2026-04-02- KSR - Hour 1

From YouTube and social media, Comedy Off Broadway and Lexington welcomes Josh Wolff, March 19th through the 21st, then from late night TV and the Bob and Tom Show catch Nick Griffin, March 26th through the 28th, and don't miss New York Comedy Superstar and podcaster Mark Normand, April 2nd through the 4th for tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call 859-271-Joke or visit ComedyOffBroadway.com. This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Good morning and welcome in to a new edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Whoa, got a little applause there. Nice. Get a pop this morning. Wow. You gotta make a gout feel good. I'm Drew Franklin, filling in for Matt Jones. I have Ryan Lemon beside me who helped with the round of applause there. Nick Rausch is back today. He had so much fun on Tuesday. Nick, good to see you here joining us again to talk a little ball. Great to be here. Gosh, it is, it's beautiful outside. It is. Should we go outside? I mean, it's tomorrow. Driving in, I was just thinking, is this Keeneland? Can we open a day early? Can we get out there? It's got that feeling in the air. I don't know how else to explain it, describe it, but it feels wonderful. The horses, they're about to start racing. We got spring football happening right now. The pads are popping outside. Good vibes and likes. Oh, the best vibes right now. Got a fun show ahead. We'll get to more football than we did Tuesday. We had the coaching news drop in basketball. There's a lot going on we couldn't ignore. We didn't get to as much football as we'd like. So we'll do that today. We want to hear from you on the Clarks Pump and Shop phone line 859-280-2287. I'm going to guess the Avision Glass Tech Machine is at home in a drawer, but it exists. Shout out to Avision Glass. I've got it. It's just in a drawer at home. You know, you're home every night where you could open the drawer and pull it out and put it in your pocket and bring it. What all do we think is in this drawer? I don't even want to know. That conversation we were having before we started that people didn't need to hear. I think we'll say it without. That's true. It's very true. We're sponsored by TJ Smith. Ryan, if you call TJ, what will he do? He's going to make them pay and make them pay a lot. Make them pay a lot, indeed. I'm glad you all survived April Fool's Day. Anybody get got? I almost did by some things I read online. Okay. Let's just go to this. What got you? I think I know. Well, the one thing, and you can relate to this, I saw that online where Jeff Brom threw Josh Hurd out of his office. I thought that's an April Fool's. That has to be April Fool's. Maybe not. I called some people, texted some people, the Kansans Louisville, like, yeah, that allegedly happened. There's some stuff happening on Floyd Street. They're having fun. They're having their laughs right now. Look at all these recruits. These players were going to be so good. Maybe a little trouble in paradise. That was on my list for later. Let's just jump right in. Ryan, what did you learn from your phone call? What can you confirm and tell the great listeners of KSR? Katsy confirmed with Kent Spencer and Kent Taylor. The Kents in Louisville. They said, yeah, allegedly that happened. They're trying to negotiate a contract extension and talks are not going well. But what other place can you throw your boss out of your office and it's okay? Like, you're not getting fired or not getting trouble if you throw your boss out of your office. Yeah, that is a weird situation there. Nick, I know a delicate for you. Yes, yes. A bloodline there with the Brahms. We have to tiptoe around it a little bit. But I will say to Uncle Jeff, who not an uncle, but we'll go with it. You usually don't see contract negotiations in April. No, these are usually mid spring ball. Yeah, these are things that happen when the coaching carousel is spinning. Mark Beyington, he got a contract extension in Vanderbilt because the North Carolina jobs open. I'm at TJ Osselberg. I'm sure he got a contract extension or something like that at Iowa State. They talked about doing an extension when Penn State and Michigan were going through their stuff and it never happened. So I mean, you know why that it wasn't the case. I don't know. There are arguing like global Twitter is just hilarious because they're because they love them some Jeff Brahm. But then there are some other people who want more from Jeff Brahm. They say he went to the Bush's baked beans bowl. Why should we be giving this guy college football playoff money? And so you have all that there's I don't want to say civil war, but there is a little bit of a marital dispute. But I think the one thing we can all agree on. Well, they can't be rolling in money. They're the school that wrote the big open letter about how college sports are going to die if we don't do something to fix it, because we can't afford to pay everybody. And it's well, do you want to raise NIL money to buy rosters? Do you want to pay your coaches? Like you can't really have it all. I'm sure Josh Hurd is trying to get Pat Kelsey some money for some more guards. Yeah, Cincinnati Pat needs some help too. You know, he needs all the guards, none of the bigs, right? All the bigs are gone. Just give him all the guards. So I, you know, it's, it's, it's fun. It's fun to watch from afar because let's be honest. We haven't had a year where Kentucky's lost the Louisville football and basketball in the same year, a very long time. So you know what, when, when they're fighting with amongst each other, we just got a point and laugh. And I, I did, that's what you do in a rivalry. What do you do? We love to laugh at Louisville's misery. They should be getting excited about spring football over there right now. If you follow the big dog and they got the best recruiting class of all time, but they're, they're fighting kicking ADs out of the office when they should be focused on other stuff. That'll just set us up for a big news topic. Yes. I'll just shuffle up my order. I had other stuff, but you know what, we'll freestyle. Sorry, I jumped in there. No, no, that was great. I thought for sure it was as an April Fool's joke. It's how it had to be. No, I think that was, that's got some truth to it. Drew, what are the chances that Ryan fell for the blue field? Well, Billy brought it up on the show yesterday. He played it cool on the show, but I knew that no way. They're not going to put a blue field. It's been spent so much time on that turf over there at Kroger field that I knew that one. Couldn't fool me on that one, Nick Rouser. Okay. Did you pull any of your own pranks yesterday, Ryan? We learned that in the past you, you took the wheels off the chairs at the news station. Yeah. You dug, take doors together. Was there any habit created by Ryan Lemon in his personal life yesterday? Yeah. I was talking to my oldest son, Gavin, who he dog sits and house sits for me when I'm on the road or whatever. It's very nice of him. And I called him and I said, Gavin, I said, we haven't been able to see Marley since you were here at the house last weekend. Oh no. What did he say? He's like, dad was there. I mean, he fell for it for like five seconds. He's like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. So he wanted your son to think that he lost your dog. Yes. A lot of dogs sitting. I do think that maybe the five day delay, like you might have mentioned. Yeah. The dog was lost. You might have mentioned it a little bit. He had to wait for the first. Yeah. The calendar. For like five seconds. Like, no, dad, come on. Well, not an April Fool's Day prank. Looks like your boy Bill Self wants to go back to Kansas and now it's his. So be coming back. We know what that means for the Stokes recruitment. It's by no means over, but Kentucky was really hoping Self would step away and help them out a little bit. And it with Self returning, you know, they're still in probably the best spot right now. Nike connection still strong. And if he's submitting at the Nike Hoops Summit, it's hard to imagine him committing to an Adidas school. But that was a hit to the Stokes recruitment for Kentucky's optimism yesterday. So immediately I thought, is he going to pull Bruce Pearl wait till a month before the season starts? Like, ah, my heart's just not in and I'm out. So Vaughn can get the job. You know, his boy can step right on. John Vaughn, Kansas legend. So I don't know if that's the case or if he really is his heart is back in and again. But if you step back and trying to contemplate it, you're all you're not all in to begin with, I feel like so. I don't know. What do you think? The weird thing about Kansas, they have they've been big time losers lately. They kind of get away with it unscathed compared to Kentucky, because the one time they did get to the second weekend, they won it all. I believe that was in 21 or 22 is one of those years. But they quit going to sweet 16s under self. And so you add in that you add in the fact that the big 12 is a lot harder. You've got to play Arizona now annually that like they're pretty good at the hoop. So I and then on top of it all, he's got the health issues. So it's creating the perfect storm. This tells me he thinks that he can have one more good run. It tells me he thinks that he's going to get tiring stokes. And this is going to be a last hurrah. I don't think we're going to get the coach K retirement term with Bill Self, though. You don't think so? But I kind of want to because I want to see all the big J journalists just they love it. So if there's one thing that Bill Self has taught us about journalism, it's that a pitcher of beer goes a long way, right? You get the guys a pitcher of beer, then you get them on the good side. At Hooters at Peach Jam. Oh yeah. Yeah. Been there a time or two. It's closed by the way. RIP. This will be the first masters without it. Wow. What is John Daley going to do? I don't know. You know, I've watched two national championships there during Masters week had the time of my life. The Peach Jam, that's the hot spot. That's like a that's a staple around there. And it's gone this year. So maybe close it right before the big big week is coming here. Do you think they knew Bill Self might be retiring? They're like, well, we possibly can't keep the lights on without Bill. So that could be it. Did you see Tyron Stokes reaction on Twitter? What was it? Here it is. I pulled it up for you. I assumed you might need to some news here. Yeah. It's a, you know, it's hard to read emojis kids and I try not to do it. But that looks like the surprised face. Is that what we call that one? It's got the it's got the mouth open. The eyes are like, oh, that's the surprise emoji. So I say, so let's completely overreact. If he was surprised by it, then maybe he was going to go to Kansas only if Bill Self retired. And he's shocked that self's coming back. So now he's like, I really want to go live in Lawrence, Kansas for a year. It was, I mean, it came out right after self made the news. I have no idea what it means, but it would suggest that he didn't know that news was coming. Yeah, let's read into it. Like he thought Bill himself was going to retire and maybe he think, okay, I got to go to Kentucky or Oregon. Now coming back. Oh, this changes things. That that sort of emoji. You mentioned still the Bruce Pearl move. Do we think there's any chance Bill does that? Oh, yeah, I think there's a definite chance. I mean, like I said, if he stepped back to contemplate returning, he's not all in begin with. So now if he starts going through the recruiting season, the summer, and like, I'm just not going to do it. Could be just trying to reel this in, get that class built and then hand it off. But then again, if he got stokes in the class they have, I would think you'd want to see it through and try to get one last run and then step away. What if they fail again? They could, they could very well, but it just wasn't the best news for Kentucky. We were getting excited. We're still in it. We're not giving up. I need the self heir to end though, because our God, Stephen Peake, he, some people, they, they watch on to certain things to get very excited about it. His is the Wilson Evo Nexball. The other thing is the all time wins right here, because I believe Kentucky is only six ahead of Kansas. It's very close still. So we need, we need Kansas to go through a little backslide, you know, keep falling to the buck nails of the world so that Kentucky can retain its place atop the world with the most wins at all of college basketball. Well, we're here at KS bar and grill. Uh, hit those quick news topics. That was fun guys. You completely made me delay all my moon talk. I mean, I was ready to moon sports radio or Kentucky moon radio today. You all made me talk sports is moon radio. Can, can we get alien radio too? Is that, is that, is that at George Wilhous? This is my last time hosting the show for a while. So if you all want to get weird, eight, five, nine, 20, 20, 20, I mean, we have sports topics and Nick is the football beat writer. He wants everything that's happening over at spring football, so much football, but aliens. Yeah. Today's the day to call Drew and talk about it. Anything really, everything is in balance today. Okay. Unless I change my mind on the fly and it's out of bounds. You can't text us on the a vision glass text machine. It's in Ryan's desk drawer, but we want to hear from you on the Clark's pump. I am my cell phone number. I will use it for the tech. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. All right. A lot of people. We all have it. Trust me. Eight, five, nine, 20, two, eight, seven. We'll be right back after this. Welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin here with Ryan Lemon, Nick Roush, Shannon the dude is making all happen from the Louisville studio. We let off a little sports news. Now let's get to what really matters, guys. Did you watch, did you watch the moon launch last night? Artemis. Oh, here he goes. Already, already downplaying it. We're going back to the moon. We're going to the moon. Are there any more of this that humans have ever been into space 250,000 miles away? It is an incredible, incredible, just guidepost for humanity. The ingenuity it takes, right? You can't respect that. What to get a couple of rocks, pick up some rocks and bring them home. Maybe some dust. We're going on the actual, they're going around it. They're taking it off. So we can get ready. A front lap. They're on like the new circle of the moon right now. Just lapping around. Shannon's on my side. Tell them what you said this morning on the pre-show about that. We've already been to the moon. Why are we going around the moon? I was liking it to like going to New York City and going to see the Statue of Liberty and doing all the things you would do in New York City. And then we're going to go back 50 years later. We're not going to go to New York City. We're just going to go around it. We're just going to drive around in circles. So what's the excitement about this? Well, the late Jared Lorenzen, our dear friend, would tell you we haven't been to the moon yet. That's true. We could debate that if you wanted. But we're just scouted out. We got to get there before China, Ryan, because China will get there and they'll just start living there and doing all the fun stuff. And they're going to Mars. And then we're just back here like crap. We should have gotten there first. Yeah. Can't let the tykenuts get dibs, right? We're here testing it out so we can maintain dibs. We've had dibs for 50 years. We cannot lose dibs, right? So you know how that goes. If as soon as you lose dibs, you're cooked. We are not cooked. We are going back to space. And I'm going to say the three little kids love it. It's the space. You see in a giant rocket go to the moon. That's awesome. Now, I do have to compliment Ryan Limmett, this big brain over here. He he spoke it into existence. Yesterday, when talking about this, he yelled they pee in their suits. Yes. And that's all you really had to contribute to the topic. Right. Well, did you see this morning that their bathroom? Yes, I did. Their bathroom fan that they blow the pee in the poop into a bag. The fan broke. Yeah, it's like a suction thing. But I mean, I when I saw that news, my brain immediately went to you is like, all Ryan could talk about is how they have to use the bathroom in their suits. And then they haven't even been gone a day yet and already we have bathroom problems. The plumbing is out on what's the thing to Orion. The Orion plumbing is broken. And here's what I was wondering. Yeah, I think it happened an hour into the flight. Guy couldn't hold it for an hour. I mean, that's a good point. They got in the rocket. That's a good point. Well, so now do they have to hold it? That they got to hold it till he fixed that fan. And is it like an airport bathroom? Those are the worst. Nick, you're tall. You're tall. I mean, I could barely get in those things. That is not a place you want to go. Never under any circumstances. So I think we just got a modium, woe and hydration, right? Maybe take some salt pills. The salt pills, they work for the football players back in the day. It's worth the astronauts. So we're spending a trillion dollars for our astronauts to go up and go around the moon for no reason and chase pee with a little plastic bag up in the spaceship. They're not doing that. That's what they're doing. They're chasing pee with a little plastic bag. Come here. Try to lasso it. I'm glad you're recording that, Mario. That was a good visual for all of us. No, they're still locked in on their mission. This is just a little hiccup. But the mission is to go around the moon. We're not doing anything. We need a little guy hanging out to just get on there and meet him somewhere in space. He'll come in. He'll punch that thing and we'll be back to work. Yesterday we... I could just imagine Rod being the guy too. Heard you need to toilet fix it. Heard you told it, fan broke. Well, this is still a big deal. You can't downplay it. The bathroom situation is funny. Yes. I didn't even think about what you just said. They were barely gone. Guys like, already got to go. I got to go. It's like you on a road trip. No kidding. We can't even get to Louisville before we're taking bathroom. I got old lady bladder, man. I can't even row for two hours. I got to pee. So it had me thinking as I was watching this beautiful mission take off from Florida yesterday, just not a dry eye and sight there on the ground. And I got to thinking, yesterday you said no way would you do it. Right. Billy wouldn't do it. Shannon, would you take the moon ride if offered? No. No. I don't even like flying in a plane. So I'm not going to space. That'll be a big hiccup. Well, I'm creating a scenario where all of us are on this. Okay. And I'm asking who would last the longest and who would want to tap out the earliest. I'm tapping out the earliest. Like I'm no interest in this. You and Matt or the, you know, you're the daredevil, the skydivers. You guys probably would last a lot longer than I would. I'm also tapping out early. I can't, I couldn't be in a confined space for 10 days. That would just, I would go insane. I couldn't do it. I'm out. I feel like Nick, you take the adventure. You take the ride. I would not like the, I'm sure the quarters are crept. You know, especially now. I'm sure it would be. And there's pee floating around in there. Okay, Ryan. Pee is not floating around. They still have a toilet. It just can't empty the way it's designed to empty. They got to plunge it. It's not like they're just rolling around in their own urine up there. It's okay. This guy, all right. My other question is going to stink. Oh, Nick, though, would you take the ride over the first quarters? I'm the young guy too, right? I can't have, come on. I got a, there's a little bit of pride here. Like, come on, we're going to the moon. Right? Let's do it. Nick's in. You're in. Oh, I'm all the way in. It's completely in. As long as we don't have to spin. Like I can do the roller coaster rides, the spinning rides. Take me to the county fair. Oh, this is a smooth ride. This is a smooth ride. No problem. You know, Matt is not like to fly. He's a nervous flyer. I've sat next to him. He's as nervous as I am. So I don't think he would last long either. I think Shannon, Matt and I tap out pretty quick. Well, working in Matt's favors, I don't think there'll be crying babies next to him on this. And Shannon, I don't think anybody's leaning back into your, to your lap, but you and Billy always debate over. Yeah. You also can't take your shoes off either. I know that sort of behavior on an airplane is frowned upon. Can't take the space boots off. Do they wear space boots? I don't know. Do they have a space airport bar where I could get my pre-flight beards? It's a chilly's too. Oh, I'm absolutely into it. I don't think they have Diet Coke. So Matt's going to tap out pretty quick. Well, there's no Chipotle, Qdoba, an Indian restaurant, no Diet Coke. He's out. They do have dip and dodge though. Ice cream in the future. That's right. All right. Well, my second part of this exercise is I'm saying we all made it. The KSR space shuttle made it to the moon. Made it to the moon. We land, we're about to open the door and there's an alien waiting. Which one are we sending out to talk? Shannon is Mr. Alien. Yeah, who's communicating here? And you know what? Shannon's composed. He's straightforward. I think the aliens would respect him. I just, yeah, it's got to be you, Shannon. I'll just go right up and just slap it in the face. Let's just see what we got right now. Can't do that. Let's see how tough you are, alien. It can't do that. He'll point his finger at us and zap us all. You got to be nice. That's exactly why we can't send Shannon. We're coming in peace. We cannot be hostile there. I eliminate Matt quickly because he's an alien hater and doesn't believe it. You know, normally, I don't know if you all know this. Matt likes to speak for the group. I don't think in this circumstance, Matt can be the first one to go up and have this conversation. Would he say instead of my man, my alien? My alien, my alien. Where's the closest McDonald's? How do I give my word my raw? He would say that he knows more than the alien on every day. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the answer's Ryan, I guess. Are you? No, no, no. I'm good for the ride, but I want you to go out and hash it out. I just want to know what you and this alien would talk about. You will probably know the same language. Probably do. You know, we're probably the same size, probably a little fella like me. You know, we can kind of relate a little bit and talk about our kids, talk about peeing in the spaceship. I'd probably say, how do you guys pee in your spaceship? The obsession with the peeing in the spaceship. There's so much to this mission. We don't have to just focus on their bathroom habits. If Scary Movie 3 taught me anything, they're peeing out of their fingers. Okay. Well, to tie this into UK football, no, I have a, oh, wait, watch me cook. Watch me. Ryan, you shared it. This is not necessarily a space shuttle, but that video you shared yesterday where there's a Kentucky football game and a B-25 bomber just flew right over the field. It was in 1985 at Florida. I think you said in your tweet, you didn't know that it happened. I didn't either, but that video was wild. Mark Higgs is running the football and the shadow of a plane just completely takes over the field. I had never heard of this story, maybe because it happened down at Florida. But once I saw that tweet, I'm like, that can't beat you. I thought, again, this is April Fools. Then I started doing a deep dive on it. That really happened. Some dude in that plane dipped down into the stadium. They said he was like level with the press box and then lifted back up to get out of there during the game. Well, because I'm a show prepper. I didn't do much show prep today, but I did look this one up. Yes. I found the newspaper article from November of 1985. Probably the same one I found. I have the details. Yeah. They said it was less than 500 feet above the ground. Impressive. The stadium full of people. First quarter, Kentucky, Florida. First quarter, 500 feet above the ground. This massive plane comes. The pilot's name was John Marshall. The plane was on its way from Florida to go into the Smithsonian to stay there forever. And he thought, you know what? It's a nice day. This is his quote. Florida's been good to us. I wanted to just do a little lap for the people of Florida mid game. And it turns out after he did it once, he came back in the second quarter and did it again. And I couldn't find out it officially happened. But the news report said that he would be losing his pilot's license for doing it. But my man didn't seem to have a care in the world. He's like, this plane, it was taking his last flight out of Florida to sit down forever. And I wanted to have a little fun. Yeah. I read where he, me, as soon as he landed, he is licensed. They took him into custody and his license had been suspended for life. I think he could never fly again. Just Joy Rodden, a B 25 that was about to go into the Smithsonian. That is what Nick, imagine you're in the upper level and you see that coming. You think it's Pearl Harbor or something's going on, but it's just Mark Higgs running the football down there as a plane goes over. I thought it was Hal Mummy was running a bring the air raids, the air raids are more effective than we thought. Well, we did lose that game 15 to 13. But we won next year though. The players on the field ball know over here and look up. I mean, it was, you know, did striking enough, the officials and their players look up like what is going on? See, I told you I could tie those topics together. That's kind of I tried. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay. Now more of Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Shannon just playing the hits over there. Always has the right song for the topics. He is Shannon's keeping us going from the Louisville studio. I'm Drew Franklin filling in for Matt Jones today. We're going to get to a lot of football conversations with Nick Rausch. Right now, let's just go to the phone lines. And here we already have a lot of people waiting to either talk about broken toilets on a space shuttle or football. Who's up first? Shannon, let's go to Hill Topper. Hello Hill Topper. What's up guys. So April 2nd is a day that nobody typically wants. But I think that the power of KSR can make anything special. And just because Matt Jones isn't here and doesn't think that anything great can happen without him being here, I think it actually can. So yesterday, Jeff Brom kicked his athletic director out of his office and slammed the door in his face during contract negotiations because the AD basically called the Brom's liars because the AD didn't believe that the Brom's were offered the Penn State job. I mean, well, Penn State offered just about anybody that job. So that's pretty disrespectful to think that they wouldn't offer him that job. And so I just think he's very tone deaf. I think so to test the power of KSR and see if we can actually do something meaningful without Matt here, I'm going to post on my social media. I don't have much. I got Twitter and Facebook, but I'm not on there much. But I'm going to ask the question, should Jeff Brom return back to WKU since Wobble doesn't seem to really want him anymore? So shout out to Jeff Brom and like Jeff and like Jeff Brom. I'm out. See you. All right. Appreciate the call. I enjoyed the WKU era of Brom football. Awesome WKU. Yeah. My brother was a part of some of those teams. They won quite a few games. Little Brandon Dowdy, little Mike White action. That was fun. It was a good time. Good hang down there on the hill. A little stand up and cheer. Isn't that the jam there? Yeah. What we're singing at Hill Topper Games? WKU fight song. That's right. Billy R. Sports. I wish he were here to give his, that's his alumni. But I doubt your boy Jeff's going to go to Western, even though I can understand why they'd want that. Oh yeah, they'd be thrilled. So what do you think? Was he offered the Penn State job? It was very amusing that there was a Penn State moving truck near his neighborhood when all of that was going down. Like I think it was called knit knee lines moving or something along those lines. And so that freaked some people out. Ultimately, you know, this is how these jobs work. People get tired of each other. It doesn't matter if you are Jeff Brom, first family of Louisville football, they'll get tired of each other at some point. That's that's how it goes. But he wasn't, he's not leaving after less than five years. He wanted that job for a long time. He got it. And you want to you want to hear a funny alternate history? Please. So tell us about it. A lot of people, they go back to that Austin McGinnis kick. We all remember fondly that Mississippi State game. The pressure was on Mark Stoops to go to a bowl in year four. And here's the thing at the time, Jeff Brom is at Western Kentucky. And Tom Jurich was at Louisville. For as much hand wringing as these folks in the city of Louisville do over how great Jeff Brom is. But Tom Jurich, he's the best too. People forget that Tom Jurich ran Jeff out of town. They made him the scapegoat for Steve Cragthor. And Jeff wanted nothing to do with Tom Jurich. Okay, absolutely nothing to do with Tom Jurich. So much so that if Mark Stoops doesn't win that game, Jeff Brom is pushing to get the Kentucky job. So there's there. I know that it's kind of hard for people, especially when I would bring this up in the past to just think about that possibility. I mean, we'll stines the coach right now. This is another Wolfle quarterback. Sure, it's a little bit different with that family and that big name. But that that was certainly on the table. If Austin McGinnis's kick doesn't go through the net and Mitch Barnhart's looking for a new head coach at the end of the 2016 season. So you're telling me everyone at Trinity loves Kentucky. Trinity is basically a pipeline for Kentucky. You got Will Stine here now. You're saying Brom wanted to go. He settled to go to Louisville. People are acting like that's his dream job. And it's the perfect marriage. But you're telling me they're they're all cats over there at Trinity. I'm pretty much the whole city is, you know, even even eating the sissy cakes. Everybody. Oh, yes. Some big blue. Who's up next, Shannon? Let's go to Rick. Hello, Rick. Hey, good morning, guys. You know, I was uh, noting that most of Mitch Barnhart's accomplishments were national rifle championships. And my great grandfather was on the National Dairy Cow judging team for UK in 28. And we still today have a Dairy Cow judging team that's one of the top in the country. And I mean, they're a big moon nation. Big moon now. Go big moon. Oh, man, we would be best friends. So I think we need that. I think so I'm wondering if we need to add those to Mitch Barnhart's totals too. I have a question about the Dairy Cow judging. Are we judging how the cow looks? Are we judging how the milk tastes? How does that work? It's a confirmation. So they go around to the farms in the local community area here and they teach them what to look for in a cow. And you know, when you're buying cows or judging them, what to look for. So being able to judge cow flashes is an important thing. How are we just now finding out about this big moon nation? I'm surprised Mitch didn't have a trophy out there at his ceremony. I'm surprised they didn't either, but you know, they're really strong this year and it's a club. It's not a team kind of like a rugby club. That way they can have keggers after they judge cows. That's awesome. Go big move. Anyway, anyway, go big move. But anyway, I always called him Mulligan Mitch because I never thought he got anything right the first time. Have a good day guys. Wow. Oh man. So cooking over there. Rick, we have another pretty good club sport. At least we had the dodgeball team for a while. Oh, they're the best. Among the best in the nation. And when your boy Nick Rauch was a KSR college intern back in 2012, 2013. I remember those days. We, oh, it was a ragtag crew. And we got everybody together to play the dodgeball team. And so, you know, they tape their fingertips so they can grip the ball better and they can throw it up to 100 miles an hour. And we thought this could be a fun content bit. We'll have a great time. You know, we might have a couple of pops beforehand. We're just gonna, we're gonna have some fun. On the job. Are you confessing you were having pops on the job? It was fun until you got hit in the face with the ball. That, that was, it sounded a lot better than, than what it actually was. If we got, we got to be pretty bad about those dodgeballs. Long time KS bar employee, Tyler Kratzer was on the, he was, might have been the captain. He was traveling with them when they were having some of their best teams. Didn't they make it to like the national championship game or something? One year, I think. Made it really far. So another, another sport that doesn't get enough attention over there. Maybe we should look more into this cow judging thing. I like the idea of that. I can't believe you've never heard of it before. Cause that is something I think we would have fun with. We're slacking on our job. Who's up next, Shannon? Weirdo. Weirdo. This is, let's go. What's up, Weirdo? Hey guys, I'm calling to talk to you about my alien theory. I'm going to take you on a journey. Let's close our eyes and look way into the future. Oh no, what about the other? Technology has advanced and humans bodies have adapted to not having to do the physical work and our brains have grown much bigger to adapt to the influx of information and our language is adapted to code and it's nothing like the spoken languages we know today. But unfortunately, the earth has run its cycle and we've been forced to live in space stations and on other planets, but earth will always be the utopia of life. So we travel back in time to earth trying to find ways to save the future of earth. And that is why aliens are visiting today to try to help sustain life as we know it on earth. You know what, Weirdo? I appreciate the call. That was beautiful. Guys, I got a call. Hold on. Shannon, did you just catch that? D'Rosette, thank you, Weirdo. I appreciate the call. Weirdo. Weirdo. I know it. That's what, I'm going to call people by their name. I feel like that's how my mama raised me. I'm going to be a gentleman, but I will right now, guys, my hands up. Yeah, I probably invited that. Yeah, you did. I like his theory though. I might have read the same theory on Reddit once or twice. I might be a believer. Did anybody here watch... Why are you laughing? His name was Weirdo. If his name was Jeff, I would say thank you, Jeff. Only on this show and stuff like that happened. Did any of you all see Bagonia? No. That if you want a fun little alien conspiracy theory flick, that one had me, it really made my wife angry at the end of it, but I was like, this is kind of fun. Aliens, conspiracy theorists, it scratches that itch. You know who would be angry right now? Matt Jones. Matt Jones. That's the show's become this. I admit I asked for it. As soon as I heard the name Weirdo, I knew I might have gone a little far in that direction, but I'm not mad about it. It happens. Call of the day. Are we making a call of the day? No, I don't know if we want to do that. Let's maybe move on and see what other kind of... All right, let's move on to things happening on this planet. Should we talk to about football? I mean... Well, first of all, I'm going to tell Ryan that he's already paying way too many premiums for road assistance. Way too many. Are you getting gouged for phone insurance? Yeah. What about those doctor visit copays? My goodness. I just had to pay one recently. Oh my goodness. Gouged. Well, unlock everyday value with the blue vantage checking from UK Credit Union. Pack with benefits that go beyond the basics. Enjoy peace of mind with 24 seven roadside assistance, cell phone protection, telehealth, access, shopping discounts, dark web monitoring. 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I don't even know what it is. Breaking news. There you go. You got your own wanting on from NASA. The Artemis II crew has restored the Orion spacecraft toilet to normal operations calling the proximity operations demonstration. Our national nightmare is over. They're not chasing Pee in a bag anymore. I love it. Somebody just sent me a video of one of the astronauts kind of demonstrating the bathroom process in this spaceship. I don't know that I need to see that. Did anyone ask for that? Well, she was talking about like you have to hold onto the handle because you're just floating around in there. I figured. I assumed. There's a video of that. Yeah. Okay. We'll let you keep that to yourself. But good news that they fixed the plumbing. She's not actually using the bathroom. She's demonstrating how they have to do it. Yeah. Gotcha. Well, I'm glad they got that fixed. That's big news. Big things happening. Nick, we are going to talk football at some point. Maybe I should just go ahead and get to it so we don't look up and it's 12 and it's been too weird. That would be a good idea. We did have a little bit of news yesterday. Justin Roll and at KSR Plus at the scoop first. Yeah. That Kentucky's adding a new director of recruiting. Erin Luff. She's coming over joining the operation. And first and foremost, I mentioned this on Tuesday. Everything is kind of new here. A lot of the newness for Will Stein is modernizing the Kentucky football operation. That means there are a ton of people that work for Will Stein. Like it's not just the head coach, 10 assistants, and you got some GAs too. I mean, the offensive line has four coaches on it. You there's an outside receiver's coach and inside receiver's coach. You have so many coaches, but you also have the front office apparatus, which is led by the GM, Pat Biondo. And then you've got Jared McElwain. Dad is Jim McElwain's son, who's been in Alabama with DeBoer. He was at Washington. He also was at Harbaugh with Michigan. He's the director of player personnel. And he's got a bunch of people working for him, including Erin Luff, who started at Tennessee. She's from Knoxville. She couldn't get out of there quick enough. I mean, smart person already. Really, really smart. Got out of Knoxville after a year, worked in North Carolina, but what was, I think what's could be something just to keep an eye on, she was at Tulsa last year. And you're like, all right, who cares about Tulsa football? During the portal madness, Tulsa did something fun. They created the portal house. They got this big, fancy Airbnb. Oh yeah. I remember seeing this. And they just brought all of their coaches, all of their equipment. They're like, we're going to basically do a real world, but for the transfer portal. So it was, it was fun because you see just kind of how frenetic it can be. You're on the phone and he's like, all right, so who you got lined up? Can we get you here? And he's like, Oh, he just hung up on me. So the whole experience. So she was the brains behind that operation. She's coming to Kentucky. So we might see some fun stuff like that. But her job is the job that I, there's a lot of jobs over there that I wouldn't want because it sounds like a nightmare. A lot of her job is making sure that when Kentucky had, I want to say it was 88 visits in two weeks. That's that person's job, getting all the flights booked, getting all the cars to pick them up from the airport to get them there to get all their meals ready to have all the flair that comes with it. You're a giant event planner that has to turn these visits into an experience that leaves these players thinking, all right, these people got their stuff together. So that's, that's going to be love's job as director of recruiting. One of many, many, many, many people working over there at the Joe Kraft football training facility. Some might say it's a full house over there. Well done. Well done. Come a long way from that old church potluck table. They put in the corner of Nutter to entertain the recruits. Little crock pot of meatballs. Maybe get you a little piece of bread here and enjoy your time in life. The game, the game has definitely changed. Also from yesterday, this isn't exactly newsy, but our boy Adam Luckett wrote the story with the comments from the receiver's coach about Harley Gilmore. I know people are very conflicted on Harley Gilmore's return. You know, he's, he's been leaving and coming and leaving and coming. And I like to hear, and I guess price is the, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe. Yeah. He said, this just dude loves football. We'll get it figured out with what's going on with him, but they seem to really love having Gilmore back where I know a lot of fans have been confused on what to think there. Yeah. And I understand it because I was just as confused as everybody else. But he, he needed to find a place and Kentucky said, you know what, come on back. You've been here for two years. Let's make it a third. And I think the upside for Kentucky is that it's really a no, like you can't lose because they have upgraded the talent in that room. So if Gilmore levels up, then he's on play. If he does it, then so be it. They, they, they were probably a little too reliant on him to take the next step last year when he didn't have a spring. There's some guys that are in spring right now that are taking step forward. Guys like DJ Miller, you know, a surprising name that I didn't expect was one of Lexington and Sayers own. Oh, well, you're sitting with two huge Brock Hoffman fans right here. He is, I know we're not allowed to do this, but he is the next Charles Walker slash David Bouvier or Fred Fairier, right? Like this, this guy just makes, he just makes the right place. And it, you know, it might not, he might not have a 500, 800 yards this fall, but he's going to be a guy that they're, they're working them out at punt return. They can trust he's, he's good in between the years. He's got some brains up there, smart player, and he's only been playing football since he started high school. So he's still got plenty of room to grow going into his second season of college football. So the past, the past casting options, we were a little, little worried, but you're starting to kind of see the light there. But a lot of it ultimately comes back to big 81. You see that past at Mitchy, third Rodriguez practice the other day. It's highlight season and they're looking good. There are some things about the newness that I'm not the biggest fans of over, you know, Wilson, you're never going to get a hundred percent approval rating from me. I do love that they're just like, you want some highlights? Here we go. It's the cat nipple, you know, like I'm, what's that stuff that they've like, go crazy? Cat nip. Yeah. Oh, they're giving us plenty of cat nip this spring. Some news from right outside here. I'm watching an Amazon prom truck get towed away. So if you're waiting on a package that could be delayed. Just want to update everyone that definitely applies to my wife. I have one other question. Yes. We, and maybe, maybe Mario could help better explain this to, we might need his explanation because remember when touch money got people very, very upset? Oh yeah. Well, yes, yes. The Kentucky wide receivers, they are, they're calling themselves the paper chasers, paper chasers. And I Brock explained it as like, Hey, this isn't, it's not all about money. But like, you know, if you play well, you do get money, but it is sort of a let's go call. I just, I, here's a thing, Drew, sometimes when something's really like, Oh, people are going to love this. Let me just gas it up as much as I can. I did not gas it up a ton because I thought some, some folks might not like, not like that. We saw the basketball reaction. It happens everywhere. I mean, every other Friday, Ron walks in here and yells, it's payday at the top of his lungs. You know, that's just people like to have a little money in their pocket sometimes. And I did hear a coach pricey. He even mentioned it when he was talking to the media, that he's referenced it, you know, where we're paper chasers, like local, be careful there. It sounds bad, but at the end of the day, if you win, you get paid. Yeah. That's how life works. If you do well at your job, you get paid money and that's college athletics now. And if that motivates our receivers, you know what? I want, I want some Diva wide receivers because you know what? Diva wide receivers, they make money because they're good. I want to see good wide receiver play. No offense to a lot of the guys, but outside of one day, we haven't seen very many of them over the past few years. We're sitting here with big money, Ron Lemon got Nick Rauch, Shannon making it all happen. It was a fun first hour. Got a little crazy there for a second, but we'll be back having some more football ahead.