June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Billy hosts the show solo and welcomes in Rachel Elliott to talk pop culture and country music
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So today I am in the Louisville Building where I
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will be doing Shannon the Dude's job a little late
today on KSR when with Matt and Ryan, I will
be running the board and playing the commercial. So I'm
in studio in Louisville today, and to help me with
the pre show, I've got a couple people here to
help me, just bringing people in out of offices. I'll
get to know the Louisville iHeartRadio building. We'll do that
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a little bit here this morning. Gus Allen is running
the board while I talk a little bit. Gus is
my boss, but is also filling in for pretty much
five people this week. Gus, is that right? Something like
that I've lost count Well, thank you so much. If
you call in eight five nine two eight oh two
two eight seven, you'll hear the docile tones of Gus Allen.
He does a great job. But joining me in studio
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here is Rachel Elliott. And I've done a show with
you before, Rachel, but you've been with iHeart Louisville for
about two years at this point. What's your official job
title here?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My official job title is Director of Country Programming for
all of Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So in Lexington and in Somerset.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Director can't forget Somerset, of course, but director of country
programming sounds like an awesome job. That sounds like a
job you tell little kids at like at like grade school,
and they're like, I want to be the director of
country programming one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's very ambiguous from the title, but basically I decide
what gets played on the radio station. That's that's my
main function. That and I go to concerts and talk
to people. That's pretty much all like to.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you get to brush shoulders with celebrities and you
get to decide what songs are played on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, so if you don't like what's being played on WAMZ,
it is my fault.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We complain to you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, you can complain to me. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So I appreciate you joining me for today with channing
the dude out so we may answer some calls a
little bit later. I've got some pop culture stuff and
some stuff that happened over the weekend that we'll talk about.
But while we're talking about country music, we love to
discuss writers on the Kosor pre show. Have you brushed
shoulders with Prima Donna's some country stars that maybe you know,
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act a little different behind closed doors than they do
on stage.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm not a boot liquor, okay, but all of the
country people that I have dealt with have been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He chill people.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
They don't care, They're just happy to be there. I
did come from rock before getting into country, and that's
a totally different story. Yes, the writers are a little
bit extreme. I think my personal favorite and I'll call
him out because why not.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, good, We're going to drop names here.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Gavin Rosdale of Bush, which is so disappointing because I
love the band Bush, But he refused to do a
meet and greet once until he had Fiji water. So
we had to send people out. Oh yeah, we had
to send three people out, some poor interns, to like
go to all these different places to find Fiji water
because apparently it was not easy to find at that time,
and it did take us about an hour and a
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half to get him his water so that he could
officially do the meat and greet.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, I've definitely heard of some people that won't do
a show without a diet coke, but Fiji water, I mean,
want a little expensive to get Fiji water, as you
were always you know, breaking the piggy bank to get
the Fiji water. But it's like in the waterfalls of
Hawaii or something like that in the springs there. So
obviously they need that before they go on and do
their country music.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, you know, hey, maybe it was a holdover from
his days when Bush was playing arenas at the time
they were not, so you know, maybe he just wanted
a little bit of that rockstar treatment they was used
to back.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But the country singer's normally okay, maybe a bottle of
bourbon or something like that, maybe even a beer or two.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, and they're really not picky.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've I think we had one artist that was had
a special diet, which diet restrictions, you know, hey like
that everybody. A lot of people have those. It's not
necessarily about them being an artist. I'm using air quotes
here for our friends out there. But I think he
just wanted a steak because he was on one of those,
like like all meat diets, and so he just wanted
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a steak.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He wanted red meat.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And that's not that big of a deal because we
do generally if somebody's like doing a show for us,
we provide them dinner before the show. Oh okay, yeah,
so that's not really that big.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Of an ask.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It was just like instoad chicken, you wanted to stake,
So that's I don't think that's too.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Much of a diva.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, our iHeart Radio building is now on Fourth Street Live.
Do you have a bunch of people come here? Are
there concerts on Fourth Street? Is this a good location
for the director of country programming?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, there is a lot going on here, and I
think we have a lot going on in Lexington too
with ninety eight one the Bull, my other station, So
we kind of bounce back and forth between all of
the country shows here and the country shows in Lexington.
And when we're in Lexington we're at the Opera House.
When we're here we're at the Palace, and there's always
something going on.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
A lot of great venues.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, we have a lot of great venues.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A lot of people like to walk past here and
see the studios because it is a pretty like our
Lexington office.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You can it's high rise, you're on the seventh floor.
You've got lawyers and financial people there and their ties
making you look bad because you're so underdressed to me
at least.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh I've gotten I've gotten that too in the elevator
where I've walked in. You know, I wear cowboy boots,
I wear jeans, you know, I walk into the elevator
and I get the like up down from the guy
in the suit and high and it's like, I swear
I'm supposed to be here, but here, all right, I promise.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The studios here, there's a couple of them with windows,
so you can walk by. And when Tony and Dwight
are doing their morning show about now, it starts at
nine am on has you know, people crazy, So we'll
just walk by and that's the content those guys need, right,
So that's perfect for them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, I my studio does not have a window. I'm
not blessed with a window, but we we do. You know,
on occasion here things throughout the building, just because we
are next to a PBR at the bar, and sometimes
they like to load up their kegs in the morning,
so on occasion you'll hear the kegs clanking in the
background of so you know, I'll be you'll hear it
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on air because there I think their storage room is
behind my studios.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So that's that's why, Oh you just hear that all day?
Beyonest Yes, does PBR have a mechanical bowl, because that's
when I've never been on, but thought I would do
pretty well.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
We have to remedy that. We need to get you
on the Bull.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
One of these four Street Live nights. I'm sure maybe
you can get Billy or Sports on the Bull. But
Rachel Elliott, she decides what's on the radio, the songs
that play on ninety eight one The Bull and several
other country stations in our market. You just sit at
home on the Spotify playlist and pick songs that suit
your fancy or Is there a lot of research that
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goes into what people will keep on and things like that?
Is it as fun as I imagine it?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Rachel?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's a lot of there's a lot of actually data
research type elements to it, So things have scores and
testing and we figure out what people actually like to
listen to. So I don't necessarily just get to say, oh,
this song is really cool and I love it and
I'm just going to keep it on forever. There's actual
numbers that back all of this, so I'm not out
there just doing my own thing. There's science behind it,
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and I lean hard into the science. So yeah, there's
a lot of extra steps that go.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
In to picking the music.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And also you know, you get to try to like
match up what's going on the charts, and we're part
of that too, Like what we play helps get an
artist to a number one, but we also want to
try to keep up with what's happening on the chart
that we might not be on yet, and that kind
of determines what we'll end up playing.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So a science behind it, a lot more than just
picking and choosing. But I bet you get sick and
tired of some artists right there? Is there an artist
that you play way too much? Like listen, I know
every Morgan Wallen song because I am required by law
to play it. A lot of Morgan.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There's a lot of Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But people love him, you know, Like a lot of
people will say, oh, there's so much, but he's one
of those guys that, like I said, the research backsit
that people love his stuff. I mean, do you want
to hear other things? Of course, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You'd like to have more variety, but you also want
to play with the people actually want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So that's where me as a person, in my personal preference,
it gets outweighed by the actual science behind it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We'll be playing more Morgan Walland then.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's like Shannon saying that he's played the same led
Zeppelin song two or three times a day for the
twenty five years of his career. I mean it's true too. Yeah,
that's what people want to hear. That will more likely
to keep them on the radio dial. And though it's
almost like when you go to a concert, right when
we were talking about this on KSR last week, it
gets to a point when a singer reaches a certain
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age where you want to hear their best songs and
their hits. Right, So, if you were to pay two
three hundred dollars for a ticket, a concert ticket, and
you go to a show and they don't play the
song that you want to hear, I'm sure you're a
little disappointed. But at the same time, maybe you're a
younger artist. You're trying to play your new album, You're
trying to play different things. You don't want to play
the same song every single time. What side of the
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isle do you land on there? Do you want to
hear the hits usually.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I mean I know that there are some bands
that like to do kind of an experience like they're
playing X album front to back, and usually when they
do that, it's an album that has a couple of
hits on it, so it's not as bad. But I
personally prefer you play your greatest hits and you play
what the audience wants to hear. And I'm a big
fan of covers at shows too. I mean that's really
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common at country shows. I have to go to a
lot of them, so I see it a lot. People
like to cover ACDC and if the crowd doesn't know you,
it's really easy for them to get into it and
sing along because it's a song that everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And really it's about the energy in the room.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right, Like you want to keep the crowd engaged and
you want to make them enjoy their time there, so
why not play something they know, even if it isn't yours.
So I'll go beyond play your own hits, play other
people's hits.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, No, I like that. You know one thing that'll
elevate a listening experience for me, But too much of
it can be way too much and ruin it is
like the talking in between songs. Like I think if
you connect with the audience and maybe you throw a
joke out there every once in a while, I think
that's appreciated. But maybe sometimes you can talk a little
too much and it can take away from the concert.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How much talking is too much talking for you?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
See, I just want like ninety seconds, you know, just
like hey, thanks, thanks for coming in. You know, this
is really special to me. It's the first time I've
been in Louisville, Kentucky. Just a little song, a song
and dance before the song and dance that you're about
to do. Are you the opposite? Would you rather just
play the songs?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I like the songs to be I like a maybe
a small intro, so I'm thinking more like twenty seconds
per you know, in between songs. But I've seen bands
do absolutely no crowd engagement before, and it's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's because it's so different than what we're used to.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You are used to that build up a little bit
of banter in between songs, and when artists don't do that,
it's a different energy and it's kind of weird in
a way not having that engagement because you feel kind
of like you're watching something that you weren't necessarily invited
to watch, If that makes sense. Sleep Token, the rock
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band sleep Token, does that. They don't engage with the
audience at all. They don't speak to the audience at all.
Just go on stage, perform, don't say anything in between songs,
just play music and go off stage.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
See my opinion, I think you're missing something there, Like
you have a chance to really build a connection with
your audience, and while they're still connected listening to the
music that they like, I think you could you could
build it even more, but specifically for you as a
radio DJ. At times though you only get twenty seconds
to talk right, fifteen seconds before the next song exactly
is that tougher than maybe people think? Or is it?
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Are you glad you only have twenty seconds?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So I've done a talk show before.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We talked about this off air, so I have actually
gotten to just go out there and you know, do
a live show for three hours and somewhere in between
is probably best. Probably you have the best gig because
you have an hour and it's like that's perfect, right,
because you don't get to say as much as you
would like to say in the max of maybe forty
seconds is as long as I can talk pretty much
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right on my stations on But do I want to
spend three hours waxing poetic?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I don't know if I could do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, you're right, this is the perfect gig. I do
my one hour, then I'm done. Shannon loves to make
fun of that. But three hours you're repeating yourself a
little bit. You're having to get into the weeds less
than that, and feels like you're rushed at times. I
do want to mention that your previous job, before you
were a director of programming and country music, you worked
with the Reds at seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I read the pre pre show for the pregame show,
pre show, the pre pre show. We had so many
pre shows because well there's a lot of as you
are aware, there are so many sponsorships and dihorsements that
go along with any kind of sports broadcasting. So in
order to get all of the sponsorships in, they had
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a pregame.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Show for the pregame shows. So that's what I did,
the illusion of the pre prix so we can get
all our sponsors in. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, very familiar with that.
I run the UK radio network all the football and
basketball game so trust me, you got to get those
spots in and heartbreaks wait for nobody, so absolutely no one.
As a pre pre show, you know, you got to
end by a certain time so we can get to
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the next show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh huh. You know, in the past I've run the
John Caliperry radio show, have had to cut him off
a couple of times because look, so that's just time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But people don't understand when it's a hard out.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's a heart out, that's right, that's right. But you
love baseball, then I do.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I do. I love baseball and you know obviously football
Bengals fan.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So yeah, Bengals just got a new deal with the city.
They're going to stay for a little all.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I think, listen, we do this what every like three years,
four years. There's the threat like it's like a bad relationship.
It's the girlfriend that's like, if I don't get an
engagement ring here in the next like three I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You, right, It is that it feels like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That, and so every couple of years we have another
thing with the city where we're threatening to leave, and
we never actually do not yet knock on what.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well might we might dip our toes into the Cincinnati Reds.
A little later in the show, I want to talk
about the general lead that jumped the fountain in Summerset.
I don't know if you saw any videos on that.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That is so cool. I saw all the videos.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was so bad because I like started searching different angles,
you know, so I got the angle of it landing
and then almost hitting the camera guy that was filming
the entire thing. And then there are like rooftop fuse
from downtown Somerset actually seeing it jump the fouten.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh, it was something. I'm going to touch on that
more when we come back from break. And also I've
got more Adam Sandler tickets to give away. Rachel. I
may have done the worst contest in radio history on Friday.
Leave it to me to use AI again to try
to help me. I tried it. It was like here, I
got Adam Sandler quotes. You tell me what movie they're from,
two or three of them warning even from Adam Sandler movie, Rachel.
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So it was it was really rough. We're going to
give away two more tickets, but for podcast listeners. If
you're listening live, if you want to text in five
o two two sixty five six six five six. I
will announce at the end of the show how we'll
be giving those away, but we'll give a chance for
our podcast listeners to win some tickets as well.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It was bad listen, we've all been there, We've all
been handed up. Like we'll have to go over some
of the worst bumbles we've had.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Oh, have you had some live?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Absolutely? Okay, it's part of doing live radio.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I can't wait to hear some of that. That's how
you learn, right, absolutely, So eight five nine two two
eight seven, and that's the phone number if you'd like
to join the show. We have Rachel Elliott here in
the Louisville Building. It's Billy Rutlie here on the KSR
Pre Show. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back
Monday edition of the pre Show. Billy Rutledge and Rachel Elliott,
director of Programming of Country Music here in the regions.
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Did I get that right? Okay? Good? I see you
bobin over there. Listen to a little Morgan Wallin.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, I'm rubbing off on you already a lot at that.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I I'm gonna say this, I despise country music. So
I'm learning a lot today.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We're gonna have to get you to a show because listen.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I had my media mom, she's a classic rock chick.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, got her to a Thomas Rutt show, and she's
actually asked to go to another Thomas rush and she
hates country quote hate hates it too.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So I it just I gotta get you the RST.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It just never my thing. I grew up in St. Pete, Florida.
My dad was always playing old old school hip hop
or rock. So I've come to Kentucky and had to
learn quick though. Right when you had to produce KSR
and Matt wants a nineties country music song to come
back from break, you gotta play it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You gotta get that Alan Jackson on Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But people fired up that you mentioned sleep Token on
the show today, even without Shannon the Dude on the air,
So you're feeling in nicely.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm glad people I asked you. I was like, is
that a good thing? A good fired up or bad
fired up?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You never know? No good thing with a little rock
on emojis as well, here doing the hand gestures. So
Rachel Elliott is with us, and thank you to Gus
Allen who's got us on the air with a week
without Shannon the Dude eight five nine, eight oh two
two eight seven. I mentioned the Generally jumping the fountain
in Somerset. It was incredible. I posted a video today
if you didn't see it, but you probably already did
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because of the millions of views that have been seen online.
Thirty five thousand people showed up in Somerset for Raymond
Kahn to jump the fountain one hundred and fifty feet
above the air. A little bit of a rough landing too,
I mean kind of goes into the barrier. There was
a photographer there that I was a little worried about.
I think you mentioned in the first segment. Yeah, it
was actually the thirtieth time that Raymond Khan has jumped
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in the General Lee replica the old Dukes of Hazzard's day.
It was the summer Night's Cruise festival. I guess there's
I guess once a month in Somerset they do old
historical cars. They'll do a little cruising Rachel, and this
time they celebrated with the General Lee going over the fountain.
That was simply incredible this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And you said there were thirty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Thirty five thousand people there, so I just looked it up.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They're only about twelve thousand people that live in Somerset.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So almost three times the population showed up to see this,
which is I think great.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, but you're not getting me behind the wheel of that. Generally,
I'm not jumping any fountains. Did you see the way
that thing landed too? I mean it was rough, it
was rough. The door came off. I was really worried
for that. I guess it was a videoographer. He had
to jump the barrier and was.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Pulled over last minute as the general Lee kind of
lost control towards the end of it, if you could
call it a landing, and it controlled crash basically. But
it was to see all the people in Somerset. They
were like on the.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Tops of buildings, all the kids. It was super fun.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh yeah, definitely, and a proper nod to the Dukes
of Hazards. I think they'd be proud if they saw
Raymond making that jump. I read that he had a
brain tumor removed at one point, and one of the
main things he said was can I jump after I
get the brain tumor removed? They said yeah, And now,
look he's doing things like this. So if you can
face a brain tumor in the hospital, I think maybe
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jumping the fountain in Somerset, that's just another day.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, it's not that big of deal.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Right Right at that point, you know, you're already laughing
in the face of death, So why not continue to
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
As long as you don't, you know, accidentally take out
that poor videographer along the way.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, maybe i'd line up before the car jumps instead
of after, uh huh, and let other people take the
photos of the aftermath. Speaking of thirty five thousand people,
thirty five thousand people were not at Jeff Bezos's wedding
over the weekend. Guess with us was about two hundred
of Oprah and the Kardashians. Katy Perry was she there?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No, No Katy Perry, No Katy Perry, because apparently she
and her long term boyfriend Slash Beyonce pirates of the
Caribbean starlanda Bloom.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, they split after ten years.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, she's she's been trending downward. I don't know if
it was the space flight or that weird album release
that she had, but it has. It has for old
Katy P. I saw her at the Super Bowl halftime
show way back in the day in Arizona. She came
in on a I believe it was a t rex
at that point, but yeah, it looked fancy. Jeff Bezos
fifty million dollar wedding over three days with Lauren Sanchez
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in Italy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't I mean, it seems it seemed a little
tacky for that price tag?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Does it not? Does it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It was? It was a little well yeah, like three dresses.
Like I don't know about you, but like I've seen
people change their wedding dress throughout the night, maybe when
they get to the recept and want to do dancing,
But three different wedding dresses.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That seems like a ton shutting down an entire town
for your victuals seems a bit much.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, the people of Venice didn't seem thrilled, but they
also said that they're going to get sixty eight percent
of their tourism in one weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I mean, how about you just you know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But how take it?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Does that happen when there's only like two hundred people
that you're getting it?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I guess Oprah comes in and she just buys you know.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh that makes sense, that makes sense, but tends.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
On thousands of dollars. I guess she has to at
that point, Like the Kardashians aren't going to Venice and
not going shopping, I guess.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
But did you see the photos from today naturing our
dear Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Now Tom was touchdown Tom there, touchdown Tom. I see.
Now I'm a little disappointed I didn't get invited.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But the breaking news this morning is that was spotted
with actress Sidney Sweeney like walking the streets of Venice.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Now Tom was there as an awkward third wheel.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Oh so Tom was third wheeling or was Orlando a
third wheeling?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, it don't seem to be walking side by side
and Tom was like slightly back, so I would say
it kind of looks like maybe Orlando was getting the
nod and Tom was not.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look, I mean, there was no bigger upset this year
than Shannon the Dude and Ryan Lemon not knowing who
Sidney Sweeney was. But we did give the story when
she was selling her soap with her bath water in it. Rachel,
the society is cooked at this place, or it does.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I just I just don't know how you can't know
Sidney Sweeney in the year.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Only one of the biggest movie stars out right.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now, the biggest movie starbuos TV star on every cover.
And I would say every guy that's into blonde.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But she's Rachel Elliott. I'm Billy Rutledge. We've got much
more on the way here on this Monday edition of
The Case. Our pre show. All right, it's okay for today.
Rachel Elliott are our pre show in charge of what
you hear on the country stations here in the region.
I guess it's not just Louisville, is it Louisville, Lexington
and Somerset and Somerset. That's right, you said that. I
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feel like there should be some hay babees in here.
We could do a little dance and a little slow stepping.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Gus he's a big country fan too, so yeah, so
he's he's on top of this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He's also from Mead County, right, He's got the Mead
County in him. I was telling you, coming from Saint
Pete and Tampa, Florida to to Oldham County, Kentucky was
quite the culture shock. So we're now just starting to listen,
Bill Little.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
The biggest thing that shocked you probably.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Know the sports that they cared about, probably Billy R sports.
You're asking. All they cared about was Kentucky or Louisville.
They're like, pick one Kentucky or Louisville. Kentucky or Louisville.
I was like, out of spite, I'll go to Western Kentucky.
That's a smart man right there, and that's why my
calf muscles are as big as they are walking up
that up and down that hill every day. Hey five
nine two eight oh two two eight seven, if you'd
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like to join the show before we get into some
more fun topics and the best wishes to our collar
Peanut Trey Maddingly, he was involved in a serious car
accident over the weekend. They had to use the jaws
of life to get him out of his truck. He
was airlifted to a hospital where they had to do
a couple surgeries. Both surgeries were successful. He is still
recovering in the ICU, but he is expected to make
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a full recovery. In about six months. Some of his
information has been posted on the bond that bridge Face
would like to send a card or reach out to
Trey and his family, but Peanut is somebody that calls
in very often, and I just want to say that
we're thinking about him and we are wishing him the
best during his recovery. Now, Rachel back to better things
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and more joyful things here on the KISR pre show.
I saw a survey that you thought might find you
might find interesting. He do you?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I do? I have a dog.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
She is a Katahula leopard dog. What is the state
dog Louisiana. They kind of look like Australian.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Shepherds where they're like alpatchy, but they're short haired. And
what's it called again, kata Hula leopard dog.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Cata Hula leopard dog. Okay, well tell me I people
this new survey, Rachel. New research suggests that dog gets
jealous when they see you display affection for another pet.
Absolutely so so, like I understand, like if you've seen
a dog earlier in the day, they come up, they
come up to you, they smell you a little different,
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They're like, what have you been doing?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Well? Mine?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
My mom has a border Collie and she lets her
Borycollie come over and visit. And when both dogs are
in the same place at the same time, mine has
to pretend to be a lap dog, which she is not,
and she'll sit on my lap just to prove that
I'm her mommy and the other dog should.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Not come near me.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So so I'm not in a situation often where I'm
with my dog with another dog. So you have seen
instances where your dog would get.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Jealous absolutely and totally acts out like she does not
need to She does not need.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
To crawl on my lab at all.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And you know, it probably matches for cats too. Cats
just seem like they have a disdain for me already.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I mean maybe there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I don't want to offend people. I know there's some
really diehard cat love out there, but if like one
of the tenants of your pet ownership is that you
can leave the animal for like days on end with
food and water, enough food and water, and they're fine,
do they really care about you that much?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Or are you the person that puts out the kibble?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's right, you are the cat's pet. I think maybe
at times out you're just making the lasagna, right but
I bring up dogs because PETA. You've heard of the
organization PETA before, right, Yes, they had a heck of
a display in Georgetown over the weekend. I'm not sure
if you saw this, but they had their traveling Hell
on Wheels campaign where they visit small and middle of
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the road towns across the country. They went to Georgetown
on Friday where they had a box truck that had
life sized chicken on the truck just in images, right,
but they also played audio of birds being slaughtered. Yeah,
as the truck drove around downtown.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
People were upset.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
People were very upset. Now, the police in the town
did tell everybody they have the right to do this,
but where they were planning on setting up there were
no parking spots, so instead of parking outside one of
the busy restaurants downtown and Georgetown, they just circled the
block for an hour. But if you haven't seen this story,
look at disturbingly disturbing looking, is it not?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh yeah, but I mean that's kind of what PETE
is known for, the shot campaigns. So I just feel
bad for there were obviously families like out and about
with little kids, and that's hard to explain to children
when they see those kind of images and they hear
what happens.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
To the burdo the audio too, it's a little crazy.
Then you have to have that conversation and like you said,
you know that, maybe that's their point. I think they
have said that they have as like a shot campaign
to get people to start talking about it. But my
favorite part of the whole thing was I was reading
an article that said people the chicken sales in downtown
restaurants that day went up. Well, of course, I mean
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if you're going to come on like people were like
saw that and they said, you know what, I'm going
to order the chicken at this restaurant tonight and see.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to ruin somebody's day,
they're probably.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Going to have a reaction. So that makes sense to me.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But my personal favorite like version of PETA was back
in the day when they used to like throw red
pain on people.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That's at least you know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No kids were like had to deal with trauma later
on from seeing you know, birds in states of slaughter.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I think it was they get dumped red pain on them.
They'll remember that their whole life.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Fright, you know, when they would throw red pain on
random celebrities. That was a good time. Yeah, it's just
this is not fun. That was fun.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Seems like an impossible goal. You're gonna try to get
people to stop eating meat at this point.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, And you know for every every action there is
an equal reaction, and chicken sales were off, So yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Chicken sales goes up five two two six five six
six five six is the text line. If you'd like
to chime in. We were talking about singers and talking
to the audience when they play. One person says, I've
seen Sammy Hagar free until last summer show. I would
say he was over talkative. He played exactly ninety minutes
and his first two shows he went on and on
about tequila and making the perfect margarita. Was totally a
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shut up and sing situation for me.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You know, I would love to learn how to make
a cocktail though from Sam From Samy, I.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Mean, of all people, right to give you the cocktail recipe.
But yeah, he gets into like his second or third
drink that he's like telling you almost like a I
paid for you to play, not to talk.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Post Malone gets a little in the.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Weeds alone I had no idea. Is he talking to
me about like Cane's Chicken or the Dallas Cowboys or
what is he talking to me? Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Everything, Yes, and all of the above. He will just
go off on a tangent. And I happened to see
him as first stadium shows, so that's a little bit
different too.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh a milestone for an artist.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And yeah, he was just he was every end, anywhere
and in between, all over the place.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah. Post he's an odd guy. I mean I liked
his hip hop days. He's kind of ventured into different genres.
One of those guys that'll get a face tattoo too.
I probably wouldn't recommend that for people, but artists or.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Artists, Well, he has a couple of face tattoos now several.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah. I don't think I'm going to go there.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Your look, but respect for people that want to make
that long term decision.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, and I understow that route.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean, did you give your tattoo or maybe Mike Tyson?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, I don't think so. I think maybe
a neck tattoo, but.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That might that would have to be very girly, It
would have to be very fam yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Okay, all right, Well maybe we can get ninety eight
won the bull tattoo at one point if you go
number one in the books one.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Day, yeah something, yeah, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
See I've thought about doing a sponsored tattoo. You know,
you want to do a liveied endorsement.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
How much? How much would that cost?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
A lot? I mean it's got to be a little
bit more than the average campaign. But you know, if
Don Franklin wanted to do something, you know, maybe we
could work something out.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Or a team player, Billy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Look, I mean they got a guy here called the
company Man. That's John Alden, but you could also call
me that too, if you want to give me another nickname.
Tell me what you think about this, Rachel. You know,
we've seen holograms pop up at funerals recently, or even
like somebody at a birthday party will pay for a hologram.
Of states on whether holograms will be used on stage
in the future when a band member passes away or
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one hundred years from now, you just want to see
led Zeppelin pay you could see it all holograms. I
think there's a future that's coming. Yeah, but it's also
happening in movies. I just saw there was an announcement
that Paul Walker's character is going to be coming back
for another Fast and Furious movie. One. I cannot believe
we're doing another Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
What version is that?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm not sure. I think we're getting getting close to
like ten or eleven. Because Paul Walker, I mean, he
passed away in twenty thirteen, it is twenty twenty five,
and then will be cgi effects, some stand ins to
all try to get it technically to look like Paul
Walker is in the newest Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Let the Man rest? Am I wrong? Let the poor
man rest?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Also, they had to finish whichever movie they were filming
he unfortunately passed away.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
They actually used his brother as to stand in for that.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
So I'm sure they're bringing him back to be part
of this as one of those stand ins. But still
just I mean, we're yeah, we're thirteen years, twelve years
removed from this situation.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Do you think it's too soon to bring him back?
Because I think there's an argument that we will be
bringing back famous actors and famous musicians a lot, but
this feels like we're beating a dead horde.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yes, yes, I mean and also it's an ensemble cast.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You have like eight hundred people in those movies, and
they're adding new people all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Right, you don't need to bring back Paul just like
let him go.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But the nostalogia, Rachel, I mean, that's what it's going
to get me in the studio. You tell me Paul
Walker's going to make an.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Appearance, and how exactly is he.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Going to His brother's going to be there, and they're
going to use CGI to make his face look even more.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Like his I don know. It creeps me. Does that
worry you at all?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Because like I did at Adam Sandler give Away, AI
completely screwed me. There will be a point where AI
will be replacing our jobs. Yeah, I mean you got
to you've you've thought about this before, right.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, I don't you know, I don't know when the
language models are going to get to the point where
they're actually trustworthy like in your for your example, you know,
when are they actually going to be trustworthy enough to
have And there's a learning curve in between. There's some
places already trying it and it's not working. It's not
going very well. So I think we have some time, mercifully,
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But you know, you don't. You don't necessarily need to
replace everybody with a computer. I think part of the
the interaction on the radio especially is we're actual people
that can interact with listeners and talk to listeners and
go out and meet listeners. Right.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So well, you know, like you could you can play
a music service that can just shuffle your songs, right,
or it can mix your songs. There's an ai dj
on Spotify now that can play go from song to song.
But you know, when Rachel Elliott comes on on ninety
eight one the Bowl to tell you something about local,
something local that's happening, or a detail about a song,
you know, it's hard to replace that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
It's I like to give people random like trivia to
like brand used throughout your day. That's just g wiz
information because we all have those moments. So like, you know,
they came out with night vision contacts.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You first see it?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Wait are you serious?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
See exactly because I wear contacts all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So now you can have night vision contacts if you
want them. University of Wisconsin just developed these things and
you can actually use them and see infrared at night. Right,
that's cool, Like that's a random piece of information you
didn't have until now.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
That's what I filter the.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Information, so you get the best, like Gollie g information
that's out there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I do the work for it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I like that. So that would make me remember you
and you know that that thought and then you can say,
now here's Jason el Dean with I think my tractor
sexy or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah, you got right?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Is that is that?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay? Good? But man, night vision contacts. Okay, what would
you use them for? I don't know, actually, probably wouldn't.
What would you use them for?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Absolutely, when my dog goes out into the yard. We
have a bigger yard. It's fenced, but sometimes she won't
come in when I call her at night because she's
doing whatever. I would use the night vision goddess to
go hunt her up right or to check because there's
been times too and I've let my precious baby out
and she's gotten skunked.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
In ther Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, so I might use them to like do kind
of like perused skunks in the vicinity and then let
her out. So that would be my use for the
the you know, night vision content.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Night vision contexts, so you can check if there's any
raccoons or skunks in your yard. Yes, in case your
dog is out there.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
This is very important stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Okay, it is very important stuff. We're only tackling important
topics on today's show. AH two two eight seven. We
have one segment left with Rachel Elliott. I'm Billy Rutledge.
This is the KOSR pre show. It's all right, it's
our final segment of the KOSR pre Show. I must
have been singing this off the air. I don't think
I was singing it on the air.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It's one of my favorites. I love banishing in that grate.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
We know a couple exes that live in Texas. KSR
is next. Matt Jones. Ryan Lemon will hand it off
to them in just a second. Couple things before we leave.
I've got two Adam Sandler tickets to give away for
his stand up show in October at Rapparena. If you
text the text line before the start of the pre
show until twenty three hours to do this five O
(35:20):
two two six five six six five six, tell me
your favorite Adam Sandler movie and why, and I will
pick one winner from the text line tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
You're not gonna let AI do this for you.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
No, listen. I already screwed it up. It's the Chinese
Ai Deep Seek too. That's part of the problem. I
should be using chat GPT anyway. Yeah, so it really
screwed us up. We also learned on Friday that iblack
doesn't work the remote. Rachel, did you Yeah, that's supposed
to reduce the glare of the sun. Maybe you get
a pop ball, maybe you're playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
Didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How do you know it didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Because I looked in the sun?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Oh well that might be your problem.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well, I mean I thought it was going to block it,
but more of a psychological intimidation factor. I block is
used for.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I like it when guys make it look like war paint. Yeah, like, yeah,
that's the way you do it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Kind of went down my cheek a little bit instead
of just across. So that's five O two two six fives.
If you'd like to be in the in the running
for Adam Sailor tickets. One person on that text line says,
please ask Rachel how different the Lexington country music is
from New York or Los Angeles. Is it different from
market to market or is it relatively sure?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Sure, so we personally here at iHeartMedia don't have country stations.
In New York or LA. There are country stations there,
we don't personally have them. I think our biggest market
is Atlanta and Boston.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Okay, So and those.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Are two very so you're very i would say, very
traditional in the Atlanta market. In Boston, they are playing
Chapel Rhone, that giver song, right, this kind of like
has a country western flair. So they're playing that because
they can. That's not getting played in Atlanta. It's not
getting played here in Kentucky, where we're also a little
(36:54):
bit more traditional, especially given our proximity to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Okay, that's interesting, you know, how would it? I guess
it depends on each place that he's a little different
than Boston. Right, So you're gonna play more maybe some
old school or traditional stuff than you would Chapel Roam.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, and down in Texas they have you know, red
dirt country.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's a thing, so it's like barbecue. It's like kind
of where you go you get a little red dirt.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, you'll hear more of those traditional sounding artists in
San Antonio or Austin then you probably would here. We're
gonna stick more to our you know, Jason Aldan's and
our Morgan Wallin's not necessarily. Corey Kent has a number
one song right now, but he's a more traditional artist
that gets a lot of airplay in Texas and has
for a long time. We just started playing him because
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he just hit number one.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So what stations can I hear Rachel Elliott on?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You can here, actually here in like ten minutes. I'm
going to be on ninety seven five w AMZ nice. Yeah,
so you can find me there and find me on
ninety eight one.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
In the Bowl as well.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Very good. You know we mentioned that you were with
the Cincinnati Reds in the past. Life they're playing pretty well.
They just want another series against the Padres. They've got
Elly de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
So I over the weekend, I think it was the weekend.
It was the heat Dome that I was noticing where
everybody was getting carried out. And if anybody has been
to Great American Ballpark, it's right on the river. It's
basically like a sauna on a good day in the summer.
It's just the heat and humidity. It's it's its own thing.
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So like during the heat Dome watching all those guys
like have to be carried out getting sick.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, Ellie was one of them. He was on the
field and then hit a home run later in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Hey, boot and rally.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
It's respect, Yes, that's how it's done, but it's it's
been brutal for them to have to deal with this.
It's actually worked out kind of in their favor, but
it's been brutal to have to play under those conditions.
I mean, I know they're multimillionaires and that's what they
get paid to but still, like you wonder, I'm having
trouble walking fat that's right, hair is a mess, like
(38:53):
is I don't feel good?
Speaker 3 (38:55):
And then they're out there running bases. I don't know
how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Now they're in uniform, right, they're in those long pants.
So they've got to deal with that. Do you miss
those days.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Being down at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, Reds bangles.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So I also worked for Fox Sports Detroit and that
was covering I think seven teams.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
You know, that's a lot. That's a yeah, there's.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Breaks, there's no breaks. It's a break and you get
to you know, you don't have to necessarily do some
sort of sports coverage. You like to have a little
bit of a detox from your sports.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's a good point because here, you know, basketball and
football go away and there's a break. Yeah, there's a break.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
You get to recoup.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
That's right, because you know otherwise all your nights are
taken up.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Detroit, you got the Tigers, the Red Wings, the Lions.
I mean, it just goes from one to the next.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I'm a hockey girl, so yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Rachel, this has been a lot of fun. Thank you
so much for joining me in this get to know
the Louisville Building week of shows here on the Kiss
Our Break Show.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Anytime you want to hang out, I'm happy to come
in here.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And well, we got to ride the Mechanical Bowl at
some point.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, I gotta get you on it.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
We got the KSR guys there you go. That would
be something.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Get Mario out here to film it.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I think we can absolutely make that happen. Thank you again, Rachel.
Thanks listen to Rachel on ninety seven five amzep and
ninety eight won the bull. That's going to do it
for us. I'm the KSRPPRE Show. We'll have another guest
tomorrow from the Louisville Building. Until then, it's Matt Jones
and KSR coming up next. We will talk to you
tomorrow
So today I am in the Louisville Building where I
(00:02):
will be doing Shannon the Dude's job a little late
today on KSR when with Matt and Ryan, I will
be running the board and playing the commercial. So I'm
in studio in Louisville today, and to help me with
the pre show, I've got a couple people here to
help me, just bringing people in out of offices. I'll
get to know the Louisville iHeartRadio building. We'll do that
(00:22):
a little bit here this morning. Gus Allen is running
the board while I talk a little bit. Gus is
my boss, but is also filling in for pretty much
five people this week. Gus, is that right? Something like
that I've lost count Well, thank you so much. If
you call in eight five nine two eight oh two
two eight seven, you'll hear the docile tones of Gus Allen.
He does a great job. But joining me in studio
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here is Rachel Elliott. And I've done a show with
you before, Rachel, but you've been with iHeart Louisville for
about two years at this point. What's your official job
title here?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My official job title is Director of Country Programming for
all of Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So in Lexington and in Somerset.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Director can't forget Somerset, of course, but director of country
programming sounds like an awesome job. That sounds like a
job you tell little kids at like at like grade school,
and they're like, I want to be the director of
country programming one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's very ambiguous from the title, but basically I decide
what gets played on the radio station. That's that's my
main function. That and I go to concerts and talk
to people. That's pretty much all like to.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you get to brush shoulders with celebrities and you
get to decide what songs are played on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, so if you don't like what's being played on WAMZ,
it is my fault.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We complain to you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, you can complain to me. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So I appreciate you joining me for today with channing
the dude out so we may answer some calls a
little bit later. I've got some pop culture stuff and
some stuff that happened over the weekend that we'll talk about.
But while we're talking about country music, we love to
discuss writers on the Kosor pre show. Have you brushed
shoulders with Prima Donna's some country stars that maybe you know,
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act a little different behind closed doors than they do
on stage.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm not a boot liquor, okay, but all of the
country people that I have dealt with have been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He chill people.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
They don't care, They're just happy to be there. I
did come from rock before getting into country, and that's
a totally different story. Yes, the writers are a little
bit extreme. I think my personal favorite and I'll call
him out because why not.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, good, We're going to drop names here.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Gavin Rosdale of Bush, which is so disappointing because I
love the band Bush, But he refused to do a
meet and greet once until he had Fiji water. So
we had to send people out. Oh yeah, we had
to send three people out, some poor interns, to like
go to all these different places to find Fiji water
because apparently it was not easy to find at that time,
and it did take us about an hour and a
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half to get him his water so that he could
officially do the meat and greet.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, I've definitely heard of some people that won't do
a show without a diet coke, but Fiji water, I mean,
want a little expensive to get Fiji water, as you
were always you know, breaking the piggy bank to get
the Fiji water. But it's like in the waterfalls of
Hawaii or something like that in the springs there. So
obviously they need that before they go on and do
their country music.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, you know, hey, maybe it was a holdover from
his days when Bush was playing arenas at the time
they were not, so you know, maybe he just wanted
a little bit of that rockstar treatment they was used
to back.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But the country singer's normally okay, maybe a bottle of
bourbon or something like that, maybe even a beer or two.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, and they're really not picky.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've I think we had one artist that was had
a special diet, which diet restrictions, you know, hey like
that everybody. A lot of people have those. It's not
necessarily about them being an artist. I'm using air quotes
here for our friends out there. But I think he
just wanted a steak because he was on one of those,
like like all meat diets, and so he just wanted
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a steak.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He wanted red meat.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And that's not that big of a deal because we
do generally if somebody's like doing a show for us,
we provide them dinner before the show. Oh okay, yeah,
so that's not really that big.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Of an ask.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It was just like instoad chicken, you wanted to stake,
So that's I don't think that's too.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Much of a diva.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, our iHeart Radio building is now on Fourth Street Live.
Do you have a bunch of people come here? Are
there concerts on Fourth Street? Is this a good location
for the director of country programming?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, there is a lot going on here, and I
think we have a lot going on in Lexington too
with ninety eight one the Bull, my other station, So
we kind of bounce back and forth between all of
the country shows here and the country shows in Lexington.
And when we're in Lexington we're at the Opera House.
When we're here we're at the Palace, and there's always
something going on.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
A lot of great venues.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, we have a lot of great venues.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A lot of people like to walk past here and
see the studios because it is a pretty like our
Lexington office.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You can it's high rise, you're on the seventh floor.
You've got lawyers and financial people there and their ties
making you look bad because you're so underdressed to me
at least.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh I've gotten I've gotten that too in the elevator
where I've walked in. You know, I wear cowboy boots,
I wear jeans, you know, I walk into the elevator
and I get the like up down from the guy
in the suit and high and it's like, I swear
I'm supposed to be here, but here, all right, I promise.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The studios here, there's a couple of them with windows,
so you can walk by. And when Tony and Dwight
are doing their morning show about now, it starts at
nine am on has you know, people crazy, So we'll
just walk by and that's the content those guys need, right,
So that's perfect for them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, I my studio does not have a window. I'm
not blessed with a window, but we we do. You know,
on occasion here things throughout the building, just because we
are next to a PBR at the bar, and sometimes
they like to load up their kegs in the morning,
so on occasion you'll hear the kegs clanking in the
background of so you know, I'll be you'll hear it
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on air because there I think their storage room is
behind my studios.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So that's that's why, Oh you just hear that all day?
Beyonest Yes, does PBR have a mechanical bowl, because that's
when I've never been on, but thought I would do
pretty well.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
We have to remedy that. We need to get you
on the Bull.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
One of these four Street Live nights. I'm sure maybe
you can get Billy or Sports on the Bull. But
Rachel Elliott, she decides what's on the radio, the songs
that play on ninety eight one The Bull and several
other country stations in our market. You just sit at
home on the Spotify playlist and pick songs that suit
your fancy or Is there a lot of research that
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goes into what people will keep on and things like that?
Is it as fun as I imagine it?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Rachel?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's a lot of there's a lot of actually data
research type elements to it, So things have scores and
testing and we figure out what people actually like to
listen to. So I don't necessarily just get to say, oh,
this song is really cool and I love it and
I'm just going to keep it on forever. There's actual
numbers that back all of this, so I'm not out
there just doing my own thing. There's science behind it,
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and I lean hard into the science. So yeah, there's
a lot of extra steps that go.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
In to picking the music.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And also you know, you get to try to like
match up what's going on the charts, and we're part
of that too, Like what we play helps get an
artist to a number one, but we also want to
try to keep up with what's happening on the chart
that we might not be on yet, and that kind
of determines what we'll end up playing.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So a science behind it, a lot more than just
picking and choosing. But I bet you get sick and
tired of some artists right there? Is there an artist
that you play way too much? Like listen, I know
every Morgan Wallen song because I am required by law
to play it. A lot of Morgan.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There's a lot of Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But people love him, you know, Like a lot of
people will say, oh, there's so much, but he's one
of those guys that, like I said, the research backsit
that people love his stuff. I mean, do you want
to hear other things? Of course, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You'd like to have more variety, but you also want
to play with the people actually want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So that's where me as a person, in my personal preference,
it gets outweighed by the actual science behind it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We'll be playing more Morgan Walland then.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's like Shannon saying that he's played the same led
Zeppelin song two or three times a day for the
twenty five years of his career. I mean it's true too. Yeah,
that's what people want to hear. That will more likely
to keep them on the radio dial. And though it's
almost like when you go to a concert, right when
we were talking about this on KSR last week, it
gets to a point when a singer reaches a certain
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age where you want to hear their best songs and
their hits. Right, So, if you were to pay two
three hundred dollars for a ticket, a concert ticket, and
you go to a show and they don't play the
song that you want to hear, I'm sure you're a
little disappointed. But at the same time, maybe you're a
younger artist. You're trying to play your new album, You're
trying to play different things. You don't want to play
the same song every single time. What side of the
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isle do you land on there? Do you want to
hear the hits usually.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I mean I know that there are some bands
that like to do kind of an experience like they're
playing X album front to back, and usually when they
do that, it's an album that has a couple of
hits on it, so it's not as bad. But I
personally prefer you play your greatest hits and you play
what the audience wants to hear. And I'm a big
fan of covers at shows too. I mean that's really
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common at country shows. I have to go to a
lot of them, so I see it a lot. People
like to cover ACDC and if the crowd doesn't know you,
it's really easy for them to get into it and
sing along because it's a song that everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And really it's about the energy in the room.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right, Like you want to keep the crowd engaged and
you want to make them enjoy their time there, so
why not play something they know, even if it isn't yours.
So I'll go beyond play your own hits, play other
people's hits.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, No, I like that. You know one thing that'll
elevate a listening experience for me, But too much of
it can be way too much and ruin it is
like the talking in between songs. Like I think if
you connect with the audience and maybe you throw a
joke out there every once in a while, I think
that's appreciated. But maybe sometimes you can talk a little
too much and it can take away from the concert.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How much talking is too much talking for you?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
See, I just want like ninety seconds, you know, just
like hey, thanks, thanks for coming in. You know, this
is really special to me. It's the first time I've
been in Louisville, Kentucky. Just a little song, a song
and dance before the song and dance that you're about
to do. Are you the opposite? Would you rather just
play the songs?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I like the songs to be I like a maybe
a small intro, so I'm thinking more like twenty seconds
per you know, in between songs. But I've seen bands
do absolutely no crowd engagement before, and it's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's because it's so different than what we're used to.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You are used to that build up a little bit
of banter in between songs, and when artists don't do that,
it's a different energy and it's kind of weird in
a way not having that engagement because you feel kind
of like you're watching something that you weren't necessarily invited
to watch, If that makes sense. Sleep Token, the rock
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band sleep Token, does that. They don't engage with the
audience at all. They don't speak to the audience at all.
Just go on stage, perform, don't say anything in between songs,
just play music and go off stage.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
See my opinion, I think you're missing something there, Like
you have a chance to really build a connection with
your audience, and while they're still connected listening to the
music that they like, I think you could you could
build it even more, but specifically for you as a
radio DJ. At times though you only get twenty seconds
to talk right, fifteen seconds before the next song exactly
is that tougher than maybe people think? Or is it?
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Are you glad you only have twenty seconds?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So I've done a talk show before.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We talked about this off air, so I have actually
gotten to just go out there and you know, do
a live show for three hours and somewhere in between
is probably best. Probably you have the best gig because
you have an hour and it's like that's perfect, right,
because you don't get to say as much as you
would like to say in the max of maybe forty
seconds is as long as I can talk pretty much
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right on my stations on But do I want to
spend three hours waxing poetic?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I don't know if I could do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, you're right, this is the perfect gig. I do
my one hour, then I'm done. Shannon loves to make
fun of that. But three hours you're repeating yourself a
little bit. You're having to get into the weeds less
than that, and feels like you're rushed at times. I
do want to mention that your previous job, before you
were a director of programming and country music, you worked
with the Reds at seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I read the pre pre show for the pregame show,
pre show, the pre pre show. We had so many
pre shows because well there's a lot of as you
are aware, there are so many sponsorships and dihorsements that
go along with any kind of sports broadcasting. So in
order to get all of the sponsorships in, they had
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a pregame.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Show for the pregame shows. So that's what I did,
the illusion of the pre prix so we can get
all our sponsors in. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, very familiar with that.
I run the UK radio network all the football and
basketball game so trust me, you got to get those
spots in and heartbreaks wait for nobody, so absolutely no one.
As a pre pre show, you know, you got to
end by a certain time so we can get to
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the next show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh huh. You know, in the past I've run the
John Caliperry radio show, have had to cut him off
a couple of times because look, so that's just time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But people don't understand when it's a hard out.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's a heart out, that's right, that's right. But you
love baseball, then I do.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I do. I love baseball and you know obviously football
Bengals fan.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So yeah, Bengals just got a new deal with the city.
They're going to stay for a little all.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I think, listen, we do this what every like three years,
four years. There's the threat like it's like a bad relationship.
It's the girlfriend that's like, if I don't get an
engagement ring here in the next like three I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You, right, It is that it feels like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That, and so every couple of years we have another
thing with the city where we're threatening to leave, and
we never actually do not yet knock on what.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well might we might dip our toes into the Cincinnati Reds.
A little later in the show, I want to talk
about the general lead that jumped the fountain in Summerset.
I don't know if you saw any videos on that.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That is so cool. I saw all the videos.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was so bad because I like started searching different angles,
you know, so I got the angle of it landing
and then almost hitting the camera guy that was filming
the entire thing. And then there are like rooftop fuse
from downtown Somerset actually seeing it jump the fouten.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh, it was something. I'm going to touch on that
more when we come back from break. And also I've
got more Adam Sandler tickets to give away. Rachel. I
may have done the worst contest in radio history on Friday.
Leave it to me to use AI again to try
to help me. I tried it. It was like here, I
got Adam Sandler quotes. You tell me what movie they're from,
two or three of them warning even from Adam Sandler movie, Rachel.
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So it was it was really rough. We're going to
give away two more tickets, but for podcast listeners. If
you're listening live, if you want to text in five
o two two sixty five six six five six. I
will announce at the end of the show how we'll
be giving those away, but we'll give a chance for
our podcast listeners to win some tickets as well.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It was bad listen, we've all been there, We've all
been handed up. Like we'll have to go over some
of the worst bumbles we've had.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Oh, have you had some live?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Absolutely? Okay, it's part of doing live radio.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I can't wait to hear some of that. That's how
you learn, right, absolutely, So eight five nine two two
eight seven, and that's the phone number if you'd like
to join the show. We have Rachel Elliott here in
the Louisville Building. It's Billy Rutlie here on the KSR
Pre Show. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back
Monday edition of the pre Show. Billy Rutledge and Rachel Elliott,
director of Programming of Country Music here in the regions.
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Did I get that right? Okay? Good? I see you
bobin over there. Listen to a little Morgan Wallin.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, I'm rubbing off on you already a lot at that.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I I'm gonna say this, I despise country music. So
I'm learning a lot today.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We're gonna have to get you to a show because listen.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I had my media mom, she's a classic rock chick.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, got her to a Thomas Rutt show, and she's
actually asked to go to another Thomas rush and she
hates country quote hate hates it too.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So I it just I gotta get you the RST.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It just never my thing. I grew up in St. Pete, Florida.
My dad was always playing old old school hip hop
or rock. So I've come to Kentucky and had to
learn quick though. Right when you had to produce KSR
and Matt wants a nineties country music song to come
back from break, you gotta play it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You gotta get that Alan Jackson on Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But people fired up that you mentioned sleep Token on
the show today, even without Shannon the Dude on the air,
So you're feeling in nicely.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm glad people I asked you. I was like, is
that a good thing? A good fired up or bad
fired up?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You never know? No good thing with a little rock
on emojis as well, here doing the hand gestures. So
Rachel Elliott is with us, and thank you to Gus
Allen who's got us on the air with a week
without Shannon the Dude eight five nine, eight oh two
two eight seven. I mentioned the Generally jumping the fountain
in Somerset. It was incredible. I posted a video today
if you didn't see it, but you probably already did
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because of the millions of views that have been seen online.
Thirty five thousand people showed up in Somerset for Raymond
Kahn to jump the fountain one hundred and fifty feet
above the air. A little bit of a rough landing too,
I mean kind of goes into the barrier. There was
a photographer there that I was a little worried about.
I think you mentioned in the first segment. Yeah, it
was actually the thirtieth time that Raymond Khan has jumped
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in the General Lee replica the old Dukes of Hazzard's day.
It was the summer Night's Cruise festival. I guess there's
I guess once a month in Somerset they do old
historical cars. They'll do a little cruising Rachel, and this
time they celebrated with the General Lee going over the fountain.
That was simply incredible this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And you said there were thirty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Thirty five thousand people there, so I just looked it up.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They're only about twelve thousand people that live in Somerset.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So almost three times the population showed up to see this,
which is I think great.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, but you're not getting me behind the wheel of that. Generally,
I'm not jumping any fountains. Did you see the way
that thing landed too? I mean it was rough, it
was rough. The door came off. I was really worried
for that. I guess it was a videoographer. He had
to jump the barrier and was.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Pulled over last minute as the general Lee kind of
lost control towards the end of it, if you could
call it a landing, and it controlled crash basically. But
it was to see all the people in Somerset. They
were like on the.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Tops of buildings, all the kids. It was super fun.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh yeah, definitely, and a proper nod to the Dukes
of Hazards. I think they'd be proud if they saw
Raymond making that jump. I read that he had a
brain tumor removed at one point, and one of the
main things he said was can I jump after I
get the brain tumor removed? They said yeah, And now,
look he's doing things like this. So if you can
face a brain tumor in the hospital, I think maybe
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jumping the fountain in Somerset, that's just another day.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, it's not that big of deal.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Right Right at that point, you know, you're already laughing
in the face of death, So why not continue to
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
As long as you don't, you know, accidentally take out
that poor videographer along the way.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, maybe i'd line up before the car jumps instead
of after, uh huh, and let other people take the
photos of the aftermath. Speaking of thirty five thousand people,
thirty five thousand people were not at Jeff Bezos's wedding
over the weekend. Guess with us was about two hundred
of Oprah and the Kardashians. Katy Perry was she there?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No, No Katy Perry, No Katy Perry, because apparently she
and her long term boyfriend Slash Beyonce pirates of the
Caribbean starlanda Bloom.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, they split after ten years.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, she's she's been trending downward. I don't know if
it was the space flight or that weird album release
that she had, but it has. It has for old
Katy P. I saw her at the Super Bowl halftime
show way back in the day in Arizona. She came
in on a I believe it was a t rex
at that point, but yeah, it looked fancy. Jeff Bezos
fifty million dollar wedding over three days with Lauren Sanchez
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in Italy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't I mean, it seems it seemed a little
tacky for that price tag?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Does it not? Does it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It was? It was a little well yeah, like three dresses.
Like I don't know about you, but like I've seen
people change their wedding dress throughout the night, maybe when
they get to the recept and want to do dancing,
But three different wedding dresses.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That seems like a ton shutting down an entire town
for your victuals seems a bit much.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, the people of Venice didn't seem thrilled, but they
also said that they're going to get sixty eight percent
of their tourism in one weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I mean, how about you just you know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But how take it?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Does that happen when there's only like two hundred people
that you're getting it?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I guess Oprah comes in and she just buys you know.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh that makes sense, that makes sense, but tends.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
On thousands of dollars. I guess she has to at
that point, Like the Kardashians aren't going to Venice and
not going shopping, I guess.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
But did you see the photos from today naturing our
dear Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Now Tom was touchdown Tom there, touchdown Tom. I see.
Now I'm a little disappointed I didn't get invited.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But the breaking news this morning is that was spotted
with actress Sidney Sweeney like walking the streets of Venice.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Now Tom was there as an awkward third wheel.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Oh so Tom was third wheeling or was Orlando a
third wheeling?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, it don't seem to be walking side by side
and Tom was like slightly back, so I would say
it kind of looks like maybe Orlando was getting the
nod and Tom was not.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look, I mean, there was no bigger upset this year
than Shannon the Dude and Ryan Lemon not knowing who
Sidney Sweeney was. But we did give the story when
she was selling her soap with her bath water in it. Rachel,
the society is cooked at this place, or it does.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I just I just don't know how you can't know
Sidney Sweeney in the year.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Only one of the biggest movie stars out right.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now, the biggest movie starbuos TV star on every cover.
And I would say every guy that's into blonde.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But she's Rachel Elliott. I'm Billy Rutledge. We've got much
more on the way here on this Monday edition of
The Case. Our pre show. All right, it's okay for today.
Rachel Elliott are our pre show in charge of what
you hear on the country stations here in the region.
I guess it's not just Louisville, is it Louisville, Lexington
and Somerset and Somerset. That's right, you said that. I
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feel like there should be some hay babees in here.
We could do a little dance and a little slow stepping.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Gus he's a big country fan too, so yeah, so
he's he's on top of this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He's also from Mead County, right, He's got the Mead
County in him. I was telling you, coming from Saint
Pete and Tampa, Florida to to Oldham County, Kentucky was
quite the culture shock. So we're now just starting to listen,
Bill Little.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
The biggest thing that shocked you probably.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Know the sports that they cared about, probably Billy R sports.
You're asking. All they cared about was Kentucky or Louisville.
They're like, pick one Kentucky or Louisville. Kentucky or Louisville.
I was like, out of spite, I'll go to Western Kentucky.
That's a smart man right there, and that's why my
calf muscles are as big as they are walking up
that up and down that hill every day. Hey five
nine two eight oh two two eight seven, if you'd
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like to join the show before we get into some
more fun topics and the best wishes to our collar
Peanut Trey Maddingly, he was involved in a serious car
accident over the weekend. They had to use the jaws
of life to get him out of his truck. He
was airlifted to a hospital where they had to do
a couple surgeries. Both surgeries were successful. He is still
recovering in the ICU, but he is expected to make
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a full recovery. In about six months. Some of his
information has been posted on the bond that bridge Face
would like to send a card or reach out to
Trey and his family, but Peanut is somebody that calls
in very often, and I just want to say that
we're thinking about him and we are wishing him the
best during his recovery. Now, Rachel back to better things
(23:34):
and more joyful things here on the KISR pre show.
I saw a survey that you thought might find you
might find interesting. He do you?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I do? I have a dog.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
She is a Katahula leopard dog. What is the state
dog Louisiana. They kind of look like Australian.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Shepherds where they're like alpatchy, but they're short haired. And
what's it called again, kata Hula leopard dog.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Cata Hula leopard dog. Okay, well tell me I people
this new survey, Rachel. New research suggests that dog gets
jealous when they see you display affection for another pet.
Absolutely so so, like I understand, like if you've seen
a dog earlier in the day, they come up, they
come up to you, they smell you a little different,
(24:17):
They're like, what have you been doing?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Well? Mine?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
My mom has a border Collie and she lets her
Borycollie come over and visit. And when both dogs are
in the same place at the same time, mine has
to pretend to be a lap dog, which she is not,
and she'll sit on my lap just to prove that
I'm her mommy and the other dog should.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Not come near me.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So so I'm not in a situation often where I'm
with my dog with another dog. So you have seen
instances where your dog would get.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Jealous absolutely and totally acts out like she does not
need to She does not need.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
To crawl on my lab at all.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And you know, it probably matches for cats too. Cats
just seem like they have a disdain for me already.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I mean maybe there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I don't want to offend people. I know there's some
really diehard cat love out there, but if like one
of the tenants of your pet ownership is that you
can leave the animal for like days on end with
food and water, enough food and water, and they're fine,
do they really care about you that much?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Or are you the person that puts out the kibble?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's right, you are the cat's pet. I think maybe
at times out you're just making the lasagna, right but
I bring up dogs because PETA. You've heard of the
organization PETA before, right, Yes, they had a heck of
a display in Georgetown over the weekend. I'm not sure
if you saw this, but they had their traveling Hell
on Wheels campaign where they visit small and middle of
(25:38):
the road towns across the country. They went to Georgetown
on Friday where they had a box truck that had
life sized chicken on the truck just in images, right,
but they also played audio of birds being slaughtered. Yeah,
as the truck drove around downtown.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
People were upset.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
People were very upset. Now, the police in the town
did tell everybody they have the right to do this,
but where they were planning on setting up there were
no parking spots, so instead of parking outside one of
the busy restaurants downtown and Georgetown, they just circled the
block for an hour. But if you haven't seen this story,
look at disturbingly disturbing looking, is it not?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh yeah, but I mean that's kind of what PETE
is known for, the shot campaigns. So I just feel
bad for there were obviously families like out and about
with little kids, and that's hard to explain to children
when they see those kind of images and they hear
what happens.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
To the burdo the audio too, it's a little crazy.
Then you have to have that conversation and like you said,
you know that, maybe that's their point. I think they
have said that they have as like a shot campaign
to get people to start talking about it. But my
favorite part of the whole thing was I was reading
an article that said people the chicken sales in downtown
restaurants that day went up. Well, of course, I mean
(26:51):
if you're going to come on like people were like
saw that and they said, you know what, I'm going
to order the chicken at this restaurant tonight and see.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to ruin somebody's day,
they're probably.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Going to have a reaction. So that makes sense to me.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But my personal favorite like version of PETA was back
in the day when they used to like throw red
pain on people.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That's at least you know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No kids were like had to deal with trauma later
on from seeing you know, birds in states of slaughter.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I think it was they get dumped red pain on them.
They'll remember that their whole life.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Fright, you know, when they would throw red pain on
random celebrities. That was a good time. Yeah, it's just
this is not fun. That was fun.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Seems like an impossible goal. You're gonna try to get
people to stop eating meat at this point.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, And you know for every every action there is
an equal reaction, and chicken sales were off, So yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Chicken sales goes up five two two six five six
six five six is the text line. If you'd like
to chime in. We were talking about singers and talking
to the audience when they play. One person says, I've
seen Sammy Hagar free until last summer show. I would
say he was over talkative. He played exactly ninety minutes
and his first two shows he went on and on
about tequila and making the perfect margarita. Was totally a
(28:05):
shut up and sing situation for me.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You know, I would love to learn how to make
a cocktail though from Sam From Samy, I.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Mean, of all people, right to give you the cocktail recipe.
But yeah, he gets into like his second or third
drink that he's like telling you almost like a I
paid for you to play, not to talk.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Post Malone gets a little in the.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Weeds alone I had no idea. Is he talking to
me about like Cane's Chicken or the Dallas Cowboys or
what is he talking to me? Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Everything, Yes, and all of the above. He will just
go off on a tangent. And I happened to see
him as first stadium shows, so that's a little bit
different too.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh a milestone for an artist.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And yeah, he was just he was every end, anywhere
and in between, all over the place.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah. Post he's an odd guy. I mean I liked
his hip hop days. He's kind of ventured into different genres.
One of those guys that'll get a face tattoo too.
I probably wouldn't recommend that for people, but artists or.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Artists, Well, he has a couple of face tattoos now several.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah. I don't think I'm going to go there.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Your look, but respect for people that want to make
that long term decision.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, and I understow that route.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean, did you give your tattoo or maybe Mike Tyson?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, I don't think so. I think maybe
a neck tattoo, but.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That might that would have to be very girly, It
would have to be very fam yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Okay, all right, Well maybe we can get ninety eight
won the bull tattoo at one point if you go
number one in the books one.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Day, yeah something, yeah, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
See I've thought about doing a sponsored tattoo. You know,
you want to do a liveied endorsement.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
How much? How much would that cost?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
A lot? I mean it's got to be a little
bit more than the average campaign. But you know, if
Don Franklin wanted to do something, you know, maybe we
could work something out.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Or a team player, Billy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Look, I mean they got a guy here called the
company Man. That's John Alden, but you could also call
me that too, if you want to give me another nickname.
Tell me what you think about this, Rachel. You know,
we've seen holograms pop up at funerals recently, or even
like somebody at a birthday party will pay for a hologram.
Of states on whether holograms will be used on stage
in the future when a band member passes away or
(30:10):
one hundred years from now, you just want to see
led Zeppelin pay you could see it all holograms. I
think there's a future that's coming. Yeah, but it's also
happening in movies. I just saw there was an announcement
that Paul Walker's character is going to be coming back
for another Fast and Furious movie. One. I cannot believe
we're doing another Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
What version is that?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm not sure. I think we're getting getting close to
like ten or eleven. Because Paul Walker, I mean, he
passed away in twenty thirteen, it is twenty twenty five,
and then will be cgi effects, some stand ins to
all try to get it technically to look like Paul
Walker is in the newest Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Let the Man rest? Am I wrong? Let the poor
man rest?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Also, they had to finish whichever movie they were filming
he unfortunately passed away.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
They actually used his brother as to stand in for that.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
So I'm sure they're bringing him back to be part
of this as one of those stand ins. But still
just I mean, we're yeah, we're thirteen years, twelve years
removed from this situation.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Do you think it's too soon to bring him back?
Because I think there's an argument that we will be
bringing back famous actors and famous musicians a lot, but
this feels like we're beating a dead horde.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yes, yes, I mean and also it's an ensemble cast.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You have like eight hundred people in those movies, and
they're adding new people all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Right, you don't need to bring back Paul just like
let him go.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But the nostalogia, Rachel, I mean, that's what it's going
to get me in the studio. You tell me Paul
Walker's going to make an.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Appearance, and how exactly is he.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Going to His brother's going to be there, and they're
going to use CGI to make his face look even more.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Like his I don know. It creeps me. Does that
worry you at all?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Because like I did at Adam Sandler give Away, AI
completely screwed me. There will be a point where AI
will be replacing our jobs. Yeah, I mean you got
to you've you've thought about this before, right.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, I don't you know, I don't know when the
language models are going to get to the point where
they're actually trustworthy like in your for your example, you know,
when are they actually going to be trustworthy enough to
have And there's a learning curve in between. There's some
places already trying it and it's not working. It's not
going very well. So I think we have some time, mercifully,
(32:23):
But you know, you don't. You don't necessarily need to
replace everybody with a computer. I think part of the
the interaction on the radio especially is we're actual people
that can interact with listeners and talk to listeners and
go out and meet listeners. Right.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So well, you know, like you could you can play
a music service that can just shuffle your songs, right,
or it can mix your songs. There's an ai dj
on Spotify now that can play go from song to song.
But you know, when Rachel Elliott comes on on ninety
eight one the Bowl to tell you something about local,
something local that's happening, or a detail about a song,
you know, it's hard to replace that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
It's I like to give people random like trivia to
like brand used throughout your day. That's just g wiz
information because we all have those moments. So like, you know,
they came out with night vision contacts.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You first see it?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Wait are you serious?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
See exactly because I wear contacts all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So now you can have night vision contacts if you
want them. University of Wisconsin just developed these things and
you can actually use them and see infrared at night. Right,
that's cool, Like that's a random piece of information you
didn't have until now.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
That's what I filter the.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Information, so you get the best, like Gollie g information
that's out there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I do the work for it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I like that. So that would make me remember you
and you know that that thought and then you can say,
now here's Jason el Dean with I think my tractor
sexy or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah, you got right?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Is that is that?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay? Good? But man, night vision contacts. Okay, what would
you use them for? I don't know, actually, probably wouldn't.
What would you use them for?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Absolutely, when my dog goes out into the yard. We
have a bigger yard. It's fenced, but sometimes she won't
come in when I call her at night because she's
doing whatever. I would use the night vision goddess to
go hunt her up right or to check because there's
been times too and I've let my precious baby out
and she's gotten skunked.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
In ther Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, so I might use them to like do kind
of like perused skunks in the vicinity and then let
her out. So that would be my use for the
the you know, night vision content.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Night vision contexts, so you can check if there's any
raccoons or skunks in your yard. Yes, in case your
dog is out there.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
This is very important stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Okay, it is very important stuff. We're only tackling important
topics on today's show. AH two two eight seven. We
have one segment left with Rachel Elliott. I'm Billy Rutledge.
This is the KOSR pre show. It's all right, it's
our final segment of the KOSR pre Show. I must
have been singing this off the air. I don't think
I was singing it on the air.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It's one of my favorites. I love banishing in that grate.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
We know a couple exes that live in Texas. KSR
is next. Matt Jones. Ryan Lemon will hand it off
to them in just a second. Couple things before we leave.
I've got two Adam Sandler tickets to give away for
his stand up show in October at Rapparena. If you
text the text line before the start of the pre
show until twenty three hours to do this five O
(35:20):
two two six five six six five six, tell me
your favorite Adam Sandler movie and why, and I will
pick one winner from the text line tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
You're not gonna let AI do this for you.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
No, listen. I already screwed it up. It's the Chinese
Ai Deep Seek too. That's part of the problem. I
should be using chat GPT anyway. Yeah, so it really
screwed us up. We also learned on Friday that iblack
doesn't work the remote. Rachel, did you Yeah, that's supposed
to reduce the glare of the sun. Maybe you get
a pop ball, maybe you're playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
Didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How do you know it didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Because I looked in the sun?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Oh well that might be your problem.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well, I mean I thought it was going to block it,
but more of a psychological intimidation factor. I block is
used for.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I like it when guys make it look like war paint. Yeah, like, yeah,
that's the way you do it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Kind of went down my cheek a little bit instead
of just across. So that's five O two two six fives.
If you'd like to be in the in the running
for Adam Sailor tickets. One person on that text line says,
please ask Rachel how different the Lexington country music is
from New York or Los Angeles. Is it different from
market to market or is it relatively sure?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Sure, so we personally here at iHeartMedia don't have country stations.
In New York or LA. There are country stations there,
we don't personally have them. I think our biggest market
is Atlanta and Boston.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Okay, So and those.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Are two very so you're very i would say, very
traditional in the Atlanta market. In Boston, they are playing
Chapel Rhone, that giver song, right, this kind of like
has a country western flair. So they're playing that because
they can. That's not getting played in Atlanta. It's not
getting played here in Kentucky, where we're also a little
(36:54):
bit more traditional, especially given our proximity to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Okay, that's interesting, you know, how would it? I guess
it depends on each place that he's a little different
than Boston. Right, So you're gonna play more maybe some
old school or traditional stuff than you would Chapel Roam.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, and down in Texas they have you know, red
dirt country.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's a thing, so it's like barbecue. It's like kind
of where you go you get a little red dirt.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, you'll hear more of those traditional sounding artists in
San Antonio or Austin then you probably would here. We're
gonna stick more to our you know, Jason Aldan's and
our Morgan Wallin's not necessarily. Corey Kent has a number
one song right now, but he's a more traditional artist
that gets a lot of airplay in Texas and has
for a long time. We just started playing him because
(37:37):
he just hit number one.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So what stations can I hear Rachel Elliott on?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You can here, actually here in like ten minutes. I'm
going to be on ninety seven five w AMZ nice. Yeah,
so you can find me there and find me on
ninety eight one.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
In the Bowl as well.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Very good. You know we mentioned that you were with
the Cincinnati Reds in the past. Life they're playing pretty well.
They just want another series against the Padres. They've got
Elly de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
So I over the weekend, I think it was the weekend.
It was the heat Dome that I was noticing where
everybody was getting carried out. And if anybody has been
to Great American Ballpark, it's right on the river. It's
basically like a sauna on a good day in the summer.
It's just the heat and humidity. It's it's its own thing.
(38:19):
So like during the heat Dome watching all those guys
like have to be carried out getting sick.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, Ellie was one of them. He was on the
field and then hit a home run later in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Hey, boot and rally.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
It's respect, Yes, that's how it's done, but it's it's
been brutal for them to have to deal with this.
It's actually worked out kind of in their favor, but
it's been brutal to have to play under those conditions.
I mean, I know they're multimillionaires and that's what they
get paid to but still, like you wonder, I'm having
trouble walking fat that's right, hair is a mess, like
(38:53):
is I don't feel good?
Speaker 3 (38:55):
And then they're out there running bases. I don't know
how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Now they're in uniform, right, they're in those long pants.
So they've got to deal with that. Do you miss
those days.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Being down at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, Reds bangles.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So I also worked for Fox Sports Detroit and that
was covering I think seven teams.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
You know, that's a lot. That's a yeah, there's.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Breaks, there's no breaks. It's a break and you get
to you know, you don't have to necessarily do some
sort of sports coverage. You like to have a little
bit of a detox from your sports.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's a good point because here, you know, basketball and
football go away and there's a break. Yeah, there's a break.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
You get to recoup.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
That's right, because you know otherwise all your nights are
taken up.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Detroit, you got the Tigers, the Red Wings, the Lions.
I mean, it just goes from one to the next.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I'm a hockey girl, so yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Rachel, this has been a lot of fun. Thank you
so much for joining me in this get to know
the Louisville Building week of shows here on the Kiss
Our Break Show.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Anytime you want to hang out, I'm happy to come
in here.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And well, we got to ride the Mechanical Bowl at
some point.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, I gotta get you on it.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
We got the KSR guys there you go. That would
be something.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Get Mario out here to film it.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I think we can absolutely make that happen. Thank you again, Rachel.
Thanks listen to Rachel on ninety seven five amzep and
ninety eight won the bull. That's going to do it
for us. I'm the KSRPPRE Show. We'll have another guest
tomorrow from the Louisville Building. Until then, it's Matt Jones
and KSR coming up next. We will talk to you
tomorrow
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