2025-01-06 KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk UK Basketball's win over Florida, the winter storm across Kentucky, and OVW from the weekend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show,
a snow day edition of the pre Show. Today Today's Monday,
January sixth I'm Billy Rutlis along with Shannon the Dude.
You can give us a call on the Clark's Pump
and Chop phone line. That's eight five nine two eight
oho two two eight seven, Texas at five oh two
two sixty five sixty six five six and is always

(00:28):
The KSR pre Show is brought to you by Italics
Fine Italian dining right in Lexington on Main Street. You
may have a tough time getting to Italics if you
plan on going or really anywhere today, as the snowstorm
has hit Kentucky the Commonwealth over the past couple of days.
Our very own snowflake, Shannon the Dude, is actually in studio.
Good morning, dude.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know you didn't just call me a snowflake. I
am the opposite of a snowflake. What are you talking about? Hey,
I am here, and I'm gonna tell you, Billy, I
think I may be well, there may be one other
person I was gonna say. I think I'm maybe the
only person in here, but I know Vanetti is in here.
Dave Jennings is in here for whas and that's about it.
Like other than that, there is nobody here. But I

(01:09):
made it in. I came in yesterday early because I
didn't want to get up and go this morning. I
knew that was going to be bad. But I'll tell you,
coming in yesterday was the scariest drive I have ever
had in my life. We're talking about white out conditions,
cars on the side of the road. I didn't even
know if I was on the road half the time

(01:29):
I was driving. I think I just drove like what
I thought was the center of the road. And we're
talking about like on sixty five five completely snow covered,
and I go, I'm just gonna drive right down the
middle of the road because I have no idea where
a lane is to begin with. It was so bad.
At one point I had to pull over and like
my windshield was icing up all right, And I drive

(01:50):
a Wrangler, but it doesn't matter what you drive when
you can't see, and my windshield was completely iced up.
I had to get out and like use the forearm
to kind of wipe it down a little bit, and
the defrost and everything was on full blast. Didn't matter.
It was completely icing up, but luckily made it here.
It took me about an hour. Normally it takes me,
I don't know, thirty five minutes to get from home

(02:12):
to work. But yeah, it was no.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now that's where we need to start. We need to
commend the commitment of sharning the dude ring the bell
for the man that actually actually go into the studio
to put all the shows on the air this morning. So,
were there any wrecks when you were driving by?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I mean I didn't see any recks actively, But what
I mean is I saw plenty of cars on the
side of the road. Yeah, I saw cars that had wrecked.
Just I mean, look, if you don't have to be
out on the roads, don't go out there. I said
that yesterday. I can't speak to the conditions of the
road this morning because I haven't driven since about one
o'clock yesterday. So I will tell you that was a

(02:48):
bad idea. Just wait until one o'clock to come in.
I should have came in early yesterday morning. But the
fun thing was, though Billy got to go out and
hang out with some co workers, mainly I'm talking about
Tony Vinetti, but I got to hang out with Tony Cruz.
That was fun. But Vannetti, I bring him up because
I felt like, for one night only, Billy, I got

(03:09):
a little taste of Tony Vannetti circa nineteen ninety eight.
You got the old Vinette, a little bit of the
old Vinetti back, you know, because Vannetti has been so
just like, you know, he became an adult.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I guess he's got a health kick.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, he's healthy, completely straight laced and everything. But I
got to have a you know, knock one back with Venette.
You got to have a beer last night with Vinette,
and I felt like, you know what this is maybe
just a taste of what rock and roll Ofvinetti was back.
It was like back in the day, you know, back
in the good old days.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I would have loved to have been there for that.
I mean, I met Tony many years ago, and you know,
he's definitely changed for the better. But I have not
seen the old Vinette either, So I do miss old
man TONI and him hosting on KSR every now and then.
You know, Shannon, you drove through what Louisville got nine
inches of snow yesterday was the third snow yestay ever

(03:56):
in the month of January in the city of Louisville
and the health snowiest overall. They Louisville got seventy percent
of their annual snowfall in one day and it's not over.
I mean there's one to four inches expected today, cold weather,
high winds that could lead to more power outages. As
a five am this morning, Shennon, over eighty thousand people

(04:18):
throughout Kentucky are without power. Did you have power at
the house when you left? Everything? Are Sarah back there?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
As far as I know, everything's good. Everything is good
at the hotel room. I know that it was nice
and warm and comfortable, so they're glad that I made
that decision to come in early. But yeah, I definitely
feel for all the people who, you know, don't have
power right now. I know that some communities have what
they're calling like warming centers, basically before they've got heat,
you can just you know, go there if you're if

(04:45):
you've got no other place to go. So I don't
have the full list of those places, and we have
such a wide listening audience, I can't sit here and
just name off everyone in every county. But I would
say that if you're in that situation and you don't
have any other way to stay warm, look that up
on your phone if you can, and try to find
a place to go.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And this is one of my favorite parts about working
in radio, Shannon, because there are people out there that
I'm sure are without power looking for news, and places
like News Radio six thirty and eight forty whas are
places where you can stay up to date. So I'm
sure our personalities will continue to keep you up to
date on all things weather. A big shout out though,
to all the weather men and women who have been

(05:23):
rolling up their sleeves and doing what they do over
these last twenty four to forty eight hours. And not
only that, but people clearing the roads right people with
LGNE and KU and and people out there working on
power lines right now. We cannot thank you enough for
trying to make our lives easier. So a big thank
you to everybody doing that right now.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I know, like yesterday, they just couldn't keep up. I
mean there's snow plows were out there, but as soon
as they would, you know, clear the way as best
they could, more snow would just keep coming down. And
I just peeked outside before we started the show a
few minutes ago, and it's snowing again in Louisville, so
we kind of had, you know, snow than freezing rain,
you know, icy conditions. Now we're back into snow again,

(06:02):
so to see what happens here.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
But I tell you what, my trees and bushes are
all just crunched down from that ice. Yeah, like all
that freezing rain. It's just almost flattened the bushes in
my backyard. And you know it's that there's another storm
coming possibly Friday and Saturday. So after we get past
some of these cold temperatures, there's a possible another winter
storm on the way.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
So should I just take up like permanent residence down
here at Fourth Street Live for the next week.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
We might have to.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I mean, there is nobody here, nobody Like I think
Thenetti's here. I guess that he woke up this morning
and answered the bell. I haven't seen proof of Annetti,
but I know that he's supposed to be here. And
they're like one, that's it, man. It is a ghost
town around here.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's go back to the COVID days, right, and it
was just me and you coming in every single day.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Now you don't even come in, look at this.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now we lost you call me Hugh Hefner with the
robe on this morning, shann and I'm ready to go.
I've got those to look at this.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's a flannel robe.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, look at this. Let's look at four.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Grunge like plaid. You get. What's that say on the back.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's like dogs like, it's a Snoop dog. It's a
Snoop dog robe.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Doll says dog supply, dog supply. You are literally wearing
a robe, a flannel robe that says dog supply on
the back.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, with the number ninety three. Look if we're all
just supporting Snoop his bowl game that he had this year.
But eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven,
if you'd like to call us, tell us about the snow,
tell us about what you've been going through. If you've
got power and how you're holding.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Up, tell us where you're at. How many inches you get?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I don't know. Well, no, it depends on the
ground on the ground.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean what was that you got?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, but let's talk about the power that was in
rupp Arena over the weekend. What a game Kentucky beats
Florida one oh six to one hundred on Saturday. Just
incredible offensive numbers from both teams. Kentucky has six players
in double figure not to mention Kobe Brad who hit
seven three pointers on his way to twenty three points

(08:01):
the eleven am tip. I mean, maybe a little bit
of a slow start, but seemed to work out just
perfectly for the Cats. And what was I thought al
Timer and rep Arena on Saturdy.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I can't say it too much of a slow start.
They had fifty two points at halftime, fifty four in
the second half, So I mean, the team was just unbelievable.
Mainly as you said, Kobe Brea. I've been talking about
Brea all season long, going, this guy needs to shoot
the ball more. When they lost to Clemson, he only
shot the ball like a couple of times. And I'm going,
this guy is the best shooter out there on the team,
possibly in the country. He looked like it on Saturday.

(08:31):
Jay Billis even said as much after he knockdown what
it was his sixth three point or seventh yeah, seventh
career high. Yeah. So that's the thing, man, Keep letting
him shoot. I know he struggled for a while, but
good shooters will shoot their way out of a slump.
That's the thing. Like it's like baseball. You've got a
good hitter, you don't stop swinging right, you keep going

(08:52):
up there and you keep You're eventually going to swing
your way out of that slump. And Kobe Brea certainly
did on Saturday. Just overall really impressive with the team.
You know, ever time that Florida would fight back, Kentucky
would go on a huge run. I think one time
it was what I think a sixteen oh run, a
couple of ten o runs. I don't have the exact
numbers in front of me, but just the fact that
this team can go on runs like that against a

(09:13):
really good Florida team that was undefeated, coming in number
six in the country, shows you how dangerous this Kentucky
team can be and shows you their true potential when
they're clicking on all cylinders.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
You're right, that sixteen to zero run came with Kentucky
trailing early in the game. It was otega Oway that
kind of let start that run. He did it several times,
three different times. Kentucky had ten to oh runs and
that played very well in their favor. And I got
to give a shout out to Ropperena. I mean, they
really brought it. It was a great environment. It's as
much crap as we've given people for telling other fans

(09:45):
to sit down and it being sweater vest and in
the lower bowl. You know, Raperena still shows out for
those big games when they get top ten opponents. And
now Kentucky is three to oh against the top ten
this year. And Dan Shulman, who did the game with
Jay Billis, had some really high praise, saying afterwards, I've
been doing this for thirty years. I can count on
one hand where both the game and the environment were

(10:06):
as good as they were today at Rupp for Kentucky
Florida college basketball at its best. And this fan base
has got its juice pac doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, he said he could count it on one hand.
It's a good thing because the other hand was full
of an ice cream cone. I mean, did you see
those guys.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
See now Billis is like bringing in his play by
play guy having them slurp on ice cream on live team.
I don't need to see that. We don't care, Jane,
we know you love the ice cream. I don't know
we got to make it a point every time to
make sure we get a shot of j billis lapping
on that ice cream cone. But yeah, I mean to
your point with Shulman, I mean, this team is just
firing on all cylinders. Again. You just said it. I'll

(10:42):
say it again.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Though.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Give a shout out to the crowd. We were kind
of worried, you know, will people be there in their
seats for time for tip off? And it was. It
was sold out. I mean all the way to the
top of the top of the Roup arena. It was
completely sold out and really loud too.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Well.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
We had a postgame show color that actually made a
good point that, you know, if the crowd is so
old than eleven am, maybe the perfect time for a
tip because, I mean, after the game, you go get
that early bird special and then you're ready ready for
bed after that. So maybe that is that's the formula
for Kentucky. But a big respect to everybody that showed
out to that game. Rod DeSantis was court sided. Yeah, Shannon,

(11:16):
that was a little bit bizarre having him, you know,
just I guess so close to the court. I did
what I did, think that the Florida guards were really good.
I mean, I think that Florida team could win a
lot of games. Yeah, you know, in fact, me and
you picked Florida to win the game in the KSR
picks of this game, and and Kentucky proof is wrong.
And uh, I'm glad, Shannon, because I think you've got

(11:36):
to hold serve on your home games. This year, only
one team on Saturday in the SEC won when they
were on the road. That was Vanderbilt beating LSU. So
just goes to show you how important it will be
games at Rep. Aerna this year.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, we were wrong to picking Kentucky to lose, but
you know what, I'm happy to be wrong. But here's
the thing. When we picked these games, Billy and I
are gonna like tell you what we think. We're not
gonna be complete home. If we think that Kentucky's gonna
lose the game, We're going to tell you that. We're
not afraid to say that. So maybe I'll for see
more cautiously going forward picking Kentucky to lose. But we're
still trying to figure out, you know, how is this

(12:12):
Kentucky team going to hold up in the conference with
just a murderer's row of great team every single night
that you play. I mean, Georgia coming up Tomorrow night
feels like one of those games where it's like, okay,
now we got you know, an easier game coming up.
But you don't want to take any team, even a
Georgia on the road. Lightly in the SEC, there are

(12:32):
just no nights off. It's going to be a tough one.
I think again, tomorrow night, not this year. You're exactly right.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
So it is Kentucky at Georgia tomorrow at seven pm.
Then on Saturday they're at Mississippi State, who is ranked
Todd Golden. The Florida coach said afterwards they will not
lose many games if they play this efficiently. They also
took advantage of the moment, and I think that's a
great way to put it. You know, Amari Williams was
great in this game, but at first it didn't look
like he was giving the effort. Again, shann and he

(12:57):
was putting one hand up there. Mark, I hope benched
him early on. I think that got his attention. But overall,
I don't think they panicked. They let the game come
to hit them. And one hundred and six points. Man,
It's just it's really fun to watch not only a
team that can put up numbers like that, but a
team that's doing it for the fan base. Right. We'd
heard so much me, me, me in the last few years,

(13:18):
and now a return to giving this fan base their
basketball program back to a degree. It's just been You
saw a lot of joy in that arena on Saturday
A five nine two eight oh two two eight seven
Texas at five oh two two six five sixty six
five six. We'll talk more about the UK Florida game
a little later today before we hand it off to KSR.

(13:40):
There's actually a busy weekend in sports. We'll get to
a lot of that, and we want to hear from you.
How you're holding up in the snow? Are you in
a robe puffing on your pipe? Listening to the KASR
pre show this morning? That's what I wish I was
doing right now, but I'm here with Shannon the due.
How was your wrestling? How was the women's Royal Rumble
that you got to participate?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
What you want to talk about that now or do
you want to hang on and talk about it now
after the break, because it was actually a really fun
Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
We'll tease it there. You're gonna have to sit through
the some commercials to hear that story. So we'll take
a break and be right back here on the KSR
pre Show. Welcome back, a little Monday edition of the
KSR pre Show. Sipping a little coffee, doing the show

(14:24):
from home this morning, while Shannon braves the elements and
is bravely made it into the studio, We've got some
people chiming in on the text line five two two
sixty five six six five six. One person says, I'm
a mail carrier and I went to work just got
home because there was no mail to deliver, like actually zero.
Guess the eighteen wheeler couldn't make it. So we do
appreciate our mail carriers out there no mail to deliver,

(14:46):
I guess in that part of Kentucky. Also, one person
sent us a picture of them driving a snowplow. You know,
I get a little truck. I guess the equipment on front.
And they said keeping these roads clean and Laurel County.
So a big salute to everybody out there moving some snow.
Did you make a snowman yesterday, Shannon? Now I beat
somebody with a snowball.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Actually I did. It's funny you say that because I
was meeting up with Venetti and Tony Cruz and I
saw him walking down the sidewalk. I don't think they
saw me at that point, and I tried to launch one.
The old fastball just isn't what it used to be,
so it didn't quite make it there. I tried to
go out sledding yesterday too, and I think at the
point that I did that, Yeah, I have some cool
sleds and a nice hill on my street. But the

(15:29):
problem was I don't think it was icy enough yet,
so I just kind of scootered on my butt and
I go, Nope, not doing this, Let's go to work.
And that was the moment that I got up and
drove to the radio station.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Would love to have seen that. One. One more person says,
does Shannon tell the bartender he has his own beer
when they have his beer on the menu? Did you
get a Shannon the Dude brew yesterday?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
I did go yesterday down the street to Country Boy Brewing,
and I said, I said, down, I'll go, I'll have
a Shannon of the Dude brew. And the bartender looks
at me and goes, are you the Shannon the Dude
I go, yes, I am the like I'm the Ohio State,
I am the Shannon of the Dude build stuff them
there a Country Boy brewing. I think I've met, you

(16:07):
know at some point, so I think most of them
know me that the person working yesterday didn't, and uh yeah,
I had to explain to her that, yes, that is
my beer, that I'm.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Celebrity getting recognized.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Then as I'm sitting there at the bar and other
people were coming up and ordering beers, I almost feel
like I want to interject and influence them and go, hey,
get a Shan of the Dude's brew because they're like,
what kind of beer should I get? Like, uh, you know,
and I feel like I just I didn't say it,
but I didn't. I had the urge. I had the
strong urge to go get a Shannon the Dude's Brew,
but they got something else. I was like, you know
what they're they're supporting Country Boy. Bring either way. I'm

(16:41):
not going to harass the patrons.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Uh, you don't know me. If you don't think I
would be doing that if I had my own beer
at the Country Boy you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
You don't go to like, uh Kentucky Branditt and go,
hey get the most ability.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh no, I probably should and just like hold up
the shirt and say, hey, you should.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Buy you like aberc Crombie and Fitch like back. I
don't know do those even still exist?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I think they I think they do. I don't think
they have those models outside the story. Okay, you you.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Know what I'm going for. He used to have like
on either side of the entrance. There was a window
on each side and there was like male models, you know,
standing there modeling the stuff. You could you could do
that for you know, your two most ability shirts.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I could. I've got the body for it, So I did.
Why not?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
It's right?

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Tell me about OVW. We teased it, Shannon. How was
this your Saturday Night?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It was awesome? It was awesome. A couple of legends
were there. Mick Foley for those of you, if you
or even a you know, somewhat of a wrestling face,
you know who. Here was the surprise though, Billy He
he came out was in the Rumble, but didn't come
out as as Mick Foley in the Rumble. He came
out as Dude Love, one of his characters from the nineties.

(17:50):
And I had to explain to him. I didn't know
who he was going out there, dude, love. I had
to explain when he came back, it's like, hey, dude, uh,
just to let you know, there's only room enough for
one dude in OV and it's not you, it's the dude.
The dude, all right. I had to explain to him.
But no, that was great. And then JBL John Layfield,
who was a ww champion for years in the mid

(18:12):
two thousands, was there. He came out at the end
and in the main event laid out both guys with
the clothesline. My guy, Doug Bashlam, who I managed, ended
up winning the rumble and then came out and then
cashed in his opportunity to win the national title. So
big night for me. And at the end of the night,
it was me, Doug BASHLM and JBL, three legends, three champions,

(18:36):
all in the ring celebrating together. It was a glorious moment.
But if you want to go back and watch it,
I think it's on ov Wrestling dot Com. You may
have to buy like the pay per view if you
want to go back and check it out, But well
worth at our best show that we do. I think
all year long. Definitely worth the money.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I do like the mental image of you going chest
to chess with Nick Foley saying this is there's only
enough room for one dude around here, and that's Shannon
t dude.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, that was backstage.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
That was backstage, right, I mean, I mean, you're not
in the ring, so you got to do it when
he's off the ring.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Do you want me tell you what really happened?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I didn't really say that to him. He didn't really
go up to him.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I gave him a fist bumbaguy. Oh, I said, great job.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I did believe.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
You think I was gonna go up to Mick Foley
and tell him there's only room room enough for one dude.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I mean, I don't know. I feel like kind of
the blood stays in your head when you have those
tights on, so who knows kind of what you're doing.
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Speaker 1 (20:25):
You've got the Green Bay Packers beanie on this morning.
They made the playoffs. They'll take on the Eagles in
the first round despite their loss. Did you see yesterday?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Did you see that game?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, pack I didn't realize. I mean, I know the
Packers owned the Bears. I didn't realize it was twenty
eighteen since the Bears beat the Packers last Oh is
that right? I was down downtown in Louisville and I
was wandering around trying to find a sports bar. And
I wandered in and there was as soon as I
walk in, the bartender's got a Chicago Bear shirt on them. Oh, God,
of all places, here's a Bears fan bartending. And then

(20:57):
I walked over to the right side of the bar
and there was a couple of fans from Wisconsin, from
Green Bay who were actually traveling to Florida. They stopped
off in Louisville and got this hang out with a
couple of random Packers fans. But the Packers did it
to themselves. They kind of, you know, shot themselves in
the foot like the Chicago Bears do just about every

(21:17):
game and lost that game. Nonetheless, they're still in the playoffs.
But you hate losing to the Bears.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Still in the playoffs, My bucks are in the playoffs.
Still take on the Washington Commanders in a very cool
moment when Mike Evans got that one thousand yards to
make it eleven consecutive years. Today is Black Monday in
the NFL, where a lot of coaches get fired. We
saw girod Mayo let go from the Patriots yesterday. Doug
Peterson was let go this morning. There could be more
on the way. One question mark is Brian Callahan, the

(21:43):
coach of the Titans. He's only been one there one year,
but they had the worst record in the NFL. Shan
and they have the number one overall pick. And we
may have seen Will Levis's last game as a starter
with Tennessee in the last game, and if it was
his last throw, it may be it may not be
more poetic a fifty yard bomb from will Levis to
score a touchdown. But the Titans may be looking to

(22:03):
move on to a new direction. Maybe a Strader Sanders
in Nashville sell maybe uh you know. Also, Liam Cohen
is a candidate for a lot of head coaching jobs.
He wouldn't just stay one year at a place.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Right, No, no, no jump for job, especially when he
tells you he's gonna stick around for several years, there's
no no chance it anywhere.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
All right, good as a Bucks fan, it makes me yeah,
good to hear gives.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
You an that for a while.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh A five nine two two A seven. We'll take
it right. We'll talk more about Kentucky, Florida and other
uh news in sports with Shannon the Dude, Bill Rutlets
here on the case our pre show. Let us know
here on a Monday throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It's
Billy Rutledge and Shannon the Dude here on the KSR
pre show, the show before the show eight five nine

(22:49):
two eight oh two two eight seven. If you'd like
to join the show.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
People a little divided on me wearing a robe at
my house here Shannon Justin says, shout out to Billy
Rock and the dog supply robe. I have the black
silk one. Shout out to Justin. He knows a good
robe when he sees one. But John chimes in and says,
do you really have a robe on? Jesus? And I
you know it's it's it's really got about I can
tell you that you do.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I can see you right now now.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's not really about wearing a robe. It's about what
you wear underneath the robe. Because I've got a shirt on,
I've got pajama pants on. It's a whole operation.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
You're telling me you're supposed to wear something under the
robe at times.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
That's what I'm struggling with. That's a new robe.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oe'en doing it wrong all this time?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, that's the thing, because you're just kind of, you know,
loose and feeling it out if you got no.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
I'm not making an appearance in public. I'm at home.
I should be able to wear whatever I want, right,
So true, I'm not going to knock the robe if
you're not wearing the robe at home. When do you
wear the robe?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, you don't wear it out you don't really want to.
You wear it to the mailbox, but you're not wearing
it to Kroger. Yeah, like that when you're getting your
your milk and your bread.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
I might wear I've got a robe. I might wear
it from you know, uh, I don't know. From from
the house. Maybe out to the garage when I'm sipping
my coffee and watching the Today Show in the morning.
But nobody's seeing me do that.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
But you've got no pajama pants on underneath.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I might have shorts on, but yeah, it doesn't matter.
You can't see it anyway. The robe is closed. I'm
not walking around like Rick Flair with the robe open. Hey,
I do have a dilemma though, I don't know. After
all of this is over today with KSR, do I
do I go? Do I go back home? Or do

(24:29):
I stay here? Like are we going to get another uh,
you know, hanging out with Tony Venette night in a hotel?
Or like don't I don't know what I'm gonna do yet.
I have no idea, So there's a chance that I may.
I've packed two pair of underwear, luckily, just in case
I was looking looking ahead, planning it. But I might
end up staying down here, I guess all day and
possibly stand another night down here, depending on how the

(24:50):
roads are. I have no idea what the condition of
the roads are. I know it's snowing again in Louisville
right now. We seem to get a little more than
you guys did in Lexington, So I'm I'm not I
kind of I don't want to go home, but if
I got to put up with what I did yesterday
on the way here, it's it's better off just staying
where I'm at and stand there.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, you know, I'm sure the roadways are still pretty
tough to navigate right now, despite a lot of people
I'm sure trying to do that this morning. But we
could get another day downtown, snow day downtown with Shannon
the Dude. I enjoyed your PSA video this weekend, so
maybe you just give us another one or two and
tell the bartender that you got your own beer at
the Country Boy brilliant and.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I met every one of that, Like, you know, I
feel like sometimes meteorologists try to, you know, just be
over the top with what they're saying, and you know,
kind of do scare tactics. But I'm telling you, like
that was no that was no BS. That is just
straight reporting on what I had experienced. And I wasn't
exaggerating at all when I tell you like that was

(25:45):
the scariest drive I've ever had yesterday. So if you
got to be out there, please be safe, hopefully keeper
than it.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Was it is, and keep us updated on your underwear
situation there, dude, tell me if you believe this. The
University of Michigan just conducted a study which were fields
that ultra processed foods can shorten your lifespans. And not
only that, they've got it down to the minute of
how many minutes you lose if you eat these products.
Are you ready for this show?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh my gosh, now you're gonna scare me even more.
All right, well, you have like a list of things
that I shouldn't be eating.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yes, I have a whole list of things.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, I probably ate a bunch of them last night
at the at the happy hour.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
According to this University of Michigan study, when you eat
a hot dog, you take thirty six minutes off of
your lifespan.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Okay, and let me do the math here, because I
ate a hot dog at Historic Davis Arena this past
Saturday night, minus thirty.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Six minus thirty six for the endgame for you, every
time you drink a coke, you take twelve minutes off
your life according to this study.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'm good. I'm good there because I probably only drink
I'm gonna say maybe a dozen a year, right, I
probably averaged one a month. Now. Our boy, Matt Jones
may have a problem with this because he drinks. My
guy can't do a radio show without a diet coke
in front of them, for.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
That was the first thing I thought of, like our
boy Matt. So this coke number may be piling up on.
For every cheeseburger you eat, you take nine minutes off
your life. For every piece of bacon you eat, you
take six minutes.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Say that, dude. Okay, okay, I gotta stop this minute.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
I gotta stop a piece of bacon.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I got to stop you again, because this morning at
the hotel, you know what they had? Would they have
Continental cotton? You know what Continental Breakfast had? Bacon? You
won't know how many pieces of bacon e like, I
wasn't counting, but I'm pretty sure it was close to six,
possibly seven. So let me do the math. You said
six minutes for everyone six six minutes, it's thirty six

(27:39):
minutes approximately, maybe forty.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Forty two minutes you've taken off your life. Did you
eat any eggs this morning?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, For every egg it takes thirteen minutes off.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh my god, I mean, how am I still alive?
I'm gonna be dying before the end of the show.
You're killing me.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
So just one egg and one piece of bacon takes
nineteen minutes off in your life. What if you have
a coke. I mean, then you're taking over thirty minutes
of your.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Life is over death sentence. I mean it's over for you.
I really, I don't know how I'm still sitting here
talking right. It's a miracle. What if it's a heart
boiled egg, because I like herdboiled egg.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
It done doesn't differentiate cause I hate.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
I've eaten a lot of horriboiled hard boiled eggs the
last few days, and I don't know why on a
hert boiled egg. It's a kick and I may have
to kick the habit to the curve because okay, what's next.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, these ultra processed foods significantly raise heart disease risks.
Oh no, oh no, So there you go, canna coke
hot dog at the ball game, and you never know,
you might just take an hour off of your life.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Well you know they had they had CHARCOUTERI at that
happy hour last night too. I'm just sitting there just
eating all the happy hour stuff. I mean, between the
happy hour and the continental breakfast. I don't know. And
what you're telling me I shouldn't be. I'm a dead
man walking. I have like the ultra processed salami the pepperoni,
the ham, like the bunch meat. This is bad news,

(29:02):
like not.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
To mention the hero and loss. You have just decades
of radio and wearing headphones falling.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'm falling apart piece by piece, like what okay? The
one do I need to eat? Like just go out
and eat grass like a cow? Like what's healthy? Because
I feel like anything you eat is unhealthy.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
They did say in the study that certain types of
fish can add minutes to your life. Oh okay, so
I guess like in some salmon or sardines are rich
in Omega three fatty acids and increase life span up
to thirty two minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Aha, see I had some. I had some oysters when
I was in Florida last week.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
I don't know if oysters or what oysters have a
Omega three fatty as they have all.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
God, yeah they're healthy for you. So I feel like
whatever I just lost at the charcoterie, uh, hotel, happy
hour and Continental breakast, I just balanced it out with
you know, some oysters.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
A piece of salmon for every hot dog that you eat,
and you should just balance out your life span. And
here we go.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, we got some collars. You want to take your collar.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, let's take a collar. Dude, who do we have?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Let's talk to Joe. What's up?

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Hey Joe?

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, so thank you? Good morning. Uh quickly, we all
know how tough the UK basketball men's schedule it is,
but heck I checked his universe. Kentucky ladies scheduled out
and that's no picnic. No, they had a tremendous victory
yesterday in Nashville against the uh those great well, Uh, Shannon,

(30:19):
do you really follow the girls of vander.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Not really, but I mean they've been a decent team.
I mean, I don't want to take anything away from
the UK women's win. I mean that was a good
win on the road and the SEC may not be
as tough as the men's side, but it's still very
strong on the women's side as well.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
You were tough, and the Vandy girls are pretty tough.
But my gosh, we're gonna be facing some girls that
are a lot tougher than Bandy girls and we play
LSU and in South Carolina. But yesterday the Kentucky girls,
I was very proud of them. They they was stood
some tough, tough, tough play from Vandy got a big victory.
So that's pretty much yet Coach Brooks that and coach

(30:57):
Paul Man for their first years in the SEC. It's
gonna be it's gonna be a war every night.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeap, y'all have say thanks Joe, Eric, thank you Joe. Yeah.
I couldn't have gone much better as far as the
two hires on the women's and men's side than one
it has so far. So far, yeah, so far, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh yeah. The women start SEC play two and zero
after they beat Vanny ninety six to seventy eight. They
hit fifteen threes in the game right after they what
broke the record by hitting eighteen threes in the game
before it, so they're they're hot from deep. George Amore
twenty four and nine. Amelia Hassett had six three pointers,
nine rebound, five assists, and they will make next play
at Florida on Thursday. So we are rooting for Kenny

(31:36):
Brooks and that team to do very well. Uh shan,
do we have some more people on this one.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Let's go. Let's go to Bob and Jamestown. Hey Bob,
what's up.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Bob and Jamestown. Good to hear from you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh well, you gotta have a shout out to all
the Touchstone Energy electrical workers out there trying to get
people hooked up, and it's brutal weather we've been having
because those guys are heroes out there and get everybody
back online. Anyway, cut break for the Bengals when the
Kansas City Chiefs laid down and let the Denver Broncos

(32:10):
run all over them.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
The Jets took care of the Dolphins, but I sorry
to see the Bengals season coming in like that, unfortunately,
and then that that Marquee game and uh against Florida
was just unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Uh, Mark Mark.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Popes got the wind in his sales. He's got to
have some tough games coming up. But I think we
got a good, good team this year, you guys.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah all right, Uh yeah, Bengals come up just short
as Denver beats Kansas City, who they were resting their starters,
they were already in.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
But it was it was hard to hard to watch
if you were a Cincinnati fan because I think the
final score was like forty to zero.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, yeah, thirty eight. Do you think the Chiefs care
about the Bengals and their chance to get No? Absolutely, not.
They're like, all right, we're just gonna play over.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Also, they have been Aaron Rodgers last game. Do you
care about that with your packers? Beanie on or you're
over his?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
What's he gonna do?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
And luckily the Vikings don't need a quarterback. Otherwise he
would probably do the same thing Brett Favar and go
play for the Vikings. But they're doing pretty well themselves.
I don't know, Like, where does he land if he
doesn't come back to the Jets. I mean, I'm sure
there's plenty of teams that would pick him up.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
But yes, he's a veteran quarterback who feels like they're
a veteran quarterback.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Away in the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, no, no, they are many years away. But you
gotta think if you signed Aaron, a good chance you
might get DeVante Adams as a package deal with him
and all his butt buddies that come along with it.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Alan Lazar cool down now, I mean, but that that
was the thing that frustrated me the most. Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
you didn't want to be in Green Bay, all right,
you left? Why do you got to take all the
other guys from Green Bay. You know clearly that didn't
work at Green Bay, So why do you think it's
gonna work with the Jets?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, just run it back the definition of insanity repeating
the same and expecting.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
To I understand the res that New York is probably
a much better place to live than Green Bay, Wisconsin,
But come on, man, you're basically taking the same team
with you.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
While we're talking about football. One note, after we got
off the air on Friday, there was a college football
bowl game. We're talking about the Duke's Mayo Bowl Shannons,
where Minnesota won the game twenty four to ten. PJ.
Fleck getting the Duke's Mayo bath after.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Is there anything worse? I mean, if I was on
the Duke's Mayo Bowl game, I think I would just
tank just so I wouldn't have to have that I
hate mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Well, he was gonna put a little cap on his
bald head, and right before it happened, he kind of
took it off, and so it was revealed that the mascot,
you know, the person that dresses up in the costume
and that helped put the mayo onto Pj's flax head,
ended up being flavor Flay, who was in the costume
for most of the evening. So a big shout out
to Flavor Flay.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, boy, youak on Flavor Flay.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Flavor Flay, Flavor Flavor Fla Fla Flavor Flame Flavor Fla.
It's the same thing, Flavor FLA. I'd see if I
could start wearing a clock around my neck Shin, do
you think that? Do you think that's still work? Or
was that?

Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know, as long as you got your Snoop dogg
robe on him, you may be able to pull it off.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Robe in the Flavor flav clock Flavor fl A. You
know what, I did? See a pole on the bond
that Bridge Facebook page. Who would you most like to
get a cameo from? H Shannon? Not a lot of
results for Old Billy R Sports there.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
What are you still doing cameo? I wanted to ask
you about that because I haven't done it in like
a year.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
You did a cameo, but you got like those strangest
request and I'm going, dude, like, don't do those things
that people are requesting, Like they're wanting you to do
stuff that you should do on OnlyFans, not on cameo.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I think the one that was like show your feet. Yeah, like,
what are you doing waggle your toes for forty five
to sixty seconds?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Sure, Oh, but it's a very specific know. And you
did it for like two dollars and fifty cents.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Oh, I wrote, I had to raise the price because
I was getting a ton of those. Yeah and I
and I was at like five dollars a cameo. I
think I'm met like twenty five.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I'm still doing the cameo thing, but it has slowed down.
I guess maybe cameos aren't as popular, or maybe maybe
I'm not as popular as I used to be. I
don't know, but uh, yeah, we're still on cameo. And
if you want Billy to show you his feet and
read a book to you.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Maybe he'd like to see the robe. I may have
to log in and improve some doubters wrong on the
face for you. H A five H two two eight,
and we'll take a break and be right back. We've
got to talk about some former Kentucky coaches on the
other side of this break. This is the KSR pre
Show Welcome Back. Final segment of the KSR pre Show.

(36:46):
Billy and Shannon will hand it off to Matt and
the guys for KSR here at ten am, which who
I believe will be broadcasting from their home, as Shannon
is the only one that is in the studio, and tell.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
You where they're not gonna be broadcasting from. That's the studio.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well, he told me during the break that Venetti's staying
another night, so you may be too.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I might be. Heah, Vannetti's in for another round. I
don't know if I can hang with Vannetti two nights
in a row, get into too much trouble and then
you talk about, you know, all the processed food, and
if I hit the old hotel happy hour up again
in the Continental Breakfast tomorrow morning, I might not make
it to the show.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Well, a lot of people are calling bs in my
study from the University of Michigan es specifically the eggs part,
as eggs is a very balanced part of a healthy diet.
I'm guessing when they say that they mean maybe more
processed eggs that you can get at a fast food
restaurant or things like that, But it does not really
explain in any more detail. But I do feel for
a guy like Joey Chestnut who eats a lot of hot.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah a great point. Okay, yeah, you talk about him,
he should be dead by now, Hey, how old is
he he's in is what mid to late.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Forties, forties? I'm gonna guess it. Great Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
And yeah, Joe writes in and says, listening to your study,
he says, I'm seventy two years old, should have died
fifteen years ago. That study is crap.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
I do believe the stuff about the coke, Like have
you've seen it, like like washaway battery ass Like.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
It's not a coke drinker at all, no kind of
you know, no kind of soda drinker. Our buddy Dwayne
did a great photoshop of Flavor fla Bobby Flay with
the Flavor flav big clock around Favor Flavor Flay. Billy
caught him last segment.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Well look that's a brother of Bobby Flay and we'll
just you know, keep it rolling. Maybe you can get
a cameo as me dressed up like Flavor Flave and uh,
that would be worth the twenty five dollars. Quickly, Shannon
a couple of moments from former Kentucky head coaches Rick
Patino and Saint John's b Butler but in the final seconds,
while dribbling out the clock, one of the players went
to do a windmill. Duncan missed. Rick Patino did not

(38:49):
like that, condemning him in the post game going on
on young people, saying, young people today are different. I'm
struggling with it. I'm not quitting like some coaches, but
I really am struggling with a right a lot of
things right now. I gave up drinking for New Years,
but I think I'm going to have to have the
shortest resolution in the history of mankind, and I'm going
to jump right back into it.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah, I mean, he said, you know, he was talking
about this generation. He said that the work ethic's good,
but they just don't listen. They don't listen, and I
guess maybe they don't have to. They're making all that
Nile money. What are you gonna do about it, coach,
I'll just jump. I'll just jump. I'll just jump in
the portal. If you don't like me doing a windmill
with one second left while we're up about fifteen points.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Some other players that don't listen or at the University
of Arkansas, Tennessee beat Arkansas seventy six to fifty two
this weekend, right after Kentucky ended up beating Florida, and
cal said afterwards that they didn't have a shoot around
before the game because three guys didn't show up, did
not show up to the shooter.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I didn't like, haven't I seen him?

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Shannon?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Well, maybe he's being honest on this, and maybe maybe
he hasn't seen him, But why wouldn't you still do
your shoot around with your other guys?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Can you not do a shoot around with a what?
Three less people? I feel like you still can't.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yes, that's my point, Like, Okay, those guys didn't show up,
so we're just gonna not shoot around the guys that
want to actually show up and participate and put in
some effort. That seems like a cop out.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Excuse bizarre comment, maybe deflecting a little blame there. But
as one person pointed out in the text line, Kentucky
scored more points in each half than Arkansas did in
the entire game versus Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Isn't that crazy weekend?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
It is unbelievable And I may have to bet the
over on the next Kentucky game on DraftKings.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh well, I mean the game on Saturday. What was
the over under like one sixty seven or something. They
crushed that two.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
D and six over two five points.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
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Speaker 1 (40:46):
Big shout out to everybody that's working to get the
roads clear and trying to get power on for the
eighty thousand plus people that are without power throughout our commonwealth.
Stay tuned to many of these same stations for updates
about whether coming up next is Matt and the guys
from their house and KOs are Good luck to you, Shannon,
whether where you're staying, whether you're going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
We have to do a second night another repeat down
here at four Street Live, which is anyway, we thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
For coming in as well. That's going to do it
for us for Shannon. I'm Billy. This is the KOs
Apprecia