2026-04-13- KSR - Hour 2

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Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-7745-2544. All right, so we're going to take calls a bunch here in the second hour, but I also want to talk about a couple things. Shannon, I went to Zach Bryan and Kingsley on Saturday. I heard, yeah. You know, that's not normally my thing. A lot of parts of it aren't my thing. Don't know either of those two. I mean, I know who they are, but between in the three and a half hours that they played, I knew three songs. I knew, uh, sex is on fire. And then what's the other one I know from Kingsley? I knew those two. So during those songs, I was, yeah. And then on Zach Bryan, I know he's very famous, but I only think the only song I knew was something in the orange or whatever. Right? I'm not sure what that one is. Yeah. Yeah. That one. And like Max, Max and Miles kept saying to me, you know this one. I'm like, no, I didn't know any of them, which is crazy. Cause in listening to him, I don't know why I've had such an aversion to him for so long. I've almost like intentionally not listened to him, but I don't really know why he's, he's fine. Here's my Zach Bryan review. I thought he played his first concert in Pineville. He said in Pineville, in Pineville. He said he was in the military and he met a guy in the military. He was like, you need to sing for a living. And the first place he got booked was Pineville. Really? He said like he has this great affinity for Pineville. And then I remember Tyler Childers has a song about Pineville. How did Belle County? Yeah. Right? But Zach Bryan was like, Pineville, Kentucky. This is my first, this was my, which was crazy to me. I'm the only one that screamed. There was clearly no one there from Pineville. Now he's huge. Now he's huge. He's, he's actually, when he played his fast song, Shannon, I really liked, right? So he, his first half of his concert was where like fast songs. And when he played, I thought they were good. I thought his band was good. He was good. He had a stage where he would look at all four sides. So he would rotate around, which I thought was nice as a, as a singer. His slow songs, they all sound the same to me. It felt like Shannon, he played the same song for an hour straight. Well, that's for the females, right? I know. Well, okay. That was my other take. I couldn't believe how many women, first of all, is his core fan base, like 15 to 18 year old girls, definitely young women. But I mean, like they, like I was amazed how many parents were there with their kids. Is it the male version of Taylor Swift? Maybe. Cause it felt like it was all people, my age and people in high school. Really? And no one in between. Huh? That's what it felt like to me. Now I didn't see everything, but, and then there were some people like old guys there for only Kings of Leon. You know what I mean? Who are like, what do I do during Zach? So max and miles, max and miles were kind of like that. They were just there for Kings of Leon. So because of all that shit, and this is my point, Zach, Brian was fine. I might actually listen to him more than I have. It was maybe one of my best efforts of getting out of a concert. Okay. I heard, I heard about this. I have supposed to give you crap about you leaving early. No, I looked at him and I said, look, I'm here for you guys. Right? Max has, you've been here in Australia, haven't seen you in forever. Love miles. I'm like, I'll do what y'all want. But I would suggest leaving now. We don't leave right now. Watch the last two songs next to the gate and then get the heck out. So I guess he finishes with the song called revival. And when he starts that, I'm like, we should already be in the car. Make a break. So we go, we leave. Thank God. Did you see the stories about what happened after? No. People were stuck down there until two in the three in the morning. Oh no. Because see you avails not used to those crowds at the football stadium. They don't usually get that many people for the game. Shannon. So is it the football stadium? Yeah. And there were more people that are at the games because there were people on the field. So the field was full and all the stands and the infrastructure around that campus just cannot handle that. And I could tell like Ubers, apparently Ubers, they just like Uber just was like, no more. We're done with you. Uber tapped out Uber tapped out. So we got one. We walked to the Denny's and got one there, but I had friends who said they were down there. It'll two a.m. Couldn't get out. But you were for solve what was coming. You know, I have a sixth sense about this stuff, Shannon. I mean, WrestleMania will always be my best. Oh yeah, we left during the main event. I mean, WrestleMania was such a traffic disaster that the governor lost his reelection for it. People were there like people were there until the next day. Right. But the report that I got from Max says Matt literally just talked about exit strategy from the moment we entered. That's a little of an exaggeration. That's what he says. Probably halfway through the Zach Bryant stat, I started talking exit strategy. You did that when we were at the Hershey Park. He said, okay, Ryan, you can listen to five death leopard songs. And that's it. We're out of here. You get a first five and then we're leaving. There is one of those. What's the commercials you turn into your parents? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There's one about leaving about leaving early to beat the track planning the strategy before as soon as you enter in the stadium. I do that. Yeah. But people think that I'm gonna say when Max and Max and Miles were at the bar wanting to meet ladies, who were they thanking? Yeah, I mean, it depends on how much they wouldn't have been at the bar. The last two songs really mean who cares revival. He go by the CD. Look it up on YouTube. Watch it in the parking lot. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff. Jeff. All right. No, Jeff, go to will. Hey there. I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, but Kentucky basketball is currently 40 to one to win the national championship. And if they get all these dudes, that thing is gonna go to 10 or 12 to one. And actually, you can either cash out and take the profit. Or if they don't get any of them, you can cash out for 90% of your original bet and you're really not out of anything. So, you know, I'm not saying I'm just saying, I actually don't appreciate the call. I mean, I don't hate that if it's really 41. I mean, you will never get Kentucky 40 to one before a season ever. Now, you know, we're still a long way. We have no commitments yet. But yeah, if you felt confident that you were going to get these two guys and you wanted to have some fun, why not? He's right. They get those two guys. It's going to drop way down to 10 to 12 to one or something. So you got a chance to maybe make a little cash right now. Yeah. All right, I'll take it. Hey, five nine two eight, oh, 20 to 87. A couple open lines. Let's go to Chris. Go ahead, Chris. Hey, yeah. Hey, fellas, how's it going? Good. So my question really is kind of, okay, so we're talking a lot about the recruits. Big news on campus today. We have the best fans in the world. We also are passionate and that tends to come out in bad ways. Do we think that if we manage to land folks and Rob right, that we quell some of the Pope hate? Of course. I think, I think, I mean, some of it will still exist because it's the internet and there's not any human being on earth that won't get some criticism on the internet. But of course, but yes, I do think, well, okay, let's just use the people on this show. You have levels of skeptics on this show. I'm oddly not the least skeptical, even though I get probably the most grief about it. I would say Drew, who's not here is the most skeptical. I'm not the most sceptical. Sorry. And I think he'll be all in for next year. Yes. I think you'll be all in for next year. Shannon, will you be all in for next year? If they can get stoked alone, so I will be too. Now, you know, I'm probably not going to be hanging the banner like I did in my mind last year, but I am going to be like, all right, here you go, Mark, you got your squad. Go do it. That's going to be my view. And I would say that's probably going to be the view of most of the fans. Yep. Appreciate it. I don't think people are going to, I mean, I don't think people are going to be guaranteed success, but I do think people are going to have some, some confidence now that like it can happen. Just me, I already feel it. These guys haven't even committed, but I just feel like the fact that they're on campus has got me thinking that, okay, they're moving in the right direction, doing things they need to be doing to try to rebuild that roster. Do you think my first frustration, Shannon, with that first caller made everybody scared? Maybe so, because somebody just called in and I said, okay, sorry, what's your name? And they hung up and they ran away and screamed. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I was a little harsh, but also he was trying to kill my vibe. That's right. Buzzkill. He was trying to, to, you'll find it. Don't force it. It rained on my parade, but that's like a 1930s. Either way, if you're one of these recruits, though, can you look at the Benner boys and go, nope, I'm not going there after they went through all the trouble of getting bed sheets and linen. Well, clearly the coach is like, if they brought them by, yeah, FaceTime the guy, you can't say no to those guys. Can you? Your stokes are, and they seem like nice guys on the phone. Sigma Chi in the house. So now Donnie Freeman, Sigma Chi chant. Oh, I don't know. I was going to give a Sigma Chi. Should have asked them while they were on the phone. Sigma Chi chicken thigh, something like that. They got, I guarantee it's that dumb. All the fraternities ones are that dumb. But if Donnie Freeman comes to campus this week, you know, they're going to drive him by and show him his manner. Do you think they're driving stokes? I think they would. That's why we should have a reporter on the scene. See, if I was the, if I was the Colonel, that's what I would use. I would send someone out there and just sit on the sidewalk and wait, wait for him to drive by or the TV stations. What do they got to cover? I'm sure they're probably out there today doing it. Yeah. Let's go to Trevor. Go ahead, Trevor. Hey guys, that first caller had a little bit of a sound of a negativity in his voice. And I think today there is no room for negativity. Today's a huge day for Kentucky basketball. And so my question and more, maybe even of a request, hypothetically, let's say Rob Wright and Tyron Stokes are driving around in a car and the radio is playing or they're somewhere on campus and they're listening to AM radio. Yes. Okay. That's right. And we, or somebody could send them this. Could we get maybe a 60 second good old fashioned Ryan Lemon just pump up. No, I want them to come here. I want them to come here. This would be, this would be one for like a Chester. Yes. Like this would be a good Chester message to Tyron Stokes and Rob right about the sort of feeling Shannon of Kentucky basketball. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And why they should come here. Ryan gets a little aggressive sometimes. Ryan gets a little aggressive and I don't trust him not to talk about things that would freak them out. You need to know Ryan, right? Yeah. Yeah. Your intro to Ryan cannot be a motivational. You have to know that deep down he's good hearted. Exactly. Exactly. Crosses like crazy. So what are the best ways outside of NiO money? You probably would like, I mean, they're young guys. So sorority houses. Like if they, nice for Sigma Chi, it'd be nice if the sorority houses that would be good if they put them up right there on. I don't know what are the sororities. I bet they have tri-delt right? What else? Is there something with a pie? Cap-a-delt-a. All right. I guess that maybe, but my point is that would be one. Then I would want, I think like somewhere where they eat. Yeah. Where they were taking them to lunch or something, then have it. Like I don't know the football recruits used to love when Vince would walk them into KS bar and everybody, because Vince used to, he would call me in advance and he would say, I got six guys coming. I appreciate the call, by the way. And I would get on the microphone and I would say, all right, here's who's coming. When they walk in, Vince would walk in first. And if you've been there during the game, they, everyone would cheer. He would bring them in for a pre-game basketball. Right? I wish we could have a moment like that. Although these guys, you know, would they like it or not? But like Rob Wright at BYU, he'd have to like, you see that and get that. Correct. Stokes may have gotten it in his life, but Rob Wright's probably never gotten it. Yeah. Here we are in April. It'd be tough to try to relive what it's like when you walk into a place and they're in basketball season or football season. Yeah. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage, you know, there's three buying season is hot and heavy right now. If you're thinking about buying this summer, now's the time to get pre-approved. So we can hook you up with a loan officer, if you're talking about mortgage, they can get you through the process of getting pre-approved. And it's really important because you get into a multiple offer situation. If you hand that pre-approval letter, it gives you more weight in the negotiation process. So give them a call. They're easy to work with. Stockton.com NMLS 8259, Equal Housing Lender. All right. Is that good? Yeah. What are you wearing? St. Louis Cardinal baseball shirt. Looks good. That you're, are your reds my Cardinal? That doesn't look like one they would have given you. I think my mom bought it for me. Okay. We'll take a break and be right back. Yeah. The whole crowd did sing this like, I, I, I'm kind of a sucker Shannon for when huge crowds, especially stadium crowds, sing a song with the artists. Right. Yeah. I think it's kind of beautiful if the song is good. So even though I didn't, I mean, I've heard this song, but I didn't really know it. When everybody was singing this, it actually was, you know, you get kind of chill, Shannon, when you do that, right? Yeah. Even if you don't necessarily like the song, hearing everybody sing that. And I hate to admit it, like when it comes to sports, but Kansas with the Rock Chalk, J.R. No, that's very, oh, that's right. The haunting, like Tom Petty, learning to fly has become my favorite song of his because I heard the version where he was singing it in Gainesville at Florida stadium. And the crowd then takes over and sings for him. And he almost sings accompanying the crowd and it's, it's become my favorite song of his. And I always liked it, but like that version just sends chills up my spine, Shannon, you know. So now you're a Zach Bryan fan, you're in Go Out and Borrow the Zalmos. No, I mean, I don't, I will, I would, if I knew the names of the songs I heard, I will listen to the fast ones. But the slow ones, I honestly, at one point I looked at Max and I'm like, how long is this song? And he's like, these are like three songs. Took it medley. Yeah. Cause they all just kind of sounded the same to me after a while. But, but that's fine. I mean, people loved it. People were loving it. And also have to give a shout out to Cardinal Stadium had the best pretzel I've ever had. Really? Best pretzel? Well, you know me, I hate lines. Yeah. I ain't standing in any lines. The lines were atrocious for everything. Yeah. The only line that had no, no things were Ben's pretzels because all they had was pretzels. I think it was Ben's pretzels. Shout out to whoever Ben is doing a good job with those pretzels. Surprise. There wasn't a line then people didn't know they were that good. I was my old dinner that night. It was pretzel, but it was, it was very good. I can see why you like Zach Bryan. He's got that voice kind of that. I just spent 20 minutes saying I don't like, I've never heard any of his music. I'm saying I'm surprised you don't like. Oh, surprise. You don't. Yeah. Just never. I think it was because everybody would always, when he came up, they were like, this guy's just like Tyler. Then I heard a song and I was like, he's not really like Tyler. And so then I just decided I didn't like him because of that, but maybe it's not fair to him. Although apparently people keep writing me and saying he's not a good dude, but I'm not making judgment. I don't know the person. Kirby, go ahead, Kirby. Hey, good morning, man. First time. Long time call. Hey, then going back and listening to the other show. So all this stuff going on, who do we depend on and on Facebook, KSR, Kentucky Insider, Katz coverage. Who do we follow there? Yeah, I don't know what the last, what the last one you said is. I mean, obviously I'm going to say Katz covered. Yeah, I don't know what that is. KSR would obviously, I mean, we're, would be the one, here's what you have to be careful with. Yeah. There are people out there, and I'm not saying that about any of these people, because I don't know who you're talking about, but there are people out there who, who will see other information, not confirm it, put it out, and then people take that as a confirmation. And then sometimes you have to go, well, where did the original piece of information even come out? I will tell you this. Right. I only know the standard for me, Jack, Jacob, I can't speak for Ryan because I was in Europe or when I was in Amsterdam, he took a different strategy, but I'm not putting it out with confirmation unless I know it's happening. And that's why I often won't put stuff out. Everybody else does because if I don't hear it, I'm not going to do it. And one more, one more thing. I've been going back and your information on that blueprint thing, I was going to ask that question a few weeks ago, but that was great. And I've been looking on the Kentucky website. I think it's something awesome and everything. It looks good. It's like that. I didn't know. And then the other way, just saying before you go that I didn't know that on your Twitter, Ryan, there's a place where people who don't know you can write messages. Did you know that? No, like a request. Yes. I didn't know that was there. So I just looked at those the other day and it's got a lot of people. I wouldn't want to, but then there's like a lot of people I might have wanted to talk to that have written me in there and I didn't know. And what I was the CEO of that blueprint, wanting to explain what it was. So maybe we'll get him on it. So yeah, to do that. But go ahead. What's your next thing? Yep. The one more thing was on Jeff Goodman on X other week, he listed these prices for top 25 portal players, big man, point guards, wings. Big man was four to five million point guards, three to four wings, two to point five to three. And I, I mean, I'm old school, but yet you've been saying, you know, people can lose jobs and people fire and people move. I've been agreeing with all that stuff. But the one thing with some of these contracts say like older Kirk cousins, he's going to the Raiders with an incentive package. These kids have never made this money before. Yeah. But so do you start bringing in college player? I know, but do you bring in these college players based on incentives? But you can't do, you know, what were things until you work? Look, I am for all things that they do in the NBA, NFL, baseball, that has been refined over 90 years and those contracts make a lot of sense. So you're right. Kirk's cousins gets all these incentives, but here's the problem. And it's a good question. Why can't they do that in college basketball? Cause we still will not accept that these kids are employees. The schools do not want these kids to be employees for a variety of reasons because of that. No, I think they need to be employees. Then once they do that, then you can have a collective bargaining agreement and you can do the things like you're talking about, sir, have multi year contracts and have, and have incentives. All of those things are possible, but you have to treat them as employees. If you do not treat them as employees under current law, it's the wild west of capitalism. Right? So I will use this argument not to get political, but I do think it's important. A lot of times people say, I want the government to stay out of the economy. Right? A lot of people say that. Sure. And I understand why they say it. You want to know what the economy would look like if there was no government? Go look at NIL and college sports because there are no rules. Right. Exactly. There's no protections for the athletes. There's no protections for the colleges. There's no protections for anybody. It is literally free market capitalism at its most pure. And so I would say I want there to be rules, but until you call them employees, I think it's going to be impossible to have rules that will withstand courts for the most part. Yeah, I agree with that because I mean, it's like Jay, nothing gets Jayden last year, but if he didn't play, he shouldn't have made that much money. But like you said, he's not an employee, so it's not incentive based. So I get it. I'm just trying to figure out, you know, how do you base a big man at four to five million? Yeah, I don't know. And I also would say Jeff would know more about those amounts. I appreciate the call than I would. I do think Ryan, I always will think the numbers are somewhat exaggerated because as we've talked about both sides, the school and the player and the agent, they all have incentives to exaggerate. They want to inflate that number because it'll help them when they do go to the negotiating table. But do I think guys, there are guys who will get four or five million dollars? Yes. Yeah. And there might even be one or two on campus right now. So we'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSI. Here's Matt Jones. Yeah. The crowds went nuts for this one too. Yeah. These guys just look like regular dudes. Like they did not look like rock singers to me. Yeah. Yeah. They just look like guys you'd see on the show. Like it looked like I could be up there. You know, because a lot of times you see musical acts, you're like, well, that dude's a lot cooler than I. Right. Get all the tattoo. Yeah. Oh, he's like, okay. Yeah, I couldn't do that. But like I looked up there and I was like, if I knew how to do any of these things, I could be up here with those guys. There you go. Well, I mean, half of us though, look in the part, but they don't look like part. They just look like guys. Well, could they look like a bunch of 40 something year old guys? Yeah. Which is what I guess they are. People love them. I was just surprised they were opening up for Zach Bryan. And it's sort of a Zach Bryan, I think has a song with him. He came out and sang with them on a song. Yeah. That's why that's the connection. That's like an odd combo. Kings only on opening for Zach Bryan. One person said, let's be honest with ourselves, Matt, you didn't like Zach Bryan because people were telling you is like Tyler music or Tyler Childers and you feel like you found his music and that made you mad. Yes. That's a good call. Text of the day. If we used to do that, I didn't find Tyler, but I feel like I did because I saw him right before he broke out. Yeah. Lots of people in Kentucky saw him for. I did though. But this guy I think has that kind of that Tyler sound a little bit. Not exactly, but it's a little in the ballpark in the ballpark. I had rich eyes and on ESPN yesterday. Yeah. That was very cool. If you get a chance, the Matt and Myron hour three, you could download. We interviewed him and it was great. He talked about what it was like to work at Sports Center. It's Hey Day talked about radio a lot. I geeked out a little bit. He acted like he knew who he were and I enjoyed that as somebody who grew up, you know, was he one of the originals or wasn't one of the original. He came on in 96 or 90 something 95 with he was kind of the Stuart Scott partner. Yeah. So like that second wave to you got wave two. One is like Dan Patrick Keith. Well, you got like Chris Berman and those guys that I think wave two is like you know, Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick. Then I think there's another wave that Stuart Scott, Rich Eisen, Scott Van Pelt, Kenny Main. Kenny Main, I think it's more than the first one along with like Craig Kilbourne. Yeah. I think Eisen's in the kind of Stuart Scott Scott, Scott Van Pelt. Charlie Steiner was in the original group. Yeah. Yeah. I've never met Rich Eisen. Everybody says he's a great guy. Do you come across that way? You guys couldn't have been nicer to us. I mean, again, it was on the radio. Yeah. And he was like, look forward to seeing you guys soon. Now I was like, you haven't seen me the first time. We've never met. Are they bringing him back to sports? How about seeing me the first time? Yeah. Well, he hosted it last night. They did a throwback condition. Okay. And they used the old graphics. Yeah. Did the old intros, you know how they used to make intros with like puns and stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. He did one of those. You should hear it was funny. He like voice over and yeah, it was cool. Yeah. Watch all of it. But I watched a few. I thought I saw something when he's going back to the sports center desk. I didn't know what it was about. Yeah. So it was, it was for Myron and I both, we were kind of, you know, it's kind of nice. Yeah. I saw you retweeted something where somebody called you and Myron the best show on the radio. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Shannon, you should retweet. Yeah. Right. Yeah. We'll retweet. I mean, it's one that people say about Kentucky. That's very nice, but we'll have a lot of people say it. But most people don't even know I'm on on a national level. That's pretty good. Yeah. They don't know I am. So if somebody says that, that's the easiest way. That's like, okay, another thing they do in concerts. They all mention the city. Yeah. You're the best crowd we've ever had. That's the cheapest pop in the world. Right. Yeah. So if you tweet me and say, this is the best show. Yes. Although he tweeted that didn't he tweet that was one of the best shows or best towns he's ever played was lovable. He said during the concert, this is the best crowd I've ever had. And I was like, whatever. And then he tweeted it. Yeah. So if you say, yeah, he probably says that every town he goes to, but to tweet it though, now it's on record. You can't tweet it about every people will go, wait a minute, dude. Little insincere. So I could see it. I mean, that people were into it. Yeah. He's big started the was at the Mountain Laurel Festival concert or something. He was playing in a bar in Pineville. I didn't even know Pineville had bars. I didn't either. I just thought they had the flowco in the subway. And I guess they also have a bar. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff. All right, let's try again. Second guy's a good golfer here with the mulligan. I just think we make our own luck in this world. And I see Pope changing his luck, bringing in Keegan with the roster. Very intentional shoot past dribble guys that have been on our list. The new fanatics deal. Hopefully we can leverage that for stokes. And then you've got the energy and the swag of Moe. And I think we clean up this week. I think, I think those are really good points. I mean, we'll see about Keegan Brown. I don't know anything about him. Moe Williams brings a swagger and a coolness that this staff didn't have. I appreciate the call. I'll use, I use this example with, uh, with somebody yesterday I was talking to about this Moe Williams is your staff's Mario. And I'm serious about that. We needed to be a little cooler. Mario makes us a little cooler. Moe, Mark Pope needs to be a little cooler. I think it's fair to say Shannon, not the coolest dude in the world. Mark Fox, not the coolest dude, norro. Cody Fieger, not the coolest. I'm not criticizing them. I'm not the coolest dude in the world. You bring in Mario adds some young cool factor. Moe's not as young, but he's just, if you remember him from, but he just has a swagger to him. I mean, he's just got a thing that's probably helpful. That may have been a weakness this staff needed. And that connection he's got with stokes, I'm sure added to his ability to bring him down to campus for a visit this week without question. Joella, go ahead, Joella. Hello. Yes, ma'am. Hey, I was just gonna say, I wrote in this morning on a slot with Tyler Stokes, and he was just a very kind young man. Tyron Stokes. Tyron Stokes. Yeah, don't call him Tyler, but so you were on the floor. Okay. See, this is what I love, Shannon. This is BB and it's its best. They're on the flight. Where was the flight from? Well, no, I'm assuming he was on my phone. I got a picture with him here at bluegrass airport, but we flew in from Atlanta. We had, we flew in from Joella. Can you send us the picture? I'm sure. Okay. I'll tell you what, you're going to hang on at the end of this call. Give Shannon your number or Shannon will give you a number to text it to. Okay. Okay. I'll be glad to, but yes, I'm really excited. I got to meet him. All right. Well, good. And so he was, what did you say to him? I just, he was taking a picture with another lady and I didn't even ask for a picture, but he came over and took one with me. Wait, but you didn't even ask for a picture. He just walked up to you and gave a picture? He walked up to me because I had offered to give a picture to the lady. She actually, she sat beside him the whole way home. And so I said, I'll take your all picture. And then he just came over and took home with me. It did a selfie with me. You could have just taken a picture Joella with a future NBA number one pick. Imagine if you had a picture with LeBron as he got off the plane in high school or Anthony Davis. No, this guy's got a picture with Joella. A little jet lag. We left from Hawaii yesterday, so I'm a little bit jet lagged, but let me tell you something. I told him, I said, go UK. We got a sign. We got a sign. Hang on. And then you can send Shannon the picture and we'll go from there. Okay. All right. I appreciate it. How about that? Humble brag. We just flew in from Hawaii. My picture was so focused on that was the condescent lady and she was excited and she's sending a picture and you're going to call her a humble bragg. Why would you do that? What is that? What is with you today? I don't know. Yellow bitch. Yeah, that was not good. Joella. That was not good. What is that with you? Who peed in your cheerio? I can't say that. I get to say it. You don't. I'm on probation. Who did that? Why? Why are you in such a Monday? It's great day. Shannon, when you get the picture, let me know. I will verify if it's him. Bluegrass. Go ahead, bluegrass. Oh, Lord, fellas, you might have caught me at the wrong time. I'm taking a shower. All right. Let's go to Dave. Dave, go ahead. I'm not taking calls from naked men in showers. Dave, go ahead, Dave. Great call on your part. My listen, hear me out real quick. Okay. I kind of feel like when you were talking about folks calling out to fanbases, you were kind of calling me out because I'll make some comments, but just hear me out real quick. The frustration that you have with the first caller today is the same thing that I get every time I open a post. And I'm not saying it's the entire fanbase. We have a wonderful fanbase, but we have the largest number of knuckleheads that have something negative to say about anything of any fanbase in the country. That's why I get so frustrated. I agree. To some extent, I agree with you. I can't read the comments to my posts. Like, like, like when I wrote that Trent Noah was coming back, the comments to my post on Twitter, honestly, we're shameful, but you also have to remember it's like 20 people, most of them are anonymous. And remember the piece of advice I've said many times that I have to remind myself all the time. If you are a happy human being, would you go on Twitter and reply to a person and be a jerk? Because if you were happy, you wouldn't know. So that means that person isn't happy. And so let's just hope things get better for them. With that said, though, I understand what you're saying. Like, but you just, just don't read the comments. Find the UK fans that bring you joy or the media and follow those people and just try to ignore the others. Because I get it. Like, but I get why that would be frustrating. Yeah, I think, and I think what really frustrates me is you know, there was a point in time when I would have thought there's no way that what people say on social media would actually have a detrimental effect on whether or not kids would want to come here. But you know what? Those kids and their families, especially at this day and age, everything matters. Everything is now and everybody reads everything. I think that's the frustrating part. I get that. You're right. I appreciate the call. I think the thing is, though, I just don't want, I appreciate the call. I don't want the message to be we do it and other people don't because the other people do it too. But it can be depressing. Like yesterday, so much good news. I just didn't read my comments for 10 hours. I was like, I'm gonna be in a positive mood. That's better. Be like on KS board where there are some negative people, but there's more people having real conversation. There's a group chat. Somebody put me in that's got a lot of fans that are really excited and they're not there. Kind of fun, right? So I'm not going to be like, once I see the sense of gloom and doom, and that's probably why I jumped on that call earlier, is I, why be do me today? If we don't get either of these guys, then be do me. Right now, we got the number two quarterback in America and we got the two best players. We've had visit here in the Pope era, both here. We need to be celebrating having a party today. But the guy said like there's just a couple of knuckleheads. Just ignore the knuckleheads. All right. 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That's him. You promise? Maybe he just got braces. All right. Text Joelle real quick and ask if she's okay if I put that up. Will you do that? Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll take a break. Be right back. Yeah. You know, yeah, that was it. That's Mark Pope right now to Tyron Stokes. He's somebody like him. Yes. Well, we definitely could. So I posted the picture. This is, that's of Joella and Tyron Stokes and Joella's Hawaii t-shirt. What a nice woman. She seems like. New braces and everything. Yeah. See, we have some breaking news. Shit. Uh-oh. Hang on. Runny-nana! Jaylen Lowe has committed to Georgetown in DC. You think it was because he saw him beat us in that game? He was like. I tried hitting it to play in that game. He just watched it, didn't he? Yeah. He didn't. He did not play that game. He didn't play that game. Because that was where we were like, well, I mean, we lost to them, but we didn't have Jaylen Lowe. So. Hopefully they designed their offense. It's perfect for him. I actually think that's perfect for him. I mean, like that's a perfect school for him because he can, he can shoot a lot and he can run the, I actually think that's, that's a really, like a smart choice for him. He's definitely a ball dominant point guard. Yeah. And so he needs to go to a school that's cool with him doing that. Um, yeah, I think if you, if I, if I'm him, that's, that's a really good choice. So I wish him the best. Uh, by the way, before I go, these calls, the weather's warming up, days are getting longer. Golden hours calling cornbread and fused seltzers. I have a ton of them in my house because they send them to me and Max and Miles clearly enjoyed them. Four winning players, flavors, 30 calories or less per can. Uh, open a cornbread and let the golden hour feeling wash over you. It's cornbread hemp first time customers can head to cornbread hemp.com. Use the co-ksr 20% off their order cornbread hemp.com code code KSR 20% off your order. It's cornbread hemp grown for the good life. We will just so you know, on my, on KSR, KS board, Twitter. Um, I also put up a threads account yesterday. You got up on threads. KY sports radio. I mean, I had it, but I actually posted a couple of times. Okay. So we'll put news out on all those things today. Just keep hitting refresh today. I think this is a refresh day. Seems like it has been a while till we've had one of these days where you're just constantly refreshing to see if something hit. Yeah. All right. Let's go to Tim. Go ahead, Tim. Matt, my girlfriend describes me to people that she doesn't know as he's the type of guy that likes to call talk radio shows. And I don't think that's it. And I don't think that's a compliment. People in her family, it's bad. Maybe she doesn't mean it. But you know, she means it like that, but she listens, right? I, you know, when I tell her to, you know, when we started dating, she didn't know the difference between a basketball and a football. And she didn't understand why every football player didn't want to be the quarterback. That being said, Matt, so let me, uh, let me flying him in commercial is an awful look where an aisle assure you that he flew to Lawrence, Kansas private because there is no airport for 300 miles. I don't think you're allowed to fly guys in private. Are you? And he had to pay his own ticket on this one, right? Yeah. So the, so regardless though, but they couldn't do it. He had already taken an official visit and that's actually one of the only you rules the NCA enforces is one official visit per school. Let me ask you this under cow. We had the auto collective with the bluegrass motor sports and I'm thinking we don't have that anymore because what these kids, let's not fool ourselves. So they are seven months mercenaries and right now it is about the money. So I don't think you have to have a million dollars in cash. I don't think you have to have children. $5 million in cash and say, here's what we offer. Here's $3 million. Here's what Kansas is offering. That's the difference. Yeah. I appreciate the call. They don't, they, the car thing, yes, they used to get to drive cars back when they couldn't get money, but now the car companies just give them the car directly as you saw with Jasper Johnson's truck. So I don't think the car part is, is an issue. Clint, go ahead, Clint. Oh, first time car. Who are who are, I got a buddy. I would, I would call him my cow guy. That's what he refers to himself. Marcus Pope is what I call him. What, how many studs does Mark Pope have to land this week to have, make him have a little hope in Pope? Well, I appreciate the car. I think he's got to have at least one. And I think if he has two, your buddy should have hope. And remember for all the talk about cow versus Pope, cow has been a 30 some year coach. Pope's been a handful a year coach. Cow's made it one farther round in two years than Pope. First year they made it to the same place. This year he made the sweet 16. We made it to the round of 32. Pope beat him once. Cow beat him once. Their overall record is very similar, very similar. The one difference is that they won the SEC tournament title. That's really the biggest difference. So, you know, I'm not going to act like Pope's done everything we hoped, but it's not like comparing the cows kind of silly. All right, be watching the news tomorrow. Maybe we know, maybe we don't. It's been exciting day today. Exciting 24 hours. We'll see you later. It's Kentucky sports radio.