October 16, 2025 • 42 mins
Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk Kentucky Football and Basketball, ghosts at the Dodgers hotel, and Swiftonomics.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome everyone. It is the KSR pre Show. It's Thursday,
October sixteenth. I am Shannon the Dude. You can give
us a call on the Clark's Pupping Shop phone line
eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
If you're a whiskey thief, call of the day. The
text line is five O two two six five six
six five six. The KSR Pre Show is brought to
you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. I'm in
(00:24):
the Louisville studio. My co host Billy Rutledg's ready to
go for episode one thousand and one of the KSR
pre Show. And I hear that was already an eventful
morning for you. Billy. You went to KS Bar, you
couldn't get in Ksbar. Now you're back in the studio.
What's going on with you? Adrenaline's pumping a little bit
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean, I just walked into the studio, haven't even
taken a sip of my coffee that I had barely
enough time to make.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I'm here, I'm ready to go. We just you know,
we're beating on the doors.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Couldn't get in, so we came here to the studio
and made it just in time, so we're ready to
for another thousand shows with you, dude, How are you
doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And don't feel bad that you don't have a key
to KOs Bar, Billy, because I'm one of the owners
and I don't even have a key like I would
be out there in the same boat that you are,
So don't feel bad about It's not your fault, okay,
but I'm glad that you're here with us.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That seems messed up. Sh'd have a key as an owner.
How often are you coming up to eat chicken wings
at ks Bar and Grill?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm not not nearly enough. Probably if I had to
guess four maybe five times a year, like like once
every quarter, I check in, you know, like quality control.
I have to go out. I have to make sure
that the wings are still on point. Those tater tots
that have that hash brown casse roles stuff in the
middle that we just added to got to make sure
they're still on point and make sure that they're fully
(01:38):
stuck with Shannon the Dude's brew. But other than that,
you know, I'll get up there maybe for a game
or if we have some sort of special event. Or
maybe they need me to dress up like Hermione from
Harry Potter. Hermione, Yeah, that's right, that's right, Hermione from
Harry Potter. Maybe Spider Man like I did? Was that
last year I dressed up as Spider Man and did
comic book trivia at k I'm the special events guy. Basically,
(02:03):
that's when they bring me in when they need a
dog and pony show, Let's bring in Shane and the
dude and uh. And that's about the only time I
really get up there these days.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, I was peering through the window, you know, like
a kid that couldn't go out and play with his friends,
like looking outside. But I could see all the pictures
of myself that have been hung up in chas Bar.
Didn't see a lot of you, Shannon, So maybe it
was just where I was looking. Well, I think it's
probably because you had something to do with the decorating.
I think you hung those pictures up. Hold on, hold on, now,
I had nothing to do with any decorating. Well, that's
(02:31):
just Ryan and Drew, I think giving me my due
in some of the spots.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now, how are you going to have more pictures hung
up in chos Bar? And groll than me. That's what
I'm saying. Like the one that the one that they
have of me is like the picture of me from
Netflix from Wrestlers where I'm face down after getting down
on that after getting hit with an illegal head and
an illegal object from al Snow. That's the the basically
the best picture they've got of me in chos Bar. Well,
(02:55):
you know, I don't think you should be too upset
you do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You are still on the cartoon caricature, which is, by
the way, a really cool design, but probably about time
Mario and I got added to that thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Maybe Mario. You probably Mario didn't lead me. I mean,
if you're gonna put Mario and you gotta put me
on to no no, no, we leave you outside knocking
on the window trying to get in. That's what I
don't like that. All right. So Adam Sandler's in town tonight.
You know, we gave away plenty of free tickets to
Adam Sandler on the pre show. Will you go to
uh to the show tonight at rup Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, I don't have plans to, OK, but maybe I
should check with La see if there's any extra tickets.
Is that something that you'd be interested in Shannon. Should
I check and see if she's.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Got any No, No, I could check on my own.
I know how to do this. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
This is my city.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
If you want tickets to Reperna, you let me know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If I ever want to come to the Center of
the Palace, you can hip me up with tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But this is this is my town, you think, so huh.
I've been on in Lexton a lot longer than you
pal so slow your rope before you call it your toe.
And next up is Leonard Skinner. Here it is, let's
see what you got. We'll give you a shift on
double Q.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'd love to TNT actually approached me one time. He said,
would you be interested in this? This was before the
pre show and all that, and I said yeah, But
then it just never really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So yeah, maybe we need to get back. He must
have heard your demo. So we got We got scare
Fest going on this weekend. We got the Blue White
Game tomorrow. There's a lot happening in Lesington, so I
would imagine traffic is going to be a mess. Blue
White Game tomorrow night. You're looking forward to that? I
think it's going to be broadcasted on the UK radio network,
so you can listen in on the radio if you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, they decided to do that yesterday, I think. So, yeah,
I can come in on a Friday night to work
a one hour broadcast. Sure, I'll come in and work
the Blue White game. But yeah, I mean, this is
just another domino in the season about to start. What
is Purdue next Friday? And then after that they play
another exhibition game on the Thursday following, So I mean
it's here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You know, I don't know how much we learn from
Blue White, but it is.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It is another opportunity for those guys to play a
little basketball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Mark Pote was talking about wanting to average thirty three
point attempts a game. Your hand if you've heard this before,
we just had this conversations again. He said this again.
They want to get to thirty three point attempts. They
fell a little bit short of that last year. I
think they averaged around like twenty five. But he does
have a good, you know, a three point shooting team,
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a lot of depth, as we've talked about. So maybe
we do get thirty a game this year, and that's
going to be a lot of fun to watch that.
The only thing is you got to hit those shots.
But you know, Billy, if you shoot thirty a game
and you hit forty, I think that's twelve a game.
And it's hard to beat a team that knocks down
twelve three point shots a game. So I think this
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is going to be another fun, exciting team to watch.
Last year's team was really fun to watch. I think
this year maybe even more so, especially if they're just
launching threes all over the place.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, when you have that kind of depth, too, then
if it's not somebody's night, then maybe it's another's. And
so that's exciting to hear that the three ball is
going to be coming back. And I guess in a
different way, right if Kobe Brao was somebody that took
a ton of three pointers last year and I felt
like we were screaming from the mountaintops to shoot more
from him last year, maybe it's just spread out a
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little bit more. But really my eyes go to Trent Noah.
That is somebody that people around the program are saying
you will not be able to keep him off the floor.
He has just been that good during the offseason and
if that's the case, then he's going to be hitting
those threes. He's going to be the best shooter on
the team. There's a reason they track those analytics during practice,
So it's absolutely exciting. You gotta think Jalen Lowe is
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hope somebody that hopefully can shoot better than he did
last year. I don't know how much of a three
point threat Denzil Aberdeen is, but I'm sure he can
launch it from beyond the arc as well. So no,
there's a lot of reasons to be excited. Colin Chandler
is another one of them. But if Trent Noah can
be that guy, then the three pointers can fly to
a tune of thirty or thirty five.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Again, I think most Kentucky fans are kind of shifting
their focus towards basketball with the football team struggling. But Billy,
if Saturday Kentucky can somehow pull off a win over Texas,
do we shift back to now paying attention to football
a little bit more? Do we do we get some
of the fans back on board to keep stoops around
if they can somehow pull off a win on Saturday. Well,
(07:06):
you guys made the point.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, if Kentucky were to beat a Manning and
then a National Championship preseason favorite, then absolutely they deserve
some praise, some respect, some attention from the fan base.
Does that get me fully back in to Mark Stoops
at Kentucky for the next few years? You know, I'm
not sure it would go a long way though probably
people tuned back in after a Texas win. But this
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schedule is just pretty brutal for Kentucky. This would be
a big step in the right direction. What do you say, Shannon,
are you gonna watch Kentucky a little bit more if
they were to beat Texas like this?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think so, and I you know, it just feels
very Kentucky football to be struggling and then out of
nowhere just play somebody tough, you know, like winning against
Omis last year, playing Georgia down to the wire and
giving them all that they wanted.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Was that that was.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Last year as well, So you know, I wouldn't be surprised.
Arch Manning has been struggling. He is, you know, a
guy that hasn't been nearly as good as advertised, and
they have their starting center out. The availability just availability
report just came out yesterday. Kentucky's in pretty good shape.
They got DJ Waller, who's expected to be back at
corner for the first time since Week one, and then
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maybe with Texas's O line banged up a little bit,
you know, putting a little extra pressure on Arch Banning.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Man, Look at the spin that you're putting on this
Texas Kentucky game.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I love it. I love the optimism oozing from you
this time. I'm not saying they're going to win, but
I'm saying, like, if you're trying to talk about a
scenario where Kentucky could win and we haven't seen a
win at home in the SEC and how long? Now,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I mean, it's different playing a team close and it
is winning, and Kentucky needs to get over that hump
and start winning these games at home or in the
SEC in general, after winning one last year versus Ole Miss.
But I don't know, Shannon, what did you think about
Mitch Barnhardt's comment said about the buyout and everything. He
seems proud that they signed him to an extension after
(09:02):
that four game winning streak before things the wheels kind
of fell off.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, I don't think that was a good idea, and
looking back, on. Of course everything's you know, twenty twenty hindsight,
but it was four and oh after beating not a
very impressive list of teams. It was like Northern Arizona
and I can't remember the other ones that were in there.
But it was not like he was four and oh
and beat four SEC schools and you know, if you
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do that, maybe you do go to Stoops and go, hey,
here's a nice extension to your contract. But then they
turned around and lost to Vandy. Was it like a
week or two later after that? Right and it was
it was announced I think like right after or right before.
It was just bad timing on the announcement of the
Stoops contract extension when that happened. But you know, I
feel like a lot of these coaches, it's not just
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a Kentucky thing. It's a college football, college sports thing
where these guys are getting these massive buyouts to stick around.
I don't understand why they do that. And Stoops, if
you go back in time and look at when he
signed that extension, I think, I mean, I don't. I
don't know that there were a lot of fans just
asking for that, you know, like he was doing a
good job and I don't know that there were fans
(10:09):
that were banging on Mitch Barnhardt's door demanding that he'd
give Mark Stoops an extension at that point, but that's
what he got. Well, buyouts do serve a purpose.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's you know, if somebody wanted Mark Stoops, they wouldn't
just be able to poach him from Kentucky. That have
to pay Kentucky an amount of money to get them.
So it's a double edged sword. But when Mitch also
admits in the conversation that they admittedly were behind on nil,
that also tells me that, you know, this is something
that the fan base was screaming about that Kentucky needed
to get ahead of, and they took the slow and
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steady approach and hopefully now they're in a good spot.
But that admittedly to Mitch put them behind the April.
You know, I did the Ryan Lemon Show prep method
this morning. Listen to the Leach Report. Heard Ty Bryant said,
this is probably the best week of practice that they've had.
Guys are energized, they're ready to go. So if you
want to buy into that optimism, then this is the
week to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Or you can look at Mark Stoop's record on the
bye week's coming off of Buyeweel Terrible pat which has
not been good in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I mean they still just beat Oklahoma, right, I mean,
even though Arch is having a down year and they're
not number one in the country, this is still probably
a pretty good SEC squad with a good coach and
Steve Sarkeesian and boy, it's gonna be crowded in Lexington
with everything going on with Keenland.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, and now this, you know, this is this is
gonna be a biggie. You think we're gonna have a
sellout for the Kentucky Texas game or is it going
to be Yeah, there's a sellout, but there's more Texas
fans than there are Kentucky. There might be some burnt orange,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you know, I still think the fan base is
still showing up for Stoops in this Kentucky team. I
don't think they're there yet where they're just not completely
not showing up. But look, we've talked about less home
games for season hicket holders and fewer places to tailgate
as well, that just the fan experience has gone down.
But you know, nothing would bring us all back like
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a win versus Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Kentucky football did get a commitment yesterday. I saw that
some good news from twenty twenty six commitment, first commitment
they've had in three months from edge rusher Justin Hartley.
So Kentucky loses a commitment last week, Billy, but they
gained one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes, hopefully this is a guy that can develop into
a good player. I will note he didn't have another
offer from an FBS school, So you know, maybe you
look at this as an other diamond in the rough
of Josh Allen that can develop. But this is some
good pr at a time that there's not a ton
for Kentucky and that may be another part of this,
this announcement coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, you know, you think are they missing Vince Merrill's recruiting.
I don't know, the jury's still out on that. You know,
when Vince left, if you remember, they turned around and
got a commitment like the next day. But yeah, I
think we're going to slowly see over time that we
are going to be missing the recruiting of you know,
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Vince Marrilyn. How great of a job that he did
just just getting guys to come to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Sure, but a week for Cutter Bully to prove himself
once again. Another week for Seth mcgallan to run crazy
now that he's a little bit healthier. Kentucky has some
good pieces. It's just about putting it together. It's like
my golf game, Shannon. All right, as as soon as
I figure out the driver, the putter doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And if you got one of those wood drivers that
you you know, got from my house, it probably would
fall apart if you just swung the thing and it
made it on the screws. Yeah, on that club, all right.
So we want to hear from you if Kentucky were
to somehow be able to pull off the win over Texas.
Are you back on board with Kentucky football? Eight five
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven or is
it a lost cause at this point? Are you just
over football and ready for basketball? We want to hear
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from you and we'll take your calls. Coming up next,
it is the KSR pre Show, Welcome Back. It is
the KSR pre Show. Shanning the Dude, Billy Rutlige eight
five nine two eight ozho twenty two eighty seven. I
just saw where they had the world Championship Pumpkin Contest. Billy,
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You know I was a pumpkin farmer this year, and
my biggest pumpkin probably got to, like, I don't know,
somewhere between forty and fifty pounds. You want to take
a guess at how much the championship pumpkin weigh in
this pumpkin contest?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Man, I don't even know where to start. I mean,
just take a guess. Pumpkins, you know you've seen them before.
How much do you think the biggest pumpkin in the
Championship pumpkin contest weighed? I mean, like seven hundred pounds,
eight hundred pounds, like three times that two forty six pounds. Jeez,
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the championship pumpkin, I mean that's like the size of
a Volkswagen. If you look at this thing, it's it's massive.
They say the owner gets nine dollars per pound. Wow,
that's so don't make me do math, but that that's
that's a lot of money sure for growing up pumpkins.
So that's my goal for next year. We got to
get one big enough to put into the World Championship.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And how do you transport that thing? Like, you've got
to have the fork lift. I mean, I don't know
real grown men involved. That thing moved anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You'd have to move it into trailer geez. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean steroids is what you need to give your
pumpkins to get to.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
How much did you say? Twenty five hundred and forty
six pound three hundred?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, well that is a championship pumpkin. That is not
any Ricadink did not deserve the title. Congratulations to that guy.
One person on the text line said, if we went out,
I would still want to move on from Stoops? Am
I being irrational? I would say at this point yes, probably, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I mean, come on, if Stoops want if you want
out and you still want him out, you just don't
like Mark Stoops like that you got something personal against him.
If he were have went out, that would be a
heck of a I mean that would mean he would
have to be Texas, he would be Tennessee. He would
beat Florida, Auburn, Louisvile, Vandy, Tennessee Tech.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I mean, come on, there'd be a lot of momentum
going into the off season. You'd you'd think that the
transfer portal would probably go well for you. If people
saw that there was some positive momentum building.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I do the thing when yeah, I mean, if you
go if you want out, you're what nine in three,
you're continuing for the football playoffs. That's ridiculous. You go
from last place to a team that's in the conversation.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, And and part of you know, the reason why
people would want to move on from Stoops is setting
up the roster for next year. I think if you
were to win out, you're setting yourself up favorably for
the transfer portal, unlike what the situation might be if
they were to lose out.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, they'll say, if we want to talk more realistic,
what's more likely win out or lose out? And to
lose out by far? But I think what happens is
somewhere in the middle. And you know we've been talking
about that scenario. If he gets to five and you
finish five and seven, that's where Mitch Barnhardt has a
decision to make it's five and seven good enough to
bring him back for another year or do you pay
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that buyout. I think five and seven you got to
run it back for another year. That's the worst case scenario.
You get to three, you get to four, he's gone six,
he's in five. You're right there in that middle ground,
and that's where it's going to going to divide this
fan base even more if he gets to five and
(17:02):
brings Stoops back. I feel like he's going to if
that's the scenario that plays out.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And it doesn't mean that we don't appreciate everything that
he's done for the university in the twelve seasons that
came before it. I don't know if it's a situation
of you don't know what you got till it's gone.
It's more of, you know, we've just spent a lot
of time together. It's time to just go our different way.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And I think a lot of people that are already
kind of, you know, not happy about the contract as
it is for Mark Stoops. You get to five and
you bring them back another year, that's going to just
infuriate fans with Barnhart if that happens. But I kind
of feel like, if you get to five, Billy, I mean,
you don't have to bring them back. But don't you
think that he's going to. Don't you think that's the.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Based on the comments that he just made about the buyout,
and you know, his confidence and stoops. Yes, you know
there are you know, rocky times that they have worked
through in the past, and then we'll continue to do.
So that's Mitch standing by his guy. And that's what
more AD should do, honestly, is be transparent and talk
like that about their coaches. But at the same time,
it's Penn States firing their coach after three losses, and
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the sense of urgency is there is just a lot
different than here At Kentucky.
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the phone lines are loaded. I ask the question, and
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if Kentucky were to win this Saturday, pull off a
win over Texas, are you back in on football or
are you just over it at this point? Are you
ready for basketball season to start? So let's go to
the phones. Let's talk to Brent. Hey, Brent, what's up
that Brent?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Hey, guys, good morning listen. So, you know, look, as
far as being in or out on this coming Saturday, look,
I'm never out on Kentucky any sport, you know what
I mean, Like, I'm a diehard UK fan.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
The crazy thing Billy said it right before you know
it came on, is that. Look, we are grateful for
what Mark Stoops has done. And it's not that we
have a problem with Mark Stoops at all.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It's just we have a.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Problem with the state of the program today. And like,
you know, I feel like I would be even happy
if they just changed ocs man, Like, like get find
an OC who's got a dynamic offense?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Turn it over to them, Let's try something new. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I guess that's the thing is. I just feel like
we're just trying to reinvent, you know, the wheel.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Again and again, and like, you know, using squares to
do it.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean the problem is, you know, I mean,
Bush Hampden is basically new. You say, try something new.
I mean, he hasn't been here that long, and we're
already talking about getting rid of oro oc and you know, again,
it goes back to the revolving door of offensive coordinators
that we've had since Mark Stoops has been here. And
at some point you have to stop pointing the finger
at the offensive coordinators and start pouring them at the
(20:21):
head coach. Yeah, and what's the definition of insanity?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I mean, how many times his Mark Stoops changed offensive coordinators?
And you even got one that's in the NFL now
and is the hot coaching candidate, and you know he
did well, but he was ready to move on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So how many times can you do that?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And also, you know, I'm not rooting against Kentucky either,
there's some in the fan they probably want Kentucky to
lose so they can move on from stoops. I don't
think I'm ever going to be that guy. You know,
I'm just like the caller. I'm you know, all in.
I want them to win every game. So like, I
think that sentiment is getting mistrewed a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I mean, if you're a fan that's pulling against Kentucky football,
then you're not a fan, right, I mean, you're just not.
I don't care, like what.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Even if it's for the better of the program. Yes,
you still agree. I agree.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean the program would be better if they won,
so why would you want them to lose? Exactly that?
Those counterproductive Let's go to Casey Hey, Casey, Hey, sailors.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Good morning. I just wanted to say, grass, I'm Show
one thousand. I'm so proud of you guys and appreciate
you all keeping me company every day. KSR has brought
so many incredible people into my life, and I'm just
forever grateful. There's nothing I'd really say about football that
hasn't been said. But I'll still be watching and cheering.
I hope that I hope that we go you know,
(21:40):
went out, but I don't see that happening. But basketball
is in nineteen days and I'm super excited about that.
But the reason I called there's two weeks until Halloween
and I've been struggling to find scary movies that I
haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Do you all have any good.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Scary movies, especially ones that are like kind of goofy
Netflix ones that you might not.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Have heard of?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
And I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Thanks for the call, Casey. I don't know. I don't
know what you've seen and what you haven't seen. For me,
I go classic movies, even though I've seen them a
hundred times. Billy, I go through all the Halloween movies.
I start at one, and I go through all the
Halloween movies with Michael Myers, and then I guess, like
the Nightmare on Elm Street. You know, all the classic ones.
Those are the ones that I watch. So I haven't
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really seen like a good new scary movie in a
long time.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Do you have any watch like you watch like Psycho
or anything like some of the older crazy ones. I
might turn it on. You know, they're always on TV.
Watch scary movie, the parody scary AMC Fearfest has a
marathon going on. Check that out.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
We'll be right back. All right, welcome back. It is
the KSR pre show Taylor Swift bringing us back right here.
I'm playing Taylor Swift, Billy, because did you see the
new class that you can take at the University of Lovelle? No,
but I mean I can guess there is a new
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class at u of L that you can now take
called swift Onomics. You can get real credit hours, Billy
for taking a Taylor Swift class where you study her
career and like the ins and outs of like I guess,
the music industry, and like her concert ticket sales numbers
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and a whole thing where you just go to class
and you learn about Taylor Swift. Can you believe that
u of L is actually giving people the chance to
get credit hours for college by studying the career of
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I thought it might be a little Swifty history.
You're telling me it's swift Onomics. I mean, where was
this class when I was in college. It sounds like
a free a, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, yeah, we talked about North Carolina having fake classes.
I mean, does this can I guess it is a
real class? So, I mean, but come on, I mean,
if you're looking for a like you said, an easy A.
Aren't you taking swift to nomics?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, but is this like an elective? Is this like something?
I don't think it's a requirement that everybody has to
take swift onomics to graduate at U of L. Well,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It just just seems odd. We're getting weird college classes
throughout this country. Remember Kentucky, Kentucky's doing AI. Yeah, yeah,
did you know that's a little bit more practice? Did
you not have anything like that?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And by the way, I would make fun of the
Taylor Swift class, but there's one group of people you
do not mess with in this world, and that's the
Swifties because they'll come at you like a mob and droves.
You don't mess with the swiftiest fans of dogs. Yeah,
and I got to I want to talk about that
in just a minute. There's a new video that came out.
We'll get a minute hang on. But I want to
ask you, though, did you have any kind of like
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weird class that you took at Western Kentucky? Because I
had one that I thought was kind of like, like, really,
this is a class at Bellerman.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
No, not that I can think of, you know, I
took Spanish and I just used so much of.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That, but that's practical. Spanish is practical.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
The best class I took was a public speaking course,
and that was that got me out of my comfort zone,
totally agree. Man, got me to where I'm at today
when it comes to my profession. And that wasn't required
in my major. So that was definitely the most beneficial
class for me. What was your weird class?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So mine was called Film Studies at Bellerman and it
was just on the Coen brothers. You know who the
Coen Brothers are producing movies. So yeah, so so for
a semester. You know, if you're a baseball player like
I was, you're always trying to get the easy classes
as your electives. So you know, baseball players talk like,
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hey man, you got to take this class. This class
is really easy, or this professor doesn't matter what you
put on your paper, they're going to give you an A.
So take this class. And all the baseball guys were
taking a class called film Studies where you went in
there every day and you watched Cohen brother movies. That's all.
So like raising Arizona, big Lebowski, I can't remember the
other ones. But we got college credit hours to sit
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there and watch The Big Lebowski and just break down
like the themes of the movie. And that was that
was my introduction to the dude, The Big Lebowski, you know,
and all the well, that was the first time you
saw it. The first time I'd ever seen that movie
was it Bellerman. So I'm not going to quite put
it on the level of Swift on nomics, because I
think a Taylor Swift class is even more ridiculous than
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film studies. But I think that was as close to uh,
you know, ridiculous class that that I took in college.
You jogged my memory.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My minor was athletic coaching, so I had to take
baseball coaching, basketball coaching, football coaching, same same boat as you.
You know, athletes they want an easy class, so they'll
take something like this, and so I had a football
coach run that football coaching class. We just watched football
highlights from the weekend before there you go. We've watched
Western games as our tape. So I mean that was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm told that the like, literally the year after I
graduated from high school at Bullet East, they started doing
a class called the History of Chocolate. We just learned
about chocolate. So yeah, if you're a U of L student,
maybe sign up for US swift do Nomics next time
eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. Let's go to Josh. Hey, Josh,
(27:04):
what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Hey, how y'all doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
They we're doing great?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Well. Well, if Mark suits even does beat Texas or
if he does win out, I'm ready for him to go,
just like I was ready for Caliber to go even
if he want well you you know you all had
a conversation with caliberia if he won the NASA Championship.
I was ready for it.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So if Mark Stoops goes nine to three, is in
the is in the college football playoffs, you want him
to go? Yes, how can you justify that?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
It's I'm just I'm just just burned out on you're
burned out on him.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But I mean, if he takes it to the college
football playoffs for the first time in school history, which,
by the way, this is a ridiculous conversation because you
and I, Josh know that this is not going to happen.
But if it did happen. But if it did happen,
how can you sell the guy needs to go.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Well, I'm just ready for him to go.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I understand, Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I mean I hate, I hate to be like that,
but you know I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But you know, yeah, you're not the only You're not
the only fan. I mean, there is a small portion
of the fan base who is like that, but I
feel like even they would flip if it really happened.
But there's a portion of our fan base that if
Mark Stoups brought world peace to us all they would
still want him gone. So, Josh, I appreciate the call.
Thank you, Thank you, Josh.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And I mean Cal talked down to the fan base
into the media at the end of his tenure, but
if he was winning national championships, you put that to
the side. He's doing his job. You know, I think
that's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Let's go to Jacob Hey, Jacob.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Hey, guys, uh again, like, uh, you know, everybody's talking
about the wrong thing. You know. Mitch Barnhart, you know,
gave the Cal contract awful contract, the Stups contract, awful contract.
When general manager in a professional sport has too as
a bad contract, he usually gets fired or he's gone. Yeah,
(28:54):
why are we not talking about you rid of this guy,
He'd gotta go. We have got to get somebody in
there who is as passionate about the football as they
are about the basketball. And it goes all the way
across the board. Man, this is just getting ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So you say we got to get rid of the ad.
That's what That's what Jacob says. You know, I don't
know how many more years Barnhart will be around anyway
before he retires. But whoever that next hire is, though,
I mean, I would love for it to be Dwayne Peevie,
but I mean, whoever it is has got to be.
I feel like, well, if it's not Dwayne Peeve, get
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somebody the younger and maybe innovative and really passionate if
you can.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Look, I mean, in hindsight, the lifetime contract with Cal,
the you know contract extends with Bowl games for Stoops,
and the increase in buyout, maybe in hindsight do look bad.
But if you are going to be negative about some
of the things Mitch has done, you have to be positive.
He was also the one that got Cal to come
here and Stoops. He's also hired at Rockstar and Kenny
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Brooks Skinners won a national championship. I mean, ad is
much more. People just contracts with football and basketball. People
seem happy with Mark pope'shire. Mark pope hire seems like
a home run. And now you know he has he
had some misses in the past. And are those contract
extensions not great for Kentucky?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Sure, but it would be unfair to not bring up
those positives as well.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Let's go to Matt te.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maatt, Hey, guys, what's up. I'm out here in the garden.
They just finished my meditation.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, every day on certain days.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No, I do it every day when as soon as
I get off work, when I pulled into the house,
I go out to my garden and check my papers
and I got still got some tomatoes and and I
take my shoes off and and I'm meditate, you know,
just do my breathing and connect with the grant with
their you know.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So is that a rainer shine thing? And then secondly,
how long do you meditate for? Do you just meditate
until you just feel like you you're ready to go?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
There?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Ros?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well, it just varies. I really just enjoy being out here.
I have a big garden and I just love just
hanging out out here and and I take I'll take
an app because I work real early. I start real
early in the morning, and I'll sit down, take a
nap after my meditation and and just enjoy listening to nature.
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I know it sounds weird, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Do you have neighbors, Because if I looked over in
my neighbor's garden and he was laying there, I might
think that he was dead. I might you know, I
may call for the medics.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Now I live in not County. We I have private property.
This is all I can. I could be out here
in my underwork if I wanted to, you know, nobody
can see me.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Okay? Anyways, Uh, that that one real sweet collar was
calling about a scurry movie. Uh the Black Phone. They
the first one, and they've come out with a new one.
Man that's really intense, and that I was wanting to,
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you know, give a suggestion on that. And I wanted
to tell Billy, I've seen your golf swing on your
on your Instagram and yeah, you got you doing good, dude,
You're doing good. And uh, y'all have a good day,
blast day.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
All right, Matt, thank you. Enjoy the garden. There you go,
complimented your back swing and says the Black Phone two
is a good movie to watch with the check that went.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Out As a golfer, I should probably meditate more. It
would help my mental game on the course. But uh,
you know, for all the animals that are around your house, Matt,
probably to keep your underwear on when you go out
meditate in the garden.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hey, Kentucky volleyball beats Auburn last night, so they're still
undefeated in SCC play or be you talking about maybe
a national championship for the volleyball team before the basketball team.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Man, they've been on such a great run. How many
Top ten opponents have they beaten this year? I feel
like just about all of them except for Nebraska. I
feel like they've had more than five. So you know,
I'm really excited about this UK volleyball team. Craig Skinner,
who we just mentioned, you know, doing great things.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So you know, I gotta go out to a game
is what I need to do.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I've got to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch these guys,
these girls play.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I know John Short was happy about that, weren't you, John?
John Yess and.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Re Win that's like we are in three games to one,
which is fig games to one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Well, we won, that's all that matters, Jean.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That's right. Now, who do you play next?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I don't have the volleyball schedule in front of me.
I don't know. Well, John, we rely on you for
that information. John, you're our volleyball guru.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I didn't hear who were playing next. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who we
play next, because we're gonna beat them.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
They play Florida on Sunday at Memorial Cosseum, John, and
I believe that game is on the UK network, So
if you wanted to listen to the radio, you could
be able to hear that.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
That's good. In Florida defeated Tennessee last night in volleyball.
That's right, it is okay, all right, Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
There's your update on volleyball.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
That's right, and RECEIVALI be arch Manning by five begins.
I know, I know the arch Manning defeated Oklahoma, but
we're gonna be Archmane by five begins. I hope he's listening.
I hope the whole many families listen to ksorry. I
don't think you know who the only thing you know
anything about KSR.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Oh, they do know Eli Peyton Manning. They're all sitting
around right now sipping their coffee listening to the KSR
pre show. Trust me, they are we know that. Hey, John,
you seem like a positive guy. Would you want Mark
Stoops to be fired or would you want him to
stick around for another season?
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I want to stick around. And retirement age for coaches
the University of Tucky is seventy. That's a long wanted
to stay around.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Age, all right, and then and then when they get seventy,
they're out. That's right, all right, there you go, all right, John,
thanks for the call. Thank you, John. John says you're
welcome here till you're seventy. Then get the hell out
of here.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, he's more of an age is when he needs
you to go, not like your record.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Corey Price chimed in.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He said, this is probably the weirdest class that I took,
and sent me a description for geology one thirty Dinosaurs
and Disasters.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Okay, well, I mean at least there's like some historical
element like history too. Yeah, Swiftonomics. I feel like that's
just a professor who is a Taylor Swift super fan
and wanted to create a class that they could talk
Taylor Swift to and get, you know, get away with
calling that work.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Now, is that a complete waste of time or do
you think there's lessons to take away from that that
you can use in your adult life?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I mean, unless you're gonna become a billionaire pop star,
probably not. I don't think we can relate too much
to Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
But here's the time she hit in a popcorn machine
so she could escape Arrowhead Stadium without having the paparazzi.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
See that's right, just Swiftonomics. That's right. A five nine,
two eight, twenty two eighty seven. When we come back
after the break, we got to talk about this Mookie
Betts who plays for the Dodgers. You know, they were
just in Milwaukee for a couple of games in the
National League Championship Series. But Mookie Betts's wife was traveling
with him, but she refused to stay in the team hotel. Why,
(36:20):
I'll tell you coming up after the break. We'll be
right back, Oly Peter. Final segment of the KSR pre
show tonight, Game three of the National League Championship Series
Brewers and Dodgers. Now, Billy I was talking right before
the break about Mookie Betts and his wife traveled with
him to Milwaukee for the first two games, but she
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refused to stay in the team Hotel, Billy because she
claims that the hotel is haunted Hotel Fister Fister Harley Nor.
She said that there were lights that were going on
and off in the room, she heard footsteps around her,
and she said, Nope, we are not staying in this hotel.
(37:03):
So Mookie Betts had to book a hotel somewhere in
Milwaukee outside of the team hotel because she claims that
the hotel was haunted. Do you think she's crazy or
do you think there's any truth to this at all?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You know, I'm somebody that if I see all that
going on, I'm messing with it. I'll go stay at
a motel that doesn't have the lights flickering or somebody
whispering my name when I try to lay down to sleep.
I mean, it's just my peace of mind. I'll pay
a little bit more for a non haunted hotel. But
is this a heady play by Milwaukee? I mean to
I mean, I guess it's not them that's deciding what
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hotel room they're staying in, right, I mean, this is
just what the Dodgers have decided to say, and.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It seems to only be Mookie Bett's wife that's complaining
about this. I mean, you hear footsteps, I would argue, well,
there are you know, a bunch of other people staying
in that hotel too, right, and you know, walking up
and down the hallway, so maybe you're hearing footsteps from
outside the hallway. But if you remember in Oklahoma City,
there's the Scurvin Hotel where there were players I forget
which team it was that was that were playing the
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Oklahoma City Thunder in a playoff game, and they said
they were up all night because they were being haunted
by these ghosts at the Scurving Hotel. They said there
was like a ghost that was getting in bed with them,
like moving the sheets around. Do you remember the story
that I'm talking about?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
I do.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I do remember this because we actually went We stayed
there for KSR on one of our road trips. We
went through Oklahoma City and we were like, well, we're here.
We had to stay at this haunted hotel at the
Scurvan and Ryan was my roommate and he slept with
the lights on all night because he was scared of
the ghost that might come.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Now, was that like the weirdest place that you've stayed
on a KSR road trips?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I mean I got to think that the Dollhouse was
up there. Okay, there was no. There was one that
was like a boutique that we stayed at, Okay, and
each room had a different theme. And there was that one,
and then there's like a quilt room when they had
like like these old like quotes that looked like you know,
your grandma made them, and that was what was on
the bed. You had one room that was the ballroom
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where you're sitting there and there's like creepy dolls just
all over the room. There was one called the Needle Room.
So this was by I forget which state that's in,
but it was like that was one of those nights
ride I don't even if I want to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
That's a horror movie. Yeah, Casey's looking for recommendations. Go
on a trip and stay there. You can get a
scare of your life, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So yeah, maybe it was a ghost running up and
down the hallway, or maybe it was Kirk Herbstreet playing
with his Peter and balls out in the hallway. Did
you see the story that came out what his dog Peter?
He was throwing a ball in a hotel hallway? Okay,
with his dog Peter? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
What do you think now? He was throwing a ball
up and down the hallway with with with the beloved dog,
the golden retriever Peter. And I mean, are you just
allowed to bring dogs into hotels? I guess maybe there's
certain hotels that are pet friendly, but I wouldn't think
that it's you know, I would think it would be
frowned upon to play fetch with your dog out in
the hallway of a hotel.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, here's the thing you turn away Kirk kurb Street
and his dog, which would be a natural thing you'd
do to anybody, And everybody's gonna get on your case,
and people are gonna give you death threats and send
you DMS and say, you know, send you terrible messages.
I mean, you can't be on the other side of
kirkurb Street and Peter. But you know what I feel
for the people trying to sleep in their hotel room show.
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I feel for somebody that's had a long day of traveling.
They just got in and now they have to hear
this dog run up and down the hallway psychotic behavior
just because kirkurb Street is popular that we're gonna allow
this behavior to slide.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know, I'm fine with the dog, but I'm kind
of with you, like, if you have a dog, you
shouldn't just be like playing fetch with it up and
down the hallway outside of people's doors while they're trying
to sleep.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
So I'm kind of in courtesy. I'm nothing to do
with what you think about dogs.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I think I'm kind of with you on that.
Now tomorrow, Billy, we are out. We are alive at
forty six Solutions, Lexington Green Circle, that's right. And then
after that you can join us at White Castle on
East Reynolds Road. We're gonna be there from twelve thirty
to one thirty. You could come out out and it's
all a part of the Nest. So when you go
to white Castle anytime between now and November thirtieth, round
up your meal and that goes to benefit the Nest,
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which is a local nonprofit that helps families and crisis
and it helps parents escape domestic violence situations, provides counseling,
giving kids a safe place to grow. It is the
nest you can round up your meal again. That's at
White Castle between now and November thirtieth, and come on
out tomorrow between twelve thirty and one thirty and grab
some sliders, some onion rings, and a big red. We're
(41:31):
gonna get Billy a big red to go with this
White Castles. Let's do it. It will change your life.
You'll pick Oh, now, I know why you get big
red every time you go to White Castle. Real quick.
Now we don't have time. Sorry, I was going to
go to the phones. We don't have time. So let
me tell you a Draftking sportsbook promo code KSR. If
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(41:51):
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I had a great parlay strung together last night, Billy.
But I've been big on doing these bets where we
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(42:13):
for the KSR pre show. KSR is up next. We'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
See
Welcome everyone. It is the KSR pre Show. It's Thursday,
October sixteenth. I am Shannon the Dude. You can give
us a call on the Clark's Pupping Shop phone line
eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
If you're a whiskey thief, call of the day. The
text line is five O two two six five six
six five six. The KSR Pre Show is brought to
you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. I'm in
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the Louisville studio. My co host Billy Rutledg's ready to
go for episode one thousand and one of the KSR
pre Show. And I hear that was already an eventful
morning for you. Billy. You went to KS Bar, you
couldn't get in Ksbar. Now you're back in the studio.
What's going on with you? Adrenaline's pumping a little bit
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean, I just walked into the studio, haven't even
taken a sip of my coffee that I had barely
enough time to make.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I'm here, I'm ready to go. We just you know,
we're beating on the doors.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Couldn't get in, so we came here to the studio
and made it just in time, so we're ready to
for another thousand shows with you, dude, How are you
doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And don't feel bad that you don't have a key
to KOs Bar, Billy, because I'm one of the owners
and I don't even have a key like I would
be out there in the same boat that you are,
So don't feel bad about It's not your fault, okay,
but I'm glad that you're here with us.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That seems messed up. Sh'd have a key as an owner.
How often are you coming up to eat chicken wings
at ks Bar and Grill?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm not not nearly enough. Probably if I had to
guess four maybe five times a year, like like once
every quarter, I check in, you know, like quality control.
I have to go out. I have to make sure
that the wings are still on point. Those tater tots
that have that hash brown casse roles stuff in the
middle that we just added to got to make sure
they're still on point and make sure that they're fully
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stuck with Shannon the Dude's brew. But other than that,
you know, I'll get up there maybe for a game
or if we have some sort of special event. Or
maybe they need me to dress up like Hermione from
Harry Potter. Hermione, Yeah, that's right, that's right, Hermione from
Harry Potter. Maybe Spider Man like I did? Was that
last year I dressed up as Spider Man and did
comic book trivia at k I'm the special events guy. Basically,
(02:03):
that's when they bring me in when they need a
dog and pony show, Let's bring in Shane and the
dude and uh. And that's about the only time I
really get up there these days.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, I was peering through the window, you know, like
a kid that couldn't go out and play with his friends,
like looking outside. But I could see all the pictures
of myself that have been hung up in chas Bar.
Didn't see a lot of you, Shannon, So maybe it
was just where I was looking. Well, I think it's
probably because you had something to do with the decorating.
I think you hung those pictures up. Hold on, hold on, now,
I had nothing to do with any decorating. Well, that's
(02:31):
just Ryan and Drew, I think giving me my due
in some of the spots.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now, how are you going to have more pictures hung
up in chos Bar? And groll than me. That's what
I'm saying. Like the one that the one that they
have of me is like the picture of me from
Netflix from Wrestlers where I'm face down after getting down
on that after getting hit with an illegal head and
an illegal object from al Snow. That's the the basically
the best picture they've got of me in chos Bar. Well,
(02:55):
you know, I don't think you should be too upset
you do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You are still on the cartoon caricature, which is, by
the way, a really cool design, but probably about time
Mario and I got added to that thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Maybe Mario. You probably Mario didn't lead me. I mean,
if you're gonna put Mario and you gotta put me
on to no no, no, we leave you outside knocking
on the window trying to get in. That's what I
don't like that. All right. So Adam Sandler's in town tonight.
You know, we gave away plenty of free tickets to
Adam Sandler on the pre show. Will you go to
uh to the show tonight at rup Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, I don't have plans to, OK, but maybe I
should check with La see if there's any extra tickets.
Is that something that you'd be interested in Shannon. Should
I check and see if she's.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Got any No, No, I could check on my own.
I know how to do this. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
This is my city.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
If you want tickets to Reperna, you let me know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If I ever want to come to the Center of
the Palace, you can hip me up with tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But this is this is my town, you think, so huh.
I've been on in Lexton a lot longer than you
pal so slow your rope before you call it your toe.
And next up is Leonard Skinner. Here it is, let's
see what you got. We'll give you a shift on
double Q.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'd love to TNT actually approached me one time. He said,
would you be interested in this? This was before the
pre show and all that, and I said yeah, But
then it just never really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So yeah, maybe we need to get back. He must
have heard your demo. So we got We got scare
Fest going on this weekend. We got the Blue White
Game tomorrow. There's a lot happening in Lesington, so I
would imagine traffic is going to be a mess. Blue
White Game tomorrow night. You're looking forward to that? I
think it's going to be broadcasted on the UK radio network,
so you can listen in on the radio if you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, they decided to do that yesterday, I think. So, yeah,
I can come in on a Friday night to work
a one hour broadcast. Sure, I'll come in and work
the Blue White game. But yeah, I mean, this is
just another domino in the season about to start. What
is Purdue next Friday? And then after that they play
another exhibition game on the Thursday following, So I mean
it's here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You know, I don't know how much we learn from
Blue White, but it is.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It is another opportunity for those guys to play a
little basketball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Mark Pote was talking about wanting to average thirty three
point attempts a game. Your hand if you've heard this before,
we just had this conversations again. He said this again.
They want to get to thirty three point attempts. They
fell a little bit short of that last year. I
think they averaged around like twenty five. But he does
have a good, you know, a three point shooting team,
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a lot of depth, as we've talked about. So maybe
we do get thirty a game this year, and that's
going to be a lot of fun to watch that.
The only thing is you got to hit those shots.
But you know, Billy, if you shoot thirty a game
and you hit forty, I think that's twelve a game.
And it's hard to beat a team that knocks down
twelve three point shots a game. So I think this
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is going to be another fun, exciting team to watch.
Last year's team was really fun to watch. I think
this year maybe even more so, especially if they're just
launching threes all over the place.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, when you have that kind of depth, too, then
if it's not somebody's night, then maybe it's another's. And
so that's exciting to hear that the three ball is
going to be coming back. And I guess in a
different way, right if Kobe Brao was somebody that took
a ton of three pointers last year and I felt
like we were screaming from the mountaintops to shoot more
from him last year, maybe it's just spread out a
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little bit more. But really my eyes go to Trent Noah.
That is somebody that people around the program are saying
you will not be able to keep him off the floor.
He has just been that good during the offseason and
if that's the case, then he's going to be hitting
those threes. He's going to be the best shooter on
the team. There's a reason they track those analytics during practice,
So it's absolutely exciting. You gotta think Jalen Lowe is
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hope somebody that hopefully can shoot better than he did
last year. I don't know how much of a three
point threat Denzil Aberdeen is, but I'm sure he can
launch it from beyond the arc as well. So no,
there's a lot of reasons to be excited. Colin Chandler
is another one of them. But if Trent Noah can
be that guy, then the three pointers can fly to
a tune of thirty or thirty five.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Again, I think most Kentucky fans are kind of shifting
their focus towards basketball with the football team struggling. But Billy,
if Saturday Kentucky can somehow pull off a win over Texas,
do we shift back to now paying attention to football
a little bit more? Do we do we get some
of the fans back on board to keep stoops around
if they can somehow pull off a win on Saturday. Well,
(07:06):
you guys made the point.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, if Kentucky were to beat a Manning and
then a National Championship preseason favorite, then absolutely they deserve
some praise, some respect, some attention from the fan base.
Does that get me fully back in to Mark Stoops
at Kentucky for the next few years? You know, I'm
not sure it would go a long way though probably
people tuned back in after a Texas win. But this
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schedule is just pretty brutal for Kentucky. This would be
a big step in the right direction. What do you say, Shannon,
are you gonna watch Kentucky a little bit more if
they were to beat Texas like this?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think so, and I you know, it just feels
very Kentucky football to be struggling and then out of
nowhere just play somebody tough, you know, like winning against
Omis last year, playing Georgia down to the wire and
giving them all that they wanted.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Was that that was.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Last year as well, So you know, I wouldn't be surprised.
Arch Manning has been struggling. He is, you know, a
guy that hasn't been nearly as good as advertised, and
they have their starting center out. The availability just availability
report just came out yesterday. Kentucky's in pretty good shape.
They got DJ Waller, who's expected to be back at
corner for the first time since Week one, and then
(08:17):
maybe with Texas's O line banged up a little bit,
you know, putting a little extra pressure on Arch Banning.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Man, Look at the spin that you're putting on this
Texas Kentucky game.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I love it. I love the optimism oozing from you
this time. I'm not saying they're going to win, but
I'm saying, like, if you're trying to talk about a
scenario where Kentucky could win and we haven't seen a
win at home in the SEC and how long? Now,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I mean, it's different playing a team close and it
is winning, and Kentucky needs to get over that hump
and start winning these games at home or in the
SEC in general, after winning one last year versus Ole Miss.
But I don't know, Shannon, what did you think about
Mitch Barnhardt's comment said about the buyout and everything. He
seems proud that they signed him to an extension after
(09:02):
that four game winning streak before things the wheels kind
of fell off.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, I don't think that was a good idea, and
looking back, on. Of course everything's you know, twenty twenty hindsight,
but it was four and oh after beating not a
very impressive list of teams. It was like Northern Arizona
and I can't remember the other ones that were in there.
But it was not like he was four and oh
and beat four SEC schools and you know, if you
(09:27):
do that, maybe you do go to Stoops and go, hey,
here's a nice extension to your contract. But then they
turned around and lost to Vandy. Was it like a
week or two later after that? Right and it was
it was announced I think like right after or right before.
It was just bad timing on the announcement of the
Stoops contract extension when that happened. But you know, I
feel like a lot of these coaches, it's not just
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a Kentucky thing. It's a college football, college sports thing
where these guys are getting these massive buyouts to stick around.
I don't understand why they do that. And Stoops, if
you go back in time and look at when he
signed that extension, I think, I mean, I don't. I
don't know that there were a lot of fans just
asking for that, you know, like he was doing a
good job and I don't know that there were fans
(10:09):
that were banging on Mitch Barnhardt's door demanding that he'd
give Mark Stoops an extension at that point, but that's
what he got. Well, buyouts do serve a purpose.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's you know, if somebody wanted Mark Stoops, they wouldn't
just be able to poach him from Kentucky. That have
to pay Kentucky an amount of money to get them.
So it's a double edged sword. But when Mitch also
admits in the conversation that they admittedly were behind on nil,
that also tells me that, you know, this is something
that the fan base was screaming about that Kentucky needed
to get ahead of, and they took the slow and
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steady approach and hopefully now they're in a good spot.
But that admittedly to Mitch put them behind the April.
You know, I did the Ryan Lemon Show prep method
this morning. Listen to the Leach Report. Heard Ty Bryant said,
this is probably the best week of practice that they've had.
Guys are energized, they're ready to go. So if you
want to buy into that optimism, then this is the
week to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Or you can look at Mark Stoop's record on the
bye week's coming off of Buyeweel Terrible pat which has
not been good in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I mean they still just beat Oklahoma, right, I mean,
even though Arch is having a down year and they're
not number one in the country, this is still probably
a pretty good SEC squad with a good coach and
Steve Sarkeesian and boy, it's gonna be crowded in Lexington
with everything going on with Keenland.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, and now this, you know, this is this is
gonna be a biggie. You think we're gonna have a
sellout for the Kentucky Texas game or is it going
to be Yeah, there's a sellout, but there's more Texas
fans than there are Kentucky. There might be some burnt orange,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you know, I still think the fan base is
still showing up for Stoops in this Kentucky team. I
don't think they're there yet where they're just not completely
not showing up. But look, we've talked about less home
games for season hicket holders and fewer places to tailgate
as well, that just the fan experience has gone down.
But you know, nothing would bring us all back like
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a win versus Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Kentucky football did get a commitment yesterday. I saw that
some good news from twenty twenty six commitment, first commitment
they've had in three months from edge rusher Justin Hartley.
So Kentucky loses a commitment last week, Billy, but they
gained one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes, hopefully this is a guy that can develop into
a good player. I will note he didn't have another
offer from an FBS school, So you know, maybe you
look at this as an other diamond in the rough
of Josh Allen that can develop. But this is some
good pr at a time that there's not a ton
for Kentucky and that may be another part of this,
this announcement coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, you know, you think are they missing Vince Merrill's recruiting.
I don't know, the jury's still out on that. You know,
when Vince left, if you remember, they turned around and
got a commitment like the next day. But yeah, I
think we're going to slowly see over time that we
are going to be missing the recruiting of you know,
(12:52):
Vince Marrilyn. How great of a job that he did
just just getting guys to come to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Sure, but a week for Cutter Bully to prove himself
once again. Another week for Seth mcgallan to run crazy
now that he's a little bit healthier. Kentucky has some
good pieces. It's just about putting it together. It's like
my golf game, Shannon. All right, as as soon as
I figure out the driver, the putter doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And if you got one of those wood drivers that
you you know, got from my house, it probably would
fall apart if you just swung the thing and it
made it on the screws. Yeah, on that club, all right.
So we want to hear from you if Kentucky were
to somehow be able to pull off the win over Texas.
Are you back on board with Kentucky football? Eight five
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven or is
it a lost cause at this point? Are you just
over football and ready for basketball? We want to hear
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from you and we'll take your calls. Coming up next,
it is the KSR pre Show, Welcome Back. It is
the KSR pre Show. Shanning the Dude, Billy Rutlige eight
five nine two eight ozho twenty two eighty seven. I
just saw where they had the world Championship Pumpkin Contest. Billy,
(13:55):
You know I was a pumpkin farmer this year, and
my biggest pumpkin probably got to, like, I don't know,
somewhere between forty and fifty pounds. You want to take
a guess at how much the championship pumpkin weigh in
this pumpkin contest?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Man, I don't even know where to start. I mean,
just take a guess. Pumpkins, you know you've seen them before.
How much do you think the biggest pumpkin in the
Championship pumpkin contest weighed? I mean, like seven hundred pounds,
eight hundred pounds, like three times that two forty six pounds. Jeez,
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the championship pumpkin, I mean that's like the size of
a Volkswagen. If you look at this thing, it's it's massive.
They say the owner gets nine dollars per pound. Wow,
that's so don't make me do math, but that that's
that's a lot of money sure for growing up pumpkins.
So that's my goal for next year. We got to
get one big enough to put into the World Championship.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And how do you transport that thing? Like, you've got
to have the fork lift. I mean, I don't know
real grown men involved. That thing moved anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You'd have to move it into trailer geez. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean steroids is what you need to give your
pumpkins to get to.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
How much did you say? Twenty five hundred and forty
six pound three hundred?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, well that is a championship pumpkin. That is not
any Ricadink did not deserve the title. Congratulations to that guy.
One person on the text line said, if we went out,
I would still want to move on from Stoops? Am
I being irrational? I would say at this point yes, probably, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I mean, come on, if Stoops want if you want
out and you still want him out, you just don't
like Mark Stoops like that you got something personal against him.
If he were have went out, that would be a
heck of a I mean that would mean he would
have to be Texas, he would be Tennessee. He would
beat Florida, Auburn, Louisvile, Vandy, Tennessee Tech.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I mean, come on, there'd be a lot of momentum
going into the off season. You'd you'd think that the
transfer portal would probably go well for you. If people
saw that there was some positive momentum building.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I do the thing when yeah, I mean, if you
go if you want out, you're what nine in three,
you're continuing for the football playoffs. That's ridiculous. You go
from last place to a team that's in the conversation.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, And and part of you know, the reason why
people would want to move on from Stoops is setting
up the roster for next year. I think if you
were to win out, you're setting yourself up favorably for
the transfer portal, unlike what the situation might be if
they were to lose out.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, they'll say, if we want to talk more realistic,
what's more likely win out or lose out? And to
lose out by far? But I think what happens is
somewhere in the middle. And you know we've been talking
about that scenario. If he gets to five and you
finish five and seven, that's where Mitch Barnhardt has a
decision to make it's five and seven good enough to
bring him back for another year or do you pay
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that buyout. I think five and seven you got to
run it back for another year. That's the worst case scenario.
You get to three, you get to four, he's gone six,
he's in five. You're right there in that middle ground,
and that's where it's going to going to divide this
fan base even more if he gets to five and
(17:02):
brings Stoops back. I feel like he's going to if
that's the scenario that plays out.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And it doesn't mean that we don't appreciate everything that
he's done for the university in the twelve seasons that
came before it. I don't know if it's a situation
of you don't know what you got till it's gone.
It's more of, you know, we've just spent a lot
of time together. It's time to just go our different way.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And I think a lot of people that are already
kind of, you know, not happy about the contract as
it is for Mark Stoops. You get to five and
you bring them back another year, that's going to just
infuriate fans with Barnhart if that happens. But I kind
of feel like, if you get to five, Billy, I mean,
you don't have to bring them back. But don't you
think that he's going to. Don't you think that's the.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Based on the comments that he just made about the buyout,
and you know, his confidence and stoops. Yes, you know
there are you know, rocky times that they have worked
through in the past, and then we'll continue to do.
So that's Mitch standing by his guy. And that's what
more AD should do, honestly, is be transparent and talk
like that about their coaches. But at the same time,
it's Penn States firing their coach after three losses, and
(18:06):
the sense of urgency is there is just a lot
different than here At Kentucky.
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the phone lines are loaded. I ask the question, and
(18:53):
if Kentucky were to win this Saturday, pull off a
win over Texas, are you back in on football or
are you just over it at this point? Are you
ready for basketball season to start? So let's go to
the phones. Let's talk to Brent. Hey, Brent, what's up
that Brent?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Hey, guys, good morning listen. So, you know, look, as
far as being in or out on this coming Saturday, look,
I'm never out on Kentucky any sport, you know what
I mean, Like, I'm a diehard UK fan.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
The crazy thing Billy said it right before you know
it came on, is that. Look, we are grateful for
what Mark Stoops has done. And it's not that we
have a problem with Mark Stoops at all.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It's just we have a.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Problem with the state of the program today. And like,
you know, I feel like I would be even happy
if they just changed ocs man, Like, like get find
an OC who's got a dynamic offense?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Turn it over to them, Let's try something new. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I guess that's the thing is. I just feel like
we're just trying to reinvent, you know, the wheel.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Again and again, and like, you know, using squares to
do it.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean the problem is, you know, I mean,
Bush Hampden is basically new. You say, try something new.
I mean, he hasn't been here that long, and we're
already talking about getting rid of oro oc and you know, again,
it goes back to the revolving door of offensive coordinators
that we've had since Mark Stoops has been here. And
at some point you have to stop pointing the finger
at the offensive coordinators and start pouring them at the
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head coach. Yeah, and what's the definition of insanity?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I mean, how many times his Mark Stoops changed offensive coordinators?
And you even got one that's in the NFL now
and is the hot coaching candidate, and you know he
did well, but he was ready to move on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So how many times can you do that?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And also, you know, I'm not rooting against Kentucky either,
there's some in the fan they probably want Kentucky to
lose so they can move on from stoops. I don't
think I'm ever going to be that guy. You know,
I'm just like the caller. I'm you know, all in.
I want them to win every game. So like, I
think that sentiment is getting mistrewed a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I mean, if you're a fan that's pulling against Kentucky football,
then you're not a fan, right, I mean, you're just not.
I don't care, like what.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Even if it's for the better of the program. Yes,
you still agree. I agree.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean the program would be better if they won,
so why would you want them to lose? Exactly that?
Those counterproductive Let's go to Casey Hey, Casey, Hey, sailors.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Good morning. I just wanted to say, grass, I'm Show
one thousand. I'm so proud of you guys and appreciate
you all keeping me company every day. KSR has brought
so many incredible people into my life, and I'm just
forever grateful. There's nothing I'd really say about football that
hasn't been said. But I'll still be watching and cheering.
I hope that I hope that we go you know,
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went out, but I don't see that happening. But basketball
is in nineteen days and I'm super excited about that.
But the reason I called there's two weeks until Halloween
and I've been struggling to find scary movies that I
haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Do you all have any good.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Scary movies, especially ones that are like kind of goofy
Netflix ones that you might not.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Have heard of?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
And I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Thanks for the call, Casey. I don't know. I don't
know what you've seen and what you haven't seen. For me,
I go classic movies, even though I've seen them a
hundred times. Billy, I go through all the Halloween movies.
I start at one, and I go through all the
Halloween movies with Michael Myers, and then I guess, like
the Nightmare on Elm Street. You know, all the classic ones.
Those are the ones that I watch. So I haven't
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really seen like a good new scary movie in a
long time.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Do you have any watch like you watch like Psycho
or anything like some of the older crazy ones. I
might turn it on. You know, they're always on TV.
Watch scary movie, the parody scary AMC Fearfest has a
marathon going on. Check that out.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
We'll be right back. All right, welcome back. It is
the KSR pre show Taylor Swift bringing us back right here.
I'm playing Taylor Swift, Billy, because did you see the
new class that you can take at the University of Lovelle? No,
but I mean I can guess there is a new
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class at u of L that you can now take
called swift Onomics. You can get real credit hours, Billy
for taking a Taylor Swift class where you study her
career and like the ins and outs of like I guess,
the music industry, and like her concert ticket sales numbers
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and a whole thing where you just go to class
and you learn about Taylor Swift. Can you believe that
u of L is actually giving people the chance to
get credit hours for college by studying the career of
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I thought it might be a little Swifty history.
You're telling me it's swift Onomics. I mean, where was
this class when I was in college. It sounds like
a free a, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, yeah, we talked about North Carolina having fake classes.
I mean, does this can I guess it is a
real class? So, I mean, but come on, I mean,
if you're looking for a like you said, an easy A.
Aren't you taking swift to nomics?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, but is this like an elective? Is this like something?
I don't think it's a requirement that everybody has to
take swift onomics to graduate at U of L. Well,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It just just seems odd. We're getting weird college classes
throughout this country. Remember Kentucky, Kentucky's doing AI. Yeah, yeah,
did you know that's a little bit more practice? Did
you not have anything like that?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And by the way, I would make fun of the
Taylor Swift class, but there's one group of people you
do not mess with in this world, and that's the
Swifties because they'll come at you like a mob and droves.
You don't mess with the swiftiest fans of dogs. Yeah,
and I got to I want to talk about that
in just a minute. There's a new video that came out.
We'll get a minute hang on. But I want to
ask you, though, did you have any kind of like
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weird class that you took at Western Kentucky? Because I
had one that I thought was kind of like, like, really,
this is a class at Bellerman.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
No, not that I can think of, you know, I
took Spanish and I just used so much of.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That, but that's practical. Spanish is practical.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
The best class I took was a public speaking course,
and that was that got me out of my comfort zone,
totally agree. Man, got me to where I'm at today
when it comes to my profession. And that wasn't required
in my major. So that was definitely the most beneficial
class for me. What was your weird class?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So mine was called Film Studies at Bellerman and it
was just on the Coen brothers. You know who the
Coen Brothers are producing movies. So yeah, so so for
a semester. You know, if you're a baseball player like
I was, you're always trying to get the easy classes
as your electives. So you know, baseball players talk like,
(25:32):
hey man, you got to take this class. This class
is really easy, or this professor doesn't matter what you
put on your paper, they're going to give you an A.
So take this class. And all the baseball guys were
taking a class called film Studies where you went in
there every day and you watched Cohen brother movies. That's all.
So like raising Arizona, big Lebowski, I can't remember the
other ones. But we got college credit hours to sit
(25:56):
there and watch The Big Lebowski and just break down
like the themes of the movie. And that was that
was my introduction to the dude, The Big Lebowski, you know,
and all the well, that was the first time you
saw it. The first time I'd ever seen that movie
was it Bellerman. So I'm not going to quite put
it on the level of Swift on nomics, because I
think a Taylor Swift class is even more ridiculous than
(26:16):
film studies. But I think that was as close to uh,
you know, ridiculous class that that I took in college.
You jogged my memory.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My minor was athletic coaching, so I had to take
baseball coaching, basketball coaching, football coaching, same same boat as you.
You know, athletes they want an easy class, so they'll
take something like this, and so I had a football
coach run that football coaching class. We just watched football
highlights from the weekend before there you go. We've watched
Western games as our tape. So I mean that was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm told that the like, literally the year after I
graduated from high school at Bullet East, they started doing
a class called the History of Chocolate. We just learned
about chocolate. So yeah, if you're a U of L student,
maybe sign up for US swift do Nomics next time
eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. Let's go to Josh. Hey, Josh,
(27:04):
what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Hey, how y'all doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
They we're doing great?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Well. Well, if Mark suits even does beat Texas or
if he does win out, I'm ready for him to go,
just like I was ready for Caliber to go even
if he want well you you know you all had
a conversation with caliberia if he won the NASA Championship.
I was ready for it.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So if Mark Stoops goes nine to three, is in
the is in the college football playoffs, you want him
to go? Yes, how can you justify that?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
It's I'm just I'm just just burned out on you're
burned out on him.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But I mean, if he takes it to the college
football playoffs for the first time in school history, which,
by the way, this is a ridiculous conversation because you
and I, Josh know that this is not going to happen.
But if it did happen. But if it did happen,
how can you sell the guy needs to go.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Well, I'm just ready for him to go.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I understand, Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I mean I hate, I hate to be like that,
but you know I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But you know, yeah, you're not the only You're not
the only fan. I mean, there is a small portion
of the fan base who is like that, but I
feel like even they would flip if it really happened.
But there's a portion of our fan base that if
Mark Stoups brought world peace to us all they would
still want him gone. So, Josh, I appreciate the call.
Thank you, Thank you, Josh.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And I mean Cal talked down to the fan base
into the media at the end of his tenure, but
if he was winning national championships, you put that to
the side. He's doing his job. You know, I think
that's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Let's go to Jacob Hey, Jacob.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Hey, guys, uh again, like, uh, you know, everybody's talking
about the wrong thing. You know. Mitch Barnhart, you know,
gave the Cal contract awful contract, the Stups contract, awful contract.
When general manager in a professional sport has too as
a bad contract, he usually gets fired or he's gone. Yeah,
(28:54):
why are we not talking about you rid of this guy,
He'd gotta go. We have got to get somebody in
there who is as passionate about the football as they
are about the basketball. And it goes all the way
across the board. Man, this is just getting ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So you say we got to get rid of the ad.
That's what That's what Jacob says. You know, I don't
know how many more years Barnhart will be around anyway
before he retires. But whoever that next hire is, though,
I mean, I would love for it to be Dwayne Peevie,
but I mean, whoever it is has got to be.
I feel like, well, if it's not Dwayne Peeve, get
(29:33):
somebody the younger and maybe innovative and really passionate if
you can.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Look, I mean, in hindsight, the lifetime contract with Cal,
the you know contract extends with Bowl games for Stoops,
and the increase in buyout, maybe in hindsight do look bad.
But if you are going to be negative about some
of the things Mitch has done, you have to be positive.
He was also the one that got Cal to come
here and Stoops. He's also hired at Rockstar and Kenny
(29:59):
Brooks Skinners won a national championship. I mean, ad is
much more. People just contracts with football and basketball. People
seem happy with Mark pope'shire. Mark pope hire seems like
a home run. And now you know he has he
had some misses in the past. And are those contract
extensions not great for Kentucky?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Sure, but it would be unfair to not bring up
those positives as well.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Let's go to Matt te.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maatt, Hey, guys, what's up. I'm out here in the garden.
They just finished my meditation.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, every day on certain days.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No, I do it every day when as soon as
I get off work, when I pulled into the house,
I go out to my garden and check my papers
and I got still got some tomatoes and and I
take my shoes off and and I'm meditate, you know,
just do my breathing and connect with the grant with
their you know.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So is that a rainer shine thing? And then secondly,
how long do you meditate for? Do you just meditate
until you just feel like you you're ready to go?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
There?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Ros?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well, it just varies. I really just enjoy being out here.
I have a big garden and I just love just
hanging out out here and and I take I'll take
an app because I work real early. I start real
early in the morning, and I'll sit down, take a
nap after my meditation and and just enjoy listening to nature.
(31:28):
I know it sounds weird, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Do you have neighbors, Because if I looked over in
my neighbor's garden and he was laying there, I might
think that he was dead. I might you know, I
may call for the medics.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Now I live in not County. We I have private property.
This is all I can. I could be out here
in my underwork if I wanted to, you know, nobody
can see me.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Okay? Anyways, Uh, that that one real sweet collar was
calling about a scurry movie. Uh the Black Phone. They
the first one, and they've come out with a new one.
Man that's really intense, and that I was wanting to,
(32:16):
you know, give a suggestion on that. And I wanted
to tell Billy, I've seen your golf swing on your
on your Instagram and yeah, you got you doing good, dude,
You're doing good. And uh, y'all have a good day,
blast day.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
All right, Matt, thank you. Enjoy the garden. There you go,
complimented your back swing and says the Black Phone two
is a good movie to watch with the check that went.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Out As a golfer, I should probably meditate more. It
would help my mental game on the course. But uh,
you know, for all the animals that are around your house, Matt,
probably to keep your underwear on when you go out
meditate in the garden.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hey, Kentucky volleyball beats Auburn last night, so they're still
undefeated in SCC play or be you talking about maybe
a national championship for the volleyball team before the basketball team.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Man, they've been on such a great run. How many
Top ten opponents have they beaten this year? I feel
like just about all of them except for Nebraska. I
feel like they've had more than five. So you know,
I'm really excited about this UK volleyball team. Craig Skinner,
who we just mentioned, you know, doing great things.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So you know, I gotta go out to a game
is what I need to do.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I've got to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch these guys,
these girls play.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I know John Short was happy about that, weren't you, John?
John Yess and.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Re Win that's like we are in three games to one,
which is fig games to one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Well, we won, that's all that matters, Jean.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That's right. Now, who do you play next?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I don't have the volleyball schedule in front of me.
I don't know. Well, John, we rely on you for
that information. John, you're our volleyball guru.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I didn't hear who were playing next. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who we
play next, because we're gonna beat them.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
They play Florida on Sunday at Memorial Cosseum, John, and
I believe that game is on the UK network, So
if you wanted to listen to the radio, you could
be able to hear that.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
That's good. In Florida defeated Tennessee last night in volleyball.
That's right, it is okay, all right, Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
There's your update on volleyball.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
That's right, and RECEIVALI be arch Manning by five begins.
I know, I know the arch Manning defeated Oklahoma, but
we're gonna be Archmane by five begins. I hope he's listening.
I hope the whole many families listen to ksorry. I
don't think you know who the only thing you know
anything about KSR.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Oh, they do know Eli Peyton Manning. They're all sitting
around right now sipping their coffee listening to the KSR
pre show. Trust me, they are we know that. Hey, John,
you seem like a positive guy. Would you want Mark
Stoops to be fired or would you want him to
stick around for another season?
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I want to stick around. And retirement age for coaches
the University of Tucky is seventy. That's a long wanted
to stay around.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Age, all right, and then and then when they get seventy,
they're out. That's right, all right, there you go, all right, John,
thanks for the call. Thank you, John. John says you're
welcome here till you're seventy. Then get the hell out
of here.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, he's more of an age is when he needs
you to go, not like your record.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Corey Price chimed in.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He said, this is probably the weirdest class that I took,
and sent me a description for geology one thirty Dinosaurs
and Disasters.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Okay, well, I mean at least there's like some historical
element like history too. Yeah, Swiftonomics. I feel like that's
just a professor who is a Taylor Swift super fan
and wanted to create a class that they could talk
Taylor Swift to and get, you know, get away with
calling that work.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Now, is that a complete waste of time or do
you think there's lessons to take away from that that
you can use in your adult life?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I mean, unless you're gonna become a billionaire pop star,
probably not. I don't think we can relate too much
to Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
But here's the time she hit in a popcorn machine
so she could escape Arrowhead Stadium without having the paparazzi.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
See that's right, just Swiftonomics. That's right. A five nine,
two eight, twenty two eighty seven. When we come back
after the break, we got to talk about this Mookie
Betts who plays for the Dodgers. You know, they were
just in Milwaukee for a couple of games in the
National League Championship Series. But Mookie Betts's wife was traveling
with him, but she refused to stay in the team hotel. Why,
(36:20):
I'll tell you coming up after the break. We'll be
right back, Oly Peter. Final segment of the KSR pre
show tonight, Game three of the National League Championship Series
Brewers and Dodgers. Now, Billy I was talking right before
the break about Mookie Betts and his wife traveled with
him to Milwaukee for the first two games, but she
(36:43):
refused to stay in the team Hotel, Billy because she
claims that the hotel is haunted Hotel Fister Fister Harley Nor.
She said that there were lights that were going on
and off in the room, she heard footsteps around her,
and she said, Nope, we are not staying in this hotel.
(37:03):
So Mookie Betts had to book a hotel somewhere in
Milwaukee outside of the team hotel because she claims that
the hotel was haunted. Do you think she's crazy or
do you think there's any truth to this at all?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You know, I'm somebody that if I see all that
going on, I'm messing with it. I'll go stay at
a motel that doesn't have the lights flickering or somebody
whispering my name when I try to lay down to sleep.
I mean, it's just my peace of mind. I'll pay
a little bit more for a non haunted hotel. But
is this a heady play by Milwaukee? I mean to
I mean, I guess it's not them that's deciding what
(37:37):
hotel room they're staying in, right, I mean, this is
just what the Dodgers have decided to say, and.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It seems to only be Mookie Bett's wife that's complaining
about this. I mean, you hear footsteps, I would argue, well,
there are you know, a bunch of other people staying
in that hotel too, right, and you know, walking up
and down the hallway, so maybe you're hearing footsteps from
outside the hallway. But if you remember in Oklahoma City,
there's the Scurvin Hotel where there were players I forget
which team it was that was that were playing the
(38:03):
Oklahoma City Thunder in a playoff game, and they said
they were up all night because they were being haunted
by these ghosts at the Scurving Hotel. They said there
was like a ghost that was getting in bed with them,
like moving the sheets around. Do you remember the story
that I'm talking about?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
I do.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I do remember this because we actually went We stayed
there for KSR on one of our road trips. We
went through Oklahoma City and we were like, well, we're here.
We had to stay at this haunted hotel at the
Scurvan and Ryan was my roommate and he slept with
the lights on all night because he was scared of
the ghost that might come.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Now, was that like the weirdest place that you've stayed
on a KSR road trips?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I mean I got to think that the Dollhouse was
up there. Okay, there was no. There was one that
was like a boutique that we stayed at, Okay, and
each room had a different theme. And there was that one,
and then there's like a quilt room when they had
like like these old like quotes that looked like you know,
your grandma made them, and that was what was on
the bed. You had one room that was the ballroom
(39:01):
where you're sitting there and there's like creepy dolls just
all over the room. There was one called the Needle Room.
So this was by I forget which state that's in,
but it was like that was one of those nights
ride I don't even if I want to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
That's a horror movie. Yeah, Casey's looking for recommendations. Go
on a trip and stay there. You can get a
scare of your life, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So yeah, maybe it was a ghost running up and
down the hallway, or maybe it was Kirk Herbstreet playing
with his Peter and balls out in the hallway. Did
you see the story that came out what his dog Peter?
He was throwing a ball in a hotel hallway? Okay,
with his dog Peter? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
What do you think now? He was throwing a ball
up and down the hallway with with with the beloved dog,
the golden retriever Peter. And I mean, are you just
allowed to bring dogs into hotels? I guess maybe there's
certain hotels that are pet friendly, but I wouldn't think
that it's you know, I would think it would be
frowned upon to play fetch with your dog out in
the hallway of a hotel.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, here's the thing you turn away Kirk kurb Street
and his dog, which would be a natural thing you'd
do to anybody, And everybody's gonna get on your case,
and people are gonna give you death threats and send
you DMS and say, you know, send you terrible messages.
I mean, you can't be on the other side of
kirkurb Street and Peter. But you know what I feel
for the people trying to sleep in their hotel room show.
(40:20):
I feel for somebody that's had a long day of traveling.
They just got in and now they have to hear
this dog run up and down the hallway psychotic behavior
just because kirkurb Street is popular that we're gonna allow
this behavior to slide.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know, I'm fine with the dog, but I'm kind
of with you, like, if you have a dog, you
shouldn't just be like playing fetch with it up and
down the hallway outside of people's doors while they're trying
to sleep.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
So I'm kind of in courtesy. I'm nothing to do
with what you think about dogs.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I think I'm kind of with you on that.
Now tomorrow, Billy, we are out. We are alive at
forty six Solutions, Lexington Green Circle, that's right. And then
after that you can join us at White Castle on
East Reynolds Road. We're gonna be there from twelve thirty
to one thirty. You could come out out and it's
all a part of the Nest. So when you go
to white Castle anytime between now and November thirtieth, round
up your meal and that goes to benefit the Nest,
(41:10):
which is a local nonprofit that helps families and crisis
and it helps parents escape domestic violence situations, provides counseling,
giving kids a safe place to grow. It is the
nest you can round up your meal again. That's at
White Castle between now and November thirtieth, and come on
out tomorrow between twelve thirty and one thirty and grab
some sliders, some onion rings, and a big red. We're
(41:31):
gonna get Billy a big red to go with this
White Castles. Let's do it. It will change your life.
You'll pick Oh, now, I know why you get big
red every time you go to White Castle. Real quick.
Now we don't have time. Sorry, I was going to
go to the phones. We don't have time. So let
me tell you a Draftking sportsbook promo code KSR. If
you're a new customer, you bet five dollars your first
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(41:51):
You can do live betting, same game parlays, player props.
I had a great parlay strung together last night, Billy.
But I've been big on doing these bets where we
pick one MHM inning. There's one inning that I'll pick
where I say no score. Nobody's gonna score. I lost
the No Runs pick, but didn't hit last night anyway.
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(42:13):
for the KSR pre show. KSR is up next. We'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
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