2026-02-19- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) — Hour 1 Recap

Episode Date: February 19, 2026
Hosts: Matt Jones, Shannon, Ryan, Greg

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Episode Overview

This episode of Kentucky Sports Radio, live from KS Bar & Grill, is a classic "Ask Anything Thursday." The crew discusses everything from McDonald's drive-thru etiquette to last night’s college basketball action, Kentucky sports updates, real estate adventures, and 90s nostalgia with the Bourbon & Beyond concert lineup. The signature interplay between the hosts brings a mix of humor, confession, debate, and music chatter, engaging callers and sparking lively banter throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. McDonald’s Drive-Thru Confessions (05:36–14:22)

• Matt’s Admission: Matt shares a humorous self-reflection about his impatience in the McDonald's drive-thru, labeling it as the “worst version of himself.”

  "The worst version of myself is in line at McDonald's." — Matt (05:56)

• Drive-Thru Psychology: The group dissects the unwritten rules: always know your order, don’t ask questions, no customizations, and time-efficient ordering.
• Pet Peeves: Matt lists types of people he dislikes in the drive-thru, including those who order too much, get distracted on their phone, or allow cars behind them to advance first.

  "There are about six different types of people I don't like in McDonald's line. Number one is the person who orders too much food." — Matt (08:51)

• Comic Analogy: Matt compares drive-thru line regret to failed marriage:

  "When you make the wrong decision, it's got to be what a failed marriage feels like." — Matt (07:46)

• Group Comparison: The team draws a racing parallel—choosing the wrong line is like drafting behind the wrong car at Daytona.
• Personal Growth: Matt acknowledges his failings, but admits it's the only context where he loses patience.

2. Sports Talk: Curling, Transy Athletics, and Basketball (04:33–16:53)

• Curling Update: Brief nod to the US women’s curling team and Transylvania University’s (Transy) curling program.
• Transy Athletics: Bustle about Transy’s conference success and the camaraderie of honoring lesser-known sports.
• Basketball Analysis:
  • Recap of the thrilling Arkansas vs. Auburn double-overtime game.
  • Discussion on player endurance: Darius Acuff logging 50 minutes and Mississippi State’s Hubbard scoring 46 points (including 35 in the first half).
  • Kentucky’s tournament standing and frustration over missed opportunities:

    "Had we beaten Georgia, we'd still be in second place in the SEC..." — Matt (16:37)

  • Ongoing debate about the depth and stamina of Kentucky players versus other teams’ stars.

3. Real Estate Adventures with Ryan (22:05–25:09)

• Home Shopping: Matt and Ryan share anecdotes from a recent home tour, with Matt complimenting Ryan’s professionalism as a realtor.

  “He did a good job… No matter what happens with this, you did a good job.” — Matt (24:02)

• Neighborhood Vetting: They discuss the importance of vetting neighbors ("Don’t move next to Fred Sanford or a house with five dogs.").
• Yardwork: Jokes about Matt not keeping up with landscaping, but assurances he’ll hire help if needed.

4. More on Player Minutes & Stamina (25:22–27:59)

• Performance Fatigue: Skepticism is voiced about the need to limit players’ minutes when past squads (and opponents) log heavy minutes successfully.

  “I just don't buy the whole notion that these guys…the numbers say blah blah, get them in shape.” — Matt (25:49)

• Media Timeouts: With so many stoppages and long tournament breaks, the group argues there’s no good excuse not to play your stars.

5. Instant Replay & Off-Court Review Oddities (27:55–29:40)

• Birmingham Phone Call: The crew is surprised by a new SEC protocol—a goaltending call was reversed after a call from Birmingham HQ, not the officials’ review.

  “I had no idea that you could ping someone in Birmingham and they would give you the call.” — Matt (29:31)

• Brief chat on how pro leagues handle video review, and whether college basketball will move to centralized, off-court reviews.

6. Bourbon & Beyond: 90s Nostalgia in Music (29:51–34:49)

• Festival Lineup: The hosts geek out over the Bourbon & Beyond musical festival lineup, packed with 90s artists like Foo Fighters, Hootie & the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Lisa Loeb, and more.

  "Did they literally just go to, like, turn on the 90s station and just whoever came on, they invited?" — Matt (33:34)

• Personal Favorites & Group Outing: Shannon is especially excited for Hootie & the Blowfish, while Matt reminisces about the era.
• Song References: The segment is chock-full of singalong snippets and genre nostalgia.

7. Callers Weigh In & Listener Q&A (34:14–41:52)

• Basketball Perspective: Callers echo earlier points about player endurance (Acuff’s efficiency) and the shifting balance of football vs. basketball recruiting in Kentucky.

• Injuries & Optimism: The group debates whether injuries are the root of Kentucky’s basketball struggles, or if deeper issues persist.

• Funny Follow-up: A caller prompts a comparison between Blues Traveler and Hootie & the Blowfish as top 90s acts.

• Drive-Thru Honk Comeuppance: In a comic twist, Shannon reveals the person Matt honked at in McDonald’s was one of his doctors—leading to playful regret.

  "If I'm his patient and he's [the doctor] trying to give me a diagnosis in the McDonald's drive through, I'm gonna be frustrated." — Matt (49:08)

8. Chicago Bears Rumors: Stadium Relocation (42:28–46:38)

• Potential Move: Matt rants about rumors the Bears will leave downtown Chicago for Hammond, Indiana, describing Hammond as "the grossest place on earth."

  "Hammond, Indiana is the grossest place on earth... you can't put a stadium there." — Matt (43:21)

• Identity Crisis: The team riffs on NFL teams that don’t play in their namesake city, with Matt declaring he’d consider the Bears an "expansion franchise" if they became the "Indiana Bears."

9. Indiana Geography Roast (50:07–51:03)

• Lighthearted Insults: A caller from Indianapolis prompts Matt to rank the best and worst parts of Indiana, landing on southern Indiana and Evansville as decent but dismissing the rest.

  "Central Indiana is all windmills and scarecrows. It's boring… Northern Indiana's disgusting." — Matt (50:16)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

McDonald's Drive Thru Confessions

• "The worst version of myself is in line at McDonald's." — Matt (05:56)
• "When you make the wrong decision, it's got to be what a failed marriage feels like." — Matt (07:46)
• "There are about six different types of people I don't like in McDonald's line. Number one is the person who orders too much food." — Matt (08:51)

Basketball & Strategy

• "Had we beaten Georgia, we'd still be in second place in the SEC..." — Matt (16:37)
• “I just don't buy the whole notion that these guys…the numbers say blah blah, get them in shape.” — Matt (25:49)
• “That’s the point. The question is not is the individual less? Do you have something that’s better than that? And the answer, at least on this team is no.” — Matt (26:54)

Cultural Moment: Festival Lineup

• "Did they literally just go to, like, turn on the 90s station and just whoever came on, they invited?" — Matt (33:34)

Chicago Bears Rant

• "Hammond, Indiana is the grossest place on earth... you can't put a stadium there." — Matt (43:21)

Comic Callbacks

• [After learning he honked at a doctor:]
  "If I'm his patient and he's [the doctor] trying to give me a diagnosis in the McDonald's drive through, I'm gonna be frustrated." — Matt (49:08)

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Important Timestamps

• Drive-thru confessions & etiquette: 05:36–14:22
• Basketball analysis & player fatigue: 15:00–27:59
• Replay review debate: 27:55–29:40
• Bourbon & Beyond lineup & 90s nostalgia: 29:51–34:49
• Q&A with callers (basketball, injuries, nostalgia): 34:14–41:52
• Bears moving to Indiana rant: 42:28–46:38
• Joking about Indiana towns: 50:07–51:03

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced, humorous, and occasionally self-deprecating, with the hosts comfortable bouncing between Kentucky sports, local news, and everyday life. Banter is friendly, with playful jabs and call-backs to past episodes and ongoing show inside jokes.

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Final Takeaway

This KSR hour is a quintessential slice of Kentucky sports radio: sharp, irreverent, neighborly, and never too far from a McDonald’s or a 90s musical memory. Whether debating basketball stamina, the quirks of NFL stadiums, or proper fast-food etiquette, the crew makes every topic feel like a shared barroom conversation.

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Transcript

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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, Thursday, February 19th here at KS Bar Grill where we are open and ready to have you come say hello. Tonight is trivia and you got your team.

[Shannon]

Got my team going to show up. We're going to qualify tonight.

[Matt Jones]

I talked to hubby last night. You didn't ask him. Well, so yeah, he knows where he stands on your team rankings. The Kentucky select Chevy dealers KSR pregame show 859 to look at him. He's turning red. 859-280-2287. A vision autoglass text machine. 772-774-5254. This is Dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office called TJ will make them pay. You better have a good team if you're, if you're, if you're not asking them.

[Shannon]

Well, we were one spot away from qualifying last time.

[Matt Jones]

So you want to bring back the.

[Shannon]

I brought that group back.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, makes sense. That was, that was a good.

[Shannon]

I'm sorry, hubby.

[Matt Jones]

That's okay. The U.S. is playing curling right now. The women and if they, if they curl the best and beat I think it's Switzerland, they'll go to the championship route. Did you know that?

[Shannon]

I didn't know that.

[Matt Jones]

I've enjoyed some curling. It's a little, it's a little slow.

[Shannon]

I mean but I enjoy the play by play guys. I could hear them while we were setting up getting watching complex by play of this event.

[Matt Jones]

It's got to be it's they're long matches.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And they. They do a lot of sweeping. And you know Trancy has a curling. Did you know that?

[Shannon]

Do they?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Trancy has a. Or at least they did. I. I assume that they haven't gotten rid of that. But the Transy had a curling also shout out transy.

[Ryan]

10 in a row last night.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Won the conference.

[Shannon]

Good for they host the conference tournament this weekend over there at the Beck Center.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. That's exciting.

[Ryan]

Maybe they'll honor the curling team at halftime.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I don't know if they still have. I just know they had it because there was a guy on the curling team I knew that I would have never imagined even had watched a sport.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And he ended up on the curling team. And I was. I was impressed. So I. We're going to talk about a lot of stuff. Ask anything Thursday.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

All right. So you can ask anything and this is a good time to call. I'm willing to interact with you today because we've got a lot of little things but no big thing. 859-280-2287 I came to the realization about something this morning that I feel like I need to confess.

[Shannon]

Okay. Confession time.

[Matt Jones]

I realized this morning right before I came here, the worst. You know how I always say that online you are the worst version of yourself. So like whatever is the trait you have that is the worst. It comes out online. And I actually think that's true, especially if you're an anonymous account. But really at all. I don't think that's true. For me though. The worst version of myself is in line at McDonald's.

[Shannon]

I wondered if this is going to

[Ryan]

be a drive through situation.

[Shannon]

Here we go.

[Ryan]

I felt it brewing.

[Matt Jones]

That's the worst version of me. Because I start to have traits that I don't want to think I have in the line at McDonald's. Such as I get mad at particular people, groups of people. I make statements that I wouldn't make anywhere else. Waiting for someone to get to through the drive.

[Greg]

Do you go Mick Cronin on them? Like, are you raising your voice at

[Matt Jones]

me a little bit? Today I. I found my. I honked a horn and I said, why am I doing this? I know I've got plenty of time. But I. I grow impatient. I grow frustrated. So today you get there long double line, very rare on Harrodsburg Road. I'm not going to talk about the other group but there's a very red. But the one on Harrodsburg Road. Just so efficient. Long double line. Then you have the moment that. That every week will perplex me. Which line do I get in?

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And usually speaking, I judge by what cars are in each line. Does this look like a fast car? And I don't mean like Porsche, like are these people going to be annoying me?

[Ryan]

Maybe a headcount of who's in the car.

[Matt Jones]

But you have to remember on the outside that line's going to be shorter because they got farther to go. So you have to quickly make a decision. And when you make the wrong decision, it's got to be what a failed marriage feels like.

[Shannon]

You're stuck in it.

[Matt Jones]

There has to be long yes. And longing regret.

[Ryan]

And like if you recognize the car behind you go first.

[Matt Jones]

You get so mad. Thing that infuriates me more than if a car that initially came after me goes through before. It's like they beat you.

[Ryan]

You lost the game.

[Matt Jones]

I'm upset at them. They didn't do one thing wrong, but I'm mad at them. How dare you be one spot ahead of me.

[Shannon]

They won the challenge.

[Matt Jones]

They won the challenge and I'm disappointed myself. I had these two choices and I went the wrong way again. It's got to be what it's like with marriage.

[Ryan]

Identical, I would think.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't. Same sense. And then the people on my team. This has got to be what it's like at Daytona. You know, at Daytona you're drafted if you get behind the wrong car. You must hate them. And now I can see why people want to put them in the wall. Shane, you know, give them a love.

[Greg]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I got in the line there. There are about six different types of people I don't like in McDonald's line. But number one is the person who orders too much food.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right. You are at McDonald's. First of all, when you get to the line, there should be no questions, Right?

[Shannon]

The menu didn't change overnight.

[Matt Jones]

What questions do you have at McDonald's? Like, like it's the. It's been the same for 75 years.

[Greg]

The McFlurry machine down today.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, that's fine, but that's a quick answer.

[Ryan]

What?

[Matt Jones]

And by the way, no substitutions. McDonald's is not a place you can't have it your way. It's also breakfast. There's not even that much to take off. Shut up and order the food.

[Ryan]

I was with someone one time. It was my first experience in a drive through with them and I swear they ordered their McDonald's burger mid rare and asked for grilled onions. I wanted to get out of the car and never speak to them again. I'm like, who are you?

[Matt Jones]

Okay, I'll give you. If you order a burger, you can say, no pickles. That's it. That's it. Okay.

[Shannon]

And then you move on.

[Matt Jones]

And then you move on. Shut up. All right. This is not. Just say the number. Just. Yeah, there are 10 numbers. Pick one. All right, so I get really mad. And if your car. You can order for you and you can order for one other person. If you have your kids, man, it better be quick. Just get them all Happy Meals and shut up.

[Shannon]

Chicken nugget. Happy Meals.

[Matt Jones]

All right. But when I see a long tab, Ryan, it drives me.

[Shannon]

Huh?

[Matt Jones]

All right, so that's number one. So the first guy had that.

[Shannon]

Had the long menu on the screen.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Infuriating guy behind it on his phone. So like takes a millisecond to put it, doesn't pull up as quick.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The other line passes. Oh, he's on his phone.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Now I'm gonna confess something. Please don't tell anyone. I've been on my phone before when I was.

[Shannon]

No, now, come on. Quit beating yourself up like that.

[Matt Jones]

I have. I'm not proud of it. I do it significantly less now than I used to. I have. I have. I very dialed it back and won't do it in 98% of the times. But in a drive through line, I will. But I'm really angry if someone else does it because I'm a pro. Ryan, at. Look up, look down, look up, look up.

[Shannon]

So you don't lose your spot.

[Matt Jones]

But if you're the person that's like

[Shannon]

typing a long note could get passed.

[Matt Jones]

Honk.

[Shannon]

So you honked at him today?

[Matt Jones]

I honked, he got startled, looked up, drove forward. Problem solved, I think.

[Shannon]

Oh, no, there's more.

[Matt Jones]

Next one on his phone. He's. It's his turn. Gets passed. We've now been passed by two cars.

[Shannon]

Ryan, devastating news. Honk.

[Matt Jones]

He looks out. And I. This is the part I'm ashamed about. And I'm sorry. I went, get off your phone. And he looks at me like, what? And I felt bad because there are moments I got to remember I'm a semi public figure.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I cannot be the guy screaming at people.

[Shannon]

The old man yelling at people in the McDonald's drive through.

[Matt Jones]

I can't be yelling. But he was in a suit and tie, so he's probably the kind of person I wouldn't like anyway.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you should be wearing a suit and tie on a Weekday.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, suit and ties. If you're wearing a suit and tie, you're not allowed at McDonald's.

[Shannon]

Good man. Gotta eat.

[Matt Jones]

That's a hoodie place. Am I right? That's not a suit and tie place. That's a hoodie place. So I, I'm not gonna apologize to him because he didn't get off his stupid phone, but I apologize in general to humanity and myself. I'm, I'm the worst version of myself in these McDonald's lines.

[Ryan]

You think you get hangry because you haven't had your food yet in the morning.

[Matt Jones]

It's just I don't like inefficiency. I hate lines. That's the thing. I had time. Yeah, I usually get through the line, pull over and work on the final parts of the show. Today I was writing some trivia questions. It's not about time. I hate inefficiency, I hate lines, and I hate when people don't do their part for the collective good to get through the line.

[Shannon]

You know, we've been doing this show for a long time together and the only time I feel you get really frustrated has been in the McDonald's drive thru line. The one in Louisville and now the one in Lexington. Seems to frustrate you more than anything else.

[Matt Jones]

I think around you and I. Because lines to me are being in a line because you're trapped, Shannon. That's it. Like I lose my self control. I don't, I can't get out.

[Greg]

Well, you could always get out of your car and walk inside the building in order that way.

[Matt Jones]

But I can't leave my car in the drive thru line. When somebody's in front of you and behind you, you're just trapped. That's why I don't like car washes.

[Ryan]

Hey, car washes too. I was just in one. But when you saw Mikael McLean there he was washing his car.

[Matt Jones]

When you get on that thing, you're just stuck.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know what? And if it like you're just kind of.

[Shannon]

You got to bite the bullet and ride it out.

[Matt Jones]

And now I'm here and there are all these.

[Shannon]

And you're frustrated.

[Matt Jones]

There are these monsters attacking me outside of the car.

[Ryan]

Have you ever, you mentioned in racing put them in the wall. Did you ever think about between window one and window two, putting someone in the wall? Like you're not, you're not liking the traffic flow?

[Matt Jones]

No, I don't, I don't want, I don't need to hurt my car. It's. But anyway, so I'm I'm not. I don't need people writing text machine and going, you're impatient. I know. I'm confessing my sins, that I'm the worst version of myself on. On. On there.

[Shannon]

So if you're. Let's just play this out. I've been in this situation, guys, on the phone in one lane, you're waiting on him. In the next lane. Do you go ahead and go in front of him or do you honk on him like, hey, buddy, I'm stuck. No, no. If you're that guy. If you're the guy, like, waiting, do you honk at him to let him.

[Matt Jones]

Hey, dude, you made another line. Yeah, no, it's every line for itself. I. I do appreciate that. I'm not the other line. It's a problem between me and the guy in the suit. That's the problem. All right. 859280, 2287 last night, watched Arkansas and Auburn. I. I only bring this, first of all, a couple things about the game. Great game.

[Shannon]

Maybe one of the best games of this of the year.

[Matt Jones]

No, I. I mean, I. I can't think of a better one.

[Shannon]

Awesome.

[Matt Jones]

Double overtime. Could have been triple overtime.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Guy made the dunk. You know, it's funny, the Cal, Cal in the game stuff, you know, we've talked about. We were so deep. He continues to be like, always not deep. And he ends up playing two guys who haven't played all year. At the end of the game, I did think Jimmy Dykes exaggerated a little, Shannon, when he kept being like, these guys might not even know basketball. Yeah. Like, how do they know the place

[Greg]

they go to practice?

[Matt Jones]

He acted like neither of them had ever played the sport before. They were like, they don't. I bet they don't even know the plays. Remember when he did that with the dude from Tennessee? He doesn't even know. I mean, Jimmy gets a little, like excited with the idea that these people are just. If I were their parents, I'd be like, he is a functional human.

[Shannon]

He goes to every practice every day.

[Ryan]

Stokes was great. I remember him yelling.

[Matt Jones]

They're teaching him how to stretch in the warm up like he's never before. Jimmy gets a little exaggerating. I don't know why Cow didn't shoot a three at the end. They were down two and they obviously didn't want to go to another overtime.

[Shannon]

Why not? Why not, you know, in the game and win it? You got to basically walk ons out there out of your five players, try to win the game. And you got a chance.

[Matt Jones]

But. But it was a great game. And Arkansas loses. So now Alabama. There's a. Had we won, this is what's frustrating. Had we beaten Georgia, we'd still be in second place in the SEC because with that loss and we remember we have a tiebreaker on Arkansas.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So we would have been in second place in the SEC and in a position to. To still, you know, be able to. To have our. Kind of have our path. And so that loss, in some ways last night, Arkansas losing, made that loss more frustrating to me on Tuesday.

[Shannon]

Hurts even more now. You can say it like that, man. The Acuff kid was awesome last night. And Hubbard was awesome for Mississippi State.

[Matt Jones]

Hubbard had 46 for Mississippi State.

[Shannon]

Yeah. 35 at halftime.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He.

[Ryan]

It was 35 to 33 at halftime. Hubbard and Auburn.

[Matt Jones]

Hubbard had nine three. Shannon at halftime last.

[Greg]

It was insane. Yeah, that's insane. 35 points.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

halftime.

[Shannon]

At halftime.

[Matt Jones]

That's like Chris Jackson numbers back in the day for LSU.

[Ryan]

His last three games are 31, 32 and then 4, 40.

[Matt Jones]

Whatever he had last night, that kid, if he played anywhere but Mississippi State would be a huge nationwide.

[Shannon]

Agreed. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Is he got one more year?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Now, Mark Pope, you want to bring somebody?

[Shannon]

Bring him in.

[Matt Jones]

Bring him.

[Greg]

46 points. I still didn't have the best night.

[Matt Jones]

I know everybody, they really should like because they should try to get him here.

[Ryan]

You have to reel him in a little bit. I love watching him. It is. He basically is a one man show and he has to be. He would have to dial that back here. But he's fun. I would love to have him.

[Shannon]

I got one more.

[Ryan]

And he said he did a tweet about Reed shepherd after they played as freshmen. They went to war.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

And it made me like him then. It was like a handshake.

[Matt Jones]

You have something to say? Is it good?

[Shannon]

Just a question for you.

[Matt Jones]

All right, well, let's save it. Ask anything.

[Shannon]

Okay, let's do it.

[Matt Jones]

After break. 859-280-2287. We'll take a break. Barry backs KSI.

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[Shannon]

an opinion about it.

[Matt Jones]

That's why, you know, it's not rocket science, folks. That's why I talk about other stuff when I talk about basketball.

[Shannon]

Stick to sports, man.

[Greg]

Stick to McDonald's.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. One person writes, Matt or Pat writes, I need to know how having Ryan as your realtor was yesterday. Yesterday was my first full Ryan realtor experience. We've seen a couple other houses, but, like, I'm, I'm serious about this one and really considering it. It's a house full of bubble screens. And so, so I'm, I, I'm like, I'm serious, man. You like that one, right?

[Shannon]

I did like that one. Didn't see that one coming.

[Matt Jones]

He does, like, surprisingly, Shannon, a professional job.

[Greg]

Oh, really kept his shoes on this time.

[Matt Jones]

Well, the, the realtor for that, for the seller was not there, so it's just me and Ryan. So, like, he, he didn't have to be as professional as I thought, but he, like, he know. He knows what to point out. He's like, you look at this and then you think about this and then you do a hoop de hoo here mortgage. And yeah, and I, I was like, don't worry about that. I'm good. I got. We can handle all this. And we talked. So he did. It was nice to see Ryan in his professional role yesterday.

[Ryan]

I, I also use Ryan. Ryan's best thing in the process, as you'll find if you keep looking any hour of the night, doesn't matter the five minutes notice. He's like, yeah, I can be right there. Because I looked at a lot of houses and Ryan was great at every tour we did.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Well, this checks a lot of boxes for me in terms of location and privacy and, you know, I don't know Shannon, do you? The only thing I'M worried about is, you know, neighbors. Am I allowed to investigate these people that would be next to me?

[Greg]

You should go knock on the door, go introduce yourself, say, yeah, like, is

[Matt Jones]

this person going to be somebody?

[Ryan]

It's important. It matters.

[Shannon]

I tell people all the time, find out you don't want to live next door to Fred Sanford or a house that's got like, five dogs.

[Matt Jones]

I like Fred. Sam.

[Shannon]

Well, you know, he had a junkyard there at his house.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, these people didn't look to have a junkyard, but, like, I don't

[Shannon]

know, you want to live next. Somebody's got, like, five dogs or some chickens out there.

[Ryan]

I would check the dog market.

[Greg]

They're probably a Kentucky coach. You may know them.

[Matt Jones]

Well, there, there are coaches in the neighborhood. But this is. But, yeah, but you did a good job. So I did want to compliment you on that. No matter what happens with this, you did a good job.

[Shannon]

I thank you because I left and I told Jennifer on the way home, said this the first house I've really seen Matt get excited about. You know, we've seen what, maybe half a dozen of them.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. You wore full socks for.

[Shannon]

I did.

[Ryan]

That's when you know he's serious.

[Matt Jones]

That's when I knew you thought it was a good house because you, you went ahead and wore like, a full complement of clothing.

[Shannon]

They got some. All the spot for all match tools in the garage.

[Matt Jones]

For tools, Shannon? Yeah, there I, I. All of my tools will be taken care of. Just put your.

[Greg]

All your shoes there, where the tools would be.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, there's. But how big's the yard?

[Ryan]

That's what I worry about with you. I see you letting the yard get

[Matt Jones]

a little out of control. It's a pool, but, I mean, there's some. There's grass. I'll have. I'll get people to do because there's a lot of bushes and I don't do a lot of pruning or what do you call it, Landscaping.

[Ryan]

That's because you haven't had room for your tools.

[Matt Jones]

But now I can. I. I'll get somebody to, to do that. So what was your question?

[Shannon]

I noticed last night about to forget. Yeah, I was. I noticed last night that Darius Acuff, I think, played 50 minutes. He did? Yeah. I don't think he got fatigued. I'm wondering, you know, why can't our guys play 30 minutes?

[Matt Jones]

I don't want to think about it. I watched Darius Acuff play 50 minutes, and he missed the last shot. But it wasn't Short. He was right there. I, you know, if Darius acuff can play 50 away, Chandler and Aberdeen could play 35, 536.

[Ryan]

Hubbard had 40. They didn't meet OT. He played the whole game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I just, I don't buy marks. I just don't buy the whole notion that these guys, you know, the numbers say blah blah, blah, get them in shape.

[Shannon]

It's mid February, they should be in shape.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I think Rick Patino's 92 team. Didn't a lot of those guys play the whole game? Pretty much. I mean like Mashburn would probably play the whole game, didn't he?

[Shannon]

I'm sure they did a lot of minutes. Travis Ford and those guys used to

[Greg]

say that the game day was a day off because it compare. Yeah, it didn't compare it all to the practice.

[Matt Jones]

I just, I think that is, you know, he can say all he wants that the performance goes down. But the question numerically for me is not. Here's the question. Is it likely the case that after 37 minutes away would be a slightly less version of away? I can believe that answer might be yes, but, but that's not the question. The question is, is that slightly less version of OA better than what replaces him in the rest of the game? Right. So if it's a 90% away, but a 90% away is better than a hundred percent. Jasper, you want the 90% away, right? Like that's the point. The question is not is the individual less? It's that do you have something that's better than that? And the answer, at least on this team is no, I do not think you do. So give me the 90% away.

[Ryan]

I completely agree. And with the game this day, there are so many stoppages. We don't have two hour games anymore. There are reviews, media timeout. There are plenty of breaks in a basketball game that someone should be able to handle playing nearly every minute if they need to.

[Matt Jones]

And in the tournament it's even more. In the tournament it's even more breaks. The, the, the commercial breaks are like a minute longer in the tournament. That was one of the things I always thought used to get Cal when, when we would have like depth is. And I remember him, he would sometimes have depth and sometimes he wouldn't. But I do remember him once saying, I think the year we won the title when we only had six guys, he was like, well the tournament timeouts are so long.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That ultimately it doesn't matter.

[Ryan]

And if you get Doug Shells, you're getting probably 30 extra minutes of break while he's at the monitor.

[Matt Jones]

I think halftime is like five or ten more minutes longer in the, in the final four and then that.

[Shannon]

So I want to ask you one more thing about that game last night. They called a go tending call and they reviewed it and then somebody from New York must have called them on their cell phone.

[Matt Jones]

I honestly didn't know that was a thing. Yeah, so they, they reviewed a goaltending call, they kept the call on the court and then they said someone in Birmingham called them up and said flip it the other way.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know that was a thing. Did you know that Birmingham. There's a Birmingham speed dial that says flip it. I think they ended up getting the call right?

[Shannon]

I think so. I've never seen though, a call come in after they'd already ruled on it. Ruled on the review. Then the call comes in and they change it back.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know there was a Birmingham?

[Ryan]

No. And if they're going to get it right, we should be leaning on Birmingham more often. You know, I don't love that in principle, but if they're getting it right and it's.

[Matt Jones]

I'm okay with Birmingham being involved. But then why isn't Birmingham the review on everything?

[Ryan]

I mean.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, I've always thought it was stupid, especially in the NFL. Now they've changed this. But remember when the NFL refs would go and like, look at this little tiny tv And I would always go, we have big screens. Why are we making him look through a projector? Like it looked like when you pay money and you can see Niagara Falls

[Ryan]

through a little thing like squinting.

[Matt Jones]

I thought, why is the screen so big? I could firmly believe that the referees on the court, where you have a screen, people are screaming at you. It might be better for someone in another place to make the call. In the NFL, all reviews are done off the field.

[Shannon]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

Right.

[Shannon]

So is that, is that where college basketball is headed?

[Matt Jones]

You have to be consistent. I don't think you can just do it willy nilly.

[Greg]

Right.

[Ryan]

Like a phone, a friend. I'm going to use my one Birmingham here.

[Matt Jones]

I had no idea that, that you could paint someone a Birmingham and they would give you. They would give you the call. We'll take a break, take calls right after this.

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[Greg]

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[Matt Jones]

Here's Matt Jones, a little late career Tracy Lawrence Shannon. Right?

[Greg]

Yeah. Still good stuff, though.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I Would go see Tracy Lawrence. Is he alive?

[Greg]

Yeah, I don't think he's died yet.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I was hoping he's alive. Yeah. I mean, definitely. He's playing Renfro Valley. Yeah. So the Bourbon and Beyond thing came out. Shannon, the lineup and beyond lineup. I. First of all, did they just make it for people that grew up in the 90s, yes. It feels like. Is that the. Is that the demo is people who grew up in the 90s?

[Greg]

I think so. And Louder Than Life is probably a little bit of a younger crowd.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Because, I mean, here are the eight headliners. Foo Fighters. I'm in.

[Shannon]

I'm in. First night. Foo Fighters.

[Matt Jones]

Queens of the Stone Age. That's like. Isn't it? Who's Queens of Stone? Isn't that, like.

[Greg]

Yeah, that's it. That's what they do.

[Matt Jones]

But is that not the song? Didn't they have one big song?

[Greg]

Nose is the song that probably everybody knows.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Play it in the next. It's gonna be exactly what I said.

[Shannon]

Sound just like it.

[Matt Jones]

Mumford and Sons in love.

[Ryan]

Mumford.

[Matt Jones]

Casey Musgraves in Big. Chris Stapleton in Huge Red Clay. Strays in.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Dave Matthews, man, kind of in Hooty.

[Shannon]

Yes, yes, and yes.

[Ryan]

I mean, we're all going to be there together.

[Shannon]

I was so excited. I. That that Sunday will be one of the greatest days of my life.

[Matt Jones]

We got to keep you away from Darius Rock. That restraining order is still intact.

[Shannon]

No, it's just for Lexington. It's not in Louisville.

[Ryan]

Sundays feels like a KSR group outing.

[Shannon]

Oh, yes.

[Matt Jones]

I like. I actually like. I don't like Darius Rucker, the country singer, but I do like Hoodie and the Blowfish.

[Shannon]

Amen.

[Matt Jones]

So I, I. I've never seen hoodie play since I went in, like, the late 90s. When they do this, does he play Hoodie and Blowfish songs, or do I have to listen to his craft?

[Shannon]

Oh, no, they play all their Hoodie. The bl.

[Matt Jones]

They don't. He doesn't sing his stuff, does he. Does he sing, like, his version?

[Shannon]

Well, I haven't seen their new Hooting the Blowfish tour, but I know they. They do play all their hits, but

[Matt Jones]

I don't want to hear his solo stuff.

[Ryan]

I don't think he disrespect the Blowfish like that. They don't want to be up there listening to that.

[Matt Jones]

If you're telling me I get to hear him go hold my hand, I'm in.

[Shannon]

Probably hear him, you know, when he does Purple Rain at the. For his Encore song.

[Matt Jones]

Only want to be with you. All the hits, so I love it. And even the people below Counting Crows.

[Shannon]

Come on.

[Matt Jones]

Are you kidding me? Lisa Lo and the Nine Stories, Four Non Blondes. They're still going. Yeah.

[Greg]

What's going on?

[Matt Jones]

Jason Isbell, Goose. I heard Goose on Saturday Night Live recently. They're kind of a hot band. War on Drugs. I actually saw in Austin once.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Greg]

So better than Ezra.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, better than it. What's their song?

[Greg]

Good.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, yes. No, no, play that one. I like that.

[Shannon]

Shannon sang almost every song of every artist this morning on the pre show.

[Matt Jones]

Dude, I'm in. I might Shannon go to every one of these. Portugal, Portugal the man.

[Greg]

How about Joan Osborne? What if God was one of us?

[Matt Jones]

What if God was one of us?

[Greg]

Where have all the cowboys gone?

[Matt Jones]

It literally.

[Ryan]

Oh, my goodness.

[Matt Jones]

It's literally like a 90s thing. It's awesome. Joan Jett, you know, I kind of have the hots for her.

[Shannon]

Oh, we saw Joe. We saw Pennsylvania.

[Matt Jones]

70 years old.

[Greg]

The greatest national anthem of all time. The Fray will be there.

[Matt Jones]

The Fray is there. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I've been shouting out the the creakers on this show. They're on there in tiny font on Saturday, I believe. I'm excited to see them.

[Matt Jones]

Wait a minute. It's Paula Cole. Is that. Where have all the cowboys gone? I'm sorry. Ferve pipe. Freshmen.

[Greg]

We were merely freshmen.

[Shannon]

We were merely freshmen.

[Greg]

Y.

[Ryan]

Should we just camp?

[Matt Jones]

Did they literally just go to, like, turn on the 90 station and just whoever came on, they invited?

[Shannon]

Well, they were smart.

[Ryan]

They did that.

[Greg]

How about nine days? This is the story of a girl.

[Matt Jones]

This is the story. So that one's coming too?

[Greg]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

That's awesome.

[Matt Jones]

So shout out. I can't imagine anyone in their 20s. Like, I can't imagine Mario going to this, but for me, what an awesome line. And Charlie Crockett. How did I go that long? I love. He's been on this show before.

[Shannon]

Forgot about that.

[Matt Jones]

So nice job. To Bourbon and Beyond.

[Shannon]

Well done. Well done.

[Matt Jones]

Just bourbon. Only those 90s songs the rest of the way. Shannon. Who's up? Who's up? Who's up next?

[Greg]

Let's go to Bobby.

[Matt Jones]

Bobby, Go ahead, Bobby.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. Ryan kind of stole my thunder with the A cup thing, but the thing about the 50 minutes is he was efficient through all of it. Like, that's the thing Pope needs to look at. I mean, it's kind of what you said about Owe. Like, even if 90%, I mean, he's still going to be good. And then the Other thing I have is has there ever been a time in Kentucky history where there's potential that we could get the number one quarterback in the nation but have trouble getting the number one high school basketball?

[Matt Jones]

That's a great question. I mean, you know Will Stein. I'm hoping to have Will Stein on next week for a long form interview. I've requested it and hopefully that will come in. But Will Stein's been. We're involved with a lot of top guys in recruiting. We'll see if we end up getting them. But it is interesting that like we seem to almost be in with more great quarterbacks than the top basketball players.

[Shannon]

We're like two weeks away from spring football starting. So yeah, it's a good time to get him on and talk about it was going to be his initial spring practice.

[Ryan]

Yeah, one top QBs as they're mentioning shouted out the OC too. So I mean these guys will stop see what happens on the field. But they are, they're bringing the reputation with them and have a lot of attention from recruits.

[Matt Jones]

Who's next? Next?

[Greg]

Let's go to Justin.

[Matt Jones]

Justin, go ahead, Justin.

[Caller]

Hey, first time caller who are. Two quick things. One, so UNC lost to NC State

[Matt Jones]

by 24 the other day and everyone,

[Caller]

all they keep talking about is oh

[Matt Jones]

well, their top two players were out. But for us, nobody ever talks like that. It seems like we're always expected to win no matter what our roster is. I mean, look, let me just, let's. Yes, we have a lot of players out. I don't think our top two players are out. I don't think Jalen Lowe and Jakens were our top two players. I think they were both very important players. Jaylen Lowe I think was very important. Cam Williams was important. At the same time, I do think it's. If we're going to be honest, when we had the whole team, we weren't exactly killing it, okay? We lost four games in the non conference. Now Jalen Lowe didn't play all those games. Jaden Quaint's didn't play all them. Cam Williams did but wasn't like we were. I mean I think what if you want to be an optimist, you go, okay. The only time everyone played was the second half of St. John's and man, we were good in that one. Okay, I mean that's fair. But then, you know, I think everybody played against Alabama and we got destroyed and then I think JLo got hurt in that Missouri game. Am I right about that? I think he did and we Lost that one too. So, you know, I, I, I think it's important, but I also don't think it's like the only problem has been the fact that we lost those people.

[Shannon]

I've heard people make the argument also we're better with out low. We're better with everybody that, that could.

[Matt Jones]

And I appreciate the call that could end up being true. I also think low really, I mean, how many games he play? 5. He really didn't get much of a chance.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I don't, it may be the case he wouldn't have worked, but we didn't get much of a sense. I mean, remember what Aberdeen looked like in his first five games? Rough, you know, so sometimes you gotta be able to play out. He didn't really get a chance to do that.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, it's no secret injury's a problem. I don't put quaintance in that conversation, though. I mean, you went and paid a guy, you can't be like, oh, no, he's injured you. You knew that before you even called him.

[Matt Jones]

I totally agree with that. If you want to say what we lost really is our starting point guard and our sixth man, that's what we lost. Quaintance was always gravy, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, I'd love to see him, but I don't feel like Kentucky got a bad break because he's not playing. That was always going to be a gamble. We were just optimistic and hope it would work.

[Matt Jones]

Low and Cam were bad. Low especially is a bad break because he's your starting point guard. Cam, I think, was the sixth man, although I think he, by the, by the time he got hurt, he was playing a lot better.

[Shannon]

He was.

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[Matt Jones]

Cool. Welcome back techie Sports radio. This is, this song is one that I'll hear once every two years and

[Shannon]

then like still love it.

[Matt Jones]

It's great.

[Shannon]

Still love it.

[Matt Jones]

So Sunday is sold out, huh, Shannon? Wowfish.

[Greg]

Where did you see that at?

[Matt Jones]

Somebody said on the text machine.

[Greg]

That's not true.

[Matt Jones]

It's not true.

[Ryan]

That'd be pretty quick.

[Greg]

No, go to bourbonbeyond.com you can get.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so you go to burb. Don't listen to the guy on the text machine. Go to bourbonandbeyond.com it's not sold out.

[Greg]

No.

[Matt Jones]

It's going to be on his computer. Ready to go?

[Greg]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He doesn't want. You want to make sure he gets.

[Greg]

I'll have free tickets all next week on the rock shows.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, good for you. You better get us tickets.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Can we win?

[Matt Jones]

I don't listen to the rock show. I mean I'm, I'm, I support it. Bye.

[Greg]

Bye.

[Matt Jones]

Bye.

[Greg]

Not listening. I appreciate you.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly. I support it by not listening. One person writes. Matt, what do you think about your Bears looking like they're going to move to Indiana and Ridiculous.

[Shannon]

Can't do that.

[Matt Jones]

I mean it looks like they may though. I don't know, maybe they're just posturing trying to get Chicago or Illinois to do a last minute thing but talking about moving to Hammond, Indiana. Hammond, Indiana is the grossest place on earth. I mean it's grosser than Gary. Like people always talk about Gary, but Gary, it's still not nice. But Gary is not what it was. Like everybody kind of moved out. So it's not like it's depressing but it's not as scary. But Hammond is disgusting. Hammond is where, you know, if you ever driven to Chicago, you know when you drive and it's like just smog and, and like plants and steel and girt death. You know what I'm talking about?

[Ryan]

You should work for marketing there.

[Matt Jones]

No, I mean there's like billboards like here's the casino where life is the saddest on earth. That's Hammond, Indiana. You can't put a stadium there.

[Ryan]

And it's the Bears. Something about it being the Bears and they already have, you know, all the history. They're right in the middle of Chicago. It feel gross moving them out.

[Matt Jones]

And then what if people want to go? Like what are they gonna do? Stay in those smokestacks?

[Ryan]

Like go to the casino?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, gosh, those. I can't even imagine. There's like, I just remember on that drive, when you're driving up there, and if you've driven from Chicago, you know, you go from Gary to Chicago is probably the most disgusting stretch of road in the United States that I've driven. Feels like you literally are getting black lung on the drive. And there are. There are ads for casinos and strip clubs. And I'm always like, those got to be the saddest places. And they can't have the Bears play there. Ryan.

[Shannon]

I mean, I'm from Indiana, but Gary and Hammond, that's the armpit of Indiana. Why would the Bears try to move out of downtown Chicago?

[Matt Jones]

Getting a deal. They don't have to pay taxes for, like, 15 years.

[Shannon]

They're the Bears, man. It's Chicago. Chicago is all about the Bears. You got to stay where they are.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Shannon. It would be awful. It'd be like Green Bay moving to, like, Oshkosh or something.

[Greg]

Wouldn't be the same.

[Caller]

I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

Oshkosh maybe. Nice.

[Greg]

Still in Wisconsin.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I hope they don't do that. It's. I mean, for me, it'd be closer if you wanted to go. It's closer to us.

[iHeartRadio Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Greg]

I mean, they're treating them like they're an expansion team. I mean, the Chicago Bears.

[Shannon]

The Chicago Bears.

[Matt Jones]

So how many teams don't play in the city that it says they play?

[Greg]

Well, the jets and the Giants.

[Matt Jones]

So the jets and the Giants are in New Jersey.

[Ryan]

Kansas City's on their way out.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, but they're still being Kansas City. They'll just be in Canada.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's right. There's moving states.

[Matt Jones]

So they'll be in Kansas City. Kansas. San Francisco plays in Santa Clara, which is a completely different city. Same state, different city. Who else does Dallas plays in? Arlington. You're exactly right. Phoenix plays in Glendale. Although I guess it's the Arizona Cardinals now, so I guess they don't.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Anybody else plays in a different. In a different city?

[Greg]

Well, in baseball, the Braves don't really play in Atlanta anymore.

[Matt Jones]

The Braves play in, like, Cop county now, right?

[Shannon]

Yep. Good call.

[Ryan]

I think you have to call your. Your team wherever you're located.

[Matt Jones]

So you think they should have to be the Hammond Bears?

[Ryan]

You are now.

[Caller]

You will be a Hammond.

[Ryan]

No, you can be the Indiana Bears if you want to.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm not sure.

[Ryan]

Chicago and be in a different state.

[Matt Jones]

I will tell you, if they became the Indiana Bears, I'm an expansion franchise.

[Ryan]

It wouldn't win. But I saw Iowa put together a big package to recruit them too. You could be the Iowa Bears.

[Shannon]

Oh my.

[Matt Jones]

I was not close to Chicago. Is it's.

[Ryan]

It's not close enough to have the Bears. But they one of those Davenport. They put together a big thing to try to recruit them. Basically giving them whatever they wanted.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Dubuque.

[Ryan]

You could be a Dubuque Bears fan.

[Matt Jones]

I don't like it. I mean, I. It needs to be in Chicago.

[Shannon]

You think it's just. It is just a big threat.

[Matt Jones]

I go is like a. Chicago is also a vibe like it's a state like New York. The Giant Giants not being in New York stink too, you know, but that's the way it goes. Who's up next?

[Greg]

Joe.

[Matt Jones]

Joe. Go ahead, Joe.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. Bears being in Indiana is crazy, but if they move to where they were incorporated out of they'd be the Delaware Bears.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Yeah. That's where all the team pretty much all businesses are in Delaware, which is also a weird fact of America. Yeah.

[Caller]

So the 90s music. The one I heard you and I are the same age that I know Mario's never of heard. Heard. Heard it for the first time in 20 years a couple days ago. Drew will know this one. When's the last time you heard Bop Gun with George Clinton and Ice Cube?

[Matt Jones]

All the time. It's on my. It's on my.

[Caller]

Oh, you hear that? I have a. Oh, I heard that the other day.

[Matt Jones]

I have a workout playlist that includes a lot of songs and one of them is it's now time for the Bop Gun. Yes.

[Shannon]

Question.

[Caller]

Ask anything. You've mentioned that delight sandwich from McDonald's.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Have you ever had the Jimmy Dean egg white microwave sandwich?

[Matt Jones]

I don't go. No, I'm not. I'm not cooking.

[Caller]

Come on.

[Greg]

You're not cooking. It's a microwave.

[Matt Jones]

Look, the reason I go to McDonald's is right here in my hand. It's just for the Diet Coke, the food, whatever. I'm trying to get to the point that I don't even eat the food in the morning just so that I can try to. I'm trying to beat you a little healthier. But this Diet Coke, they will pry this out of my head.

[Greg]

What happened to your cooking, by the way?

[Matt Jones]

I. I'm trying. It's trying.

[Greg]

You won't even.

[Matt Jones]

It's not. It's not. It's not been going well. We're going to have to restart it at some point.

[Shannon]

Speaking of McDonald's, I know who one of the People. Were you honked at this morning?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, no. They didn't know who I was, did they?

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Don't give him anxiety. He's gonna have the scaries.

[Matt Jones]

This is why I need to not do this. Is it someone I like?

[Shannon]

It's with one of my doctors.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, no. He was the guy at the time.

[Shannon]

He said I just let it slide. I was thinking maybe that could have been Matt. After I heard the story. Then I did hear a couple of honks, and soon after, someone shouting, get off your phone. Pretty funny.

[Greg]

Look at Ryan with the scoop.

[Ryan]

It's a doctor. He's going to save lives, and you're yelling at him.

[Shannon]

He said he's glad he behaved.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, don't have him threaten me.

[Greg]

Imagine, the doctor came out.

[Matt Jones]

He was the one on the phone, probably. All right, doc, get off the phone now. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have honked at you. I certainly shouldn't have screamed at you, but. Get off your phone.

[Greg]

He's trying to save lives in the McDonald's drive through.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I don't want. Let me tell you, if I'm his patient and he's. And he's trying to give me a diagnosis in the McDonald's drive through, I'm gonna be frustrated.

[Ryan]

It's good A doctor's reading McDonald's, though. You're worried about your health. I mean, there's a doctor right there in front of.

[Matt Jones]

You're making that up. That's. That's not really who it was.

[Shannon]

No. I'll show you.

[Matt Jones]

Do I know this person?

[Shannon]

No, I don't.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, okay. Now, he got my car, right?

[Shannon]

Well, that. That's me. The blue. The blue is me.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It was him. It was him. Okay. All right. Sorry, man. Just get off your phone. Who's next?

[Greg]

Neil.

[Matt Jones]

Neil. Go ahead, Neil. That's what I get for doing it in Lexington. Yeah.

[Caller]

Hey, guys.

[Matt Jones]

Go ahead.

[Caller]

You. You all are killing it today.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, thank you.

[Caller]

You're cracking me up. I mean, my goodness. I got a buddy, Stephen Tutt in Indianapolis, while you're trashing the state of Indiana, who listens to your show all the time.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not trashing all the state of Indiana, all right? I mean, some of Indiana is fine. I mean, it all. You know what? It does stink. Is there any part of Indiana that's good? Not.

[Shannon]

Well, it's Indiana.

[Matt Jones]

Southern Indiana. All right, A lot. Wait a minute, Hang on. Southern Indiana? The part around Louisville I'm good with. Y' all are our fans. A lot of them come out. I'M fine with Southern Indiana. Central Indiana is all windmills and scarecrows. It's boring.

[Caller]

Indianapolis.

[Matt Jones]

Indianapolis. Hang on, sir.

[Shannon]

Indianapolis.

[Matt Jones]

The most boring big city in America. Northern Indiana's disgusting. What part of Indiana am I missing?

[Shannon]

Southwest. Evansville.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Evansville.

[Matt Jones]

Evansville.

[Ryan]

I'll defend Evansville.

[Matt Jones]

Evansville. I've never been to Fort Wayne. It can't be good.

[Shannon]

Kind of rough.

[Matt Jones]

What? What? That's not true.

[Ryan]

We've been to a Cracker Barrel in Fort Wayne.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, I'm sure it was fine. Not memorable.

[Caller]

Always stop at the Cracker Barrel.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So, yeah, Indiana may stink. You're right.

[Caller]

Well, but I, I. After listening to you guys, I forgot my first question. But is it really ask anything? Because I.

[Matt Jones]

Well, you can, but you got about 40 seconds real quick.

[Caller]

I was gonna take 10. I'm not gonna do four.

[Matt Jones]

Now you're gonna be down to 35.

[Greg]

Dude, there's your 10.

[Caller]

Would you prefer Dagon, Hootie and the Blowfish or the Blues? Travelers appreciate brand new question.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate the call. I like Blues Traveler, but that he's not like Blue Strap. A guy's not fat anymore, is he, Shannon? Like he like him?

[Greg]

Only if he's fat.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, that was part of what gave you McDonald's. Is he. Is he doing all right?

[Greg]

Yeah, they just played last year or year before maybe.

[Matt Jones]

I do like Blues Traveler. Yeah, but I. But who didn't blow it? I haven't seen them in 30 years.

[Shannon]

They're the best.

[Matt Jones]

So I think that would be the best.

[Ryan]

Cracker Review is the best album it

[Shannon]

really ever of all time.

[Matt Jones]

We'll take a break. Be right back. It's hour two, KSR Foreign.

[Julian Edelman]

This is Julian Edelman from Games With Names. I want to take a second to talk about something that's personal to me. I've had the privilege of working closely with Robert Kraft for a long time. And one thing I've always respected is how seriously he takes up standing up to hate. As a Jewish athlete, my identity is something I am proud of. But I also know what it feels like to be singled out for it. That's why this new commercial for the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate that aired during the big game really hit home. It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted, even if you don't have the perfect words. And sometimes standing next to someone is enough. And you can show support by sharing the Blue square.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

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