2026-04-01- KSR - Hour 1

From YouTube and social media, Comedy Off Broadway and Lexington welcomes Josh Wolff, March 19th through the 21st, then from late night TV and the Bob and Tom Show catch Nick Griffin, March 26th through the 28th, and don't miss New York Comedy Superstar and podcaster Mark Normand, April 2nd through the 4th for tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call 859-271-Joke or visit ComedyOffBroadway.com. This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome everyone to another edition of Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, April 1st. I am not Matt Jones. I am Billy Rutledge. You can give us a call today on the Clark's Pump and Shot phone line. That's 859-280-2287. Text us at the A-Vision Auto Glass text machine, which I guess we don't have. Ryan, you didn't bring that in today, did you? I can go get it. You can use our text line for the pre-show. Okay, yeah, there we go. Use our pre-show text line. Perfect. 502-265-6656. If you'd like to join the show today and KSR is brought to you by the TJ Smith Law Office, you call TJ. What it'll make them do, Shannon? It'll make them pay. That's right. We love our guy TJ. We are live at KS Bar and Grill for an April Fool's Day edition of Kentucky Sports Radio alongside Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin. I don't know if I've ever hosted with you guys before like this. Have we ever done this before? I don't think we've done it with you hosting here at the restaurant for sure. I don't know. We've never done it with you hosting. Yeah. It's a big day. Big day. Big Billy's all grown up now. Look at him. Well, I was reminiscing here because now I have my photo on the wall here at KS Bar. Yes, you do. Not only that, but there's two of them. If you look up right up here, Ryan, there's myself and my KSR pre-show co-host, Shannon the Dude. Yes. Live at the Third Eye Blind Concert. Oh, who bought those and frame those and put them up with their own money? With your own money? Yeah. That was me. Oh, you get some Billy up there. You got reimbursed, didn't you? I did not, but that's all right. Happy to have a big, beautiful bill up there on the shelf. Well, that means a lot, Drew. Thank you. I mean, that personally. Shannon's got his scarf and fedora combo on in that picture. That's his rock and roll, Alice Bluckey on outfit right there. Yeah. And then if you go up a little bit further, you can find me with my hand raised after the championship, Ryan. So who could forget that day as well? And your trophy. Your trophy's up there. My trophy. Yeah, your Haybill trophy, because my hog calling trophy's up there. Oh, the hog calling trophy. That's right. You did win it the next year. So guys, it feels like I've come full circle a little bit from a part-time producer now to hosting the show. But thank you for having me this morning. You're having us. You're the host. We are your guests. Thank you for having us on the show today, but we're excited for you to drive a little bit. I'm just going to sit back here and speak when spoken to. Yeah, do your thing. I'm a little misty eyed. See, you're all grown up. You and Mario, what you guys grew up right in front of our eyes. Now here you're a 30 year old man getting ready to get married this summer. It's crazy. Well, we I do want to get to that. I need some wedding advice from my uncles here that will be coming to the wedding. Perfect for that. And then, you mentioned, Mario, I want to get to Mario. You wait, Mario. I got some stuff to say about you a little bit later in the show. But Ryan, I got a gift for you. Yeah. That's something I want to give you here to start the show. Oh, the key. And that is the key that you gave me yesterday to get into chaos. Yes. This morning. Yes. Does not work. And Monique said that this key has not worked for years. It's been multiple years since they've used the wildcat blue key to get in. So I do want to return the key this month. Great. How did you get in? I guess so she was here. Yeah, Monique was here. She let me in the door. But you might want to get that change, Ryan, in case you want to get into the bar a little bit later this week or at all. I've had to use it to get in the last four years. Yeah, four years ago, probably. Not only was. She's been multiple years since that key's been here. You can throw in the junk drawer with the A vision glass. There we go. Yeah. So well, I'm glad you got in. That's the main thing. Yeah, I got in. We did the pre show. We had a great time. Shannon and I will keep it rolling for another couple hours here. We mentioned it is April Fool's Day and tough day for everybody that gets fooled by the news on Facebook when it comes to Kentucky Wildcats. It's just going to be one of those internet literate days, Drew, when it comes to these things. Yeah, it's April Fool's Day for them 365, but today it really ramps up. I personally hate this holiday. I see it as people who aren't funny think it's their time to shine. And it's usually not good. I keep my guard up already, but I've not seen a good April Fool's prank in many years. I don't know about you all, but it's to the point I feel like we should just take it off the calendar. Does anyone really love this holiday or we all kind of roll our eyes? It's a little overplayed. If you ask me, I mean, it was, I mean, a little different back in the early 2000s, Shannon. I talked about this this morning. Like, I don't know. Everybody's very sensitive, Ryan. Yeah. You know, it's, the comedy isn't taking the same anymore. So maybe that's kind of ruined the holiday a little bit. Well, we're all younger. I think it was a big deal. You know, we're always trying to get your mom and dad or something. Now it's like, not even kind of forget it's even April Fool's Day now. Well, now every brand with a Twitter account puts something out. True. A restaurant, everything. It's you just open social media in the morning and just scroll through all the dumb graphics that nobody falls for. I'm coming off as a Scrooge here on April Fool's Day, but it's just, it's become too much and everyone has their guard up and the only people that are still trying are the people who aren't funny. Should we tell him? What? We April Fool's you this morning. How'd you get me? McDonald's and Winchester Road. That was not a great experience. That wasn't April Fool's. It was. We, I was just in confidence. I don't think that was a fool. We called them and said, Drew's going to stop. Yeah. Messy's order up and let it take 30 minutes to get through the drive. I'm not going to pull a mat, but some people need to figure it out. Yeah, I didn't just leave it at that. Didn't know we were going there this morning. But I don't think that was April Fool's. I think that was just general incompetence. Well, you know, Ryan, did you ever work fast food back in the day? I haven't. I probably should have. I think everybody should do it at least once to appreciate what happens there. I never have loved it. I think everybody should do it. I said everybody should serve in a restaurant or pass through one of the two. You got to deal with people like I did this morning. I did drive through. I rolled tacos on Taco Tuesday every Tuesday. Cashier, clean bathroom, started as a dishwasher. I actually enjoyed the fast food experience back when I did it. And I think it leads you to be a better patron when you go to the restaurants. A better tipper for sure. Sure. You understand the staff a little better. So I never did you know never fast food, but I worked at a Dick's Sporting Goods for one summer. And they used to say on the walkie talkie, who just folded these clothes in the middle of Dick's Sporting Goods. This is not how you fold clothes. So I was banished from actually doing the clothes. I just stayed in the golf section. But it built some character. I don't know why everybody blames the guy at the register when they returned something to Drew. Like it was my fault that the product was broken. But I agree with you, Ryan. Everybody should do it at least once. Well, I grew up in Ottawa, Indiana. There were surprisingly no Dick's Sporting Goods. There's no McDonald's. There's nothing. There's an elementary school and a post office. So I mowed grass. That was my job growing up. Yeah, mowing grass. And have you mowed yet? I mean, this is a big week for mowing for a lot of people. I didn't mow, but I had a guy mow my grass because it's at his time. If you don't get on top of it now, it'll end up being a jungle before too long. Well, it's a weird time in sports, right? Waiting for the final four this weekend. Shannon and I discussed 800 players have entered to transfer portal yet the portal is not open until for another week. So we're just kind of waiting on edge to see some news break. And it was kind of quiet yesterday. We didn't get much news after Mo Williams joined the staff and the rumors about Tyrant Stokes did watch him in the McDonald's All American game last night. You guys turn that on at all. I caught the highlights. I didn't watch it live, but I was up early this morning and pulled it up on the OESPN app and kind of fast forwarded through the commercials and did a, I guess a quick rewatch. But yeah, I caught a lot of it. Yeah, he looked pretty good in the fourth quarter. Did he have like a hoodie on underneath this jersey? Is that what he was wearing? It's a new trend. I liked a lot of people today, especially on KS board are loving what they saw out of him as a distributor. We even have a thread like make him point guard one. I think that's a bit of an overreaction to how he played last night, but he did show off why he's the number one player in the class. Nine of his 12 points being in the fourth quarter had a double double got to 10 rebounds. Ryan, I mean, you saw why he was the number one prospect here in the class. I talked to a guy that knows basketball yesterday. And we were like, you know, I hear he's a problem in the locker room. I hear he's a problem. You know, not a good teammate. But if he's the number one player in the class, if nothing else, you go get that kid for the perception purpose that you have the ability to recruit that type of caliber player poop poop. Pope's not proved he can recruit that type of player yet. So perception purpose, he has to go out and poop and get that guy. I don't know about all the language there, but I agree. He's got to get God get stokes. Yeah, Pope needs a lot of wins. You almost said it to no Pope needs a lot of wins right now. I liked Mo Williams. Williams hires. I said yesterday there's been some debate on that, but he needs to get some off season wins. Yeah, he can't do anything really till they get on the court next year, but he needs to give a big blue nation some reasons to smile after how the year went. Yeah, for those perception purposes, get the number one guy absolutely get a former NBA champion links to a guy like LeBron. Maybe Barani comes to Rupp Arena one of these days, Mario, if we can get that connection going. But it was exciting to see Tyron play and and Myron Medcalf was on. I don't know if it was halftime or during one of the breaks. He basically said it's going to come down to Bill Self coming back to Kansas or not, whether Tyron Stokes goes to Kentucky or Kansas. And I think that there's what like Jack was talking about the Adidas Nike thing does play into it. You know, us old folks didn't think it makes a difference what shoe you wear. You know, if he grew up a Nike kid, he played for the Nike organization. He is a AU team was Nike. It makes it it makes a difference for these kids really, which what their shoe company is. He already has a Nike deal like he signed. So it'll be awkward if he does go to Kansas. I don't know if he'll wear Nikes and put tape over it or wear Adidas and put tape over that. But you know, that's a that'll be a unique situation he's in if he goes to Kansas. I wonder how that works. Like obviously, they would still go to the school. But would you cover things up with tape? I don't know how that would even work. I don't think they'd let him would they? I can only feel like what Michael Jordan, the Olympics, they weren't Nike and he covered up Reebok. Yeah, I can't even think of times like this. This has even happened because in college, this has never been an issue until now. But he's already got a Nike deal. But this seems to be leaning towards an Adidas school. Well, the perception seems to be that he'll make a decision after the Nike Hoops Summit on April 11. So if we're looking at the timeline here, the transfer portal opens April 7. You have this Nike summit April 11. And then Ryan, maybe you have a much better idea of who's going to be on this team next year. You know, all the conspiracy theorists were out there, you know, Mo Williams, good with friends of Jamal Crawford, who coaches Tyrone Strokes. This is all a big package deal. You get Mason Williams, which leads to Mo Williams, which leads to Jamal Crawford, which leads to Tyrone Strokes. So those conspiracy theories are out there. Yeah, like also, Billy, it's not the Adidas Hoops Summit. It's the Nike Hoops Summit. Did I say Adidas? No, I'm saying that's the other thing to be excited about. He's going to be in Oregon at the Nike facility with Nike people. Maybe they can get into Zere and steer him towards the city. See, that just makes, doesn't make a lot of sense if you're all Nike and then you just pivot to an Adidas school like that. But at that event, at that big Nike event. Well, I agree with Myron that it's he's probably waiting to see what Bill Self is doing. Do you think so? And if self retires, that obviously that'd be very good for us. It seems he's waiting for that. Now, who knows when that decision can come? Well, hopefully he hangs up the two pay and he is done at Kansas and that would be a big step for Kentucky. I did like, you know, Will Stein coming from Oregon seems like he's going to embrace maybe some throwbacks, maybe some different uniform combos. I've got a little power K on this morning on the hat that I'm rocking here. What is that? OVO? Is that the Drake hat? A little OVO here. I mean, I had to go at least a little vintage with the Sutton hat and now Ryan, I got the new look. You know, the old timers, they love that power case so much. It's just one time he would bring that back one time they would all be on back on, well, not back on board, but jump on board with Will Stein. Just that one thing could do that could reinvent, re-invent, re-invent, re-ignite. What is happening, Mario with the vocab? I can't even say vocabulary. I said it yesterday, the power case is coming. Just just get ready. Shannon, do you agree? I mean, you old school kind of guy, do you like the power case stuff? Yeah, I do. I mean, I think when Pope brought back the denim, fans love that. Anything that's nostalgic that reminds you of like when you were younger or some cases like when you were a kid? Your case didn't hurt. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, when you were younger. I think that's a good thing. So if he brings it back, people will love it, I'm sure. Well, give us a call today, 859-280-2287 as we extend the PSR preshow for a couple hours here. I'd like to hear maybe if you have an April Fool's joke that actually did go over well and was successful even though Drew probably doubts that it ever happened. Maybe back in the day, it's just now everyone on social media, it's like, look at this fake image, look at this fake one. It's just, it's too much. I told it on the show one other time. I went to Channel 7 in Evansville, you grew up watching Channel 7 in Evansville, did, stole all the wheels off the bottom of all the church and the sales department. So they come to work the next morning and there's no wheels on their chairs. Classic. One of my best April Fool's jokes ever. And they hated you, right? They called me, threatened to fire me if I didn't get down there right now and put those wheels back on those chairs. How old was Rod Lemon when he pulled this break? 25, 26 probably. A newsroom where people are stressful and busy. Yeah. They're rolling around in their chairs, going from computer to computer. No wheels. Unbelievable. I'm just trying to start my day and Ryan's taking the wheels off of my chairs. And then the next year, I took a bunch of Scotch tape and taped the door handle, they couldn't open the door handle. How about Got Me Fired 2? Amazing. He's going to remember maybe two or three more of these throughout the show. So we'll talk a little bit about that and much more on the way. I appreciate everybody letting me be in the driver's seat today. And Billy's all grown up. That's right. And Jack and Nick did a great job these last two days. So hopefully here to carry the mantle. We'll take a break and be right back here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. We're live at KS Bar today. Billy Rutledge, Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude. I thought it was April Fool's Day yesterday when Drew said he was watching Bob Ross and the joy of painting as your new TV show. I can't get over how much support I got for that. I thought I would be made fun of all night. I was looking forward to going home and just getting roasted. I think it's 100% positive. It's not 100% positive. I got people on my side supporting me. Yeah, I can't leave Drew watching that. Well, everyone that reached out to me, they were telling me their favorite episodes. Some people showed me where they've done Bob Ross paintings. They've gone to the Bob Ross Museum. I've had people say, are you serious about a joy of painting podcast? And I thought, you know what? I wouldn't. But if we need to do it, we can do it. You and Shannon could do it, both of you. Like what that crazy show? What's amazing is you look and you see that there's 800 different episodes, which means he painted 800 different pictures. Although it seems like every episode I can remember he was essentially painting the same picture. Oh, I'm on season five and he's done the same landscape every time. Yeah, but it's still amazing. Like it's not any less impressive every time you watch it over and over. Yeah, that's the beauty of it is it always, even though it doesn't look like much of a picture when it starts, it always ends up developing. And you know, dude and I were talking about it earlier, it'd be sticky figures if you had us painting up there, Drew. We should try it. I'm thinking about doing a video where maybe I sit down on my couch with a nice bourbon and it's like a split screen and I kind of narrate what I'm watching while I like it. Maybe have someone with me. We'll do kind of a podcast while watching Bob paint. I love this. We'll kind of talk over it. You know, Ryan, I once took a cooking class together. Maybe we did like a bit of a painting class, Drew. I don't need a class. I just need to paint. I just want to sit down and enjoy watching paint with Bob Ross. Yes. I mean, he's great and it's the voice. Happy trees. It's just so soft. It's hard to stay awake all of that, but I knocked out another episode last night. I think I'm on season five, episode three. I've got about 24 seasons to go, so no spoilers. Why are you such a hater? Because it's awful. I could watch like five seconds of it. I go, that's enough. I can't watch this. I can't stay in the watch this paint dry. The joy of painting has a 9.3 out of 10 on IMDB. Wow. Anything else that has a 9.3 rating. Yeah, I probably do the kids some good today to watch something like that. That's not overstimulating flashing lights. You know, it'd probably go a long way. And you know, Drew is the next father here of the group. Maybe you can get your next or your child on the Bob Ross paint on this Bob Ross. Oh, she will be watching lots of Bob Ross. As I said, I got 20-something seasons to go. Oh my goodness. I'm sure she'll be there for a lot of them. We'll go through it together. Didn't they used to have a Bob Ross lunch pail for elementary school kids? Well, yeah, I'm sure they had a Bob Ross chia pet. I've seen that. It sounds like you like Bob Ross a little more than I do. You're talking about the merch. I'll have to look into the lunchbox. Chia pets. Now you're bringing up some good memories. Like I don't know if I had a chia pet, but I really wanted one as a kid. I think they have a Bob Ross chia pet. Well, his hair grows on top of this. That's it right there. Ryan should do a Ryan Lemon chia pet. Oh, that's it. You could like, you know, watch your chia pet grow with your hair. I looked it up. There's one at true value. It can be at my front porch by Thursday. So there we go. Maybe I'll get a Bob Ross chia pet. And then bring it in here on the table and what will watch it grow. Perfect. Oh, if we can make a chia pet Ryan Lemon one, I mean, that would be perfect. I would absolutely sell out within seconds. Can I give you two of the TV shows that I'm watching? Yes. I didn't get to chime in on that conversation yesterday. This is a little nerdy. Shannon may laugh at this, but the new Game of Thrones spin off a night of the seven kingdoms. Really good stuff. Really good stuff if you're into that universe or either you've seen it. I loved it. They did a great job. I was a little worried, but I like what they did. They looked at the original Game of Thrones. They're like, this is way too complicated. The man is too big, too many characters, too many families. I would have to I love the show and I would have to pause it and be like, how's this person really this person this new season. They're like, we're going to dumb it down. It's going to be one location and like 10 characters and I thought it was great. I loved it. Yeah, really good. And not that many episodes like six or seven, Ryan. So even if you're not in the Game of Thrones universe, it is good. And then Netflix has this documentary. I don't know if you call it a documentary about the dinosaurs. Have you thrown that on yet with Morgan Freeman narrating? Oh, come on, Ryan. Anything with him narrating has got to be good, right? Exactly. Yes. I mean, and you just plop yourself on the couch, watching episode of the dinosaurs. If you're having a bad day, Ryan, and I think that gets you through it. Well, I started in the neighbors last night. I watched the first two episodes of the neighbors. Yeah. So I'm kind of hooked already. Welcome to the show. It's insanity, isn't it? It's crazy. They're nudity in episode one or is that no nudity yet? No, I already have my favorite character. So my angst to see how it plays out, which how many episodes did you watch? Two. Is your favorite character? Does he have a hot tub? He has a hot tub in his house. In his house. Yeah. On his house. In his house. He's got a pool and he is by far my favorite character in the show. He lives just outside of Indianapolis. Cook-a-moe, Indiana. It's his dream retirement home, little indoor hot tub. He and his husband with their, I think those might be wigs. I don't know if that's real hair. Well, his, he was in the pool. They showed him in the pool. Like his hair may be real. Okay. Husband hair is definitely a week. Great hair for both of them. Love those guys. I told Matt, because another podcast, you know, we're just going to keep doing podcasts. Matt was like, we have to do a neighbor's podcast. I said, I'm in, but we're going to Indiana and doing it from that guy's hot tub in a minute. Cause I, I have to go see this, uh, that in the, the farm across the street on that episode, but another great show. And there's a lot out there right now. Yeah. Well, indoor hot tub's quite the move. I mean, you, you got to have enough towels all the way up after yourself. I've been thinking about buying a sauna, Drew. You ever gotten into that craze at all? I love a good sauna trip. I don't get to do it often because I don't know where they are in Lexington, but if I'm ever on vacation and one's available, I'm jumping in there. You're going to put one in your home? Somewhere. Yeah. Well, my boss called me. I was in the sauna when he called me. And so like, I just got to, I got to avoid this or do it at different times. How much time do you think a week you spend in your sauna or in the club sauna that you go to? Cause I've called you before. I'm like, what are you doing? You're like, I'm in the sauna. You're in the sauna all the time. Yeah. I mean, probably good 45, 50 minutes a week enough to get some of the benefits. That's not crazy. A week? No, no, no. I thought you were just like a day. No, no, no. I mean, you could do, have some bad health effects with that. But I mean, I don't know, Brian, you ever gotten to the sauna? Hate it. Hate it. Hate it every second about going to a sauna. Come on. I've got, you know, asthma and allergy problems. I can't breathe. I go in those things. I can't breathe. So I can't do it. Yeah. The cold punch is tough. I can't do that either. It's like a small form of torture, like self torture. I ain't doing it. Nope. My mom, a 60 year old man, I'm happy. I don't want to do that. Who cares? That's right. I don't want those health benefits. Billy, if you put one in your house, I can't, I don't know where I put one in my house. I will happily come over. You're in the Hamburg area. You got like a check in area. I can give a little towel to help myself back there. Take your shoes off before you come into the house. You can find your way to the sauna. Okay. There's just too many benefits for me to stay on the outside looking in. I've seen the light drew and I just, I got to stop doing it in the middle of the day because my bosses keep calling me and I can't keep getting in this situation. You seem to be big on your health at a young age. You're doing saunas. I told, yesterday you're telling Shannon to stop eating plastic. Jack, I agree, Shannon, you got to stop eating plastic, but you're, you're about your micro plastics now. I feel like you're locked into a healthy lifestyle. Well, I'm trying. Like I feel like my prime's coming up. Drew, I don't think I've hit my prime yet. I don't know if you guys are past your prime. Your prime was the Hayville toss trophy. That's your prime right there. Stop. I did not peek. When you look back here to say after I peaked in life in Lebanon, Kentucky that day, throwing a hay bill. They did not peek in Lebanon. Now, was that a great all time sports moment in the Commonwealth Kentucky? Yes, it is. That's why we didn't do it again. That's why you have a trophy to acknowledge the accomplishment. There was so much drama. They had to do a hog calling contest the next year. We couldn't even do it again, but I don't even know what we were talking about. Oh, yeah, my health. Yeah, and your health. Yeah. You'd be on a big health team. Yeah. I think my prime's coming. Like it's not here yet. Like you wait until I get into the gym for like a year, Mario. You see these biceps come up and then this prime will be here. Take your turmeric shots and drink your green juices. Still doing those. Saunas. Yes. See, Billy, there's this side of Billy that people don't know. His body is this temple and he's taking good care of it. Protein shakes are next, Ryan. Celery and carrots. Celery and carrots on road trips. Vegetable trays. I mean, come on. Who is this guy? You got to have a little health to it. If you're just going to conspire on your ice coffees every morning, Ryan, it might catch up with you. See, I'm at the point in my life where life's too short not to be happy. If I want chocolate cake for breakfast, I'm going to have chocolate cake for breakfast. You keep eating like that. It's going to be shorter. Well, I'm going to be happy. The line is going to be really short. I'm not going to sit in the sauna or take an ice butt plunge or eat green stuff and orange stuff and try to be healthy. I'm going to be happy. It's my health era right now. I'm just going through it. 8-5-9-2-8-0-2-2-8-7. We'll take some calls on the next segment. I want to talk about Dan Hurley's parents. Do you saw the video of them? Oh, yes. Celebrate in the crowd. I want to get to them and much more on the way. It's Billy R. Sports in hosting the show this morning on Kentucky Sports Radio. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make him pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. This song will definitely be played at the wedding coming up. August 8th, the big day for Billy R. Sports. Ryan Lemon, Andrew Franklin, and Shane of the Dude. We'll all be there for the big day. My wedding planner is kind of getting on me today. You know what I need to do? Like what's on the to-do list? You're going to give me nightmares thinking back to a lot. Probably a lot. What's today's agenda? I got to buy a margarita machine. Yeah, you got to buy one. Well, like rent it. Yeah. Yeah. We got to get two industrial-sized margarita machines. We're going to have it out like the little cocktail hour reception area, because it's August. We're going to have you outside. Yeah. So what's the next best thing is to have a margarita ready for you. You should just put that on your registry for people to buy one for you. You know? That's the thing. See, I just feel weird asking for gifts. Yeah, you got to do it. That's a weird part of the wedding. This is the one time in your life where you can get away with it. Whatever you want, put it on the list. You won't feel weird asking for gifts when you see what you've spent for this event. You won't feel bad at all. On this radio salary, I mean, if we want to go back to Great Moments and Billy R. Sports KSR History, we were at the fair where I got my paycheck that ended up being $20 for that week, Ryan. Wow, you got $20? $20 as I forgot to insert my hours that week. That's why I came in like that. I won't buy a very big margarita machine. You're not kidding about that, Drew. No Harper Hall. For me, did you have any advice for me as I go through this wedding process as the most recent one to go through it all? My biggest piece of advice would be don't buy the slim version of the pants if you're not slim yourself, because you will spend three hours of the night with your ass hanging out for all of you, I guess. You really sold your ass that night. I did. I did. Taco Boxers were a move on wedding day. It was nice. My groomsmen, they all offered to give me their pants, but I thought, you know what? I'm just going to rock this. They got a nice breeze back there, but I would definitely recommend going up a size if you like to dance, because mine were ripped from belt loop to shoe 10 minutes into the reception, and we had three hours to go. So I would just get the right pants. I enjoyed my tux. You got good groomsmen willing to rip the pants off of their own body. Yes. The main thing is we got to make sure Ryan isn't the star of your wedding, because he kind of was Drew's, you know, turning tables over and drinks and everything. And he was wearing drinks on his suit by the end of the night. We had to get him out of there as quickly as possible. So Ryan, we just got to have you reel it back just a little bit. Reel it in. I think there's two, two bits of advice I give you. Okay, please. Yeah. Keep an eye out for Nancy Franklin, Drew's mom. Careful. And if they give you cranberry vodka, make sure it's not a cranberry and a double vodka when you order like five or six of them. Those are the best advice I can give you. Five or six of them while the sun is still up. We had a handy bartender that night. Oh, yes, Drew did. I've never shared these, but we got our, you know, professional photos back, and they mostly just sit in a folder. That's another piece of advice, Billy. Photos, like you think, yeah, of course we need a thousand photos. Then you get them and you're like, what am I going to do with a thousand photos? But the point is I have so many of Ryan. There might be more of Ryan than of Abby in our photo gallery because he put on that much of a show. Wow. Well, we've got a photographer, a videographer. I mean, we've already taken those steps, Drew, unfortunately. Yeah. You got to have them. I'm just saying to get them and it's like, well, what do I do with them now? Yeah. Well, I'll try not to rip my pants. And Ryan, I'll try not to drink. I don't think I'm going to drink really much at all on the big day. And we've already decided we're going to do an Irish Goodbye. Shannon and I talked about this actually yesterday. Like, we're not going to do the whole thing where you got to come over and say bye before you leave. It would be like an announcement like, hey, you know, we're going to do our own thing. We may not say goodbye to every guest before we leave. Is that right? Before we even finish the ceremony, all the events, right? Irish Goodbye. I think Shannon had to put me in an Uber to get me out of there. I had to take them back. I had to tuck them into bed and read them a bedtime story that night. One thing that I got burned on was I severely underestimated how much alcohol my friends could put down. And I had a hot bar for them and they they even blew past it. I had an option of all you can drink three hours or all you can drink four hours. And I was like, I'll get the three and everybody will go hard. That fourth hour, they'll be dancing, they'll be distracted. And I'll just pay per drink in that fourth hour. Oh, Lord. That one hour of me paying per drink was more than the first three hours. So I backfired a little bit on what I thought my buddies could do at the bar. Happy, happy to swipe the credit card on that bill, but they surprised me. I am hoping like everybody dances and has a good time. There's nothing worse than people afraid to get on the dance floor. But you'll make sure doing that, Ryan. Like you'll set the tone. Well, that's why I had the cranberry and double vodka to get out there and shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your booty. Are you doing a DJ, like a lot of music? What am I going to be dancing to? I need to know. You know, we thought about bringing Alice Blugan out there, but I want Shannon to enjoy himself. I don't want him to like be on the clock. So the old 98, 9 radio personality Kobe is actually going to be doing the ceremony and the DJing for us. We got a meeting with him to talk about all the songs that we want him to play and want. Don't want him to play like the Cha-Cha Slide or the Cupid Shuffle. Please, none of that. That's so as old, old white people can dance. We need songs like that. You do. Yeah. Just play some Darius Rucker for Ryan and then it'll be enough. That'll get him out there. Okay. So Billy, I've got this thing I did for years and it's retired, but I might have to bring it out, bring it back out of retirement for you. But we would, when shout would come on, I'd rally up all the biggest people I could find and we try to throw the groom as high in the air as we possibly can. That's how I ended up at my wedding, literally hanging from the rafters of Harper Hall. They were throwing me so high in the air. We've had guys so high, we like wait a second for them to come back and catch them. They've been hitting chandeliers. It's a big thing, but we retired it at my wedding, but I'm thinking I'm sorry. Bring it back. We could get Billy Airborne pretty easily. Oh yeah. So make sure shout is on that playlist. I got good memories of shout going at the bills game with you guys for NFL cover zero. That's kind of their thing is playing that song in the stadium. So maybe we can get that done. Right. I have found my wedding gift for Billy and Marissa. What is that? It's a Bob Ross painting. Bob Ross lunchbox. Oh, the lunchbox. Uh-huh. Well, don't get away. There it is. They do have a Bob Ross lunchbox. I just bought your wedding to add the expenses. We have one of those live painters at the wedding. Oh, yes. Bob Ross? That would be awesome. Now, if we can get that painter to wear like maybe an Afro wig, maybe a perfect, the perfect subway. She's not listening. It's just us talking. What part of the planning is really like, oh, this has beat me down pretty bad because, you know, it is stressful. Yeah. Well, like I wanted her to kind of like take control and just like plan the whole thing. That has not been the case. Like I've been, I've been, have to be involved. Right. Yeah. She wants you to be involved. She doesn't want, she doesn't want Beta Billy as the wedding planner here. She wants you to take control of it. I guess, but that's what I'm paying for wedding planners for. I thought they might just take care of that. But no, I'm very involved. That's why we're trying to book a Margarita machine today and a cigar bar. Two Margarita machines. Right away from that. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got plenty to do, but I'm looking for you guys like sharing that happy day with you guys is going to be a highlight of my life. No doubt. Well, it's a, it's a big year for us. Drew's going to be a daddy for the first time and you're getting married. It's a big couple months for the KSR crew. So I'm really happy and proud of you guys really. I'm excited about what's getting ready to happen for you. Thank you buddy. That means a lot. Yeah. And Drew offered to officiate the wedding yesterday. Yeah. I don't know if that's going to happen, but I guess you have the certificate. Yeah. I need to double check. It's been about four years when I got ordained. I don't know what the expiration date on it was. Maybe you need to take us, continue an education class. But I've done a couple of weddings. If you need me to step in, happy to do it. I can find the certificate somewhere. If not, I can just go get another one because all I did was put in my email address, a little bit of information and it showed up in minutes. It's actually quite easy, I guess, to get that certificate. So we'll keep you on standby. I'll step in if needed. For your charge. Let's take our first call today. 5 9 2 8 0 cats is the number. Shannon, the dude who's up first. All right. We got Wayne on the line. Wayne. What's up? Hello, guys. I'm doing a great job and everything like that. About the Bob Ross and everything and that Christmas time I was in the Dollar Tree getting some, I'm a painter. I was getting some paintbrushes. I stepped over to the next line and they are, I mean, and they were selling like socks that had, you know, like sneakers on them and stuff like that. And all of a sudden I saw some boxer shorts with Bob Ross's face on it and I bought them. As you should have. Yeah. Well, I bought them for my, uh, a stocking stuffers for my, I got a 43 year old son. I got a two 16 year old grandson and my brother and then my nephew and everything like that. And when they opened them up, they all flipped out. I mean, uh, well, and then I got my son's love though. He's a big artist and everything like that. And he's got Bob Ross shirts. He's he's just a big Bob Ross fan. But I'm glad Drew likes that. I wish you all the best of luck. I've been doing a fine job by while. I always do. I've been listening to you ever since you all have been on and we just go ahead and we paint houses and apartments and we just go ahead and turn you all up first thing in the morning and listen to you. So love the clock. Well, thank you so much. We appreciate the call and you calling in. I always love hearing from hearing from our mail carriers or I guess painters outside people do an actual jobs while we get to sit here and talk about Bob Ross underwear. Drew Bob Ross bastard. All right. We have a good day. Okay. All right. Thank you. So that's called the day. It's the only one so far. So it's in the conversation. Yeah. I did not think this Bob Ross thing to take off like it is. I would secretly love a pair of Bob Ross boxer shorts. Okay. That would be awesome. You too can can work it out there. Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. Hang on to his number. But Ryan, like you were breaking records for stolen bases in the state of Indiana. You didn't have like a pair of lucky underwear or well baseball players, Shannon, though, are very superstitious and so like I had my same undershirt and same socks that I had to wear. Oh, yes. Did you wash them? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I washed them. But you know, when you're in college, maybe you don't wash them every after every game. You know, if I had a bad game and didn't get it dirty, it's still okay for the next game. Well, college is high enough level where I think you'd be watching after every game. No, you know, the laundry was down in the basement of the dorm. And there's like there was like three washers. And if you didn't get there early, you had to wait until the middle of the night to wash your clothes. So sometimes you had to just pick and choose when you're going to do your laundry. We saw Malacow, Merino do that with the sleeve this year. Remember, you didn't wash it there. Maybe you wash it just wouldn't come off. But that undershirt he wore several times had the big black spot on it. Also superstitious there with Kentucky basketball. Well, you know, when Jack was on a lot of collars asked about Malacow, you know, and what his future is, is he going to be coming back to Kentucky? I mean, Ryan, I think Mark Pope has them penciled in as a big part of the team next year. And what was your percentage chance he said he stayed? I went up to like about 70 or 80. Because I think I've heard some things are going to happen to try to ensure Malacow stays here. You have to keep him in the homegrown kid made a big jump from great crossing to a freshman year at UK. He'll make another big jump next year. I mean, he's a guy that complain the NBA eventually. So I think you got to make every move you can to keep him here. Don't you think? Yeah, I think so. And if you're somebody that is going to plan on staying here for a while, I'd advise them to use Stockton Mortgage. Oh, Stockton Mortgage. What a great transition. You know, now the let's just say you're a young guy and about to get married, starting a new journey in your life. Next step might be, let's go buy a house. So I know the perfect person you can talk to. I'm just saying you, I mean, you in general, if you're that person, maybe getting married and you're looking to buy a house, Stockton Mortgage can help you every step of the way. You'll get paired up with a loan officer and it can be a hassle. And it's kind of hard on a first time home buyer because you got to, you know, you got to put in bank statements and 401k statements and pay stubs and there's a lot of a lot of tax returns. But Stockton Mortgage makes it as easy as possible. Hold your hand through the process. So if you're like Billy and Marissa or any other married couple about to get married, talk to Stockton Mortgage, get that pre-approval over before you go looking at houses. I looked at houses yesterday. So it's a spring buying season is here, ladies and gentlemen, Stockton Mortgage, ooh, NMLS, 8259, Equal Housing Lender. That ooh was Ryan looking at a picture of himself in a blazer with sunglasses on partying it up at Drew's wedding. Yeah, that was a fun time, Drew. I appreciate those cranberry and double vodka as your bartender was giving out. I found a photo album. I might just share a few throughout the morning. There's a lot of you. Please do. And Mario knows that, you know, sunglasses inside, it's never a good thing, is it? Oh, for me. Okay, you're the one that missed the red carpet that first night, too. That wasn't just me. I was there. That was hard. Three-point mice trying to find our way through the Draft Kings party. We need, it's a good time to take a break. Not only a good time to buy, it's a good time to take a break. We'll be right back here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. On a Wednesday, it's Billy Rutledge filling in for Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude alongside. There's a Ryan Lemon chia pet I just retweeted at BillyR Sports. The how awesome is that? A little generous with the hair, but would love to see that come to fruition. Before we get back to the phones, I wanted to mention Dan Hurley's parents. Have we seen the video of the mom and dad in the stands? I mean, there's so many great videos that came from that finish, but the zoom in of Dan Hurley's mom and what she said immediately after that shot went in is probably my favorite moment from that shot, Drew. Sweet little mom saying some words we can't say on radio. There's a version, great camera work where someone without cutting, they zoom in on Carlos Boozer as the steel happens, his son throwing the, creating the turnover. And then somehow they pan to mama Hurley immediately for her reaction to the shot going in. Just the contrast of Boozer seeing what's unfolding and how it's going south quickly. And then mom losing her mind and throwing F bombs around. That was another one of those wild angles we got to take in enjoying that game and how it went down. Brian, did that make you think at all about maybe Josiah or being a sports dad at all? Oh, there's no doubt. But yeah, mama Hurley has a little potty mouth, but I think as a parent, you get more nervous sometimes in your kids that are playing. So when they lose like that, but yeah, she, she even made me blush a little bit. Yeah. A little bit. I think it's because she's just so, she's just a little small, got a little hair done, and just, she's sweet little grandma on. She's got a little potty mouth. Oh, we bleep, bleep. Yeah. I can't even say it. Yeah. It's very clear what she said. Are you ready for that phase of your life, Drew? Maybe. Are you yelling F bombs at games? No, I probably won't be doing that. Yeah. Like when the softball games, really when it becomes coach pitch, right? Like you take it off the tee and like the balls and strikes matter, Ryan. Like maybe that's when the emotions can run a little high and our guy, Drew, will maybe be one of these sports parents. I think back to those days, parents, I mean, we really are insane. We act like a seven and eight year old coach pitch baseball game is like the seventh game in the world series. And it's seven and eight year olds playing baseball. Now that I'm older, I look back like we were, we were, we acted a little idiots back to like idiots back then. You're living and dying with a play in the third inning of a game in the middle of the summer when it's seven and eight year olds playing baseball. And it's like a 14 year old behind the plate too, right? He's just getting enough money to go to concession stands. Yeah. He's getting $25 to call that game or center yelling at him. I didn't have one of those parents. They're very supportive at every game. They kept their cool, but I grew up with many kids who, who didn't have that parent in the crowd. We all, we all knew him well. A few ejections in our fifth grade basketball league and it was usually the same stuff. Same guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I did. Were you ever that, I know your support of your yelling, but were you ever the one that was like, all right, it's time to get Ryan out of here? Yeah. Sure. I thought those was America. When I was coaching, yes, I got kicked out of a game. I think I told that story one time. I kicked out of a seven and eight year old coach pitch baseball game for arguing with the empire. He said, don't say another word. And I said, don't tag him. You're out. He warned me. It's not too bad. You know, we see people losing their cool all the time here lately. It's pretty embarrassing. Just you didn't do anything that extreme. No, but he warned me. Don't say one more word. Of course I did. Now I can't condone it for the parents, but I do miss baseball managers when they would come out Shannon and like kick dirt on the plate. Oh yeah. Like Lou Pinella would go out there. I thought we were going to get one of those last night. I don't know if you watched the Reds Pirates game, but you don't seem like a manager get ejected in baseball now because of all the reviews and everything. But there was a check swing where the Reds player swung any more than what he did. He probably would have hit a home run. They called it not a swing and the Pirates managers went out there and lost his mind. But that's something I always loved about watching Braves games. Bobby Cox, that's the record for the manager who's been throwing out the most out of any manager in Major League Baseball history. You really don't get those moments anymore because of the replays. You're right. You don't get the managers going out there picking the base up and like throwing it across the field. The greatest one ever is the Braves like double A manager for a few years ago. Do you remember this one where he gets down and starts doing the army crawl up to the end? He gets the rosin bag and he throws it like a grenade. If somebody can find that, we're going to need to retweet that one. One of the greatest meltdowns ever to happen here in Lexington. It was an opposing manager, the guy that through the base, picked the base up and through the base and covered up the home plate with dirt. That was in Lexington. Yeah, the Braves manager, he was Philip Wellman was his name. That's the all time. We're just doing the army crawl. He bites, he bites off the bag like it's a grenade and just launches it. Legendary. Did you all see the it's escaping me, the umpire's name because I don't keep up with that closely, but it was at the Reds game and they just kept challenging him. Oh yes. It kept being wrong. It was like the loudest the crowd got all night. Back to back challenges. You got wrong. I think you went 0 for 7. Well, the ABS system can really embarrass some of these umpires now, right? Like I think one of them was a strike right down the middle and they had to challenge it. You have to wait that minute and like just see it basted in all its glory. But Drew's like every challenge they made against him. He was like 0 for 7 in his calls. And the crowd was going crazy each time. More so than it'd be at home run. I mean, that was like the biggest parts of the night. Well, in a while it'll be all robot umps, but we still got the other humans back there for now. 859-280-2287. Unfortunately, the heartbreak's coming up. So we will take most of these calls on the other side of the break. You know we're going to the moon today, Ryan? Going around the moon, right? Like 10 guys getting a vehicle and they're going to drive around the moon. Well, yeah, vehicle as in rocket ship. But yeah, it will be launching today. I want to talk a little bit about that on the other side of the break. And you know, I'm having a good time with you guys. So we'll do a great job, young Billy. Thank you guys. Appreciate that. Survived one hour. That's right. And I still got to talk about Mario over here sitting down. We'll get you on here, Mario. We'll take a break. Be right back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, hour two coming up next.