06-11-24 KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon and Billy talk UK baseball, Hurley staying at UCONN, and funerals.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is the KSR pre Show for Tuesday, June eleventh.
I am Shannon the Dude being joined by Billy Rutledge,
and you can give us a call on the Clark's
Pupping Shop phone line at eight five nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven. That's eight five nine two
eight O cats. You can also send us a text
on the KSR Pre Show text machine at five O
two two six five six six five six that's correct.

(00:24):
And we are out today as a part of our
KSR Pop Up Business Summer Spotlight series.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's a lot of words.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's a big title that we got going on here,
but we're doing these sort of surprise shows throughout the
summer and today, Billy, we are at Heritage Hill Golf
Club in my neck of the woods, Bullet County, Kentucky.
We are in Shepherdsville, which we don't do a whole
lot of shows in Shepherdsville or Bullet County in general.
I think we did one, was it last year where

(00:52):
we tried to eat like the world record amount of
saltines in a minute.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's right, Yeah, we were just talking about that before
the show. Is one of our worst shows we've ever done.
I don't think it was that bad. It was just
we failed miserably at the world record attempt. But while
you didn't have to drive very far to get here.
We're still in my element here at a golf course, Shannon,
we are. This is what I do. So, you know,
excited to be here at Heritage Hill. According to our
talking points, it was rated a top ten new course

(01:17):
by Golf Digest in two thousand and eight.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well that was a long time ago. Well it's okay, Hey,
we can still put it on the title. Okay, we'll
still say it.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I still think it's top ten, just just by default
because it's in palad County, right, this is God's country
out here. We haven't done any shows in Mount Washington,
I don't think in ksr's history, but we've done at
least now too in Shepherdsville. It says on here too.
If you're lucky out here, you can see deer, fox,
bald eagles, or wild turkey. Is that right? I think
I saw some wild turkey at the bar as we

(01:46):
walked in. Where he's seen that this morning? Nice little
bar selection? Yes, yeah, so you know it's uneventful, so far.
But it's a beautiful day. Nobody's eighty dollars pants have
been torn. Nothing crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
The last time we were actually at a golf course
was Valhalla a few weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So it's beautiful out here. I mean, look at this course.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Nice driving range. I mean, this looks like the eighteenth
Green and coming up here by the clubhouse. We go
to a lot of golf courses. This is a very
nice one. I can't remember if I've ever played it
or not, because in high school you just kind of
went all around the stage. But this is really nice,
and I'm been excited to go hit the range while
you guys do two more hours of radio.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, I was gonna ask you. I was gonna ask
you if you actually brought your club so you will
be doing that. I got the company car, but I
got my clubs out of my car. Look at you,
Look at you, always one step ahead. Say I thought
you were gonna join us on KSR. We're gonna lose
you to the golf course today.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
It sounds like, you know, I'm in my elements, so
I gotta do what I gotta do, all right, So
let's talk a little Kentucky baseball. It was announced yesterday
they will be playing in the College World Series at
two o'clock on ESPN and their opponent, Billy, will be
in c State. They're thirty eight and twenty one pack.
But my right, I thought asked a really good question yesterday.
He said, for Kentucky fans, where does this rank? And

(02:57):
I wanted to ask you the same question, like where
does this rank among the accomplishments of like UK football,
UK basketball? I think those are probably the two sports
we're talking about when we're saying, like, where does this
rank for you? A baseball trip to the College World Series?
How would you answer that? I think it's really close
to a ten win season in football. The excitement that

(03:20):
we felt when Mark Stoops was able to bring that
team up to the standard of what people expect successes
in college football, that's the barometer. In college baseball, is
you making the College World Series? And it's such a
special thing to go to Omaha, Right, I mean in football,
you're trying to get to the playoff, which until this
year seemed unobtainable, Right, I mean, now that it's expanding

(03:43):
to twelve, it's much much more possible. You know, in basketball,
it's about making that final four. It's about going to
that city and having that week of excitement before those
games on the weekend. In baseball, it's making Omaha and
the fact that the SEC dominates the sport and Kentucky
was the only SEC team to not make it to Omaha.
I mean, I think not only did it show that,

(04:04):
you know, the patience and progress that nickmngiona has made
since he started in twenty seventeen, but also the programs
at Kentucky, and I gave Mitch Barnhard a lot of credit.
I think yesterday talking about the success of the baseball program.
He deserves it because not only have we seen a
volleyball national championship and other sports start to flourish, you know,
now baseball is on that track. So I mean, if

(04:26):
you want to rank it up there with the UK
sports achievements of the last fifty years, I think it's
probably top three or four. Would you not say that.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I would?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I was gonna give you my thoughts on this, but
like do we consider I guess technically UK baseball would
be a secondary sports. I mean, I know, like for
some schools it's like a primary sport for them. Yeah,
in this state, I think so, yeah, I don't look
at like UK baseball being on the same level as
like Rifle, although Rifles won many national championships on their

(04:59):
own talk about program, yeah, Rifle school. But I mean,
like you talk about like rank, like, okay, if Tier
one is UK basketball and football, and then there's another
tier that's got like, you know, rifle, Jim NASTI I've
put like UK baseball like somewhere in the middle, okay, right,
I wouldn't put it on the same level as basketball
or football, but maybe just right below that. So if

(05:20):
we're talking about like where does this rink for me,
Kentucky baseball going to the College World Series obviously it's
not going to rank up there with a basketball national title,
although if you win it.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Maybe that's a good story.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
But just being in the College World Series itself doesn't
quite rank as high as being a champion in basketball
or any other sport. But it also I think ranks
higher than anything that the football team has accomplished since
Stoops has been here. I think, you know, going to
a bowl is nice, but is it the same thing
as going to the College World Series. I mean, maybe

(05:53):
if you go to New Year's six Bowl. It's different,
But just going to a bowl I don't think can
match the level of importance as going to the College
World Series. I mean, we're down to the final eight
teams in the entire country for baseball, right, And maybe
the difference is football is so popular. We watch so
much football in a macro level NFL SEC college sports

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that you want them to succeed. So when they have
a ten win season and go to the Citrus Bowl,
it's like, well, they've arrived. The baseball team, I mean,
they're co SEC regular season champions. I mean, this is
something that's the football team has never achieved, So you're
right in that degree. But it also it's about how
they finish. Right now, if they go to Omaha and
they get blown out in their two games, it's almost like.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Did they belong?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah? Right?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But if they go and they compete and they maybe
even make it to the final three game series and
really show off the brand that is Kentucky, then I
think you might look back and look at this as
one of the great achievements of the last twenty years
or so. But it's just exciting because you think about
the SEC, right, Kentucky is the most northern SEC school
in the country, and that really plays into the impact

(07:02):
with baseball because the season starts in the spring and
sometimes you get snow on the ground still.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I can remember it, Bellerman we would have so we
there was like one season where I think we had
more indoor practices than we did outdoor practices just because
of what you're talking about, the weather. So, I mean,
you can't you know, you can try to simulate indoor
practice versus but there's nothing that really truly simulates what
it's like to be out on a field. You know,
you can take ground balls on a hardwood floor, it's

(07:28):
not going to give you the same balance as it
is on a baseball field. So to your point, yeah,
I mean it's even more impressive that, you know, these
southern schools have a lot more outdoor practice time and
you factor all that in and at the end of
the season, you know, usually it's those teams that are
the ones that are.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Left so well, happy for Keith Madison, happy for these
guys that have built this program over the years. And
now a familiar foe, you know, NC State was a
team that Kentucky had to beat in the regional I
think in twenty seventeen to make the Super Regional, a
team that I think hit ten home runs in the
three game series that they just played in. So they've
definitely got some power, a little SEC versus ACC with

(08:07):
four teams I believe, from each conference in the College
World Series, and if Kentucky wins, they'll play another SEC team,
is that right?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Texas A and M and Florida, Florida.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, so in.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Florida's hot team right now. They barely made it in
the NCAA tournament, and for them to make it here
in Texas A and M, we've talked about they have
a rually a home crowd that might make their way
to Omaha. Unfortunately, you know, I don't know if we're
gonna be making it up there at all.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I don't think we are.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I know, you know, Ryan called this too, He said,
I know, since since Matt's not here, of course, a
Matt weren't, we're here, I'm sure we'd all be making
the trip to Omaha, right safe to say.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
He's paying for a hotel, yeah, and driving us up there,
you know, Ryan, And Hey, nothing wrong with this, Ryan.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think one of his dreams has been to go
to the College World Series, and here's the perfect opportunity
and we're not going. But I feel like we've made
a lot of Ryan's dreams over the last couple of
trips that we made. You know, he ran the basis
with the Little League World Series, nearly got us all
thrown in jail. That's why he got to go to
a deaf leopard concert spray painted his bald spot. And
that's got to be a dream come true to some. So,

(09:13):
you know, we you know, we're doing our thing here too.
We're doing the summer tour of business spotlights. But you
know there's no doubt that our attention is going to
be an omaha root in.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
These guys.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Twenty two eighty seven live here at Heritage Hill Golf
Course in Shepherdsville.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Let me let me tell you some other facts about
Tell me about Heritage Hill. It says you can pare
golf with distillery tours at Jim Beam and four Roses
or Bullet Counties, four award winning wineries, and you have
an awesome couples, girls or guys weekend handy to all
in Central Kentucky. Oh Okay, So yeah, you can go
take a tour. Have you ever been to Jim Beam

(09:50):
to do a tour?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
I have.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, I've been on the distillery tours across the state
quite a few. You know. I have to like kind
of like slow down by the end of it. Yeah,
I can't drink all the samples.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, no, no lightweight over. You know, back back in
when I was a kid, of course they had Jim Beam.
It's been around forever longer than me, but they had, uh,
they did the tours, you know, even back in the nineties.
I mean you'd walk in, they'd give you a little
sample of like the bourbon chocolate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
I always wondered, like, I guess kids can just eat
the little bourbon balls. I guess they don't have That's
a good questionically any bourbon in it. We're not supposed

(10:22):
to give kids alcohol, but are they allowed to eat
burn chalk? I think back in the nineties they didn't care.
Here a kid, take a shot, come on in and
grab a seat. A little bit different back then. And
of course Bernhoum Forest was always a staple too.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah. I don't know if you've ever been there before.
They have it beautiful park. You know, you're not the
golfer of the group.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But have you ever been on a course like I've
been on a course? Yes, I was just walked on
one foot, Well not like that, but like, have you
ever Do you have clubs?

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I do, And like I mentioned last week, I'm in
the process of moving, so I've.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Got some clubs.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
But you would you would laugh at my clubs look
like something you would find like the Goodwill from like
twenty years ago.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh just rust it over.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh man, you would look at.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Those clubs and go you'd have a better chance of
picking the ball up and throwing it than hitting with
those clubs. Like I think one of my clubs in
the in the case is wooden an a wooden club,
So I don't think those are exactly at the date you.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Got the old wood. Yeah, it is a crazy game.
I mean you're using these bent sticks to hit a
ball in a in a hole that's five hundred yards away.
It seems crazy on the outside, but when when you're
somewhat capable, it can be relaxing. But you know, people
on the outside they look at it and say, why
would you ever play this sport? And I have happen
to agree.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, that's the thing. You gotta be good at it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I feel like you gotta like you got to hone
in your your craft and get it like to the
point to where you're uh gonna go out on the
golf course and not embarrass yourself.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
The only way you can really do that is I
guess of what uh driving ran? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
You go do? You just work out your issues. You know,
the the barrier of entry is pretty high too. You
got to buy clubs. You gotta buy you know, you
gotta get on the course, which sometimes can be about
seventy dollars or something like that, and then you got
to learn how to play correctly right And luckily I
had my grandmother who taught me from when I was
a little kid and it became a lifelong passion. But
you can just go out there and try to swing
a club, forget about like basketball. It's not like football

(12:15):
where you can pick things up if you're athletic. There
is a lot that goes into it. And maybe one day, Shannon,
I'll get you on the golf.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well you can get me out there, but I mean,
I'll just embarrass myself. So I mean, I'm the type
of guy. That's why John Daily is my favorite golfer.
Like he just goes out there, smokes cigarettes, eat snickers,
drinks a beer and just grips it and rips it.
Like that's my type of golf right there. Like you
know people that take it serious. I can't play golf
with them because I go out and the ball goes
left and then it goes right, and I'm over here

(12:43):
in somebody's backyard and I'm I'm frustrated, and I'm going,
why am I out here?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Like what is this?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I was perfectly fine at home.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Now I'm out in this like somebody's backyard, swinging a
golf club, and I'm stressed out, like I would have
been better off just staying at home. And that's why
I haven't played golf in probably twenty years. You mentioned
John Daily. There's a female on the LPGA tour who's
smoking cigs heaters, and she's just becoming more and more popular.
I guess just because she's ripping SIGs. I don't think
it has anything to do with her golf game. Yeah,

(13:10):
we gotta check her nicotine levels. Is that like some
sort of enhancement, uh, performance enhancement?

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Do I know? You could smoke siggs while you were
in competitive play. You know, there's a story of John Daly. Uh,
there's a very good thirty for thirty on him. He's
just like struggling, playing one of his worst nines and
he goes into the clubhouse after he plays the first
nine holes and he like drinks a couple of beers
just starts slamming him back. Yeah, he comes out there
and shoots like three under. He just plays incredible. And

(13:38):
it's like, if John Daily could drink on the course
during Major he'd be unstop. How many championships would he have?

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh, nobody could beat him, he'd be the number one
golfer in the world.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think we we've talked about though, like back in
the day, you're talking about smoking a cigarette during you know,
you're playing a sport. Back in the day, it was
no big deal to see a player over there on
the bench in a baseball game.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
You know, smoking a cigarette is in a baseball game.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I know they were dipping, but no,
just ripping heaters too.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I mean, I think, uh, ihant to google it.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
But I think there's like, like I'm talking old school players,
like maybe going back to the eighties or seventies or
definitely before that. You know, like I feel like there
was a couple of pictures of Babe Ruth just sitting
there smoking a big cigar, you know, well the babe.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
I think back then it was like, why aren't you smoking? Yeah,
there's stories at Kaywood Ledford having a puff underneath oh yeah,
announcing table legendary. Yeah, so, I mean it was just
it was commonplace back then. I went to a waffle
house in Salem, Indiana a few years back, Shannon, Yeah,
I may have told this story before, and they they
gave us an ash tray, and that was of course

(14:44):
commonplace back in the day, right, But in you know,
two thousand and fifteen whatever it was, I.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Was like, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, that really happening, And everybody proceeded the smoke in
that place. So I don't know, maybe there are some places.
Look at that. There's the picture that you're showing me. Now,
if the pirates it's players, Yeah, is that a sick
that they're ripping or it looks like a doobie on
us too? Well, that might have been outlawed. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Uh, here's another one here, there's Ron Washington. Smoking smoking
in the dugout. Oh look at that.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I mean like it used to be a thing, like
no big deal.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Or smoking on planes. That's another thing you look back
on and like, how is that allowed?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Dick Allen, major League Baseball player. Then juggling, juggling and
smoking in the dugout. I could juggle? Can you juggle?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Shannon?

Speaker 3 (15:24):
I actually cannot. No, I cannot.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's one thing I got over you.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
There you go at your hidden talent eight five nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, amongst other things. Uh,
we'll take your phone calls. Coming up next live in
Shepherdsville at the Heritage Hill Golf Club. It is the
Ksrpre Show. We'll be right back. Welcome back, Ksrpre Show
Live at Heritage Hill Golf Club in Shepherdsville. Shannon the
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Speaker 1 (16:45):
You can bet on the US Open, which is this weekend.
It's at Pinehurst Shannon. That's where I went and played
last summer. Yeah, I took a week off and shot
ninety two on the course. So I think I'll have
some bets for you guys tomorrow. If you want to
bet on the US Open, we'll talk about that later.
Here at Heritage Hills, we were setting up Shannon, Yeah,
and you know, beautiful golf course. Can't wait to hit
the range here in a little bit. They had a

(17:06):
little leak where we were setting up of doctor pepper.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I know, I thought it was oil. I said, I
think you guys have an oil leaf. They said, no,
it's just doctor pepper. I said, We'll get me a straw.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
You're like, give me a straw, I'll help with the leak. Yeah,
I was like, put some pickles on it. Maybe it
tastes good.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
They have, they say, a seventy two part seven yard
course with bent grass greens.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Is that? Like? Is that fancy?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
But I'm not actually sure what bent grass?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Okay, well, let me ask you this. Do you know
what zoyja teas are?

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes, it's a type of grass that is found on
many different golf courses across the country. It kind of
depends on what part of the state that you're at.
If the grass can grow, but Zoyja is one of
those course grasses. And besides that, I can't tell you
much after that.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, you can book your tea time now by going
to Hhgolf Club dot com. We'll talk talk more about
Heritage Hill Golf Club as we go throughout the show.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Today. You and I just hanging out here, Billy.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I'm a little bit worried about our boy Ryan making
it to the show on time. We keep getting text
updates about his ETA, and I just want to say,
you know, it's refreshing for me to finally have to
have you guys, you guys meaning you Drew and Ryan
who live in Lexington, to come out here because now
you get to deal with all the stress of traveling

(18:25):
an hour and a half to get to where you're
going every day.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, he act like they don't give you a company
car and when you drop the company car I did.
I did. I'm taking advantage of it too, But.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm not talking about that. My point is having to
get there and fight through traffic. That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well, I hit the same traffic that Ryan did. I
just have to get up and at it so much
earlier than he does. And I could beat kind of
that rush. But you know this is just this is
Ryan Lemon's doing because he refuses to car pool with
me anymore.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Shannon, Ryan and Drew, I mean, well that's kind of
your fault.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I mean the Bucky Beaver nuggets got to you,
and you know, a couple of months is later, nobody wants.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
To be her in travel partner. Nothing spilled, it all
got into the bag. But I guess the smell is
what they were so adamant about that they'll never carpool
with me again. So I brought Brandon, our sales guy,
with me, so he doesn't know any better. I did
survive that he doesn't know if there's like a sixty
percent chance you may hurl on the way home, well,
I mean that would be a lot harder to do
while you're driving, too, but nevertheless, you know better step

(19:22):
on it, Ryan, but drive safe.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Speaking of hurling, Hurley, Danny Hurley, Wow, in Connecticut, Billy,
you were right. We said yesterday we asked the question,
do you think that he'll go to the Lakers. I said,
he's going to take the money. You said, no, he's
going to stay at Connecticut. And that's what he said.
He said he wants to stay and go for a
three peat at Connecticut, that they were offering him seventy

(19:47):
million dollars over a six year deal. That's I mean,
my gosh, you talk about tempty. If I'm Danny Hurley,
I'm now looking at Yukon and going I just turned
down a job for the Los Angeles Lakers. Give me
a plank check if you want me to stay here.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I think that's part of it is they had that
conversation that hey, we're gonna give you, We're gonna lock
you in. Don't you worry. We'll take care of you, take.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
It care for I mean, I want for life, for
life like you can't.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't care if next season I pull a Kenny
Payne and win four games, You're gonna keep me here
for the remainder of you know, the time that I
want to actually coach.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I think people underestimate the wife's impact on all this.
I think she probably had something to say about it.
A credit to Danny Hurley, who turned down the Kentucky
job and the Lakers job in the same summer.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's consistent that he is. Do you think there's any
job that Danny Hurley would take not right now.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I think there's an appeal to trying to reach for
that third title in a row, you know what I mean,
how many opportunities are you gonna have that People were
talking about how like this is great for college basketball,
and how it had been devastating if he would have left.
I think that's a bit of a reach. I think
would have been fine if Dan Hurley went to the Lakers.
But I do want to backtrack maybe a little bit
on what I said yesterday about the Lakers being a

(20:58):
top five job, because you know, name me a Lakers coach.
Over the last ten twenty years, Shannon, Phil Jackson, they've
been irrelevant. I mean, I guess Phil Jackson back in
the early COVID.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Days, he was the last one if you look back,
and here's maybe another reason he didn't take the job.
If you look back over the last to your point,
going all the way back to Phil Jackson, the last
seven coaches, not one of those coaches lasted longer than
three years as the Lakers job. So he may be thinking, okay,
let's just look at their history. You know, they won
the title win was it twenty twenty?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I think the Lakers won the Mickey Mouse Championship, yes,
in Disney, and then immediately like the next season season
didn't go well, You're fired. So he's probably looking at
their track record of coaches going Okay, if I don't
go there and absolutely crush it and stay consistent, I'm
gonna be out of a job. And I can stay
here at Connecticut and be set for life exactly. I mean,

(21:52):
you're already a made man. Do you want to step
into those waters where Lebron James controls your roster and
you might have to pick up his son and play
him entitled NBA guys that want minutes instead of guys
in Connecticut who I felt like have bought into his
system at this point. So, you know, maybe this was
just one of those headlines that we needed to talk
about because we're in summer and we need to content.

(22:13):
But I think eventually he goes to the NBA. Maybe
it's the Knicks five years down the road or so.
So we'll see.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Eight five, twenty two eighty seven, we were live at
Heritage Hill Golf Club in Shepherdsville, just.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
The ksrpre Show. We'll be right back. It is the
KSR Pre Show.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Shannon the Dude Billy Ruledge live at Heritage Hill Golf
Club in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Come on out. You can now
join us. Even though this was a pop up show,
you can now come out and see us. Yeah, we're
gonna be, like I said, doing several of these as
we go throughout the summer. Billy, I've got apparently a
costume for my Marvel Trivia tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
That's Tomorrow Night, Chaos Bar and Grill. Come on out.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'll be hosting and reading the Marvel Trivia in a
Spider Man costume.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, that's that's what was picked out for me.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't know how it's going to translate talking into
a microphone with a mask on my face.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I want you in the mask. Yeah there, You're not
shortening this and taking the mask off and just gonna
be in the bodysuit. And I'm hoping it's maybe like
two sizes too small, so it's gonna be a light
shading the dude.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I'm glad that somebody is actually writing the questions because
I've had to write Marvel Trivia questions. I wouldn't know.
I would just have to go on to Google and
do a copy and paste. I'm trying to think of like, Okay,
Spider Man, Yeah, never seen it before.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
You don't know any actors that have ever played Spider Man,
like Toby Maguire.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I was gonna say Jack Black, Jack Black, wasn't there
like a parody of him doing this like Saturday Night Live?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Is that? I don't know about Jack Black. That's just
so out of left field and I didn't expect that answer.
But you know, there are some good Spider Man movies.
Can you watch one Spider Man before that starts? Or
do you want to just go in?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
So I want to go in blind, so like just oblivious. Okay, Yeah,
that's part of the appeal in this.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Like what else?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
There's X Men, Well, there's x Men, There's Captain America.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
I've never seen it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
There's the The Avengers and I've never seen The Avengers
Endgame with Thanos. Oh, that's one of the best movies
in the life.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
You've seen all you're telling me you've seen all these
Like you've seen Captain America, You've seen Avengers, You've seen
X Men, thor.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
All the thor Loki Do you know who Loki is?
Loki yeah, it's Thor's brother. So you you have seen
them all. I have, but I'm not like that into it,
you know, like I never read the comics back in
the day. I think I've seen the movies once. Yeah,
but you know I've just I'm aware of it.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
There's a graphic that's being promoted of the event, and
they've photo shopped your face into Thors and it actually
looks really good. So okay, I don't know if you've
seen that yet. I have credit to whoever ended up
doing that, because at first I thought that was Thor
and I had to look again. I was like, that's
shit of the dude.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
I'm glad we finally found a a inappropriate costume for
me to wear. Somebody was trying to bring in like
Wonder Woman. I'm not doing that, but Spider Man.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Down with it. I'll be a good sport and wear
the Spider Man costume.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well good, that's hopefully the web part of it works
on your wrist too. Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Eight twenty two eighty seven. Let's take a phone call.
Let's talk to Christina.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Good morning, Faith, Good morning, gentlemen. How are you off.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
We're doing great. It's beautiful out here. This morning.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
It is a gorgeous day. I just wanted to say
how great you guys are. And you know I can
be in the worst mood and have the best day.
Just turn you guys on in morning listening to you all,
And I just wanted to tell you all something real quick.
I have a mother that moved in with me seven
months ago, and I swear to you she was telling

(25:40):
my sister the other day She's like, I don't know
how many men Chris has coming over here, but she's
over there, laughing and everything in the morning and she's talking.
And of course you know I've talked. I've listened to
you all so much that I already know what you're
going to say before you say it.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well, we appreciate that's really nice.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Love that your mom though, thinks that you have two guys,
or maybe more than that.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
She was hanging out with you in the morning too
many guys.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Come, Yeah, we're out, We're just hanging out all right.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Well, we appreciate it. Uh, thank you so much for listening.
Thank you, Billy. I've got a I've got a fair
or follow want to ask you love these Okay, So
a woman uh decided to throw a funeral, not a funeral,
a funnerable now for her late husband who passed away.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
So he's already passed away.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
He has passed away.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And and her explanation for this is that she's got
a couple of young kids and she doesn't want them
to be sad. So instead of you know, doing a funeral,
which is always you know, tough for for tough for anybody,
but it's definitely tough on kids, she wanted to do
like a whole uh like celebration thing. So she brought
in like a bouncy castle and like I think, had

(26:53):
clowns like blowing like balloon animals and stuff. Yeah, a
whole lot of fun like doing like a whole like
kid's carnival thing, which sounds like a nightmare to me.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
But fair or foul on a funeral instead of a funeral.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Completely fair. I think people grieve in a lot of
different ways, and this, I think is just one of
those ways of making that process a little bit easier. Shandon,
I don't know if you've ever heard of an Irish wake,
but it's really similar. Instead of having the funeral, which
sometimes can be very downer, Yeah, you go and drink
in honor of the person that's passed away, You share stories,

(27:26):
and it's actually it's a much more upby positive type
of vibe. So I think taking this and taking it
to the kid level. I don't know, balloon animals is
a little much.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
We got a bounty castle painting going on.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
But like the concept of like celebrating their life and
doing it in a positive way. I think it's completely
fair and is also I think a little bit better
than having like holograms of the person and talking to
them after they've deceased.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
What do you think, Well, it depends on if the
person who passed away would want that. If they didn't
tell you one way or another, and you decided to
throw a celebrate a funeral instead of a funeral, I'm
going completely foul billy. I'm gonna I'm gonna go on
a record right now in public airwaves when I finally
bite the dust, kick the bucket, shant of the dudes
done for and we got them in a casket. I

(28:16):
don't want there to be any snot nosed brats running around.
I don't want any bouncy castles. I don't want balloon animals.
I want everybody there crying, okay, crying over me, crying
over what you just lost. If there are any sort
of uh shenanigans with clowns and bouncy castles, I will
come back and haunt every last one of you.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
All right, So I can't No that is that you're
supposed to be sad about me? Okay, I want to
see tears going down your face.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I don't want clowns running around with kids.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Wow. That's gonna be the most depressive funeral of all,
as it should be. I don't know if it should be.
It's just that's what it naturally is. Because you've lost
somebody that you love. I want to celebrate the good times,
remember the things that happened, not just be sad that
you're gone, which obviously I am. Yeah, but it doesn't
sound like face painted. Okay, that is a lot making

(29:10):
that bicycle, you clown the balloon animals and clowns. But man,
that's tough that you don't want anybody to happy, no smiling, no, no,
immediately everybody should start, you know, grieving, not being happy
that I'm gone. Okay, I got something for you. So
do you know about the Savannah Bananas Well brand of

(29:33):
baseball that they play.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Even as a baseball traditionalist, I can get behind the
Savannah Bananas because they are fun. They're basically the Harlem
Globetrotters of baseball. Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
And to that point, I don't know if they play
in like a different league, but they if it's the
same opponent every time. But it's not like minor league baseball.
There's different rules and it's it's completely different league in itself. Well,
the other night, I mean, they completely sold out Fenway
Park and they're coming to Louisville, I believe pretty soon.
I looked into getting tickets ya, and completely sold out.
There's a lottery you have to in.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
That's right, Yeah, So you can't just go up and
buy ticket even if you wanted tickets, No, doesn't work
that way. You actually have to enter in to a lottery.
If you win the lottery, you have the honor of
buying a Savanna Banana ticket.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
So I realized that it was like a niche, very
interesting thing to take your kids to, But I did
not realize it was worldwide international, selling out Fenway Park
and having to win a lottery to even get in.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, and good for them. I mean, sure, yeah, they do. Like, Oh,
if you haven't seen it before, just look them up.
I mean they play by a completely different role. It
is a little bizarre.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
If there's a.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Foul ball and it goes into the stands and a
fan catches it, the batter's out.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of they're dancing. Yeah,
they're doing like TikTok dances, and then they pitched the
ball right after they do it, and it's like I
didn't even realize they were going to throw the ball there.
So I have not seen it before. I'm interested. If
anybody has been to a Savanna Banana game, you could
text us at five oh two two six five six
six five six.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Is it really that exciting? Is it really that fun?
It looks that exciting from what I've seen. I mean
that right there is If you know you're one of
these people that think baseball is boring, that's it.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
That's it. Go to that you want to get kids interested,
I think that's a good good way to do it.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Or just watch Kentucky baseball, because we're talking about like
a team that is fun to watch, exciting, that pushes
the envelope that's Kentucky baseball man. I mean, I don't know,
like the last time I saw a play like we
had that ended up being the winning run. The pass ball,
a pass ball and the guy that's on second base
ends up scoring on a pass ball.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
That's that's something you see in a little league. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Well, that and they're doing safety squeezes to score other runs.
I mean, that's exciting stuff. And in some of the
clips that have been shared from that, like super Regional win,
people are all commenting on the atmosphere at Kentucky Proud
Park too. I think you got to give it up
for BBN for really supporting this team and the brand
of baseball that they play.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
And credit to coach man Gione two. I mean he
talked about in his press conference. You know, after a
couple of seasons ago, when things were going well, he
went back and just sort of rethought his entire offensive approach.
You know, decided we're gonna play aggressive. We're gonna force
teams to make errors, you know, like be aggressive on
the base paths.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
And yeah, and I think you mentioned that easy coaching
to not do that, to not push the envelope and
He put it really plainly at the beginning of the
year that you know, college kids they make a lot
more mistakes than these professionals, so you can attack them.
You can try to steal second constantly and realize that
these college kids are not perfect, and you know, aren't
just the major leaguers that will make.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
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Speaker 1 (33:24):
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Speaker 2 (33:32):
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Speaker 3 (33:48):
What do you get five O.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Two two sixty five six six five six. Every time
the kids go to a birthday party with bounce castles,
they'll remember Dad's funeral. That's true. See, that's my point.
That's my point, just subconsciously. I mean, you do it
as a three year old and then you're what eleven
or twelve.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Here's if the kids have so much, like too much
fun at Dad's funeral, they're gonna be like, can we
kill mom off too?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Bring back the bouncy castle.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh that's right, because that's the only way that I
can get on a bouncing castle is if somebody in
my immediate family dies.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Oh that's horrible. It's horrible.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Have you seen like all the shark attacks that's going
on on the Gulf Coast? No, you asked me about
that during the break. I had no idea what's going on.
So there was like three attacks and this is like
around you know, Panama City beach area, and like it was,
it was terrible. I mean, normally you don't see I mean,
I know people will say like, oh, people are surprised
that there's actually animals out there. No, I get it,
but normally you don't see them that close to the shore.

(34:44):
One moment got I think, like her hand bitten off
and part of her leg had to be amputated. So
we're talking about serious stuff here, and it keeps happening
like there was I saw yesterday a post of a
hammerhead that was just kind of hanging out right there
by the by the shore, just waiting. But I think
the type of shark attacked and bit the lady I
was talking about was a bull shark, and those are

(35:05):
like the aggressive ones you don't want to mess with.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
So is there blood in the water.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Well, I mean like when I go down there, I
see all the time, like fishermen will just throw in
their line from the shore, like that should not be legal.
There's people swimming out here and you've got bait you're
trying to lure in some monster. Meanwhile, you got people
twenty yards away swimming like that doesn't seem safe.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
I see that all the time though. Yeah, people are
always fishing from the beach. Yeah, and just kind of
plays to the fact that the ocean is a scary place. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
I mean, like we don't know anything about the ocean.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
You talk about like the most or the least discovered
like places on our planet, it's the ocean, Like we
only know like just a fraction of what's out there.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You ever go deep sea fishing, man, you ever go
overboard or something like that, you're done. Yeah, even with
the floatation device like that is like a I was
gonna say, a rational fear, but it's not irrational at all.
I feel like with the all the things living down there. Yeah,
there are stories of orcas. Was it a year ago?
So they were attacking boats. Yeah, and then.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
The animals are fighting back. Man, they've had enough of a.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, speaking of that, did you see the bull that
jumped the fence?

Speaker 3 (36:08):
That was wild?

Speaker 2 (36:09):
So if you didn't see this, a bull jumps the fence,
I guess he got into like the tunnel area, yeah,
which then led to the streets, and the bull gets
out into the street like leaves the arena. Is there
just an open space where a bull can jump out
of the pit into the ramp and then just walk
out And he goes out into the street and immediately gores.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Like someone is just standing there on the street like
trying to catch an uber. Next thing, you don't, she's
getting flipped upside down on the concrete by a bull.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah. Two people had to go to the hospital. They're
both expected to recover. But this bull jumps a fence
like it's a cat. Yeah, and God bless the USA's
on in the background and people start panicking, and after
that the show continued. They did not stop the show
because the bull jumped over that fence and they just
kept on going. Next bull up? Who's next? That's another
thing I'm not doing, Shannon is.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
No, absolutely not. Eight twenty two eighty Seves. I guess
Shark Week came early down down in Panama City. At
least be careful out there. Animals are getting wild. Let's
go to Drew. What's up, Drew?

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Hey, good morning guys. I want my funeral to be
the saddest occasion anybody has ever gone through in their
entire lives. I'm with you, man, Yeah, yeah, I want
people crying. I want people, you know, just talking about
how often I was. But let me tell you this,
So there's one person that my funeral is going to
have a good time. To give me just a second.

(37:33):
I'm going to have a list, all right, a pre
made list of people, and I'm also going to be
in the coffin laying on my stomach, and nobody's going
to know that until the last person. The last thing
that goes on is that person that has that list
is going to have everybody line up. They're going to
open the bottom half of my casket and those are
the people that get to kiss my butt. Now, the list,

(37:55):
and the person who keeps that list is the one
that's going to have a good job. Everybody else I
want crying.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
All right, there you go. Thanks for the Cauldrew. We
appreciate it. What do you think about that? The old
Bobby Knight at it?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah? I don't know, Burt me upside down. I just
I want people to have a good time at my funeral. Okay,
I'll remember that. We're gonna be happy that Billy's gone. Well,
I say, I remember that, assuming that you go before me,
I helped. The odds were not in my favor. You
got a head start on me. Yeah, I did the
race to the casket.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Let's go put a morbid show. This has turned into
let's go to Cliff. What's up Cliff?

Speaker 6 (38:27):
Hey Cliff, are we serving mimosas at Billy's funeral or
what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, that's a great question. Do we get complimentary mimosa
and beabern and opening.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
At my funeral? It's gonna be expensive. I don't care.
I'm not paying for it.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
So there's this new show called clip and it goes
to the like it does the La Clippers, like has
like the past that happened ten years ago and does
it behind the scenes. And my question is, is there
a Team Kentucky Team Pro Team that you wish that
somebody would do behind the scenes documentary on? You know,

(39:06):
I think of Caliperry, maybe even the twenty twenty we
had all the COVID stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
I was kind of interested in that.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
But like what about the Braves with John Rocker in
the nineties, Like that was kind of crazy then too,
Is there something that comes to mind that you wish
that TV shows would do a documentary or a reality
show or whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yes, yes, I would have loved to have seen the
behind the scenes going ons of the Billy Gillespie or
Kentucky because and then you know it wouldn't be a
positive thing. But just you know, we hear all these stories,
you know, you know, keeping jorts in the bathroom stall
during the Vandy game, and you know, allegedly hanging out

(39:51):
a little too much with Alec Collegian's girlfriend. Well Alan
Cutler chasing too, Alan Cutler chasing. I mean, you know,
just that day alone, I would like to see a
documentary just on that day alone.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Keep in mind, Billy Gillespie has been fired.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
He's driving around the streets of Lexington to avoid what's
inevitably going to happen to him.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know, it's like a kid.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
When it's like a kid when you know like you've
done something wrong, and you know, like when dad gets home,
like you're you're gonna get yours.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, the fear of the belt.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
So then when he gets home, you just kind of
run around the table and try to avoid what's inevitably
gonna happen. You're gonna get You're spanking right, sure, And
I think that's what was going on with.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Billy Gillespie, like he knew he was gonna get fired.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
We appreciate the call, thank you, Cliff, but but that
whole day was just a really bizarre day in UK history.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
That's a good answer. Locally, I'm just thinking on a
national stale. I'd love to see the personally Tom Brady
take over the Bucks that was a failing franchise and
then he led them to a super Bowl in his
first year. I'd love to see the Jets in what's
going on with Aaron Rodgers as he becomes this conspiracy theorist.
I mean he gets hurt on his foot first or
second play in the season. They had such high aspirations.

(40:58):
I'd love to see how they reacted. But that's a
good question. Behind the scenes stories in sports, I'm sure
there's a ton of them.

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(41:26):
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(41:47):
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