2025-06-19- KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk College World Series and the latest UK sports news.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show.
Today is Thursday, June nineteenth. I am Billy Rutlidge along
with Shannon the Dude. You can give us a call
on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. It's eight five
nine two eight oh two two eight seven. Text us
at five oh two two six five six six five six,
and it's always The ksrpre Show is brought to you

(00:21):
by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington at the City
Center on Main Street. Happy June teenth to everybody celebrating
out there today. Shannon the Dude and Billy Rutledge here
in Louisville and Lexington, still doing a live show today.
I think we're gonna get a comp day out of
this too, Shannon. So I know you love your comp days.
That's right, love those comp days. They got plenty of

(00:43):
those in the Arsenal. Yes, all right, Happy June teenth
to everybody out They also want to wish my mom
a happy birthday. It'sday today, so mother Teresa, happy birthday
and ready to go.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Man.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, so, I guess we'll be taking this day and
exchanging it for July the third. Is that what you're doing?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, I think that's what we're doing. You're out that
week and we don't have a show on July fourth,
so I think KSRBB taking July third off. So I
think that's how we're gonna parlay this. But happy birthday
to your mom, Shannon.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Uh, do you guys got anything playing tonight? Going out
to eat or anything like that, because I know you're
not cooking?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, No, we kind of did it yesterday. I said,
where do you want to go? She suggested a place
pretty much one step above his Oli's. Now we got, like,
here's what we ended up getting a steak case idea. Now,
how much do you think a steak case idea for lunch?
It was just lunch, right, how much do you think
a steak case idea would cost you in the year
twenty twenty fifth.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's got to be under twenty I mean fifteen to
eighteen dollars?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Shannon, Okay, you're right. I guess you're right on then,
well was it? It was? It was like thirty five
dollars for two casadas? Oh my goodness. Like I didn't
know that case ideas were that much. I should have
just taken her to Taco Bell. We could have got
a steak case of Dea for like four dollars. That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I mean you added ale margaritas to that, maybe a
cherizo conquiso, and I mean you're you got a tip
after that too, and boy, you're close to sixty dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
And then we went on a nice little bike ride.
So that was that was fun. I'm really doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes, Well, a big happy birthday to your mom, Shannon,
and hopefully she has a great week. You know, we're
going to talk a little bit about Kentucky sports today,
including the SEC opponents.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Being revealed yesterday. Yeah, and much more random stuff. Don't
we get into that. I don't know what you want
to lead the show with it. You know you're driving
the show today. But can I just start with a
rant that I have? Oh it's a sports related rant.
You know, Matt always rant about his Cincinnati Reds. I
don't care about the Reds, but you know I'm a
big Atlanta Braves fan. Yeah, and a Pirates fan. But
the Pirates haven't given me anything to talk about in
thirty years and I didn't have a radio show them,

(02:44):
but last night, you know, the Braves are like twelve
thirteen games back out of first place. They're not doing
well this year, and the New York Mets are leading
the National League East. So the Braves are chasing the Mets.
And they won the first game, and last night they
won again. They on five to nothing. But my rant
has to do with Chris Sell. You know. Chris Saale

(03:05):
is right, yeah, yeah, possibly gonna be the Cy Young
Award winner this year. But he's up. He's throwing a
complete game. All right, We're in the ninth inning. It's
five nothing, Braves. He's got two outs. He's one out
away from throwing a complete game shutout, Billy. And you
don't see that hardly at all anymore in baseball, right,
I Mean, guys get yanked out of the game even

(03:25):
if they're throwing a good game a lot of times
in the sixth inning. But last night, with two a
only needs one more out to get that complete game shutout,
and he gives up a little bitty bloop single to
left and Brian Snicker, the Braves manager, takes him out.
He's at one hundred and sixteen pitches and I'm going, why, okay,

(03:45):
you're up five runs this guy. There's nobody the Mets
don't know what to do with Chris Sale. They're getting
hits on accident, you know, like these little bloop singles
and you take the guy out. I mean, why not
give him like two or three more pitches? Do you
think that Chris Sell's arm is going to fall off
if he throws two or three more pitches and gets
the last out? Literally he brought in another pitcher from
the bullpen. The guy came in and threw one pitch

(04:08):
ground ball to the second basement. That was the game.
And it drives me crazy when managers do that and
they go, well, you know, you gotta think about the
rest of the season again. Do you think that Chris
Slis is gonna his arm is literally gonna fall off
and roll down the mound if he throws pitch number
one seventeen or one eighteen. It drives me crazy, And
I just wanted to get that off my chest because

(04:29):
I I'm mad about it still. I was mad about
it last night. I was fuming, and now I'm mad
about it still this morning. I can feel the anger
and oh my gosh, do you not share that same
thought process with me? Or do you no?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I understand? I mean, you're talking to a Tampa Bay
race fan. I mean we were Game six of the
World Series. Decided to pull Blake Snell when he had
a no hitter going only because the analytics told us
that every time he went through the third time in
the lineup he was very bad. So they went ahead
and pulled him when he was having the game of
his life. Yeah, they ended up losing in that game
because the bullpen blew it. I would understand the manager's

(05:03):
decision more if it was a closer game. Yeah, but
the fact you said it was five to zero.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
If nothing come on, they could they Again, the Mets
didn't know how to hit off of Chris Sell at all,
and he gives up a little just excuse me swing
and they go, well that's enough, you're out. Like if
they were hitting him hard, even I would say, okay,
he's losing something on the fastball. They're they're ripping them.
You know, they're hitting some missiles. Maybe it's time to

(05:27):
take them out. But man, in that situation, come on,
let the guy finish it.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's unbelievable what starting pitchers go through today compared to
what they would have gone through twenty years ago, right,
I mean even before that you got guys like Nolan
Ryan throwing one hundred and sixteen pitches every time he
goes out there, Shannon, you know what I mean. So
like nowadays, they get to that ninety one hundred mark
and they're they're looking to looking to turn. But is
it anything? Is it related at all to leaving your

(05:54):
starters in when you're up forty points in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, I mean you let them go out there for
the ninth. So if you have that thought process, then
why not just pull them after eight innings? When you
allow him to go out there for the ninth, you're
letting him go out there to get the complete game shutout,
which he was well on his way to doing. But
you pull him out because he gives up a single.
I think that's weak.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, I generally agree with you, but I guess God
forbid something where to happen to Chris Saale if he
had to throw three more pitches, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Like he threw one hundred and sixteen, you'd think he
can't throw one hundred and eighteen or a hundred and
nineteen pitches. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, And I kind of related with Matt in the
what is it bark or dog in the park or whatever.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
It is, Bark in the park, Bark in the park.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, talk about a nightmare scenario if you're afraid
of dogs.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Everybody bring their dogs. I know people love their dogs,
but you know, like I had a dog, and I
wouldn't take her to a game, you know, maybe like
a Little League game or something at the park locally.
I wouldn't want to take her into a stadium. She'd
be pooping and pan all over the places. That'd be
a mess. Who wants to deal with that?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
You gotta remember some people just don't have any friends
besides their dogs, Shannon, so this gives them a chance
to go to the game with their buddy. But yeah,
I don't think there's cats in the park either. No,
or horses on the concourses.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
That Coller said. I liked that one. We already started
on these emotional support animals too. I got getting out
of hand. Yeah, you know, you're on a plane and
you got somebody sitting there with a peacock in their
lap because it's their emotional support animal. Get out. I
saw a kangaroo trying to board a plane and I
was like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I think that was ai. I think that was debunked.
But we can't have emotional support kangaroos. I mean, while
we're talking baseball, did you happen to see the end
of the Arkansas LSU game last night?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
It was wild.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I feel so bad for the left fielder of Arkansas.
Two outs, bottom of the ninth. You are up, I
believe by two at that point, and a line drive
to the left fielder he misjudges at shandon and it
goes right off his shoulder. LSU is able to tie
it and then eventually win it off of another Arkansas era.
It was a crazy two final innings. But you know,

(07:57):
sometimes I have empathy. Sometimes I feel bad, you really, Yeah, Yeah,
every once in a while. Felt really bad for that
left fielder last night in the College World Series.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you think it's pretty much
a routine play, right, Sometimes you know, the sign gets
in your eyes or maybe the light. Yeah, I guess
the light in this case probably got in his eyes
and he missed that. And yeah, because then everybody's gonna
just go back and blame him for missing that that
You should have been an easy out right. It was brutal.
It almost looked like it went off his head.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
And you've seen those old MLB highlights where it goes
off the outfielders head and outside of the it's a
home run after that.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
And Conseko famously took one, I mean took one off
the nogin and it went over the wall.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
How do you live that down? Those are those I
love those runs. But the left fielder for Arkansas is
gonna have a rough day. LSU wins they will take
on Coastal Carolina after they beat Louisville eleven to three
yesterday in the College World Series that starts this weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
So best of luck to those to those two teams.
So are you gonna be pulling for LSU? Are you
gonna be pulling for the underdog? You know, part of
me wants coast I know Coastal Carolina not really an
underdog in baseball, you know, but you don't think about
Coastal Carolina being good at any other type of sport.
So are you get to be pulling for the SEC
school or are you going for Coastal Carolina?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:16):
I got no love for l s U.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, they're going for their second title in three years,
I believe they won it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
When did they win it?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Though?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
They want it? Not too long ago? Right, let's see.
I think that's right. I don't know that. Do you
know what their mascot name is? The Wave? Well? I
think it's the I thought it was the Shanta Clear?
Was it not the what.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Coastal Carolina? Shanta Clear? Am I just making that up?
Or is that a real thing?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Is that even a word at? What is a Shanta Clear?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Now you're doubting now the Shanta Clear? Yes, thank you
very much. That is the mascot. It's a proud and
fierce rooster, Shannon. It's a unique moniker for Coastal Carolina's universe.
I don't know, but just try.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Capt its teaching. It's a Shanta Clear Shannon. Okay, all right,
I mean you're Coastal Carolina. You're telling me that's their
not just their maskout, but that's their team name, the
Coastal Carolina. Yes, Shanta Clears. Yeah, you never heard that.
Never heard that. Have you ever seen their football field?
Don't think so.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Don't watch ad because like you know how Boise State
has a blue field. I believe they have a teal field.
You had to you had to fact check on that
one on me too. But every time anytime you want
to watch a Shanta Clear game, you're just gonna have
to adjust the color on your TV maybe a little bit.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
We have blue grass at croger Field, right, I mean
not literally bluegrass, but the type of grass is bluegrass? Uh?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, not, I mean it's I think it's turf. I mean,
obviously they're not playing on bluegrass, So what do you
mean by that?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, I thought that they had actually blue bluegrass out there.
Why would you not use it? I mean that's what
Kentucky is known.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
For, right, think they're playing on bluegrass at croger Field?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Sure, getting a little loopy here this Thursday edition. At
the pre show, I did think it was a little
loopy for rhyme. And to ask Colin Chandler at the
the restaurant they are at the other day, He's like, boy,
y'all got married pretty quick?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah? Who does that? Talk about a guy with no filter?
Se Then like, well, why is Ryan being the one
who's judging Colin Chandler and his wife on how quickly
they got married while they're in line at Chipotle.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I'm a little afraid of what Ryan would think of
my engagement in marriage. I mean, Marissa and I are
coming up on eight years together and you know we
won't even be married until next year.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
So I mean, does he have thoughts about that? I
don't know. I'm a little worried so prose he hasn't
asked you yet.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Probably just one of those awkward things that you're just
trying to keep the conversation going, right. Maybe he was
just trying to fill the dead air or the space.
And that's exactly what Matt was doing when he brought
up awkward elevator conversations. And I'm so glad he did because,
you know, after four years of the case our pre show,
I'm that guy, Shannon. I cannot not say something in
an elevator. And it sounds like Matt's the same way.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, I have no problem just ignoring the person and
acting like they're not even there. And now, if it's
somebody you know, obviously you're going to talk to them.
But if it's just random person on the elevator, why
do you feel the need to talk to them. I
might say hi or something like that, but I'm not
gonna sit there and have a conversation and pretend that
I care what they have to say. Oh yeah, I'm like,
how's it going?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
You know? You know, ah, these elevators always always giving
us issues another Monday.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah you really have to do that. I have to.
I don't know what it is. And then it's a
you know, it's a you know, have a good one,
you know as you're walking out things like that. I
don't know, just are they pleasant trees? Shannon? I was
raised to say please and thank you? Is it the
same thing? Or am I being unnecessary? It's okay to
say hi, but once they've said hi back, you don't

(12:40):
have to keep going. They can just let it go.
You don't have to again, it's not a radio show.
When you get on an elevator, you can say hi,
they say, hey, doing good? Okay, that's enough.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, I've I've worked on it. I've tried to shut
up more and more in the elevator.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
But I don't know. Thing like if everybody says like, hey,
how you doing, but nobody really cares how you're doing,
you're telling me they don't care when they asked me
that shit. No, no, it's just a way to acknowledge
your existence. If you said, hey, how you doing and
I'm a random stranger that you don't know, and I
start giving you all of my world's problems.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, you fear like Chris Sale got pulled in them
of the ninth after almost a complete game.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
They won't care about it. They're gonna be like, man,
I'm sorry, I asked now, this guy won't shut up.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's just such an awkward space. And maybe that's what
Ryan was feeling when he saw Colin Chandler. I don't know,
but I'll give him maybe the benefit of the doubt here.
I was surprised to learn yesterday that when a caller
asked who on KSR would replace Tom Leach, you revealed
that you got into radio to do play by play broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah yeah, I mean didn't you do it a little bit?

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Though?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Did you do play by play?

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I was going to say, I have over a decade
of experience in high school and college doing high school games.
You have boys and girls basketball, baseball, football, So I
was gonna say I'm the guy replacing Tom Leach on
the KSR crew. But when you said that you got
into radio to do play by play, I mean, I mean,
maybe maybe it needs to be you Shannon, have you
ever done play by Never.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Have, never have. I kind of want it to, but
we didn't have like you had at Western Kentucky at
Broadcasting School. We really didn't have that at Beller Maan.
I think they were starting like some sort of campus
radio station the last year I was there, but never
done it before, but always kind of wanted to get
into that. Listen to a lot of play by play
on the radio throughout the years. I probably would be
terrible at it. I think would have to go through

(14:27):
a lot of practice to get good and to be
like Tom, And I think Tom's one of the best
play by play guys on radio there is. I mean,
I haven't heard all I haven't heard all the radio
guys play boy play, but Tom does a great job
at it. But yeah, I've always wanted to get into
radio to do play by play. But then you know,
when the rock station called up and says, do you
want to intern for us and go to free concerts

(14:49):
and do all kinds of cool stuff, I'm like, yeah,
So I was okay to get into the radio through
the rock station. Uh, just as much as I was
play by play and the shift of hand, the dude's
radio career begin right there. That is unbelievable. Well, we
can make that happen, Shannon.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I mean internet radio is everywhere like people just like
just I mean, every team has their own announcers. So
I mean, we can make this happen. Now here's the
thing you would suck at first. I mean it's very difficult.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Thank you for the confidence. It's very difficult. I mean
it is. I mean, you know the players. If you
know the players, I think that's the first part. You know,
if you know who's who out there. If you don't
know who the players, you're screwed from the beginning, because
then you're just going he passes it to him.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, you got to recognize the player's name by their number.
When you're sitting in a press box that's sometimes very
far away. Sometimes the uniforms don't cooperate with you, and
you know, it's even hard to see the jersey numbers.
But then really the main thing is if you have
a color commentator or not. I mean I hear Darren
do baseball without a color guy, or women's basketball, and
it's unbelievable. It's it's it's really a whole different broadcast

(15:49):
when you're by yourself or if you have a man
next year.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
But here's the beauty of radio, though. If you're not
watching the game and I screw up somebody's name, you
don't know the difference.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
You don't know, See, you bring in the integrity of
the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'm just saying, let's say I screw up. Nobody's gonna
be like, no, that was the other guy, unless it's
my play by my color commentator. Because no, you know,
anybody listening can't see the game, so they don't know
that you're saying the wrong name.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
See Tom Leach has you know, can't do that because
everybody's watching the game a lot of times at the
same time. Right, maybe you have your radio on in
the stadium, or you've timed up your TV to listen
to Tom. But I bet maybe once Tom's probably done that. Right,
Maybe it just said the wrong person's name and just
gone with it. Sure so, and you just they don't
know the difference at that point.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Nobody else is none the wiser. But I love to
hear that.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
I mean, as somebody that has loved play by a
play and done it for a while, sounds like it
interest you.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Is it all about doing it saying it with confidence. Right,
as long as you're doing your Playboy play and you're
doing it with confidence, I think that that sounds good.
You got, of course, got to have a lot of
flow to it as well, though. Yeah, and you really
got to understand the rules.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean if it's much different to do a TV
broadcast than you do radio because you have to paint
the picture on right now.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
See, I think baseball would be easy because on you're
doing Playboy play. A lot of these guys don't, as
you just said, have a color commentator. And in baseball
it's perfectly fine to do Playboy Play on radio and
have plenty of dead air. Just let's the park takeover,
you know. See that's that's a crazy take.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I think baseball would be the hardest one to do, really,
but maybe me and you would be better suited because
we do a you know, a sports talk show and
we can just you know.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Talk, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
But baseball there's so much Yeah, baseball, there's so much downtime,
So you really have to know the players, their backstory,
like facts about them to keep the audience engaged, and
then you can go on your rant about you know
what you did yesterday, because people care about that stuff,
and the best baseball announcers are good at mixing in
those things.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
But okay, I think if I were going to start,
I would do baseball. Well baseball. You probably know the most, right,
so you would have your expertise. There's rot legend, the
stretch and outside for strike one, and you just sit there.
You sit there and don't say anything till the next pitch.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Rutlet no, see that's not it, Shannon, Like that's see
there there it is. We got a lot to learn,
We got a lot to teach. Shannon here in the
playft here at.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
The ballpark, and you fill it with nonsense. It's Star
Wars now park at the park. Look at the park.
Everybody's got their dogy talk about a stupid promotion. Say
down the left field line, you see a dog humping
somebody's leg. All right, tell me you want to listen
to that? Not if you wouldn't say anything till the
next pitch, I mean you'd have to entertain. I just
did I gave you something? All right? Well, we have

(18:29):
three and a half hours to go.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I mean, these these broadcast are along, but we're late
for the for a break eight five nine two A
two two eight seven. It is the show before the show,
the KSR Pre Show. All right, welcome back, sir. Juneteenth
edition of the KSR Pre Show KSR is next. They
will be in Independence, Kentucky Live doing the show in
people's houses where this guy's house has eighteen pinballs machines

(18:54):
and won the contest yesterday. You're a little sad you're
not gonna be there, dude.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Maybe a little bit. But I was going back. There's
some old Facebook pictures and I saw the picture of
me and like it was right outside of Las Vegas
and we were on the KOSR road trip out there.
We came across the Pinball Museum and it had as
many pinball machines in one place as I've ever seen
in my life. So you've been in Ravana then, like
you don't, Oh, yeah, you know, this guy has eighteen,

(19:20):
which is impressive for somebody's house. Don't get me wrong,
but yeah, when you go to the Pinball Museum, it's
it's it's pretty overwhelming. A lot of bells and whistles
going off. As you can imagine, it's really loud in there.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. I'm sure, it probably a little overwhelming.
I'm sure it's been a little similar as well. Yeah, exactly, uh, Shannon.
Game six of the NBA Finals is tonight. Oka See
has a three to two series lead, but it is
at Indianapolis tonight, Tyres Halliburton's going to be a game
time decision with a strained right calf.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Does the series end tonight? Well, here's the thing. I
want the Pacers to win the series, but I also
don't like to be wrong. And what I mean by
that if you remember, before this series even start, I
called it. I said, okc wins it in six games,
so we're gonna go with it. Then got to stick
with you, and that's right prediction. So I think that
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Speaker 1 (20:51):
Just about a minute or so till it need to
take a break. Let's take a quick call. Gary is
on the line eight five nine two eight oh two
two eight seven.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
What's up? Gary?

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Hey? I was going to follow up on a conversation
y'all had on ONKSR and on the pre show about
the can you get Away with a murder or whatever? Yeah,
there was actually a there was actually a TV show
about that a few years back called The Hunted. Basically,
the premise was they would just call you out of
the blue and tell you you're you're a fugitive now

(21:21):
and an XCIA x FBI and a task force people
would try to capture you.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think to talk about it, so it was like
adult hide and Seek pretty much?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, pretty much? Yeah, Okay, if you've made it twenty
eight days, I think it was, you would win two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and I don't think I
ever saw anyone win it.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Now, that would be fun if I knew I wasn't
really going to jail, Billy, but I got to play
like I was a criminal and I had to hide
for twenty eight days, and if they caught me that
the game show was just over. I would love to
do that.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Actually, all the fun of running from the police without
having to go to prison with the rest of your
lives is absolutely what did you say the show was called.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
I think it was.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Called The Hunted, and I believe it's on Pandago and
one other streaming service. You can still get the episodes
of it.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Okay, yeah, we have to check it out. Uh, thank you, Gary,
appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I thought he was going to say the TV show
How to Get Away with Murderer, I almost got away
with it.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
I've talked about that. I love that show.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now The Hunted, let's add that to the list. A
little adult hide and Seek didn't sound too bad to me.
We'll take break be right back here on the ks.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Appreciate learning a lot today on the cas apprecial. I
didn't say here they come to snuff the chantalier, Shanta,
clear clear, I'm so glad that was a word.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I was so worried after you were Did you just
say it's a fierce rooster. Also learning about the hunted,
which sounds kind of fun honestly if you ask me.
Uh the eighth to two eight seven, Uh, tomorrow we
are at Mike's Landing, one of our favorite remotes of
the year, at Sulfur Creek Resort in Berksville, Kentucky. They
did give us a cabin to stay at tonight, Shannon,

(23:06):
but they told me yesterday that it's the same cabin
we stayed in two years ago that I got locked
in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh well, I feel like you got to go back
just you know that's gonna be your bedroom.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
The bathroom, no, no, no to sleep. See, we were all
together that night though, right. I don't know if a
lot of us are going down tonight, maybe just one
or two of us. So I'd hate to be trapped
and then really trapped, Shannon.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
But uh, maybe when you need to go to the bathroom,
just go outside. That way, you don't get trapped in
the bathroom again. That was one of the funniest things.
I mean, I don't even know how that happened, but
you got locked in there. It was like an hour
and at first it was funny to you and then
you got mad, But it was funny to me the
entire time. Yeah, that point.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I actually posted the video this morning of the maintenance
man unscrewing the door the doorknobs, so you could see
my face through the hole and you're just, you know,
evil laughing the.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Entire time in the bathroom. So it was like the
shining Yeah, you see you, Gilly's eyes just sticking through
the You gotta wait for the end of that video
to see it.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
But at Billy R Sports, hopefully we see you out
there at Mike's landing tomorrow. We were talking about the NBA, Shannon,
and there were some big news in the NBA last
night as the Bus family are selling the Los Angeles
Lakers their majority steak in the Los Angeles Lakers to
businessman Mark Walter for ten billion dollars ten billion dollars.

(24:26):
The Dodgers owner Mark Walter will purchase the majority stake
of the Lakers from the Bus family. Jerry Buss purchased
the Lakers in nineteen seventy nine for sixty seven million dollars,
and in what forty five, forty six years, it's gone
up to ten billion? Can you believe that number? That
is the largest sale of a professional sports franchise in
the world.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
See, that's why the comparison to Kentucky basketball in the
LA Lakers is accurate because people would be willing to
pay ten billion dollars to own the brand of the
University of Kentucky basketball team, but you wouldn't be paying
that much for Lowell. Right, It's like nobody's gonna pay
that b and the Lakers Clippers talk about it. Yeah,
we we just talked about this this week, talking about

(25:05):
how Kentucky basketball is the LA Lakers and Looibso basketballs
the Clippers. Nobody's trying to buy the Clippers for ten
billion dollars. They want the Lakers, right, They're the brand,
they're the show in talent.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's true. But like they weren't even valued at ten billion.
I think it was closer to eight. So, like they've
overpaid for.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Exactly people would be willing to overpay for Kentucky basketball tickets. Now,
can I put on my tenfoil hat for a second? Chin, Well,
you got a conspiracy theory about that? I got it. Well,
this is the NBA.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
So I do have a conspiracy theory because I think
the NBA, you know to a degree, has had some
questionable moments. We've talked about the NBA Draft lottery, right,
the frozen envelope. Yeah, so this year we have a
crazy trade in the NBA where one of the young
stars of the league is traded to the most valuable
franchises in the NBA. Right, the team that gave up

(25:53):
the young talent wins the number one pick in the
NBA Draft lottery, despite a one point eight percent chance
of winning that number one overall pick. Now, when the
Lakers sell for ten billion dollars, what does that do
to the rest of the franchises in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Shannon, I guess it makes their value go up.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
To correct, it raises the value of every single franchise
in the NBA. Now, this points back to Adam Silver,
the NBA commissioner. In a year where NBA ratings were down,
has said very explicitly many times that this summer they
will look at seriously at expansion, that the NBA is
looking at bringing new franchises into the NBA and Shannon,

(26:33):
when the Lakers sell for ten billion dollars, that raises
the value of all franchises and means that's going to
be even more valuable for the NBA when they expand. Shannon,
am I crazy in my tinfoil hat conspiracy here?

Speaker 3 (26:46):
So you're thinking the yeah you are, I think you are.
But you're thinking, though, because they paid an extra two
billion dollars, that they're doing that for the good of
the NBA.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I think the NBA orchestrated the trade of Luka Dancis
to the Lakers, okay, so that they could be sold
that would raise the value of every other franchise that
would continue to allow the NBA to make money when
they expand. Luca Donches to the Lakers for Anthony Davis
and a couple picks.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
And it didn't make sense, but it does.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
When the MAVs get the number one overall pick, they
get Cooper Flag and every and you know, everybody can
shake hands and go their own ways from that.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Point, Okay, so was it eight billion dollars though initially
that was offered, and they just go, you know what,
We'll give you an extra two billion dollars. I don't
think that's what happened. No, I don't think it was.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I think that was just an evaluation of the Lakers,
you know, if you would looked at those kind of
things before this sale went through.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Okay, all right, don't I don't think your conspiracy theory
holds up, but I appreciate the effort. I don't know
that I could. I don't know that I can follow
that line of thinking, but I'm sure that's fun. Plenty
of yay who's out there that could.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, well you can fall down a YouTube rabbit hole
or something like that and maybe you'll you'll you'll find
the light.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
But we'll see if they decide to expand this year.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think we will look back and see this as
something that maybe people could have predicted.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, we've been trying to get an NBA team
here in Louisville. It felt for years and years, for
like twenty years or longer. You know, daness Ol rust
in Peace for the longest time was trying to get
you know, he's trying to lead the charge to get
Louisville an NBA team. It just hasn't happened yet. Yeah,
Dan find by the way inside joke there. You might

(28:25):
remember somebody killed him off. Yeah I do, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
But I think the NBA would expand, probably to Seattle
in Vegas before they even come to Louisville, so it
might be even longer from there. Another popular conspiracy theory
is that Kentucky sent Kenny Payne to Louisville to I guess,
ruin their basketball program from the from within.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Show, No, No, the inside No. I think Kenny was
really just that bad. I don't think there's a conspiracy
theory there either.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Well, we got the picture, very first picture of Vince
Marrow yesterday throwing the l's up, and our guy had
a little issue with that. It was it was almost
like a peace sign up there along with the yells up.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
He's got some work. I think he's been doing El's
down for so long that his hand is kind of
like stuck that way and it won't quite go up
the way it's supposed to, you know. So it's so strange.
Man again, like a guy who has been super like
you know, let's take some jabs at Louisville. Every opportunity
he got for so many years here at Kentucky, well,

(29:21):
I guess for twelve years, right, and then you just
go right over there and join the other team. And
now you're doing the yells up. Come on.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, maybe being a little lonely at Jeff Rubies. It's
gonna be a transition. But you know, winning cures all is.
He has success at Louisville, you know he'll be a
made man there and Kentucky fans will resent him even more.
But we'll see how it works out. Maybe it's a
Kenny Payne situation where they do terrible ever since Vince
Marrow joins and people love him again. But well, it'll

(29:49):
be tough to see sticking with Kentucky. Kentucky men's basketball
SEC opponents were revealed yesterday, Shannon and a couple of
takeaways from that pretty tough road schedule. I mean, you're
at Alabama, I'm at Arkansas and at Auburn and you
don't get a return game for either of those tech
on LSU, South Carolina and Texas A and M. And
that's a pretty tough stretch away from Reperena don't you

(30:10):
think let's just talk about the schedule overall. First of all,
you talk about that non conference schedule being what it is.
Then you throw in the fact that you got all
these road games, that you don't get a return game,
you don't get a home at home. With that schedule overall,
I would venture to say is going to be the
toughest schedule in college basketball.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
I could be wrong. I haven't seen all the other
school schedules out there, but I think you're gonna be
hard pressed to find a better and tougher overall schedule
top to bottom than what Kentucky has this year. I
know the SEC is down a little bit, but still
you're talking about going on the road to Auburn, on
the road to Arkansas, on the road to Alabama, and
you don't get any of these return games. That's a
tough schedule.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
You play Florida twice, national champion, you play Tennessee twice,
and Vandy.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I mean those are your three hundreds. What about Vandy?
Anytime you have to go on the road at Vandy,
it's tough. That's tough gym to play in.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Stupid Jim So, But you're right about the non conference schedule, man,
I mean we've seen the addition of North Carolina, Gonzaga,
Michigan State. I mean, this is going to be a
great year of non conference played Louisville as a much
team now with Pat Kelsey Indian, it'll be nostalgic.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
But you know, you don't think Indian will give them
a game. Nah.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
I mean maybe maybe they proved me wrong, but no,
I think you're right. It is a little It won't
be the same sec as it was last year. But
when Mark Pope says he wants to play the best,
we want to be the best. We want to pay
the most money for recruits. We see it again, as
you know, as we see the schedule.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Set out, I feel like they get like the easier
teams at home home only Georgia, Ole, miss Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas.
You know you would rather have your your easier your
easier games or easier opponents, I should say, on the road,
because you feel like you're going to win those games,
regardless of that they play it at Kentucky or at
the other team's home or on the moon. It wouldn't matter,

(31:55):
right Kentucky football, and you can't win at homes right, right,
but we're talking Kentucky basketball. Yeah, though, correct. And you
know I would rather have like an Alabama or an
Arkansas or an Auburn at home versus having to go
on the road. And you know, instead you get Georgia
at home, which you feel like you're going to beat them, regardless.
They lost to Georgia last year, right, is that right?
I think they did. I think they did on the road.
On the road.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, that was when Sampto Cyrol was playing physical and
and you know, Kentucky lost that Clemson game, they lost
the Georgia game. There were a couple of losses that
maybe they shouldn't have taken. I also like to see
that old miss is going to be coming to up
a little Travis Perry homecoming. So a guy that I
think is beloved by the BBN. I think most of
us understand him leaving to go get some more playing time.

(32:36):
There's just so many guys here Shannon that you know,
I understand his decision. But at the same time, he
comes into up and scores fifteen twenty points, it's it's
gonna be awkward.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Do you think he's going to be a big time
player for them? Like, well, he get a lot of minutes.
Obviously he'll get more minutes there than he would here
if he'd have stayed. But I don't know. I mean,
he's not gonna start, really.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think this is why he went to Ole Miss
was for the playing time.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
So will he will? He won't he start?

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I'm not sure, But I think Chris Beer does have
a plan for him, and I think that's what sold
Travis Perry. As we know, Mark Pope was devastated when
he decided to leave. He had a plan for Perry.
But does that that probably doesn't happen in for one
or two more years.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I think that ni Ole Money had a lot to
do with the two right.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Mm hm, that funky rooster coffee at first at Kentucky.
Now old Miss comes in maybe with something a little else,
a little different.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
I think that might have been it A five nine
two eight two two eight seven. Meredith is on the line.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Good morning Meredith, Good morning Billy, Good morning Shannon. I
wanted when he started going on your Brant Billy about
the Lakers, this reminded me of news I saw late
last night. Brownie James waved by the Lakers. Have you
all seen that news.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
I did not know that headline. He was waived by
the Lakers.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Yeah, that's what it said. I thought online. I mean,
and it's on Sports Illustrated, so they're talking about his
rookie year in the G League was electric, but he
got way by the Lakers. So yeah, I just wondered
if y'all had any thoughts on that. Even though I
seem to be breaking the news.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
To y'all, I think I heard about it earlier, But
Bronnie James when he comes across the news wire, I
kind of just ignore it. Thanks for the call, Mara
that pak ameretith. Yeah, to answer her question, I mean,
a guy who averaged what two points a game, maybe
a half a rebounded game, half an assist. I mean,
you know you hate to see it, right, the guy
that was there because of his dad, right, I mean,

(34:26):
let's just be real. If the guy's name, if he
didn't have Lebron James as his dad, he wouldn't have
been on the team to begin with. I have not
seen that news yet.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
If that is true, then I guess we only get
one year of Bronni and dad and can't unless Lebron
decides he wants to go to a different team to
be with his son, but will be a special moment.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
For the two of you got the moment they were
out there.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
We had the one game that it was nice for
and then you know, Harley Mario is sad by this news,
but probably that's about it, right.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yep, that's it. So that's where it goes. When you're
Bronnie James and you're there here there because your dad
and we all got that moment, whether we're out there together,
it was like, all right, great father son moment. Yeah,
and it's great. Then reality sat in and he couldn't play.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, I mean it was great for one game and
then it's like this guy did not belong. But you know,
wishing the best of luck for Brownie. Hopefully he can
develop a little bit more and become a guy that
has a role in the NBA. Shannon, tell me about
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Speaker 1 (36:21):
One segment to go here on the ksrpre Show, Welcome Back,
final segment of the ksrpre show. We'll hand it off
to Matt and the guys in Independence, Kentucky. Today, our
poor caller, Meredith got NBA sentiled Shannon a fake news
games getting waived the same Twitter account that said Bronny
was going to be the cover athlete of NBA two K,

(36:44):
in which I briefly fooled me a couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Believe that one, I would believe that he was waved
long before I would believe that he was going to
be on the cover of that.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I mean, it's a popular account that gets a lot
of people. But we were talking about it during the break.
NBA Central has six hundred and seventy two thousand followers.
How does the part of it being fake news it's
still popp.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
How does a parody account have that many followers.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Well, it gets people all the time, and even like
the athletes in the league before people started to catch
on and there's another account, NBA Central that I'm sorry, Meredith.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, sorry, Meredith. I thought I had seen something about
Bronnie in the news. But when again, when I see Bronnie,
I just I just keep scrolling like that doesn't if
I'm scrolling through social media and I'll see Bronnie's name.
I'm not stopping, so don't worry, Mario. Everybody's all right.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
He's still on The Lakers have site them being sold
for ten billion dollars. Just take a quick phone called
JD is on the line. What's up, JD?

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Hey, guys, how are you this morning?

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Good? Great? What's up?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Just you know, I called him last Friday and I
was giving you guys some stats. And I appreciate the
fact that Matt came on you guys continue to address
because I got cut off, I got long winded. But anyway,
first of all, I need to correct myself because the
star power that Ben's had was not eight percent. It
was actually twelve percent. So being a numbers guy, when
I realized that my math was wrong, I'm like, man,

(38:05):
I need to call these guys back and you know,
and uh.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
And fix that.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
So anyway, then seeing seeing Vince trying to throw the
LS up, it's kind of what prompted me to give
you guys a call. So it was it was funny.
So we'll just leave it at that. But uh, and
then last thing, Uh, Billy you guys, you and Drew
with with Matt Man the show is Uh, it's entertaining

(38:29):
his head. So you guys keep doing what you're doing. Shannon,
keep doing what you're doing. I appreciate all you guys do.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Thanks for the coming. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Another episode of the Matt Jones podcast was released last night.
You can hear it on Ajes tonight if you like. Uh, Shannon,
I'm talking a lot of news. So for the first
time in my life, I'm having to watch the news,
reading newsletters things like that, trying to stay up to date.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
It's tough, man. There's a lot going on. That's your
favor the news right now. P Diddy trial has to
be Oh is that going on now? Right now?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
They're actually showing a freak offs to the jurors. Oh
this week, But Shannon listened to this detail. Have you
ever heard of the rapper Kid Cutty?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yes, Okay, So Kid Cutty is deep into this because
he had a short romance with Didy's ex Cassie Ventura.
But I could not believe some of the details from
his testimony a few a little while back. He said,
back in in December of twenty eleven, did he broke
into his house and opened up all his Christmas gifts
for his kids and his family.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
What why Because he.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Was trying to get back at him for getting with
his ex girlfriend, Cassie vent.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
So that's how he got back at him.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Not only that did French He locked the family dog
in the bathroom, He tampered with security cameras and threw
a maltav cocktail.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
At kid Cutty's Porsche.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
But it was I mean, opening up the kid's Christmas
presence in December. He really is the Grinch, is he not?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I mean they could just wrap them right back though.
Did he take them like the Grinch?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
No?

Speaker 3 (39:52):
He just opened them? Oh wep, So what I mean
it's just an at the slide inconvenience. We could wrap
those right back.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Oh it's not any convenience. And you have kids and
they come out and all the presents are already opened.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Well yeah, I think lock of the dog in the bathroom,
I mean you could relate to that being locked in
the bathroom. You know how torture as that is.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Right now, Listen, this is all allegedly, and there's many
worse things that are in this trial besides that. But
for the guy to go and open somebody else's Christmas
gifts for their kids was just unbelievable. But so take
out the Matt Jones Show for more news updates.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Did y'all get into the Karen Reid Trials? We did,
and it broke while we were recording, so it was cool.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
We talked about it and then it broke, So yeah,
check it out.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Soon to be named interrupted by Matt Jones. Do you
like that name better? It's more accurate. Yeah, I'd say, like,
if you want to know what you're about to listen to, Yeah,
you're about to get Matt Jones interrupting. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
And there's a couple of Matt Jones shows out there
that that poor guy that was getting all those subscribers
when it first launched.

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Speaker 1 (41:31):
All right, tomorrow, we will be at Mike's landing in Berksville, Kentucky.
We played the Newlywed game last ten.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
We did we did? Yeah, you knew me better than
I knew you. Yeah, we found out and did win that.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
But coming up next KSR, Matt, Drew and Ryan are
live in Independence, Kentucky playing a little arcade games in
pinball machines. That's going to do it for us. For
Shannon the Dude, I'm Billy Rutlis. This has been the
KSR pre show and we will talk to you tomorrow