9-11-2026 - KSR - HOUR 2

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4:09it also confirmed this. The rest of the country folks, they don't have this. All right, there's no other fan base in the country that has this on a Friday morning for a local radio show. It just does not exist anywhere else. I mean, there will be, there are more people here than will be potentially at SEC Nation tomorrow. And that's not even, I mean, I don't say that to be rude to SEC Nation, but that's probably true considering where they're set up. There are more people here. And that is a, that is a real blessing. And thank you guys for doing that. Thanks to, yeah, you can clap for that. But thanks to Republic Bank and who are broadcasting benefiting USA cares, they've specialized in direct emergency financial intervention, rent utilities and other bills for 9, 11 military veterans. It is of course the 25th anniversary of 9, 11. We would be remiss if we didn't note that.

5:09As we speak right now, there are lots, there are events going on in New York and DC and Pennsylvania because this was the time frame where a lot of the events were occurring. If you go online, you know, I yesterday when I was stuck on the airport ended up watching some of the videos and it's, it's haunting to go back in real time and think about all that. We had a lot, we lost a lot of Kentuckians who were either, who were working in New York City at the time. Our prayers to everyone, the families that are involved and I want to thank USA cares for being here and for the work they do. It is, it does not feel like 25 years ago. I will tell you when it does feel like 25 years ago, is when you meet someone from that is under 25 and you talk to them because, you know, for instance, there was, there was a story yesterday about what airports used to be like. And a lot of us remember, but you tell people under 25, like,

6:11you used to not necessarily even have to have an ID when you got to the airport. It's like you're talking about the Civil War just about the job. I know. You used to just be able to have a ticket as long as you, when I was a kid, you have, you just had a ticket and then you went and then you went and if you left your ticket at home, they were talking about how a lot of cities, they had restaurants where people would intentionally go eat at the restaurant, like not even going on a flight. They would just go to dinner. It would be a nice night out at the restaurant at the airport. That seems like insane today, but that's the way it was. Yeah, everything changed so much on that day. I mean, we all remember exactly where we were and you're right when you meet someone new because anybody can tell the story of that moment and living it. And the people that were born after just, I don't think they truly understand the magnitude of what it was when it happened. Yeah, I mean, and the same thing happens, Ryan, like, when my parents would try to tell me about the JFK assassination and what the world, and like, you almost feel like they're talking about the Civil War times.

7:11That's kind of what for many people, 9-11 is like now. And that's why you don't never forget, right? That was the slogan, and we still remember them. They had ceremonies all day today and they still read every name of some people that passed away in the Twin Towers. They do that every year. It's just an awesome ceremony ringing the bell. All the fire departments up there that are mourning today. It's very sad. I will tell you one cool thing in last night, as I was flying out of Newark and you're sort of, as you get up in the air, you kind of pass over New York City. And I'm sure this has been there forever. I just had never really noticed it, but noticed it last night where the World Trade Center, the actual spot the building there is a light that shines up into the air at night that goes as high as the building buildings were. And you just, in a, it was a beautiful sight in the New York skyline at night. And you just see this singular beam of light. Yeah. Really powerful that I noticed as we were taking off. And if you ever get a chance to go to New York City, make sure you go by that memorial,

8:12that little museum that they have there. It's very, very powerful just to see where the fire stations that were right there. Yeah. That it is a, it is a very powerful thing. 889, 280, 2287. Let's talk about one quick basketball thing. Do a, do a, do a, mark Pope. A couple people became eligible yesterday. Jack Pilgrim reported that Pope is not going to try to get those folks. Do you think he decides to add another player at all or is he looking for someone else? I think they're done. Also, happy birthday, Mark Pope following us. We're following that on 11th. He was born on September 11th. He was born on September 11th. Yeah, I had birthday Pope. I don't know. At some point, like, how can you look just to make broad and in-gen in the face? I'm like, yeah, believe in you, but I'm going to keep calling everyone possible that can play your position. I think once the Mark Mitchell thing happen, you got to roll with your 14 now and believe in them. I mean, trade, Kaufman, Ren, produce, now talked about that's going to have more core cases. Do you really want to play that game again at this point in the summer?

9:12And I would say no. At this point, let's just go with what we got. I think Pope decided he wanted a 15th player. I just don't think any other players decided that he wanted to come here. So that's the problem. We're kind of stuck with 14. But at this point, the season starts in a mod. Let's just roll it. I wish you just never said we need a 15th. Yeah. Well, you also have to remember, you're still only have 12. And so like there's this idea you got to have 15. We went a long time with only having 12. And then it was 13 until just like a year ago. And even at Reese Potter, who has a scholarship, but, you know, may not play much, you still have 13 guys who could play. So Ryan, I don't know that they need another guy. I still think it would be good, but they need to be good if you're going to get them. Otherwise, it's not worth it. That's the thing. I don't know if there's a guy out there that you could get in, that would play meaningful minutes. You're looking at a guy that would probably be the 15th man. Guy that's hard to get any minutes at all during the season. So I don't know if you want to get that. Oh, we're talking about Coach Pope. The horse, Coach Pope runs tomorrow at Churchill Downs. Undefeated horse, Coach Pope. Yeah, that's good. Probably won't see it because of the Kentucky game.

10:15Yeah. But, but, you know, I think we, it'll be good. I'm not as in on a 15th player. Is there, we just not going to have another assistant coach? I mean, they have rules that allow you to have one. Are we just not going to do that? It's a really good question. I don't know. You think they're just not going to just decide. I mean, we went through portal season, AAU season, second portal season, Mark Mitchell season. So I always get to keep your options open. You know, that's what I always say. Play it in like two months. Last night, 49ers beat the Rams, which means the Rams who attempted to basically change the laws of physics and sleep and not, you know, not get any sleep at all. Didn't work. They actually looked really tired during the game. Myer Metcalf had said they had a 68% chance of going undefeated. That ended after one game. I didn't last very long. Is it fair to say that their decision, Shannon, to not sleep basically to just not go early, not go early, go the day before and play that maybe that backfire? Part of me wants to know though, if they had done what the 49ers had done and stayed

11:17there a week before, would they outgum if even changed? Maybe the 49ers are just better than the Rams. I can't imagine it with that. Rams have not lost by that much in five years. I can't imagine that that's a coincidence. It had to have had something to do with it, Ryan, that they decided to try to defy the laws of physics. Yeah, because they not just didn't get beat. They got whoop. They got whoop pretty bad. So I think it had to play into it a little bit, you know, that the only one stayed there, what, 48 hours before kickoff. You have the chance to go out of Australia. I mean, I don't know how often these guys do that, but it feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Australia and hang out. 49ers just made a vacation out of it. Well, on cover zero, that was what Matt and I said, they were disrespecting Australia. The 49ers went there a week in advance, embraced the culture, ate the meat pies, rode the kangaroos. I mean, they were part of it. I don't know if they rode the Australians. True for them, they like embraced them in the Rams. We cannot be bothered to hang out in Australia. We're going to show up right before they came in. And another little side note, that was technically a Rams home game. Yeah, right. So the Rams went there with the, with the belief that they were going to try to win over Australia because they did,

12:22they did a survey. The two teams that Australia cheers for the most are the Rams and the 49ers. So the Rams were like, we're going to make this a Rams home game, etc. It counts towards a home game. Like the next time they play the 49ers, they're going to have to play them there. But the fact that the Rams chose not to come made the island mad. And so they all cheered for the 49ers. And that basically the Rams ended up giving a home game to the 49ers because the entire stadium was cheering for San Francisco. Yeah. And I think they were booing the Rams even when they got off the bus. They booed them for just, they, they had flown for 17 hours landed, got out the bus and got booed. Yeah. So you know what they're, they're the mistake that they made lost the whole continent. That's true. They did. It was the whole continent. They lost the whole continent. They lost the whole continent. The whole continent. Wow. They do look silly. They let them out smart. You know, people have been doing this for a while now. They've got a pretty good routine figured out and they're like, no, no, we're going to do it our way and then you get smoked. Sometimes people decide they're too smart. And I think that was one of those times. Choose up next. Badger is up next. Badger. Go ahead, Badger.

13:25Hey guys, what's going on? What's up? I'm really fired up this weekend. What just to echo real quick, what you said? Shout out to our troops and our first responders across the country. They, they, they, they go beyond, above and beyond every day. I'm a big feeling, guys. And I'm about to play in a scramble and have some cold pops a little later on. But I've got a really good feeling about this weekend and a, a big dub coming our way. Watch out for Willie Rodriguez. Cast by nighty. I'll hang up and listen. Appreciate the call. I, but I feel the same way. We'll talk more about that in a minute. Let's talk about Willie Rodriguez. That's the probably the player coming into the season that the Kentucky fan base knew the most. This is a Kentucky kid. He got courted to go everywhere, including Alabama. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, all tried to get him to consider going. He decided to stay here and he had a great first week. I mean, Willie Rodriguez could play

14:28himself into NFL draft potential this season. I mean, this is, I kind of almost consider him the heart and soul of the team this year. Do you agree with that? We agree. That's why he was at SEC Media Days. Kind of like he and Ty Bryant tie on the defensive side. Same, same background storyline Rodriguez on offense. I think you could have done a lot more last week. All four of his catches were in the first half and they kind of, you know, got the other guys. I just think not that it takes a lot to have the best tight in year in a long time. But we're finally going to see a huge tight end season coming from him. He's going to get fed the ball all season and I expect that to start running tomorrow. I think you're going to see heavy, heavy doses of Willie Rodriguez because not only is he tied in, he's probably the best pass catcher on the team playing at tight end. What has time been sent to the guy here feed the studs. He is a stud. Get him the football as much as you can. But I'm going to drew the Skinner guy. He's an elite elite elite receiver as much as a tight end as anybody we've got on the team. That was the best statistical game for the tight end since 1999 when Wayland did it all by himself against Georgia. But for the room, the group,

15:31that was their best stats in that one. You mentioned 30 years. You mentioned feed the studs. So beyond though when he was here, right? Is that how it says name? He was that was the GM. I had a conversation with him after a couple of weeks when he got here and he said, Will Stein and my philosophy is this. The difference in teams is in the top eight to 10 players. He was like, you get 11 through 50. He's like, there are differences. But the differences aren't as great and you can coach people up to be in the same vicinity. But he was like, when you get a stud, he's a stud. And if you don't have studs, there's nothing you can do about it. So he was like, we need eight to 10 studs every year at Kentucky. And we can afford to go get him. So with that in mind, who are eight to 10 studs? Do you think after one game into the season? I would assume Kenny Minci is one. Yes. I would assume CJ Baxter is one. Yes. I would assume Willie Rodriguez is one. Yes. I would assume Colton Price. The center is one. Lance Hurd is one. So that's probably five. Who would you say the

16:36others are? Although he didn't show it, I would think maybe Nick, they're my Nick Anderson might be on that list because they spend a lot of money on him as their number one go to receiver guy. They hadn't shown it yet, but it's coming. Yeah, the receiver. It's time. Brian one. I'll call a tie stud. He's a playmaker. We're covered the fumble last year. All the interceptions. Yeah, I'll call a tie one. Maybe the other tegril on the offensive line might throw him in with that whole left side. The receiver group. I want to say these freshmen will be studs. I'm not there yet. It was one game that gets youngstown. So I don't have a stud in the receiver room yet, but I bet by week six, we think we have one. Kenny Darby. Kenny Darby, the wide receiver will be a stud. I don't know if he's like that as a freshman, but he will be. Yeah, they'll grow into it. And then Anderson backstreet. Those guys can stay healthy. Barnes is coming back this week back up running back. We don't know what we'll get from him. That's by the way. It's a big important piece of news. The backup running back. Barnes. What's his first name? Javante. Javante. He is playing this week. And as far as the stud bow Barnes on defense, I think is probably one of them as well. Yeah, but I

17:38getting running back. Barnes back is huge. Even though Patterson looked really good last week against an FCS team, but still look good. Clark's puppet shop. If you need to return refresh, refuel, go to Clark's puppet shop. They got great breakfast, great prices, and you get rewards points when you buy fuel or anything else. Free coffee Friday. That's now. It actually starts today. Free coffee Friday. If you go and get fuel, you also can get free coffee. All of you are going to need gas. So go to a Clark's puppet shop near you. Start earning points. Gas is expensive, but you know, get free coffee. That's where you go. That's right. Go to Clark's puppet shop and return refresh, refuel with Clark's puppet shop. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Hi, this is Kylie Breakman, Angela Jaretana, Jeremy Colhane, Cash McDonald, and we're the hosts of the artists on artists on artists on artists podcast. The improvised character comedy podcast, we're each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft. Join us for a panel of wellness influencers. What I try to do is foe journal. I don't know,

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22:51stalked, controlled and nearly silenced but these aren't stories about what's taken from them. Their stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the survivor files with the Elizabeth Smart on the iHot Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back it is Kentucky Sports Radio. 89928287. Yahoo. Yahoo Sports is actually just released a simulation of all the games this year. They simulated Kentucky to win 4221. Let's go Yahoo. What? I love that. I'm going to be Yahoo. Yeah. You sure that wasn't the Youngstown State? I'm telling you. Shut up. Who? I'm at 42. Yahoo. Yahoo. How many points Shannon, let's start with you. How many points do we have to score to win this game? I feel it's going to be quite a few points score. I'm going to say

23:51it's got to be at least mid 30s. I'm going to say 35. At least you're right. I was going to go 28. I think it could be a slugfest for a lot of this games. I almost all say I think at the 28 I should feel pretty good about it. Yeah. I'll say 27. Alabama is going to find the ends on a lot. Unfortunately, just what can we do? I'm in your neck of the woods. I mean, I think for us to win, we're going to score a lot. I mean, I I'm very pessimistic on us being able to stop them. But I do think we can score on them. I do think that there are points to get. I'm just very pessimistic. I don't I'm not sure how good our defense is now with that said, we didn't play our starting quarters. We're going to play Alex Safari. There's you know, we're going to be better than we looked against Youngstown. But I feel like they're offense. I mean, that quarterback's going to give us a lot of problems. He we need him to make mistakes. Our best chance is he's a true freshman on the road has never played an environment like this. We need to get him shook. I think that's

24:53part of the reason you're seeing Will Stein say all this about going crazy. He wants to shake their quarterback. But that kids go make some plays and you saw last week, we were vulnerable to the little Youngstown state guy running. This guy's going to be better than that. Yeah, there's a reason Stein's emphasizing this crowd when you have a 19 year old who's never played in anything like this. You can really get between his ears. And if you were to go up early, get him behind playing from behind a little bit. I mean, it could be an absolute nightmare of a day for him. But at the same time, if he's comfortable and you're not getting pressure on him and letting him do it once, that could be a breakout game for him. It could be the start of something big. So the key is to really, really, really get in his head. And it's steam rolls. And I would say this to the folks who, and this isn't just for the people, although it's a lot for the people in the nice, low section where you have your bar. But this is also for other fans. The end of the first half in the beginning of the second half, we used to talk about that with Mark Stupes a lot. We didn't do a great job with that in the last game either. I mean, we actually, we let him score at the end. They started to move it a little bit at the start of the second half.

25:58People got to like stay in their seats and then get back in their seats for the third quarter. Because I think those are key parts of the game. And a lot of times our fans are kind of lack a daisicle in getting back to their seats for half time. Yeah. And if you're going, I was just talking to a friend Travis here, drink water because people were just falling down at their seats at the game last time. So please stay through the game, but also take care of yourself because there were just those ambulance carts everywhere last Saturday in the con course for people that weren't prepared for a full game. Do we, we're going to try to get somebody on here to tell us the weather for tomorrow? Before we get the professional Ryan, you, you, you like to think tell us what the weather will be. What is it? I put on my hat and weather hat scattered thunderstorms like all day tomorrow. Like it's just going to be hit or miss. I think most of the day. So it's hard to tell. So maybe the rain, maybe it won't. What you're saying. Really, it's a 50, 50 chance in my rain. Understand. Who's up next? Brands is up next. Brands. Go ahead, brand.

26:59Brands. First off. Yeah. If I'm here, can you hear me? Go. Hey, so just, hey, guys, so just few things. First, I think that the talent gap in the conference is really going to be shown that it's much closer than it was a few years ago. I think if you win on the offensive and defensive line, we can win the game. And then also the crowd should make Alabama offensive line a little shaky. I was there in 21 when you'd be pulled at home and it was so loud you couldn't think and the shaking was shaking and they had like eight penalties. So I think the same thing can happen tomorrow. I mean, that is, that's a huge thing. Florida had eight false starts in 2021. That's famously when Dan Arlovsky was calling the game and said, I didn't know it got down like this in Lexington. That's, that's what you need. You need that kind of a crowd noise throughout the game. That can be a massive difference. And remember, these students have Alabama on their on their chest. But a lot of these guys have never played in Alabama or even at schools like Alabama. There's going to be a lot of guys coming

28:04in there tomorrow. They'll be the first real packed hostile crowd they've ever been in because they were at UTAP or wherever else. So you can really rattle people and we got a shot to do it and our fans have got to be the ones to do it. Yeah, and Alabama's still good. Don't get me wrong. They're number 12. They'll probably be ranked all year. But it's not the Alabama's of five, 10 years ago where they just walked in knowing they're all just months away from NFL contract and playing a championship game. They've taken a little bit of a dip of the board and that talent gap of what they had over the rest of the SEC. And they have starters out in case you haven't seen. They got one of their best offensive linemen are out. They just lost their safety for the game tomorrow. I mean, they've got we are unbelievably Ryan completely healthy going into the game. Like we we're going into the game with literally an empty injury report, which I don't know in the history of watching Kentucky football. Do I ever remember an empty injury report? We basically again knocking on wood. This can all change in moment one. But we are going into the game with no injury.

29:07Yeah, you mentioned getting their backup running back barns back. Both are starting corners. Did not play against Youngstown State. They're both back. So it is kind of weird that we'd have a clearer, you know, injury report coming into the game. It's what they stay injury free because that's going to tell you. I mean, we get we got to strike first. We got to get a little minute early. Can't let them get their confidence and got that Russell guy kind of. Can you ever remember no injuries in a football game? That's the goal. You know, beat Youngstown State. Good, a good get a win that's going to make you feel good about kicking off the season and nobody get hurt. Nobody. And there's really a perfect first week. You almost couldn't have asked for a better situation in the first week. Who's next? Andrew is next. Andrew, I got less than a minute. Go. Two things real quick. One year is Louisville will ever get NBA team within the next 30 or 40 years and go Wildcat. Let's go pop a can. We'll pass on. Thank you. We'll appreciate the call. Some, but yeah, it's some bad news for Louisville. I don't know if you saw the story last night. Their women's professional soccer team looks like it might be moving to

30:09Cincinnati due to lack of support. The bad part of that, I mean, obviously it's bad for the soccer part, but that really hurts. It's attempts to get an NBA team. They'll be like, well, we gave you one professional team and you couldn't keep it. It looks like it made up moving to Cincinnati. We will take a break. Be right back here at Country Boy. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here line. A country boy sponsored by Republic Bank. Thank you to Republic Bank for bringing us out here for USA cares. There are still USA cares. T-shirts right out there for to help support the Kentucky veterans. You can go right back there to the back if you're here or if you're listening online, the Kentucky cares website. We decided because the weather's kind of unknown to bring on Chris Bailey. He is of course our weatherman extraordinaire from WKYT Chris. I guess I'll ask you this. Give us the best guess at what the weather is at kickoff. Well, hi guys. My concern tomorrow is going to be some lightning delays for tailgating and

31:16potentially during the game. I think we'll go see some scattered storms around and remember tomorrow when you're out there the eight mile radius for SEC games is going to it is really huge. You get a lightning strike anywhere within that eight mile radius even if it is not raining at Kroger Field. That's an automatic 30 minute delay. So I would be surprised if at some point tomorrow if we don't have a delay or two because of those scattered storms going up. Not going to be constant, not like what you're dealing with right now out there but these scattered thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon are going to flare up. So you are expecting potential lightning delays at various points. What's the most likely time before or during? I think there's a good shot that we get around with some showers and storms in the morning. We catch a break around late morning or early afternoon. Then as you get deeper into the afternoon those scattered storms are going to go up. Now here's hoping they all say out of that eight mile radius of Kroger Field. Little rain we can handle lightning is the biggest concern.

32:19Even if it never rains at Kroger Field what was it last year or the year before when we just had all those lightning delays and it never rained at the stadium. Yeah, yeah. So you know we've got to be on guard for something like that again. All right, I appreciate it. Chris, good to talk to you. I hope the. Hey, tell my man Ryan Limon that whether men are not just guessing. Come on. This isn't an. This isn't a guess. It's an educated guess. Well, but he did miss Billy's wedding. I will say that. He what? He missed Billy's wedding. Yeah, you did miss Billy's wedding. Billy paid a witch. Billy paid an Etsy witch though and Chris, you can't predict the Etsy wish. Building needs to go ahead and hire that witch again tomorrow. Yes. Oh, there we go. That's true, Billy. You do need to hire that witch tomorrow. I appreciate the call. Thank you, Chris. A 5.9. 2.8.0. 2287. One person writes, ask Drew, who's more likely to win? Kentucky football tomorrow or the Titans? Oh, God. Kentucky football. What are we doing? I mean,

33:24Titans play the Jets at home. I mean, that's not a guaranteed win by any means. I like actually, I like my maybe the only time all year. I'll have an exciting football weekend with both my teams this weekend. Yes. One person writes, Matt, my forecast for tomorrow's game is an increased chance of drunkenness with a 100% chance of profanity. Yeah. Who doesn't want to be in that environment? Well, I mean, some people wouldn't, but do you let me, will Stein doing that? If they win tomorrow, I think that's going to make Will Stein the second biggest story in college football behind whoever wins Texas Ohio State. If they lose tomorrow, do you think people use that to kind of mock him? I think it's very important we don't get destroyed tomorrow to kind of keep that from happening. Yeah. You got to keep it competitive. But of course, you know, if things go wrong, all these things that he's known for are going to get thrown right back in his face because of me or, you know, the obscenities thing, or, you know, but I think he does a great job, as I said earlier, just getting this fan base fired up and ready for this. To me, that was much more important than how

34:29you actually do it. Just wanted to say real quick, tell you all yet this week when I was in, when I was in at ESPN was a really, really awesome week to be there with all those folks and to like feel like a part of the group. The doing the shows, I also got to meet with executives who talk to me about the amount of Kentucky fans, et cetera. If you guys had a realization of how huge big blue nation is and how much, I mean, I can go ahead and tell you having done those meetings this week, I would not be on the air if it wasn't for the amount of support you guys have brought to it. So I do really want to thank everybody. I mean, I had, you know, my goal is who's been doing radio for 30 years. My goal is that I was watching the game on Wednesday night and he was, and he, that was where we had done this whole little back and forth and he was like, your fan base is insane. He said, I thought Notre Dame fans were insane. He was like, your fan base is even more insane

35:34and it was very cool to hear that from somebody who probably had the most successful sports radio show in history. Yeah, I know you've had a lot of our morning listeners follow you to three to five on weekdays and you appreciate that. And the fan base you write about and on the football end, we're just sleeping giant that's going to wake up tomorrow at about seven o'clock at night right before the game ends. I think go look and ESPN everyone nationally will see what BBN can really do as we get into this football season. Yes, I agree with that. And it's also just kind of cool to be, you all, I took you guys there once to walk around the place and now they had our, they had our poster up and that was very exciting. It was also weird being there yesterday after Barry Melrose died. Yeah, because like he was beloved in that place and people were legitimately throughout the building extremely sad. I'm sure that was a really heavy place, you know, to have to deal with the death of Barry Melrose. But you know, you're just hanging out with your boys. It's got Van Pell, just this bump in and he's in DC, but the rest of them were there. Who's up next? Robert is up next.

36:36Robert, go ahead, Robert. Yes. Alabama is vulnerable. We need two pivotal plays created by the crowd to go our way. Big blue nation, we're arguing. I'm getting a casual non-shot vibe that's broad able to work because these biggest football games. There's let me tell you something. You can't sit, you can't sit at home and say there's a non-shelon vibe. This place is absolutely packed and electric. Let him hear that real quick. You don't get to sit at home. You don't get to sit at home and say it's non-shelon. If you can see this crowd, now not everything comes through the microphone, but there are people everywhere they're drinking. It is pouring rain and there are people who've come. So I'm taken up for this crowd. You can't call people non-shelon who stop through the rain to come on a Friday morning and sit and watch a radio show. Appreciate the call. Come on now. Yeah, they let

37:43you. He said, oh, by the way, people ask, I'm going to the game and sitting in the crowd because I want to be there to feel that atmosphere tomorrow. So if you're in section, I think I'm in section seven. If you're there, I expect section seven to be loud. I expect you to be wearing white too. I've already got my white t-shirt. I checked. I'm wearing white. You're going to stand up. What is someone tells you to sit down? I bring it tall, bought him a tall box of people if he stands up, but we're going. Tall's got his flask ready to go. I'm sure. He's got his wife feet or shirt on. He's ready to go. I think he'll be going. Who's next? Dawson is next. Dawson, go ahead Dawson. Hey, I got to give Ryan Lim and a hard time real quick. Don't take it to heart, Ryan. I'm just giving you a hard time. Uh oh. Uh oh. We know you love high school. He's already good mad. He's already getting mad. We know you love high school sports and my little sister was raised on KSR and weigh in it up with your phone number years ago. So every year before the season, she sends

38:47you a text and says, here's our schedule. If you want to support, here you go. Just messing with you, getting the last year. She tried to do it. She couldn't because Ryan Lim and has blocked my sweet little baby sister. You blocked his baby sister. Oh, no. It had to be a butt block. I didn't do it. Let me ask you question. You've kind of been on a kick where you just block anyone. Is it you're just blocking any text from someone you don't know? Well, if they're asking me for money, all these people asking me for money. He's asking you for money. Oh, the sister every football team and in the state, it's like got these little. I mean, you're blocking people who are asking you for money. You're blocking charity. You're blocking charity. It's like a spam. There's something out spam trying to get by. Yeah, donate money. You hear that? Don't you? These are your sister spam. These Kentucky high school. I appreciate the call. You're telling me pike bowl high school calls you for a fundraiser. Don't call. It's a text and you

39:47if it's like it looks like a spam one, I block it. You know, they sent it to everybody in their phone. So I get one of their messages trying me to donate money to this team. That team, I got one screenshot at first before you block it. Why do you block them? Just you don't have to respond. I don't know. I'm sure didn't do little Dawson. That had to be a mistake. I'm piecing this together. He replies to the political spam, but blocks a little sister that is trying to do a fundraiser here locally. That's extremely rude. Well, then don't send me the messages. Want me to donate money to every program in the state. I'm rich. I'm not rich. I'm poor. I'm rich. I'm rich. I'm not rich. I'm poor. Yeah. Do not think you're poor. I've seen that pool. 8.5 9.280. 2287. I hear through the grapevine that within the next little bit we may be announcing a sellout tomorrow, which is pretty exciting. I'm so happy. I was surprised. It took so long. Only what 54 tickets yesterday. So I would have said that before we've done a

40:50few little releases here at the end. And here's a little more of a section. Here's another section. I think they're giving away. I think they've been given away some of the student parts that they don't think are going to get used because they they want it to be full. I don't I think the students and this is their right. They can do what they want. But students are going to find themselves getting less seats because they're just not using them. They don't use them. Football. I'm basketball. So those seats were up there in the corner. We're unused students seats last weekend. So why not give those to somebody once it goes to the game. It's harvest season. And it cornbread quality starts with every seed. They use organic Kentucky hemp. Never synthetics. You get liquor barn total wine, fresh market coxies and more to stand up for responsible hemp farmers go to cornbread hemp.com slash action. Make your voice heard and use my code KSR for 20% off. It's cornbread hemp grown for the good life. We will take a break and be right back. Final segment cats and Alabama's KSR. Hi, this is highly breakman. Angel Jaretana. Jeremy Colhane, Patrick McDonald. And we're the hosts of the artists on artists on artists on artists podcast. The improvised character comedy podcast were each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft.

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43:00you get your podcasts. By Asia Rather and our soul at least 70% have a phone. Middle school is a different world than the one we grew up in. I'm Dr. Joy and this is therapy for Black girls. We spent real time on it in our surviving middle school run. Bringing in a child psychologist and a psychiatrist who's raising two Black girls of his own to talk about what's really going on with our kids right now. So it's literally physiological and neurological and psychological chaos. I mean all of this seems off. We got into group chats and gaming, friendships and bullying, and how to tell the difference between healthy monitoring and the kind of surveillance that erodes trust. You're belonging. You could think of belonging as I can be myself and I can still be accepted and then they're fitting in. Spitting in says I have to change who I am in order to avoid rejection. Then we turn the conversation toward the fathers sitting down with therapists cure gains on Black fatherhood and what it means to raise a daughter through this stage. You don't have more shorts so you can't do flips. You have one to dress you up across your legs. That's the

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46:06bed and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced, but these aren't stories about what's taken from them. Their stories about what it takes to make it out alive, listen to the survivor files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartReneo app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back it is Kentucky Sports Radio Final segment in Georgetown Country Boy. It has been raining the whole time and the crowd has still remained and is kicking it. This is sponsored by Republic Bank for USA Cares. Thank you guys to you folks for making the trip out here. We really do appreciate you all in the work that you do. 859-288-2287. We're going to make our picks here in just a minute, but let's do the KSR Parlay. Last week we got three out of four. The only one we missed was if Auburn could have just played a little defense at the end and we would have had it, including even unprepared Ron got it.

47:09So either bet the Parlay or take it individually. I'm going to go first. I'm going to take Boise State. It's an eight and a half point favorite against Memphis. I think they pound them. So give me Boise State at home to pound Memphis eight and a half points. I will take the Broncos. What about you Drew? I'm going to bet against Michigan. I just can't forget that game last week. Five points. Five and a half. It's at the big house, but I think Oklahoma goes in there, covers that spread. Maybe we'll get burned on that flu game a week ago, but I just can't get behind that team that lost to Western Michigan. Did not win that game. See, I mean, that's a tough one because I agree with you. I feel like that's the obvious peak of the week, but remember I always worry about the overreaction on week one, leading to week two. I look for that and that feels like an overreaction game, but I had to bet it. I would do a whole whole thing. I'm betting on underwood not being that guy and I think Oklahoma is really good. Yeah. All right. Ryan. I'm going to Texas Oak Ohio State's kind of a pick him. I'm going to take

48:09Texas at home when they're a point and a half favorite right now. Wow. You're going to take. I love the parlay coming down to the biggest game in the week two. Second biggest game. That would be that would be amazing if it comes down to you or Texas Ohio State. I think I'm a night game too. For my pit, we're going to Minnesota, home of the only only Chi Chi's in America in Minnesota, but I'm going to keep it in the SEC. Mississippi State is a one and a half point favorite. They had nearly 800 yards in offense last week. I think they keep it rolling. It's funny. My second two choices are the two you pick. Yeah. I was going to pick Mississippi State. I was going to pick Oklahoma. So those are the second two. I was not going to take Texas. So Ryan, I'm crossing my fingers on yours. Well, like I said, it's almost a pick him came right. It's one and a half so I go with the home team. Go with Texas. I know because a lot of people that makes it's the hardest one. Texas won't lose at home, will they? Will they? They're playing maybe the most talented roster in college football. They are ranked number one Ohio State. So time for the big boys to go down. I like it. There you go. I'm a black guy fan. This is not an official play for me,

49:13but I'm really excited to see what Cudder Bowley does going to Texas A&M. That's a 14 and a half point spread. I considered that one. I won't stay away, but I'm excited to see what happens there. It is worth noting. We should. I think people should be happy for Cudder Bowley who went to who's gone to a great first game in Arizona State played here. Obviously from Lexington. You know, I think he would have played here. We'll wanted to go in a different direction. So I'm rooting for Cudder Bowley. Yeah, he's well, it's a good they're playing at A&M. Yeah, we're there next week. So we'll get a good sense of what the difference is when we end up playing. Yeah, I just feel like that game's not talked to a lot of a lot of reason to watch that. Those teams scored like 70 and 50 points that we could go against some some bad teams. We'll see how that. Tom Hearts on that game. Tom Hearts on that game and Tom Heart might be there again next week when we go. So we make it Tom Heart back for a game starting next week. Who's up next? Mark is up next. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hey guys, how's it going real quickly? I was just sick yesterday about the fellow who's

50:16called in and wanted to live while at the games. Yes. Well, in the 70s, mid 70s when I was a student, they had a live while at the games. The cage. And I remember to the C game when they had an orange hanging in the cage. And the Wildcat was squatting at it. Well, I didn't know, where did you know we had a live while. Catted games. I've never heard this story. Has anybody remembered the wild live while? Catted games? Got one over here. It does. Where? You remember that? He's the one that brought it. So they would just put it in a cage right there next to the thing. Yep. Wow. I feel like wild cats. I appreciate the car. That's a dangerous animal to bring in there. I guess they bring in tigers for the LSU game. So we should try one game. See what happens. Come on, Jaybat. It's all the dice. Take one more step, Jaybat. Go get us a live while, cat. Yeah. By the way, don't get on me. I'm just passing on the message. This isn't me. I got sent by someone at UK to tell the crowd they will confiscate, confiscate flask if you bring

51:20them into the. It's okay. You just got to be good at hiding it. Yeah. It's just passing on the message. Get creative. I mean, I will say I heard a coach yesterday say the opposite. I didn't hear that. Yeah. But I'm just passing on the message. Who's next? Steam is up next. Steve, go ahead, Steve. It would be funny if the security ends up as a huge thing of flask out there after it's over. Steve, go ahead. Hey guys, Kevin, Ed from Bulletin. He's one of the share of two things. I looked forward to tomorrow. One, I hope somebody leads the team out with a big, big-ass American flag. Hopefully set the tone for the crowd. And secondly, not all situations call for this. I'm not adenious, but I look forward to the team starting off and knocking out a man in the mouth. Hopefully putting them back on their heels and you know, setting this up for the death. So

52:21anyway, I hope so. I think we're going to have to come out. Appreciate the call. I think we're going to have to come out early and play well. Although I will say, unlike Mark Stoops teams, where when you fell down, it was over. This is a team that can come back. I think this is a team that the way they play. They have an offense where they can come back if they need to. Let's get started. Kentucky is a at this moment. 10 point underdog to Alabama. We beat them once since 1923. Shannon, who's going to win and then give me the MVP? You're only going to make me do this in front of all these people. I am as much as I would love for Kentucky to win tomorrow. They're not going to win tomorrow. They're going to lose. It's going to be close though. I'm going to say Bama wins at 35-31. All right. Ryan, there's no way I'm picking Kentucky to lose in front of this crowd. Kentucky wins the game. I think it's kind of a rock fight though. I think I'm going to go 24-21 Kentucky. Let me give him a stun for stun here. I am, as you all know, high on the cats tomorrow. I already bet the money line for my score. I will say 27-24 MVP will be... Let's go,

53:29Kenny Darby. Let's keep riding that tree. We're going to get up early, which will make it hell on their quarterback. You know, there are certain times in sports where you can just feel it like the caller said earlier in your blood. And this is one of those times. Will Stein grew up a Kentucky fam. Was going to the games as a young... Was at the Kentucky game where they beat Alabama in 1997. And now he returns home and the schedule makers could not have set this up more perfectly. Will Stein wants to turn this program around. And there is no symbol in college football that is quite like Alabama. Tomorrow the tide come in. It's going to be a battle. It's going to be one of the great environments in Kroger Field slash Commonwealth Stadium history. The cats come out, punch them in the mouth on the first drive. And they win 34-31 and kick the Will Stein era off with a massive victory. CJ Baxter is the MVP. And I'm storming the field and they can have the $500,000. We will see you later. This is me and Kentucky Sports Radio.

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