2026-08-28 KSR PRE-SHOW

Live from Affirmed Roofing: fantasy football attention, eligibility rules, will Mark Mitchell play. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show for Friday, August 28th.
I'm Shannon, the dude, being joined by Billy Rutledge. You
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(00:21):
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We are here live in Lexington today at Affirmed Roofing,
their brand new location, downtown Lexington, 741 Price Avenue, which
I'm told, though, you got to be careful on which
app you use, Billy. That's right. Because if you use, like,
I think it's Apple Maps, it might lead you to

(00:44):
the wrong location. So I used Waze, just so everybody
knows if you're planning on coming out here, and it
took me right to it. So Maybe don't trust Apple
Maps today to get you here.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, down a residential street, but it's Affirm Roofing's new
building here. It looks like it's all coming together. They
have us in a room with windows, and the sun
is right in Shane and the dude's eyes right now,
like inside wearing sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, I had my shady rays on, you know, driving here,
and I thought, okay, we're going to be inside. I'm
not going to need them, but I already had them
on my face, so I just did the thing where
you fold them up and you put them on your collar.
That's why you keep shady rays around, right? And then
I come in here, I go, you know what, I
think I'm going to put them right back on because
I've got the sun shining right on me. But we're
happy to be here today. We've got wild eggs here
with food. and uh we're gonna have a fun time
today you didn't bring your leather pants you got your

(01:27):
dress pants on you don't have your leather pants.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm rocking dress shoes and black pants with a tucked
in shirt gm billy definitely showed up.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Today you look very official well i went.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
To like a fancy dinner last night so i think
i'm kind of in the mood of dressing nice right
now you know look good feel good right perform good
something like that yeah um so no i don't own
a pair of leather pants But I would agree that
I'm probably third on the list and would probably try
to rock them if I.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Did have leather pants. Matt, I thought that I would,
because I play music, that I would have leather pants.
I don't think it's a thing. If you're a musician,
you have to have leather pants. I've never put on
a pair of leather pants in my life. I don't
think I would either.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, why not?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
If you're in your 20s or you ride a bike,
I think you've got an excuse. Nobody wants to see
a 40-year-old man in leather pants up on stage shaking
his ass.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Okay, so it's about what other people think. It's not
about practical use.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's not increased chafing and you wouldn't wear because of that.
It's because you're afraid of what other people would think.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Not just that. If you're up on stage for four hours,
and when I'm up there, I am sweating profusely by
the end of the night. I don't think sweaty leather
clinging to my skin would be comfortable either. So it's
a comfortability thing, too. Not just a stylish thing. I
don't think I would look good in it, A. B,
wouldn't be comfortable. So I don't see any upside in

(02:48):
wearing leather pants.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, the jeans you currently wear on stage are tight
enough where people would think they are leather pants. So
I don't think it would be that much of a stretch.
But I don't know where I would go to get them.
We'll have to ask Mario because he might even show
up today in leather pants.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mario, definitely number one because not only do we think
he would wear leather pants, we've actually seen him wear
leather pants. He owns leather pants. Leather pants.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I hope that he shows up in his today.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
And can I defend myself on the potluck at the
bar scenario we got going on this weekend?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, explain this to me. Because you got the Cover
Zero podcast is doing a draft, right?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
A fantasy draft.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
A fantasy draft. And Matt was saying that you guys
are going to do this at a restaurant, but you
suggested a potluck at a restaurant. I don't think that's
how it works, Billy. Well.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Here's a couple important details that Matt likes to leave
out that makes the story more entertaining, right?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah. Never let the truth get in the way of
a good story.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's right. Exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So the owner of the bar is actually a member
of the Fantasy League. So he has offered the place
to us to go. So that was very nice of
him and generous, and we're all going to go out
to Midway for it.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
But don't eat his food, he's saying.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
They don't have food.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
What kind of restaurant doesn't have food?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's what I'm learning in real time. Does not have food.
So we invited all of our guests to bring their
own dish. So maybe you can have a couple drinks
at this establishment, but they don't have a kitchen. So
that's why the reason for asking for.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
A dish, Shannon.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, so it's not really a restaurant. It's more like
a bar.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, it's like the old Western Kentucky, it's called Shots.
You just go in there, you take a shot, and
then you go out and rest your night, right? Maybe
not the best analogy, but you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
No kitchen in the back.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, okay, I understand. Okay, that makes more sense.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Makes more sense, right?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's amazing when you have the full context.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are you amazed that Matt's going to do a fantasy draft?
Because I think I slightly am.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, but is he being forced to by the podcast.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
By the NFL network? No, it wasn't mandatory we did one.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
This is all just wanting to interact with our audience.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know this as well as I do. Is it
one of those deals where you have to call in
to the commissioner and put in your lineup every week?
Because if not, he's going to be into this for
about a week or two. And by week three, he's
going to be playing guys that are hurt, guys that
are on a bye week. Like, you know, it's going
to be a disaster. He's not going to keep up
with that. Well, you can do it all on your phone.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's all on an app.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I did hear Matt say on his ESPN show
that he has not logged into his ESPN email account
yet either.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
So if we can't get him into the email. I'm
with you.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm worried about the fantasy lineup in week four. But
I do want to wish him a happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's his birthday today.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh, yeah, yeah. Happy birthday to Matt. He turns how
old today?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
50? 58?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, no, it's not. 48.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
48.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Is he 48 or 49?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I hate to date him. It is 48, not 58.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Don't date him. You're married. You shouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
That's right. 48, you say today? 48, and he's stuck
in an airport. We'll actually not be at the remote today.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay, so you told me that. That was breaking news
to me this morning. I show up and you go, well,
Matt's not going to be here. So he thinks because
it's his birthday, he doesn't have to show up today?
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
See, I don't know if he's playing that card. You
call in sick to work on your birthday. People probably
raise an eyebrow at that. It's probably not the best
day to get sick.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, I had him some leather pants I was going
to give him, so I guess I'll have to just wait.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Well, they have a cake here for him. They did. Yeah,
we're going to have to have a bite of that cake.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, you know what? Hey, we can eat the cake.
We're all friends here. We've got some people here with
us today. We can take care of that.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
So that means there will be some guests on KSR today.
I think Jack Pilgrim will join us at one point
to talk about Mark Mitchell and then Nick Roush to
get us excited for the football season.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, look forward to that. And looking forward to
later on tonight hanging out with you, Billy, and your team.
new bride at the Kentucky State Fair. Now, you're all dressed.
You're way too overdressed for the State Fair. Yeah, I'm
going to need you to dress down a little bit.
You can't be the best dressed guy at the state
fair tonight. So you're coming over to Louisville after the show.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I don't know how much riding of rides that I'm
going to do, but we're going to be hungry, get
our eat on, maybe go inside and check out who
won the best beef jerky award and all the other
stuff that they have in there.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is the $ 10 million ham on display? Do they immediately
snatch that up? Because if I'm paying $ 10 million, don't
even look at my ham. I paid $ 10 million for that.
You're not going to get a bite of it. I
don't want you to see it. I'm taking it home
with me immediately.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm really disappointed it was the same price as last year.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
That needs to go up every single year, right? It's
for charity, dude.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I mean, it's a $ 10 million ham. Come on. But
we'll be out there later on tonight, so if you're
planning on coming out, I'll have to do a little
bit of work. I have to emcee, which means, like,
for a minute and a half, go up on stage
and introduce Hairball, the hairband tribute band that's playing out there.
Great name, by the way. If you're going to be
an 80s hairband tribute, Hairball is... Maybe the best thing

(07:23):
you can come up with. They do like Def Leppard.
They do Kiss. They do ACDC. So they're basically a
cover band, but they're really, really, really good.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm excited. I am.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Last time I went and saw an act at the fair,
I think it was the Sugar Hill Gang last year.
I had a great time at that. So excited to
see you on stage. I'm also excited to conquer one
of these fair games, Shannon. The wife is going to
be all about it. Do you think I should walk
across the ladder? Or to get to the top, you
know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Or the wash bin with the softball, and you try
to get the softball to land in it.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I want to see you try to do the latter.
As a matter of fact, I will pay whatever it is,
five bucks.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, what have I done?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'll pay your $ 5 fee. Don't say I never gave
you anything, Billy. I will pay whatever it is, the ticket,
for you to try to go up the ladder. As
long as I get to film it and post it
for everybody.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, little Mario over here.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Now he's all into content and social media. Has no
idea Matt's going to be here, but he'll film me
doing the ladder.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, you're on. As long as you do it, too.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
What's the one that you think you would have the
best chance of actually winning? Because the basketball thing, forget
about it. The rims are half the size of what
a basketball rim should be. And I think the basketballs are.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
you know at least a little that's tough yeah the
basketball stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well maybe maybe the basketball is regulation the rim definitely
is not regulation have you ever seen anybody at a
carnival or a state fair hit the basketball shot i
have not.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Not with the net that comes down on it right
now there's um now i've done a basketball thing at
king's island where it's like shoot around the key and
that's like i think a normal rim but the one
with the net on it is impossible You're saying what
do I think is the best one for me that
I could do?

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Probably the ring toss on the bottle.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
You wait until the guy turns around to go over here,
and then you just kind of place it on right now.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, you cheat.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
You cheat. Well, I mean, teach them.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't know if you could get away with that now.
The carnies, I think, have cameras.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
No, carnies are soft compared to what they used to be, Shannon. Please,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, there used to be a thing where you would
go and you would dunk the guy, but the guy
had a microphone, and he would just harass anybody that
would walk by him. And he would say awful things
that you can't get away with doing that now. But
I'm talking about back in the 90s, you know, before
everybody had cameras.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Cat calling as people walked by.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh, he would just say the worst things to you
to where you'd be like, you know what, you jerk.
Give me those three balls. I'm going to dunk this guy.
And that was kind of his thing, his gimmick. And
there would be a long line to dunk this guy
who would just sit there and just talk trash into
a microphone to try to get you to dunk him.
There was also the thing that they don't have anymore
at the State Fair. And as a kid, curiosity gets

(09:51):
the best of you. There was this thing where it
was like, come on in here. It was like a sideshow.
They don't have these anymore at the State Fair. But
it was like half human, half snake. And you go
in there and you pay whatever it is to come
see this. And it's literally, Billy, like a fake looking
snake thing. And then you can tell there's a platform

(10:12):
and then this person just pops their head up in
the middle. And that's it. The snake doesn't move or anything.
It's a person's head. In the middle of a box
with like a ceramic snake wrapped around it.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
They don't have that anymore.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Even as a kid, I'm going, how in the world
is this? What a ripoff.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I would have loved to have gone into that room
as well as where you see a bearded lady.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, yeah, she's just got a beard on, you know?
It's like a fake beard.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
It's not what it used to be, but we'll have
a good time tonight and looking forward to it, dude.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So later on, or last night, I was... so ready
for football that I actually turned on some of the
Youngstown State.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You did not. You put on the FCS game?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I did for a little bit, and it was like
31-3 or something like that, and I was like, eh,
I'll watch a little bit of it. But they end
up winning 43-10 last night. Had close to 500 yards
in offense, too. But my main takeaway wasn't Youngstown State
or anything really about the game itself, but, you know,
on ESPN +, It's always so weird. Like, I wonder

(11:08):
where they find these announcers half the time. It seems
like these are guys that maybe they pulled up from
a high school.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
And then, like, during the break, it doesn't really show
a commercial. It just shows, like, a logo. And you
hear open mics in the background, and there's people walking around.
You can hear the stairs, you know, the chairs and
stuff creaking, people talking and everything. And I'm like, what?
What is going on with these ESPN Plus broadcasts? Do
you know what I'm talking about? I do, yeah. You

(11:34):
never know what you might– it's almost like you're veering
in on something you shouldn't see or something you shouldn't hear.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
No, you're exactly right.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
It's almost like I did a game for Flow Sports
out of college, and it was the same thing. They
didn't have commercials, so they told us don't talk during
the breaks because they'll hear you. Not one to complain
when there aren't commercials, but it is awkward. It makes
me cringe a little bit.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Just as somebody in the business that knows when there's
an open mic that bad things can go wrong, it
is a little bit like a high school operation when
you get the FCS ESPN Plus broadcast.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
But I did not watch it. I was at a
silent auction last night.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh, you went to an auction?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I went to a silent auction last night with Ryan
Lemon and my wife, of course, with Thursday's Child. Cameron
Mills was the emcee of the event. And Shannon, I
thought we were saving money.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
After the wedding. I'll be honest. Did you bid on something?
I thought we were on a budget.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, the wife did, and we ended up winning just
under $ 400 worth of stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
So, like, that's great. It goes to a great cause, right?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah. The adoption of children, not only in this state,
but across the country with Thursday's Child. But I thought
I was on a little bit of a budget. We've
got beauty products. We've got gift cards to golf courses.
She just went around and signed her name on almost everything.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
So a silent auction. I don't know if I've ever
been to one before, but I think I understand it.
You go around and you just kind of write down
what your bid is on things. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
There's a starting bid. You can increase it by like
a minimum of 10. So it's like a blind thing
where you just, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So you can go in and write your name down
on everything. And if nobody bids on it, you've won
everything for under the value of what.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
It So what did you bid, if you don't mind
me asking, on $ 400 worth of stuff?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
She got this beauty set. Yeah, that was like $ 200, Shannon.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
So she put a $ 200 bid on it? She did, yes.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
We got a stylist for two hours that'll either go
shopping with you or.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Look through your closet.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh, man, can I tag along? I need a stylist.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
No, I think I need that more than you do, honestly.
She got a foursome tee time at a local Lexington
golf course with carts.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
What are you doing, man? Yeah, I mean, you just
went through this big, expensive wedding. You had a camel there,
for God's sake. By the way, how much did the
camel cost? If I want to book a camel, $ 400? $ 4, 000? $ 4, 000?
I wanted a camel to hang out here with me
today at the pre-show. I'd have to pay $ 4, 000.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'm not sure if it's just come to an event.
This camel had to be trained to sit down for
six months.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
It had to go to an event.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
It didn't already know how to do that? No.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Camels don't sit down normally.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
This is like your personal camel. I thought this was
like a camel that went around and did all weddings.
I mean, like, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
The place, and I can shout out their name, they're
actually in Kentucky. You could go see the camel, Junior,
that she got. But, yeah, it wasn't cheap.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, I'll keep that in mind.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Camels don't sit down.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'll keep it.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You get on a ladder to get on a camel
most times. So that, I think, maybe was part of
the expense.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
You should have got a little bit of a discount
because he didn't really play along. He didn't really cooperate
for the first five minutes.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
No, he was great. He didn't spit on anybody. I mean,
you've heard of camels spitting, right?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was saying.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Didn't even see him go to the bathroom. He must
have been nervous.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
I secretly kind of hope that the camel has some
bodily functions that happen on the way down the aisle.
That would be great.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
I can't believe you're wishing for that on my website.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
I should have called the Etsy witch. We could have
made it happen. Yeah, you're right about that. All right,
we're here at Affirm Roofing, 741 Price Avenue. Come on
out here in Lexington, and you can give us a call, 859-280-2287.
We've got a lot of just random stuff we'll talk
about today. Of course, football season is here, and.
There's a whole lot more going on, so we'll talk
about that and let you know what's happening out here
at Affirmed Roofing. Coming up next, here on the KSR Pre-Show.

(15:09):
Welcome back. It is the KSR Pre-Show. We're live at
Affirmed Roofing. Historic warehouse originally built in 1905, Billy, is
the J.T. Jackson Lumber Company. Most notably, Jackson built Memorial Hall.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Nice, and it's a husband and wife-owned small business with
Lauren and Drew Rogers. They first met at a local
shingle supplier.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
And the rest is history, Shannon. How romantic.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
You go to the shingle supplier, you meet the love
of your life, the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I hear that later on they want to do some
sort of competition between Ryan and maybe you or maybe
even me, I'm not sure who, to see how long
we can hold some shingles. Shingles are heavy.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
If it's the best competition for you, Shannon, with those
noodle arms. You can leave that to me if you
really want. I did enjoy the push-up contest all those
years ago, so maybe we'll do something like that.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, you got destroyed in that. I wouldn't say destroyed.
Have you ever been up on a roof before? I'm
not talking about a rooftop bar. Have you ever been
up on a roof to do any sort of repair?

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, clean gutters, really.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I've been on my parents' roof before.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
You know what I mean? I'm afraid of heights, so
I hate getting up on a roof. So I've only
been up there maybe a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Christmas lights.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Christmas lights.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
People know what I'm talking about. My grandpa, though, he
was a roofer. He actually went out and did this stuff.
Up in his 70s, late 70s, he was up on
roofs hammering away. And I'm like, man, that is tough work.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Heat or cold, they're going to be out there.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
The only other roofing experience I have is Andy Dufresne
up there tarring the roof in that movie, right?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yep. I just got a text from my friend Mike
who says, Get away from Billy. He's an alien. Who
pays $ 4, 000 for a camel? You got to do what
you got to do, right?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and luckily the wife's family was happy to help
with that.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Oh, okay. It wasn't all you.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, it wasn't exactly all me. I love the opinions
of others on the wedding that they weren't invited to.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Look over here to your left. We got a massive
box or two.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Of these shebang chips that I had never heard of
until we had the golf scramble on Monday. And they're
selling out, apparently.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
We originally... We're told that there were prison chips. You
get these in prison.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Right. But we don't have to go to prison. It
looks like we're going to get plenty of chips today
here from Shebang.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I mean, the PR that they've gotten just from Matt
liking the chips at the Gold Scramble has been a ton.
And he's doing the right thing, our chip guy, bringing
a whole bag or box of it to the next remote.
So now we're going to have a bunch of people
that are going to get to try it.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
He's just about to hand some out here. So even
more reason to show up here to Firm Groove.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I also love the setup here, like with the couches
in the front here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
You don't just have to sit in a chair. We've
got nice, comfortable couches.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Well, you've got to get here early because these chairs,
we've only got a couple more leather seats seating here. Otherwise,
you've got to sit in the hard white chairs.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, you better believe I'm going to find a nice,
comfortable seat after this pre-show.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Did you see Steve Zahn at practice yesterday for football?
I did. What is he doing there? He just came
in to promote some new show that he's doing. That
reminded me of when he went around and played Rich Scangarello. Oh, yeah.
A few years back. We said he looked a lot
like him. So I love Steve Zahn. He's apparently a
big Kentucky football fan, lives in Kentucky, and goes to

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some of the games.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, but what level of celebrity do you have to
be where you can just go up to the practice
and be a part of it? Like, do you think
I could call up Will Stein and say, had, like,
time to practice today?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm in town. Steve Zahn is, I think, right on
that line.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
He's not A-list, but he's... well-known enough to where I
think people would know who he is.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
But it's like, oh, Steve Zahn's here. He wants to
come to practice.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah. But it's just like Patton Oswalt, which, by the way,
we're giving away Patton Oswalt tickets.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
We got more Patton Oswalt tickets to give away.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
We were talking about this before we went on the air.
I didn't know who Patton Oswalt is, so then I'm like,
all right, let me look up. Let me see if
I know anything that he's in. And the thing that
I knew Patton Oswalt from was some random on-demand movie
that I don't even think was in theaters called Big Fan,
which we've talked about. And that's how I know him.
So Steve Zahn– I don't know if people know him

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more from– is he in White Lotus? What is he in? Yes,
he is in White Lotus. White Lotus, yeah. I haven't
seen anything past the first season. But I remember him
from Saving Silverman.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
You remember Saving Silverman?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, I never saw Saving Silverman.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
With Jack Black? Mm-mm. Oh, come on. Great movie.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I like Jack Black. You can get me invested if
it's a Jack Black movie.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yep. But, no, I'll have to check that out. But, yeah,
Pat and Oswald, we'll give those away at the end
of the show. He is the voice of Ratatouille, Shannon,
which you have not seen.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I had no idea what Ratatouille is. Such a shame.
All right, so are you following the latest in this
Mark Mitchell thing? We'll have Jack Pilgrim fill us in
and give us all the details.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
And tell us what we're missing on this whole thing.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
But yesterday, my understanding is that now, he and his
lawyers are requesting a judge to hold the NCAA in
contempt of court for allowing the SEC to adapt this
new rule that we keep basically 13 players ineligible for
a fifth year. So that's where we're at now. It's

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all going back to court again. We thought that the
court case was won We thought it's a done deal.
Now it looks like we're going back to court again
to see if he's going to be eligible or not.
And the more that this drags on and on, I mean,
I will give Mark Mitchell credit. He definitely wants to
be here because he is going through every court case
that seems that it is possible. And he's going to

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have to go through to be a Kentucky Wildcat. But
my God, I mean, at some point, where do you go? Like,
all right, enough's enough. I'll just go play for somebody else.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, and luckily we still have a couple more months
until the first basketball season.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Football starts this weekend, right?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
So for a lot of guys that are facing this
similar issue in the football world, they don't have enough
time for a decision to be made. But now with
the SEAC making these punishments and changing rules last minute,
now I guess trying to hold them responsible for that,
it is really confusing and I mean, as the days
go by, I don't feel very optimistic about Mark Mitchell playing.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I did at first, but now you start hearing that
they're going to punish the program itself and threatening that.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
In no way Mark Pope.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Mark Pope isn't going to be out of... Sniff anything
like that. Half of the season, especially on... I mean,
you wouldn't do it on any season, but this is
a very important season for Mark Pope coming up. So
if those rules... are upheld, there's no way that Mark
Mitchell would be here.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Or you play Mark Mitchell, and then you just don't
have Pope for half the year, and you lose half
your operating budget for basketball.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is he worth that much to you? Absolutely not, no.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Then I think we know maybe what the eventual answer
will be in this.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, but again, it just keeps dragging out, and it's
so hard to follow because every day there's a new
twist and turn to this, but it looks like now
it's going back to court again.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, and I feel bad for those guys. These are
people that Never got that fifth year. While everybody else
is going to be allowed to have a fifth year
moving on, the class of 2022 seems to be sliding
in a way that other classes weren't. So I do
feel bad for them, and I understand their struggle. But
they didn't know they needed to enter the transfer portal
at the end of the season, Shannon. So I have
a lot of sympathy for these guys just trying to

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play another year.

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Speaker 3 (22:32):
Welcome back.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
KSR pre-show live from Affirm Roofing in Lexington. 859-280-2287. We're
going to go back to the phones in just a minute.
Before we do, though, Billy, some breaking news over, I guess,
over the last night that came out. I'm seeing this
from 11 hours ago, that the Big East has opted
not to follow the power for and ruling against pros

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returning to campus.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, so they met and they opted to remain at
status quo and monitor the situation, according to sources familiar
with the discussion. Shannon, could it be that the Big 12,
the ACC, the SEC, and the Big 10 all ban
professional players from coming back and playing in college, and
then a league like the Big East just lets them play?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
I mean, who's to say no to that, right? Well,
I mean, if you're... The NCAA?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I guess, but if you go conference by conference and
it's their decision, then that's a win for the Big East.
I mean, a team like Villanova, St. John's could pick
up some of these guys that are kind of just
hanging out there in limbo. And maybe that's a huge
win for.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Them, depending on how it plays out. Yeah, and probably
a huge risk, right?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Because the NCAA loves to go back and take away
things from teams that had ineligible players ruled at a
later date. So it'd be a huge risk. But I mean,
if you're the Big East and maybe you get an
influx of talent, that could be pretty interesting.

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We got some people on hold, so let's go to
the phones. Who's up first, Rick?

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Austin is up first.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Hey, Austin. Good morning. Hey, Shannon.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I won those Thomas Rhett tickets months ago. He said
he'd reach back out to you. He got closer to it.
So this was to call about that. Oh, you're calling
me about that to sort that out on the air.
Here's the thing. Well, I didn't have to be on
the air. They just put me straight through to you. Oh,
thanks a lot, Rick. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Anytime.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah. So when is the concert? Two weeks from yesterday, September,
whatever that is. All right. So... I'll reach out to
our promo people.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Oh, you will?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I will.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
That's really nice.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Well, it's not my job at that point. It's just
so you know how it works. When we give away stuff,
we get your information, we pass it on to the
promotional people, they take it from there. So thanks for
the call.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And it's usually much closer to the date of the
show in which they'll reach out and have you fill
out some information. You don't screen calls, so why would
you expect Rick to screen calls, right? Don't give Rick
a hard time. You go, hello, who's this? And then
you hang up right to him. I like to ask
them how their day's going, what they want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Don't care.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
And then I'll put you on hold, and I'll know
that you don't need tickets.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, who's up next, Rick? Got John Short up next.
John Short.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Don't need to screen this call.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
What's up, John? We know what he wants to talk about.
Cat's about 50.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, that's going to happen. We're going to win.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Tonight, tomorrow night in volleyball. All right.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, home opener, I believe. Coming up for volleyball, right?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's right. Now, is it going to be on the
radio tonight, tomorrow night?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
No radio coverage of the volleyball team this year, John.
The best song she ever had out is Code of
Many Colors.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Code of Many Colors. We played that one on the
pre-show on the day after she passed. It's a good one. John,
I know you're going to be anxiously awaiting 20 years
from now when we finally get the last Dolly Parton song.
She's going to release it on her 100th birthday. What
do you think about that? They're going to put it
locked in a vault for the next 20 years. I

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don't know. I don't know. That's the mystery. We don't know.
We're going to find out.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
All right, John.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
We appreciate it. 2046.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
2046.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's great math. There you go, John. Thank you very much.
And the Braves, my Braves last night swept the Dodgers
in what felt like October baseball. But Chris Sell, I
want to bring him up for a minute because he,
for the first time in, I believe it was eight years,
threw a pitch over 100 miles an hour. Think about this.
He's 30, I think 37, 38 years old. Had not

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thrown a pitch over 100 miles an hour in eight years.
And last night, I guess, was so amped up to
pitch against Otani that that he dialed it back eight
years ago and pulled out the 100-mile-an-hour fastball that he
had in hibernation. How cool was that?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, that is awesome. You know, maybe he's still growing.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Maybe he's still getting better.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, he still hasn't peaked, still reaching his potential. I
got to bet, though, like you said, playing Otani, you
get that adrenaline boost.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
And I don't know. I mean, Shannon, do you ever.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Feel like you can go back out there and pitch again?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, until I throw about one pitch, and then I go, nope.
I don't have it.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
But you had that one pitch, right? Maybe that was
it for Sale. He had that one pitch that took
him back eight years.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
He also ended up throwing a complete game shutout, which
is a Greg Maddux game that you do not see
in Major League Baseball anymore. I think there's only been
17 complete games all season long. Of course, before we
were worried about pitch counts, it was a common thing,
but you don't really see that anymore. Yeah, my Rays,
I mean, they'll take a pitcher out because they'll face
a lineup for the third time. It's all about analytics, right?

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But the Rays are good this year. I mean, they're
at the top of their division. So excited for them
and what they can do. Did you see in Madison County, Indiana, Billy,
there is a lion and a cub on the loose.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
What?

Speaker 1 (28:29):
A 300-pound lion somewhere in Madison County, Indiana, which I
had to look up to see exactly where that's at.
I think it's up around Muncie. Wait, wait. A lion?
A lion.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
And the cub.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And the cub. So, you know, like lions are dangerous
as it is, but if they got like a cub
with them, you.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Don't want to get any. They're more protective and defensive.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Absolutely. So it's only like 150 miles away.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, what in the Joe Exotic is this?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I say only because I don't know how far lions
can travel, but I'm just saying if that lion decides
to go south, and they can't catch this thing, it
could end up in Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, but hard to hide a lion, right? I feel
like the lion's going to go across an interstate, and
there'll be pandemonium, and the guard will be called in
to try to tranquilize it. Because you can't have a
lion on the loose. This is not a deer crossing traffic, right?
Especially with a cub. Do you think this was like
a Joe Exotic petting farm?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I think that's what the story is. It escaped from
some sort of exotic enclosure that they had, which I
don't know how you allow a lion to just get out.
Did somebody forget to lock the door? I don't know
exactly what the details of or how it escaped. But now,
I mean, could you imagine if it were Lexington, let's say,
and I said, Bill, there's a lion out here just

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roaming around with a cub. 300-pound lion, too. I mean,
you'd have to have your head on a swivel everywhere
you went because you're about to end up at this
lion's dinner.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Now, is that the.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Worst animal that you could see if you're driving by
in Madison County, Indiana?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
You think it'd be the worst one?

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I feel like a silverback gorilla trying to come at
me would probably be a little bit more scary than
a lion.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
But a lion's definitely up there.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
I just don't know if they're that aggressive when they're
in a situation.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, again, though, it has the cub, so it's going
to be more aggressive, I would think. And you're not
going to outrun a lion.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, polar bear would be another one where, you know,
I've got no chance. Like, you know, there's that saying,
you know, lay down if it's brown or whatever. Fight
back if it's black.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
I don't know if that's the right saying. White, you're dead.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, I think. No, try it again. What was it?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
White and You're Dead. That's the polar bear one. That
would be a scary one to see on the side
of the road, too.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, we do have those in, like, the local zoo.
I know there is a polar bear. Is there a
polar bear over there? Yeah, I think there is. So,
I mean, that gives a possibility, I guess. It's crazy
that there's just a lion just roaming around in Madison.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, and by the way, it's called Wentz Wildlife Adventure
is where we got the camel. So, a wildlife place.
I don't know if they have lions, though. I guess
we should check after this news. Are you sad that
the Pro Bowl is no longer going to be a thing?

Speaker 3 (30:55):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
It had become a joke, unfortunately. It is a game
that they've played for almost like 70, 75 years, so
it is a tradition.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Didn't they turn it into flag football or something like that? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
You know, two-hand touch, don't tackle. The defensive linemen, offensive linemen,
they don't even, like, move, right? Like, it's become a
sham of what it used to be. And, you know,
it's hard to make all-star games mean something, right? It's
just the Pro Bowl is the latest one to bite
the dust.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Especially in football. when injuries are so likely to happen.
You don't want to get injured because, you know, of
a Pro Bowl game that really means nothing at all.
So I kind of understand them getting rid of it.
Did you watch it when it was a thing?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I did like 10, 15 years ago when they actually tackled.
But like these past few years where it's become like
challenges and games more so than the actual game, it
just hasn't meant a lot to me. But sad to
see it go, I guess. You know, People wanted to
be a Pro Bowler but never in the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Because if you make the Super Bowl, you don't play
in the game, actually. So it was always a weird
juxtaposition there.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
One other non-sports related thing. Did you see that there's
a court battle as there's a new Twitter that is launching?
Have you seen this story?

Speaker 3 (32:10):
No, is it Blue Ski?

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Blue Sky?

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Blue Sky? What did I say? Blue Ski? Blue Ski?
Blue Ski Meta Threads? Is that what's taking over?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
So, you know, Elon changed the name, of course, as
everybody knows, from Twitter to X. Right. But there's somebody
that decided they're going to be an entrepreneur. They're going
to take over Twitter and the little Blue Bird logo
that everybody knows and launch their own Twitter. So now
there's a court battle going on back and forth between
Elon and this other person who tried to take over

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Twitter because Elon, I guess, you would think that he
would at least keep the trademark.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
That's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
But apparently he didn't, and now Twitter is still out there.
I haven't gone to Twitter.com, but apparently it's now its
own thing separate from X. Elon, of course, is arguing, no,
that's my brand. This other person is going, no, you
relinquished that trademark, that copyright, so now it's mine. And
now there's a court battle going on. So who do

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you think, if you had to judge between Elon, who
didn't want Twitter, wanted to change it to X, versus Entrepreneur,
who says, all right, here's a domain that's now open.
I'm taking this over. Who would you give it to?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
See, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I mean, I'd probably need to learn some more of
the details of the case. As much as I'd love
for it to go back to Twitter and we can
do our tweets again.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I'll still call it Twitter anyway. I do too.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm not going to call it. I do not call
it X. I can't say X me.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
I can't help but think that this is X me.
I can't do it. No, you don't want that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But I guess maybe I'm kind of the old man
that won't give up calling it Twitter.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Help but think that like there's got to be some
reason that x is going to be able to strike
this down pretty quickly yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well elon's got the money first of all right.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's another thing like they can make this go forever
you're not going to outlaw your elon the entrepreneur is
just trying to get it started so it's probably it's
probably you probably just alluded it to it.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
There yeah all right 859-280-2287 we'll take more your phone
calls coming up next we're live here at the firm
roofing In Lexington, come on by, get some wild eggs,
get some shebang chips.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Which, by the way, you stole, like, multiple bags from
the golf screen the other day.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
You're like, it's in my goodie bag.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
It was in the bag. Everybody had a bag. There was, like,
five bags there. They said, this is your bag. This
has got your golf shirt in it. And there's some
other stuff in there. And there was a bunch of
these in there. What do you want me to do?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
The shebang chips did not come in that goodie bag.
They were somehow placed into your goodie bag that you
assumed were yours.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
I had never even tried these before. I didn't even
know they were good.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Well, they are.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well, they are, but I mean, I didn't know that
at the time, so I wasn't just stealing potato chips
that I didn't even know what they tasted.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
No, you were.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's okay.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
But much better than if you remember the Miller Lite
chips that we've tried on the KSR show before.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh, you're talking about the Pringles that had like the,
it was like beer.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Beer and hot wings. Beer can chicken.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, because I told you when I was on a
trip to Florida, I stopped off at a gas station
in Alabama, and there was this dirty construction worker at
a gas station that offered me Pringles out of his window.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
And it's beer can chicken, right? And I go, this
is a little weird.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I kind of feel weird taking hot wings and beer
Pringles from a construction worker in Alabama. But I took them,
and I kind of liked them a little bit. Well,
now you don't have to with all these shebang bags
that we have. All right, we'll take a break. 859-280-2287,
KSR Pre-Show. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Welcome back.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
It is the KSR Pre-Show final segment. Billy, somebody sent
me a video of a kid making one of those
State Fair Pringles. basketball shots that's got to be ai
right oh that's impressive that's ai i don't believe it
i've never seen i mean.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Somebody's got to make a shot eventually no maybe one
person has done it right.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't know like when the carny can't even do
it usually the carny will do the thing like where
they show you how easy it is to win like
the ladder thing that i'm talking about you climb yeah
he'll go over and do it and show you how
easy it is ring the bell and go.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Here That's the scam, right?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
You do it, now you get whatever stuffed animal you want.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Well, this kid's like five feet behind the line. He
kind of does a fadeaway when he shoots it, too.
So pretty impressive, by the way.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I don't believe that. You were telling me about a
story during the break. We were just looking it up.
A man accused of posing as a San Francisco 49ers
player to defraud women out of $ 1. 3 million, according to
the defense.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, remember the Tinder swindler, right? Well, this guy was
doing it and posing as a 49ers football player. His
name is Dajon Love, and his bogus financial advisor, they
were both charged with orchestrating a years-long romance scheme that
victimized dozens of women across multiple states. They would create
dating profiles where he'd take pictures next to fancy cars

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and post videos of him in a San Francisco 49ers
helmet doing workouts on the beach.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
He's got all that stuff, but he needs your money.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
He scammed 26 victims of $ 1. 3 million over four years.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
They convinced them that they were in a romantic relationship,
he needed funds for a new venture, and then would
just block them and not respond once he got the money.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Am I wrong or bad for thinking it's your fault
for being so stupid that you would pay somebody that money?
Here's the thing, everybody listening. Anybody that's rich or a
celebrity will never just randomly be in your DMs on
social media asking you for money. If George Clooney is

(37:24):
in your Facebook messages saying that he needs a million
dollars or he needs any amount of money, don't send
it to him. It's not him.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
But George Clooney is a Kentuckian. He needs my help.
He didn't ask for a million. He only asked for $ 20, 000, Shannon.
So I got that.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
I can help him out.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
I don't understand how this happens. I mean, people you
don't even meet, especially. And a guy that just because
he had a picture of himself in a 49ers jersey
gets on– I guess you said Tinder?

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Dating apps.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Dating apps.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Not just one.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
And says that he needs money. You haven't even met
him yet. You're going to give somebody you haven't even
met money. I'm not even going to give you money.
I've known you for 10 years.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
But again, you've got to remember these people are maybe
in a vulnerable place.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
They're looking for love.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
They're alone in this weird dating culture that we have
where you have to go on apps. I can understand
somebody gets a little too invested with somebody they haven't met. Shannon,
there's a whole show about being catfished and not knowing
what these people look like.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
And then it ends up being a dude.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
And then you go meet him at the end.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
There's an idiot around every corner, I guess.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
You're a very personal responsibility guy after the meta take
yesterday where parents needed to take charge of this and
meta shouldn't do anything about it. And now on this story,
it's like you're just stupid because you fell in love
online and sent money.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
I get it. But, you know, it's tough being around you.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
So you're telling me that you actually have sympathy for
these people that are so dumb.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
So dumb that they would send money. To somebody that
claims to be in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, do you have sympathy for the grandma that picks
up and says she missed jury duty and she has
to send $ 1, 000? You know, there's people going to banks
not telling the teller what they're doing because somebody on
the phone scammed them. Like, I do have sympathy for
these people.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
This is a little bit different than that, though.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
It is.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
This is somebody that's saying that they personally need money,
not that you owe them money.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Well, I will say the 49ers have certainly had a month.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
They've had a week.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
They've had an off-season, haven't they?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
They've had a week.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I don't know if this counts for them, but it
does in some eyes.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I was watching them last night going, man, this team
only scored seven.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
All the money in the world, man, and you're in
a trailer park at 9 in the morning in Ohio.
It just boggles my mind.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Let me ask you about this, Billy. Would you ever
pay for... parking at a mall? Would you ever pay...
to get a little bit of a better spot in
a parking lot at a mall?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Probably not. I mean, I'm the guy that parks all
the way in the back and walks, honestly. I'm with you, man.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I am with you, too. I'm the type of guy
where if there's two bridges and one of them's a
toll bridge and the other one's free, but the other
one that's free is like five miles out of the way.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, an extra ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I will drive an extra ten minutes out of the
way just on the principle of it.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Me, too.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
I'm not paying to cross your bridge, right?

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
So I bring this up because Mall St. Matthews in Louisville,
is implementing paid parking for select spots. So you know
where we were just last week?

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
That was Oxmoor.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
A couple weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
That was Oxmoor Center. But the one down the road
from it is Mall St. Matthews, and they are going
to be charging for parking, for premium parking is what
they're calling it. Now, that doesn't mean that all spots
you have to pay to park, but there's going to be.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Some where you have to pay to park.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
So you're going to have the handicap section, and then
you're going to have premium parking spots.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I can see the capitalism in that.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
I probably won't ever do that.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
But Christmas time, man, they could surge those prices up
and people would probably still pay for those, right?

Speaker 1 (40:35):
But if I'm the malls, I'm not rocking the boat
too much. Because at some point, if you keep nickel
and diamond people to death, they're going to say, screw this.
I'm going to stay home and buy it off Amazon.
What I'm saying is, in the year of 2026, malls
should be happy that anybody's still going to the mall.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, no, you're right.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
It's so easy to buy stuff and not have to
go to the mall and have to worry about the traffic.
And now you're charging people to park. I think it's
a bad look.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Another obstacle. That's going to hurt malls in the future.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
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because KSR is going to be here for the next
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Speaker 3 (41:07):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
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Speaker 3 (41:15):
We do. We're giving away a couple people. Do you
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Speaker 2 (41:19):
Okay, so we have two sets of tickets that we'll
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Speaker 3 (41:26):
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Speaker 1 (41:28):
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That's right, tomorrow, man. We're going to be watching that.
I might even bet some on these games.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
On Bill Belichick is who you're going to bet on?

Speaker 1 (41:40):
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KSR is up next. We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Thank you, guys.