WEBVTT - 2025-05-08- KSR PRE-SHOW 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome everybody. It is the KSR Pre Show. It's Thursday, 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.200 May the eighth. I'm Shannon the Dude to be enjoined 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.280 by Billy rut Ledge and give us a call on 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.559 the Clark's Puppetshop phone line at eight five nine two 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.480 eight oh twenty two eighty seven be our Whiskey Thief 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.040 call of the day. You can also send us a 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.840 text at five O two two six five six six 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.400 five six. The KSR Pre Show is being brought to 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.240 you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. Sitting here 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.960 in Louisville at the studios at four Street Live, looking 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.120 at Billy r Sports who is in the studio downtown 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.280 in Lexington. And uh, Billy, and I was sitting here 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.720 talking about his garage. So he's going to be having 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.120 coming on just a few weeks from now. And I've 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.680 seen that garage of yours, Billy, you've sent that picture 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.159 to me before. I think you need to have a 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.479 garage sell just so you can, you know, have the 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.080 ability to move around in that thing, keeping your life 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:51.840 savings in there. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.800 Yeah, Unfortunately I haven't made a ton of progress on 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.280 that garage yet. I sent you the video with the 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.680 preference of if I didn't clean my garage, you could 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.520 release it to the public. Please don't do that. I've 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.160 still got to have not worked on the garage. I've 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.200 come to the realization slowly that I am a bit 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:08.800 of a hoarder. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:09.440 Shannon. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.959 I wouldn't say, you put me on what the Lifestyle 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.000 Channel or TLC and you do a whole episode about me. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.720 But I don't know what it is. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.960 But like old mementos, old clothes, things that I have 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.600 an attachment to, I've got a tough time getting rid of. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.119 So when the fiances told me we have to have 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.399 a yard sale, no debate about it. We've got to 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.959 get rid of some of this stuff. I'm I'm finding 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 myself emotionally attached to stupid things. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.600 Isn't it strange? Like I'm like that a little bit. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.640 I used to be a lot worse. But now that 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.640 I've gotten older, I've, you know, I guess, gotten better 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.880 at giving up things that I've had stupid sentimental value 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.640 for him, Like why do I have a sentimental value 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.360 to this Bellarman baseball shirt? Oh yeah, but that was 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.040 the good old days when I was on the team 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.480 and I yeah, man, the blood, sweat and tears that 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.000 this shirt had on it, you know, throughout the years, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.760 I can't throw away my Bellarman baseball practice shirt. But 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.920 then eventually I'm like, all right, it's already it's bigger 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.000 than what I would wear right now too, so I'm 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.600 just gonna throw it away. So I've gotten a little 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.240 bit better about it. You though, on the other hand, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.200 what are you hanging on to, like oat mil cookie wrappers? Oh? No, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.600 it's empty coke cans. I mean, you know, Matt Jones 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.880 seems to have some sort of affinity for empty diet 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.560 coke cans and McDonald's cups that he just, you know, keeps. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.280 I don't know if it's for sentimental value or you know, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.600 his lack of ability to clean up after himself, but probably. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.960 A little of both there with Matt. But it's not 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.639 like I've got trash everywhere. I do have these twinkies 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.320 still in the studio from I think Christmas of twenty 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.320 twenty two. Its sentimental to you, they are they are 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.840 It's my game twinkies. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.200 I gotta have these twinkies for a game day, Shannon. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.880 But it's like I've got this like metal Jack Daniel's 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.480 whiskey sign I picked up at Goodwill and hung in 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.960 my dorm room for two years. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.359 I can't get rid of that, Shannon, but I probably should. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.519 Like I'm never gonna hang that thing up again, and 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.200 it doesn't have any value to me now, much like 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.640 if I'm going to use it in the future. But 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.280 I'm like you, I think about college, I think about 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.440 the good old days, so I can't get rid of it. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.000 But I've never had a yard cell before with my things. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.760 I think my parents did it when I was a kid, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.480 and you know, I didn't mind getting rid of their stuff, Shannon. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.280 But when it's my stuff that people are going to 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.919 be rummaging through, I think I'm going to have a 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:16.560 little bit of an. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:16.920 Issue with this. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.359 When I was a kid, we always had a yard 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.280 sell at my grandparents every summer. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.160 Every summer you had a yard summer, and it was actually. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.760 It was kind of fun, actually, and you know, I'd 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.920 put out the bike or you know, something small, you know, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.880 and make a few bucks off of it. But here's 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.600 the thing, though, Billy, if you have like a sentimental 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.400 attachment to it, you gotta be willing to let it go. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.600 Like when somebody's interested in your old shoes and you 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.720 got twenty five dollars on them, you got to be 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.840 willing to part with them for fifty cents because people 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.080 are going to bargain you down at these yard cells. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.640 I'm just going to let you know. And they get 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.080 out there early. If you're a yard seller, you know 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.880 you don't go out yard selling at nine o'clock in 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.160 the morning because all the stuff has already been picked 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.240 over by then. You got to get out there like 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.280 right when it starts. Some of them are out there 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.280 at like seven seves thirty in the morning, already going 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.520 through you know, the pick of the yard cell. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.200 Yeah, and I've seen the bargaining. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.320 Is that like? Is that? 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.360 Does that have to exist? Can I are my prices? 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.360 Can they be final when when it when it comes 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.480 to these products? Or are they just gonna talk me 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.680 down every time because we talked about this, I'm bad 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.560 at negotiating. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:17.720 Well, then you're gonna lose it all. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.120 But they're gonna come in and say fifty cents for 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:21.280 your sentimental case. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.400 Okay, but look at it like this. They're giving you 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.240 fifty cents not much, okay, a dollar whatever it is. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.120 But they're helping helping you pay to get rid of 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.840 the stuff in your garage, so you're you got to 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.000 look at it like it's a win win, even if 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.159 you make a few bucks. The bigger picture thing here 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.239 is that you are getting rid of all the crap 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.440 in your garage and at the end of the weekend, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.320 you're gonna have a nice garage that's clean, with empty 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.080 space where you can actually walk around it like you're 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.839 supposed to be able to. Yeah. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.000 Yeah, we're taking a big haulover to like Goodwill, you know, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.240 maybe like clothes and things like that. We're gonna give 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:55.719 away a lot of stuff like that. But there is 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.600 just some randomness in that garage that it's got to go. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.840 But it's you know, it is a breaking point. I 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.480 see the hoarders people like the TV show, like I mentioned, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.839 and that's like, that's like you can't walk through the 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.280 living room, like the kitchen is just a cesspool of 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.320 disgusting and and the fridge has got food that's been 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.680 expired for six months. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.800 So well that you you righties twisted The twinkies have 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.039 been expired for over a year. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.200 Twinkies don't expire. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.839 They they will last longer than us, Shannon, they'll last 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.560 longer than AI. They'll still be twinkies around when AI 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.320 is running all the radio shows around. So if we 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.599 have the yard sale, I'll let you I'll let you know, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.200 so you guys can come rummage through my things. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.000 Cause I don't want your junk. But come on updated, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.120 keep me updated. I want to before and after a 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.280 picture of your garage and. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.120 My old shoes. Yeah, I'll let you know. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.640 We still have no pope. I think that's one of 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.680 the big topics of the world, right I smoke. I 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.320 got I get up this morning to turn on my 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.200 local news and try to, you know, see what's going 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.200 on with the Joe Creeson situation, which we'll get to 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.960 in just a minute. But it wasn't even on. They 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 had the national news on because they're talking about Okay, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.599 we're still waiting on a new pope to be announced. 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.479 I didn't know yesterday, Billy. We learned on KSR there's 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.880 a Pope power rankings where you've got all the different popes, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.040 the odds on him. You can actually bet on who's 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.520 going to become the next Pope. My pope though that 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.600 I would like to elect this this fifty nine year 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.600 old uh named what was it Pizza Bala? 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.320 I don't know the names of the pope. I think 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:21.120 you'll have to fill me in. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:22.719 Well, I think it was Pizza Bala. I could be 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.240 mispronouncing his name, but I mispronounced a lot of names 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.359 on this show anyway, though, I'm just saying, if we 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.359 get a fifty nine year old pope, why would you 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.359 not elect? Now? Look, I know he may not be 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.320 experienced like some of the other popes out there, but 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.880 why not get a younger pope? That way, we've got 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.360 more longevity. You know, we don't need to be doing 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.160 the conclave thing every few years because we're electing popes 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.719 that are ninety five years old. Right, how about we 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.440 get a younger pope and then, in theory, you know, 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.280 if he lives to be let's say eighty, we get 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.560 another twenty one years before we have to do this again. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.120 I think that's some good reasoning, Shannon. I just want 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.560 to make sure you don't think you're going to get 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.800 pizza every time this guy speaks like. It's not like 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.680 he's going to be given out. Domin knows if the 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.640 Pizza cardinal gets elected to be pope. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.680 But you know, this is an interesting process. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.400 It's heightened even more if you watch the movie Conclave, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.560 which I did a couple of weeks ago. You know, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.640 I was looking up some story about it, or listening 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.880 to Terry Miners I think later talk about it. And 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.760 did you know that this process one year or I 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.640 guess back in the day took three years before they 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.160 were able to. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.120 Decide a pope. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.440 So in the twelfth twelfth century, the Conclave took three years, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.560 over a thousand days for them to finally agree on 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.000 a pope. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.360 There's no way that happens now, right. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.520 I mean they're locked off from the world, they can't 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.840 have cell phones, they can't talk to anybody. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.560 Can you imagine going through that process for three years, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.119 not alone in one week? 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.600 I can't. I was watching some of the National Analysis 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.640 and one of the ladies that was on there speaking 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.040 said that, you know when they when they break for lunch, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.480 that's kind of like a moment to where you could 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.400 have some of the guys, you know, maybe persuading others 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.560 to vote their way. So a little politics. Yeah, there's 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.480 a lot of politic and that goes on at this lunch. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.000 So whenever that lunch is scheduled. You know, maybe there'll 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.480 be some shift at votes, but we'll keep you we'll 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.360 keep you updated on that. Yeah, his name is Peer, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.320 Pierre Batista, Pizza Bala. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.600 Okay, all right, will count me in the camp rooting 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.520 for Pizza Bala. And we know in this world, if 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.720 there is something going on, people will find a way 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.760 to gamble on it. I learned that when we learned 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.080 that the old men are setting lines at the high 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.640 School Championship Boys Basketball State Tournament, Shannon, They're they're always 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.160 going to bet on it if it's possible. Are you 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.959 watching the live stream of the chimney to see if 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.079 the smoke is going to come out white today? 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.920 I might be later, I don't know. I'm a busy guy. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.480 You're gonna tune into the street maybe, like for it 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.599 really is nothing going on today, maybe. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.080 For a few minutes a little bit later on. But 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.360 I mean we're talking like the big I guess sports 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.440 story of the day, and it's, you know, something that 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.880 came out yesterday during KSR. It's that the Kentucky Louisville 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.880 basketball game has been scheduled for early November on a 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:05.800 Tuesday night. It's November eleventh. And look, maybe it's just 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.040 me set my ways, but I like this game to be, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.000 first of all, on a Saturday. I know they've played 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.920 this game before, like on a Wednesday night and a 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.240 Tuesday night. I like the game to be on a Saturday. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.360 To me, it has that big game feel when it's 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.240 on a Saturday. But then not only that, to be 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.400 early in the year. On November eleventh, Billy, we still 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.960 got three more Kentucky football games after the U of 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.319 L uk basketball game this year, just to put a 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.840 little perspective on how early they're playing this the earliest 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.760 they've ever had it in the rivalry. Are you going 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.040 to join me in just about everybody else that I've 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.000 heard on this conversation that you don't like it being 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.520 scheduled this early in the year, or can you make 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.760 a case that you like it being scheduled early? 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.160 Well, look, I'm trying to find positives in this. I'm 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.160 trying to be somebody that can bring you a different perspective, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.920 and I think that is you know, one of my 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.600 favorite parts of the football rivalry was when the game 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.160 was the first game of the season. It was like 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.600 a whole summer of lead up, right, even though we 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.040 weren't doing the KSR pre show. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.000 Back then, you know you could. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.040 Talk about when in the dog days of summer you 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.439 could talk about the highly anticipated Kentucky Louisville matchup to 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.560 start the year. But Shannon's starting it so early in 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.160 the beginning of the basketball year. We're gonna be right 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.800 in the middle of football. Like you said, Kentucky's still 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.079 gonna have three games to go. They're gonna play the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.040 basketball rivalry game versus Louisville before the football game, so 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.320 like we're gonna have plenty to talk about before that 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.840 game comes up. So that doesn't really apply, right because 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.520 like in the summer, nothing's going on and you can 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.400 talk about it being the first game of the year basketball. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.440 I feel like we're gonna be so focused on other 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.000 things and then the Louisville game's gonna be here. Now 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.920 it's gonna be a probably a top ten matchup, which 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.679 is fun. You're not gonna know how good either team is, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.600 and so it should be a highly anticipated matchup like always. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.720 But Shannon, I hate the fact it's on a Tuesday. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.240 I do, and I completely agree with you. I mean, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.160 this is one of if not the best rivalry in 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.520 college basketball, and for it to get relegated to a 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.520 Tuesday one week after the season starts, it's a disservice 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.320 to what the rivalry game means to the sport, I think, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.679 And it's a shame. It's a shame that we might 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.559 not see Jaden Quainton's at his best. It's a shame 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.679 that Kentucky, who's won fourteen of the last sixteen matchups 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.200 against the Louisville Cardinals, are gonna have to do it 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.160 on a date that's not around Christmas. You know, it 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.760 was always such a great Christmas present to get the 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.559 beat down over Louisville. So there's a lot of things 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.960 I don't like about it. I even tried to find 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.200 the positives in it. But overall, I think that you know, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.439 this seems to help Louisville more than it does Kentucky didn't. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.360 Don't you think just for what that you think you 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.480 could catch Kentucky not not ptarm like Bami. Louisvill's in 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.280 the same boat. I just don't like it for either team. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.160 I don't know that it benefits one team or the other. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.040 I just don't Well, Kentucky doesn't has to play Louisville 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.640 before they even play in the Champions Classic. So I mean, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.760 like normally Kentucky has played some real marquee opponents before 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.480 they take on Louisville. Louisville, I mean it is going 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.760 to do this really around the same time frame with Kentucky, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.280 so they're gonna both be coming in with a lot 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.280 of unknowns. But you know, I don't know, it's only 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.400 the third time ever they've played in November, so it's 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.640 not like we've seen this very often. But it just 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.000 seems like, you know, I guess the basketball game is 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.760 normally at a time where there's college football playoffs going 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.040 on and people are normally distracted in late December. But Shannon, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.199 it feels like nobody's going to be watching if it's 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.800 going to be on a Tuesday night when there's other 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:24.520 things going. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.880 So if I'm looking for, like, Okay, let me try 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.040 to have a rebuttal to my own argument for why 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.720 it should be on a Saturday. If you just brought 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.760 the Champions Classic, if you look at that the Kentucky 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.520 Duke game last year was on a Tuesday, right, they 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.520 play that Champions Classic game on a Tuesday. Sure, But 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.800 I don't know. Man, for some reason, it feels right 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.600 to be in December on a Saturday, or even if 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.760 it's not in December, if you want to, you know, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.360 do the thing that Memphis and Tennessee did several years ago. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.280 You play it, you know, on a Saturday in February. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.920 I'm fine with that. I just don't like it being 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 on a Tuesday because, for whatever reason to me, if 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.240 Phil is like a throwaway game now, you may look 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.600 at the TV situation and go, well, this is the 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.640 best spot you could get it on ESPN, you know, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.880 and it's gonna get more views that way. I get it. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.559 At the end of the day, it all comes down 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.439 to the almighty dollar and where they think that they 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.000 can get the most bang for their buck. But I 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.000 feel like, you know, a Saturday in December, like on 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.880 a like a CBS game, is where I want this 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.200 game to be. But I don't know. Maybe maybe there's 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.160 somebody out there that could give a better argument than 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.760 that on why it should be on a Tuesday in 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.360 early November. And if so eight five nine two, eight 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.719 h twenty two eighty seven at Shannon the Doudan and 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:37.760 at Billy R Sports. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.839 Well, well you know, the Champions Classic is an event, right, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.160 You've got four teams there. You know, Kentucky game usually 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.320 isn't until nine thirty ten o'clock, so people can travel 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.040 and plan to go to that Kentucky Louisville. Man, this 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.040 state shuts down to a degree when those two teams play. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.040 I mean, I've got fond memories of driving on the 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.000 Interstate on a Saturday listening to Tom Leach, but hardly 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.040 any other cars being on the road, just because people 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.680 are out at the bar, or I've gathered around with 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.240 friends to watch the game. Houses Divided Shannon are always 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.920 stopping what they're doing. Now we got to come after 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.160 a workday and doing on a Tuesday night. It just 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.520 doesn't feel the same. But that is a good rebuttal 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.400 that the Champions Classic is on a Tuesday as well. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.920 But it just does seem a little different. I mean, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.560 we want to give this game all that it's due, right, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.560 and you know, it feels like we're just kind of 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.480 throwing it in there early on in the year, at 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.040 this point where you can't even look back at the 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.360 game very much, right, I mean by March, you're a 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.000 completely different team, So you know, it's not much of 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.239 a litmus test of how the season might go, but nevertheless, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.320 it'll be another opportunity for Kentucky to beat down on 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.000 their little brother. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.600 So I'm assuming it's just seven o'clock start time. I'm right, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.280 they're not gonna put this at nine o'clock on a 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.720 Tuesday night, right, They're not gonna do that. I don't 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.040 see a start time listed anywhere, but it's got to 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:54.920 be a seven o'clock game. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.680 I would think, Yeah, I'm not sure. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.600 I do like how Kentucky is going to be playing 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.600 Purdue in that exhibition game, So you. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.360 Too, I was going to ask you about that, like 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.480 your thoughts on it, because you know, in years past, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.160 we would get you know, either like a really small 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.440 like a Kentucky Wesleyan or something like that, or if 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.080 you go even farther back back when I was a kid, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.400 it was the Lithuanian national team or Athletes in Action. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.040 You know, you get those type of teams. So I 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.960 think it's really cool that you know you're gonna be 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:24.760 able to play a good college team in an exhibition game. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.680 I think that'll bring a lot of eyes on it, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.680 even though it's not going to count. I think our 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.200 fans will still be into that Kentucky Perdue game. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.000 I think Kentucky played the local YMCA team even back 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.040 in the day, So I mean, there have been a 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.320 murder's row of opponents on exhibition games. But this comes 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.960 with the new rule change that Division one teams can 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.960 now play Division one teams and exhibition games. So why 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.440 not schedule a high ranking team like Purdue because that 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.120 you know, the winner loss doesn't matter, but you know, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.080 growing and gaining that experience can can be invaluable. So 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.400 you know, let's keep that going. Maybe use exhibition games 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.800 for a spot to bring in some more Kentucky schools. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.720 If you don't want to do you know, home and homes, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.640 maybe just continue to bring in maybe even some of 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.600 the smaller schools. But I like the fact that they're 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.160 going to test themselves against a good opponent before they 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.840 start the year. This UKUFL matchup is in theory one 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.880 week after the college basketball season starts, so they'll probably 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.960 play maybe one regular season game, maybe two, even before Louisville. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.600 But I mean, I guess there's a chance it's the 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.560 first game of the year, and that would just be bizarre. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.520 Here's another old school name that they played once in 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.000 an exhibition what's that Marathon. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.720 Oil, the gas company. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.600 I don't know, I just remember that name, Marathon Oil. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.640 They played them back in nineteen seventy six, and that 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.040 was a team that would be on a lot of 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.760 SEC schools exhibition games. Marathon Oil, the athletes and Action 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.720 and Marathon Oil. So I'm just saying I think we've 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.280 done a lot better in the exhibition games, going from 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.600 the Lithuanian national team athletes and Action Marathon Oil to 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:54.680 now play and Purdue. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.800 So that's the suits playing pick up basketball after work 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.240 every day. They think they can take on Kentucky. Now 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.000 you said Lithuania was another team. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.680