choosing safe restaurants | | Post-alone reflection | 31:04–32:35| Ryan’s struggle with 13 minutes of solitude | | Ask Anything segment | 22:46–29:00| Basketball recruiting concerns and Arkansas under Calipari | | Stoops radio show | 33:09–35:00| No calls taken – a sign of trouble | | UK football concessions | 37:10–39:49| Nonprofit caller dreads tiny crowd for fundraising game | | Rick’s backstory | 30:09–31:04| Louisville roots and DJ history | | Podcast plug & politics | 43:50–47:31| “Interrupted by Matt Jones,” Andy Beshear’s presidential chances |

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Tone & Style

The KSR hour balances Kentucky sports insight with the easygoing, tongue-in-cheek warmth the show is known for. The hosts rib each other, share honest opinions, jump between national sports and local communities, and are open to the randomness of listener questions.

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For New Listeners

This episode’s open format provides a great window into the KSR community’s blend of sports obsessiveness, Kentucky pride, humor, and authenticity. If you enjoy Kentucky sports, opinionated takes, and a tight-knit yet quirky radio crew who mix sports, local color, and the human side of fandom, this hour is a must.

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Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio Tuesday, October 28th. I'm Matt Jones here in Louisville, Kentucky, where we are all in the Louisville studios, which happens very rarely. That we are all here in studio in Louisville. But we're here. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin and I. You can give us a shot on the Clark's puppet shop phone line. That's 859-280-2287. This is going to be an ask anything Tuesday since I'm in studio with Louisville since Rick is answering the phone so he won't be as mean as Shannon. Rick, you're not gonna be mean to the callers today, are you?

[Drew Franklin]

No, I never do that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I've heard you get an attitude sometimes. That's rumor. Yeah. The Clark's puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this dish and sponsored by the T.J. smith Law Office. Call T.J. i'll make a pay. You can ask anything. Football, basketball, or just a question about life. We'll do it for you today on a Tuesday. We are in Louisville because one of our we had now have a new regional boss. So this is somebody who's over like the entire southeast of the country, like basically runs all the radio talent in the southeast of the country. They came here to meet us today. They separated us. I have to meet him for lunch. Yes, but you all met him before. They wanted to separate us, right? Which is like, you know, they say divide and conquer. It's a strategy of war. It's a strategy of business. So I haven't met this person yet. You all just met him.

[Ryan Lemond]

We just met him what do you think?

[Matt Jones]

Very personal. Did he offer to fire.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, but the first thing he did ask Drew was, did you guys really start in a basement? That was the first thing he wanted to know.

[Matt Jones]

There was.

[Drew Franklin]

First question.

[Ryan Lemond]

First question.

[Matt Jones]

Well, good. So you. You didn't do anything to like hurt us?

[Ryan Lemond]

No, we. We bragged on you. Bragged on all of us. He's really personal, really easy to talk to. I think he's going to be a good guy to work for.

[Matt Jones]

All right. That's. Famous last words. What about you?

[Drew Franklin]

Drew talked about playing golf.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

It's good.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's a St. Louis Cardinal fan too, so he and I immediately connected.

[Matt Jones]

Well, good. Well, I'm glad you two, you know, they separated.

[Drew Franklin]

I can't tell you what I said. I got to talk about you all. So that's the point of separating.

[Matt Jones]

That whole point of divide and conquer. Because if I know what you all said, then I come in and say the same thing.

[Ryan Lemond]

He was really asking some good questions. Like he wanted to know about this Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson thing. He couldn't. Didn't know who the guys were, but he knew there was some sort of recruitment that kind of helped.

[Matt Jones]

He knew about Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson.

[Ryan Lemond]

He knew there was a recruitment that kind of helped springboard the website.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Gotcha. Well. Well, anyway, so we are here in Louisville. What horrible traffic the city had today. What is wrong with you people in Louisville?

[Drew Franklin]

I got up early. I left 7:15. That should have been plenty of time. I had intentions of going to this coffee shop down here, eating breakfast. I got here at 9:20. It took over two hours to get from Lexington to Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know what they did, but i64 was just a parking lot from starts about Shelbyville.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, it backs up way back.

[Matt Jones]

It was. It was awful. It was awful. I don't know what you all did here. Louisville.

[Caller]

Why.

[Matt Jones]

Why is it happening? And then the thing about all these traffic jams in Louisville, they never seem to have a reason. That's it. As I can say, you never get to a thing that makes sense as to why they're happening because there's never a wreck or something. It's just. You just. It's just backed up.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like there's one time where the three lanes funneled down the two. That's the only thing I saw. I can't believe it. Backed up all the way for that. Something else.

[Matt Jones]

So if you're coming from Lexington to Louisville, just know, leave yesterday. It's. It's going to take A little while to get here, but we're here and excited, excited to have you. 852-80-2287. Ask Anything Wednesday, hopefully you give us a shout.

[Drew Franklin]

We.

[Matt Jones]

I was trying to think which way to go today. Last night I did something I very rarely do because I'm kind of a night owl. I bailed on the baseball game. I went 13 innings.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you made it farther than I did.

[Matt Jones]

And I thought, you know, I just got to go to sleep. And then they went 18, finished at 3 in the morning.

[Ryan Lemond]

Played a double header last night.

[Matt Jones]

They're saying it's the one, maybe the best long World Series game of all time. Did anyone finish it?

[Ryan Lemond]

No, I tapped out about the ninth inning. I don't think I made it the.

[Drew Franklin]

Extra innings about where you did. I'd say around the 13th, I dozed off.

[Ryan Lemond]

I had it on.

[Drew Franklin]

I was trying, but I wasn't going to fight the eyelids when they were closing. It just. I couldn't hang for.

[Matt Jones]

I gave it 13. Well, I started in like the 8th, but I gave it from the 8th to the 13th. It was very exciting. Right? Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Freddie Freeman wins it on a walk off in the bottom of the 18th.

[Matt Jones]

Shohei Ohtani gets on base nine times.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's crazy, man.

[Matt Jones]

Nine times crazy. First player to ever get four extra base hits in a World Series game.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's unbelievable.

[Matt Jones]

And then they intentionally walked him four times, so he ended up getting on base nine times.

[Ryan Lemond]

Insane.

[Matt Jones]

That's it. But you know what, It's a World Series record. But you know, that's happened twice before in a baseball game.

[Ryan Lemond]

No, I didn't know that.

[Matt Jones]

So it was the third time someone's ever gotten. Now I wonder, do you feel like he's the greatest at. Do you think he's the greatest baseball player of all time? Are you ready to put. I mean, who are the contenders? Right. So the contenders would be Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth. What? Mickey Mantle.

[Ryan Lemond]

But Babe Ruth only got it pitched and hit.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think you have to pitch and hit to be the greatest player? Nobody does that to me.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's what puts him over the top of everybody else. The fact he can be a big league pitcher and maybe the best big league hitter in the. In our game right now.

[Matt Jones]

So you're going to say. Are you going to say he's the best player of all time because he's pitching game four after doing all that. He's pitching tonight.

[Ryan Lemond]

You get your team to the World Series? Yes. To me, he's the greatest baseball player ever.

[Drew Franklin]

I agree. I Don't think it's close because you said no one else does this. Well, that's the point. He's doing what no one else does and is excellent at both.

[Matt Jones]

Rick, you got to wake up and answer these calls. I can see them ringing, Rick. Well, I'm here. Are you going to answer these calls? Yes. Okay. Just doing it on your own pace. I get the job done. Okay. All right, Rick. I'm just making sure. Yeah. It is an amazing thing. It's crazy, but he's also, like, crazy. He's definitively the best hitter.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And he's one of the really good pitchers.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, he's. He's in their starting rotation. The dude throws 100 miles an hour. It's amazing what he's able to do.

[Matt Jones]

Do you. Okay. So when various people have played, like Tiger or Michael Jordan, you sort of appreciate. In the moment, I'm watching greatness. Do you feel that way about Chohei? Oh, Tommy, I do.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. I get excited when he comes up to the plate because, like, in any moment. What was that game in the championship series? He had three home runs. I mean, like, the dude is just. He's a special player that we should really be able to appreciate what we're watching.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't even love baseball, but if Ohtani is a bat, you got to lock in.

[Matt Jones]

You got to watch him.

[Ryan Lemond]

You got to watch him.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, I'm not a historian. I can't rank the best players ever, but I can't even think of anyone you could say to put ahead of him. Like, what would the case be for someone else?

[Matt Jones]

I did, like, last night. Oh, I know. I don't know what it would be. I mean, in my lifetime, I would have said Barry Bonds. Up until today. Right. Or up until, like, this year. Because I loved watching Barry Bonds as a kid, and he was good even before he started. Roy, no.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. He could hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I will say it was difficult to watch a dude we cut from the Reds in the World Series last night when. When the one guy got hurt, George Springer. They were, like, coming to the game, tie France. And I was like, tie France. I remember that guy from last year. He's on the team, so that's a little difficult to watch.

[Ryan Lemond]

So he's on the Blue Jays.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't even know he is. I think we got rid of him at the end of last year, and he. They had to put him in. They had a pinch runner last night. Who's the slowest pinch runner? I'VE ever seen. Did you see that guy? He tried to go from first to home. He's still running. Oh, that guy, he got thrown out by a mile.

[Commercial Voice]

He did.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wasn't even close.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but I've enjoyed it. This has been a very enjoyable.

[Ryan Lemond]

And now they. They play tonight. I mean, the game gets over at 3 in the morning. They play again tonight.

[Matt Jones]

No, I liked it. Now, equally as important. Are you ready for next week? You're eating alone week. We're starting next Monday. You've got seven straight days. Have you processed that you're going to do this?

[Ryan Lemond]

I've talked it over with yoga girl.

[Matt Jones]

Wait a minute. Why?

[Ryan Lemond]

Because we try to eat dinner together. Like I need to eat dinner by myself. And I think you said I gotta stay an hour by myself there at the restaurant.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm hoping you don't have a clock to count.

[Ryan Lemond]

I probably will. I put the stopwatch. So. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Have you figured out where you want to go? What places would you like to go?

[Ryan Lemond]

Let me tell you.

[Matt Jones]

Sure.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna hit all the neighborhood places. Drake's, Applebee's, El Mariachi.

[Matt Jones]

There's a Chinese place offering you wherever you want to eat. And you're picking Applebee's.

[Ryan Lemond]

I wouldn't. I wouldn't do anything crazy to you.

[Matt Jones]

I understand, but don't you. Why not try? Now that you're doing this new thing, why not try some new places?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, I'm not big on those new places. I like what I like. Applebee's, I think, is very underrated. I think the food at Applebee's is really good.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so Drake's, Applebee's, El Mariachi.

[Diplo]

Where else?

[Ryan Lemond]

Thoroughbred. They're only one road.

[Drew Franklin]

You're just naming my old neighborhood. These are all walking distances.

[Matt Jones]

I think I'm go somewhere. I think I need to. I mean, like, why don't you try new places?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think I need to support my. My hood where I live, you know, it's not.

[Drew Franklin]

It's about being comfortable here. I see it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think I need to go to Waffle House on Georgetown Road.

[Drew Franklin]

There's a lot of new restaurants in Lexington.

[Matt Jones]

Here's the problem though. We can't. I'm asking. I. I can't tell people where you're going because then they'll come to talk.

[Ryan Lemond]

True. I don't want. I don't want that.

[Matt Jones]

You don't want that? This is. This is supposed to enrich your soul.

[Ryan Lemond]

Red State Barbecue is right down the road, is probably going to be on my list.

[Matt Jones]

Continues to say the word.

[Drew Franklin]

It's all about being comfortable.

[Matt Jones]

It's.

[Drew Franklin]

He knows the people that own these places.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, I see.

[Matt Jones]

Applebee's.

[Drew Franklin]

Anytime you go to Applebee's, it's basically a little league team. Just about to go to a game starting. He'll know the coaches and the players.

[Matt Jones]

You think Applebee's is just one big little league team?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes. Used to be in there all the time.

[Matt Jones]

It is kind of the kind of place that seems like a little league place.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes. Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right. So you're going to go.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

How are you going to spend the hour? Have you thought about. Are you going to read?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think I'm probably just going to watch a game. Try to go. And there's a game on. And just sit and watch a game and eat.

[Matt Jones]

So just sit there in silence?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And watch a game?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

No stimulation.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, what if somebody comes up and says, hey, Ryan, what's up?

[Matt Jones]

Of course they can talk to you, but you cannot invite. I can't invite.

[Ryan Lemond]

You sit down. Once you sit down and have a cheese stick with.

[Matt Jones]

No, you don't get to invite them to sit down. You can talk to them, but they need to move along briskly.

[Ryan Lemond]

And KS Bar is off the table, you said. Right.

[Matt Jones]

KS Bar. I'd let you go to KS Bar on, like, Tuesday because we're not that crowded.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

So if you want to go on, like, Tuesday, I'm okay. But, you know, you cannot go, like. Wait a minute. No way. Hang on. Next week, Kentucky plays basketball on Tuesday and Friday, so you can't go Tuesday or Friday.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I'm doing trivia on Thursday, so you could go Wednesday.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go Wednesday.

[Matt Jones]

Matter of fact, I would appreciate that. It's Wednesday. It'll be a little cheaper for me. Drew, if he wants to do that. But in general, you're just there to experience Ryan.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Your inner peace.

[Ryan Lemond]

And people are, like, saying, matt's buying. You should go to Tony's and Jeff Ruby's. Like, I'm not gonna do that to you.

[Matt Jones]

I'll give you one night of those.

[Ryan Lemond]

I wouldn't do that to you. I would go where I would normally.

[Matt Jones]

Go one night of a Tony's or a Jeff Ruby's. Would you like to have one night of a meal to sort of spoil yourself?

[Ryan Lemond]

I would feel guilty. I would.

[Matt Jones]

You don't have to feel guilty. I'm offering.

[Drew Franklin]

You're going to Applebee's. It cancels out.

[Ryan Lemond]

Applebee's has good food now.

[Matt Jones]

Would you like to go one night? Would you like to sit. I mean, I even. You know, I think that would be worse.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go to a nice restaurant like that. Had to sit there by yourself. I don't know if I'd like that.

[Drew Franklin]

Been a Tony's by myself many times. Good crab cake.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, we have a former assistant football coaches that is there probably now at one of those places by. By himself. I'm just saying. I'll offer that to you.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Are you excited about.

[Ryan Lemond]

I am not. No, I am not.

[Drew Franklin]

You met me.

[Ryan Lemond]

You saw me at dinner last night. I was with yoga girl Josiah and his new lady friend.

[Matt Jones]

That's good.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's what I want. That's what I like. That's what I prefer. That's what I want to do.

[Matt Jones]

But some people would argue, though, that misses the point. The point is be at peace with Ryan.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. I got to make sure there's a game on that keeps my attention focused. To go to watch a game.

[Drew Franklin]

Do you think I love how many rules and details? Just going out to Eaton Eats.

[Matt Jones]

You could sit. How long do you think you could sit in silence with no mental stimulation? No game, no person, just you and your thoughts?

[Ryan Lemond]

10 minutes.

[Matt Jones]

You think you could do 10 minutes?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think I could do about 10 minutes. Not look at your phone, but I might fall asleep. If I'm laying there motionless for 10 minutes, I'm probably going to be asleep.

[Matt Jones]

Not. You could not use your phone.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay, maybe five minutes.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Mario, it's 10:17. There's an empty studio right over there.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Right across the street.

[Ryan Lemond]

I leave my phone in here.

[Matt Jones]

Leave your phone. Mario, you can't talk to him. You just guard the door, all right? You just go sit in that studio by yourself for 10, 13 minutes. We'll get you at 10:30.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay?

[Matt Jones]

And then you come back and you tell us how it went.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm already sweating a little bit.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I'll see you at 10:30. Mario, you can't talk to him. All right, all right. 859-28-0-2287.

[Drew Franklin]

He's gonna fall asleep. We're gonna hear snoring coming from that studio.

[Matt Jones]

Am I wrong? This was not going to be good for him. This.

[Drew Franklin]

It's so bizarre to me that, like, you shouldn't need rules and stipulations to go out to eat by yourself. He's like, can I do this? Can I do this? It's like, just go eat. Just go.

[Matt Jones]

Just. The end of that week, it's going to be good. 859-28-02287. We're you will get take your calls. We're also going to talk a little football, obviously, the stoop situation, some basketball as well as ksr.

[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 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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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. You were just saying everything Ryan said while he was here was false. About that you're meeting with the boss.

[Drew Franklin]

It wasn't. It wasn't false. I think it was just packaged a little differently than reality.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he made it seem like he had done all this research about us. You're saying he didn't know anything about us?

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I don't want to say our boss didn't know anything about us, but like, Ryan used the Patterson and Lucas thing as an example. He didn't sit down and say, tell me about Lucas Patterson. He said, hey Drew, what made that website take off back in the day?

[Matt Jones]

And then we told the story.

[Drew Franklin]

Actually, Ryan made it sound like Ryan told the story.

[Matt Jones]

So Ryan made it sound like he knew the story, but it was actually Ryan that told us.

[Drew Franklin]

Correct? We discussed everything Ryan said we discussed, but we offered the information to him and then we discussed it.

[Matt Jones]

Well, am I wrong? Ryan acted like he offered the information.

[Drew Franklin]

He did. I wasn't going to correct him or our boss.

[Matt Jones]

I don't want to make it sound.

[Drew Franklin]

Like he didn't know anything about us.

[Matt Jones]

But, like, yeah, that's a different. That's a different take on it. Here I was thinking our boss did all this research on us, and it sounds like Ryan did. Ryan's just made that up. Well, I don't want to say he did zero research.

[Drew Franklin]

He knew there was a website, but that one specifically, it was like I said, Ryan was traditional media. We were not.

[Matt Jones]

But see, I kind of think in his mind, Ryan already turned it into that. That he knew him?

[Drew Franklin]

No, he just wanted to know what made the blog kind of take over for traditional media.

[Matt Jones]

And good to know Ryan took that well. Oh, 859-280-2287.

[Drew Franklin]

Cook.

[Matt Jones]

I like that one person said, ma, Matt, you and Drew need to pick the restaurants. He's just trying to go to places where he'll know people. I think there's a true. Yeah, we're not going to. He doesn't get to go to restaurants on Lee's Town Road.

[Drew Franklin]

I need people to know these restaurants he named. That's where I live. You lived. I've been in all them a million times.

[Matt Jones]

He'll know the server, everybody manager. We're taking him to the other side of town where people don't know him. Yeah, Lee's Town Road. It'll just be like Cheers. He'll know all those people and master.

[Drew Franklin]

All his neighbors will be there.

[Matt Jones]

Neighbors are there. That's exactly right. We can't do that. It's Ask Anything Tuesday. We will. Let's go. Let's just get started. Let's go to Billy in Georgetown. Go ahead, Billy.

[Caller]

Hey, man. How's it going?

[Matt Jones]

Good.

[Caller]

Hey, I just got a. A little bit of info on. On Malachi Moreno.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Caller]

I mean, they could have discussed it, but fortunately, my son was at Big Blue Madness, was one of the kids that was chosen to be one of the honorary assistant coaches. And he actually got the. He was the one that judged the dunk contest. But on the elevator ride down, it was Jason Hart. I was talking with them, and my son actually was wearing a great crossing shirt. We're from Georgetown. And. And I mentioned to him, I said, hey, you know, we're from Georgetown. You know, we're really big fans of Malachi. And I said, you know, we've heard a lot of good things about him. And he said that he arrived on campus physically prepared and had actually packed on £4 since arriving on campus.

[Matt Jones]

Well, it looks like it to me. So what's your question?

[Caller]

I don't know. That was just my comment. I just. I think that that has a. I know it's Ask Anything Tuesday, but I'm actually a podcast listener, and the last time I called in was back when Ryan Timmons.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I appreciate the call. He does look like he's. He has put on. I mean, I. I can't get over Drew, how different he is from two years ago when he played in the high school state tournament. I mean, I. And this goes to show that sometimes with these younger guys, you can't just take your initial view and go with it. Because I left the high school state tournament going, I don't see how. That kid's ranked 24th in the country and then didn't watch him play last year until the. The. What was it, the Nike Classic or whatever that he played in. I was like, okay, he's gotten better, but he's infinitely better, and he'll play a lot this year. And he's going to be great.

[Drew Franklin]

Definitely. He's always been skilled and had the size advantage, and you knew there was potential. But even, like, I feel like I watched him at a. At a game at Lexington Catholic his senior year somewhere in person, I don't remember the exact moment. I remember thinking, this guy's good, but he will get thrown around in college. Just too thin.

[Matt Jones]

Get there.

[Drew Franklin]

But I didn't think.

[Matt Jones]

Freshman year, he was thrown around by Lyon county, and the tallest dude was like, six, three. And I thought, there's just. This isn't going to work.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So.

[Drew Franklin]

And credit to him for bulking up.

[Matt Jones]

No kidding. I mean, and credit to, you know, his brother. I talked to his brother at pro day and how proud he was of him. Credit to everybody, because he arrived on campus a different person than I saw at the end of his junior year. Chris, go ahead. Chris.

[Caller]

Good morning, guys. I do have an Ask Anything Tuesday question, and I promise you it's not me being negative. My question is, is anyone at this point even a little bit worried about recruiting for next year?

[Matt Jones]

I'm not worried, but I do wonder about it. I mean, they don't have a commitment yet. They. But I would say the two or three people that people have felt the best at about haven't made a decision yet. So there's still a what? I think if you were to have said, what, two months ago, who's the most likely UK class, you would have picked probably three guys. What? You would have picked Stokes. Who else?

[Drew Franklin]

Rippy's the guard.

[Matt Jones]

Been watching.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I mean go months ago, Kenny was still in the mix but he's. He's now out.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And then what about this kid that's this week between Kentucky and usc. Collins, what do you think is going to happen with him?

[Drew Franklin]

The buzz has been good about him.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

USC is one of those schools that we just saw last cycle though. I mean a bag can you never.

[Matt Jones]

Know back but I think it's fair to wonder. But I also think in today's day and age, if you don't get players the portals makes it different and we're going to have a lot of guys return crease which I think is another thing to think about.

[Caller]

That is true. And then also lastly, did you guys happen to watch any of the Arkansas Memphis game last night? I know that it's just an exhibition but they're athletic and they're big. They look pretty good.

[Matt Jones]

They look good. I appreciate the call. I mean both the game they played the other night against who did they play? Cincinnati. Then they played Memphis. Arkansas Cal may have a good team. He looks like he has one of his better teams in terms of athleticism. I still think they won't be able to shoot and they'll finish, you know, they'll lose games they shouldn't. But this, this Cal team I think is better Drew than last year's county.

[Drew Franklin]

And it looks like he hit on his guards at least with Malik Thomas, the one we gave a shovel and a construction vest here when he was visiting.

[Matt Jones]

Worked his little construction vest worked and.

[Drew Franklin]

He had a big game. He looks like he'll be one of those freshmen that. That can.

[Matt Jones]

Can.

[Drew Franklin]

Can play in college basketball.

[Matt Jones]

Are you over rooting against Cal or do you still root against Cal like. Like when Arkansas plays last year I rooted hard against them every game. It's kind of am I going to do that again for me and I.

[Drew Franklin]

Expected this the moment once we got past the Lexington game. I didn't think about him again until the.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's not true. At least for me. I rooted again. I mean I was. I wanted Bill Self to beat him.

[Drew Franklin]

But I mean I wanted to lose. But when you say are you like sitting down and watching him? I wasn't.

[Matt Jones]

I mean I always. I was actively rooting against him.

[Drew Franklin]

I didn't, I didn't do that. No, I said until the tournament.

[Matt Jones]

Until the tournament. But I definitely. I was. I've never been a bigger fan of the toupee than I was in the first round. Yeah, no, no. I mean I watched the St. John's game together and we were both pulling hard for St. John.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm saying between November and February, I probably won't think about him once. But at SEC tournament and March Madness.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I'll be rooting against him. I'm still going to be rooting against them. Is that bad?

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, I want him to lose.

[Matt Jones]

But if I'm going to be honest, I'm still going to be rooting against him, like when they're playing because this is going to happen, they're going to play like Belmont and they're going to be down three with eight minutes to go and then I'm going to turn it on and be pulling like I'm going to do.

[Drew Franklin]

My situation is I want him to lose, but I'm not going to turn it on. Like, I just don't care to watch, I guess. I mean, I want him to lose every game, but I'm not, I'm not going to be following Arkansas blogs and Twitters and watching games.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean it's probably not a good characteristic that I'm going to, but I'm, I'm going to root against them. You know, it took me, took me 15 years to stop rooting against Rick.

[Drew Franklin]

It's true.

[Matt Jones]

Now I root for Rick, so maybe that'll switch in a few years. But I'm, I'm going to be rooting against them. 859-280-2287. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR. Welcome back. Techy Sports Radio. 859-280-2267. Here's some Ask anything questions on the air or on the text machine. What person writes? Matt, what do you think of the Bill Pat Kelsey, Bill self interaction? I think it was nothing. I think it was just like an account online that was fake, faked everybody and made it seem like they were fighting. But I think it was a normal postgame interaction.

[Drew Franklin]

Seth Davis got got.

[Matt Jones]

He, Davis got got. It's amazing how gullible people are. And I'm not saying I've never fallen for anything but like people now will fall. You go on Facebook, it's just old people falling for stuff that you're like, come on man, just, just you, you, you got it. You got to do better than that. But Seth Davis falling for it was, was bad. So I think it's nothing. One person writes Matt, Rick when he's on here is always mysterious to me. Can Rick give us a 20 second bio of who he is? All right, Rick, 20 seconds on who you are, how old you Are where you're from, et cetera.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, well, first of all, I'm 73.

[Matt Jones]

Years old, all right? Born and raised here in Louisville. Was in radio in my younger days when I had more hair and when it was brown, I was a top 40 DJ. Oh, wow. Here. Do it. Do a voice like Rick. Do it. Do it like when you were doing top 40. Do a voice for me.

[Ryan Lemond]

You mean like this?

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so introduce the song. Okay, let's see here. Okay. And we've got Bon Jovi coming up next with Legendary.

[Ryan Lemond]

How's that?

[Matt Jones]

It's good. That's good. I can see why it worked. It did at the time. No, it worked. It works for me now. Well, we appreciate you filling in, Rick. Do you enjoy ksr? Oh, sure. Okay, good. Well, we enjoy having you. Ryan's back. How are the 13 minutes of alone time?

[Ryan Lemond]

I got really sleepy. The first four minutes flew by. Those last nine minutes were awful.

[Matt Jones]

So you just fall asleep if you don't do anything.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was laying back, had my feet up. I was about to fall asleep.

[Matt Jones]

What went through your mind during the time?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you know, you immediately try to reach for your phone. Like, today's Devin Key's birthday. I need to wish him happy birthday. I don't have my phone. I gotta check my. I haven't checked Twitter today. I don't have my phone. You know, immediately. I think we're addicted to our phones.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so you had a hard time with it? Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I did read the entire label to this water bottle. Did you know there's a spot on the water bottle where you can put your name?

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I didn't know that either. Did anybody ever know that?

[Matt Jones]

See, but these are the kind of things you can learn if you start to spend more time with yourself. You can pick up things like, hey, I could write my name on the water bottle.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's like if you got a team, the team mom can write Matthew on one, Drew on one, Ryan on one. So we don't drink each other's water.

[Matt Jones]

See, these are the kind. See, these are the kind of. There's a legit spot.

[Ryan Lemond]

Look at that little white.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, it's not this interesting. Like, that's three. But it's still. This is what you can do.

[Drew Franklin]

I just think how much you would know if you just sat around all the time thinking.

[Ryan Lemond]

I can see why solitary confinement is a good punishment in prison. Because that's.

[Matt Jones]

It's not a good punishment. No one considers it a good. It's actually literally a Bad.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's awful.

[Matt Jones]

It's actually torture.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was tortured and I was just in there for 15.

[Matt Jones]

You were in there for 13 minutes and you also weren't in prison.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. Got. Let me real quick, let me talk a second about Stoops yesterday. Yesterday. Did his radio show. He said many things, but he was asked kind of about the roster and he said he liked the roster like the young guys and then said, we did as good as we could have in building the roster. What do you think that means? Said it on his coach's show. I will note on his coach's show, not one phone call.

[Drew Franklin]

I felt bad for Bob and Jamestown didn't even get.

[Matt Jones]

They're not even answering the phone.

[Ryan Lemond]

We're.

[Matt Jones]

We're at the stage of we're not answering the phone, which is always a bad stage. I mean, if you go back through history, go back to Tubby Smith.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The moment they stop answering the phone, it's a bad sign. Happened with Tubby, happened with Cal, happened with Gillespie, happened with Joker. As a matter of fact, I think you could argue that the most obvious sign it is ending is when they stop answering the phone on the show. Am I wrong about that point? Because they've all. Every single person I just mentioned that happened to Tubby, Gillespie, Cal, Joker, at some point they stopped taking calls. And the moment they did that, it was like you knew it was over. When you don't even answer Bob and Jamestown's call, he's on the phone right here. I haven't gone to him. Might not go to him for a while.

[Drew Franklin]

You might still be on this phone line from last night.

[Matt Jones]

But when you don't answer these calls, Ryan, that says to me it's over.

[Ryan Lemond]

And I always wonder, does the directive come from the coach or is it coming from JMI or the athletic department? Somebody's.

[Matt Jones]

Whoever it's coming from knows we can't let somebody get through here. Like we know with this. It might be like when they close Waffle House during a hurricane, you know it's going to be a bad one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The moment they stop taking phone calls on the call in show, you know it's over. Right.

[Drew Franklin]

You mean it's not authentic? When they say, oh, we have a submission online. How good do the young receivers fallen for?

[Matt Jones]

No one is texting into the show and saying, how good are the young receivers? Who is sending that in? No one's sending that in.

[Drew Franklin]

I like we're supposed to believe though, when they'll have a few online questions that are just all positive. It's like, can't be all of them.

[Matt Jones]

When I heard he wasn't taking it, I knew it was over.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Now, Bob and Jamestown. Let's put him on. Bob and Jamestown. There's also a. Apparently they're not taking calls on the pregame show anymore for basketball. I feel like that's a direct shot at you, Bob, because you call every pregame show. Are you upset that what was a tradition for 75 years seems to have ended?

[Caller]

It was nice. I loved it. Got to know the coaches, got to know all the fans out there.

[Matt Jones]

But I know the basketball pregame show. They're not taking calls anymore. Dave and Cameron said no more calls this year.

[Caller]

Well, I mean, nothing stays the same. It's all about.

[Matt Jones]

That's not, though, an incentive for you to call here more, just for the record.

[Caller]

Anyway, now that we're in the World Series, what do you think about the baseball challenge? Nine beers, nine hot dogs, and nine innings.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I certainly couldn't do it. I appreciate the call. I know a person that's done it. I won't say who. I don't want to embarrass them. And they did it and were very successful for me. Neither of those sounds appealing. The hot dogs. And then I. There's no way I could drink nine beers of anything.

[Drew Franklin]

When do we play the hard games?

[Matt Jones]

Yo, you think you could do it easy?

[Ryan Lemond]

He's the one guy on the team. He could do it.

[Drew Franklin]

Now I've got the Uber ready.

[Matt Jones]

I won't be. You could. So you. But you could do the nine hot dogs, too.

[Drew Franklin]

The hot dogs, the beers. Yes, the hot dogs. Never had to do anything like that. I think so. I have to see how big the hot dog is.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I think that would start to get really gross. Like. Like ending six.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Could I trade more beers for the hot.

[Matt Jones]

For a hot dog? You'd have to do nine beers, nine hot dogs.

[Drew Franklin]

Hope nobody was trying it last night. That would have been an adventure.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, they couldn't have done it. Yeah. 18.

[Ryan Lemond]

The person did it that. You know, how far can they could have gone? Were they still going strong?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they were thinking about doing it for a double header and I. And they could have. Jackie. Go ahead, Jackie.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. I wanted to talk a little bit and Matt, I need your advice on something about the. Another part of football that nobody really thinks about. So I run a nonprofit for a softball facility in Versailles, and it took us a year to get on the docket to work a Kentucky football game. And we finally do, and it's a Tennessee Tech game.

[Matt Jones]

Oh.

[Caller]

Now I'm supposed to bring 20 people to work concessions and we're supposed to get a portion of this concession money. I'm going to have more people in the concession stand that are in the stand.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's bad luck. I'm sorry about that. That's. That's bad luck. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what to tell you because I don't think there's going to be anything that'll change that. But that's really bad luck because, you know, you were excited to do it, be a good fundraiser. But I don't know what. I don't think we're going to have a great crowd. The only way I could see Tennessee Tech being a great crowd is if they announced Stoops is leaving. And they kind of do it as like a send off and let every. Then I could see people going, you know what, let's go give the man a round of applause for many years of work here.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's it. That's the only way it could happen. It's Senior Day, so they can maybe have a celebration that way, kind of promote it, one last hurrah.

[Matt Jones]

I still don't think that would pack the stadium, but it would probably do better than if you didn't.

[Ryan Lemond]

I agree.

[Matt Jones]

But I'm sorry, Jackie. That stinks.

[Caller]

Yeah. I just don't know what to do. It's just hard because it was the one game that we got.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, you can't. I mean, you can't not show up. So you got to take. Well, I will tell anybody that goes to go buy concessions from you.

[Caller]

Well, thank you, Matt. I appreciate it.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you. Appreciate it. There you go.

[Ryan Lemond]

Because that's usually a good fundraiser for organizations and groups and teams to be able to do a game like that. You get stuck with that game.

[Drew Franklin]

I'll go buy something.

[Matt Jones]

You will?

[Ryan Lemond]

We should all go be one of.

[Drew Franklin]

A handful of people there.

[Matt Jones]

I'll send you something to buy for someone else.

[Ryan Lemond]

Maybe one of our football players will leave at halftime and go to their concession stand.

[Drew Franklin]

It does think she mentioned being Senior Day.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, it's going to stay the.

[Drew Franklin]

Animosities with the coach.

[Matt Jones]

Seniors are going to feel it said this for 10 years. Part of this is on UK. You got to stop scheduling those games at the end of the year.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You've got to stop scheduling a game that nobody wants to happen as your last home game. Nobody wants to see Kentucky play Tennessee Tech. Nobody. Nobody. If you're going to do that, do it the first or second game of the year. When we're excited. Do not do it at the last game. Y' all are asking for this situation when you do this.

[Ryan Lemond]

What's the. What's the thinking? Try to break up the tough part.

[Matt Jones]

Tail end of the schedule is take a game off before the Louisville game or something, and a lot of SEC teams are doing it. And I think it's nonsense. I think it's just complete nonsense to play that game that late of the year. Hey, Big Blue nation, basketball's back. You got your pregame routine. But here's something else to add from going around the lobby taking a shower. Also, get a skin check. Kentucky Skin Cancer center is the most trusted name in the region for diagnosing and curing skin cancer. Glasgow Franklin, Bowling Green, Owensboro and Powderly to the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. It's a great place. They're compassionate, they'll help you, and they'll make sure that you can rest easy. That your skin Go to the Kentucky skin cancer center. 270842, 1999. It's the Kentucky Skin Cancer center, where you're not just a patient, your family. We'll take a break. Be right back.

[Bobby Bones]

Ksr 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 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 on his own on the road.

[Bailey Zimmerman]

Yeah, it was really cool. He. 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 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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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859280-2287 Text Machine 772774, 5254 Let me give a little plug for my podcast Interrupted by Matt Jones. This week's episode Noam Weissman. He has a podcast called Unpacking Israeli History. I got him to come on and talk about the Israel, Palestine situation and whether or not the peace can hold. What's interesting is that's an area of politics that I don't know a lot about. It's part of why I had him on. He's in my fellowship group. We're friends. Ryan. The amount of responses I've gotten to it have been fascinating. Some people love it, some people very angry, Some people like, very happy. It is. I don't say it's the most polarizing, but it's close in terms of, like, people just have such strong opinions. And it's interesting to me, someone who doesn't know a ton about it. So it's interesting to watch people have strong opinions about something that I don't have a strong opinion on. And so for. I'm going to have someone who's on the kind of Palestinian side of things on as well, but just something for people that they might enjoy.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, that's. That's why you do this.

[Matt Jones]

You should listen to it, see if you understand. Well, our.

[Ryan Lemond]

The new guy getting ready to meet, he was asking all kinds of questions about your podcast. He was wanting to kind of know about it. What's it about? Is it just a. I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

If I like you being the spokesman.

[Ryan Lemond]

Drew Drew handled that.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

I said, you have a lot of interests outside of Kentucky sports, and that's your platform for that. And people know what they're getting into.

[Matt Jones]

One person writes, what percentage chance Andy Bashir is the next president? President of the United States? Low two. I mean, because, like, first of all, it's like 50. 50. The Democrat or Republican wins. So start with that. And then it's like, what are the chances he gets the Democratic nominee? And I would say like 3 or 4%. So then split it in half and it's like 2%. I feel like that's a good number, right? 2%? Yeah. I mean, that's a higher percentage than we have.

[Drew Franklin]

Maybe. Might go three.

[Matt Jones]

You're going up to three? Yeah. All right, so you're saying three.

[Drew Franklin]

Just doing my math. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I'll go.

[Drew Franklin]

Yep. Carry the.

[Matt Jones]

Yep.

[Drew Franklin]

Three.

[Matt Jones]

All right, you're going three. What about you?

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm going to go 2.5.

[Matt Jones]

2.5. All right, 2.5.

[Caller]

Three.

[Ryan Lemond]

So here's the question. Do you think maybe not this term, but maybe in the future he could be president? Does your percentage go up any at all?

[Matt Jones]

I think you just have a really hard time with the Democratic primary. Like, I think it's. I think it's very hard for Someone like him to win a Democratic primary because he's in a red state. But you never know. I mean, things can change. If you had asked me in 2013, what are the chances Donald Trump would be president, I would have said point one. And then he was so like, you never know. Right.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm voting for Andy. If he runs, he's got my vote.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so now he's up to.

[Ryan Lemond]

One and to one percent.

[Matt Jones]

All right. You don't count as a whole percent.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Jones]

You just.

[Ryan Lemond]

You.

[Matt Jones]

You count as one. One vote. One person writes. Matt, I think it's really strange that you against Arkansas in games. I root for Calipari every time he coaches. As long as it's not against us. Yeah, I think that's strange. I don't know. How many fans. Do you. How many Kentucky fans out there, you think root actively for Cal and Arkansas that aren't friends with Cal, that don't have a personal relationship with him? Are there many? I mean, maybe I'm wrong. If you do write me, just. Just write the text machine. 772-774-5254. Do you root for Arkansas? I can understand having no opinion, but I don't understand those who would actively root. Cause it only hurts our program if he does.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you know, when Tubby went left and went to Minnesota, that was different. It was. I rooted for Tubby at Minnesota, too.

[Matt Jones]

That's different to me.

[Ryan Lemond]

Cal going to a conference rival at Arkansas.

[Matt Jones]

I think Tubby's different.

[Ryan Lemond]

I do do.

[Matt Jones]

Because he wasn't in conference.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

We kind of wanted him to go. I mean, I guess we kind of wanted Cal to go, too, but it was different. He's not in our conference. Tubby wasn't going to talk trash about us.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Tommy didn't say, like, the game continues just a different location. You know, if.

[Drew Franklin]

For me, it's very. Maybe if Cal had gone to Minnesota, maybe it's different. It's Arkansas. They're on the schedule.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

They're trying to get ahead of us in seating. I mean, they're literally a rival in the conference and have been for a long time. I would want them to lose every game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Steve. Go ahead, Steve.

[Caller]

Morning, guys. So what benefit did UK gain from Stoops? His contract? I mean, he can leave it anytime without penalty. The university is locked into a $40 million commitment. Is this the worst structured contract in sports history?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know about sports history, but it's the worst. And appreciate the call. It's the worst one I can think of with uk because you're right, he could have still left. We locked him in without locking him in. So the answer to the question is we kept him from leaving in theory, but if he could still leave, I do think it was I. We will rue the day that Mitch Barnhart signed the deal to pay the buyout up front. And one of these days he is going to have to answer that question. He cannot hide forever from answering that question. I don't expect him to answer it right now because he can't say like, I'm bringing him back. I'm not. But one day I'm going to ask him the question on the air. How did you sign a contract where the buyout was due at once? And I don't know what he's going to be able to say to defend that. And I'm going to ask.

[Ryan Lemond]

Has to be asked.

[Matt Jones]

It has to be asked. The buyout number is huge, but there are a lot of those out there. But we're the only one that said it's due within 60 days.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes. Yeah. Having a buyout in a contract, not unusual.

[Matt Jones]

And you got, if you're Mitch Barnhart, you got duped on that. You got duped. You did. I mean, if Brian Kelly didn't have to sign that, then neither did the Mark Stoop. Yeah, right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Even going back to that day when they were five and oh, just be Florida. That still.

[Matt Jones]

You still didn't have to do that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Didn't have to do that.

[Matt Jones]

Jim, Go ahead. Jim.

[Caller]

Yeah. I'm Ryan's age and Ryan, I think whatever you want to do to make your yourself happy, do it. But if you're going to do this where you've got to eat by yourself, how about make Matt, when he goes to a Reds game, not read Cosmopolitan or the National Inquiry or something like that to make it even.

[Matt Jones]

I do it all the time. I'd bring magazines sometime. I don't bring them every game. I enjoy the crack of the bat and the swap of the ball in the glove. And I don't read Cosmic first. I don't read Cosmopolitan. Okay. I read the New Yorker or Bloomberg. I read actual intellectual exercises. Steve.

[Caller]

I don't know how intellectual the New Yorker is, but.

[Matt Jones]

Well, try reading it sometime and then see if it is. See if you can get through. You have it.

[Caller]

I have New Yorker. I've read the Post and I read.

[Matt Jones]

The New Yorker article.

[Caller]

I haven't read it in years. I read the Post every day, though.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, that's really intellectual. The New York Post. Yeah. That. Okay. I appreciate the call.

[Drew Franklin]

I thought you took an erotic novel one time.

[Matt Jones]

I did not take it when there were women's books. Well, I took a.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

I took a book called All Fours, which is not a book that I recommend, but it had some people. There were some themes.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that was probably not one I would normally take to a baseball game, but I did not take Cosmopolitan. We'll take a break. Take your calls. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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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?

[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. 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. And I was like, okay, you can.

[Bobby Bones]

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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