2026-01-21- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Date: January 21, 2026
Host: Matt Jones and the KSR crew
Theme: Weather wars, Kentucky Basketball, and more local Kentucky news.

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Episode Overview

This episode brings lighthearted humor and classic KSR banter as Matt Jones and crew discuss the upcoming major snowstorm (“Snowmageddon”), local weather personalities, the night’s UK basketball matchup against Texas, wacky Kentucky news (catfish harvesting arrests!), and fan interaction. The tone is lively and colloquial, blending sports updates with local culture and running show in-jokes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrating the "Lock of the Year"

[00:35–02:06]

• The crew celebrates Matt’s successful “lock of the year” sports bet.
  • Matt Jones: “I've never gotten the lock of the year wrong. That's why they do one a year and you got to go back to 1961 to find one that didn't hit... City College in New York... versus Villanova got that wrong.” ([01:17])
  • They joke about the legend and tease the idea of a second lock this year.
• Banter about lack of sleep and feeling rejuvenated after finally resting.

2. The Impending Historic Snowstorm — ‘Snowmageddon’

[02:21–15:46]

• Anticipation builds for a huge snowstorm, which Matt dubs a “weatherman Super Bowl.”
• Matt details the “combatants” of Kentucky weather: a humorous roll call of local meteorologists, their personalities, and their snow prediction rivalries.
  • Chris Bailey: “He is in some ways the people's weatherman.” ([07:03])
  • Bill Meck: “Looks like your middle school science teacher... sneakily funny... Odd. Climate change denier weather band.” ([07:53])
  • TG Shuck (Thunderstruck): “You thought he left, but he came back to show the next generation weather can still happen.” ([09:16])
  • Louisville’s Mark Weinberg: “This is Dennis Rodman... all he wants is accuracy... He’s about the accuracy.” ([11:02–11:43])
  • Bryce Jones, Ryan Hall Y’all, and J. Cardozzi—each receives characterization and fan banter.
• Matt encourages fans to tag him in weatherman feuds and model sniping on social media.
  • Notable quote: “When you see them sniping at each other, tag me. Okay. I want to retweet the snipes, any little grudges...” ([14:43])

Notable Moment - The Weather Model Drama

• Multiple weather models referenced—the Euro, BOP, Cook models.
• Matt delights in watching the weathermen “sniping” at each other online.
• Shannon describes how Ryan Hall, Y’all has become a Gen Z favorite, with up to 3 million subscribers.
  • Shannon: “Ryan Hall's got like over 2 million subscribers... 3 million... He does, I think, the whole country.” ([18:34–18:38])

3. UK Basketball vs. Texas Preview

[20:02–24:54]

• Texas is described as a quietly strong opponent with major road wins.
  • Shannon: “Texas is probably the best team in the SEC that we don't talk about. That nobody talks about. They are sneaky good. They beat Alabama. At Alabama.” ([20:48])
• The team discusses UK's tendency to start games slowly.
  • Matt Jones: “If we could just be average and not poopy time awful in the first half, it would be even better.” ([22:46])
  • Etta May: “It blows my mind how it's happened this many times. It's a year and a half, and after the LSU game, we're like, this cannot happen again. And then three days later…” ([22:57])
• They stress the importance of tonight’s game and the need for a strong start, especially against a dangerous offensive team.

4. Basketball Transfer News: The Bediako Situation

[25:08–29:42]

• Alabama basketball’s Charles Bediako gets a temporary restraining order to play, despite leaving for the G League and returning.
• Debate on fairness: Should players be allowed to return from pro leagues mid-season? The crew is skeptical but acknowledges how the COVID eligibility window creates oddities.
  • Shannon: “It just doesn't smell right. It just doesn't feel right that he played college ball, went to play pro ball. Now he wants to come back and play college ball. This doesn't seem right.” ([28:05])

5. Show Running Gag: The ‘Eat Alone Challenge’

[31:42–33:50]

• Next week, Ryan Lemond must eat alone every night, a challenge he dreads.
  • Shannon: “I just don't like hanging out by myself, period.” ([33:20])
• Matt instructs that fans may say hello to Ryan at restaurants, but no one is allowed to sit with him.

6. Who Should Be on a KSR Mural?

[33:57–36:04]

• Listener asks which Kentucky athletes should appear on a potential mural at KSBar.
• Matt’s choices: Anthony Davis, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Benny Snell, Jared Lorenzen, Sydney McLaughlin (honorable mention: Ryan Howard, Georgia Amoore).
• The group discusses personal connections to these athletes and why they’ve made a mark on KSR history.

7. Bizarre Kentucky News: Catfish Harvesting Scandal

[38:25–41:33]

• Matt describes a major investigation into illegal catfish harvesting—over 100 people have been arrested, with up to 2,000 at risk.
  • Matt Jones: “...they took too many of the public ones and then they put them in their private ones to act like they had grown up. It sounds illegal... they've already arrested like 100 people, and they say when the probe is over, maybe 2,000 people in Kentucky could be arrested for catfish harvesting.” ([39:43])
• Banter ensues about burying ponds and being on the run from authorities.

8. Don Lemon Rumor / Internet News Bubble

[37:39–43:31]

• A listener presses Matt on his opinion about something Don Lemon allegedly did in Minnesota, but the crew is clueless.
• They all joke about the disconnected nature of personal internet feeds.
  • Etta May: “I've not thought of him ever until this moment. So he's not been on my algorithm.” ([43:17])
• Matt wryly points out their news cycles only include what their algorithms serve up.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Matt Jones on weather drama:
  “Snowstorms are why they [weathermen] exist... It's like Super Bowl week. They should all have to have a media scrum today...” ([04:28])

• On Mark Weinberg, Louisville’s ‘bad boy’ weatherman:
  “He’s oddly the most provocative but the most conservative in his predictions because he thinks all... people are like snow hoes... They just throw out big snow reports, get people scared, and then it doesn’t snow.” ([11:12–11:37])

• On the meteorologist rivalry:
  “Bailey and Weinberg need to just go at each other now. You got two days here to get at it.” ([15:10])

• On Kentucky basketball’s slow starts:
  “You can do both. You can applaud whatever [Calipari] does at halftime and go, how about we don’t fall down 15 points in the first half?” ([23:44])

• On catfish harvesting arrests:
  “If you are an illegal catfish harvester... you’ve been put on notice here on KSR because they say there are 2000 of you... They're coming for you.” ([40:14])

• On personal news bubbles:
  “We all have our own news cycles and algorithms.” ([43:29])

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Topic | Timestamp | |---|---|---| | Lock of the Year & Banter | 00:35–02:06 | | Epic Snowstorm Prepping & Meteorologist Roll Call | 04:21–15:46 | | Ryan Hall Y’all and the Gen Z Weather Takeover | 17:47–18:38 | | UK vs. Texas Basketball Preview | 20:02–24:54 | | NCAA Basketball Transfer Issue: Bediako Case | 25:08–29:42 | | Eat Alone Challenge Announcement | 31:42–33:50 | | Mural Brainstorm (KSR Icons) | 33:57–36:04 | | Catfish Harvesting Scandal | 38:25–41:33 | | Don Lemon News Bubble | 37:39–43:31 |

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Tone & Style

• Language: Light, humorous, and conversational. Frequent callbacks to local personalities and show inside jokes.
• Atmosphere: The show is both informative (regarding sports and local snow happenings) and playfully irreverent—classic to KSR’s brand.

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Summary for New Listeners

This fast-paced episode blends discussion of Kentucky sports (mainly UK basketball), local news, and pop culture with a uniquely local twist. The upcoming snowstorm allows for a playful look at Kentucky’s weatherman rivalries, complete with personal anecdotes and predictions. The hosts balance sports analysis with humorous perspectives on odd Kentucky news, making it engaging whether you’re a diehard UK fan or just love local flavor and offbeat sports radio banter.

If you want to follow the snowstorm drama, the UK basketball rollercoaster, or laugh at the idea of rogue catfish thieves—all seasoned with Kentucky flair and fan community spirit—this is a prime example of the KSR experience.

Transcript

[Comedy Off Broadway Announcer]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Comedy Off Broadway this is Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, January 21st. I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar Grill on a snowy nasty little morning. But you can come in and see us. It's wings day dollar wings all day. Getting ready for the game tonight where our pregame show starts at 4:30. It's just us. So come say hi to us this morning. We'd love to see you. We got traiped through the snow. A lot of bad traffic in le today. Celebrating the lock of the year last night. I hope you bet it.

[Shannon]

I did bet it and I told you I use my draft kings. Little boosty boost even on the lock of the year.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon never get the lock of the year wrong. That is 67 years in a row the lock of the year is hit.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

You get the lock all the time wrong.

[Matt Jones]

I've never gotten the lock of the year wrong. That's why they do one a year and you got to go back to 1961 to find one that didn't hit well.

[Shannon]

Really, what was that game?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, City College in New York and somebody interesting enough. Yes. Versus Villanova got that wrong. But now Drew, locks of the year.

[Etta May]

Well, you're undefeated on your lock of this year. Past years. I don't know the record. That's a good pick. Big win.

[Shannon]

He teased us. He said there may be a second lock of the year coming.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, no, I'll do. I mean we're hot for locks of the year because I just knew I Cal wins games like that at home and Vandy, you know, I think Vandy had a little bit of Vandy hype, maybe a little more than they should have. And so now they're coming down to earth and this is kind of what I thought would happen.

[Etta May]

They're crashing to earth, Shannon. That's three straight losses for the former undefeated 16 and oh, Vandy.

[Matt Jones]

Com.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

That's right. Yeah, but still three doesn't look too bad.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe they can win 16, lose 16 and then that would be very dandy if that happened, there would be very few teams in history that have ever, ever done that. I'm really excited because I would like to know the two reasons I'm excited.

[Shannon]

I can't wait to hear this.

[Matt Jones]

Number one, probably the best night of sleep I've had in, I don't know, years, maybe pre Covid because you knew.

[Shannon]

You hit the lock of the year, so you rested.

[Matt Jones]

It wasn't even that. I did not sleep at all the night before, which is a terrible thing to do. Yesterday was miserable. I don't know if you have any. You know, when I was in college, you could do an all nighter, Shannon, and it, you know, you'd be tired, but you'd move through it, right?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Not. Not now, not. Not this stage of life.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

All day yesterday, I just felt like I was living in a dream bubble, but it was a bubble I didn't want to be in. I couldn't fall asleep, but really awake. And I just was like bumping into people and just telling them to move. And then last night I felt like I was getting sick. You know when you're cold and hot.

[Etta May]

A little back and forth.

[Matt Jones]

That's not. You shouldn't be like that.

[Shannon]

You should be like that, but like.

[Matt Jones]

You'Re sweating because you're hot. But then you need a lot of clothes, which just makes you hotter because you're cold. It's the worst. And I had that and I thought, I'm getting sick. And I was like, dude, I have. Do I have Covid Right? That's what I kept learning. So I just went around smelling everything. Yeah, I probably smelled everything in my house 50 times last night. Because when I had Covid twice, I couldn't smell anything. I mean, what's your.

[Etta May]

That's your. That's your COVID test.

[Matt Jones]

Just laundry. Yes. I was walking. I was smelling the stuff that had been the refrigerator for a while.

[Etta May]

Yeah, if you can't smell your refrigerator, then you definitely have something you can smell.

[Matt Jones]

But I just kept smelling and I thought, okay, then I feel good. Went to bed last night at 10 and I did not move until 9 this morning.

[Shannon]

Wow. Knocked you out.

[Matt Jones]

Knocked me out. And so now you can probably see the energy I was crashing yesterday. Even the last 30 minutes of the show. I. We won't put yesterday in the best of because I. The last 30 minutes of show, I could barely stay awake. I was ready for Bob and Jamestown to call. That's. That's how I was.

[Shannon]

You pulled it off. I didn't really realize you were Crashing.

[Matt Jones]

Yesterday, but now ready to go. So that's number one.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Number two, we are getting ready for about a once every five year weatherman Super Bowl.

[Shannon]

Yeah. You know, no doubt.

[Matt Jones]

Weathermen. We've talked about it over the years. Ryan has no respect for him. I have the most respect. They have these moments, tornadoes, storms, where they have to come. They don't have a lot of prep, but snow storms are why they exist, Drew. Snowstorms are why they get out of bed at night. Don't you think?

[Etta May]

That's why they have the job.

[Matt Jones]

It's like super bowl week. They should all have to have a media scrum today to talk about because it's why everybody wants to know them. You want to know the snow, and the snow is coming Friday night through Monday. And there is a lot of talk that this could be like a once a decade event.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Parts of people. They're projecting in parts. Two feet.

[Etta May]

Two feet.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Here I think it's like 8 to 12 or 8 to 14. But like down in east southeastern Kentucky, they're projecting 18 to 24. They're saying Nashville could get more snow than it's ever gotten ever.

[Shannon]

Because it's going to snow Saturday and then you're going to get that same amount on Sunday.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Shannon]

Back to back days.

[Matt Jones]

So it's supposed to be the most snow anybody's ever seen. So I care about snow, but I could probably walk to everything I need. I much more care about the fighting from the weatherman. So, Shannon, I think we should introduce all of our combatants. Yeah.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

For what this is going to be like, don't you agree?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Let's go.

[Matt Jones]

All right, now I'm gonna do Lexington, Louisville, and then wild card.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, let's start with Lexington.

[Etta May]

Is this like a sponsors?

[Matt Jones]

No, no. This is just. These are your contenders.

[Etta May]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Everybody needs to follow all these people.

[Etta May]

I'm gonna have to look some of them up as we go.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Because all of these people are going to be in our lives. Now. In Lexington, we have two main forces. On the one hand, Chris Bailey. Chris Barrett Bailey, you could argue, is Kentucky's weatherman from Eastern Kentucky online all the time likes to make UK basketball references. Even said the other night, should I put Knoxville on my weather map? Because Kentucky clearly owns it.

[Etta May]

He also has Kentucky weather, and he literally Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

He literally somehow got Kentucky weather. So when. When he writes something, people think it is God speaking. It is Kentucky weather. He's a little saucy Rose rolls the sleeves up. I would argue early first sleeve roller in an emergency. But he's very like, you send him pictures of your driveway and you'll be like, it's snowing two inches in Harrodsburg. And he retweets.

[Etta May]

Oh, you're getting a retweet.

[Matt Jones]

He wants everybody put a ruler in the snow. You get a ruler in the snow. Or your, your, your kid is like laying down. You can only see your kid's nose. Like, he's gonna love it. He is in some ways the people's weatherman.

[Shannon]

And he did a 30 minute special last night on Tuesday to preview this storm that's coming in already.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon doing snow previews four days out.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

That's when you know, 30 minutes special.

[Matt Jones]

So this is, I would argue in some ways you. He's like the, you know, the Alabama of weather. Standing across the street from him is Bill Mack. I like Bill Mack. Looks like your middle school science teacher, right? Got his pocket protector, his square glasses, but very sneakily funny.

[Shannon]

Yes, he is right, very.

[Matt Jones]

Keeps it on the DL but then sometime will just stab you right in the kidney, you know? Odd. Climate change denier weather band. Don't see a lot of them.

[Shannon]

No, you don't.

[Matt Jones]

You don't see a lot of those people who see the weather watch it and go, this isn't happening. But when the TV comes on, he takes up the room.

[Shannon]

Yes, he does.

[Matt Jones]

He and Bailey don't like each other, but they kind of. I think they respect each other. Probably because they don't talk a lot of trash about each other.

[Shannon]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Do you agree?

[Shannon]

I agree. Bill's been here the longest. He's got the seniority on everybody in this town.

[Matt Jones]

Kind of reminds me of Mitch and Cal, you know, they don't like each.

[Shannon]

Other, but they get.

[Matt Jones]

Go send Christmas cards, but they'll go on the TV show together and sit uncomfortably next to each other. You agree with these so far?

[Etta May]

I agree with that. They're also just a big part of our community. Like you can go out to like, what's it used to be? Election green Bill Max just hosting a concert. Yes, he's the. He's them.

[Shannon]

They're every. They're very Lexington tailgates. Every UK football game build up.

[Matt Jones]

He's old Lexington too. Like the, the, the, the powers that be. Shannon and Lexington, they're mech people. Okay. The old money is mech people. Bailey is. Is the masses.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Gotcha.

[Matt Jones]

All right, now is there anyone else left in Lex? Is TG Thunderstruck?

[Shannon]

Yes, TG Shuck is at channel 36.

[Matt Jones]

All right, here's what TJ Thunderstruck is. He's like Philip Rivers. You thought he left, but he came back to show the next generation weather can still happen.

[Shannon]

There you go.

[Matt Jones]

Thunderstruck is from years ago. I thought he was out of our lives, but he's come back.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I think he sees this storm as a chance to get back on that level with those top two.

[Etta May]

Alexian native. He sits on the sidelines and one of these young kids goes to another city, they're like, call in Thundershock. We gotta bring him back. And that's what ABC did. What was the guy there? Dylan Gode.

[Shannon]

I guess he's gone. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Thunder struck back. So you could argue as good a lineup in Lexington as you have now. Let's go to Louis.

[Shannon]

We gotta mention one more guy in Lexington because he's your dad's favorite weatherman. Did he like Jim Calhoun?

[Matt Jones]

Jim Calhoun, the coach of Connecticut?

[Shannon]

Caldwell. Jim Caldwell. Oh, he retired.

[Etta May]

I was going to add that.

[Matt Jones]

I would like to think though, Jim Calhoun is one of the contenders too.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

He's just waiting over there. Green screen.

[Matt Jones]

And now throw Jim Calhoun in there too.

[Shannon]

I remember your dad saying that one.

[Matt Jones]

He liked Jim Caldwell, but he retired just recently. Okay.

[Shannon]

I didn't realize that I was going.

[Etta May]

To bring that up about Bailey. His team is taking a big hit here. I know it's 1v1 at the top, but Bailey is missing his pippin in the weather room.

[Matt Jones]

But not for this. You don't. You don't go second straight. This is all starters until the. Until the overtime is over.

[Shannon]

Because if Bill Mac's been here the longest, his the morning weather guy.

[Matt Jones]

You're sad and too many people. I'm talking about the main people. Tom Ackerman's not getting screen time during this. This is mech time. Okay.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Now let's go to Louisville. In Louisville, you have the sauciest one.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The bad. This is Dennis Rodman. He's a. He's the bad boy. Piston of weather.

[Etta May]

He married Carmen Electra.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly. He right now is dating Tate McCray. He's in Vegas during this Mark Weinberg trash talking.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Middle fingers up to all of them. Gets invited to none of their Christmas parties. All he wants is accuracy. Right. He says you all keeps trying to scare everybody. He's. He's oddly the most provocative but the most conservative in his predictions because he thinks all of that people are like snow hoes.

[Etta May]

That's what they call them.

[Matt Jones]

Because I'm calling them.

[Etta May]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

That they just throw out big snow reports, get people scared, and then it doesn't snow them.

[Etta May]

They want the ratings.

[Matt Jones]

They want the ratings. He's not about the ratings. He's about the accuracy.

[Etta May]

Clickbait.

[Matt Jones]

And then he'll go home.

[Etta May]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

With Carmen Electric.

[Etta May]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Hates weather apps. He's already tweeted about that. He hates that we have Apple like apps. He hates apps.

[Matt Jones]

He hates chat GPT. He's like, listen to us. I didn't go to 10 years of weather school for you to get on Google and replace me.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

That's right.

[Etta May]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

He.

[Matt Jones]

So. So he is the bad boy. Weinberg and Bailey clearly would like to murder each other. They're the two most online of all these people and they clearly want to murder.

[Shannon]

Why the most vocal for sure.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He's always throwing little pot shots at Bailey. Another one kind of coming from the outside. Two time Emmy win. Any Emmy winner. While these people are getting the glory, he's getting the hardware.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Bryce Jones at wdrb.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Listener of this show.

[Shannon]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

Two time Emmy winner in Emmy winner just goes under the radar, throws out the snow. All right. He's one to watch in this battle this week.

[Etta May]

SEC guy. Mississippi State.

[Matt Jones]

Went to Mississippi State. And then finally from the way outside, sitting at his computer with a camera awning. Ryan Hall, y'.

[Commercial Voice]

All.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The favor of them in some ways, of the mountains and the everyman. He is just online. I don't think he has any training, does he?

[Shannon]

I don't know if he does or not. He's pretty accurate.

[Etta May]

There's a lot of bots.

[Matt Jones]

He just gets the model, sits there in a very monotone fashion and tells you exactly what's going to happen. He has become more and more the young people's weather person. Do you agree with that?

[Shannon]

Yeah. And he's. Where is he based out of? Pikeville? Ashland. Where is he? Over there.

[Matt Jones]

He does weather all over the country and he's sitting impactful.

[Shannon]

Wow. And he just started it as a hobby, from what I understand, like just kind of doing it. The hobby of his.

[Matt Jones]

And now he is the Jim Cantore of Pike County.

[Etta May]

I gotta tell you, I go to Ryan Hall, y', all, for my weather reports. Including last night when I saw he wasn't live. Instead of going to tv, I just assumed there was nothing to talk about. I went to YouTube, he wasn't live. And I thought, no weather. I'll just go back to my life.

[Matt Jones]

So he didn't even look at the tv. He goes live or it doesn't it's not happening.

[Shannon]

But yeah, I saw Jim Cantori's in Nashville. That can't be good if he's going to be in Nashville.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, they think they Nashville could get more snow than it's ever gotten ever.

[Shannon]

My goodness.

[Matt Jones]

It's actually. Tennessee is going to get destroyed, but we're going to get a lot, it looks like.

[Etta May]

So are you all prepared?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, no.

[Shannon]

You're gonna get your milk and bread today.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

I know he drinks. He doesn't drink milk.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I'm not. I mean, I'm gonna hope doordash is working that day. I tip well on snow days.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Etta May]

People working.

[Matt Jones]

So I just. That's the setup for the Snowmageddon coming. Those are your contenders and we'll see who comes out well.

[Shannon]

And they'll be on 48 hours straight.

[Matt Jones]

And I want to say when you see this is to you all, when you see them sniping at each other, tag me. Okay. I want to retweet the snipes, any little grudges and send me the, the Euro model and the non model and the, and the bop model and the cook model. Like they have all these models. I want to. I. I'm in.

[Shannon]

I saw your tweet last night. You're already poking a bear a little bit trying to get it ready to get started.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Bailey and Weinberg need to just go at each other now. You got two days here to. To get at it.

[Etta May]

Can I YouTube multi view the weather channels like I would games Instead of watching four games at once, can I just keep eyes on all the weathermen.

[Matt Jones]

At once since this one's going to be long? You know, they, they have fewer and fewer clothes as the night goes on.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Oh yeah, they're.

[Matt Jones]

They're going to be in their boxers by, by, by Sunday.

[Etta May]

I don't need that.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, you do. You know you want a hot bill. Mac action. 859-280-2287 Cats play tonight against Texas. We'll get you ready for that game here on ksr.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back TY Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Ryan Hall, y' all weighing in saying the models have gone north Kentucky now in the center zone instead of Louisville or instead of Tennessee.

[Shannon]

Oh, so it's gonna, he's saying it could be worse.

[Matt Jones]

Worse here, not as bad in Nashville. So first of all, that's a shot for Ryan Hall. He's now calling it in more north. I haven't heard the other guys say.

[Shannon]

That I had heard anybody say anything about that.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, one person says, Matt, your new term is going to catch on. Snow hose. They are. That's what, that's just what Mark Weinberg claims they are. I'm not saying they are what.

[Shannon]

That's, I don't know if the term they're going to latch on to.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they just, they're very snow active.

[Shannon]

Friend of mine text said, Ryan Hall's got like over 2 million subscribers.

[Matt Jones]

3 million.

[Shannon]

3 million.

[Matt Jones]

3 million subscribers.

[Etta May]

He's got like a team, like, but.

[Matt Jones]

It'S not, he doesn't just do Kentucky. He's like, he does, I think the whole country.

[Etta May]

Oh, I've gotten locked in where I've turned him on thinking it's Kentucky and it's Nebraska. And I'm like, I'll just watch this.

[Matt Jones]

Anyway, I don't know anything about detail. And he looks and he looks at the towns and he asked people what they're doing.

[Shannon]

Apparently he did. Was a meteorologist at Wymt for a short minute before he went on his own and branched out.

[Matt Jones]

Well, good for him. Yeah, people are. People are writing to me about who they like. One person says, Matt, you left out the king of Louisville weather, John Belsky. Who's that?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

He retired 17 years ago.

[Matt Jones]

He retired 17 years ago. Well, that's why I left him.

[Shannon]

I just asked Shane about him during the break. John Bilski.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

And captain is one. You could add in Jake. What's Jay say?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, oh, that's his phrase. What's Jay say? Okay, I'm adding him because he has a phrase. Yeah, he has a phrase. Okay, he gets it. If you have a phrase, I'm in.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Catchphrase. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If you have a catchphrase, wouldn't you.

[Shannon]

Want to know what J's says? What?

[Matt Jones]

What Jay says?

[Shannon]

Yeah. When you want to know what he say says.

[Etta May]

Oh, look at his segment. He does it like.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, wait a minute. He has.

[Etta May]

Oh, it's like Blue's Clues. He's got graphics, he's got blues.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, he's got an umbrella. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my. Oh, now that's. Oh, that's okay, he's on the list. J. Cardozi coming out of nowhere with his own special effects team.

[Etta May]

Holy cow.

[Matt Jones]

What does Jay say?

[Etta May]

All right, I didn't know we had this.

[Matt Jones]

So now we got Mac, Bailey, Weinberg, Jones, Hall, y', all, and Cardozzi all going at Battle Royale UK versus Texas tonight, 7 o'. Clock. Texas has the fourth rated offense since conference play begins in college basketball. They are, I believe, 3 and 2, but could be better. They had that. I think they lost a game right at the end. It's a game where we should win, but it's also a game we could easily drop. And if you look at the calendar and you look at the schedule, it's a game we need to win. These next two at home will be two of our three easiest home games of the rest of the conference schedule and also our games that are crucial to getting to where we need to be. Do you feel good?

[Shannon]

I think Texas is probably the best team in the SEC that we don't talk about. That nobody talks about. They are sneaky good. They beat Alabama. At Alabama. They beat Vanderbilt When Vanderbilt was rolling, they almost beat Texas A and M. This turned out to be a really good team. Buckyball down there. Sean Miller is the new coach of Texas and I think he's got him rolling.

[Etta May]

Yeah, they're, they're tough. They just lost A and M, but it was like a three point game and I think A and M is very good. Their losses have all been to good teams in close games. They played Yukon close, played Duke close. They whipped Vandy, and then they won in Tuscaloosa where we lost by 15. This is not any kind of pushover team we can look past. I'll admit I'm a little worried. Even though it's a home game, I'm going to pick Kentucky to win. But I worry about a hangover after all the fun we've had and getting back home because this is no joke and some of their biggest wins have.

[Shannon]

Been on the road.

[Matt Jones]

I'm definitely worried. I mean, this is a Texas team that has improved throughout the year. They can score. So if you fall behind, they're a tough team to come back on because they can score. They're kind of like. I mean, I don't, I don't think they're as good offensively as Louisville was at the beginning of the year, but it's a similar kind of thing where you just. Even if you, even if you start playing well, they're going to put buckets in, so you've got to stay with them. I do think the crowd needs to be an advantage, but it makes me wonder about the snow, etc. Now, I know it's not supposed to snow anymore today, but do you get out? Do you go to the game? I'll be interested to see what it's like in here before the game. That usually gives us an indication. But I do think, Ryan, this is one that could go either way and the Cats have to treat it seriously. Even after this three game winning streak.

[Shannon]

And you said something very important. If they get down by 17 again in the first, Texas is a team that's not going to have a lull. Man, they can, they can score a lot of points in a hurry. You can't afford to get down early in a game like this because it'd be tough as hell to try to claw back out of it.

[Matt Jones]

Has anyone asked Mark why we start poorly?

[Etta May]

They have. You know, we get, you know, super incredible. It's special how we turn it around.

[Matt Jones]

But I mean, it's consistent.

[Etta May]

We don't have an answer. He hasn't given It.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I agree they're super incredible. Happy time fun in the second half, but if we could just be average and like, not poopy time awful in the first half, it would be even better.

[Etta May]

It blows my mind how it's happened this many times. It's a year and a half, and after the LSU game, we're like, this cannot happen again. And then three days later, to the credit, they won, but they went and just had another first half dud right after that. I. I don't understand. And at this point, if he had answers, I think it would have already started to improve.

[Matt Jones]

He had a first half dud against Missouri, first half dud against Alabama. So four of the five SEC games.

[Etta May]

First half David trailed Mississippi State. I wouldn't call it a dud, but they were up and rupt early.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, not. But like, it wasn't. Like it wasn't like something. And then first half dud against. Against Gonzaga. First half dud against St. John's first half dud against Michigan State. First half dud against Louisville.

[Shannon]

Maybe it's some magic. He's. Whatever he's doing at halftime, maybe that's what we should be.

[Matt Jones]

I understand, but you can do both. You can applaud whatever he does at halftime and go, how about we don't fall down 15 points in the first half?

[Etta May]

Just no way to live. Just start second.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. Like, you can go and like, sleep two and a half hours and inject, you know, caffeine and then go. But at some point, people gonna go, how about you just sleep a little bit?

[Shannon]

Like I said, tonight's a night you can't afford to get down big because this team can score a lot of points and score in a hurry.

[Etta May]

They lead the Mac and free throws.

[Matt Jones]

Bill Mack has issued a statement. Okay, this came out last night. It's all over the Internet. Weather verse of something big coming out this weekend. While it's a decent bet a storm will be somewhere, details are impossible at this point. Don't just fall for model data for clicks. Don't change your plans, but stay weather aware.

[Shannon]

Well, I think that's kind of a responsible thing to say. I mean, it is just Wednesday.

[Matt Jones]

It's also a very generic thing to say.

[Shannon]

I like it.

[Matt Jones]

There'll be a. There could be. Shannon. A storm somewhere.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Could be, maybe not. Maybe so.

[Shannon]

Just be aware.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

They've had some downs.

[Etta May]

Is it all model. Model data? I mean, we're not fortunate tellers. They're using some form of model.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know, it's gonna be great. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR T.J. smith, personal injury attorney.

[Shannon]

Call T.J. he'll make him pay.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

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

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. We do have running on. Charles Budiaco has been granted a temporary restraining order that will allow him to play for Alabama basketball this season. It is the. It'll be an order for 10. It'll be in effect for 10 days and then a hearing will decide for sure on January 27th. He is the player who played at Alabama for a couple years, went to the G League, still has a semester left in his eligibility and is asked to come back and play for that semester. Never played a game in the NBA.

[Shannon]

I just find it hard to accept this situation. When you play a professional basketball, you sign a professional contract, you're allowed to come back just because you're not any good.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

Is that what happened with Yellow Bitch? I mean, he's a professional, not in the NBA.

[Matt Jones]

Well, again, I mean, that's the thing that, like, I understand why this would bother people. The one guy didn't bother me who never went to college. I can understand why it would bother you if a player came here, went to the G league for a couple years and came back.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

However, Shannon's right. That's what happens in Europe. Like, I mean, the difference between the outrage fans feel about this and what's happened when Europe for the last 15 years is we don't know what happens in Europe because we don't follow it. So when a guy comes from Europe, it's like he's coming from, you know, space. So we don't have any previous thoughts about him because we. We didn't know. You know what I mean? I mean, we were all out. What I would say to Kentucky fans when you get outraged about this is. Remember how we were all outraged about Ennis Cantor?

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he'd been a professional. He'd been a pro for two. He'd been playing for two years and we wanted him to play here. So it is weird. This is weird because he did play college basketball for two years and then went. But he would have one semester left. Do we have any players that would fit this? I was trying to think, do we have any players who've gone to the NBA but then did not play yet? That would still be within their five year eligibility path.

[Etta May]

Still be in their path?

[Matt Jones]

I mean like maybe. Well, no, he. I was gonna say Davion Mintz, but he wouldn't be in the path. E.J.

[Etta May]

Montgomery would have some years left. He left early and never played.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but I don't think he's got his five years though. I think he was. He was pre covered. Yeah, it would have to be someone that played during that first year of co. As odd as it sounds, I actually think the first year of COVID guys would still be eligible.

[Etta May]

Olivier? Yeah, he played. Sara played.

[Matt Jones]

It had to be a freshman. Your first year of COVID So I don't know of a guy that I think we have eligible.

[Shannon]

I can't think of any.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think we do, but. Does this bother you? This my guy may get to play.

[Shannon]

It just doesn't smell right. It just doesn't feel right that he played college ball, went to play pro ball. Now he wants to come back and play college ball. This doesn't seem right.

[Matt Jones]

But do you have a logical reason or. It just doesn't seem right.

[Shannon]

It doesn't seem right.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Etta May]

The thing I don't like is the end season stuff like, okay, if you need a big man, that's your fault. You didn't build a good enough team. If it's January, whatever, and you are down a big man, tough luck. I think that's how it should be. I don't think that when classes have started, if you don't like your roster and there's.

[Matt Jones]

But we did that, that's fine. We did that with Big Z and.

[Etta May]

I've made fun of that endlessly since we did it because that was ridiculous. I just think that. I'm sorry your team's not good or you had an injury in January. I don't think you should get to go shopping when you know we're a third of the way through conference play already. Yeah, well, if this was September and they're adding him. I can hear you out, but I don't like how you can just.

[Matt Jones]

I do think it's a bad players from anywhere. I do think it's a very unique set of circumstances. Circumstances because it Covid which makes people's timelines run longer. That'll end this year. I've said this before. I don't think this is going to come up in the future because I don't think kids are going to go to the G league. Like I don't think kids are going to go to the G league out of high School anymore or something that's going to happen. And so now you know, it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers other people. I will acknowledge this seems different because he played a couple years. It does seem different.

[Etta May]

I'm not someone that thinks they should go to school. But also, I mean, he should have at least attended a class in the last year.

[Matt Jones]

He's going to go to class this year. He's already.

[Etta May]

That's what I mean. It is January 21st.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he registered apparently at the beginning of the semester because he was playing.

[Etta May]

I think that part is outrageous. The mid year, we're not good enough.

[Matt Jones]

Let's go find somebody's going to do well in class.

[Shannon]

If you transfer schools in the middle of the year, don't you have to sit out that semester after you transfer? If you transferred from eastern to western a kid, don't you have to sit out. Well, why does.

[Matt Jones]

I actually don't think you do right now. I think they're changing the rules to where you do start next year. You do.

[Shannon]

You'd be eligible immediately when you transfer.

[Matt Jones]

I think this year it is. But I literally think they're going to change that rule for next year because no one had ever done it.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And I think now they're changing the.

[Shannon]

Rule where you could be eligible.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

At Christmas break if you transfer.

[Etta May]

I don't like a season where I watched Alabama play five games before Christmas and now if I watch them, I'm gonna be like, all right, where did this dude, who is he? Why do they get to add a guy with.

[Matt Jones]

You know, I would be all right with that guy though, if it was a point guard.

[Shannon]

I was thinking, did Ty. Ty Washington ever play in the NBA? Yeah, he did play.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I think almost all those guys have played at least a game. Who's up first?

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[Matt Jones]

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[Caller Robert]

Hey, Matt, I gotta share a funny story that kind of leads into a public apology.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. But you got to go for it.

[Caller Robert]

Go. So Ryan's got his phrases, you know, Holiday Inn Express, picking Lynn. I have his belly button. He said picking Lynn out of his belly button the other day and you guys were making fun of him and I was feeling bad for him. So I found his number online and I text him, hey, buddy.

[Shannon]

Love you.

[Caller Robert]

All hail the king of belly button lint. And I got a reply back that said, this is David Spencer. So I'd like to apologize to David Spencer for texting you at midnight about belly button lint and how much I love you. That's it.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate the call. I like that David Spencer. So, yeah, that would be weird if you got a message you from somebody that just said, you're the king of belly button lint, you might have made that person self conscious.

[Shannon]

I don't know who David Spencer is, but I'm sure that he's got a little sense of humor to him.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, let me say something. I'm gonna use this example. What are you doing next week?

[Shannon]

Doing the show.

[Matt Jones]

But do you have plans during the week?

[Shannon]

Not that I am aware.

[Matt Jones]

We are doing the Ryan Lemon eat by yourself challenge next week. Oh, next week. Monday through Friday of next week. People thought we'd. We'd forgotten it. They're just.

[Shannon]

We forgot.

[Matt Jones]

No, we had health issues, and then it was Christmas, and then. So next week, Monday through Friday, Ryan Lemon will eat alone every night. Drew, you and I are going to figure out where he's going. Okay. I want a good mix of him occasionally going to a good restaurant where no one's there, just him occasionally having to go with a place with a lot of people, but he still has to sit by himself. But next week, Ryan Lemon eats alone, and we'll film some of it during the week as well. Five days, five restaurants. You buy yourself.

[Shannon]

I immediately got hot. My body got hot, and I've started to sweat a little bit. I just don't like it. I don't think there's gonna be. This is gonna be any fun. I'm not gonna enjoy it. It's gonna be awful.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, all that's true. So that's why we're doing it. So we're going to this week. You're gonna. You're gonna do that? Are you excited?

[Shannon]

Well, if we're stuck in our homes.

[Matt Jones]

On Monday, then you're going to walk to a place that you can. That you can eat by yourself. You probably won't have to worry about many people.

[Etta May]

You'll support a business that's not doing well.

[Matt Jones]

That. Yeah, it's gonna be hard.

[Etta May]

Can't get in. So you'll be able to go in and keep them afloat. That server will love seeing you.

[Matt Jones]

So it's gonna be very exciting. But I didn't want people to think.

[Shannon]

I thought you forgot.

[Matt Jones]

I know you did, but that's one of the reasons why we're doing it again is I wanted to make sure you knew that that's what we were gonna do. So congratulations.

[Shannon]

Well, great. Thanks. Appreciate that.

[Etta May]

What do you think is going to happen? You're just going to Eat and go home.

[Matt Jones]

It's just, you know, what's the downside?

[Etta May]

This blows my mind. The fear you have in this.

[Shannon]

I just don't like hanging out by myself, period.

[Matt Jones]

You got to hang out by yourself. And I must say, if you see Ryan at a restaurant, feel free to say hello, but do not sit with him. He has to sit by himself. That's part of the thing. If you sit down with him and help him know, that's the point. You can come say hello, then get the hell out. Like, this is. This is Ryan Lemon by himself.

[Shannon]

I'm literally sweating right now just thinking about it.

[Matt Jones]

So next week. Next week, I'm giving you a little.

[Shannon]

Bit time for five days. Monday, Monday, Monday through Friday.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, who's up next?

[Shannon]

Robert.

[Matt Jones]

Robert. Go ahead, Robert.

[Caller Robert]

Hey, Matt, I got a question. So over the summer, you had said that you thought about putting a mural outside of the restaurant. And I'm coming tonight. Me and my buddy are going to the game. Just curious, if you guys had to pick four athletes to put on a mural outside the restaurant, who would each.

[Etta May]

Of your all pick?

[Matt Jones]

That's a great question. So if I were to do a ksr, this is not history of UK mural. This would be kind of history of ksr. So I would leave it to our era. Right. Appreciate the call. So if I were to do. I'm not going to do. Why do four. Let's do. Let's do six. Here's who would be on my mount of. Of KSR thing. I would go Anthony Davis, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins. I would. Then Benny Snell. Those are the ones I know I want on there. Who'd be my other two?

[Etta May]

He doesn't fit your mold, but I'm putting Jared on there a thousand percent, even though he's not the year.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he was. He hosted shows from here. So I'll put Jared, I think, easily. I like first pick.

[Shannon]

I got maybe Ryan Howard from the get with the women's basketball team, but.

[Matt Jones]

I don't really know her at all. So, like, part of this is also, like, we have some connection to the purse. Okay, we do. We do that. Be nice to have a women's athlete. Do you think she. Maybe she would be the one?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Or you could do. We did like Georgia Amore a lot.

[Shannon]

We did.

[Etta May]

She was good.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Sydney McLaughlin. I did a bunch of TV interviews with you. Interviews.

[Shannon]

I think she's got to be on the mural for sure.

[Matt Jones]

So you say. So what about Sydney, Jared, Benny Wall, Davis Cousins?

[Etta May]

I like it.

[Shannon]

I like it.

[Matt Jones]

With it, but. And then on the pillars when you walk in, Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas be like, why do you have the Miami coach? You just. You don't understand.

[Shannon]

Maybe Reed shepherd on a corner pillar.

[Matt Jones]

Over there, but he's gonna have to have an Arkansas shirt on.

[Shannon]

No, no, no, no, no. Those days are over. He threw the Louisville shirt.

[Matt Jones]

He had a heck of a game last night. He basically won him that game last night.

[Shannon]

He scored 12 in the fourth quarter or something like this.

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[Shannon]

Right? He can come meet with me next week. He wants to come and hang out.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. No, first of all, you're not allowed to. You have to do it by yourself. And secondly, he's way too manly for you. He's a firefighter that you. You couldn't. You need to hang out with the weatherman.

[Shannon]

I like Chris Bailey and Bill Mack.

[Matt Jones]

I know you do. One person writes, matt, you always give your opinion on everything, but you've been very quiet on what happened with Minnesota and Don Lemon. What do you think? I don't know what they're talking about.

[Shannon]

I don't know that either.

[Matt Jones]

What. What's that With Don Lemon? Is that the guy from cnn?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

What'd he do?

[Shannon]

I don't know.

[Etta May]

I really know who Don Lemon is, so don't look at me.

[Matt Jones]

The only thing I know about Don Lemon is he would come on CNN after the ball, and he'd be in New Orleans. He'd be. He'd do the central time zone, and he'd be really drunk.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And, like, do. He'd be really like. If you thought Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen were drunk, by the time they got to Don Lemon, he was like, oh, my goodness, get that microphone from him. And then. But. But I don't know what he did in Minnesota.

[Etta May]

I don't either.

[Matt Jones]

Whatever he did, don't do it.

[Etta May]

Unless it was good. Then do it.

[Matt Jones]

But it sounds like it was. Whatever he did, don't do it.

[Etta May]

It's frowned upon.

[Matt Jones]

Unless it was good.

[Etta May]

Yeah. If he donated something, he got in.

[Shannon]

Trouble, he said something. I don't even know if you don't see it anymore.

[Matt Jones]

There was a mat. There's a massive takedown that apparently could lead to over 200 arrests in Kentucky for catfish harvesting.

[Shannon]

Really?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Shannon]

There's your. Really? For today. Really?

[Etta May]

Did he really?

[Shannon]

Did he really?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know what catfish harvesting is, but I read the article, trying to understand it. It seems like, you know, I guess everyone, if you're in public waterways, you can get so many catfish, right?

[Shannon]

I think so.

[Matt Jones]

There's a maximum amount of catfish you can get, which would make sense, right?

[Etta May]

You can't have them all.

[Matt Jones]

You can't. You just can't sit there and go, here, fish, fishy. And you take all of our cat protect. The argument is they would take the public catfish and then put it in a private lake and harvest them.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

What. You know that. You know what happened?

[Shannon]

Yeah, well, I did.

[Matt Jones]

Said you didn't know. What do you know?

[Shannon]

I don't know what the. These fish farms are. They. They may have a pond full of catfish. They may have a pond full of a different kind of fish, and then another. Another kind of fish. They raise them and sell them to these restaurants.

[Matt Jones]

But what did they do that was illegal?

[Shannon]

I'm not so sure what it is that's illegal about it.

[Matt Jones]

I was trying to tell you.

[Shannon]

Well, tell me, why is it illegal?

[Matt Jones]

I think the allegation is that they took too many of the public ones and then they put them in their private ones to act like they had grown up. It sounds illegal, and it was harvesting, but they. They've already arrested like 100 people, and they say when the probe is over, maybe 2,000 people in Kentucky could be arrested for catfish harvesting. So there's someone listening right now who knows they harvested some catfish, and they're like, oh, no, Am I on this list?

[Etta May]

Sleeping with one?

[Matt Jones]

I open. So you know what? That's exactly right. Which I believe. Catfish do.

[Shannon]

They do.

[Matt Jones]

So you now are gonna need to be like the catfish, because they say there are 10 times as many people implicated as those that have been arrested so far.

[Shannon]

I think there are some fish farms in Kentucky that are very crucial to sending fresh fish to, like, Chicago, New York.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they may get out of a.

[Etta May]

Lot about this, you know, what cities they're going to.

[Shannon]

I think a lot of these fish farms, like in Western Kentucky, too.

[Matt Jones]

How do you know?

[Shannon]

I don't know. I really don't know.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know that you know. I mean, you may just be saying it with confidence.

[Shannon]

I know there's some big fish farms in Western Kentucky that farm out their fish to Chicago.

[Matt Jones]

Are they going doing it the legal way or the illegal?

[Shannon]

I. That I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

Well, if you are an illegal catfish harvester, Drew, you've been put on notice here on KSR because they say there are 2000 of. Of people say there's got to be people listening who are. This is applies to. They're coming for you.

[Etta May]

If I'm, you know, if I'm someone that's participated in this, I think I might be on a list. I'm filling my pond with dirt right now. My catfish are getting buried.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that's going to help if you kill all the catfish. I don't.

[Etta May]

I'm trying to stay out of prison.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that's what they want.

[Etta May]

Burying the product.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I don't think that's the goal they're looking for. Who's up next?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Producer]

David.

[Matt Jones]

David. Go ahead, David.

[Caller David]

Hey, guys. How you doing? Always a great day when Kentucky plays, huh?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller David]

Hey, I. I just wanted to give a shout out to Chaos or Steven Peak video with his grandfather. I know you mentioned that, Matt, but anybody ain't has it. Anybody that hasn't seen that needs to watch it. That just maybe you can get an insight to what Kentucky basketball means to people.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, I loved. I. I totally agree with you. Stephen Peak with his grandfather watching the end of that game and. And then he. That was. It was great. Stephen did an amazing job. And you're exactly right. That is what. What Big Blue Nation and Kentucky fandom is for a large percent.

[Caller David]

Thanks a lot.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it. Don Lemon apparently invaded a Baptist church with protesters to disrupt the church service. I don't think you should do that. It's frowned upon.

[Etta May]

Like I said, don't.

[Matt Jones]

Why did they do it? Do we know?

[Shannon]

I don't know. Shame on you, Don.

[Etta May]

I'm not gonna watch him anymore, I'll tell you that much.

[Matt Jones]

Well, what channel was he on now? Cnn, I think. Apparently he got fired. He got fired in CNN six years ago.

[Etta May]

Well, I'm not gonna watch him on his new channel either.

[Matt Jones]

So. Yeah. One person writes, how can you all not know this? It's been all over the Internet. Well, it's not been on my part of the Internet. I didn't know.

[Shannon]

Did you know about Don Lemon?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

No, not until you said it.

[Matt Jones]

Honestly, I had not thought of him since he left cnn.

[Etta May]

I've not thought of him ever until this moment. So he's not been on my algorithm.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, so now he will be, because we've talked about it and our phones have heard it.

[Shannon]

It's gonna keep showing up, so it'll.

[Matt Jones]

Show it, and I can know how mad I am.

[Etta May]

We all have our own news cycles and algorithms.

[Matt Jones]

And my news cycle yesterday was all about the fact that people think Belichick and Tom Brady are friends again because Belichick's girlfriend was hanging out with Alex Earl at the.

[Etta May]

At the double date set up here.

[Matt Jones]

Well, the guys aren't in the picture, but Belichick and Alex Earl. Belichick's girlfriend was her name. Jordan.

[Etta May]

Jordan.

[Matt Jones]

Jordan Hudson and Alex Earl were sitting next to each other at the national championship game. And so they were like, oh, that must mean that Belichick and Brady are friends again.

[Shannon]

But they were nowhere to be found.

[Matt Jones]

No, but maybe they were just like, it's the girls bringing them together, huh? Old men who won't talk to each other. Their young girlfriends will be who bring them together. See, there's the update you care about.

[Etta May]

Big news.

[Matt Jones]

We'll take a break. Be right back. 859-280-2287. A little UK football right after this.