2026-05-01- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

KSR – Hour 2
Date: May 1, 2026
Host: Matt Jones (with the KSR crew: Ryan Lemond, Billy, Shannon; special guests Kentucky Joe, Jonathan Kitchen "UT Big Hair")

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Overview

This lively hour of Kentucky Sports Radio blends UK athletics news, derby picks, horseplay (literal and figurative), and doses of Kentucky humor. Matt Jones and co-hosts engage with listeners, provide optimism for UK sports fans, debate iconic movie sets and sports techniques, and welcome their annual Derby experts for picks and musical interludes, all peppered with playful banter and classic KSR fan interaction.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Derby & Oaks Talk, Picks, and Kentucky Joe’s Annual Performance

• Kentucky Joe and Jonathan Kitchen ("UT Big Hair") offer their picks for the Oaks and Derby races, a beloved KSR tradition tied to Kentucky Derby weekend.
• Kentucky Joe sings a self-penned song for his Derby pick, bringing KSR’s signature blend of local color and inside jokes.

Notable Quotes:

• Kentucky Joe on his Derby pick, in true homespun style:
  “He loves to run his race. He's a tough heart to be anything. He's got a great bloodline to see. … Commandment is my horse to win Derby…” ([14:18])
• Matt, after Kentucky Joe’s Elvis-style song:
  “I didn't hear a lot of Elvis in that.” ([15:22])

Timestamps:

• Kentucky Joe’s singing: [13:52]–[15:22]
• Derby picks with UT Big Hair: [28:26]–[36:05]

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Finding Positivity in UK Athletics

The crew discusses reasons for UK fans to remain positive despite what Matt calls “one of the worst calendar years for Kentucky sports” ([09:18]). The segment is frank but forward-looking, focusing on potential bright spots:

• Men's Basketball: A "fun team" likely to capture fan affection, if not be Final Four-bound ([07:09]).
• Women’s Basketball: Optimism from Billy around Coach Kenny Brooks and the incoming roster ([07:19]).
• New Athletic Director (AD): Hope that leadership will embrace NIL and transfer portal changes ([07:53]).

Notable Quotes:

• Matt Jones:
  “I think we're going to have some really special days this coming year in the fall. Like…the Alabama day and the LSU day.” ([09:02])
• Billy:
  “I think Kenny Brooks will be in the Final Four in the next three years, if not this next year.” ([07:19])

Timestamps:

• Positivity segment: [06:19]–[11:16]

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Political Heat: Andy Beshear Comments

Strong remarks by Governor Andy Beshear claim UK leadership “needs to realize, this could all end in a very different way,” referencing administrative shakeups like those at UofL. The panel reacts to the unusual public nature of these comments and their implications.

Notable Quotes:

• Matt, on Beshear’s statement:
  “That's a very threatening…for the governor. Isn't that kind of a strong statement?” ([10:33])
• Ryan:
  “I mean, he's basically…Seems like he's saying, if you don't watch it, Eli, you're gone.” ([10:43])

Timestamps:

• Beshear comments: [09:44]–[11:16]

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Pop Culture & Listener Questions

• The group debates which movie set they’d want to visit, from Lord of the Rings to Godfather ([03:40], [21:47]).
• Chat about method acting on movie sets, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, and Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman ([05:07]).
• Listeners chime in with movie picks and opinions about UK basketball’s needed cultural reset.

Timestamps:

• Movie banter: [03:47]–[06:14]
• Listener calls (movies and UK basketball): [21:40]–[26:05]

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Breaking Down UK Men’s Basketball, Mark Pope’s Challenge

An honest assessment of Mark Pope’s task as UK head coach:

• General consensus: only on-court success can re-win a skeptical fan base ([22:33],[23:29]).
• The team’s potential "need to feel cool again" and connect with fans is highlighted ([23:05]).

Notable Quotes:

• Matt:
  “He’s got to win, and he’s probably got to win more. He’s probably going to have to overperform the talent of his roster…” ([22:51])
• Ryan:
  “We feel like we're, we're significantly less cool than the other power programs.” ([23:13])

Timestamps:

• Mark Pope/UK Basketball: [22:11]–[24:12]

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Baseball: Ellie De La Cruz Debate

The hosts discuss MLB Network’s analysis of Ellie De La Cruz’s unconventional defensive stance:

• Traditional wisdom vs. Harold Reynolds’ critique: should infielders stay low or stay upright for the best first step?
• Diverse viewpoints with Ryan siding with tradition and Shannon pondering position-dependent techniques.

Timestamps:

• Ellie De La Cruz debate: [19:32]–[21:36]

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NCAA Five-Year Proposal Call-In

A nuanced listener question about the NCAA's proposal to allow five years of athletic eligibility (to account for injury years), and age limits:

• Matt and Ryan clarify it, highlighting the injury year rationale and legal context ([25:00]).

Timestamps:

• NCAA Five-Year Proposal: [24:22]–[25:32]

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Horse Name Game & Ticket Giveaway

Callers compete for Theo Vaughn tickets via a horse-name contest blending UK/SEC themes with Derby flair:

• Finalists include “Rope a Dope Pope,” “Quick Patino,” “Hottie Trotty,” and more.
• The winner is “Quick Patino,” with other names amusing but less relevant.

Notable Quote:

• “Philly Collie Stein is still the best.” (Ryan, [42:39])

Timestamps:

• Horse Name Game: [41:37]–[48:05]
• Winner announcement: [48:05]–[49:13]

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Memorable Moments

• Kentucky Joe’s annual Derby original song: “Run Run, Commandment Run” ([14:00]).
• Playful debate on why Mark Pope’s positivity rings hollow for some fans, with “Debbie Downer” calling in to critique coach-speak ([36:29]).
• Jim Palmer’s first-ever chicken wing at age 80, after promising to eat one if a player hit a Grand Slam ([44:23]).
• The annual Derby picks face-off between Kentucky Joe and Jonathan “UT Big Hair.”
  • “I like meaning, you know, and if she stays 8 to 1, I mean that is an opportunity that I won't be able to pass up.” – Kitchen ([30:52])
  • “The winner…the horse I think is going to get the best trip…is the 18. Further ado.” ([31:42])

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Timestamps Index of Important Segments

• [03:08] Episode proper begins
• [06:19] Reasons for UK sports optimism
• [09:44] Andy Beshear’s critical comments
• [13:52] Kentucky Joe’s Derby song
• [19:32] Baseball: Ellie De La Cruz analysis
• [21:40] Listener calls (movies, basketball culture)
• [24:22] NCAA eligibility proposal discussed
• [28:26] Derby & Oaks picks with “UT Big Hair”
• [41:37] Horse name/ticket contest
• [48:05–49:13] Winner and ticket assignment

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Conclusion

This hour of KSR captures the voice, humor, and hopes of Kentucky sports fandom as Derby fever meets the ever-present churn of UK athletics news. Balancing skepticism with optimism, and always ready for a singalong or a contest, the crew connects deeply with its audience while looking ahead to better days in both sports and the winner’s circle.

Transcript

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[Shannon]

welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio. We got Theo Vaughn tickets. We got a KSR golf scramble package.

[Ryan Lemond]

We'll do the Ovon in these 30 minutes, then we'll do the KSR golf scrambler at the end. I still don't know what I'm gonna do for either one of these, but

[Matt Jones]

we'll figure it out.

[Kentucky Joe]

Well, good.

[Billy]

Or Shannon's gonna get upset.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Oh, if you're a nurse from London, just call in.

[Matt Jones]

Listen, she's a nurse from London and she. Can you imagine doing home health in

[Ryan Lemond]

the 13th region in London?

[Matt Jones]

Like that's.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's a saint.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

They're coming up on that one year anniversary. The tornado too. Wasn't it like in early May?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, so, I mean, yeah, but I'm not doing that for anybody else, so don't even try. Other movies, people saying anchorman, that would have been.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Billy]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wolf of Wall street had be tough because I would be falling in love with Margot Robbie. Robbie, like there's.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think there's ever been a

[Ryan Lemond]

more beautiful person than Margot Robbie was in that movie.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wouldn't you do Anybody disagree with that?

[Billy]

She's up there. She's up there.

[Ryan Lemond]

Sorry, is that not your standard, Billy? Like, she's up there.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

He's getting married in a couple months.

[Ryan Lemond]

Who do you have, Billy?

[Matt Jones]

Your wife at the bowling alley last

[Billy]

week from Dusk till Dawn. Salma Hayek. Isn't that who that was?

[Ryan Lemond]

That's a very specific pool.

[Billy]

Well, I mean, you.

[Matt Jones]

That's from Dusk till Dawn.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's where you'd like to be?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Billy]

I love my fiance, though.

[Shannon]

Nice recovery.

[Billy]

Thank you.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I got another one for me sword.

[Ryan Lemond]

I didn't ask you.

[Matt Jones]

Lord of the Rings. Shannon would have loved that. Go to New Zealand. New Zealand with all the Lord of

[Shannon]

the Rings people out of here as quickly as possible.

[Matt Jones]

This is a good Lonesome Dove. That would be a good.

[Ryan Lemond]

That would have been a good one.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Probably a fun one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well. But also just being out on the range.

[Kentucky Joe]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

With what?

[Matt Jones]

Robert Duvall and was it Tommy Lee Jones?

[Ryan Lemond]

Who Always in Lonesome Dove. I think Robert Duvall was Val Kilmer. What about Dark Knight? Right before. What's his. Heath Ledgers?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I think it would be weird to

[Ryan Lemond]

be on those movie sets where people are method acting and they stay in character.

[Billy]

Oh, I'd hate that.

[Shannon]

Because he did that as the Joker.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, can you imagine, like, having

[Ryan Lemond]

to deal with Joaquin Phoenix as the

[Billy]

Joker or Abraham Lincoln? Didn't he do that?

[Shannon]

Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey's Andy Kaufman.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Abraham Lincoln.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Joe]

Did that.

[Matt Jones]

Daniel Day Lewis.

[Billy]

Yeah, he did method acting for that state.

[Ryan Lemond]

In character.

[Matt Jones]

Is Abraham Lincoln?

[Billy]

I believe so, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He just act like he'd never seen a phone before.

[Billy]

He takes it very serious.

[Matt Jones]

Keeps. I'm fascinated by this. What did he do? Because, like, that movie was filmed in the, like, 2010. You said he was just going to be. He just was Abraham Lincoln in daily life.

[Billy]

I think so. So he was honest aid to everybody. Not just on the set.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, if he's going to really do that, he would have had to be fascinated by everything he saw. Like, he would have never seen a car before.

[Billy]

I don't think he'd take it like that.

[Matt Jones]

We're going to drive you, sir, back to your hotel.

[Ryan Lemond]

What is this crazy contraption? I don't think he completely could have done that.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon's right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Jim Carrey did that in man on the Moon.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

He did.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, anyway.

[Matt Jones]

All right, one person writes. Matt, I feel like it's been a

[Ryan Lemond]

depressing few weeks for UK sports. So here's a question for you all.

[Matt Jones]

Give me one thing to be very positive about UK athletics.

[Ryan Lemond]

No.

[Matt Jones]

No reservations. Just something to be positive about.

[Ryan Lemond]

And the answer can't be Will Stein.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, good question.

[Ryan Lemond]

Ryan, I'll start with you. You tend to be the most positive of us.

[Matt Jones]

Give us one thing to be positive about in UK Athletics right now, and

[Ryan Lemond]

it can't be Willston.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I think I'm gonna go basketball. I think the basketball team we have right now, although they're not a Final Four team, I think it could be a team like Mark's first year that just fit and won us over. And we enjoyed watching them play throughout the season. Like I said, I don't think they're gonna be world beaters.

[Matt Jones]

There's a lot of caveats for.

[Ryan Lemond]

I want something positive. Just bam.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

This is gonna be a fun team.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Fun Team. A team we're gonna enjoy watching and fall in love with like we did Mark's first team.

[Matt Jones]

All right, that is very positive.

[Ryan Lemond]

Billy, what would you. What's something positive?

[Billy]

I think Kenny Brooks will be in the Final Four in the next three years, if not this next year. The recruiting class they have coming in, Clara Strat coming back, transfers from Alabama, Yukon, and another program that's escaping me. I really do think they have the talent.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Daughter.

[Billy]

Jack's daughter.

[Matt Jones]

You took mine.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was what I was gonna say.

[Matt Jones]

I think that's. I think that's actually a really good

[Ryan Lemond]

pick because I think Kenny Brooks is,

[Matt Jones]

I think, this year and then the next year.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think he's got two years of a chance for us to be really good.

[Billy]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, because they keep getting these top recruits and as they stay so. I like that one. Shannon, what about you?

[Shannon]

We got a new athletic director coming in. I think it's somebody, hopefully.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, go ahead.

[Shannon]

Somebody who's going to fully embrace the NIL era and transfer portal that we live in.

[Matt Jones]

Man, those are my two. I was very. I was very, like. I was very big on the new athletic director because I think. I think they have a really good

[Ryan Lemond]

notion of what needs to happen going forward. And. Man, I like that one.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Do you have an update when that announcement may happen?

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know, but I do think,

[Matt Jones]

like, I feel after some conversations I

[Ryan Lemond]

had this week, I feel much better about whoever that. I don't know who they're gonna hire, but whoever it is, I think.

[Matt Jones]

I think people are in the right

[Ryan Lemond]

thinking mindset of what they need to do, which makes me. Makes me positive. Man, you took my two.

[Shannon]

Well, that's what you get for taking my tickets.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I can't say.

[Ryan Lemond]

I can't say Will Stein.

[Matt Jones]

So I'll just say, I think.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, I've said this a couple times.

[Matt Jones]

I think we're going to have some

[Ryan Lemond]

really special days this coming year in the fall. Like this, like the Alabama day and the LSU day.

[Matt Jones]

I think they're going to be good,

[Ryan Lemond]

feel good days that this fan base needs after sort of.

[Matt Jones]

Because, you know, I mean, I think

[Ryan Lemond]

we're going to look back at last year and say that that was one of the worst calendar years for Kentucky sports. I mean, if you kind of go through it, the football team was a disaster and we had to replace the coach. The basketball team had a high, high expectations and was disappointing. Baseball team is struggling.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Softball teams.

[Ryan Lemond]

Softball team is struggling.

[Matt Jones]

The women's basketball team was pretty good. But not. Didn't quite get over the hump, I guess.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, volleyball was really good. So that was kind of.

[Matt Jones]

But I mean, the whole stuff with Mitch and all that. And it is worth noting.

[Ryan Lemond]

Did you see the comments that Andy Beshear made? Andy be sure took it to another level about the university yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

He said the university leadership at Kentucky needs to realize, quote, this could all

[Ryan Lemond]

end in a very different way.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

He said this yesterday?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. And he used the example of how at U of L, how all the people kind of got fired.

[Billy]

That is very strong.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's very.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know where he said that because I think he just said it like on a random radio interview somewhere. But he used the phrase could end

[Ryan Lemond]

in a very different way.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I'm surprised.

[Matt Jones]

That's a very threatening.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yeah, I'm surprised that's not. Got more publicity. That's a pretty strong statement.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, for the.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

The governor.

[Matt Jones]

Isn't that kind of a strong statement?

[Shannon]

Yeah, it is. It definitely is.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he's basically. Seems like he's saying, if you don't

[Ryan Lemond]

watch it, Eli, you're gone.

[Billy]

Sort of been very public with his criticism, has he not Sort of cryptic.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, I mean, I guess his piss

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

statement last time, kind of.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's kind of feeling himself.

[Billy]

He has to be, you know, make a name for himself. Well, I mean, trying to run for

[Matt Jones]

president, I think it's important to remember you do have to look at a lot of the stuff that happens over the next couple years as this is a guy that is going to run

[Ryan Lemond]

for president and, you know, the perception of quote, unquote, cleaning up UK athletics or UK whatever. I mean, I. You could see how somebody would find that appealing. So I didn't hear where he said it, but I did read that quote. I thought that was pretty strong. All right.

[Matt Jones]

It is Oaks Day. It's a tradition that we always let

[Ryan Lemond]

Kentucky Joe come on here.

[Matt Jones]

Kentucky Joe, how are you?

[Kentucky Joe]

I'm doing. I'm doing well. It's okay. And.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, so you've been pretty successful at the Oaks. You had fa. What was it? She does the Devil.

[Shannon]

She Dares the Devil.

[Ryan Lemond]

She does the Devil.

[Matt Jones]

She.

[Billy]

You'd like to be at that one.

[Matt Jones]

She Dares the Devil.

[Ryan Lemond]

She Dares the Devil.

[Matt Jones]

Now, I'm looking at the. At the group today. There are 13 horses.

[Ryan Lemond]

There have been a few scratches, so.

[Matt Jones]

13 horses, Kentucky Joe, which horse are we.

[Ryan Lemond]

Are we going with?

[Kentucky Joe]

I mean, the Derby. You're talking about the Derby?

[Matt Jones]

I'm talking about the Oak, which is the Horse. Which is the race. We always have

[Kentucky Joe]

a Matt. I love Brad.

[Ryan Lemond]

I know you do have to go with.

[Kentucky Joe]

I have to go with number 10, prom queen.

[Ryan Lemond]

So you're going with the Prom Queen.

[Kentucky Joe]

It's a good. Yeah, that's what, eight, eight, one, I believe right now.

[Matt Jones]

So when you were in high school, the Prom queen, Kentucky Joe. Is that why.

[Kentucky Joe]

No, I. I think I tried to sing to the Prom queen creature.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

No Shock.

[Ryan Lemond]

It didn't work. Breaking news. All right.

[Matt Jones]

Actually, I'm really scared to ask this question.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm about to ask.

[Shannon]

Ask it.

[Ryan Lemond]

But Kentucky Joe, do you have a

[Matt Jones]

song about Prom Queen?

[Kentucky Joe]

No, I got a song.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I got.

[Kentucky Joe]

Actually got a song about Commandment.

[Ryan Lemond]

What's Commandment?

[Matt Jones]

Is that the Derby?

[Kentucky Joe]

Yes, the Derby I just wrote.

[Matt Jones]

So you're gonna. So you're picking. The Derby is the number six horse, Commandment?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Joe]

Yeah. I would have a ten, six Oaks and Derby.

[Matt Jones]

So your Oaks Derby Daily double is Prom Queen and Commandment.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Bet it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, I'm gonna play.

[Matt Jones]

I'm tell you what, Kentucky Joe, in your honor, when I go to the

[Ryan Lemond]

track, I'm gonna bet that Daily double for you. This I.

[Matt Jones]

It's for you. Okay. If we win, you get the money.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right?

[Kentucky Joe]

Oh, that. That's kind of you, man.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, I'd like to do that for you.

[Matt Jones]

Now, in. In return, you have to sing.

[Ryan Lemond]

Sing me a song about Commandment. So I. I will hand you the floor.

[Mike]

All right, so here we go.

[Kentucky Joe]

That's gonna be a little Elvis called Run Run, Commandment Run.

[Matt Jones]

So this is in honor of. This is like an Elvis Presley style.

[Kentucky Joe]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay. All right.

[Kentucky Joe]

I love Elvis.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, he loves you.

[Kentucky Joe]

He loves to run his race. He's a tough heart to be anything. He's got a great bloodline to see. He's a friend for winning ever. Commandment is my horse to win Derby. Wanty to oh, run Commandment, run Till the news says that they were wrong. You have a stop. To wear a garland of roses around your neck. Commandment, you are the big finish. You are the one to wear the garlet of roses. Yay. I hope you all very good.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't hear a lot of Elvis in that.

[Ryan Lemond]

It would seem more like you.

[Matt Jones]

But I. I'm sure that Commandment appreciates your.

[Ryan Lemond]

Your dedication.

[Kentucky Joe]

Amen. Amen. Amen. He. I think Commandment's also an actor, too.

[Ryan Lemond]

Commandments.

[Matt Jones]

An actor.

[Kentucky Joe]

Yeah. Yeah. It was like. I think. I think it was Monday's week in his prime. His last workout.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

He.

[Kentucky Joe]

He was like, you know, I imagine you remember the long name Ranger. Let's see. Silver. My gosh. I know I saw commandment jump up in here with the.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right. I appreciate the cleaner right now.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you very much.

[Ryan Lemond]

I appreciate it, Joe. Thank you.

[Billy]

I do feel ready for the derby.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I do.

[Billy]

It feels like there was something missing. Now I'm ready.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Joe is quite the lyricist. The words he puts together and the phrases and his songs.

[Ryan Lemond]

You have no room to. To talk about. About putting words together.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I can maybe come up with a rhyme or two in my song.

[Shannon]

It was great.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Prom queen.

[Ryan Lemond]

Commandment Daily double. Daily double is. Is the Kentucky Joe pick. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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[Ryan Lemond]

See, I think this was. Whoever put the music to this made it a thing, right?

[Shannon]

J. Kyle, man. Yeah, this is.

[Ryan Lemond]

She was always really good at it.

[Shannon]

Big hit.

[Ryan Lemond]

And this horse won. It did. Maybe Prom Queen will win as well.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

That's what. Yeah. Big Hair said if this horse would win, he would retire.

[Ryan Lemond]

But he didn't. He'll be on here in 10 minutes.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287.

[Ryan Lemond]

Did you see that play Ellie made yesterday?

[Billy]

I did.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Ellie is on fire right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Unbelievable. That play was unbelievable.

[Matt Jones]

He started at shortstop and ran all the way to the other side of

[Ryan Lemond]

second base and made the play.

[Shannon]

What was the second base?

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know. Sleep, I guess.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

All those people want to move him to the outfield. They're like, I got to realize, okay, the dude has developed into an outstanding shortstop.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's unbelievable.

[Billy]

Yeah, that's what the radio team was saying. And defensively this year, he's just been great.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's been amazing.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Unbelievable. Hitting home runs. He had 10 home runs in the month of April.

[Matt Jones]

Now, I wanted to get your. Your take on this.

[Ryan Lemond]

The Major League Baseball Network did a breakdown of Ellie.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Okay?

[Matt Jones]

Okay. And Harold Reynolds, you remember Harold Reynolds. He said, they always teach kids when they play second base and shortstop to get down into a position.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Is that how they taught you?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Get ready.

[Matt Jones]

Harold Reynolds said, I hate that they teach kids that. That's not how to do it. He goes, think about it. If you get down in a position in order to start running, you have to stand back up again and you waste a half a second. He was like, watch, Ellie. He stands straight up so that he can make the first move and then

[Ryan Lemond]

goes down and gets it.

[Matt Jones]

And he was like, that's why Ellie so good. He's the first player I've ever seen actually do what you're supposed to do, which is stand straight up and not get down in the position.

[Ryan Lemond]

What do you think of that?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

It's a good argument. But you're down, like when you're leading off first base or you're a track runner, you're down, squatted down to make a quick first step. Your quicker first step, I think, is if you are.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's not what Harold Reynolds said.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Well, Harold is wrong. He played for the Seattle Mariners. He doesn't know anything.

[Ryan Lemond]

You don't think he was better than you?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I think the majority of the baseball players in major leagues, but he wasn't

[Matt Jones]

really as good because he doesn't do that.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I don't think so. I think you get a quicker first step if you're kind of squatting down a little bit.

[Ryan Lemond]

What do you think you can do that?

[Shannon]

If you're playing shortstop or second base, you've got more time because you're playing farther back. If you're the third baseman, you got to be down because, I mean, that's. The ball's coming in hot.

[Matt Jones]

That makes sense to me. Yeah, but that's what he said about second bases. Now, you make a good point. When people steal bases, they usually are in a squad.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, but that's just what.

[Matt Jones]

I'm just telling you what Harold Reynolds said.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Quicker first step.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's not what Harold Reynolds said.

[Matt Jones]

All right, let's go through here. Let's talk to some of these people really quick.

[Ryan Lemond]

Let's go to Adam. Go, Adam.

[Mike]

Hey, what's up, man? The.

[Kentucky Joe]

Really.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

My favorite movie is the Godfather.

[Kentucky Joe]

I would have loved to build there.

[Mike]

You already mentioned Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, who both were on there. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. I'm sorry, Al Pacino.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, and Robert De Niro.

[Matt Jones]

Like, all of them. If you go the second one, he's on there, too.

[Mike]

And also the shooting locations are LA, NY, and Italy.

[Kentucky Joe]

So.

[Mike]

Yeah, awesome place to be in. I've told you this. I really want Mark Pope to work, but it's just. It's a thing that the more. The further we get in this, like, I feel like we're digging a hole. Like, how does he even get out of this?

[Ryan Lemond]

He gets out of it by winning at this point. I appreciate the call.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, there's real. I don't think there's going to be anything he can do right now from

[Ryan Lemond]

a PR perspective that's going to win people over. Beyond.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he can. He can. There's some things he can do to make us excited going into the year, but at the end of the day,

[Ryan Lemond]

he's got to win, and he's got

[Matt Jones]

to win, and he's probably got to win more. He's probably going to have to overperform

[Ryan Lemond]

the talent of his roster because the

[Matt Jones]

secondary things that could have gotten people

[Ryan Lemond]

excited, like getting Stokes or getting Rob right or whatever, like he didn't do any of that.

[Matt Jones]

So now and then they also have

[Ryan Lemond]

to make a concerted effort to make this place feel cool again.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, we can't. We feel. We don't feel cool.

[Ryan Lemond]

We feel like we're, we're significantly less cool than the other power programs. So these are.

[Matt Jones]

So now can he fix it?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes. But it starts with winning. He's got to win.

[Matt Jones]

And then I think he's got to

[Ryan Lemond]

be better at talking to fan.

[Matt Jones]

Like all the things that I think he should be really good at, he kind of got away from in the last six or eight months.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's got to get better at that.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Maybe after he finally gets the roster finalize, maybe he'll get to do some of that, get into some of that this summer to kind of win, try to win.

[Matt Jones]

Right now I think it would be nice to tell the fans whether or

[Ryan Lemond]

not the roster's finished.

[Billy]

Yeah, I don't know if there's anything besides winning that could get some fan of the fan base back.

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But I don't matter what he says.

[Matt Jones]

You're not going to be able to

[Ryan Lemond]

get the people that are the most negative.

[Matt Jones]

But there's a lot of people who want to believe that just need him

[Ryan Lemond]

to give reasons to believe.

[Matt Jones]

I still think the vast majority of fan base, there are some Pope haters, but I think the vast majority of

[Ryan Lemond]

people really want him to succeed and

[Matt Jones]

they just need something to kind of latch on.

[Shannon]

If they could play anybody in the off season, just to be able to see the team play somebody, I think that would go a long way in making people.

[Matt Jones]

It'll help.

[Ryan Lemond]

But, but we have that Purdue win last year. That's going to make everybody skeptical no matter what happens until the first real game. Yeah, Will. Go ahead, Will,

[Will]

because it looks like the NCAA five year proposal thing is

[Kentucky Joe]

going to go through.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Will]

I would like to. I would like to tweak it a little bit. I don't think the, the five years should start until you actually enroll in a school. If you're, if you're a senior in high school and you're a pitcher and you've got to get Tommy John surgery, you, you shouldn't be be penalized for having to sit out that year. But then on the back end of it, cap it to where you cannot play beyond your 25th birthday unless you're in the middle.

[Matt Jones]

They're doing that, that Tommy John example. You're doing, and I appreciate the call.

[Ryan Lemond]

They are building in a year of injury.

[Matt Jones]

That's why it's five years. Like, it's always been four years. The question people would have is, well, why is it five?

[Ryan Lemond]

They're giving you an injury year.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And if it's your first year, well, then it's your first year.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

If you get hurt again, your junior

[Matt Jones]

year, again, well, then you're. That's bad luck. So they're basically building in an injury year. And if you're fortunate enough to never

[Ryan Lemond]

have an injury, well, five years you get.

[Matt Jones]

You get to play for five. You get. You get lucky. But they're making it to where there

[Ryan Lemond]

are no more excuses. Basically.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And I actually think that's good. And I think you also have to remember it's not just about, like, whether it's good morally. It's their way they think of this

[Ryan Lemond]

holding up in court.

[Matt Jones]

Because the thing that always gets them in court is they say, well, why can't you give this kid the exception?

[Ryan Lemond]

You gave this kid an exception.

[Matt Jones]

And they have a hard time justifying

[Ryan Lemond]

one exception over the other.

[Matt Jones]

Now they're just saying, we give no

[Ryan Lemond]

exceptions except for military and religious.

[Matt Jones]

And I think in that respect, I

[Ryan Lemond]

think it gives them a better chance of it holding up in court. Chris, go ahead. Chris.

[Kentucky Joe]

Oh, yes. You mentioned Pope in the team to open perform. I was wondering, do you think the trio of Diallo and Wilkins and Moreno

[Mike]

could be that trio or that core

[Kentucky Joe]

that he can use to build around to get the team to overflow?

[Matt Jones]

Because I can see that's a great question. Let me make the case. All right, I'm gonna be. This is not necessarily how I feel.

[Ryan Lemond]

Appreciate the call.

[Matt Jones]

This is not necessarily how I feel. So, Mario, don't make this video to

[Ryan Lemond]

where Buddy's playing it all the time, but, I mean, you can have it,

[Matt Jones]

but I just want it put in here. It's not how I feel. I'm gonna be Mr. Optimist, though. What's the best case scenario? Diallo and Wilkins are a better backcourt

[Ryan Lemond]

than any of the other years he's

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

had, which is possible.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's possible.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know that I think it's likely, but it's possible. Definitely possible, Brandon. Braden Hawthorne is a lot better than we think. Like, Braden Hawthorne is, like, a really

[Ryan Lemond]

good player that we just didn't know.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yep.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

And so this idea of, where's a star? He's a star.

[Ryan Lemond]

We just didn't know he was.

[Matt Jones]

Moreno takes a step up.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

This Kid coming from Italy is better than we think.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Freeman is your workhorse pounding big guy. Trent Noah makes shots this year.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Cam Williams makes shots.

[Matt Jones]

Cam Williams is a lot like takes the step up.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's how the team's good.

[Matt Jones]

That, that's. You need all of those things to be true. And then if that's the case, I

[Ryan Lemond]

think this team can be like 8 to 12 in the country. Be like a 3 seed or a 2 seed.

[Matt Jones]

I still. You're not going to be as good

[Ryan Lemond]

as Duke, Florida and those teams.

[Billy]

You stay healthy, too, and stay healthy.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. You have all those things happen, then

[Ryan Lemond]

maybe it works out. All right. Billy's got to run.

[Billy]

Thanks, guys.

[Ryan Lemond]

Happy birthday, Billy.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Birthday.

[Matt Jones]

We'll be back. Take your calls. Give away these gifts.

[Ryan Lemond]

Ut big hair makes his picks right after this.

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[Shannon]

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

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back techy sports radio.

[Ryan Lemond]

Spirit shares have plunged 80% as a report comes out today that the airline is about to close. Are you all sad? Do any of you fly Spirit?

[Shannon]

I think I just did on that last trip I went on. I think that was Spirit. No, no, no, no, nevermind.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was allegiant.

[Matt Jones]

You were probably.

[Shannon]

I was on Frontier. Frontier.

[Ryan Lemond]

Frontier, yeah. Yeah. All right.

[Matt Jones]

Jonathan Kitchen is here. Ut big hair. He comes on every year at this time to make picks for the races. Jonathan, I'm a believer in you. You haven't had the best record on this show.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon is a hater on the show.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon is always saying, Shannon says you. Shannon says you never get one right. Am I right, Shannon?

[Shannon]

Not on this show. I mean, maybe outside of the show, but not on this show.

[Matt Jones]

Jonathan, I believe in you.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is this the year of redemption?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I hope so. I mean, it's funny because Shan so nice on the pre call when he calls me to tell me I'm coming on. He's so nice to me. Best friends. I didn't know he was talking bad about that.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he doesn't talk bad. He just says you never get one right.

[Shannon]

I'm just reading the stats.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I hear you.

[Will]

It's.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Look, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's why it's so much fun. There's 20 horses in a race and it's tough. I think last year I picked journalism, but I'm certain I said a lot of nice things about sovereignty. I made a lot of money in the race. That's what's. That's what's tricky about.

[Matt Jones]

We need you to make money for us. We need you to make money for

[Ryan Lemond]

the people on this show.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I understand that. And here's the thing. It's. It's a tough race to pick one horse. Some years it's like that with American Pharaoh would justify. It was pretty simple. This is a year where I do believe there's four, five horses out of the 20 that can win. I'm going to pick one of them. But I do believe there's five horses that can win. And I will be playing multi race bets. Pick sixes, pick fives, all those types of things exact as if if you're playing at home, trifectas. I do believe that one of these five horses will win the one Renegade.

[Matt Jones]

Hang on. Let's start with the Oaks.

[Ryan Lemond]

Give me an Oaks winner first Oaks win.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I actually love a horse in the Oaks and it's a unique opportunity. Dave Portnoy owns Lovely Gray and all of the stoolies are going insane and betting Lovely Gray and Lovely Gray is 6 to 1 and she should be 50 to 1 and she's 6 to 1 right now. So there's a bunch of value on a bunch of other horses. Let's see what happens.

[Ryan Lemond]

Everybody's stupidly going with Port Noise hoy horse and that we.

[Matt Jones]

That make that gives opportunity.

[Ryan Lemond]

I like that.

[Matt Jones]

So what do we pick?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I like the five, meaning eight to one right now. Meeting should be four to one. We'll see what happens. Like I said throughout the day, but I love meaning at that price. I think that Michael McCarthy is one of my favorite trainers in the world. I think he's outstanding. He trained journalism last year, who won the preface. He's trained a lot of other good horses as well. So I like meaning, you know, and if she stays 8 to 1, I mean that is an opportunity that I won't be able to pass up.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon, are you going to bet on meaning?

[Shannon]

No,

[Matt Jones]

I like what you're saying.

[Shannon]

You're due. Maybe I will.

[Matt Jones]

You're due and I feel like you need meaning in your picks. And so I think it's perfect time now. Now, Kentucky Joe, who has always gone head to head with you, he picked Prom Queen.

[Ryan Lemond]

What do you think of that? He loves.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

He loves Brad Cox ever since he dares the devil.

[Ryan Lemond]

He does. Yes. He.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Yeah, I don't. I don't love Prom Queen. I think if you're looking for an alternative to meaning, I think maybe a horse like Explorer is a little bit interesting down on the inside, the one, the four counting stars, maybe a little bit interesting, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna hit you my wagon. A meaning?

[Ryan Lemond]

Meaning. All right, there you go.

[Matt Jones]

So now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Now let's go to the Derby.

[Matt Jones]

You have five horses. First of all, give me the winner.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

All right, the winner, in my opinion, the horse I think is going to

[Mike]

get the best trip.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

It comes down to Trip a lot in the Derby is the 18. Further ado. Kentucky Joe will like that. Trained. Trained by Brad Cox. So Kentucky Joe won't have a problem with that. He gets Johnny Velasquez, one of the greatest riders of all time. And Johnny is perfect fit for this type of horse. He's that kind of stalking up close, sit three wide type of trip. And. And Johnny will. Will be able to work that out. People are going to tell you the horses have never won from the breaking from the 17 hole. Even though he is the 18 horse, he's just scratched down to the 17. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. These horses don't know what horse, what gate they're breaking from. It's completely coincidental.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so Further Ado. Now, you know my strategy, which is I take the three favorites and I throw one of them out. Right now, the three favorites are Commandment, Renegade. You're picking Further Ado. So do I throw out Renegade or do I throw out Commandment?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I think the one if you're going to throw out would be Renegade. And it's not so much for me about the fact that he drew the rail. A lot of people are going to talk about the fact that he drew the rail and his style shouldn't matter. He comes from out of it. He's going to take back, make one run anyways. He's not going to be in a situation where he's unfortunate down there. At least you would hope not. It's more for me that he's going to be a little bit over. Bet there's been some mixed signals about how he's been working leading up to the race, and so that's enough for me. If you want to throw one of them out, to throw him out. He's one of my five that I'll use. He's one of my five that I'll use, but he's not one that I absolutely have.

[Ryan Lemond]

So you're telling me to throw out Renegade? We'll see if we do it. All right Now, I need one horse

[Matt Jones]

between like 8 and 12 or 8 and 13 to 1.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's going to be in the top three. Which one is it?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Yeah, it's one of my five, and it would be the 12. Oh, hold on. The. The nine. Where's the puma? Let me get his number right here on you.

[Ryan Lemond]

I see it. The Puma.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

The Puma, the nine horse.

[Kentucky Joe]

Yeah.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

The Puma, I think is very interesting, is a horse that these connections won with Mage a few years back. Same silk, same trainer, same owners, same rider. So he's been. He's been training really well. He's been working, he's been running really well. He exits that race that Commandment was in down in Florida, the Florida Derby. So he's one that I think will probably get a little ignored and he should creep up a little bit in price.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, I like the Puma then. Finally, the secret to my success on this has always been picking the right long shot. Not necessarily to win, but to be

[Matt Jones]

in the top three.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think you got to find one

[Matt Jones]

long shot you believe in. Which long shot do I believe in

[Ryan Lemond]

to get in the top three?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I would say Golden Tempo, the 19 horse trained by Sri Devoe. A woman's never won the Kentucky Derby as a trainer. I don't think he's fast enough to win, but his style is one in which I think he's going to take back. And while others are up there, you know, battling on the front end, he is one that can come pick up the pieces late. He's got a nice late closing kick. Not good enough, I don't think, to win, but he certainly is one you can get underneath in the trifecta or Super Effector.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so we. I assume your five are the three favorites.

[Ryan Lemond]

Renegade Commandment, Further Ado, the Puma, and what's the fifth one?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Chief Wallaby. Chief, the 12 horse.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, yeah, you like to.

[Matt Jones]

But see, you like, those are the five best odds.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, you, you, you like.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

You know what, though? The scene. Here's the deal. I don't like waking up on Sunday morning having lost money. It's very. It's a depressing thing. As much time and energy we put into this. There's certain years where you can pick one. There's certain years you have to be realistic and understand that whoever gets the best trip out of those five horses will win.

[Ryan Lemond]

Jonathan Ut, Big Hair.

[Matt Jones]

I like all those picks.

[Ryan Lemond]

I. I think I especially like the Puma. I'm feeling the Puma as being part of it.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate it. We're going to get a winner out of this. But you, if you got it, if People only have time to do one further ado.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Right Further. I always give you one in the undercard to kind of get you. Get you going.

[Kentucky Joe]

Raise.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Eight tomorrow. Race eight tomorrow.

[Kentucky Joe]

The six.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Crude velocity. I love crude velocity. In the eighth tomorrow.

[Ryan Lemond]

Crude velocity. In the eighth tomorrow. You got that, Ryan?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

I wrote down crude velocity.

[Ryan Lemond]

Crude velocity.

[Matt Jones]

Jonathan, I'll see you later today. Thank you very much, my man.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Take care, guys.

[Ryan Lemond]

There we go.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

The dude obviously knows what he's talking about. I've just crossed my fingers. He didn't say my horse.

[Ryan Lemond]

What do you mean?

[Shannon]

Obviously?

[Ryan Lemond]

He.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

He knows the game.

[Shannon]

10 years.

[Matt Jones]

So mean. Why are you. Why are you so being mean?

[Shannon]

I'm being honest. You know that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, it's still kind of mean.

[Matt Jones]

Debbie. Go, Debbie.

[Shannon]

Debbie, what's your pick? You probably know.

[Debbie]

Well, I don't do horse racing, so I got three quick things. First of all, if you love sunshine pumpers, that's why you love Mark Pope. He talks a whole lot, but he never really says it says anything. And about 95 of his vocabulary is adjectives. Second of all, can we please not say Will Stein is going to be great because he's one of us, because it sounds way too much like he understands the assignment, and I never want to hear that again. Needs to start. Vince Merrell needs to start his own social media company and call it Vince social so he can express all his own unique views.

[Shannon]

Wow, Debbie bringing the fire.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Debbie Downer.

[Ryan Lemond]

Debbie just does smackdowns on people.

[Kentucky Joe]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Which is great.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

We just talked yesterday how the female fans seem to be more positive and supporting of Mark Pope.

[Matt Jones]

Well, not Debbie.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Debbie ain't in that club.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow, Debbie.

[Mike]

All right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Debbie bringing the heat. All right, if you're on hold and you want either the Theo Vaughn tickets or the golf scramble, stay on if

[Matt Jones]

you don't hang up. So Dave, Mike, Bob, and Terry, if you're interested in those, stay on.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you're not, hang up. For the rest of you, we now have open lines.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. If you're interested in either the ovon

[Ryan Lemond]

or golf scramble, open up the line. Shannon, Bob and Jamestown, get off the phone. Cause you're not playing in the golf scramble and you don't want to go to the O. Vaughn. I know that, Bob. I know you don't want that.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's hanging on. Which of those could he want? Shannon?

[Shannon]

Maybe both. Maybe he wants to play golf with

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

you in the same golf cart for five hours.

[Ryan Lemond]

Just give Bob 30 seconds. So he's done Bob real quick.

[Mike]

And I'd like to be in a Blue Brother movie. And I hope those people down in Berea get some justice when they drag that Weaver dude back kicking and screaming to London Federal Court for the death penalty. And that's all I must say. Guys, have a good weekend and have fun.

[Ryan Lemond]

There you go. We will take a break, come back, give away these tickets and get us into the weekend. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

welcome back techie Sports Radio. All right, here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna have two minutes callers on

[Ryan Lemond]

the phone to figure this out.

[Matt Jones]

I'm giving you the prompt right now

[Ryan Lemond]

and you have two minutes. Since we stole the tickets from Shannon in the pre show, we're also going to steal the game.

[Kentucky Joe]

Oh I love it.

[Ryan Lemond]

We steal the tickets in the game Thief.

[Matt Jones]

You six callers on.

[Ryan Lemond]

You have two minutes to come up with a horse name related to UK

[Matt Jones]

Athletics or I'm going to open it up to SEC teams. One of the 16 teams in the SEC, a UK a horse related name. The funniest one will get to choose either the golf scramble or the ovon in second place.

[Ryan Lemond]

We can gets the other one if they want it for you.

[Matt Jones]

Six on there, Jeremy, Glenna, Grant, Cole, Spencer and Terry.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you don't, if you can't come

[Matt Jones]

up with one, hang out and let

[Ryan Lemond]

somebody else do it. So in two minutes you have two minutes to be thinking your brain.

[Matt Jones]

It can be UK or SEC related creativity. So if you say Philly Collie Stein, you lose.

[Ryan Lemond]

Cause that was mine from years ago. Philly Collie Stein is still the best,

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

still a good one.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, while you do that, tell me about Stockton.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

This is gonna be a really good spot because I have a script to read.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go for it.

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[Ryan Lemond]

got to just read.

[Matt Jones]

Just use your normal voice.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

That's when I do a script I'm doing.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but Shannon, don't you think it'd be more effective?

[Ryan Lemond]

He's just using his own normal voice.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, yeah, because like, like people like realism.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

So I mean, you don't have to do it again.

[Shannon]

I'll do it.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

We do it again.

[Matt Jones]

No, but the next time I just

[Ryan Lemond]

think you should just use your real voice. You don't need to go like I just do it.

[Shannon]

Matt's going to show you what this DraftKings ad here. How. How to do it.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I have to do a draft kings ad.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Yeah.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Okay. Just use your normal voice.

[Ryan Lemond]

Didn't say DraftKings on there, did it?

[Shannon]

DK Custom segment. We can just say that the.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, this is. This.

[Ryan Lemond]

These horses are DraftKings custom segment. You go to DraftKings and you can bet at the DK Horse app. And by the way, DK, you can go anywhere.

[Matt Jones]

DK Racing available elder strings apply. Voyager prohibited. First eligible bet only.

[Ryan Lemond]

Must win to share prize pool.

[Matt Jones]

Cash reward via click to claim.

[Ryan Lemond]

Expires in 30 days. Limited time offer see [e-mail] DraftKings

[Mike]

you

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

need to use your normal voice and hit all the words.

[Matt Jones]

So. So you go to DK horse.

[Ryan Lemond]

Remember, you use KSR horse to get in. All right, they've had their two minutes before I do it. Real quick, did you read the story about Jim Palmer?

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

No.

[Ryan Lemond]

Jim Palmer's 80 years old, great baseball player, never had a chicken wing in his life.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I did see that.

[Matt Jones]

Two weeks ago he calls the Orioles game.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He said if some player on the team were to hit a grand slam during the year, he would eat a

[Ryan Lemond]

chicken wing because that player's favorite food were chicken wings.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

He hit a chicken wing two days,

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

hit a grand slam.

[Ryan Lemond]

He hit a grand slam. He didn't hit a chicken wing. He hit a Grand Slam.

[Matt Jones]

So 80 year old Jim Palmer for the first time ever ate a chicken wing. Wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

And he said he thought it was

[Matt Jones]

too greasy and had too much skin.

[Shannon]

Well, he didn't get KS bar chicken wings.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

He should have, should have need a good chicken wing.

[Matt Jones]

But he had been 80 years old and had never eaten a chicken wing. The guy hit the grand slam and people just started screaming, chicken wing, chicken wing.

[Ryan Lemond]

And he had to eat the chicken.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Good little gimmick that they had. I can't believe the guy didn't have one years.

[Matt Jones]

Any.

[Ryan Lemond]

And he had one. Okay, here we go.

[Matt Jones]

We'll start with Terry. Terry, give me your horse name.

[Mike]

Rope a dope pope.

[Ryan Lemond]

Rope a dope pope. Okay, hang on, hang on. Rope a dope pope. Let's go to Glenna. Go ahead, Glenna.

[Kentucky Joe]

Clara Da Mara.

[Matt Jones]

What?

[Kentucky Joe]

Clara as in Clara strength? Clara the Mara as in a mare

[Matt Jones]

horse O Clara by mayor.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, Gotcha. Okay,

[Matt Jones]

Jeremy, what's your horse?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Quick patino.

[Ryan Lemond]

Quick patina all right, Quick Patino.

[Matt Jones]

Cole, what's your horse?

[Mike]

Cat Scratch Fever.

[Matt Jones]

Cat Scratch Fever. Grant, what's your horse?

[Mike]

Hottie Trotty.

[Matt Jones]

What does that have to do with UK Sec?

[Kentucky Joe]

I thought you said.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, like Hottie Toddy. Yeah, Hottie Trotty. Okay, gotcha. All right. See, I had to remember it was sec.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay. All right, hang on.

[Matt Jones]

And then finally. Spencer.

[Ryan Lemond]

Spencer. Go

[Mike]

Stud Fee Blue.

[Matt Jones]

Stud Fee Blue.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Shannon]

Okay, can we just give the tickets to me?

[Ryan Lemond]

None of those were couple.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

There's like, two decent ones.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't know what.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, so let's just eliminate them as we go. Stud Flea blew out, right?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon, eliminate one. We have Quick Patino, Clara by Mara.

[Matt Jones]

Hottie Trotty. Cat Scratch Fever.

[Ryan Lemond]

Rope a Dope.

[Shannon]

Clara by Mara.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, like Claire.

[Matt Jones]

But very few people will try to

[Ryan Lemond]

get the women's team.

[Shannon]

I understand, but it's, you know, Mayor.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Sorry, Glenn. All right. And then Jeremy. So you got Ryan. Do you want to eliminate Quick Patina Patino, Hottie Trotty.

[Matt Jones]

Cat Scratch Fever.

[Ryan Lemond]

Rope a Dope Pope. Rope a Dope Pope.

[Shannon]

That was Terry's.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, so now that leaves Quick

[Matt Jones]

Patino, Hottie Trotty, and Cat Scratch Fever.

[Ryan Lemond]

I have to get rid of Cat Scratch fever because, like, that's what's happened to a horse.

[Bretzky (Spinquest Promoter)]

Right.

[Ryan Lemond]

So that leaves Quick Patino and Hottie Trotty.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Those are the two best ones.

[Ryan Lemond]

So what are we picking?

[Shannon]

I like Quick Patino.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Shane and I both kind of, like, perked up when he said Quick Patino,

[Ryan Lemond]

but it doesn't have anything to do with a horse.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Well, the horse is quick.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Out of the gate.

[Ryan Lemond]

I see. Yeah. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so you're two going to vote for Quick Patino?

[Kentucky Joe]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

Mario, what would you vote for? All right, so it's going to be Quick Patino.

[Matt Jones]

So put Jeremy on.

[Ryan Lemond]

Jeremy.

[Matt Jones]

Jeremy, would you rather have the Theo Vaughn tickets or the Golf Scramble?

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

The Ovon tickets.

[Kentucky Joe]

Wow, wow, wow.

[Matt Jones]

The golf scrambles worth, like, a lot of money. Man, you must really like the Ovon, Jeremy. Right?

[Kentucky Joe]

I like to play golf, too, but

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

I haven't picked up my clubs in two and a half years, and I don't.

[Matt Jones]

You know what? All right, so fine, I'm going to give you. You'll get the Theo Vaughan tickets. Hang on. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll just hold off and give the golf scramble on Monday and do a golf related game.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Okay, good idea. Because that was the big prize of the day.

[Matt Jones]

That was a Big prize. But you know what? He wanted the ovant. So I hope you get. I hope you get to meet Theo and. And then, yes, you can invite him to the golf scramble, which you are no longer able to go to.

[Kentucky Joe]

Can I explain how I came up with the name?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I could figure it out, but go ahead.

[Jonathan Kitchen (Ut Big Hair)]

Yeah. Because of his little indiscretion at the.

[Matt Jones]

Figured that out. Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

I assumed it was because of his. Because of his sexual antics.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, thank you very much.

[Ryan Lemond]

Hang on. Shannon will get your information. So there you go.

[Matt Jones]

So I'm off.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna go change.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Going to the Oaks.

[Matt Jones]

Going to Oaks Historic. First one at night. Yes, you're there. Wave.

[Stockton Mortgage Representative]

Do you have some crazy suit today this year?

[Ryan Lemond]

No crazy suit. I actually have a nice jacket and pants and I'm ready to go. Thank you all very much.

[Matt Jones]

I'll try to put out my trifecta picks tomorrow and hopefully it'll hit again. And for the rest of you, enjoy

[Ryan Lemond]

your weekend and we will be back next week. If you go to Theo Vaughn, say, what up, Theo? This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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