2025-04-11- KSR - Hour 1

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Welcome into Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin here filling in one last time for Matt Jones and everyone else that took vacation this week. I got another fun show planned on a Friday with Billy our Sports Here. We're in studio. I just set down like thirty seconds ago, so I'm a little out of breath, but we're gonna have a fun time Billy Today, we're as usual sponsored by TJ Smith, personal injury lawyer. What will TJ do with If you give me a call, I'll make them pay. He will

Wow.

We'll scratch that out. But I was trying to think of a game. I was over here in the other room coming up with it on the fly. I think I'm gonna reward people that listen to the whole show. Okay, I like that. So I'm gonna give a buzzword in each segment, and you gotta know the of the first hour. You gotta know all four buzzwords, one for each segment. The second hour, we'll take calls and you cannot participate unless you know all four of the buzzwords. Oh okay,

The mayor of Lexington and a giveaway On the final day of Drew Palooza.

I mean, what more could you want? You came up with a game we're gonna try to get to. Probably won't because I overprogram all of this and we got thrown off with you Kaden Lewis news. But it's gonna be a fun day. I guess we're calling it Drew Palooza's last ride, my last last time in charge. But I guess we do have to start with the big news. Think. Yeah, we've had a lot of news, a lot of basketball this week. I was excited to get extra goofy today,

I mean, this is a freshman that was going to come in that understood what it means to be a part of BBN. His family was a big fan of what the Kentucky basketball program does in the stage that it sets for others.

But I'm not that worried.

I have the confidence that Pope will be able to reload find another person in the transfer portal. Ultimately it will be okay. But overall disappointing that he wasn't willing to compete. I found a quote when he signed that he said, they want me to come in and play a priority role right away. There's a starting spot and he wants me to take it. I want to come

Yeah. My take on it is it definitely hurts to lose a kid that was committed for five We're all excited about him. He was probably gonna I know he said he wanted to start right away. I think that was unlikely he was. I think the plan was to make him the starting point guard his sophomore year in twenty six twenty seven, after a kind of a year

You know, there's been rubblings about Yukon and that was in his recruitment back when he committed back to Kentucky. But I'm with you, I think that Pope will find somebody in the portal. Do you call kirkriesa back?

I mean that, I'll admit that popped in my head pretty quickly, because they're gonna need that type. They're gonna need an old guy who just wants to get a little NIO money in his last ride, doesn't have to be the star, happy to come off the bench, maybe can go chase a final four. There's probably several people in college basketball that aren't even in the portal that would love that spot. So I don't think they'll have any trouble filling it. But I did think of Kirk right away. I don't know.

I mean, maybe that's like getting back with your ex, but I don't know if there were hard feelings there. I feel like he loved the university, but Matt has eluded some maybe things behind closed doors.

I don't know. It's it's just a strange time.

I mean, the portals still open for another what eleven days or so, and and guys that are entering the portal maybe haven't even done that yet. So it's just the strange time. But you know, drew Palooza ending with a d commitment. I did not see that coming after all the positive momentum we had.

Drew.

I feel bad. You know, we've added I think two players. You're still plast one three players. Yeah, well if you count, wasn't there one last Saturday? And lo Low was on Saturday, So I'm weekend. I'm still We're still in the green. But as as keV Miller seven suggested, you know, I wanted to come here and one one last addition to the roster before I disappear. And I just feel like I'll let everyone down.

Well that and if we don't get to alien talk in the second hour, you'll let some more people.

People are mad about that. Again, I have way too much in my notes. I wanted to do Aliens. I really want to talk about Lexington. As I said, the mayor is going to be joining us soon. We were shooting to do that eleven, but she needed to come in a little earlier, which is fine. We'll get her a Kaden.

Lewis takes and alien takes.

No, we're just going to talk aliens with Mayor Linda Gorton. But it's gonna be a fun show. Like I said, you want to listen to the whole show. I'm going to drop a buzzword every action. We'll just do it right now. What's your first first segment? If you're driving, do not write it. I get ready, right, buckle up, put your phone down. If you're driving, just memorize it or tell it to everyone in the car with you, memorize it together, and then write it down when you

Lady?

Exactly? Lady? Remember lady. If you're listening, you'll need to remember it in the second hour if you want to win our contest. But yeah, we're going to get to a lot about Lexington celebrating that two hundred and fiftieth birthday. I want to list some my favorite restaurants and places because people ask me all the time, where do you like to go? Where should I go before the game? What do you do in your free time? And I

Okay, Well then I'll get it out of the way now, like you should go to a Talx and Poppies and all the great places.

Yeah, I guess, John, Yeah, yeah, No, I mean we love the ones that support us. Those are genuine. But we're gonna branch out and tell you about some others that we don't always tell people.

Sounds good.

Maybe maybe some Lexington ghosts those exists. I could combine you know that I saw on Reddit, which is the most reliable website on Earth. Earlier this week that people were freaking out about a UFO over Lexington.

Over Lexington.

I think it was just someone with a drone. But you know, we'll get whacky if we need to here on a Friday, maybe do some alien ghosts Lexington talk, but be a big Lexington Day. We'll do a little more about a kayd and Lewis. Like I said, Linda Gordon will be here in here soon. It's gonna be a fun last Friday before the boys get back. I actually heard from Ryan Lemon last night, so I know he's alive. He asked me a question about the Masters,

Yeah, Shannon posted a picture.

Okay, I did see a picture. Yoga girl posted a picture of Ryan and Shannon together. Are they holding hands? Yeah? I mean it's a big ocean, guys, you don't have to stand that close together when you're in it. It looked like they were hugging. I saw that twenty yards out in the water. They're they're pretty close to uh getting a banana boat and floating around. I think looks like the guys are having a good time. Ryan also tweeted a picture of him eating a sandwich and Shannon

Somebody said that he took that picture with a seashell and it kind of looks like, well, we do miss him. We've had fun, but it'd be good to get him back on Monday. Let's let's take a quick break because I'm a little worried about running into the uh the herd break with with Mary. Yeah we are going to Yeah, that would be the worst. So let's let's cut out a little earlier now so we have more time with her.

Thanks for making the trip up to the iHeart Studios to celebrate Lexingon with us for a segment.

Well, I'm thrilled to be here.

I didn't know it was a palooza though, well it Drew Paloza.

That wasn't the plan, but listeners named it that, so we just went with it.

It works.

We'll get you a T shirt on the way out and maybe a poster. But I wanted we're talking about Lexington today and who knows Lexingon as well as you, so I wanted to get some things, uh not so serious, just more things like what are your favorite restaurants, what's this? What's that? But I want to start with the excitement around you. K basketball. You're a UK graduate if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if you get to attend

Oh I am.

I am right there with everybody. I bleed blue. My husband's a graduate, our kids are graduates.

We are all in.

We go to a lot of the games, and Mark Pope is he's a phenomenal coach and a phenomenal human being. And when he first came, I went last summer to visit him and welcome him to our city, welcome him back, right, and he one of the one of the first things he said is how can I help you? He's such a he has a giving mentality, but he is also a man, I think, a very high character, don't you.

Absolutely we all see that. I think that's part of the excitement. It's been revamped up here lately.

Yeah, and so we're gonna see what this new team looks like.

It's kind of fun, isn't it.

It's hard to keep up when we had news drop last night. Now, I'm not going to have you break down the I don't want to put you on the spot. I'm sure you have strong opinions about the roster right now, but you mentioned mentioned welcoming Pope back to Lexton. My next question is I want to pretend like Billy here does not know anything about Lexington. Just pretend he's an alien that has never heard of our beautiful city. How would you describe Lexington to to young billy here?

Well, first, I would say, where in the heck have you been? We are a great city, billy. Lots of food, restaurants, local restaurants, lots of uh facilities for bike riding, pedestrians.

Going to ride your bike.

The the restaurant scene, I think is just phenomenal here. It's highly educated city. The downtown's vibrant, it is alive. I've had some unnamed other mayors in town after five and they have been shocked at how busy our downtown is.

It's really great. A lot going on sports.

If you like sports, this is the place to be because we've got it all here.

Right, I'm gonna put you on the spot with some some restaurants. I consider myself a bit of a foodie. You know, if you're going out, whether it be meeting with other mayors or just taking the family out, can you name drop some some places you like to go? Is that putting you on the spot?

You're asking me to name drop in a city with all kinds of I mean Italian, I have my favorite Italian restaurants.

You want me to really say them, don't you.

I mean, I know you love them all, but maybe.

Sa so so uh fella.

And my daughter's high school class started Goodfellas on the street. We all love good Fellas, of course everybody does. We've I've got my favorite place for ahi tuna.

Do you like ah?

Of course, my gosh, We've got it all. Brunch places, We've got after hours places go have some appetizer and a drink. And you really, I know you're dying for me to say that.

That's okay. I understand if we don't. We don't want you to put others.

Because so many that's true.

How about when you were at UK a student just a few years ago, were there any places that you like to go that are maybe gone and you wish you could bring back. Did you have any places you'd frequent when you were in school?

There?

There are so On South Lime, there was a place called Doodle's Pizza. Now this is going way back, and Doodles had the thickest cheese on top.

Of course I love cheese.

But at that time my husband and I were dating and we were young, and I could share a large pizza with it right on. So that one's gone. I really, We've thought about that a lot over the years.

And.

Did you ever I shouldn't maybe mention this, but only the people who are a long time ago will remember shoes shoes s. I think it was s h U E S or something. It was right across from the Med Center and on Friday night, all the nursing students which I was one, and the med students would go and they had pizza and big pictures of beer and it was the end of the week and the stress levels were high.

It was fun place to go.

You know, I don't know if you have the power to do this, but I miss the old KA layer that was by Hagen Hall, which also isn't here. I don't know if you can pull any stream. There's there's a new k layer, which is fine, but I missed the original maybe the original ovids, those were good ones. If you had like a free day with no obligations, what do you think you would do in Lexington?

Well, well, the first thing is I'm not setting an alarm clock. We all kind of get that right. I won't set an alarm clock. And then I'll have a leisurely morning having my coffee and reading the paper and I like to work a puzzle. I mean a you know, crossword puzzle.

I do the New York Times Mini every morning.

Yeah.

And then I would probably have a friend or two or three and go out to brunch at one of my favorite places, take a long walk. I like to walk in the Arboretum. Have you ever been over there? Of course yep, and just kind of putts around, read a book.

I might go to a movie. I love movies. I don't have a lot.

Of time for them, but since I have a day off compliments of.

Years, yeah, no obligations, yep, it.

Would be great that way. And then I'd probably go out to dinner with my husband.

We would not.

Cook too many options. Right here, it's Keenland season. You mentioned you're busy and don't get days off, But do you get to enjoy Keenland? I do.

I will be going in a day or two. I can't remember exactly when, but I love Keenland, and you know Keenland. So when I grew up, I was growing up in Ohio. I'm an import A long time ago, and no one up there could understand why do you talk about horses because they're not horse country like we are, and it's very special, and Keenland has this beautiful new edition which I can't wait to see. Plus they give back big time to our community. They give a ton

Winners because I'm not I can pick the last place horse anytime you want, but I don't do well well.

You have to look at the name.

Of course, if there's a gray, you you know you pick the gray. But I'm not very good at it. I just do it more on sentimental things that I like. So it's good though. It's really fun.

You mentioned giving back to the community. I've told my listeners this week. I recently accepted a acting role at the Lexa and Children's Theater. In fact, my costume fitting is right after the show. This is a big deal. And I saw in past performances you were listed as one. Do you did you do that? Do you have any tips, any acting tips.

I did that twice.

So I was in The Little Mermaid and then before that, I was in Alice in Wonderland, Okay, and that was really fun. That's where I met Jeremy Ashby the chef. It's where I met Peter Bainiac who was a ver Old leader. Craig Camak was in it. We had we had some fun times. And you know, there was a there was a little tea ceremony with the teapot and it might have had some special bluegrass tea.

Oh I hope I get some blue grass tea. And Romeo?

Oh is it Romeo and Julie?

Are you rome I did not get Romeo. I don't. I don't think I had the jaw structure to be Romeo. Yeah, I'm count Parish. I think I think I die. I think I think I'm going. I don't know that to script yet. That was my next question, Well, now, how prepared do I need to be for this?

Well? Not real prepared?

Okay, good cool, But what you need to do is speak loudly, which you can do okay, so everybody hears you. And then the bad thing was during Alice in Wonderland, a fella in the audience passed out, so the whole thing stopped. It kind of you know, it was kind of bad. They had to get him out with ems and then we restarted the play.

Wow, was it from the blue grass tea? Did he have too much bluegrass tea?

No, he was He was an observer. He was not in it.

I tell you just have fun and you you know, know a little bit about your lines, but I shouldn't say that.

They probably want you to memorize.

Well. We had lexing and actor Josh Hopkins on earlier in the week and he told me I should already know my lines at this point because it's in two weeks. And he told me to bring out my drewness. And I don't really know what that means, but you know, he's a Hollywood actor, So I actually like your advice better. If you'll be fine, just have some of the teeth.

It's it's a great it's a great thing.

And you know, knowing you're in that, I maybe ought to come see that cackle from the audience, right, this could.

Be the beginning of an acting career. I might leave, I might join the other guys and just leave Billy here.

You might love it.

Speaking of the other guys, you've had fun on the show before, You've been very good to us. You named it Shannon the due day when he did his fifty mile walk. We were proud of him and one of my favorites. You and the wrestler Kane.

Oh my god, of.

Course I remember. I'll grew up watching wrestling and there you are standing next to Kane and you all had a bet. Huh I forget, did you? I forgot? Yeah? Okay do we?

He had to put on a UK T shirt and of course we had to find one that would fit.

He's about twice as tall as me. Right, Oh yeah, but that was fun.

I won the bet and he put on the T shirt and I'll never forget.

We've got a picture of from the back him.

I'm standing beside him and he's showing off his UK blue.

I was so happy.

I'd have had a really hard time wearing.

Oh yeah, and you could take Kane if a fight broke out too, Oh yeah, we got well, we had your back.

Yeah, I you know, I would have to think about my technique. I used to, so you probably don't know, little known I have a brown belt in karate yekwondo. I could still do my roundabout kick.

We're up and gets a hard break. I hate to get cut off, but thank you for coming in today. Really appreciate. We're going to keep talking about Lexington for everyone listening at home.

Uh.

The keyword in this segment is universal. So right that down we're doing. We're doing a game. But thank you again, Mayor. We really appreciate. I wish we could stay longer. We got to take a quick break, and Billy and I will be right back.

Thanks Drew.

I am not Matt Jones. We'll keep correcting that this week until I can get my own little bumper there, Billy. Maybe for next Drew Palooza, we can have that deep voice.

Gmbilly is on it.

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Sound like stone Cold a little bit there?

What what? That was fun having Mayor Gordon. I wish we could have had her a little longer. That heard break and Waite's for no one. But she had some meetings to get to stuff a lot more important than us. But it is a fun time around Lexington with the two hundred and fiftieth celebration going on. There's events all month, next month, all summer. Go to visit lex dot com to check it out. She gave us these very cool two fifty lex pins. Yes you wearing yours yet? No, not yet, I'll put it on.

Though.

She is very nice, but I did feel like she was a little bit like your parent saying who their favorite kid is with the restaurants.

Yeah, I was trying. I was trying.

I didn't want to say names, but I understand that you don't want to put anybody down.

I thought about continuing to press her a little bit, but it was clear she didn't want to name specific restaurants. But it was fun hearing from her. As we continue the Lexton celebration, let's just talk a little Lexington before we get to the second hour, and we'll get wacky and talk about golf and other things. We'll do a whole hour of Lexington. Billy, you know you're you sponsor Italx, which I'm sure you love love. I celebrated a birthday there a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it right

Yeah, it's funny because the Tallex was our favorite restaurant before I ever sponsored it, So that's where it initially went, but I'm not saying that just because I'm a company man. A couple other places that we've been to. I think there's some obvious ones when you go for fine dining, like Jeff Rubies and Tony's, But like when you find like the Carsons, when you come here and you find like a Ramsey's, maybe for like a lunch, I mean.

I don't know.

It's something with restaurants with the guy's name in it. I feel like that there's something to it there. So those are in my top three. Of course you've partaken in those, right, I know you're a regular Jeff Rubies.

I'll pop in there from time to time. You're right about Carsons, though, it's anytime anyone asks for suggestion, it's usually top of my list. Also, it helps that it's downtown. Most of the time people are asking me they're going to a game or something at RUP right, I usually steer them that direction, one off the grid that a lot of people might not know about. I hope I'm not giving away too many secrets. What's that if you're downtown near up Bootle Lounge.

Boot Lou I've never been to Boodle Lounge.

It's pretty good sushi over our Mill Street. Is it sushi? It is sushi. It's not that big of a place, so that right now I have friends that are probably mad at the radio that I'm giving away our secrets. Check out boot A Lounge. Also went to in that area again, the downtown restaurants here. This one just opened fairly recently. I went to a place called three ten the other day. It's on Short Street. Bow buns. You like bow buns? I do, yeah, go get some bow buns at three ten.

See, I'm righting now, not only the buzzwords of the day, but restaurants. So I can check out and thanks for mom me, let's go and get this bus.

Do you want to give your buzzword now?

Yeah. We want to make sure everybody's listening the whole time. This one is I guess it's actually two words, white house, white house. Okay, don't say the other two. We can't be letting people know what they've been. You got to listen the whole time.

I wonder if there's a theme with these words.

There could be, there could not be. If you haven't been able to tell this week been a little chaotic my brain. I feel like it's going into a thousand places. So maybe these words are just what's popping in my head.

So let's say Drew Franklin's getting a sandwich. You got like a deli spot or like a cheeseburger you really like in town.

I never thought you'd ask what. I'm gonna try to go there before my costume fitting. Big Blue Deli right now, been there yet? I have?

They had a Mario sandwich there for a limited time that I'd love to get sometime. Main Street Deli is one that's right here in the city center is another one that you should check out if you haven't. You know, we've had a sponsor on the pre show in the past, North Lime Coffee and donuts, but also Spaldings. Has to be brought up if you're a bakery donut type of guy in the morning, right.

I'm gonna pull a Mayor Gordon here when it comes to election donuts. You can't make me say one's better than the other. We have an incredible doles. Wow, we have an incredible donut scene. Frank's Spaldings north Lime already started naming. I'm gonna leave some out. The one that just opened by Chaos Bar Jeff's. I haven't been to that. I'm worried about my guy Ryan. He's going to Jeff's a little too often. I mean it's at least once

He's a big apple fretter to start the day. McDonald's iced coffee.

That's Ryan Lemon. And you got your pizza spots. Pizza spots, we're also overwhelmed by pizza.

I mean, I mean Linda mentioned good Fellas. I think that's that's iconic, right, I mean.

It's one of my good drinking spot too. If you go to the one on in the Distillery District, no one's got a little bit more going on. Not the og over here, the little one. You don't be drinking in there. Yeah that, Just get your slice and go over there, especially late at night. We don't want any trouble. But one in Distillery district's good. I find myself at a rolling oven over They have several but a mere twin. If you want to find me out, good chance in there.

I think this is a chain, but i've been to is it like red Tomato or something like.

Also by my house. Yeah, pizza boy, my house. You got a lot of restaurants.

Linda was right, I mean this is a great scene for food.

Yeah, of course, Chaos Bar. Gotta go to k if you're going to a game.

Come on, can we can we include Proud Mary Barbecue in that list. I know it's a little outside of town, but they've been underwater.

Yes, I feel like I feel terrible for Proud Mary. I go there every labor date, no memorial date. I get those backwards, which is one in September. I don't Labor day. No, really, they're they're bad underwater right now. That on a serious note, hope things straightened out there. I have a Proud Mary story. I wasn't gonna say, but since you brought it up, I'm not proud of this. I walked out on a tab there last fall. Yeah, me and my dad and my wife, we went every

You're a good man. And it was not intentional.

It was always definitely not intentional. We were singing cheeseburger and Paradise. You know, if things got a little blurry, I just forgot to close out. But if you've ever accidentally walked out on a tab, hopefully you've never done it intentionally. You should always make good on that because you know the person needed a tip. I didn't at the time. I had tip there. I had to make up for my tip be good to your restaurants.

Let me give you another category. Yeah, because you are the one that comes in last after a night out.

What's the bar? See?

Like, give me a couple of bars that Drew would hit on a normal well.

I mentioned Mayor Twin. There's a new country Boy popping up over by me. It's gonna put another country Boy location and Lexing. Yeah, breaking news, winding on ah. They put it on social media yesterday. It's like this huge facility. I was driving to the show and saw a country Boy logo on the side of this new building and I texted DH right away, what the hell is this? But it's pickleball, golf simulators and a country Boy tap room.

Talk about another company that's growing. They opened a tap room in Louisville now at another location in Lexington.

Can't go wrong with country Boy.

Also, I like old Tommy bars. Okay. When I go to New York, I always go to mcsorley's. It's the oldest bar in New York. It's been there since like eighteen fifty. We don't have one that old, but Chevy Chase Chase said, has got to be close. I was there to watch the Final four. That's been there since nineteen thirty three. They do fun things like a Pappy van Winkle. It'll give it away, but you can get one poor for like costs, so it's just a few bucks.

Well, if anywhere, I mean Lexington, Kentucky, right, Charlie Brown's is around the.

Right cross street right for a bar. The White Russians.

Harvey's at the Grove is right down here. I think that's kind of a hole in the wall spot that not a lot of people know.

I have a Cci story. Since you set me up for it, Chevy Chesson, I was gonna tell. When I was there watching the Final Four, I met some women there whose father had just passed away. There they're paying tribute to him. He was a CCI legend, and in talking to them, I learned that he is actually just a lexing and legend and maybe like one of the bigger legends of all time. I'm gonna tell you quickly because they sent me a lot of information. I'm gonna

Bob Knight catching a stream from old Chalk Eye a floor below at the Hyatt before the game the next day.

So there you go. Next day Kentucky won fifty nine to fifty four. Eat it, Bob Knight and the Captain RP of Chalk. I actually he did this topical. As I'm looking at the Masters on TV. He had a Thursday Master's party at his house every year. If I'm not mistaken, I wasn't there yesterday, but I think Chevy Chase in did the first annual Chalk's Memorial Chili Dog Party yesterday for the Master.

A chili dog party in your memory. I can't think of nothing more than I would want.

Now, there's a scholarship in his name for underprivileged students from eastern Kentucky. Like he was so wanted to shout out Chalk there. After meeting daughters at CCI, they gave me a bumper sticker that said he says I got drunk with Chalk or I drank with Chalk. There's a big poster of them in there. But to answer your question about a good drinking spot, if you're not from Lexington and want kind of some Lexington history, you should pop into Cci.

Sounds like a Lexington legend.

Yeah, how about that? Yeah? Could you imagine someone doing at the Hyatt with like Todd Golden on the balcony beneath them.

Now, I can definitely see the upstairs neighbor behavior. I mean, we've heard of fire alarms being pulled and antics to get people to stay awake during the night before, but the stream from a floor above, that's that is legendary stuff.

Also being offered a walk on spot twice past eight five. But just no, I'll just sit here and work them in the in the campus whatever the gym was back then.

Zach tawe before zach Town.

Here you go. Maybe zach Taw has that future. Yeah, we'll come back with a little more Lexidon. Billy's got a game for us. We got people doing Chalk's move at the Masters into a creek. We don't we don't condone that, but we'll be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin on our last day alone where everyone comes back most everyone. Matt will have another week, but we'll have Ryan and Shannon back Ronald drive the show next week. Today we're celebrating Lexington turning

And you've had some great memories, right, I mean you've gotten married in this town and I have ripped your pants in this town.

My pants in this town.

I mean, which time are you referring to? Well, I know of the one time. So it's music month in Lexton. Like going on could be part of the gamer' plan. I don't know, wink wink, But do.

You want to have the buzzword?

Do you want to do? Me to drop it now? The fourth buzz word will be given away a little bit if you don't already know, so I'll save it for the end of the segment. Don't let me forget that. I won't let you forget. But a lot of music things going on to Lexington. Visit lex dot com check it out. Let's do some notable Lexingtonians. In fact, in googling athletes because I didn't want to miss any I found a KSR post from five years ago called Ryan Lemon's top lex and An Athletes. No, I thought, what

Okay.

I did mix up his order though, just because you know, I wasn't sure if he listened to him, like as an actual ranking wasn't clear. But I'm just gonna start with our dear Yeah, in no order, in no order, Jack Gibbons, great stuff gotta be on the list, of course, broad Station High School. Goose was Golden Faces Golden forty one points in nineteen seventy eight. Eat It, Duke now killing it? Now kill Keller.

Do you get to have many interactions with Jack? I know, Oh yeah, a lot. I've had him on the pre show a couple of Times. Just such a genuine guy. You know, talk to him in pre and post game as well. He's always helping with doing this with Andrew Cappus and stuff. Will always give you the time of day. And he's also a golf coach. I think he's the coach at a high school.

Let's go golf with Jackson Times. Set up, Billy what I'm saying. Also, bron Station DERMONDI Dawson Pro Football Hall of Fame, seven time NFL Pro Bowler. He's in the Steelers Ring of Honor in the NFL All Decade Team in the nineteen nineties. Maybe one of the best offensive linemen to ever play in the NFL right here at Lexingtonian.

Quite an impressive list so far. You can get me two strong names.

And Ryan has given you the two names. I'm just reading them. That's true.

Ryan is doing this.

Tyson Gay Lafayette High School. Second fastest man ever, Fastest American in one hundred meters nine point six to nine seconds. Only Usain Bolt was faster.

Did not know he was from Alexico.

Yeah, that's as Ryan notes in his notes here. Second fastest man alive. I don't think he ever got the Gold medal, but won gold in the Olympics, but in several other events World Championships Holly Holly decorated Track and Field Star.

You dedicate your life to this craft and you just happen to be at the same time that bolts running. Yeah, that he takes all your records.

Fastest American we'll call him there, Yeah, fast Fastest Lexingtonian John T. Bone Shelby, Henry Clay, two time World Series champ. One one is an ol oriole and one is a Dodger in the eighties and one of his sons, at least one of his sons went on to play for UK. But a baseball legend here. I think Ryan might even have him first be in baseball.

Well that's a Ryan Lemon ranking then and cool to win with two different teams.

That's Impressive's right?

And Ryan's last one is Frank Minifield from Henry Clay played college football at Louisville, made four NFL Pro Bowls and the nineteen eighties All Decade Team defensive back. So other than going to Louisville, we'll let that slide. But another football legend from here in Lexington.

Pretty good list, a lot of professional success with the athletes listed.

Absolutely. How about since it's music month, you want to do some musicians, Yes, would love to. We have not one, but two Backstreet Boys.

There's two backs.

Show me another city that had two Backstreet Boys born in one of them mathematically Kevin Richardson Friend of the Program. He went to Estell County High School, and I did thorough research to make sure he was born in Lexington, and the internet seems seems pretty clear he's he's Lexing and born even though he didn't go to school here. Okay, so we're gonna claim here. And his cousin Brian Latrell went to Tates Creek. Kevin even called Brian's like, hey,

Uh, completely different genre, but yes, oh, I.

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