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All right, welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio live at a Bedder Brewing in Winchester, Kentucky, the first stop on our KSR Business Spotlight Tour. We're gonna do this all summer. Well, we're just gonna show up at a spot. We're not going to advertisement. I'm gonna tell you where we are all summer long. We're gonna be different communities all across the state. I've got some good ones planned. One of them that I'm looking forward to is actually gonna be at my house.
Man. I know I'm looking forward to that one as well. Yeah, we just get to hang out and annoy your neighbors. We'll make sure we plug up the speaker.
Yeah yeah, But a big thing to the Winchester Chamber of Commerce who brought us out here. Of course, it's Beer Cheese Festival Week and Beer Cheese Festival Day and we just had some sliders, Drew. The winner of the Beer Cheese Food Week was bell on Wills. Bell on Wheels as or and you've lived in eastern Kentucky, Bell on Wheels and it was awesome.
We had some sliders from the Bell on Will's food truck. That's one of the best sliders we've ever had my life. I'm not just saying that.
The giddy up Horsey steak sliders, Oh it's so good.
Yeah, had a little jalapeno everything bagel seasoning on top of the butt.
So the Bell on Wills is a partner for a bet or Brewing. They're here all the time here, so if you come out here, be sure to save some room to eat because it is really good.
Wasn't a billy it was.
And they're the ones that won the best beer Cheese and we tried some of that, which was very good. And I don't know about you guys, but beer cheese is very high on my list when it comes to tailgating food. Oh yes, if I'm gonna sit down, if I'm going to go out to the parking lot and party with people, or if I'm just watching the game on front of the TV, beer cheese is up there.
With like buffalo chicken dip and things like that. For me.
So my question is is it more of a regional thing beer cheese, because like Bob and Jamestown said, that's not he like, it wasn't a big deal down maybe in southern Kentucky, But like around is it a regional thing.
I mean, it's very popular here. There's a few other areas around Likening that have a lot of it. I don't know how far it stretches, but i'd say around Kentucky this is about as popular as it's gonna get.
I thought we talked about this before. There's a certain in places that claim to have invented beer cheese. Winchester is one of them, right, But I think there's like other people that try to say that they were the first. Right, we'll have to google it. I think there's like an invented beer cheese. I was saying Winchester invented it because I'm in Winchester right now.
So it's Winchester kind of like the cheeseburger Louisville, right, Yeah, that claims they invented the cheeseburger.
This is known as the capitol of beer cheese. It is, so I think they have the lead. It's beer cheese, like Abraham Lincoln.
And everyone just claiming everybody it's so good, everybody wants a part of it.
In my in my life, in my world, in my brain, it's Winchester is beer cheese.
If you think of Winchester. To me, you think of beer cheese and L eight one, that's where it comes to mind. You think went to and they just brought in a cooler full of L eight one, the orange, the red, the cherry, the diet, the regular. We got out everything in that cooler right there.
Looks like in Brendan Canada, Canada La beer cheese. Brendan Canada.
Found that a lot about Brendan Canada over the last couple days.
Yeah.
I just talked to his aunt that Sarah at the show to kind of catch us up on what he's doing. But I didn't get somebody on the a vision glass text machine, said mount Sterling still claims Brendan Canada. Yeah, no, apparently now he did. Apparently I didn't mention this football player. But he was born in Winchester, but he grew up in Texas. He ended up playing in the NFL, played college football at Nebraska and then played in the NFL. Rex Road Rex Burkehead, Rex Birkhead, Yeah, Rex.
Just make sure you're talking about the same person different Winchester. Well, yeah, I didn't know that either. I'm very familiar with Rex Burke had Patriots. I did not know there was a Kentucky connection, and I.
Always didn't hurt.
He was born here but then moved away, but they said his parents have moved back here. His dad left take a job in Texas, so he grew up in Texas, but his parents and grandparents are back here in Winchester.
He went to Plano. I think that's the home of Is that Julius Randall country? I think? But at Wikipedia, which is where I get all of my information, just credit him of being born in Winchester.
Well, there we got that.
I didn't believe everyone here in Winchester, but that's a connection I didn't I didn't realize existence.
So we have to count him, I think in the list of Winchster Winchester athletes. All Right, I didn't really give you guys this as a homework assignment, but we can't with It's kind of been floating around the past couple of weeks because of all the mustaches that are on the UK baseball team. So the question was who has the best mustaches in UK sports history?
Jammel Martinez.
He's got to be on the end of story, he has to be on the he has to be top five. Yeah, I think Jamel Martinez has to be top five. Ability to have another one? Well, Richie Farmer. Richie Farmer, to me, he's number one. Yeah, I think Richie had the mustache since he was in the eighth grade.
It's famous. Now I gotta go back and google Jammel Martine's mustache to see if it stocks up to Richie. I think Richard's number one.
Jamel's is pristine on a poster in my childhood, so every morning I would wake up and there's Jammel Martinez mustache on the wall.
So I think we've got two of the top five, or you got another one.
I already had tried to make this list earlier this week. I think the list is Nick Lopez, Richie Farmer, and Jamel Martins. Knows whatever order you want, but it's those three. I don't even know one that would even be in the conversation.
Yeah, Nick Lopez, look at that.
That's a great.
Nick Lopez has made his mustache entertaining because, like with the first game of the regional, he painted it blue, second game of the Regional, he painted it gray the master uniform, and then the third game he painted.
Half blue half white.
And the way he shapes it I think I think he's earned right now to be in the top five.
I think he might even be number one for me. I hope Richie's not listening, because Richie has long held the crown. But what gives Nick a slight nod is he uses product.
Yes he does, and.
I'm not saying I'm not encouraging. He's probably do what you want to do. But he does the twist, the Raleigh fingers and being baseball. It just kind of has that old timey baseball feel. So I give him a slight nod because he can make the little the little the.
Loops, loopy calls, put the little stash wax in there. What is he doing?
Price and palm ade? If Jammel Martinez a little palm made in there, I'd have him at number one.
Anybody else can think of another one. I got a couple more, You.
Got a couple more. Leebana's what do you got? You have to google it.
Tubby Smith as an assistant coach of.
Oh I think I remember that when he was head coach here in Kentucky.
But when he was an assistant coach under Rick Patino, Tubby had a masterful mustache.
I think that has to be our top five.
Ily forgot about when Tubby rocked the mustache. That was a good one. I'm hoping to get it. You know, Richie reach out yesterday about Tom Hart's bushes, so I know he was listening, so I thought he might chime in on this one. We'll give it a few minutes. One thing I need to you know, I gave Lopez a nod for the product. Need to give Richie nod for growing it when he was like seven years old. Amen, I mean, yep, he went through high school of the mustache. I might put him back at number one. I forgot about that. The longevity of the mustache is big.
Apparently Tubby brought it back when he was at Minnesota.
Go there's a little salt and pepper mustache in Minnesota.
That's very very good. Okay, here's a couple more for discussion. If we call them talk about UK history.
Alan Cutler.
Oh yeah, yeah, I thought we were just going athletes. Well it's a problem UK.
I think you have to include Cutler's mustache and color tells a great story where his daughter was very little and he shaved it off and she looked at him and screamed. And cried, Yeah, it looks like a completely different human being. Yeah, so he's growing it back and has had it ever since. I think Cutler deserves to be in there.
I've seen photos where ker krisa our new guard, he rocks a little pencil fan here and there. It's not all the time. I don't think he had one when he was moving in, but just a little little Jimmy Buffett little there.
I think we saw Reed Shepherd try that one reads excuse of a mustache, But there's one more.
I don't have anymore. I feel like you're you're sitting on a good one.
Shannon the dude, Oh please, mustache. It wasn't that good. I was, but it created as much of a storyline as read Shepherd's mustache did because Matt made fun of you every day.
Wasn't a Kentucky late though, so media, I guess you covered Kentucky part of the media. So didn't you do it where like you did it until they lost or something? Oh yeah, yeah, it was Kentucky football. I agreed to rock the mustache and continue to grow it out until Kentucky football lost and they started off like five and oh I think that year so it was. It was I filled in five or six weeks, you know, during COVID drew and I didn't shave for months, and you had your beard and mustache like it was like you look like the eights from Country Boys.
I saw a picture of that recently and popped up, you know, on memories or whatever. I didn't even know who I was looking at. Why did you all let me do that? I had birds in that thing? I mean it was like down to like the bottom button on a polo.
Think about when you eat though you get food in it.
It was awful. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible idea.
When you did the walk with Shannon, there were steps away from being you know, Forrest Gum.
You almost tripped over your beard.
Let me do that again. I have a basketball up day. Would you all like it? It's not a wanding not It's just an interesting to something earlier in the strip.
Go ahead.
Jeff Goodman says there is only one name to replace Dan Hurley at Yukon, Bruce Pearl. We know he'd leave Auburn.
Yeah, well, you know, there was a lot of people, including myself, that was hoping Bruce Pearl was gonna be on the short list here when Cantle Perry left and then the word came out that that was one of the guys that President said, do not talk to Bruce Pearl.
No, no Bruce here. But Yukon. You know, they're gonna be in a tough Spot's that's a name they might be able to get.
Bruce Pearl's pretty good at getting a raise out of situations like this, right, didn't he do this a couple of years ago and his name was getting toss around for the Louisville job and then he ended up getting a contract extension with Auburn. So I don't know, they've got to find somebody. If Dan being in June, it's gonna be tough. I wonder, you know, if they have to go the route of just moving an assistant coach up as interim head coach at least maybe for a year, and then reshop it after next season.
Bill Murray's kid, Yeah.
Bill Murray's kids at Yukon, right, I think?
So I forgot about that.
If they do take a big dip and we don't hear of Yukon for while, it's so Ukon, they just pop up and win a couple titles and go away for a while and then pop up on down the road and win a couple more and go away for a while.
Miss the tournament. Even when they're scoggling what they do on the A.
Vision Glass Technichan said Richie's mustache was the one that will introduce itself before Richie can say hello.
It was fantastic. Is that our Kentucky branded tweet there?
Let's do it?
Yeah, Kentucky.
Brandon tweeted the day right there on a vis and Glass text machine, which is five o two seven three five three six seven zero. If you ever forget it, it's right here on the back of it. I got it, all right, Well, take our break, come back, Ryan, Drew, Shannon Billy eight five nine two a oh two two eight seven. That's the Clark's Pumping Shop phone number if you want to call and get on board. We'll take some calls. We come back eight five nine two a oh two to eight seven. We are live at a better, a better brewery in Winchester thanks to the Winchester Chamber of Commerce. Got a lot more to talk about, and we come back here on Kentucky' Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Kentucky's Sports Radio Ryan Drew, Shannon Billy live at a better brewing here in Winchester, Kentucky. Big things to the Winchester Chamber of Commerce who brought it out for Beer Cheese Festival week. We got Beer Cheese Festival Day Saturday, up and down Main Street of Winchester. They've got some vendors out there, and they'll have like how many how many beer cheese vendors? You think you'll have like over twenty probably over twenty different beer cheese that you can walk up and down and sample them, Drew and help pick the most popular one of the day.
Yeah.
Like I said, a great way to start your Saturday before taking in baseball at night. What better way to just spend hours and hours eating the fine beer cheese.
Eating cheese, which we do have confirmation according to this QR code that somebody gave us beer from the beer cheese Trail. Winchester is the homes, the capitol, the capitol. That's what they do. Beer cheese, that's what they do here. They do beer cheese in LA one and win a state basketball title two years ago. All right, phone lines rollup eight, five, nine, two to eighty seven before we get to them, Drew tell Us, who sponsored this segment.
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All right, go to the phone lines eight five nine two eight oh two, two eighty seven. Matt, who we got first? Mike, Go ahead, Mike.
Yes, I was listening. Yes, Rey, as you always discussing you goes, do destination and stuff. I'm just wondering. I's you. I'll thow that Cal Perry may have had any influence or advice any of last year's players not to return to UK.
Appreciate it, Mike, I mean it made it sound like there wasn't a whole lot of talk between Cal and the player. Now, he may have talked eventually to like DJ Wagner who was considering Arkansas, and of course Ad went to Arkansas, Big Z went to Arkansas.
But guys like.
Ugo and the rest of them, I don't know how much conversation he had.
What do you think.
Yeah, there's been some interviews with some of them, but you know, he was just up and gone, and he was gone to Arkansas. I'm sure he called them and they had exit conversations, But as far as what he told him to do with UK, I have no idea. You know, he called the ones he wanted to go to Arkansas, made that pitch. Some of them did, some of them didn't. But who he selected and what he told the ones he didn't take on Darkansas, I'd be guessing.
I would imagine Cal recruits by saying the good things about Arkansas, not the bad things about Kentucky. I mean, I don't think he's negative negatively recruiting Kentucky already. I mean that would show a lot about somebody's character because you were just there. So I mean, obviously there is going to be a new coach and a new system. But you know, I'm not gonna say cow would already turn his back on the program like that.
Head to head for like a specific recruit. I could see him being like, hey, they're crazy. You know Cowder Radio shows all that, but like telling Ugo not to return, telling Jordan Burkes don't go. I just don't even think he would care that much to do that. He's trying to build a team at Arkansas. But head to head, yeah, he's probably said some things we wouldn't want to hear if we heard those private conversations.
He had the opportunity to just re recruit the guys that he really wanted, right the guys that maybe didn't have a great season, you don't let him go on their own way, and the guys that were standouts, the superstars, you know, re recruit them to Arkansas.
So he took Big z Ado and DJ and then Boogie Flann, Billy Richmond, Carter Knox, Carter Knox.
That's it.
That was the six that would have been in Kentucky potentially next year that he took with him.
I'm not I don't know what Arkansas will do next year, but if you're looking at his roster, he's going very big again without shooting, and people listening think, think whatever they want of that. But the roster has a lot of size and a lot of driving guards. We'll see how it works out, but cal looks to be cowing all over again in Fayetteville.
All right, who's next? Matt? Who we got next? Adam? Go ahead, Adam.
First off, First off, Ryan, I want to say I think you're doing a great job in the absence of Matt Jones.
Thank you, Adam, appreciate that.
But on the topic of the day, the beer cheese. I have an eleven year old daughter who, since she's been able to walk, beer cheese has been her go to snack. Well, come to find out that beer cheese is just a local thing. We had gone to Florida for like a two week vacation when she was about four, and the people looked at me like I was stupid. When I was at the grocery store looking for beer cheese, which I didn't know if y'all were aware of that. I just wanted to throw that into your history of the beer cheese talk today and I live in Clark County. The beer cheese festivals a cool atmosphere to come out and enjoy so awesome.
Well, I appreciate that.
I think the more we talk about it and learn about it, I think it is more of a regional thing. I just remember growing up in Southwest Indiana, we didn't have beer cheese. I didn't think I had it till I went to Halls on the River when I moved to Lexington had the beer cheese down there.
It sounds like everyone else is missing out. It's beer and cheese put together. I mean, well, it's not to.
Like Billy he grew up in Florida. Have you ever heard of it?
No? Not.
I mean when I think back, I didn't have a lot of beer cheese back in the day. I don't know if it's like you come off the beach and want beer cheese, and maybe that's part of it. Maybe it fits better with colder weather and sometimes festivals like we'll have on this weekend, all.
Right, We picked the first four games at the state baseball tournament earlier in the show. Now we're gonna pick the second four games that we played on Friday. We picked the four games today, and I'm gonna go Friday, all.
Right, all right's right?
First game Friday morning, Estell County and Hopkinsville.
Gim me Hopkinsville. We are going Hopkinsville. We'll make Shannon pick first on these.
Definitely going Hopkinsville. That's my region. We got a former cat, Zach Moss, on Hoptown's roster. So yeah, even though I don't like them head to head with my Madisonville when we get outside our area, I'm rooting from our region. So go Hopkinsville.
I'm going Hopkinsville too. Ryan, I'll put you in the position there. So what do I have to play? Shannon and Pittell County whoever was? If you went Hoptown, take them, I'll take Hoptown. Then.
Well, did you say a game tomorrow morning?
Uh? Tomorrow night?
I was gonna say, because I'm planning to go and I hope it's not torn.
It's tomorrow night. Okay, Yeah, it's the last game tomorrow night. That's what I was say in the morning.
First game tomorrow morning.
That I should have started with is East Carter and Ryle, I gotta tell you something about East Carter because they're coming to ks Bar tonight because they don't play it on Friday. They are going to the state baseball tournament and it's the forty year anniversary of when they won the state baseball tournament in nineteen eighty four beat Harrison County. I love that he's like John Hampton, our boy John Hampton gets another mentioned this week.
There's a lot of Hampton this week.
He was on that Harrison County team that went to the state finals to lost to East Carter. Now here's this a sad footnote to this story. The kid that won the state title was a little left handed pitcher from East Carter.
He was a sophomore.
He beat mighty Harrison County. He was a hero. Tragically, he died like two months later, drowned like he had this great future. And we did a show at a place up there in the East Carter Sports Bar and they had the picture up there him and I had to ask, what's the story and they told me the story that.
So I'm pulling for.
East Carter because it's the forty anniversary of when they won the state title the first time.
Well, now that we know all these stats, how can you pick against the East Carter. So I guess I'm taking East Carter. Now, what was the other team that they're even le? Was there another team? Well, this is how you do it. I'm going Ryle.
I was actually laughing because they each time you said something more I knew one of these two over here. We're going to go against what you're saying. I am going East Carter.
All right.
The third game on Friday is McCracken County. It's over there in Paducah versus West Jetsman. Who's best player, by the way, is the son of Austin Kerns.
Oh all right, Yes.
He's their best player, Silas Marshall. I coached him when he was growing up. So he's on that West Jessman team. So who you like West Jessman versus McCracken County.
When we go first there go, I'll go West Jessman. I like those details, so give me them.
Oh, McCracken County gotta look out for out West. No one's as west as Paducah, except like Fulton. So go McCracken County.
I know the mom of one of the McCracken County players too, she used to work at Channel A team. But Susanne, I'm sorry, but I'm going with West Jess, Oh, what.
A jerk you are. I'm going McCracken County. Okay.
And then the last game we have to pick is Owensboro Catholic and Corbyn. Owsboro Catholic kind of a baseball power over there, and I wants Borough on the third rege. Jemptens Corbyn thoughs got it going on about every sport here lately. It seems like, and you know Drew that calls your pre show all the time, his son is on the Corbyn Baseball.
Gotta go Corbin. Then for me, yeah, you know my vote too. I gotta go with Drew.
Which did you say, Katholic? Okay, I'll go on Bro Catholic.
Well, then I'll go Corbyn.
So you'll be the loan hold out there for Owensborough Catholic in the state baseball tournament.
So there you go.
Now, you know, they play the first round and second round and then they take like a five day break and they'll come back and finish up with the final four, like a week from today, week, maybe it's a week from tomorrow.
They split it up.
So when you get to the championship game and you're not throwing your number six starter, who's maybe an eighth grader that's only thrown like twice all season, that's what was kind of happening, playing these four games in a row.
So he's split it up. Do you like that?
Yeah, first I've heard that, but yeah, it makes sense to get you assume you're gonna have seniors or probably most of your better pitchers. Make sure they get that opportunity to play in that last game.
You're a pitcher, Shannon, what do you think?
Yeah, I mean we spread out every other sport, right, I mean the NBA basically, what are they off two weeks and they start the season back again. So I don't think there's any problem in doing that in baseball, you know, you get your best starters, you get your best match up that way, by giving a five day break in between.
You might know the answer to this, but you know in basketball they play the state championship the same day as the semi finals. Is that just because they don't want to pay for another day at rup?
Yeah?
That's pretty new.
Yea, yeah, that new.
But within the last.
Yeah, they used to do that and then they split it up. They moved the championship game to Sunday. Well now they've put it back on Saturday, so guys have to play two games on Saturday. That's a lot to ask, man, and like because the pitching staff situation. You know, you just got to win two games. Then you got like a four or five day break and you can bring those same two kids back, throw your best against their best, and that way you're not throwing, like I said, an eighth grader that hasn't thrown all year out there and then state championship game or something.
I prefer the basketball on Sunday, do you Yeah? I just I mean, you win the semmis, you have that night to your family's in the schools, and it's not like just rushing you into the championship. You get a second to soak that in that your championship says ahead. Whereas now it's like you win that semi final and it's like quick lunch, quick stretch, and then we're right back at it.
I think it was all due to answer your question for attendance. I think the attendance on Sunday Championship Day was down because all the people that maybe were there on Saturday lost, you know, left.
So we're gonna ask these players that have never played more than one game and one day to do it when they have to play it in the state championship.
And then the answer will be, Ah, they're young, they can do it.
Yeah.
And you know an aau ball you play three or four games a day sometimes, you know what I mean?
So me, it's not the legs. Just let them have that experience.
Let it last long, all right, Well, take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines eight five nine two eight though two two eight seven, Ryan Drew, Shannon Billy Here on Kentucky Sports.
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Yeah, A big shout out to the Winchester Chamber of Commerce. They brought us out here today. The Winchester Chamber of Commerce one of the oldest and strongest chambers in all of Kentucky. They promote and enhance the Winchester community through business school, cultural educational programs. They're a sponsor of the Beer Cheese Festival and the Beer Cheese Day is Saturday here on Main Street. We can come and sample the over twenty different kind of beer cheeses. We are at the a better brewing right now. Helping Winchester Chamber of Commerce kind of promote beer Cheese festival and shan they gave you and I have BlackBerry L eight one.
First time I ever had a BlackBerry L eight one. I think that's on the list of things you can do. You could take a tour of the L eight facility. Yeah, Winchester, it's good.
Though I'm not a big LA one fan, but this BlackBerry one is really I'm a.
Fan of the BlackBerry. Yes, I'm gonna favors. Yeah, I'll plead the fifth on L eight. They don't care what.
You think, Billy eight two two eight seven. We got a couple of callers ready to go. So who we got at?
Drew?
Go ahead, Drew, Well, good morning, gentlemen. Let me just tell you, you guys have confirmed what I've been saying all along. You guys are just pure geniuses. I just listening to you guys picked the teams in the bracket. I knew you guys were cording redhounds at heart, you know. Thank you so much.
Yet, well, all but one.
I think one of us sitting up here picked those good for nothing rascals at Owensboro Catholic.
State.
Is somebody talking because I only heard Ryan and Billy and Shannon this morning. I didn't know you guys had anybody else in the show.
There's the only room for one Drew on this show, sir.
Seriously, guys, thank you. I did want to say one thing though. I had a really neat opportunity for my dad. We went to the game and we clinched against Arkansas. We had incredible seats from a friend, and I'm telling you one thing we noticed about coach Benzione. He is always like five steps ahead of everybody else. We got sit close to again.
Yep, oh I think we lost him. Yeah, but sorry, Drew, appreciate it, man. Good luck to your boys, sidlast. They're in the state tournament in this week.
He's right about the experience over there.
Though, there's no doubt about this point. And that's one reason they've had success. Because you've got experienced guys in a new lock a locker room, new teammates. They're able to adapt, I think a little better because of that experience.
We're talking about all the fun they're having on the field, but that translates when you're in the crowd and it just makes the baseball game so much more fun. The Spider Man meme they do at the plate. Yeah, after a home run, you're in the crowd doing that with complete strangers and like a couple of rows over. I mean, there's the you're moving your arms to the walk up songs. It's just a constant follow with like energy and excitement. Something's always going on. It's not just them on the field, if you're in the bleachers or wherever you are, it's going on throughout the whole park.
Eight two to eighty seven. Who's next?
Matt e Town Cats, Go ahead, Etown Cats.
Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. Hey, y'all been talking about beer cheese and I wanted to impart a little knowledge with you on beer cheese. I actually live in Elizabethtown, but I grew up in Boonsboro, Kentucky. All right, So beer cheese actually was invented by a gentleman by the name of John or John or Johnny Almond. He ran a restaurant. You know where Halls is located? Oh yeah, if you yeah, the parking lot that's near the river. He and his brother ran a roadhouse bar grill there early in the early sixties and seventies, and they after boaters would be on the river all day, they'd come up to his establishment by some cold beers, and in order for them to want to sell more beers, they came up with the concoction of the beer cheese, and so they made the beer cheese there. Then when Almonds burned down, and I'm not sure of the date, it's in the late seventies, the cook, one of the cooks that worked or one of the workers that was at Almonds, went over to Hall's. She brought the recipe with her to Halls.
Yeah.
Hall, Yes, Halls changed the recipe a little bit, and they were really the first ones to kind of make it a regional.
Appetizer. And so now you can see Hall's beer cheese. Now.
The nice thing is, I grew up actually right down the street from a gentleman by the name of Johnny B. Almond, which was Johnny Almond's son. Okay, well, Johnny B's son in. Yeah, I know it's complicated.
Okay, we're running out of time, and he got like thirty seconds.
Okay, Johnny son In now has brought back the Almonds beer cheese, So you can buy the original recipe called Almonds Bear.
Cheese awesome, awesome, thank you e Town. We appreciate it.
I know that history of beer cheese, oh we did. Yeah, we just needed to know real quickly.
It was where it came from and.
Where we can get it.
I don't know where you can get it Saturday, and it's right on Main Street right over there and downtown Winchester for Beer Cheese Festival Day.
I've had plenty of beer cheese with a big soft pretzel. Yes, oh yes, that's a popular advertiser.
We have a beer cheese burger at Chaos Bar and Grill. Yeah, awesome, it's so good.
I gotta live in myself to only get in that on weekends Monday at noon. That kind of ruins the week.
Who's next, Matt Bill, Go ahead.
Bill, morning fellas.
It's really ironic that you guys are there.
Last night.
My wife and I were supposed to go there on a like a little evening date and sit out on the patio, but we were afraid the rain would rain it out, so we didn't go. She was really excited to see you guys there, so I've been sharing this show with her all day again.
And if you make it out, sweet, yeah, come on out, bring her out tonight then for a little date night listen. Then, I think I appreciate your call. And this is my advice to all you young married people. Shannon, Billy and I married. Y'all, all all of you are all booed up. You're all married. Don't forget. Don't you're not always mom and dad. You gotta remember to be husband and wife and you need to go on dates.
And stuff like that.
Don't do this stuff with your kids all the time. When you have, when you start having your five kids, you're getting ready to have, make sure that your husband and wife.
Oh I go on as many dates as Zabi will go on with me. We're out all the time. I agree, though, you got to keep dating.
That's a right, keep dating.
You're we have lots of fun.
Your boo, Shannon, I don't know what you're talking about. I have no kids, I have no wife. You're not talking to me. You're Shannon plates the fifth on this topic.
Yea, my wife for a little beer Chees date on Saturday. We wake up. We're going to the beer chees.
Wake up? Who you got, Matt, Mickey?
Go ahead, Mickey, Yes, Uh, I've been a sorry listener for a long time, three years ago, but I'm concerned now. I was thinking Califraye was a great recruiter, but I probably was a great recruiter because he was at Kentucky. But now that he's gone, it seems like all the players he recruited all followed him rather than instead Kentucky. Now this water that's the concern. I love Mark Polpe, and I think he'd did a good job that concerned that every player that was at Kentucky left to go someplace else. Then them chose to stay a Kentucky there there went to Arkansas, or they went someplace else. That's my concern.
All right, appreciate it. Well, he did get Travis Perry that stayed at a committed to Kentucky. He's got two other freshmen in his class, Trent Noah and Chandler. Colin Channeler, Colin Chandler. What's the story then with the dude that's on campus right now visiting.
Yeah, Will Riley's visiting. I don't know where he is in his recruitment. He'll have more visits after his current visit, so I don't know anything will pop there there. He's a for next year's class, but he's a reclassify option if you wanted to go that route. But if the caller's point about worrying about col I wouldn't sweat that too much. I mean there are concerns. I mean when Pope was announced recruiting as the number one concern, but he put a staff around him, I thought they did a very good job to only have a month. I do too, probably be ranked fifteen to twentieth just reading what national people say. I mean, cal was elite when it came to going out and getting five stars. We're not gonna be doing that forever. But we also weren't always winning with those five stars and teams that were winning. Sometimes we're doing with three stars, two stars, a guy from a mid major. So sure we're gonna take a little dip in the McDonald's All Americans when you're watching that game. But that might not be a bad thing as long as Pope can recruit enough to a caliber to compete in the SEC and still run his system and be able to play defense in the SEC.
So is will Riley Rick being recruited as a joined this class or for next year?
Well that's up in his brain. I don't know what he's thinking between his ears. But when they weren't sure about Jackson Robinson, I think that was part of the conversation. Now that they have Robinson, it's not as urgent now. If the kid really wants to go play college basketball right now, maybe yeah, sure you're taking make them the thirteenth guy. But I don't know how serious he is about reclassifying right now. He's still got another year of high school, you.
Know, like Cali Perry's guys. I look at those as guys that wanted to play for Cal and not clearly WHOA what just happened? What? Wow? Did we just have an earthquake? What is happening right now? This is Oh, it's hitting the fan the chain? Wow?
Okay, there's a ceiling fan that's hitting a chain that's holding up one of those heaters that hangs from the ceiling.
The wind blew that, uh that thing above us?
And did the wind blew the chain into the ceiling fan?
What is going on?
I thought it was like an earthquake or something there for a second. I really it was only an earthquake up there. We didn't fill it on the ground. I didn't feel it, but everything up there, everything up there was moving and shaking the roof us where were we never a right there?
Someone still should not walk under that No I dangling anyway, Yeah, sorry, listeners.
I think the Pope is doing a good job of recruiting kids that actually want to play for the University of Kentucky. He has preached this, you know, he wants to find guys that want to play for the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back of the jersey, which I don't think cal Perry was always good at doing that, but I feel like that's something that Pope is putting a focus on with these recruits. But that's not normal nowadays.
I think most schools, including cal You know, these kids commit to coaches, not universities. So when Mark Pope came in and he talked about revival and it talked about the fan base taking back the program, then I think that's hit home for a lot of people.
Cal would go out and get the best of the best and not as much worry about where they'd fit. Remember positionless. He driving our heads positionless and you'd end up with too many forwards.
But there were.
Positionless forwards, and he would just find a way to make it work. He's like, that guy's good at basketball. I want him. I want the best of the best. Pope's like, Okay, I need a guy that get an open three. I need a big man who can step out pass. He's looking for very specific things, and I'm not saying one's better than the other. It's just going to be completely different than what we've had and we'll see what Pope can do with it.
All right, Well, take our final break.
Come back to our final segment here, Ryan, Drew, Shannon Billy Kentucky's Sports Radio live at a Better Brewing in Winchester.
We'll be right back.
Drew is making this our Whiskey Thief song of the day.
This is you requested this one.
I did you know we're getting little l the show. We haven't had one yet, and I was singing the song this morning and just thought it was fresh on my mind. Good Luke coum song.
A whiskey thief song of the day. Now, just to kind of tell you what happened here, just a minute ago, the wind picked up, and of course we got the garage doors open here, so the wind's coming through a Better Brewing and there's some ceiling fans hanging from the ceiling, and there's like those indoor heaters.
Pipes also hanging from the ceiling.
Well, the chain holding one of the pipes got into one of the ceiling fans and it sounded like the ceiling was falling in. But Shannon, not one person left, not one person moved. I'll just sat here and watched it.
Everybody was so nonchalant, even the people sitting underneath this huge metal structure. It's like, you know, maybe it'll fall, I may, maybe it won't.
There was a non zero chance that peace was gonna land on that guy, so that table I didn't care. That tells me a lot about this brewery. People were like, you know what, this is where I'd want to go. This is exactly how I want to go out.
We trust the way it was built, like Jennifer Pok just said, were like, Nick.
Minjeon, we don't move.
Yep, we didn't move.
We didn't move right.
But all safe, Everything is safe, all good. It was just something that just happened. We have stuff happened at Cass Bar once in a while, you.
Know, occasionally, mostly birds flying.
No Winchester earthquakes is previously reported. During that fossil arm.
I really thought it was an earthquake because everything up there was moving, all the lights, all the doors, all the I.
Love that you thought it was an earthquake because everything above us was shaky. Yeah, we're sitting here and nothing on the table was moving.
There's like sixteen drinks in front of us that none not.
A maybe it maybe it was just an earthquake that hit up top and didn't hit the bottom.
It was. It was aggressive. We're not exaggerating. Looking up there was questions if all that ductwork would step there.
Yeah.
Now I gotta ask you guys something Now. I know we don't like to talk about the foot Paul Fine Bomb show very much, Shanning, because it competes with your rock and roll show at the same time.
Yeah, I don't know if we have the same audience, you know, I mean maybe you you're the crossover eon. I listened to Ball.
I listen to you mainly more on Double Q and Lexington and QMF in Louisville. You know, the best thing is like when you leave Louisville and you're listening to you, and right when that signal starts to fade out, you can turn it to double Q and pick you up your starting that shift right there.
That's a beautiful day. As Fine Bomb will walls you into a slumber, I'll wake you right back up with some rock and roll, nice and loud.
Well, here's my question for you, guys. Fine the Fine baumb family has started something new. It's called Fine Bomb after Dark where they all are joining at like eight o'clock for a Twitter space to talk, just fans, not Paul, not anybody else, just the fans getting together at eight o'clock called Fine Bomb after Dark.
Do you like it?
And do you think that's something KSR should maybe look into.
This just sounds like another thing where Paul doesn't have to talk because he talk on his own show.
How could be fine Bomb if he's not on it? Is it just a Twitter space of Fine Bomb fans?
Yes, fans, Yes, And like I think some of their main callers are the host kind of hosting the Twitter space, Okay, And maybe they'll get together and yell at each other on the Twitter.
I mean that would actually be entertaining. I mean because if you again, if you watch the show, listen to the show, his callers are the most entertaining part of the show. So now let's take it to KSR.
We have Bob and Jamestown, Marsha Kentucky, Joe Kentucky, Joe John short All, host of Twitter Space. Are you not listening to that?
I would absolutely, I would one tune into that Twitter Space.
So do you think it's something that maybe I should look into?
No, we don't copy Paul five, Bob Well and we have nothing to do with it.
I was gonna say, it's not for me to look into. I'm not a part of this.
So on on that bond, that Bridge Facebook page, that would be the people they maybe would get into it and do something like that.
So I'm just confused because I fought Fine Bomb show was his listener's talking. I just had it on yesterday, and he's there's points where someone will go on a rent and it'll be eight seconds of silence and he won't even acknowledge what they said, and it's like, are you even gonna say anything?
And then they'll just go to the next collar He'll say.
I'll say, yeah, thanks to the phone call, we got Billy up next to Winchester.
Go ahead, Billy, Yeah, there you go.
I I listened to it like after Alabama gets beat or I it right before the college football playoffs, just to listen to the people call and lose their mind.
But you never hear Paul give a No, he doesn't.
Yeah, he doesn't really come up with strong takes on anything. He just lets the fan base. He kind of just stirs the pot a little bit. I think to get the fans kind of at each other and just let them go. Maybe it is genius.
So who are you nominating to host Bob?
No, I don't think Bob and Jamestown's the right guy to do it.
Maybe when Bob.
Host, I want to hop on and take a phone call right in the middle of.
It, just like.
We did miss him sitting here at a bitter brewery answering his phone, talking on his phone when we're doing our live show. So, like I said, this is the first stop on our KSR Business Spotlight Summer Tour. We'll be doing this throughout the summer, although we do have a stop next Thursday that's open to the public.
Is that right, am I? Right?
General Manager, Billy, I'd have to check the schedule, but there are some at the Lex Hotel.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Okay, the Lex hotel out there on Athens Boonsboro Road and I seventy five. They've remodeled that hotel out there now called the lex Hotel. I've seen it. It's actually really cool. It's like they may even do it like a quaint hotel. And we're gonna do a live show out there next Thursday, and that will probably be the only live show we do in Lexington all summer.
Is that right? That sounds about right. I think that's right.
I think there's another live show coming up down at the Lake yep so for Creek Sulfur Creek that's open to the public. But outside of that, all these restaurants, all of these rest of these shows just gonna be like kind of pop up shows. And then our raft up that's the other one.
Oh, that's right, the raft Up.
We're doing a live show. So just kind of be listening in. If we're in your community, you can still come out and see us. We're just not gonn announce where we are till that day. But a big thanks to the Winchester Chamber of Commerce, thank you very much for having us out come out to the Beer Cheese Festival. Beer Cheese Festival Day on Saturday here at Winchester, up and down Main Street. They got our twenty vendors with their great beer cheese. It was kind of fun being out here.
Today, Oh, very fun. Remote. We were treated like kings here too. All these drinks, beer cheese. We've got multiple swag bags. Winchester was a great host today.
Great thank thank you. A better bruin also Bell on wheels. They fed us, every one give us some drinks. So thanks to everybody.
Tomorrow, Jeff Piccorro in the big chair with Drew.
We're gonna be at the bar. If everybody wants to come back.
Come by and see him at the bars. Jeff Peco fills in as a guest host. We'll be back. I'll be back on Monday. You guys will be back tomorrow morning.
Talk to you then.
All right, we'll see you then. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio
