2026-04-02- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR Podcast Summary – Hour 1
April 2, 2026
Hosts: Drew Franklin (filling in for Matt Jones), Ryan Lemon, Nick Roush, Shannon The Dude (producer, remote).
Location: KSBar & Grill, Lexington, Kentucky.
Theme: Local UK Sports News, Louisville Drama, College Football & Basketball, Moon Mission, and a healthy dose of offbeat humor and Kentucky culture.

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Episode Overview

In this lively Thursday episode, the KSR crew—helmed by Drew Franklin—dives into a mix of Kentucky sports news and celebratory spring vibes in Lexington. The hour delivers a blend of breaking UK football updates, Louisville contract chaos, recruiting insights, vibrant local-color banter, and even a detour into the absurd: space travel, moon missions, and hypothetical alien encounters. The show’s tone is loose, hilarious, and occasionally derailed (as Drew admits) by non-sports diversions, but always brings it back to Kentucky pride and fandom.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Spring in Lexington & the Show’s Good Vibes

• The crew relishes Lexington’s energy—spring football, Keeneland races, UK excitement, and community spirit.
• Drew mentions their aim to hit more on football than their busy Tuesday show allowed.

2. April Fool’s Day Recap

• Ryan confesses he almost believed a rumor about UL coach Jeff Brohm throwing out his AD—turns out it had some basis, not just an April Fool’s prank ([02:15]).
• Drew and Ryan discuss pranks: Ryan’s failed trick on his son involving a (fake) missing dog ([06:31]).
• Nick teases Ryan for nearly falling for the “blue turf at Kroger Field” prank ([06:02]).

3. Louisville Football Coaching Drama ([03:00]–[05:44], [24:22]–[28:17])

• Jeff Brohm (UL coach) allegedly ejected his athletic director (Josh Hurd) from his office during tense contract negotiations.
  • Confirmed by “the Kents” (Kent Spencer & Kent Taylor).
  • Dispute centers on possible extension; UL’s administrative infighting is seen as comedic for UK fans.
• Nick highlights that UL is not swimming in money, must choose wisely between NIL funding for player rosters vs. exorbitant coaching contracts.

Notable Quotes

• Ryan: “What other place can you throw your boss out of your office and it’s okay?” ([03:17])
• Drew: "When they're fighting amongst each other, we just gotta point and laugh.” ([05:29])

4. College Basketball News – Bill Self & Stokes Recruitment ([07:06]–[11:42])

• Bill Self (Kansas) announces he’s returning, potentially impacting prized recruit Tyran Stokes—bad news for Kentucky’s chances.
  • Self’s future health, program trajectory, and recruiting were debated.
  • Tyron Stokes’ cryptic “shock” emoji reaction spurs wild speculation about his plans ([09:38]).
• Nick notes the ongoing race for "all-time wins" between UK and Kansas, hoping for a Kansas slump.

Notable Quotes

• Nick: “Kansas...they’ve been big time losers lately. They kinda get away with it unscathed compared to Kentucky.” ([07:58])
• Drew (about Stokes’ emoji): “It would suggest he didn’t know that news was coming.” ([10:12])

5. Offbeat Segment – The Artemis Moon Mission & Bathroom Humour ([13:37]–[17:00], [35:56]–[36:47])

• Crew riffs on the excitement (or lack thereof) surrounding NASA’s Artemis mission (moon fly-by).
• Debate: Is orbiting the moon exciting or pointless compared to actually landing on it?
• The bathroom on Orion breaks early in the mission, spawning great comic banter.
  • Ryan: “We’re spending a trillion dollars…to go around the moon for no reason and chase pee with a plastic bag?” ([16:39])

Memorable Moments/Quotes

• Drew: “All Ryan could talk about is how they have to use the bathroom in their suits. And they haven’t even been gone a day yet.” ([15:47])
• Nick (after fix is announced): “Our national nightmare is over. They’re not chasing pee in a bag anymore.” ([36:21])

6. Space & Alien Hypotheticals ([17:34]–[21:26], [32:31]–[33:33])

• Who from the team would survive a moon trip or make first contact with an alien?
• Consensus: Nick would last longest; Ryan would tap out quickly.
• Shannon is nominated for alien contact due to his “composed and straightforward” manner.
• A caller named “Weirdo” shares an elaborate time-travel/alien theory: “Aliens are humans from the future, coming to save Earth” ([31:31]).

7. UK Football Recruiting Department Revamp ([36:58]–[39:39])

• Kentucky adds Aaron Love as Director of Recruiting (formerly at Tennessee and Tulsa).
  • She innovated Tulsa’s viral “Portal House” for Transfer Portal chaos, signaling UK’s efforts to modernize football operations.

Notable Quote

• Nick: “Her job is making sure that when Kentucky had 88 visits in two weeks…you’re a giant event planner that has to turn these visits into an experience.” ([38:49])
• Drew: “Come a long way from that old church potluck table they put in the corner of Nutter…” ([39:39])

8. Kentucky Football Personnel Updates ([39:40]–[43:12])

• Debate over returning WR Dae Dae Gilmore—coaches say they’re optimistic, fans remain skeptical.
• Local favorite Brock Coffman (Sayre HS grad) gets praise for his “Charles Walker-like” intangibles and potential at WR and punt return.
• New team nickname: “Paper Chasers” (WR group) causes some trepidation re: perceptions in the NIL era.
  • Nick: “I want some diva wide receivers…they make money because they’re good.” ([43:34])

9. Kentucky Culture & Oddball Segments ([28:24]–[33:33])

• Callers contribute classic Kentucky content:
  • “Big Moo Nation”—dairy cow judging team at UK gets a shoutout.
  • Dodgeball team nostalgia from Nick.
  • Story of a B25 flyover at a 1985 UK–Florida game ([21:26]–[23:40]).

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Timestamps (Key Segments)

• April Fool’s Pranks: [02:08]–[06:31]
• Louisville contract drama: [03:00], [24:22]–[28:17]
• Bill Self, Kansas, UK recruiting talk: [07:06]–[11:42]
• Moon launch & Orion toilet saga: [13:37]–[17:00], [35:56]–[36:47]
• Callers—Big Moo Nation, Weirdo/Alien theory: [28:24]–[33:33]
• UK Football Director of Recruiting: [36:58]–[39:39]
• WR Room/Paper Chasers nickname: [39:40]–[43:34]

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Top Memorable Quotes (with Attribution & Timestamp)

• “What other place can you throw your boss out of your office and it’s okay?” —Ryan Lemon [03:17]
• “We're spending a trillion dollars for our astronauts to go up and go around the moon for no reason and chase pee with a little plastic bag up in the air?” —Ryan Lemon [16:39]
• “I want some diva wide receivers. Because diva receivers, they make money because they’re good.” —Nick Roush [43:34]
• “Big Moo now. Yeah…Go Big Moo.” —Caller Rick [28:58]
• “Thank you, Weirdo. That was beautiful.” —Drew Franklin [32:34]

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Recurring Reactions & Tone

• Humorous, irreverent, playful—the crew welcomes fun tangents, Kentucky quirks, and good ribbing.
• Local pride—loyal to UK, never misses a chance to rib Louisville.
• Loose, interactive—open lines, frequent caller banter, rolling with audience tangents.

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For New Listeners

Expect a uniquely Kentucky mix: actual sports news, playful cracks at Louisville, football recruiting insights, and offbeat local color—from moon toilets to cow judging, this episode is a classic showcase of why KSR is Kentucky’s favorite sports-and-life radio ride.

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Transcript

[Josh Wolfe]

From YouTube and social media, Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Josh Wolfe, March 19th through the 21st. Then from late night TV and the Bob and Tom show, catch Nick Griffin March 26th through the 28th. And don't miss New York comedy superstar and podcaster Mark Normand, April 2nd through the 4th. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call 859271, joke or visit comedyoff broadway.com comedy off broadway.

[Matt Jones]

This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Drew Franklin]

Good morning and welcome in to a new edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Oh, got a little applause there.

[Nick Roush]

Nice.

[Ryan Lemon]

Get a pop this morning.

[Drew Franklin]

Wow. You got to make a gal feel good. I'm Drew Franklin filling in for Matt Jones. I have Ryan Lemon beside me who helped with the round of applause there. Nick Roush is back today. He had so much fun on Tuesday. Nick, good to see you here. Joining us again to talk a little ball.

[Nick Roush]

Great to be here. I. Guys, it is. It's beautiful. It's awesome.

[Drew Franklin]

Should we go outside?

[Nick Roush]

I mean.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Nick Roush]

Tomorrow, driving in, I was just thinking, is Keeneland, can we open a day early? Can we get out there? Because it feels, it's got that feeling in the air. I don't know how else to explain it, describe it, but it feels wonderful. The horses, they're about to start racing. Spring football happening right now. The pads are popping outside.

[Drew Franklin]

Good vibes in Lexington.

[Nick Roush]

The best vibes right now.

[Drew Franklin]

Got a fun show ahead. We'll get some more football than we did Tuesday. We had. We had the coaching news drop in basketball. There's a lot going on we couldn't ignore. We didn't get to as much football as we'd like. So we'll do that today. We want to hear from you on the Clark's Pump and shop phone line. 859-280-2287. I'm going to guess the A vision glass text machine is at home in a drawer. But it exists. Shout out to a vision glass.

[Ryan Lemon]

I've. I've got it. It's just in a drawer at home.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, you, you're home every night where you could open the drawer and pull it out and put it in your pocket and bring it.

[Nick Roush]

What all do we think is in this drawer?

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, I don't even. That conversation we were having before we started that people didn't need to hear. I think that's true. It's very true. We're sponsored by TJ Smith. Ryan, if you call tj, what will he do?

[Ryan Lemon]

He's gonna make him pay and make them pay a lot.

[Drew Franklin]

Make him pay a lot indeed. I'm glad you all survived April Fool's Day. Anybody? Anybody get got?

[Ryan Lemon]

I almost did by some things I read online.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, okay, let's. Let's just go to this. What got you?

[Nick Roush]

I think I know.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well the one thing and you can relate to this. I saw that online where Jeff Braum threw Josh Hurd out of his office. I thought that has, that's an April Fool's. That has to be April Fools. Maybe not called some people text some people the Canson's, Louisville, like yeah, that allegedly happened there.

[Nick Roush]

There's some stuff happening on Floyd Street. You know they're having fun, they're having their laughs right now. Look at all these recruits, these players. We're going to be so good. But you know, it's maybe a little trouble in paradise.

[Drew Franklin]

Should we, should we just jump? That was on my list for later. Let's just jump right in. Ryan, what did you learn from, from your phone call?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, you know what can you confirm

[Drew Franklin]

and tell the great listeners of KSR

[Ryan Lemon]

confirmed with Kent Spencer and Kent Taylor. The Kent's we know and they said yeah, allegedly that happened and they're trying to negotiate a contract extension and talks are not going well. But what other, what other place can you throw your boss out of your office and it's okay like you not get fired or not get in trouble if, if you throw your boss out of your office.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that is a, that is a weird situation there, Nick. I know delicate for you. Yes, a bloodline there with the Brahms.

[Nick Roush]

But tiptoe around it a little bit. But I will say to uncle Jeff, who not an uncle, but yeah, we'll go with it. You usually don't see contract negotiations in April. No.

[Drew Franklin]

These are usually mid spring ball.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, these are usually things that happen when the coaching carousel is spinning. Mark Byington, he got a contract extension at Vanderbilt because the North Carolina jobs open. TJ Osselberger, I'm sure he got a contract extension or something like that at Iowa State they talked about doing an extension when Penn State and Michigan were going through their stuff and it never happened. So I, you know why that did wasn't the case? I don't know. There are arguings like Louisville Twitter is just hilarious because they're fired because they love them some Jeff Braum. But then there are some other people who want from Jeff Braum. They say he went to the Bush's baked beans bowl. Why should we be giving this guy college football playoff money? And so you have all. There's. I don't want to say civil war, but there is a little bit of marital dispute. But I think the one thing we can all agree on, Louisville, they can't be rolling in money. They're the school that wrote the big open letter about how college sports are going to die if we don't do something to fix it, because we can't afford to pay everybody. And it's, well, do you want to raise nil money to buy rosters? Do you want to pay your coaches? You can't really have it all. I'm sure Josh Hurd is trying to get Pat Kelsey some money for some more guards.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, Cincinnati Pat needs some help, too.

[Nick Roush]

You know, he needs all of the guards. None of the bigs. Right? All the bigs are gone. Just give him all the guards. So, you know, it's fun. It's fun to watch from afar, because, let's be honest, we haven't had a year where Kentucky's lost a Louisville in football and basketball in the same year in a very long time. So you know what? When they're fighting amongst each other, we just got a point and laugh, and

[Ryan Lemon]

I did a rivalry.

[Drew Franklin]

We love to laugh at Louisville's misery. They should be getting excited about spring football over there right now. If you follow the big dog, they got the best recruiting class of all time, but they're fighting, kicking ads out of the office when they should be focused on other stuff. That'll just set us up for a big news topic.

[Weirdo (Caller)]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

I'll just shuffle up my order here. I had other stuff, but you know what? We'll freestyle.

[Ryan Lemon]

Sorry I jumped in there.

[Drew Franklin]

No, no, that was great.

[Ryan Lemon]

I thought for sure it was an April Fool's joke. I thought it had to be.

[Drew Franklin]

No, I think that that was. That's got some truth to it.

[Nick Roush]

Drew, what are the chances that Ryan fell for the blue field?

[Drew Franklin]

Well, Billy brought it up on the show yesterday. Played it cool on the show, but

[Ryan Lemon]

I knew that no way they're not going to put a blue field. They spent so much time on that turf over there at Kroger Field that I. I knew that one couldn't flew me on that one. Nick Roush.

[Nick Roush]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

Did you pull any of your own pranks yesterday, Ryan? We learned that in the past. You. You took the. The wheels off the chairs at the news station, duct tape doors together. Was there any havoc created by Ryan Lemon in his personal life yesterday?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I was talking to my oldest son, Gavin, who he dog sits and house sits for me when I'm on

[Nick Roush]

the road or whatever.

[Drew Franklin]

It's very nice of him.

[Ryan Lemon]

And I called him and I said, Gavin, I said, we haven't been able to see Marley since you were here at the house last weekend.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh no. What did he say?

[Ryan Lemon]

He's like, dad was there. I mean he fell for it for like five seconds. He's like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. April Fool.

[Rick (Caller)]

So he.

[Drew Franklin]

So you wanted your son to think that he lost your dog while. Dog.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, I do think that maybe the, the five day delay like you might have mentioned. Yeah, the dog was lost. He might have mentioned it a little bit.

[Drew Franklin]

He had to wait for the first.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

The calendar had him for like five seconds. Like. No, dad, come on.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, not an April Fool's Day prank. Looks like your boy Bill Self.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Wants to go back to Kansas, announces he'll be coming back. We know what that means for the Stokes recruitment. It's by no means over, but Kentucky was really hoping Self would step away and help them out a little bit. And it with Self returning, you know, they're still in probably the best spot right now. Nike connection still strong. And if he's committing at the Nike hoop summit, it's hard to imagine him committing to an Adidas school. But that was a hit to the Stokes recruitment for Kentucky's optimism yesterday.

[Ryan Lemon]

So immediately I thought, is he going to pull a Bruce Pearl? Wait till a month before the season starts. Like my heart's just not in and I'm out. So Vaughn can get the job. You know, his boy could step right.

[Drew Franklin]

Kansas legend.

[Ryan Lemon]

So I don't know if that's the case or if he really is. His heart is back in it again. But if you step back and trying to contemplate it, you're, you're all, you're not all in to begin with, I feel like. So I don't know. What do you think?

[Nick Roush]

The, the weird thing about Kansas, they have, they've, they've been big time losers lately. They kind of get away with it unscathed compared to Kentucky because the one time they did get to the second weekend they won it all. I believe that was in 21 or 22 is one of those years. But they quit going to Sweet 16s on herself. And so you add in that, you add in the fact that the Big 12 is a lot harder. You've got to play Arizona now annually that like they're pretty good at the hoop. So I. And then on top of it all, he's got the health issues. So it's creating the perfect storm. This tells me he thinks that he can have one more good run. It tells me he thinks that he's going to get Tyrant Stokes and this is going to be a last hurrah. I don't think we're gonna get the Coach K retirement tour with Bill Self, though.

[Drew Franklin]

You don't think so?

[Nick Roush]

But yeah, I kind of want to, because I want to see all the big J journalists just. They love it. To Bill Self. If there's one thing that Bill Self has taught us about journalism, it's that a pitcher of beer goes a long way. Right. You get the guys a picture of beer, then you get them on the

[Ryan Lemon]

good side at Hooters, at Pete Jam.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Been there a time or two. It's closed, by the way, Rip, this will be the first Masters without it.

[Nick Roush]

John Daly going to do.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know that. You know, I've watched two national championships there during Masters week. Had the time of my life. The Peach Jam, that's the. That's the hot spot. That's like a. That's a staple around there, and it's gone this year.

[Ryan Lemon]

So maybe right before the big, big weeks coming here.

[Drew Franklin]

Do you think they knew Bill Self might be retiring? They're like, well, we possibly can't keep the lights on without that. Could be it. Did you see Tyron Stokes reaction on Twitter?

[Ryan Lemon]

What was it?

[Drew Franklin]

Here it is. I pulled it up for you. I assumed you might need to. Some news here.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, it's a.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, it's hard to read emojis. It is, kids. And I try not to do it, but that looks like the surprised face. Is that what we call that one? It's got the. It's got the mouth open and the

[Ryan Lemon]

eyes are like, oh, that's the surprise emoji.

[Drew Franklin]

So let's completely overreact.

[Nick Roush]

If he was surprised by it, then maybe he was going to go to Kansas. Only if Bill Self retired. And he's shocked that Self's coming back. So now he's like, do I really want to go live in Lawrence, Kansas for a year? I don't know about that.

[Drew Franklin]

It was. I mean, it came out right after Self made the news. I have no idea what it means, but it would suggest that he didn't know that news was coming.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, let's read into it. Like, he. He thought Bill was going to retire. And maybe he think, okay, I got to go to Kentucky or Oregon. Now he's coming back. Oh, this changes things. That. That sort of emoji you mentioned still

[Drew Franklin]

the Bruce Pearl move. Do. Do we think there's any chance Bill does that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, yeah, I think there's a definite chance. I mean, like I said, he's. If he stepped back to contemplate returning his. He's not all in begin with. So now if he starts going through the recruiting season this summer and I guess just not going to do it.

[Drew Franklin]

Could be he's just trying to reel this in, get that class built and then hand it off. But then again, if he got stok the class they have, I would think you'd want to see it through and try to get one last run and then step away.

[Ryan Lemon]

What if they fail again?

[Drew Franklin]

They could. They could very well. But it just. It wasn't the best news for Kentucky.

[Nick Roush]

No, no.

[Drew Franklin]

We were getting excited. We're still in it. We're not giving up.

[Nick Roush]

I. We need the self error to end because our guy, Stephen Peak, he. Some people, they. They latch on to certain things. They get very excited about it.

[Drew Franklin]

Not Stephen Peak.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, his is the Wilson Evo next ball. The other thing.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Nick Roush]

Is the all time wins record because I believe Kentucky is only six ahead of Kansas. Tight race, very close still. So we need. We need Kansas to go through a little backslide. You know, keep. Keep falling to the Bucknells of the world so that Kentucky can retain its place atop the world with the most wins in all of college basketball.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we're here at KS Bar and Grill. Hit those quick news topics. That was fun, guys. You completely made me delay all my moon talk. I mean, I was ready to do moon sports. Ready or Kentucky Moon radio made me talk sports.

[Nick Roush]

Is. Is moon radio.

[Ryan Lemon]

Can.

[Nick Roush]

Can we get alien radio too? Is that. Is that at George Wheelhouse?

[Drew Franklin]

This is my last time hosting the show for a while, so if you all want to get weird. 8, 5, 9, tomato today. I mean, we have sports topics and Nick is the football beat writer. He everything that's happening over at spring football.

[Nick Roush]

So much football.

[Ryan Lemon]

Aliens.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

Today's the day to Calder and talk about it.

[Drew Franklin]

Anything, really. Everything is in balance today. Unless I change my mind on the fly and it's out of bounds. You can't text us on the a vision glass text machine. It's in Ryan's desk drawer. But we want to hear from you on the Clark's pumpkin.

[Ryan Lemon]

My cell phone number. I will use it for the text.

[Drew Franklin]

Give it up.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, no, it's okay.

[Drew Franklin]

All right.

[Nick Roush]

A lot of people, we all have it.

[Drew Franklin]

Trust me. 859-280-2287. We'll be right back after this.

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[Drew Franklin]

welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin here with Ryan Lemon. Nick Roush, Shannon. The dude is making all happen from the Louisville studio. We let off a little sports news. Now let's get to what really matters. Guys, did you watch, did you watch the moon launch last night? Artemis. Oh, here he goes already. Already downplaying it.

[Nick Roush]

We're going back to the moon. Going to the moon that humans have ever been into space 250,000 miles away. It is an incredible, incredible just guidepost for humanity. The ingenuity it takes, Ryan, you can't respect that.

[Ryan Lemon]

What to get a couple rocks, pick. Bring up some rocks and bring them home. Maybe some dust.

[Drew Franklin]

We're not going on the actual. They're. They're going around it. They're taking it so we can get ready. They're on like the new circle of the moon right now just lapping around a lot less truck.

[Ryan Lemon]

Shannon's on my side. Tell them what you said this morning on the pre show about that going around the moon.

[Matt Jones]

We've already been to the moon. Why are we going around the moon? I was liking it to like going to New York City and going to see the Statue of Liberty and doing all the things you would do in New York City and then we're going to go back 50 years later. We're not going to go to New York City. We're just going to go around it. We're just going to drive around in circles. So what's. What's the excitement about this?

[Drew Franklin]

Well, the late Jared Lorenzen, our dear friend, would tell you we haven't been to the moon, so we could debate that if you wanted, but we're just scouted out. We got to get there before China, Ryan, because China will get there, and they'll just start living there and doing all the fun stuff, and they're going to Mars, and then we're just back here like, crap. We should have gotten there first.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah. Can't let the Taika nuts get dibs, right? We are here testing it out so we can maintain dibs. We've had dibs for 50 years. Yeah, we cannot lose dibs. Rights. You know how that goes. If as soon as you lose dibs, you're cooked. We are not cooked. We are going back to space. And I gotta say, the three little kids loved it.

[Drew Franklin]

It's the space rocket.

[Nick Roush]

You're seeing a giant rocket go to the moon. That's awesome.

[Drew Franklin]

Now, I do have to compliment Ryan Lemon. This big brain over here. He. He spoke it into existence yesterday when talking about this. He yelled, they pee in their suits. Yes. And that's all you really had to contribute to the topic, Right? Well, did you see this morning that their bathrooms.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes, I did. Their bathroom fan that they blow the pee and the poop into a bag. The fan broke.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, it's like a suction thing. But, I mean, I, I. When I saw that news, my brain immediately went to you. It's like all Ryan could talk about is how they have to use the bathroom in their suits. And then they haven't even been gone a day yet, and already we have bathroom problems. The plumbing is out on. What's the thing? Orion. The Orion plumbing is. Is broken.

[Ryan Lemon]

And here's what I was wondering. I think it happened an hour into the flight. Guy couldn't hold it for an hour.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, that's a good point.

[Ryan Lemon]

I got in the rocket.

[Drew Franklin]

That's a good point.

[Nick Roush]

Well, so now do they have to hold it?

[Rick (Caller)]

That.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think they got to hold it till they fix that fan.

[Drew Franklin]

And is it like an airport bathroom? Those are the worst, Nick. You're tall. You're tall. I mean, I could barely get in those things.

[Nick Roush]

That is not a place you want to go. Just never under any circumstances. So I think we just got a modium. We low on hydration, Right? Maybe take some salt pills. The salt pills, they work for the football players back in the day. They should work for the Astronauts.

[Ryan Lemon]

So we're spending a trillion dollars for our astronauts to go up and go around the moon for no reason and chase pee with a little plastic bag up in the air?

[Drew Franklin]

They're not doing that.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's what they're doing. They're chasing pee with their little plastic bag.

[Nick Roush]

Come here.

[Ryan Lemon]

Try to lasso it.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm glad you're recording that, Mario. That was a good visual for all of us. No, they're still locked in on their mission. This is just a little hiccup, but the mission.

[Ryan Lemon]

We gotta get the moon. We're not doing anything.

[Drew Franklin]

What do you look out out to? Just get on there. We meet him somewhere in space. He'll come in, he'll plunge that thing, we'll be back to work. Yesterday, we.

[Nick Roush]

I could just imagine Ryan being the guy, too. Heard. Heard you need toilet fixed.

[Josh Wolfe]

Heard the toilet fan broke.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, this is. This is still a big deal. You can't downplay it. The bathroom situation is funny.

[Nick Roush]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

I didn't even think about what you just said. They were barely gone. Guys, like, already gotta go.

[Ryan Lemon]

I gotta go.

[Drew Franklin]

It's like you on a road trip.

[Ryan Lemon]

No kidding.

[Drew Franklin]

We can't even get to Louisville before we're taking bathroom.

[Ryan Lemon]

I got old lady bladder man. I can't be in the road for two hours. I gotta pee.

[Drew Franklin]

So it had me thinking as I was watching this beautiful mission take off from Florida yesterday. Just not a. Not a dry eye in sight there on the ground. And I got to thinking, you know, yesterday we. You said no way would you do it, right? Billy wouldn't do it. Shannon, would you take the moon ride if offered?

[Matt Jones]

No. No. I don't even like flying in a plane, so I'm not going to space.

[Drew Franklin]

That'll be a big hiccup. Well, I'm creating a scenario where all of us are on this.

[Nick Roush]

Okay?

[Drew Franklin]

And I'm asking who would last the longest and who would want to tap out the earliest?

[Matt Jones]

I'm tapping out the earliest. Like, I'm no interest in this. You and Matt were this. You know, you're the daredevils, the skydivers. You guys probably would last a lot longer than I would.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm also tapping out early. I can't. I couldn't be in a confined space for 10 days. That would just. I would go insane. I couldn't do it. So I'm out.

[Drew Franklin]

I feel like, Nick, you take the adventure, you take the ride.

[Nick Roush]

I would not like the. I'm sure the quarters are cramped, you know, Especially now. I'm sure.

[Ryan Lemon]

And there's pee floating around.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, Ryan, if he is not floating around, they still have a toilet. It just can't empty the way it's designed to empty. They got to plunge it. It's not like they're just rolling around in their own urine up there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, right now it's broken.

[Drew Franklin]

This guy. All right, my other question.

[Nick Roush]

Gonna stink.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, Nick, though, would you take the ride?

[Nick Roush]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm the young guy too, right? I can't have. Come on. I gotta. There's a little bit of pride here. Like, come on, we're gonna roll into the moon, right? Let's do it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Let's. Rick's in.

[Drew Franklin]

You're in. Oh, I'm. I'm all the way in. It's completely in.

[Nick Roush]

As long as we don't have to spin. Like, I can do the roller coaster rides. The spinn me to the county fair.

[Drew Franklin]

This is a smooth ride. This smooth. R. No problem.

[Ryan Lemon]

You know, Matt does not like to fly.

[Matt Jones]

He's a nervous flyer. I've sat next to him. He's as nervous as I am, so I don't think he would last long either.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think Shannon, Matt and I tap out pretty quick.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, in working in Matt's favors, I don't think there will be crying babies next to him. And Shannon, I don't think anybody's leaning back into your. To your lap, which you Billy, always debate over.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, you also can't take your shoes off either. I know that sort of behavioral and air plane is frowned upon. Can't take the space boots off. They wear space boots.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know. Do they have a space airport bar where I could get my pre flight beards? Oh, I'm absolutely it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't think they have diet Coke, so Matt's gonna tap out pretty quick. Well, there's no Chipotle Qdoba or an Indian restaurant. No Diet Coke. He's out.

[Matt Jones]

They do have dippin dots, though. Ice cream feature.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that's right. All right, well, my second part of this exercise is I'm saying we all made it. The KSR space shuttle. Made it to the moon.

[Ryan Lemon]

Made it to the moon.

[Drew Franklin]

We land, we're about to open the door, and there's an alien waiting. Which one are we sending out to talk?

[Nick Roush]

Oh, Shannon is.

[Ryan Lemon]

Wow.

[Nick Roush]

Mr. Alien. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Who's communicating here?

[Nick Roush]

You know what? Shannon's composed, he's straightforward. I think the aliens would respect him. I just. Yeah, it's got to be you, Shannon.

[Matt Jones]

I'll just go right up and just slap it in the Face. Let's just see what we got right now. Let's see how tough you are, alien.

[Ryan Lemon]

It can't do that, or he'll point his finger at us and zap us all. You got to be nice.

[Drew Franklin]

That's exactly why we can't send Shannon. We. We're. We're coming in peace. We cannot be hostile there. I eliminate Matt quickly because he's an alien hater and doesn't believe in it. You know, normally, I don't know if you all know this. Matt likes to speak for the group. I don't think in this circumstance, Matt can be the first one to go up and have this conversation.

[Nick Roush]

Would he say, instead of, my man,

[Ryan Lemon]

My alien, my alien, my alien.

[Nick Roush]

Where.

[Ryan Lemon]

Where's the closest McDonald's? How do I. How do I get my.

[Matt Jones]

Say that he knows more than the alien.

[Drew Franklin]

That's true.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

So the answer is Ryan, I guess, are you. No, no, no. I'm good for the ride. But I want you to go out and hash it out. I just want to know what you and this alien would talk about.

[Nick Roush]

You all probably know the same language.

[Ryan Lemon]

Probably do. You know, we're probably the same size. Probably a little fella like me. You know, we can kind of relate a little bit. Talk about our kids. Talk about peeing in the spaceship. I'd probably say, how do you guys pee in your spaceship?

[Drew Franklin]

The obsession with the peeing in the spaceship. There's so much to this mission. We don't have to just focus on their bathroom habits.

[Nick Roush]

If Scary Movie 3 taught me anything, they're peer to their fingers.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, well, to tie this into UK football. Wait, watch me cook. Ryan, you shared it. This is not necessarily a space shuttle, but that video you shared yesterday, where there's a Kentucky football game and a B25 bomber just flew right over the field. It was in 1985 at Florida. I think you said in your tweet you didn't know that happened. I didn't either. But that video was wild. Mark Higgs is running the football, and the shadow of a plane just completely, completely takes over the field.

[Ryan Lemon]

I had never heard of this story, maybe because it happened down at Florida. But once I saw that tweet I like, that can't be true. I thought, again, this is April Fools. Then I started doing a deep dive on it. That really happened. Some dude in that plane dipped down into the stadium. They said he was, like, level with the press box and then lifted back up to get out of there during the game.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, because I'm a show prepper. I didn't do much show prep today, but I did look this one up. Yes, I found the newspaper article from November of 1980.

[Ryan Lemon]

Probably the same one I found.

[Drew Franklin]

I have the details. Yeah, they said it was less than 500ft above the ground.

[Ryan Lemon]

Impressive during a stadium full of people.

[Drew Franklin]

First quarter, Kentucky, Florida. First quarter, 500ft above the ground, this massive plane comes. The pilot's name was John Marshall. The plane was on its way from Florida to go into the Smithsonian. Yeah, to stay there forever. And he thought, you know what? It's a nice day. This is his quote. Florida's been good to us. I wanted to just do a little lap for the people of Florida mid game. And it turns out after he did it once, he came back in the second quarter and did it again. And I couldn't find out officially happened, but the news report said that he would be losing his pilot's license for doing it. But my man didn't seem to have a care in the world. He's like, this plane. It was taking his last flight out of Florida to sit down forever, and I wanted to have a little fun.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I read where he. As soon as he landed, he is licensed, they took him into custody and his license had been suspended for life. I think he could never fly again.

[Drew Franklin]

Just Joy riding a B25 that was about to go into the Smithsonian. That is wild, Nick. Imagine you're in the upper level and you see that coming. You think it's Pearl harbor, something's going on. But it's just Mark Higgs running the football down there as a plane goes over.

[Nick Roush]

Thought it was how Mummy was, wasn't it?

[Drew Franklin]

Rip?

[Nick Roush]

Bring the air raid sirens back there. AIDS irons more effective than we thought.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we did lose that game, 15 to 13, but we won.

[Ryan Lemon]

Next year, though, the players on the field all nowhere over here. And look up. I mean, it was, you know, striking enough. The officials and their players look up like, what is going on?

[Drew Franklin]

See, I told you I could tie those topics together. I tried. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj. He'll make him pay.

[Matt Jones]

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

[Drew Franklin]

Shannon just playing the hits over there. Always has the right song. Topics he is. Shannon's keeping us going. From the Louisville studio, I'm Drew Franklin filling in for Matt Jones. Today we're gonna get to a lot of football conversations with Nick Roush. Right now. Let's just go the phone lines. I hear we Already have a lot of people waiting to either talk about broken toilets on a space shuttle or football. Who's up first? Shannon.

[Matt Jones]

Let's go to Hilltopper.

[Drew Franklin]

Hello, Hilltopper.

[Hilltopper (Caller)]

What's up, guys? So April 2nd is a day that nobody typically once. But I think that the power of KSR can make anything special. And just because Matt Jones isn't here and doesn't think that anything great can happen without him being here, I think. I think it actually can. So yesterday, Jeff Braum kicked his athletic director out of his office and slammed the door in his face during contract negotiations because the AD basically called the Brahms liars.

[Nick Roush]

Because the AD didn't believe that the

[Hilltopper (Caller)]

Brahms were offered the Penn State job. I mean, well, Penn State offered just about anybody that job, so that's pretty disrespectful to think that they wouldn't offer him that job. And so I just think he's very tone deaf, I think. So to test the power of KSR and see if we can actually do something meaningful without Matt here, I'm gonna post on my social media. I don't have much. I got Twitter and Facebook, but I'm not on there much. But I'm gonna ask the question, should Jeff Braum return back to WKU since Louisville doesn't seem to really want him anymore? So shout out Jeff. And like Jeff. And like Jeff Braum, I'm out.

[Drew Franklin]

All right. Appreciate the call.

[Nick Roush]

I enjoyed the WKU era of Brown football. My brother was. Was a part of those. Some of those teams, they. They won quite a few games. Old Brandon Doughty, little Mike White action. That was fun.

[Drew Franklin]

It was a good.

[Nick Roush]

That was. It was a good time. Good. Hang down there on the hill, Little.

[Drew Franklin]

Stand up and cheer. Isn't that the jam there? Yeah, that what we're singing at Hilltopper games.

[Ryan Lemon]

WKU fight song.

[Nick Roush]

Is that right?

[Drew Franklin]

Billy R. I wish he were here to give his. And that's his alumni, but I doubt your boy Jeff's gonna go to Western, even though I can understand why they'd want that.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, yeah, they'd be thrilled.

[Ryan Lemon]

So what do you think? Was he. Was he offered the Penn State job?

[Nick Roush]

It was very amusing that there was a Penn State moving truck near his neighborhood when all that was going down. Like, I think it was called Nittany Lines Moving or something along those lines. And so that. That freaked some people out. Ultimately, you know, this is how these jobs work. People get tired of each other. It doesn't matter if you are Jeff Braum, first family of Oval football. They'll get tired of each other at some point.

[Matt Jones]

That's.

[Nick Roush]

That's how it goes. But he wasn't. He's not leaving after less than five years. He wanted that job for a long time. He got it. And you want to. You want to hear a funny alternate history?

[Drew Franklin]

Please.

[Nick Roush]

So tell us about it. A lot of people, they go back to that Austin McGinnis kick. We all remember. Finally, Mississippi State game. The pressure was on Mark Stoops to go to a bowl in year four. And here's the thing. At the time, Jeff Brown was at Western Kentucky and Tom Jurich was at Louisville. For as much hand wringing as these folks in the city of Louisville do over how great Jeff Braum is. But Tom Juridge, he's the best, too. People forget that Tom Juridge ran Jeff out of town. They made him the scapegoat for Steve Kragthor. And Jeff wanted nothing to do with Tom Church.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay?

[Nick Roush]

Absolutely nothing to do with Tom. So much so that if Mark Stoops doesn't win that game, Jeff Braum is pushing to get the Kentucky job. So there's there. I know that it's kind of hard for people, especially when I would bring this up in the past, to just think about that possibility. I mean, Will Stein's the coach right now. This is another waffle quarterback. Sure, it's a little bit different with that family and that big name, but that, that was certainly on the table if Austin McGinnis's kick doesn't go through the net and Mitch Barnhart's looking for a new head coach at the end of the 2016 season.

[Drew Franklin]

So you're telling me everyone at Trinity loves Kentucky? Trinity is basically a pipeline for Kentucky. You got Willston here. Now you're saying Brahm wanted to go. He settled to go to Louisville. People are acting like that's his dream job and it's the perfect marriage. But you're telling me they're all cats over there? Trinity?

[Nick Roush]

Pretty much the whole city is. You know, they've been eating the. The cakes, everybody.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, yes.

[Nick Roush]

Some big blue.

[Drew Franklin]

Who's up next? Shannon?

[Matt Jones]

Let's go to Rick.

[Drew Franklin]

Hello, Rick.

[Rick (Caller)]

Hey, good morning, guys. You know, I was noting that most of Mitch Barnhart's accomplishments were National Rifle Championships. And my great grandfather was on the national dairy cow judging team for UK in 28. And we still today have a dairy cow judging team that's one of the top in the country. And I mean, they're Big Moo Nation.

[Drew Franklin]

Big Moo now. Yeah.

[Rick (Caller)]

Go Big Moo.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, man. We would be best friends, I think.

[Rick (Caller)]

I'm wondering if we need to add those to Mitch Barnhart's totals too.

[Nick Roush]

I have a question about the dairy cow judging. Are we judging how the cow looks? Are we judging how the milk tastes? How does. How does that work?

[Rick (Caller)]

It's. It's a confirmation. So. So they go around to the farms in the local community area here, and they teach them what to look for in a cow. And, you know, when you're buying cows or judging them, what to look for. So being able to judge cow flesh is an important thing.

[Ryan Lemon]

How are we just now finding out about the Big Moon Nation?

[Drew Franklin]

I'm surprised Mitch didn't have a trophy out there at his ceremony.

[Rick (Caller)]

I'm surprised they didn't either. But, you know, they're. They're really. This year. And it's a club, it's not a team. Kind of like a rugby club. That way they can have keggers after they judge cows.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's awesome. Go big move.

[Rick (Caller)]

Anyway. Anyway.

[Hilltopper (Caller)]

Yeah.

[Rick (Caller)]

Go big. Moo. But anyway, I always called him Mulligan Mitch because I never thought he got anything right the first time. Have a good day, guys.

[Nick Roush]

Wow. Oh, man. So cooking over there, Red Cooking. We have another pretty good club sport. At least. We had the dodgeball team for a while. Was among the best in the nation. And when your boy Nick Roush was a KSR college intern back in 2012,

[Drew Franklin]

2013, I remember those days.

[Ryan Lemon]

We.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, it was. It was a ragtag crew. And we got everybody together to play the dodgeball team. And so you know it. They tape their fingertips so they can grip the ball better and they can throw it up to 100 miles an hour. And we thought this could be a fun, content bet. We'll have a great time. You know, we might have a couple pops beforehand. We're just gonna.

[Drew Franklin]

We're gonna have some fun job. Are you confessing you were having pops on the job?

[Nick Roush]

It was fun until you got hit in the face with a ball. That. That was. It sounded a lot better than. Than what it actually was. We got beat up pretty bad by those dodgeballs.

[Drew Franklin]

Longtime KS Bar employee Tyler Kratzer was on the.

[Ryan Lemon]

He was.

[Drew Franklin]

Might have been the captain. He was traveling with them when they were having some of their best teams.

[Ryan Lemon]

Didn't they make it to, like, the national championship game or something one year? I think.

[Drew Franklin]

Made it really far. So another. Another sport that doesn't get enough attention over there. Maybe we should look more into this Cal judging thing. I like the idea of that.

[Ryan Lemon]

I can't believe we've never heard of it before, because that is something I think we would have fun with.

[Drew Franklin]

We're slacking on our job. Who's up next? Shan?

[Matt Jones]

Weirdo.

[Drew Franklin]

Weirdo. Let's go. What's up, Weirdo?

[Weirdo (Caller)]

Hey, guys. I'm calling to talk to you about my alien theory. Going to take you on a journey. Let's close our eyes and look way into the future.

[Drew Franklin]

Technology

[Weirdo (Caller)]

has advanced and humans bodies have adapted to not having to do the physical work. And our brains have grown much bigger to adapt to the influx of information. And our language has adapted to code and is nothing like the spoken languages we know today. But unfortunately, the Earth has run its cycle and we've been forced to live in space stations and on other planets. But Earth will always be the Utopia of life. So we travel back in time to Earth, trying to find ways to save the future of Earth. And that is why aliens are visiting today to try to help sustain life as we know it on Earth.

[Drew Franklin]

You know what, Weirdo? I appreciate the call. That was beautiful, guys.

[Nick Roush]

I got.

[Ryan Lemon]

I understand. Did you just catch that? Drew said. Thank you, Weirdo. I appreciate the call.

[Drew Franklin]

His name is Weirdo. Weirdo.

[Ryan Lemon]

I know it.

[Drew Franklin]

That's. I'm gonna call people by their name. I feel like that's how my mama raised me. I'm gonna be a gentleman, but I will right now, guys. My hands up. Yeah, I probably invited that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes, you did.

[Drew Franklin]

I like his theory, though. I might. I might have read the same theory on Reddit once or twice. I might be a believer.

[Nick Roush]

Did he?

[Drew Franklin]

Thank you, Weirdo.

[Nick Roush]

Here, watch.

[Drew Franklin]

Why are you laughing? His name was Weirdo. If his name was J, I would say thank you, Jeff.

[Ryan Lemon]

Only on this show does stuff like that happen.

[Nick Roush]

Did any of y' all see Begonia?

[Drew Franklin]

No. That.

[Nick Roush]

If you want a fun little alien conspiracy theory flick, that one had me. It really made my wife angry after. At the end of it. But I was like, this is. This is kind of fun. Little aliens, conspiracy theorists. It scratches that itch.

[Drew Franklin]

You know who would be angry right now? Matt Jones, that this show has become this. I met. I asked for it. As soon as I heard the name Weirdo, I knew I might have gone a little far in that direction. But I'm not mad about it.

[Nick Roush]

It happens.

[Drew Franklin]

Call it a day. Are we making.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, I don't know if we want to do that. Let's maybe move on and

[Drew Franklin]

let's move on to things happening on this planet.

[Nick Roush]

Should we talk to. About football, I mean.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, first I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell Ryan that he's. He's already paying way too many premiums for road assistance.

[Nick Roush]

Way too many.

[Drew Franklin]

Are you getting gouged for phone insurance?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

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[Drew Franklin]

Find exclusions and details@t mobile.com welcome back to a KSR edition that might get me in trouble. Drew Franklin here. Ron Lemon. Nick Roush. We've had Ryan saying he has an old lady bladder. We've had Big Moo Nation. We've had aliens new cracking cold ones at work. And it we're not even through the first hour, guys. That's. That's my bad. Or maybe you're welcome. How are you?

[Matt Jones]

How are you?

[Ryan Lemon]

A Thursday show in April. That's what it's all about, right?

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, we're having some fun. We do have some break.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I was gonna say right as we're coming back, Nick tells me there's a wani Nana. I don't even know what it is.

[Nick Roush]

Breaking. There you go.

[Ryan Lemon]

You got your own wanna.

[Nick Roush]

From NASA. The Artemis 2 crew has restored the Orion spacecraft toilet to normal operations following the proximity operation demonstration.

[Drew Franklin]

God.

[Nick Roush]

Our national nightmare is over. They're not chasing pee in a bag anymore.

[Ryan Lemon]

Somebody just sent me a video of one of the astronauts kind of demonstrating the. The bathroom process in this spaceship.

[Nick Roush]

All right.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know that I need to see that.

[Nick Roush]

I don't. I don't think. Did anyone ask for that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, she was talking about like, you have to hold on to the handle because you're just floating around in there.

[Drew Franklin]

And I figured. And I assumed I. I didn't. There's a video of that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, there's a video.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, we'll let you keep that yourself. But good news that they fixed the plumbing.

[Ryan Lemon]

She's not actually using the bathroom. She's demonstrating.

[Drew Franklin]

Gotcha.

[Ryan Lemon]

They have to do it.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, gotcha. Well, I'm glad they got that fixed. That's big news. Big, big things happening. Nick, we are going to talk football at some point. Maybe I should just go and get to it so we don't look up

[Nick Roush]

and it's 12 and that would be a good idea. We did have a little bit of news yesterday. Justin Roland at KSR plus had the scoop first. Yeah. That Kentucky's adding a new director of recruiting, Aaron Love. She's coming over, joining the operation. And first and foremost, I mentioned this on Tuesday. Everything is kind of new here. A lot of the newness for Willstein is modernizing the Kentucky football operation. That means there are a ton of people that work for Willstein. Like, it's not just the head coach. 10 assistants. And you got some GA's too. I mean, the offensive line has four coaches on it. You know, there's an outside receivers coach, an inside receivers coach. You have so many coaches. But you also have the front office apparatus which is led by the GM, Pat Biondo. And then you've got Jarrett McElwain, that is Jim McElwain's son who's been at Alabama with DeBoer. He was at Washington. He also was at Harbaugh with Michigan. He's the director of player personnel. And he's got a bunch of people working for him, including Aaron Love, who started at Tennessee. She's from Knoxville. She couldn't get out of there quick enough.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, smart person already, really loved the iq.

[Nick Roush]

Got out in Knoxville after a year, worked in North Carolina. But what was. I think what's. Could be something just to keep an eye on. She was at Tulsa last year and you're like, all right, who cares about Tulsa football? During the Portal Madness, Tulsa did something fun. They created the Portal House. They got this big fancy Airbnb.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, yeah, I remember seeing Tulsa.

[Nick Roush]

And they just brought all of their coaches, all of their equipment. They were like, we're gonna basically do a real world but for the transfer portal. So. So it was fun because you see just kind of how frenetic it can be where you're on the phone and he's like, all right, so who you got lined up? Can we get you here? And he's like, oh, he just hung up on me.

[Drew Franklin]

The whole experience.

[Nick Roush]

So she was the brains behind that operation. She's coming to Kentucky, so we might see some fun stuff like that. But her job is the job that I. There's a lot of jobs over there that I wouldn't want because it sounds like a nightmare. A lot of her job is making sure that when Kentucky had. I want to say it was 88 visits in two weeks. That's that person's job. Getting all the flights booked, getting all the cars to pick them up from the airport to get them there, to get all their meals ready, to have all the flair that comes with it. You're a giant event planner that has to turn these visits into an experience that leaves these players thinking, alright, these people got their stuff together. So that's. That's going to be Love's job as director of recruiting. One of many, many, many, many people working over there at the Joecraft football training facility. Some might say it's a full house over there.

[Drew Franklin]

Well done, well done. Come a long way from that old church potluck table they put in the corner of Nutter to entertain the recruits. Little crock pot of meatballs, maybe get you a little piece of bread here and enjoy your time in life. The game has definitely changed also from yesterday. This isn't exactly newsy, but our boy Adam Luckett wrote the story with the comments from the receivers coach about Harley Gilmore. I know people are very conflicted on Harley Gilmore's return. You know, he's. He's been leaving and coming and leaving and coming and I like hearing, I guess Price is the.

[Nick Roush]

Yes. Joe. Eastside, Joe.

[Drew Franklin]

Eastside, Joe. Yeah, he said this just. Dude loves football. We'll get it figured out with what's going on with him. But they seem to really love having Gilmore back where. I know a lot of fans have been confused on what to think there,

[Nick Roush]

and I understand it because I was just as confused as everybody else. But he, he, he needed to find a place. And Kentucky said, you know what, come on back. You've been here for two years, let's make it a third. And I think the upside for Kentucky is that it's really a no. Like, you can't lose because they have upgraded the talent in that room. So if Gilmore levels up, then he's on play. If he doesn't, then so be it. They were probably a little too reliant on him to take the next step last year when he didn't have a spring. There's some guys that are in spring right now that are taking step forward. Guys like DJ Miller. You know, a surprising name that I didn't expect was one of Lexington Sayers owned.

[Drew Franklin]

You're sitting with two huge Brock Kaufman fans right here.

[Nick Roush]

He is. I know we're not allowed to do this, but he is the next Charles Walker slash David Bouvier or Fred Ferrier, right? Like this. This guy just makes. He just makes the right plays. And, you know, it might not. He might not have 500, 800 yards this fall, but he's going to be a guy that they're working him out at punt return they can trust. He's good in between the ears. He's got some brains up there, smart player. And he's only been playing football since he started high school, so he's still got plenty of room to grow going into his second season of college football. So the pass catching options, we were a little worried, but you're starting to kind of see the light there. But a lot of it ultimately comes back to big 81. Y' all see that pass that Mitchie threw Rodriguez at practice the other day?

[Drew Franklin]

It's highlight season and they're looking good. They.

[Nick Roush]

There are some things about the newness that I'm not the biggest fans of over. You know, Will Stein. You're never gonna get 100% approval rating from me. I do love that. They're just like, you want some highlights? Here we go. It's. It's the cat nibble. You know, like I'm. What's that stuff that they like, go all crazy?

[Ryan Lemon]

Catnip.

[Nick Roush]

Catnip, yeah. Oh, they're giving us plenty of catnip this spring.

[Drew Franklin]

Some news from right outside here. I'm watching an Amazon prime truck get towed away. So if you're waiting on a package that could be delayed, just want to update everyone. That definitely applies to my w. I

[Nick Roush]

have one other question. Yes, We. And maybe. Maybe Mario could help better explain this, too. We might need his explanation, because, remember, when touch money got people very, very upset. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, yes.

[Nick Roush]

Yes.

[Weirdo (Caller)]

The.

[Nick Roush]

The Kentucky wide receivers, they are. They're calling themselves the paper chasers. Paper chasers. And I. Brock, explained it as, like, hey, this isn't. It's not all about money, but, like, you know, if you play well, you do get money. But it is sort of a let's go call. I just.

[Drew Franklin]

I.

[Nick Roush]

Here's the thing, Drew. Sometimes when something's really like, oh, people are gonna love this. Let me just gas it up as much as I can. I did not gas it up a ton because I thought some folks might not like. Not like that.

[Drew Franklin]

We saw the basketball reaction. It happens everywhere. I mean, every other Friday, Ron walks in here and yells it's payday at the top of his lungs. You know, that's just. People like to have a little money in their pocket sometimes.

[Ryan Lemon]

And I did hear Coach Price, he even mentioned it when he was talking to the media that he's referenced it. You know, where we're paper chasers. Like, be careful there.

[Nick Roush]

It sounds bad, but at the end of the day, if you win, you get paid.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Nick Roush]

That's how life works. If you do well at your job, you get paid money. And that's college athletics now. And if that motivates our receivers. You know what I want? I want some diva wide receivers. Because you know what? Diva wide receivers, they make money because they're good. I want to see good wide receiver play. No offense to a lot of the guys, but outside of Wandale, we haven't seen very many of them over the past few years.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we're sitting here with big money. Ron Lemon got Nick Roush, Shannon making it all happen. It was a fun first hour. Got a little crazy there for a second, but we'll be back after trains. Back on the tracks with more football ahead.

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