2026-08-05- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR (Kentucky Sports Radio) – Hour 1 Summary

Episode Date: August 5, 2026
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon
Theme: UK Sports Talk, Local Kentucky Color, Ask Anything Wednesday

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of KSR blends Kentucky sports updates, entertaining personal stories, and listener engagement with "Ask Anything Wednesday." The crew—led by Matt Jones—mixes in playful banter about local happenings, reflects on UK basketball's optimism and frustrations, debates college sports regulations, and fields humorous and thought-provoking questions from fans.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Show Energy & Recent KSR Nostalgia

• Matt reflects on doubts from station bosses about his commitment and praises recent show quality:
  • “Yesterday was a, like, one of our better shows, like, in a long time... I was just showing them. You know what? We're still going to be throwing fastballs here.” (03:17)
• Recent highlights: Ryan Lemon's trivia and dynamic topics from the previous hour.

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2. Ryan Lemon’s Notorious “Moist” Shirt

• Comic Relief: Extended ribbing of Ryan’s questionable fashion choice—a tight white shirt emblazoned boldly with “moist.”
  • Matt, describing it: “White shirt, capital letters, black font... it says the word moist. And then in little letters because at least one person, you know, hates this word.” (04:20)
  • Drew: “I think you said, one day on the show, that’s the one word you can’t stand.” (05:31)
  • The crew mock Ryan’s revelation, with Matt’s exasperation and Drew’s explanation of the shirt’s origins.

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3. Matt’s Reds Game Night Story: Book Reading & Awkward PDA

• Matt attends a Reds-A’s game, trying to read a book (“The Hill”) amid a couple’s excessive public makeout session in front of him.
  • “...there was a younger couple, probably in their early 20s, that just kept making out sitting right in front of me. Oh, and I mean, to the point, like, you could hear the slobber.” (06:16)
  • Adds humor about the lack of star power in the A’s lineup: “I looked at the A’s lineup. Never heard of one person in it. Not one.” (07:18)
• Describes Reds’ comeback win with two runs scored on back-to-back wild pitches; crew jokes about the rarity and absurdity.

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4. Pool Passes & Barry Manilow Scuttlebutt

• Mario (a staff member) goes “Instagram official” with his girlfriend—at Ryan’s pool, thanks to a “summer pool pass.”
  • “He just goes. And they just hang out at Ryan’s house and hang out by the pool.” (11:05)
  • Ryan: “I gave Mario a summer pool pass. He can come and go as he pleases.” (11:11)
• Barry Manilow’s Rupp Arena concert is canceled due to unreported medical issues. Drew shares “scoop” from people at the venue.
  • “I think he’s already canceled the concert tonight in Cincinnati... people were already there when they canceled it, right?” (12:03)
  • Explores the demographic (mostly elderly “fanilos”) and reflects on the phenomenon of aging pop stars still touring.

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5. Music Legends’ Longevity

• The group marvels at the ages and output of icons:
  • Billy Joel (77), Elton John (79), Mick Jagger (84), Willie Nelson (93, over 100 albums).
  • Matt: “He’s, I believe, in his 90s... putting albums out, which to some level, Drew, you have to respect at this point.” (21:11)
  • Ryan: “It says he has released over 150 total albums, including 100 studio albums.” (21:45)

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6. Kentucky Basketball: Optimism vs. “UK Hangover”

• Matt shares a critical listener’s text accusing Drew Franklin of turning “Mr. Negativity” regarding UK basketball and Mark Pope.
  • Drew responds: “It has not been the experience we’re used to for a long time... it’s been a long time since we’ve been what we all want to be.” (22:49)
  • Matt and crew debate the root causes (recent underperformance, tournament disappointment) and discuss what would satisfy their expectations—a “double-bye” in the SEC tournament, contending consistently.
  • “The best thing that happened to Mark Pope was Will Stein. Because I think a lot of the Will Stein excitement has put off basketball negativity.” (25:29)

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7. Salary Caps, Fairness, & College Sports Legislation

• Call-in question about NIL (Name/Image/Likeness) caps for players and coaches:
  • Matt: “Give me another industry in America where Congress puts a cap on how much money you can make.” (27:27)
  • Crew expresses skepticism about the fairness—predicting players will face limitations, while coaches and administrators avoid similar caps.
  • “Workers don’t write the laws. CEOs write the laws. So CEOs get what they want, and workers get screwed. That’s America.” (30:03)

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8. Lighthearted Listener Calls & Memorable Anecdotes

• Craziest Things Believed as a Kid: Caller Andy recalls being told by his uncle that neighbors who moved out became Thanksgiving dinner, leading to much laughter and mild alarm from hosts. (33:28)
• International UK Fandom: A new Air Force–stationed-in-Germany listener contemplates waking up at 2am to watch UK games live, getting empathetic commentary from the crew. (36:03)

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9. Saddest Song Debate

• Listeners and hosts share their picks:
  • Matt: “Tell Lori I Love Her”—“That’s the saddest song.” (31:15)
  • Other potentials: “Old Violin” (Johnny Paycheck), “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (George Jones), “Hurt” (Johnny Cash), “Whiskey Lullaby,” “That’s My Job” (Conway Twitty).
  • Much humor about the weird “creepy” nature of old Conway Twitty songs.
  • Brief attempt to name sad non-country songs, e.g., Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel.”

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10. Southern Living’s Most Historic Kentucky Restaurants

• Southern Living lists three must-visit Kentucky restaurants: Patties, Boone Tavern, and Jack Fry’s.
  • The group reminisces about each, especially how everyone’s grandmother had a subscription to Southern Living. (46:11)

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11. UK Basketball Roster Construction & NCAA Transfer Portal

• Listener asks about UK’s quest for a 15th roster player and talent in the current transfer pool.
  • Consensus: Kentucky will likely add someone, but many potential additions depend on court rulings and NCAA eligibility waivers.
  • “Mitchell (from Missouri) would have been top 10 [in the transfer portal]. Keyshawn Hall has the best case for eligibility.” (49:22–51:14)

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Notable Quotes & Time Stamps

• “We’re still going to be throwing fastballs here.” – Matt Jones [03:17]
• “White shirt, capital letters, black font... it says the word moist.” – Matt Jones [04:20]
• “You could hear the slobber... There is a point like, how many times you got to kiss somebody during a baseball game?” – Matt Jones [06:16]
• “He just goes. And they just hang out at Ryan’s house and hang out by the pool.” – Matt Jones [11:16]
• “Barry Manilow is a huge star. You got to be careful... he canceled the concert.” – Matt Jones [11:52]
• “He has released over 150 total albums, including 100 studio albums.” – Ryan Lemon [21:45]
• “It has not been the experience we’re used to for a long time... it’s been a long time since we’ve been what we all want to be.” – Drew Franklin [22:49]
• “Workers don’t write the laws. CEOs write the laws. So CEOs get what they want, and workers get screwed. That’s America.” – Matt Jones [30:03]
• “Tell Lori I love her.” – Matt Jones’ pick for the saddest song [31:15]
• “My uncle... made me believe that my grandparents... would put [former tenants] in the Thanksgiving dinner.” – Andy [33:28]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:17] – Matt asserts KSR’s continued quality; “throwing fastballs.”
• [04:20] – Ryan’s “moist” shirt discussion.
• [06:16] – Matt’s story about awkward PDA at the Reds game.
• [11:16] – Mario’s pool pass and Barry Manilow concert cancellation details.
• [21:11] – Willie Nelson’s remarkable music output.
• [22:49] – Drew responds to “negativity” criticism about UK basketball.
• [27:27] – Salary cap and fairness discussion.
• [33:28] – Andy’s “wildest thing you believed as a kid” story.
• [36:03] – Listener Danny in Germany on watching UK games from abroad.
• [46:11] – The crew reacts to Southern Living’s Kentucky restaurant picks.
• [49:22] – Discussion of potential UK basketball roster additions/transfer portal talent.

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Tone & Language

• Conversational, self-effacing, sometimes irreverent Kentucky wit.
• The hosts riff off one another with a tone both approachable and locally flavored.
• Banter is playful but insightful, with a balance of sports analysis, local gossipy tidbits, and comic asides.

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For New Listeners

• Expect a fast-paced, unpredictable mix of Kentucky sports analysis, local culture, and off-the-wall humor.
• Listener participation is central—calls and texts shape the flow.
• Sports take center stage but are always colored by the hosts’ distinctive personalities and real-life asides.

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End of Hour 1.

Transcript

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[Mangesha Tekodar]

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[Mangesha Tekodar]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan Lemon]

This is Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage and the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety Safe Summer Driving Tour. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, August 5th. I'm Matt Jones here on a beautif in Lexington, Kentucky. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Full house Clark's pop and shop phone line. It is going to be an ask anything Wednesday. You can ask whatever you want. If you ask good questions, I get even happier. If they're bad questions, it still gives us something to talk about. 785-928-02287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine. 772-774-5254. In this dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. It was fun reading people's text yesterday. Throughout the day as. As the. The second hour, I. I thought, you know, I will tell you, our bosses drew. They don't say it, but I can tell our bosses have been a little bit like, okay, is Matt going to pay all his attention to the national show and then not pay? And then I thought yesterday was a, like, one of our better shows, like, in a long time. Ryan Lemon's trivia. A lot of the topics we got on the second, it was like a vintage. And I was just showing them. You know what? We're still going to be throwing fastballs here.

[Shannon]

Yep. I just got straight. I just saw Ryan shirt. I don't know what's going on there,

[Matt Jones]

but why did you wear that shirt? Like you.

[Shannon]

I just. That just caught my eyes. I was about to say, can I

[Matt Jones]

read you, Shannon, what Ryan's shirt says?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, I can't see it. What is it? What's it say? Why is he laughing maniacally?

[Shannon]

That really just threw me off.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, it's. Is that the worst shirt he's ever worn? What's it say? First of all, where did you even get that shirt?

[Drew Franklin]

I think my friend Crystal gave it to me after we had a discussion about it on a radio show one day.

[Matt Jones]

That's one you keep in the house. Says in capital letters, bold font, white shirt, black font, white shirt, black font. Everybody close your eyes unless you're driving and picture this shirt on Ryan Lemon's goofy face. White shirt, capital letters, black font. It says the word moist. And then in little letters because at least one person, you know, hates this word, which I think he's swearing that this is a professional. Allegedly a realtor. Yeah, he's wearing that downtown. Take a picture of that, Mario, and tweet out because it's the worst. And by the way, two sizes too small.

[Ryan Lemon]

I was about to say, what's the Tightness level of it Will.

[Drew Franklin]

Medium.

[Matt Jones]

Will Stein level. Nipples come through.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Aligned parallel.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Unbelievable.

[Shannon]

Yesterday we talked about dressing for work. How did you wear it?

[Drew Franklin]

I honestly forgot I had it. And I was looking for a different one and saw it like, oh, I'm wearing that one today. I didn't think I'd ever worn it in front of you. And it was kind of. Got it for you.

[Matt Jones]

You got it for me. I'm glad that I was on your mind when you decided to buy the moist T shirt.

[Drew Franklin]

I think you said, one day on the show, that's the one word you can't stand.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I hate it. It's a terrible word. And I hate it even more on you than I do being said.

[Shannon]

Well, to your original point about what a great show.

[Matt Jones]

Still throwing fastballs was a great show.

[Shannon]

I like trivia, you know, and however many years, 13 years, whatever it's been, we've never had trivial work and, you know, having contenders drop out when we're

[Matt Jones]

trying to get the phone, that works. So. 859-280-2287. Ask anything Wednesday. I look forward to taking your calls. Let's go over a couple of things. First of all, last night, went to the Reds game, got four chapters in. I think you said nine, which was very nice. But you have to remember these are long chapters in the Hill.

[Shannon]

I didn't know the length of the chapter.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that makes it hard.

[Shannon]

I was thinking chapter and ending with short chapters.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Some books here, easier read the whole time. Don't think I got on the big screen. So it worked out. Nobody bothered me. The only. Only problem with the game last night was there was a younger couple, probably in their early 20s, that just kept making out sitting right in front of me. Oh, and I mean, to the point, like, you could hear the slobber. It's like, you know, by the seventh inning, I think they were a little drunk and it was. I'm not like a get a room guy. But there is a point like, how many times you got to kiss somebody during a baseball game?

[Drew Franklin]

Nothing says love like balls and strikes.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, it's not like when a who Haney O. Suarez strikes out. You got to be, oh, baby, here's your. You know it. Like, so there was a little bit of that.

[Shannon]

Were they just trying to get on a kiss cam? Is that exist?

[Matt Jones]

No, I think they were genuinely in love, which is a little sickening. Right. Like, so I think. No, I'm just kidding.

[Shannon]

Take that, Central Park.

[Caller/Guest]

If you gotta do that.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. Go to Central. I bet I didn't film them and try to put them on the Internet and see if they were cheating on people.

[Shannon]

Well, yeah, I support young love. You know, I always say the hard.

[Matt Jones]

I just. I just feel like there's. How much of it do. I mean, it's. It's Reds A's, you know, if it's Yankees, Dodgers, that's the mood. I mean, this is Reds A's. I looked at the A's lineup. Never heard of one person in it. Not one.

[Shannon]

I couldn't name one.

[Matt Jones]

Name the last. Who's the last player you can remember that played for that, by the way. Now the Sacramento A's.

[Shannon]

True. Didn't even know that. Dennis Eckersley.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

The Giambies.

[Matt Jones]

The Giambies. I think that's the last people I knew that played there. Great game, though. We were losing the whole game and in the eighth inning we scored two runs on back to back wild pitches.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

Have you ever heard of that before?

[Shannon]

No. Whatever it takes.

[Matt Jones]

Second and third. Suarez is up. He's awful. So all they got to do is just like I would pitch it underhand. Shannon, he's going to miss it. Just throw the pitcher through two wild pitch pitches. Ellie and Sal Stewart were able to score on back to back.

[Drew Franklin]

And then that's how they won the game.

[Matt Jones]

That's how we won the game.

[Drew Franklin]

One.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. We're down four, three. Wild pitch. Ellie scores. Two pitches later, wild pitch. South Stewart scores.

[Shannon]

Was it awkward seeing Tyler Stevenson when he's not supposed to be there? He was supposed to, apparently.

[Matt Jones]

He took a tour of the city yesterday just to be happy that he's still going to listen. Whatever. I mean, we stink. But. But listen, the Reds A's. If you are having trouble in your relationship, I know where you go. Reds A's.

[Drew Franklin]

So you're reading your book. You got people making out in front of you.

[Matt Jones]

The Hill. That's about a little girl whose mom's in prison. So it's a very uplifting story.

[Drew Franklin]

And they're making out in front of you. We able to watch any of the game at all other than the wild pitches?

[Matt Jones]

Look, when they started, you know, when Tongue was available, I went back to the book. But it is weird. It's weird to be like, oh, there's, you know, Matt McClain who's hitting.110, and then there's this group making out. But it was still. It was fun. It was very peaceful. Which is what I wanted to kind of. Because it's Been a hectic couple days. Yesterday it got so hectic. I had Billy, Ryan and Mario at the house.

[Shannon]

Oh, my goodness.

[Drew Franklin]

And we were scrambling there for a minute.

[Matt Jones]

We were scrambling Village, I think when they painted my house, they painted over the Internet. Maybe got painted over the intern. What do you mean they painted over the Internet?

[Drew Franklin]

The outlet. The Internet.

[Matt Jones]

Like the actual. Not like this.

[Shannon]

It's not a real thing. Spraying the air.

[Matt Jones]

They painted over the Internet way. No, the outlet. And I think it caused it to get in and out. So then we ran a big cord into a different room and we were able to make it work.

[Shannon]

Amateur hour. Painting over the outlet.

[Matt Jones]

Probably a mistake. They were good guys. So they worked till late in the night. So I'm not going to. They did a good job. But. But. But I think maybe that that screwed it up. So we're going to get it fixed. It all. It all works out. Then on my. During, like the eighth inning, I look at my phone and Mario is on a string of posting on his story. He and his. His. His girlfriend. Like, he. Like he. He's gone, I guess the kids would call it. They used to say Facebook official. He's, I guess, going Instagram official now.

[Drew Franklin]

He's all booed up.

[Matt Jones]

He is. He is.

[Shannon]

I noticed. I noticed the first.

[Matt Jones]

You want my tickets to the 80s game tonight? You could go make out. Yeah, you could go. You can go make out. But I'm looking at it and I'm like, they're at a pool. Okay? Mario. He doesn't have a pool. I have a pool, and Mario's at my house. Did he bring this girl to my house? And then I look and it's not mine. And it occurs to me, Mario is being booed up at Ryan's pool.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Have you just opened your pool to Mario and his girlfriend?

[Drew Franklin]

I gave Mario a summer pool pass. He can come and go as he pleases. Doesn't need to check in, no entry fee or anything.

[Matt Jones]

So he told me he just goes. And they just hang out at Ryan's house.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And hang out by the pool.

[Drew Franklin]

Yep. They hadn't had the whole pool and house of themselves last night. Nobody was there.

[Matt Jones]

Because you tried to go to the Barry Manilow concert.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And did he. Did something happen to him?

[Drew Franklin]

The word is he was in the RUP arena at. In his trailer and started having some medical issues, so they had to rush him to the hospital.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think this has been reported.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, it just unforeseen circumstances.

[Matt Jones]

Cancel it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah. Are you.

[Matt Jones]

Are you breaking that's the scuttlebutt word

[Drew Franklin]

on the street from people that were there at Rupp arena working.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, Barry Mantle is a huge star. You got to be careful. You don't know this.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, he canceled the first concert because of lung cancer. Supposed to be here in, like, February or March and had lung cancer. They canceled the concert. So he's back again.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe he should just not come back to Lexington.

[Drew Franklin]

I think. I think he's already canceled the concert tonight in Cincinnati. So, I mean, I think it's okay.

[Matt Jones]

So you were supposed to go, but apparently, like, people were already there when they canceled it, right?

[Drew Franklin]

I was just the Uber driver. I just dropped off Jennifer and her

[Matt Jones]

friend, and I thought her friend was your son.

[Drew Franklin]

No, she took her friend.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

So I let them off, drove around the Triangle Fountains, and she goes, you got to come back and get us. It's canceled. Nobody really knew. To about 6:30. And then started the buzz on the street. They didn't announce it. All right. I'm just telling you what I heard from.

[Ryan Lemon]

But who has Barry Manilow scoop?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, where are you. Are you talking to tmz? Where are you getting Barry Manilow scoop? But it would be classic Ryan Linden, though, wouldn't it, for, like, something to happen with Barry Manilow. And the person that would know would

[Ryan Lemon]

be Ryan and, like, somehow knows his tour manager from, like, that would be a classic.

[Matt Jones]

Like, Ryan can't name Benny Snell, but he could tell you what's happening with. With Barry Manilow. That. That would be a very Ryan Lemon thing.

[Shannon]

Well, he said he was the drop off. I can, like, picture Ryan circling around and asking security, rolling down his window, like, what's going on? Maybe you were even lost in the parking lot. And then that's how you get caught up in the buzz around the. Around the scene there.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, the people were walking around, and there's as word kind of spread. You can see they were all just had these blank looks on their face.

[Matt Jones]

We know what was going on. What's the age group that goes to Barry Manilow? First of all, I was shocked to see Barry Manilows playing Rupp Arena. I mean, no offense to. What are his songs again?

[Ryan Lemon]

Stuck on Bandaids. Stuck on me.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. I write the songs.

[Matt Jones]

I write the song. Does he do Copacabana? Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, Mandy, but who.

[Matt Jones]

But who's going to that? Like, he's got to be in his 80s.

[Ryan Lemon]

The writing dance.

[Drew Franklin]

Every person I saw was a grammar grandpa and a grandma. Every single one of Them.

[Matt Jones]

But I mean, he couldn't fill Rup Arena. Could he still at 80? What is he 80?

[Drew Franklin]

83.

[Matt Jones]

So 83. Is he still his audience?

[Shannon]

Can't walk those steps.

[Caller/Guest]

No.

[Drew Franklin]

He plays a lot of big venues on this farewell.

[Matt Jones]

How many people were going to be. Well, I guess we don't know because he didn't do it. Just. That's hard for me to believe. Barry Manilow is still packing them in.

[Drew Franklin]

Can bring him into rubber. Maybe just a lower.

[Matt Jones]

Good for him, man. I mean, if you're still able to get.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I mean, yoga girl is probably like the youngest person there, right?

[Drew Franklin]

We thought we said that. Said you could be the youngest person in there. Well, we met a couple. They drove in from Sevierville.

[Matt Jones]

Got a hotel room.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, got a hotel room.

[Michael Rapoport]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Just from the Barry Manito concert from Maggie Valley.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's like a five hour drive, right? Six. That's a long drive.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, they're not. They're fanilos.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, stop it.

[Drew Franklin]

That's what they call.

[Matt Jones]

Stop it.

[Ryan Lemon]

They are.

[Matt Jones]

They're not fan.

[Drew Franklin]

Google it. They're called fanilos.

[Matt Jones]

They're not fanilos.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes, fanilos.

[Matt Jones]

Fanilos.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Shannon]

He let down all of his fan alone last night.

[Matt Jones]

Stop. They're not fanilos.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes, they are. They're fan of lows.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, my goodness.

[Shannon]

While you were gone, he had someone sing Barry Manilow on the show to win free tickets.

[Drew Franklin]

That's true. At our remote on Friday in Nicholasville.

[Matt Jones]

Oh my God. You made someone come up there and sing it.

[Drew Franklin]

And she did. Our friend Karen. That comes to all of our shows.

[Matt Jones]

So Karen won the tickets and yet didn't get to go.

[Ryan Lemon]

She humiliated herself for no reason.

[Matt Jones]

For no reason.

[Drew Franklin]

They're going to. They say they're going to reschedule. Tickets will be on her.

[Matt Jones]

Not according to you, apparently. May.

[Drew Franklin]

He just had a minor medical issue. He's going to rebound and reschedule and come back better than ever.

[Shannon]

News is going to report, per Ryan Lemon. Barry man alone.

[Matt Jones]

You're not reporting news, are you?

[Ryan Lemon]

He needs to retire is what he needs to do.

[Matt Jones]

Not rescheduling. Well, so. So anyway. So we've learned a few things. First of all, Reds A's. Very romantic. Yes, Mario. Free pool pass to Ryan's house.

[Drew Franklin]

Also very romantic.

[Matt Jones]

Also very romantic. Barry Manilow concert was canceled.

[Shannon]

Let everybody down. All the fanilos.

[Drew Franklin]

All the fan.

[Shannon]

They probably all got up and had a nice dinner at 4:30.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, it was a. It was. It was a late announcement. Like, they didn't announce. Are you.

[Matt Jones]

Are you, by the way, a Barry Manilow? Man?

[Drew Franklin]

I'm a fan of low.

[Matt Jones]

But you didn't go.

[Drew Franklin]

I didn't go. I was just an Uber driver.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, Well, I hope it went well and good.

[Drew Franklin]

And I hope he's okay.

[Matt Jones]

I hope he's okay, too.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Because we need to have. I mean, third time's a charm for scheduling this concert, right? We need it to happen. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. We will do it. Plus, I got something very rare. Shannon. You know, I get hateful comments sometimes on the text machine to me. Sometimes about Ryan, sometimes about you. Got my first one in a while about Drew.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So Drew will get to answer a hateful comment.

[Caller/Guest]

All right.

[Shannon]

I love hateful comments.

[Matt Jones]

That's next here on ksr.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

I'm mangushitigular and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive. This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones, and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us. I learned about some rad science.

[Matt Jones]

I can make a brain for you. And then we can test what drug is the best for your brain as opposed to his brain.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Here are some hard truths.

[Matt Jones]

I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year

[Mangesha Tekodar]

acceleration and get myself into a world of trouble.

[Matt Jones]

I'd say probably start bone smashing. That doesn't work.

[Rebecca Nagle]

Make it look more defined.

[Matt Jones]

They say it works. I don't know.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Listen to Skyline Drive how to live Forever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Matt Jones]

We've all been there. We've had seasons that have shaken everything. The question is, what remains when the shaking stops? Hi, I'm Gary Valenciano, and on my podcast Unshaken with Gary Vee, I sit down with amazing personalities and we talk about the seasons that nearly broke them, the lows that carried them to their highs. Listen to Unshaken with Gary Vee on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Shannon]

The Declaration, which is full of these beautifully rendered, you know, sentences and paragraphs about enlightenment ideals, does also have this darker history to it.

[Rebecca Nagle]

Why is it important for the darker part of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution? Why is it important that Americans know about it.

[Shannon]

Well, if we don't understand the full context in which our nation was founded, we won't understand the full context in which our nation now finds itself.

[Rebecca Nagle]

I'm Rebecca Nagle. Gohin Tawa Don Tchuleka. Yetli KE La citizen of Cherokee Nation.

[Matt Jones]

Are you guys big Chiefs fans? Hell yeah.

[Rebecca Nagle]

This is First America, the true story of how the United States came to be and how we got to this present moment. Listen to First America on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Michael Rapoport]

This is Michael Rapoport and my podcast, the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast, is unlike anyone you've ever heard. We're a variety show. And if you're looking for strong opinions, funny opinions about sports, entertainment, politics, pop culture and whatever else catches my attention, then subscribe now. This kid Jafar Jackson is as good as Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. And it's as good as Timothee Shamalay as Bob Dylan. And I say that with love and respect for both of those actors. And I don't know how many Oscar nominations they give out. I don't know if it's 5, 6 for best actor. 150%. This kid, Jafar Jackson should absolutely, positively get nominated for his portrayal as Michael Jackson. Listen to I Am rappaport on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Matt Jones]

I Am Rappaport podcast. Welcome back. It is Kentucky sports radio. Some ages of people that are singers, you know. You said Barry Minnow is 83. Billy Joel 77. Elton John 79. Mick Jaggers 84.

[Drew Franklin]

Willie Nelson's 140.

[Matt Jones]

Willie Nelson and I love Willie Nelson. All right? And I want Willie Nelson to be going until he's 110. But he's, I believe, in his 90s.

[Drew Franklin]

Unbelievable. And still performing.

[Matt Jones]

I heard he had a new song they released on Willie's roadhouse. And my man, I give him credit, I'm not gonna criticize him for continuing going. Cause like he's still singing, slash talking, but he's still putting albums out, which to some level, Drew, you have to respect at this point, right?

[Shannon]

93.

[Matt Jones]

93.

[Shannon]

Still making albums.

[Matt Jones]

That's unbelievable.

[Ryan Lemon]

How many albums do you think he's made?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, he puts one out like a year.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I bet he's got like 60.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, no. It says he has released over 150 total albums.

[Matt Jones]

100.

[Ryan Lemon]

Including 100 studio albums.

[Matt Jones]

A hundred studio. That's crazy.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's got to be a record I

[Drew Franklin]

can still pack it.

[Matt Jones]

Putting that amount of albums.

[Drew Franklin]

Nobody.

[Matt Jones]

Nobody. 859-280-2287 all right. This was the message about Drew. One person writes, matt, I've been a fan of Drew for a long time. He is probably my favorite person on the show.

[Shannon]

Thank you.

[Matt Jones]

But I love you. But he has kind of turned me off in the last few weeks. While I think you have tried to change and be positive about Kentucky basketball, Drew's gone the other way and he is now Mr. Negativity. I don't know what his deal is. Does he just not like Mark Pope? Does he think we're going to be terrible? But he is a drag. Every time we talk about basketball, it disappoints me. And now I'm shifting my allegiance to Shannon.

[Ryan Lemon]

Thank you. Welcome aboard.

[Shannon]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

How do you answer that?

[Shannon]

I think a drag was being the non seed in the SEC tournament last year. I got there so early they said you're not even allowed to come in yet. That's how early I got to the SEC tournament. I was the first person there because we were the non seed. That is not Kentucky basketball to me now it can improve and I hope it does. But it has not been the experience we're used to for a long time. That's not all Mark Pope. It was the end of Cal 2, but it's been a long time since we've been what we all want to be.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think that history of the last few years of us not being as good or being disappointing in the tournament causes you to be more pessimistic about this team than maybe they deserve?

[Shannon]

Maybe a little. Just because I still need to see more from Pope. I don't hate this roster. I've said many times, I like the top. Top. I just worry that we still guys who haven't even gotten on the court yet in the summer. And these are the guys that are supposed to be making a big jump. So I worry about overall. I still think they'll be good. They're top 20 team. But is it going to be Kentucky good? Are we just going to keep riding this wave that's below our normal standards?

[Matt Jones]

He another person asked. They weren't hateful. They were just wanting your opinion. In Drew's opinion, what does Mark Pope have to do for Drew still to support him to get a fourth year as head coach? So this is. They don't ask care what you I

[Shannon]

don't focus as much on the.

[Matt Jones]

This is what Drew I don't focus

[Shannon]

as much on the tournament because as you said many times, it's random. Now we need to get into the second weekend. But being in the middle of the pack in the SEC and like two years ago we had to beat Missouri in the regular season to not play on Wednesday. Last year we were the first team on Wednesday. Maybe we don't win the SEC title this year because Florida's stacked, but can we at least get back where we're contending a little bit?

[Matt Jones]

Can we? Maybe we need to be in the top four.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I think a double buy in the SEC tournament pretty.

[Shannon]

Absolutely. And that's not all, Pope. It's been a while since we did that, period.

[Matt Jones]

No, you're right. You're exactly right. I understand why you're pessimistic. I mean, I, I'm not as pessimistic as you about this year, but I'm a little pessimistic. I'm still, I'm holding out before I make judgment because I want to see if they get another player. But I think they need another player. I think, you know, last year, I think the first year we were one player short. I think last year we were like one and a half players short. Even if we had low, maybe just one player short. But I'm worried we're there again. I'm worried we're a player short.

[Shannon]

There are other coaches in the league right now laughing at the five or five legislation. Like, I already have the team I want. I'm not interested. And we're still shopping like this is Kentucky. Usually we're at the top of that list going into the season.

[Drew Franklin]

I do think the UK basketball hangover is real.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, for sure.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The best thing that happened to Mark Pope was Will Stein.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Because I think a lot of the, I think Will Stein excitement has put off basketball negativity.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But you know, the games are going to start here soon for both and we'll see what happens. Blandon Ask anything Wednesday. What do you got?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Hope all is well. Matt. I have a very quick two part question, sir. Number one, to add on to the Barry Manilow intro there. I don't know if you gentlemen have seen David Lee Roth of Van Halen on social media lately, but you talk about a guy that really needs to retire.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's a mess.

[Caller/Guest]

It's like, it is a mess.

[Matt Jones]

I've seen it and it makes me sad because, you know, he had an amazing voice, Shannon, at one point like, like, yeah, but you're right. But at the same time it's hard to tell somebody who loves something to retire because oftentimes when people retire, like I remember Justice Rehnquist, a Supreme Court justice, but he died like four days after he retired. He retired in good health and then just died. And so you're like, well, Matt, but

[Caller/Guest]

you know, Matt, maybe he could take up golf like Alice Cooper or something. But he really needs to get away from a microphone.

[Matt Jones]

All right, what's your second?

[Caller/Guest]

My second point, sir, is there's a lot of news, you know, in the news today about salary caps coming for nil and all college athletes. What my question to you gentlemen is why don't we talk about having a national salary cap for all college coaches?

[Matt Jones]

Well, they do. I, I believe and I appreciate the call. In one version of the bill that was in the Senate, there was a coach's salary cap. Now, I don't know if that ended up in the version that's there now, but there should be. I mean, there is no other part of what makes it ridiculous to me that they do this legislation is I want you to give me another industry in America where Congress puts a cap on how much money you can make.

[Drew Franklin]

There's not.

[Matt Jones]

Pick one. Give me an industry where Congress says you can't make more money than this.

[Drew Franklin]

Negative.

[Matt Jones]

None.

[Caller/Guest]

None.

[Matt Jones]

But then everybody goes, but we need to do it with college athletes.

[Drew Franklin]

Why?

[Matt Jones]

Well, my argument is why now? If you're going to do it, okay, but understand what you're doing. Like there's no other profession we do this to.

[Michael Rapoport]

None.

[Matt Jones]

And we go, well, it's not a profession. Yeah, only because you say kind of is a profession.

[Drew Franklin]

Kind of is.

[Matt Jones]

So, you know, we are trying. So if we're going to do it, if you're going to, then I'm fine with doing it to coach. Do it to the ads, do it to the presidents and then we'll see if they still afford.

[Shannon]

I don't think that day is coming.

[Matt Jones]

Well to me, practice what you preach. You think there should be a salary cap for players? What about presidents? You are working for state universities. You think maybe we should cap what you make?

[Shannon]

What about ads who don't even ad?

[Matt Jones]

What about ads? If you're going to do it, do it for all of them. Then I'm okay with it. We'll take a break. Be right back.

[Rebecca Nagle]

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[Ryan Lemon]

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

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio Z Ask Anything Wednesday couple from Text Machine one Person says, matt, you're wrong. The medical community has a limit to how much doctors and other medical professionals can make. You have to prove what you pay them is fair market value.

[Caller/Guest]

False.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, there may be businesses that have that, but the government doesn't have that rule. You can be a doctor and make as much as you want. There might be rules as to what you can make. If you're going to take like. Like Medicare or the things that. That the government gives you, but no one tells the private industry, a doctor can. I can be Drew's doctor and charge him $20 million. Nobody stops me. The government might have rules about if you're getting a Medicare reimbursement, what you can charge, but that's a completely different thing.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

College athletics will be the first sport, the first anything, where the government puts a cap on what people can make. So do you think that's socialism? I mean, it is like it is. I hope people know that. You just need to call things what they are. And the government limiting, like when the government takes ownership in companies, that's socialism. When the government caps what people can make. I'm not even saying it's bad, but you need to understand what it is, because it is.

[Drew Franklin]

So you think it will happen for coaches, for ads, for presidents?

[Matt Jones]

No, what they'll do is they'll do it to players, and then they won't do it to coaches and ads. That's what they're gonna do. They're gonna be hypocritical. The coaches and the ads are the ones that are writing the law. The players are not writing the law. So the players will get screwed. It's just like in everything in life. Workers don't write the laws, CEOs write the laws. So CEOs get what they want, and workers get screwed. That's America. Unfortunately, I hate it, but not. I love America, but I hate that system. But that's what it is. And that is exactly, Drew, what will happen with this?

[Shannon]

And, you know, I think it's the players that should get most of the pie, because they're the ones playing on a rap arena. Sure. I mean, I want my coach to do well, but I'm more concerned about the guys dribbling and throwing the football.

[Matt Jones]

One person says, matt, I would like, by the way, Barry Manilow. Here's an irony of all the songs he wrote. Shannon, he didn't write the song. I write the songs.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, he didn't. He didn't even write that one.

[Matt Jones]

That's crazy.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's a lie.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Of all the ones.

[Matt Jones]

Of all the ones not to ride.

[Drew Franklin]

Have you ever listened to the words of Copacabana? It's a very dark, depressing song.

[Matt Jones]

We've talked about that before. Yeah. I think one person writes, Matt, I would like you to hear you and Shannon say what the saddest song of all time is.

[Ryan Lemon]

Easy.

[Matt Jones]

Tell Lori I love it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I knew you were going to say that. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That's the saddest song.

[Drew Franklin]

His voice is haunting.

[Matt Jones]

That's the saddest song. And I. Shannon, I challenge you to find another one. I'll let you think about it while phone because I. I don't think you're going to be able to. I don't think you're gonna be able to find one. Who's been on here. Brady, go ahead.

[Caller/Guest]

Brady, this is Brad, but.

[Matt Jones]

Go ahead, Brad.

[Caller/Guest]

Interesting fact kind of about the Barry Manilow situation. Did you know Elvis was set to have a concert at Rupp Arena a week after he died?

[Matt Jones]

Is that right?

[Caller/Guest]

Maybe a little premonition for a Barry man alone.

[Matt Jones]

Elvis was supposed to be here like

[Drew Franklin]

exactly five days later, a week later.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, there's people that have saved their tickets for that Rupp Arena Elvis concert. They saved their tickets over the years.

[Matt Jones]

Interesting. I didn't know that. Well, go ahead.

[Caller/Guest]

And one, one question. I was wondering if you ever had opportunity to do a show like hey, Kentucky again on tv, would you do that or.

[Drew Franklin]

No?

[Matt Jones]

No, because it's too. I've been asked to do another one a couple times. It's, it's. It's. I like to be able to travel and you have to be here. Like you can't. I think it very much limits, like at this stage of my life, what I want to do. I want to be able to go and do things and see people and everything I do, I try to make it to where if I can go somewhere else, I can take it with me. Even this. I appreciate the call. Even this ESPN show, eventually I will be able to take with me, like put it on my. A travel set.

[Drew Franklin]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

With hey, Kentucky or a show like that. You have to be there. And so, you know, I understand. So probably not. I say. You never say never, but probably not.

[Drew Franklin]

It takes up a lot of time.

[Matt Jones]

Takes a lot of time.

[Drew Franklin]

TV takes more time than you think.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, even just doing this TV I'm doing.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Takes so much more time.

[Drew Franklin]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

You know, now eventually I'll get the hang of it, but like, it's. You gotta lie there's so much more stuff that can go wrong.

[Drew Franklin]

But you're in a situation where you could pack up the equipment and set it up.

[Matt Jones]

Eventually they're gonna have it to where I can just put the camera on top of my laptop and travel and do so. When we do so, that will make it. It won't look as good, but, like,

[Drew Franklin]

you still be able to do it.

[Matt Jones]

Still be able to do it, Andy. Go ahead, Andy.

[Caller/Guest]

So when I was a kid, my uncle, for about a year, made me believe that my grandparents, when they would rent their houses to people, when the people would move out, that they would put them in the Thanksgiving dinner. And my question is, what is the most ridiculous thing that you all have believed?

[Matt Jones]

There's not gonna be anything we're gonna say that's gonna top your uncle when you were a kid,

[Caller/Guest]

because, you know, when you're a kid, you're gullible. You'll believe about anything. I know.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not on you for. I'm not gonna be on you for believing it. We need to talk about your uncle.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Your uncle told you that people who rented his house became your Thanksgiving dinner.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah. He would tell them, just, you know, have him believe it. Then he said that they would. When they would move out, because I would say, well, where did they go? You didn't know? They put them in the Thanksgiving Day. And I like.

[Matt Jones]

And so then you would, like. You would eat it?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, no, they had. When Thanksgiving came that year, they had to convince me that it wasn't true because, like, the last neighbor that had just moved out before, I mean, you

[Matt Jones]

didn't want to eat your neighbor.

[Caller/Guest]

I was like, well, the. The guy smelled bad. I was like, I don't want to eat a little.

[Matt Jones]

Your uncle seems a little demented, Andy.

[Caller/Guest]

He would just see what he could get me to believe when I was a kid. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I appreciate the call.

[Ryan Lemon]

Tasty winners.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate the call. My goodness, there's Bob.

[Ryan Lemon]

Throw a little salt on him.

[Matt Jones]

I now understand Andy a little bit more.

[Shannon]

Carries that trauma with him.

[Matt Jones]

His questions about tick and all that stuff become pretty tame considering he was a child.

[Michael Rapoport]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

I will say the Andy calls are getting more and more, like, dark as we go.

[Matt Jones]

They're very dark. But if you look at. If your uncle looks at you and said, you're eating your neighbors for Thanksgiving, I do think that would have an effect on you.

[Drew Franklin]

If you're a young child, you believe

[Shannon]

your uncle, you question everything you eat.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't want to eat my neighbor, Uncle John.

[Ryan Lemon]

They're already on your plate at that point, you might as well go ahead and finish them.

[Matt Jones]

Well, all right. You know, Bob and Jamestown, you never know what's going to come out, but it usually makes my skin crawl. Andy. You never know what's going to come out, but it's usually intriguing.

[Shannon]

Especially now. He's really leaning into these hypotheticals.

[Michael Rapoport]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Danny in Germany. Where are you in Germany? Danny?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, I'm, I'm active to the Air Force and I, my family, I got five kids, we just moved to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. So I'm listening.

[Matt Jones]

Ramstein and how many Americans are there? It's a ton, right?

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, there's quite a few. Yeah. I, I work for the, I work for the man, the, the major command that's overall US Air forces in Europe.

[Matt Jones]

I actually have a forces in Europe.

[Caller/Guest]

It's in the multi thousands.

[Matt Jones]

But I have a very, very good friend that is there. I'm not gonna say who it is but. But that's cool. Well, if you run into him, if you ever meet a, if you ever meet a Carolina Hurricanes fan, you just say we might know the same person, but go ahead.

[Caller/Guest]

All right. All right, we'll do. Sorry. I've been a die hard UK fan for a long time. I'm 43. Since I was a kid and I actually got lucky enough. I just left Kentucky and moved here from Kentucky. I got to do an ROTC gig at Kentucky. So the last three years I had employee basketball tickets and my brother and I went to a lot of the games together. So that's cool. I've been there through the highs and the lows. I was, I was at the final four in 2012. I was at the final four in 2015. And as you guys have been talking about, this is the worst decade in history. And you know, my brother and I have been going to the, going to all the home games for the last three years. So as a die hard Kentucky fan, I feel like with the time difference I still need to wake up at like two in the morning in Germany because it's a six hour time difference.

[Matt Jones]

True. That's about worse. Yeah. The night game, I mean during the day you'll be all right for the day games, but when they play at night that 2:00am like it's. Oh, I mean you could just like, like not hear what happens and get up at 6 and watch it and you won't know. Have you thought, have you thought about doing that or do you feel like you need to watch it live?

[Caller/Guest]

I mean I feel like I've always felt like I needed to watch it live just because I, you know, I'd have to be checking scores and stuff like that. So that'd be hard for me. But, man, with. With everything that we've been through over the last few years, my motivation is definitely dwindling. So I don't know if anybody there.

[Matt Jones]

The other thing is you could.

[Caller/Guest]

I feel like it's still my duty, my duty as a diehard UK fan to get up and watch these games in the middle of the night.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I appreciate the call and thank you for calling. I actually, you know, would you get up and watch them if they were playing at 1 or 2am Stay up.

[Shannon]

The thing that stinks is like if you wanted to go out and watch it at a bar or meet some friends somewhere, you kind of just watch at home in bed. I couldn't do the later text or something.

[Matt Jones]

If you go to bed, you could wake up early and you'll. I'll be on the post game show.

[Drew Franklin]

That's true.

[Matt Jones]

You know, it's a 9 o' clock game. Those post game shows will start at like 12:30, which for you will be like 6:30.

[Shannon]

See, I would wake up and I accidentally see the score. Then I'll not go back and watch it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that would be the hard thing. That's interesting. I'd be European. Kentucky fans have to deal with this. What do you. Do you. What do you stay up or do you get up in the morning?

[Drew Franklin]

It's a big game and you got to stay up and watch.

[Matt Jones]

When I was in, when I was in Europe that summer, the Reds were making their push for the playoffs, remember? And then when I was in South Africa, same thing. And usually I would try, but like I just wake up and I'd see they either won or lost. Right?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Reds fans were calling in, like, Matt needs to leave more often because every time he leaves, the Reds make the playoffs.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, I'll be here for this one, so just be ready for them.

[Shannon]

Not.

[Matt Jones]

I don't have the ad, Shannon. Give me one and I'll.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, I mean, do you want to just wait till after the break so you can actually read it? Or you just want to be Mr.

[Matt Jones]

Improv, send it during the break. I'm an improv guy, but that's all right. 859-280-2287. Ask anything Wednesday. Take a break. Be right back. KSR.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

I'm Mangisha together and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive. This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones, and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us. I learned about some rad science.

[Matt Jones]

I can make a brain for you. And then we can test what drug is the best for your brain as opposed to his brain.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Here's some hard truths.

[Matt Jones]

I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year

[Mangesha Tekodar]

acceleration and get myself into a world of trouble.

[Matt Jones]

I'd say probably start bone smashing. That doesn't work.

[Rebecca Nagle]

Make it look more defined.

[Matt Jones]

They say it works.

[Rebecca Nagle]

I don't know.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Listen to Skyline Drive how to Live Forever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Shannon]

The declaration, which is full of these beautifully rendered, you know, sentences and paragraphs about enlightenment ideals, does also have this darker history to it.

[Rebecca Nagle]

Why is it important for the darker part of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution? Why is it important that Americans know about it?

[Shannon]

Well, if we don't understand the full context in which our nation was founded, we won't understand the full context in which our nation finds itself.

[Rebecca Nagle]

I'm Rebecca Nagle. Gohin Tawa, Don Jalaika, Yetli Que la citizen of Cherokee Nation. Are you guys big Chiefs fans?

[Matt Jones]

Hell yeah.

[Rebecca Nagle]

This is First America, the true story of how the United States came to be and how we got to this present moment. Listen to First America on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

We've all been there. We've had seasons that have shaken everything. The question is, what remains when the shaking stops? Hi, I'm Gary Valenciano, and on my podcast Unshaken with Gary Vee, I sit down with amazing personalities and we talk about the seasons that nearly broke them, the lows that carried them to their highs. Listen to Unshaken with Gary Vee on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Michael Rapoport]

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[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So this for me is the saddest song. But we have some others coming in that are good.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Old Violin by Johnny Paycheck.

[Shannon]

I don't think I know that one.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't know if I know it. You do.

[Matt Jones]

Sometimes I feel like an old violin making me cry.

[Ryan Lemon]

Stop it. I can't hold myself up.

[Matt Jones]

He stopped loving her today. George Jones. Yeah, that's a good one. Hurt Johnny Cash. Yeah, but he wasn't the first one to sing that.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, right. Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor, but

[Matt Jones]

his version was a little different. Whiskey Lullaby. That one. You think that's one of yours, isn't it?

[Shannon]

Yeah, that's the one where I would have to rip my clothes off and cry.

[Matt Jones]

That's My Job by Conway Twitty. He's way too creepy to have a sad song.

[Ryan Lemon]

I was going to say you've never

[Matt Jones]

been this far before. I know we've talked about that a lot, but when you explain to strangers Conway Twitty songs. I have a friend, she's from New Zealand, and I just played for her Conway Twitty songs and she's like, how is this allowed?

[Drew Franklin]

Super popular.

[Ryan Lemon]

So you bring that up because on the way back, you know, a 10 hour drive back, and I was playing it for the car and it was not popular.

[Matt Jones]

It's not popular. I mean. Well, understandably. I mean, lay you down and you've never been this. You've never been this far before. Should have never been allowed on American radio. If you want to really creep a woman out, play that song.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Because when they say bump, bump, bum.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Like the. The. For younger listeners, like, just go listen to that song. That was a number one hit in America.

[Ryan Lemon]

And when he talks about his. His hand touching forbidden places.

[Matt Jones]

Forbidden place.

[Ryan Lemon]

Then he goes up a key change on the bom, bom, bom, boy.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So gross. It's so gross.

[Drew Franklin]

So why did the women of that generation love him?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Ryan Lemon]

They loved him.

[Matt Jones]

I think he put a roofie in the entire country's drink.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't understand.

[Matt Jones]

It seems like most of these songs are all country. What are some sad, like, non country

[Ryan Lemon]

songs, I think they're all country. It's all sad songs.

[Shannon]

Sarah McLaughlin with the.

[Matt Jones]

With the puppies where all the puppies are dead. But they weren't dead when she put the song out.

[Shannon]

No, no.

[Matt Jones]

They do a commercial.

[Shannon]

You had to give 10 cents a day to keep them.

[Matt Jones]

I did, yeah. Somebody says Shannon Cancer by My Chemical Romance.

[Ryan Lemon]

Familiar with that song? My answer, and I think this is without a doubt the sad. It's more sad than Keith Whitley, in my opinion, is Patty Loveless. How can I help you? To say goodbye. Do you know that I do. Gut wrenching, it is.

[Matt Jones]

She has another one. You don't even know who I am. You left me a long time ago. But again, these are all country. There's got to be like other ones. Maybe somebody can give me 772-774-5254. Some other 1. Southern Living magazine, first of all, didn't know they still had that.

[Drew Franklin]

Unless I sit in a doctor's office, I don't.

[Matt Jones]

My grandmother got that, put it on her table.

[Drew Franklin]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

It was the only reading I think my grandmother did with Southern Living. Mad. But when it came in, you better not touch it because my granny was reading it with the rest. Southern Living. There's no one around whose grandmother did not read Southern Living.

[Shannon]

Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know it was still going?

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Did not.

[Shannon]

I'm going to the dentist in the morning, so no spoilers.

[Matt Jones]

Magazine magazine put out the 26 most historic restaurants you must visit in the South.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Kentucky has three. These are restaurants you must visit that combine food, atmosphere and history to provide a great dining experience. Okay, let's see. Can you name the three restaurants that Southern Living has put from Kentucky?

[Drew Franklin]

I'll say first. Patties.

[Matt Jones]

I was going to say correct.

[Shannon]

Good.

[Matt Jones]

Patties is number one is on the list from Southern Living. Can you guess the other two? I will. Well, I'm not going to give you a hint.

[Drew Franklin]

The Colonel. Colonel Sanders and Corbin.

[Matt Jones]

No, because these are nice places.

[Shannon]

Okay, the name is escaping me, but there's a place in Bardstown that's been there forever.

[Matt Jones]

It's a great call. That's not on there.

[Shannon]

Not on there.

[Matt Jones]

It's like Bell House or something.

[Shannon]

Some tavern.

[Ryan Lemon]

Talbert.

[Matt Jones]

No. Talbot Tavern. Speaking of taverns. Come on, we've been there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Phoenix Hill Tavern.

[Matt Jones]

Boone Tavern as well.

[Shannon]

Thanks for walking me into that one Spoon Bread.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, Boone Tavern. And now one is in Louisville.

[Shannon]

Oh, I'm not good at the Louisville scene.

[Drew Franklin]

Shannon, this is yours.

[Ryan Lemon]

Is this going to be like Pat Steakhouse or something or.

[Matt Jones]

No, no, Think close to where I live.

[Ryan Lemon]

Skyline, chile

[Matt Jones]

chili, Jack Fries.

[Ryan Lemon]

You could have given me 100 guesses. I wouldn't have gotten that.

[Matt Jones]

You wouldn't have gotten Jack Fries.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't know if I've ever even been there. Have you been to Jack Fries?

[Matt Jones]

My mom likes to go there sometimes when she comes into town.

[Ryan Lemon]

I don't think I've been there.

[Matt Jones]

It's. It's like white tablecloth. Not a lot of places like that anymore.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's why I'm not going to those places.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

No, it's there. So there you go. Those are Southern Living's three historic Kentucky restaurants. You must. We've been. I've been all of them.

[Drew Franklin]

So we've been to Patties and Boone's Tavern. I've not been to the Jack Fries.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, we can walk to it from my house if you want.

[Shannon]

Go.

[Matt Jones]

David in Louisville. Go ahead, David.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes. Questions? Two parts. What is the likeliness that Kentucky doesn't get their 15th recruit this year in college basketball?

[Matt Jones]

I think one. I think they'll get one. I don't know if. I mean, the fifth year stuff, we have to wait and see how it plays out. But even if it's an international kid I drew, they'll get somebody. Don't you.

[Shannon]

Pope seems very interested in that.

[Matt Jones]

Another three, I think they'll add somebody. Now, whether or not it's one of these stars that come from the fifth year, I think we got to see how the court stuff plays out, but go ahead.

[Caller/Guest]

And then the second one. If college basketball recruiting just started for this upcoming season, where would these remaining players stack up? Do we got any top 10 players out there? Top 20? I think I'll hang up and listen to your.

[Matt Jones]

From a talent standpoint. Well, I appreciate the call. The kid from Missouri would be top 10. Would you agree with that?

[Shannon]

Yeah. Well, his.

[Matt Jones]

He's saying Mitchell.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Rephrase the.

[Matt Jones]

If he. If. If these guys had been eligible from the beginning, the transfer rankings, where would they have been?

[Ryan Lemon]

Right.

[Shannon]

Oh, gotcha.

[Matt Jones]

Mitchell would been top 10.

[Shannon]

Mitchell would have been high.

[Matt Jones]

Keyshawn hall would have probably been, like, in the 20s, and people would have said, do you want to take the risk?

[Shannon]

Yeah. With the baggage.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know where the Michigan State kid would have. What do you think?

[Shannon]

Yeah. Mitchell would be very high, though. I mean, Comer had a pretty big gear, and he's kind of a unique stretch the floor. Teens or 20s, they'd all be top 25.

[Matt Jones]

They'd all be higher than everyone we got, except Milan and they probably all be ranked about where Alex Wilkins was, don't you think?

[Shannon]

Yeah, Milan would still be the headliner.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

And then.

[Matt Jones]

Although Mitchell would have been. Mitchell would have been top 10, I would say.

[Shannon]

Yeah, that's why he's number one on my list. I hope they can get him done.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Apparently, from what I understand, most people think as long as any fifth year exemption exists, that the Keyshawn hall guy will be eligible. The Missouri kid and Kohler, it's a little more. They're going to need specific court rulings to hold up, but it looks like the kid from Auburn is almost so certainly going to be exist unless this legislation passes and just bans all of them. And I don't know if that's going to happen.

[Shannon]

And Izzo said they're done. So if Kohler does come back for another year, he's not going back to Michigan State.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but you're taking. I guess if you're, if you're thinking about like Pope, you're taking a risk with the Missouri kid or the Michigan State kid, that, that you could add them and then they end up not being. It is very likely that Keyshawn hall, who to me is the biggest risk, he's also the one that's most likely to get eligible because he did enter the portal, he fits the age requirement and he didn't sign an MBA contract,

[Drew Franklin]

so you have to look at those. Is he a problem in the locker room?

[Matt Jones]

Well, five schools in five years.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So you just have to make that decision. We'll take a break, come back. Our number two is KSR. 150 years ago, they were hunting us down to kill us. And now they're hunting down immigrants to deport them.

[Rebecca Nagle]

This is First America, the true story of how the United States came to be and how we got to this present moment. Listen to First America on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

I'm Mangesha Teegular and I'm back with a new season of my podcast, Skyline Drive. This time I talk to scientists, biopunks, Cremudd, blue zoners, super seniors, and Goa's top cryotherapy lab. To try to understand this obsession with living forever and what it means for all of us. And I get into a bit of trouble along the way.

[Matt Jones]

I'd say probably start bone smashing. That doesn't work. To make it look more defined, they say it works.

[Rebecca Nagle]

I don't know.

[Mangesha Tekodar]

Listen to Skyline Drive. How to Live Forever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Michael Rapoport]

This is Michael Rapoport and my podcast, the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast, is unlike anyone you you've ever heard. If you're looking for strong opinions about sports, entertainment, politics, pop culture and whatever else catches my attention, then subscribe now. This kid, Jafar Jackson should absolutely, positively get nominated for his portrayal as Michael Jackson. Listen to I Am rapoport on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Caller/Guest]

I am talking to a felon right now with face tattoos and I cannot decide if I like him or not.

[Matt Jones]

That was a call from my podcast Therapy Gecko, where I speak with anonymous callers about their problems, relationships and anything else in the depths of their mind.

[Ryan Lemon]

It all happens on my show Therapy Gecko.

[Matt Jones]

So if you're trying to get out of your own head and into someone else's, this is the podcast for you. Listen to Therapy gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.