2026-07-02- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Date: July 2, 2026
Host: Matt Jones
Panel: Drew Franklin, Ryan Lemond, Shannon the Dude
Location: Louisville, KY

Episode Overview

This pre–Fourth of July edition of KSR is light on traditional UK sports, focusing instead on summer and community topics, UK basketball nostalgia, and offbeat local color. With little UK sports news during the holiday lull, Matt Jones and crew deliver a mix of humor, debates about thermostat etiquette, a field report on Louisville’s Norton Commons, a spirited discussion of obscure UK basketball players, and reactions to Team USA’s advancing soccer hopes.

Key Discussions & Insights

1. Summer Heat & Thermostat Debate

(Thermostat talk starts at 03:50)

With July 4th coinciding with an intense heat wave, Matt Jones kicks off with the region’s burning question: "What temperature do you set your thermostat at during the summer?" The conversation is prompted by a local mayor’s plea for residents to set thermostats to 78°F to relieve pressure on the power grid—a suggestion met with disbelief and banter:

• Lineup:

  • Matt Jones: Keeps it at 71°F, may push to 73°F due to open ceilings; finds 78°F impossible.
  • Ryan Lemond: Sets at 70°F, could possibly go to 73°F for community, but "75 is miserable".
  • Drew Franklin: 68–69°F at night ("maybe even 65 on summer nights"), compensates in winter by not using heat.
  • Shannon: 73°F during the day, 72°F at night—claims "I can tell a big difference."

• Community Good vs. Personal Comfort:

  • Matt presents a disaster scenario akin to large-city blackouts, asking how much panelists would sacrifice for the grid.
  • Ryan, despite mayoral aspirations, resists the 78°F request. Drew and Shannon grudgingly agree to rise into the mid-70s in a crisis.
  • Quote:
    Matt Jones (09:42): "If you don’t do it and you get a blackout and it’s 98 degrees, then you’re going to wish you had done it.”

• Nostalgia:

  • Matt reminisces about growing up with only a window unit in his parents’ bedroom; the family would retreat there on hot days.

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2. Norton Commons – Kentucky’s Truman Show

(Segment starts ~11:43, deep dive at 12:52)

Matt recounts a rare visit to Louisville’s Norton Commons neighborhood, likening it to "The Truman Show" for its surreal tidiness and uniformity, and explores its local mythos, including its supposed swinger culture.

• Observation Highlights:

  • One of every business type: “a fish restaurant, a chicken place, a steak restaurant... and only one of everything.”
  • Perfect lawns, identical flags, abundance of golf carts, absence of visible cars.
  • Residents always smiling and waving; suspected dog/owner ratio of 1:1.
  • Quote:
    Matt Jones (13:13): “Just go to Norton Common. Just look it up. It's like the Truman Show has been put in Kentucky for about four blocks.”
  • Drew (13:55): “I think he [the groundskeeper] uses scissors—that's how nice the yards are.”

• Swinger Myths:

  • Upside-down pineapples as a supposed signifier, but Matt didn't see any this trip—“Maybe all the talk about it has made people pull it off their [doorsteps].”
  • Vibe: Couples in late 40s/early 50s, “you know when you know.”

• Panel wonders if outsiders would be welcomed in equally cheery fashion.

• Stonehenge Surprise:

  • Discovery of an ersatz "Stonehenge" in a local park.

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3. Team USA Soccer & Coach Fashion

(Soccer talk starts ~20:59; fashion reactions at 21:05)

• Team USA advances, enthusiasm is high (aside from Shannon and Ryan, less invested in soccer).

• Coach’s $500 unbuttoned Hugo Boss shirt draws amusement:

  • Matt Jones (21:10): "But he only has one button. He buttons one button right above his belly button and lets it hang open above and below. That's an amazing look."

• Red Card Outrage:

  • Panel and callers see the key player’s red card as undeserved, bemoan soccer’s harsh rules.

• Next Match:

  • Facing Belgium, first time in final eight since 1930s—excitement builds, although Ryan and Shannon admit they’re tuning out unless it’s the championship.
  • US seen as slight favorites, but Belgium has “Malaku,” a star striker.

• Crowd Scenes:

  • Louisville’s Fourth Street is packed for the match, illustrating growing soccer culture.

• Celebration Song:

  • Debate over “Country Roads” as USA’s new theme; generally embraced, though some object to a state-specific anthem.

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4. Obscure UK Basketball Players Trivia

(Starts at 32:43 and returns after breaks)

A deep, funny dive into the most forgettable, obscure players in UK basketball history (Patino era to present):

• Criteria: Players you forget were on the roster, especially walk-ons; two categories: walk-ons and scholarship players.

• Top Picks:

  • Walk-ons:
    • Buddy Housel (Josh Harrellson’s friend; “How many people do you think remember Buddy Housel other than me?” – Matt)
    • Adam Delph
    • Carrie Benson, Jarvis Walker, Skip McGaugh
  • Scholarship:
    • Nate Knight, Bernard Cote, Joey Hart (noted dunk contest champion, possibly most obscure of Calipari era), Raquelin Sims, Donald Williams.
  • “Obscure but good”:
    • Jason Parker (hidden 20+ point game vs. UNC)
    • Isaiah Jackson, NBA mainstay but rarely reminisced.
    • Carlos Toomer (panel recalls his UK athlete poetry blog).

• Notable exchange:

  • Drew (41:45): "I found an old story... Billy Gillespie views [Donald Williams] as a replacement for Joe Crawford."
  • Matt (41:45): "I think that’s disrespectful to Joe Crawford."

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5. UK Basketball Discussion—Celebration Songs & Fashion

(Starts at 27:06)

• Country Roads again addressed as a crowd-pleasing but regionally awkward new anthem.
• Panel reminisces about old calls for new UK songs, preferring classics—refuse to play most fan-submitted UK-themed songs to avoid hurting feelings.
• Panel jokes about UK's World Cup coach fashion—a call for brown suits as sideline attire receives laughs.

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6. Listener Q&A – UK Athletes for Fourth of July Cookout

(45:00)

• Caller asks: Which UK Wildcat (any sport) would panel invite to a July 4th cookout?
  • Common answers: Anthony Davis, John Wall, Randall Cobb, DeMarcus Cousins, Willie Cauley-Stein, Dante Key.
  • Matt wants DeMarcus Cousins—"if he promises not to hit me."
  • Drew: Willie for his party style.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Thermostat Sacrifices:
  Matt (09:42): "If you don’t do it and you get a blackout and it’s 98 degrees, then you're going to wish you had done it."

• Norton Commons Description:
  Matt (13:13): "It's like the Truman Show has been put in Kentucky for about four blocks... Everything is like an architecture that you would find nowhere else."

• On Coach’s Soccer Sideline Shirt:
  Matt (21:10): "He only has one button... right above his belly button and lets it hang open—none above, none below."

• Obscure Player Game:
  Matt (35:28): “Buddy Housel! How many people do you think remember Buddy Housel other than me?”

• Call-in Comedy:
  Caller Mark Anthony (28:58): "Our coach looks like he just got done installing somebody's water heater and then pulled his PL truck up on the sidewalk to coach the team."

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Important Timestamps

• 02:42: Show begins, Matt Jones notes it’ll be a light sports show.
• 03:50–09:42: Thermostat etiquette and “community” in extreme heat.
• 12:52–14:18: Norton Commons, Kentucky’s Truman Show.
• 19:05–25:00: Soccer review, US team’s progress and coach’s shirt.
• 27:06: “Country Roads” as Team USA’s new anthem.
• 32:43–44:57: UK basketball’s most obscure players; walk-on and scholarship debates.
• 45:03: Listener call—Which UK athlete for July 4th cookout?

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Takeaways

• Community vs. Comfort: The KSR crew offers both laughs and honest opinions on everyday topics—today’s highlight, the comfort-versus-civic-duty debate on thermostat settings.
• Local Color: Segments like the Norton Commons report provide vivid local flavor, blending light humor with cultural observation.
• Good-Natured Nostalgia: The deep dive into UK basketball’s most forgettable names is tailor-made for die-hard fans, showing the show’s sweet spot—sports blended with wit and personality.
• Soccer Momentum: Even non-fans note the surprise rise of soccer’s popularity in Kentucky, seen through packed watch parties and debates over favorite anthems.
• Listener Engagement: Callers and texts are woven in throughout—always with a comic twist.

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For First-Time Listeners

You’ll get far more than just UK news—KSR’s radio hour is a rollicking Kentucky community conversation, full of warmth, quirks, and a deep but never-too-serious commitment to Bluegrass sports and culture.

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[Shannon]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, July 2nd. I'm Matt Jones here live in Louisville, Kentucky. Right before the 4th of July on what is claimed to be likely the hottest day of the year. I walked outside. It shouldn't be allowed that people are outside today. Clark's puppet shop phone lines, 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office called TJL Make Them Pay. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you this is gonna be not a lot of sports day today. I mean, there'll be some sports, but probably not a lot of UK sports. Cause you know what? Nothing's going on. If that's not your thing, that's okay. But it's the Holly, it's the Fourth of July. This isn't the time to debate whether Zoom can run the Zoom action. I just thought about that.

[Ryan Lemon]

There you go.

[Drew]

And Mark Pope zoomed with him.

[Matt Jones]

That's interesting. Mark Pope zoomed with Zoom about playing the zoom.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Yep.

[Drew]

I mean, what a head. What a pretzel. That just put my head in.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we're going to have that. Jimmy Dyke's going to make a joke about that this year, isn't he?

[Drew]

Oh, Zoom running Zoom Zoom action. Just give him the nickname.

[Matt Jones]

So that's not today. Today's gonna be like pre holiday fun. So I wanna start with something that I think everybody has a strong opinion about. Everyone listening to this show is going to have a very strong opinion about this topic. And it came up yesterday. I don't know if you saw. You know, in. In major cities, there's worry that during this little heat wave, the power grid is going to run out.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Not necessarily a worry in Louisville or Lexington, but in like Houston and D.C. and Nashville and New York, people are kind of worried about that. So, you know, there's a question. What do you do in that scenario? Now, everyone's favorite mayor in Kentucky, Zoron, he came out and put up a post that said, hey, everybody, for the Fourth of July, do us a favor. Put your thermostat at 78. That's what he said. And online, everyone had Mario's face. 78. Are you crazy? So, first of all, I want to start with this question. In the summer, what do you normally set your thermostat at?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm at like 70.

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71.

[Matt Jones]

71. That's what I go with. Is 71.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Sometimes, you know, my house got big open ceilings now.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

To keep the thing down. Saying, like, 73.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But I can tell a difference between 73 and 71.

[Ryan Lemon]

Absolutely.

[Shannon]

There's.

[Matt Jones]

And then upstairs, I don't have furniture yet. It's on 76. And I walk up there, and I'm like, whoa.

[Ryan Lemon]

So what about you?

[Drew]

Below 70? Might have it go below 7. Probably 68, 69. In the summer, if I'm going to bed, maybe even all the way down to 65 in the summer. I'm not doing it in the winter.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

In the summer, your electric bill's got

[Matt Jones]

to be ton, isn't it?

[Drew]

That's not too bad. And I make up for in the winter. I don't even turn on heat. Just. Just rock with what's outside.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, wait a minute. You don't use the heat?

[Drew]

I mean, if it gets real bad, but mostly no. So what, you all.

[Matt Jones]

So you're in the 60s all year?

[Drew]

Pretty much now. During the day, if I'm outside, I won't just leave it blasting. I'll turn it up to 73 if I'm, you know, mowing or something. But if I'm inside going to bed on the couch, it's.

[Matt Jones]

Do you like to be cold?

[Drew]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Shannon, what about you?

[Shannon]

I'm 73 during the day, 72 at night. One degree.

[Matt Jones]

You think that makes a big difference?

[Shannon]

I can tell it. I can tell a big difference.

[Matt Jones]

You're like, so you can lay in be. You're saying I could set your thermostat and you could tell me it's at 72 or it's 73.

[Shannon]

You know, it's a little warm in here, and I could go 73. Put it on 72. Perfect temperature.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So let's say Linda Gordon looked at you, the people of Lexington, and said, look, this weekend, we're in trouble. The good thing about Lexington is our power grid is not quite as worrisome because we are spread out. From what I understand, our power grid is not in, like, not as bad as some of these big cities.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

So I don't think you have to do this, but let's say Linda Gordon said, for the weekend, I need you folks to do me a favor. 78. Would you a do that? Or if not, would you at least turn it up a little bit for the community?

[Ryan Lemon]

That's what I would do. I would go up to maybe like 72, 73. But I'm not going to.

[Matt Jones]

You wouldn't go to 75? For the community.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, that's miserable.

[Matt Jones]

How are you going to be the mayor if you won't make any sacrifices

[Ryan Lemon]

for my new platform?

[Matt Jones]

That you're going to let the power grid explode?

[Ryan Lemon]

73 or under, but what then do

[Matt Jones]

you do if you have a blackout? We read about how New York, over the years, they've had blackouts. The blackout in 1977 produced a lot of babies.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

No, it set the city on fire,

[Ryan Lemon]

and they had a lot of babies.

[Matt Jones]

I think they were trying to get away from the fires.

[Ryan Lemon]

You just said, our power grid is safe in Lexington. So I'm like, Hey, 73.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Say you were.

[Matt Jones]

Let's say it wasn't. Let's say that the people in chart. Your head of electric.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Comes up to you and says, ryan Lemon.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If people don't at least go to 75, the city of Lexington is going to be at a blackout on the Fourth of July. And so we'd like you to say 76. 77, because we know some people won't, and it'll average out to 75. Would you get on the television and say, I, Ryan Lemon, am asking you, people of Lexington. 70. 75.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah. If the head of the electric department, Ku, came to me and said that I would have to do that as a leader.

[Matt Jones]

You're now saying you wouldn't do it if Linda Gordon, who presumably got the same message, sent it to you, but

[Ryan Lemon]

you said, our power grid's fine.

[Matt Jones]

I'm in a hypothetical world he can't get his head around. Like, he can't live in a hypothetical world. Shani's like, it's not what Landa Gordon radio show. I am saying to you, let's say we were in that world. Linda Gordon is saying to you, you have to do it or you don't have to. But we're asking you to do it.

[Ryan Lemon]

This give you my honest answer? I would try to get as close to 78 as I could, but at nighttime, I'm not doing it.

[Matt Jones]

So how can you expect, as mayor, people to listen to you if you won't listen to the mayor?

[Ryan Lemon]

Because I'm not right now. I'm not the mayor. I'm just. I'm just. I'm just Joe Masterson station.

[Matt Jones]

You know what? You're the worst person to play hypothetical games with on the planet.

[Shannon]

It's make believe, right?

[Matt Jones]

It's made. All right, so let's say Linda Gordon said it to you. What do you. I want you to be honest. What, are you setting your temperature?

[Drew]

I'd play along going all the way to 78. I'll be honest, I don't think I would do it, but I would not run it on 68. What I would normally do, I'd probably 73. I try 74, 75 as long as I could. But if I needed to go down a little bit, you know, I got fans, but I would.

[Matt Jones]

I would fans. I would try to be a part

[Drew]

of the community as best I could. I wouldn't be selfish.

[Matt Jones]

What about you?

[Shannon]

I'd be willing to go up a degree or two, maybe 74, 75, like Drew said. But here's my thought. If you don't do it and you get a blackout and it's 98 degrees,

[Matt Jones]

then you're going to wish you had done it. You're going to wish you had done

[Shannon]

it, you'd had your 75 degrees, because now your house is 95.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. So here's what's interesting in theory on this show, by the way, I'm probably not going to 78. My house right now upstairs is like 75, 76. And I think I could deal with that. So I would do that. But here's what's interesting on this show in the range of selfishness, generally speaking, Ryan, people would say, Ryan the least selfish, Shannon the most selfish. Shannon's willing to do it. Drew's willing to do it, and Ryan, who wants to be mayor of a community, not willing to do it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I said I'd go up. I'm not gonna go to 78.

[Matt Jones]

You said you were gonna go up to 71.

[Ryan Lemon]

I never said that about this. In this scenario, what are you going to?

[Shannon]

How generous of you, Ryan. 71.

[Matt Jones]

What are you going to?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm probably going to try to sneak up to 75, please.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I don't know. Now he's backtracking.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Caller Chase]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

So Drew brought the good thing, the fan. Like, I've got a fan in my room right now. Josiah's got a fan in his room. So we just crank some fans.

[Tony Ayo]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, when I was a kid, when we first moved into the house, we didn't have central air. So like the. Like my parents room was the only one that had air conditioning in. The whole house had a window unit.

[Tony Ayo]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And we would all really hot days. We would all just go sit in there and then. Or. But then you'd have a fan.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

So just an interesting thing.

[Ryan Lemon]

Ceiling fan and a fan.

[Matt Jones]

I think Ryan's chances of being Mayor Shannon are solely based on whether he talks about Issues. As long as he doesn't, I think he can win.

[Shannon]

Every time he talks about being.

[Matt Jones]

Every time he talks about. Exactly right. They get much worse.

[Drew]

He's the candidate that won't do debates, won't show up. Just running on his name and his signs in the yard.

[Matt Jones]

Brian Lemon, a name you know, just

[Ryan Lemon]

put up signs everywhere. It's all you need.

[Matt Jones]

All right, second thing yesterday, Aaron Goldhammer. Do you know who that is?

[Ryan Lemon]

Do not know who that is.

[Matt Jones]

He's a radio host in Cleveland. He also does some stuff on ESPN Radio.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

He.

[Matt Jones]

His family's from Louisville, so he was in town.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

And so I went to meet him for dinner and I did something I haven't done in many years. But you're gonna remember the last time I did it. I went to Norton Commons.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, my.

[Drew]

That's your area.

[Matt Jones]

So I haven't been there since like 2021. And remember, we started. We learned about upside down pineapples and we learned about all that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

I got to say to all of you in the state, I. I mean, this. This is not. I'm not blasting on Norton Comets. Matter of fact, I walked around with Aaron a little bit, and we have a lot of fans there. A lot of people came up. So I'm not. I'm not anti Norton Commons. Those of you who live in Louisville, Shannon, have you been to Norton Commons ever?

[Shannon]

I don't think I have exactly.

[Matt Jones]

I think a lot of people don't because it's kind of tucked away. Like, you gotta want to get there, Shannon. Right. Like there no reason to go unless you've got. Unless you're there or somebody there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Have you been drove through it on the way to the golf course. I scrambled our golf scramble.

[Matt Jones]

But now that wasn't the residential part. You just drove through the.

[Ryan Lemon]

My GPS took me through, like the bunch of town homes there and.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, but you didn't go through the business part.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't think so.

[Matt Jones]

Have you?

[Drew]

I've been. It's been a few years, but I've been in the last three or four years.

[Matt Jones]

Here's what I would say to everybody in the state. Next time you come to Louisville, just go to Norton Common. Just look it up. It's like the Truman show has been put in Kentucky for about four blocks. Shannon, you wouldn't think you were in Kentucky. It is. It's the Truman Show. Everything is like an architecture that you would find nowhere else in the state. It has one of every business, just like the Truman Show. There's a fish restaurant there's a chicken restaurant, there's a steak restaurant, there's a Pilates place, there's an ice cream. But there's only one of everything. It's like they collectively.

[Drew]

One barber, one hair salon, one dentist.

[Matt Jones]

There is a dentist, and they're all in a thing. And every house, every house has an American flag in perfect yards. They all are mowed by the same guy who I think mows him at the same moment.

[Drew]

I think he mows. I think he uses scissors. That's how nice they are.

[Matt Jones]

Every one person you walk has the same smile on their face. Well, hello, neighbor.

[Drew]

I think you get kicked out if you don't wave when you're walking down

[Ryan Lemon]

the street one way. Everybody have a dog.

[Matt Jones]

They're all dogs. And everyone has a golf cart. There are no cars. You drive a car, they look at you saying, like, get out of here, stranger.

[Shannon]

It's a golf cart.

[Matt Jones]

It's a golf cart. Everyone's got golf carts of all ages. Old people driving golf carts. Kids are driving golf carts. Babies are driving golf carts. It's the oddest place I've ever been. It's as if, like, a beach community got dropped into. Into Louisville. And the fact that it's just a few miles away from, like, Frankfurt Avenue, it's the craziest thing. And I never, you know, I've only. This is only the second time I've ever been. But, Ryan, it's not like anything. Like, it's not a part of our human world. Norton Commons.

[Ryan Lemon]

So are the myths true or not about Norton?

[Matt Jones]

I didn't see couples exchanging themselves on the street.

[Ryan Lemon]

Did you see any upside down pineapples?

[Matt Jones]

I didn't. And I looked. I think maybe all the talk about it has made people pull it off their.

[Drew]

Okay, they found a new symbol that we don't know.

[Matt Jones]

I saw people walking the streets that I think probably participate.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah. Looking at them.

[Drew]

Business.

[Matt Jones]

Late 40s, early 50 couples. Their kids just went off to college. Maybe. Yeah, Maybe.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I could. Yeah. You know, when you, you know, when

[Matt Jones]

you know, you know, when you, when you know, you know.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Are all the business signs out there, like, real simple and kind of.

[Matt Jones]

You know how in Pineville every sign looks the same? We've talked about that. That's Norton Commons. Every. Every guy, every sign was done by the same guy. It was during the U.S. men's soccer game and people were in the bars. But Drew, in a very orderly way, they were going, go usa. Just a. Just immaculately different place. In Kentucky.

[Drew]

You use Truman Show. It's also like I don't know if y' all watched it but the paradise where they built the town to get away from like the big catastrop. They like built a little small town James Marsden show and it's just like Norton Commons it looks like.

[Matt Jones]

So I would say to you go there, park your car on the outset because if you drive a car they will shoot you.

[Ryan Lemon]

But how do they treat outsiders? Are they just.

[Matt Jones]

They're very well, they're very nice to me. I don't know how they but they're like seven, seven restaurants each of them orderly system to eat.

[Ryan Lemon]

I wonder how they treat like if we just the public just started showing up these places they well I hope

[Matt Jones]

you do to see what happens.

[Drew]

You got to smile and wave.

[Matt Jones]

So just a little piece of Kentucky maybe that you do not know. 859-280-2287 Text machine is 772-774-5254 we're gonna take a break. Billy's got his counties. Later we're gonna Talk about Team USA's big win last night and more as

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. One person writes, how does Drew think he can win Survivor if he can't handle over 70 degrees?

[Drew]

I didn't say I couldn't handle it. I just choose to put it on there because I can really. I just want to be comfortable.

[Matt Jones]

Remember when Ashley Madison had their data breach? It caused Norton Commons to nearly split apart. Oh, Shannon feels like a hotbed.

[Shannon]

I think their power grid went down.

[Matt Jones]

Their website crashed, by the way, during that comment. Yeah, during our conversation.

[Ryan Lemon]

The Norton Commons one there.

[Matt Jones]

Apparently there's a Norton Commons website. It crashed during the middle of the conversation.

[Drew]

I think they like when we talk about them.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they were, let me just say they were very nice to me. Like, no, like a lot of KSR fans. So I, you know, I take this with some trepidation.

[Drew]

I mean it would be some easy living over there. It seems you just walked everything, everything's clean.

[Matt Jones]

You could walk. I mean you could walk to everything. Like there were like two pubs. One was a Wings place. One was like a pub place you could go. For those of you that are drinkers, you could drink walk back home. I don't think you can get on your golf cart. You can still get a DUI on a golf cart. They also have their own Stonehenge.

[Ryan Lemon]

What?

[Matt Jones]

You know what?

[Drew]

Stuck in their own history.

[Matt Jones]

Like that stones with like thing. They had their own one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Like in the middle of the complex,

[Matt Jones]

there's like a little park and there was, I walked over, I was like, what that it's a Stonehenge.

[Shannon]

It's less cool though if it's man made because Stonehenge is not.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but it is in it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Made by alien aliens.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, well, it's not made by aliens, but it has to be man made. Rocks don't just grow up with stuff on them.

[Drew]

Somebody had to stack them and man couldn't do it back then.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, because they're strong.

[Caller Chase]

All right.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's like their landing spot for the alien spaceships.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't think that's true. You had to be excited. The USA won last night with our fishing shirt coach there.

[Drew]

You like his shirt?

[Matt Jones]

His shirt cracks me up. Who buttons their shirt in the middle?

[Drew]

He's been wearing that.

[Matt Jones]

But he only has one button. He only. But he buttons one button right above his belly button and lets it hang open above and below. That's an amazing look to me and I'm surprised.

[Drew]

Like Nike or Adidas don't make him wear some apparel. Like he's just rocking regular.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Dude.

[Matt Jones]

Apparently they looked it up. That shirt is $500. Yeah, that's a kind of expensive Hugo Boss shirt.

[Drew]

Well, we love him.

[Matt Jones]

He's. Anyone else that rocks. The one button above the belly button. None above, none below.

[Drew]

No, not at all.

[Shannon]

He's got a sports jacket on. But it's his shirt.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, it's button like a sports jacket, but it's a shirt and he wears the T shirt under it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Well, he's turned us around.

[Matt Jones]

We're looking good. Were you mad that our guy got kicked out?

[Ryan Lemon]

He's like our best striker, right? He's the best player.

[Matt Jones]

Did you just use the word striker?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he looked really good on the, on the pitch last night. He's one of our best players on the pitch.

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[Matt Jones]

Did you see Harry Henri?

[Ryan Lemon]

He and the new kits that they have, they really look sharp.

[Shannon]

Did you watch what Billy said on the pre show? Did you hear Billy talking?

[Matt Jones]

Hang on. Was that your opinion or did you hear it from Billy?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I may have listened to the pre show prep and Billy was quite upset about this striker being kicked. I got a red card. Now he can't play in the next game.

[Matt Jones]

Now the rules apparently are that he can't play in the next time. Did you think he deserved it?

[Drew]

No, not at all. You got to have a little bit of intent and I hate that. Like we get so excited. There's so many people that don't watch soccer and they're tuned in and that's how soccer rewards. This new audience is showing one of the worst parts of soccer of how I hate that rule. With a red card, one mistake can cost you a game. At least with like two yellows you did something twice. But one bang bang play cost him

[Matt Jones]

and your next 10 on 11.

[Drew]

Yeah, I like we played. Still played pretty aggressive even, going 10 on 11. But I absolutely hated it like everyone else. The replay, the var, whatever they called it, I think without that. I mean, the. When you watch it live in real time, it looked like nothing, just like a collision.

[Matt Jones]

So are you getting excited about it?

[Ryan Lemon]

They play Belgium next, right?

[Matt Jones]

Play Belgium. Who we have not beaten since 1930. Shannon, I feel like we're due.

[Shannon]

Are you okay? What's happening in there?

[Drew]

I don't even know what that was. Yeah, it landed on me.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Is everybody okay?

[Shannon]

The studio falling apart.

[Matt Jones]

The studio is falling apart while we are.

[Ryan Lemon]

Look at that.

[Matt Jones]

A big piece of the studio just fell on Drew.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

It did.

[Matt Jones]

All right, hang in there. The studio is literally falling apart. But we haven't beaten Belgium since 1930.

[Ryan Lemon]

Now, the United States ever been this far?

[Matt Jones]

Once, I think.

[Caller Chase]

No, no, no.

[Matt Jones]

We've been to the final 16 a few times. We've only been to the final eight, I think, one time. Okay, one time.

[Ryan Lemon]

So it's big.

[Matt Jones]

It is big. Yes, it is big.

[Ryan Lemon]

And where will it be? They keep moving.

[Matt Jones]

I think they're in Seattle.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, they had good crowds in Seattle. They were crazy in Seattle when they played.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. No, we'll have a great crowd advantage. Belgium is one of the teams. When I went to the Euros, I followed, so I actually know some of those guys. Not personally, but I.

[Ryan Lemon]

What's the scouting report? Can we beat them?

[Drew]

They're lucky to be in it. They were down.

[Matt Jones]

They were down two goals with, like, six minutes to go and scored quickly and then one in overtime. They have a guy whose name is, like, Malaku, who's, like, this legend there. He's the one that scored their goal yesterday. I'd say they're probably a little better than us, but we certainly have a chance to beat them. Drew at home, definitely.

[Drew]

We're a slight favorite on. On DraftKings, but it's pretty close. Yeah. I mean, they cheated to beat Senegal, so I feel like we have cheated. Yeah.

[Shannon]

They.

[Drew]

They called a game a penalty case.

[Matt Jones]

Right? They did.

[Drew]

Shouldn't have been just like us. Terrible call. So I feel like we do have to do it for the World Cup. We're the world versus Belgium right now because everyone was so upset with that.

[Matt Jones]

Are you into it, Shannon? Like, did you. First of all, did you watch the game?

[Shannon]

No.

[Matt Jones]

You didn't even watch.

[Shannon]

I turned it on, watched a little bit of it, and it's like, I can't.

[Matt Jones]

Mario, are you into it? No. Okay. Drew, are you into.

[Drew]

Course.

[Matt Jones]

But it seems like you're usually.

[Drew]

But it seems like everyone, these three people have got. I mean everyone I know has gotten

[Matt Jones]

4th street right outside our door last

[Ryan Lemon]

night for the soccer match.

[Matt Jones]

Oh my goodness. It was packed out here last night.

[Ryan Lemon]

On a big jumbo screen.

[Matt Jones]

They had it on the jumbo. All these bars were packed. The, the, the, the ground.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

The ground.

[Matt Jones]

The street on fourth street was packed. So like. Did you watch it?

[Ryan Lemon]

Not a second.

[Drew]

Okay, so I feel like so many new people are watching it, but these three.

[Matt Jones]

Why don't you all want to watch it? This is America. Be patriotic.

[Ryan Lemon]

I did want to know if they won or lost, but I didn't watch it.

[Matt Jones]

Not one second.

[Ryan Lemon]

It was on.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so Belgium. I think it's going to be on Sunday.

[Ryan Lemon]

Monday.

[Drew]

I think Monday at 8.

[Matt Jones]

Monday, Monday at 8. Okay, so it's going to be on your normal. Like you'll be at home. Will you watch that?

[Ryan Lemon]

Probably not.

[Shannon]

Championship.

[Matt Jones]

How far can they go before you'll watch it?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, probably the championship match.

[Matt Jones]

You wouldn't watch the Elite eight against Spain, one of the best teams in the world.

[Ryan Lemon]

If it's on and I'm sitting in front of the tv, I might watch a little bit of it.

[Matt Jones]

What did you watch instead? Last.

[Ryan Lemon]

Didn't watch anything.

[Matt Jones]

Just stare off into space. What did you do?

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, we had a birthday dinner last night. We went for birthday cake. Dane's birthday was yesterday.

[Drew]

I saw that. Happy birthday, Dane.

[Matt Jones]

We made him wear a sombrero.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, of course. Went to birthday cake. And then I had to go home. I had to pack for my big trip and do some laundry. Okay, so zero watching.

[Matt Jones]

So you're gonna be at Hilton Head.

[Ryan Lemon]

Correct.

[Matt Jones]

Sit at the beach and watch Belgium.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't know if I get a TV there on the beach.

[Matt Jones]

Your timeshare doesn't include a television on the beach.

[Ryan Lemon]

It doesn't. But maybe inside the, the timeshare, you

[Matt Jones]

are just, you know, you've been gone so long, I forget what a bizarre creature you are. 859-280-2287. We will take your calls and be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Shannon]

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

[Matt Jones]

I love this song. Yeah, I mean, I said John Anderson, Shannon, because I know you're a John Anderson fan as well.

[Shannon]

Yeah, huge John Anderson fan. He's my all time favorite when it comes to country music.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, you got to play Wild and Blue. Cause that's, that's you. You and I both like that one. One person Writes on the text machine. Matt, do you agree with the decision by the US Team to start playing Country Roads as our celebration song? That's kind of become a thing now. When we win, they play Country Roads. That was obviously West Virginia song. Drew, are you good with that becoming kind of the American theme song, or do you think we should pick something else as a nation?

[Drew]

I'm fine with it. That crowd looked awesome. I mean, our coaches from Argentina. And even he's mumbling the words. I don't know how many of you knew, but he was trying. I would have loved to have been in that stadium when they were singing it. So I'm fine with. I mean, what else we can do? Toby Keith, Lee Greenwood, you know, not Lee Greenwood.

[Matt Jones]

Not Lee Greenwood.

[Drew]

So I'm fine with it. I thought. I thought it was very cool. And the team plays Ella Langley in the locker room.

[Matt Jones]

I'd take Country Roads over that, but I like it.

[Caller Chase]

I like it.

[Matt Jones]

What about you? You good with that?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm definitely good with it. Or something about that song that does. I feel like it's American.

[Matt Jones]

Say West Virginia.

[Shannon]

Yeah. That doesn't represent us.

[Matt Jones]

It represents one of the 50 states.

[Ryan Lemon]

I understand. John Denver. The song is really about the state of Virginia, just the western part of the state.

[Matt Jones]

I know we talked about that the other day, but should be doing this, Walker. It works for us.

[Drew]

They also played some Elvis, maybe a little Sinatra. I mean, it sounded. Sound like a good playlist.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it looked like an awesome, awesome thing. The. The games have been amazing. 859-280-2287. I said, I tell you what, we'll go to a call. Before I do, I want to do a UK basketball topic, but who's up first?

[Shannon]

Mark Anthony.

[Matt Jones]

Mark Anthony, go ahead.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Hey, good morning, Matthew.

[Caller Chase]

Fellas.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Hey, Matthew. I've watched a little bit of this World cup thing, and I noticed that most of the coaches like to dress to the nine. They do, wearing designer this, that. And our coach looks like he just got done installing somebody's water heater and then pulled his PL truck up on the sidewalk to coach the team. I mean, it's a different look.

[Matt Jones]

It is.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

I like it.

[Matt Jones]

I said, he looks like he's going fishing, but he's, like, Argentinian. You know, I'm with you. What is happening?

[Drew]

I keep hearing that. I'm making sure I'm not crazy. We good?

[Ryan Lemon]

What is that?

[Drew]

I got stuff falling on me. There's. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Sorry, Mark Anthony. It's just our building is shaking right now, but go ahead.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Okay. On your AC. My AC said it's 76 because Ms. Boo won't have it any lower than that. But do you have ceiling fans in your new house?

[Matt Jones]

No.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Oh, get yourself some box fans. Set them up, turn them on. Oh, you need to get the air to move. That's all. Set your AC on 76. Leave your blinds closed. And I know they are closed because

[Matt Jones]

I can't open them.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Yeah, that's good. That's good. But get the air to move. If you got ceiling fans, turn them on. Well, they hardly use any electricity. And then put your AC on 76. And the magic of air conditioning removes the humidity from the air as it cools it. So that's half the battle right there. I'm 76 and I feel good inside.

[Matt Jones]

So that's good enough for Mark Anthony. It's good enough for me. I appreciate the call.

[Ryan Lemon]

When I am not at the house, my son sneaks into my room, into the thermostat and lowers it to 65. I come in, and his house is like an ice box. Like, dude, what are you doing?

[Matt Jones]

And then your bill, sky high. It's got to be crazy, right?

[Ryan Lemon]

So I'm sure this week when I'm gone, it's going to be down to 65.

[Matt Jones]

My pole in my net came in.

[Drew]

Oh, nice.

[Matt Jones]

So I've been. I'm today clean. Most of the gnats are gone because they feel. What happened, Shannon, is it rained so much, the water went above the level of the skimmers.

[Shannon]

My pool guy told me the bugs came out.

[Matt Jones]

So the bugs, they couldn't skim them out.

[Drew]

So the bugs.

[Matt Jones]

Because the. Because it rained so much in Lexington. That's why he told me it happened.

[Ryan Lemon]

You're going to be out doing now

[Matt Jones]

I have a poll. I think I'm going to scoop just for fun, be good.

[Drew]

Time for Shannon hit the scoop drop. We got Scoop Jones Scoop Lemon. We got all the scoops.

[Matt Jones]

Who's next?

[Tony Ayo]

Shannon?

[Matt Jones]

Lincoln. Go ahead, Lincoln.

[Caller Lincoln]

Hey, Hunters.

[Matt Jones]

Hey.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

The.

[Caller Lincoln]

The way that Ryan was talking about soccer in the last segment, you would think that somebody slept at a Holiday Inn Express.

[Matt Jones]

And it's true. With the strikers and the pitch and

[Ryan Lemon]

the kitchens and the kids.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller Lincoln]

Well, hey, and another thing with the World Cup, Mark Anthony mentioned how all the coaches are dressing. I really think everybody would look good in brown. Have they thought about trying brown suit?

[Matt Jones]

They should. They should try that. The brown suit thing is taken off to know, like, people are sending me every time they wear brown, they send me pictures of them wearing brown. Asking if they can come to the wedding. I mean, Billy's wedding has become the second biggest wedding of the summer next to Taylor and Travis.

[Drew]

It's definitely one of those topics that hasn't gone away.

[Matt Jones]

And it's not going away. It's only going to ramp up, ramp up. I think we got to get those

[Drew]

tailored shirts, garden shoes.

[Caller Lincoln]

I think he should try and get some sponsorship money from ups. Maybe a little nil deal. Something just to get it done. But hey, you guys have a great day. Love the summer shows. Go.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it.

[Ryan Lemon]

We have headphones on and we're still hearing that.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know what is going on. Is there an attack occurring?

[Shannon]

I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

My goodness. Okay, so there was a topic online that I wanted to move to the radio show.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

All right. So the topic online yesterday was this. If you look at the history of UK basketball, who are the most obscure UK basketball players of all time? They were on the team, but for whatever reason, not remembered, or people might not even recognize the name. So to me, there are two categories of this. There's scholarship player and walk on player. Okay. People online were debating him. Here's my criteria. Patino or sooner. Because if we go before that, there's gonna be a lot of people that there might be great players I haven't heard of. So Patino or sooner, who is the most obscure player? Now, I will say two people you cannot mention are a couple of the guys that were on Patino's first team because people every always forget them. Michael Parks.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

What was the other guy? There were two of them

[Shannon]

so obscure you can't even remember.

[Matt Jones]

One of them's name was Michael, but there was another one. He just used it to fill out the roster.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I can't remember.

[Matt Jones]

I can't remember. But let's start with. Let's start with walk on. Who do you think is the most obscure walk on to ever play at this school?

[Ryan Lemon]

Billy had like five on that one team. Didn't he be one of those?

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[Matt Jones]

So which one do you think is the most obscure?

[Drew]

Adam. Del.

[Matt Jones]

That's a.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's a good one.

[Matt Jones]

That's a good one. I didn't. You know, he was.

[Drew]

He's from Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

Prp.

[Drew]

See Cows Walk ons were pretty popular. They had their own branding a little bit. So you got to go pretty far.

[Matt Jones]

Is a really good one. See, that was not going to be my pick, but I kind of wonder if that one's better. That's a good, good call. What was. Okay.

[Drew]

What's yours?

[Ryan Lemon]

What's the kid's name? He was from lca. That ended up, I think, quitting even before the season was over.

[Matt Jones]

Lca?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he played at lca. I can't remember his name.

[Matt Jones]

There wasn't a kid from lca, was there? I think there was a little talking about Matt Sherbinski. He's not that obscure. He was on the team for a few years and he's a coach too. And I. He might have gone to lca and

[Ryan Lemon]

maybe it's who it was.

[Matt Jones]

What was the kid from Pikeville? Landon Sloan.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, Landon Sloan.

[Matt Jones]

My pick. Although I think Adam Delft might be better. My pick was Donald Williams.

[Drew]

Big Don Williams guy, the big unit, transferred from Ole Miss.

[Matt Jones]

That's Mike Morquino Williams. A good contender for the scholarship one.

[Caller Chase]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Donald Williams, if you remember, was Josh Harrelson's best friend.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, yeah.

[Drew]

No, no, that's Buddy Housel.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, Buddy Housel.

[Drew]

Donald Williams transferred from Ole Miss.

[Matt Jones]

Nevermind, I changed my vote. Buddy.

[Drew]

He came with jorts.

[Matt Jones]

How many people do you think remember Buddy Housel other than me could never

[Ryan Lemon]

have thought of that name.

[Matt Jones]

That's even more obscure than Adam Delft. Because Adam Delft was from Kentucky. Buddy Housel is even more obscure. Can you think of anybody more obscure than Buddy Housel? As a walk on.

[Ryan Lemon]

As I said, it had to be one of those.

[Matt Jones]

It's Josh Harrelson's.

[Drew]

Buddy came from Missouri with him.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, Missouri. Now, most obscure scholarship player

[Ryan Lemon]

was Jason Latham. A scholarship player?

[Matt Jones]

He was. I don't think that's a bad one. But he was on the national championship team, so people might know him because

[Drew]

of that Stacy Poole Jr.

[Matt Jones]

The tried outs, I think know him. Adam Williams, but he won the dunk contest. What about Nate Knight?

[Ryan Lemon]

That's a good one.

[Drew]

Good one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, because he left for the season, was even half over, I think.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, Nate Knight, although his brother was very famous.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Anyone else?

[Drew]

People forget Raquel and Sims. He played a little bit. Good one.

[Matt Jones]

Raquel and Sims.

[Drew]

He played a little.

[Matt Jones]

Remember his picture? The very first picture we ever saw.

[Drew]

It's another juco guy.

[Matt Jones]

I like Raquel and Sims. Was Donald Williams a scholarship player?

[Drew]

I kind of think he was. I have to look that one up. If he's a scholarship player, he's the answer.

[Matt Jones]

If he's a scholarship player, he's definitely the answer.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I kind of feel like he was.

[Matt Jones]

Then he might be the guy. Anyone else? Is there anyone that was only on the team, maybe quit after a few days or like, you know, a few games.

[Drew]

What was Carrie Benson? Was he scholarship or Walk on.

[Matt Jones]

Carrie Benson.

[Drew]

He's local to Louisville, isn't he?

[Matt Jones]

That was a Billy guy, I think a Billy walk on. The other walk on on that team was Jarvis Walker, Antoine's cousin.

[Drew]

I think we had a Jarvis Walker on football at the same time we had one on basketball.

[Ryan Lemon]

Boy, you're pulling some names out that I haven't thought of.

[Matt Jones]

Name you just said again.

[Drew]

You know, I gotta look him up, see if he was.

[Matt Jones]

Carrie Benson is in content.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's the winner for the walk on.

[Drew]

Played at Louisville or from Louisville. From prp.

[Matt Jones]

Was he a scholarship or not?

[Drew]

Trying to look it up. I'm going to guess walk on being Billy.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I like Davis.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm trying to think walk ons in the Tubby era. Dwight Perry. Bobby Perry's.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. But he started an NCAA tournament.

[Ryan Lemon]

Had to start because they messed up the schedule.

[Matt Jones]

So he definitely is not it. He's very well known. And he's a head coach, isn't he?

[Ryan Lemon]

He is now. Like at firm. Not at firm.

[Drew]

Tournament.

[Matt Jones]

He made the tournament.

[Ryan Lemon]

Wofford. That's it.

[Shannon]

Looking at the 2008, 2009 roster.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Shannon]

Mark Hustle.

[Matt Jones]

Do you know who that's Buddy. That's Buddy. His friends called him Buddy.

[Shannon]

Mark on.

[Matt Jones]

I thought that was a Buddy House.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

That's all right.

[Drew]

We had some.

[Matt Jones]

You have better ones. One vote for Bernard Cote.

[Ryan Lemon]

I remember him because he was a scholarship player.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. And he was Canadian.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. He was Hip Hip Cote.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Party in the USA that somebody suggested. That is the song.

[Ryan Lemon]

I love that song.

[Matt Jones]

That would be a really good song. After you win the game, everyone would dance.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. Do the whole thing.

[Shannon]

They would dance to this song.

[Matt Jones]

This song. Just stop, Shane. Oh, come on, stop.

[Shannon]

It's a great song.

[Matt Jones]

What did you just tell me about Donald Williams?

[Caller Lincoln]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Imagine you played this after you won and all the players would sing along to it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Coach would sing.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. I like that idea. What were you gonna say?

[Drew]

Doing my Donald Williams research during the break, I found an old story from when he committed that says Billy Gillespie views him as a replacement for Joe Crawford.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that disrespectful to Joe Crawford. It is Jody Thompson.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, that's a good one. He was from Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

Was from Pikeville, wasn't he?

[Ryan Lemon]

I think he was.

[Drew]

And I've got to put some respect on Skip McGaugh from Madisonville. That was the walk on. I should have. I should have known that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Skip McGough.

[Drew]

It's a Madisonville guy.

[Matt Jones]

Joey Hart.

[Drew]

Joey Hart, dunk contest champion. He was a scholarship.

[Matt Jones]

And that's a cow guy.

[Drew]

Yeah, Cal gave him a scholarship.

[Matt Jones]

Joey Hart. When they do this show in 20 years, the next generation of this show, Joey Hart's gotta be one of the answers. How many people do you think even have a Joey Hart memory?

[Ryan Lemon]

I forgot. He won the dunk contest. Like Drew just said, he's gotta be the most obscure of the Cal era for sure.

[Drew]

And Cal, like recruited him and he ended up at Ball State after Kentucky to show how the end of that

[Matt Jones]

era was going to Joey Hart. He's the most obscure of the Cali.

[Caller Lincoln]

I think.

[Matt Jones]

So this is a good question. Who's the most obscure good player at Kentucky? I have a couple suggestions. What's his face? Jason Parker. Jason Parker went for like 25 against Carolina.

[Ryan Lemon]

Hurt his knee during Big Blue Madness.

[Matt Jones]

You think anybody even knows what he looks like?

[Ryan Lemon]

Probably not.

[Matt Jones]

Can you in your mind right now picture Jason Parker who went for like 20 against Carolina in a game we won on the road?

[Ryan Lemon]

See, I can't. That's back when I was in the thick of it.

[Matt Jones]

So you remember what he looks like?

[Drew]

Yeah, I can kind of picture like his UK athletics photo. But I mean, if you not. I don't have a memory of him playing in a game.

[Matt Jones]

Can I give you a guy that I think is very obscure, that was really good here and is still good? I don't think fans have any memory or ever bring up Isaiah Jackson.

[Drew]

Yeah, when you were gone last summer, we did a draft and he was my number one overall pick for best forgotten player.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think anyone ever mentions him. And he's been in the NBA for seven years.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

He's a first round pick.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And even when we talk about that team, we talk about BJ Boston or Terence Clark, no one mentions him.

[Drew]

I remember him wanting him to play more. I don't. He didn't even really start a lot of the year, if I'm not mistaken.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, he was like.

[Drew]

He was played out of position. I remember we were frustrated with how Cal was using him, whatever it was.

[Matt Jones]

Sasha Kalea Jones played two years.

[Ryan Lemon]

I have zero Memory of him playing.

[Matt Jones]

Dude, he had one game. I feel like for us, that he played well. That he played. He came off the bench and I want to say, like, he played really well. Do you vaguely remember that?

[Drew]

Didn't. Is he the one that got like a death threat from a Louisville fan? I think he might have been one that had some. Got caught up in the rivalry a little more. Went to NC State.

[Matt Jones]

Carlos Toomer.

[Ryan Lemon]

Carlos Toomer's another one.

[Matt Jones]

Early days of KSR was a legend because he would write poems.

[Drew]

The guy. That's good. Do people remember that?

[Matt Jones]

You don't remember that?

[Ryan Lemon]

No.

[Matt Jones]

Carlos Toomer had a blog where he wrote poems, and we would do the Carlos Toomer poem of the day, and they were poems named after his teammate.

[Ryan Lemon]

We should bring that back.

[Matt Jones]

He took them off the Internet, but. But he. He played along with it. But he had poems that were like named Darren Feldhouse.

[Ryan Lemon]

Awesome.

[Caller Chase]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Who's next? Shannon.

[Shannon]

Let's go to Chase.

[Matt Jones]

Chase. Go ahead, Chase.

[Caller Chase]

Hey, guys. I'm down here in Shannon, the dudes favorite place in Panama City, Florida. But I was wondering for this weekend, with it being the 4th of July, who would be your favorite Kentucky Wildcats. That any sport that you would invite to your fourth of July cookout? Mine would be Anthony Davis, John Wall and Dane Keysome.

[Matt Jones]

Why Anthony Davis and John Wall?

[Caller Chase]

Just because I grew up with them and I'm in the. As you all know, the age range.

[Matt Jones]

But don't you think you would kind of fanboy out a little bit with them?

[Caller Chase]

Well, they're just all. They've just always been some of my favorite players. Yeah. What they've done for Kentucky, that way I could get Ron so I could get rid of the cookout. But I also enjoy dang he during the Stoops era.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Chase. For me, rukosh, Randy and DeMarcus. If he promises not to hit me since he's been. Since the last time he made a statement, he was mad.

[Drew]

I got to have Willie there. Willie and I would have fun together. Maybe too much fun. One could argue.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Who's running the grill?

[Matt Jones]

I got to get one first.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's why I'm inviting Dante, because he's a good grill master.

[Shannon]

Are you more of a charcoal guy or a gas grill guy? Matt?

[Matt Jones]

You know, I could be convinced to go either way.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, that's what I hear.

[Drew]

That's a good thing. One of the bad.

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[Matt Jones]

I mean, you get some. There's some. There's some positives.

[Ryan Lemon]

Charcoal positive.

[Matt Jones]

The char Flavoring.

[Drew]

There you go. Good, good flavor.

[Matt Jones]

Natural gas. Probably easier to do. Don't clean up as much. Yeah, I know.

[Shannon]

You know, hook it up, turn it on.

[Matt Jones]

Listen, don't get me with specifics. I'm chills trying to get my blinds up.

[Drew]

I'm probably getting a second grill this weekend. You want to go with me?

[Matt Jones]

No, you have two. I think yours is good.

[Shannon]

Wendell's up next.

[Matt Jones]

Wendell, go ahead. Wendell, though.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Yeah.

[Caller Lincoln]

West Virginia, Mountain mama.

[Caller Mark Anthony]

What are you thinking?

[Caller Lincoln]

That's almost as bad as Rocky Top, Tennessee.

[Matt Jones]

I. I'm kind of with you. I don't like. I feel like it's singling out one state, whereas a song that's about all of America is kind of more. Plus, I don't think they would have done it if they hadn't beaten us. I think part of the reason they're using it is because of the moment that happened after they beat us to go to the regional. You know what I mean? And so I don't know Kentucky Blue.

[Ryan Lemon]

What?

[Caller Mark Anthony]

Have you heard the new fight song, Kentucky Blue?

[Matt Jones]

No, I don't like songs. I appreciate the call. I don't like when people. The amount of people that send me. I've written a song about Kentucky. I can't do it. There was a time we used to play them, Shannon, and you would make fun of all of them.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And I felt like it broke people's hearts.

[Shannon]

The real T. Jones going to teach them back.

[Matt Jones]

That was a good song.

[Shannon]

Stop it. That's the. I'd rather hear Kentucky Joe than that.

[Matt Jones]

No, I wouldn't. I love the real T. Jones, but people send me like blue is in my heart. I love blue.

[Drew]

Have you heard Benny Snell?

[Matt Jones]

I can't because I don't want to be mean and all and like. So I can't play them. So, yes, I. People put out those songs all the time and I just. They send them to me. I just. I can't do it. We'll take a break. Our number two's KSR this July 4th,

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