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2:04Only your entire family, I sacrificed myself to this ancient tradition, hoping to find love the right way. And instead, I found chaos, comedy, and a lot of cringe. Listen to Boys and Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. From YouTube and social media, comedy of Broadway and Lexington welcomes Josh Wolf, March 19th through the 21st, then from late-night TV, and the Bob and Tom Show catch Nick Griffin, March 26th through the 28th, and don't miss New York Comedy Superstar and podcaster Mark Norman. April 2nd through the 4th. Portickets to all comedy off Broadway shows, call e59271joke, or visit comedyoffbroadway.com. Comedy off Broadway. Welcome to our two of Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back to KSR. This is not Matt Jones. This is Drew Franklin with Ryan Limon and Nick Roush and Shannon The Dude.

3:07However, I think we do have Matt Jones. Shannon, am I seeing this correctly on our call screeners? Hey, he's on there. Sometime listener first time. Oh, Matt, where are you calling us from? I'm about to leave DC and I, before I, before I left, I had to take a second to talk about yesterday, or excuse me, Sunday in that game. Because Drew, I know you appreciate this. Probably all you guys do. Watching that game and watching Duke lose in person has to be one of my three or four best sporting memories on Kentucky of my life. Maybe honestly, number one, it was absolutely joyous being in that building, watching the Duke hearts break. And before it kind of gets out of my mind, while it's still there, I had to call and share it. Because I have never in a non-Kentucky sporting event jumped higher than I did on. We've all seen the many reactions in every angle you can possibly watch.

4:07Was the arena, I mean, just to change it? It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean, both games, like on Friday night, the Duke St. John's game was had an awesome crowd and a lot of tension. You know, the Duke Yukon game, probably for about 30 minutes, the first 30 minutes was just kind of, yeah, because Duke has a big lead the whole time. But in those last seven or eight minutes, you could kind of sense that Yukon had a chance to come back. It was electric and it was probably, you know, half Duke fans, half Yukon fans, so it would go back and forth and back and forth. And just as an neutral party to sit there and be in that. And then when they get that steel, like I was on press row and I stood up. I couldn't, I couldn't even make myself stay down and I jumped. And I don't think that's allowed. I don't think they were, you know, but I wasn't the only one. I mean, I watched I and Eagle jumped from broadcasting the game. It was, it was absolutely electric.

5:09And then looking around and seeing Yukon people losing their minds and Duke people crying. I'm amazing. They didn't get more shots on TV of the, of like, tears and the sadness was just absolutely wild. We're not big Yukon fans around here, but it was weird cheering for them. Did you kind of have that same feeling too? I couldn't help it. I could, I mean, I couldn't help it. Like I hate Yukon, but it was, it was awesome. And then I think because it was so unexpected. Like, you know how in big sporting moments now, everybody has their phone out, but that really didn't happen because I don't think people expected that play to occur like it did. So it was everybody's kind of wrapped in the moment. And then when it was over, the security, I don't know if they just, if everybody broke, contain or what, but there were just people on the court everywhere. And Bill Murray is out there. He's dancing with the Connecticut band. And it was, it was just electric. But this was kind of what was awkward, but also fun.

6:12Well, not fun. It was just awkward. So everyone is with the Yukon people on the floor. And Duke then has to go into their press conference. So their press conference is kind of back and kind of hard to find. And when I get back there, there's Cameron Booser and John Shire. And you may have seen, I took a picture. Booser's eyes swelling up. Shire is sitting there. And there's only, I mean, Drew, you, Ryan, you guys have been to those press conferences. There's normally at the NCAA tournament, what, 60, 70, 80 people, something like that, those press conferences. Yep. There were maybe six people in the room because everybody was out on the court with Yukon. So I walk in and it's like, everybody's almost expecting you to ask a question because no one's there. And of course, it's also sort of sad. And Booser's crying and everyone's just looking around and going, who's going to ask a question? And no one asked a question. And it was like being in the most awkward group therapy session

7:14but with no one wanting to speak, it was so uncomfortable. I took that picture and just had to leave. It was like, it was really uncomfortable. Also like the ESPN asks for permission to use your photo. You tweeted that screenshot yesterday. Yeah, I like it. I see you to meet your social media intern. Yeah. Well, they, of course, no one knows I work there. Including, I mean, I don't know if the bosses do. It's less the social media intern. So I did like, they asked me for permission. I mean, that picture, I run soon. I'd taken it. That was a pretty amazing picture with his eye swelling up like that. And then as I walked out of the press conference, you know, the Duke locker room was right there. And you could hear dudes bawling outside the locker room. And you know, the only time I can remember something like that was 2010 when when we could tuck you lost, that locker room was kind of like that. But this was just, I guess it was because it was so sudden. And then, you know, the AD, the AD of Duke, this woman and John Shire, they're hugging and kind of like

8:16trying to console each other. It was, it was both the height of a nation and like the worst sadness you can see right next to each other. Any other stories from Rubin Elbows with the Zagorias and the Goodmins and the Norlanders of the world? I mean, you were with the national media. Yeah, I mean, those people, you know, for so long have hated us. But the national media, a lot of them, not necessarily those guys you mentioned, but just a bunch of people got together and watched the Saturday night games. And it was fascinating to hear, you know, to hear them talk about who's going where? What coaches were good dudes? What coaches weren't, you know. Rotten, you would have liked what random coaches, you know, might have mistresses. Like you like learned everything. That was good. Go on. Goodness. I'd like to have been there. Yeah, I mean, hey, Matt, going back to the game for just a minute out, you probably didn't see it in the moment. But what, what did you think about Danny Hurley, essentially headbutting the referee? Oh, yes. Yeah, I didn't see that in the moment. How crazy is that? I am, that is, that is nuts.

9:18I don't know, I guess he was angry at him, but that was so weird. And I loved my favorite moment of the entire thing is the Duke announcer asking for a technical. Like is there anything more, is there anything more Duke than after that moment him getting the announcer asking for a technical for a guy running on the floor? I mean, I thought that was one of the, that might have been the funny. That's the most Duke thing that could possibly happen. And it also confirmed, you remember there was a story earlier in a week through that said, is Duke still hateable? No, yeah. The answer is, of course, yes. I mean, America celebrates when Duke loses more than anything else. I don't think there's anything else in sports that people universally celebrate more than Duke losing. And you could feel that on Sunday. That's why I was that kind of proud of you. You know, they jumped out such a big lead. You didn't leave. You stayed. Got to witness one of the greatest offenses ever. I stayed because I wasn't like personally invested in it.

10:21And also, you know, it was, it was a, so Stanford Steve that Scott Vempelts guy, you guys know who that is. Well, yeah. He's a huge dukey. He is, he is a huge dukey. And his seats were next to mine for most of the time. He went down on the floor for the last few minutes. So I wasn't with him when the shot went in. But I sat next to him in the other games and just getting to know him and listening to him. He is an awesome dude. Like he's, you know, a lot of times you meet these people and they're not as nice as you hope they are. He's an awesome dude and listening to him, tell stories and stuff. So that was great. But yeah, he was, he is a big dukey. And I know he wasn't, he wasn't the happiest to be in. I keep refreshing their podcasts because I want to hear his pain and his voice. Like I want all of the Duke pain. That was just too, it was incredible. Is you're up closer than normal for these games? Do you, is Hurley a psycho all the time? Like do you see that? Or is it just like the cameras show it?

11:21I went, so my seats weren't great for the media part. So but when the Duke St. John's game ended, I was, I went and just kind of set behind the UConn bench just in a regular seat. And he's, he's a psychopath. You know, for three years, I was in the student section that Duke for Shoshesky and he was a psychopath. And Cal, you know, for all the thing about Cal Yellen, Shoshesky yelled a lot more than Cal. But Danny Hurley yells more than all of them. And Danny, I'm a Macy doesn't get technicals all the time. But they also, the referee seemed to laugh when he yells too. So I don't know why that works. But he is a psychopath. But I will also say when you sit up close, especially the Duke UConn game. St. John's maybe not quite so much, but especially the Duke UConn game. You could see kind of how far we were away from actually really being good. Like the stuff UConn runs is crazy. Like they run so much offense. I mean, Duke to some extent,

12:22they just kind of overpower like Cameron Boozard just sort of backs people in. But UConn runs so many sets and so much motion. You know, if you, if you miss one cut, they score or get an open look, you get a sense of how much better those teams kind of were than us this year. And you can really see that when you're up close. Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip. We're doing our best here. I'm trying to keep Ryan grilled in as best I can. I'm trying, trying. We're having a great time with Nick Rouse here. Can you reveal what you're doing next? Or you just ought to take it some time on your back? I'm actually just kind of using it as a chance to recharge. But I, and I wasn't going to call in. But like, there was, I can feel it kind of, I don't know, the, you know, it's not in the moment anymore. And I just definitely wanted to share. I, I sit there and think of like the top sporting moments where I was in the arena. And the 2008 rider cut up is, is right there. But this one is right there with it.

13:23I mean, part of the problem, Ryan, is a lot of Kentucky's great moments. I've been outside of the arena because I've been through. You didn't get to witness it. But you talked about one, one soccer match you were at, then on your trip were like these, the home team one, a big game or something. We talked about that with how that awesome that was. Yeah, at the, at the, at the Euros, I went to a couple soccer games that were like that. You know, I've been to the Tour de France, the Masters. But I, I don't think anything has ever produced that spontaneous moment of surprise like that. Because it went, you know, it's kind of what happened with the only Santa Clara game where it just, it happened so quick. And you didn't really have a chance to process it, that it made it almost even crazier in the moment. Except in this case, it was to win the game and to go to the final floor. So, yeah, it was, it was, it was awesome. And thank you guys and Merton and Nick. Thank you all for filling in. I just wanted to check in. All right, enjoy the rest of your week off. I appreciate the call. All right, see you up. You just appreciated Matt's call.

14:24It was waiting for that moment. Yeah, it felt pretty good to appreciate the call. Good to hear from Matt though. It was crazy. They're going to be playing that replay forever and he will have been there for it. I'm a little jealous, to be honest, that he was there. First of all, I thought that, you know, the Friday night games were awesome. Oh, yeah. Then he goes back for the Sunday game. We've almost got him. Rick almost got him. I have that guy. I cannot, I still don't even know how they came back. I still know the best part of the, like there's, there's so many layers of the onion to peel back from Duke's loss. We just keep getting new ones. The fact that Duke had a video three weeks ago on their social media channels of John Shire coaching up the exact same end-of-game situation and they couldn't execute. I mean, all they had to do was just sit there and hold the ball or I don't know. Call the time out. Literally do anything except turn it over and I just couldn't stop laughing. I mean, it just, I felt like Jeff Bacoro after he sees a big Kentucky touchdown where he just kind of got a giggle. I was cackling after Duke. Got taken down in dramatic fashion.

15:26Before we take our next break, Shannon, I looked up and I saw our guy, Brett, has just been on hold forever. I cannot leave Brett on hold any longer. At this point, it's on me. So Brett, what's up? All right. I just had a few questions. I always was a football dude until the mid-80s. I hope Will Stein gets his going. I'm grateful for stoop's getting us to be noticed and stuff, but I think Stein's going to take us to the next level. But I had a basketball question too. I can't understand how Jalen Clayton is going to be picked in the top team when he only played two games and his knees still swelling. And it's obvious that he would have made a difference in our season if he'd been on the floor. And I was just wondering maybe Mo Williams. Maybe that's why I brought him in too to try and talk this guy into coming back

16:27because his money value would do nothing but go up if his knee heals up. And I don't see why they don't bring Rhonda with him because they said when he was in the NBA that he was perfect, that he would make a hell of a coat someday. On his X and O's, because if you notice some of the plays that we ran, it didn't seem like we had any plays. He just threw the ball and said go at it. So I think it would make a bigger advantage and so way he got busted for marijuana because he was acceptable nowadays anyway. And that's all. I appreciate the call. Thanks for hanging on so long. And I don't know, were we good there, Shannon? Was there? No, we're good. Yeah, okay, I thought I heard a word. It was kind of muffled there. On the Rondo thing, sure we don't love him. We also have to remember, Rondo made $100 million in his career and some people might not want to go work. Yeah, I can't speak for Rondo, but if I had $100 million, I love Kentucky basketball. I would be sitting front row watching and my kid play behind me.

17:28The Unicode is a terrible lifestyle. It's not, this is not fun what they're doing. It's 365 days a year. You don't get any days off. They would be miserable. So I would not be jumping at the bit to do it. I would also say too, Gene Coins isn't on any mock drive that I'm seeing. He's slipping. He's still first round, but he's not projected lottery as he was. I mean, a terrible year for him to do this because this class is loaded to top 10 ain't changing. But he'll still be a top 20, 25-ish period. He waited for him. CBS didn't have him in the first round. And ESPN doesn't have him. I worry about him because all these teams will do their own physical checks. And if that knee is still not healthy or if he did re-endure it this season, it's just going to drop him even farther. Oh, he's going the wrong way. But a proven team, like I'll just say the thunder. Someone will take a gamble on a guy who could just come in and be an elite shot block or something like that. But there's no doubt he's sliding based on how this year went. I mean, he would definitely get taken in the second round because those picks don't mean anything. You can hit a potential top 10 guy. It'd be a good year to be drafted in the NBA. A lot of good players out there. Yep. We're taking another break.

18:29It's good hearing from Matt Jones and DC about the game and our guy Brett there. Sorry, am I crazy? I thought I heard something on that. I thought I heard something. Okay, just make sure. Make sure I'm not losing my mind. His phone broke up so I'd like to be to be to someone who had dumped it. Yeah, I think his phone dumped dumped it for it. So we're all good there. We'll be right back after this break. It is time for March. And that's the Draft King Sportsbook. The number one sportsbook for betting in March. The tournament is unexpected. We know that. But the rewards with Draft Kings are guaranteed. Draft King Sportsbook is delivering the most generous rewards in the market, no matter what happens on the court. And because this is an tournament you bet and forget, it's one you react to. You have a chance to do live betting. You're not betting on what might happen. You're betting on what is happening. Possession by possession. Play by play. Live lines, props, next play outcomes. As the chaos unfolds, the bracket breaks. And you are there to take advantage. So don't just watch the unexpected. Bet it. If you're new to Draft Kings, $5 bets. You get $200 in bonus bets instantly.

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21:34The story of the sports' most consequential driver's strike. We have one man who upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom. And was Daniel Riccardo's illustrious F1 career a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both? He started getting all this attention. And he may be started to think, I'm bigger than this. I'm better. And plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no grip on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio, Drew Franklin here with Ryan Limon, Nick Roush, and Shannon The Dude. Know the final four is coming up, and so is prime time for your skin. You didn't think I was going that route, did you, Nick? No, you got me. I've been moisturizing, though. I got some on. Go to Vitamin C serum on, too, where your sunscreen got to take care of your face. You got to wear the hats, too. I wore the hat while doing some yard work over the weekend.

22:36It wasn't a big enough hat. We need a bigger hat, because you got to take care of your skin, Drew. That's right. Tailgating, patio, sunshine, before tip off, out your yard with your hat. It all adds up in skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in America, and also one of the most preventable. At Kentucky Skin Cancer Center, they offer full body skin checks and treatment for all types of skin cancer. Right here in your community, don't wait for a time out to check to take care of yourself. Schedule screening today at skincans. Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.com. I highly recommend the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. We went to the one where he was at a once burrow. Bowing in, got the facial treatment, also fun. It was wonderful. In powder league, Glasgow, Franklin, Owensboro, call 270-842-1999, or visit Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.com, because the best one of the season is catching it early. Uh, we heard from Matt in that segment. Also, we had a, I think maybe a submission from social media. Um, is this the A-vision Twitter? Uh, yeah. Well, it's the at, it's the at Vince Merrill Twitter, or the coat. What's it? I've heard of him.

23:37I've heard of him. Coach Merrill at Coach Merrill. I surely, I heard of him. Surely he was. He tweeted, it's been 30, 30 minutes now, but when we were talking about Vince Merrill, he tweeted LOL fake news. Hey, buddy, we're not done yet. The next one is going to have you turn in your heads, go cards. It's probably not about us, but, you know, Nick, he did hit you with the hello Nick Roush. So hello Nick Roush. It could be a shot this way. It could be. It's real. Let's, let's be real. You think the dog's listening? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's okay. Hey Vince, I hope it's going well. Good job. Yeah, you got him now, but it's a long way to go to the side of that. He's tweet to you from the sideline. During the little Kentucky game. It was. I was alive in Groush in that Volvo press box. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. But I could though. I got new. It was going to come at some point, but I just didn't know. Turn the game into the horn during the game. From the sideline, it was only one of the, like he's, he fired off multiple. But you know what, Nick Groush,

24:38if you get the win, you deserve to take the victory lap. So you can take the victory lap for now. But that's what, like, I don't think people outside of here understand how. Intense this rivalry is going to get you have two coaches who were quarterbacks at the same high school that both went and played at U of L. There are coaches from UK and U of L on both steps. That's right. They got a switch. Like the recording corner. Just kind of switch. Yeah. Change Hikey and Pete Nuck to just change jobs. Do you think they they're about the same size? Do you think they were just like, here's my UK polos to give me your little polos? I think they did that. Yeah, it's like a Jersey Swap. After a basketball game. But like, that is going to make it ultra competitive. There's a lot of really talented players in this upcoming class. And to be frank, Louisville has more of them right now, right? With Brown. I know, or Ron Westmoreland. That was a kid. I mean, recruiting sites had articles written of him committing to Louisville. And he flipped to Kentucky. So that was a good one for the,

25:40a nice little notch in the belt for the cast. But there's still some other big ones out there. There's a wide receiver from Northern Kentucky who is committed to play baseball at Louisville. Like he committed to play baseball at Louisville when he was not even in high school yet. Kentucky's recruiting football. He's a good player. So, but it's it's going to be very intense between these two programs away from the field. And then when it gets on the field, it's going to be fun. How many close Kentucky Louisville football games can you remember? They've been pretty lopsided here lately. It was the time that will more fumbled. Did you for, did you remember that? I remember that. Do you see him do the Heisman? I mean, Lamar some fumble. Yeah, he did the Heisman he fumbled. That was a close game in Louisville loss. There was one close game with Charlie and Joker. And it was the worst football game ever played. It was like watching the UFL. It was fumbles all over the place. Kentucky won that one. And then Stevie got loose. But most of them have been pretty lopsided. I think we're going to get a highly contentious battle. This would be a year of be fun to have the governor's cup first year. Just from a like,

26:41yes, crap talking. Yes, the juice would be so happy. You know what? We don't need that. We can save it to the end of the year. We can wreck the card seasons and then had that juice flowing for that Alabama game in week two, which I got to say just prepare for a lot of people to predict that upset this summer. OK, is that a trendy pick with DeBoer going the wrong direction? He is bad in his first kind of big games. We saw what they did to Gus Malzahn in Florida State last year. A terrible Florida State team. And then the year prior, they laid an egg on their first time away from Alabama. So you get this big stage. You got a fun offense. It's a, it's the time that that can really get people saying, we've been telling you, Will Stons, the next big thing and you just beat Alabama. You know, like instead of having McDonough making fun of Kentucky for not being able to get a playoff before halftime, that was fun. They will be talking about how high powered this offense is. Is it going to be enough to do it?

27:41I'm, I'm going to predict it because why the hell not? Right? Like cats are going to beat the Crimson Titan week two. We're going to be storming the field. It's going to be outstanding. I can't wait for it. Just go ahead. Make sure you're there for that week two game. And hell, why not? Week one two, young sunsets. Watch the cats put up 50 points. Feed the studs. Let's go to Monty real quick for our next break, Shannon. All right. Hey, Monty. Hi, Monty. What's up? Hey. Hey, first time, long time. Why? I got kind of a fun, unique story about the Duke Kentucky game back in the day, kind of on the hills and mat. So the time that that, that game was going on, I was playing for a state championship at Freedom Hall, because at the same time of the game, we were playing University Heights. So, so I will play in that game. We don't have any idea what's going on and crowds going nuts from nothing's happening. And then so the first time I ever actually got to watch that game was with Sean Woods. He took me, we sat down at his house and I got to watch it on video with him. And that was the first experience I had

28:42seeing that game. Oh, what an amazing memory. Sorry, I put you up against a hard break there. But it's good to hear from you. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make him pay. Now more Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. I'm not Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin, filling in for Matt on KSR with Ryan Limon, Nick Roush and Shannon, the dude. Guys, I'm in trouble. I messed up a little bit. Oh, no. That was my guy, Monty. I know Monty. And I set him up for failure. The hard break was too close. Hard break for nobody. I knew when I went to him, we're cutting this a little close. Maybe it's just a question. He had a story. He had to cut him off. Oh, my God. It never fails. Anytime you give somebody like 30 seconds, they're the person on hold who's got the longest story. Well, it was going to be a good story. I love Monty. Used to work with Monty. I've heard a lot of people talk about that state championship game at Freedom Hall while Duke was playing Kentucky in the NCAA tournament in 92. And the more it went on, people would leave their seats during the state championship game, go up to the concourse and watch the game that was on the concourse TVs.

29:43And they would scream in the yellow at one point, the referees and the players on the court stopped and looked up because they couldn't know what they didn't know what was going on. They didn't have any idea what was happening at that time. It's wild. I got to send them a little note or something. Tell him to come back. Come back. I feel bad. Come back. I'm sorry about that. I set you up for failure. Clark's pumping out full line. 859-220-287. Let's go to John real quick. Knock that out. So don't make him wait and do that again. What's up, John? Hey guys, what's up? What's happening, John? We're just listening to radio show. So what's up? So, listen, I know news kind of broke out that Florida's 7.9 center is entering the transfer portal. What do you think about any chances of Kentucky won't get him? I think that would be a terrible idea, John. Have you watched him play basketball? He doesn't really move well. If he was good enough, he would have played the Florida. I would say it. I mean, he's a sight to see. I'm not going to send my homework on him. Yeah, if he was good, he would have played. I mean, Florida, they were a good team. If he was good enough, he would have played.

30:45Yeah, appreciate the call. No, it's when he was at Rupp, I made a point when there were warm-ups. I went and stood his club. I mean, I didn't walk out on the court and go back to back with him. But I wanted to get as close as I possibly could. It is unbelievable how tall that guy is. It's amazing whether it was the VCU or someone who they were playing the NCAA tournament and a six, eight guy was standing next to him and looked like me standing next to him. Crazy. But he just doesn't. He doesn't get around well. And you know what? No, that's fine. He can go play at a smaller school and be good there. True. Like, do you remember Kenny George? He was at UC Irvine, I don't want to say. There was also another guy for UNC Asheville. That was a big guy. That might have been Kenny George. I don't know. You get all the giants mixed up. Yeah. He can go somewhere else. Taco was at what? Taco was at UC Irvine. Man, that would have been it. That would have been an all-time duke loss because Taco fall almost beat Zion. That was a second round back in 2018. Oh. But hey, you know what? It's going to be hard to top the duke loss on Sunday. That was.

31:46Tocco. Tocco played in the celebrity game. I'm going to start the game this year. Feel like that's unfair. He did. I mean, Kevin Hart plays in that game. I can't have Taco fall out there. That's where he is in his journey now. I mentioned earlier, I want to talk a little TV. Mm-hmm. Yes, you did. Got a few TV things going on. A, if you have you anybody on neighbors, we keep deciding the homework. I'm starting to start it. I'm going to watch it last. I'm on episode one. What do you think, Shannon? Yeah, it's crazy. They're going back and forth between the neighbors that are out kind of in the desert and then the fighting over the beach front property. I like it. I'm hooked. So I'm in. It's so good. The rest of them. So many people warned me about episode six, though. We even warned people on this show. I had seen it. Yeah, and I can't put it off. I watched it a couple nights ago. You can't warn people enough for episode six. Are you kidding me? There's more minutes with nudity than minutes without nudity. It's at a, it's at a nudist colony. So it's just, that's just the episode. Wow. That's where it runs, Ellie. Raise yourself. I could see Ryan living there. I could see right over there.

32:46What's possibly going wrong there? I'm just, I'm just warning you all. Episode one through five, great. Episode six, I don't know, it's on you. You've been told, if you want to watch it, it's entertaining. There's just a lot of warnings out there. There's a lot happening. There's a little happening. There's a lot of happening. There's a lot going on. But last night, I watched Paradise. Season finale. Are you all paradise people? That's the one where the president likes Kentucky basketball. I like the people in Paradise. We don't have the Google at our house, though. So that's why we have not seen the paradise. Well, I'm going to be very careful not to spoil it, because nobody likes that person. I like that guy, though. He was in, this is us. Oh, yeah, I can't think of his name, but he's one of the main people. Yeah, yeah, he's good. But I just need anyone that's on the same wavelength with me. The way this show wrapped up, I feel like they wrote it for me in KSR. There's just a big, there's a thing. There's a crossover. We already collided with Kentucky basketball all the last season. Yes. A couple of weeks ago, he's doing the big speech about empires and dynasties falling. And then he says, but don't get me start on Kentucky basketball. I thought they were done poking me,

33:47but no, the finale last night, they had one last big poke. I've got to be careful not to give anything out for my fellow paradise fans. It just came out yesterday. But the major KSR crossover on that show, and I love that show. Nick, one show that you're losing. TVG. Mother, my other TV topic. Big news in the horse racing community. Yeah, yeah. What's going on? So the sport of horse racing, it's in a very transitional period. And it's very healthy on big race days. And it's very healthy if you have lots of money. It's not very healthy for the average Joe's like me. The guys who like to just show up, you know, make 10-hour bets, right? Pop on the TVG. Other Gulfstream. Indie being cone, like says this 12-the-ones looking good at sharp and pad, like I'll put two across. Want it? Hot damn, it came in a second. We're winning some money, right? The casual fan experience has not been great,

34:50particularly the C-A-W's. Don't give me start on C-A-W's. Computer assisted at wagering. It's the worst. They're taking money out of our hands. Now, we don't want to confuse Ryan on that. Yeah, yeah, it's the worst. But what's happened? TVG has been around since 99. Actually, starting Louisville, they tested it for a few years and they're like, oh, this is working. We're going to give it to everybody. And it's been in business ever since then. They show all of the races all the time. It's horse racing's network. Fan dual took it over a couple of years ago. They started sprinkling in some k-atoms, a little bit of boogie cousins in Michelle Beetle. And on a Friday, they said, we're done sprinkling. We're done with horse racing. Fan dual TV, we are pulling the plug on TVG. They will be at the Triple Crown events this year. They're still going to be at Keenlin. But once this year's Triple Crown and Breeders Cup is all over with, they're taking the hose out, and then it will go black next year. Well, 100 people are losing their jobs. It sucks for those people, but it mostly sucks for a very specific demographic. It's my dad's demo.

35:50There were people on the message board who are like, I'm going to have to break this news to my father and law who watches TVG every day. It has no idea which is happening. Yeah, because you go to the bar. It's on the TV at the corner. Oh, three o'clock at a bar. Someone, if it's not already on, you're getting, can you turn that to TVG? Yeah. Why not play a couple races at O'Conn? It's fun. To take that away, it's awful. It's awful for the sport of horse racing. For the terrible, you're removing this gateway to it now, I will be somewhat optimistic that Fox owns a lot of rights to like Nara, so they get all the Saratoga's. They do Churchill Downsmeet. They also did the Arkansas Derby last Saturday. So Fox, like they're playing motorcycle racing on FS2. They could just take some rights to some of these other tracks. Like they get about Keemlin, and they could make essentially a new version of TVG. Which will probably happen. But it's one thing to casually flip on and watch. It's another thing to have to seek it out.

36:52And so like, how does that affect the overall bedding handle? Like it's bad. It sucks for the sport. And I love it. Horse racing is my, you know, obviously my first passion is to take you from home. But it's like, duh, horse racing. I get to just have fun. I get to go. You're on a Derby hat right now. Oh, yeah, so Derby, I'm reshopping for Derby. Higher, reasonable. Part of the reason we bought the house in the neighborhood you do is so I can walk to Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. Okay. I love it. It is so much fun to just have the program out with a whole day of races ahead of you. It's so exciting. You don't have to be a how-roar to enjoy it. But the way that this sport is trending, they're making it to where you have to be a how-roar. And that sucks. Like that's not a good business model to just abandon your regular friends. And this is another step in it with Fandall Pulling the Plug on TVG after 27 years. Great punch. Big news around Kentucky to the horse racing community. Well, are they gonna walk to Thoroughbred Cafe and then on Least Down Road? Thoroughbred, man. We need to go there soon. I know. But it was on 24 hours a day all day long every day.

37:54Nick's the most fun. Nick likes to be able to walk to Churchill Downs. I miss walking to Thoroughbred every day. I always enjoyed in my younger days coming home from the watering holes at about 1 a.m. And then just randomly picking a Japanese horse to win a race. Oh my God. And then you get the whole crew on it. I get so much fun. You have no idea what you're doing, but it's like, hell yeah, let's watch a horse race. I bet a pick six one time. I think I had one eye open when I was putting the bed in, you know, and squint and making sure it comes down to the last race. I am not making this up. Every horse was wearing the same silk. I didn't know which was mine. And that one because it was late. Like the Japanese horse racing. They're all just wearing a black silk. No numbers. I was like, what is going on? I don't even know which horse is mine. But I loved it. And we're gonna miss that with TVG. We are. We are a Keenlyn opening Friday. Come on. New paddock. Heck yeah. The new paddock looks pretty, pretty nice. I know people get weird by change, but like this one, church dance, when they make changes, they're like, what's the biggest thing we can put in here? Keenlyn, this, if it's the, we're LA aesthetic. Yeah.

38:54Yeah. Here's another thing. We'll Keenlyn too. Big Keenlyn days. Not as fun as just the random Wednesday when it's cloudy. Oh, it's the time to go. Oh yeah. I like it. Walk on every early Sunday. Oh yeah, that's nice too. But like the Saturdays, it gets, it's a lot. Yeah. I mean, you know, there's time and place for everything, but I'm, I like it. Yeah, I've got to go to election and for football on Thursday. Might be a little late getting back. I forgot. We've got a flat tire out there on our sales road, right? Yeah, I'll be there in about six hours. Yeah. It's enough time to watch three races. If you'd more TV movie things, Ryan, our guy Steve's on just put out a movie. Are you or tell me about this? I didn't know that. I tried to go, he had a big two night premiere over here at the theater. The theater? The theater. It's called She Dances. He made it with his daughter. Nice. So that's a big thing going around in this community right now. We're rooting for Steve. Hope that goes well, you know, I'm getting pretty close to my, my girl dad, era. So that's one I have on my radar, but also wanted to let her by also know that Steve's got a big project out there that they should go check out.

39:55So is he in it or is he directing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that he's in it with these daughters. Yep, he wrote it cool. And she's, I guess getting in her act, I don't know her career, but she's young and they did it together. So that's cool. And then I also have a confession. Yeah. My wife was like, are you sure you want to say this in the air? Well, boy, if Abby's warning, you must be good. Well, my favorite person to make fun of is me. I do it all the time. Love making fun of myself. And I've been doing something lately that I feel like needs to get roasted. And I just can't keep that secret in silence. So you have a little therapy session here right now. Yeah, I just need you all to know that I'm doing this and I want all your arrows in my direction because I deserve to be shot with these arrows. So I mentioned I love me some paradise. Yes. I've finished that last night. Can't recommend enough, same with neighbors. But there's a show I've been watching every night. A bench, four seasons already. And I started season five last night and I'm hooked. And you all, if I gave you a thousand guesses, you wouldn't get it. But I'm here to tell you okay, SR. I watch the joy of painting with Bob Ross.

40:56Oh, yeah, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I sit down and knock out six episodes in a sitting. It is. And to be honest, I think he's painted the same picture every episode, but it is, it is kind of like my zen. He's just got this that tone. Yes. And happy. He's full. God, I'm, there's like 30 seasons. I'm knocking them out consecutively. By the end of the summer, I will have seen every episode of the joy of painting. And I just need people to know that I have that going on in my life because I'm not, you know what? I am proud of it. I am proud of it. You should be. It's dumb as that is. You're admitting something, if that's an omission confession, then I'm willing to confess too. It's been out of my wheelhouse a little bit, but I had a run of about three years where that was the bedtime. We're popping on with some Bob Ross before we go to bed because you're right, the voice. So soothing. Yes. You wait, you fall asleep and then you wake up and it's still on. And you're like, oh, I want to see him finish this painting. He's still on that same tree. Yeah. And you know what? There's plenty of them out there to run through, to burn and turn through. If you're working, you're at your laptop.

41:57You just kind of look in the back and I'm like, oh, a tree looks kind of nice. What of snowscapes? Yeah. A lot of mountains. The best part is when he cleans his brush. You know, he designs it, he knocks it, he always laughs. He's like, what is wrong with you guys? I like when he brings out the animals at the beginning. I'm like a chipmunk and his fronket. So I tell you what it is. Well, it's a joy of painting. I was like, it started and I was like, it's really expected everybody to make fun of them. They were all like, oh, yeah, we love to do it. I found a community. I feel seen, I feel seen right now. Well, it started, you know, sometimes I don't sleep very well. So I would take my cornbread gummy after I've watched the shows I want to watch. And I would turn that on. And most of the time I'd be asleep within five minutes because his tone, I mean, he hadn't even gotten to the clouds or finished the blue sky yet. But here lately, I've been really into it. And instead of falling asleep, I'm knocking out like four episodes a night. The fact that you're binge watching it now makes me really concerned about you. I tried to be asleep by 11 PM last night at 2 a.m.

42:58I'm watching by the wake. Watching by, he tells you what colors. Oh, yeah. Oh my goodness. I have fully expected you all to make fun of me. Shannon, thank you for seeing me. Well, do you realize there's 405 episodes? So you've got some work to do still. Yes. And the one I watched last night, season five, episode one titled Mountain Waterfall, came out six months before I was born. Oh, no, there's the January 1985. 31 seasons. And you know, you know, you know, you'll get there. Kyle, I love the encouragement. And you know what? You're supposed to be here with you. Drew, when you finish all 31 seasons, you and I can go with Stephen Peake up to Muncie, Indiana. We can go to the Bob Ross Museum and we can experience the joy of painting and we can create our own landscapes for the KSR YouTube channel. So we started Joy of Painting podcast. That's probably how we can describe what he's painting. I did not expect the reaction to be this. I hope I'm being made fun of, because I can't believe I'm doing it, but I'm into it. That Bob can paint, man. I haven't really upset about all three of you guys.

44:00I'm waiting for a plot twist when he paints like a person or an automobile, because right now it's just trees and clouds. It's trees and clouds. It's trees and clouds. I have to get that all through. Are you like conspiracy theories? Have you heard the conspiracy theory that Bob Ross is actually a murderer? I have. And I don't believe it. Painting all the scenes of where the bodies are. I'm just taking a dark twist. See, a big conspiracy theory guy. Huge. That one I can't get behind. That's a lot of scenes of murders. I'm gonna be a water dead body. Well, just check the mountains trees and the waters because that's where they are. I can't, I have to go to a break. I can't believe I can fast that. I don't want to open more. But thank you for seeing me, Nick Roush and Shannon. We'll be right back. And Doug. There's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual, even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show. Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date? Oh, no. We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Need a human, him to a bird.

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48:07Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We wash our brushes with odorless thinner, shake them off, and just beat the devil out of them. That's where you take all your hostilities. It's good stuff. It's great stuff. Welcome back to KSR football show. If you were, I think Nick Roush is on today. I'm a little late, but I'm going to tune in now and see what they're saying about that new offensive line or what that defense looks like. I'm sorry we were caught up in the joy of painting, but that's what we're doing around here. And y'all got a man crush on Bob Ross. I didn't say about man crush. I just, my man's got a true talent at, what's the talent? Painting. Paintings. Paintings are awful. And talking awful. Now you're just, now you're just hating. Show me. I want to see a run living painting. Yeah. Well, he has got a panicked cast of the first stone. I do feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, saying that the microphone's getting out. Now I can go home and finish season five. And the full support of two of you guys here.

49:09Nick's going to come over and have some bourbon. Not got a few episodes. It's a great last way to enjoy your time before parenthood. And baby time takes up all your time. Just joy of painting. That's right. And we would do a more football talk to come. We had a lot going on with Mo Williams, Matt called in. Roush is back on Thursday. We'll get more into it there. There's plenty of time to talk to people. We'll get to it. So we didn't mean to completely gloss over football, but time flies when you're doing this. I had to talk a little TV there, right? Well, like Nick said earlier, it kind of just gets lost in March Madness. And you forget about it. Okay, basketball's over. Let's turn our focus. See what's going on in the football field right now. It's right. It's also exciting, but at the same time, it is just practice. So like, you know, practice, practice, practice, right? You're having like real scrimmages? Not until Saturday. The first one will be the Saturday. All right. Shannon, let me make sure I check all my boxes here. You have one more read for us, right? Who's the segment brought to us by? Yeah, our friends at Shady Rays. You know, stop overpaying for expensive sunglasses. You can go to ShadyRays.com.

50:09They've got tons of five star reviews. At ShadyRays, they have premium polarized shades that are tangle free. They won't get stuck in your hair. And you can get it all at ShadyRays.com. They have locations in the summative Prince Farm. I don't have the copy in front of me. The summative Prince Farm. You can go there as well. ShadyRays.com for all of your ShadyRays needs. Special with the sun out now. Can we have time to get to Tanner real quick? So I can get through all the colors to Tanner. What's up? Hey, Drew, I apologize to you guys for touching on this. I got caught accidentally working during KS far hours. But I just wanted to give you a big blue nation and specifically Mark Pope, who might be on Facebook tomorrow. If you're looking at any Kentucky news, just keep an eye on that calendar date. Take care, boys, go cat. All right, thanks, man. I appreciate it. Remember, if you see it on Facebook, just because it has a picture, it's not real. Had to have that talk with someone again yesterday. Look at YouTube, Ryan. It's too easy to be deceived because it is like, looks like it's definitely real.

51:09And there's a lot of negativity on there. Yeah. Tomorrow, what we got? Billy, our sports, Billy? Our sports is driving tomorrow. Yes. So me, you, Billy and Shannon. Let's go. And then Nick's back with us on Thursday and then Friday will be possibly the secret location. I have no idea what Billy has dialed up for us, but we're excited to hear from Billy and the rest of the crew will be here. We'll be in KS bar tomorrow for wings day. We'll be in KS bar for wings day. So check it out. Those of you who've fun with today, Nick, come back Thursday. We'll do more football talk. We'll talk about season six of the joy painting. This has been KSR.