August 26, 2026 • 41 mins
Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk player eligibility, updates to Kroger Field, and the passing of Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is the KSR Pre-Show, Wednesday, August 26th. I am Shannon,
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hemp legal, cornbreadhemp.com slash action. Being joined by Billy Rutledge,
as always. He is over in Lexington. And, man, sad
news yesterday. The kind of shocking news that Dolly passed away, Billy.
We'll be playing a lot of Dolly on the show today.
Passed away at the age of 80. I mean, so
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many things you can say about Dolly. You can do
an entire show about her, right?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Not only.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Entertainer, I would say, is a great way to sum
it all up in one word, but also gave back
to the community. Of course, it was in movies and
so many albums that she released over the years, TV shows,
the Dolly Parton library that she opened up, what was
it called? Imagination... Imagination Library. Imagination Library, there you go. So,
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just sad news that she passed away yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, never met her, obviously, but felt like I had
a deep connection to her. Not sure why, but I
feel like she had that impact on a lot of people.
Somebody that was just genuine and a joy to be around.
You mentioned all the jobs that she does, not only
an acclaimed singer, but actress and philanthropist. One of 12
children that grew up, didn't have a child herself, but inspired,
(01:44):
I think, a generation of people. And and just beloved, right?
Like we don't see a lot of figures, both sides
of the aisles, both love. She refused the presidential medal
of freedom three different times because she didn't believe that
she didn't want to get into politics at all. Shannon,
I commend that I do. And, and then you, you
hear about this imagination library and some of the stats
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that go along with it, 300 million books worldwide given
to kids under the age of five. And, one of
six kids in the United States today under the age
of five receiving, receiving imagination library books like that. It's,
that is a honorable legacy to live, to live on
after you die. And so, you know, it was, it
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was sudden and, and I hate the news thinking about
her family and, and everybody that's been mourning over this
last day or so.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We'll play some Dolly as we go throughout the show. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She opened up the library here in Louisville, which is,
you know, kind of hits close to home knowing that
there's those libraries all throughout the country. But when you
got one that's like right down the road from here,
she just did so much giving back to the community and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Just really sad news yesterday. I love some of her
quotes too. Takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
That's one of her quotes.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And she also said, I'm not offended by dumb blonde
jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I also
know I'm not blonde.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So rest in peace, Dolly.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The quick wit from her on the talk shows back
in the day were incredible. And then, you know, she
goes on and has this career in television and movies.
Her songs are critically acclaimed, right? I mean, Jolene and
I Will Always Love You, some of the best songs,
you know, of all time. Originally, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I guess this is, you know, just maybe folklore, but
she wrote those two songs, Jolene and And I will
always love you on the same day. Now, that was
the story for the longest time. Now, she later kind
of walked that back a little bit and goes, well,
maybe it wasn't all on the same day, but it
was written in a very close span to those songs.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I would say if you wrote Jolene.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And I will always love you back to back to back,
like on the same day, that was a pretty good
day for you.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean, those are two of the biggest songs in
country music.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
A great day in American history, if that was true.
And then, you know, she goes on to open her
own amusement park. Dollywood.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Did you ever go to Dollywood back in the day?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, I've never been to Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I went to.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Dollywood when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And, you know, she's opened up so many other little
side businesses and stuff. There's actually one that just opened up.
I think it was last year. It's like a dinner
and a movie type thing. You know, you see those
when you go to Gatlinburg, like a dinner and a show.
And there's one that's in Panama City Beach that just
opened up last year, but it's like a pirate thing.
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I haven't been to it yet, but I kind of
want to go check it out. So it's like dueling pirates.
They're fighting, you know, but you're watching the show as
you have dinner at Dolly's Pirate Show. I don't know
the exact name of it, but that's essentially what it was,
dinner and a show that you get.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well, if Dolly's associated with it, I'll check it out.
Pirate Show, a little skeptical at first, but, you know,
everything that she did seemed to turn to gold.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I posted a video this morning of her being honored
and named a Kentucky colonel by Andy Beshear a number
of years ago, so a fellow colonel. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You and I are both colonels. See, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That shows they give it out to just about anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
If you and I have the same award that Dolly
Parton has, I mean, come on. She's probably thinking, really? Oh,
this is a nice award. By the way, Shane and
the dude and Billy Rutledge also. Oh, really? Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's still the highest honor a governor can give a
civilian in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But Pigeon Forge, you can't go to Pigeon Forge or
Gatlinburg and not see Dolly, not think about Dolly because
she's all over the billboards and everywhere you go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know, when Gatlinburg had.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That forest fire a few years back, she gave a
ton of money to help rebuild and help out everybody
that was affected by that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And just just an icon, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
In a world of negativity that we live in, especially
celebrities that are highly criticized. Dolly was like the only
celebrity I can really think of that nobody had a
bad word to say about her. And if you said
a bad word about Dolly, you might get punched in
the face because that's how beloved she was just all
throughout the world. And it's hard to find any, like, again,
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I don't think, I can't think of anybody else that
you've never heard anybody say one bad word about.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that's Dolly.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Icon's a good word for it. Think about all the, the,
the work she did with country music and Nashville becoming
the mainstream city that it is now. I think she was,
you know, a big part of that as well. And,
and the selflessness to allow somebody else to sing your song.
And then it becomes maybe the biggest pop song of
all time.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I mean, that, And she had quite the career herself
with 25 different No. 1 songs on the charts. But
you'll have to play some of your favorites coming back
from break today. Well, I will.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, the other thing before we move on to
some sports stuff, but, you know, she was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few years ago.
But she goes, well, wait a minute. I don't have
really any rock songs. I'm not really a rock and
roll artist. So what does she do? She goes out
and she makes a rock and roll album, Dolly. She
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wrote some of her original songs. Part of the album
is her original stuff that's rock style music. But then
she went in and she covered like Freebird and she
did all these covers of classic rock songs and put
that out. So I always respected that part of her, too,
because you know how I am about the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Half of them don't even belong
in the Rock Hall of Fame because it's not rock music.
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Dolly was like, you know what? OK, I'm a country artist,
but you're going to put me in the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. It's fine, but I got to
put out a rock album so that I can say
that at least I'm a rock and roller.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, I heard Tom Leach say this morning she covered
Stairway to Heaven. I went and found that this morning
and watched it. It was incredible. Like, who is doing that, right?
Who's changing genres like that? Who covers impossible songs like
Stairway to Heaven? Well, Dolly.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And at her age, just, was it three years ago,
that she came out as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I saw a clip of that, too, recently.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, we could go on and on about it. So,
rest in peace, Dolly, at the age of 80. And
like I said, we're You're going to hear plenty of
Dolly as we go throughout the pre-show in KSR coming
up at 10 o'clock. So yesterday, Billy, I guess the
big news was that the SEC and Big Ten sort
of jointly announced that any player that signed with an
NFL team will not be eligible to play college football
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in either of those conferences. So now, you know, if
you're looking at college basketball and how that role has
been for the longest time, once you entered the draft,
you're done in college. But because of this fifth-year rule
now that's in effect– You've got players that previously could
have played five years. The future players are going to
get five years. But you've got this one group of
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players that played last year that now don't get a
fifth year.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So that's what all this whole thing is about, right?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And now you've got guys that went through minicamp, like
Alex Afari, maybe didn't necessarily sign with the team. And
now they're trying to figure out, well, what about us?
Are we going to be eligible to play? And as
it looks right now, as I read it, Billy, since
Alex Afari didn't sign with the Packers, just went through minicamp,
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he would be eligible to play a fifth year at
Kentucky this year. At least that's my read on it.
I know this thing is confusing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's chaos.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You've got to be well-read to truly understand what's going
on with this.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But after being, we thought, eligible.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then looked like maybe not eligible, now looks like
he's eligible again.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So you're keeping score at home.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The way that it reads now, I think that Alex
Afari-Billy would be eligible to play.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
A final year here at Kentucky. Is that how you
read it? Is that your understanding of it?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I believe so, but I am as confused as many
others out there. On the flip side of this, Mark
Mitchell is in the conversation, the SEC also bringing up
the fact that players that signed NBA contracts shouldn't be
coming back and playing in the SEC. Well, Mark Mitchell
did not sign an Exhibit 10 contract. If he had,
(10:02):
I think it'd be in clear writing he would not
be eligible for Kentucky. But since he did not and
only played in the Summer League, we find ourselves in
a gray area there as well. So it's been really
confusing to not be a lawyer and try to follow
sports right now with everything going on. One of the
main takeaways I hit, I think you hit the nail
on the head when it came to the explanation there, Shannon,
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about one class of people that aren't being allowed this
fifth year, that 2022 class that is not getting that
fifth year of eligibility that's being brought down by the NCAA.
But the NCAA continues to fight to not allow these
kids to have that extra year of eligibility. The SEC
have released two statements over the last 48 hours or so.
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Their first statement had a sentence in which it said
individuals who choose to leave college athletics, sign professional playing
contracts and compete professionally should not then be permitted to
return to college competition. Well, the problem I have with
that is that these athletes didn't have a choice. According
to the NCAA, they just ran out of eligibility. They
had to go to the next level after their so-called
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last year of college competition.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That's their argument, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We didn't try to come back for a fifth year
because we didn't know we would have a fifth year.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We didn't know that was an option, so we moved on.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So Mark Mitchell was never able to enter the transfer
portal to put himself in a clear spot to be
able to be picked up by a team like Kentucky.
Denzel Aberdeen did. I don't know how he– the way
that he did it, Shannon, he maybe had some inside information.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, he was the guy that was out ahead of
the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He was.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
He finished up his eligibility, or at least we thought,
and then goes, well, I'm going to enter the transfer portal.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And everybody's going, why are you entering?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
What's the point of that?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Why are you going to the– you're done, dude.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Like, move on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like, go get a job. He goes, no, I'm in
the transfer portal.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You got some good advice.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And now it looks like because he was ahead of
all of this– that he may be the one that's out.
So the Exhibit 10 thing you just mentioned, the Exhibit
10 contract, let's try to explain that because I didn't
even know what that was if we're being honest with
each other until this morning. So the Exhibit 10 contract
is where players sign a one-year deal. It's a minimum
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salary NBA contract that is not guaranteed and would allow
a team to secure a player's G League rights if
they are cut before the season starts. So Mark Mitchell
did not sign that, which is good. However, there's also
an SEC conference rule that states that all players must
enter the transfer portal in April or else you're not
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allowed to transfer to another school within the conference, which
would make him ineligible to play at Kentucky if Commissioner
Greg Sankey upholds that rule. So, okay, do you think that,
first of all, He's going to uphold that rule. I mean,
it is a rule. Why have a rule if you're
not going to have an enforcement of that rule? Secondly,
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if he's not eligible to play here, would that.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Mean, though, that he could go to another conference? I
think that it would. So could he go to, like,
let's say Kansas, for instance. Let's just pick a team,
pick a power team out there that maybe he would
go that's close to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Not in the Big Ten or SEC, right? Yeah, that's
on the same level of Kentucky. If Sankey says that
that rule is going to be upheld, that I would
think that he would probably seek maybe a school like
Kansas and go play there since he can't play within
the conference.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, look, on the surface, this all makes sense. I
don't think we disagree. NFL players, NBA athletes, guys that
signed G League contracts, they shouldn't be coming back to
college and playing. If you make that decision to go professional,
then go professional. You shouldn't be able to leave the
door open If it just doesn't work out after a
preseason game in the NFL and regardless, but these kids
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didn't have that choice. That's what I'm like. That's what
I was trying to say is they didn't have a
chance to enter the transfer portal to be eligible. Their
eligibility was up according to the NCAA. So now that
I'm just surprised that they are fighting it this hard, Shannon,
why not just make a blanket waiver for these guys
and then start these rules next year? Like I, it
just seems unfair to it. The class of 2022, that's
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not able to get this fifth year of eligibility. And
now we find ourselves late in the game, right? I mean,
less than two weeks away from Kentucky football starting, and
we're asking Alex Afari, can he practice with the team?
Can he not? Is he going to be able to play?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Is he not?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I think that was the one thing we wanted to
avoid in all this, right, is this being so late
in the process. And unfortunately, we weren't. And so, again,
the NCAA shows its incompetence with all this. And now
you have the two major conferences in the Big Ten
and the SEC aligning and trying you know, trying to
make it, do it their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They just need to, I mean, there needs to be
a rolling and there needs to be one fast. Kentucky
plays next weekend, right? And we're going to be in
a situation to where maybe we don't know if one
of our best defensive players is even going to be eligible.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Who's trying to play for the same team, right? Not
even trying to enter the transfer portal to go to
a different school. This is just somebody that's trying to
get a fifth year at the school that he's already
been at. So, I think the bird's eye view, it
seems pretty foolish why you wouldn't just allow a one-year
waiver for these guys to get that fifth year of eligibility.
But the NCAA held on to amateurism for far too long,
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so why not continue to make stupid decisions? 859-280-2287.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We'll make it an Ask Anything Day if you want
to get in. And we'll take your calls and play
some Dolly.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Coming up next. And I have to admit something to you. Oh,
you want to do it now or you want to
save it?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
No, we can save it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'm just afraid.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Billy's confessions. Billy's going to admit something. His confession to
me coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He's going to admit that I've always been his favorite,
even though he doesn't want to admit it. That's what
it is, right?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'll admit that. You're my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
On the KSR.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm hearing this for the very first time, Billy. So
I wasn't aware either that Dolly covered Stairway to Heaven.
which is seven minutes long. So I'm going to have
to go back later today and listen to all of
this in its entirety. But yeah, her putting out the
rock album, I thought was really cool. Like so many
others have just gone into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame with never writing one rock song.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I love that she actually, you know, made an attempt
to do rock music.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, if anybody deserved to be in it that didn't
have a rock album, it'd be her. But that just
kind of shows who she was, that she'd go out
and still make that album.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know, it's, I think, natural for people to want
to know what was the cause of death. From what
I heard on the news this morning, she had entered into,
I guess, like a hospital because she was dealing with cancer.
So I think that's what the actual cause of death was.
But regardless, sad. Sad to lose Dolly.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You and I were talking during the break, Akron, which
we do not talk a whole lot of Akron football
here on this show. But we have, though, a little
bit over the past few weeks because they announced that
they were going to do this, I guess it's like
a raffle, where they were going to pick out one
person who bought season tickets for Akron football was going
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to be able to win the opportunity to become the
offensive coordinator for the first drive of the first game
of the season. And you said that they have selected
their winner.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So while they announced finalists, including celebrities like Big Cat
from Barstool Sports, and is it Bordeaux who does the
college football video game and is a big fan of
Kentucky Athletics, actually played Will Stein in football at the
facility not too long ago, they ended up picking an
Akron grad. His name is Marty Wims II. He is
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the winner of the Akron Offensive Coordinator of the Game
Promotion Award. He will assist Joe Moorhead in designing the
script for Akron's opening drive versus Robert Morris on September 12th.
Akron grad and serves as the CFO for Stark Enterprises.
And a lot of people are praising this decision because
while you could have made it a gimmick and maybe
gotten some backlash by picking somebody like Big Cat, you
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ended up picking a fan, right? You ended up picking
an actual fan of Akron.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Is it random blind drawing that we're doing? Because that
was my understanding. It was a raffle.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So, like, we're going to reach our name into the hat,
you know, reach and pull a name out of the hat.
Whoever comes out is who we have. Are you telling
me they selected these or are they?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I don't know of the process. If they just wrote
10 names down and put it in a hat. Like
I decide my NFL draft or my fantasy draft order.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, but I thought it was supposed to be everybody
that bought season tickets. That was the gimmick. You buy
a season ticket. We throw your name in the hat.
We're going to pull out somebody at random. You become
the OC for the first draft.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know, I thought maybe that would have been it.
But can you really give the reins to a– Grandma?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes, grandma.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Well, not grandma, but like a fan of the other team,
like a Robert Morris fan. Like they're not going to
give the offensive coordinator a job to that. But I
felt like if it would have been Big Cat or
Bordeaux or these other– celebs it would have felt a
little rigged right now so at least it's rigged to
the little guy and and now you get an akron
alum who will have be the most scrutinized opening drive
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of the college football season will it not like.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah but you know the fact that they're working with
the head coach i wanted just cart block you go
out there here's the headset call some plays But no,
it's not like that. You've got to draw them up.
You've got to meet with the coach. You've got to
script the plays. To me, it takes away from it
a little bit. But I understand them not just handing
over the headset to a random fan and.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Saying, go for it. But let's be honest, it would
be a lot more entertaining if that were the case, right?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You've got to install the plays, too, right? You can't
just call the annexation of Puerto Rico on the first
play and expect all the guys to know.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, they should know the playbook, and you just call
the name of the play, and off they go.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But, you know, you have to think, too, that the
head coach is going to be really heavy-handed with calling
the plays. Like, if I were the person, you know, going, hey, coach,
let's run. He'd probably go, nah, let's do this instead.
And then you have to kind of go, all right,
all right, you're the coach, I guess. Even though I'm
the one that spent my hard-earned money on Akron season tickets.
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I guess we'll have to go along with what the
coach says.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Ultimately, he's going to override.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, I hope this winner is not a pushover. This
Martin Allen wins the second. He needs to be very strong-willed,
wanting to run the flea flicker the second play of
the game. Coach, I'll run it middle in the first play,
but the second one, we are going to do a
reverse flea flicker.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm going to be watching the game, like I'm sure
a lot of you are, just to see what happens.
But if it's just standard football plays, I think we're.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Going to know that the coach had a lot to
do with it. But if we see, as you just mentioned...
you know, double reverse flea flicker on the first play
or a couple of Hail Marys, then I might say,
all right, there's some validity to actually allowing the fan
to pick the play because no fan wants to run
it up the middle three times and punt. No fan
is going to call dink and dunk plays. All right,
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let's run a screen. Let's run a sweep. No fan
is calling those plays.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Are you really going to punt either? You only have
one drive. You were going to admit defeat?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
If we're backed up on our five-yard line and I
want the team to win, yeah, I may actually punt.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Like coaches looking over at you, sending out the punt team,
you're like, no.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, stay. We're going for it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Fourth and 34. You better believe we're going for it.
I only have one drive here.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
859-280-2287. Let's go to Dennis. What's up, Dennis?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Hey, guys. One real quick before I get on to
what I'm going to talk about. I've only got about a.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Minute here, so if you're going to be long-winded, we've
got to go quick.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Okay. Okay, we'll skip that. Here's why Greg Sankey's been
so adamant about the five-for-five. They set the rule this
year for future players... Your fifth year, you get to
play five for five. He cannot allow these players that
just graduated this past season to– he can't allow them
(21:51):
to play. Because what if somebody five years ago said, well,
what about me? Do I get my five for five?
Do I get to come back to college and play?
There's got to be a cutoff somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, there does.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But, again, you've got guys before them and the guys
after them, and they're kind of stuck right in the middle.
Thanks for the call, Des. We appreciate it. And I
think that's the argument. The guys before us could. The
guys after us can. But we're kind of wedged in
the middle in no man's land, and we're not allowed
to play. That's their argument. We'll take more of your
calls coming up next. It is the KSR Pre-Show. All right,
(22:26):
welcome back, KSR Pre-Show. Some more Dolly here. I'm going
to play some Dolly songs you're not going to hear
on every other show, Billy. Everybody's going to hear 9
to 5, Jolene, I Will Always Love You. This is probably, though,
I know you can't hear on podcast, this is probably
my favorite Dolly Parton song. It's called Mule Skinner Blues
from early in her career, where she's yodeling right here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
How good is that?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I had never even heard this song before, but we
were on one of our KSR road trips. And as
you know, Matt always drives. Matt always has control of
the radio. And he's listening to Willie's Roadhouse. And I'm
in the back seat, halfway paying attention to what's going on.
But I hear this song come on. I'm like, what
is this song? This song is quirky. It's kind of catchy.
I like it, though. It was Dolly, Mule Skinner Blues.
(23:18):
That was the first time I'd ever heard this song.
So I think that to this day is still my favorite.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, this may be the first time I'm hearing it.
The only other person I've heard yodel is Mason Ramsey
when he came to the Louisville building when we.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Were— Weren't you like, this guy can't sing?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Weren't you like— I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think you hate kids, and that's probably— he was a
kid coming in.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Dolly sounds angelic here. I love this. What did you
say it was called one more time? Mule Skinner Blues.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Mule Skinner Blues. Yeah, Mule Skinner Blues. All right, so
I didn't get to it last segment.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I forgot already.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So quickly, I forgot.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You told me that you have a confession to make,
so without further ado, here you go.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh, yeah. What do you got? You got to make
something to me.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So I went to a housewarming party last night, and
the housewarming party was in Mount Washington. It was in
Bullitt County.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
How are you going to come to Mount Washington and
not come by and see me?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I know. I know. I'm sorry. I mean, we didn't
wrap up until like 9 o'clock or so. I still
had an hour and a half drive home. And so
I have to admit that I was in your neck
of the woods. And they think they live by you. Wait,
they live by me?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Like you literally went to my next door neighbors and
didn't bother coming over to say hi?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah, I think it was actually pretty close. I don't
know exactly the layout over there, even though I've been
to your house and been to the bar, but it
was very close to your neck of the woods and
ended up not coming by. So I do apologize about that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I am disappointed in you for not coming by and
dropping in. What a nice surprise that would be. Because
it's one thing when your buddy that lives in the
same town drops in, but to see Billy R.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Sports all the way from Lexington, I'd be like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I know, I know. I was just wrapped up in
something else, and then the time got away from me,
so I apologize. But I want your thoughts on the
housewarming gift that I gave. Remember, we were kind of
workshopping it yesterday. Yes. I was thinking... cutting board, maybe,
or what you said, candles were a good gift. Might
end up still doing that for Matt on his house
(25:20):
party that's going to be going on this Saturday. I
ended up getting him a cast iron skillet. Like a
good one. The big size, you know, they got a family,
they got three kids, moved into a new house. Shannon,
you got a cast iron skillet at home, right?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, but I don't know what to do with it.
You put it on the stove, you turn it on,
but then you got to throw the ingredients in there.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You still have to do like the That's right. Yeah,
you do have to cook in the cast iron skillet.
It's cleaning it for me and storing it. It's kind
of difficult. You don't want to put it in the dishwasher.
You don't want to scrub it with anything. You've got
to take care of it. It's like a baby. It's
like a child.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I hate when I have to clean my cast iron skillet.
I hate it. It's clean your cast iron skillet day.
I've got to clear out an hour of my day now.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, it's not an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh, well, it is when I clean my cast iron skillets.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
What's the last thing you cooked in there?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You know, bacon, some eggs. Bacon, eggs.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But I mean, just because you take shortcuts when you
clean your cast iron skillet doesn't mean that I'm going
to take shortcuts on mine because I like to have
a clean cast iron skillet.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You know, like I take, like I said, an hour.
Scrub it down really good.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Put water on it, soap. Put that sponge in there.
You got to get all that grease out.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Got to be clean. Because next time I cook on
the cast iron skillet, it's got to be clean.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well, you know, people rave about them. I've got my
own cast iron skillet set that I use sparingly, but
hopefully that, you know. they're able to put good use
to it. But sorry I was in your neck of
the woods and didn't end up visiting. That's all right.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'm going to come to Lexington one day just randomly
and visit your neighbors and not come see you.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I'm sure. I'm sure you will.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
They've done some upgrades to Kroger Field this year, Billy.
I'm going to go through some of these, and you
tell me if you think these are good upgrades. Do
you care one way or the other? I know you
can't go because you're stuck in the studio having to.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Run the games. Stuck in the studio.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
But first of all, they have lower pricing on select
concession stand items.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I think we can all agree. Nobody's going to get
mad about that, right? I mean, anytime you're lowering the
price on stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah. Domestic canned beers go from $ 10 to $ 5. Hot
dogs go from $ 5 to $ 3. Nachos go from $ 6
to $ 4. When do you see concession prices go down
like that?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
When do you see anything in life go down other
than gas prices occasionally going down? But, like, when does
anything get lowered on prices? Everything continues to go up
and up and up and up.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I mean, when do you ever see concession stand prices
go down? Unless it's like at a Louisville Bats game
and they're.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Doing 1984 night.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Everything's a dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But they're doing it the entire season, so I love that.
They're going to have a new Kentucky team introduction as
a part of their expanded pregame experience.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But did you see, I don't think we talked about
this when you were here, they're also doing this whole
thing on the side for fans where you can pay.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
A certain amount of money.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I think it was $ 285, Billy. You can pay $ 285
and you can run out with the team onto the field.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I did. I don't think I got to talk about it, though.
I may have been away that week. I would love
to do that, wouldn't you? For $ 285, first of all,
that's a very specific number. I wonder how they settled that.
When they were in the meeting on how much should
we charge fans to run?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
$ 285.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Not $ 300.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We're not going to round it up to $ 300. We're
going to make it $ 285.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
That might drive people away. Under $ 300.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh, you think that's the tipping point where people will go,
you know what? $ 285. But if you put another $ 15
on there, I'm not going to run out there.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Well, remind me. Is it just running out of the tunnel?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Is that simply it?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
You just run and then you just run right out
of the exit when you're done?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
There's no... you know, mingling on the sideline or introduction.
It's just you come out in the smoke with the guys.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't think they– yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
They're not going as far as Akron is in letting
you actually call a play.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Or anything like that. Not yet, right?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
But another thing they were doing– and you may be
able to pull up the full list of things that
they're allowing fans to be able to buy, but there's
another thing that you can– You can buy to be
the honorary person to flip the coin or take the
coin out to the referee. I don't know that they
let you flip the coin, but you get to be
the person that delivers the game coin.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
To the referee at the 50-yard line.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You just get to walk out and give it to
the ref.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You get to run it out there to them and
hand it off to the ref, and I guess you
get to stay out there while they do the coin toss.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Oh, wow. We really are going to pimp out every
aspect of the college football season.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
What did we hear about J-Bat? Great fundraiser. Great at
making extra money for the school.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I mean, why not? That's true. I mean, we had
the thing, was it, when was that? A year or
two ago?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
When we had fans out there, you know, fist bumping
and everything, shaking hands with the basketball team.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like during the starting lineups, remember that?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, I do remember the basketball team now that you
mention it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I told Matt for my birthday I would like for
him to buy me the fan experience of going out
there and delivering the coin to the ref.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Oh, you would want Matt to pay for it so
you could do it?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's my birthday. He said he would buy that for
me for my birthday. So there may be a random
Kentucky game at Kroger Field this year where you see
me marching out there with a coin in my hand.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That would be hilarious. I would absolutely love that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
But imagine you're the person who they give you the coin.
You get one job, deliver the coin. You'll lose the coin.
That's something I would do.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh, you can't lose the coin.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Well, I mean, I'm the same type of guy that
locks his keys in his car all the time. I
can't keep up with anything. So I can see me
being the guy who has to deliver the coin and
then go on patting myself down going, where's the coin?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Well, that's your one job. You can't not bring the coin.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I think I put the coin in the vending machine
over there to buy some Fritos.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, you're eating Cheez-Its as you go out there. No,
here I am at the wedding altar. Oh, I forgot
the ring.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The one thing that I actually needed.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So they get a new game day host. I don't
know who this person is.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Ryan Lemon? Nope.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ohavia Phillips.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Game-by-game fan themes. I like this, Billy. In-stadium engagement. So
every game this year is going to be like a whiteout,
a blueout, a stripeout.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Like they're doing something with every single game. So I
do like that.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You said more in-stadium engagement. Can I pay for them
to not play Dumas Walker at the end of the game?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that gets the fans engaged. Everybody engages with Dumas Walker.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't like your hatred and your slander for Dumas Walker.
Put some respect on him. Expanded food and beverage offerings,
they say, and what they're calling new just-walk-out concession locations
that use technology by Amazon through a U.K.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Partnership with Compass Group. I don't know what those words mean.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But I'm assuming that it's a lot easier to just
get your food.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Well, that's kind of like the Reds game where you
don't have anybody that you go to to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh, do you? Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is this like when you go into those Apple stores
and you just pick stuff up and walk off and
don't even.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Have to pay?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Exactly. Not even like have to go to a kiosk.
Like they somehow are able to charge your credit card.
Maybe you scan it on your way in.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I would say you scan the card on the way
in and they know what you– wow, that's kind of–
I've always wondered how exactly they know.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, I know they got cameras and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But how does that technology work to where it knows exactly?
I guess when you go in, you scan your card.
I'm just guessing. I've never been in one of these stores.
I'm guessing when you go in, you scan your card.
There's also a video of what you look like, right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sees your face.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then it recognizes your face on everything that you
pick up and walk out.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, there may be a chip in the item. And
once it leaves the area, then it's going to charge
that card that it's associated with. It's like in.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Vegas when you pick up a drink. You know, they
get those drinks like in your refrigerator. You pick one up,
it charges it to your room.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Are you talking about the mini bar in the hotel room?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, like that time we were in Vegas and Ryan
was hungover and his glasses were hanging halfway off his face.
And he picked up that Coke.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
There's that great picture of him.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah, I know that picture.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
You were telling me that was a minibar Coke for $ 8?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
In the stained white t-shirt, glasses hanging off his face,
and he's holding up that Coke that I think charged
about $ 14 to Matt's room because he picked up a Coke.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Well, smart fundraising. You just pick up a water on
your way out. It's really easy to do, and then
the university gets another $ 6.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
And then finally, new chair back seating added along the
north sideline. So there you go. Just a few of
the upgrades for Kroger Field. Is the Wi-Fi better? Because
I feel like the Wi-Fi has been an issue. And
then for the longest time, you couldn't really hear the band.
Did they get those things figured out for people who
go on a regular basis?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Not mentioned in the release here, but it can't get worse, right?
I mean, especially the Wi-Fi.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Those were the things that seemed like were always an
issue at Kroger Field. But overall, I think I like those,
especially the lowering of concessions.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So you've got to light that up.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
You knew there were some things changing when they invited
us out to two different shows at the football facility
in a matter of like five days. You knew that
there was definitely a change in mindset. So these are
all great things, and hopefully it'll help the Cats maybe
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Speaker 2 (35:43):
All right, so I just got the list of Dolly
songs that we're playing on KSR, so I'm trying not
to do any repeats here.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This one's not on the list, but I'm playing it.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
What is this one?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Code of Many Colors, well-known Dolly song. You didn't say
your favorite Dolly song, did you?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
No. Do you have one? I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Expect you, you know, to be one of these people
that go home and listen to Dolly every day after work,
but you're aware of the songs that she had. Did
you have a favorite one?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I mean, Jolene was one that I've listened to many
a times in the past. You know, I would hum
nine to five as a kid before I ever knew
what Dolly was, who Dolly was and the impact she had.
So that was, that was influential on me. I haven't
seen the movie though. Have you seen nine to five,
the movie?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Parts of it, but there's a lot of movies that
I have seen parts of that you'd like, how have
you not seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Like, well-known movies. I'm not just talking about Dolly Parton movies.
I'm talking about just movies in general.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So I feel like I've seen the first 15 minutes
of just about every movie but never finished them.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well, that's the media box for you, right?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, well, you know, like, especially if it's late at
night and I'm watching a movie, there's, like, if you're
betting on DraftKings, there's a 0% chance I'm going to
make it to the end of it. But, yeah, no,
I've never seen that movie from start to finish.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, I think I'm going to go back and watch
it this week. I think the wife would like it, so.
We will try to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
We were having the conversation about over-under 100-point games for
the basketball team this year. What did we set it at?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Was it 3.5 or 4.5?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
4.5.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
4.5?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Is what I remember, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Okay, would you go over or under on that?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think I took the over just because I feel
like this team isn't going to play any defense, so
they're going to have to rely on good shooting.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
In other words, they're going to give up a lot
of points.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
They're going to have to score a lot of points
to win games.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
So I think that we'll hit the over on that.
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I'm going over. I think that they beat it by
a couple games, honestly. We'll probably get a few in
this non-conference Rupp Arena schedule that Ryan likes to talk about,
and maybe even one in the conference play, because I
feel like this team's just going to have to shoot threes, right?
It's Mark Pope's best roster in the three years that
he's been at Kentucky, and probably the one that fits
(37:51):
that adage of video game-like offense that we were sold
on initially, so you know, it was eyebrow-raising when he
said he wanted Momchilovich to have a worse shooting percentage
this year, but that was because he wants him to
shoot more threes, right? It's probably going to be much
harder to be that efficient if you're going to shoot
almost double the amount of threes that you have up there,
but him, Alex Wilkins, you know, I know Mark Mitchell
(38:15):
isn't going to be the one shooting threes, but if
he can get eligible and join this team, it's going
to just open up a lot for the other guys,
but You do bring him in and you lose some
playing time for guys like NJ and maybe even Trent Noah.
So we'll have to see how Mark Pope works it out.
Maybe he'll just play everybody about 15 minutes, right?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, and I hesitate to try to overreact too much
to what we hear from practice, but that's really all
we have to go off.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
We heard about Trent Noah.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Shooting crazy percentages from three in practice and then get
to the game and can't throw it in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
And then you hear about Momchilovich, you know, going, what
was it? Somebody said 28 for 30 or something like
that from three.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
It wasn't somebody. I think it was the guys on
this show, right, on KSR when they went down to practice.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
It was a combination of guys because we had, you know,
I think it was, first of all, it was some
of our guys that were there that said he went
for 16 for 18. Then another fan called and go, hey,
he's shot 10 more and hasn't missed one. So I'm like,
all right, well, we're keeping score at home. That would
be like 26 for 28.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But yeah, I look at, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
If he is able to shoot anywhere close to that,
he's going to be good for 20 a game. If
Mark Mitchell is eligible to play, he was averaging. what,
around 20, I think, a game last year. So let's
just say those guys hit somewhere in that ballpark. There's
around 40 points right there in two players.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
So, you know, Zoom Diallo, that's a true point guard.
You have Alex Wilkins, who's going to be shooting the ball.
There's no doubt about it. Maybe Cam Williams comes back
as a healthy player and can be a three and
D type of guy. I think there's a lot of potential.
And even if you look at somebody like Malachi Moreno,
if he can progress and take a step forward, he
can help with all that scoring, but. Look, it's defense
that will be the main concern, right? And that's why
(40:00):
we go back to the stat, will they score more
than 100 points in four and a half games? That's
why I go over, because there may be some definite shootouts,
especially early on in the year.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
We didn't get a chance to talk about your guy
Jed York.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Oh, the 49ers owner?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Geez, dude.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I mean, this story, usually things like this go away
in 24 hours. But, I mean, when I go on
social media, it's still being talked about. When I scroll through,
I'm still seeing, you know, just people commenting on it.
And this is one of those things that, especially if
you're Jed York, you want to go away, right? Like,
forget that it even happened. But the fact that the
guy was out at 9 o'clock in the morning just
(40:37):
looking for somebody to hook up with, that's quite a story.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Man, you're a billionaire. You own an NFL team. You
think these guys have it all, right? But this is
not the first NFL owner to be caught doing something
nefarious like this. I go back to the crazy offseason
the 49ers have had. I mean, they had their head coach,
Kyle Shanahan, get into a major car wreck when he
dropped his phone on the ground in his car and
then looked back up and had a terrible wreck. You
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have the electrical substation taking the hamstrings and knees of
guys like Christian McCaffrey and Mike Evans and Joey– Or
is it Nick Bosa that's there? I'm not sure. Brandon Ayuk,
there's been a bunch of drama there. So just, I
don't know. There's like a dark cloud over the 49ers
facility right now.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
I'm just saying, you know, Jed York and Robert Kraft
and Bill Belichick. Who knew that the NFL was so horny?
I didn't, but it's just wild some of the stories
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We've got a game in Dublin, North Carolina, TCU. Bill Belichick.
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That's it for the pre-show. KSR is up next. Thanks
for listening. We'll talk to you later.
Welcome, everyone.
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hemp legal, cornbreadhemp.com slash action. Being joined by Billy Rutledge,
as always. He is over in Lexington. And, man, sad
news yesterday. The kind of shocking news that Dolly passed away, Billy.
We'll be playing a lot of Dolly on the show today.
Passed away at the age of 80. I mean, so
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many things you can say about Dolly. You can do
an entire show about her, right?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Not only.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Entertainer, I would say, is a great way to sum
it all up in one word, but also gave back
to the community. Of course, it was in movies and
so many albums that she released over the years, TV shows,
the Dolly Parton library that she opened up, what was
it called? Imagination... Imagination Library. Imagination Library, there you go. So,
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just sad news that she passed away yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, never met her, obviously, but felt like I had
a deep connection to her. Not sure why, but I
feel like she had that impact on a lot of people.
Somebody that was just genuine and a joy to be around.
You mentioned all the jobs that she does, not only
an acclaimed singer, but actress and philanthropist. One of 12
children that grew up, didn't have a child herself, but inspired,
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I think, a generation of people. And and just beloved, right?
Like we don't see a lot of figures, both sides
of the aisles, both love. She refused the presidential medal
of freedom three different times because she didn't believe that
she didn't want to get into politics at all. Shannon,
I commend that I do. And, and then you, you
hear about this imagination library and some of the stats
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that go along with it, 300 million books worldwide given
to kids under the age of five. And, one of
six kids in the United States today under the age
of five receiving, receiving imagination library books like that. It's,
that is a honorable legacy to live, to live on
after you die. And so, you know, it was, it
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was sudden and, and I hate the news thinking about
her family and, and everybody that's been mourning over this
last day or so.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We'll play some Dolly as we go throughout the show. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She opened up the library here in Louisville, which is,
you know, kind of hits close to home knowing that
there's those libraries all throughout the country. But when you
got one that's like right down the road from here,
she just did so much giving back to the community and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Just really sad news yesterday. I love some of her
quotes too. Takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
That's one of her quotes.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And she also said, I'm not offended by dumb blonde
jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I also
know I'm not blonde.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So rest in peace, Dolly.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The quick wit from her on the talk shows back
in the day were incredible. And then, you know, she
goes on and has this career in television and movies.
Her songs are critically acclaimed, right? I mean, Jolene and
I Will Always Love You, some of the best songs,
you know, of all time. Originally, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I guess this is, you know, just maybe folklore, but
she wrote those two songs, Jolene and And I will
always love you on the same day. Now, that was
the story for the longest time. Now, she later kind
of walked that back a little bit and goes, well,
maybe it wasn't all on the same day, but it
was written in a very close span to those songs.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I would say if you wrote Jolene.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And I will always love you back to back to back,
like on the same day, that was a pretty good
day for you.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean, those are two of the biggest songs in
country music.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
A great day in American history, if that was true.
And then, you know, she goes on to open her
own amusement park. Dollywood.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Did you ever go to Dollywood back in the day?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, I've never been to Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I went to.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Dollywood when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And, you know, she's opened up so many other little
side businesses and stuff. There's actually one that just opened up.
I think it was last year. It's like a dinner
and a movie type thing. You know, you see those
when you go to Gatlinburg, like a dinner and a show.
And there's one that's in Panama City Beach that just
opened up last year, but it's like a pirate thing.
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I haven't been to it yet, but I kind of
want to go check it out. So it's like dueling pirates.
They're fighting, you know, but you're watching the show as
you have dinner at Dolly's Pirate Show. I don't know
the exact name of it, but that's essentially what it was,
dinner and a show that you get.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well, if Dolly's associated with it, I'll check it out.
Pirate Show, a little skeptical at first, but, you know,
everything that she did seemed to turn to gold.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I posted a video this morning of her being honored
and named a Kentucky colonel by Andy Beshear a number
of years ago, so a fellow colonel. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You and I are both colonels. See, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That shows they give it out to just about anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
If you and I have the same award that Dolly
Parton has, I mean, come on. She's probably thinking, really? Oh,
this is a nice award. By the way, Shane and
the dude and Billy Rutledge also. Oh, really? Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's still the highest honor a governor can give a
civilian in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But Pigeon Forge, you can't go to Pigeon Forge or
Gatlinburg and not see Dolly, not think about Dolly because
she's all over the billboards and everywhere you go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know, when Gatlinburg had.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That forest fire a few years back, she gave a
ton of money to help rebuild and help out everybody
that was affected by that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And just just an icon, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
In a world of negativity that we live in, especially
celebrities that are highly criticized. Dolly was like the only
celebrity I can really think of that nobody had a
bad word to say about her. And if you said
a bad word about Dolly, you might get punched in
the face because that's how beloved she was just all
throughout the world. And it's hard to find any, like, again,
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I don't think, I can't think of anybody else that
you've never heard anybody say one bad word about.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that's Dolly.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Icon's a good word for it. Think about all the, the,
the work she did with country music and Nashville becoming
the mainstream city that it is now. I think she was,
you know, a big part of that as well. And,
and the selflessness to allow somebody else to sing your song.
And then it becomes maybe the biggest pop song of
all time.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I mean, that, And she had quite the career herself
with 25 different No. 1 songs on the charts. But
you'll have to play some of your favorites coming back
from break today. Well, I will.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, the other thing before we move on to
some sports stuff, but, you know, she was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few years ago.
But she goes, well, wait a minute. I don't have
really any rock songs. I'm not really a rock and
roll artist. So what does she do? She goes out
and she makes a rock and roll album, Dolly. She
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wrote some of her original songs. Part of the album
is her original stuff that's rock style music. But then
she went in and she covered like Freebird and she
did all these covers of classic rock songs and put
that out. So I always respected that part of her, too,
because you know how I am about the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Half of them don't even belong
in the Rock Hall of Fame because it's not rock music.
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Dolly was like, you know what? OK, I'm a country artist,
but you're going to put me in the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. It's fine, but I got to
put out a rock album so that I can say
that at least I'm a rock and roller.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, I heard Tom Leach say this morning she covered
Stairway to Heaven. I went and found that this morning
and watched it. It was incredible. Like, who is doing that, right?
Who's changing genres like that? Who covers impossible songs like
Stairway to Heaven? Well, Dolly.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And at her age, just, was it three years ago,
that she came out as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I saw a clip of that, too, recently.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, we could go on and on about it. So,
rest in peace, Dolly, at the age of 80. And
like I said, we're You're going to hear plenty of
Dolly as we go throughout the pre-show in KSR coming
up at 10 o'clock. So yesterday, Billy, I guess the
big news was that the SEC and Big Ten sort
of jointly announced that any player that signed with an
NFL team will not be eligible to play college football
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in either of those conferences. So now, you know, if
you're looking at college basketball and how that role has
been for the longest time, once you entered the draft,
you're done in college. But because of this fifth-year rule
now that's in effect– You've got players that previously could
have played five years. The future players are going to
get five years. But you've got this one group of
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players that played last year that now don't get a
fifth year.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So that's what all this whole thing is about, right?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And now you've got guys that went through minicamp, like
Alex Afari, maybe didn't necessarily sign with the team. And
now they're trying to figure out, well, what about us?
Are we going to be eligible to play? And as
it looks right now, as I read it, Billy, since
Alex Afari didn't sign with the Packers, just went through minicamp,
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he would be eligible to play a fifth year at
Kentucky this year. At least that's my read on it.
I know this thing is confusing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's chaos.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You've got to be well-read to truly understand what's going
on with this.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But after being, we thought, eligible.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then looked like maybe not eligible, now looks like
he's eligible again.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So you're keeping score at home.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The way that it reads now, I think that Alex
Afari-Billy would be eligible to play.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
A final year here at Kentucky. Is that how you
read it? Is that your understanding of it?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I believe so, but I am as confused as many
others out there. On the flip side of this, Mark
Mitchell is in the conversation, the SEC also bringing up
the fact that players that signed NBA contracts shouldn't be
coming back and playing in the SEC. Well, Mark Mitchell
did not sign an Exhibit 10 contract. If he had,
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I think it'd be in clear writing he would not
be eligible for Kentucky. But since he did not and
only played in the Summer League, we find ourselves in
a gray area there as well. So it's been really
confusing to not be a lawyer and try to follow
sports right now with everything going on. One of the
main takeaways I hit, I think you hit the nail
on the head when it came to the explanation there, Shannon,
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about one class of people that aren't being allowed this
fifth year, that 2022 class that is not getting that
fifth year of eligibility that's being brought down by the NCAA.
But the NCAA continues to fight to not allow these
kids to have that extra year of eligibility. The SEC
have released two statements over the last 48 hours or so.
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Their first statement had a sentence in which it said
individuals who choose to leave college athletics, sign professional playing
contracts and compete professionally should not then be permitted to
return to college competition. Well, the problem I have with
that is that these athletes didn't have a choice. According
to the NCAA, they just ran out of eligibility. They
had to go to the next level after their so-called
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last year of college competition.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That's their argument, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We didn't try to come back for a fifth year
because we didn't know we would have a fifth year.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We didn't know that was an option, so we moved on.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So Mark Mitchell was never able to enter the transfer
portal to put himself in a clear spot to be
able to be picked up by a team like Kentucky.
Denzel Aberdeen did. I don't know how he– the way
that he did it, Shannon, he maybe had some inside information.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, he was the guy that was out ahead of
the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He was.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
He finished up his eligibility, or at least we thought,
and then goes, well, I'm going to enter the transfer portal.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And everybody's going, why are you entering?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
What's the point of that?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Why are you going to the– you're done, dude.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Like, move on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like, go get a job. He goes, no, I'm in
the transfer portal.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You got some good advice.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And now it looks like because he was ahead of
all of this– that he may be the one that's out.
So the Exhibit 10 thing you just mentioned, the Exhibit
10 contract, let's try to explain that because I didn't
even know what that was if we're being honest with
each other until this morning. So the Exhibit 10 contract
is where players sign a one-year deal. It's a minimum
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salary NBA contract that is not guaranteed and would allow
a team to secure a player's G League rights if
they are cut before the season starts. So Mark Mitchell
did not sign that, which is good. However, there's also
an SEC conference rule that states that all players must
enter the transfer portal in April or else you're not
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allowed to transfer to another school within the conference, which
would make him ineligible to play at Kentucky if Commissioner
Greg Sankey upholds that rule. So, okay, do you think that,
first of all, He's going to uphold that rule. I mean,
it is a rule. Why have a rule if you're
not going to have an enforcement of that rule? Secondly,
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if he's not eligible to play here, would that.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Mean, though, that he could go to another conference? I
think that it would. So could he go to, like,
let's say Kansas, for instance. Let's just pick a team,
pick a power team out there that maybe he would
go that's close to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Not in the Big Ten or SEC, right? Yeah, that's
on the same level of Kentucky. If Sankey says that
that rule is going to be upheld, that I would
think that he would probably seek maybe a school like
Kansas and go play there since he can't play within
the conference.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, look, on the surface, this all makes sense. I
don't think we disagree. NFL players, NBA athletes, guys that
signed G League contracts, they shouldn't be coming back to
college and playing. If you make that decision to go professional,
then go professional. You shouldn't be able to leave the
door open If it just doesn't work out after a
preseason game in the NFL and regardless, but these kids
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didn't have that choice. That's what I'm like. That's what
I was trying to say is they didn't have a
chance to enter the transfer portal to be eligible. Their
eligibility was up according to the NCAA. So now that
I'm just surprised that they are fighting it this hard, Shannon,
why not just make a blanket waiver for these guys
and then start these rules next year? Like I, it
just seems unfair to it. The class of 2022, that's
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not able to get this fifth year of eligibility. And
now we find ourselves late in the game, right? I mean,
less than two weeks away from Kentucky football starting, and
we're asking Alex Afari, can he practice with the team?
Can he not? Is he going to be able to play?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Is he not?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I think that was the one thing we wanted to
avoid in all this, right, is this being so late
in the process. And unfortunately, we weren't. And so, again,
the NCAA shows its incompetence with all this. And now
you have the two major conferences in the Big Ten
and the SEC aligning and trying you know, trying to
make it, do it their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They just need to, I mean, there needs to be
a rolling and there needs to be one fast. Kentucky
plays next weekend, right? And we're going to be in
a situation to where maybe we don't know if one
of our best defensive players is even going to be eligible.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Who's trying to play for the same team, right? Not
even trying to enter the transfer portal to go to
a different school. This is just somebody that's trying to
get a fifth year at the school that he's already
been at. So, I think the bird's eye view, it
seems pretty foolish why you wouldn't just allow a one-year
waiver for these guys to get that fifth year of eligibility.
But the NCAA held on to amateurism for far too long,
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so why not continue to make stupid decisions? 859-280-2287.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We'll make it an Ask Anything Day if you want
to get in. And we'll take your calls and play
some Dolly.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Coming up next. And I have to admit something to you. Oh,
you want to do it now or you want to
save it?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
No, we can save it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'm just afraid.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Billy's confessions. Billy's going to admit something. His confession to
me coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He's going to admit that I've always been his favorite,
even though he doesn't want to admit it. That's what
it is, right?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'll admit that. You're my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
On the KSR.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm hearing this for the very first time, Billy. So
I wasn't aware either that Dolly covered Stairway to Heaven.
which is seven minutes long. So I'm going to have
to go back later today and listen to all of
this in its entirety. But yeah, her putting out the
rock album, I thought was really cool. Like so many
others have just gone into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame with never writing one rock song.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I love that she actually, you know, made an attempt
to do rock music.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, if anybody deserved to be in it that didn't
have a rock album, it'd be her. But that just
kind of shows who she was, that she'd go out
and still make that album.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know, it's, I think, natural for people to want
to know what was the cause of death. From what
I heard on the news this morning, she had entered into,
I guess, like a hospital because she was dealing with cancer.
So I think that's what the actual cause of death was.
But regardless, sad. Sad to lose Dolly.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You and I were talking during the break, Akron, which
we do not talk a whole lot of Akron football
here on this show. But we have, though, a little
bit over the past few weeks because they announced that
they were going to do this, I guess it's like
a raffle, where they were going to pick out one
person who bought season tickets for Akron football was going
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to be able to win the opportunity to become the
offensive coordinator for the first drive of the first game
of the season. And you said that they have selected
their winner.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So while they announced finalists, including celebrities like Big Cat
from Barstool Sports, and is it Bordeaux who does the
college football video game and is a big fan of
Kentucky Athletics, actually played Will Stein in football at the
facility not too long ago, they ended up picking an
Akron grad. His name is Marty Wims II. He is
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the winner of the Akron Offensive Coordinator of the Game
Promotion Award. He will assist Joe Moorhead in designing the
script for Akron's opening drive versus Robert Morris on September 12th.
Akron grad and serves as the CFO for Stark Enterprises.
And a lot of people are praising this decision because
while you could have made it a gimmick and maybe
gotten some backlash by picking somebody like Big Cat, you
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ended up picking a fan, right? You ended up picking
an actual fan of Akron.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Is it random blind drawing that we're doing? Because that
was my understanding. It was a raffle.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So, like, we're going to reach our name into the hat,
you know, reach and pull a name out of the hat.
Whoever comes out is who we have. Are you telling
me they selected these or are they?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I don't know of the process. If they just wrote
10 names down and put it in a hat. Like
I decide my NFL draft or my fantasy draft order.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, but I thought it was supposed to be everybody
that bought season tickets. That was the gimmick. You buy
a season ticket. We throw your name in the hat.
We're going to pull out somebody at random. You become
the OC for the first draft.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know, I thought maybe that would have been it.
But can you really give the reins to a– Grandma?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes, grandma.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Well, not grandma, but like a fan of the other team,
like a Robert Morris fan. Like they're not going to
give the offensive coordinator a job to that. But I
felt like if it would have been Big Cat or
Bordeaux or these other– celebs it would have felt a
little rigged right now so at least it's rigged to
the little guy and and now you get an akron
alum who will have be the most scrutinized opening drive
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of the college football season will it not like.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah but you know the fact that they're working with
the head coach i wanted just cart block you go
out there here's the headset call some plays But no,
it's not like that. You've got to draw them up.
You've got to meet with the coach. You've got to
script the plays. To me, it takes away from it
a little bit. But I understand them not just handing
over the headset to a random fan and.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Saying, go for it. But let's be honest, it would
be a lot more entertaining if that were the case, right?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You've got to install the plays, too, right? You can't
just call the annexation of Puerto Rico on the first
play and expect all the guys to know.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, they should know the playbook, and you just call
the name of the play, and off they go.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But, you know, you have to think, too, that the
head coach is going to be really heavy-handed with calling
the plays. Like, if I were the person, you know, going, hey, coach,
let's run. He'd probably go, nah, let's do this instead.
And then you have to kind of go, all right,
all right, you're the coach, I guess. Even though I'm
the one that spent my hard-earned money on Akron season tickets.
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I guess we'll have to go along with what the
coach says.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Ultimately, he's going to override.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, I hope this winner is not a pushover. This
Martin Allen wins the second. He needs to be very strong-willed,
wanting to run the flea flicker the second play of
the game. Coach, I'll run it middle in the first play,
but the second one, we are going to do a
reverse flea flicker.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm going to be watching the game, like I'm sure
a lot of you are, just to see what happens.
But if it's just standard football plays, I think we're.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Going to know that the coach had a lot to
do with it. But if we see, as you just mentioned...
you know, double reverse flea flicker on the first play
or a couple of Hail Marys, then I might say,
all right, there's some validity to actually allowing the fan
to pick the play because no fan wants to run
it up the middle three times and punt. No fan
is going to call dink and dunk plays. All right,
(20:55):
let's run a screen. Let's run a sweep. No fan
is calling those plays.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Are you really going to punt either? You only have
one drive. You were going to admit defeat?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
If we're backed up on our five-yard line and I
want the team to win, yeah, I may actually punt.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Like coaches looking over at you, sending out the punt team,
you're like, no.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, stay. We're going for it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Fourth and 34. You better believe we're going for it.
I only have one drive here.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
859-280-2287. Let's go to Dennis. What's up, Dennis?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Hey, guys. One real quick before I get on to
what I'm going to talk about. I've only got about a.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Minute here, so if you're going to be long-winded, we've
got to go quick.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Okay. Okay, we'll skip that. Here's why Greg Sankey's been
so adamant about the five-for-five. They set the rule this
year for future players... Your fifth year, you get to
play five for five. He cannot allow these players that
just graduated this past season to– he can't allow them
(21:51):
to play. Because what if somebody five years ago said, well,
what about me? Do I get my five for five?
Do I get to come back to college and play?
There's got to be a cutoff somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, there does.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But, again, you've got guys before them and the guys
after them, and they're kind of stuck right in the middle.
Thanks for the call, Des. We appreciate it. And I
think that's the argument. The guys before us could. The
guys after us can. But we're kind of wedged in
the middle in no man's land, and we're not allowed
to play. That's their argument. We'll take more of your
calls coming up next. It is the KSR Pre-Show. All right,
(22:26):
welcome back, KSR Pre-Show. Some more Dolly here. I'm going
to play some Dolly songs you're not going to hear
on every other show, Billy. Everybody's going to hear 9
to 5, Jolene, I Will Always Love You. This is probably, though,
I know you can't hear on podcast, this is probably
my favorite Dolly Parton song. It's called Mule Skinner Blues
from early in her career, where she's yodeling right here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
How good is that?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I had never even heard this song before, but we
were on one of our KSR road trips. And as
you know, Matt always drives. Matt always has control of
the radio. And he's listening to Willie's Roadhouse. And I'm
in the back seat, halfway paying attention to what's going on.
But I hear this song come on. I'm like, what
is this song? This song is quirky. It's kind of catchy.
I like it, though. It was Dolly, Mule Skinner Blues.
(23:18):
That was the first time I'd ever heard this song.
So I think that to this day is still my favorite.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, this may be the first time I'm hearing it.
The only other person I've heard yodel is Mason Ramsey
when he came to the Louisville building when we.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Were— Weren't you like, this guy can't sing?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Weren't you like— I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think you hate kids, and that's probably— he was a
kid coming in.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Dolly sounds angelic here. I love this. What did you
say it was called one more time? Mule Skinner Blues.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Mule Skinner Blues. Yeah, Mule Skinner Blues. All right, so
I didn't get to it last segment.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I forgot already.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So quickly, I forgot.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You told me that you have a confession to make,
so without further ado, here you go.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh, yeah. What do you got? You got to make
something to me.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So I went to a housewarming party last night, and
the housewarming party was in Mount Washington. It was in
Bullitt County.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
How are you going to come to Mount Washington and
not come by and see me?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I know. I know. I'm sorry. I mean, we didn't
wrap up until like 9 o'clock or so. I still
had an hour and a half drive home. And so
I have to admit that I was in your neck
of the woods. And they think they live by you. Wait,
they live by me?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Like you literally went to my next door neighbors and
didn't bother coming over to say hi?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah, I think it was actually pretty close. I don't
know exactly the layout over there, even though I've been
to your house and been to the bar, but it
was very close to your neck of the woods and
ended up not coming by. So I do apologize about that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I am disappointed in you for not coming by and
dropping in. What a nice surprise that would be. Because
it's one thing when your buddy that lives in the
same town drops in, but to see Billy R.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Sports all the way from Lexington, I'd be like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I know, I know. I was just wrapped up in
something else, and then the time got away from me,
so I apologize. But I want your thoughts on the
housewarming gift that I gave. Remember, we were kind of
workshopping it yesterday. Yes. I was thinking... cutting board, maybe,
or what you said, candles were a good gift. Might
end up still doing that for Matt on his house
(25:20):
party that's going to be going on this Saturday. I
ended up getting him a cast iron skillet. Like a
good one. The big size, you know, they got a family,
they got three kids, moved into a new house. Shannon,
you got a cast iron skillet at home, right?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, but I don't know what to do with it.
You put it on the stove, you turn it on,
but then you got to throw the ingredients in there.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You still have to do like the That's right. Yeah,
you do have to cook in the cast iron skillet.
It's cleaning it for me and storing it. It's kind
of difficult. You don't want to put it in the dishwasher.
You don't want to scrub it with anything. You've got
to take care of it. It's like a baby. It's
like a child.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I hate when I have to clean my cast iron skillet.
I hate it. It's clean your cast iron skillet day.
I've got to clear out an hour of my day now.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, it's not an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh, well, it is when I clean my cast iron skillets.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
What's the last thing you cooked in there?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You know, bacon, some eggs. Bacon, eggs.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But I mean, just because you take shortcuts when you
clean your cast iron skillet doesn't mean that I'm going
to take shortcuts on mine because I like to have
a clean cast iron skillet.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You know, like I take, like I said, an hour.
Scrub it down really good.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Put water on it, soap. Put that sponge in there.
You got to get all that grease out.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Got to be clean. Because next time I cook on
the cast iron skillet, it's got to be clean.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well, you know, people rave about them. I've got my
own cast iron skillet set that I use sparingly, but
hopefully that, you know. they're able to put good use
to it. But sorry I was in your neck of
the woods and didn't end up visiting. That's all right.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'm going to come to Lexington one day just randomly
and visit your neighbors and not come see you.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I'm sure. I'm sure you will.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
They've done some upgrades to Kroger Field this year, Billy.
I'm going to go through some of these, and you
tell me if you think these are good upgrades. Do
you care one way or the other? I know you
can't go because you're stuck in the studio having to.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Run the games. Stuck in the studio.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
But first of all, they have lower pricing on select
concession stand items.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I think we can all agree. Nobody's going to get
mad about that, right? I mean, anytime you're lowering the
price on stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah. Domestic canned beers go from $ 10 to $ 5. Hot
dogs go from $ 5 to $ 3. Nachos go from $ 6
to $ 4. When do you see concession prices go down
like that?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
When do you see anything in life go down other
than gas prices occasionally going down? But, like, when does
anything get lowered on prices? Everything continues to go up
and up and up and up.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I mean, when do you ever see concession stand prices
go down? Unless it's like at a Louisville Bats game
and they're.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Doing 1984 night.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Everything's a dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But they're doing it the entire season, so I love that.
They're going to have a new Kentucky team introduction as
a part of their expanded pregame experience.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But did you see, I don't think we talked about
this when you were here, they're also doing this whole
thing on the side for fans where you can pay.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
A certain amount of money.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I think it was $ 285, Billy. You can pay $ 285
and you can run out with the team onto the field.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I did. I don't think I got to talk about it, though.
I may have been away that week. I would love
to do that, wouldn't you? For $ 285, first of all,
that's a very specific number. I wonder how they settled that.
When they were in the meeting on how much should
we charge fans to run?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
$ 285.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Not $ 300.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We're not going to round it up to $ 300. We're
going to make it $ 285.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
That might drive people away. Under $ 300.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh, you think that's the tipping point where people will go,
you know what? $ 285. But if you put another $ 15
on there, I'm not going to run out there.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Well, remind me. Is it just running out of the tunnel?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Is that simply it?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
You just run and then you just run right out
of the exit when you're done?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
There's no... you know, mingling on the sideline or introduction.
It's just you come out in the smoke with the guys.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't think they– yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
They're not going as far as Akron is in letting
you actually call a play.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Or anything like that. Not yet, right?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
But another thing they were doing– and you may be
able to pull up the full list of things that
they're allowing fans to be able to buy, but there's
another thing that you can– You can buy to be
the honorary person to flip the coin or take the
coin out to the referee. I don't know that they
let you flip the coin, but you get to be
the person that delivers the game coin.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
To the referee at the 50-yard line.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You just get to walk out and give it to
the ref.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You get to run it out there to them and
hand it off to the ref, and I guess you
get to stay out there while they do the coin toss.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Oh, wow. We really are going to pimp out every
aspect of the college football season.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
What did we hear about J-Bat? Great fundraiser. Great at
making extra money for the school.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I mean, why not? That's true. I mean, we had
the thing, was it, when was that? A year or
two ago?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
When we had fans out there, you know, fist bumping
and everything, shaking hands with the basketball team.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like during the starting lineups, remember that?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, I do remember the basketball team now that you
mention it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I told Matt for my birthday I would like for
him to buy me the fan experience of going out
there and delivering the coin to the ref.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Oh, you would want Matt to pay for it so
you could do it?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's my birthday. He said he would buy that for
me for my birthday. So there may be a random
Kentucky game at Kroger Field this year where you see
me marching out there with a coin in my hand.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That would be hilarious. I would absolutely love that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
But imagine you're the person who they give you the coin.
You get one job, deliver the coin. You'll lose the coin.
That's something I would do.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh, you can't lose the coin.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Well, I mean, I'm the same type of guy that
locks his keys in his car all the time. I
can't keep up with anything. So I can see me
being the guy who has to deliver the coin and
then go on patting myself down going, where's the coin?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Well, that's your one job. You can't not bring the coin.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I think I put the coin in the vending machine
over there to buy some Fritos.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, you're eating Cheez-Its as you go out there. No,
here I am at the wedding altar. Oh, I forgot
the ring.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The one thing that I actually needed.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So they get a new game day host. I don't
know who this person is.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Ryan Lemon? Nope.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ohavia Phillips.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Game-by-game fan themes. I like this, Billy. In-stadium engagement. So
every game this year is going to be like a whiteout,
a blueout, a stripeout.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Like they're doing something with every single game. So I
do like that.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You said more in-stadium engagement. Can I pay for them
to not play Dumas Walker at the end of the game?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that gets the fans engaged. Everybody engages with Dumas Walker.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't like your hatred and your slander for Dumas Walker.
Put some respect on him. Expanded food and beverage offerings,
they say, and what they're calling new just-walk-out concession locations
that use technology by Amazon through a U.K.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Partnership with Compass Group. I don't know what those words mean.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But I'm assuming that it's a lot easier to just
get your food.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Well, that's kind of like the Reds game where you
don't have anybody that you go to to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh, do you? Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is this like when you go into those Apple stores
and you just pick stuff up and walk off and
don't even.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Have to pay?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Exactly. Not even like have to go to a kiosk.
Like they somehow are able to charge your credit card.
Maybe you scan it on your way in.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I would say you scan the card on the way
in and they know what you– wow, that's kind of–
I've always wondered how exactly they know.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, I know they got cameras and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But how does that technology work to where it knows exactly?
I guess when you go in, you scan your card.
I'm just guessing. I've never been in one of these stores.
I'm guessing when you go in, you scan your card.
There's also a video of what you look like, right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sees your face.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then it recognizes your face on everything that you
pick up and walk out.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, there may be a chip in the item. And
once it leaves the area, then it's going to charge
that card that it's associated with. It's like in.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Vegas when you pick up a drink. You know, they
get those drinks like in your refrigerator. You pick one up,
it charges it to your room.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Are you talking about the mini bar in the hotel room?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, like that time we were in Vegas and Ryan
was hungover and his glasses were hanging halfway off his face.
And he picked up that Coke.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
There's that great picture of him.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah, I know that picture.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
You were telling me that was a minibar Coke for $ 8?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
In the stained white t-shirt, glasses hanging off his face,
and he's holding up that Coke that I think charged
about $ 14 to Matt's room because he picked up a Coke.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Well, smart fundraising. You just pick up a water on
your way out. It's really easy to do, and then
the university gets another $ 6.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
And then finally, new chair back seating added along the
north sideline. So there you go. Just a few of
the upgrades for Kroger Field. Is the Wi-Fi better? Because
I feel like the Wi-Fi has been an issue. And
then for the longest time, you couldn't really hear the band.
Did they get those things figured out for people who
go on a regular basis?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Not mentioned in the release here, but it can't get worse, right?
I mean, especially the Wi-Fi.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Those were the things that seemed like were always an
issue at Kroger Field. But overall, I think I like those,
especially the lowering of concessions.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So you've got to light that up.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
You knew there were some things changing when they invited
us out to two different shows at the football facility
in a matter of like five days. You knew that
there was definitely a change in mindset. So these are
all great things, and hopefully it'll help the Cats maybe
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
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Speaker 2 (35:43):
All right, so I just got the list of Dolly
songs that we're playing on KSR, so I'm trying not
to do any repeats here.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This one's not on the list, but I'm playing it.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
What is this one?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Code of Many Colors, well-known Dolly song. You didn't say
your favorite Dolly song, did you?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
No. Do you have one? I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Expect you, you know, to be one of these people
that go home and listen to Dolly every day after work,
but you're aware of the songs that she had. Did
you have a favorite one?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I mean, Jolene was one that I've listened to many
a times in the past. You know, I would hum
nine to five as a kid before I ever knew
what Dolly was, who Dolly was and the impact she had.
So that was, that was influential on me. I haven't
seen the movie though. Have you seen nine to five,
the movie?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Parts of it, but there's a lot of movies that
I have seen parts of that you'd like, how have
you not seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Like, well-known movies. I'm not just talking about Dolly Parton movies.
I'm talking about just movies in general.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So I feel like I've seen the first 15 minutes
of just about every movie but never finished them.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well, that's the media box for you, right?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, well, you know, like, especially if it's late at
night and I'm watching a movie, there's, like, if you're
betting on DraftKings, there's a 0% chance I'm going to
make it to the end of it. But, yeah, no,
I've never seen that movie from start to finish.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, I think I'm going to go back and watch
it this week. I think the wife would like it, so.
We will try to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
We were having the conversation about over-under 100-point games for
the basketball team this year. What did we set it at?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Was it 3.5 or 4.5?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
4.5.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
4.5?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Is what I remember, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Okay, would you go over or under on that?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think I took the over just because I feel
like this team isn't going to play any defense, so
they're going to have to rely on good shooting.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
In other words, they're going to give up a lot
of points.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
They're going to have to score a lot of points
to win games.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
So I think that we'll hit the over on that.
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I'm going over. I think that they beat it by
a couple games, honestly. We'll probably get a few in
this non-conference Rupp Arena schedule that Ryan likes to talk about,
and maybe even one in the conference play, because I
feel like this team's just going to have to shoot threes, right?
It's Mark Pope's best roster in the three years that
he's been at Kentucky, and probably the one that fits
(37:51):
that adage of video game-like offense that we were sold
on initially, so you know, it was eyebrow-raising when he
said he wanted Momchilovich to have a worse shooting percentage
this year, but that was because he wants him to
shoot more threes, right? It's probably going to be much
harder to be that efficient if you're going to shoot
almost double the amount of threes that you have up there,
but him, Alex Wilkins, you know, I know Mark Mitchell
(38:15):
isn't going to be the one shooting threes, but if
he can get eligible and join this team, it's going
to just open up a lot for the other guys,
but You do bring him in and you lose some
playing time for guys like NJ and maybe even Trent Noah.
So we'll have to see how Mark Pope works it out.
Maybe he'll just play everybody about 15 minutes, right?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, and I hesitate to try to overreact too much
to what we hear from practice, but that's really all
we have to go off.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
We heard about Trent Noah.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Shooting crazy percentages from three in practice and then get
to the game and can't throw it in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
And then you hear about Momchilovich, you know, going, what
was it? Somebody said 28 for 30 or something like
that from three.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
It wasn't somebody. I think it was the guys on
this show, right, on KSR when they went down to practice.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
It was a combination of guys because we had, you know,
I think it was, first of all, it was some
of our guys that were there that said he went
for 16 for 18. Then another fan called and go, hey,
he's shot 10 more and hasn't missed one. So I'm like,
all right, well, we're keeping score at home. That would
be like 26 for 28.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But yeah, I look at, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
If he is able to shoot anywhere close to that,
he's going to be good for 20 a game. If
Mark Mitchell is eligible to play, he was averaging. what,
around 20, I think, a game last year. So let's
just say those guys hit somewhere in that ballpark. There's
around 40 points right there in two players.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
So, you know, Zoom Diallo, that's a true point guard.
You have Alex Wilkins, who's going to be shooting the ball.
There's no doubt about it. Maybe Cam Williams comes back
as a healthy player and can be a three and
D type of guy. I think there's a lot of potential.
And even if you look at somebody like Malachi Moreno,
if he can progress and take a step forward, he
can help with all that scoring, but. Look, it's defense
that will be the main concern, right? And that's why
(40:00):
we go back to the stat, will they score more
than 100 points in four and a half games? That's
why I go over, because there may be some definite shootouts,
especially early on in the year.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
We didn't get a chance to talk about your guy
Jed York.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Oh, the 49ers owner?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Geez, dude.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I mean, this story, usually things like this go away
in 24 hours. But, I mean, when I go on
social media, it's still being talked about. When I scroll through,
I'm still seeing, you know, just people commenting on it.
And this is one of those things that, especially if
you're Jed York, you want to go away, right? Like,
forget that it even happened. But the fact that the
guy was out at 9 o'clock in the morning just
(40:37):
looking for somebody to hook up with, that's quite a story.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Man, you're a billionaire. You own an NFL team. You
think these guys have it all, right? But this is
not the first NFL owner to be caught doing something
nefarious like this. I go back to the crazy offseason
the 49ers have had. I mean, they had their head coach,
Kyle Shanahan, get into a major car wreck when he
dropped his phone on the ground in his car and
then looked back up and had a terrible wreck. You
(41:03):
have the electrical substation taking the hamstrings and knees of
guys like Christian McCaffrey and Mike Evans and Joey– Or
is it Nick Bosa that's there? I'm not sure. Brandon Ayuk,
there's been a bunch of drama there. So just, I
don't know. There's like a dark cloud over the 49ers
facility right now.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
I'm just saying, you know, Jed York and Robert Kraft
and Bill Belichick. Who knew that the NFL was so horny?
I didn't, but it's just wild some of the stories
that's coming out of here. Hey, promo code KSR one
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Speaker 4 (41:38):
We've got a game in Dublin, North Carolina, TCU. Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
So bet it on DraftKings, promo code KSR.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
That's it for the pre-show. KSR is up next. Thanks
for listening. We'll talk to you later.
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