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Speaker 2: Welcome into Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin here filling in
Speaker 2: one last time for Matt Jones and everyone else that
Speaker 2: took vacation this week. I got another fun show planned
Speaker 2: on a Friday with Billy our Sports Here. We're in studio.
Speaker 2: I just set down like thirty seconds ago, so I'm
Speaker 2: a little out of breath, but we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: fun time Billy Today, we're as usual sponsored by TJ Smith,
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Speaker 2: Thief call of the day. And if you want to
Speaker 2: text Matt on the a Vision Autoglass text machine, he's
Speaker 2: still over looking at Tulips in Amsterdam with his fellowship friends.
Speaker 2: You can reach out to him there. But it gonna
Speaker 2: be a fun one. I had a big plan for
Speaker 2: you know, Lexington turns two hundred and fifty this year, Billy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen them all, but town's
Speaker 2: all about Lexton's birthday coming up. So I wanted to
Speaker 2: do a celebration of Lexington. I even invited the Mayor
Speaker 2: to come on and give her some of her favorite
Speaker 2: Lexington things. She was gonna be here at eleven, and
Speaker 2: she asked if she could do ten fifteen, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll make that work. And then the Kayden Lewis news
Speaker 2: dropped in the middle of the night, so I hope
Speaker 2: she has a Kayden Lewis takes when she gets here.
Speaker 2: But Mayor Linda Gordon will be joining us. Like I said,
Speaker 2: we'll get her takes on Lexington. We'll share some of
Speaker 2: our favorite things about Lexington. And I have a ticket giveaway.
Speaker 2: You gotta giveaway today. Tick. Actually, I wasn't gonna say
Speaker 2: ticket giveaway is gonna surprise everyone. I have a giveaway.
Speaker 2: Just pretend I didn't say ticket.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: We'll scratch that out. But I was trying to think
Speaker 2: of a game. I was over here in the other
Speaker 2: room coming up with it on the fly. I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna reward people that listen to the whole show. Okay,
Speaker 2: I like that. So I'm gonna give a buzzword in
Speaker 2: each segment, and you gotta know the of the first hour.
Speaker 2: You gotta know all four buzzwords, one for each segment.
Speaker 2: The second hour, we'll take calls and you cannot participate
Speaker 2: unless you know all four of the buzzwords. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: So if you're out there, just write it down. If
Speaker 2: you're driving, make a mintal note until you can pull over.
Speaker 2: It won't be complicated words, just one word a segment.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know which word it is, and then
Speaker 2: we'll have some calls and one lucky caller will will
Speaker 2: you know win if they're.
Speaker 4: The mayor of Lexington and a giveaway On the final
Speaker 4: day of Drew Palooza.
Speaker 2: I mean, what more could you want? You came up
Speaker 2: with a game we're gonna try to get to. Probably
Speaker 2: won't because I overprogram all of this and we got
Speaker 2: thrown off with you Kaden Lewis news. But it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a fun day. I guess we're calling it Drew
Speaker 2: Palooza's last ride, my last last time in charge. But
Speaker 2: I guess we do have to start with the big news. Think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've had a lot of news, a lot of basketball
Speaker 2: this week. I was excited to get extra goofy today,
Speaker 2: but yep, more news dropped last night. First, I want
Speaker 2: to apologize to at Kevin Miller seven, longtime listener. He
Speaker 2: tweets us a lot. After yesterday's show, he tweeted, Drew
Speaker 2: Palooza started with great news and the commitment. Hopefully it
Speaker 2: ends with good news in a commitment on Friday. Well, Kevin, At,
Speaker 2: we actually went the other direction. Instead of a plus
Speaker 2: one today, Kentucky basketball is a minus one. We learned
Speaker 2: last night to Kayden Lewis, the four star point guard
Speaker 2: from DC who has been committed to Kentucky since November.
Speaker 2: He looked around at that roster and said, I'm out.
Speaker 2: He decommitted from the Cats. He's the number thirty two
Speaker 2: incoming freshman in the class fifth rank point guard, a
Speaker 2: guy we were very excited about having he and Jasper Johnson.
Speaker 2: Pope spoke hoghy of them as a future backcourt, but
Speaker 2: last night he stepped away and reopened his recruitment. He
Speaker 2: will not be a Wildcat. He put a little memo
Speaker 2: out that said, I'll always be grateful to Coach Pope
Speaker 2: and the entire Kentucky staff for believing in me. Is
Speaker 2: clear Kentucky is a special place with an amazing fan base.
Speaker 2: But as I reflect on what is best for my future,
Speaker 2: I have decided to reopen my recruitment. It's an incredibly
Speaker 2: difficult decision, but after a lot of discussion with my
Speaker 2: family and people I trust, I feel it's necessary. It's
Speaker 2: not in any way a reflection of negative feelings towards
Speaker 2: Coach Pope in Kentucky. I appreciate your understanding exciting for
Speaker 2: what the future holds. We didn't see that one coming,
Speaker 2: Billy No, and it's disappointing.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is a freshman that was going to
Speaker 4: come in that understood what it means to be a
Speaker 4: part of BBN. His family was a big fan of
Speaker 4: what the Kentucky basketball program does in the stage that
Speaker 4: it sets for others.
Speaker 2: But I'm not that worried.
Speaker 4: I have the confidence that Pope will be able to
Speaker 4: reload find another person in the transfer portal. Ultimately it
Speaker 4: will be okay. But overall disappointing that he wasn't willing
Speaker 4: to compete. I found a quote when he signed that
Speaker 4: he said, they want me to come in and play
Speaker 4: a priority role right away. There's a starting spot and
Speaker 4: he wants me to take it. I want to come
Speaker 4: in and run the team. And obviously with the addition
Speaker 4: of Jalen Lowe, I guess he just thought that he
Speaker 4: wasn't going to be the starting point guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My take on it is it definitely hurts to
Speaker 2: lose a kid that was committed for five We're all
Speaker 2: excited about him. He was probably gonna I know he
Speaker 2: said he wanted to start right away. I think that
Speaker 2: was unlikely he was. I think the plan was to
Speaker 2: make him the starting point guard his sophomore year in
Speaker 2: twenty six twenty seven, after a kind of a year
Speaker 2: and being in the system as a backup. I think
Speaker 2: Pope was supposed to go out and get a senior,
Speaker 2: and when you miss on Dent and maybe some others,
Speaker 2: he goes and gets Jayalen low who's a junior to here.
Speaker 2: Now that's thrown off the math in the timeline. So
Speaker 2: my guess on the outside looking in is Kayden Lewis
Speaker 2: was ready to back up whoever they got out of
Speaker 2: the portal, learn and then be the guy in two years.
Speaker 2: But now with Low here, you know he could end
Speaker 2: up being a two year point guard. That probably is
Speaker 2: the plan. So it stinks to lose him. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to act like it's nothing, but I don't know
Speaker 2: that it'll have a huge impact on next season. I
Speaker 2: think they'll go out, they'll find someone in the portal
Speaker 2: that's excited to come play ten fifteen minutes at Kentucky,
Speaker 2: be a good backup to low They got other guards
Speaker 2: that can do it. But you know, it does stink
Speaker 2: overall because we were excited to have him, and I
Speaker 2: think he was going to be the guy two years
Speaker 2: from now. I suppose we won't really know how it
Speaker 2: shakes out. So he's a sophomore and Lowe's a senior
Speaker 2: to know how he won that one. Because right now
Speaker 2: he's a freshman. He could show up and be a
Speaker 2: freshman phenom right, or he could be someone that needs
Speaker 2: some time. But it did stink seeing that news pop
Speaker 2: up late last night. Yeah, we'll see where he falls.
Speaker 4: You know, there's been rubblings about Yukon and that was
Speaker 4: in his recruitment back when he committed back to Kentucky.
Speaker 4: But I'm with you, I think that Pope will find
Speaker 4: somebody in the portal. Do you call kirkriesa back?
Speaker 2: I mean that, I'll admit that popped in my head
Speaker 2: pretty quickly, because they're gonna need that type. They're gonna
Speaker 2: need an old guy who just wants to get a
Speaker 2: little NIO money in his last ride, doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be the star, happy to come off the bench, maybe
Speaker 2: can go chase a final four. There's probably several people
Speaker 2: in college basketball that aren't even in the portal that
Speaker 2: would love that spot. So I don't think they'll have
Speaker 2: any trouble filling it. But I did think of Kirk
Speaker 2: right away. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe that's like getting back with your ex,
Speaker 4: but I don't know if there were hard feelings there.
Speaker 4: I feel like he loved the university, but Matt has
Speaker 4: eluded some maybe things behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's it's just a strange time.
Speaker 4: I mean, the portals still open for another what eleven
Speaker 4: days or so, and and guys that are entering the
Speaker 4: portal maybe haven't even done that yet. So it's just
Speaker 4: the strange time. But you know, drew Palooza ending with
Speaker 4: a d commitment. I did not see that coming after
Speaker 4: all the positive momentum we had.
Speaker 3: Drew.
Speaker 2: I feel bad. You know, we've added I think two players.
Speaker 2: You're still plast one three players. Yeah, well if you count,
Speaker 2: wasn't there one last Saturday? And lo Low was on Saturday,
Speaker 2: So I'm weekend. I'm still We're still in the green.
Speaker 2: But as as keV Miller seven suggested, you know, I
Speaker 2: wanted to come here and one one last addition to
Speaker 2: the roster before I disappear. And I just feel like
Speaker 2: I'll let everyone down.
Speaker 4: Well that and if we don't get to alien talk
Speaker 4: in the second hour, you'll let some more people.
Speaker 2: People are mad about that. Again, I have way too
Speaker 2: much in my notes. I wanted to do Aliens. I
Speaker 2: really want to talk about Lexington. As I said, the
Speaker 2: mayor is going to be joining us soon. We were
Speaker 2: shooting to do that eleven, but she needed to come
Speaker 2: in a little earlier, which is fine. We'll get her
Speaker 2: a Kaden.
Speaker 3: Lewis takes and alien takes.
Speaker 2: No, we're just going to talk aliens with Mayor Linda Gorton.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a fun show. Like I said,
Speaker 2: you want to listen to the whole show. I'm going
Speaker 2: to drop a buzzword every action. We'll just do it
Speaker 2: right now. What's your first first segment? If you're driving,
Speaker 2: do not write it. I get ready, right, buckle up,
Speaker 2: put your phone down. If you're driving, just memorize it
Speaker 2: or tell it to everyone in the car with you,
Speaker 2: memorize it together, and then write it down when you
Speaker 2: get parked. But uh, just for this segment, the buzzword
Speaker 2: is lady, lady, lady. It's pretty easy, right you remember lady?
Speaker 2: Easy easy. I'm not trying to like confuse anyone, you know,
Speaker 2: not to really use your brain here, Just lady. Who's that?
Speaker 3: Lady?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Lady? Remember lady. If you're listening, you'll need to
Speaker 2: remember it in the second hour if you want to
Speaker 2: win our contest. But yeah, we're going to get to
Speaker 2: a lot about Lexington celebrating that two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 2: I want to list some my favorite restaurants and places
Speaker 2: because people ask me all the time, where do you
Speaker 2: like to go? Where should I go before the game?
Speaker 2: What do you do in your free time? And I
Speaker 2: try to respond to a lot of them. But now
Speaker 2: that I have this platform, I'll just tell you and
Speaker 2: you all can figure it out and go from there. Billy,
Speaker 2: you haven't lived in Lexington long, but I know you
Speaker 2: like living here. I'm gonna get some of your your
Speaker 2: favorite places, what you like to do. I got a
Speaker 2: couple spots, not all golf courses. And you can't just
Speaker 2: read our sponsors. I mean, I know we like our sponsors. Damn.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well then I'll get it out of the way now,
Speaker 4: like you should go to a Talx and Poppies and
Speaker 4: all the great places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, John, Yeah, yeah, No, I mean we
Speaker 2: love the ones that support us. Those are genuine. But
Speaker 2: we're gonna branch out and tell you about some others
Speaker 2: that we don't always tell people.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe some Lexington ghosts those exists. I could combine
Speaker 2: you know that I saw on Reddit, which is the
Speaker 2: most reliable website on Earth. Earlier this week that people
Speaker 2: were freaking out about a UFO over Lexington.
Speaker 3: Over Lexington.
Speaker 2: I think it was just someone with a drone. But
Speaker 2: you know, we'll get whacky if we need to here
Speaker 2: on a Friday, maybe do some alien ghosts Lexington talk,
Speaker 2: but be a big Lexington Day. We'll do a little
Speaker 2: more about a kayd and Lewis. Like I said, Linda
Speaker 2: Gordon will be here in here soon. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a fun last Friday before the boys get back. I
Speaker 2: actually heard from Ryan Lemon last night, so I know
Speaker 2: he's alive. He asked me a question about the Masters,
Speaker 2: just out of the blue. That's the only thing he's communicated,
Speaker 2: so I I correct. I answered that. But that's that
Speaker 2: was my at least proof of life on Ryan and
Speaker 2: Shannon down there. Yeah, I saw a seagull pooped on
Speaker 2: him yesterday. Oh I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Shannon posted a picture.
Speaker 2: Okay, I did see a picture. Yoga girl posted a
Speaker 2: picture of Ryan and Shannon together. Are they holding hands? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean it's a big ocean, guys, you don't have
Speaker 2: to stand that close together when you're in it. It
Speaker 2: looked like they were hugging. I saw that twenty yards
Speaker 2: out in the water. They're they're pretty close to uh
Speaker 2: getting a banana boat and floating around. I think looks
Speaker 2: like the guys are having a good time. Ryan also
Speaker 2: tweeted a picture of him eating a sandwich and Shannon
Speaker 2: eating a sandwich. I don't know if it was blurry
Speaker 2: because he had mayo on his lens or if that's
Speaker 2: kind of how Ryan's vision looks after a few marks today,
Speaker 2: But it looks like they're having fun before they join
Speaker 2: us next week. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Somebody said that he took that picture with a seashell
Speaker 4: and it kind of looks like, well, we do miss him.
Speaker 4: We've had fun, but it'd be good to get him
Speaker 4: back on Monday. Let's let's take a quick break because
Speaker 4: I'm a little worried about running into the uh the
Speaker 4: herd break with with Mary. Yeah we are going to Yeah,
Speaker 4: that would be the worst. So let's let's cut out
Speaker 4: a little earlier now so we have more time with her.
Speaker 4: Talk a little lexton. Like I said, big show plans,
Speaker 4: So tune in and remember, lady, we'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in to Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin with
Speaker 4: Billy Rudlige on the last day of Drew Palooza. And
Speaker 4: now we're happy to be joined by our by our
Speaker 4: special guest, Lexington Mayor Linda Gordon. Linda, it's good to
Speaker 4: have you in here.
Speaker 2: Thanks for making the trip up to the iHeart Studios
Speaker 2: to celebrate Lexingon with us for a segment.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm thrilled to be here.
Speaker 6: I didn't know it was a palooza though, well it
Speaker 6: Drew Paloza.
Speaker 2: That wasn't the plan, but listeners named it that, so
Speaker 2: we just went with it.
Speaker 5: It works.
Speaker 2: We'll get you a T shirt on the way out
Speaker 2: and maybe a poster. But I wanted we're talking about
Speaker 2: Lexington today and who knows Lexingon as well as you,
Speaker 2: so I wanted to get some things, uh not so serious,
Speaker 2: just more things like what are your favorite restaurants, what's this?
Speaker 2: What's that? But I want to start with the excitement
Speaker 2: around you. K basketball. You're a UK graduate if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken. I don't know if you get to attend
Speaker 2: many games. But are you Are you caught up in
Speaker 2: the Mark Pope pipe after the last season?
Speaker 5: Oh I am.
Speaker 6: I am right there with everybody. I bleed blue. My
Speaker 6: husband's a graduate, our kids are graduates.
Speaker 5: We are all in.
Speaker 6: We go to a lot of the games, and Mark
Speaker 6: Pope is he's a phenomenal coach and a phenomenal human being.
Speaker 6: And when he first came, I went last summer to
Speaker 6: visit him and welcome him to our city, welcome him back, right,
Speaker 6: and he one of the one of the first things
Speaker 6: he said is how can I help you? He's such
Speaker 6: a he has a giving mentality, but he is also
Speaker 6: a man, I think, a very high character, don't you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely we all see that. I think that's part of
Speaker 2: the excitement. It's been revamped up here lately.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so we're gonna see what this new team
Speaker 6: looks like.
Speaker 5: It's kind of fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's hard to keep up when we had news drop
Speaker 2: last night. Now, I'm not going to have you break
Speaker 2: down the I don't want to put you on the spot.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you have strong opinions about the roster right now,
Speaker 2: but you mentioned mentioned welcoming Pope back to Lexton. My
Speaker 2: next question is I want to pretend like Billy here
Speaker 2: does not know anything about Lexington. Just pretend he's an
Speaker 2: alien that has never heard of our beautiful city. How
Speaker 2: would you describe Lexington to to young billy here?
Speaker 6: Well, first, I would say, where in the heck have
Speaker 6: you been? We are a great city, billy. Lots of food, restaurants,
Speaker 6: local restaurants, lots of uh facilities for bike riding, pedestrians.
Speaker 5: Going to ride your bike.
Speaker 6: The the restaurant scene, I think is just phenomenal here.
Speaker 6: It's highly educated city. The downtown's vibrant, it is alive.
Speaker 6: I've had some unnamed other mayors in town after five
Speaker 6: and they have been shocked at how busy our downtown is.
Speaker 5: It's really great. A lot going on sports.
Speaker 6: If you like sports, this is the place to be
Speaker 6: because we've got it all here.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna put you on the spot with some
Speaker 2: some restaurants. I consider myself a bit of a foodie.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're going out, whether it be meeting
Speaker 2: with other mayors or just taking the family out, can
Speaker 2: you name drop some some places you like to go?
Speaker 2: Is that putting you on the spot?
Speaker 6: You're asking me to name drop in a city with
Speaker 6: all kinds of I mean Italian, I have my favorite
Speaker 6: Italian restaurants.
Speaker 5: You want me to really say them, don't you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you love them all, but maybe.
Speaker 5: Sa so so uh fella.
Speaker 6: And my daughter's high school class started Goodfellas on the street.
Speaker 6: We all love good Fellas, of course everybody does. We've
Speaker 6: I've got my favorite place for ahi tuna.
Speaker 5: Do you like ah?
Speaker 6: Of course, my gosh, We've got it all. Brunch places,
Speaker 6: We've got after hours places go have some appetizer and
Speaker 6: a drink. And you really, I know you're dying for
Speaker 6: me to say that.
Speaker 2: That's okay. I understand if we don't. We don't want
Speaker 2: you to put others.
Speaker 5: Because so many that's true.
Speaker 2: How about when you were at UK a student just
Speaker 2: a few years ago, were there any places that you
Speaker 2: like to go that are maybe gone and you wish
Speaker 2: you could bring back. Did you have any places you'd
Speaker 2: frequent when you were in school?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 6: There are so On South Lime, there was a place
Speaker 6: called Doodle's Pizza. Now this is going way back, and
Speaker 6: Doodles had the thickest cheese on top.
Speaker 5: Of course I love cheese.
Speaker 6: But at that time my husband and I were dating
Speaker 6: and we were young, and I could share a large
Speaker 6: pizza with it right on. So that one's gone. I really,
Speaker 6: We've thought about that a lot over the years.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 6: Did you ever I shouldn't maybe mention this, but only
Speaker 6: the people who are a long time ago will remember
Speaker 6: shoes shoes s. I think it was s h U
Speaker 6: E S or something. It was right across from the
Speaker 6: Med Center and on Friday night, all the nursing students
Speaker 6: which I was one, and the med students would go
Speaker 6: and they had pizza and big pictures of beer and
Speaker 6: it was the end of the week and the stress
Speaker 6: levels were high.
Speaker 5: It was fun place to go.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if you have the power
Speaker 2: to do this, but I miss the old KA layer
Speaker 2: that was by Hagen Hall, which also isn't here. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you can pull any stream. There's there's
Speaker 2: a new k layer, which is fine, but I missed
Speaker 2: the original maybe the original ovids, those were good ones.
Speaker 2: If you had like a free day with no obligations,
Speaker 2: what do you think you would do in Lexington?
Speaker 6: Well, well, the first thing is I'm not setting an
Speaker 6: alarm clock. We all kind of get that right. I
Speaker 6: won't set an alarm clock. And then I'll have a
Speaker 6: leisurely morning having my coffee and reading the paper and
Speaker 6: I like to work a puzzle. I mean a you know,
Speaker 6: crossword puzzle.
Speaker 2: I do the New York Times Mini every morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then I would probably have a friend or two
Speaker 6: or three and go out to brunch at one of
Speaker 6: my favorite places, take a long walk. I like to
Speaker 6: walk in the Arboretum. Have you ever been over there?
Speaker 6: Of course yep, and just kind of putts around, read
Speaker 6: a book.
Speaker 5: I might go to a movie. I love movies. I
Speaker 5: don't have a lot.
Speaker 6: Of time for them, but since I have a day
Speaker 6: off compliments of.
Speaker 2: Years, yeah, no obligations, yep, it.
Speaker 6: Would be great that way. And then I'd probably go
Speaker 6: out to dinner with my husband.
Speaker 5: We would not.
Speaker 2: Cook too many options. Right here, it's Keenland season. You
Speaker 2: mentioned you're busy and don't get days off, But do
Speaker 2: you get to enjoy Keenland? I do.
Speaker 6: I will be going in a day or two. I
Speaker 6: can't remember exactly when, but I love Keenland, and you
Speaker 6: know Keenland. So when I grew up, I was growing
Speaker 6: up in Ohio. I'm an import A long time ago,
Speaker 6: and no one up there could understand why do you
Speaker 6: talk about horses because they're not horse country like we are,
Speaker 6: and it's very special, and Keenland has this beautiful new
Speaker 6: edition which I can't wait to see. Plus they give
Speaker 6: back big time to our community. They give a ton
Speaker 6: of money to nonprofits and other entities. They're a real
Speaker 6: good community partner. But I love the racing, don't you.
Speaker 6: It's very special, and whenever I go, I always like
Speaker 6: to go down to the rail at least once and
Speaker 6: hear the snorting and the hoof beats as the horses
Speaker 6: come by there. It's just very it's really unique.
Speaker 2: Winners because I'm not I can pick the last place
Speaker 2: horse anytime you want, but I don't do well well.
Speaker 5: You have to look at the name.
Speaker 6: Of course, if there's a gray, you you know you
Speaker 6: pick the gray. But I'm not very good at it.
Speaker 6: I just do it more on sentimental things that I like.
Speaker 6: So it's good though. It's really fun.
Speaker 2: You mentioned giving back to the community. I've told my
Speaker 2: listeners this week. I recently accepted a acting role at
Speaker 2: the Lexa and Children's Theater. In fact, my costume fitting
Speaker 2: is right after the show. This is a big deal.
Speaker 2: And I saw in past performances you were listed as one.
Speaker 2: Do you did you do that? Do you have any tips,
Speaker 2: any acting tips.
Speaker 5: I did that twice.
Speaker 6: So I was in The Little Mermaid and then before that,
Speaker 6: I was in Alice in Wonderland, Okay, and that was
Speaker 6: really fun. That's where I met Jeremy Ashby the chef.
Speaker 6: It's where I met Peter Bainiac who was a ver
Speaker 6: Old leader. Craig Camak was in it. We had we
Speaker 6: had some fun times. And you know, there was a
Speaker 6: there was a little tea ceremony with the teapot and
Speaker 6: it might have had some special bluegrass tea.
Speaker 2: Oh I hope I get some blue grass tea. And Romeo?
Speaker 5: Oh is it Romeo and Julie?
Speaker 2: Are you rome I did not get Romeo. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think I had the jaw structure to be Romeo. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm count Parish. I think I think I die. I
Speaker 2: think I think I'm going. I don't know that to
Speaker 2: script yet. That was my next question, Well, now, how
Speaker 2: prepared do I need to be for this?
Speaker 5: Well? Not real prepared?
Speaker 6: Okay, good cool, But what you need to do is
Speaker 6: speak loudly, which you can do okay, so everybody hears you.
Speaker 6: And then the bad thing was during Alice in Wonderland,
Speaker 6: a fella in the audience passed out, so the whole
Speaker 6: thing stopped. It kind of you know, it was kind
Speaker 6: of bad. They had to get him out with ems
Speaker 6: and then we restarted the play.
Speaker 2: Wow, was it from the blue grass tea? Did he
Speaker 2: have too much bluegrass tea?
Speaker 5: No, he was He was an observer. He was not
Speaker 5: in it.
Speaker 6: I tell you just have fun and you you know,
Speaker 6: know a little bit about your lines, but I shouldn't
Speaker 6: say that.
Speaker 5: They probably want you to memorize.
Speaker 2: Well. We had lexing and actor Josh Hopkins on earlier
Speaker 2: in the week and he told me I should already
Speaker 2: know my lines at this point because it's in two weeks.
Speaker 2: And he told me to bring out my drewness. And
Speaker 2: I don't really know what that means, but you know,
Speaker 2: he's a Hollywood actor, So I actually like your advice better.
Speaker 2: If you'll be fine, just have some of the teeth.
Speaker 5: It's it's a great it's a great thing.
Speaker 6: And you know, knowing you're in that, I maybe ought
Speaker 6: to come see that cackle from the audience, right, this could.
Speaker 2: Be the beginning of an acting career. I might leave,
Speaker 2: I might join the other guys and just leave Billy here.
Speaker 5: You might love it.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the other guys, you've had fun on the
Speaker 2: show before, You've been very good to us. You named
Speaker 2: it Shannon the due day when he did his fifty
Speaker 2: mile walk. We were proud of him and one of
Speaker 2: my favorites. You and the wrestler Kane.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, of.
Speaker 2: Course I remember. I'll grew up watching wrestling and there
Speaker 2: you are standing next to Kane and you all had
Speaker 2: a bet. Huh I forget, did you? I forgot? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay do we?
Speaker 6: He had to put on a UK T shirt and
Speaker 6: of course we had to find one that would fit.
Speaker 5: He's about twice as tall as me. Right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: but that was fun.
Speaker 6: I won the bet and he put on the T
Speaker 6: shirt and I'll never forget.
Speaker 5: We've got a picture of from the back him.
Speaker 6: I'm standing beside him and he's showing off his UK blue.
Speaker 5: I was so happy.
Speaker 6: I'd have had a really hard time wearing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and you could take Kane if a fight
Speaker 2: broke out too, Oh yeah, we got well, we had
Speaker 2: your back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I you know, I would have to think about
Speaker 6: my technique. I used to, so you probably don't know,
Speaker 6: little known I have a brown belt in karate yekwondo.
Speaker 6: I could still do my roundabout kick.
Speaker 2: We're up and gets a hard break. I hate to
Speaker 2: get cut off, but thank you for coming in today.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate. We're going to keep talking about Lexington for
Speaker 2: everyone listening at home.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: The keyword in this segment is universal. So right that
Speaker 2: down we're doing. We're doing a game. But thank you again, Mayor.
Speaker 2: We really appreciate. I wish we could stay longer. We
Speaker 2: got to take a quick break, and Billy and I
Speaker 2: will be right back.
Speaker 5: Thanks Drew.
Speaker 2: I am not Matt Jones. We'll keep correcting that this
Speaker 2: week until I can get my own little bumper there, Billy.
Speaker 2: Maybe for next Drew Palooza, we can have that deep voice.
Speaker 3: Gmbilly is on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, good job. I will say, Billy, you feel like
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Speaker 3: Sound like stone Cold a little bit there?
Speaker 2: What what? That was fun having Mayor Gordon. I wish
Speaker 2: we could have had her a little longer. That heard
Speaker 2: break and Waite's for no one. But she had some
Speaker 2: meetings to get to stuff a lot more important than us.
Speaker 2: But it is a fun time around Lexington with the
Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth celebration going on. There's events all month,
Speaker 2: next month, all summer. Go to visit lex dot com
Speaker 2: to check it out. She gave us these very cool
Speaker 2: two fifty lex pins. Yes you wearing yours yet? No,
Speaker 2: not yet, I'll put it on.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 4: She is very nice, but I did feel like she
Speaker 4: was a little bit like your parent saying who their
Speaker 4: favorite kid is with the restaurants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying. I was trying.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to say names, but I understand that
Speaker 4: you don't want to put anybody down.
Speaker 2: I thought about continuing to press her a little bit,
Speaker 2: but it was clear she didn't want to name specific restaurants.
Speaker 2: But it was fun hearing from her. As we continue
Speaker 2: the Lexton celebration, let's just talk a little Lexington before
Speaker 2: we get to the second hour, and we'll get wacky
Speaker 2: and talk about golf and other things. We'll do a
Speaker 2: whole hour of Lexington. Billy, you know you're you sponsor Italx,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure you love love. I celebrated a birthday
Speaker 2: there a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it right
Speaker 2: here on the corner. We could walk and get lunch
Speaker 2: there today if you want to. But let's say you
Speaker 2: and Marissa are going out out a place that doesn't
Speaker 2: pay you. What what do you all like to do
Speaker 2: in lection? I know you haven't been here too many years,
Speaker 2: but you've been here long enough to get a feel
Speaker 2: for the place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny because the Tallex was our favorite restaurant
Speaker 4: before I ever sponsored it, So that's where it initially went,
Speaker 4: but I'm not saying that just because I'm a company man.
Speaker 4: A couple other places that we've been to. I think
Speaker 4: there's some obvious ones when you go for fine dining,
Speaker 4: like Jeff Rubies and Tony's, But like when you find
Speaker 4: like the Carsons, when you come here and you find
Speaker 4: like a Ramsey's, maybe for like a lunch, I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's something with restaurants with the guy's name in it.
Speaker 4: I feel like that there's something to it there. So
Speaker 4: those are in my top three. Of course you've partaken
Speaker 4: in those, right, I know you're a regular Jeff Rubies.
Speaker 2: I'll pop in there from time to time. You're right
Speaker 2: about Carsons, though, it's anytime anyone asks for suggestion, it's
Speaker 2: usually top of my list. Also, it helps that it's downtown.
Speaker 2: Most of the time people are asking me they're going
Speaker 2: to a game or something at RUP right, I usually
Speaker 2: steer them that direction, one off the grid that a
Speaker 2: lot of people might not know about. I hope I'm
Speaker 2: not giving away too many secrets. What's that if you're
Speaker 2: downtown near up Bootle Lounge.
Speaker 3: Boot Lou I've never been to Boodle Lounge.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good sushi over our Mill Street. Is it sushi?
Speaker 2: It is sushi. It's not that big of a place,
Speaker 2: so that right now I have friends that are probably
Speaker 2: mad at the radio that I'm giving away our secrets.
Speaker 2: Check out boot A Lounge. Also went to in that
Speaker 2: area again, the downtown restaurants here. This one just opened
Speaker 2: fairly recently. I went to a place called three ten
Speaker 2: the other day. It's on Short Street. Bow buns. You
Speaker 2: like bow buns? I do, yeah, go get some bow
Speaker 2: buns at three ten.
Speaker 4: See, I'm righting now, not only the buzzwords of the day,
Speaker 4: but restaurants. So I can check out and thanks for
Speaker 4: mom me, let's go and get this bus.
Speaker 3: Do you want to give your buzzword now?
Speaker 2: Yeah. We want to make sure everybody's listening the whole time.
Speaker 2: This one is I guess it's actually two words, white house,
Speaker 2: white house. Okay, don't say the other two. We can't
Speaker 2: be letting people know what they've been. You got to
Speaker 2: listen the whole time.
Speaker 3: I wonder if there's a theme with these words.
Speaker 2: There could be, there could not be. If you haven't
Speaker 2: been able to tell this week been a little chaotic
Speaker 2: my brain. I feel like it's going into a thousand places.
Speaker 2: So maybe these words are just what's popping in my head.
Speaker 4: So let's say Drew Franklin's getting a sandwich. You got
Speaker 4: like a deli spot or like a cheeseburger you really
Speaker 4: like in town.
Speaker 2: I never thought you'd ask what. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 2: go there before my costume fitting. Big Blue Deli right now,
Speaker 2: been there yet? I have?
Speaker 4: They had a Mario sandwich there for a limited time
Speaker 4: that I'd love to get sometime. Main Street Deli is
Speaker 4: one that's right here in the city center is another
Speaker 4: one that you should check out if you haven't. You know,
Speaker 4: we've had a sponsor on the pre show in the past,
Speaker 4: North Lime Coffee and donuts, but also Spaldings. Has to
Speaker 4: be brought up if you're a bakery donut type of
Speaker 4: guy in the morning, right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull a Mayor Gordon here when it comes
Speaker 2: to election donuts. You can't make me say one's better
Speaker 2: than the other. We have an incredible doles. Wow, we
Speaker 2: have an incredible donut scene. Frank's Spaldings north Lime already
Speaker 2: started naming. I'm gonna leave some out. The one that
Speaker 2: just opened by Chaos Bar Jeff's. I haven't been to that.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about my guy Ryan. He's going to Jeff's
Speaker 2: a little too often. I mean it's at least once
Speaker 2: a week. He walks in with a bag in his
Speaker 2: hand and he's gotten me an apple fritter.
Speaker 4: He's a big apple fretter to start the day. McDonald's
Speaker 4: iced coffee.
Speaker 2: That's Ryan Lemon. And you got your pizza spots. Pizza spots,
Speaker 2: we're also overwhelmed by pizza.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean Linda mentioned good Fellas. I think
Speaker 4: that's that's iconic, right, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's one of my good drinking spot too. If you
Speaker 2: go to the one on in the Distillery District, no
Speaker 2: one's got a little bit more going on. Not the
Speaker 2: og over here, the little one. You don't be drinking
Speaker 2: in there. Yeah that, Just get your slice and go
Speaker 2: over there, especially late at night. We don't want any trouble.
Speaker 2: But one in Distillery district's good. I find myself at
Speaker 2: a rolling oven over They have several but a mere twin.
Speaker 2: If you want to find me out, good chance in there.
Speaker 2: It's pretty close to the house. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think this is a chain, but i've been to
Speaker 4: is it like red Tomato or something like.
Speaker 2: Also by my house. Yeah, pizza boy, my house. You
Speaker 2: got a lot of restaurants.
Speaker 4: Linda was right, I mean this is a great scene
Speaker 4: for food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, Chaos Bar. Gotta go to k if
Speaker 2: you're going to a game.
Speaker 4: Come on, can we can we include Proud Mary Barbecue
Speaker 4: in that list. I know it's a little outside of town,
Speaker 4: but they've been underwater.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like I feel terrible for Proud Mary.
Speaker 2: I go there every labor date, no memorial date. I
Speaker 2: get those backwards, which is one in September. I don't
Speaker 2: Labor day. No, really, they're they're bad underwater right now.
Speaker 2: That on a serious note, hope things straightened out there.
Speaker 2: I have a Proud Mary story. I wasn't gonna say,
Speaker 2: but since you brought it up, I'm not proud of this.
Speaker 2: I walked out on a tab there last fall. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me and my dad and my wife, we went every
Speaker 2: every labor slash Memorial day, whichever it is. They have
Speaker 2: a Jimmy Buffett party with the conquer Public, you cover
Speaker 2: band they got. They have multiple bars, and I had
Speaker 2: like a tab at this bar where we ate lunch
Speaker 2: because we got there early in eight, but then the
Speaker 2: party moves downstairs, so I'm getting some margs over at
Speaker 2: this bar. It was just we had a good time.
Speaker 2: We'll leave it with that. But then I get home
Speaker 2: and I look at my credit card statement and there
Speaker 2: was just like one charge from Proud Mary's for like
Speaker 2: thirty dollars. I'm like, oh, I did a lot more
Speaker 2: than thirty. But being the kind hearted, responsible, honest person
Speaker 2: I am, I spent the next two weeks trying to
Speaker 2: get someone on the phone, and I finally just went
Speaker 2: down there and said, I owe you all money, and
Speaker 2: they found the tab that I walked out on and
Speaker 2: I paid it. But UH got a good connection there.
Speaker 2: I always have a good time there, and I hope
Speaker 2: they get things straightened up.
Speaker 3: You're a good man. And it was not intentional.
Speaker 2: It was always definitely not intentional. We were singing cheeseburger
Speaker 2: and Paradise. You know, if things got a little blurry,
Speaker 2: I just forgot to close out. But if you've ever
Speaker 2: accidentally walked out on a tab, hopefully you've never done
Speaker 2: it intentionally. You should always make good on that because
Speaker 2: you know the person needed a tip. I didn't at
Speaker 2: the time. I had tip there. I had to make
Speaker 2: up for my tip be good to your restaurants.
Speaker 4: Let me give you another category. Yeah, because you are
Speaker 4: the one that comes in last after a night out.
Speaker 2: What's the bar? See?
Speaker 3: Like, give me a couple of bars that Drew would
Speaker 3: hit on a normal well.
Speaker 2: I mentioned Mayor Twin. There's a new country Boy popping
Speaker 2: up over by me. It's gonna put another country Boy
Speaker 2: location and Lexing. Yeah, breaking news, winding on ah. They
Speaker 2: put it on social media yesterday. It's like this huge facility.
Speaker 2: I was driving to the show and saw a country
Speaker 2: Boy logo on the side of this new building and
Speaker 2: I texted DH right away, what the hell is this?
Speaker 2: But it's pickleball, golf simulators and a country Boy tap room.
Speaker 2: What Yeah, That's really all I know right now, other
Speaker 2: than the fact that I'm gonna live there when it opens.
Speaker 4: Talk about another company that's growing. They opened a tap
Speaker 4: room in Louisville now at another location in Lexington.
Speaker 3: Can't go wrong with country Boy.
Speaker 2: Also, I like old Tommy bars. Okay. When I go
Speaker 2: to New York, I always go to mcsorley's. It's the
Speaker 2: oldest bar in New York. It's been there since like
Speaker 2: eighteen fifty. We don't have one that old, but Chevy
Speaker 2: Chase Chase said, has got to be close. I was
Speaker 2: there to watch the Final four. That's been there since
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty three. They do fun things like a Pappy
Speaker 2: van Winkle. It'll give it away, but you can get
Speaker 2: one poor for like costs, so it's just a few bucks.
Speaker 2: There's been horses in there saddled up. Have you ever
Speaker 2: been to a bar and rides a horse in an
Speaker 2: orders a bar in the bar. I don't think they've
Speaker 2: done that recently, but there are pictures of a dude
Speaker 2: just on a horse, bellied up against the bar, trying
Speaker 2: to get a drink.
Speaker 4: Well, if anywhere, I mean Lexington, Kentucky, right, Charlie Brown's
Speaker 4: is around the.
Speaker 2: Right cross street right for a bar. The White Russians.
Speaker 4: Harvey's at the Grove is right down here. I think
Speaker 4: that's kind of a hole in the wall spot that
Speaker 4: not a lot of people know.
Speaker 2: I have a Cci story. Since you set me up
Speaker 2: for it, Chevy Chesson, I was gonna tell. When I
Speaker 2: was there watching the Final Four, I met some women
Speaker 2: there whose father had just passed away. There they're paying
Speaker 2: tribute to him. He was a CCI legend, and in
Speaker 2: talking to them, I learned that he is actually just
Speaker 2: a lexing and legend and maybe like one of the
Speaker 2: bigger legends of all time. I'm gonna tell you quickly
Speaker 2: because they sent me a lot of information. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just try to get the important stuff. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you about Charlie Chalkeye Cornet Chalki Cornet cast away a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago at ninety two years old. He'd be
Speaker 2: even at ninety two, he would be in n CCI,
Speaker 2: but his daughter stood out. They had homemade Houston hats
Speaker 2: with like duct tape that said Houston on them over
Speaker 2: whatever was on there. He must hate Duke so much
Speaker 2: they made Houston hats. But in meeting them, I learned
Speaker 2: so much about this guy. He was an Ashland Tomcat,
Speaker 2: played two sports there. Then he went to the Navy.
Speaker 2: And why I was in the Navy. He grew four
Speaker 2: inches playing basketball on the aircraft carrier team. So he's
Speaker 2: out there just balling, taking people to school while serving
Speaker 2: in the Navy, like Anthony Davis, just growing. Yes, he
Speaker 2: is the Anthony Davis of the Navy, is what they
Speaker 2: actually call him. He comes back to Kentucky on the
Speaker 2: GI Bill and then he just starts schooling the Fidland
Speaker 2: five and whatever is the equivalent of the JC back then,
Speaker 2: just you know, scrimmaging the guys that are on the
Speaker 2: Fidland five. He's just working them left and right. And
Speaker 2: UK assistant Harry Lancaster even said where the hell did
Speaker 2: this guy come from and told him to come back
Speaker 2: to play on varsity. He said, dress for varsity. We
Speaker 2: need you. But they only had a walk on spot
Speaker 2: and he was pretty broke and he couldn't afford what
Speaker 2: it would take to be a basketball player on his
Speaker 2: own dime. I think they said a lot of it
Speaker 2: was going hungry. He couldn't keep the weight, but Rupp
Speaker 2: offered him a walk on spot twice. He was that good.
Speaker 2: Never really got to follow through it other than a
Speaker 2: few weeks here and there. Now, this part of the
Speaker 2: story is confirmed by Jim Host, Mister Jim Host and
Speaker 2: Ralph Hacker. If you can't believe mister Jim Host and
Speaker 2: Ralph Hacker, what do we do? This isn't Drew Franklin
Speaker 2: telling you this. This is through family, through lore, through
Speaker 2: mister Jim Host and Ralph Hacker. After school, he was
Speaker 2: still a UK fan still lived in Lexing. Was that
Speaker 2: Chevy Chase in all the time. But in nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: Indiana came to town to Rup. We hate the Hoosiers, right,
Speaker 2: hate the Hoogiers. Well, Chalk and his buddy's got a
Speaker 2: suite at the Hyatt right there by Rup, and they
Speaker 2: quickly learned that Bob Knight was in the suite beneath him.
Speaker 2: So they partied all night long, playing beach music, stomping,
Speaker 2: making all the noise they could to distract Bob Knight.
Speaker 2: And this gets better. Bob steps out on his balcony
Speaker 2: to have a sick late night sick. I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: nervous playing the Cats. The next day, Chalk had to
Speaker 2: break the seal. So let's just say Chalk off his
Speaker 2: balcony above Bob Knight on his balcony. What went to
Speaker 2: the restroom outdoors off the side of his balcony with
Speaker 2: Bob Knight beneath him? Again, this is confirmed. This isn't
Speaker 2: me making things up for radio, but Bob Knight. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't know Bob got that much sleep that night.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he had to shower. I don't
Speaker 2: know what kind of contact was made in that situation.
Speaker 2: But things like that don't happen anymore.
Speaker 4: Bob Knight catching a stream from old Chalk Eye a
Speaker 4: floor below at the Hyatt before the game the next day.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Next day Kentucky won fifty nine
Speaker 2: to fifty four. Eat it, Bob Knight and the Captain
Speaker 2: RP of Chalk. I actually he did this topical. As
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Masters on TV. He had a
Speaker 2: Thursday Master's party at his house every year. If I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken, I wasn't there yesterday, but I think Chevy
Speaker 2: Chase in did the first annual Chalk's Memorial Chili Dog
Speaker 2: Party yesterday for the Master.
Speaker 4: A chili dog party in your memory. I can't think
Speaker 4: of nothing more than I would want.
Speaker 2: Now, there's a scholarship in his name for underprivileged students
Speaker 2: from eastern Kentucky. Like he was so wanted to shout
Speaker 2: out Chalk there. After meeting daughters at CCI, they gave
Speaker 2: me a bumper sticker that said he says I got
Speaker 2: drunk with Chalk or I drank with Chalk. There's a
Speaker 2: big poster of them in there. But to answer your
Speaker 2: question about a good drinking spot, if you're not from
Speaker 2: Lexington and want kind of some Lexington history, you should
Speaker 2: pop into Cci.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a Lexington legend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that? Yeah? Could you imagine someone doing
Speaker 2: at the Hyatt with like Todd Golden on the balcony
Speaker 2: beneath them.
Speaker 4: Now, I can definitely see the upstairs neighbor behavior. I mean,
Speaker 4: we've heard of fire alarms being pulled and antics to
Speaker 4: get people to stay awake during the night before, but
Speaker 4: the stream from a floor above, that's that is legendary stuff.
Speaker 2: Also being offered a walk on spot twice past eight five.
Speaker 2: But just no, I'll just sit here and work them
Speaker 2: in the in the campus whatever the gym was back then.
Speaker 3: Zach tawe before zach Town.
Speaker 2: Here you go. Maybe zach Taw has that future. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll come back with a little more Lexidon. Billy's got
Speaker 2: a game for us. We got people doing Chalk's move
Speaker 2: at the Masters into a creek. We don't we don't
Speaker 2: condone that, but we'll be right back. This is KSR.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin on our last day
Speaker 2: alone where everyone comes back most everyone. Matt will have
Speaker 2: another week, but we'll have Ryan and Shannon back Ronald
Speaker 2: drive the show next week. Today we're celebrating Lexington turning
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty this year. Love me some Lexington here.
Speaker 2: In a couple months, I will have lived in Lexington
Speaker 2: more than I lived in Madisonville. It just feels weird,
Speaker 2: is that? Right? As Lexington has become home. My parents
Speaker 2: moved here. I've been here almost twenty years. It's right
Speaker 2: around the corner. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you've had some great memories, right, I mean you've
Speaker 4: gotten married in this town and I have ripped your
Speaker 4: pants in this town.
Speaker 2: My pants in this town.
Speaker 4: I mean, which time are you referring to? Well, I
Speaker 4: know of the one time. So it's music month in Lexton.
Speaker 4: Like going on could be part of the gamer' plan.
Speaker 4: I don't know, wink wink, But do.
Speaker 3: You want to have the buzzword?
Speaker 2: Do you want to do? Me to drop it now?
Speaker 2: The fourth buzz word will be given away a little
Speaker 2: bit if you don't already know, so I'll save it
Speaker 2: for the end of the segment. Don't let me forget that.
Speaker 2: I won't let you forget. But a lot of music
Speaker 2: things going on to Lexington. Visit lex dot com check
Speaker 2: it out. Let's do some notable Lexingtonians. In fact, in
Speaker 2: googling athletes because I didn't want to miss any I
Speaker 2: found a KSR post from five years ago called Ryan
Speaker 2: Lemon's top lex and An Athletes. No, I thought, what
Speaker 2: why am I looking anywhere else? If Ryan Lemmon has
Speaker 2: already done the show prep for me. Ryan Lemmon, who
Speaker 2: is on his six Marguerite and Panama City right now,
Speaker 2: did show prep for us today several years ago. So
Speaker 2: we're just gonna trust his top five. Yes, if we
Speaker 2: forget anyone out there, yell at Ryan, I'm just reading
Speaker 2: straight from Ryan's list.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I did mix up his order though, just because you know,
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if he listened to him, like as
Speaker 2: an actual ranking wasn't clear. But I'm just gonna start
Speaker 2: with our dear Yeah, in no order, in no order,
Speaker 2: Jack Gibbons, great stuff gotta be on the list, of course,
Speaker 2: broad Station High School. Goose was Golden Faces Golden forty
Speaker 2: one points in nineteen seventy eight. Eat It, Duke now
Speaker 2: killing it? Now kill Keller.
Speaker 4: Do you get to have many interactions with Jack? I know,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a lot. I've had him on the pre
Speaker 4: show a couple of Times. Just such a genuine guy.
Speaker 4: You know, talk to him in pre and post game
Speaker 4: as well. He's always helping with doing this with Andrew
Speaker 4: Cappus and stuff. Will always give you the time of day.
Speaker 4: And he's also a golf coach. I think he's the
Speaker 4: coach at a high school.
Speaker 2: Let's go golf with Jackson Times. Set up, Billy what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Also, bron Station DERMONDI Dawson Pro Football Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame, seven time NFL Pro Bowler. He's in the
Speaker 2: Steelers Ring of Honor in the NFL All Decade Team
Speaker 2: in the nineteen nineties. Maybe one of the best offensive
Speaker 2: linemen to ever play in the NFL right here at Lexingtonian.
Speaker 4: Quite an impressive list so far. You can get me
Speaker 4: two strong names.
Speaker 2: And Ryan has given you the two names. I'm just
Speaker 2: reading them. That's true.
Speaker 3: Ryan is doing this.
Speaker 2: Tyson Gay Lafayette High School. Second fastest man ever, Fastest
Speaker 2: American in one hundred meters nine point six to nine seconds.
Speaker 2: Only Usain Bolt was faster.
Speaker 3: Did not know he was from Alexico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's as Ryan notes in his notes here. Second
Speaker 2: fastest man alive. I don't think he ever got the
Speaker 2: Gold medal, but won gold in the Olympics, but in
Speaker 2: several other events World Championships Holly Holly decorated Track and
Speaker 2: Field Star.
Speaker 4: You dedicate your life to this craft and you just
Speaker 4: happen to be at the same time that bolts running. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that he takes all your records.
Speaker 2: Fastest American we'll call him there, Yeah, fast Fastest Lexingtonian
Speaker 2: John T. Bone Shelby, Henry Clay, two time World Series champ.
Speaker 2: One one is an ol oriole and one is a
Speaker 2: Dodger in the eighties and one of his sons, at
Speaker 2: least one of his sons went on to play for UK.
Speaker 2: But a baseball legend here. I think Ryan might even
Speaker 2: have him first be in baseball.
Speaker 4: Well that's a Ryan Lemon ranking then and cool to
Speaker 4: win with two different teams.
Speaker 3: That's Impressive's right?
Speaker 2: And Ryan's last one is Frank Minifield from Henry Clay
Speaker 2: played college football at Louisville, made four NFL Pro Bowls
Speaker 2: and the nineteen eighties All Decade Team defensive back. So
Speaker 2: other than going to Louisville, we'll let that slide. But
Speaker 2: another football legend from here in Lexington.
Speaker 4: Pretty good list, a lot of professional success with the
Speaker 4: athletes listed.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. How about since it's music month, you want to
Speaker 2: do some musicians, Yes, would love to. We have not one,
Speaker 2: but two Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 3: There's two backs.
Speaker 2: Show me another city that had two Backstreet Boys born
Speaker 2: in one of them mathematically Kevin Richardson Friend of the Program.
Speaker 2: He went to Estell County High School, and I did
Speaker 2: thorough research to make sure he was born in Lexington,
Speaker 2: and the internet seems seems pretty clear he's he's Lexing
Speaker 2: and born even though he didn't go to school here. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna claim here. And his cousin Brian Latrell
Speaker 2: went to Tates Creek. Kevin even called Brian's like, hey,
Speaker 2: we got a spot opening. Backstree Boys, get out here.
Speaker 2: It's gonna it's gonna be awesome. And then that, of
Speaker 2: course worked out, so two Backstree boys. And then another
Speaker 2: friend of the program has been on this show, Chris Kle,
Speaker 2: the bassis for five Finger Death Punch, went to the
Speaker 2: Lafayette Wow talk about it.
Speaker 3: Uh, completely different genre, but yes, oh, I.
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