2025-10-17 KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon and Billy are on location at 46 Solutions in Lexington Green to talk Kentucky football and basketball. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show.
Today is Friday, October seventeenth. I am Billy Rutlers along
with Shannon the Dude. You can give us call on
the Clark's Pump and Shot phone line that's eight five
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and has always The KSR pre Show is brought to

(00:20):
you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington, Kentucky at
the City Center on Main Street. We are in Lexington
today at Lexington Green At forty six Solutions, the Lexington
based technology company offering it support cybersecurity and audio and
video integration. Shannon the Dude is along with me. What's up, Shannon?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh, good to be here. Just trying to be as
least likable as possible. You know, I'm wonder if you know,
I wonder if they have forty six Solutions to help
your likability.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah. Well, I just want to apologize to everybody for
being so unlikable those first few years. I mean, I
must have been a nuisance speck then, Shannon, I mean
you were the one training me on how to do
my job. Was I insufferable back then. Yeah, you still
are a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
But that's okay though, if you know what the poll
shows otherwise on Twitter, your likability has gone up overnight.
So I think you probably reached out to your family,
your extended family to have them contribute to the pole
that Matt put up yesterday to ask is Billy actually likable?
And your approval ratings it's grown over the last few hours.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I sure did. I did that during the show yesterday,
I texted the family group chat and I said, I
need a favor. I need your help on this pole.
But I think we're up to sixty one percent liability.
It's not a runaway, I will say, but it is positive, Shannon,
so we're making profit.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's a shame that dogs and babies can't vote, otherwise
that would swing substantially the other way.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, whether it be the women or children or dogs,
the things everybody loves is the things that I seem
to go after. I will say, Matt did mention that
he brought me on to the KSR squad to so
I can make the audience angry. People needed somebody to
be angry at. Apparently I'm that person, Shannon. I mean
Is that a compliment, Is that a good thing? Or

(02:02):
did he bring you on because you're the only person
that would stick around long enough to back me up.
I think that's probably the real reason. I think that
may have been the real reason. Yeah, but hey, we're
happy to be here at forty six Solutions. This is
always a fun remote. We always have Ryan Lemon pep
talks going on in the background on these video walls. Yeah,
we've got a cardboard cutout of him with his knees broken.

(02:23):
So it's obviously been a.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Few years that we've got the car flat Ryan as
I call it, the cardboard cutout has seen better days.
That's been around for I think a few years, and
the knees have sort of they haven't broken off completely,
but they're bent so we can't stand up Ryan. So
it's Ryan on his knees flex in Hulk Hogan style,
which I tweeted out a picture of.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
If you haven't seen that. But yeah, always good to
be here.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
They've got the Kentucky Michigan State game right now, like
highlights going on in the background. Some of the highlights,
some of the best moments. Look at Tubbe Smith there.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I love it. He just came back. Yeah, a little
big blue madness. We've also got country Boy here giving
out beer. We also got in bagels, So right before
you went on little beer and bagel, if you're coming
to forty six Solutions, that's right.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Beer in bagels this morning and then later on today
after the show, you and I and the KSR crew
are heading over to White Castle with the Nest Nest.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Where if you round up during your purchase it kind
of fits the Nest. We're going to have some sliders, Shannon.
I'm going to figure out what's on the menu besides
sliders at White House. And we talked about that White House.
It's white Castle, White Castle, White House, White Castle might
as well be the White House. Yeah. I don't think
they served sliders at the White House.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
But yeah, yeah, we'll be out there from from twelve
thirty till one thirty East Rentald Road. Come on out
and join us, and when you round up, like you said,
it benefits the Nest, which helps families and crisis. It's
a good cause and we'll see you there starting at
twelve thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, that's right, and something we've done here on the
KASR pre show over the last couple of months is
giveaway Adam Sandler tickets and he was at Rapperina last night.
Got to visit the men's and women's basketball practices throughout
the day where he got a jersey from Jalen Low
that he wore on stage last night.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That was cool and you know, I looked like he
had a great crowd there and didn't Adam Sandler wear
a Kentucky shirt and like one of his movies. Yes,
I don't know which one it was. Was it just
go with it or funny people? Maybe whatever?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
What? What? Maybe?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
So I don't know, but uh, yeah, Adam Sandlor big
basketball fan. Really cool that he wore the Kentucky jersey
up on stage last night.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, you know, uncut gems. You know, he's done a
lot of things sports movies. You talk about actors in
sports movies, he may be one of the best.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Right, Well, I mean I felt like the more recent
Adam Sandler movies have not been all that great if
we're being completely honest. I mean, he had some great ones, right,
but he also had some some clunkers.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
What was the one was where he had the remote
control where you could like click click, Oh you didn't
like click and then don't mess with the Zohan or
Zohan Okay, that was really really stupid, like Jack and
Jill was not.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
His best one. No, but don't you dare talk about
click again like you like classically defend click I am.
And then what was the one he did? It was
like a Halloween movie, you know what I'm talking about,
to came out on Netflix a couple of years ago. No,
but a a lot of his recent movies have been
direct to Netflix, direct to streaming because of maybe this reason.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
QB Halloween it came out, or don't because you're just
wasting your time.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's a terrible movie. But is he not still Happy
Gilmore to you?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
He is?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, And did you like the new Happy Gilmore? Or Yeah?
But I had low expectations for it. I mean, some
people thought it was going to be like revolutionized cinema. Yeah,
and I just didn't have the expectations for it. I
enjoyed it because I think I came into it with that.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean, as I go through his IMDb list, there's
a lot of movies that apparently he was in that
I have no idea even exist. You ever heard of
Space Man? No, you ever heard of Leo, you're you're
not invited to my bat mitzvah.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's a movie. Well, he's got to make money, shant it?
I mean he's he's money motive. It came out in
twenty twenty three. Nobody's ever even heard of this movie
and he's in it. What is it called?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
You are not invited to my bat mitzvah? Okay, not barbtz,
but bat mitzvah.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Another challenge on the pre show maybe that we'll just
have to watch bad Adam Sandler movies and give a
report back. But overall all had some good reports from
the show, and I believe Mario was there so he
can give us an update later. Yeah, Mario got that picture.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I think rolled up some of the media that maybe
felt left out that they didn't get the picture first,
so then they started complaining about it in the comments.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
So people were getting shouted out for taking pictures, but
our guy Mario snuck one down.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I guess that's one of those things like where
you go into a show and you're not allowed to
have any sort of camera. But I mean, how do
you really enforce that when you're in a big area.
I gotta understand if you're in a little club, like
if you were like let's say you and I were
comedians and you know, we got a group of twenty
two flash for time.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah yeah, please, yeah, yes, we can wait. After that,
we will confiscate your phone if you take a picture
of us.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
But I always wonder though, like in Rapperina, when you
got that many people there, how did they truly enforce that?
You know, Well, you'd have to have somebody in every
row watching to make sure you don't do it, right.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I mean, I went to the Dave Chappelle Show and
they gave you a pouch, so you had to put
your phone in the pouch and you could not like
magnetically remove it until you left Repperina, and then you
use the machine that would have separation anxiety from my phone. Well,
you gotta have that. Sounds like they didn't do that
for the Adam Sandler Show. If people are able to
get their phone out and snap picks, so, I don't know.
You know, you got to have somebody monitoring when people

(07:08):
are smoking weed at rupp Aerna during rat wider. Probably
that's a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think you could follow your nose to the source
of the weed. But when you got you know, like,
let's say how many people you think were there last night?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Any guess? Oh, I have no idea. Well, well let's
just say ten thousand people, maybe a little more than that.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Okay, twelve, let's say twelve thousand people simultaneously all go,
you know what, We're gonna get our phone out and
take a picture.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
How are they going to stop? That? Is that Ryan
doing one handed push ups right now on the screen?
Right now? Is that is that our guy?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right?

Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's a bunch younger. I was very impressive. Yeah, well
that had to be like, you know, twelve years I
squatted the ball spot from a mile away. But for
him to be doing one handed push ups is great. Yeah,
but what were we talking about anyway?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Adam saying, I'm just saying, like, how do you really
enforce that? I don't think, Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
But are you somebody that wouldn't want flash photography? Like,
I don't understand why you would even make that. Well,
I mean, I guess we're comedians. If they do the
same show every night, they don't want their stuff being
out there on social media because then people will say, well,
here's Adam Sandler's routine. Here's what he does, and that
may affect his ticket sales for the next night of

(08:11):
the next city.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, and I don't fall comedians for doing the same
material in different towns either.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's kind of like the same thing with musicians, Like
when bands we go on tour and you know, everybody
has an off night. You know, maybe the singer doesn't
feel good that night and sounds sounds terrible.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, you know, back in the day before everybody had
a phone, nobody only people that knew about it really
were right there in that city, or maybe the newspaper
wrote about it, but it never really got out of
that little, you.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Know, geo fence.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
But then when you get you know, everybody with phones
and you know, guy has an off night, or guitar player,
you know, it hits a sour note and it goes
out there and it's viral. Then it affects their their
ticket sellers, like you're.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Talking to the crowd, that all becomes viral notes. So yeah,
I get that. But glad to see Adam Sandler, you know,
mingling with the Kentucky teams and in Lexington last night.
Speaking of Kentucky basketball, we'll get to football. They played
Texas this weekend. It's a seven pm kickoff. But a
lot of talk yesterday about basketball and the report from
the Lexington Herald Leader that said that the nil budget

(09:14):
for this men's basketball roster this year is what twenty
two million dollars, which is almost double what the number
was yesterday and well far ahead than any other roster
in college basketball. Does that change your expectations at all
for the season or anything about what you think about
this roster knowing how much money that you're making.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
For I mean, the expectation I think is always the
same Here at Kentucky. Mark Pope alluded to that it
doesn't matter what kind of roster you put together, what
kind of schedule you got in front of you, the
championship is always going to be the expectation four of us, right,
That's right. So, but yeah, I mean, when you see
the numbers and maybe you see a guy like Mark
Stoops getting a little bit less money, maybe you have
a little bit of you know, you give him a

(09:53):
little bit of leeway, I guess, but maybe not this
fan base. But I feel like, you know, if he's
already a disadvantage plan in the sec you need to
give football as much as you can, you know, and
when I see that they're two million dollars behind it, Yeah,
that doesn't change the end game mistakes, you know, not
calling timeouts, middle eight, poor game management by the coaching staff.
But it does affect the players that you get. So

(10:16):
with basketball though, I think we need to though we
need to give the basketball team as good a chance
as we can to win that time.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Well, I completely agree about the football thing. Just because
they're making maybe what is it two million dollars or
less for the nil budget for them or whatever that
number may be. The mistakes that we've seen are not
because of talent level. It's because of the coaching. I
would like to see it maybe moved a little differently.
Let's get a true number one receiver instead of spreading
out your nil receiver money between two the ball, put

(10:41):
all your eggs in one basket.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I want to put them all in one basket. And
gets kind of real este didn't they kind of do
that with Cali Zada and that hasn't really panned out.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, he got injured, and I feel like you got
to make that gamble at the quarterback spot if you
don't have a proven commodity. But maybe that's the luxury
you have now. If Cutter Buwllie's going to continue to progress,
you can use that money elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, he got injured, but I don't My point is,
I don't think he was all that impressive in the
first couple of games that he played anyway, and now
that he's healthy, the fact that they're not going back
to Calauzada kind of proves that point well.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
And not only that, but you have a guy like
Shaia's Pete that's making over a million dollars in nil money,
So I think that's somebody that hasn't lived up to
the billing as well.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Just fall on the ball, Yeah, just fall on the ball.
I mean exactly South Carolina game. Just fall on the ball. So,
I mean, the guy that big, you would think would
not be that whole I know, and he's probably one
of my favorite guys on the team.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh yeah, he is. Stuff that we got absolutely all
the minimal pregame stuff that we got, our preseason stuff
we got from the look right here, we got one
person that has a sign that says Shannon Fan. Oh
look at that. Look at that. There you go, sweet
there you go a little round you. I'm a fan
of yours too. You will never see a billy. You're
the most likable person here. That's probably is here A

(11:51):
five nine two two eight seven Texas At five oh
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talking about Kentucky basketball. The Blue White Game is tonight.
It will not be on the radio. It is not
a full game. It's all kind of scaled back from
what it used to be, Shannon, but another indicator that
the season's almost here.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
It is, And I know you were happy about that
because that means you don't have to come in on
our Friday night and produce the Blue White Game, but
you'll be able to watch that on the SEC network
plus right, which means you have to get on your computer.
You have to find it on streaming. I know that's
been a lot of trouble, but I mean the reality
with these streaming games is we've seen it. You know,
over the years, they just keep adding one or two
games more season. It's gonna be to the point where

(12:27):
half the games are streaming.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, how many is it this year? Is it like
six or seven? Yeah? At this point like six regular season?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Maybe a good thing about Kentucky is, you know, Kentucky
is such a brand and people you know, they're a
brand of basketball that is in demand and people want
to see that. So I think that they'll probably have
less streaming games than a lot of other teams.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with that because the audience will
buy that. Right. Well, before the guys get to Rapperina
in practice for you know, Perdue, I think they're gonna
play a memorial tonight for Blue White. Let's get the
Annabelle doll out of rapp Arena. Did you see it's
there this weekend? Oh? Really? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, now I know Scarefest is going on this weekend.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's that's what it's for now. The Annabelle doll.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Wasn't that the one where the guy who owned it
died mysteriously handler? Remember he was like Dandler with it,
So you don't call it the owner the handler. I
don't know the specific Senate, but do you remember Matt Rife,
the comedian, was the one that bought all these like artifacts.
He didn't die, He has not.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Died, okay, But the previous owner, though, I think, died
right yes, And so now that it's coming to Lexington,
Let's just keep the guys out of the building until
that thing leaves. So are you scared of the doll? Annabel?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I was always as a kid scared of Chucky because
my parents for some reason.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Look, I have great parents, except for this one thing.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Like, if I had kids, I would not let my
six year old watch Chucky. But when I was a kid,
about six or seven, my parents said, yeah, go ahead,
watch Chucky. And I was afraid of Chucky until about
the age of twenty one, and then I finally got over.
I think I finally got over in my fear of
Chucky when I got to college and stayed in dorm rooms.
But but yeah, I mean, I'm not a fan of dolls.

(14:03):
You know, some people have a fear of clowns and
and different things. Mine is I don't like dolls.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, it was probably grimlins for me that I saw
at too young, agmlins and of all the things, grimlins. Yeah,
I was like, don't feed them after midnight, you know,
put them in the microwave if they get out of hand.
But here's the thing. Five year old Billy was thinking
all this.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, and I know you're much younger than I am,
but do you remember or have you ever heard of
my Buddy Doll? Okay, my buddy was all the rage
back in the eighties. You had my buddy and kid's sister,
and I had my buddy Doll. But then when I
watched Chucky for the first time, the my buddy Doll
that was my best friend all of a sudden turned
into an evil doll in my mind because I was like,
this thing is going to turn into Chucky and kill

(14:40):
me in the.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Middle of the night. No longer your buddy, No, he's
my enemy.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
But yeah, I was all of a sudden afraid of
my buddy because of that movie. So to your point,
we probably do need to get Annabelle out of you
said Memorial Coliseums.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
It's rough, it's at Ruck. The guys are at Memorial. Okay, White, Okay,
I'm not superstitious. I maybe a little stitious as we
all love the office. But at the same time, just
just get it out of there, and we can't curse
this season.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean like, if somebody were to go down with
an injury while Annabel's in the house, that's proof that
the dolls a cur ankle doctor and then Annabel, I think,
is the blame that we would put. We still have
an ankle doctor, right, I don't know do it? No,
I don't think we do well, Yui. I haven't heard
anything about the days on top of it. So yeah,
you get a report back. That was the biggest bunch
of BS I've ever heard too. The ankle doctor. I mean,

(15:26):
come on, really, the ankle doctor. So this person's supposed
to do all these I guess workouts and exercises with
the players so they don't don't turn their ankle, and
we had like fifteen turned ankles.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was that year. We had a lot. I mean
I kept the.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Turned ankle tracker, and there were more turned ankles with
the ankle doctor than without the ankle doctor. I think
that was a Caliperi thing, right, it was.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was a cal thing and maybe one of those
things that when you draw attention to it and then
you just realize how many times there you go? Right, yeah, exactly,
So give us call to a five nine two eight
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Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh yeah, Yeah, they've got all sorts of cool things.
They've got a bourbon barrel.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, this thing over here, the bourbon barrel that rises
and goes back in.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, so you could have like a display of your
bourbon tucked away inside of the barrel. But then you
get the remote control out and you hit a button
and the thing arises up slowly and is really cool
cool lighting all yeah, yeah, I got led lights on it.
Really really cool stuff they have here that they can
do for you at your house if you want it.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah. Absolutely, So we'll take a break and be right
back here on this Friday edition of the Kisarpresia. All right,
welcome back. We're live here at forty six Solutions with
a great crowd of Kentucky fans getting ready for the
weekend with Shannon the Dude and Billy rutletd. You give
us call eight five nine two to eight zero two
two eight seven at forty six Solutions and they'll work

(16:46):
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Ryan's the one with the decked out basement with all
the stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, he is the spokesperson for forty six Solutions.
He's had all the cool little gadgets and stuff at
his house.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Absolutely. One person on the text line five O two
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put the doll in the Texas locker room for the
game on?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
So you know, I kind of like that, Yeah, just
kind of hot it somewhere. Don't even let them know
that it's there. Yeah, like in the in like the roof,
because we need some good mojo right locker. We've had
some really bad, uh you know, bad bad games, bad beats.
And here's the thing, though, the offense has to get better.
They have to get better. I mean, if they're gonna
be Texas, it has to be a fourteen to thirteen game.

(17:33):
I don't see Texas scoring that few points. I think
they need to start burning sage.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I mean lighting candles and keeping the flame going for
a while. These are all the strategies that you guys
tried in what Aurora, Colorado when you were trying to
break the KOSR curse?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Then we got out to Seattle and Ryan took the
sage and put it in dropped it off at a
water Yeah, and I was like, well, that just kills
whatever we were gonna do with that.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, that is not a good omen. But talking about
the Kentucky Tech, this game seven pm kickoff, you know
Burnt Orange is going to be in the stadium. I
think a lot of people are going to be doing
that Keenland double dip this weekend in Lexington. Do you
think the loser of this game fires their head coach
at the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
No, not necessarily, because I think the loser of the
game is probably gonna be Kentucky, and I don't think
they're gonna fire.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Mark Stoops immediately.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, I mean, do you okay, you're gonna pick Texas
to be ticket to the end of the end of
the show to keep people guessing, but it doesn't look good.
But to your point, if Kentucky were to beat Texas,
then yeah, I may agree with that sentiment. But you know,
I still think that Kentucky probably gets to.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Five.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I could see him getting to five. A lot of
people would say, Okay, we'll show me the five wins.
And then when when you say that, it's kind of like, okay,
I understand your argument. Yea, because look, Tennessee Tech is
not a guarantee to win. No, And I know people
will say, well, who have they played and the answer
is nobody, you know, the equivalent to the SEC.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's not about just them winning.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's about how many points that team scurse, Like, they're
not only winning, they're winning like seventy two to ten games. Yeah,
and if they can score you know again, if they
can score thirty points against this, they probably be And
that's a.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Lose lose because you beat Tennessee Tech. You don't get
any praise, right, I mean, you've got to beat Tennessee Tech.
You can't hang your hat on that. Yep. But you
get only to four wins and you lose to Louisville
in that final game, you gotta think the sentiment in
the fan base is not gonna be good. So it's
this is an important game. I mean, this is a
gettable game for Kentucky. And that's amazing to say with
a manning on the sideline. And then also a team

(19:34):
that was a national championship favorite when the season started,
weren't they like number one, number one, and have fallen
all the way down to well, I guess just inside
the top twenty right now. But yeah, it does feel
like a game that you could possibly get. We're trying
to talk ourselves into trying to talk about positivity on
a Friday. Well, look, Texas is down two offensive line starters. Yep.
Arch has it looked great? Yep? I mean, by any means,

(19:56):
they did beat Oklahoma last week and their defense is
really good. Kentucky's gonna have to score more than two
touchdown Shanon, I think that's just a given. I picked
against Texas last week in our KSR parlay and filled miserably,
So I don't think I'm gonna do that again tomorrow.
Big win for them. Yep.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Twelve and a half, by the way, is still the
spread if you want to bet it on Draft Kings, right,
you can do that the over under forty three and
a half plus three ninety for Kentucky on the money line.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
So you know, if you do want to throw, maybe
what's the over under on this uh?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Like I said, forty three and a half forty three
and a half, So you know, maybe maybe you want
to take that route if you don't feel good about
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Speaker 1 (21:14):
GIF it's call you want to talk about Kentucky Texas
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or anything that we discussed Texas coming to Lexington for
the first time ever, and I believe Kentucky will go
to A and M for the first time ever next year.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
So I believe the A and M has been in
the league that long, and it's been we still haven't
been to Texas A in Well.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's the best part about this new scheduling probably is
that everybody, if you play four years at Kentucky, you'll
have a chance to play home and away against every
team in the SEC. We got to take a break soon.
But before we do, Shannon, they just told me that
here at forty six Solutions that you can rent this
place for corporate events. Oh really, this is the space
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(21:52):
got a bar right here, the ar right here, some
nice bourbons that I'm gonna withhold if I.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Rent this place? Do I get to tap into any
of the bourbon that I want to? Is that how
it works?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
See? I don't know. I don't know if that's part
of the deal as well. With forty six Solutions, you
might as well ask, though the worst they can say
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this out. You stay away from that fireball, Shannon, Well,
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But yeah, come check out forty six solutions. See the
place for yourself. Like you said, we got some beer

(22:21):
and bagels for you as well. It's Shannon the Dude
and Billy Rutledge on a Friday edition of the KSR
pre Show. We'll be right back, Welcome back. It is
the KSR pre Show, Billy and the Dude KSR coming
up next. We're just drinking some hazel nut coffee up here,
dude doing another show. Yeah, that's good stuff. Ain't nothing
but a thing, that's right. Eight five nine two two

(22:41):
two eighty seven. Couple calls we'll get to in this segment.
I've got a couple wacky headlines from college football. I
want to get to, Shannon. The first is Indiana and
Kurt Signetti agreed to an eight year deal that will
pay him eleven million dollars per year through twenty thirty three.
He also has a ninety three million dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Here we go, Here we go, Indiana being in the
exact same situation Kentucky's in right now because Indiana is hot.
The last couple of years have far exceeded expectations. I
don't think anybody would have ever believed just a few
years ago that Indiana would be in the top ten
in football. Yeah, I mean, historically Indiana football was terrible.

(23:19):
You know, I look at the same thing kind of
going on with Vanderbilt. But you know, I guess their
ad felt like he was in a position to where
we got to hang on to our coach.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
And got long to go down, right, But you can
go to a different team.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But then what happens when next year, you know, they
go they go back to two and two and ten
and ye three and nine and then works against it,
And then that happens for the next five or six years,
and all of a sudden, Indiana football sucks again. Now
you're in the situation where you got a guy that, oops,
we just signed to a ninety three million dollar buyout.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now was stuck with him. Yep. But Indiana's case, like
you said, they've been so irrelevant for so long. A
guy comes and gets them to the playoff and could
do it again. The day that after that he beats
what was the organ that they beat?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
They really are amazing story. And again I mean Kentucky
has gotten to ten wins, we've seen that's possible. But
even where they're at right now with a tough schedule
in the SEC, if Indiana can do that, I Vanderbilt
can do what they're doing, then Kentucky absolutely can do it.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
It shows you can reset. Absolutely, you can reset so
much quicker nowadays instead of like transfers having to wait
a year before they can play and all the rules.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
So I mean, that's that's why I say, like, you know,
if people say we got to get rid of stoops,
well he could go four and eight and then turn
it around and go I don't know, seven and five
with the right transfer class.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yes, But I think the argument to that is you
see twelve years of the same mistakes, you know, and
they're not going away.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
There may be a bigger problem, but there were some
good years in there too. I can't ignore that just
because it's not going well right now. Here's another headline
from the college football world. Yesterday, North Carolina GM Michael
Lombardi took a fundraising trip to Saudia Arabia two weeks before.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
The season started. Wow, well he's got his priorities in line. Huh.
Pablo Torre is going to be coming out with a
podcast today revealing more information about that. By the way,
if Pablo has something on you, I mean you need
to run and hide. I mean, he has found your
deepest and darket's secret. It's kind of like Corey Price.
But what are we doing? What are we doing in
NIL in college football where gms are going to Saudi

(25:13):
Arabia to try to get money for this? So I'm
trying to get funding for funding nil. Yeah, if you
want the best players, how much money can you pay?
But now we are what selling out to Saudi Arabia
to do it. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
This first time I've heard this, so I'll be interested
to see to see what happens and how the story develops.
But that's the first I've ever heard of anybody doing something.
This is unbelievable, Like we're going to have to blow
up this system in a few years. Like this cannot
remain the same when it comes to this. We cannot
outsource this to Saudi Arabia and just the highest bidder. Well,
I mean We've been saying for years that they need

(25:47):
to have some sort of guardrails on Nil, and they
really haven't came yet. I mean, so right now, it's
still we're still in this era where's the wild West,
and there's things that are happening like this that we've
never even thought that it would happen, right Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
And I know the Hulu documentary about Bill Belichick and
you would see just got canceled. But I cannot wait
for the documentary about this U n C. Stuff. I mean,
this has just been the story that keeps on giving,
and I hope it keeps going. I mean, I hope
this is not a one and done for him. I mean,
this has been a contact gold mine for us. If
I'm nine two two eight seven, who is first up? Today? Rick?

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Got Steph up first?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Hey Steph? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Hey guys, I've been sick.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Forget well soon? Well, how are you feeling stuff? Are
you feeling better?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I had to call
into work today, but I need I need to feel
better because I have bowling regional tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Bowling bowling regional. What's your average scorer? And you bowl? Steph?
We don't have to talk about that. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
I've been really bad. I've been my last practice.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
I.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Hit out like a little over one hundred.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
You would probably beat me in bowling though. Yeah, Shannon
needs the bumpers, you know, and the five pound balls.
That's right.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
One reason I called was Billy when you guys, you
guys were talking about you on KSL yesterday, you're awesome.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, thank you, Steph. That means a lot. I appreciate
you calling in and.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Saying that, and I called, I voted on you. I said, yet, oh.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
See, this is some of the support that I called in.
I had stuff I had to mobile the fan base,
get Billy over fifty percent or that I could not
recover from that. Well, thank you, Steph. We're hoping you
feel better for bowling regionals tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, and then we got I got flat football regionals
on Sunday. But I don't think we're gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Everything business ice hock ice hockey coming up on Monday too.
I'm sure basketball is around and everything. Thanks you, Thank you, Steff.
We appreciate the call. I was speaking of basketball. I
want to bring something that otega.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oway brought up okay, Shannon, Yeah, he was recently revealed
that he was the preseason SEC Player of the Year, right,
and he was talking with his trainer, Brandon Wells, right
before he got the award and the brand, and the
trainer told him, he said, asked him if he was
going to get it, you know, like, are you going
to get this award? This is yours in the bag?

(28:26):
Always like, oh, I don't know. He's being humble. Well.
Ten minutes later, Oway is announced as the preseason Player
of the Year in the SEC. So he credits the
trainer for him being the SEC player there. He says,
he manifested it. That's cool.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Do you believe in manifesting, Shannon? The power of positive thinking? Yeah,
I think there's something to that. You know, if you
stay positive and work towards a goal, then it's more
likely to happen than if you don't. Right, So I
think that there's a lot to be said for manifesting.
I think that it's it's it's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, you know, some might see it. It's not like
a magic trick. It's not like if you think of
this is going to a have to put the work
in correct, but the uh, you know, I looked it up.
There are scientific studies that support positive thinking, visualization, visualizations
good there you go, and h and self belief linking

(29:15):
that is scientifically researched that this stuff does work. If
I could talk this.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, yeah, So you know, Oway obviously puts in the work.
I mean, I think about him last year on the team.
Where would that team have been last year?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Way? I mean, And he was a.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Player that I felt like midway through the season we
didn't really talk about him as much because we took
him for granted. We took for granted that he was
gonna come out and get fifteen or sixteen a night,
and it was just a given. I mean, for all
those games he had that long stretch where he was
averaging double digits, it was almost, you know again that
he was going to get at least ten for you
in every single game. And when we talked about the

(29:51):
roster this year, he was one of the guys that
we didn't really talk about a lot because again, we
just take him for granted, I feel.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
And obviously it was always play that got him this award,
not the trainer making the comment ten minutes before the
award is announced, but at the same time, I challenge
you to try it at home, positive thinking, visualizing things,
and watch it appear in your life. If you put
in hard work, if you have a little billy confidence,
I promise you you will achieve some of these goals
that you can think.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Are preach it, preach it. I think that's why your
likability went up yesterday. Why is that because you started
thinking positively and then all of a sudden those numbers
that were, like, you know, all the way down kind
of started going up the other way, and then all
of a sudden you had sixty one percent likability.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Well, look, man, a thousand episodes of the pre show,
we must be doing something right right well, or they
just haven't found anybody to replace the show the other
or our salaries are so low that they can justify
just keeping us around. That's right. Let's take a call
before we take a break. Here, who's up next? Rank?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Hunter?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Is up next? Hunter? What's up?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
I don't want to talk about Rather talk about caliperry
So and his thirty two years a coach and he's
sent somewhere around like fifty eight people to the league.
Do you really think that John Wall Marcus cousin Davis.
All those guys needed him. Ree Shepherd, Rob and Devin

(31:10):
Booker came off the bench. Jaden Sharp never played a game.
Those guys didn't need him to get to the league.
KL is Exes and O's coach, and when it comes
down to it, he's not the greatest at it because
that's why we lost these games in recent years. So
my question is is he actually a great coach like

(31:32):
we make him out to be or did he just
get those guys because at that time they were winning
And now in the last five, six, seven years, he
hasn't gotten those top recruits and that's why we're seeing
the downslide in him. I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Okay, thank you, Hunter. Well, one thing I would disagree
with is that Cal is not an ex As and
O's coach. I don't think you're going to see him
draw up a play on a whiteboard in the huddle before.
I mean, he might do some simple stuff, but I
don't think he is a tactician. I think he's more
of a recruiter. If you're going to give him a
title as a coach, he's able to get these guys
to buy in to play a role, and that's what

(32:08):
the NBA values the most. They don't want all around guys.
They want somebody that can go stand in a corner
and shoot a three, yep and play some defense. So
cal was able to get these elite level athletes to
buy in at a level that allowed for success at
the college level. That's hard to do. Managing egos, you know,
getting these guys to play their best I think is
a coaching trait, and that is he's one of the

(32:30):
best at it. I think, managing these personalities and things
like that. But I wouldn't call him an x's and
o's coach, Shannon. He's a great salesman.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
And there's a reason why they would bring in, like
the football recruits to talk to Calipari, they would bring
in volleyball recruits to talk to Calipari because cal could
sell the University of Kentucky better than anybody out of
all the coaches there. So that's the reason they would bring,
you know, players that weren't even playing basketball to come
to Calipari and talk about the experience of being and he's.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Very personable I mean off the court, I mean, how
the great thing he did for this Commonwealth can't go unnoticed.
But I think it's fair to say that while the
game adapted and changed, maybe he didn't, you know, and.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Until like what the caller was asking about. I mean,
did Anthony Davis need John Calipari? Did John Wall need
John Calipery? No, Cal needed them. And John Wall could
have gone to UCLA and Anthony Davis could have gone
to Florida or wherever.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
He was still gonna end up in the NBA because
he's got a great you know, he's a great talent,
and you know he was gonna go regardless of where
he went to school. So, no, those players didn't need
Cali Perry, but cal certainly needed the Well yeah, and
and but you have to give him that credit. He
was the one that was able to convince those guys
that this was the school for them. And then John
Wall and cal Perry bring Kentucky back from an abyss right.

(33:47):
I mean, we saw Alan Cutler chasing Billy g on
one of these screens during the break.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I mean, to me, hawk it up there, that's about
fifty mile walk they got on there. Wow. Okay, now
we can turn the TV down, I mean we can,
we can switch it to something else. Now that we
got to watch this, Oh go, that's like a whole movie.
I don't think i've ever seen this. Look at me
wearing my mask. What a weird time that was, putting
the insoles in the shoes, tying the laces. How long
did that take you? Like hours wise like you've seen
I think it was fifteen hours. I look at that

(34:13):
close up in your face. I've never seen this before.
This is like a documentary. It kind of is. Yeah.
I remember them flying the drone over me. Uh yeah,
what a what a crazy time? Huh huh Yeah, Well
time flies, man. How long ago was that? Twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty one, four years ago. Well that's when we
started the pre show twenty twenty one October. So thank
you everybody that's listened through all these years. You're listening

(34:34):
to the KSR pre Show right now, and we need
to take a break. Eight five nine two eight h
two two eight seven one segment remaining here will be
right back. Welcome back. It is the show before the show,
the KSR Pre Show live at forty six Solutions here

(34:55):
in Lexington Green. This was a mistake by whoever put
up the Shannon the Dude documentary walk in the fifty miles,
He's talked about nothing else during the break, He's reliving
the moments. It's like another victory lap for him here.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Literally, it was the greatest accomplishment of the COVID era.
I mean, give me something that happened during COVID that
was more impressive than my fifty mile walk.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh wait, I'm sure many things, many things, But I
enjoyed the trip down memory Road. I forget how long
Drew's beard was at the time. I forget about all
the people that were just lining up, just wanting to
wave so you could walk by, and you're doing like
little thumbs up like you're a presidential cannon. I kind
of felt like I was.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
And there I have at one forty three pm August
twenty first, Ok, I thought it was twenty twenty one,
but me because it was twenty twenty, twenty twenty yep,
And there there's all the people at the finish line.
Look at the guy bowing down to me as I
fit it. Yeah, a little slow mo walk from you. Now,
how bad were you hurting?

Speaker 1 (35:49):
After walk? It was like, was it horrible? Right after
the next day? Where you just you know, had to
lay up or did you rebound pretty.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I actually got up the next morning because everybody was saying,
you won't be able to get out of bed, he
won't be able to walk. The next day I went
to the gym, got on the treadmill and walk like
another five miles just to prove I could do it.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Listen to this guy just goes on the last victory
day after he walks out. That's right, Well, trip down
memory lane here. That's just the kind of stuff you
get at forty six Solutions with these cool video boards
on the wall, and you should come and check it out.
You know, father time comes for everybody, Shannon, but not
Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers yet. Did you watch any
of that shootout last night where the two old quarterbacks

(36:26):
combined for almost six hundred yards and seven touchdowns the
Icy Hot Bowl as they were calling it.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Two guys over forty And you know, Joe Flacco, I thought,
you know, you beat the Packers with the Browns a
couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I thought he was going to do it again just
last week.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
But yeah, I was surprised to see the Bengals actually
win the game on the last second field goal.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
So Flacco's played two games and ten days, doesn't even
know the playbook. That's impressed, Commy. I know, you know,
you say, well, he use an NFL quarterback, How hard
can it be? But I mean every team has got,
you know, different playbooks and how they do things, and
he was able to basically just do a crash course
over the phone, Like while he was riding to the facility,
he was getting like, you know, instructions on how they

(37:05):
run their offense. And it's pretty impressive what he's been
able to do in such a short amount of time.
And probably the biggest indictment on the backup quarterback for
Cincinnati and Jake Browning, where Flacco was named the starter
before he ever got to the facility. It's like, yeah,
this guy's going to be the starter. I don't even
have to worry about it there. How would that make you,
Jill if you're the backup? Waiting here?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
A moment and then they were like, well we're gonna
bring in Flocko. He doesn't even know the offense, but
he's still better than Yeah, he's still better than you.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I mean, talk about disrespectful. It may me be a
little unlikable. They're in Cincinnati, and also the MLB's going
on right now, Sham. We had two games last night
and I think we've got two more to night.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
It looks like the Dodgers are going to well, if
they don't sweep, they're definitely going to the World Series again.
I was hoping to see the Brewers and the Mariners,
two teams who have never been to the World or
never never won a World Series, play each other in
the World Series. But now the Blue Jays are back.
It's two two two on the Alcs, so I don't
know what's going to happen on that side. That looks
like the Dodgers versus either the Blue Jays or the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Let's take a quick call before we got to end
the show. Anybody else on the line? Rick God Jake
on the line, Hey, Jake, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Hey? It's good to be on the line with the
with the most likable person on KSR Shan and the dude.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
There you go. That's right, we're going back, going in
a good direction. Right, great call, great call. Hey when
did Hey, when do you do it?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Where do you do your first?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Mark Pope show Billy.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
You know, I'm not sure. That's actually a great, great question, Jake.
I have been pulled off of the Coaches shows. Ohol,
So I don't do those any because you don't let
kids call in and talk to Mark Pope. I think
it was that one caller that got Marks stoops to
say pony up that one time. Oh yeah, So if
you want to blame that on me, you can.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
That's the thing, you know, Like, we get these quotes
from the Coaches Show, but really it's the callers who
set up Mark Pope awful quotes. And the reason those
callers get on is because Billy lets them on. So
it's really your fault. It was no longer anymore.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, anything else Jake to you guys, Ye, all right,
thank you appreciate it. Uh, Shannon, I got a problem
at my house right now. Oh really, Yeah, I'm eating
all the Halloween candy. See, I'm telling you, this is
why I don't do it. I'm a procrastinator when it
comes to most things in life, and this is why

(39:22):
it would be good to be a procrastinator when it
comes to buying your candy, because in the past I
have made that mistake where you go out to the
store and they got Halloween candy now and the stores
like in August, you know, and you get it and
you load up the bowl and you think, Okay, I'm
gonna be ready for Halloween. Next thing, you know, you've
eaten all the Halloween candy and it's Halloween and kids
are knocking on your door and you're like, here a kid,
here's some ramen noodles because I don't have anything else

(39:44):
to give you. You know, here's a uh.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Pat on the back. Yeah, no, here's a rama. It
has't even got the chicken player.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
This is what.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
And got a bunch of ton of stuff from Walmart.
We're talking like peanut butter cups and like these kit
cats that are like witches, like they're green. Oh yeah,
to glow on the dark stuff. And so I've just
been eating it every night. She went into the closet,
She's like, where is the Halloween candy?

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Well, I saw a study on this that said, like,
I think sixty percent of people actually have to go
out and restock three different times before Halloween. So you
are not you are not in the minority here. The
majority of people that get Halloween candy have to go
out and buy it.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Three different times. Well, you're gonna you're gonna be getting
all like the Nerds and like the the Twizzlers and
all the stuff in the variety package. Loook.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
They brought Nerd gummy clusters here for Matt did so
you know those aren't gonna make it to the second hour.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I mean that's a nice touch, though, isn't it. You
know who's coming.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
I'm try they got they got hazelnut coffee for hazelnut COFs.
They got Nerd gummy clusters for Matt. They got Shannon
the dude right here for me too. And it's probably
good that there's still mimosas here. We want to make
sure that Billy goes throughout the workday. The Moses really
set me. We've got a full bar behind us. I
feel like we could make that happen if we really.

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That's true.

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Speaker 2 (41:32):
Come up from twelve thirty two, one to thirty. Come out,
have a lunch with us. Round up your meal. You're
gonna help out the nest and families and crisis. It's
a great cause, and come have lunch with us.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yah went a little lunch with us. And thank you
everybody that came out today. Here the appreciow you guys
are awesome. This is a great crowd and we're ready
to hand it off to Matt and the guys. A
very likable crowd, I would say, I would say, yes, yeah,
it's much more likable than some members on KSR apparently,
but that's gonna do it for us, For Shannon the Dude,
I'm Billy Rutlers. This has been the KSR pre Show
and we will talk to you on Monday.