2026-08-11- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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KSR Podcast: Kentucky Sports Radio – Hour 1 (August 11, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this classic, banter-filled episode of Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR), host Matt Jones and co-hosts Ryan Lemon and Shannon The Dude deliver a lively hour packed with UK basketball news, memorable storytelling, sports hot takes, and quintessential Kentucky flavor direct from Lexington. The trio leans into old-school vibes, engages listeners with call-ins, and dives deep into preseason UK hoops speculation, school year rituals, presidential anecdotes, community headlines, and a viral local cheating scandal—showcasing KSR’s trademark blend of sports analysis and offbeat humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. KSR Old-School Vibe & Upcoming Roadshows

• Return to the Roots: The crew notes this hour feels reminiscent of "2011-2014 KSR," referencing a less crowded, more conversational setup (03:01).
• Louisville Roadshows: The team previews live shows popping up in Louisville for the next two Fridays—at Shady Rays and the Kentucky State Fair, with excitement for big crowds and free sunglasses (04:08).
  • Shannon: "Next to Louder Than Life, the state fair is my Super Bowl. The people watching is off the charts" (04:33).

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2. "Back to School" Culture & Early School Start Dates

• Target Chaos: Matt describes the wild scene of back-to-school shopping and shares generational observations:
  • "Kids going, 'What do I need paper for? I have AI.' And I thought, we are doomed as a society." (06:13)
• Debates on School Calendar Shifts:
  • Why start in August and end in May? The team questions if earlier start dates make sense given Kentucky’s summer heat.
  • A listener later clarifies: "Most school systems are moving their start date up so they can finish the first semester before winter break" (21:31).

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3. Special In-Studio Guest: 9-Year-Old Henry

• Henry, a young Bears fan and KSR listener, joins with his mom; Matt and Ryan bond over shared Bears fandom (05:32).

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4. UK Basketball: Mark Pope’s Candid Interview & Team Speculation

• Coach Mark Pope’s Concerns:
  • Pope recently voiced concerns about UK’s lack of physicality and defense with Jeff Goodman on "Field of 68," echoing what he previously told Matt and Drew off-air (12:01).
  • Quote: "My worry is... I'm worried we're not physical enough." (12:11)
  • Matt: "Now your coach said it, too" (13:05).
• Roster Composition:
  • The team discusses UK’s "small guards and long, athletic bigs", but most are “skinny… you see them in person, how little those guys are” (13:20).
  • Physical presences like Frank and McBride might help, but it's a clear worry for competing in the SEC.
• Dreaming on Mark Mitchell:
  • Rumors swirl that transfer Mark Mitchell (from Missouri) could land at UK, making them the portal’s #1 class (15:03).
  • Ryan claims—based on a tip—that Malachi Smith began following Mark Mitchell on Instagram, with Shannon confirming the scoop (16:24).

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5. KSR Listener Interactions & Crowdsourced Intel

• Basketball Tryouts for Fans: Inspired by Coach Pope, Matt says he’ll schedule a combine for fans to try out for a KSR listener team, with details TBA (09:25).
  • Maynard, a caller, playfully chides Matt and Pope for putting out the tryout in the heat of August, joking: “I blew my knee out... and it’s 970,000 degrees. Could we not do this in the cool off season?” (28:05).

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6. From Local Rituals to Quirky Headlines

• Energy Drinks Banned at Pineville High: Pineville makes national news by banning student energy drinks, prompting debate about youth caffeine use.
  • Ryan: "My oldest son will drink one every day and I think that's the reason why. He's crazy." (32:39)
  • Shannon: "If you're in high school, you should have all kinds of energy." (33:08)

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7. Memorable UK & Sports Hot Takes Confessionals

• KSR crew and callers recount their all-time worst sports predictions:
  • Caller Sean: "I said Kerry Kittles would be a better pro than Tim Duncan." (36:12)
  • Matt: “I said Shea Gilgis-Alexander would not be a good pro. That was a really bad one." (37:19)
  • Ryan recalls Alan Cutler’s infamously bold Jules Camara/NBA Hall of Fame take. (36:51)
  • Elite UK prospects (like Reed Sheppard, Jared Vanderbilt, Wenyen Gabriel) reflect on fanbase doubts and successes.

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8. Viral News: Presidential Security Oddity

• Bizarre Air Force One Escape: Matt shares a story about the president being covertly moved from Air Force One in a catering truck amid a credible Iranian threat (23:16).
  • Matt: “They snuck him out on that... And then everybody else that was supposed to fly on the plane just went ahead and flew home.”
  • Shannon: “If it was a reasonable enough threat... How you’ve let—I mean, there were like a hundred people on that flight.” (24:45)

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9. Kentucky Flavor: Walking, Peeping, and Oddities

• Matt humorously recounts pedestrian observations in his Lexington neighborhood—including the apparent disappearance of nude window-watchers following his mention on air (35:27).

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10. Lighthearted Segment: Song Guessing & Local Music Flavors

• Listeners are challenged to guess Ryan’s next playlist song; when "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen plays, no one wins (45:55).

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11. Member-Member Golf Cheating Scandal

• A viral story of a St. Louis private club golfer who pre-planted his ball to fake a hole-in-one (and use his “sick grandmother” as an alibi) prompts outrage and laughter.
  • Matt: “Next level cheating… That’s not like, let’s just give it a foot wedge out of the rough. That is fake a hole in one.” (51:36)
  • Crew debates: Was kicking him out of the club too harsh, or justified given “member-member” lore? (52:24)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On kids forsaking paper for tech: "What do I need paper for? I have AI. And I thought, we are doomed as a society."
  — Matt Jones (06:13)

• On Mark Pope’s worries: "My worry is... I'm worried we're not physical enough."
  — Mark Pope (as recounted by Matt, 12:11)

• Ryan’s “scoop” on transfer rumors:
  "You're reporting that Malachi followed Mark Mitchell on some platform… but you're unaware which one. Ding, ding, ding, ding. And you have no proof."
  — Matt Jones (16:06)

• Maynard caller comedy:
  "I tore a rotator cuff. I blew my knee out. I've tore a hamstring. My ACL is missing. I don't even think I have it anymore. And it's 970,000 degrees."
  — Maynard (28:05)

• On energy drinks:
  "If you're in high school, you're so young. Why do you need energy drinks? You should have all kinds of energy."
  — Shannon (33:08)

• On presidential transportation:
  “They snuck him out on that [plane catering truck]... Like in a little ball eating donuts next to the coffee and those little crackers they have.”
  — Matt Jones (25:36)

• On bad sports predictions:
  "I said Shea Gilgis-Alexander would not be a good pro. That was a really bad one."
  — Matt Jones (37:19)

• On cheating at golf:
  “Next level cheating. That is fake a hole in one. And your grandmother being sick.”
  — Matt Jones (52:08)

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Highlighted Segments by Timestamp

• KSR show/roadshow announcements: 03:00–04:40
• Back to school chaos, school schedules: 05:40–08:10 | 21:23–23:00
• UK basketball (Pope interview, team scouting): 11:08–16:42
• Mark Mitchell rumors: 15:02–16:27
• Energy drinks ban, Pineville story: 32:20–33:44
• Worst sports takes confessional: 36:12–39:14 | 47:39–49:04
• Presidential “catering truck” story: 23:14–27:28
• Golf course cheating scandal: 49:25–52:56

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Tone & Takeaways

In classic KSR fashion, the episode mixes Kentucky basketball chatter with heartfelt local stories, tongue-in-cheek ribbing, and a little cultural weirdness. The tone is loose and improvisational, with Matt playing ringmaster: “You can get away with stuff that no one else on this show can...” (47:08). Authentic, honest, and peppered with listener voices, this hour provides essential KSR energy and local sports flavor for diehards and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Shannon]

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[Carrie Brownstein]

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[Fred Armisen]

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[Carrie Brownstein]

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[Fred Armisen]

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[Carrie Brownstein]

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[Matt Jones]

Well, I thought you were all going

[Shannon]

to write a song.

[Carrie Brownstein]

I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia AO rewatch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Julie Pinero]

On Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman.

[Caller or Guest]

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[Julie Pinero]

Oh, no. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or Wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

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. Tuesday, August 11th. I'm Matt Jones here in Lexington, Kentucky. You could give us a shout. We're gonna take your calls. 859-280-2287. It's Clark's puppet Shop phone line. It's just me, Ryan and Shannon, so a good chance I might actually, you know, have a conversation. We won't be as quick to maybe give you the Appreciate the call.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the good like old school radio school. KSR, right?

[Matt Jones]

This is KSR like circa years 2011 to 2014. 15. Yes. A vision auto glass text machine. That was a good time for winning basketball too.

[Ryan]

Yes, it was.

[Matt Jones]

Text machine. 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Drew will be out most of the week. We have Josh Hopkins coming on Thursday. Might have another guest here tomorrow. And Friday we are for the next two weeks in Louisville. Yes, to all the Louisville KSR fans. We have two straight weeks of doing shows there. And generally speaking, we get some of our best crowds in Louisville because we don't go a lot.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

So this, this Friday we are at Shady Rays. Shady Rays in Louisville. Again, one of the better ones to go to because of the deals you can get there during the thing on the sunglasses.

[Ryan]

Yeah, a lot of times they give away free sunglasses.

[Matt Jones]

Usually half the crowd is up with free sunglasses. And then the next Friday we're at the state fair.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

And you know, the state fair, Shannon is always.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Next to louder than Life. The state fair is my Super Bowl. Like I really start thriving. I really start peaking around August 20th because you got the state fair for 10 days.

[Matt Jones]

Why is the state fair, you're super. I, I, State fair to me is entertaining. I'm a good once a year state fair.

[Shannon]

Me, I need to go at least

[Matt Jones]

loves the state fair.

[Caller or Guest]

Why?

[Shannon]

Well, the people watching Is off the charts. You got the state fair smells, food. Well, there's. Yeah, there are all kinds of smells there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

But then you got the free concerts and a lot of times I'm out there doing the mc, like, hey, everybody, welcome out.

[Matt Jones]

It's true. You're like, hey, everybody.

[Shannon]

Boys, for the millionth time. But it's great. It's just my favorite.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think if you were to. What is the best people watching in the state of the Kentucky. Is it the state fair?

[Shannon]

For the longest time? Yes. Now it's number two. And number one is louder than life because you cannot match. It is the people watching you get there.

[Matt Jones]

It is. There are a lot of odd humans at larger than life.

[Shannon]

Well, costumes and all kinds of crazy stuff there.

[Julie Pinero]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, we are here today. We have a special guest in studio. Henry is here. He's nine years old and he has come. He's. He's become a KSR fan. And so I invited him up in here. He's also a Bears fan, which is nice.

[Ryan]

He walk in wearing a bear shirt, not even knowing you have a Bears hoodie on today.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. So nice to have Henry and his mother here as well. My friend Corey. And yesterday, if you're talking people watching, yes, the state fair is number one. May I just say that back to school. Shopping at Target has got to be up there as well.

[Ryan]

There's no doubt.

[Matt Jones]

It did not occur to me it was back to school.

[Ryan]

Why did you go?

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know. I didn't. I wasn't trying to get back to school supplies. I needed to. I broke my reading glasses. So I was just like, I'll go to Target. By the way. They have a bad supply of reading glass. I'm not going back there. CBS is better reading glasses. But it was wild, absolutely wild. And I heard sentences like, kids going, what do I need paper for? I have AI. And I thought, we are doomed as a society. What do I need paper for? Like, they don't even. You think? The kid doesn't even think they need paper anymore.

[Ryan]

It makes you wonder, like, all the supplies we used to have to get number two pencils.

[Julie Pinero]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think anybody gets rulers anymore.

[Ryan]

Nobody gets that stuff anymore.

[Matt Jones]

Why would you even need it? You don't need it. I don't know what I needed a protractor for back then. But they were all there and it was just a circus. The eyeglasses are right next to the school supplies. And there were pens and paper and crayons and Just stuff flown all. Just thrown all across the building, and it, you know, close. Everybody with Target was at Zoo yesterday, and so school's got to be starting. What?

[Ryan]

Fayette county starts tomorrow.

[Matt Jones]

That's. That's it. That's why everybody was out there.

[Shannon]

Jefferson county already started, and Bullock County's tomorrow, too. So I think it is crazy to

[Matt Jones]

me how the schedules have, like, how it now starts in early to mid August, but then it ends in, like, early to mid May.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Right. That. Didn't you. I feel like it used to start or end Memorial Day, start Labor Day, and it's just like, everybody's just agreed to push everything up both times. I don't understand. I don't understand why you would want kids to be in school right now. It's too hot. Right. It's hotter now than it is at the end of May, so why would you want them to be in school? Henry, you shouldn't be in school yet. He agrees with me. Like, I don't understand why they don't wait a few weeks.

[Ryan]

I don't understand. But they do seem to move the start date up more and more and more. Like Shannon said, Jefferson county started last week.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They're already in school.

[Matt Jones]

Last week.

[Shannon]

Last week. Yeah. And I don't.

[Fred Armisen]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

It's the hottest time of the year.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know, when I was in high school, we. We are middle school. Middlesboro. Middle school. And high school had a walkout. The students walked out of school because we didn't have air conditioning.

[Ryan]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

Which is crazy to think now.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Isn't it crazy to think you would have, like. But we had no air conditioning in school, and it would get brutally hot, and we had a walkout, and it was like, student action. That worked because, like, a year or two later, they put air conditioning.

[Ryan]

Did they really?

[Matt Jones]

When I went to high school, but when I was in middle school, there was no air conditioning in the school.

[Ryan]

So most schools now, I'm sure, have air conditioning. Is the thought process. Maybe these kids don't have air conditioning in their homes, and so they're trying to help, maybe.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you think that's what it is?

[Ryan]

I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out why they keep moving the game.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, that's like. I could see that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Are you just making that up as a reason, or is that. Do you think that's actually the reason?

[Ryan]

I'm throwing it on the table for conversation?

[Julie Pinero]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

Well, maybe you're right. I hadn't thought of that the school. But like the school lunch issue would be the same in May or August?

[Caller or Guest]

May.

[Matt Jones]

Has Ryan just realized the truth, Shannon?

[Shannon]

That would be the things that come out of that mind.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, there's like some brain in there that occasionally gets activated.

[Ryan]

I slept at a hall then he

[Matt Jones]

says that every time. All right, well, yesterday, of course, Mark Pope called in. He did the thing where he was like, all right, you gotta, you gotta play basketball. I asked people if they would want to have a combine to join our team. The response was overwhelmingly yes. Yeah, so I'm going to start working on. All I needed to do is give myself another job. So I'm going to start working on trying to figure out when we can do that. Right. The best time to do it is the week of the Alabama game. However, I'm at ESPN that week. They're bringing us all to Bristol. So we'll have to figure out another time. But we will do it. And I think that way we can get a few listeners to play on our team in what the media event which will be, I think at Rupp Arena.

[Ryan]

They're going to do it at rup?

[Matt Jones]

I think so. So, like, you know, you can have a chance to potentially play at Rupp Arena.

[Ryan]

Do we ever figure out is it going to be like a five on five deal or we're going to play it?

[Matt Jones]

Why are you so worried about the logistics? And it's not just JMI that you're just making facts up in your head. This is like the whole is playing.

[Ryan]

It's like channel 18 will have a team. Kyto have a team.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know if anybody's. This is not a turn. It's just there. We're going through practice.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And you're going to play too.

[Ryan]

Oh, I remember I told you I'm the great clipboard holder and a great clapper.

[Matt Jones]

You got Wukash to agree to play.

[Shannon]

He was a maybe. He said he might be at Louder Than Life.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, the coach called in the show and asked us. Yes, he asked us to do it. Can we not do it?

[Ryan]

I don't have a clean jock strap. It's going to be tough for me to get out there.

[Shannon]

We know how it went for Ryan at Coach Cal's fantasy camp. I mean, that was what, 10 years ago? And he looked like he's about to drop dead after two minutes. Ten years to that less condition.

[Matt Jones]

I think we, I think we ought to do it now. Mark Pope was on after our show yesterday. He was on field of 68 and I thought it was a really good interview because they sort of talked to him in depth about basketball. You know, when we comes on here, sometimes we talk a little bit about sort of big picture interactions with fan base, et cetera. They kind of talk to him about basketball. And I thought he had some interesting things to say. First of all, Jeff Goodman asked him, what would you be worried about this team this year? And when I heard his answer, I'm gonna be honest with you, it was the exact same kind of answer he said to me and Drew and Ryan off the air. Remember when he was off the air, you're looking at me. You were here, weren't you?

[Shannon]

I remember.

[Ryan]

I was not here, actually.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. You were not here, Shannon. You were here.

[Shannon]

I did hear the conversation off the air.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he said, you know, we've wanted. I've kind of wanted to talk about it, but since he said it off the air, I didn't feel like I could. Well, he said it on the air,

[Ryan]

so now we can discuss it.

[Matt Jones]

He basically said, my worry is we're going to be long, athletic and able to get up and down, but I'm worried we're not physical enough. That was basically what he said. I'm worried we're going to play these teams and we're not physical enough. He said that right there. And he said, look, we got small guards, we got long, athletic bigs, but we don't have a lot of physical guys. And college basketball is becoming more physical now. When I heard that Shannon, part of me was like, well, maybe we should

[Shannon]

have gotten more physical guys, better toughen up quick.

[Matt Jones]

But that's exactly what he said to us privately. He sort of said to me and Drew privately, I'm a little worried about our defense, and I'm a little worried about how we're going to guard people. And that's what he said. So now we can just. You know, when Drew and I've been hitting at that, people been telling me how negative we were. Okay, now your coaches said it, too.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think that's going to be an issue?

[Ryan]

I think it will be an issue. And that's why I really think guys like Jaron Martin and Mason Williams are going to play because they can be a little more physical in the back. Back court. Alex Wilkins is a frail guy. What is he, like £160? I mean, he's a frail guy.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think people realize until you see them in person how little those guys are. They are little. And I don't just mean height. I just mean skinny.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Njai is a skinny.

[Matt Jones]

Jai is built like Tayshawn his freshman year.

[Ryan]

He is. That's a good call.

[Matt Jones]

You know, he is skinny. Skin cam is skinny.

[Ryan]

Yes. Even mom Silovich is not the thickest guy.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So I understand Malachi now. Malachi's gotten bigger, but he's still not.

[Ryan]

Not a big, physical guy.

[Matt Jones]

A big, physical guy. Frank is physical.

[Ryan]

He's the biggest monster on the team.

[Matt Jones]

And McBride, he's got, like, baby fat.

[Ryan]

Physical, but he's probably the second most physical guy on the team, it looks like, for Biggs.

[Matt Jones]

But I think I, you know, I appreciate Pope's honesty. He is recognizing what I think, what worries me about this. Now, he did say, I think we're going to be able to score on anybody. But, I mean, I think we're looking at a team that's going to look a lot like the first team he had where we've got to score 80 in the 80s, and that's what we're going to try to do.

[Ryan]

I think that's very fair. Exactly. Exactly what we're looking at. I think that's why some of these guys we mentioned are going to play, get some minutes because of the physicality of some of the backcourt guys they're going to face in the SEC every single night.

[Matt Jones]

Now, there are reports out there that the kid from Missouri, a lot of the national recruiting guys, Mark Mitchell, a lot of them are starting to connect him to Kentucky. Let's just dream here for a sec. Let's say you get Mark Mitchell. If Mark Mitchell had been in the portal last year, he's probably a top five to seven player in the portal. Okay. That would. I mean, you would have had the. I mean, number one portal class. We would have passed Louisville, so we would have been the number one portal.

[Ryan]

No doubt.

[Matt Jones]

He drops on the team now all of a sudden, now you can be really good, right?

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He's the missing link. He's the four. He's the guy he could put in there that this team desperately needs. So I saw where Malachi started following him. Somebody sent that to me. Malachi started following him on.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, wait a minute. You're. You're following who the players are following?

[Ryan]

Somebody sent it to me. I didn't catch it, but somebody sent it to me.

[Matt Jones]

That Malachi sent you what? They sent you a screenshot that Malachi was following.

[Ryan]

Mitchell just started following him. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Boy, Shannon, he gets all the scoop, doesn't he? Does who sent it to you?

[Ryan]

An anonymous number.

[Matt Jones]

Well, did you check to see if they were telling you the truth?

[Ryan]

I don't even know what social media platform it was. He started following him off. It was Snapchat or.

[Matt Jones]

And you just are going to just repeat it like it's true.

[Ryan]

I think we should, you know, throw it out there.

[Matt Jones]

But what if it's not true?

[Ryan]

I think I may have already even deleted it.

[Shannon]

How much you care, though.

[Matt Jones]

So you don't. So you're reporting that Malachi followed Mark Mitchell on some platform.

[Ryan]

Perfect. Bingo.

[Matt Jones]

But you're unaware which one. Ding, ding, ding, ding. And you have no proof.

[Ryan]

Nailed it. That's the scoop of the day.

[Matt Jones]

That's very helpful addition to it. Well, I'm glad that he. I thought it was interesting that he also said.

[Shannon]

Here it is. It's on Instagram. Yeah, he is following him. That's confirmed.

[Matt Jones]

So you're confirming.

[Shannon]

Confirming his scoop.

[Ryan]

There we go.

[Matt Jones]

Scoop, scoop, scoop. There you go. He also, by the way, Pope insinuated that Mark Fox was in charge of the defense and that he was on the hot seat to have a good defense.

[Ryan]

Oh, wow. Throwing your coach under the bus like that.

[Matt Jones]

If I was Mark Fox, I'd be like, hang on, just say, wait just a minute. So it's a good interview. It's on field of 68. Uh, you should check it out. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-77-45254. Here's how I know it's gonna be a good show. I'm looking at the phone lines with the people on. There's a guy on there named Maynard. You don't get a lot of Maynards,

[Ryan]

but you know Maynard's gonna be a good dude.

[Matt Jones]

You don't get a lot of Maynard. Have you met a Maynard you don't like?

[Ryan]

I don't even know a Maynard.

[Shannon]

Do you? Singer from Tool is Maynard.

[Matt Jones]

Hopefully it's him right after this.

[Julie Pinero]

KSR on Solita. We share the messy stories of traveling alone as a woman.

[Caller or Guest]

Your duol is not going to come back to you when a man is inside of you.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, no.

[Julie Pinero]

I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita. Trading the pity for possibility.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. I can wait four hours for the

[Julie Pinero]

next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Nick Turturro]

I'm Nick Turturro. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the Longest Yard, or Spike Lee's blackkklansman. But I'm also from Queens, which means I know pizza. And on my new podcast, Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro, I deliver pizza from Prince Street Pizza to a new guest.

[Julie Pinero]

Are you delivering pizzas now?

[Nick Turturro]

Then we sit down for a real conversation. I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins.

[Shannon]

What are you doing?

[Caller or Guest]

My belt.

[Nick Turturro]

To Alex Rodriguez. Just to let you people know we're talking to one of the goats here. To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody so exactly out of their mind as I am. And now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Turturro. It's called Happiness. Delivering Happiness. Mariano Rivera, Biggie, what's up, brother? And many, many more. Open your free iHeartradio app search delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro and listen now.

[Matt Jones]

Our town is small taters by most standards, right?

[Carrie Brownstein]

But to the people who grew up here, it's everything.

[Julie Pinero]

What happen when a quiet Tennessee town becomes the frontline in a battle over the future of America?

[Matt Jones]

Developers with right wing ties have purchased

[Ryan]

hundreds of acres of land in the area.

[Matt Jones]

The first thing you see when it

[Shannon]

pops up is pioneers in Appalachia.

[Julie Pinero]

But they weren't just planning houses.

[Matt Jones]

We need cities on a shining hill that exemplify and embody the Christian way of life.

[Shannon]

Stop right there. Is that normal?

[Julie Pinero]

A podcast about what happens when a small town becomes the site of a social experiment.

[Ryan]

God need men to rule, period.

[Julie Pinero]

And decides to fight back.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Do not use my hard work to sell your bull.

[Matt Jones]

They're not just opposing what's being planned for here.

[Shannon]

Our hometown is not a test tube.

[Matt Jones]

They feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration. Guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies.

[Shannon]

Now, did you?

[Julie Pinero]

Listen to Our town on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Fred Armisen]

Hey, Portlandia fans.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen here, you know us.

[Fred Armisen]

Or rather, you know them. Tony and Candace, Nina and Lance, Spike and yes, the chicken.

[Carrie Brownstein]

We've played a lot of iconic characters over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves to tell you about Podlandia AO rewatch our brand new podcast.

[Fred Armisen]

Each week we'll revisit an episode of Portlandia from the very beginning, breaking down the sketches, exploring the backstories of our most iconic characters, revisiting the Portland locations you know and love, and opening up about our creative process.

[Carrie Brownstein]

How did any of this get made? Why did he think that was a good idea? We're ready to talk about it.

[Fred Armisen]

And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, collaborators, and friends, including director Jonathan Krisel, the mayor himself, Kyle MacLachlan, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Kyle is going for it. Here you fully improvised, not just words, but a song about.

[Shannon]

Well, I thought he was gonna write. I thought you were all gonna write a song.

[Carrie Brownstein]

I remember you thinking that.

[Fred Armisen]

Listen to Podlandia AO rewatch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Caller or Guest]

Welcome back.

[Matt Jones]

Tech Esports Radio, 859-280-2287. You found an answer for us.

[Ryan]

Got an answer from somebody that knows.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Most school systems are moving their start date up so they can finish the first semester before winter break.

[Matt Jones]

Why do they want to do that?

[Ryan]

When we were in school. Yeah, I remember, like, the semester would not until after fall winter break.

[Matt Jones]

That wasn't true. Well, we didn't have semesters in Middlesboro.

[Ryan]

Oh, you didn't?

[Matt Jones]

No, we just. You just were in school. What was the. What's the point of. A semester's a college thing.

[Ryan]

Well, we had semesters in high school.

[Matt Jones]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah. And you had your semester.

[Matt Jones]

We had nine weeks. So you'd get a report card every nine weeks, but you didn't have the end of semester. No. So they would say, like, you would get your nine week report card. I would get all A's and then a check for Whispers too much. My mom would always go, it's always, always had whispers too much. And I always. And one time I didn't get it and I got. It was like a big deal because I got Whispers too much on every report card from kindergarten until. I don't know if they still send them when I was a senior, but if so, I had whispers too much the entire time.

[Ryan]

Shocking. Matt Jones talks too much.

[Matt Jones]

You know what? It paid off.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. So that's why they start early.

[Ryan]

That's why a lot of schools have moved it up to finish the first semester before winter break. So you take your exam before winter break, don't have to remember everything over winter break, come back in January and finish.

[Matt Jones]

One person wrote, data shows the longer the summer lasts, the more the kids forget. Which means the teachers have to spend more time reviewing the previous year's topics. But that doesn't really make any sense because it feels like the summer break is the same amount of time.

[Ryan]

True.

[Matt Jones]

It's just. It starts earlier, up and back and ends earlier anyway. 859-280-2287 did you see the story? We do have to just. We have to talk about one thing before I go to Maynard here.

[Caller or Guest]

Shane.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I have to tell you, I can't help but find it fascinating and kind of funny that they had to sneak our president out of a catering truck. And also maybe a little worrisome, to be honest with you. So as I understand it, they have a new Air Force One that was given to us by another country. All right, so they were overseas. He was going to fly the new one back, and he came back a different way. And later they were like, well, it turns out there were needed to be some repairs on that one. So it flew back. But now the report this morning is they thought there was a threat from Iran and they. They thought it was a reasonable threat. So they snuck him out of Air Force One in a catering truck and used a catering truck to take him to a different plane to fly back. And they showed the catering truck and Shannon, it's tiny.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. It's tight. Think about it. You've seen, like, when you fly on a plane, you know, you see the thing pull up and it's got the food in it.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

They snuck him out on that.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

And put him on a different plane. And then everybody else that was supposed to fly on the plane just went ahead and flew home. So, like, they were kind of sitting ducks.

[Ryan]

Yes, no doubt.

[Matt Jones]

Now, I have no problem with them doing whatever they have to do to protect. To protect the president. And I don't really think they're under an obligation to tell people, but I do think it's kind of crazy, Shannon, that then they would let the other people fly home on it.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Like their lives are just like their lives.

[Matt Jones]

Like if they, you know what I mean? Like, if it was a reasonable enough threat that they thought the president could get shot. How you've let. I mean, there were like a Hundred people on that flight.

[Ryan]

What if you're one of those people? Like, you want me to fly home on that plane?

[Shannon]

I said, get me in the carrying truck. I want to go to the cable.

[Matt Jones]

What would you think if you found out that you. They had let you go ahead and fly home on that one? It's also like. I mean, there's got to be a picture of him inside the catering truck. Shannon.

[Julie Pinero]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

It's like when they snuck Taylor Swift out in the. The popcorn.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly how they. Taylor Swift into the Chiefs game. She came in in a popcorn box.

[Ryan]

But now they've. They've tipped. They've tipped their hand how they're getting him around. They're hiding him in catering trucks, and.

[Matt Jones]

And there's a video where they show where they think they. He got in.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Like, went around the pastries. I mean, that means, Shannon, he had to have been like. Like in a little ball eating donuts next to the coffee. And those little crackers they have. By the way, I love those little cookies they have on Delta.

[Ryan]

You like those?

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. The little lyric cinnamony. You don't like those?

[Ryan]

I. I always fly allegiant. We don't get.

[Shannon]

He's on spirit. You got to pay extra for that on there.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You don't even bring the crack onto Allegiance.

[Shannon]

But I would.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, is that not crazy?

[Nick Turturro]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

I mean, I would think that even if they knew you were on the Air Force One or Air Force Two, whatever it was, that that would still be saf. Than being in a catering truck.

[Matt Jones]

I was always told. And again, this may have been completely made up, but don't you remember? It feels like we were always told that, like, a nuclear weapon could hit Air Force One and it would be okay.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Wasn't that what. Wasn't that what we were told when

[Ryan]

we were younger around it or something?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I always thought it kind of seemed B.S.

[Ryan]

yeah.

[Shannon]

But it's got me. It's got. I don't know exactly the details of it, but it's built for defense, you know, if it is.

[Matt Jones]

But does that mean that, like, that's. It's not.

[Shannon]

Makes you wonder a little bit if the catering truck is the best option

[Matt Jones]

if they're like, well, we can't put him on Air Force One. I guess we got to put him in this catering truck.

[Ryan]

The rest of you go ahead. Though you may get shot down.

[Matt Jones]

It feels like to me, that's at least what was going on. Right. And the fact that, like, they thought there was a reasonable chance that he was going to be shot down.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they snuck him out there. Had to be.

[Matt Jones]

Which means they thought Iran could actually shoot down the President.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

That's a little worrisome, isn't it?

[Ryan]

Very worrisome. A little scary, actually. I feel bad for those people that had to get on that plane knowing that they could be a target.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they didn't know.

[Ryan]

Oh, they didn't know. And they got.

[Matt Jones]

This has all come out. This was like three months ago. So it didn't happen yesterday.

[Shannon]

Well, if you saw the president getting in a catering truck, you might want to question why is he getting in a catering truck?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know that anybody saw it.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I think they, that this is all just being reported, but it happened like three months ago. Maynard. Go ahead, Mayard.

[Caller or Guest]

Matt, I, I got a, I got a bone to pick with you and Mark Pope. Both of first calls you and recruits, you personally. And you're still on the fence about it. I mean you. Come on, you got to give it 110%. Number two.

[Matt Jones]

Listen, first of all, just for the record, Maynard, I was excited about your phone call and you come in here swinging. I called my trainer. We have a call at 1:30. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it. It's Ryan. That is the one. That's Heston. I'm playing. I'm gonna do it. I don't want to, but you know, when the call is made, you have to do it.

[Caller or Guest]

Well, that, that makes me feel better. Number two, Mark Pope. We've had all spring, winter, summer to get in shape for this. I listened yesterday. I hear they're going to put a tryout out there. So I think, okay, I'm in pretty good shape. I need to get in shape now to get this last spot from the community side. I go outside and start running. I've torn a rotator cuff. I blew my knee out. I've tore a hamstring. My ACL is missing. I don't even think I have it anymore. And it's 970,000 degrees. Could we not do this in the cool off season? This is crazy.

[Matt Jones]

Why are you wanting me to play if the first time you went outside you got hurt?

[Caller or Guest]

Listen, I am in the greatest shape of my life. I just won the 2026.

[Matt Jones]

That's enough bragging. Humble brag. Look how, look how good a shape you're in. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan]

Call tj.

[Shannon]

He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

I forgot to say, Ryan's picking songs today. Sorry, I should have noted that in the first. What was played the first song, Shannon,

[Shannon]

it was Small Town by John Cougar Mellencamp.

[Matt Jones]

Sorry, I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have skipped over that. Of course, it's Darius Rucker, but this is actually the one I like.

[Ryan]

Yes, this is the. I think this is the best. Hooting. The Blowfish song is, right.

[Matt Jones]

You think it's the best one?

[Ryan]

I think it's their best one.

[Matt Jones]

And they're at Bourbon and Beyond, right?

[Shannon]

That's right. Yeah. Sunday night.

[Ryan]

The first. The first song, small Town, by John Cooper Mellencamp, is about Otwell, Indiana.

[Matt Jones]

You said that before. Yeah, and that's true. Okay. And then this one. So you have a very predictable ox score. Very predictable.

[Ryan]

You could make it. Make it Easy decisions.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, you're doing tomorrow's right.

[Shannon]

Sure, yeah, I'll do that. And I guarantee you, you could guess if you thought hard enough what the next song is going to be.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. That's a good question.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Text machine. 772-77-45254. Just give one hint. Is it one of the two artists we've already played?

[Shannon]

No. No. Different artists.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. All right, I'll tell you what. I'm gonna do this for Ryan. UK football tickets to the person that is first on the text machine to guess what the next song is.

[Ryan]

Awesome. Very cool.

[Matt Jones]

So can you read Ryan Lemon's brain? And if nobody guesses it, then they don't get it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Caller or Guest]

All right.

[Ryan]

Very cool.

[Matt Jones]

So 772-77-45-254. First person to guess what the next song Ryan Lemon plays is, you say, Right. Shannon says it's easy.

[Shannon]

I think it's very predictable. I mean, if, you know Ryan, if you've listened to this show. We've played it so many times.

[Matt Jones]

It's like a reward for people who listen. Who listen to the show.

[Shannon]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Well, we will. We'll see. One person writes, matt, the kind of cookies you're talking about on airplanes are Biscoff. And Dairy Queen has it as a blizzard flavor this month.

[Ryan]

Oh, really?

[Matt Jones]

Is that true?

[Ryan]

I would like to try it. I may go get one.

[Matt Jones]

I'm getting one tonight.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I was going to reward myself with a blizzard. I'm rewarding myself, Shannon, for considering starting training.

[Shannon]

Well, that's what I was going to say. Like, you know, you need to lay off the blizzards. Maybe get some chicken breasts.

[Matt Jones]

No, but it's a good but. But that's how you like reward yourself for thinking about getting ready to start.

[Shannon]

Run a couple of miles, then get the blizzard.

[Matt Jones]

I've been walking every night. You don't worry about me. Even. Even Vince Merrow texted me and said you've lost weight. And I was like, you trying to get me to play at Louisville. Don't butter me up.

[Shannon]

You gonna walk up and down the court or run up and down the court though?

[Matt Jones]

We don't. But that's it. Do you think that would be a good blizzard? The airline cookie blizzard I think would be awesome blizzard.

[Shannon]

I don't think there's a bad blizzard. Like I had a bad one.

[Matt Jones]

So we'll see who the first person to guess it correctly is. So one more thing about schools opening. Pineville. Pineville High School.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Made national news this week because they have announced they are no longer allowing students to drink energy drinks. They say that when students drink energy drinks it's getting them too revved up and also causing anxiety issues, etc. And so they've banned energy drinks. Good or bad decision?

[Ryan]

I think it's probably a good decision. They shouldn't allow him at school. My oldest son will drink one every day and I think that's the reason why. He's crazy.

[Shannon]

Twice crazy.

[Matt Jones]

Why do you think you're son?

[Nick Turturro]

It's crazy.

[Ryan]

He's out there. He walks to beats to a different drummer. But actually I like the idea. I like Russ Thompson down there doing some magic.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, do you like the idea of no energy drinks at Pineville High School?

[Shannon]

If you're in high school, you're so young. Why do you need energy drinks? You should have all kinds of energy. When I was in high school, I didn't need energy drinks. I was bouncing off the walls as it was.

[Matt Jones]

Energy drinks weren't a thing when I was in high school. So like I don't even know but I do. Kids do people drink a lot of energy drinks.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Henry's nine and says they do.

[Shannon]

So that's a nine year old doesn't need them either.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like a 9 year old doesn't need. I mean I'm not a parent, but it's. I don't know that they need a Red Bull in the morning.

[Ryan]

You know, we go to McDonald's to get a McMuffin and a diet Coke. They go to Speedway and get a monster drink.

[Matt Jones]

Is that right?

[Ryan]

To school?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, you can't do it at Pineville High School. Andrew. Go ahead. Andrew.

[Ryan]

Andrew.

[Shannon]

Not paying attention.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate the call. Sorry, Andrew, you were on hold, but you got to be ready. Kevin, go ahead. Kevin.

[Caller or Guest]

Matt. Ryan, Shannon. Great to hear everybody's voice today. Matt, I've got a proposal for you. I understand you were a pretty decent tennis player in the day. I'm decent as well. I happen to live about a block from you. Happen to live about a block from you. There's a secret tennis court. Well, two of them in the neighborhood. Why don't you and I start hitting the ball around a little bit as

[Matt Jones]

part of your training? I'm done with tennis. That's too much moving. I mean, I appreciate the call. And it's not even just the running. Tennis requires, like, lateral, like, you know, shit in the plant. And like, you will. I will tear my ACL the first time I do that. There's way too much planting and shifting of weight. And like, that's not that. That's not. Achilles tears. People our age when you try to do that.

[Shannon]

What. What I'm hearing is that you're ready for pickleball then, because exactly what. You have to run a whole lot.

[Matt Jones]

But have you not seen the stories about pickleball? Old people are getting hurt everywhere on pickleball.

[Shannon]

But you're not that guy.

[Matt Jones]

There was like. There was a story this week in the New York Times about how, like, all these. What do you call people that do ligaments and Achilles. What do you call those doctors? Right. That they put them together and surgeons. Yeah, I understand, but, like, the particular ones for. Anyway, they said, like, their business is quadruple since pickleball.

[Ryan]

Pickleball.

[Matt Jones]

Because old people are just getting hurt left and right trying because of exactly what I'm talking about. Our limbs are not supposed to plant. And, you know, now you.

[Ryan]

You're wishing would. You're trying to walk any. Any sites in your.

[Matt Jones]

No, the naked people, I think, have gone in their house. Somebody told them That's. See, that's part of the problem. Like, if I say a restaurant's good, now all of a sudden, like, it's full, which is nice for the restaurant. But then, like, there's a line that. Winchester Road McDonald's has not been the same since I mentioned it, which is unfortunate. I mean, I still go there, but now it's a longer wait.

[Ryan]

So you think word got to the people to put their clothes on?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I think somebody probably told them, when you're walking around your house naked,

[Ryan]

Matt Jones is peeping on you to

[Matt Jones]

put your clothes on. I'm not. Stop saying peeping I'm not peeping. I'm walking and they're right in front of me. What am I supposed to do?

[Fred Armisen]

Hi.

[Matt Jones]

I don't speak to them. Sean. Go ahead, Sean.

[Caller or Guest]

Hey, guys, I got a question. Way back in 1995, when I was a young man, I think I did my worst sports take ever. And I've got a lot of worst sports takes. I said, I said Kerry Kittles would be a better pro than Tim Duncan.

[Matt Jones]

That is an old time terrible one right there.

[Caller or Guest]

Yes, that's pretty good. Right. When I miss, I miss. Do any of you guys have a great question? Miss like that?

[Matt Jones]

That is a really great question. Okay, Ryan, what was your all time worst UK related sports take?

[Ryan]

I'd have to think a minute, but I definitely remember Allen Cutler's.

[Matt Jones]

I can tell you mine. You do? Alan Cutler. What was Alan Cutler's worst.

[Ryan]

Jules Camara will be an NBA hall of Famer.

[Matt Jones]

He did not say hall of Famer. I appreciate the call.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he did.

[Matt Jones]

He said hall of Famer.

[Ryan]

He said it like that. Hall of Famer.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe if he challenged you. Did you see the tweet?

[Ryan]

I did.

[Matt Jones]

He sent me a text that said he would block your shot and beat you five zero.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's talking all kinds of smack.

[Matt Jones]

Does that not make you want to?

[Ryan]

I'd like to. I just, I just can't move yet. I can go in slow motion.

[Shannon]

That's okay.

[Matt Jones]

My worst one, UK related is very simple. I said Shea Gilgis Alexander would not be a good pro. Yeah, that was a bad one. That was a really bad one because I remember like going, yeah, I don't, I don't see him because I didn't think he could shoot any. And then he clearly. That was. That. That, that is without question my worst one. I remember and there are a handful of fans that still bring that up.

[Ryan]

They remember, remember you saying that.

[Matt Jones]

They remember could me going because he went like 21st in the draft. And I was like, well, that's probably about where she goes.

[Ryan]

I remember I jumped on the Billy Gillespie train like everybody else thought it was the greatest hire ever and he's gonna be a great coach.

[Matt Jones]

Remember we were like, he doesn't even have a wife.

[Ryan]

He's married to basketball.

[Matt Jones]

He's married to basketball. I mean, he was married to something. I can might not have been a

[Ryan]

wife, but I remember buying in and thinking, he's gonna be the best coach.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, what was yours? Do you remember a bad.

[Shannon]

Every day. Every day I have a bad take. I don't know, I think maybe one that's still to be determined was I was really critical of the Mark Pope hire, to be honest with you.

[Matt Jones]

But did you. But we all were. But didn't you. I mean, not. I flipped.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Other. Did you not. Did you flip?

[Shannon]

Somewhat. Somewhat. And I think I got on board more and more as the first season went along. And then last season kind of happened. Now I'm kind of swinging back. I like Mark Pope as a person. I think he's an awesome person. I'm just. I think the jury is still out on whether or not this is going to work here.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I also was pretty convinced Brandon Knight would be a really good pro.

[Ryan]

Yes. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And I still think he just ended up in bad situations, unfortunately. And he had that where he got dunked on, and it just stayed on him for a long time.

[Ryan]

I've mentioned a couple of guys I thought would never play in the NBA. Jared Vanderbilt proved me wrong. Winion Gabriel has proved me wrong. Those two guys.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, they. I think that surprised most people. I don't think most people would have thought Winion Gabriel was going to be a pro that was in the league as long as he's been agreed.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. If you have one those, let us know. Denise. Go ahead, Denise.

[Caller or Guest]

Hey, Matt. I just wanted to let you all know my husband wrote Scoop Lemon and. Hey, it's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Wait a minute. Your husband wrote Ryan.

[Caller or Guest]

He. He wrote the Scoop. Scoop Lemon and recorded it and he wrote it's. He did, in fact. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you. Oh, he wrote the sound effects. Okay. No, that.

[Caller or Guest]

They're great. He wrote it and sang it. Oh, he did all of it.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know that. So your husband is, like, quite talented.

[Caller or Guest]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He. He directed barbershop course in Lexington, Men and Women and E Town for years, and he's still a musician.

[Matt Jones]

Well, you should get. You should. Shannon, we're gonna put you on hold.

[Caller or Guest]

Give.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon. Shannon will give you an email address so when he wants to do one of those, he can send it so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. Okay.

[Caller or Guest]

Gotcha. Gotcha.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Caller or Guest]

He did it. Smack Jones.

[Shannon]

I've got it. Yeah, I've got it. Right. Yeah, right here.

[Matt Jones]

I remember that one. Yes, I like that one. Okay. All right, Denise, hang on. So we can. So he can give you an email. Okay.

[Caller or Guest]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Thank you. There you go. I like that.

[Ryan]

That's what I love about the people that listen to this show. Very Creative guy. Kind of help our show get better.

[Matt Jones]

The Commonwealth Causes ultimate bourbon collection raffle is here. And if we sell $500 in tickets this month, $7,500 will be donated to the Lexington Sporting Club. Henry was just telling me he plays soccer, football, flag football. They don't let people tackle anymore.

[Ryan]

Not in middle school, usually.

[Matt Jones]

When do you start tackling?

[Ryan]

Well, some of the public schools do, but a lot of the private schools, you play flag football, like, through sixth grade.

[Matt Jones]

The drawing takes place on Aug. 27, a day before my birthday. So get your tickets now@commonwealth causes.org follow a @ky causes on social or download the app Commonwealth Causes the bourbon raffle. It's a big event every year or every month. Go to Commonwealth Causes. Alan Cutler said, I never said I'd block Ryan Shot. And thanks for bringing up my worst take of all time.

[Ryan]

Well, that was the topic. That was the topic we're trying to come up with.

[Matt Jones]

Bad takes, one person wrote. I thought Charay Thomas would be the difference maker in the 2005 season. Poor charade.

[Ryan]

Hip hip Sheree.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. All right, we'll be right back.

[Julie Pinero]

KSI on Solita. We share the messy stories of traveling alone as a woman.

[Caller or Guest]

Your duolingo is not going to come back to you when a man is inside of you.

[Julie Pinero]

Oh, no. I'm Julie Pinero, and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people, and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here.

[Matt Jones]

I can wait four hours for the

[Julie Pinero]

next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Nick Turturro]

I'm Nick Turturro. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the Longest Yard, or Spike Lee's blackkklansman. But I'm also from Queens, which means I know pizza. And on my new podcast, Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro, I deliver pizza from Prince Street Pizza to a new guest.

[Matt Jones]

Are you delivering pizzas now?

[Nick Turturro]

Then we sit down for a real conversation. I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins.

[Shannon]

What are you doing? My belt.

[Nick Turturro]

To Alex Rodriguez. Just to let you people know we're talking to one of the goats here. To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody so exactly out of the I am. And now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Turturro. It's called Happiness. Delivering Happiness, Mariano Rivera, and many, many more. Open your free iHeartradio app search delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro and listen.

[Matt Jones]

Now, our town is small. Taters by most standards, right?

[Carrie Brownstein]

But to the people who grew up here, it's everything.

[Julie Pinero]

What happens when a quiet Tennessee town becomes the front line in a battle over over the future of America?

[Matt Jones]

Developers with right wing ties have purchased

[Ryan]

hundreds of acres of land in the area.

[Matt Jones]

The first thing you see when it

[Shannon]

pops up is pioneers in Appalachia.

[Julie Pinero]

But they weren't just planning houses.

[Matt Jones]

We need cities on a shining hill that exemplify and embody the Christian way of life.

[Shannon]

Stop right there. Is that normal?

[Julie Pinero]

A podcast about what happens when a small town becomes the site of a social experiment.

[Ryan]

God need men to rule.

[Caller or Guest]

Great.

[Julie Pinero]

And decides to fight back.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Do not use my hard work to sell your bull.

[Matt Jones]

They're not just opposing what's being planned for here.

[Shannon]

Our hometown is not a test tube.

[Matt Jones]

They feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration. Guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies now, did you?

[Julie Pinero]

Listen to Our town on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Fred Armisen]

Hey, Portlandia fans.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen here, you

[Fred Armisen]

know us, or rather, you know them. Tony and Candace, Nina and Lance, Spike and yes, the chicken.

[Carrie Brownstein]

We've played a lot of iconic characters over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves to tell you about Podlandia. AO rewatch our brand new podcast.

[Fred Armisen]

Each week, we'll revisit an episode of Portlandia from the very beginning. Breaking down the sketches, exploring the backstories of our most iconic characters, revisiting the Portland locations you know and love, and opening up about our creative process.

[Carrie Brownstein]

How did any of this get made? Why do we think that was a good idea? We're ready to talk about it.

[Fred Armisen]

And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life. Guest stars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Krisel, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Kyle is going for it. Here you fully improvised. Not just words. But a song about.

[Shannon]

I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song.

[Carrie Brownstein]

I remember you thinking that.

[Fred Armisen]

Listen to Podlandia AO rewatch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

See, I wouldn't have guessed this. Yeah, this wouldn't have been my guess.

[Ryan]

This wasn't it.

[Matt Jones]

No, I was gonna say Bon Jovi. I am looking right here. We got about 300 guesses.

[Shannon]

Any fat bottom girls on Girls?

[Matt Jones]

I do not see a fat bottoms girl.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Shannon]

You get to keep the tickets then.

[Ryan]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

I'll save it for. Well, we'll. Maybe we'll try another one in the second half.

[Shannon]

We have talked about this song so many times over the years.

[Matt Jones]

People don't like to think about it because it's gross.

[Ryan]

Well, but it's such an awesome song.

[Matt Jones]

I know, but I think, like, you know, people like you and they don't want to think about your kind of weird parts.

[Ryan]

Fat bottoms.

[Matt Jones]

Well, just like, I just think there are things you say that, like, I was talking about this the other day. You can get away with stuff that no one else on this show can. Like. Like, we were having a conversation with our producers at ESPN about how Myron and I can have conversations that they would be scared for other people on ESPN to have because they would be worried that it would be handled in a different way. Yeah, right. Which led to a conversation where I was talking about you and how people. You can get away with stuff that if I said it, would break the Internet. And if Billy said it, he'd be fired. You know what I mean?

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

But it's because you're so lovable. So, like, if I came on here and was like, fat bottom girls, people would, like, stop.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But Ryan doesn't. They're like, oh, that's right.

[Nick Turturro]

Let's do it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan doing Ryan things.

[Ryan]

He's old. He's lost his.

[Matt Jones]

Like, that's just, you know, that's. That's just how it is. Orthopedic surgeons.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Not as many people volunteering their bad takes. Shannon. People like to forget their bad.

[Shannon]

Of course. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Although I like this one person said, I bet my buddy a hundred dollars Ryan Harrow would be the best point guard that John Caliperi had had. That's a bad one.

[Ryan]

It's a bad one. But, you know, we heard during the 2012 team how he was eating up Marcus Teagan practice him up.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, if people said that national championship Marcus Teague would get Embarrassed in practice for like the first half of the season.

[Ryan]

Yep. By Ryan Harrow. And then heard it over and over and over.

[Matt Jones]

You always hear one person said, I had a buddy who swore on his life Reed shepherd would never play a minute of important basketball at Kentucky.

[Ryan]

That's a bad take. That's bad.

[Matt Jones]

That's a bad take. But I had that take until I saw him play aaud.

[Caller or Guest]

Uh huh.

[Matt Jones]

When we went down there and saw him his junior year of high school, that was kind of my take. Yeah, I thought this was going to be like a Josh Carrier career. But then I saw him play AAU against great players and it was like he got much better. You know what I mean?

[Ryan]

Oh yes.

[Matt Jones]

And when I saw that, I went, okay, well he'll play. Now. Did I think he'd be the number three draft pick? Never.

[Ryan]

Nobody did.

[Matt Jones]

Never. But I did think he would play. But you had to seem against better people to see that thing.

[Ryan]

He's a different player than the 13th region than he was playing the upper level A.

[Matt Jones]

He plays a lot better based on his competition, which is a really good trait to have. But a lot of players don't do that.

[Ryan]

Obviously playing with the better players. He can, you know, play into his skills, skill set. You know, passing the ball, distributing the ball and getting the open three to your friend Crystal.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, you did say fat bottom, but you don't get to do it. You, you know him and he, you might have texted. Crystal cheated.

[Ryan]

No I didn't.

[Matt Jones]

You might have.

[Ryan]

I swear I didn't.

[Matt Jones]

You sure?

[Ryan]

I'm positive. Well, she knows me pretty well though, so she probably figured that out.

[Matt Jones]

Speaking of cheating, Shannon, did you see the story about the golfer?

[Shannon]

I don't think I did, no.

[Fred Armisen]

What's the story?

[Matt Jones]

This is bad. Now what I will say I don't understand how this became a national story, but it did. So can I explain to you the cheating? Yeah, I want to hear see how bad you think.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

A golf club had a member member golf tournament. Now I haven't joined a golf course. I'm probably going to join the Greenbrier at some point. They just had their member member and I think they treat that stuff really seriously. The member is like for middle aged men, it's the best moment they have in their lives.

[Shannon]

Why is it two members?

[Matt Jones]

Well, because a member guest is. You bring somebody from off the course. It's more of a social tournament. But the member members, you team up with other members to be like the biggest member of the herd.

[Shannon]

Double members. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Right.

[Shannon]

It's like,

[Matt Jones]

okay, so they have the member. Member at this course in St. Louis. Okay, a guy, I guess he wants to win. Specifically, there's a prize for winning a hole in one. Listen to what my man does. First of all, he gets a hole in one on number four. Or at least everybody believes it.

[Ryan]

All right?

[Matt Jones]

What he did is he. They were on the third green, and he said, hey, my grandmother's sick. I need to go check on her. I'm going to go hit the tee shot on number four, and I'll meet you guys at the green. They go, sure. He goes. They think he goes and hits the tee shot. They say, where'd it go? And he goes, I thinned it. I don't know where it went. Goes and takes the call. Okay, when everybody gets to the green, they're looking for his ball. Where is it? Oh, it's magically in the hole. Hole in one. Everyone celebrates. He goes. I didn't even realize it turns out, Shannon, he got up early in the morning, drove, put his ball in the fourth hole because he knew they were like the first group on the course. Puts his ball in the fourth hole early in the morning, fakes the conversation with his grandmother so that he could have the hole in one, win the prize at the member.

[Caller or Guest]

Member.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know how they found out he did it. I guess somebody was like, that seems suspect. They catch him, and now they've kicked him out of the golf course, and it's become a national story.

[Shannon]

That is some next level cheating. Yes, it is, because these tee times are early as it is, so my man must have been out there, like, 4am

[Matt Jones]

Next level cheating. That's not like, let's just give it a foot wedge out of the rough. Wow, that is fake. A hole in one. And your grandmother being sick.

[Shannon]

Premeditated cheating here. I mean, like, this is the most, like, in the moment. We're going to cheat.

[Matt Jones]

This isn't Bryce and D. Shambo going, I stepped behind my ball. What happened?

[Ryan]

This is unbelievable.

[Caller or Guest]

Now.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think they should have kicked him out of the golf club?

[Ryan]

That would be my first thing I would have said. Kick him out of the club, revoke his membership, make him shine. Everybody's clubs that come in the next

[Matt Jones]

day, I don't think you can do. I don't think you can make him come and do hand molding. Listen, it's clearly cheating. It's clearly bad. But kicking him out of the court, like, yes, it's supposed to be fun.

[Ryan]

Gentleman's game.

[Matt Jones]

Not at the member Member, not the member member.

[Ryan]

So you're out, lose your membership and

[Matt Jones]

like, this is one of my topics on ESPN today. This dude just thought he was playing in the Member Member.

[Shannon]

I want to know how they found out.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I want to look into it. We'll take a break, come back. Hour two ksr.

[Nick Turturro]

I'm Nick Turturro. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the Longest Yard or Spike Lee's blackkklansman. And on my new podcast, Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro, I deliver pizza to a new guest. I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins.

[Shannon]

What are you doing?

[Caller or Guest]

My belt.

[Nick Turturro]

To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody so exactly out of the and now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Turturro. It's called Happiness, Delivering Happiness and many, many more. Open your free iHeartradio app search delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro and listen now.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Hey, Portlandia fans, Kerry Brownstein and Fred Armisen here.

[Fred Armisen]

The dream of the 90s is alive in podcast form.

[Carrie Brownstein]

We're launching Podlandia AO Rewatch our brand new podcast where we revisit every episode of Portlandia together, breaking down sketches, going deep on our iconic characters, and pulling back the curtain on how it all got made.

[Fred Armisen]

And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Krisel, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.

[Carrie Brownstein]

Kyle is going for it. Here you fully improvised not just words, but a song.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I thought you were all going

[Shannon]

to write a song.

[Carrie Brownstein]

I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia Aao Rewatch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

Hey, this is Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook every episode. We try to help our guests improve their careers by mainly focusing on how they can help us improve our careers.

[Shannon]

The show's famously super accessible, so you can easily jump into any of our 650 episodes and and understand what's going on.

[Matt Jones]

We recommend some of our recent episodes with Ben Stiller, Danny McBride, Riz Ahmed and Mary Steenburgen.

[Shannon]

Listen to Hollywood handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Julie Pinero]

On Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman.

[Caller or Guest]

Your duolingo is not going to come back to you when a man is inside of you.

[Julie Pinero]

Oh, no. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.