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Chapter 1: What memories are shared from the KS Bar?
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Chapter 2: What challenges have the hosts faced recently?
Drew Franklin and Shannon the Dude. I, Drew, was thinking to myself when we decided to do a last show here at KS Bar. I was like, well, you know, I hope some people stop by. And, you know, this crowd never ceases to amaze me. Huge crowd here this morning on a Thursday. Thank you all very much for coming out. You know, it's actually very difficult.
It's actually more difficult for people to come on these days at KS Bar because we don't have a speaker system because in eight years we were not able to figure out how to make it work without an echo. So they have to actually hear our real voices. And, you know, this has been a wonderful time here, and it's great, Drew, to see a great crowd here this morning. Yeah, it sure is.
I expected some people would show up, but as soon as I turned to this parking lot, I was like, do we have a football game today? What's going on? I had to park in the back. But it's great to see everyone, and we appreciate the support. Well, I'm going to do my best to not get emotional today. But, you know, this has been ā
For the last month and a half, this has been a lot going on in this KSR world, starting with Drew having a baby, which is a positive thing. At least I would think so. It's been very positive so far. You know, Ryan's health issues. We have had ā I had a surgery this week, which is fine, but that I'm sort of getting through as well. And then you have this news with KS Bar.
And it's just been a lot over the ā and we're kind of all on the up slope, or I guess down slope, whatever the positive slope. But it is ā today is a tough day. I mean, we opened this place ā Eight years ago, kind of as a labor of love, having no idea what would happen.
I remember John Calipari said to me when he heard I was doing it, John Calipari said to me, that's the worst decision you've ever made. He was like, restaurants are hard. And he said, they're not. And in a classic Cal City, he was like, the only thing I've ever lost money on was my restaurant. And it ended up being, I think, a wonderful experience. I love doing it.
And, you know, it will still be open. So for people to know, it will go through Sunday through Rail Bird. So if you're around here this weekend, we are going to have parking for Rail Bird. I have to tell you it's a cluster. I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we will have it, and we will be open. And then we're going to be closed, and it will come back, but it will be kind of like ā
when I sold KSR Don 3. It's not mine. It's going to be the new restaurant going next door. It'll be their game day place. I can't say what it is because they won't... They haven't announced it yet, but they'll announce it soon. I think the place going next door is going to be awesome, which means I think this is going to be awesome. But to be fair...
i won't own it anymore along with the all the other folks who have and so it's just like when we sold the website it's a little bit of a of a sad day but also very cool to see everybody here definitely we have a lot of pride in this place i know we'll still have our game days which are so fun but i'll miss just the random days you know family coming in from madisonville or friends like hey we want to go by the bar and just a proud of having a place for people to go and
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Chapter 3: What notable events happened during the bar's history?
We couldn't get our permits ready for the first two games, if you remember. We couldn't get the city to license us. And then they finally did, and it was UK week football against Florida. It was the first time we beat them.
in 30 years and that led to Drew and Ryan up on the bar shooting champagne and what was probably the rowdiest this place ever got was the very first weekend and I wasn't even here.
Yeah we didn't talk about it much at the time because I think it was illegal but it got really late in the night and I noticed it was too late for people to be there and there was like a trough outside with canned beer people were helping themselves to and I thought This isn't a house party. I should probably make these people go home.
But we had quite the time at the grand opening, and that's when we got the shout-out during the game. Remember Tom Hart talked about us. So I was thinking about all the stuff here over the years, and especially, honestly, because the team's success was larger. A lot of it happened early.
You may remember a few years back we had to beat Mississippi State to get to play LSU in football where it would be like for the SEC or maybe play Georgia where it would be for the SEC East. Do you remember that? And we played here.
And when the game was over, Vince Merrow and a bunch of the players and their families after the general public came, came here and celebrated, which was ā that went until about 2 or 3 in the morning, which was a lot of fun ā There was one night we got a phone call that said, John Calipari's in the back booth. He and Ellen had just snuck in here and had sat in the back.
We obviously have had all the coaches and players autograph signings. Think about Benny Snell. They were lined up down the street. Tyler Hero, Kelton Johnson, De'Aaron Foxe. Josh Allen, there's a great picture you took of Josh Allen, the football player here, with a 14-year-old sack toe meeting him, and there's a picture in this bar where they met when he was just in high school.
That was one of my favorites because Madisonville made the Sweet 16 for the first time in a long time, and they just completely took over this bar. But you mentioned we would just throw things together like it was a garage party, whatever we want to do. I'm thinking like when we were like, let's try a survivor night. We did. Who knows if that will work?
I mean, we would just create events and see if they'd work, and so many turned into big things that we'll remember for a long time. Barstool did ā Dave Portnoy did his show here. Pardon my take, did their show here. They did the rough and rowdy weigh-in sitting right here one time a long time ago.
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Chapter 4: How has the community reacted to the bar's closing?
I think you saw a guy's dad passed away shortly after being here, and the picture of the bar, they put on his little monument because they said it was the happiest he's been. Stuff like that, we can't ever be thankful for enough. And there are ā I have hundreds of people who have sent me pictures where they were sitting on this stage right here. Or, you know, a kid with the headphones on.
And it just ā it never ceases to be ā just so you folks know that are here, and even those of you listening, this is like not normal. This doesn't happen anywhere else. This doesn't happen anywhere else. There's nowhere else that fans on a Thursday morning come to sit and listen to two goobers talk on the radio. This does not happen anywhere else. And I very much appreciate it.
And it's part of the reason, as, you know, things positively have happened with my career and there will be other things coming here soon, I'm I can't I'm never going to leave this completely because I can't because it's too. I mean, this is what it's about. So thank you all very much. And I really do appreciate it.
So I've been out a couple of days, but I'm back and a little sore, but otherwise doing well. And Monday night, as I was getting ready to have my procedure done, I got to see Milan Momchilovich pick Kentucky. I would assume that made you all pretty happy. Am I right about that? Thank you. I haven't gotten to talk about it, so I do want to talk about it for a second.
I think this is a huge, huge, huge thing for Mark Pope for a variety of reasons. First of all, let's talk about what I don't care about. I don't care what he cost. I don't either. I really don't. I mean, I'm taking Drew's. It's not my money. It doesn't really matter to me. You're not really setting a market because the market's over. You just got probably your last player.
or at least your last significant player. So I don't think it really matters. They needed him. I mean, let's put some perspective just on him as a shooter. Kyle Tucker said this, and I couldn't believe it. In the history of college basketball, okay, in the history of college basketball, you know how many players have made 133s in a season while shooting more than 48% from three? One.
One.
This kid we have. There have been people who've shot a higher percentage. There have been people who've made more. But there has never been a player to shoot a higher percentage and make more than this kid. End of story. That's it. That's all I need to know. Right? On a team, God love them last year, where every time they shot, I just was like, ugh.
You got a guy who's a knock ā you got a big man who's, what, 6'9"? And he's shooting 48% from three? How many guys have we had shoot 48% ever? About four. I did this on the website earlier this week.
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Chapter 5: What are the hosts' reflections on their time at KS Bar?
Maybe Deron was, but in general, not shooting the volume that he's going to shoot. From a perception standpoint, Drew, Pope needed a win. He needed a win on this stuff. He needed to win one of these top recruits, and now he gets them. And he has a team where, you know, I've seen people rank them as highs like 11th or 12th. I've seen them not ranked.
But regardless, wherever you think they're going to be, now we can feel like they're going to be competitive. I think you can look at it and say, hey, this is a team that has a chance to make a run. I think it was a massive get for UK. Definitely, and I've got to put some respect on Travis Ford. He's second with several attempts, so he was the other one.
But yeah, this is exactly what Pope needed, and it's not just that you're getting a three-point shooter that's going to knock down outside shots. It is going to lift everyone. Wilkins and Zoom are kind of ball-dominant guys that can get to the rim, and this will create the space that, you know, O-Way kind of had to just bully his way in there sometimes.
There wasn't much space for him to work with. With Milan out there as a threat, and heck, maybe Cam Williams takes another step forward, it's going to be the, I hate saying the video game offense we all got obsessed with when Pope first got hired, but it'll be that offense Pope has wanted to run since he first got here.
And if you look at the two players that I thought before he got there are going to be our best players, this is a guy who helps them both be good. All right, so Alex Wilkins is now going to have paths to the basket. Alex Wilkins is not a knock-down shooter. He's going to have to get to the rim. He's going to have to get mid-ranges.
If you have guys pulling you out of the defense, it's going to be a lot easier. You know, part of what would happen with Owe, he'd be ā Three guys would be waiting for him at the rim. You can't do that because somebody's going to have to be out there with Milan to guard. Malachi, he's going to get more space down low to be able to move.
He's not going to be able to be double teamed, at least by Milan's man. So if you're Pope and you're smart, you work it to where you put him on the same side as Milan, and now Malachi has more space. I think that is ā and if you can just get one of these dudes, whether it's Cam or Braden Hawthorne, to really step up ā Trent Noah can make shots, right?
If Zoom ends up better than maybe we thought. You can have a really good team. You have a chance to have depth. I think it's huge. And they paid a lot. I mean, they paid a lot. This will be the most expensive player UK has ever had. It will be one of the most expensive players ever in college basketball. And I hope people don't sort of weigh him down with that. I mean ā
You get paid what you get paid. But just from a roster standpoint, I think it's huge. I think it, you know, takes a little pressure off Cam and even Trent to be knocked down. I mean, they need to hit their shots. But if they hadn't gotten him, it's like, guys, you're going to need to be the sharpshooter on this team.
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Chapter 6: What future plans do the hosts have after leaving KS Bar?
We'll talk about it. We are here at the KS Bar and Grill. It is our last show here at KS Bar. We'll take a break and be right back in front of a great crowd. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts feel about the sports culture in Kentucky?
Feels a little weird. This is Tyler Childers playing with Shannon. Well, he's not playing with Shannon, although I would go to see Tyler Childers play with Shannon.
Yeah, we'll open up one.
He'll be at Rail Bird. So, yeah, I'm going to plan on coming over here Sunday, walking in here and ā Zach Topp and Tyler Childers both playing. It's like they created Sunday at Railbird for me. I'm looking forward to it. That's a perfect one. Right on the same stage. Well, not pull up a chair. I don't think you can do that. You can't bring a chair.
I look. They will not let you.
Sit on the ground. But, yeah, that's going to be a great one. So I'm looking for anywhere that has shade. I'll pay good money for a chair or shade because I want to go. I've got to go, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to ā with just being a little weak, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to stand the whole time.
So I've got to find a way to try to get ā A few years ago, I believe it was for Tyler, I stood in the same spot so we could be pretty close. It felt like eight hours, and the buddy, the lower back, was killing me. But it's worth it once the concert starts. Yeah, one person writes, Matt, will you still do trivia nights at the new place? Well, I hope so.
That'll be up to the other folks there, but I would like to. I enjoyed trivia nights over the years. People get really angry at them. But a lot of the folks sitting here are regular players of it. I get a lot of joy out of making those. They take a long time. They take like four or five hours because I try to do it where people can't just look it up on AI, which makes it take a while.
But I've done ā I've probably written a hundred of them over the years. Shannon once did Harry Potter, and you dressed up, didn't you, for it, Shannon? That's right. I dressed up as Harry Potter. I said, Hermione, and made that woman really mad. It wasn't Hermione. Yes, they got very mad at you. Then we did Taylor Swift here as well over the years. Game of Thrones.
That was fun when that was lined up outside the door. Looking up, I remember this duct right here sent me to the emergency room when I was cleaning it. I split my head open on it and bled everywhere.
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Chapter 8: What insights are shared about the future of college sports?
The best tippers, LSU fans, by far the best tippers. I mean, the people that worked in here those days with the LSU fans would talk about how there would be like a million. And then probably second, even though they stunk a year or two, was Auburn the couple times they were here. And then I would say Kentucky fans, not surprisingly, worst tippers consistently Tennessee.
And they would show up pretty strong in here, too. They would come in here, they'd take it over, and then they wouldn't tip. And he was like, what are you doing, Tennessee? LSU was a clear leader. I remember an older guy came up. He's like, here's 50 bucks to change the TVs. He's like, I don't need your 50 bucks. And he just handed it to me.
So I just walked over to a server and was like, here's 50 bucks just for being here. I mean, they were just throwing cash around for little things like that. Now I can see how they can afford Lane Kiffin by what they did. All right. So... We still have one assistant coach job left, and one has to assume that they're waiting on somebody.
Jamal Crawford, the internet was starting to spike up yesterday that Jamal Crawford was going to be the guy, the text machine. I think some of them were people just trying to call their shot. I don't know if they knew anything. Do you think we get Jamal Crawford? Wouldn't that be a good final piece of the summer? Oh, definitely.
You know, it would be a little disappointing if they don't at this point because they've held it open for so long. Also, the Pope ā I know I'm probably getting a little crazy into the Internet conspiracies here, but he had the JK. Okay, so let's talk about that. I mean, I know it's not a C, but they don't have a C. So he put it up on the beach. First of all, did you like the picture?
At first, I thought it was AI. Then Billy convinced me live on the show, so I had to apologize. Oh, you say it wasn't AI. No, I don't think so, because there's alternate angles, and they're at Costa Rica. We thought it was destined. We cleared that up. I did like it, and he deserved the flex. He's faced a lot of criticism.
I still cannot get over how much fruit they had at their beach spot, but I guess there's six of them, but that was just so much fruit. Too much fruit? I guess you can never have too much fruit, but it was a lot of fruit.
It was a lot of fruit. I like that he did it.
So, Shannon, what does the Jack King mean there? Because you don't just have Jack King.
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