2025-04-02 - KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk transfer portal, a new Kentucky Basketball facility, and your calls.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. It is the KSR pre Show Wednesday, April second,
Shannon and the Dude and Love Will being joined by
Billy Rutledge over in Lexington. And you can give us
a call on the Clark's Pumpage Shop full nine eight
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send us a text at five two two sixty five

(00:20):
six six five six KSR Pre Show being brought to
you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. Good morning, Billy,
how are you doing? We got a guest producing for
us today. Liam is over there. He's going to be
entering the phone calls. And I don't know, Billy, if
you can remember the first time you ever produced KSR.
But that's that's what Liam's doing over there for us

(00:42):
right now.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, nerve wracking day then for Liam at least it
was for me with Shannon the Dude you know, hovering
over my shoulder, Matt taking a picture of me and
making fun of my hair back then. It looks very
different today. But glad to have Liam aboard and hopefully
he can give you a little bit of a break
every now and then, Shannon, instead of having to host
and produce a show at the exact same.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't think that's the plan. I think it's just
like when I'm out on vacation, we bring Liam in
so he'll be in a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I mean, I better get to know Liam then because
he'll be here very often.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, I gotta tell you, Billy, first of all, before
we get going here, I've got to go file my
taxes today, so wish me luck. Is there anything worse
than having to go file your taxes, sit down with
an accountant and go through all the stuff and all
the receipts that you you know, all the stuff that
you paid for all year long, and have to tally
it up. There's nothing worse than going to have your

(01:31):
taxes filed. I don't know, have you done that yet
this year? I have?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Luckily, I have a tax attorney in the family, so
I just push everything towards him and he's able to
fill things out for me. But what a broken system
we have where the government knows how much money that
you owe. They say, go ahead and guess how much
money that you think you owe us, and then they'll
tell you I guess after you make the attempt.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
It seems like a backward system that we can make
much easier, just like other countries have. But I feel
you're paining chating because that is a foreign language to me.
Thank god I have somebody that helps me with that.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I went to one of these, Like I'm not
gonna say any names, but like big time chain accountants.
Well I'm not. I didn't say TurboTax, you did. I'm
not throwing any any names under the bus, but I'm
just telling you, like, go get yourself a good accountant, Like,
don't go to one of these like big chains, because
I did that for a couple of years. Turned out

(02:25):
like they owed me money and I was like I
was paying them money they were supposed to be paying
me money. And I'm going, all right, thanks a lot
for that. Screwed my taxes up anyway. I gotta tell
you first of all, Billy, I'm also glad that I
survived April Fool's Day with Ryan LeMond after finding out
what his idea of April Fool's Day is. You know,

(02:46):
he's the type of guy that will go up and
slash your tires and slap you in the face and
yell April fools in your face. But yeah, Ryan was
on one yesterday on the on the KSR.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
No. I came into the studio this morning and checked
all the cheer, all the wheels still on the bottom
of our chairs here, Shannon, h it's funny. I could
almost I related to the engineer that called Ryan at
like six in the morning saying, you have five minutes
to come here and fix this right now.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Like it just no nonsense. I can't deal with this.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
But this is a professional work environment, and you're taking
the wheels off all the chairs, and it just seemed
to get worse and worse every April Fool's joke that
he told, so I was, you know, maybe his scoop
at the end of the show was an April fool's
joke as well.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
What happened that already hasn't.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Got That's what I was gonna say. I mean, you
think he was just leading us on. I mean this
whole magoon gwaw thing we found out last night that
he's not coming to Kentucky. He's gonna stay put in
San Diego State. I mean, you know, Scoop was putting
his reputation on the line out there yesterday with these
two bold predictions. He said it was going to happen
by the end of the week and not even what.

(03:51):
Twelve hours later we find out that magoon is going
to stay in San Diego. So I don't know, man,
I want to trust. I want to trust the Scoop.
You know, the school has been pretty solid over the years.
I think of you, like if you look at Ryan's percentage,
just pretty strong, Like you know, you think about it
in baseball. In baseball, if you hit three hundred, you're
a Hall of Famer. That means you're only getting a

(04:13):
hit thirty percent of the time, right, So the way
I see Scoop, Yeah, he missed on this, but he's
still batting like nine hundred. So I think that Scoop
is still a Hall of Famer regardless. You may have
missed this.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
One where you though, because he's you know, times have changed, right,
transfer portal is different than maybe recruiting in the past.
So can he adapt with the times? Can he get
a torpedo bat to continue to keep getting on base?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know, I'm not sure, but Ryan wasn't alone.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I mean, many national analysts, including people with twenty four
to seven Sports on three Sports and a name you
might be familiar with, Trully. Donovan All predicted the San
Diego State player to go to Kentucky yesterday. So I
think it was a big surprise for many. You know,
I looked into it a little bit. This is a
guy that comes from a different country and had to
do a lot to even come to the United States

(04:59):
in San Diego s maybe a feeling of loyalty like
Big Z had for John Calipari moving from Kentucky to Arkansas.
I also, you know, I said this yesterday, let's.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Pump the brakes a little bit.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I mean, Mark Pope didn't get his first commit last
year until April twenty.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
First, the transfer portal.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Doesn't end until right around that date, maybe even four twenty, So, Shannon,
I mean, there are still a lot of guys to
enter the transfer portal in the coming weeks. It seems like,
from you know, the outside looking in, Kentucky's missed on
Donovan Dent from New Mexico and now this Magoon guy.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
But you know, this is just a brave new world
that we're living in now.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Shannon.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Maybe it's you know, we need to have a little
patience when it comes to filling out the roster this
time of the year, would you agree.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh yeah, sixteen hundred guys in the transfer portal, you
only need just a few, So who cares if he
misses on a couple, you know. I mean he's gonna
have a lot of different names up on his target board.
You're not gonna get them all anyway. You don't have
room for all of them on your roster. So I
would say kind of like what you said, you know, relax.
I mean, look what Pope did after cali Peri left

(06:05):
just this past season. You know, we talked about he
threw the roster together, He got his coaching staff together
in a matter of just a few weeks. So now
that he's got a full recruiting cycle under his belt
here at Kentucky coming up, I feel a lot better
about that. You know, by the way he did take
that team to the Sweet sixteen. You know, we were
talking about comparing mart Pope to John Calipery. Pope in

(06:27):
his first year comes in with a bunch of ragtag guys.
Is one went away from matching what John Caliperi did
in his first year with a bunch of one and
done's so overall, I would say, I trust Mark Pope.
I think he's gonna find the right guys that fits
his system, and I think we're gonna have a really
good team next year. I don't know who the players

(06:47):
are going to be yet, but I do trust in
the process. As our old coach used.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
To say, you know, I trust Pope is going to
get some guys. I do get a little bit of anxiety.
I talk myself into this guy being on the roster,
what it's going to look like with him in the
blue and white. But you know, maybe we just have
to process how we do the transfer portal and how
we look at recruiting. You know, Kentucky's still in with
this UAB guy that's getting a lot of attention, the
Robert Morris guy who was the other half of Scoop

(07:14):
Lemon's Scoop at the end of the show, which was hilarious.
He waits till maybe two minutes before the show ends
before he mentioned something like that, Matt screaming at him
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I think we should just start every KSR show with
all right, Ryan, what do you know today? What's the
word on the street? Let's not bury the lead and
talk about you know, nonsense for two hours and then
the last two minutes go oh yeah, by the way,
these two guys are coming to Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
But I feel like I've got a little Ryan Lemon
in me. You know, you could tell me what's on
my mind and I would completely forget about what I
want to talk about sometimes, So you know, he just
had to get it in right before the show ended.
And hopefully he's got even more positive Scoop, but some
people just kind of ran with it, Scoop Lemon breaking
the news yesterday, and then we're let down when the
news came later today.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
So hopefully that turns up.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Speaking of Pope and Cali Perry, I think the big
news that came out yesterday other than magoon stand at
San Diego State, is the fact that the new practice
facility that John Caliperry was complaining about and wanting, you know,
for a long time here at Kentucky, it looks like
it's finally going to come to Fruition. You might remember

(08:20):
that started a few years ago, and I believe Billy
that's what kind of sparked the UK basketball school versus
football school debate that we talked about all summer just
a couple of years ago, you know, Cal wanting that
practice facility, and then Mitch Barnhart kind of came on
and snapped back and goes, you know, this is not
a snap your fingers and it's going to be here

(08:41):
at your earliest convenience. It wasn't a no, you know,
Barnhart didn't say to Cali Perry, no, we're not going
to build a new practice facility. But it looks like
Mark Pope comes in and now we're getting closer to
making that a reality.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Do you think that was I don't think that was
because Cal was there at the time whining about it,
and now that PARPs popes here and has had success,
Mitch is going to do it. I think things just
happened on a timeline.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
It does. It does if caliperiods stayed here, though, I
think that maybe though there's a little bit more urgency
for Barnhart to do it for Pope. I don't I'm
pretty sure Barnhart didn't like the way that whole thing
went down.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, you know, the whole like, you know, well, we're
a basketball school and these resources need to go towards
the basketball program for us to have the very best,
that's that was a definite shot, and Mitch didn't take
that kindly, and neither did Stoops and we all felt
like we had egg on our face after that scenario.
But Shannon, I, I love the news one. You know,
any time that you can make something better like the

(09:39):
locker rooms or the practice facility, and then that's going
to be even a bigger advantage when it comes to
recruiting and getting guys in. That's what the young kids like, right,
So great news, and you know it's always good news
when you're expanding Memorial Colisee. I'm getting ac all the
practice facility with the football team, got that a couple
of years ago and now looks.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Like the basketball teams getting theirs.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Bokal said, you know it's not the gold standard. He's
always called Kentucky the gold gold standard can have a
leaking roof in your practice facility if you're the you know,
in the gold standard. And you know what, Kentucky shouldn't
you know, you shouldn't have that situation right right when
you're you're bringing in recruits and you know, you go,
you see other practice facilities on other campuses and you're going, well,

(10:23):
why is and ours like that? So you know, there
is something to be said about the squeaky will gets
the grease right. You know, you've got people like that
in your life right where people just complaining and complaining
and complaining they want something. You're like, you know what,
just shut up here, I'll do it for you. I
kind of felt like that was the situation getting this
practice facility built. But I think that maybe now that

(10:44):
Cali Perry's gone, Barnhart, you know, maybe he put a
little he put it on the fast track, is what
I'm saying. Getting this practice facility put together.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, definitely maybe a little bit more motivation, because I
think Shannon you would have taken it a lot like
maybe Mitch Barnhart would have maybe taking it too kindly.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yes, Squeaky, don't don't come in here demanding that I
build you a practice facility. You'll take what you got
right now and deal with it. You're right, I am
going to you're.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Right out of spite.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yes, you know now you're not getting a practice facility
because you've whined about it.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I fully acknowledge that. Like if you come complaining to
me because that enables people to continue to complain about
things right when you should when you know, when you
come to me, Billy and you complain, why why don't
we get some new equipment. If I had the power
to get a new equipment for us, I would do it.
But if you completely just you know, run it into
the ground every day, I might go, you know what,

(11:37):
He's gonna get his new equipment, but I might hold
on to it for an extra month, just to dig
at you a little bit.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Well, like when you're raising a toddler, Shannon, you just
don't give them everything that they want.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
You got to show them who's in control.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
That's right, and coming from two people that don't have children,
that is how you should parent your children.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Everybody out there.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, we're
gonna take some calls coming up after the break. We're
gonna see if we can't ruin KSR for Liam over
there producing. You know, he listens to the show. He's like, yeah, man,
listen to the show. I was like, man, we'll ruin
it for you real quick. It's one of those things
like from the outside looking in, it's cool, right then
you get in here and you're actually working for the show,
and you're like, this isn't what I was expecting.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Oh, you sound a little jaded, Shannon. I mean, all
these years, do you not get up with a smile
on your face?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Of course, of course I do get up with a
smile every morning, going I get to go talk to
Billy Bangs for an hour today. Oh the Bangs are
still looking good. By the way, I'm looking at the
Bangs right now and are even though you're in Lexington,
I'm in Louisville. We do this zoom call every morning.
The Bangs. The Bangs are looking good. It's got a
lot of fullness to it. I like it. I'm starting
to grow on me.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
I got sea salt spray in it this morning, Shannon.
We've got a little sea salt in it.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Sea salt.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oh yeah, I'm trying to So.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
You're telling me that's a real thing. Or did you
like make that concoction up yourself. Do you take a
little sea salt in a bottle of water and dump
the sea salt in spray in your head.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Go to the ocean and just fill up a vial. No,
this is this is a real thing. So little inexperienced
with it. Brandon, again, my coworker's insulting me. As immediately
as I walk into the door, Remember Rachel said you
look horrible yesterday, Brandon.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I walk in. He says, man, you look like theo
Vaughn with that haircut.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
I was like, oh, okay, should I know who theovon is?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
He's only one of the biggest comedians on the planet
right now, I.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Know who Vince Vaughn is. I don't know who Theovann. Okay, Okay, yeah, yeah,
I do. I do know who that is. I had
the giggle. No, I know who who he is? The
guy with the mullet. Yeah, you don't have a mullet. Though,
you don't have a mullet. You don't look like that guy.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't know. I didn't think so either.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Theovonn's got a mullet and a comb over. Thank you,
you got the dumb and dumber haircut. You don't look
anything like yo.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Coming from you.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
I don't think I get well to get some I'll
get some sea salt spray, or I'll just jump. I'll
just jump. I'll just jump in the ocean and get
it for free. Next week when I'm down in Florida.
You're on vacation, that's right. Uh, And hopefully Ryan won't
be trying to pull any pranks on me, otherwise I
may not make it back if he slashes my tires.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
He only gets one day, Shannon, don't don't put up
with that if he just tries to extend it into
next week.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
All right, eight five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two
eighty seven. We're gonna take our first break. We'll take
your phone calls. Coming up next. It is the show
before the show, the KSR pre Show. All right, welcome back.
It is the KSR pre Show. What are we playing here? Liam?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
What have we got these vibes?

Speaker 4 (14:21):
All right?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
There we go. You know, when Rixon here, he adds
his flavor to it, get like a bunch of obscure
eighty songs. When rix in, we get a little grooving.
When Liam's running the board. It's a good mix from
what I normally do. You know, I'm no, yeah, you're
all rock I'm rocking it out, man, That's what I do.
That's what I do.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know you can't hear me being in that other studio, Shannon.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
So during the break, I got to talk to Liam
about how to load the KSR podcast correctly. Oh, I
got to get get out in front of this so
you know he's not screwing it up like you are
every single day.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Here's the difference. You act like I care when the
people complain because of the order that I put it.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
In, And there's the difference, Yes, about customer satisfaction.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
You're right, well, I have my way of doing it.
You have your way to do it. I don't care
how Liam, But look, if I'm laying on the beach,
the farthest thing away from my mind is what order
is Liam? Loading the podcast back in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
So old and stuck in your way?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Do not care to teach the youth load it however
you'll want to do it.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Liam.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
You post hour two first and then hour one, so
when hour one ends, you go right into hour two
instead of the show the previous day.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Shannon, or for people who know how to work an iPhone,
you can just click the little button that flips the
order and it's all the same.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm driving eighty miles an hour down the Interstate seventy five, really, Shan, Yeah,
why are you driving eighty?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Are your speeding?

Speaker 5 (15:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, you just just told on yourself. You're driving half
your speeding. Don't want to look at my phone is
what I want to do. So thanks to Shannon, and
I've got to stop what I'm doing and switch over.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
To the buckle up. Put your phone down. First of all,
you should have that stuff ready to go before you
take off. Look, I'm a spokesman for the Kentucky Department
of Highway Safety. Okay, let me tell you how to
do it. You do that before you take off in
your car. Now, speaking of safety, I hope everybody is
safe because I'm seeing that there's gonna be some really
bad storms coming in. Like you know, it's gonna be
bad storms. When you got Liker, your bosses are emailing you, going, hey,

(16:14):
you need to mention this to your listeners. Apparently there's
gonna be high winds and eight to twelve inches of
rain in the Losville area. I don't know about Lexington.
I would say that you guys are probably gonna get
hit with a lot of the same. But yeah, some
bad weather coming through. So everybody that is a lot
of rain, there's no doubt.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
And it happened again, Shannon I flip on eight forty
yesterday and they've got Wheel of Fortune on, and I'm like, oh,
I'm gona joining this.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Wait, not what's supposed to be playing on eight forty.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
They're playing Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
You flipped over to the TV feed again, so we
should be they should be working. We are ready for
all the severe weather that's happening.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Who's doing that, by the way, I mean, it's got
to be somebody that's flipping that over.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think it's these remote engineers that aren't checking if
the station's actually playing the program.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
So I just want to get this straight. And back
to back days, we've had The Price Is Right take
over the final segment of KSR, and we had Will
of Fortune taking over the Terry Minor show.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well it was after Terry, so it was national programming
that got cut.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
But I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I listened for maybe two minutes before I ended up
making calls.

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the phones and talk to Sean. Hey, Sean, what's doing Sean?
They do them good.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
I hope everybody that's gonna be effected by the storms
and safe is going to be safe. Definitely prepared for it.
I just wanted to say, Uh, it was a big blower.
Was and the guy from San Diego State looked like
it'd be a good fit for both system obviously. Hope
you know, the same slice go around. He'll the guys

(18:36):
that fish the system and uh, everybody not to work.
You know, they fed the oscar together in the short
amount of time and he's got quite a bit of
time now, so I mean, I hain't no sense of
worrying about it. He'll get the guys that fits the system.
And uh, I mean, maybe win a championship with so
switch sixteen with what we had in the short.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Amount of time.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
So you know, maybe a late eight four coming up
this year.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, and you thanks for the car. I appreciate it,
you know it. Obviously Billy Magoon wanted to be at
San Diego State. You don't want a guy coming here
who doesn't want a one hundred percent be all in.
And Mark Pope doesn't want a guy on the team
who's going to be like that. We've talked about how
good it's the perceptional least. I think that I have
that Mark Pope with this first team did an amazing

(19:23):
job like just ingraining like into their their their soul,
what it's what it means to be a Kentucky player.
Right Like these guys you know, come in maybe a
lot of them have never even been to Kentucky before
they'd played for Kentucky this past season, and by the
end of the season they're like, I don't want to
take this jersey off like it meant It meant so

(19:45):
much to them to put that Kentucky jersey on. And
Mark Pope, I think being one of us, a guy
who has worn that jersey himself, you know, many years ago,
kind of shows these guys like what it means to
be a Kentucky player. You want guy like that playing
for Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Right right, You want their motivation to be you know that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
And then you know, also things change, Maybe they offer
more money last minute, you want to stay at the
same amount of money. That's motivations have changed for these
kids playing time. How much money are you going to
give me? But you know Pope is looking for maybe
something something different. He talked about character as the number
one thing he looks for in the transfer portal. You know,
last year they missed on the guy that ended up

(20:27):
going to Yukon that allowed Kentucky to bring in Kobe Brea, Right, So,
I mean, you know, one door closes and another one opens.
I just think that people losing their mind online are
prisoners of the moment to a degree.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Shannon, that's very philosophical of you.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
You like that.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
I like that. Yeah, I had to think about that
for a minute. Yeah. Uh buzz Williams has entered the
transfer portal. He's gonna be going to Maryland. I don't know, man,
I feel like a better job. Well, I mean, look again,
it probably comes all down to the money, but I
feel like, uh, coaching in the SEC is the best
that it gets. Like, I don't understand going to Maryland

(21:06):
unless you think you just got a better chance of
winning a conference tournament with Maryland than you do with
you know, with with Texas A and M. I thought like,
A and M's a much better job. I was kind
of surprised to see that.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, leaves after six years. Obviously he was at Virginia
Tech before that. Maybe it's the three piece suit weather, Shannon.
It's hot in Texas. I mean, you're dressing to the
nines all the time. Maybe you just want to go
somewhere a little bit colder, like Maryland.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
I wouldn't necessarily say that job's better than Texas A
and M. But maybe we're being prisoners of the moment.
In the fact that the SEC just had one good
year this last year. You know, A and M's been
knocking on the door for the NCAA Tournament, Remember Greg
Sanki's like, we need to expand the tournament because Buzz
Williams and A and M couldn't get in because of
their run in the SEC tournament. Well, now maybe this

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will allow Buzz and to compete a little bit more
in a weaker conference.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't know, Shann, It's gonna be interesting to see.
I don't think the SEC will be quite as strong
next year, just because of a lot of great players
that are leaving the SEC after the season. But I
still think, I still believe that the SEC is going
to be a contender for the best conference in all
of college basketball ever, like you're talking about all time, No, no, no, no,
I'm just talking about next season. Next season, I think
that the SEC it's not going to be as crazy

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as it was this year, but I think it's still
going to be strong for next year. I don't know
why you wouldn't want to be a part of that.
If you're a coach, we'll be right back. We're going
to take a break. Take your calls. It is the
ksrpre Show. There we go a little third eye blind
KSR Pre Show, Shannon the Dude, Billy Relige eight five,
nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, Give us a call, Billy.

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We were talking about the torpedo bats a little bit yesterday,
saying it's going to change the game of baseball. We're
gonna have softball scores. The final scores are going to
be like eighteen to fifteen.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
And then yesterday, well the Yankees only score five runs
and lose the Reds. They got their hands on some
torpedo bats. Mainly we're talking about Elie de la Cruz.
He goes oh for four yesterday and the Reds don't
score run. So maybe we jumped the gun a little
bit on the torpedo bets. I mean, I'm sure it's
gonna give them a little bit of an advantage. But

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I don't think that just because the Yankees scored eighteen
runs in one game that we're going to have to,
you know, expect that every single game with the Dow
torpedo bets.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, everybody knows about it now, right, So instead of
jamming the hitter that you would normally jam, maybe you
throw outside right, The bigger part of the barrels not
on the outside anymore. It's on the inside. So maybe
you know which players are using the bats and you're
able to adjust. But you know a lot of people
have just been like furious about this, like it's the

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integrity of the game and you know, these dirty cheaters
should be banned from the sport. Honestly, it's making the
game a little bit more fun, is it not? Like
don't you want to see home runs? I mean the
two stats you said yesterday about yesterday, I mean anything
that could bring more excitement to the game, would I
would welcome.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
It felt a little bit like.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
You're playing wiffleball in the street and the kid bring
over the bigger bat, right, I mean you play it's
not necessarily.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
A bigger bat. I mean it's the same weight, it's
just distributed differently, right, So instead of all the you know,
the pop being there in the barrel, they're just shifting
that down a little bit towards the handle. And yeah,
I'm a baseball purist, but I'm fine with that. I mean,
as long as it's in within the rules, I'm good
with that. I Mean, that's just you know, trying to

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find a different a workaround.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, from edge.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, I'm fine with that, fine with a worker. I
wish that they still had the shift, you know, they
don't let you do the shift anymore. Yeah, because when
they had the shift in baseball, you know, some teams
would take their third basement and put them all the
way over where the shortstop is. And I'm going, why
would you not just lay down a bunt down? Like yeah,
and don't tell me, well he does. You're a major
league baseball player and you can't lay a bunt down

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the third base line. How did you ever get to
the major leagues if you can't lay down a bunt?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, you know, go back to something you said earlier.
I mean, you could fail seven times out of ten
and be considered one of the best in the sport.
Maybe that's it's it's it is the hardest thing to
do in sports for a reason. So anything to give
maybe a hitters a little bit of an edge and
to reminisce about the times where guys hit home runs all.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
The time, Yeah, a lot of the steroid era. I'm
for it. Shannon.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Can we play our newest game of former Kentucky players
entering the transfer portal, and let's see if you'd.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Like them to join the new cod.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay, let's go. What do you get?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Because we did this with big Z yesterday, Aaron Bradshaw
has now answered entered the transfer portal.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Would you like to see Aaron Bradshaw? No back in
the blue?

Speaker 1 (25:25):
No again? Man? Like these guys they left originally, they
didn't want to be here. It goes back to what
I was just talking about with Magoon Gwothe. These guys
aren't all in. I don't want them here. Like if
these guys are just gonna be journeymen and they're gonna
go from school to school to school, I don't want
them here. You know, Bradshaw was fine here, but I
think that we can find somebody better in the portal.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Oh better?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, what do you think?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I'm fine with mixing it up and still trying to
find different guys. You know, I am curious to see
if we ever get a guy to come back like
bo Allen, the example that we had, yes Dad. You
know a lot of people sent Kyle Wiltshire in as
an example, and I didn't quite understand that because he
didn't return to Kentucky. But I finally figured out what
they were talking about. Would you still consider Wiltchair a

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wildcat even though he had left Kentucky after winning a
national championship remember that college. Scott was saying, if they leave,
they're no longer a cat. I mean, he won a
title and then still ended up leaving, and you're still
gonna call him a cat?

Speaker 7 (26:23):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah? I mean I gave you my take on this ship.
You know, if you're here for a year and you'll leave,
you're still a cat. I think you can be like
Aaron Bradshaw. To me, is still a Kentucky Wildcat. I mean, yeah,
he went to Ohio State, but he can be both.
You know, doesn't mean you have to like it. But
I think he's still one of us because he was
here for a year.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
All right, let me let me test your theory.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Then.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Is Khalil Whitney always a wildcat? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I think he is. Yeah, he was here. I mean
he was on the roster right quit in the middle
of the year. He was still here.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Okay, all right, I just want we're gonna find the line.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's the line if you were here, if you were
on the roster for a game, okay, for a game.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
But yeah, that excludes Shade Sharp.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So you go and you talk about Aaron Bradshaw. I mean, okay,
let's look up Aaron Bradshaw. What did he do last
year at I mean at Ohio State Fire he averaged
six points and two point seven rebounds. You don't you
don't think we can find somebody better than that. I mean,
Amari was better, a lot better than that.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, Amari was.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean you look at like numbers, like analytics, and
Pope said this during the one of the post game
press conferences. I think he was the third most efficient
player in college basketball.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, And you know, our knock against Amari early
in the year I think was valid because the offense
too many times, and I go back to that Clemsing
game specifically where it really stood out. They would feed
the ball into Amari and it was dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble,
go to my left, GM right, still dribbling, still drive
and then like throw up a hook shot and miss.
But to his credit, he was able to fine tune

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his game and at the end of the year he
was one of our most valuable guys on the floor.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
And the look, I mean the big man is important
in Pope's offense. Look how much he utilizes them. Look
how much passing than they do at the top of
the post. I mean it is It's something that it's
going to be key every year when it comes to
Mark Pope filling out this roster. Amari was somebody that
was able to grow into that role. And you know,
while he maybe thought Magoon could have done something like that,

(28:15):
there's gonna be some other suitors out there. So but
I'm with you if we want to get an official
answer here.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I'm not like yearning for Aaron Bradshaw to come.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Back, anybody else, anybody else out there in the portals.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Former players, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
So let's play this game. I guess if you want
do you want to do the Euro back?

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Mmm?

Speaker 1 (28:32):
He's a guy that you know again he loved, you know,
team with cal exactly. So I mean, if I'm being
consistent about it, you know, if you don't want to
be here, then we don't want you here. So I
would probably lean no. I've heard a lot of people
bring up his name and say, hey, we'd love to
have him back here. He didn't really want to leave. Well,
how do you know he didn't really want to leave.

(28:53):
He didn't really want to leave. He probably wouldn't have left.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Maybe it's just as simple as that, Like maybe we
just like all this spec lady, Yeah, wishing that these
guys would come back.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's I mean, Billy, if you really wanted to leave, Billy,
if you really wanted to leave KSR and go work
for another show, yeah, you'd probably do it, right, So
don't leave and go Well, I really didn't want to
do it. Did anybody force him out the door?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Rats?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I mean, you could have regret. I go to a
new show and they don't have a great producer, they
don't team up with it, they don't have another Shannon
to the dude to do this show where he listens. Yeah,
you know, so you may regret it and maybe want
to make a change. But it's just a weird, weird
time we're living in and even weirder as we wait
for that House ruling.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
To go into effect.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, that's that's another whole story. We'll have to wait
and see. And you know, Pope, I think kind of
feels like his hands are tied right now until we
get that ruling. But he said it. I think he
said It could come as soon as Friday, It could.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Come, it could come as soon as Monday, Monday, but
the person that's making the ruling usually takes about seven
to ten days on these things.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
John Short, Hey, John, what's Johnny?

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Nothing less? Young Americans?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
You are a great American. How are you doing? How
you doing doing well? Doing well? What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (30:09):
He's going the something everyone played Robell the ninety six
o'clock as well as you gonna went cancel the game
because of thunder source. I know it's gonna be in
the C and U A like cancel the game.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, I would say there's a good chance that game
doesn't get played. They'll probably have to take that one
and uh make a double header out of it when
there's uh not thunderstorms going on.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
And May we played, we gonn play in Mississippi and
baseball this weekend the thirty seat through Saturday.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, baseball team, we need to get them rolling in
the SEC. They didn't have a bad non conference, but
uh SEC is gonna be tough, Johnny.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
We're gonna be doing that A and M series. But yeah, Johnny,
they got to get back on track.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
John, More importantly, are you worried. Let me ask you
a question, This is a very really important question. Are
you worried about the honeybee population going down?

Speaker 4 (30:56):
I don't think I'm worried about that.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Now you're not worried. You don't like you don't like honey.
You don't like honey and biscuits.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
I like that, missus playing nothing on it?

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Not even butter. No, wow, John likes a plain oh
draw biscuit? All right, big disnation.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
So and we didn't talk about how our Weldcat players
did last night in a McDonald's class.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Billy, did you watch any of that? I watched it,
but I saw Malachi Morino. I think he scored nine points. John,
he hit a three pointer, He had two blocks. That
was That was quite the showing from the guy that
has played a lot of basketball over the last week.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
You have kind of freshman in women's basketball, you know.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
I'm not sure, John.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I missed the women's McDonald's All American Game as well,
so we normally rely on you for some of these stats.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
John, did did you end up listening to any of
the games?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I don't think. I don't think you say I just
say who these players won't go to you and all
Day and they really didn't These two people that then
you call the games like here on radio, they don't
do that.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
I agree, totally agree with you.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
He called games like Tom Leech and Kaylyn Leffer and
Ralph ackerd Paul Selvin.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's right. We should have That's right, we should have
had Tom Lee. I'm sure Tom Leech would love us
volunteering him to do more work. Go call the high
school All Star.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
GAMEID by the game. It's not that bad of it,
gig right.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
So all right, john thanks for the call. We appreciate it.
Good to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Thanks Johnny.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
So Johnny's not worried about the honey bee population going down?
What about you, Billy.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well, I'd like to consider myself an expert on the situation,
as I have watched the Bee movie with Jerry Seinfeld
and things seem to turn pretty poorly when the bees
went away, Shannon, you know all the pollinate in there.
Do you know that a lot of life relies on
that pollen transfer? So if the bees go away, Shannon,
I am worried, more so than just honey being not

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on the shelf at my local crow.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I didn't quite understand exactly how honey was made until
I heard Ryan Lemon kind of break it down for
us yesterday. You know, he says, the bees go to
the flowers and they pollinate it by rubbing their hands
together with the stuff to quote him, And that's the
process of honey.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I mean, that's about it.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
I mean, if you just wanted a general gist of
how Honey's made, that, I mean, I can't say much
better than that.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I love that he didn't know that it was pollen,
Like the stuff on their hands are pallen.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, I guess what.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's literally the definition of pollinating something with pollen. Peanut
is up next. What's up, Peanut? Hey, Peanut, we cannot
hear you turn the heavy machinery off? Did you not
hear the disclaimer that says do not operate heavy machinery
while listening to this show? What are you? What are
you doing? Okay? I think Peanuts completely He's completely going.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
To muted his phone in haste.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
He probably breaks that disclaimer every single day. Jannon probably
does amount of times he calls in on the Bobcat.
By the way, they say that for shows that are boring,
I don't think they say that for us. I was
just kidding that that's the Paul fine Bomb Show disclaimer
that they run before his show. I got a couple
of fair or fouls for you, Billy, But first we're
going to take a break A five, nine, two, eight,
twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Got a couple of them. I need your rolling on.
I love when we do this, and we'll take some
more phone calls. Coming up next it is the KSR
pre Show. We'll be right back. Final segment of the
KSR pre Show, Shannon and Billy. Then we're gonna turn
things over to KSR. Coming up next, Matt on location,
and I guess the other guys are gonna be there

(34:23):
in the Lexington studio with Billy. They're already there. They're
already there with you.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Drew is here, and look at Liam already playing a
little Darius.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Rutmanw I know, I know it, I know it. Ryan
Lemon would be smiling from ear to ear. All right, Billy,
fair or foul on this. I don't know if you
saw this over the weekend. All right, we're not gonna
talk probably ever again on the show Liberty Baseball, But
did you see what happened in the Liberty baseball game
with Jacksonville State.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
No tell me all right.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
So basically Liberty somehow made a clerical error and forgot
to put the name of the starting pitcher for this
game between Liberty and Jacksonville State on the active roster.
I think they get like a twenty eight man roster
in college. Oh he went on the roster, period, He
wasn't He wasn't listed on the roster. Okay, So he

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goes out there, you know, he's warming up. We're about
to start the game. He throws the first pitch. Jacksonville
State coach says, time out, goes to the umpire goes
that guy is not on the roster. It resulted in
an instant forfeit. Oh but fair or foul? Wow? Not
bringing that up before the game started versus letting the

(35:32):
guy throw one pitch and then forcing the team to
forfeit after he had already illegally been.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
In the game and thrown a pitch a completely fair,
heady play by the Jacksonville State coach. And I think
you're gonna hundred percent agree with me, Shannon. This is gamesmanship.
They identified that this player wasn't on the roster. This
is not you know, It's not like I'm not your
best friend. I'm not here to tell you when you've
made a mistake. I'm trying to win ball games. So
we're gonna let him throw that first pitch and we're

(35:59):
stopping the game and we're getting the instant dub.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
I absolutely love this story. That's something I would if
I were the coach for Jacksonville State, I would have
done the exact same thing. You know, like you're watching
the starting pitcher in the bullpen warming up, getting his
tosses in, and I'm over here just grinning, you know,
I'm like, you know, wiping my hands together, going I

(36:22):
can't wait for this guy to get in there and
throw that first pitch so I can get an automatic
dub because he's illegally in the game.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
To give that coach a raise, I'm sure you can't
just have guys not on.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
The right Yeah, I mean, like, how do you make
that mistake if you're liberty, Like you got a guy
in the game, starting pitcher, by the way, not just
like you know, a d H or like a guy
out in left field starting pitcher's not even on the roster.
How do you make that mistake?

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
And I mean, if it'd be different if it was
just the lineup card and he was still on the roster, right,
But to not even be on the roster, you can't
let that slide.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
So I'm with you there, fair, Okay.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
The other thing is, I don't know if you saw
the I've been holding onto the story for about a week.
I had a guy randomly messaged me and said, Hey, dude,
I'm going to get a tattoo of the ninety five
to seven QMF logo, and I want to show you.
I'm my tattoo. He not only got the tattoo of
the QMF logo, which, by the way, for those of

(37:19):
you who don't know what QMF is, that's the rock
station that I'm on in Louisville in the afternoons three
to seven, you should listen. He got it on his hand.
So that was the thing. Like, when he told me
he was getting the QMF logo, I'm like, huh, that's cool, man, right.
I thought maybe he would get it on his arm,
I don't know, maybe his leg, maybe even a tramp stamp.
But I did not envision him in getting a QMF

(37:42):
logo on top of his hand. So I ask you,
billy getting a station logo which you're not even affiliated with,
but apparently a big fan of tattooed on your hand
fair or foul.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Well, since it's one of our stations and Shannon the
Dude is a frequent DJ on it, I've got to
go fair and he's listener and a supporter. Now, the
location of the tattoo I would have changed, you know,
maybe be able to cover that up in case you've
got a job interview or an important event. But my
man has got a bright red QMF tattoo right on
the top of his hand.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Shann there is no hide in that.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
And when you when you get punched in the face bomb,
the last thing you're going to see is that QMF
logo flying at you.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
You know there was a guy. There's a guy that
lives I think in the Lexington area and I'll see
him every now and then at concerts. He's got a
double Q logo, but he's got it like on his
calf on his leg.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Does he have like the chicken or rooster thing?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's the whole logo. Yeah, it's uh and
it's older. But I was like, man, like I can't imagine, Like,
was you get a KSR logo like ever and you're
a part of KSR?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Probably not, But I am somebody in the market for
a tattoo.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh, you're in the market.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean you could sway me.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
This is breaking news now.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
But theoretically, I mean, you're QMF should mean a lot
more you than that listener. When are you gonna tattoo
the station's legos here?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Look, there's there's DJs that have worked for stations for
twenty years and then they get fired. So you think
the last thing I want to do is have a
tattoo of the station that may end up firing me
one day tattooed on me. Absolutely No.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Well, hey, you've become really close with your co host
Matt Jones on KSR. Maybe a Matt Jones tattoo on your.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Tell you what, I'll get a Matt Jones tattoo the
day he gets a Shandon of the dude. Oh tattoos,
all right, he gets that, we'll give Matt the tattoo
of me I get, I'll get one of him.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
I'm holding you to it. I'm holding you to it now.
I'll make a phone called a Matt later today.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
All right, let's go to free Bird. What's up? Free Bird?

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Hey, completely fair on Thatt Jacksonville State call and shit
and you'll know this about the torpedo bants. Good pitching
is going to beat good hitting any date. Yeah you
played baseball? Did you pitch?

Speaker 1 (39:56):
I did? I did?

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Okay, I too? And has there been I seem to
recall a while back somebody was mentioned in a transfer,
one of them big dudes from Michigan, one of the
big Sinners, the seventh footer that he can shoot outside.
I haven't heard any any more talk about that, and
it was good to hear Johnny short So uh, I'll
shut up and uh let you all talk and try

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to get another caller on the car.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
I appreciated free Bird. Yeah, I have Have you heard
any more about that? That transfer that he's don't know?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
And I'm gonna be honest, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
I feel for people that have had to chip recover
recruiting over the years that now have to cover the
transfer portal shadow.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
It just seems like the wild West. I scoop lemon.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
I'm like Matt, like I will learn the guys' names
once they commit here. Other than that, Like, I'm just
learning a bunch of names for no reason.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Tell me when they signed.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, Like, it's not my job to go out and
recruit these guys. Like, you know, there's sixteen hundred guys
in the portal. I'm not going to learn everybody's name. Andrew,
what's up Andrew?

Speaker 7 (40:56):
Hey, guys, yesterday you all were talking about Towards the
very end of the show. Matt was talking about that
that restaurant in Millsborough and that that they run a
commercial on the radio, the same radio station that plays
You're All show. Uh, that is just the craziest commercial.

(41:20):
It just makes me cringe. If you can find a
way to listen to that commercial, do it. It's just
it is something else and this portal stuff. Guys, I
really hope we can go into next year with a
top five team that I'm a little hesitant but and

(41:40):
I hate we missed that on that guy, Yes read
the magoon because man, he could really attack the rim.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
We'll check out the men, We'll check out the meaner
Wiener ad when we get.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
A chance to find that. For me, I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's it for the KSR pre show. KSR is up
next we'll talk to you tomorrow. See it