2026-09-15- KSR - Hour 1

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage and the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety's Safe Summer Driving Tour. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, September the 15th. I am Matt Jones here in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. We are in studio, 859-280-2287. Ask anything Tuesday. We're going to do it one day early. Go ahead. I've got a bunch of topics, but I don't, like, there's nothing that's, like, show-wide. So I feel like it would be good to take questions. We may do it tomorrow, too. But ask anything Tuesday, 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. Shannon, you just missed a great conversation with Ryan where he goes, Yesterday, the front nine took forever. Yeah. Took four hours. He was like, it didn't end until 3.30. And I was like. Well, it started at 12.30. Yeah. That would be three hours. And he goes, that's four hours. And I was like, no. That's three hours. 12.30 to 3.30. And he was like, oh. Okay, add that up. 3.30 is three and a half hours. So he's going to continue to. Are you going to continue to argue this? But I think it was at 4.30. I think I had the time wrong. But you're the one that said 3.30. Yeah, I got that wrong. It did not take four hours. You guys were done at 5.45. Does that mean the front back nine took one hour and 15 minutes? A bunch of teams left. No golf takes an hour and 15 minutes. Well, I played. Mine took three and a half. So there's my answer. Okay, so we're close. Three and a half, four. He's just tried to convince him that his math was wrong. He's going to die on this hill. He's going to die. That's exactly right. That's what he does. And that's all right. 8.59, 2.80, 22.87. Anyway, fun day yesterday in Somerset. Great day. A lot of fun. Beautiful weather. It's the best weather I think we've had for a scramble. Because we had a nice breeze that would help with the heat. That's what helped. It was great. It was very good. We had a hole-in-one. Yeah, right behind me. I saw it. Hole-in-one. Guy with the red beard. Yes. He plays in almost all of these scrambles. Plays in every year. I booed him. He got a hole-in-one. We had a hole-in-one in the very first one we had however many years ago. And now we have one. This is not the last one, hopefully. But we've had a hole-in-one in both of them. We also had a stretch. That was some really good comedy, Shannon. I saw the video. Did you see it? So they had this girl named Cora from Corbin. And she was working for a company called Cora's. But it's not her company. I made the reasonable assumption that if her name was Cora and the company was Cora's, I made the assumption, well, it's her company. And she was like, no. How did you even get to that conclusion? Where would you even come to such a crazy conclusion? And she gave – we made everyone do a stretch. And it was fascinating because it was clear a lot of people there, Shannon, had not stretched in decades. Because first she made you like rotate your arms forward. And that felt really good. And everybody was good. And then she goes do backwards. And all of a sudden you just heard all this. Like everyone in the crowd was like, that's a movement I haven't made in a long time. It was the hip stretches that got me. That's what I hadn't stretched in a while. Both hips were popping. I didn't even know they could move like that. I felt good. Like this woman, she looked at me and she goes, you have very good – the one where we had to lift our leg up. And then she was like, you have amazing range of motion. And I held that compliment all through the day. Have you been stretching? Well, I mean, I did yoga for a long time. Now, I haven't done it in a while. But like it's amazing. Like one little compliment can go a long – like you're like, oh, yeah. Hip stretching. All day I was floating. You were at Skyline last night telling the little cashier about your flexibility. Of course I have great hip flexibility. But that was fun. And then the golf went – I did Matt and Myron sitting there on the top of the hill. And I watched Ryan putt with everybody. And it was just a good day in Somerset. Yeah, one of my favorites. Like I said, that's a course we haven't played yet. And it's been on my list for a long time. And it did not disappoint. It was a lot of fun. I am going to highly recommend – because it's a public course, part of our state park system. For all the people out there who like want to travel the state, go somewhere pretty and play golf, General Birdside State Park, that golf course there, very nice. Really kept in like immaculate shape for a public course, like part of the state park system. Shout out to the Greenskeepers and those guys because it was immaculate. It was in great shape. Great shape. Great condition, yeah. So thank you to all of them for having us. And then came back, ate at the local taco in Hamburg, and then went and watched the Chiefs and the Broncos at my house. Chiefs are back. They're very back. They're back. Back. Taylor Swift said, get that camera out of my face. I was excited for a good game. Then it was not a good game at all. Not even remotely entertaining. Or entertaining, but not close. Kenneth Walker III. Got to be one of the best thirds to play in sports. Studs, but he is. How about this? Here's a little question for you. I had to look this up. I didn't know. Where did Kenneth Walker III play in college? Can anybody know that? This might be the best running – or one of the two or three best running backs in the league. Does anyone have played at two schools? I'll give you credit for either one of them. I feel like it's the West Coast. You're going to have to give it to me. Shannon, any guess? I mean, I'll just – no, I don't know. Florida State. He won the National Running Back of the Year award. Okay. So he was the best running back in the country in college. Michigan State. Michigan State. I would have never gotten that. Wrong state. I got the state part right, but the wrong state. I would have never known that. And he was like not only – you talk about an anonymous player. He was the National Running Back of the Year. Super Bowl MVP. MVP now, and then he lands with the Chiefs. It's like – they're going to end up being all – because they have this youth movement. I mean, Kelsey's still out there being old, but now with him and they've got young receivers. And then Kelsey got like a 70-yard pass. You could hear his bones creaking while he was running down the field. Made a couple good moves, too, on that run. Did you see the clip that went viral during the game of the Seahawks GM when he was drunk at their parade after the Super Bowl? Are you talking about the guy that wears the tight shirts? He's on hard knocks. He was just hammered. He's like, Kenneth Walker's trying to negotiate with me. Isn't that silly? Because he's just assuming Kenneth Walker's going to be on the team. And now he's just dominating for the Chiefs. Maybe you should have sat down with Kenneth Walker. I still think it's better when the Chiefs are good. I just think – I think the league – I hated the Patriots, but the league was better when Brady was doing Brady things. And I think you need to have – you call it a villain, just call it whatever you want. You need – the Chiefs, I think it just makes the league better if they're good. So are they the new Patriots, the new Yankees, the new team everybody's going to start hating? Well, I mean, they're the Mahomes. Anything with Mahomes, and you throw in the Travis Kelsey. You know, all that. Like, it's a – you need a team that's kind of that, and then it's exciting if you beat them. And so, yeah. Yeah, I got Tom Cruise at their games. Yeah, I mean, Tom Cruise was there with the haircut of Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men. This just – I'm all in on the Swifts and now the Kelsies. They don't have real friends. They just invite people that are famous to – there's no way – Did I tell the story about Nikki Glaser on here? Did I tell the story about what she said? That was on Cover Zero, I think. Okay, so I was at – I went to a comedy club in New York a couple weeks ago, and they had – a bunch of people came on stage. And Nikki Glaser was there, and she said at one point – she was like, I went to Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's wedding. And she goes, yeah, I'm as surprised as you all. She said, I'd never met them. So she got invited, obviously. So they invited people to their wedding. They don't even know. That they had never met. Just for the star power. Yes. When you saw that guest list, it's like there's no way they have close relationships with all of she said she thought her friends were pranking her when she got it and then she checked and it was real well so they invite her and then when she got there apparently they said we just really like we're really fan of yours so i wonder can we do that like can i could i invite tony kornheiser to my wedding yes never met him but be like i'm a big fan of yours david letterman would you like to come people have invited us probably never met us remember we used to get wedding invites all the time yeah but we sort of i i think that's different i mean i i get what you're saying but i think it's a little different because remember we kind of would encourage it to and we would send people teach i think they just invite us to get the t-shirt maria used to send yeah well also on hard knocks cooper cup is talking to sam darnell and he's like i uh i went and then darnell's like you know them he was like no i thought it was a joke i don't know why i got invited so it's like they just invite people they invited over a thousand people but if you get invited you have to go to that right i mean like that's going to be the biggest social event of the year but i just but i'm with you i also think the fact that it's in kansas city makes it part of it like what like tom cruise goes do you think he's ever been to kansas city what are they talking about the whole game i don't know just being rich i guess i don't know but so i'm with you i like it and uh it was good to uh you know it was good to see him now yesterday you know one of the one of the the benefit of this show is this show is and i don't care what anyone says this show is the biggest local sports show in the country yep numbers back it up it is now i mean you know i'm there may be shows in new york that have more total listeners because new york is bigger but i'm not even sure if that's true it might be true there might be one or two like you know the michael k or boomer and carlton or whoever those shows are but i i don't know if that's true but in terms of dominating the market there's no one close and it's there's no one within like you can't even see us on the racetrack the positive of that is we get to do this we have really cool stuff happen i you know drew and i do it in a way that's really cool and i think it's a really cool thing to do and i think it's a really show i've gotten to espn etc etc the negative is all these losers from every other fan base know who we are and they decide to comment so i i want to quickly go does anyone here know a show for another fan base that we have not met personally like we know some louisville ones because we know the people on them do you know an alabama show do you know i mean not counting like it doesn't count though i mean i don't know a fan show do you know if do you know an auburn show no south carolina show no no we know the tennessee guy because he sits in his basement it's fun to to to laugh at his people tony some tony basilio right but in general we don't know that guy that guy to be fair that's pretty funny to be fair that's pretty funny but all these people when we play them they know us and then they dig up all of mario's stupid video see mario puts all these videos out where i'm sitting there saying like hey we might be good this year and then they clip them and they're like look at this delusional idiot and so that it's just rinse and repeat when we lose a game i go viral with all these people and i get it i don't mind i hate on them like okay do your thing but it's a rinse and repeat so like i know when we lose like we did saturday i'm like here we go again and the clip that went viral that all the alabama fans and the louisville fans who have nothing to do the one they pick is me just going hey we we could be good we could win and i don't know it's just like every week this happens and i maybe there's nothing we can do about it because i'm not gonna sit here and act like we stink all the time no maybe we have a no predictions rule on videos maybe we just have a rule that mario can only put videos out of us talking about cheese because they live forever drew yeah the score graphic post goes up viral every time it's i know they think they're dunking on us but like we're we're fans and a fan site to fan radio show of course we're gonna want our team to win and pick our team to win in most cases i mean i don't know what they expect us to do but we're gonna win and pick our team to win in most cases i mean i don't know what they expect us to do because the reality is if you ask the average kentucky fan a lot of them would say we're too negative very true about that right a lot of kentucky i mean just think about the criticism during the cal era and even the pope era stoops all ksr is too negative and then you you can not please people right you can't people you know there was a thread on the board on saturday about how we just inject optimism into people's lives in the fan base all summer just almost every year just for us to trip it's like sorry we get excited we're fans i mean literally i mean this happens with our fans too literally people go matt jones ruining kentucky sport ran cal and then we lose and people go you got me all worked up it's all your fault you're the one who said it you got me all worked out that's your video that's your video clip mario save mario how do you save control s does that work so i don't know and it shouldn't matter but then i'll just i i i go on i go on twitter less today than i've ever gone but i'll go on there and it's just people uconn thread in your ear 62 look how crazy matt jones what's the story that birmingham colonists wants who knows to apologize yeah okay that guy look birmingham kevin skarbluxki comes out and goes kirk herb street needs to apologize for picking kentucky are you kidding me should every person have to apologize when they pick a game wrong if people would pick games for a living if they were that good they'd just quit and go gamble and they'd just quit and go gamble and they'd just quit and go gamble like no one knows the results of these games and then you have to pick every week you're gonna be wrong like i'm i think i'm sure the other guys got other games wrong yeah and what's what's kirk herb street gonna do dear citizens of alabama i'm sorry like what does he want them to do i just people have lost their mind everyone who who has to the voice again i did no one i'm not your clown take a break send that to me mario we'll take a break be right back it's the difference between trying to talk to your friends over the music at a bar and having dinner where you can actually hear each other between getting food delivered and cooking something you know she's gonna love it's the difference between a rough nicotine pouch and on plus nicotine pouches with nico silk mesh no corners no rough edges just the softest 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games this funny baby bot character kids we're almost there no with more than 4 000 interactive games songs and shows little ones can't get enough of lingo kids is the number one entertainment platform for young kids why didn't we download this sooner everything kids love download it for free welcome back tucky sports radio 859-280-2287 phones are open to ask anything tuesday one person says matt on the text machine 772-774-5254 i'm driving down to texas a&m this weekend for the game i remember you saying you've been there before any recommendations for things to do no there's nothing there except karaoke bar according to myron he says that's that's all they do have good food they do have good food they do have good food they do have good food There's like some good food around the stadium, but that place is tiny. I always recommend people stay in here. houston or austin then drive to there the day of the game but if you're staying there i don't really know what to do because there's a hundred thousand hundred three thousand people at those games i don't know where they put them because i don't think there's i think there's six thousand houses in the entire like there's no i don't know where people stay the night before people still just go to the stadium to practice chanting for the next day yeah i don't know it's a it's a really interesting place i will say that i mean i i've never been to a football game i've been there for basketball but it's a fascinating place i remember a lot of our fans that went down there in 2018 came we had a shot yeah and raving about how everybody was so friendly and it was nice it was an awesome environment and they loved going down there so i guess it's a cool place to go watch a game that was a game where miles missed the kick and a girl we our friend miles butler missed that kick you remember in that game and uh he tells the story about he matched with a girl on tinder when they got back and she had matched with him only shannon to yell at him about missing the game yeah there's that jerk that cost us the game let me match with him so i can wear him out i mean that's to be fair that's a high level of trolling oh yeah isn't it that's a great story yeah you're trying to avoid all the other apps where people are making fun of you you're like tinder's like tinder will be fine i'll get out here ignore the football game he's not gonna do that to me take my mind off the game and she just gets blasted dylan's up first go ahead dylan what's up guys uh i know you all i might this might ask anything question i know you all talk about louisville a lot and i'm only no we don't okay stop right there that's not that is not no not louisville basketball not a little bit louisville as the city yeah well yes of course it's in kentucky as a city yes we did yeah okay what i was saying was i've only been to louisville once and it was for the derby but i've never actually went into the city and explored it i was wondering if you all kind of like the texas a and m question if y'all actually think it's a great city shannon i'll use you for this right okay i mean louisville is a city i think it's vastly underrated great restaurants like without question for a city that size maybe the best restaurants of a city that size in the country there are 50 great restaurants the ali museum if you've never been is awesome like it really is is awesome if you've never been there it's worth the trip to go it really is cool the area the new lou areas is is cool the area where i live not as cool as it was but still pretty uh awesome on bardstown road saint matthews is a great area as well for restaurants saint matthews is awesome for all of that kind of stuff you know and you got the slugger museum the little slugger museum if you've never been yes there's all those little bourbon places like that row where whiskey thief is there's a ton of little bird there's a whiskey row i think louisville i think a lot of our state is either looks down upon or is scared of or whatever the city of louisville and i don't think it should be a lot of bad rep it does and i don't a lot of kentucky is rural and you know we're scared of the big urban city that's here but i mean i've never been able to really go there and explore it so well you should i appreciate the call when i was young i was scared of louisville i think you were just like oh that's the big city that's the big city but then when i moved there i i loved it so i i highly there's a lot of people that are scared of louisville and i'm not scared of louisville there's a ton of i mean sometime maybe we'll do a guide during the off season about all the restaurants in louisville because there really are amazing ones we should be all proud of our flagship city in our state it is quite nice yeah all it misses is a professional basketball team and we have a ton of kentucky fans there yes oh absolutely all my louisville hatred is directed at campus and their athletics not the city yes and by the way they just announced that they are naming that they are uh selling the rights to the advertising on their basketball team and they're going to sell their basketball courts to a crypto company okay uh xrp all right i don't know what that means you know my view i'm anti-crypto by the way that's a view that people have come around to more well i mean when i said that two or three years ago everybody was like oh you're gonna get left behind and now they're like almost all of them are broke except there's a couple big ones like bitcoin except even that's way down though right it's down from a tie yeah it's climbing back so is they are they gonna pay in bitcoin are they gonna pay in cash well that's a good question if they paid them in bitcoin then they may go uh they may go uh it's a big gamble that's a bitcoin's a roller coaster but it is kind of interesting because that's a very sort of risky thing well not risky but i would think that's a controversial thing for louisville to put on their court right x bitcoin or you know what was the one that's been a few years but they were attached to the nba teams and it went bankrupt right to get his money sam sam bank friedman something i think i i think crypto to me almost all crypto is a scam i just forgiven hunter biden he was like you know what hunter biden seems like good and then he put out a crypto coin and i was like see there you go scammers scammers scam when you're making a crypto and promoting it that is absolutely that is one thing i promise you i will never do that's the rug pull if you exploit your fan base by putting out a crypto coin you are just you are looking for a crypto coin and you're looking for a crypto coin and you're looking at them and saying i don't care about you everyone that does that i i mean donald trump did it i think did uh the hawk tour oh yeah those are the only two people tom brady didn't he do one i'm taking advice from hawk tour that's on you i will say that your money then that is on you to some extent at some point it should just be obvious i agree with you he's like you know who i want to give my money to to some extent shannon you are getting what you deserve i guess yeah i mean i guess there's an idiot around every corner and she's proven that the fact that there's actually people that follow her advice yeah so louisville's louisville's getting in the crypto game and their coin will probably crash too i would think 859-280-2287 we'll talk a little big blue madness tickets are on sale we'll do with that right after this ksr tj smith personal injury attorney call tj he'll make them pay now more of kentucky sports radio presented by stockton mortgage here's matt jones is this limp biscuit uh of course you know limp biscuit they'll be louder than life on saturday are you coming oh larger than life has limp this louder than life does larger than life is a backstreet boys album um yeah but yeah they'll be there saturday so you have four straight days of that coming starting thursday i've got eight of 11 days because bourbon and beyond is right after that that's right that's right that's right that's right that's crazy thursday through sunday then we get three days rest and we come right back for four straight days so so you start thursday who who's your big group on thursday iron maiden it's a metal day on day one so you got like aren't they all metal days some more than others like i don't know you call limp biscuit metal no i just call it crap i thought you liked them no you don't like no not really i did like one of their songs yeah uh but i can't remember which one it was faith yeah the george i did like their faith and then i guess they did i did it all for the nookie you like the nookie so uh correct so iron maiden mega death those guys are those guys got to be like iron maiden are they like 70 probably yeah pantera alice cooper speaking of when like iron maiden and those guys play do their hearing aids ever go off with all that noise i think they can hear just fine it's it's as the name says loud so you're excited about you love this weekend oh yeah yeah there was a story in the new york times about this i mean how many people come to town for uh loud louder than life well if you combine the two it's around like 500 000 people so half a million people but like this is the biggest one of those kind of concerts in the country north america yeah and biggest one in north america so yeah people watching is good at louder than life it is i've been there that was where remember that was the concert that got my was like my last step of my therapy have i ever told that on the show yeah i think you did yeah so i when i had all those when i had all those issues after i was in the hospital um i was like not going like i was really struggling like going in crowds and i went through to this guy that got recommended to me and he's fine and one of the last things he says like what to you is like the thing that would give you the anxiety the most and i was like being in a large concert in a huge group of people and what and feeling like i couldn't get away and he goes well then you need to go and metallica was playing it uh larger than life and i told perrin we're going it was gonna be my last step uh-huh we go to the concert and we're there and how many people were there shannon i saw you that day probably 50 60 000 who knows like people and and i i was surrounded perrin sees a girl gone leaves me by myself right and then all of a sudden like i start to feel it you know because you're just surrounded metallica's right and i'm like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die and um but i stuck through it see perrin was putting you through the test apparently hung with you he was your safety that's right that's true he said he was doing me a favor by running off with that woman i got you okay he was your water thank you perrin it wasn't about the girl it was about you it was he was helping me okay good good yeah and then i got through it and as i walked out at 12 30 at night the my therapist actually called me on a saturday night and was like how did it go and he didn't get and he was like so you got through it and oddly that really had a strong effect on me being able to feel like i never never look back after that yeah Lucky it was your medicine. Yeah, thank you to Larger Than Life and whatever woman took Perrin's eye at that moment. It'll change your life. Life-changing experience. Thank you very much. Let's go to Andy. Go ahead, Andy. All right, Matt, I got a hypothetical for you. Okay. Assuming you have the time, you're offered the Reds' play-by-play job for a year, and you're guaranteed they win a World Series. But Bob and Jamestown's on the call with you. Great scenario. You know, Andy, I just have to tell you, the quality of your calls has increased exponentially in the last year. Like, have you been on steroids or something? What is it that you've done? I don't know. Going through everything I went through and then just combine that with just sitting around, thinking this stuff. Okay, well, I like them. Appreciate the call. I would not. No, would be the answer. I could not do that. No. To travel the country, just me and Bob and Jamestown? The Reds win the World Series. Are you kidding me? That's like eight months of just me and Bob and Jamestown. That's a lot. For the Reds. For a World Series, though. I appreciate the call. That's fine. Think of all the Reds fans in the world. You're not a fan. You would go spend eight months on the road with Bob and Jamestown? Yes. If I was a Reds fan, that's punishment enough being a Reds fan. If you say no, we shorten it. Doing the Bears. You got what? 17, 18 weeks. Just on Sundays. See, that would be easier because you get in and get out. You're not stuck in a city for days. I would love to hear his color commentary because you'd be the play-by-play guy, right? Apparently in this scenario, yes. Bob fills in with his color commentary. Matt, have you seen the price of milk? What do you have anything to do with? The Reds at all. Speaking of the Reds, did you see that home run by Ellie last night? I didn't see it. Knocked it out of the stadium. Did he? Only the third player in the history of Reds games to knock it out of the stadium. Were they playing a Little League park? Were they playing at the Reds stadium? Knocked it out of the Reds stadium? Over by the big chimney thing. Yeah, he knocked it completely over the whole thing. Against the Dodgers. They measured it 457 feet. Although the Cowboys said last night he thinks it was more like 480. That's a shot. That's a poke to get it out of there. So you are still watching these games, though. I wasn't. I just watched the highlight. I'm done. I've sold all these Dodgers tickets. Dodger tickets go for a lot of money. Yes. Yeah. I do thank the Reds for stinking because it's led me to get a lot of my season ticket money back. These Dodgers tickets are. And again, people are nice, but they come up to me like, hey, man, I know you don't like when people ask for tickets, but. I don't like it. I don't like it. I always wonder, like, why do they think it's going to be different? Like, I'm a big Yankees fan. Yankees are a team of Saturday. But the Dodgers, everybody's like, listen, man, my kid loves Shohei. Well, a lot of kids love Shohei. An entire country of kids love Shohei. But, I mean, I'm getting, like, 300 bucks apiece for these tickets. Nice. But you're not back in just because he's hitting balls? No, it's the end of the season. Sell the team. They just announced they're bringing the GM back. What do you have to do to get fired in Cincinnati? He's. He's been terrible. Yeah, he didn't do a good job this year managing that roster, for sure. He hasn't done a good job in a decade. Right? I mean, look at our roster. It stinks. Got some good young players, but he can't build around them. Yeah. We stink. That's my favorite line. We stink. The Reds stink. They do stink. They stink. They stink. Retired ref, go ahead. You know, I watched the game Saturday, and that defensive play kind of gave me a feeling and gives me hope of the way that they're going to play one of these days. Yeah. But after watching the entire game, it brought back memories of watching Greg Norman playing in the Masters. Yeah. And I can't remember what year it was, but he's on fire only to. Yeah, I think it was 96. I think it was 96. You're talking about against Faldo. Yeah, where he had that huge lead, and Nick Faldo ends up having to, like, hug him at the end of it because he collapsed. And he did that a lot over the years. I mean, I was a Greg Norman fan growing up, and he found a way. Bob Tway hit the shot out of the bunker. Robert Gamez pulled it from the fairway to beat him, and Larry Mize chipped in to beat him. It's kind of his reputation. In 1986, I think he led every single major going to the final round, and he only won once. Oh, no. Yeah, Jack Nicklaus beating that year. Ray Floyd. How do I remember all this? But I do. But anyway, sir, you're exactly right. There was a little bit. Do you feel that way, Ryan, that the good part of the defense on Saturday makes you feel good for the future? It does for me. Like I said this yesterday, I still saw enough to leave me optimistic about the entire team, but the defense especially. I thought it was going to be. kind of had some struggles this year, but they've proven that they can stack up with the big boys. Yeah, they were on fire early. I love the way they were playing. There was a moment where I was thinking, like, not just because they had the lead and all that, just like, is this going to be a really, really, really good defense when we've been focused on Will Stein's offense? And of course, it all collapsed. I think part of that was the circumstances. Once the fumble and the fake pump were botched, and then suddenly they're down 14, I think they just kind of caved in, and they're better than what they showed in that end of the third quarter and fourth. Obviously, time will tell if this is true. But for me, at least, I think that it was more to do with the fact that we had no depth, and they just wore out. Yeah. I mean, that's. And then in the second half, we're forced to stay on the field. Like, in the first quarter, I think the time of possession was, let's say, maybe 11 minutes Kentucky, four minutes Alabama. And then I think in the rest of the game, it was, like, outrageously more Alabama than Kentucky. I'm just guessing, but, like, maybe 32, 13 or something. And I think you just. There comes a point when you don't have backups on defense, you just can't keep asking your defense to do that. I definitely left more impressed with the defensive line than I thought they were going to be. Humphrey's great. The defensive line was good. And then when you told me that Nichols didn't play, I guess I didn't realize that. Well, now you didn't have your best corner against one of the best wide receivers in the country. They're going to need Nichols to be big all year long. He's got to get healthy. They've got a lot of bodies in there that can play, but he's above the rest. He's your top cornerback. The Kentucky Chambers Young Professionals Summit is September 21st. That is a week from yesterday. Lots of leaders from across the state will come. I met a kid yesterday who's planning on going. It's a great chance to meet other young professionals, folks who have great ideas, people like Dan Oliver, who founded Dan O's Seasoning. He's going to be speaking. There'll be strategists, et cetera. Great chance to meet and make connections with folks from around the state. Go to kychamber.com. slash events for the Young Professionals Summit. Yeah, I met a kid yesterday who said he was planning on going. Sounds pretty impressive. Yeah, we'll take a break. A couple open lines, 859-280-2287. Do not write me and say, okay, look, see somebody right here. I'm Big Dodger's fan. Like, it's not, even if I like you, I'm not doing that. Bye. 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Before I do that, I'm bummed about what happened at the Herald-Leader with all these reporters losing their jobs. Not because I think the Herald-Leader has always been great, but these reporters, especially the ones that they let go, a lot of them I think were really good. But also I just worry about local news because you need to have local news. You need to have somebody. All our news can't be national. There has to be local news. And then sometimes, though, I see what local news is. And I go, all right, we got to do better than this. I went to a TV station. I'm not going to say which one, LEX18. And I went to their website. Would you like to know what the second story was this morning? Oh, no. Will they find another Baron Masterson station? Worse. Local neighborhood cat killed by dog. Sounds like it'd be in a cartoon. Wow, what a slow news day. That was the second story. It probably happened. It happens every day. So I opened up and I was like, what is it? And the story was a local cat beloved by Romney Road neighbors named Casper was killed in a dog attack. It's a murder. Prayers up to Casper. And to the people of Romney Road. John Short. See you at the crossroads. But is that a news story? Was there more to it? No. No. I hoped there was. Did the dog go to jail at least? Yeah, they're still on the loose. I don't know if the dog is still on the loose. How is that a story? How is a cat being killed by a dog story? Murders in the streets. Does Casper's owner work at LEX18? Oh, that might be it. That's something I can think of. It's still not a news story. No, it's not. It's sad for Casper's community. I don't know if the city of Lexington. I think by adding the name Casper, it would like. He's friendly. Make us more sympathetic. I don't know. It's a little embarrassing. It was the second story. Breaking news. Casper has been killed. He's seen his mother wild. There's nothing crazy about it. Every person that loses a pet is going to call 18 now. Yes, do it. I hope you do. Just make that pet deaths.com. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, yeah, Matt. I had a plan. Here at work, I went to the game, and he said at halftime when Alabama went off the field, their fans were booing them. I didn't think anybody did that but us. Well, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. Their fans, at least the ones around me, were very nervous during that period of time. So it wouldn't shock me. Well, I thought we were the only ones that had done that. Well, we did that. I appreciate the call at that Gonzaga game. I don't like booing your own team. That's always been my view, but I also don't, you know, I understand why it happens. Yeah, you know, their football fans, the Netties are restless. They had a disappointing year last year. But they had a great second half. They came out at halftime and put it to us. He got himself another week. Mark, go ahead, Mark. What's going on, Matt? What's up? Hey, real quick. I had a couple things. I think last week's game, Will Stein showed a little bit of, um, inexperience. And you had a caller yesterday that talked about, uh, it was a play, it was a series in the first half where he declined a penalty. Yes. And Alabama was struggling to move the ball. And actually, I think on the next play, I think they, they made the first down, in other words. It'll put them back on like a second and 25 or something like that. It was going to be second 18. It was going to be second 18, and they left it and made it third and eight, and then they converted to third and eight. Yeah, and they converted. Yeah. Hey, real quick. In this, um, this game, this game this weekend, Texas A&M, I tell all Kentucky fans, if you're going there, get there, go super early. Because getting into A&M is like the worst possible place ever. It is. One way in. Terrible drive from Houston. But one thing about, when I think about Texas A&M game, it's kind of a, I think of what could have been. Uh, to me, I always considered that the Chris Oates game. Chris Oates started at linebacker that game, and, uh, the first half for Cash, because Cash was suspended. And he had like one of the best, the best first halves I've seen a linebacker have at UK. For, I mean, forever. And, um, things kind of went downhill a little bit after Cash. But I'm not saying it was because of Cash. Maybe they made suggestions and made some changes and everything. I mean, that game was, that game would have been, it was a chance. Because, I mean, they were right with A&M that whole game. We all thought going in they might get smoked. And they, it was there for the taking. And then we, I did, we lost in overtime. Went to OT, yeah. Went to OT. That was in the old overtime. Rules where you just went back and forth and back and forth. And I don't remember, did we go to two, maybe? Is that, did Miles miss one right away in OT? I think that's what happened. You might be right. Miles missed one. It wasn't a chip shot. And then they scored a touchdown. And then they scored, I think. I think you're right. To make it a six-point win. Yeah. Terry in Shepherdsville. Go ahead, Terry. Yeah, when the schedule came out, there were two games I thought were unwinnable. This week and home against LSU. But the reason I thought this week was unwinnable, I thought they had a shot. They had a shot at Bama, and they would be so high that they couldn't get up again. Losing the way they did, do you think there's a chance they go down there and get thumped again? Or do you think Stein can get them ready? I think it's a great question. I think if they, I still don't think they can win. But I do think it is important for Stein to show that they don't get thumped. Right? I think they need to go down there and be competitive. I don't know what that looks like. The only thing to me that would be a huge negative out of this game is if you go down there and it's 45-3 or something. And then I think this fan base is like, all right, what's happening? So I, Terry, I do think, and I appreciate the call, if that game against Alabama had ended up a three-point game, I wouldn't feel like this. But after the way that second half ended, they need to be in this game throughout all of it. Yeah, they can't go down there and get waxed. I don't think they're going to win, but you've got to be competitive and put up a fight a little bit. The DraftKings spread. If you go to DraftKingsBet5, you can get up to $150 in bonus bets. DraftKings.com, promo code KSR. It's 16-and-a-half. Feel like that's the right number? I feel like it's pretty good. Arizona State was 14-and-a-half last week. They ended up losing by 28, but A&M scored like 28 points in the fourth quarter. It was pretty close. That game was competitive for most of the game. Excuse me. Arizona State, Boley, they turned it over four times. So you look at Arizona State and whatever you think of them, I mean, if they get their turnovers in control, they play them pretty close. I feel like the Arizona State game is a model of you need to be as competitive as they were. What happened to them is a lot of what happened to us against Alabama. It just got away from them at the end. I'd like to see us play them at least like Arizona State played A&M as well. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, Ryan's boy Mitch McConnell's back. Be right back. Whatever you're chasing, flex your next with new On Plus 12-milligram nicotine pouches. Blowing up a new personal best? Psyche up. Get after it. With the strength to satisfy and the comfort of nickel silk mesh, flex your next with On Plus, the 12-milligram done right. Warning, the following song has been rated dangerously catchy and may not be suitable for grownups. A, B, C, D. In the morning. Brush your teeth. A, B, C, D. In the morning. Brush your teeth. E, F, G, H. 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