Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: It is the KSR pre Show for Thursday March twenty
Speaker 2: seventh at Shannon the Dude. I'm in lois Will being
Speaker 2: joined by Billy Rutledge over in Lexington. And you can
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Speaker 2: being brought to you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. Billy,
Speaker 2: we get the college Sweet sixteen tonight. We had some
Speaker 2: of the high school Sweet sixteen going on yesterday. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at you right now on our video teams call.
Speaker 2: And before we get to all that stuff, I gotta say,
Speaker 2: what is going on with your hair today? Normally you
Speaker 2: get the slick back hair. Today you got it all
Speaker 2: pushed forward. I've never seen your hair look like that before.
Speaker 1: What's good?
Speaker 3: Good morning, Shannon. It's great to be with you. I've
Speaker 3: got a little funky rooster coffee with me this morning.
Speaker 3: You're right, it's a fantastic time of the year. I
Speaker 3: got to partake in a little bit of the boys
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen yesterday and I'm sure we'll touch on that. Uh,
Speaker 3: yesterday I got a new haircut. Shannon decided to go
Speaker 3: to a new place, went to a salon. My hairstylist
Speaker 3: was from Lebanon, Kentucky, which was awesome for twenty minutes
Speaker 3: about my hey Bell Toss championship and maybe I'll bring
Speaker 3: the trophy over next time I see her, but went
Speaker 3: with a little bit more of a modern look. Shannon
Speaker 3: wanted to mix it up a little bit. So we've
Speaker 3: we've got bangs for the first time since maybe two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna slick. So do we call you
Speaker 1: billy bangs?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't want I don't want any
Speaker 3: alliteration here. Oh, come on now, and we're gonna get
Speaker 3: past this awkward phase and it's and it's gonna look nice.
Speaker 1: Let me get a picture of you.
Speaker 3: Oh no, the picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me get a picture, since you posted.
Speaker 3: It, you're ready for this.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no no no, don't change it. Don't
Speaker 1: change the hair.
Speaker 3: Do you got to get through an were taking photos?
Speaker 2: Look photo, Look up at the camera. There you go
Speaker 2: smile for the camera. There you go. Okay, I'll tweet
Speaker 2: that out during the break. Oh you got your eyes
Speaker 2: close to the picture.
Speaker 3: Oh no, don't do that to me. Don't do that
Speaker 3: to me at least take a picture with my eyes open.
Speaker 3: Are you trying to get back of me? Because of
Speaker 3: the photo? I posted a view.
Speaker 2: This morning, posted a great picture of me from you
Speaker 2: asked me before we went on the air, what year
Speaker 2: was that picture that you tweeted out this morning? I
Speaker 2: want to say that was two thousand and six, right there,
Speaker 2: two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: That was in the Fox studio.
Speaker 2: We used to have an active rock station, a very
Speaker 2: popular modern rock station, which in my opinion, should still
Speaker 2: be on the air. I don't know why they ever
Speaker 2: took it off the air, but that was from I
Speaker 2: think like my first year on the air, which was six,
Speaker 2: and that was in the old Fox studio. They I
Speaker 2: don't know if we talked about this before on the air,
Speaker 2: or if we were having this conversation off the air.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they all just blend together.
Speaker 2: But like when I first started in radio, they gave
Speaker 2: me the worst shift. They gave me like Sunday night
Speaker 2: at midnight, midnight to five in the morning. So the
Speaker 2: Graveyard and yeah, oh my god, that was like worse
Speaker 2: than the I mean that was like not even like
Speaker 2: a week night.
Speaker 1: It's Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Like nobody's listening to the radio Sunday night at midnight
Speaker 2: till five in the morning.
Speaker 1: They knew that.
Speaker 2: That's why they put me on the air at that time. Uh,
Speaker 2: but you know I would go in there and actually
Speaker 2: do the show live, and uh, you know, after my
Speaker 2: six months of initiation doing the Sunday night shift, I
Speaker 2: actually had third shifters working at UPS who would call
Speaker 2: me up and go, hey, dude, will you play a
Speaker 2: song for me. They're like, this guy's actually live in
Speaker 2: the studio. So I was, you know, entertaining the third
Speaker 2: shifters and the uh, you know, all the UPS workers
Speaker 2: out there on my Sunday night shift.
Speaker 3: In my early days of radio, you know, back in
Speaker 3: my day, Shannon, when I first started, I would do
Speaker 3: the Saint Jude's telethon pretty frequently, and that was an
Speaker 3: all night thing. Uh, doing the Graveyard shift. You know,
Speaker 3: if you want to, if you want to look at it,
Speaker 3: or maybe a mental thought, take my hair and then
Speaker 3: just spike all the hair on my forehead up. And
Speaker 3: that's the photo you have of Shannon that I've posted
Speaker 3: this morning. Yeah, I mean you, I mean you could
Speaker 3: poke a balloon with that hair. It looks I did
Speaker 3: have this spike you hear going on back then. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm gonna have to get used to
Speaker 3: this new haircut that you got going on. They'll bill like, look,
Speaker 3: I mean it'll get a little better, honestly, And you
Speaker 3: know they want me to buy product and do all
Speaker 3: these things. Shannon, you know, it's it's just different.
Speaker 2: Were like, you gave me a lot of crap when
Speaker 2: I went to the wrong hairstylist and got basically the
Speaker 2: dumb and dumber look. But you're telling me you went
Speaker 2: to the hairstylist and you actually asked for that. You
Speaker 2: asked for that haircut. That wasn't a mistake. You're telling
Speaker 2: me you asked for that haircut. You said, please cut
Speaker 2: my hair the way that it looks right now.
Speaker 3: Well, I just I kind of went like I want
Speaker 3: something new. I don't really know what I want. I
Speaker 3: don't want to mullet. Clearly you've got some you know,
Speaker 3: creative liberties here. Jesus christyerties take some take some shots
Speaker 3: at me this morning. I'm gonna put my hat back on.
Speaker 1: You know, I love you. It's all good. That's what
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 2: We just make fun of each other here. We're one big,
Speaker 2: happy family, that's right. You know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of a.
Speaker 2: Guy within the KSR family, Ryan Lemon, apparently it is
Speaker 2: the coolest guy in room when he walks into the
Speaker 2: high school sweet sixteen at Rapperina. You know, we we
Speaker 2: had the broadcast from there yesterday and Ryan Lemon seemed
Speaker 2: to know everybody that walked in. Even if he didn't know,
Speaker 2: he was convincingly pretending to know everybody there. He convinced me,
Speaker 2: is there any situation, Billy in life for you to
Speaker 2: where you walk in the room and Billy r Sports
Speaker 2: is the coolest guy in the room.
Speaker 3: Well, not often, Shannon. It had to be very select rooms.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe when I was meeting a couple of
Speaker 3: my brother's friends yesterday, I thought it maybe I was
Speaker 3: a little bit of a celebrity of the high schoolers.
Speaker 3: But Shannon, know, nothing like Ryan walking into Rapperena.
Speaker 2: I mean, what about like when you get in the
Speaker 2: sauna at the gym and at you and just one
Speaker 2: other guy well, you got to be cooler than the
Speaker 2: other guy, right, so that would make you the coolest
Speaker 2: guy in the sauna.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd think that. But you know, if I
Speaker 3: could go in there today with this haircut, that may
Speaker 3: not be the case. Shannon. I may have to rescind that.
Speaker 2: You're saying the only room that you're the coolest guy
Speaker 2: in is the one you're sitting in by yourself.
Speaker 3: This one got here where I'm alone in the studio.
Speaker 3: Ryan is like when I like to think a Kentucky
Speaker 3: player hits a buzzer beater the night before and then
Speaker 3: still goes the class the next day. That's the how
Speaker 3: I like to think they're treated the same way. Ryan's
Speaker 3: been treated at Rapperina at least yesterday, and he just
Speaker 3: goes and.
Speaker 1: Acts like he owns the place.
Speaker 2: He steals the internet connection from Saint X and their
Speaker 2: broadcast crew and just walks in and makes herself at home.
Speaker 3: Well, he talks about running for mayor one day, and
Speaker 3: you know, it seems far fetch at times, and his
Speaker 3: takes about you know, streets and what he would do
Speaker 3: when he gets in office seem far fetch. But anytime
Speaker 3: something like this happens I think it reignites the thought
Speaker 3: of this guy is popular, this guy could run for
Speaker 3: office like that. But no, I love it. I love it,
Speaker 3: and I love it that he's stealing the Ethernet cable
Speaker 3: of radio crews minutes before we go on the air.
Speaker 3: And that's just the charm of Kazar and our guy
Speaker 3: Ryan Lemon. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I got to say congrats to you and
Speaker 2: your south Oldham are the dragons?
Speaker 3: Dragons?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they won, they move on.
Speaker 2: We had Ashland be Callaway County and then the upset
Speaker 2: of the day, Billy Jytown takes down the top seed
Speaker 2: at Saint X team. Yeah, how about that? Also had
Speaker 2: Bowling Green went over at Derrick County. So a crazy
Speaker 2: first day of the high school Sweet sixteen. Now, of
Speaker 2: course later tonight we get going with the the NCAA
Speaker 2: Tournament Sweet sixteen. Got the games going on in Indianapolis tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Of course that's the game we care about. Mark Pope
Speaker 2: said yesterday that Billy at Kentucky there's beautiful pressure. Do
Speaker 2: you know what beautiful pressure is? Do you do you
Speaker 2: ever feel beautiful pressure in your life?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. That feels like beautiful As
Speaker 3: an adjective here is a little much Shinn and I
Speaker 3: think you were you the one making fun of Mark
Speaker 3: a little bit of sause.
Speaker 2: Everything's beautiful things, beautiful and sunshine and rainbows and beautiful pressure.
Speaker 2: I've never heard that turn never heard those two words
Speaker 2: put together. You know, Usually it's terrifying pressure, right, you know, anxiety.
Speaker 2: You're rid in pressure, not beautiful pressure, though it's It's
Speaker 2: Pope's way.
Speaker 3: Pressure should be an opportunity. That's how you make diamonds
Speaker 3: is by pressure. So I think that's when you when
Speaker 3: the cream rises that you know, pressure is important. But
Speaker 3: you know what, Shannon put beautiful in front of everything,
Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's a little tiring to hear that,
Speaker 3: but it's better than the opposite, where we're somebody's guarded
Speaker 3: and not telling you anything. I haven't seen him. It's
Speaker 3: been a welcome change of verbiage this year, There's no doubt.
Speaker 3: Beautiful seems like a little mutch.
Speaker 2: Now do you think that maybe that picture of Ziggler
Speaker 2: that's floating around, of him flipping off the U. I guess, like,
Speaker 2: what would you call that a collage painting that's in
Speaker 2: rupp Arena on the wall.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this picture that's floating seen it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like he's he's uh, you know, he's
Speaker 3: doing that to the logo.
Speaker 2: Do you think that maybe that I mean, that's some
Speaker 2: bulletin board material right there, right, And first of all,
Speaker 2: that is a real picture, right, I know, with AI
Speaker 2: floating around, it's it's easy to get confused sometimes. I
Speaker 2: believe that's an actual real picture of Ziggler flipping off
Speaker 2: a Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Player on the wall behind him in Rapperina.
Speaker 3: Well. Yeah, it was after Tennessee beat UCLA in the
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament, so they were in Lexington and I believe
Speaker 3: that photo was snapped and boy did it make the
Speaker 3: rounds yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean everybody was picking that up. And you know,
Speaker 3: you'd like to think this team's motivated and they don't
Speaker 3: need the bulletin board material. But it can't hurt, right,
Speaker 3: just kind of throw that up there, make sure the
Speaker 3: guys remember. But of all people to do that, I
Speaker 3: don't think it should be as the Kaizigler.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the guy that's been really struggled. He's
Speaker 2: been dominated by Kentucky the first couple of games.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: If I'm Ziggler, I'm like, I probably wish that nobody
Speaker 2: took that picture because I don't think, especially at this
Speaker 2: point of the year, you need to give anybody any
Speaker 2: extra incentive to to come out and whoop your ass.
Speaker 3: Do you think that matters, though, Like, do you think
Speaker 3: you would play better in the biggest stage in your
Speaker 3: life because of that photo was taken earlier in the week,
Speaker 3: because I mean the sense emergency is already Maybe not.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you if I'm guarding him,
Speaker 2: if I'm guarding him in the game, you remember it,
Speaker 2: I might give.
Speaker 1: Him a few stuff elbows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like if I'm gonna foul him, I
Speaker 2: may lay it in, as we say in wrestling, make
Speaker 2: him fill it a little bit. Okay, you don't come
Speaker 2: into our house and disrespect us. Right, If I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get called for a foul, I'm gonna make it count.
Speaker 3: Well, just don't get it technical, you know, don't cost
Speaker 3: the team. But you know, I understand about getting your
Speaker 3: guys motivated for maybe trap games and things like that.
Speaker 3: But if you're in the sweet sixteen, you're playing in
Speaker 3: a freaking football stadium, that's the last thing on my
Speaker 3: mind a lot of times. But you know what, I'm
Speaker 3: tired of this cliche. It's hard to beat a team
Speaker 3: three times. Kentucky's ready to do it this.
Speaker 1: Weekend, yep.
Speaker 2: And on the broadcast tomorrow night, Kevin Harlan will not
Speaker 2: be there. I believe that might have something to do
Speaker 2: with the restraining order that he has against Mario, who
Speaker 2: is his number one super fan. But I got to
Speaker 2: get your take on something, Billy. You know, we talked
Speaker 2: about this in Milwaukee and there was the guy from
Speaker 2: the Illinois media I forget his name, but his hashtag
Speaker 2: was pipe bomb where he did not like the fact
Speaker 2: that there were multiple Kentucky media members who were wearing
Speaker 2: Kentucky gear sitting in the media area. And I feel
Speaker 2: like maybe this is a topic that Billy r Sports
Speaker 2: might have a strong take on.
Speaker 3: And I just wanted to get your thoughts on tho
Speaker 3: once we have that, because I told you I didn't
Speaker 3: want to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Topic, I just wanted to.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get your your honest opinion on what
Speaker 2: do you think? You know you're part of the media, now,
Speaker 2: do you think that media members should be allowed to
Speaker 2: wear their team gear? Show their support when they're on
Speaker 2: press row at a game.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Well here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You're going comfortable? Do you not want to do you
Speaker 1: not want to talk about it? For real?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Look, I mean here's the thing. I mean, the tweet
Speaker 3: was stupid, right, I mean you're at a major sporting event.
Speaker 3: You're looking around at media members and looking at what
Speaker 3: they're wearing. Right, it's and calling it out publicly. It's
Speaker 3: I mean, Big Blue Nations jumped on that guy, there's
Speaker 3: no doubt. And that's why I'm going to be very
Speaker 3: careful with my words here. But I graduated from the
Speaker 3: School of Broadcast Journalism, Shannon, and there's a sense of
Speaker 3: journalism out there that you should not be wearing team
Speaker 3: logos while you were on press row.
Speaker 2: There's a sense of there's okay, say that again. There's
Speaker 2: a sense from journalism.
Speaker 1: So you're saying.
Speaker 3: Sense, are you saying term and the word journalists?
Speaker 1: Are you saying?
Speaker 3: There? Don't wear logos while you're on press rod? Now, look,
Speaker 3: I get it that our media has changed. We have
Speaker 3: fan sites that people want to hear about their teams,
Speaker 3: and so Jack and Drew and Kentucky media members, they
Speaker 3: do a great great job. But if you are objective
Speaker 3: and you are doing it, you know, middle of the road,
Speaker 3: maybe you're working for a newspaper, You're probably not going
Speaker 3: to see those people with logos one.
Speaker 2: Because they don't care. There's people that write the Kentucky
Speaker 2: the care.
Speaker 3: They care about they care about the sporting event. They
Speaker 3: don't care about the school and supporting for the school
Speaker 3: during the game. And that's just not.
Speaker 2: That that was That was Jerry Tipton's answer, right, He
Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily pulling for Kentucky.
Speaker 1: He just wanted a good story for the game.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But let's be real, most of us in media are
Speaker 2: pulling for the team that we cover. We are, and
Speaker 2: I don't know why we have to pretend like we're
Speaker 2: not supporting that team when we go to the game. Now,
Speaker 2: I didn't graduate from the broadcast you know, the journalism
Speaker 2: school or whatever that you did, right, what you call.
Speaker 3: The broadcast journalism degree, I've got.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't have a broadcast journalism degree. I have
Speaker 2: a communications degree. So I didn't have like the the
Speaker 2: code of ethics when it comes to, you know, wearing
Speaker 2: a team's logo when you're broadcast, when you're you know
Speaker 2: there for a for a game, but I don't know
Speaker 2: why we have to pretend like we're not cheering for
Speaker 2: the team. I even think that we should be allowed
Speaker 2: to cheer for the team on press row.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's come.
Speaker 1: I can't clap. I can't clap.
Speaker 2: No, come on, why not? Why can't? You're working? These
Speaker 2: are profession team.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're talking into a microphone, You've got a
Speaker 3: radio call that you're doing. You're trying to write a
Speaker 3: game story. Okay, so you don't need a guy clapping
Speaker 3: in your ear right there. I mean that's you got.
Speaker 1: You got fans all.
Speaker 2: You've got twenty five thousand fans around you clapping and cheering.
Speaker 3: It's not the time. It's a professional setting press Row.
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to be clapping. Look, you can wear
Speaker 3: your logo. That's fine. I get it. You're you're about
Speaker 3: the university, maybe you're even working with the university. I
Speaker 3: can get that you're wearing a logo. But you're gonna
Speaker 3: call yourself a journalist, you don't wear the logo. I'm
Speaker 3: not calling myself a journalist press Row. I'm not a journalist, no,
Speaker 3: not at all. See that term has just changed a
Speaker 3: lot over the years.
Speaker 1: I just don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I know some people are like, all right,
Speaker 2: well yeah, you should not be able to cheer, but
Speaker 2: come on, I can't clap, like that's really bothering you.
Speaker 1: You're working.
Speaker 2: Please, I'll look over these credentialed quote unquote media members.
Speaker 2: They're not doing anything. They're like tweeting on their phone.
Speaker 2: And if that makes you a media member, then we're
Speaker 2: all media members. It's gotten bad.
Speaker 3: Every blog, every blog boy gets a media credential. Now,
Speaker 3: I mean these guys names Shannon the dude is even
Speaker 3: able to get a seat around actual media. Why do
Speaker 3: you do two hours of radio and then sit there
Speaker 3: right the game. Let's act not act like you're there
Speaker 3: doing stuff. No, I think that you can get there
Speaker 3: in class. I'm covering the game. You're not covering the game.
Speaker 1: I am. I do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I go and do the postgame show, I'm covering
Speaker 2: the game. I'm tweeting from the game, so I'm documenting
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing.
Speaker 3: The problem is that, ever, they've allowed a lot of
Speaker 3: people to go on press row. Oh you know, it's
Speaker 3: just it's not what it used to be. So it's
Speaker 3: just that the standard has changed. I'm just telling you
Speaker 3: that back in the day, you'd have been ostracized.
Speaker 2: Back in the day. Please don't tell me about back
Speaker 2: in the day. You're twenty five years old.
Speaker 3: I don't know back in my day, I said, back
Speaker 3: in the day, I mean, that was just not acceptable.
Speaker 3: But look, I understand how the media landscape's changed. I
Speaker 3: get this is what people want, tribalism, and you know,
Speaker 3: reading your website that tells you exactly what you want
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 2: So what's your final ruling okay or not okay? To
Speaker 2: where team logo okay, not okay?
Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna, you know, go around taking pictures
Speaker 3: of people and saying, oh, look at this guy with his.
Speaker 1: Gearro you should tweet out hashtag pipe bomb. Billy R.
Speaker 2: Sports is not okay with media members wearing team logos
Speaker 2: on press row.
Speaker 1: Pipe bom Hey nine two twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: We want to hear from you. We'll take your calls.
Speaker 2: Coming up next. It is the KSR pre Show. All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back. It is the KSR pre Show eight five
Speaker 2: nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Billy, did
Speaker 2: you realize the day is opening day for Major League baseball.
Speaker 3: I did right before the show started. That's my five
Speaker 3: minutes of show prep, five minutes before the show starts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yes, I did see it was opening Day. It
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like that though, since they've already played those
Speaker 3: games in.
Speaker 2: Tokyo right now, and with the Sweet Sixteen going on,
Speaker 2: I kind of forgot that it was today. And then
Speaker 2: Tom Leach said to me, Happy Opening Day, and I go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's baseball season right right when the Sweet sixteen is
Speaker 2: going on. You know, I'm a baseball fan, but I
Speaker 2: kind of don't care, you know, like I'm kind of
Speaker 2: with you, like we've already kind of kicked off the
Speaker 2: baseball season with the game in Tokyo, and we've got
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen games going on today. So, like you
Speaker 2: say it, tonight, which games are you gonna watch? Opening
Speaker 2: Day for Major League Baseball or the Sweet I'm watching
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, there's too much going on. I mean, I love
Speaker 3: opening day. Baseball is a sport best taken in in person,
Speaker 3: and there's nothing like going up to Cincinnati for Reds
Speaker 3: Opening Day. And how about a red season with expectations?
Speaker 3: Shannon Matt's gonna say three times it's the summer of
Speaker 3: Ellie today on the show, and I think there's an
Speaker 3: expectation they can do some damage in the Central But
Speaker 3: you know, the Rays are playing at the Yankees spring
Speaker 3: training field all year. I mean, how are the Braves
Speaker 3: looking this year? Shan, you guys got high hopes or
Speaker 3: I'm one of those.
Speaker 2: I'm going on record right now, I am picking the
Speaker 2: Braves in the World Series. Boom Braves in the World's look,
Speaker 2: let's pick them. Who do you think who makes the
Speaker 2: World Series? I'll go Braves in the National League. I'd
Speaker 2: have to look at the odds on DraftKings.
Speaker 3: We see even like favorites to make the words.
Speaker 1: I think I think maybe the Yankees.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, like I don't have, like what
Speaker 2: the actual odds are for teams out of the American
Speaker 2: League to make the World Series this year?
Speaker 1: Can you pull that up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm going to try to pull it
Speaker 3: up right now.
Speaker 1: But I'll say Braves and Yankees.
Speaker 3: Who do you have without the outlook at Dodgers are
Speaker 3: the World Series favorite at plus two forty.
Speaker 2: The Braves are second plus eight fifty, So that's not
Speaker 2: a crazy prediction.
Speaker 3: You've got the Yankees at plus nine hundred, the Phillies
Speaker 3: at plus one thousand, the Mets at plus eleven hundred,
Speaker 3: the Mets please, and then the Orioles at plus sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3: So okay, you know, to save you from picking like
Speaker 3: Dodgers Yankees or something like that, I'd love to see
Speaker 3: the Orioles make the big game from the Al East.
Speaker 3: So do you get you got Dodgers Orioles, Dodgers Orioles.
Speaker 3: Give me the Dodgers Orioles, Shannon, I like that, all.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask you something, forty I never want
Speaker 3: to call for the firing of somebody's job, but don't
Speaker 3: you feel like we book Wieda Bix has the biggest
Speaker 3: missed marketing opportunity with this Kentucky stuff of all time
Speaker 3: one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I saw that they came out and made some sort
Speaker 2: of statement, but like, why are you not.
Speaker 1: Using this this momentum?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is probably the biggest push that Wida
Speaker 2: bix has ever had in their existence, especially here in
Speaker 2: the United States. Why wouldn't you take that and run
Speaker 2: with it and you know, give Amari a huge nil
Speaker 2: deal and and support this push that you're getting from
Speaker 2: Big Blue Nation right now. I mean, there's no better
Speaker 2: fan base to get behind a product. Clearly, there's a
Speaker 2: ton of Kentucky fans that are going out and buying
Speaker 2: weed to bis just to try it. Why are they
Speaker 2: not using this and you know, basically springboarding themselves even higher,
Speaker 2: you know, exactly more money.
Speaker 3: Strike when the iron's hot man. This is gonna be
Speaker 3: a moot point two weeks from now when they finally
Speaker 3: decide to tweet again. They haven't tweeted since March nineteenth.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are we doing here, folks? I mean,
Speaker 3: whoever's monitoring the social media page or.
Speaker 1: Their marketing director needs to we have FR's in charge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is ridiculous. And like you said,
Speaker 3: I think Tyler Thompson got a statement that she included
Speaker 3: in an article that she wrote. But why are they
Speaker 3: not like taking advantage and running with this thing. I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe they don't need the sales, but it
Speaker 3: seems like a huge missed opportunity.
Speaker 2: We speaking of Tyler's you know, we had a call
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago that asked in Nashville, where's
Speaker 2: the best place to.
Speaker 1: Go watch the game tomorrow? On all right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I gave him ten roof Broadway,
Speaker 2: which is still a good place to go.
Speaker 1: But to that.
Speaker 2: Listener, if you're listening right now or anybody else that's
Speaker 2: in the Nashville area, Tyler wanted me to pass along
Speaker 2: the word that in Nashville, beyond the Edge in East
Speaker 2: Nashville is the official watch party for those of you
Speaker 2: that are in the Nashville area that want to go
Speaker 2: watch the game tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: So there you go, on the edge. On the edge.
Speaker 2: We got about a minute here. Let's go to a call.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to LD first. Hey, what's up LD. That's
Speaker 2: the part where you talk LDE with us? All right, John,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: John? Hey, First of all, today is my mom's birthday.
Speaker 4: And she's a big Kentucky fan and she passed away fortunately,
Speaker 4: But I was just going to say happy birthday. She's
Speaker 4: going to lead me all up to Kentucky to be
Speaker 4: a Kentucky fan. And but I got my Wea Bates
Speaker 4: yesterday and it's awesome. So you love that?
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. I mean a lot of people
Speaker 2: are like, it doesn't taste that good. So did you
Speaker 2: put warm milk over it and put some sugar in?
Speaker 4: I have not tried. I did put honey. I did
Speaker 4: not put warm milk, yes, or sugar, but I did
Speaker 4: put honey mixed honey in with it.
Speaker 1: There you go, Billy.
Speaker 2: We got one positive review for Weed to Bicks. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call, John, See what you.
Speaker 3: Got to you gotta add other stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, seems like they did it, but the adults seem
Speaker 2: to not like it. But that's one vote for Weeda Bicks.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back ksrpre Show, Welcome back. It is
Speaker 2: the KSR Pre Show eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: We're going to go back to the phones in just
Speaker 2: a minute. Hashtag billy bings. How long before that starts
Speaker 2: trending on Twitter?
Speaker 3: I like billy bombs if we want to, Oh, we
Speaker 3: talk about me telling the truth?
Speaker 2: To play off your your pipe bomb hashtag pipe bomb
Speaker 2: we got hashtag billy bomb.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I also thought radio was theater of the mind.
Speaker 3: So when you take pictures of my haircut and then
Speaker 3: post it on line, that feels like a violation of privacy.
Speaker 2: I feel I feel like you did that to me
Speaker 2: though I remember remember when I got the bad haircut
Speaker 2: and you went in hard on me.
Speaker 3: Now, I didn't amplify these photos. They were taken because
Speaker 3: we were at remote. Mario was there. You personally took
Speaker 3: a photo and then decided to tweet it.
Speaker 2: But you're also the one who number one chose to
Speaker 2: get that haircut and number two chose to call me
Speaker 2: on video this morning. You could have just said, hey,
Speaker 2: my video is not working, and that way I never
Speaker 2: would have seen it, and you could have, you know,
Speaker 2: had some time to fix that.
Speaker 1: Whatever's on top of your head.
Speaker 3: Well that's the difference between you and me right around
Speaker 3: proudly like a peacock, did no matter what my hair
Speaker 3: looks like.
Speaker 2: So you think Cash Daniel is going to be strutting
Speaker 2: around like a peacock in the wrestling ring? Did you
Speaker 2: see it's training video that came out with ov W.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know this. This was news to me.
Speaker 2: Apparently Cash Daniel, who has never shied away about the
Speaker 2: fact that he's a huge professional wrestling fan, is.
Speaker 1: Now training behind the scenes at OVW.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's like training to try to
Speaker 2: come take a shot at the champ here or what
Speaker 2: the ultimate goal is for Cash, but I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing whatever Cash has got in the OVW ring,
Speaker 2: hopefully soon.
Speaker 1: I did, I did.
Speaker 3: I saw the video yesterday. I texted him immediately afterwards
Speaker 3: to tell him how great it looked. You know, Cash
Speaker 3: has told me privately this is something he's wanted to
Speaker 3: do for a while, So to see it come to fruition,
Speaker 3: to see him actually training and to see that well
Speaker 3: done video. I mean, I got me excited. I really
Speaker 3: think he's the type of character that would really work
Speaker 3: at OVW, don't you think, dude, I mean, you know
Speaker 3: this more than me.
Speaker 1: I think he could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I look, the video looked good the
Speaker 2: way they put it together, but it was nothing more
Speaker 2: than a couple of headlocks and collar and elbow tie ups.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any I didn't see any real wrestling there.
Speaker 2: I didn't see the I didn't see the best form.
Speaker 2: I didn't see a power bomb or a billy bomb
Speaker 2: that'd be your finishing move if you were. I think
Speaker 2: it's so yeah, I think you're wrong, But no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm in all seriousness. I think it's kind of cool
Speaker 2: that Cash Daniel is considering. I guess he's not considering.
Speaker 2: He is training with OVW, and I guess at some
Speaker 2: point will be on OVWTV, and.
Speaker 3: I don't think he'll partake in the women Royal Rumbles,
Speaker 3: so I doubt he'll have a chance to go against you.
Speaker 3: That's maybe if you manage an opposing wrestler one day,
Speaker 3: you might be able to run around the ring when
Speaker 3: he's in the ring one day.
Speaker 2: Do you think that maybe Cash, Daniel will see that
Speaker 2: I'm a great manager, the greatest manager in OVW history,
Speaker 2: and maybe reach out to me and ask me to
Speaker 2: be his manager. I mean, that would be a really
Speaker 2: smart business move on Cash's part.
Speaker 1: If he had Shannon to the dude as his manager.
Speaker 3: I'd rather see him come after you a little bit.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Cash doesn't want any of that. I've been training
Speaker 2: hard for the leney as. He doesn't want this.
Speaker 3: Okay, you and your protein shakes think you're on his level.
Speaker 2: I know I'm on his Actually, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not on his level. I'm a level ahead of Cash.
Speaker 2: Cash needs to get to my level. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: bring him on the pre show. He can talk a
Speaker 2: little trash.
Speaker 3: It'll probably be when you're gone, so he'll have to
Speaker 3: take those shots. God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why he's scared of me? He's scared.
Speaker 3: No, it's because you have five six weeks of vacation.
Speaker 3: We've got to fill the time.
Speaker 1: So I don't hate the player, hate the game. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Adam's up at him?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 6: Feel like the key to the game tomorrow is our defense.
Speaker 6: And even though we won those first two games, we
Speaker 6: only forced Tennessee into thirteen turnovers combined over those two games,
Speaker 6: and since that, since that last Tennessee game, we're turning
Speaker 6: opponents over almost eleven and a half times per game.
Speaker 6: Since then, I feel like our defense has gotten so
Speaker 6: much better. And you know, they shot poorly in the
Speaker 6: first two games, So I think the turnovers are going
Speaker 6: to make the difference. Kentucky's gonna move on. And then
Speaker 6: my question is what's more egregious wearing your school's colors
Speaker 6: on press row or getting credentialed and not going to
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 1: Wow, great question, Billy.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, Look, I love that, but I've told
Speaker 2: him I'm not gonna say anything to you that I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say to Matt to his face.
Speaker 1: And I've said this on KSR.
Speaker 2: I think it's odd behavior to be credentialed and not
Speaker 2: go to the game. Again, now, it's not like it
Speaker 2: was in Lexington. I will remind you we drove eight
Speaker 2: hours to get to Milwaukee to go to the game,
Speaker 2: in which case he did not go to the game,
Speaker 2: not even like the start of the game, like even
Speaker 2: if he went to the game and left in the
Speaker 2: last five minutes because it was too close and his
Speaker 2: nerves couldn't take it fair enough. I got it, I understand,
Speaker 2: you know, But if you don't go to any of
Speaker 2: the game, you're not even there for the tip off Philly,
Speaker 2: and you're watching it in a random hotel lobby with the.
Speaker 1: Sound on mute.
Speaker 2: I think that is the more much more egregious behavior
Speaker 2: than wearing a UK logo on press row.
Speaker 1: You tell me if you agree or not.
Speaker 3: I'd love to give you a Billy bomb here, but
Speaker 3: I'm leaning towards what you're saying, Shanna. I think it
Speaker 3: is more egregious to get the credential and then not
Speaker 3: even show up for the game. I mean, it might
Speaker 3: allow another person to sit there on press row, but
Speaker 3: you're taking away a credential from somebody else, right, I
Speaker 3: mean if you have a limited amount of things, So
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, if you have a credential, go
Speaker 3: cover the game.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Somebody got denied so that Matt Jones could get credential
Speaker 2: to go watch the game in the Saint Kate hotel lobby.
Speaker 3: At least Shannon the dude stayed and actually partook in
Speaker 3: the event that he was credential and.
Speaker 2: The other again like to me, like it's it's about
Speaker 2: the eight hour drive too. Yeah, Like if this game
Speaker 2: were played in Louisville and he just decided to not go,
Speaker 2: all right, I guess I understand that. Dude. We got
Speaker 2: in our car and drove eight hours to get there.
Speaker 2: There's got to be some sort of payoff for that.
Speaker 2: And the payoff for me is going to the game
Speaker 2: and having really nice seats. Drove eight hours to come here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit here and watch this game. But to
Speaker 2: not go to the game, Come on, man.
Speaker 3: When your job is to recap the game right after
Speaker 3: as well, I mean it's tough.
Speaker 1: Well you watched it.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 1: It's not like you didn't watch it. He watched it.
Speaker 1: I'm just why are you not?
Speaker 3: But but is it the same if you go to
Speaker 3: watch at the team hotel by your than surrounded by
Speaker 3: thousands of Kentucky fans.
Speaker 2: Well, there's things that I could point out that he
Speaker 2: wouldn't know, because I could say, Hey, the crowd really
Speaker 2: got into it when Illinois cut it to three.
Speaker 3: That's right, you weren't there. You want those insights?
Speaker 2: You couldn't hear it? How would you know? You already
Speaker 2: you already been there. Let's go to Philip what's up Philip.
Speaker 5: Hey question, would you rather know a reporter has a
Speaker 5: bias or not? Because that's kind of the point. We
Speaker 5: want clarity on these things. So it's better to just
Speaker 5: know somebody's bias rather than them hiding it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I believe in one transparency. So if you have a bias,
Speaker 2: that's fine, and I'll read your work. If you're a writer,
Speaker 2: I will read your article knowing that there is a
Speaker 2: built in bias for a particular team. But don't But
Speaker 2: don't try to act like you don't care when you
Speaker 2: write an article. No, if you're Jerry Tifton and you say,
Speaker 2: I really don't care. And I believe Jerry Tipton when
Speaker 2: he would say, you know, I really I didn't care
Speaker 2: if they want or not.
Speaker 1: I just wanted a good story. I believe that coming
Speaker 1: from home.
Speaker 2: But if you're a fan and you have a radio
Speaker 2: show and you're pro Kentucky, you can't act like you
Speaker 2: don't care.
Speaker 3: Well, let me give you an example like Kaywood Ledford
Speaker 3: let's go back in the day, was always cheering for
Speaker 3: the Cats to win, rooting for the Cats to win
Speaker 3: at Heart, but never said we on the radio. You
Speaker 3: listen to a lot of radio calls. Nowaday you'll hear
Speaker 3: we we we all the way. You know, I think
Speaker 3: that was good now to a degree. Are they paid
Speaker 3: by the university, Yes, I mean they are with the
Speaker 3: you know, the athletics, and that is that is their job.
Speaker 3: But there again, back in the day, there was a
Speaker 3: point that you weren't a part of the actual team.
Speaker 3: You were the broadcast. You're relaying what was happening in
Speaker 3: real time to the listener in the best way possible.
Speaker 3: Now I happen to agree with the listener. I would
Speaker 3: rather know the biases of a reporter. And that goes
Speaker 3: back to what I was shaying, saying that the entire
Speaker 3: landscape has changed. You go to a website because you
Speaker 3: want to hear more of what you want to hear, right.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean it's the Homer broadcast. They even
Speaker 2: have that dinner in I don't know if they still
Speaker 2: do that, like the Homer broadcast during the was it
Speaker 2: the Final Four?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like even the national championship game. In college football,
Speaker 3: you'll get the option you can hear the game of
Speaker 3: the Ohio State announcers calling the game, and look, they
Speaker 3: have every right to say we, but a guy like
Speaker 3: Kwood Ledford didn't. And that was just it was a
Speaker 3: different time, it was a different standard. People looked at
Speaker 3: it differently.
Speaker 1: Are you sure?
Speaker 5: Kay?
Speaker 1: We never said we, Like, how many KWO games did
Speaker 1: you listen to?
Speaker 3: I had this conversation with a media member that was
Speaker 3: around during the Kywood Leadford era, and they loved me
Speaker 3: that stat never, so I decided to relay it now.
Speaker 3: I say we all the time. I'm not even talking
Speaker 3: about like even me and a team. I just say
Speaker 3: the royal we. Because I've watched the big Lebowski team.
Speaker 2: I know you always say we, and I always ask
Speaker 2: you do you have a mouse in your pocket?
Speaker 3: Let's go to go there in your garage? Let's go
Speaker 3: to Gork. What's up Gork? Hey?
Speaker 7: I gotta I gotta ask. Does this mean that there's
Speaker 7: a new exchange of cash at OVW or does this
Speaker 7: makes some kind of you know, does this make some
Speaker 7: kind of all already a rivalry or do they just
Speaker 7: combine man talent and become you know, super cash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, double cash. That's a great question. You know cash Daniel,
Speaker 2: I believe spells it with a K and cash flow.
Speaker 1: Yes, what to see?
Speaker 2: But you know, cash Flow this kind of off being
Speaker 2: a movie star. You know, he just got He's like
Speaker 2: a recurring character now in Tulsa King for what does it?
Speaker 2: Season three I think is coming up. So that's the
Speaker 2: thing about uh cash Flow. He may not even be around,
Speaker 2: so there may be a new cash in town.
Speaker 1: I can see the battle of the cases.
Speaker 7: And and I think I granted it's probably amplified an
Speaker 7: a bit, but I think that his natural attitude and
Speaker 7: persona is so much in character with ovw and and
Speaker 7: wrestling that that it's it's only an amplification of this
Speaker 7: of his own actual he actually is.
Speaker 2: And those who are the those who are the best
Speaker 2: at being a professional wrestler, it's their personality just amped
Speaker 2: up to ten. That's the only difference. Appreciate the call
Speaker 2: of Gork. Yeah, that's that should be interesting.
Speaker 1: I didn't think.
Speaker 2: About cash versus cash. That's a that's a good marketing
Speaker 2: opportunity right there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we've got to make that happen. One I'm
Speaker 3: happy for cash Flow. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy,
Speaker 3: him becoming this celebrity and all. But I'm I'm really
Speaker 3: excited for cash Daniel and you know, he's spent a
Speaker 3: little time on the radio. So Shannon, theoretically you're not
Speaker 3: the only one spent on the radio. It made up
Speaker 3: this title radio. You're saying he's in like the radio division.
Speaker 3: I think he could be. He could challenge for your
Speaker 3: your made up title. Do you think about it?
Speaker 2: First of all, it's not made up. I mean you
Speaker 2: call it a made up title. It's it's the same
Speaker 2: as any other title it was. It was created, not
Speaker 2: made up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you don't have active challengers. I mean you speedo.
Speaker 2: I beat everybody into retirement. I mean like Vanetti, I
Speaker 2: retired him. I retired.
Speaker 3: It was elder abuse. I mean that was a borderline
Speaker 3: already back then you were in your young thirties.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, that was his choice to step in the
Speaker 2: ring with the champ. It's on him.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to your calls in just a minute.
Speaker 2: Less pro wrestling talk, more Kentucky talk. I gotta get
Speaker 2: your rolling on a couple of other things, Billy, and
Speaker 2: we'll get to that in just a minute. Eight nine
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven will be right back. It is
Speaker 2: the show before the show. The KSR pre show final
Speaker 2: segment of the KSR pre show eight five nine two
Speaker 2: oh twenty two eighty seven. Before we go back to
Speaker 2: the phone lines, let me tell you about the book
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Speaker 2: eight twenty two eighty seven, back to the phones in
Speaker 2: just a minute before we do though, let's talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about Kentucky and Tennessee tomorrow night. You know,
Speaker 2: if there's one wild card off the bench, that could
Speaker 2: be the guy that Kentucky is going to lean on.
Speaker 2: I've seen some people say maybe it's Ansley Amanor, And
Speaker 2: if you look at the numbers, he was the guy
Speaker 2: who is probably other than Oway, the most consistent in
Speaker 2: the previous two meetings. He had twelve and one game
Speaker 2: thirteen in the other. So do you think that maybe
Speaker 2: Ansley Amanor is going to play a key role in
Speaker 2: this game tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: You know, he hasn't been playing a ton of minutes,
Speaker 3: but he did contribute in the few that he had
Speaker 3: in the last game versus Illinois. You know, I think
Speaker 3: the key for Kentucky is to shoot a good percentage
Speaker 3: in this game. You know, in those two games, Kentucky,
Speaker 3: I believe, shot around fifty percent from the field, and
Speaker 3: that's a very good number one. And pair it with
Speaker 3: Tennessee missing all of those threes and having poor shooting
Speaker 3: nights both nights, then I think Kentucky's got to be efficient.
Speaker 3: And if Ansley's gonna go out there and hits those
Speaker 3: corner threes, then absolutely he could be the wild card,
Speaker 3: the difference maker here. I go back to in those
Speaker 3: two Tennessee games earlier this year, Colin Chandler wasn't playing
Speaker 3: the way that he's playing now. So it's gonna have
Speaker 3: to be some good performances by some bench players, and
Speaker 3: then not only that, you're going to have to get
Speaker 3: your typical Kobe Braya game, I think, and these guys
Speaker 3: are gonna not have to back down, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Colin's always been really you know
Speaker 2: this year, I say always, but you know, the games
Speaker 2: we've seen them in Who's always been who? Colin Chandler
Speaker 2: has always again, a reliable defender, but I feel like
Speaker 2: he's sort of found his own offensively in the last
Speaker 2: few games as well. So he's a guy that not
Speaker 2: only can go out there and defend, but knock down
Speaker 2: some threes as well.
Speaker 3: So well, like you know, like a like a haircut,
Speaker 3: you kind of grow into it as the days and
Speaker 3: weeks go on. It looks a little better and better,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, people take photos of you at your worst and
Speaker 3: then post them online, and you know.
Speaker 2: It happens to the best of us. Let's pick some
Speaker 2: of the games tonight. Do you see any upsets tonight?
Speaker 2: Four games in the Sweet sixteen starts with BYU Alabama
Speaker 2: Bama the two ooh you the six Any chance the
Speaker 2: BYU shocks Alabama tonight.
Speaker 3: I'd love for that to happen. I mean, BYU plays
Speaker 3: a fun style of ball, but I think it's inevitable.
Speaker 3: Nate oats Alabama. They're They're a tough team to out
Speaker 3: this year, so I think Alabama does get it done.
Speaker 2: I agree with you on Alabama. I've got him in
Speaker 2: my championship game. They need to win because two of
Speaker 2: my final four are bracket's already busted. Dude, I already
Speaker 2: busted the crab five Maryland taking on Florida tonight. Florida,
Speaker 2: of course, the other one seed. Any chance Maryland knocks
Speaker 2: off Florida, you know, I hope Maryland keeps it close.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit, but I think
Speaker 3: Florida is the team to beat in this tournament. So
Speaker 3: I got them winning a championship. In my brack, I.
Speaker 2: Got Florida as well. Duke and Arizona. Any chance the
Speaker 2: Duke gets knocked off, I think there's a chance here tonight,
Speaker 2: I'm saying that maybe Arizona pulls off the upset. I'm
Speaker 2: picking Arizona or a nine and a half point dog boy.
Speaker 2: I bet you they cover nine and a half. I
Speaker 2: may have to sprinkle a little bit on that. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's the best matchup for Duke, but I
Speaker 2: don't think I can take Arizona outright. I'd pick Arizona
Speaker 2: to cover, but Duke to win the game. Arkansas Texas
Speaker 2: Tech is the late game. I can't pick Caw to
Speaker 2: go to the Elite eight. I can't. I mean, I
Speaker 2: got to pick.
Speaker 3: A Due's back, a dues back Shannon. Maybe that makes
Speaker 3: it harder for cal because now he has to deside
Speaker 3: how many minutes he's gonna play each guy. Yeah, more
Speaker 3: so than having a tight rotation and just throwing him
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 1: He'll screw it up one way or another. Uh, Texas
Speaker 1: Tech five and a half point favorite.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going Tech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mixas Tech, give me Texas Techas.
Speaker 3: I'm going Chocolate. It's it's chalky tournament. But you know what,
Speaker 3: usually the better teams make it to the final four
Speaker 3: in the end.
Speaker 2: All right, now, speaking of picking games, I've got to
Speaker 2: get your ruling on this ruling a fan has picked
Speaker 2: the women's bracket to this point. Okay, perfectly, it's pretty impressive, right,
Speaker 2: It's more than impressive, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so far.
Speaker 2: The problem is the person who filled out this bracket
Speaker 2: forgot to pick a champion in their bracket. So the
Speaker 2: question is, Billy, person's got a perfect bracket. Do you
Speaker 2: allow this person to pick a winner in the championship.
Speaker 2: You know we're not to the championship yet, but do
Speaker 2: you allow this person with the perfect bracket to fill
Speaker 2: in that last?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not? Are you kidding me? What universe do we
Speaker 3: live in? Where do you think you can watch half
Speaker 3: of the tournament and then to see and decide how
Speaker 3: teams are playing and then decide your champion. No, you
Speaker 3: got to lock it in when we submit our bracket, Shanning.
Speaker 3: You don't get to redo the final question on the
Speaker 3: test after you figure out you've gotten all of the
Speaker 3: answers right now.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to see what your take would be,
Speaker 2: So you're with me. I'm one hundred percent with you.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: The rules are the rules. Yeah, this is not nom
Speaker 2: There are rules here. Okay, you can pay Walter, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you got to You got to follow the rules like
Speaker 2: everybody else. Everybody knows the rules. You got to have
Speaker 2: the bracket filled out completely before the very first game
Speaker 2: tips off.
Speaker 1: Those are the rules. Those have always been the rules.
Speaker 2: So if this person picks the perfect bracket and doesn't
Speaker 2: forgot to pick the champion, sorry about you. I mean,
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