2024-05-06- KSR - Hour 1

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk Kentucky Derby and everything from the weekend.

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Speaker 3 (00:33):
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
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Speaker 5 (01:17):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Drew is out for the next couple of days, so
I have Ryan Lemon here with me.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Shannon is in Louisville. We will be here today, Tomorrow
and Thursday. We are at Vahalla for the opening of
the PGA Championship gift Shop on Wednesday. Nice So like
Wednesday's today to go out there and get all the goodies,
steal them all, well, not steal them, you need to
pay for sure. And then Friday, I am gone to

(01:42):
my mom's graduation, but the guys will be here as well.
So getting we're getting ready to talk to my mom.
Last night she was telling me what I had to wear.
I felt like I was a kid again. She was like,
now you have to wear a suit for the for
the graduation for chapel you have a kope, you don't
have to wear a tie.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
So I'm making sure I have everything I need. So
she did finish that second paper she and she's done. Okay,
she's passed.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Nice uh And Saturday morning she will walk at graduation
and it should.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Be very so proud of her. That's really cool to
do that.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, she told me like, uh, you know, she has
to be there early for graduation, so I have to
get Larry there. She said she wanted me to take
Larry because she didn't know if he could Uber by himself. Shannon,
I'm not sure, Larry. He doesn't have a smart self,
so it would be it's hard to do uber without
a smartphone. He still has like a you know, a flip,

(02:33):
so I don't think you can. Yeah, I don't think
you can order Uber on a flip can you know?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, you know, we got to get him upgraded.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
I don't think he wants to upgrade. Remember I've told
this story before.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
When my grandmother passed away, she get she handed down
her phone to him, and it was an Upgradeline phone.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
It was an upgrade.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
It was better than the phone he had, and so
that's what he's had since.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
In think about how time is Chane. Larry used to
drive you to school. Now I'm taking him to the grind.
Now you're taking him to a kind of a school
that took me.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
To my graduation. Huh, And now I'm taking him to
my mom's graduate.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
That kind of sweet. That is sweet.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
A lot of stuff to get to today. I think
I'll start with the Derby all right, because you know
it was here biggest television audience for the Derby since
nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Saw that? Which do you remember who the horses were
in nineteen eighty nine?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
See if you can use your I haven't no idea
Sunday Silence an Easy Goer.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, that was a good race. Now what they were like,
they went at each other all three races. I think
Sunday Silence won.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
The first two and then Easy Goer won the third
to keep him getting from getting the triple crown. But
this is the most people to watch the Derby since then.
Are you impressed?

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah, because you know in recent years numbers had declined
a little bit for all sports.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, but the Derby's actually held pretty strong. I feel
like the Derby's got reinjected.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
With energy in the last five or six years.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Totally agree to that, and I think the big controversy
they've had the last couple years probably added to that.
And now you get this great finish that's just going
to add continue to add to the drama.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
About that finish. Unbelievable, Yes, unbelievable. Could you tell in
real time? Who won? I did?

Speaker 6 (04:14):
I called it? I did well, I said with yoga
girl and her brother. I said that inside horse on
the inside got it.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Is that your expertise? I think?

Speaker 7 (04:22):
So?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
I think all those years I've watched the derby and
not know I have any idea what's going on?

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Shandon? Were you able to call it in real time?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
No? No, I couldn't tell.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
But I mean that was the best finish probably of
our lifetime in the day.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh yeah, first three horse photo finished since nineteen fifty two.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
And it all depends on the head bob. They're all
even you know that stride and the head bob.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
You know it's what I say, the slogan he took
it by a nose. That's from a horse where we
got to see it right right there, saw it. How
that ended up coming? I always think when they talk
about a photo finish, you know, back in the day,
it used to be a photo. Yes, right, So there'd
be a man there, Shannon, he'd take the picture.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
That's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's a lot of pressure on the camera guy, all right,
But if he doesn't hit the button at the right
moment and then you go back far enough. They had
to like develop it. So did everyone just sit there
and wait.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
And shut it? This is before the polar I mean
they used to have to like develop it.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yes, there was literally was a room there at Churchill Downs.
They had to go back in the you know, the
dark room and develop that photo. Did the whole crowd
just sit there and.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Then wait?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, you didn't come that far to not know the
winter you to sit there and wait.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
So yeah, if the guy took the picture at the
wrong time.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Click the button just a hair too soon or a
hair too late, then you're you're done.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
So it was exciting. I gave out my trifecta. Here's
what's interesting. I was all around it but didn't hit it.
So I had basically five horses that I boxed, you
know what that means. Yes, and then I had seven
horses I liked, one of which was Mystic, but that
wasn't in my five, so I had missed it.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Dan coming in second or third.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
That's a long way to saying if Sierra Leone had won,
I had it, yeah, and it would have been a
big day.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
A nostril from that head. But here's what I learned later.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
You know, I put out my trifecta, and I think
a lot of people I used the word in a response.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Keyed okay, keyed the race.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well because of that, a lot of people bet what
I put out incorrectly, but it.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Made them win.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Oh no, Well, a lot of folks that saw my
things sent me messages that they won, and I couldn't
really figure out looking at their ticket why they won,
but then.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Someone explained it to me. It's boring.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
I won't go into it, but we probably had at
least ten listeners who saw my try bet it differently
than I did accidentally, and one Shannon it led to them.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, good for them.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
And there was something somebody did, something called like a
double box or a magic box or something which I
didn't even know. I think it was called a magic box,
and I didn't even know that was a thing you
could do. And if you did that with my horses,
it won as well. And I didn't even know that
was something you could do.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
They've heard of it.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
I never even heard of it.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
And so point beam, I think I won people money
while seeing myself a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
That's your job. That's your job to help people with money.
What we're talking about.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
You want to give a shout to Kenny McPeak, Tates
Creek guy, Lexington guy. His farm is right up Russell
Cave Road. And I feel like with UK basketball, we
got our program back, Lexington, Kentucky, we got the Derby back,
you know, anyone the oak Shan.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
And I I do have a little regret because about
five years ago, it was right before COVID, Kenny pick
peek called me up and said, you know, I want
to get you involved in horse recing. Would you like
to like go in on a horse?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:05):
And I was like, how much is it? And it
was a little more than I wanted to put on
a horse. And I was like, all right now, I
don't think it was this.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
One, but I don't know what if it was it was.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
I mean it was one of it was some horse,
but he wanted he because he wanted to like through
us talking about my horse, like help build up the
racing and and and et cetera. And I said at
the time, I was like, that's I'd probably do it now.
But at the time I was like, that's a little
more than I want to put into it, and so
what I saw him, I thought, I didn't. I mean,

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it probably probably wasn't that one, but still you would
ever know. You never know, and like, I mean, so
there you go. So as I watched it the Oaks
and the Derby, I was like, what if that was
one of the horses.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's cool, man, you see Kenny all over town. I'm
sure he's been in here. He's just a local guy.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah, just and he wins.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
And then Brian Hernandez was the first jockey that Billy interviewed.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yes, it was Billy.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
As he did his jockey interview Shannon, the first one
he got was Brian Hernandez and he ends up winning
the Derby.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's great timing and good that he interviewed him. Because
he only interviewed two jockeys the entire day. I thought
he's gonna interview maybe half of.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Them, so we only got two. Yeah, and one of
them ends up winning the Derby. How about that? I
think it's all because of Billy. Probably Billy gotting focused
and got his mind right before he went out there
and made the race. He says, what are you gonna
do in this race? Yeah? Go fast? All right, So
a few like non horse things.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
First of all, Martha Stewart, Yeah, how could she say
she was in Connecticut?

Speaker 6 (09:43):
That's a little bit of a you know, you're in
Kentucky for the derby, it's called the Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
And she's literally here. Yes, I mean she she has
to know where she.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Is, right, Kentucky doesn't really sound like Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
You can't he hear, Ca, Yeah, not exactly. Do you forget?
Do you think she Do you understand the mistake? Sha? No?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think she's been hanging out with Snoop Dogg too much.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Some of that I don't understand. How could she she
she could say Commonwealth of Connecticut?

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yes here, That's that's our moment. Ris up, we get
one moment, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Ris up. We don't need to hear anything else. Just
writers up, just writers up.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
We get one moment on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, right.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Record watching people watching what you know, A lot of
people watching, A lot.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Of people watch it. And she gets up and says Connecticut. Unbelievable,
unbelievab All right, So a few other things. First of all,
and I understand they have to do this, and I'm
not saying it's compelling. But I am amazed how they
are able every year to find a sad story about everyone. Huh, yeah,
you know everyone has a sad story. Everyone is sick,

(10:57):
someone is dying, Like I do you like that?

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Do you like the heartstring pull on all the horses?

Speaker 6 (11:05):
I gotta be honest, I love it, you do. I
love that lead up to the derby because you hear
those stories. Color was great at it man, he would
find those stories. Kenny McPeak was a story one year
his wife was battling cancer. He was the emotional story
one year. I vote yes, I love that part.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
So you know, I mean it's like seven hours leading
up to it, and most of it is telling those stories.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yes, and you love it. I love it. Channon, do
you like those stories?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
I'm good with it.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I'm not gonna bet on your horse because you have
a sad story to go with it, but it definitely works.
Sarah heard the story from the other room. She comes
in and goes, oh, I want that horse to win.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yes, what it works?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, a couple of I liked. I like the guy
from the Bahamas.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah right, the guy from the Bahamas who had had
hadn't trained and here there hadn't had a horse in
it in like thirty five years, and I think he
was fighting cancer, right, So that was a very nice story.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
I like that. You know, the Japanese horses are come, yes, right, and.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Like, so when are they going to any almost wa
one of them was three and you know they the
thing about the Japanese horses, we don't know much about them, right,
like they like, we don't know because their time things
are different, Like it's hard to know when they get
on a plane, and they were.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Talking about the horse would be tired. Here's my quote.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Do you think horses like, do you think that matters
that they're on a plane. They said he'd only been
here for two weeks. Do you think horses on a
plane that that they get jet lagged?

Speaker 6 (12:28):
I would say yes, I'm sure they do. But after
you here for two weeks, you'd think you've kind of
rested up a little bit and got your legs back
underneath you, so to speak.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
I don't know do horses that I don't know, do
horses fall asleep at the same time of day? Like
do you think jet lag would have an impact on
a horse?

Speaker 6 (12:46):
I think it would a little bit, just because they
probably stand most of the trip.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
But for a horse, Shannon, Yeah, they are only staying
in one place.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
We're acting like the horses running from you know, the
airport too downs then running in the race.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
He's been there two weeks.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
It should be to the horse, you're you go from
standing in a barn just standing on a plane. Yeah,
Like did they even know what difference?

Speaker 4 (13:07):
I mean, I guess there's probably some atmospheric thing, but
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
I mean it affects humans. We get jet laged, not
for two weeks.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Kind of humans is we get tired because we're not
able to move around and things, and we we we
set our event schedules.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
I mean, I feel like a horse. Then the horse
just stand there.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Maybe he likes to move around too, and he's stuck
there in that place.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
We clearly didn't have too much of an impact because
he came in third by two noses.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
You know how close was he? Tonna win and he
was third place.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
And then they had that's right. Then they had the celebrities.
There are two types of celebrities at the derby. First
of all, there's the kid Rock, Smoky Robinson, Joey Fatone
that come every year. You know what I mean, They're
there every single year, kind of reminding in people here,
we're still smoking Robinson. It's the only way I know

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he's still alive every year, right is when he shows up.
And then every year they have some new ones. This
year it felt like the big one was Travis Kelcey. Yes,
but without Taylor Swift.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Without Taylor Swift, yeah, I think when when he arrived,
everybody thought she might be coming.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah, that would have been very oh my, yes, yeah,
you read.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
Shepherd got a lot of coverage yesterday showing up with girl.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Do you know who that is? I don't know who
that is. She's like an Instagram TikToker. She was there.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's what got everybody really apparently. People at the derby
told me she drew as big a lias anybody really
like when she would walk through, people would go insane.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
And you don't even know who that she is, right,
Mark Pope, You don't know if it was the same
with him, but I think he got a lot of
attention as we did.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, so it was exciting. Good day for Kentucky, great
day for Kentucky. Weather held off right, everything ended up
pretty strong. But Martha Stewart. Somebody's got to tell her
where she is when she comes to places, because.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
You got one job, mark one job. Say you're in Kentucky.
Riders up, that's all you gotta say.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, I'm eight twenty to eighty seven. We're gonna tell
you a little basketball news. Take your calls. We were
here at KOs bar and grill me Ryan Channon's Kentucky
Sports Radio. All right, so people are giving some nurses
nurse ratchet from one flew over a Cuckoo's Nest.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
I don't think I've ever seen that. I haven't either.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
That's Familiar's supposed to be like one of the best
movies of all time. Yeah, Florence Nightingale heard of her. Yeah,
she was like some people think she started.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
The field of like nursing, nursing. Let's see uh in
in Meet the Parents. Shannon gay Lord Fokker was a
was a nurse.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
About that my favorite nurse.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
A lot of people had somebody seven s.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Four five two five four people are people are are
naming nurses nurse good body on he haul.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's one that's.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
That's not even one of the big gu people on
he haul. Most of us know that one yeah, well
of a certain age. I don't know if Mario you
even have you ever even heard of he haul? Yeah,
he has no idea what that is. That's why I
keep him around so he know, like he haw what
is he haul? You think he haulled? That would still
work today, don't you think?

Speaker 6 (16:19):
I think there's a part of it that, Yes, it
would work, just because there was a bunch of actors
getting drunk and going on TV.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I mean when I read that story that they all
just said and did cocaine before they went.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
On Wait, I didn't read that one.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yes, read about it.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Oh, I gotta read this. You mean Grandpa Jones is.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Doing Grandpa Jones? But there was got read the stories.
Knows this.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
They would tape like two or three episodes in one day, yes,
and by the.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Third day they were all hamlimmered like.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Everyone and some of them I don't know, I'm not
gonna say, I don't know which ones, but some of
them apparently that was like during the time of cocaine
and by the bone had to.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Be on it. Yeah seven, yeah, the see he wasn't
filming that's the video right there.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
But yeah, by the third one, and you can see
the episodes if you go back, Oh yes, the ones
where it was kicking in. Yeah, by the third taping.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Of the day, knowing that what we know now, if
you see it, you're like, oh yeah, they are sauce
right there, all right.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Some UK basketball news Club Blue in Aisle source told
KSR this morning Club Blue in Ale has taken in
already six hundred and fifty thousand dollars in annual pledges.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Now, to give you a sense, the La Familia did
thirty seven thousand dollars, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
They believe they will get that over a million by
the time of the June fifteenth event. And the goal
I think is to get five thousand annual subscribers. They

(18:00):
got a little ways to go on that, but they
have I think far exceeded what I thought they would
do initially. Yeah, and Clubblueenisle dot com you need to
get in on it for this event on the fifteenth.
I've kind of heard a little bit of what they
have planned. I think it's going to be a really
really cool thing. I wish I was gonna be here

(18:20):
for it, but I won't. But this is a huge
step because I had people tell me two years ago,
if you could get the fan base to a million
dollars a year and in ale and then have the
private donors, Kentucky would be fine in both sports basketball
and football. Basketball because of a reinjection here, I think

(18:41):
is headed in the right direction.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well, I saw your tweet this morning. I thought to myself,
my guess would have been half that, maybe half two
hundred or three hundred thousand at most. To get over
six hundred thousand, to me is amazing.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
I back when lat Familia started, I talked with some
of the people and they were talking about goals, and
I was like, make the goals small, because I think
it's gonna take a while to get fans used to
doing this.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, and they decided to make the goal big, and
obviously we know it didn't really work out. I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
I thought, you know, maybe they'll get three hundred thousand
the first couple, which.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Would be great, which.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I thought would be positive, to get six fifty, and
then you know they want to get a million before
the event.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
They probably can. Well, I mean, if you want to
go to the event, you do it.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
So I think they will they're gonna I'm told they're
gonna do four events a year. That to me is
worth doing it right there.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
If you can go to four events a year just
by joining.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Just by joining, because I think I don't know what
the smallest amount you can give, but it's not a
massive amount. So I think that's very good news for nil.
I was, you know, I still have long term worries
about the amount of big donors we do or don't
have at Kentucky. But if you could get the fan

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base contributing, which a lot of schools have been unable.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
To do, this is a really good start to making
that happen.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Oh it's an incredible start. I mean they should be
a static getting that much in what two and a
half three weeks, and it's amazing they've been able to
do that.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
I think both the football and the basketball have I
mean the basketball one is obviously new, but the football
ball one as well have come to a realization you
do have to give the fans something back. Yeah, because
I know I use this phrase a lot, but there
was a professor of mine at Duke Law School that
talked about the tragedy it's called the tragedy of the commons,
and it's basically everybody likes common areas.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Everybody likes having something that everyone can use, but.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Most people won't pay for it because they just assume
somebody else will do it, you.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Know what I mean. Huh.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
So they love this collective that, you know, they love
the idea that UK basketball raise money, but they think
to themselves, well, I won't do it because Ryan will
do it, right, And then Ryan thinks, well I won't
do it because Matt'll do it, and then neither of.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Us end up doing it.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, it's good to see the fan base overcoming that
to have this success.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
So you with that, and on top of the what
five million that then from private donors?

Speaker 5 (21:23):
I mean, I mean I think they're set up. Yeah,
they're set up for year one and two very well.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
I think they will end up probably not spending all
the money they have accessible for year one, but that's
intentional for year two sure, and then after year two, Shannon,
I think a lot of it depends on how you play, right, Like,
I mean a lot of If you're playing well, people
are more likely to continue.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
If you're not, it becomes a harder sale.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Shann, that's it.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, you know Pope's good at this too, being a raw,
raw guy. I don't feel like Cal was ever that way. No,
but you want to get behind a guy like mar Pope,
who is such an energetic guy.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
And you're right, if they win, we'll see the results
of it.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
If they win, it will succeed if they if they won't.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
You know, it's it's the same thing Vince Merrill told
me when he came to Kentucky. He said, in year
one and year two, I'll be able to sell excitement
and what.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
We did at our other school. Huh.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
But by year three, we gotta win here in order
for me to sell recruits.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
I think the same thing's true about Edit too.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Initially you can sell Mark Pope nostalgia ninety sixteen, but
when the game start, he's got to sell winning basketball
at Kentucky.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah, don't be losing in the first round. Don't be
getting you know, losing to Oakland. You got to win
and we'll stay there with you the whole way.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
So, but I considering where we were that Thursday night
when it was announced, you gotta be impressed.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
It is. It really is impressed. All right. We'll take
your calls and be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Gloom, despair and agony on me.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
This is one of the skits.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
You can tell they get hammered while they're doing They
probably shot like twenty in.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
A row and they guy would go.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
Listen, I asked you this through course work, and I'm
just driving me crazy. Who was the grandpa Jones' buddy
from a golfing county that ended up getting murdered? He
was a big, tall, skinny guy.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Oh skit rail bean or stream stream stream bean streamban
that's right. Yeah, eight oh twenty two eighty seven folks
are coming in with nurses. Each one is like older
than the other. Are there no famous young nurses? Like
people are giving me characters off mash and stuff like
is there?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Uh? Is there? Like somebody Young's.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Gotta be like, because where is that crazy anatomy? It
was just like the job we need the mo Yeah.
Like it's almost impossible to find nurses, isn't it? Like
they have these traveling nurses that you get paid to
go like live two years in a city or whatever,
and then because it's a place that needs them.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
I can you know, did you I mean you know
what I'm talking about. Yes, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
That's a lot of the real estate world nurses that
come in for like five years boom sellar house moved
to the next big city or something.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah A five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Before we go to the phones, one more thing, Shannon,
and I'm out on the Reds again.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
They got swept over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
I saw they're they're they're not right now. They're not
only bad, they're impossible to watch because they can't get it.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
They can't hit.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
They had two games like three first game of the
series they got one hit. The second game or no,
that first game they got two hits. They were both Ellie.
Second game they didn't score, and third game they didn't
score it all the ninth inning they only had one hit,
and then the ninth inning they.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Kind of beat up on the guy a little bit.
But they're they're terrible right now.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
I mean, they need to send Nick Martini bub but Timepson,
Santiago Espinal, send them to like Greece, Okay, because they
can't play. Then Christian and Carcion Strand and Candelario stink
and we need them to be good, but they stink.
The only guy on the team that's well two Ellie

(25:18):
and Spencer Steer are the only guys that play well.
It's they're brutal to watch. And the pigeon staff's pretty good.
But they're brutal, and I don't know what they like.
I don't know if it's gonna get better because everybody's hurt.
One guy got went on Royd's and like he's out,
Like I don't know what to do.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Yeah, I hate to break it to you, but this
is gonna be a bad month for the rig.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
They stink, and they play the Dodgers seven times over
the next two and a half week.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, they've got a tough May schedule.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
I mean, if they could get through this, if they
could get through the next fifteen games five hundred, you
would take it right. But they're not going to. I mean,
so it stinks. I was watching this weekend going you
all stink, So I'm out. I mean, I may come.

Speaker 6 (25:59):
Backs rid of the month.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
They got a chance to win that one. Cardinals aren't
any good either, I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
We think like that they're not even fun to watch.
I mean, that's that was the thing about the last year,
even when they weren't good, they were fun.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yeah right, Ellie's amazing. But besides that, who's next, Jeff, Jeff?

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Go ahead, Jeff, Hey, Mad's Jeff and Barstown. I got
two things first, as about an IL, so I share
your concern about the sustainability long term for Kentucky basketball
in IL, which I guess is natural just saying that
Kentucky only has maybe a handful of big million dollar donors.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
So what are your concerns there and how concerned are you? Well,
I'm pretty concerned.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
I mean I I you know, I'm but like people
will develop. I mean there there are plenty of rich
people in Kentucky. I mean we got we got a
lot of people with a lot of money, you know,
Mark Pope. One of the things Mark Stoops did a
really good job is he found about ten guys who
weren't giving money to UK football, and they became donors

(26:56):
and they sustained the UK football program.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Ten people.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
There's one or two that are the primary ones, but
there's another six to eight ones that sort of are
secondary and that's who sustains the UK football program, and
Mark Stoops kind of cultivated all of them. So that's
one of the things people don't realize when they talk
about When people would get mad at Stoops and mayor
or you know, and talk about a change, you'd lose
all those donors. So not only would you be starting

(27:22):
back a coach, you'd be starting back inil, et cetera.
UK basketball. John cal Perry did the opposite. John cal
Perry basically just didn't feel the need to have a
relationship with any donors outside of maybe one or two.
His view was, and this is a pre and ile view,

(27:42):
I got good relationship with shoe companies and stuff, you
know what I mean, Like, I don't need all that.
So then when it came time for NIL, col was
able to leverage some of his shoe company national stuff
to help us with the NIL. But the moment that's gone.
Cal's relationship with say, Nike is gone. Yeah, right, So

(28:03):
now we're back to square one. And what impresses me
about Pope is there are people around the program that
thought the day Cow leaves Ori and I l is
at zero. Pope has been able to in three weeks
get it where it needs to be or very close,
and that is a huge, huge I think thank you

(28:26):
go to a couple of the couple big donors who
stepped up, to Mitch forgetting them to step up, and
then to Pope for finding a sustainable path because in
the cal Era we did it based on the personality
of col but then when that was gone, we had
nothing behind.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
So can't you see kind of Pope doing what Stoops
did get you know, get cupid guy.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
No doubt he will. Yeah, I think so too.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Now there's a little difference, like Pope, you know, Stoops
is like, come hang out at my house, their buddies, right.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
I don't know if Pope's gonna be like that. I
don't knowing well enough to know.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
But but Pope does, I think give off good impressions.
And I think there's just a lot of people excited
to be back in the Kentucky basketball miss.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
It feels a lot more like they're supporting our program
instead of Cow's program, which.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
I think it didn't bother me.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
But even when we succeeded, you know this, Ryan, because
these are people, you know, it annoyed them.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Oh yeah, you know it annoyed.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
Them, and that's why the minute twenty four hours after
Hope Pope was hired, the minute we all kind of
accepted that we became we got we got our program
back again. You know, we got it back.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
And the people who are heavy investors felt that even more,
I think than the average fans. Yeah. Yeah, who's next.
So let's go to Corey Corey, Go ahead, Corey. Hey, guys.
Uh So.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
I worked for a healthcare cost containment company out of Boston,
live in Louisville.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
I pushed to be.

Speaker 9 (29:53):
On our podcast last week because I wanted to talk
about the Mtalla case in front of the Supreme Court,
and I wanted to give Derby picks.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
And we're I'm not doing any just let's pick one,
pick the one that's most important. No, no, we're good.

Speaker 9 (30:05):
At the end of that podcast, I gave I explained
what a trifecta box was.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
I gave the winners.

Speaker 9 (30:11):
It hit obviously. On Saturday, right before the race, I
switched from Mystic Dan to Forever Young, which or excuse me,
Chasing Freedom, which.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Came in fourth.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
Immediately got a text from my CEO congratulating me on
the trifecta. He won twenty five grand I won nothing
because I switched the switch the pick, and he has
roasted me ever since. He scheduled an emergency podcast next
week so he can well.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
I understand what that's like. And I'm not I appreciate
the call.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
I I I'm glad that I was able to get
everybody that that screwed up and Bennett wrong the dirrect answer.
But I it was very frustrating because you know, I
always do five primary and then seven like five and
then two more kind of secondary. Mystic Dan was one
of my secondary and all the people that screwed up

(31:02):
and bet it wrong get get it right. And I
made it a great story. And the thing was I
had two, three, four. A lot of people did because
they were part of the favorites. But you know, as
I was sitting there watching that photo, it became clear
it looked like Mystic Dan and won.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
But I was hoping maybe there was a secret angle, Oh,
a secret angle.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, the NASCAR race. Did you watch the NASCAR race yesterday?
So the NASCAR race was the closest finish in the
history of NASCAR? Was it point one seconds?

Speaker 5 (31:33):
So that's close. The thing is though, Shannon, all right,
you look at the photo for that.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
If you look at the photo from one side, it
looks like one car one, and from the other side
it looks like the other car one. And it also
looks like if you look at the photo that the
finish line is crooked.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Oh no, it does.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Now there's a reason because of the curve mature of
the track. The finish line follows that curvature. But if
you're just looking at it straight on, it looks like
the person that drew the line was drunk, yeah, and
didn't draw it straight. And so when I saw that one,
I was like, Man, if I'd bet on the other car,

(32:17):
I'd be really mad. Now, when I got it explained
to me, it made sense. But if you look at
that one, that shows how your eyes can screw it up,
because depending on which side of the track you look
at the NASCAR when you might have thought a different
person one.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yeah, I know you're going to say that the curvature
of the track, it's banked, you know, so they have
to draw that finish line, which is would be proper.
But for somebody looking at you like that's.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Do you trust Shannon that they drew.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
It correct, no challenge flag on that.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm a little surprised they don't have like an aerial
camera of you where they you look down.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
You would think in that situation that.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Angle would probably Yeah, that might be. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Again, I don't know the side of it, but they
were saying because like when they watched if you watch
the NASCAR race, the announcer thinks one guy won, and
then like a minute later they say the other guy
one and the people who like I think it's busher

(33:18):
still think he won. But the people who know physics
are like, no, he didn't. But you know, the NASCAR
crowd chain and not the physics physics crowdcar crowd.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
So what a weekend for racing? The Derby on.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Saturday Derby, NASCAR have great like it is a big
week for racing.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Also, the picture.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Did you see the picture of the horse race from
the finish line. I think it was a guy at
the Career Journal has it right as the three horse
and he's below him.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Have you seen that picture.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
That's one of the best pictures I've ever seen, one
of the best sports pictures I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
It's the guy.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
It's a guy from the career journal took Michael. I
can't remember his name. I'm sorry because it's great. He
deserves credit. He's a great picture. He is under like
he's at the finish line but on the ground.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
So he's shooting up and the three horses are there
and it's wow. They look majestic and beautiful and you
can see how close they are and it's like, that's
one of the best sports pictures I've ever seen in
my life.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
Well, that's what makes the Derby special. And it is beautiful.
Just it is beautiful. I think when they come around
that first turn and all twenty horses are bunched up
it so you can feel it. You can feel the
thundering of the hoofs.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
I think it's like Clevenger maybe the guy's name.

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Speaker 5 (34:53):
Be right back.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
It's KSR. Welcome back, take these radio. So you know
Ryan that there's a beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
They've been, uh, they've been beefing, rap battling.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
You may be shocked when I tell you, I have
no idea. This is the first t I'm hearing of it.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
You didn't even know they didn't like each other. No,
I did not know this, So I.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Don't know what I asked Mario, I don't know what
it's about. At its core, apparently they did a song
together and I guess things didn't go well. Maybe one
of them didn't like the you know, the verses they dropped.
It was but Kendrick and Drake and j Cole, you know.
But but now Kendrick and Drake they don't like each other,

(35:41):
and so they make songs about each other. And let
me just say, Shannon, they're really mean, like like the
things the things they say about each other.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
I don't know, man, I don't think they're kidding.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Probably not. But it's probably good for both of their careers.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
I don't know if it's good for Drake's career. I mean,
there's some bad things in the internet.

Speaker 5 (36:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
I tried to listen to a couple and like, you know,
it's not my thing, so whatever.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
But but it seems.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Like Kendrick one, oh you think so, I don't know,
but it seems like the internet is declaring Kendrick the
wind and uh it's But here's what's crazy. They put
him out like every ten hours. One of them puts
it out, then another one responds. Then first of all,
I didn't realize you could put songs out this quick.

(36:29):
That's pretty quick. They put it out quick. Drake put
out one, and I think Kendrick Lamar put it.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
Out two hours later. How does he do that?

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Well, he might have a mole inside Drake's camp slipping
him the song early, right, And then in the next one,
Drake responds, you may have a mole, but I know
who it is.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Yeah, it's all I mean.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
First of all, how quickly they write like do do
do do? And they get it out there really quick.
So there's a big beef. And I think I think
Drake is universally considered to be on the short end
of the stage.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
So it's not me. I'm not I'm just telling you.
That's what I see. The Internet seems to think.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
That it's probably good for their business. I would say
people want to buy their next download.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I just hit a button in it. I don't know
how they make money from it. Yeah, Like it's a
lot of them are just online. You just hit it
and there it is. Shannon, you're a music guy, what
do you think of the beef?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm just trying to catch up on some of the
lyrics that were uh bad.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
We know that Drake lost in this.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
I mean Kendrick Lamar. It feels like he gets much
more personal. Really, yes, he gets much more Uh but
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
You could crank out a song quickly, you know, like
it's just a beat and you just throw something down.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Any rock people do this, Shannon, Like, do any like this?
Did Metallica ever write something about def Leopard or like this?
It's it's just a rap.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm sure there are, but I can't think of any examples.
But usually it's in rock bands. It's band members going
at each other like internally, you know, so maybe they'll
write a song about one of the other guys in
the band.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
I mean, sometimes country artists will be like, oh, I
don't like the Dixie Chicks or something but that. But
even then, I've always thought that was kind of lame.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
So Paul McCartney wrote a song about John Lennon, like
taking a show, I think, so.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
He wrote a shot a song about John Lennon.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah, when the Beatles broke up.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
So anyway, this is I just want to keep you
abreast of the knife.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Great.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yes, this between me, between the three of us, me,
you and Mario, we have three different levels of knowledge. Yes,
Mario knows all the intimate details of the words and
who's going at each other.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
I know that there is a fight. You don't even
know that.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
I am whitey man, white man sitting over here to
know anything that's going on in this.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yes, well one point, Kendrick, Okay, we'll keep it, keep
its score.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
That's what I hear. Who's up next, Mike, Mike, go ahead, Mike.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
I hated Matt.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
What's going on this?

Speaker 7 (39:02):
I'll tell you what's well, I'll tell you what this
second time I've called within a few days. The first
time was when I told you that my wife had
a big, big crush on shann Remember the other.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Day with Yeah, I got you, what's this time.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Well, my wife is a is a registered nurse. Well,
she's retired now, but she spent forty three years as
a nurse, eighteen of which was ICU, in the last
twenty five as a home man.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
What are you doing for her for Nurses Appreciation Day?
Did you buy her something?

Speaker 7 (39:33):
Well, no, I haven't shid she's not in town. She
matter of fact being a nurse. Her her sister live
in Nashville, and and she's had some helon healthton issues.
So Carol's down. Her name is Carol. She's that she's
done in Nashville taking care of this.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Well, okay, I want you to promise me before she
comes home you will buy her a gift.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
For Nurses Appreciation Day. Okay, I will do that.

Speaker 7 (39:58):
And she you know what, she's listening. She's either listening
to this show or she will be listening.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
To the Well to your appreciate the call to your
nurse wife, tell us tell Shannon says, says, what ladies,
how you doing? How you doing?

Speaker 9 (40:15):
WI?

Speaker 4 (40:16):
No, thanks for listening, and we appreciate that. Do you
if you need to buy something for Nurses Appreciation Day?

Speaker 6 (40:25):
I'm not sure I'm that close with any nurse. I'm
trying to thank you.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
I would buy other people's wives gifts for nurses Appreciation Day.
I wouldn't do that, but if you have one in
your own existence, then then you would.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Who's up next, Roscoe? Roscoe? How are you? Roscoe?

Speaker 10 (40:42):
I'm very well man. Enjoyed listening to your show. I've
really started to listen to it and catch up some
of your stuff online. Uh since the departure of mister
Callam Perry, so I've been watching it kind of faithfully.
Think we decided to have a nice trip down election
in and catch the Arkansas series this past weekend. And

(41:05):
before that, you guys on your show one day last
week we're talking about Mystique Dan and the connections to Lexington.
So we got checked into the hotel Saturday and it
was real close to the Red Mile. I went over
and put a little coin on Mistique Dan missed long story,
Misstic missed Eke Dan. I went onto the game Saturday,

(41:31):
and then we went over to Carson to have something
neat and they had TVs everywhere, and lo and behold
the horse.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Won and placed went nuts.

Speaker 10 (41:40):
And it covered more than my dinner. I want to
go thank you guys for the tip.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Well, congrats, I appreciate congrats. I'm winning. Appreciate the call. Again.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
I apparently gave someone a tip, and yet I didn't
win myself.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
Well, you're full service radio home.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
There's a lot of people thanking me for their Derby picks,
and yet somehow I lost quite a.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Chunk of change on it.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
You know, I sit there and watched as the four
horses came down the back stretch, and I said, if
any of these four win except Mystic Dan, it's a party.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
By a nose.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
And then the one one was the one I didn't
get it.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
We'll talk a little bit about the UK Baseball series
and some more on basketball. We'll take a break, bary back,
I remember two this Kentucky Sports Radio