June 30, 2025 • 41 mins
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This is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, June the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is, of course fourth of July week. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The sort of parade of all of us taking our
various vacations Drew and Shannon have this week. So it
is Ryan and I, Billy actually coming into the studio
and Ryan, there's a lot well actually there there's very
little in sports going on, which is going to lead
us to talk about a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've already had people tell us that they love these
summer shows and they can kind of feel it, kind
of leaning that way.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You get one today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean, this may be one of the most boring
sports weekends that I can remember outside of one thing.
But for right now, Ryan, my focus, Uh, while it's
on this show, I'm secondarily looking you know today, Ryan Leving,
you may not know this big day of the sneaker
head world.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh it is June thirtieth. No, I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, it's not June.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's nothing about June thirtieth in particular. It's just today
they are releasing the first ever Caitlin Clark's shoe. Yes,
by the way, Billy, I can barely hear Ryan if
there's something we could do to turn him up or
something like that. The first ever Caitlin Clark's shoe is
being released. It was released at ten, so I'm in
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the draw. So at some point during this segment, if
you hear a celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Because it's it's not even about the shoe.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I just feel like this will be one be like
you know, she's like Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
This will be like her first.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This is like her Jordan one here coming out right
now in the next few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And being a sneakerhead like you are, you want that,
you want to get this original shoe come out? Yeah,
I think you wanted edition.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I appreciate you clearing that up. Of course I want it.
I think it would be be good to have. So
they're not. I don't think they released that many. So
we'll find out here in a few minutes. If I
got it now, we could talk about, uh, the UK
football got commitments, we could talk about UK basketball. Jasper
Johnson's played a couple of the under nineteen games. But
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I don't really want to start with any of that.
I've got to start with what happened in Summerset this weekend. Amen, Yes,
we have to In Summerset this weekend they had now
they call.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It, what's it called? Is it called cruising is the
cruise in?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's like what the third Saturday and every month to
the fourth Saturday and every month something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They do this. Every month they have the.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Cruise in, But of course they don't have a big
blowout celebration.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They still don't know what a cruise in is, so'll
explain what that is.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Like, the guys that make the hot rod cars and
the pimped out cars, they just kind of bring them
all to summer set one weekend every throughout the summer
and they call it a cruise and they just cruise
up and down the street and you just kind of
sit and watch people's cars drive by.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And it was just during the summer, just during the summer.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So I guess for this month's cruise in, they decided
to bring in the General Lee to jump over the
water fountain in the middle of town. And that feels
like the kind of idea, Billy. It feels like the
kind of idea you do when you've been drinking in summerset.
You know, why don't we why don't we get a
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car and why don't we jump it over our fountain?
I am I think it's a brilliant idea, although I
would like to I wish I knew the.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Planning of how it ended up taking place, you know
what I mean, Like, let's just jump a car over
a fountain. Why don't we do that? Yeah? What was
the why?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I mean, I know the.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Why was because it's awesome. But I'm I have a
few questions about it that are important. But first of all,
they do it, they get the General Lee. Now I
don't know if that's I'm gonna assume ran it's not
the official General Lee since it seems to now be destroyed.
So I'm gonna just I'm gonna assume there's a lot
of General Lee's. I guess they hired someone who knew
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how to operate a ramp and to go over it.
And the video is insane and has gone mega viral.
A guy a Twitter account named like Carl Towns van ZANDT,
which by the way, is a great Twitter account name.
He had the video. I put it up on mine.
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It now Ryan has twenty two million views.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
On my Twitter.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It has become it is the second most popular tweet
I've ever sent, behind one I sent years ago on
January sixth that had a video of the January sixth thing.
So it's the second most popular tweet I've ever had,
and it's literally Somerset, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Generally, it's gone all over the world.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I have people if you go look at that tweet, Ryan,
and you look at the quotes and the responses, there
are responses in every language.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You can imagine it.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Has gone all over the world as this is a
symbol of America in Somerset, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, when we were down there doing our show
and they were kind of telling us this was coming up.
I envisioned it being great. I envisioned being that great.
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I don't know that I envisioned exactly what they were
gonna do, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They were very proud of it. Yes, but I guess
I just couldn't really figure it out.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So if you've seen the video, I'm sure at this
point most people have car jumps the fountain. It got
the jump one hundred percent right like it looks it
got airborne.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It goes through the fountain.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But through the blue water water.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
The landing, I don't know if they totally I can't imagine, Billy,
that's how they wanted it to land. I cannot imagine
that they wanted it to land on the ground, pieces
of it coming off, and then hid into the barricades
and nearly killing a photographer in the process. I mean,
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have you assume you've seen it, Billy.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Right, Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But that's what makes it great. That's what makes it crazy.
There is the landing in what happens after the jump,
the fact.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
That the photographer had to jump the fence to make
me yeah he's.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, Yeah, nearly took out a barrier and a photographer.
But that's why everybody's that's what made it special. You know,
he jumped through the water and the water Spider.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Show made it special. You think the crash land, Yes, special.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's what we want to see. Thirty five thousand people
were there, Matt, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
There were thirty five thousand people. I was gonna ask
that that's how many people were there.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's what they're estimating. Thirty five thousand people all over
the places, and we had a front row seat. We
wanted to go, and none of us went well.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I liked the I think I was good where I
was with the video, but that as someone who used
to practice law and sometimes Billy I look at things
as Okay, where is your potential to get sued?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The City of Somerset got away with one.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Okay, the city of Somerset got away with what I
cannot believe, cannot believe. There were people lining those streets.
And what I especially can't believe is at the end
of the runway.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There were people like in the street.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You know what I'm saying, Like if if the brakes
had had fallen, it just went straight.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
There were people there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Now, granted there was a barrier, but who knows how
well it would have worked. I am listen, it was awesome,
but Billy, I'm if you look at it, there's a
lot that could have gone wrong right there.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, if we had front row invitations, I would have
taken it before the jump, not after. I mean you
had to be, yeah, a little crazy to be back there.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The people at the end of that jump. The people
at the end of that jump were hearty souls.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I didn't win the draw.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
By the way, just oh hope you got them.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, they only well, I mean, they don't tell you
who got them. They're not like Bob in Frankfurt got them.
They just say you didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, bummer.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Did you think they were going to tell me who
in the world got the shoes all thirteen thousand people?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Of course not. But we've thought if you got it,
I'm helping you got the right the ticket to get
the shoes.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
But you asked me who got them?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I said, I'm hoping you got them?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh you hoe?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Okay, gotcha? Well anyway, so here's my and I know
there are listeners who were there. I'm nine twenty two
eighty seven. If you were at the event, I would
like to hear from you. Was it as exciting as
it looked on the camera? And I'd like to know,
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Billy about that photographer. I would like to know what
he was thinking because he barely got out of the way,
like he gets out of the way if you watch
that video. A. What made him think he could be
in the street right there? And b does he feel
like he escaped because he narrowly escaped?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yeah, I'd argue a lot of photographers have had professional
athletes coming at him, but not the general Lee right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I can't believe that he was over there. I cannot
believe that that guy.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I'm sure he wanted a good shot, but Ryan, I
can't believe he was standing there because even if things
go well, he still would have had a good chance
of being hit.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, I don't think he was with the crew who
had their own photographers and stuff out, but they all
had on black shirts. I don't think you think that
was just a dude just like regular guy taking pictures,
newspaper guy, like a local newspaper guy or something.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So he's a local newspaper guy. I don't I'm just
on the other side of the barrier. Yeah, with the
generally jumping the fountain.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Some guys, sometimes people in the media jump the barrier
and go walk with tiger woods on the fairway, this
guy jumped the barrier to hang out with generally crashing
into the night.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Quite as dangerous, I don't think at all. I think
that was a very different, a very different level of danger.
I will say, a fascinating thing. Now, are you this
is my question for you. It went all over the world.
And by all over the world, I mean I've seen Spanish, French,
I've seen Chinese characters like retweeting it, et cetera. Are
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you proud that to a lot of the world this said,
this happened in Kentucky Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, because apparently this guy had jumps like he's had
like a dozen jumps in the general league. This is
not like his first one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But for whatever reason, for a while, this one looks
so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Going through the water and kind of crashing at the end.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I love it, so you love that, like for the world.
This is Somerset, Kentucky. A what about you?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I kind of loved it too. I don't know if
it was the blue water fountain it was jumping over,
or just how it landed. I just thought it perfectly
encapsulated Kentucky in Somerset.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So yeah, yeah, the blue water was a great touch.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is it normally blue in sunset?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, it wasn't that blue when we were down there.
I'm sure they did it just for the jump.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well that's I think the blue water actually, if they
should just keep that and the blue water is a
great touch. I thought one of you might say you
were embarrassed. I wasn't embarrassed at all. No, I think
it is very well, you know, there's a part of
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the whole. Generally, the Confederate flag thing is not my favorite,
but it does harken back to the Dukes of Hazard
and so it even though maybe I wouldn't have put
that on there, but the idea of having the Dukes
of Hazard car jumping it over a fountain, thirty five
thousand people coming out to see it and being as
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excited as they are and then the crash landing, plus
the dude barely barely gets by, I do think it
is ryan kind of definitively Kentucky in some ways, and
so I actually think in some ways it more encapsulates
what Kentucky is than, for instance, Bourbon or the Kentucky Derby.
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They're part of it, but there's a lot more of
that in Kentucky than there is you know, the Race
of Kings at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You know, a lot of us grew up watching The
Dukes of Hazzard. It was a great TV show to watch,
and I think that still, you know, pulls on our
childhood's heartstrings a little bit. And you see the generally
barreling down the street making a big jump coming to
a crash landing, I'm like, yeah, man, I'm glad it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Was here twenty two eighty.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And if you were at the event, you can either
shoot a test call or give me a text seven
seven two seven four five two five four. I will
admit when the people of Somerset said, Hey, you ought
to come back here in a couple of weeks, we're
jumping the General Lee over a fountain. I kind of
rolled my eyes and I kind of thought, I don't
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know about that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I was wrong. You guys were right. I should have
been there. I'm with Billy.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't think I would have said on the landing
side of it, but I did think it was excellent.
And to whoever took that video from the roof of
that building in Somerset, that video is now it was
in the New York Post.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Uh, it's on barstool.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But I think it's even like in People magazine that
video which I saw from Carl Towns van zandt whoever
it was that originally took it, because I think he
said it was a friend of his.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well done.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You produced, like you know, an award winning video of
the moment. A fem nine two twenty two eighty seven.
We will take a break, very Backs Turkey Sports Radio,
water Back Tekey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven, if you were at the thing,
I'd love to hear from you. We got a bunch
of texts from people, but not very many people on
the phone. The uh all right, so apparently it was not.
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Uh it was not. I guess what did they drive?
A Crown Vic? Is that what they drove on the show? Ryan,
I never really watched the show because that was a
little before my time.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Is that what they drove on the show?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't know. To me, it was still the generally.
I don't know what the different models were. I really
don't think they used to drive a Dodge Charger. This
was not that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
This was not a Judge Dodge Charger. Okay, so they
whatever they drove, they re put different things on it.
So they used a Ford Ltd. With car panels bought
to make it look like a Dodge charger. After it landed,
do we I mean, will you think they'll be able
to use that car again?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean it was destroyed.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think that's why they've got like five of them.
And then what they told us, I think there's five
of these cars that they use for these shows and
jumps and things. With that one, we probably don't to
get them.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, I mean, I wonder what it costs to get them,
because if you're gonna destroy the car, they're gonna have
to rebuild it. So how much do you think the
city of Somerset paid for that? Like, if you were
to guess, because somebody will know the answer to this, billy,
how much you think they had to pay to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I was gonna guess like fifteen to twenty grand, But it's.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Got to be more than that because they got to
rebuild the car, right that car. Just rebuilding the car
is gonna cost them what ten or fifteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You probably those guys they'd love They probably just their hobby.
You know, they probably don't have to put as It's.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Also got to be a job. They're not just running
around crashing cars for the fun of it. I mean
this is a business, right, So I mean I gotta
think it's more thirty thousand dollars. Which is that a
bargain for a city? I think Somerset's gotten thirty thousand
dollars worth of.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Publicity, right, Well, yes, summer Set. I think the population
is like twelve thousand people and they almost tripled it
in one weekend. So I think they're the value fifty.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Cents a person and you get to have the car
jump over the fountain in town and you're uh, and
you're good.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What person rights?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm waiting on the video of the cameraman who almost
got ran over he was filming, which means that has
to be a heck of a shot. Yeah, I would
like to see that, And I'd also like to be
in his brain, Billy, to hear the moment that he went, oh, oh,
this is not going exactly as I hoped.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Hey, it could be a life changing shot, though, you know,
I mean, this could could be.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It could be.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
The shoes are already gone, and they're already on the
secondary market now for three hundred and sixty dollars, so
I don't know if they're good.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Does it say how many they put out today?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think I saw it was gonna be thirteen thousand total,
but in my size, you know, it's probably like a
thousand or less. So you would think though with Katelyn,
you think it'd be Kitlyn Clark they would bring they
would put a zillion.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of them out right, because it's Kitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I mean every you would think, every little earl in
the country that plays Basketball would want it a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Like you said with the Jordan Ones, that this first
edition maybe they want to make it so special. Now
maybe the second one they'll make more available to the public.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That's probably their mindset, but it is it's very strange
to me that they do it. Af I'm nine two
twenty two eighty seven. Before we get to anything else,
I also have to talk about my Reds Ryan. Another
series win against the Padres Friday night almost had history.
You and I both were listening to it and texting
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back and forth. Spencer Steer hits a home run in
his first three at bats, which means he gets to
come up for a fourth chance to get four home runs,
doesn't end up doing it, and then Nick Martinez eight
no hit innings, goes to the ninth inning with a
no hitter. He had already thrown one hundred and ten pitches.
I think his arm was about to fall off. He
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was basically lobbing it in the ninth inning, but they
had to give him a chance to get it. He
gives a hit and it ends up they take him
out of the game, but they win the game. But
you don't see many games right where they went into
the ninth inning with two chances at literally making history.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
For eight innings. Both those guys were making a case
for being a Hall of Famer. I mean, Spencer Steer
just every time up hitting a home run. Martinez, that's
the most pitches he had ever thrown his life, they said,
And he was still out there trying to get damage.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's like eighty three pitches. But they kept letting him go.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think the theory was, you know, Billy, he's old,
he'll probably never get this chance again.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Let's just let him go into his arm falls off.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah, just throw him out there, see if he can
complete it. But you know, Red's they're they're they're playing
pretty well. Matt, you gotta be happy with it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So then Saturday, they're up four to one, but then
they get the Bill Penn falls apart, lose six to four.
But then they reverse it yesterday two to one, going
into the ninth Ellie, his first at bat takes eleven
pitches to kind of get their closer tired, and then
hit after hit after hit and they end up winning
the game. So now they go to Austin this weekend.
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You know, we talked three weeks ago, I said, Ryan
They've got all these tough series back to back to
back to back. They've won six of those seven series.
Your Cardinals are the only series they've lost in that group.
They got two more this weekend Boston and Philly, and
then it's the All Star Game, so they you know,
and then the week after the All Star Game they
play seven games against the Rockies and the Marlins. So
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a chance to kind of take off if they can
survive this week upcoming.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, tough stretch. They had the Yankees and the Padres,
one of the best teams in the West, and then
I going to Boston.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They in Cleveland, and they had Detroit, the best team
in baseball. I mean, they had all these teams that
they won all of those series except the Cardinals one.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So you know, Somervelli, are you starting to believe yet?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
No, they're still behind the Cardinals, They're still behind the Brewers.
They're in fourth place in their own division.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
They are, but they don't have to win the division.
They need the wild card.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And got a lead frog the Cardinals and Brewers, then somehow.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They will you turn his microphone phone off, Billy. They
have two a half games to behind on the wildcard.
And the other teams are like, the Mets are right
now the wildcard. You got, the Mets are the leader,
but there's still only three and a half games ahead
of the Red so everyone's bunched up.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Billy, we can we can completely do this.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Yeah, it's fun being over five hundred in June going
into July.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know, you got that young pitcher I think pitching
against Boston tonight too.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Well tonight, Yeah, so that again tonight, Chase Burns, the
guy that had such a great debut. He's pitching apparently
against one of the best dudes in baseball. Billy, I
guess his name is Garrett Crochet. Is that a person
for Boston?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Crochet though that's an unfortunate last Is.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That his name? Or is it Crotchet Kroscher?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm not sure. I know you're talking about, but I'm
not sure. I Browns's last name.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well, it doesn't have an R, so I don't think
it's Kroscher, So it's either Crochet or I guess, Billy,
I guess it could be Crotch. It I think for
his sake, let's hope I'm gonna assume it's crochet. I
don't think somebody's gonna name their kid crotch it, but
they pitching it. So this dude, what a tough start
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to his career. Starts with the Yankees and then at
Finnway against one of the best pitchers in baseball. But
he made of that's two of three. Every series, get
two of three tonight. It's gonna be a hard one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But you know what happened. Did Ellie throw up, like
right before he hit the big hit last night or
something or something I'm talking about. He threw up.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I was against the Cardinals last week, right, yeah, against
the Cardinals last week. He he was so hot in
Saint Louis. He threw up. And then right after he
threw up hit home run. Yeah no, he What he
did last night was if you go look at the
play he scored on in the ninth Billy, no one
would have scored.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
But Ellie on that play like.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He he he he took off. I mean, you have
to go see it. He barely beat the throw but
you'd have to be one of the fastest people and spot.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Anybody else would have gotten thrown out. But he was
able to get in because of how fast he is.
Who's next, Mike, Mike, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mike, Yes, I was at the car.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You were, Yes, okay, Well tell me something about it.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I never saw as many people in Somerset and on
my life.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Did you see the cars up in the air?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yes, I got some pictures.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I may have sent you off some takes or some stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
All right, all right, well I appreciate it. I thought,
get a little more info. But I will look at
those pictures. Had to be a fun day in summer.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Set.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
We'll take a break, be right back, Welcome back at
this Kentucky sports radio. There are people writing me saying
that these Caitlin Clark's shoes are not her first signature one.
They're her Kobe shoes, her her first signature one. Billy
will be worth more money. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Maybe that's why glad they're not out yet. Then the
signature ones.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Well, I mean, I think I don't know why it
takes so long. If I were them, I would have
put out the shoes. Like you knew she was going
to be in the league. How I would have put
them out immediately. Absolutely, she was like at the at
the top of her But apparently the ones that are
specifically hers have not are not even done yet.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So wow it right, Weed a bix. You need to
strike when the iron's hot.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You got to strike when the iron is hot. I mean,
what was hotter than Caitlin Clark in the WNBA last year?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Like nothing?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
They put that out last year. They'd have sold a
million of them, you would think. But and maybe they
still will. But I would have wanted to do that quickly.
I still don't have everybody who's told me how much
they think Somerset paid for that one person. Right, There's
never been a bigger bag filled or bag missed in
history than Hazard not doing this event.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's the truth. Oh yeah, Hazard.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The only thing that would have made this bigger, Billy
is if this had been in Hazard?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Right, how could you do? How could Hazard not have done? That?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Could have the name thing? I mean, how could you
not done it?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Hazzard? You're right? Does Hazard adopted?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I mean I know the show is in Hazzard County, Georgia, right,
I believe, which isn't a real place I don't think,
but has has Hazard Kentucky?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
What do you do if that was my fault? I
know you pushed the wrong button.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
All right, what has Hazard Kentucky ever really embraced it, Ryan,
over the years.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh, I think they definitely embraced it. Now most people
think the show is Hazard Kentucky, not embrace it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What have they done?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I think the Lester P. Coltrane, He's from Kentucky, right,
I think he's been there to like their parade or
their Hazard Day or something. They've done something down there,
but they've not done a jump over a fountains.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well they should have done this because it would have
been a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
What person rights? Matt All?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
The UK basketball season ticket holders are getting calls this
week asking them to buy football tickets. Is that a
bad sign? Well, it's not a good sign. I mean
maybe they do that every year. I'm not sure, but
I think when the Hair of Leader, because they always
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in like August released the season ticket numbers, because I
think it comes out in the midyear report for UK,
which is due maybe at the end of July or
something like that. I think the number of season ticket
sales Ryan is going to be shocking. I would it
would not surprise me if the season ticket sale numbers
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are the lowest since before Stoops got here.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Just remember when he got here.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
They sold a ton that first year, and I could
totally see it being the lowest number of the Stoops era.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I totally agree. I mean, you know, it's started to
leak out little by little that season ticket sales are
going horribly wrong the wrong way. So I can see
why they maybe calling the basketball season ticket or trying
to give them a deal, a package deal, something to
try to buy some more football season tickets.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, it may it may be the case.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
They do that every year, so I don't know, but
I've never seen that, and that would be probably a
bad sign. And anytime you're trying to cold call people
for season tickets, people who've never bought it, that I
think also is not the greatest sign in the world.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Now, who's next, billion, Matt, Matt, go ahead, Matt.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Hey, what's up, guys. I was down in Summerset this weekend.
I lived down here. It's calling to tell you a
little bit about the experience. Okay, uh So, I think
thirty five thousands probably a little exaggerated on the number.
I'd say it's probably more around like fifteen to twenty thousand.
We were located right by the ramp and you could
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tell whenever it took off and atlanted it was obviously
gonna crash, so you know, everybody started running in behind
it and trying to see what was going on. It
was definitely a spectacle of the day. But it was
really really cool. I own a small business down here
in summer Set. The town was hopping since Thursday. There
was a bunch of people coming in. All the hotels
were cool. So I mean I got to give our
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you know, our local government.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Allen the mayor down here.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I think they did a great job with it because
it did bring a lot of attention to our town
and it really did help with the local businesses. Every
little that's good.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
That's exactly what you want where exactly Yeah, that's exactly
what you want. I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Alan k.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, Alan Kack, the mayor down there, you know, ran
for governor a couple of years ago. We met him
when he uh when he did that and uh brought
us down there. He's done a great job. I mean, listen,
you certainly got attention. There are people all over the
world now that know Somerset, so uh, probably the biggest
news since Hal Rogers.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
I grew up in Missouri and I had friends from
high school in Missouri. That message me to know I
live in Kinari was like, were you anywhere close to that?
And it's like, yeah, I was there, you know, so
it's definitely there you go that town.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, appreciates call.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I mean a little bit of a downer on how
many but people were there, but that's still still very exciting.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Who's next?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Ali is next?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Alie? Go ahead? Ali? By the way, it's Richie.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Farmer wrote to say, it's Roscoe Coltrane, Ryan, not Lester.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Where did you get Lester?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Like I said, Roscoe Pee Coletrane.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I think you did, say Lester, pe Toll, Traine Brothers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Lester's a weird name just to come up with, though,
where do you get Lester?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Who's next?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Ali is up from Kentucky? I think too, right? The
actor the pladyman.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, all the more reason you should know his name.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Hey, guys, I'm the one who took that video.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh that's your video.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yes, that's my video.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's your video. Okay, So how did carl Towns van
Zant get it?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
They stole it?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Now now Carl Town's van Zant said, this is my
friend who took it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Are you not friends with him?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
No, I'm not friends with them.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Oh wow, Billy not friends with Carl town van Zant.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Okay, so you so did you post it somewhere and
then someone just yanked it from you?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
I posted it to my Facebook page and it went crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So are you happy?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's the fact that they like that video is literally
in the New York Post and in the Washington Post today.
Does that make you happy?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Oh? That's totally cool. I had I had. Good Morning
America called me or emailed me last night, so I
think it's going to be on there. Sometimes we've been.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Good Morning America emailed you. What did they say?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Yeah, brother, the sister ask for permission to use it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I sent them the original video.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Most Internet rogues like me didn't do that, so you
got you got permission.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That's cool. So well, you have a video, I.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Mean, just my version of it has been watched by
twenty Just to give you the latest numbers, because I
want you to sense this is your video. It just
mine of it has twenty one million views. I'm sitting
here looking at another one that I'm sitting here looking
at another one that has eight million views. The New
(30:22):
York Post one has two million views. So you're looking
at I think I would say you probably are looking
at fifty million people at least.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Have viewed this.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Well, add in that my Facebook page says that nine
million people okay has seen it from mine?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, so nine million from you.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You add all these up, let's just say conservatively, you
shot a video that fifty million people saw.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
That's gotta be.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Kind of cool, right, Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And when you took your phone out, did it? When
you took your phone out, did it? You could have
never imagined that would happen.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Oh no, I.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Would have been happy with a couple of hundred of
my friends saying.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Whoo, you got more than that same woohoo?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Well, well, wait to go. I think it's the best angle.
There are other angles that show the crash, et cetera.
But I don't think there's any other angle that shows
the entire experience as good as yours.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
So what's your name again?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I appreciate it, Allie Ally.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
McGuire, Alli, Ali McGuire, congratulations And was it an exciting
day in Somerset?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
It was so exciting and I didn't even have to
crash my car.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
That's how you know it's a good day, Billy. It
was so exciting and I didn't even have to crash
my car.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
That's a good that's good. That's a good line.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Ali put shoot out my phone.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Thank you Alli.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Fifty million people, I mean right now, just on my clip, Billy.
Thirteen thousand retweets, one hundred and eighty seven thousand likes,
twenty one million views, and three thousand comments.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
That's a ton Now, could she be salty at all?
I mean, you can make money if you get enough
views on tweets or tiktoks. You know, was there an
opportunity for her to make money?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Here's the little secret. None of these things really pay
very much.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Like I'm signed up for all the programs on all
the various ones.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
A video like that.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Probably views probably one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Oh that's less than I thought.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, it's the idea. The only the way that people
make money is like influencers or whatever. You have to
get brand ads, or you have to be on like YouTube.
YouTube videos can make a lot of money if you
get enough traffic, et cetera. But when when Muss first
took over Twitter. There was like a month or two
that they paid pretty good money, and now they don't.
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I don't really TikTok. I don't use it enough to
make a substantial amount of money. But I've heard the
same thing's true there. Like the kid, you know, the
kid Ryan on TikTok who does the food reviews in Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
His name is like Crunch. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, looked at him one time. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
So he his videos get millions and millions and millions
and millions of views, all of them, and he does
like one a day. And I heard him on a
video say that for the entire year, I think Billy
he made like one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which
is still really good money. But when you consider how
much traffic he gets and how many followers, it kind
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of gives you a sense of how hard it is
to make money.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I had heard TikTok paid a little less than the others.
But YouTube, it sounds like, is the YouTube.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
If you're trying to make money from it, YouTube is
the best. But honestly, the way these people make money
is they get brand ads. You know, somebody pays you
to say, hey, look at this shirt. It comes from
Target or you know what I mean something like that.
That's actually how you make real money. I don't think
you necessarily make real money from having the General League
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go flying through.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
The year, but that would be nice. You didn't send
me the ad, so give me one to do right here.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I don't have them either, so we'll have to do
that next segment.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
All right, Well you're gonna have to take care of that.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
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We will take a break, be right back. The UK
basketball team went to Kings Island. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Eight five nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
A couple quick things that are a little staff from
the weekend. Two sports figures passed away. First, d Wayne
Lucas probably the you know, I would say, probably the
most important figure in the horse racing of my lifetime,
won multiple Derby's, multiple triple Crown events.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Eighty nine years old. Was just in the Derby.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I believe it was this year with another horse at
eighty nine, Ryan I'd say you were over the years
when you were doing the Derby every year. I'm sure
you got to know d Wayne Lucas. I did not well,
were you. I'm sure you were sad to see his passing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, because he was, like you're right, like the godfather
of horse racing trainers. You know, everybody aspired to be
de Wayne Lucas, and when he walked in the room,
you knew it, and he commanded your attention. He was
a uh, well, I know, he just passed me. He
was a crotchety old man late in his life, and people,
though respected that from him, they didn't didn't.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
He didn't Bob Baffort like learn under him. I think
Bob so I think he was.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Bafforoblast for one of them, but he had many trainers
that did so.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Baffort was not well but dis.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Respected him and released a nice note after that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I mean, there's no doubt that he is probably the
most I mean, Bafford has probably become the most known
figure in the last fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
But you go to.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
When I was a kid. When I was a kid,
and when you thought about horse racing, d Wayne Lucas
was who you thought of absolutely was him so sad
to see his passing. And then former Red and Pirate
Dave Parker, who was I think won the batting title
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in seventy seven and seventy eight, was the MVP I
believe one of those years, part of the end of
the Big Red machine, and then part of a Pirates
team that ended up going to the World Series. You're
a huge baseball guy. Dave Parker was late seventies, early
eighties as good as anybody.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
In the sport.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He was, and he was like a mountain of a man.
He was just a big human being. And the last
time I went Mix six six one of.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The tallest players to ever be, like a really good
hitter in history.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And the last game I went to at the Reds game,
they wheeled him out in his wheelchair and he got
this great ovation. But it was so sad to see
this mountainous, huge man what his body had just given
out on him.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
There's also a great, a great story about him. He
apparently has hit the longest.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Home run ever.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
He hit a home run over the fence I think
in like a West Virginia landing in a bed of
a train in the train took it to like Washington,
d C. Before it stopped.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
That sounds like that's does that count real, Billy? Billy?
That doesn't sound really, Billy.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
That sounds like the kind of story they tell you
in like a fairy tale. Right, he hit the longest
home run ever? It went on a train and then
the train went all the way to turkeys watching the
kind of thing. Yeah, I want you to look that up, Billy.
I need you to fact check.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Okay, Rob, he's getting West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It was no excuses.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I don't want you to try to now somehow caveat it.
You have to see, Billy, did Dave Parker hit all
longest home run by hitting it on a train in
West Virginia?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That went somewhere else? I'll find it because I'm throwing
the challenge for.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Story.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
This is This is a Ryan Lemon old wives tale that,
in my opinion, is unlikely to be True's just what
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Who's up next?
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Ian is next?
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Ian?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Go ahead of you at Ian.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Matt today? Or These are the kind of shows I
love so much. I wanted to admonish Ryan for the
for not knowing Roscolle Peakles train, but I didn't have
to because my childhood hero, Kentucky Wildcat Richie Farmer did
it for me.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Uh yes, Richie, Richie.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
That's right. The other I was gonna call with a
little bit of Bob and Jamestown uh trivia about the
General Leaf where you you know, in nineteen seventy nine
when they made that show, that car was just a
ten year old car. It was still a cold car,
but it was just an old car. And now those
are very expensive and they're they're really hard to come by,
and they only made so many of them. They destroyed
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like three hundred plus of them when they made the show.
So a few years ago these guys that do these
jumps figured out that you could they could take the
the Ford Crown Victoria, which is the police car that's
been in a taxi that's been around for the past
twenty years, and take the take all, cut all the
body panels off, and then weld the replacement sheet metal
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that the companies make to restore those old Dodge Chargers
and weld that onto the to the Crown Victoria's. So
you basically have an endless supply of General Leeds.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
That you can from it.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Cost if you if you clearly seem to know about it,
If you wreck that car, how much would it cost
to make a new one?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
About thirty thousand dollars to do it?
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, So that's why I wonder what Somerset Play paid
because or maybe they didn't think they would wreck the
car because but to make that worthwhile, I mean, if
you tell me it costs thirty thousand, now we're up
to like fifty thousand dollars, which.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Oh yeah, and they know they destroy them every time,
and so.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
They destroy them every time, so they know it will
be destroyed.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Yeah, okay, the car actually like the Okay.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, no, I appreciate the call. That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
So they they'd go in knowing it would be destroyed.
I wonder what it feels like Billy to land, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Because it didn't look.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Like it had a sin, didn't feel like it had
a soft landing.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, the guys I do want to give a shout
out to.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
If you watch Wrestlers or you watch OBW know HollyHood
Haley J Yes, did you see she started part two
of her career this weekend. She entered and is now
one of those you've seen the slap fighting, yeah, right,
she entered it. She won her first slap fighting match.
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She knocked a woman out. I'm not I will tell you,
I'm not really into the slap fighting.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I think it's a little it's gotta be bad, brutal
for them.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
But I would say if anybody's gonna be good at it,
she would be a person I can see me can
at it.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
But you can look online.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
She was in her first match and Ryan, she knocked
the woman out that she was up against, like knocked her.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
We all fell in love with her from the show
and then when she came on the show and said
with you for an hour. And so I'm pulling for
in this in this new adventure for her.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Look up the video. I mean, I don't she's not
that big.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
She's a little girl.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
She's not that big. Well, she's bulked up a little bit.
Clearly she's been lifting weights. I could tell. I saw
a video with her. But nevertheless, you know, if there's
something she's good at, I could see it be slapping
because I saw her slapping people not in the ring,
like just out of anger. So clearly, so she won
her first match, so congratulations to uh Haley Jay and
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her new line of work.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
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This is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, June the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
We got Ryan Limon in Lexington, we got Billy in studio.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is, of course fourth of July week. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The sort of parade of all of us taking our
various vacations Drew and Shannon have this week. So it
is Ryan and I, Billy actually coming into the studio
and Ryan, there's a lot well actually there there's very
little in sports going on, which is going to lead
us to talk about a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've already had people tell us that they love these
summer shows and they can kind of feel it, kind
of leaning that way.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You get one today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean, this may be one of the most boring
sports weekends that I can remember outside of one thing.
But for right now, Ryan, my focus, Uh, while it's
on this show, I'm secondarily looking you know today, Ryan Leving,
you may not know this big day of the sneaker
head world.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh it is June thirtieth. No, I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, it's not June.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's nothing about June thirtieth in particular. It's just today
they are releasing the first ever Caitlin Clark's shoe. Yes,
by the way, Billy, I can barely hear Ryan if
there's something we could do to turn him up or
something like that. The first ever Caitlin Clark's shoe is
being released. It was released at ten, so I'm in
(02:09):
the draw. So at some point during this segment, if
you hear a celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Because it's it's not even about the shoe.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I just feel like this will be one be like
you know, she's like Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
This will be like her first.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This is like her Jordan one here coming out right
now in the next few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And being a sneakerhead like you are, you want that,
you want to get this original shoe come out? Yeah,
I think you wanted edition.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I appreciate you clearing that up. Of course I want it.
I think it would be be good to have. So
they're not. I don't think they released that many. So
we'll find out here in a few minutes. If I
got it now, we could talk about, uh, the UK
football got commitments, we could talk about UK basketball. Jasper
Johnson's played a couple of the under nineteen games. But
(02:52):
I don't really want to start with any of that.
I've got to start with what happened in Summerset this weekend. Amen, Yes,
we have to In Summerset this weekend they had now
they call.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It, what's it called? Is it called cruising is the
cruise in?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's like what the third Saturday and every month to
the fourth Saturday and every month something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They do this. Every month they have the.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Cruise in, But of course they don't have a big
blowout celebration.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They still don't know what a cruise in is, so'll
explain what that is.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Like, the guys that make the hot rod cars and
the pimped out cars, they just kind of bring them
all to summer set one weekend every throughout the summer
and they call it a cruise and they just cruise
up and down the street and you just kind of
sit and watch people's cars drive by.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And it was just during the summer, just during the summer.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So I guess for this month's cruise in, they decided
to bring in the General Lee to jump over the
water fountain in the middle of town. And that feels
like the kind of idea, Billy. It feels like the
kind of idea you do when you've been drinking in summerset.
You know, why don't we why don't we get a
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car and why don't we jump it over our fountain?
I am I think it's a brilliant idea, although I
would like to I wish I knew the.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Planning of how it ended up taking place, you know
what I mean, Like, let's just jump a car over
a fountain. Why don't we do that? Yeah? What was
the why?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I mean, I know the.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Why was because it's awesome. But I'm I have a
few questions about it that are important. But first of all,
they do it, they get the General Lee. Now I
don't know if that's I'm gonna assume ran it's not
the official General Lee since it seems to now be destroyed.
So I'm gonna just I'm gonna assume there's a lot
of General Lee's. I guess they hired someone who knew
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how to operate a ramp and to go over it.
And the video is insane and has gone mega viral.
A guy a Twitter account named like Carl Towns van ZANDT,
which by the way, is a great Twitter account name.
He had the video. I put it up on mine.
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It now Ryan has twenty two million views.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
On my Twitter.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It has become it is the second most popular tweet
I've ever sent, behind one I sent years ago on
January sixth that had a video of the January sixth thing.
So it's the second most popular tweet I've ever had,
and it's literally Somerset, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Generally, it's gone all over the world.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I have people if you go look at that tweet, Ryan,
and you look at the quotes and the responses, there
are responses in every language.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You can imagine it.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Has gone all over the world as this is a
symbol of America in Somerset, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, when we were down there doing our show
and they were kind of telling us this was coming up.
I envisioned it being great. I envisioned being that great.
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I don't know that I envisioned exactly what they were
gonna do, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They were very proud of it. Yes, but I guess
I just couldn't really figure it out.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So if you've seen the video, I'm sure at this
point most people have car jumps the fountain. It got
the jump one hundred percent right like it looks it
got airborne.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It goes through the fountain.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But through the blue water water.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
The landing, I don't know if they totally I can't imagine, Billy,
that's how they wanted it to land. I cannot imagine
that they wanted it to land on the ground, pieces
of it coming off, and then hid into the barricades
and nearly killing a photographer in the process. I mean,
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have you assume you've seen it, Billy.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Right, Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But that's what makes it great. That's what makes it crazy.
There is the landing in what happens after the jump,
the fact.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
That the photographer had to jump the fence to make
me yeah he's.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, Yeah, nearly took out a barrier and a photographer.
But that's why everybody's that's what made it special. You know,
he jumped through the water and the water Spider.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Show made it special. You think the crash land, Yes, special.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's what we want to see. Thirty five thousand people
were there, Matt, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
There were thirty five thousand people. I was gonna ask
that that's how many people were there.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's what they're estimating. Thirty five thousand people all over
the places, and we had a front row seat. We
wanted to go, and none of us went well.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I liked the I think I was good where I
was with the video, but that as someone who used
to practice law and sometimes Billy I look at things
as Okay, where is your potential to get sued?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The City of Somerset got away with one.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Okay, the city of Somerset got away with what I
cannot believe, cannot believe. There were people lining those streets.
And what I especially can't believe is at the end
of the runway.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There were people like in the street.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You know what I'm saying, Like if if the brakes
had had fallen, it just went straight.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
There were people there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Now, granted there was a barrier, but who knows how
well it would have worked. I am listen, it was awesome,
but Billy, I'm if you look at it, there's a
lot that could have gone wrong right there.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, if we had front row invitations, I would have
taken it before the jump, not after. I mean you
had to be, yeah, a little crazy to be back there.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The people at the end of that jump. The people
at the end of that jump were hearty souls.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I didn't win the draw.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
By the way, just oh hope you got them.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, they only well, I mean, they don't tell you
who got them. They're not like Bob in Frankfurt got them.
They just say you didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, bummer.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Did you think they were going to tell me who
in the world got the shoes all thirteen thousand people?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Of course not. But we've thought if you got it,
I'm helping you got the right the ticket to get
the shoes.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
But you asked me who got them?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I said, I'm hoping you got them?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh you hoe?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Okay, gotcha? Well anyway, so here's my and I know
there are listeners who were there. I'm nine twenty two
eighty seven. If you were at the event, I would
like to hear from you. Was it as exciting as
it looked on the camera? And I'd like to know,
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Billy about that photographer. I would like to know what
he was thinking because he barely got out of the way,
like he gets out of the way if you watch
that video. A. What made him think he could be
in the street right there? And b does he feel
like he escaped because he narrowly escaped?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yeah, I'd argue a lot of photographers have had professional
athletes coming at him, but not the general Lee right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I can't believe that he was over there. I cannot
believe that that guy.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I'm sure he wanted a good shot, but Ryan, I
can't believe he was standing there because even if things
go well, he still would have had a good chance
of being hit.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, I don't think he was with the crew who
had their own photographers and stuff out, but they all
had on black shirts. I don't think you think that
was just a dude just like regular guy taking pictures,
newspaper guy, like a local newspaper guy or something.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So he's a local newspaper guy. I don't I'm just
on the other side of the barrier. Yeah, with the
generally jumping the fountain.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Some guys, sometimes people in the media jump the barrier
and go walk with tiger woods on the fairway, this
guy jumped the barrier to hang out with generally crashing
into the night.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Quite as dangerous, I don't think at all. I think
that was a very different, a very different level of danger.
I will say, a fascinating thing. Now, are you this
is my question for you. It went all over the world.
And by all over the world, I mean I've seen Spanish, French,
I've seen Chinese characters like retweeting it, et cetera. Are
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you proud that to a lot of the world this said,
this happened in Kentucky Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, because apparently this guy had jumps like he's had
like a dozen jumps in the general league. This is
not like his first one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But for whatever reason, for a while, this one looks
so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Going through the water and kind of crashing at the end.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I love it, so you love that, like for the world.
This is Somerset, Kentucky. A what about you?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I kind of loved it too. I don't know if
it was the blue water fountain it was jumping over,
or just how it landed. I just thought it perfectly
encapsulated Kentucky in Somerset.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So yeah, yeah, the blue water was a great touch.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is it normally blue in sunset?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, it wasn't that blue when we were down there.
I'm sure they did it just for the jump.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well that's I think the blue water actually, if they
should just keep that and the blue water is a
great touch. I thought one of you might say you
were embarrassed. I wasn't embarrassed at all. No, I think
it is very well, you know, there's a part of
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the whole. Generally, the Confederate flag thing is not my favorite,
but it does harken back to the Dukes of Hazard
and so it even though maybe I wouldn't have put
that on there, but the idea of having the Dukes
of Hazard car jumping it over a fountain, thirty five
thousand people coming out to see it and being as
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excited as they are and then the crash landing, plus
the dude barely barely gets by, I do think it
is ryan kind of definitively Kentucky in some ways, and
so I actually think in some ways it more encapsulates
what Kentucky is than, for instance, Bourbon or the Kentucky Derby.
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They're part of it, but there's a lot more of
that in Kentucky than there is you know, the Race
of Kings at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You know, a lot of us grew up watching The
Dukes of Hazzard. It was a great TV show to watch,
and I think that still, you know, pulls on our
childhood's heartstrings a little bit. And you see the generally
barreling down the street making a big jump coming to
a crash landing, I'm like, yeah, man, I'm glad it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Was here twenty two eighty.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And if you were at the event, you can either
shoot a test call or give me a text seven
seven two seven four five two five four. I will
admit when the people of Somerset said, Hey, you ought
to come back here in a couple of weeks, we're
jumping the General Lee over a fountain. I kind of
rolled my eyes and I kind of thought, I don't
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know about that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I was wrong. You guys were right. I should have
been there. I'm with Billy.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't think I would have said on the landing
side of it, but I did think it was excellent.
And to whoever took that video from the roof of
that building in Somerset, that video is now it was
in the New York Post.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Uh, it's on barstool.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But I think it's even like in People magazine that
video which I saw from Carl Towns van zandt whoever
it was that originally took it, because I think he
said it was a friend of his.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well done.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You produced, like you know, an award winning video of
the moment. A fem nine two twenty two eighty seven.
We will take a break, very Backs Turkey Sports Radio,
water Back Tekey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven, if you were at the thing,
I'd love to hear from you. We got a bunch
of texts from people, but not very many people on
the phone. The uh all right, so apparently it was not.
(14:15):
Uh it was not. I guess what did they drive?
A Crown Vic? Is that what they drove on the show? Ryan,
I never really watched the show because that was a
little before my time.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Is that what they drove on the show?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't know. To me, it was still the generally.
I don't know what the different models were. I really
don't think they used to drive a Dodge Charger. This
was not that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
This was not a Judge Dodge Charger. Okay, so they
whatever they drove, they re put different things on it.
So they used a Ford Ltd. With car panels bought
to make it look like a Dodge charger. After it landed,
do we I mean, will you think they'll be able
to use that car again?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean it was destroyed.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think that's why they've got like five of them.
And then what they told us, I think there's five
of these cars that they use for these shows and
jumps and things. With that one, we probably don't to
get them.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, I mean, I wonder what it costs to get them,
because if you're gonna destroy the car, they're gonna have
to rebuild it. So how much do you think the
city of Somerset paid for that? Like, if you were
to guess, because somebody will know the answer to this, billy,
how much you think they had to pay to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I was gonna guess like fifteen to twenty grand, But it's.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Got to be more than that because they got to
rebuild the car, right that car. Just rebuilding the car
is gonna cost them what ten or fifteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You probably those guys they'd love They probably just their hobby.
You know, they probably don't have to put as It's.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Also got to be a job. They're not just running
around crashing cars for the fun of it. I mean
this is a business, right, So I mean I gotta
think it's more thirty thousand dollars. Which is that a
bargain for a city? I think Somerset's gotten thirty thousand
dollars worth of.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Publicity, right, Well, yes, summer Set. I think the population
is like twelve thousand people and they almost tripled it
in one weekend. So I think they're the value fifty.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Cents a person and you get to have the car
jump over the fountain in town and you're uh, and
you're good.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What person rights?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm waiting on the video of the cameraman who almost
got ran over he was filming, which means that has
to be a heck of a shot. Yeah, I would
like to see that, And I'd also like to be
in his brain, Billy, to hear the moment that he went, oh, oh,
this is not going exactly as I hoped.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Hey, it could be a life changing shot, though, you know,
I mean, this could could be.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It could be.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
The shoes are already gone, and they're already on the
secondary market now for three hundred and sixty dollars, so
I don't know if they're good.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Does it say how many they put out today?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think I saw it was gonna be thirteen thousand total,
but in my size, you know, it's probably like a
thousand or less. So you would think though with Katelyn,
you think it'd be Kitlyn Clark they would bring they
would put a zillion.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of them out right, because it's Kitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I mean every you would think, every little earl in
the country that plays Basketball would want it a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Like you said with the Jordan Ones, that this first
edition maybe they want to make it so special. Now
maybe the second one they'll make more available to the public.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That's probably their mindset, but it is it's very strange
to me that they do it. Af I'm nine two
twenty two eighty seven. Before we get to anything else,
I also have to talk about my Reds Ryan. Another
series win against the Padres Friday night almost had history.
You and I both were listening to it and texting
(17:32):
back and forth. Spencer Steer hits a home run in
his first three at bats, which means he gets to
come up for a fourth chance to get four home runs,
doesn't end up doing it, and then Nick Martinez eight
no hit innings, goes to the ninth inning with a
no hitter. He had already thrown one hundred and ten pitches.
I think his arm was about to fall off. He
(17:53):
was basically lobbing it in the ninth inning, but they
had to give him a chance to get it. He
gives a hit and it ends up they take him
out of the game, but they win the game. But
you don't see many games right where they went into
the ninth inning with two chances at literally making history.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
For eight innings. Both those guys were making a case
for being a Hall of Famer. I mean, Spencer Steer
just every time up hitting a home run. Martinez, that's
the most pitches he had ever thrown his life, they said,
And he was still out there trying to get damage.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's like eighty three pitches. But they kept letting him go.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think the theory was, you know, Billy, he's old,
he'll probably never get this chance again.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Let's just let him go into his arm falls off.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah, just throw him out there, see if he can
complete it. But you know, Red's they're they're they're playing
pretty well. Matt, you gotta be happy with it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So then Saturday, they're up four to one, but then
they get the Bill Penn falls apart, lose six to four.
But then they reverse it yesterday two to one, going
into the ninth Ellie, his first at bat takes eleven
pitches to kind of get their closer tired, and then
hit after hit after hit and they end up winning
the game. So now they go to Austin this weekend.
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You know, we talked three weeks ago, I said, Ryan
They've got all these tough series back to back to
back to back. They've won six of those seven series.
Your Cardinals are the only series they've lost in that group.
They got two more this weekend Boston and Philly, and
then it's the All Star Game, so they you know,
and then the week after the All Star Game they
play seven games against the Rockies and the Marlins. So
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a chance to kind of take off if they can
survive this week upcoming.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, tough stretch. They had the Yankees and the Padres,
one of the best teams in the West, and then
I going to Boston.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They in Cleveland, and they had Detroit, the best team
in baseball. I mean, they had all these teams that
they won all of those series except the Cardinals one.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So you know, Somervelli, are you starting to believe yet?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
No, they're still behind the Cardinals, They're still behind the Brewers.
They're in fourth place in their own division.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
They are, but they don't have to win the division.
They need the wild card.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And got a lead frog the Cardinals and Brewers, then somehow.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They will you turn his microphone phone off, Billy. They
have two a half games to behind on the wildcard.
And the other teams are like, the Mets are right
now the wildcard. You got, the Mets are the leader,
but there's still only three and a half games ahead
of the Red so everyone's bunched up.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Billy, we can we can completely do this.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Yeah, it's fun being over five hundred in June going
into July.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know, you got that young pitcher I think pitching
against Boston tonight too.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Well tonight, Yeah, so that again tonight, Chase Burns, the
guy that had such a great debut. He's pitching apparently
against one of the best dudes in baseball. Billy, I
guess his name is Garrett Crochet. Is that a person
for Boston?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Crochet though that's an unfortunate last Is.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That his name? Or is it Crotchet Kroscher?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm not sure. I know you're talking about, but I'm
not sure. I Browns's last name.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well, it doesn't have an R, so I don't think
it's Kroscher, So it's either Crochet or I guess, Billy,
I guess it could be Crotch. It I think for
his sake, let's hope I'm gonna assume it's crochet. I
don't think somebody's gonna name their kid crotch it, but
they pitching it. So this dude, what a tough start
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to his career. Starts with the Yankees and then at
Finnway against one of the best pitchers in baseball. But
he made of that's two of three. Every series, get
two of three tonight. It's gonna be a hard one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But you know what happened. Did Ellie throw up, like
right before he hit the big hit last night or
something or something I'm talking about. He threw up.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I was against the Cardinals last week, right, yeah, against
the Cardinals last week. He he was so hot in
Saint Louis. He threw up. And then right after he
threw up hit home run. Yeah no, he What he
did last night was if you go look at the
play he scored on in the ninth Billy, no one
would have scored.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
But Ellie on that play like.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He he he he took off. I mean, you have
to go see it. He barely beat the throw but
you'd have to be one of the fastest people and spot.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Anybody else would have gotten thrown out. But he was
able to get in because of how fast he is.
Who's next, Mike, Mike, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mike, Yes, I was at the car.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You were, Yes, okay, Well tell me something about it.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I never saw as many people in Somerset and on
my life.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Did you see the cars up in the air?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yes, I got some pictures.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I may have sent you off some takes or some stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
All right, all right, well I appreciate it. I thought,
get a little more info. But I will look at
those pictures. Had to be a fun day in summer.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Set.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
We'll take a break, be right back, Welcome back at
this Kentucky sports radio. There are people writing me saying
that these Caitlin Clark's shoes are not her first signature one.
They're her Kobe shoes, her her first signature one. Billy
will be worth more money. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Maybe that's why glad they're not out yet. Then the
signature ones.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Well, I mean, I think I don't know why it
takes so long. If I were them, I would have
put out the shoes. Like you knew she was going
to be in the league. How I would have put
them out immediately. Absolutely, she was like at the at
the top of her But apparently the ones that are
specifically hers have not are not even done yet.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So wow it right, Weed a bix. You need to
strike when the iron's hot.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You got to strike when the iron is hot. I mean,
what was hotter than Caitlin Clark in the WNBA last year?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Like nothing?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
They put that out last year. They'd have sold a
million of them, you would think. But and maybe they
still will. But I would have wanted to do that quickly.
I still don't have everybody who's told me how much
they think Somerset paid for that one person. Right, There's
never been a bigger bag filled or bag missed in
history than Hazard not doing this event.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's the truth. Oh yeah, Hazard.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The only thing that would have made this bigger, Billy
is if this had been in Hazard?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Right, how could you do? How could Hazard not have done? That?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Could have the name thing? I mean, how could you
not done it?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Hazzard? You're right? Does Hazard adopted?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I mean I know the show is in Hazzard County, Georgia, right,
I believe, which isn't a real place I don't think,
but has has Hazard Kentucky?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
What do you do if that was my fault? I
know you pushed the wrong button.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
All right, what has Hazard Kentucky ever really embraced it, Ryan,
over the years.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh, I think they definitely embraced it. Now most people
think the show is Hazard Kentucky, not embrace it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What have they done?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I think the Lester P. Coltrane, He's from Kentucky, right,
I think he's been there to like their parade or
their Hazard Day or something. They've done something down there,
but they've not done a jump over a fountains.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well they should have done this because it would have
been a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
What person rights? Matt All?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
The UK basketball season ticket holders are getting calls this
week asking them to buy football tickets. Is that a
bad sign? Well, it's not a good sign. I mean
maybe they do that every year. I'm not sure, but
I think when the Hair of Leader, because they always
(25:15):
in like August released the season ticket numbers, because I
think it comes out in the midyear report for UK,
which is due maybe at the end of July or
something like that. I think the number of season ticket
sales Ryan is going to be shocking. I would it
would not surprise me if the season ticket sale numbers
(25:36):
are the lowest since before Stoops got here.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Just remember when he got here.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
They sold a ton that first year, and I could
totally see it being the lowest number of the Stoops era.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I totally agree. I mean, you know, it's started to
leak out little by little that season ticket sales are
going horribly wrong the wrong way. So I can see
why they maybe calling the basketball season ticket or trying
to give them a deal, a package deal, something to
try to buy some more football season tickets.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, it may it may be the case.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
They do that every year, so I don't know, but
I've never seen that, and that would be probably a
bad sign. And anytime you're trying to cold call people
for season tickets, people who've never bought it, that I
think also is not the greatest sign in the world.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Now, who's next, billion, Matt, Matt, go ahead, Matt.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Hey, what's up, guys. I was down in Summerset this weekend.
I lived down here. It's calling to tell you a
little bit about the experience. Okay, uh So, I think
thirty five thousands probably a little exaggerated on the number.
I'd say it's probably more around like fifteen to twenty thousand.
We were located right by the ramp and you could
(26:45):
tell whenever it took off and atlanted it was obviously
gonna crash, so you know, everybody started running in behind
it and trying to see what was going on. It
was definitely a spectacle of the day. But it was
really really cool. I own a small business down here
in summer Set. The town was hopping since Thursday. There
was a bunch of people coming in. All the hotels
were cool. So I mean I got to give our
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you know, our local government.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Allen the mayor down here.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I think they did a great job with it because
it did bring a lot of attention to our town
and it really did help with the local businesses. Every
little that's good.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
That's exactly what you want where exactly Yeah, that's exactly
what you want. I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Alan k.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, Alan Kack, the mayor down there, you know, ran
for governor a couple of years ago. We met him
when he uh when he did that and uh brought
us down there. He's done a great job. I mean, listen,
you certainly got attention. There are people all over the
world now that know Somerset, so uh, probably the biggest
news since Hal Rogers.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
I grew up in Missouri and I had friends from
high school in Missouri. That message me to know I
live in Kinari was like, were you anywhere close to that?
And it's like, yeah, I was there, you know, so
it's definitely there you go that town.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, appreciates call.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I mean a little bit of a downer on how
many but people were there, but that's still still very exciting.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Who's next?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Ali is next?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Alie? Go ahead? Ali? By the way, it's Richie.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Farmer wrote to say, it's Roscoe Coltrane, Ryan, not Lester.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Where did you get Lester?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Like I said, Roscoe Pee Coletrane.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I think you did, say Lester, pe Toll, Traine Brothers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Lester's a weird name just to come up with, though,
where do you get Lester?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Who's next?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Ali is up from Kentucky? I think too, right? The
actor the pladyman.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, all the more reason you should know his name.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Hey, guys, I'm the one who took that video.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh that's your video.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yes, that's my video.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's your video. Okay, So how did carl Towns van
Zant get it?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
They stole it?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Now now Carl Town's van Zant said, this is my
friend who took it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Are you not friends with him?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
No, I'm not friends with them.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Oh wow, Billy not friends with Carl town van Zant.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Okay, so you so did you post it somewhere and
then someone just yanked it from you?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
I posted it to my Facebook page and it went crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So are you happy?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's the fact that they like that video is literally
in the New York Post and in the Washington Post today.
Does that make you happy?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Oh? That's totally cool. I had I had. Good Morning
America called me or emailed me last night, so I
think it's going to be on there. Sometimes we've been.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Good Morning America emailed you. What did they say?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Yeah, brother, the sister ask for permission to use it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I sent them the original video.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Most Internet rogues like me didn't do that, so you
got you got permission.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That's cool. So well, you have a video, I.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Mean, just my version of it has been watched by
twenty Just to give you the latest numbers, because I
want you to sense this is your video. It just
mine of it has twenty one million views. I'm sitting
here looking at another one that I'm sitting here looking
at another one that has eight million views. The New
(30:22):
York Post one has two million views. So you're looking
at I think I would say you probably are looking
at fifty million people at least.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Have viewed this.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Well, add in that my Facebook page says that nine
million people okay has seen it from mine?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, so nine million from you.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You add all these up, let's just say conservatively, you
shot a video that fifty million people saw.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
That's gotta be.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Kind of cool, right, Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And when you took your phone out, did it? When
you took your phone out, did it? You could have
never imagined that would happen.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Oh no, I.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Would have been happy with a couple of hundred of
my friends saying.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Whoo, you got more than that same woohoo?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Well, well, wait to go. I think it's the best angle.
There are other angles that show the crash, et cetera.
But I don't think there's any other angle that shows
the entire experience as good as yours.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
So what's your name again?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I appreciate it, Allie Ally.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
McGuire, Alli, Ali McGuire, congratulations And was it an exciting
day in Somerset?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
It was so exciting and I didn't even have to
crash my car.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
That's how you know it's a good day, Billy. It
was so exciting and I didn't even have to crash
my car.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
That's a good that's good. That's a good line.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Ali put shoot out my phone.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Thank you Alli.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Fifty million people, I mean right now, just on my clip, Billy.
Thirteen thousand retweets, one hundred and eighty seven thousand likes,
twenty one million views, and three thousand comments.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
That's a ton Now, could she be salty at all?
I mean, you can make money if you get enough
views on tweets or tiktoks. You know, was there an
opportunity for her to make money?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Here's the little secret. None of these things really pay
very much.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Like I'm signed up for all the programs on all
the various ones.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
A video like that.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Probably views probably one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Oh that's less than I thought.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, it's the idea. The only the way that people
make money is like influencers or whatever. You have to
get brand ads, or you have to be on like YouTube.
YouTube videos can make a lot of money if you
get enough traffic, et cetera. But when when Muss first
took over Twitter. There was like a month or two
that they paid pretty good money, and now they don't.
(32:57):
I don't really TikTok. I don't use it enough to
make a substantial amount of money. But I've heard the
same thing's true there. Like the kid, you know, the
kid Ryan on TikTok who does the food reviews in Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
His name is like Crunch. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, looked at him one time. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
So he his videos get millions and millions and millions
and millions of views, all of them, and he does
like one a day. And I heard him on a
video say that for the entire year, I think Billy
he made like one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which
is still really good money. But when you consider how
much traffic he gets and how many followers, it kind
(33:36):
of gives you a sense of how hard it is
to make money.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I had heard TikTok paid a little less than the others.
But YouTube, it sounds like, is the YouTube.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
If you're trying to make money from it, YouTube is
the best. But honestly, the way these people make money
is they get brand ads. You know, somebody pays you
to say, hey, look at this shirt. It comes from
Target or you know what I mean something like that.
That's actually how you make real money. I don't think
you necessarily make real money from having the General League
(34:06):
go flying through.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
The year, but that would be nice. You didn't send
me the ad, so give me one to do right here.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I don't have them either, so we'll have to do
that next segment.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
All right, Well you're gonna have to take care of that.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
text machine is seven seven two four five two five four.
We will take a break, be right back. The UK
basketball team went to Kings Island. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Eight five nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
A couple quick things that are a little staff from
the weekend. Two sports figures passed away. First, d Wayne
Lucas probably the you know, I would say, probably the
most important figure in the horse racing of my lifetime,
won multiple Derby's, multiple triple Crown events.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Eighty nine years old. Was just in the Derby.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I believe it was this year with another horse at
eighty nine, Ryan I'd say you were over the years
when you were doing the Derby every year. I'm sure
you got to know d Wayne Lucas. I did not well,
were you. I'm sure you were sad to see his passing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, because he was, like you're right, like the godfather
of horse racing trainers. You know, everybody aspired to be
de Wayne Lucas, and when he walked in the room,
you knew it, and he commanded your attention. He was
a uh, well, I know, he just passed me. He
was a crotchety old man late in his life, and people,
though respected that from him, they didn't didn't.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
He didn't Bob Baffort like learn under him. I think
Bob so I think he was.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Bafforoblast for one of them, but he had many trainers
that did so.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Baffort was not well but dis.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Respected him and released a nice note after that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I mean, there's no doubt that he is probably the
most I mean, Bafford has probably become the most known
figure in the last fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
But you go to.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
When I was a kid. When I was a kid,
and when you thought about horse racing, d Wayne Lucas
was who you thought of absolutely was him so sad
to see his passing. And then former Red and Pirate
Dave Parker, who was I think won the batting title
(36:16):
in seventy seven and seventy eight, was the MVP I
believe one of those years, part of the end of
the Big Red machine, and then part of a Pirates
team that ended up going to the World Series. You're
a huge baseball guy. Dave Parker was late seventies, early
eighties as good as anybody.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
In the sport.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He was, and he was like a mountain of a man.
He was just a big human being. And the last
time I went Mix six six one of.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The tallest players to ever be, like a really good
hitter in history.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And the last game I went to at the Reds game,
they wheeled him out in his wheelchair and he got
this great ovation. But it was so sad to see
this mountainous, huge man what his body had just given
out on him.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
There's also a great, a great story about him. He
apparently has hit the longest.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Home run ever.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
He hit a home run over the fence I think
in like a West Virginia landing in a bed of
a train in the train took it to like Washington,
d C. Before it stopped.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
That sounds like that's does that count real, Billy? Billy?
That doesn't sound really, Billy.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
That sounds like the kind of story they tell you
in like a fairy tale. Right, he hit the longest
home run ever? It went on a train and then
the train went all the way to turkeys watching the
kind of thing. Yeah, I want you to look that up, Billy.
I need you to fact check.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Okay, Rob, he's getting West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It was no excuses.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I don't want you to try to now somehow caveat it.
You have to see, Billy, did Dave Parker hit all
longest home run by hitting it on a train in
West Virginia?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That went somewhere else? I'll find it because I'm throwing
the challenge for.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Story.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
This is This is a Ryan Lemon old wives tale that,
in my opinion, is unlikely to be True's just what
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Who's up next?
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Ian is next?
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Ian?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Go ahead of you at Ian.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Matt today? Or These are the kind of shows I
love so much. I wanted to admonish Ryan for the
for not knowing Roscolle Peakles train, but I didn't have
to because my childhood hero, Kentucky Wildcat Richie Farmer did
it for me.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Uh yes, Richie, Richie.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
That's right. The other I was gonna call with a
little bit of Bob and Jamestown uh trivia about the
General Leaf where you you know, in nineteen seventy nine
when they made that show, that car was just a
ten year old car. It was still a cold car,
but it was just an old car. And now those
are very expensive and they're they're really hard to come by,
and they only made so many of them. They destroyed
(38:48):
like three hundred plus of them when they made the show.
So a few years ago these guys that do these
jumps figured out that you could they could take the
the Ford Crown Victoria, which is the police car that's
been in a taxi that's been around for the past
twenty years, and take the take all, cut all the
body panels off, and then weld the replacement sheet metal
(39:09):
that the companies make to restore those old Dodge Chargers
and weld that onto the to the Crown Victoria's. So
you basically have an endless supply of General Leeds.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
That you can from it.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Cost if you if you clearly seem to know about it,
If you wreck that car, how much would it cost
to make a new one?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
About thirty thousand dollars to do it?
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, So that's why I wonder what Somerset Play paid
because or maybe they didn't think they would wreck the
car because but to make that worthwhile, I mean, if
you tell me it costs thirty thousand, now we're up
to like fifty thousand dollars, which.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Oh yeah, and they know they destroy them every time,
and so.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
They destroy them every time, so they know it will
be destroyed.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Yeah, okay, the car actually like the Okay.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, no, I appreciate the call. That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
So they they'd go in knowing it would be destroyed.
I wonder what it feels like Billy to land, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Because it didn't look.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Like it had a sin, didn't feel like it had
a soft landing.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, the guys I do want to give a shout
out to.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
If you watch Wrestlers or you watch OBW know HollyHood
Haley J Yes, did you see she started part two
of her career this weekend. She entered and is now
one of those you've seen the slap fighting, yeah, right,
she entered it. She won her first slap fighting match.
(40:42):
She knocked a woman out. I'm not I will tell you,
I'm not really into the slap fighting.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I think it's a little it's gotta be bad, brutal
for them.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
But I would say if anybody's gonna be good at it,
she would be a person I can see me can
at it.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
But you can look online.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
She was in her first match and Ryan, she knocked
the woman out that she was up against, like knocked her.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
We all fell in love with her from the show
and then when she came on the show and said
with you for an hour. And so I'm pulling for
in this in this new adventure for her.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Look up the video. I mean, I don't she's not
that big.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
She's a little girl.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
She's not that big. Well, she's bulked up a little bit.
Clearly she's been lifting weights. I could tell. I saw
a video with her. But nevertheless, you know, if there's
something she's good at, I could see it be slapping
because I saw her slapping people not in the ring,
like just out of anger. So clearly, so she won
her first match, so congratulations to uh Haley Jay and
(41:47):
her new line of work.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
We'll take a break, Come back out number two, KSR.
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