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Now Here's Matt Jones walker back.

Tucky Sports Radio Come op in lines, Take five, nine, two, eight oh, twenty two eighty seven.

I got some of the stuff I want to get to, but i'd love to talk to you.

Media Day is Friday, camp starts for UK football.

We have asked UK to let us come Friday.

Hopefully we'll get to do that.

If not, I've just told well, then we'll just go to the Reds game because they play Friday as well, so we'll do one of those two.

But I'd like to go to media day because I haven't been in the last couple of years.

Are you excited about camp starting and UK football kind of officially kicking off this week?

You know, I kind of admitted recently that I am kind of getting excited and sucked in a little bit.

I knew I would the season got closer and closer, and I always like going to media day.

One of my best Matt Jones stories is media Day, you walking around barefoot, barefoot on the field, carrying our little equipment, interviewing people.

Yeah, I'll do it again.

It's comfortable, although it's not comfortable now they got that new field.

Yeah, kind it's at.

The time they had natural grass and you're walking around.

Are they are we doing?

Are they doing a fan day Saturday?

So?

So?

So Media Day is Friday?

Correct, Fan Day is Saturday.

Yeah, I want to say the doors open at ten.

I'm gonna say that with a little hesitation.

I think that's for those of you that are UK fans, that's a really good day to take your kids.

Yes, it is because the players play with the kids, and I would say, you know, it's a lot of them are really into it because they don't get to do a lot of interaction with fans.

So I would say if you don't have something to do the Saturday fan day, I do think Ryan is a good thing.

Always been a huge success, and you know, the Kentucky Ata does a really good job of letting the players interact with the kids and the families, photos, autographs, whatever.

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah, and maybe we'll get to know the players Friday.

Maybe.

I think, you know, it looks like we've got a chance to maybe get some players on if we decide to go out there Friday.

We do.

Yeah, what about Mitch?

Can I get him on?

I didn't ask.

He's talking at nine to thirty, so he'll be there.

So let's ask for me.

Okay, there's no Stoops this year.

He's talking right now because he has a procedure later in the week, so you want to go ahead and get his media out of the way.

So Stoops is talking right now, just wrapped up.

Probably what did he say.

I've been trying to keep up with highlights.

No, he is media day thing right now.

Yes, he can't do Friday.

He's having a minor procedure.

I think I saw a tweet that said it's something on his face and he doesn't want to do TV with a big bandage on his face.

So Stoops was today, But Friday will have Barnhart in the two coordinators and if we have a new coach, not head coach, but oh the tight end coach.

No, we have a new offensive line the assistant offensive line.

Have an assistant to the regional manager, Shannon of the offensive line.

Gotta go through hump first before you get there.

Wolf.

What's his name?

Yeah, I need to pull that up, but from somewhere, but I guess Drake Jackson got a job, Greg Frey, Greg Fray.

So now we have two offensive line coaches.

The wait a minute, didn't our main offensive line coach, just get a major raise.

Why does he need an assistant assistant?

Why does he need an assistant?

Because that's what you do with offensive to.

Fall down one time this season.

Shit, that's what you do with offensive lines that have been killing it.

You give and then you give him an extra assistant.

And there's one thing we know.

Our offensive line has been killing.

It, killing our quarterback.

So yeah, well hopefully this guy helps.

He's coached in a lot of different schools over here, coached with stoops before.

Everybody says delphensive line, much much improved going into the season.

So if they can do that, I got my optimism high.

By the way, this is a second.

Do you remember a couple of years ago me complaining on this show about a guy that played for the Reds named Bubba Thompson.

Oh yeah, and I said he was terrible, and I was like, Bubba Thompson, get rid of Bubba Thompson.

Guess what Bubba Thompson's doing right right now?

He's like an all star driving ruber quarterback for South Alabama.

No way, yes, no way.

I don't know, but he is the quarterback that dude that I used to complain about the First of all, I'm clearly right.

If he's now the quarterback of South Alabama, then he shouldn't have been playing baseball.

But is that not?

While that is crazy, he is the he is the starting quarterback this year for South Alabama.

Went from the big in the Major League.

You know, Russell Wilson never made it the big leagues when.

He went from the Major leagues to South Alabama football.

Arkansas has a receiver that's thirty.

He just retired from South Alabama football.

I kind of like it, to be.

Honest, as long as he's not on the rints.

All right, A couple of little things here.

First of all, the Baseball Hall of Fame was yesterday.

Uh, here's who got in each your row?

Yeah?

You like each your row?

Absolutely?

Yes, if you If you can't count up all these hits from Japanese in the United States, he's the.

Leader in world history if you were to count everything.

Yep, he's got It was interesting to see him.

He looks the exact same in the face, except now he has a great he looks.

But it was kind of I liked each row.

He was like, uh, he was little and he would just hit.

I always like lefties who went.

After they hit, their one hand falls off the bat and they almost look like they hit with one hand.

For some reason, I always think that's cool.

You know, every I thinks Pete Rose is the hit king, but at Cheero maybe the best piece.

Cheiro Cheer Cheero e hei row.

Yeah, I just didn't know if you knew.

I thought maybe you weren't correcting this.

Did you see he uninvited the voter that didn't Yeah, I had a voter who didn't vote for him to come to dinner.

And then he said, all right, invitation rescinded because the guy never would say who.

He said, it's expired.

Yeah.

Ce Sabbathia made it in actually oddly weird.

Once had a lot of interactions with C.

C.

Sabathia.

How's that happened?

Remember there was a business thing you remember, Well he was involved in the oh and so I and I.

He was really nice.

I really liked him, C.

Sabbathi, So congrats to him.

Were some custom jays to his ceremony yesterday he did Billy Wagner, Dick Allen, who I guess passed away, his wife gave the speech.

But then for me, the highlight was Dave Parker, the guy who played for the Pirates and the Reds.

He unfortunately just recently a month ago, with complications of Parkinson's disease.

But on his way, I guess before he died, he wrote a poem that he wanted his son to read at the Hall of Fame ceremony.

Okay, and you're probably thinking, oh, that's emotional and sad.

That was not the kind of poem he read, right, He he was not interested in a sad poem, Ryan, He was interested in a in a funny point.

And of course now I can't put it up, but in it he included it said lines like I'm the prettiest, I'm the sexiest, I'm the cobra.

I think that's gonna google long with his personality.

That's why he wanted to go out and want to be remembered that because that's the type.

Of person that Shennon if after you passed, would you would you have write a poem and not be emotional or sappy, just be like.

Fun Absolutely, Yeah, it's gonna be like one last hill ovw promo that I'm gonna have you read to everybody.

Yeah, and including the line I am the cobra, which I thought was hilarious.

And I think he said something like known from my rocket arm or something like that.

Running over catchers.

He was literally cut.

He was That's a good example.

He was cutting a promo on his way out, So I thought that was kind of funny.

I thought it was awesome.

Like I said, Yes, he wants to be remembered.

Remember me, not the guy who's in a wheelchair with Parkinson's Remember me as the player, the cobra, the king.

Yes.

Then did you see Jokic Nikolai Jokic?

Uh?

Apparently sus the bat fastball season is over.

He goes to Serbia and he starts horse racing.

He owns horses.

He doesn't race himself, but and it's like harness racing, right, It's like people sitting back and hitting the thing.

And he goes and his horse won, I guess a big race in Serbia yesterday.

Did you see him crying?

Was he?

He showed more emotion cheering for his horse yesterday than he did when he won the NBA finals.

Like he's he's bawling.

Go look up the video.

He's bawling because he's so happy that his horse won a harness race and then they countered it with when he won the NBA Finals and he just walked off the court.

He didn't even like smile, he didn't do anything, and then he cries when his horse won the horse race.

What did you think about it?

It was funny to see if for a guy who doesn't show a lot of emotion, you know, what is he like?

A three time MVP NBA champion.

But this little harness track where it didn't look like that many people.

Were there work.

It looked like the Red Mind he ran.

There were forty five people at the Red Mind.

He gives that jockey the biggest hug.

He's Pooring's champagne on him.

That looks to be the happiest he has ever been.

It's a fascinating video.

You know they always say that people are happier when their kids succeed, yeah, than when they succeed.

But could it be happier Shannan, that you're happier when your horse sixceeds than when you succeed.

No, I think that's a little strange.

I'll be a lot more happier for me than my horse out there.

But he was not thrown.

I guess he was.

I mean this man must really love horses, like really love it, you.

Know, and reported that said he doesn't really love basketball, doesn't condition in the office, and doesn't practice much.

Well, they act like he looks at basketball like I looked at law.

Yeah, Like, well, I guess I just here we go.

There has to be no player that's been good that seems to hate what they're doing more than him.

And love something so random and like a harness racing a fraction of the significance of his American harness racing people, why don't they want him involved?

Oh?

They should be like begging him to come be part of American harness racing, right.

Something with him.

Set up a Serbia versus America harness racing and bring Yokic over.

Here anyway that mill needs to do it.

Nobody was happier than Jokic at the hardest.

He runs out there onto the track and he looks to be the size of the horse as he's hugging everyone.

Yeah, I would pay to watch him do the harness racing.

Brad, go ahead, Brad.

Good morning, fellas I'm gonna say on my inner Madison here, I've got two things for you.

First off, on the new Happy Gilmour movie, it's one you gotta But then I don't think it has that classic side to it to where like the old one where you wanted to watch it over and over and over.

Oh okay, but it was still pretty funny.

And I know we're going back to an old topic here, but I actually lived behind that new Kroger that's being built on Newtown Pike, and it's it's a nightmare even getting out of our neighborhood.

I tried to run the public so to day and I couldn't even get through the cross on on Newtown Pike in citation to get the publics.

It took me fifteen minutes to cross that road in the stoplights.

So it's it's pretty crazy.

Yeah, well, I mean that the city, I don't know.

I appreciate the call.

Lexi is a great city, but I don't know what to do.

There's too many there's too many cars, too many people.

We have the Nashville problem on a smaller scale.

We're growing too fast and it wasn't built to hold all that it was.

It's clear we were not.

And then you have the horse farms that will not allow it to expand.

I mean, I think that's one of Likesington's biggest problems is we've got all this rich horse farms everywhere, and I understand you don't want to just run them over.

But because of that, the city just cannot expand in a lot of areas, which means it can only expand in a handful of areas.

And that traffic, Like there's only so much growth.

I mean, it's that new Town Pike, Georgetown Road.

Those are the only places where this city can expand, and they don't have the infrastructure to hold it.

Le seems like an island with the horse farms, you guys said it man, and those areas that they can develop on, they cram so much into a small area that there's no room for the traffic.

There's no there's nowhere for people to go.

And everybody wants to live here because Lexington is awesome.

And now we're starting to go up.

Like I know someone, we know him together.

He's told us to be out of his house soon he's renting because they're putting in another high rise apartment.

There's just gonna be more and more of those popping up.

Yeah, well, we're not expanding, you know the area.

You know, I mean so, but you would you say we got to get like till these horse farms get out.

No, that's the charm, that's what makes you Lexington.

It is, so we just I guess just have to eat it, Mike.

Go ahead, Mike.

Yeah, man, I find that's agreeing a lot more here lately.

But we'll get back.

Yeah, I mean see, let me just a point about that.

I genuinely believe that ninety percent of the people agree on ninety percent of the issues, and the ten percent where we disagree is used to make each everybody hate each other.

And I'm glad to talk about these things that affect people's lives where we do agree, Mike, because I think that's really what people often care about the most.

No doubt.

But the one point I wanted to make, like you were talking earlier, which I know it's kind of funny, but it's really not.

Because traffic's like that everywhere a little bit.

Well, like you said, this hires some smarter people to plan this stuff, because like Louisville, for instance, when they close the bridge, well I go to two sixty five where you have to go around, and they cut it down to one light.

So the why do both at once.

Thanks that I totally agree.

You and I agree you don't have to hire smarter people.

But Mikey, that means you probably have to pay them, which means you probably have to stop cutting the government if you're gonna pay people like good people gonna make money, so you're gonna have to pay them.

I mean, these are it's these things.

But I don't I don't think it's take a rocket science just to figure out don't close every way out of the city.

Very good point.

Appreciate it probably doesn't take a rocket side just to uh to do that.

See.

I like that, Ryan.

We we are agreen on more and more things.

And the one the main artery from downtown after the soccer stadium, don't close it down, Barrel.

It's closed till twenty twenty seven.

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We'll take a break.

Great back to Kentucky Sports Radio.

Welcome back Tekey Sports Radio.

If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven.

I got a comment on the text machine a few days ago that said, Matt, I know you pick and choose the questions you read from the text machine.

How about you one take just read five in a row so that you have to answer.

I think that's fair.

That way you get a good sample.

So I'm just gonna start right here.

One person writes, Matt, what do you start to miss more leading up to football and basketball seasons?

I missed the postgame and pregame shows.

I think what he's asking is, what do you miss when the season is over?

I guess I miss being like on at the bar, like in those atmospheres and stuff pre and postgame.

I miss I miss that.

That's probably what it is.

And I miss the postgame shows.

It can get a lot when there's all these games happening, but that probably I missed the fun of everybody, kind of the community coming together.

I think the funnest thing we do all year are the pregame shows that they're at Chas Bar.

Yeah, just the atmosphere and the people and the show itself.

It's a lot of fun.

One person writes the name ichi Ro is Japanese for the name first son, ero means second son, and soburro means third son.

There you go.

Did you know that?

I did?

None.

Another person writes, Matt, what do you think about scientists reporting that a dangerous alienship is heading towards Earth and will be here in twenty twenty nine?

Yeah?

What do you think about that?

I don't believe that's true, and I think you're making that up.

How do they know it's a dangerous alien ship?

Could be a friendly alien ship?

I was reading on this last night.

Is this what you mean?

It's a real thing.

I mean it's reel as an alien ship coming for Earth can be.

But I mean they didn't just make that up.

There are things out there.

What the places I go on the internet, we get into some weird things.

Spaceship is heading our way, alien spaceship heading our way.

I didn't mean there is.

I'm saying it is being said on the internet.

Boy who read it?

I was for read it.

No, I actually did read a link about it.

I don't believe it, but that is being passed around the internet.

That's some gigantic ship is heading for us.

I like how they have an eta, like they know it's gonna be here about twenty twenty nine.

How do you know?

Well, I will say this.

Okay, I've been reading, all right, So now a little sidetrack here.

I've been on this kick about reading about the Aztecs and Montezuma.

Okay.

I read this book called You Dreamed of Empires.

It's a novel.

It's really good.

It's weird, very weird, but very good.

Uh.

And it's about you know, I went, like, when Cortes and those people came to, uh to off the coast of Mexico.

You know that Cortes and the Tenoche de Clan.

Do you know any of that stuff from history?

Cortes story sounds and may I don't know what the others.

He came from Spain within then they landed on the coast of Mexico and then the people in Mexico City, which used to be called Tenoche Declon they met him, and they didn't know what to do.

Anywhere I've been reading all that point is they talked about how both groups, the people from Spain and then the Native well I guess not Native Americans, Mexica was what the name of the Indian group.

They both looked at each other like they were aliens because they had never seen anything.

Like like, think about it.

You're ere the Mexicas and you see what are basically to you, white people, and you've never seen white people before, and you're like.

Aliens, what is this?

And then the people who are sailing are like seeing all these headdresses and they see the city on an island, and they're like, what in the world is this?

And even though I don't think they're aliens, Shannon, that could be what would happen.

Imagine we just look up one day and like when the Mexicas see these ships, they didn't even know what ships were.

They were only on canoes, and they said it looked like floating houses.

That could be us one day when whatever, Shannon, if.

It sounds like you're kind of coming over to our side and it's no, it's not gonna.

But we when we do, it would have to be what it was like for them when they were like, what is this that just shows up?

I would be very confused.

But if I'm not mistaken, I think the story I read said these are hostile people coming to kill us, so it might be a quick standoff.

How did they know that?

I have no idea.

I'm just repeating, what did you think about Trump cheating at golf?

We remember I've read the Trump Cheating at Golf book, so I know more Trump cheating at golf stories than I need to know, So just add it to the list.

That was a good one, though.

Yeah, I have to say I love the you got and you got.

When you get to a point you're so powerful, you could have somebody go ahead of you and then casually throw the ball behind their back so that it lands to where you can hit it, and then you get out of the cart and.

Go, well, look at the good shot I just.

Happened to be right here.

That that that's how you know you're powerful, right when you have people go ahead of you to make sure your ball is there.

Uh, there's a lot of that.

I can't think of the name of the book that Rick Rawley wrote, but a lot of that.

I think the Secret Service just keeps his golf balls in their pocket for that reason.

If they see him hit in the water, they just kind of everyone around, I think is participating and making sure he's having a good day on.

The golf course.

Who has that job?

Like, is that a specific job?

Definitely is part of the you know, job description for some service.

There's there are caddies at Valhalla that will do that.

Oh no, no, there's caddies.

I've seen it.

There's caddies at Vaja.

Somebody will give the caddy a fifteen.

Go make sure I get a good lie.

I don't need to pay fifty for that.

I'll just tear myself.

I have absolutely ero prom I'm just saying.

Maybe I played golf with Terry Minders and I saw fifty exchange hands before it started, and then all of a sudden you'd be like.

Wow, Terry, good lie there, what a bright sand.

I thought that was over there in the fiscue.

And then you go Terry's like, we'll take care of you, like you know, Terry catching strays here, catching strays.

I'm just saying that's a that's a style I've seen before.

Okay, well, not everybody follows the USG rule book as closely as as you.

I'm not gonna act like I don't enjoy I saw they showed later on today.

He did my thing, which is like four foot putt.

You tap it towards the hole, but don't really get kind of drag it.

You kind of drag it to the whole.

I've done that.

Not gonna lie, that's okay, I'm alright with it.

But the having a caddy go ahead and throw the ball in the ground, that's a that's a little bit of a Again, that's a Terry Miners move, Shannon, if I was to call, if I was, you can look me in the eye and tell me he didn't do that.

Noah, go ahead, Noah, noah.

Hey guys, sorry, uh hey.

I just wanted to be able to give an apology to Ryan, specifically on Friday, when you guys were over here, Nick was still I was the one who was backing the car when Ryan was out there trying to smash that watermelon in with the bed lick.

Are you almost You almost hit Ryan with the car And I didn't even know it was back there.

Yeah you I mean the video you came very close to running over poor Ryan Lemon.

Yeah.

I had to head out to work early before.

That's why I asked you before if you could wait, if we could win the price tickets before if we had.

Asked me to change the rules so you could win tickets.

I said no, And you decided to just go run over Ryan Lemon and return.

No.

I just had a hurried I had to take my client back to back to work.

Okay, all right, Well I appreciate the car.

I don't know if you did.

You see in the video how close you were to getting hit by car.

I didn't see it until the video.

I had no idea.

We were out there trying to bang that watermelon.

You you came to he was out there banging water It happens.

He watches American Pie.

I will say, what was the name of the place again?

Custom fitting Kentucky customs and up fitting Kentucky customs and upfitting that bedliner they put on the football.

You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, football, They should sell that.

Yeah, it's kind of cool.

I think people would buy that.

I've put it up in my house and every like, I think it's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Oh, you mean, just sell the stuff.

I was like, they do sell the bed football, dip it in bedliner and sell it.

I think people would buy that.

I took the donuts.

It's pretty neat.

I think it's awesome.

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One person writes in, Matt, I hate to say this because I love him, but I've been Terry Miner's caddy before, and you're exactly right.

That is wedding, no caration.

The caddy outing you thought I was lying, and the caddy is backing up that.

The trump throw the ball behind your back put it in is also a Terry Miner.

I don't like this Terry slander that's going on.

Terry on here to defend himself.

Listen, it's okay, I pick up four footers.

Terry pays caddies to throwing the ball back in the fairway.

It's okay.

It doesn't sell, it's okay.

According to Billy, came in here all angry.

Billy, tell real quick what you said during the break.

Oh well, speaking of cheating, I went to Pinehurst a couple of years ago.

And we got to let me pick up that name you dropped okay.

Yeah, So I went to Pinehurst a couple of years ago and we got a four caddy, so they will go ahead of you to watch where your ball lands and throw.

And so they did not tell us this, but the fore caddies would go up to your ball and move it onto a better lie.

They say, for pace of play.

You know, all these amateurs come out here in the waste collection area and they're just hitten into the sand and they don't make any progress.

The caddy goes up and moves your ball to give you a better lie.

He didn't notice.

It's awesome.

Don't touch my ball.

Okay, I'm trying to play around the golf.

Don't give me a better lie.

Good enough.

I say this with respect because you're probably about the same as me.

You're not good enough to not move the ball.

Okay, Well, I mean the sport of golf is I mean about integrity, and I don't cheat.

I don't want to doing it for everybody.

Let's test myself.

Maybe what I can score on a nice course, but do.

You know what you can score on a nice course badly?

Well, I wouldn't say that.

That's subjective.

What did you shoot ninety two?

So you shot ninety two, but they moved the ball.

Yeah, so imagine what you would have shot otherwise.

Yeah, Like I don't know, And that would have made you feel better to shoot one hundred and five.

No, but it would have been all me instead of the caddy moving my ball into a better line.

Oh, you had a ninety one or ninety three.

If you're going to do that, at least tell me, don't like, just go out there.

And so you got mad at this person trying to do you a favor.

Could it have been you were so bad he didn't want to tell you because you'd argue, He's like, I gotta speed this guy up.

He's holding up the course.

He was like, I do this to everybody.

Like you were not special.

It's not like you're noticeably bad.

Oh you thought maybe he came up to you and was like this guy particularly needs he tell me.

Yeah, I didn't want to see.

I felt bad.

I didn't want that.

So okay, Well I would say to you, it'd be better for you to have a ninety two than one hundred and one.

Yeah, but that one on one would have been mine, Matt.

And now there's an asterisk next to my ninety two because of this stupid caddy.

All right, well it's not like my Beth Page Black eighty eight, which is completely legit.

And as you watch the Ryder Cup, you can know Matt Joones shot eighty eight on this exact same course.

My biggest take away at all this is Terry didn't pay enough for the caddy and not telling him.

I mean, you're obviously cheap if the caddy is going to go tell people.

Yeah, all right, let me.

I'm gonna say this now real quick, since Billy is in the room, some cool news.

This is not an official announcement, So this is just like I'm giving my our audience little heads up.

It's not one hundred percent official, but it's probably like ninety eight percent official, unbelievably for reasons that I'll don't really understand.

The NFL I'm talking about, the National Football League has hired Drew and I to do a for them.

This is nice.

The boys knew I'd get to the NFL.

What a bizarre decision.

I mean, like the other podcasts are like Good Morning Football, Ian Rapaport.

I mean, they have like six podcasts, and now it's gonna be me Andrew I don't know why.

And we get to come up there like you all pick what it's gonna be.

You all like they're gonna build us a studio.

They are thinking about sending us to the super Bowl.

Oh my why, I don't really know.

This is not the official announcement.

I'm just letting y'all know.

I have a meeting to kind of finalize it this week where you have to pick out a name.

Matt and Drew do it for you different.

We'll get some mother I just but anyway, it's exciting.

Billy's gonna be producing, Mario's gonna do some of the social media.

But are you excited about that?

Oh?

I'm very excited.

I absolutely love the NFL.

I'm still like you a little bit in the what huh why?

I mean when they called me about it, I just thought they were like, wrong number.

You mean the guy that played at Arkansas?

Oh you mean the Florida running back.

Oh, the Australian golfer Matt Jones.

No, you.

And you know, I mean I've met with the NFL people like they they they're talking about, They're like you if you want to have on as guests.

Sometimes they're like, we can help you get players.

What in the world am I going to say to these NFL players but still exciting, Well, they had to have seen my experience.

I played tight end fifth grade West Broadway, Bobcats one career catch.

You know, in our football pregame show, everyone just fills the knowledge oozing from their radio football.

They certainly feel that with me on the ESPN, I think they see us as like a Madden Summer all type.

No, they specifically said to me in all serious is they were like, we want a show for fans who aren't necessarily experts.

And I said, well, I'm you or I'm me, whether you want somebody it's not an expert.

Here you go.

It's way too much work for me.

But I can't say no.

Okay, right, you can't say no.

You gotta do it that we will tape on Sunday nights after the games.

So that's one of the things the four of us have to do is we're gonna have to trudge down to this studio on Sunday night after Sunday Night football, which means we're probably gonna watch the game sometimes like together.

And uh so the record like a reaction show immediately after it's over and then I'm up six am Monday morning.

No, I mean, I'm gonna be previous.

I don't even like me.

We'll cut that part of them.

Yeah, don't say that too loud, but no, I like it.

If you had told me ten years ago that we'd be doing this, I would have thought you were crazy.

I really would.

I would have liked of all the sports.

But you know, obviously your expertise you bring to the NFL expertise none.

You bought a book that one time.

They did ask me.

They were like, we want you to know the rosters.

So that's something I'm getting Billy to help me.

Like we got to figure out, like how do we.

Learn this flash cards.

Jake Ferguson just signed a new deal with the Dallas Cowboys.

Oh I love Fergie fer that's my guy.

He dates a Cavender, which is what I know about it.

So anyway, so it's exciting.

Hopefully we'll have more details in the coming weeks.

I'm excited for Mario and Billy that they get a chance to do this.

And like, you know, but the NFL is going to see what the were technical difficulty beings.

Yeah, they don't have many of those NFL films the sables.

They didn't have many difficult.

Technical meeting last week and they were asking about all this equipment and they said do you have that?

And the answer was no to everything.

So they're having to bring in I think there's somebody from the NFL coming to this studio.

I we got this, I mean, so I'm excited about it.

That's this is an unofficial announcement.

The official announcement will come when we have a name and stuff.

They're going to take our videos, Shannon and put it on the official NFL Instagram and TikTok page.

Followers are forty five million followers.

Big Time Now forty five million follows.

For all the analysis, I don't.

Know what to wear.

They said, just dressed like you normally would, And I was like, you sure the NFL?

All right?

So anyway, Mark go ahead?

Mark?

Hello, Yes, go ahead.

Hey.

The first thing, congratulations on that, Matt.

I it's I'm not gonna say, well deserved the ideas.

Thank you.

Oh that's the thing.

That way things are going these days, and you know, gotta like Average Joe podcast and different things like that.

But what I called about is I go back and forth between Cincinnati and Lexing and lawful lot, and I personally think the traffic in Lexing is worse than Cincinnati.

You haven't seen bad traffic in Cincinnati until they complete this bridge in about the next seven eight years.

Everyone should just pretty much if you have to cross the river, you should never move somewhere else.

I agree, it's terrible.

You're exactly right.

You said seven or eight years.

I'll double that.

They will.

They'll be doing that.

They'll be doing that when Drew's first born goes to college, I can guarantee you.

I'm not quite sure about that because it's it's actually become an initiative with their infrastructure things, so people are really pushing a big time because it's actually a safety hazard and it cuts down a whole lot of things.

Hey, one last thing I want you talking about.

I know you're a big Reds fan and you dump on the Sundle players.

Sometimes you know one of the players that you originally dumped on about four or five years ago, au Inio.

I know now I want him, want him, Now I want him.

I agree, I dune thought him and now he's good, and now I would like him to come back to Cincinnati.

So I can go eho oh and get him his five syllables.

I'm I was that was one.

I appreciate the call.

Most of them I've been right about I was wrong about him, and he's the number one trade piece everyone's trying to get.

I started the red pregame show.

They spent most of the pregame show talking about who could they trade to bring him back to Cincinnati.

I would love to have a hu Hainio back, but uh, that might be hard to do.

We'll take a break.

AF I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty Seven's KOSR Welcome Back file, say Kentucky Sports Radio.

If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

I will have a new interview today our our friend Josh Hopkins the actors coming in uh to talk today on the show.

Yeah, in studio.

He's in town.

So we're going to talk about his acting career.

Also, you know he amongst the things I want to talk about, he was on that movie, uh, the Alec Baldwin.

Oh, he was on the set.

He was one of the actors.

Was he there when it happened?

I think so?

Oh my, So, I mean we're gonna talk about I don't think he's talked a lot about it.

I think we'll probably talk about that.

Sure he'll want to talk about the Sarah Spartans winning the state football title.

He probably will.

I'm nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven.

I do want to say one thing before I go to the phone.

Prayers to the people in folks in Wayne County, Kentucky.

Caleb Brice, a young man who had just finished his freshman year of high school played football and basketball at Wayne County, died in a car accident this weekend.

I've spent a lot of time in Wayne County in the last couple of years.

They've been very kind, invited me.

I've spoken at their school and events in Monticello.

You know that is a very very tight knit community, and from what I understand this, this young man was beloved part of the community.

Like I said, played all the sports, played for a couple of state wide basketball teams.

And it is very devastating for anybody that age is gonna go in into a sophomore year of high school.

So my prayers are to everybody there.

I know it is it is, uh.

I mean, there are no words that can make it better, but it is having a strong impact there and I feel a personal connection because of all my travels there in the last few years.

So my prayers and I know everybody on the show Ryne for the family friends in town with the passing of Caleb Brice.

When you know, a tragic event happens like that in a small, tight knit community, it resonates and everybody feels it.

I mean, the everybody's feeling the lost down there right now.

So yeah, thoughts and prayers to everybody down there.

Yeah, free bird, go ahead, free bird.

Hey guys, Yes, prayers to the families down there.

I got a lot of buddies down there in Wayne County.

Matt didn't last year, wasn't the Kentucky Derby and the Oaks race, didn't they excuse me, wasn't the time later?

Also?

I know, yeah, now they're racing the Derby at like six thirty six forty five.

But this is going to be at least with the Oaks fully under the lights.

It's like going to start at like eight thirty or eight forty.

So, but yes, it's gotten later over the years.

It used to be at like five, and it's they've continued to move it farther and farther back.

Well, my question is what's an hour difference going to make.

I think it.

Makes a big difference.

Like think, so, first of all, Oaks Day, the Oaks always ran at like six.

Yeah, right, so the Oaks, you know, you could be out by seven and make a dinner, right if you wanted to.

All the parties the Derby would go later in the day.

But it's kind of a little like under talked about secret that Derby night is kind of slow because it's everybody's exhausted.

But the night in Louisville, the social night is Oaks Night.

That's when the parties are, That's when the big dinners are.

That's when people are out until four or five in the morning.

And I think now the worry is that with that race one off at eight thirty eight, forty people will just do what they do on Derby Night, which is nothing, and that will that will hurt the city.

Oh gotcha?

All right, thanks for taking a calling man.

A great listen.

This is in the city of Louisville.

This is all anybody's talking about.

I was there this weekend.

It's all anybody's talking about it.

Jeff Ruby made a long post basically asking to create a community commission to work with Churchill Downs on these things.

You know, there's some people are thinking, well, maybe that what used to be on Friday nights will now just be on Thursday nights and all the parties and the dinners will will happen.

Then there's some people are saying, well, maybe everybody will just wait and then do it on Saturday nights after the derby.

But it's a big deal.

I mean, you could make an argument the Friday night before the Derby is the biggest social night in Kentucky of the year, in every four all easily and this moving of the race, whether it will ruin it remains to be seen, but it will certainly have an effect, right you.

Know, right now people show up at the party's dinner, what nine ten o'clock, they move that race back.

Now that you're talking about midnight, by the time people show.

Like barn Stable Brown, it's hard to do that party unless you started eleven at night, you know, And.

Those people are getting up for derby the next day a lot.

But I think the big thing is people are now gonna eat at Churchill Downs and when you've already had your dinner and the race is over.

How probability You're just like, let's just go in and rest up for tomorrow's.

That's what really makes I think the dinner people mat is they're basically like Churchill Downs.

You are now taking everything.

People really have a reason to go out if they've eaten and had their fun there until late at the night.

Yeah.

Now maybe people don't start going to it until three or four o'clock and maybe you get a lunch thing.

I mean, I don't know, we'll have to see bye.

I totally understand why Churchill Downs did it, but I also understand why the city is frustrated, you know.

I mean, for me, let's just use ks bar.

We sit there and wait on baited breath, waiting for the time of the games to come out.

Yeah, it really doesn't make much of an impact for us for football, because we can make any time work.

In football, noon, we can do breakfast, and then we can do a postgame three point thirty.

I love because we get both seven o'clock, you can do a lead up.

But in basketball, the time of the game is a massive financial difference, and we have no control.

A nine to thirty road game in basketball is not even in Like for us, we've just lost the night, like I would rather not.

I Mean, when I see a nine to thirty road game in basketball, I'm like, because that just means we're gonna get nothing that night, right Exactly, A seven o'clock road game, we can make that work.

But a nine to thirty road game for us or a nine to fifty, it's just death.

And so like, now imagine that time's twenty and that's what it's like for them, for the Oaks.

And you know, it's such a powerful tool, the derby and the horse racing and Oaks, but they forget about the people that live there in that town.

That's who, Matt, why they made it this special.

Well, the people they are forgetting to, you know, can't consider them when they make these decisions.

Yeah, Mike, go ahead.

Mike, Yeah, Mats just talking about being in New York Black Page and shooting at eighty eight on the one of the hardest courses ever.

And of course the.

Guys remember this, but you forgot to mention you took a muggin on the first hoe.

It was just one mulligan.

It was one Mulligan.

And then I didn't take listen.

I freely acknowledge, Mike, I don't play the cleanest rounds of golf always.

That was the cleanest round.

O.

God, shut up, Mike.

I appreciate the call that there was just one drove after that.

Was it on the tee or on the team?

Okay, that's a breakfast ball.

It was on the tee, and then I didn't.

I didn't.

I was in the one.

I wasn't playing the tips.

I was playing though the next ones, whatever you call those blues over seven thousand yards.

I know I was there, and it's the best round of golf I've ever played an eighty eight on a championship course from the back, playing everything, and all mulligans aren't the same.

I think you can get one off the tee your first swing of the day if you didn't warm up.

Now if you're hitting the water from the fairway.

But I didn't do that.

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Yeah, there you go Thursday.

By the way, is the wing not yes, it is that I am excited about it.

Can trial the new sauces.

I may pass on the hot sauces.

I'm gonna try all the other sauces.

Yeah, I'm ready, ready to get sauced.

Yeah.

We only have only seventy five.

We only sold seventy five tickets because we wanted everybody.

We want to be an intimate affair.

I mean not that kind of intimate, but as in it's mean as you can be with chicken wings.

So we'll be doing that.

Thank you all very much.

We will see you tomorrow.

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