Matt, Ryan and Drew discuss Kentucky football, oil paintings and the 2028 Olympics.
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We'll go back to Kentucky Sports Radio A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven.
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One person writes, Matt, I'm in Middlesbrough for work today. I keep looking around and seeing it's hard for me to see you growing up here.
What do you mean?
Good little town? I love it built.
I mean I was like I was, you know, I mean, I'm a good example about how like everybody has a stereotype. Oh, you're from eastern Kentucky. You have to look like Cash Daniel. Oh way, I saw Cash Daniel Friday night. Ain't nobody looks like that? Dude is huge? Yes, I mean like you think Cash Daniel was big when he played here. Cash Daniel looks like a like a like wrestling. I mean he is like huge.
He's trying to be brock Lesner. It looks like.
Dude, he I mean from the waist up, he looks like a sculpture.
Yeah.
I couldn't believe it, Like I was like, oh my goodness. But anyway, you know I have like there's people from the mountains that look like like everybody Ryan. Right, you don't just have to have a dip or like Hunt or a screwdriver, yeah, or a picture have to have a screwdriver to be in from the mountains.
You can just be like, you know whatever.
I think for most people that know Kentucky, they would never have predicted you came from eastern Kentucky.
What does that mean? Because you don't fit any of those all the time. And I think most I think, what town am I front? Like, I think most people know where I'm from, Like I talk about it all the time.
Yeah, I don't think most people would not have predicted that you're a city boy?
City boy? What does that mean? Like to give like break dancing over here?
Something?
Uh?
Text machine is seven seven four five two five four one person, Right, it's Matt. You lasted a week without responding to someone on Twitter.
I'm proud of you. I didn't respond. I quote tweeted.
That's different now I responded later, but I just you know, they had the trump elon thing. I didn't listen to it. But there was a picture. And one of the things I've been consistent on bipartisan is if you hang a painting up of yourself and your house, it's a little odd, especially a painting where like you're wearing a tight T shirt and sailor's paints. And there was a picture of Trump, and it's ridiculous, Like come on, look, I listen you. I love you folks, you Trump supporters. I love you all, like I am the When it comes to liberals being a supportive of Trump supporters, I'm as supportive of as anyone.
I love you all, all right.
I know most of my people don't, but that's because they're being closed minded.
But at some point you have to also go, you know what.
He can be ridiculous sometimes, and that picture is ridiculous, and all of us may fun of it when Jim Nance did it, So when he does it, you can't.
Be like like, come.
On, like I'll make fun Like Joe Biden kind of stumbling around is weird, right, I mean it is. You know, Kamala does Kama does dances, and I'm like, just don't dance, you know, like like that's not your thing.
But that picture was weird.
So then people just go, raw, it's not weird, it's great.
It's not weird, it's great, and you just go please come down.
It doesn't matter who the candidate was or who the person was, if they had a picture like that of themselves, if it was you, it was.
You, a picture of yourself I ever having oil paintings of myself up into the house. Please mock me, please, okay, just please, Yes.
Yeah, I'm universal on making fun of anyone that has an oil painting of themselves. I mean, if the whole family is in it and it was a gift, maybe you found a place for it. But if it's just you posing, maybe, like.
There are a couple scenarios I could see having an oil painting ever south of yourself.
Like.
If it's your official presidential portrait, right like the one they do that hangs Okay, all right, it.
Can never be an oil painting of jay Z.
Let me say, if it's oil paining of you and your wife or your family.
It's a little different. It's a little different.
That's not as narcissist you something narge like.
I had a girl, just like a girl one time came up to me at a show and she did what the guy did in Hopkinsville. She had drawn a picture of me, and it was a picture of me. I don't know why she put me with this person, but it was a picture of me and Andrew Harrison.
Okay, you gotta hang that up. I don't I don't know why she put the two of us together.
But it was really good and it was unique, like why is she putting me with Andrew Harrison? And so I kind of thought that was it was like a sketch, you know, And so for in my old radio office, I had it for a little while because it was kind of unique.
But I think when it's just you like staring off into the sunset looking like I am majestic, you know, it's just a lot, isn't it.
Within and the light kind of shining on it over the big.
Yeah, it's just so at some point you have to be able to laugh.
And if you can't laugh at things, then I think you're just taking it a little too seriously.
That's all I'm saying. Now.
Along those lines, one person goes, do you still think you're gonna win your dinner bet with the caller?
I do now.
I didn't, but I do think I'm gonna win now. But I didn't. I'd already been planned to give that guy's dinner.
So what does he takes you to dinner now? Or what was the stipulations? Again?
Was if Trump won, I would buy him dinner. If he won, he could just give me dinner. I thought there was a scenario where you go into his home. Yeah, he was gonna cook. I think if if if, if, well, if the Democrat won, he was gonna cook for me.
And I'll still do that assuming he can cook. I mean, I don't know.
If it's like me cooking, I don't necessarily want to do it.
Assuming he can cook, I would still do that.
So, uh, let's talk for a second about Brott Vandergraff. So I don't know about you, Drew. I continue to hear wildly different reports about Vandergraft, and I think it's in part because I spoke with someone this morning who said to me, literally, Matt, like, one day he can look like an NFL quarterback, and one day he looks like a three star, and you don't know which one it's gonna be.
So I'm sort of.
Preparing myself for we're gonna see inconsistent play. We're gonna see games where he's like dominating, and then we're gonna see games where maybe it's a little bit more of a struggle. Are you hearing similar things?
Yeah? I like that he can use his legs and that'll be a big part of bush Hampden's offense. I'll be honest, some of these highlights they're throwing they kind of look like wobble balls. I'm no expert on the on passing. It's not the it's not the zip Will Levis head. But I mean he's still connecting, so that's all that matters at the end of the day. But overall, it's just as you said, it starts to show he just hasn't done it before. So like, really, people can think what he's gonna look like and guess, but until you put him out there and those lights are on, he's across at an sec defense, no one really knows what's gonna happen. What about you?
Yeah, he i'mproven untested. We really had to have no idea how to performing game action. But if I remember right, we were kind of saying the same things about Will Levis during Full.
Oh they were.
Honestly, a lot of the reports about Will Levis were exactly the same, huh, inconsistent but can run. And honestly, when he played, I think he was more consistent than inconsistent, but he had moments.
Of like what are you doing? I mean that was kind of part of him too. The difference with him in Levis is there's so much better depth behind him and hopefully don't have to go to it. But Gavin Wimson is a very strong number two. I mean, it got started two seasons at Rutgers and then again you don't want to get this far down this year, but even cutter Bowley is turning the heads early. Where is in the past it was like one quarterback and if that wasn't working out or they went down, we saw what happened. There just wasn't much depth at the position.
I I feel good about the fact. I mean everyone I've spoken to and I've spoken to a lot of people since I've been back. Everyone I've spoken to says, look, Matt, best defense we've had in terms of across the board they've had, you know, Josh Allen and they've but best defense we've had kind of across the board, and best receiver group we've had.
And I think they probably throw in the tight ends with that too.
You just got to say, can you get a it's not gonna be an offensive line. That's one of our best groups, so can it be serviceable? And then it's Brock Vandergrift. So when people like yesterday were like, think we go nine to three or six and six depends on how Brock Vandergrip plays. I mean like he's he's the this whole season. In some ways, Ryan is gonna come down to what he does.
Yeah, we kind of said that yesterday. The conversation starts and ends with our quarterback. If he's able to succeed and play well. Yes, I think there's a lot of wins out there for him to get.
I think you can tie the line with that, though, because if they give him time, you know, first time starting the sec you're gonna need some time. But if he's out there running for his life because they can't block, that's certainly not gonna help him. Yeah, who's up first?
Got Scott?
Up there? Scott, go ahead, Scott.
What's going on, guys? Question? I read a question. So I see on paper, Kentucky, you know, looks like one of the best football teams that we've had. I mean, I'm fifty and I feel like this is one of the best teams I've ever seen on paper. Yeah, and the polls we're not getting any leve and but I just wonder.
I was surprised by the apeople, not so much that we weren't ranked, but then we only got three votes, right, Like, I mean that that that surprised me, Like we only you know, Louisville was basically ranked twenty sixth.
What else do we have to do to Louisville?
I mean, do we need to beat them forty five times before their preseason ranked?
Like, let me look at this camera.
Louisville is the same every year. Every year we hear in the preseason they're gonna be good. Every single year they say they're gonna beat Kentucky and it's like tied in the in the uh you know ratings before and every year we beat them, Like what else do you have to do?
And yet again you'll Louisvill's.
Ranked higher, They'll come in the game nine and two and we will win again. That's I don't get it. Why does it happen every year?
I don't know. And the fact that they're ranked, like Drew said, their schedule is not that strong. They're gonna rack up a lot of wins this year. They're gonna move up in the rankings, whereas our schedule super tough. We're gonna have.
Troubled I mean, they don't play Florida State, they don't play Miami or Clemson, so like they're gonna have a good record. But like, if I were looking in saying which team is due for a regression, why wouldn't you pick Louisville. They won five games last year by like two points, and then when they got and played good teams, they got destroyed. They lost to US, they lost to Florida State, and they lost to USC. So in games against bad teams they barely won. Then when they played good teams, they lost. And now you're predicting them to do the same thing this year. Like they if you're a betting person, they are a perfect team for thinking ryan that they're gonna regress, right.
There's no doubt about it. But like I said, there's a lot of wins out there, so are they? You think the media are like basing this predictions on what their record potentially could be.
And the two things. One I think it is their schedule. Their schedule is easy, And the second thing is the media loves Jeff Brown. Again, don't underestimate how much of what people say is based on whether they like you as a person.
And I appreciate the call like that.
Most of the media's comments, especially in college sports are based on whether or not they like you as a person, so cal to you know, I will say this, the media was always National media hard on because it's didn't liking right, so they were hard on him. The media is gonna give Mark Pope a out of leeway because they like him and they love Jeff Brom. They've always loved Jeff Brom. He's he's a good guy. So that people are gonna pump up Louisville because they like Jeff Brom.
Our friends of DraftKings have the Governor's Cup as to pick them. Right now.
If I'm not saying like we couldn't lose, we can, But what objective measure is out there that would make you say Louisville's.
Gonna be better than Kentucky in that game.
They might, They will probably have a better record, But in that game, how what is It's yeah, it's.
Correct, you know, went in there and beat them last year, but it was supposed to be a good team.
I just don't The Louisville stuff is insane to me. At some point you have to note the It's like when we used to play Tennessee, we lost twenty five straight games. People would say this is the year. How can you say that we lost twenty five straight games? That's kind of how I feel about this. What a five nine, two, eight oh, twenty two eighty seven. Let's see, Ryan, do you wanna do you wanna not know? You don't want to do that because that's not one of them. So I'll tell you about Clark's Pumping Shop.
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People are picking up the news of the running back breaking his hand, and everybody's saying South Carolin is gonna beat us.
I'm not saying that it's a good matchup for us. We got a good run defense. Yeah, I'm looking forward. And they're down a little from last year. Right, they lost a lot of key players as.
Rattler and then they Yeah, so they're they're down a little bit. I feel good about that. It's important though, Yeah, we need to win it. Uh eight five nine twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt, you don't know what car heart is. You don't own any tools, and you've never hung a picture on the wall. That's why people wouldn't believe you're from Middlesbrough. First of all, I do know what car heart is.
It's in Madisonville. Shout out carhart metal.
It's like a thing that like people like they wear their clothes and it's like workers wear.
Yeah, it's like work. It's like yeah workers, although now it's like trendy and they're jacking the price. Yeah, it's like cool to wear a car heart.
Yeah, I don't own any of it.
But I I know it.
No, I have not hung a picture, and no I don't own tools.
But I mean it doesn't mean you're okay, have to grow up in the mountains, just have tools and hang a picture.
That's right. Oh, you didn't hang that new Pope picture we have that I saw when I came in. You see it. We got some new ninety six tributes on this that I have not hung any I did that. I you know, I know, I don't. I don't know how to do anything. Mainly we've got over there. Yeah, unless you consider golf manly.
Do you consider uh? I can debate fishing. What do you think is the most manly thing that I can do?
Let me think, let's go to put the attached put the equipment together.
That's more technical. I think you don't give yourself. If you actually tried to do stuff, I think you'd be all pulled off.
I just don't think you've the most manly thing about me. Are some of the things I like? I like mountain country, real country music. Yes, I don't like Luke Bran and Luke all the Lukes you know, or the like. I like actual country music that is actually played in the country. You all like Jeff Gordon country music. I like Dale Earnhardt country music. Okay, that's the difference. You like NASCAR, I like NASA. I like rastling, Okay, I like country. So I actually like country things. I mean, this is no offense to anybody, but you go see Jason al Dean and Luke Colmbs and even my cousin that ain't as country as Mr Old Whaling and Willie.
It's just not right. Yeah, I feel like you've grown three chest hairs in this conversation.
I have.
I have more chest hair than all of you. So you make a good argument.
Maybe not things you can do, but things that you like our country.
That's that. Yeah, you have interest. You can throw your yard if you had to.
No, I've Oh yes, I mowed my yard growing up. That's the one chore you. Yeah, so stop it.
Who's next? God, Bob? Up next? Bob? What's up? Bob?
What do you think about the city of Cars hosting the next Olympics saying there's gonna be no cars?
How's that gonna work? I know they say they got the staple sentator and who said.
Los Angeles said there was gonna be no cars during the Olympics. I don't believe that there are transportation. No, I would have serious transport. But they did not say they were gonna have no cars, did they. Yeah, that's the that's they're going the challenge that you you cannot have no cars in Los Angeles.
There's they don't have.
That's crazy, It's crazy.
Los Angeles makes a preposterous promise no cars in games in twenty eight twenty eight, Well, and I.
Don't know how they're gonna pull that off. That that's gonna be.
They're not gonna do. They say they're gonna bring in busters from all over the.
Well, that's still cars.
It's just it's just a different Okay, ye, it's still though, Bob, I'm with you.
I think that is a preposterous thing. They're not gonna be. They can't do that in in well also, how can they?
I mean, you had the city of live hosting the you know, Olympics. It's you know, the sunshines on on Earth. Then anyway, what's what's in Los Angeles? I mean homeless people on the sidewalk.
Bob, calm down, all right, the Los Angeles has a million things. It's not like do not just believe what you see on television that Los Angeles is just.
Zombies walking down the street.
There are men, and there's businesses, there are movie studios, there's a ton of people.
There's a ton of stuff in Los Angeles. I've been there.
I mean, but anyway, Hey, did you learn how to drive a stick on your cardy?
Things I can't do. I appreciate the call.
When you guys had the car to stick shift? Did you try it?
No? Cause I know, I mean no, I just don't want to.
It's too much like you got the you gotta you got the clutch and the gas and the brake and then the hands.
I like, I don't want to any of it. You're automatic.
It feels like to me, like it's like Jerry Seinfeld used to say about chopsticks. He's like, we have forks now, Like why are we still doing this? When I go to the Chinese restaurant, I'm like, why do I want.
To eat with two sticks? We have fork? Have forks?
They work better? Can I not just have a fork? And they always look at you like you're so unclassy when you have a fork. Why would I want to eat with two sticks? That's like looking at me and going, you know, take this bucket and drink out of it.
Why I'm in their home. I feel like if they want me to use chopsticks, I'll use chops. I'm not good at it's it's exactly a much longer meal and most of it ends up on the table floor. It's something that you're worse at just because you know.
It's a good unpopular opinion for tomorrow.
It shouldn't be unpopular.
Forks are better, Forks are better.
Okay? On Los Angeles, did you see what won't be there? Breakdancing? Yeah, they decided no break dancing. It's a ray gun, not ray goon. Okay, well a kind of a pun there. Ray ray gun ended break dancing in one time. Now they are adding five sports baseball, yes.
Since softball that's actually they consider one uh lacrosse, flag football.
I can't wait for that one.
Flag, football, cricket, and squash. Flag is gonna be interesting because does anyone play football but us? Like an I mean, we shouldn't we just destroy everyone who else plays football?
Not but throw Tyreek Hill on that team and let's go get our goals like they have.
They have American football in Europe but it's all Americans that are playing it. So like, are they gonna get Max? Like who's gonna be playing?
If Max got to play flag football? But I don't even know who our competition could be. Is there any Is there any foreign quarterback? No one coming to mind?
I mean, is there any four? Like there's some foreign offensive lineman. You're right, there may be some from Canada.
But like, who's gonna play us?
Like it's a good, good move at a sport that we're gonna win the gold?
Wasn't a bush Hampton born in Kuwait? Maybe he could dust off the throwing arms, give you the KUWAITI coach.
I just don't I'm for it because football is a great sport.
I just don't know who's gonna do it.
Now, we'll say there's this talk about whether baseball will allow major leaguers to play. If baseball allows major leaguers to play, that'd be awesome. They gotta figure that out. They gotta figure that.
Out, like it works for basketball.
Yes, if you had four, if you had a Dominican Republic, America, you know, Mexico, Japan, Korea playing baseball, that.
Would be awesome.
That's very competitive because now it would be a very competitive again world.
That was great.
They need to find a way to have the major leaguers playing in the Olympics in LA. We'll take a break, very back, scas, Welcome back to Techie Sports Radio A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights. Matt does Dion Walker in the year as the best defensive player to play at Kentucky.
I'm gonna say no, just because Josh Allen.
Was so good that year. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard for Dion to meet step. But here's what I do think is interesting, Kentucky had We were talking about this during the golf scrabble yesterday in the in the last thirty years, how many Kentucky players were drafted in the first round defensive players in the first round of the NFL draft.
Can you answer that?
Dwayne roberts Dwayne Robertson was the first one, I think in like twenty years.
Yes, when he did it, then who uh would have been?
Josh Allen?
Josh Allen? And then there's one.
More, Dennis Johnson was not first round.
You know who the other one is was it no, Bree wasn't first I Drew Pree was second round, a lot of second and third rounders.
Mike Edwards was second round, Lonnie Johnson was second round.
But we only have one other first rounder he may know.
I don't think anybody want to go may guess. Jamon Davis was the other Jamie Davis. So my point is there's been three since nineteen ninety.
Here's what's crazy. We might have two this year.
Yeah, we might have two in one season when we've only had three in the last thirty five years. And Deon Walker, Maxwell Harrison, Deon Walker will be a first rounder. Maxwell Harrison has a chance to be a first round or he'll either be first or second. You know, that's gotta get you excited. That level of talent.
Dion Walker is definitely one of the most talented defensive players we've had here. He's just gonna get double teamed every single game, you know, so that I look for him come by like Oxen Dine or Silver one of these other guys, maybe have a big year because Deon's gonna take up so much attention.
Yeah, he plays a position that will command so much attentional free up other guys. Now, Deon's still gonna get his two, But to put him over what Josh Allen did, that's a tough spot.
I mean Josh Allen, you know, unfortunately because of his name and there's another Josh Allen and he he's in Jacksonville. I don't think he gets the attention. But he's like awesome in the NFL. I mean, he's considered one of the four or five like elite pass rushers right now in the NFL. He's like Matt his height.
While you were gone, did you know he changed his name. Yeah, so he's what josh heinz Allen. It's a family name. We do get a lot of three namers Hiphen you will you, Cary Stein.
Yeah, Michael kid Gilchris Karl, Anthony Towns and now Josh heinz Allen. We are a three name team.
Uh. You mentioned the potential two first round picks in Harrison and Walker. But there's also just so much star power with like Dumas Johnson coming over from Georgia. I know JJ Weaver has been inconsistent, but that was such a surprise to get him back for a six year. That's just why they're so loaded on it side of the ball this season.
If I'm nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven, one person rides Matt. Did you see Japan won the eighteen and under World flag football title?
Maybe we are in trouble.
There we go.
How did that happen? I don't know. I didn't know that was a thing. But now I'm even more excited. We'll have some competition.
Hm.
Well, I mean, I didn't know that that was that was possible, but I guess it was. Jeff Drummond sent me and by the way, Jeff hoped everything's going you know, I know he had a health issue, so think about you, Jeff. He sent me a song called Countrified by John Anderson, and it has this line, I like pretty lights and city nights, but deep down inside I'm countryfied. So let me and this is what he says it means to be country. He says, well, I love my grits.
I like grits.
I love my greens and country motels and sweet southern bells. Good with that fried chicken, like a country boy should everything that's finger licking good. I'll be still talking about the chicken there. I like to get loud and dance in a crowd.
Yeah.
I like places where jeans are allowed.
Oh yes, I'm a big jeans guy. You know that.
So you can see my countryside. I'm proud to tell you I'm country.
Five. Feels like I passed that tenth great country.
Like I said, really, you you live a kind of a country life. Because you can't do some things, or you don't hunt or fish or change a tire, that doesn't mean you're not a country boy at heart.
Yes, I'm a country boy in action. Yeah. Yeah, who's up there? Hold on, Corey Price chimed in. Bud du Pree was first round pick number twenty two.
Okay, so four, so we have a chance to have fifty as many in one year. And that guy out there on the Baseball Network looks like Ryan Okay, who's next?
Retired?
Retired Reth?
How are you? I see him down there?
Hey man, I got two things to bring up. And if you've talked about this or if it's been on the website, because I try to check your website every day.
Uh.
The kid that was a punter from Danvill.
What happened to him? You know he's still in the team.
But I I've heard just you know, hasn't been as good as they as they thought. I mean, I think that's why they went and got Alex Trainer last year. I think that's why they went and got the South African punter.
This year.
Just hasn't ended up being kind of what they thought he would be.
Okay, the second thing you brought this up earlier about Brock he could be good or I mean have a good game and maybe not a good game. One of my beasts with stoops is, uh, when the quarterbacks not having a good game, do like Cal would do and put him on the bench and put somebody else in there to do.
To fire.
Yeah, Cal is the best example of that of taking guys out.
But here's the problem with that, Tyler Booth. Tyler Booth and the.
Singer right there. Okay, now see he knows country music. That's that's what I'm talking about. Okay, Uh, what were we saying? Oh, I think in order to do that, you got to have a really good backup, and we haven't had a really good backup since win.
I mean, well, I will see, we'll see. I mean he certainly, yes in theory.
Yes, I've heard that he has been very, very turnover prone. So if you're taking a guy out because he's not playing well, you can't put somebody in that has that has turnovers. But uh uh, but yes, in theory, this would be a year you could do it, sir, correct, Okay, right.
Appreciate the call.
For whatever reason, quarterback is a position where people don't like to mess with their heads.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
They don't like, like, if a linebacker's not playing well, they'll pull them and put somebody else in.
People are just hesitant to do that with quarterback.
And with Brock, like I said, he's untested, he doesn't have a lot of playing time under his belt. I think they want him to play through some some bumps and bruises because he has not been out there before and learn how to play the right way.
And again I've never been a quarterback, but you don't want to have a guy who's like looking over the sidelines, Drew going if I have a bad throw, yeah I'm gonna get pulled, and then gets in their head like you don't want that.
So yeah, the depth is think more so helpful if God forbid, an injury happens. Remember, there were games the last few years where you had to go to a backup and that's just completely why they lost. The talent. Difference from the first quarterback to the second was too much to overcome. This year, if they had to get to that situation, I think they're much better off.
Yeah, but I mean that's a I have. I think the problem they've had for a lot of years is they felt like there was a drop off that was through the roof after the starter, and so I think that's been the issue.
Yeah, they had, you know, in the past couple years, what was a deuce guy, the guy transferred from Iowa.
He was kind of there, but he had to go to Kai scheron that one game that didn't work.
I mean, you saw that just did not work, and so, you know, I think that continues to be a work.
I do want to know.
We said on this show that we were going to be at the State Fair on Thursday. We're actually gonna be at the State Fair next Thursday. Okay, second Thursday, the twenty second. So we are here at KOs Bar this Thursday. We are at the Fair the next Thursday. So if anybody was like wanting to see us there, I just wanted to let you know in case you went, because it does.
The fair does open.
This is correct, Yes, and we have a remote Friday.
Right Shady Rays in Louisville and they will be given away a lot of stuff. I think, so Shady Rays in Louisville. That's out there at oxmoor Ball. Yeah he if I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take a break when we come back. Big country music superstar Tyler Booth in attendance, and a lot of other folks will be right back.
This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Look at look at finding the song. I take care of you, man, well done well. I didn't even ask Rick and he found the song.
Hold it out, Rick, Rick, my man. You know, Rick, you can just tell Shannon stay on vacation if he's gonna if he's you, you're bringing it Rick, So yes, Uh, like I said, Kentucky's own Tyler Booth back there with his hat on over here right over here. Is he's not listening, Tyler, Tyler, I just gave you a shout out there you go, nice kid, got the.
Cowboy hat I saw.
I will say to you since you're sitting over there, you know I I for especially for the first couple of months, I bout stayed off social media, but I did see after h when Trump got shot, Tyler went on Instagram and he was like, if anybody wants a piece, I'm right here. Didn't you You were like, if you want some come bring it right here. And I was like, my man's willing to take on everybody. I loved it. You did better than Secret Service. Did nice job out of Campton, right, be right out of Pride of Campton. It's good to see you. Good to see for those of you that like good celebrated good Kentucky with Tyler, I'll talk to you when this is opens.
All right, good to see you.
He joined us on a football pregame show.
Yes he did. That's exactly right. I just saw he's going to Cotton Eye Joe soon, one of my favorite bars. You're playing. Cotton Eye Joe is a beautiful I might have to make a little trip. That's right. Um, what was it? Oh, before you go? The phones? Botswana?
Botswana is a country.
Yeah, won their first ever gold medal.
They did?
You know what the event was?
I had no idea the two hundred meters That was one where Noah Lyles had COVID watch that one. The guy that won, uh was his name, Letsley to Bongo. He won the race. He goes back to Botswana. Country has never won a gold medal. Thirty five thousand people came to the stadium, the National Stadium to celebrate him. Packed it just all he did was just ride around and every everybody there's a video of it.
Everybody.
That's kind of neat. That is very cool. Yeah, you know, we don't understand that because we get gold medals every day. Yes, for a country like that to win their first gold medal, three.
Thousand dollars medals every day every day.
UH.
Olympic ratings eighty percent up from the last week.
A lot of it may have been basketball. I think a lot of people tuned in, especially on our end, to watch the basketball team.
I can tell you it was up at my house.
Everything I watched it, I think it was. I've never watched one like this. Yeah, in terms of seeing watching this much of it, I don't think I ever.
I actually missed two of the basketball games. Probably what missed more basketball than I missed track and fielder gymnastics. You know, it's the only time of year I care about swimming and everything every once every four years that I care about a lot of those sports.
You know, you start in the first week, you get a lot of swimming and gymnastics, in the second week you get a lot of track and basketball, and like it just feels like it works out really well.
Some own biles. That was such a big story. Did I can't wait to see how her Netflix is going to end now?
Yeah? Yeah, So it wasn't the response that he got, but Leakey for I saw she landed to a big crowd last night.
Big crowd of people at the Lexington Airport last night when she landed.
So that's cool. Who's up next? Cooper is up there? Cooper, go ahead, Cooper, Hey, Matt, first time, long time? Who are so? I got two quick things. The first one the punter from Danville. I think he went to Boyle County Jackson Smith. He's at WKU now he went to WKU.
Okay, see, I didn't realize that. I know, well, now he's WKU.
I know that.
It just didn't like he it was just for whatever reason, he was having a hard time adjusting and even some of the yardage that he was getting in high school.
He wasn't getting in college. And I don't know, is it the same ball in high school and college?
The same ball, like completely the same I think.
So he was kind of an in between kicker and punter out of Yeah, I don't so, I don't really know. It just didn't It didn't work out for him, But go ahead, all right. So the second thing I know Ryan like I grew I think I saw him at the show in Richmond at the Boot the Boot Place or whatever.
I grew up playing ball with Dane.
I think he's gonna have a really good year and don't hang up with list. Do get well, I mean, you don't have to get him started. He's you. You give me over under for Dane for the year. Ten touchdowns.
That's a good number. That's a great number, because I was gonna say nine. So I'll go if it just because that, I'll just go under. I think it gets nice.
He doesn't. He went under. It looks like he said six each of the last year.
Yeah, you're gonna go over over ten.
Well, if he said six of the last two years, and we you know he had to play half of his first year without Will Levis and then he had to play last year with Leary, who was you know, inconsistent. I'm gonna say Drew. I'm gonna say he gets eleven.
Nice, eleven would be big. I'm looking at the all time list, Uh, what's the most in Craig Yeast with fourteen, Steve Johnson with thirteen, Keenan Burton with twelve, and then four people had ten Randall Cobbs.
Okay, so then I'm gonna go under. I didn't realize those were the numbers. So yeah, I'm gonna say.
Under because I think there's just too many weapons.
Yeah, you can't expect a guy to be like in the top six all time. So I'm gonna go under. But but I agree with you. I think he's gonna have a great year.
Yeah you will.
Uh, there's you know, there's a lot going on. I'm not gonna read this Australian when people might are making fun of my head, read where I'm like doing the Australian slang.
I think it's one of your best ones. Yes, I think so.
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Oscar sheib Way signed with the Jazz. Yes signed a two way contract which will guarantee him for two years to either be on the Jazz or on their G League team.
Are you happy for Uscar?
I just hope he gets a chance. You know, it wasn't working out as well he thought he was going to do with the Pacers, so maybe he get a chance with the Jazz to make their roster.
You know, Oscar was sixteen and sixteen at times for games last year. I mean, you had a good G League year. So G league's different than the NBA. It's harder for a big man like Oscar in the NBA. But I still feel like there's a place for him, don't you.
Yeah, And I'm glad he got another look. I think Kentucky fans like having a little closer to home than Utah. I know a lot of people would go see him up there and support them in Indianapolis, but you know, at least he gets another shot. Not having a head overseas, I think that.
You know, Indiana ended up in the Eastern Conference finals last year, so they ended up being pretty good, and I think that probably hurt him. I think Utah is a place where where he's more likely to potentially get played in time.
Yeah, he made the playoff roster, but he didn't get to play it all right, I think he was on the roster.
So if I tell you to rank the all time Caliperia players, where's Oscar on the list?
Like?
Do you?
I mean, without doing it, you think he's Remember he was National Player of the Year that's it. But do you have him as fourth eighth twelve fifteen, like about where do you put him? Because I mean again, national player of the year.
I mean what he did rebounding, I don't think he'll ever be done again. But it was also flawed in other areas. He's certainly in my top ten. You put him in the top ten for sure, yes, I mean if you're a player of the year, easily top ten.
In my mind, I tend to put him like sixth or seventh, but I don't know if that's fair to him because he was he was National Player of.
The year, so you know, Waal Davison town number one picks. But then I think Oscar maybe he's in that top fiveuse just because he was player of the year one year.
He'll be an interesting one because his he put up massive numbers.
Yeah, but he only won one NCAA.
Tournament game, and I do think that makes people kind of look at him differently.
You know, he was a dominant, dominant player.
He was absolutely dominant. Thank you all very much for listening. We will be back at ks Bar tomorrow for the show. Appreciate everybody at the scramble yesterday and let's get uh, let's get a big weekend or I don't know why I said weekend tonight, sing go tonight, We'll see you later.
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