2026-04-01- KSR - Hour 2

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Welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Billy Rutledge filling in for Matt Jones this morning alongside Ryan and Drew and Shannon live at KS Bar and Grow where we've just opened up. We've got some people coming in to have some Noche Linda Farms burgers. Ryan, I know you've had one. Oh, they're awesome. And of course it's Wings Day today. Wings Day dollar wings. So we'll get a good lunch crowd. Always do for there for Wings Day. Very good. Yeah. Come see Billy our sports takeover Kentucky Sports Radio here on April Fool's Day. And guys, it's time to test your internet reading abilities here. I've got two things I want you to tell me which ones in April Fool's joke and which one is real. Okay. The Kentucky football Twitter account just posted we're going big with the blue this fall and a blue Kentucky turf field coming for 2026. Okay. I don't believe that. That's definitely April Fool's. Okay. No, no Boise State coming to Lexington. No, 100% April Fool's on that one. I go, I believe. Okay. And I have another one here with Jasper Johnson signing an NIL deal with Fifth Third Bank. I can believe that one. That one looks legit versus a blue versus a blue field. I will say Jasper Johnson signing with Fifth Third Bank is the is the the real one. I believe that also. I think that that is real. The blue field. I ain't having it. No. And if they were doing that, I would say hang on before you put the blue field in, can we just get that Wi-Fi we've been asking for a decade? Let's let's focus. I know we got screwed to make money, but let's focus on what we need. I don't believe the blue field. No. Good for Jasper though. Good for Jasper. Yeah, interesting timing though. I mean, it is interesting. Many people think he might hit the transfer portal, Ryan, but maybe this is somebody that would want to stay with Kentucky. You know, you can see why, you know, he's he grew up here. His parents played here. And it didn't, it didn't go the way I'm sure he thought he wanted. So maybe you'd like to get a do over and try it one more time, run it back one more year. Yeah, I don't know what's going on between Jasper's years. I don't know him that well, but I could see a world where he would think, you know, I can't leave this place with how that year went. I think if he were being honest, that's not what he envisioned for his freshman year. So I could see him wanting to run it back to prove himself, but also it's, he'll have to fit into the bigger equation. Yeah. What is his role? You know, is he going to play the two guard spot? Does he, is he going to play point guard? Probably a big part of the decision making process of Jasper Johnson. Speaking of football, Roush did such a good job talking to football yesterday. I also liked him talking about the offensive line coach, Cutter Lefwich, who is doing the standard is the standard is the standard Billy of the standard of Kentucky Bass or Kentucky football. He's also 27 years old Cutter Lefwich, the offensive line coach. Is that not insane? 27. I'm really thrown off by all this young coaching staff. I turned 40 last year and it is so weird to me that the team I love to root for, like the whole staff is younger than me. I'm in that part of life where I'm just having to accept I'm an old man. Now I love the excitement and that they have the, so I love everything about it, but it is weird to think that I'm 13 years older than a UK football coach. It's crazy. These guys that spend five years, six years, seven years playing college football, your coach is just a year or two older than you. Yeah. These guys and they put out, they've done a good job of the mic'd up videos for emphasizing, you know, we all know Will Stoneprewell at this point, but the secondary, the assistant coaches and he was one that was last week on that standard is the standard video and just, you can't help but get excited. I know it's the off season and you know, they'll have to win games on the field, but for right now they're, they're doing a good job of getting everybody to buy in. I was just trying to think though of me at 27 trying to get the respect of these division one athletes. Now I didn't play, be a little different, 155 pound billy R sports trying to go up there and tell you how to pass block, but Ryan, do you think you could have led young men at 27? What were you doing getting suplexed on live TV? I was doing sports in Evansville and Drew was watching me when he was in elementary school when I was 27 years old, but these guys, some of these players are making more money than they are also even at the college level now. So it is a little bit of a interesting dichotomy. These coaches trying to get the respect and be authoritative figures when they're the same age and they're making more money than you. Exactly. The Harold leader did an article a little bit about the 27 year old offensive line coach left which is his dad was in the coaching profession for 30 plus years, his brothers and up and coming offensive coordinator, I believe at Texas Tech. So maybe he just runs in the family in that way, Drew. Yeah. And how about when our boy Max Duffy a player at 27? He was. He was. That's right. Max was punning at 27. So there could have been a world just missed about about five years where Max was the same age as some of the coaches on the staff. But I guess the argument is you guys, the program needed this needed that breath of fresh air energy from a younger staff kind of that it put a little more buzz, being a little modern thinking in your coaching with a younger staff. I would say they need anybody outside of Eric Wolford who decided to put on a different polo while he was on a recruiting trip and then didn't develop any of the young talent that he had. I mean just anybody besides him in the building I think is an addition. But there's some excitement with it being young guys, right? I mean, Stein is a young guy himself. So I mean, I think that if you're trying to capture in a bottle what college the college landscape is right now, it's you know, that's part of it. It's just so different from what we just had. You know, the stoop's there, didn't end well. But overall, I still loved everything he did, took us to places I never think we'd go. But let's be honest, he wasn't knocking down doors on social media or where can I find the next throwback uniform? He was, I just want to go to lunch pail, take my lunch pail to work, go back to work. Stein is, and the throwbacks are a small thing, but he got here is like, where's the power case? You know, where's the fun stuff? Where's the fun things? And that's what the last staff, I don't even think they even considered all those other things. Now those don't matter when you're on the field and you're kicking off, but it is something that keeps the fans engaged. Like, Stoop's probably didn't even know he had a Twitter account, you know? Will Stein's firing off these pictures from the offices of like the legends on the walls and just little things like that. They're small and at the end of the day, they probably don't even matter at all, but they do a good job of keeping the fans having fun and excited when you're not actually playing this sport. They add up, they add up, don't they? Yeah, it does add up. And the young guys are really embracing it where the last staff, you know, they just want to coach football and go home. Right. Let's take it to the real world for a second. Shannon, would you have a problem if you had a new boss and that he was only 27 years old? Would you have issues taking direction from him? Maybe a little bit, you know? That's sort of a weird situation when you got somebody significantly younger than you and all of a sudden they're bossing you around and you're like, wait a minute, I've been in the business longer than you've been alive. Yeah, exactly. I think it would be tough to do that. But, you know, in sports, it's a little different, I guess, in sports, but thinking our business, it would be tough to do that. I think it would be tough, at least for me, like, I don't know, ego, pride-wise, like, you know, I've been doing this a lot longer than you've been alive. How can you tell me what to do, right? I'm sitting here thinking, I think every person is considered my supervisor here in my heart is younger than me. So, a little bit of that. You're the old guy around the office that has to happen, but think about it. It's gotta happen eventually. Matt, Christie, Kathy, Nathan, Gus, they're all younger than me. You, you're all younger than me. I'm not your boss. You're my general manager, KSR general manager. Jim Billy. Jim Billy. Are you just now realizing that? Are you having like an old head moment? I didn't even think about it. We started having this conversation like I am. I'm the old man in the club. Well, if you was trying to think of what I was doing at 27, I was literally just doing exactly this at 27. So, not much change for me over the years. It was the second year of the KSR Perisho when I was 27. Achieved my dreams at 26. Ryan, I had to figure out what I wanted to do next. Those were good days when I was 27, working for Channel 7 Evansville, covering the Madisonville Maroon, second region basketball tournament. I think when I was 27, that would have been the year we won the national championship. That was a fun year in KSR, history so long ago. Yeah, those days are getting farther and farther away. Well, Ryan, if you're the old head of the group, you'll remember when we went to space and we went to the moon. Do you remember those days? Well, I was too young. I was only like three, I think, when they landed on the moon. But yet, as I got a little older, you know, in kindergarten, first grade, the space program was like a, that was a big deal. You know, I still very much recall that being a topic of, you know, interest, the space, going to moon, going to the moon, a couple times, things like that. Well, I remember my elementary school had pictures of astronauts in the lobby. I don't even know who they were, but it was like a big deal. I don't know why. To the hindsight, it was like, here's our American flag, here are six astronauts, huge pictures of them. Well, you know, you might grow up to be an astronaut one day, Drew. That was kind of what I was told as a kid. Didn't have the math, ability skills, or the ability to get in that little thing that spins you around so fast. But this is not an April Fool's joke. We're going back to the moon. Is it they take off today? Today, Artemis II, four astronauts will begin a 10-day trip around the moon. Should be live streamed, the launch will should begin around 6 24 p.m. Eastern time later today. If the trip is successful, and they do go around the moon, they plan on sending people to the moon in 2028. And then by 2032, they want to build a base on the moon. Ryan. Why? Yeah, I don't understand. If we've already been to the moon, why are we now going around the moon? Why don't we just skip that step and go right to the moon again? They have not found anything, I think, on the moon that has been official to us in the United States, in America. Nothing. Nothing. I mean, when they got rocks and dust, what are they going to do, build a base on the moon? For what reason? Just to go and visit and come back? To leave us here. Well, yeah, if you want to go to Mars one day, you've got to probably colonize the moon. But why? So they have to go to the vacation on the moon. There's nothing on Mars. Why? I mean, we're just wasting money, aren't we? But going around the moon today. Why? We're destroying our planet, so we've got to leave eventually, Ryan. And, you know, curiosity is a human thing, right? So maybe there's more curiosity to go back to the moon. It's the first time since the 70s, I believe. But we've been there. There's nothing there. It's dust and rocks. But you know, at one point, there was nothing here. This used to be just dirt and rock. And look what we did. Look around. Look at this. You don't want to expand your horizons past this planet? The only way you're going to be able to live on the moon, you'll wear a spacesuit 24 hours a day. Yes. So why? I'm happy breathing and walking here without a spacesuit in Lexington. Maybe we're the people they want to leave behind and go start anew and leave us back here to deal with these problems. Maybe they're like, we'll go start fresh and leave. But they're not going to be able to. You can't breathe on the moon. You have to wear a mask. You're right. You can't breathe on the moon. But like maybe you create something like the space station that is the rhinosom of the day. You can't breathe on the moon. But like maybe you create a, like, I don't know, a base where you can't live on. Well, you couldn't leave the base. You'd have to stay inside in the base. I can't go to an existing Reds game where I can't go walk my dog down the street because you can't live on the moon. But they're trying to build things where you can. You know that Sonic wasn't always here, right? Very true. That used to just be dirt right there. But I can walk from here to there and I have to wear a space mask or a spacesuit. Well, it's coming. I mean, we're going, starting the trip. It seems like an colossal waste of money to me. That's just me. Okay. That's a long list of things. Colossal waste of money. I would, would you go to the moon if you give them the opportunity? See, no, I don't think I'm there yet. Like these rich people are paying for flights that leave the atmosphere, right? I don't know. Was it Gwyneth Paltrow or somebody that just recently did this, these mega billionaires that have the money to do it? I think that'll actually be very common. 10, 20 years from now, people doing that. But yeah, taking a thrill ride, zip up, zip back. I'm not going to stay in the dark where's money. So anti-space. You know, it's as waste of money as that Frappuccino you buy at McDonald's every morning. That's a huge waste of money. I got a Wendy's today. I mixed it up a little bit today. I want a Wendy's today. When I was the luckiest guy in the world and got to do the Blue Angels flight, beforehand they were like, what kind of experience you want? You want to go up and do a little lap or you want to get wild? I was like, I want all gas, no brakes. I want the whole experience. And I got to experience weightlessness. I don't know how they did it. I guess we just went really fast and shut her down, but it was the weirdest feeling. And there's like little particles of dust all around in front of me. It felt like time had stopped. It was like the coolest thing I'll ever experience. So if I were given the opportunity to go to the moon, I'm absolutely jumping in because I've even, I got a little bitty, tiny taste of what it could be like. Did you almost pass out or anything like that? No, at the end, he's like, I'm going to make you pass out. I was to bring it and I got very close. I mean, my curtains were closing right as we got done, but I didn't go all the way down. You have to pee in your clothes. Well, I think the suit takes care of that. I don't think it's like, I didn't pee in any clothes. I don't think like you're sitting in your urine. You have to eat little cubes of Tang drink mix. It's not, does not sound fun to me. I don't think Ron's going to the moon. I'm not going to the moon. I understand why we're going to the moon. Well, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll spend our money and little more things that can help us. I agree with that. Like getting rid of the trash problem in New York city. And there we go. You go take the trash to the moon. Is that what they're trying to do? Maybe who knows? We gotta get them figured out. May or Ryan coming out a little bit there. Let's fill the potholes before we go to the moon. There we go. It's very practical. Take care of us down here. Maybe that's a good idea. 8.5 9.2 802 287. We need to take a break. We'll take some calls when we come back and some other fun stuff here on Wednesday edition of the, not the KSR pre show. It's three hours of the pre show today. Well, you're listening to a little Kentucky sports radio. Welcome back. Billy Ryan, Shannon and Drew talking about the moon, chia pets, whatever we've gotten into today. Wedding advice, sports parents. That's what a Wednesday show during the summer is all about. What was the line you have to pee in your clothes? Is that what Ryan said? Yeah. If you're an astronaut in space, you pee in your clothes. We always love the rhinos as we get on this show. Well, also like you're a NASCAR driver, you pee in your race suit. I don't think it's just directly on the do they pee in their race suit on NASCAR drivers? Yeah. Yeah. You can't hold it for five hours driving a car. I know they're sweating a lot in those cars. True. But nevertheless, Shannon, tell us about one of the sponsors here on KSR. 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Probably what we should have talked about on Cover Zero that was released probably this morning, Drew, our new episode where we got into horses and other great topics about the NFL and broke down the coach's photo over there in Arizona. So we listened to that. That was a lot of fun. We had another interview from the Super Bowl with our guy Eric Kendricks, who made big plays for the 49ers late in the year. I enjoyed doing that with you. Matt was gone. We just kind of rift on the news a little bit, but another good episode. I want you to go check out. Yes. And I promise you, I'm not trying to take Matt's spot on that podcast. It's just, that's how it's worked out where he's gone and I've taken his spot. Ryan, we talked about Eric Kendricks. He's a big car guy. Could you change your oil? If I ask you to right now, I can do it. Yeah. Yeah. I used to help my grandfather and my dad do it when back in the day. So I haven't done it in 40 years, but I could figure it out. Yeah. Okay. Now some of the foreign cars, I could probably have a little more difficult. I think it's a little trickier to find the oil pan underneath there, but I think, you know, I got, I got a Ford. So I could do it. I jumped to battery the other day. Yeah. There you go. I don't say his battery died. So I had to go and, you know, do the jumper cables and things like that. Surprised myself that I was able to do it without having to sit there and watch a YouTube video. You know, I think most people can get anything done with a YouTube video. Right, Drew? That's me. I'm pretty confident that if it's on YouTube, I can, I got some, I can follow along. Big demonstration guys. If someone's doing it on YouTube, I can achieve anything. You want me to build a spaceship, put it on YouTube, build the spaceship. And as long as I can follow step by step when he's doing, I can figure it out. But you're like on the side of the road looking at the YouTube video. Try to change the tire, right? Well, it changes the tire I can do without YouTube. I've unfortunately had to do that more than I wanted to, including on the side of the highway. That's not fun. No, it's not. It's one of the cars on the, one of the inside tires. Unfortunately, I had to do that on the oil. I've never, never given it a shot. But like I said, if I, if there's a YouTube version, I think I would be able to pull it off. But tire, yeah, I can do that. Yeah, that seems like the litmus test for are you a man? Right? Can you change the tire? No, I've been the first time I had to do it. It wasn't my decision. Got a flat tire. I'm on the side of the highway. I was over by bowling green. You know, I, I didn't know that I could do it, but it was, you have to do it. Flight at that moment. That's right. Somebody's got changed the tire and I'm the only one there. So I did it. But yeah, I can handle that now. A592802287. Who's up next, dude? Let's go to Glenn. Hey, Glenn. What's up? Hey guys, what's going on? I'm going to have to agree with Ryan here. There is absolutely no reason I would want to be on the moon for any amount of time at all. But secondly, Drew earlier in the week, you kind of made a slight comment about an all star point guard in Nashville that maybe would have some interest. Was that just wishful thinking? Yeah, that was wishful thinking. We're talking about the Vandy guard, Tanner. Yeah, you know, someone asked our dream. They're trying to get us to build the team for them. No, I didn't have any scoop on that. I was just trying to think of guards on college basketball, where if we had anything we wanted, no, I was, that was, that was wishful thinking. Good enough. I'm right there with you. I was at the Vandy game this year and even though we trounced them, he still plays a good game and I think he'd fit in well, but I think he would be a really high dollar get. Don't know that that's possible, but you know, like you say, wishful thinking. All right, guys, good variety on the show today. You guys are doing a good job. Keep it up. Talk to you later. All right. Thank you very much. I hope I didn't give anybody false hope in that. I was just naming a point guard. I'd like to go out and get if that were possible, but taking him from Vandy would be difficult. So what did I like to admit? How much Vandy's got it rolling right now? They do in all sports and it's not slowing down. Yeah. Having been down there at the SEC tournament and hanging out with some, some local people and them just talking about the money piling into Vandy and it's not like a lump. It's like just Vandy businessmen and women, like the city's getting into Vandy a little bit. And that's, that's scary because that's a rich town. Did you see their new assistant coach, Joel Justice? That's right. Oh, really? Mark and staff and is going to be in Nashville, right? I didn't know that. So what was on the social media yesterday trying to make the connection between Mo Williams and Josh Hubbard? Is there some kind of pipeline for him? Josh might have even gone through Mo Williams Academy. That'd be close on the timeline there. He might have already been coaching, but most Mississippi guys, they stick together. Even Hubbard shared when Mason Williams committed. I think Mason Williams went to Josh Hubbard's camp and then I'm sure Mo has the Hubbard connection, but they're all from that, the same area. I mean, Hubbard lights it up, man. Like, do you think he'd be a good fit here or is that more of like a, I need the ball maybe not the best fit for Pope? Wouldn't be my first pick because I just don't know how he translates into where you have to settle him down a little bit and be more important guard. Cause it misses if he say there were games where it's like, all right, I'm the only one that's on the team tonight and that he had to do that. I mean, he had some crazy games, but I don't know how that would work here. But if, you know, if Mo were to bring him, I like Hubbard a lot. Well, Ryan, the new GM, I'm using air quotes here because it's a different name, not actual general manager, but Keegan Brown, Brown, right? Yes. The dorm. You know, he talked about, yeah, the dorm talked about roster fit over just pure talent and maybe that would be the difference and not signing a Hubbard for somebody that maybe is more a Pope system. And that's why the first roster that Pope put together was so perfect. He went out and got guys to kind of fit his system, you know, like you talked about, got an Anzley Almonor just to make a stand in the corner and shoot threes. That's what he needed from his four guy. He got there. He got a dominant point guard. He got a five guy that can handle the ball a little bit and make good passes. Last year, I think he adjusted a little bit and tried to think what he needed to play in the SEC, not necessarily for his system, but what made him more competitive in the SEC. So it's going to be interesting to see what he goes back to now. You know, this, this, this is make or break year for him. So we're interested to see how he constructs that roster this year. Yeah, we've got to have some urgency around here. Big year for Pope. We are just getting, we were joking early about the championship, but like we're just getting farther and farther from being in the conversation. There's a graphic that went up and had the logos of the final four teams of the last 10, whatever years and just not seeing the Kentucky logo on that was like, what is going on? Well, then you see Yukon going for their seventh title since 99. I mean, that's, that's crazy. That should be Kentucky, right? So I mean, there is a sense of let's get this thing going again. Mario, are you ready to post this thing? Yeah. Okay. So it is wild eggs Wednesday. Wild eggs Wednesday. And it's time for our wild eggs word scramble. Where are you going to be posting this Mario? KSR the show Twitter. Instagram. Instagram. Okay. So Instagram. Go to the KSR show Instagram. Mario is doing our wild eggs Wednesday. Ryan, do you know what the word is? I do know what the word is. And if the first person to get it gets a $50 gift card from wild eggs, good, not just Lexington or Louisville, Bowling Green, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, all the area wild eggs are good for this gift card. So you're eligible to play anywhere. I'm going to try to figure it out during the break. I am notoriously bad at Wheel of Fortune. So that means I'm bad at games like this. Oh, these are my game like the Jumbo. I'm good at these. Yeah. Remember I said it out loud a couple of weeks ago. I got to make sure you did. Yeah. As soon as you saw it, you guessed it out loud. I'm refreshing so I can play, but I won't shout it into the line. So Mario's posting it on the KSR Instagram account right now. Breaking Billy Rutledge Science Deal to Become New Lead Host of Kentucky Sports Radio will lead the show solo. Wow. Wow. Big news. Congratulations. Wow. Big news. Congratulations. All right. We'll take a break. 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. Welcome back. Billy R Sports filling in for Matt today along with Ryan Drew and Shannon, Mario alongside as well. Have a good time. Random topics today, but I wouldn't have it any other way guys. That's what summer shows are all about. Listen to sports radio anymore. You won't find me doing Colin Cowherd impressions anymore. I think that's what I wanted to do at first, Drew, but after 10 years of KSR, I've morphed into this. This is better. I don't listen to any sports radio. I find it incredibly boring, which is pretty crazy because I work for a company called Kentucky Sports Radio. Yeah. But we do it a different style here and I can't imagine having to sit here and talk just nerd and out over the actual sports every minute of the show. Yeah. We're talking about peeing in your suit and going to space and I want to talk more about that in just a second, but Drew, tell us about one of our sponsors here on KSR. Well, Billy, spring has sprung and that means you're probably getting outside more, right? Yeah. Got a tan going on. Looks like you've been outside. That's right. Whether it's doing yard work or biking, running, whatever it is. For most people, the increased physical activity when the weather gets warmer can lead to aches, pains, and injury. That's where court physical therapy can help. At court, the therapist know what it takes to help you heal and get back to the things you enjoy while also helping you prevent future injuries from happening. With over 70 locations statewide, it's easy to find a center near you. Go to court.com to experience the best in rehab. 8-5-9-2-2-8-0-2-2-8-7 before we get back to the phones, guys. Today is the 50th anniversary of Apple, the company. Do you remember your first Apple product, your first iPod, Ryan Lemon? I've never had an iPod. What? I've never had an Apple phone. Have you had an Apple anything? Oh, that's right. I'm talking to the Android guy. I'm team Android. Have you not had an Apple, you don't have an iPad on a computer? So you never got in on the iPod touch, the original iPod? No. No, I can't. I don't know if I've ever had an Apple. Now, Josiah, my boys have, but I've not. I had a brick that revolutionized how I listened to music, Drew. I think we all did, or at least most of us. I used to carry around a CD player and I would have the songs I could play, and it just changed when you could get that iPod. A friend of mine recently found his first iPod, and the screen was busted, and he was sending me a video as he found it, and he plugged it in, and it started playing. It was just all the hits from high school. I'm sure I have one in a drawer, a closet somewhere that I need to dig out, but I've had them all, I guess, from the... You went in there. The Nano, yeah. Did you have to shuffle? Because that was a pain in the ass. I'm sure I did, and then, you know, I haven't had every iPhone, but I've had one of the first ones, and stick with it. I'm not Ryan. I'm pretty pro-Apple. Oh, the shuffle didn't even have a screen, Ryan, so you couldn't even... You had to just skip through... I don't even remember how you got to the song you wanted to. You just had to skip through it. Skip through the song list and get the one you wanted. Doesn't sound like you partake, Eddie. No. I'm all in Apple. I do Apple music. I got the Apple News. Did you have LimeWire? I'm part of the company. I don't know if you've heard that, Billy. I have a few shares of Apple. Oh, you do? Yeah, so if I just need to walk in, I feel I'm a co-owner here. Yeah, I shareholder. I'll just have to say. Yeah, I probably have more into Apple than I need to be, because I don't necessarily love them as a company, but as I look around, I have several things right in front of me that are Apple. All the mixes I downloaded onto my iPods back in the day had these disclaimers on them, the LimeWire stuff, Ryan. I don't know what that is. Talking to a guy from a different generation. I guess, but I figured that everybody went through that phase in the early 2000s. Like I said, I think the boys did, but I did not. Shannon, you're a rock DJ. I mean, you remember, you've got these products, right? Of course. Yeah, I remember first when I had the MP3, you would only hold 30 songs. So you had to pick your favorite 30 songs to go work out to or go mow the lawn to. Then Apple came along with the iPod. And you could put like 2,000 songs on there. I was like, this is revolutionary. This is crazy. I don't have to pick 30 songs to keep on there. So yeah, I think I've still got mine somewhere. I don't think it works, but I've still got it. It's a brick now. It's a paperweight. Selected item, no doubt. 50th anniversary of Apple and all of the products. That's a long run. Did you recently see, I want to make sure I'm not making this up, especially on a day, but I think I saw Apple said we need to stay off our phones. Wow, that would be quite the heel turn. I was like, of all people that tell me to put my phone down. Yeah, that'd be like Facebook telling me to not log on. Tim Cook urged Apple users to get off their smartphones and spend some time in nature. So even Apple was like, Hey guys, put your phone down a little bit from time to time. Well, Shannon shared on the pre show just yesterday that he spends eight hours a day on his phone as the screen time reminds us about how much time we like to spend on these screens. Drew, you're a blogger. I mean, how many hours are you pushing on that? See, I use my computer more than my phone. I even text for my, I'll go hours and not even know where my phone is because I'm sitting at my computer. I won't even be near me. I miss a lot of calls because calls don't come through. So my actual phone screen time wouldn't be that high. But if the computer measures it, it would probably be all. Well, it's Mario that probably has the, has the number that would scare us at all. Oh yeah. I mean, look at him right now. I got his nose. By the way, Mario, can you come here for a second? I want to talk to you for Ryan. Will you give him that? Oh no. So our listeners know real quick. I don't know what they're about to do. Sometimes we have to separate these two. Are you going to be friendly? Are you going to be friendly? I'm going to be friendly. I promise. I need a referee. No, I promise I'll be friendly. What's up, dude? What's up, man? How you doing? I'm good. Doing a hell of a job. Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate that. No problem. I appreciate you posting that photo of me yesterday. Promoting it. Breaking news. No, you're doing a great job. I, you know, I didn't, I didn't want to make fun of you anything. I just wanted to bring you on to highlight like the work you've done, man. Oh, thank you. Over the last year, year and a half, you posted a post just a couple of days ago. What was it? Like the, it's not just a radio show. Yeah, yeah, I like that one. Posting the photos of the big crowds that come to KSR and really the difference that, you know, these guys make on an everyday basis. I just wanted to give you some flowers, man. You've done a great job connecting the younger audience to KSR. We've seen that in the TikTok numbers, but not only that, but your content's been improving ever since you joined me. This is not like a me trying to get under your skin or anything like that. No, no, you have brought a different element to the show and I think everybody recognizes that. I appreciate that, man. That means a lot to me. I work hard at it and I have fun with it. It doesn't really feel like a job. I get to hang out with you guys. Like I say it all the time. I don't really have family up here, so I treat you guys as basically as like my family. So I have a lot of fun with it and then I work hard at it and good things happen. Well, that's what made me think about it, just seeing these photos on the wall and how far I've come since 2017, man. These guys are my family. They're coming to my wedding and you're coming too. So it's just been, it's fun seeing you grow over this last year and a half. I appreciate it, man. I'm excited for the future. Should be a lot of fun. I now I need you to defend me a little bit. Okay. The chef special in San Francisco. Oh yeah, you didn't like it. I didn't like it. You, you stormed out. You walked out the restaurant. I stormed out of the restaurant at one point. Drew was there. Maybe I don't have the strongest stomach, but we came into a restaurant and Matt ordered for all of us and that just wasn't what I was dealing with. I like trying new stuff, but you wanted like, you were more into chicken and rice and, you know, the basic American stuff, but I need you to say, you know, how crazy that food was. Some of it was not just like your normal chef special. Some of it was gross. Crazy amount of food, but you don't know until you try it. So, well, I didn't because I didn't. I didn't try to answer. He just needed some fresh air. How was I as a travel buddy? Because we, you know, travel, Ryan's kind of the snorer here. Drew's the guy that kind of stays out until the next morning. You can't be in a room with Ryan though. You're not going to get three hours of sleep total with Ryan. But yeah, man, it's a lot of fun traveling with you guys. I wish you could go more road trips. I missed Drew a lot during our last road trip, Drew and Shannon. So just say it wasn't fun without me there. It's okay. Yeah. Hopefully we can, we can get, you know, one more road trip with the whole six of us. That'd be, that's my goal. We need to do a little bachelor party for me before, you know, I put this ring on it. That's happening. Like, yeah, we're doing that. Where are we going to go though? Like what's the, what's the, you guys got to choose that. But yeah, but you'll be a part of it though. Absolutely. Okay. Well, I'm looking forward to not only that, but the next couple of years working with you. I know, man. It's going to be a lot of fun. Appreciate it. Thank you for the kind words as well. Mario Maitland. That was really sweet. I was, I was recording that like a proud uncle over here. I was doing Mario's job with my phone out. I thought that could be contentious because I've been up late with you two playing pool and I see you all you get like barking dogs around each other. Today, that was very sweet. The pool game Mario came out and said like I was a pro. He started Snapchat and all the, the, the women he's talking to. He had a toothpick in his mouth. You mean the ladies of KSR. He was commenting on their page. He was getting a little testy and that, that pool game did get a little contentious. So Mario's my guy. He's the only one, you know, that's kind of in the same age range as me. So, uh, you know, we, we've connected. So it was a nice moment you two shared right there. It was kind of nice to witness it. So it makes me a proud papa. I mean, I took, I took more pictures of YouTube in San Francisco than I did myself. Y'all were doing photo shoots on the sidewalk. I was taking a little proud dad pictures at the parties. Like look at these two all dressed up meeting Kane Brown over here. Well, I tried to do the most. I was doing like a power squat trying to get the different angles of Mario. And then he left his credential in that alley that smelled like urine and then you couldn't get back in till you filed a police report. It was, it was quite the adventure, but back on your bachelor party though, you need to have one with your boys, people you grew up with. I don't, I don't know what circles you run in, but Matt and I have already discussed. There is going to be a KSR bachelor party for Billy. We, we don't have to go far, but just this crew, Shannon over there, and then of course Matt, we're, we're doing something for you. Well, good. I wouldn't have it any other way. It feels like there needs to be a send off of some point. Absolutely. Even if it's just a night out in Lexington, we're going to, we're going to have a KSR bachelor party this summer. Good. Have to. Good. Well, beer and a half Mario will come around. Maybe I'll have them. I'll have them. They're starting to do it. Maybe he'll have the menu upside down. We'll have to turn it around for him. See, he waited till Mario doesn't have a microphone and now he's getting his jabs in. I knew you were up to something. Well, you know, I said my nice things and now I can get into the other stuff. I love you, but yeah, exactly. But we do appreciate you, Mario. You, you keep on killing it, man. We'll take some phone calls on the other side of this break. We'll be right back here on Kentucky sports radio. Shannon knows me well. Little linky bits to close out the show. My number one band of all time and got to see them a couple of times at Louder Than Life in Bourbon over the years. And Shannon will now tell us about our friends at Cornbread Hemp. That's right. Warmer weather is finally here. 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Ryan get this seven batters were hit by pitch in the game. There were 11 walks in the game. Several times a batter was hit and then it brought a run in. Probably the worst thing that can happen when it comes to baseball, but it was a long marathon as the baseball team got the win last night. Yeah, that's that's little league baseball right there. And you got hit by pitch and ball fours. What what didn't one guy from Kentucky have five at bats kind of based all five times and did not even touch the baseball. Ethan Hindle had three walks and two hit by pitches five played appearances. But it goes down in the books as a zero for zero. That's that's got to be some sort of record. You're five time and you don't even touch the ball. But yet you're on base five times. Well, second time or third time in five games, Kentucky scored more than 10 runs double digits. So the the offense is starting to come around a little bit and drew tonight. We get I guess part five of Lou City versus Lexington Sporting Club tonight. Yeah, big things happening over at Lexington SC Stadium. We got to get one of that rivalry. Got to get well even gone up on them a few times, but need to break through and get a win. You know, little cities been around much longer. They've had that rolling for a while. They're they're a good program. And Lexington is trying to get to that point and winning a couple in the rivalry game will be a good start starting with tonight. Yeah, Lou City decided even if you can't go tonight, I said this last year, I went to several games last year. I haven't been yet this year. I plan to it is just a lot of fun over there. It really is. They've got a great thing going. Tonight's not dollar 50 beer night, but occasionally they have those. If you like to like to have a couple cold beers while you watch sports, I recommend that too. I think both teams have cool stadiums. Lex Sporting Club is a very cool vibe and you know, 14,000 people coming out for that. That Louisville Kings game just recently, Ryan, that is actually a pretty good crowd number when you look at the the UFL when it comes to opening day, they were near the top 14,000. Yeah, the Kings, their opening first touchdown was Lucky Jackson, who's from here in Lexington, Western Kentucky, Lafayette High School, Western Kentucky, scored the first touchdown. Only lost by one point, I believe, right? Maybe two points, 15, 13. Yes, little more. Louisville drove the field at the very end and scored a touchdown to win. But then I saw the box. No, the other team, not the one. Excuse me. Benny only, Benny's now only touched the ball like five or six times. Yeah. Benny was not getting much help from his offensive line. You know, it's game one, we got a lot of work to do. And you know, Benny could have been better too, but there just weren't many holes. There's, they're in a weird spot where the offenses didn't look great. Then you just have like some random athletes out there that can dominate. And you got to blooper the very first drive. I mean, glad that's behind us now though, Drew. Like let's just move forward and hopefully opening day jitters. That was like the second throw of the game too. A rough look early on, but it ended up being a fun game overall. And I really think they've got something brewing over there in Louisville. So they play at Orlando this weekend, but then I think Orlando returns back here for like the 10th, April 10th, they're back home for a home game. Well, this is a city that will support something like that. I think we're Louisville. Yeah. I think it's all where we're back to the Louisville FC. They're undefeated. I think they're 4-0. I didn't realize they were also 4-0 against Kentucky. I didn't realize that we had not beat them. Yeah, Lexington has not beat them. Yeah. And this is, I guess, the second round of their US Open Cup. You know, sometimes they do league play, they do cup play. So this will be cup play tonight, which I guess means penalty kicks if they're tied. Drew. We had a couple wins recently. Got Brooklyn, one another one before that. So it's not like they're not getting wins over there. Just got to get one against a little turn that turn that rivalry around. All right, let's take some calls, dude. 8-5-9, 2-8-0, 2-2-8-7. Who's up next? Let's go to Mark Anthony. Hey, Mark Anthony. Hey, hey, good morning, Billy. Hey, I haven't talked to you in a long time. I'm glad to hear you're running the bus this morning. Yeah, you too, buddy. Let me get, let me get, let me get right at it. I got a comment on the future of our basketball. I'm going to quote Cal, or Cal Perry from a few years back. We're going to beat you in the paint. If we hit threes, we'll beat you by 30. You know, fellas, that's still valid. It's still valid. You look to final four. Yeah, Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, UConn. You got a bunch of dudes who like Bob Ross work in paint, and that's how they get the biggest part of their points. They have good three-point shooters in case they can throw that to them open, but that's what we need. We need big dudes. We need Jaden Queens or an equivalent. We need Maudi Bacé back that thing. Malachi Moreno has got to work against team of New York because he can't let anybody take that basketball out of his hands. He needs body upper body strength. If Jasper Johnson comes back, he also just needs strength. He has talent, and you can't drill talent as hard as you may want to. You can't drill talent into a guy. He just needs strength. And Cam Williams, I know Drew had said that he would recruit over the whole bunch of them, but Drew, I don't believe you can recruit a better dude than Cam Williams for his spot on our team. And that's that. And a little comment on your neighbor's show, fellas. I got HBO, and when they said, when Matt said, we're going to watch Neighbors and Talk, okay, I'll get in. I want to play along. And so I watch one episode, and I decided at the end of that episode, I don't care about none of these damn people. And I quit watching. There are a bunch of buttholes. There are a bunch of buttholes. I'm glad you live in Montana far away from me. So that's all I got, fellas. We'll talk to you later on. All right, watch the language, Mark. But thank you for the fair the call. I've heard Neighbors is good, Drew. It is. But he actually has the right attitude. We should not be shining a light on these people, but I couldn't help but get hooked. You can't look away. You told me like it gets worse every episode. It's like the first episode, like the tamest one. Oh, yeah. And it's just right when you're like, well, this can't get any crazier. Crazier the next scene. Well, dinosaurs only has like four parts. So I'll be looking for something new soon. Maybe I'll go into Neighbors next. There's a lot out there right now. Let's let's we've had some people patiently waiting. So who's up next? Dude, we'll try to get some more. Bob and James down. Oh, welcome, Bob. How you say guys that April Fool's Day speaking of Bob Richie alias kid rock and the excitement down there on last Saturday when he got some hundred first airborne Apache helicopter pilots in hot water when they did a flyby, it is crib down there. Down the army's going to do a little investigation on what these guys doing, giving him that little personal salute in front of his outdoor pool. Anyway, that's all I got. April Fool's Day. You guys have a good time. All right. Thank you, Bob. Yes. Ryan talked about us wasting money. The flyby over kid rocks pool, that's probably a little bit of waste of money. I think it's a big waste of money. Yeah. So is that so he can get a Twitter video and yes, salute the Apache helicopter. Get some photos of liberty on his pool. I would still like to recreate the video that he did with the Kennedy Shannon. If you'd like to do that with me, if we could put some jeans on, maybe go to the sauna that I purchased from my house here soon. You're going to be kid rock. I'll be Kennedy. Yeah, I think you should. I think we could do it scene for scene. I don't know if Mario wants to see all that, but he's not going to have a choice. He's our camera guy. Don't forget your jeans. That's right. Well, I got them on now. So and then what didn't they drink milk afterwards or something like that? That's the pinnacle of health. Guys, thanks for joining me. Did a good job today. Thanks for driving. Little Billy. Thank you. Billy, our sports. Let me jump in. It's been a lot of fun. KSR has meant a lot to me over these years since 2017. Since I joined it, I said I could get Jennifer Lawrence's phone number. It's been a long time since then. So I'm still waiting on the getting that phone number, by the way. Yeah, well, we're still working on it. Okay. Nick Rausch tomorrow. Nick Rausch back tomorrow. More football. And then you guys are doing a little fun thing on Friday. Pop up show on Friday. You have to be announced. So appreciate everybody listening. That does it for Kentucky Sports Radio. Today we will be back tomorrow starting at 90m. Until then, I'm Billy Rutledge. Thank you for listening.