KSR - 2024-07-10- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

Tom Hart joins Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talking UK sports, fireworks, and margarita funnels.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. What's up, gang? Tom Hart's sitting in for... Woo-woo. Yeah, whoop-a-doo. We've got a big whoop-a-doo today on KSR. Ryan and Drew looks like they are in Lexington.

I assume in Mario, who is off camera. And Shannon the dude is back in Louisville. How's everybody doing? How was your fourth? Mine was good. I was on the beach, and so I came back, you know, tanned, fit, ready to go. It's amazing how a little bit of sun makes you feel like you lose weight. Yeah.

I didn't get any sun. I didn't get fit. I did the opposite, but I kept the show afloat why you all enjoyed the week. We missed you, Tom. You didn't mention where you were going. I saw a photo. You want to brag on yourself? Tell us about that a little bit.

Well, I think it's one of those trips that if you're, you are a golfer it matters if you're not a golfer it doesn't matter whatsoever but i went on a little boy's trip to pebble beach for a few days nice heard of that place like yeah it did not disappoint but i backed it up with and i may have been i may be the only person in the history of the world to take this trip okay so i go to moderate california which by the way i left 100 degrees in atlanta for the mist and the fog and the i just love that bay area weather we go to the giants game friday night giant dodgers, drove down to Pebble and left to like the seventh inning, had three straight days of golf. And then Monday night I got on a red eye from Oakland's airport, which might

as well be Baghdad's airport. It's the worst airport I've ever been in in my entire life of that size. Took the red eye from Oakland back to Atlanta, drove home, packed up the family cruiser, and then drove 11 hours to Table Rock Lake, which is like the Branson area of. of Missouri. So I think I'm the only person in that time span to go from Pebble Beach to the Oakland Airport to Branson, Missouri. And that's maybe Soji Tabucci, the violin has played some golf. I don't know. But it was quite a combo. Then I spent my fourth at the lake, swimming around in a muddy lake and doing some tubing and running around on the pontoon boat and shooting off fireworks and all that stuff. It was good. You didn't do the Branson, go get your old time photo and the taffy and up and down the streets of Branson there and go see a country music.

show? No, we avoided Branson, but we did make our way to the theme park where somebody lost their head in 1980, literally. So that was a thrill a minute. Let me tell you. Drew, what did you do for the fort? I'm sure you've already talked about it, but I apologize.

I really did a bunch of nothing. I stayed home. Actually, I don't even know what I watched. It's one of those things were like three days pass and you go, I don't even know what I did, but time passed. There was just a lot of things around the house, but I enjoyed it after we're going full speed a lot lately.

Needed a slow weekend. You finished the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. I did. Finish that. Have you jumped into Bodkin yet? Oh, I haven't done Bodkin. We're in the middle of Man with a Thousand Kids, which is, that will mess with your head on Netflix.

So once I get through that, I'll have to jump into Bodkin. Do you recommend a show that messes with your head? It's still a little early, but it's kind of, look, it just came out. It's the one, like, when you log in, it throws it right in your face. and everybody's watching this. I think it's kind of the new thing. So, again, not a recommendation, but I'm sure we'll all be hearing it

as more and more people watch it. It's a weird story. Dude, I don't, I'm not, he literally has like thousands of kids in different countries. Literally? Check it out. What's up with pod?

Is sperm donor or something? Yeah, he's a donor, and he's been lying. You're only supposed to have a limit, and he's been bouncing around, and it's, it might be an issue. I'm only two episodes in, but that's,

that's how I celebrated America's birthday. Well, you can always watch that with jello shots. Like, whatever you want, it's fine. We might have a special guest later. Where do we stand? I don't want to give anything away, but. I don't think it's happening. I just heard from them, and it's not looking good today.

So unfortunately, I don't think it's going to happen, but we'll keep trying to get him. You're our special guest. Yeah, you're the special guest. Oh, you guys, that is so sweet. I did have a scary moment with fireworks on the 4th. We were staying at a house. It was a verbo, and it said it was on the last.

lake. It wasn't really on the lake, so to speak. I mean, you get to walk like 200 yards down a driveway and then a gravel road and then a rocky beach and then you'd end up at the lake. But nevertheless, I have two brothers-in-law who love fireworks. So they loaded up and they bought a bunch of them and they bought the big ones too, which was always fun. And so we had some lawn chairs spread out and a couple of coolers and we're hanging out. And I'm not a fireworks guy. Like I don't mind watching them, but I don't usually go out of my way for a variety of reasons. And we're probably set up in our chairs a good 30 yards from the fireworks, maybe 40 yards. And my brother-in-law later admitted he said, yeah, the canisters that I buy are usually square,

but they have these new ones that are circular, so they are harder to get set. So you can guess what happened. One of the big ones starts going off, and it starts to fall, but it's shooting towards the lake. And one of my daughters says, well, he's shooting away from us. And then it rolled. And I wasn't paying a ton of attention. I am attempting to adjust my lawn chair. And I am looking down.

And this red flare goes right by my head. I mean, like 18 inches. And you can hear it. It's like the, I swear to God, I thought it was going to just totally take me out. So after that, we moved our lawn chairs back another 40 yards. I grab it as rest of my cooler. you all have fun, I was back at the house. I'd had enough. Yeah, you know, we had this awful accident happen with Reggie Cottrell here in town.

The guy plays for Harlan County. He's actually the special guest you were just talking about. He was involved in a fireworks accident. So it's dangerous, man. You've got to be careful. Every year, you hear real story, something happens just like what happened to you or happened to Reggie, and it's awful. Did you hear about the guy at South Carolina? What happened to him? He was dressed as Uncle Sam. He was doing this dance, and as part of the videos out there, the not terrible part. And he's wearing a big Uncle Sam hat.

And he decides to show off and he puts a firework on top of the hat, which is basically on his head. And the firework went off as it was supposed to. And that gentleman is no longer with us. So please be smart and be safe when it comes to fireworks. We got hoops tonight. We got a big game tonight, Drew. We got something to watch for with the Olympic team taking on Canada, Team USA versus Canada tonight.

You excited? I'm very excited. Have they announced what kind of starting five we're going to have? We had a fun discussion yesterday on the website. Who would you start with that group? I don't know if we have that, but we got former cats in it. I know the Arkansas Twitter account, they're probably very proud of those guys playing tonight. But no, I'm excited, especially for Bam and Booker and Anthony Davis to see what they

do. Then three guys on the Canadian team, you're probably talking about Trey Liles, Jamal Murray, Shea Gilgis, South. There you go. And William Gabriel's playing for South Sudan. They're not in action tonight that I'm aware of. But that's cool. Like I've been, we talked about kind of different shows to watch over the course of the summer. I haven't seen the man with a thousand kids or whatever. But 1030 tonight on FS1 from Las Vegas, I'm watching this game. Like there's finally something that I'm excited about watching the summertime.

Have you seen the clip of all of them trying to spin the ball on their finger, everyone on our Olympic team? You would think our nation's best basketball players. You think all of them would be able to spin it on their finger. But there's a fascinating video right now. Steph Curry can't even come close to doing it. LeBron can't do it. Embed won't even try. And I just thought that was crazy.

You think these guys could do anything with a basketball and something you see a lot of people able to do. They weren't able to pull it off. That was my big takeaway from their training camp up until tonight's game. Do you think that is a generational thing? Yeah. Like, do you think spinning the ball on your, like, I go back to the Globetrotters, right? Curly Neo, like, that was a cool thing to do. And Magic was doing it back in the 80s.

I think guys would rather hoist 40-foot jumpers and spin the basketball on their finger. What do we think? I agree with you because like back in the day, you know, before every practice, we had to do our ball handling drills. They don't do stuff like that anymore. They don't do ball handling drills. And when you were sitting at home, you were practicing. and practicing and practicing to spin that ball on your finger. All of us did it.

Even the kids that didn't even play did it. Now I don't think they don't have any interest whatsoever in any ball handling tricks, drills, spinning the ball, nothing like that. Have you ever seen anybody in a game spin the ball on the finger? No, now that you say that. No, of course not. So why would you practice it? Like, it's not the crab dribble, right?

It's not crossovers. It's not all that other stuff that you actually worked on to get better that you would perhaps lead to good hand-eye coordination. Listen, I don't blame Steph for not being able to do it. To your point, in the video, Bam, our guy from Kentucky says something like, we're Gen Z. We don't do this. So he kind of alluded to that, that they're busy doing other things than trying to sit at home and spend the ball on their finger. But I just thought it was fascinated.

Steph Curry, who I thought could do anything with a basketball, not even close to being able to do it. Tom, you played basketball in high school before every practice. You had to do your ball handling drills, and then you do those stupid defensive stance drills. They don't do stuff like that anymore. It makes it silly now to even think about it. It's funny you say that because I just saw a video yesterday that was my son's playing high school basketball. So now my Instagram feed has changed dramatically. Now it's all these basketball training videos and things that come through.

And it's, oh, you think you're too cool for this. The one team that I've seen that does all of those drills, maybe not defensive slide in this video. Yukon. They're out there doing the ball between their legs. They're doing crab dribble. They're doing, you know, the touch pass to yourself up and down. Yeah, it seems to work for Yukon.

But I think it's the idea that, like, you have a coach there who is so incredibly intense. He's not worried about who's too cool for anything. It's this is one of the things that we do to get better. So this is what we're going to do. that game tonight, USA and Canada, first of five pre-Olympic games, and then the real deal starts July 28th. They take on Serbia and the Joker plays for Serbia. So that'll be interesting matchup.

I mean, what are expectations drew for the men's Olympic team? You have to win gold, right? They have to win gold. You're an absolute failure. Is that it? I mean, Carmelo will yell at all of them if they don't win gold. I'm shocked they didn't hold a place for Carmelo on this team. One thing that has me a little concerned with what's happening in training camp,

and it has nothing to do with America, but Cooper Flagg, who is going to do me, is kind of balling against these NBA players in practice. I watched the highlight clip yesterday, and I did not enjoy watching that. I'm glad he's on America's team, and he's going to, well, he's on the practice squad. Now he'll eventually be representing us in the Olympics. But that dude looks ready to just skip college and go to the NBA All-Star game in some of these clips coming out of Vegas so far.

So as excited as I am for Olympic basketball coming up, I do not like watching Duke's star freshman already dominating. Is there any possible way after seeing what Cooper Flagg has done against the best team of All-Stars assembled in the world, that you are actually secretly a Cooper Flagg fan? No, no, no, no. There's a Duke hatred that you can't bend it. It's 100% hatred for all things Duke.

But you like his game. No, I like nothing about him. In fact, I don't want him on the team. Now, when he is on the Olympic team and he's playing against Spain, will I cheer for his uniform? Sure. But now that dude's going to Duke. And on November 12th, we're going to have to see him in Atlanta. No part of me likes what Cooper Flagg is doing.

I respect that so much. I truly do. Because I think he's going to be, like, better than Zion generational good and fun to watch. fun depending on your perspective. But I think it'll be good for college basketball. I think it'll be great for college basketball. We're going to talk in the next segment about just a hair about Big 12 Media Days, and they're creating a lot of news and not much of it is good.

But one aspect that their commissioner has brought up is bifurcating contracts. Ryan, your best guess, what does bifurcation mean? I believe that is when you take one number and you divide it and then you subtract it and then you add it, and then you divide by four, and then you do it by pi r squared. That's something like that, yeah. I would call that answer absolutely ridiculous, but the fact that you came up with pi r squared,

I give you bonus points for that. We will give you the definition of bifurcation, what it means for college sports, and how the Big 12 has hit on something that I think could have a big impact on college sports going forward. Can we take a break now? Is that what we do? Yeah.

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KSR continues, Tom Hart in for Matt today, who continues his vacation around all of Europe. he was running with the Bulls this week. On my vacation, I saw a Radio Shack. So I got that going. Whoa. Wow. The rare side is it open? It was a side-by-side Sears slash Radio Shack.

My goodness. It was true Americana. It's on my Twitter feed right now. And I did put a couple of pictures up from our vacation on my, on my Instagram, Tommy H-44, T-O-M-M-I-E-H-44 is my Instagram. Let's open up the phone line. Ryan, give the phone number real quick because I don't know it. 859-280-2287.

859-2-80-cats. Do we have the text line available? Oh, got it right here in my hand, Tommy. 502-735-3680. We've got some good ones rolling in already today, so we can get to those whenever you want to. Can you reveal what you shot at Pebble Beach before we move on? Because our KSR listeners know, Matt has played a few prestige,

prestigious golf courses. Yeah. And he comes back and he's like, oh, man, shot of 77 and no one believes it. So can we get an honest answer of what Tom, how you performed out there? Sure. Yeah.

I don't think I need to be specific because it was horrendous. There we go. I did not break 90. I'll just say that much. Yeah, he claimed he claimed he shot at 85 at the New York. Beth Page. Bates Black. Rider Cubs there next year.

No chance. No chance. No chance in H.E. double hockey six. He shot in 85 at Pett Page Black. I think it was actually in 81. He's kind of get out of here with that show. But I had, here is the beauty of it.

I had, we played golf three straight days. We played three different courses. We finished the last day at Pebble Beach. I had some incredible shots out there and some great holes. Now, I couldn't string it together and do it for 18. But what I realize is when you have a great shot or a great hole at a course like that, it just hits different. It feels so much better. Like it feels immaculate. Now, it stunk that I wasn't able to put it together. By the way, it would. It was a four-man trip. I knew one of the guys. I didn't know the other two,

but it was the perfect combination. All right. It's kind of like, it's kind of like what you guys have, right? You need a little bit of different personality. We had my buddy whose birthday was kind of ran the thing. And then we had another guy who was pure golfer, very mature. And we had a Another guy who started drinking whole number two every day. And we had to, the last day was Pebble Beach. We had an 840 tea time. And I had to drag him out of bed as we were on our way to breakfast. He shows up on the first tea and he shot at 76.

Wow. Oh, yeah. My goodness. So we had all kinds. Like, we just had a blast. Everybody, everybody had a great time. Big 12 Media Days is going on right now. I don't really care about the Big 12.

I think they are an afterthought in many ways, but they have a commissioner who's very forward thinking and very aggressive. And he uses the word bifurcation, Ryan. Did you figure out what it is? No, I'm waiting. You were close. You were close with the bad stuff. It's the division of something into two branches, okay?

Bifurcation of the Big 12 television rights going forward, which is years away. He said, well, we're giving real thought into. to splitting up our television rights and taking football and men's basketball, pulling that away separately. So every other conference throws everything in the pot, and you bid on everything. And for example, if you are broadcasting SEC football, you're probably also buying into carrying the softball games and gymnastics and whatever other sports are involved, the baseball championship, obviously. Now, he's saying, we think our basketball is good, enough that we can make some money off of our basketball deal alone.

And he might have a point with Kansas and Arizona, but still basketball for most of the country is just a second thought. Here's what it takes me. If you are splitting your rights and you're taking football and you're saying, just bit on this, and you're taking men's basketball saying just bit on this, then that leaves, just to generalize here, and not to insult anybody. But that leaves your secondary sports and primarily in most conferences, your non-revenue sports as this pot that you're asking someone else to bid on

to then broadcast those when they're typically kind of an ad on. Like, oh, you want football? Yeah. Okay, you're going to put our soccer games on on Thursday nights, you know, just as an example. So what does that mean for college sports going forward? We've already entered into a bit of revenue sharing, right?

With the up to $22 million that you can spend directly to the athletes coming from the school that is a byproduct of, media revenue already. Well, then what is to keep if the Big 12 goes through with this or any other league from saying, all right, our football is going to be separate. Whatever we can make the most money on,

we're going to separate those. Football over here, that's the big cash cow. Men's basketball, most leagues, is the other cash cow. Could that then allow you to bypass some of the Title IX rules in terms of how much money is going to which player, Whereas right now, and they've got to sort through it, there's some thought like, okay, to keep in line with Title IX, we might have to split our payments 50-50. Nobody really knows yet. And we're still months, if not a year away from figuring out how the $22 million will be divided. But if you can show that no, no, no, this is the football revenue, media revenue only. That revenue sharing will go to football players only. This is the men's basketball revenue, media revenue. that revenue sharing will go to men's basketball players only.

And further down the line, Drew, doesn't that then give you the right to fit the payments equal to the revenue that comes in as opposed to whatever Title IX regulations may try to make it 50-50? I mean, the way you lay that out, it sounds like that could happen, but that just sounds like another thing that is going to make it harder on secondary sports, right? I mean, they're just losing more money to football and basketball. We've been talking on the show about how some schools might even choose to drop sports already with the big payments. They're going to start paying with the NCAA lawsuit. So as you say that, I've never heard that as an angle. I didn't hear the Big 12 commissioner say this, but it makes me worry even more that they're just kind of pushing those secondary sports to a side, even though that means a lot to the participants and the fans of those programs.

Well, to be clear, he didn't say that additional part. He said we're thinking about bifurcation and splitting them. And my question was, well, then what's next? Like what is the huge benefit of that? And if the benefit of it is, okay, we can funnel more money to these two sports. Now what it would do is it would create more of an even playing field, possibly for all of the other schools with the quote unquote second tier sports. So that could be a good thing, I suppose, if you can level that playing field. But we had Greg Sankey on, and I think it's something you'll hear next week at SEC Media Days.

We had Sankey on in the SEC baseball tournament. And my direct question to him was, where do you see this going, the revenue difference, in terms of having to eliminate sports? And his answer to me directly was that's not something we want to do. Doesn't mean we won't do it or schools won't have to do it. It's that's not something we want to do. So I think maybe that's, you know, that could be years down the line. But when you're talking about all of a sudden $22 million,

being taken out of your operating budget and being sent one specific direction, that's a challenge. I think the other challenge was getting Ryan to learn what bifurcation is. I mean, he dropped the pie R squared. What was that? Yeah, I'm really proud of you. I'm proud of you that you came up with that. Do you know what the foil method is? No, it's got to do with the aluminum foil, I assume, something like that.

Yeah. How you wrap your sandwiches, your leftover sandwiches. In her last, right? Yes, Shannon. I remember that. Shannon's cheating again. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. All right.

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They're running back up. for a DUI and he said, yeah, I'm thinking about punishing him. I might make him run it 50 times in the opener. That was the punishment he came up with. And basically, he's not punishing the guy. And as he was trying to explain himself, like only he can, he said, I mean, I've done it a thousand times. Yeah. And I was in Stillwater for the baseball regional, so, you know, two months ago. It is a small town and Oklahoma State football is the only thing they have there. And I was thinking about his actions and the lack of punishment is going to come down. And this guy puts his foot in his mouth all that. It's not just like as a coach, you must be a better example for your players.

Because if you're not, then they're going to say, well, Ollie didn't get in trouble. I'm not going to get in trouble. And then you have real problems on your hand. And no fan base like the Kentucky fan base knows it as well as as anybody based on what happened back in the late 90s with the football team. you cannot have any policy in regards to drunk driving, then there will be severe punishment. And to come out and say, oh, I've done it a thousand times at least is inexcusable. But Gundy is like a feudal lord or a small town sheriff or, you know, a major corporation in a small town. People are so afraid in that town to speak out against him because without him, what is still water? it's you know it's nothing it's not it's not football is what drives all of the revenue in that town

i thought it was discussing shannon did you see that what were your thoughts about i couldn't believe that he said that i mean like you just said if you allow your backup running back to get away with it and your punishment is to give him the ball more you are not only saying it's okay you're encouraging that behavior which i don't care who you are i can't believe that he could get away I know you said that, you know, he kind of makes still water what it is, but at the same time, you cannot say something like that, especially being a head coach. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I don't know if there's any kind of punishment that the Big 12 can hand down to Gandhi for saying something like that, but it is inexcusable. I think it's another example of why we need a commissioner for college football. Like you need rules in place when it comes to player behavior. One of his arguments was, well, these guys are getting paid. it's going to hurt other guys on the team if he's not out there helping him win or helping him. You can make

any argument you want. They're all idiotic. Drew, they're idiotic. I mean, he's kind of crazy. I couldn't believe even coming out of his mouth what I was listening to yesterday. I mean, that guy might have the best job security in the world. He's from there. He played quarterback there and he's been the coach for 20 years. As you said,

it's his town. But they, something has to be done about those comments. You can't get away with basically excusing a DUI. College sports have already gotten a little lenient with DUIs in past years anyway, but to not suspend the guy alone was crazy. The comment about I'm going to punish him by making him run 50 times, I thought was really crazy.

And then when he got into how I've done it a thousand times, I could not believe what I was hearing that an adult would say that anywhere, let alone at Media Day with cameras and a microphone in your face when you're the one that's supposed to be setting the example. Brian, you look like you have something to say. Well, you know, coming from a guy that says stupid stuff on a daily basis, at least I know the line that you can't draw across. And you're the leader of that program. Like you said, leader of the whole city.

What kind of example are you setting not just for your teammates, but the recruits that you're trying to come to be on your team? You know, I can see like the mothers against drunk driving and organizations like that coming down hard on this guy for something you say. Because there's certain things you can't joke about. And that's obviously one of them. Well, and he didn't seem like he was joking. Like, he wasn't laughing about it. He was, I did my research on my cell phone, this guy. Oh, yeah, he named how many beers go into a BAC.

He thought he was the smartest guy in the room during that explanation when he was really just looking like an idiot. He sounded like a dumb 22-year-old. Yeah. Which, like, I get it. Sometimes 22-year-olds, 20-year-olds make stupid comments and think that they're the smartest guy in the room and they're really not. No one's told Mike Gundy he's not the smartest guy in the room.

No one's told him that. Ron, you got to read it to do it. Oh, yeah, you're ready to go? You know, Club Blue is excited to announce a partnership with the basketball tournament, TBT, offering Club Blue members an exclusive discount. Club Blue members have access to a 15% discount to watch Lawfamilia playing in the TBT tournament at Ruff Arena on July 19th. Of course, the team features all the former UK players coached by Tyler Ulyss. All Club Blue members can log into their account at Clubbblue nil.com.

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and it may be years before it got there. But while I was on my little sojourn out west in San Francisco, I told you went to the Giants Dodgers game, got there early, went and grabbed a bite, and then we're like two miles away from the first. the ballpark so we're looking for an uber we took a driverless car oh oh uh they're called waymo i think is what they're they're they're operated by google's it's a google thing there's very limited space like they only go a couple miles um square miles in san francisco they're not allowed

to get on the interstate but we were fascinated by this thing it was a little bit unnerving like we're giving our lives over to robots right and then and i'd never heard of them before. But so we we wrote in it to the game. We wrote in it after the game. It was it was a blast. We were being idiots like, hey man, can you turn the radio up? How long you've been driving? What's your favorite restaurant in town? Didn't get any answers. No answers. And then I saw that one got pulled over. What got pulled over by the cops. Shannon has the audio. I don't know if it's going to translate. I don't know if you, Shannon, can you play it? I can pull it up here. Yeah, I'll have to walk into my Instagram. So, you know, you. So, you know, it's going to translate. So, you

you get in the car, you pull up the app, it comes to meet you, the car pulls up, you have to punch in a code for the car to unlock, and then you pile in, and it just starts driving. Nice. Steering wheel is moving on its own. It is the freakiest thing ever. You can play whatever music you want because it's got the whole, and by the way, it wasn't a dumpy car, it was a Jaguar. So, whoa. Anyway, we had a blast riding it, and I forget, I think this was in. Arizona in the last week.

It was going down the wrong way road and a cop pulled it over and this is the discussion the cop had with the car. Shannon, can you do it? See if I got it here. Hang on. I might just have to just play it straight off my phone because it's not pulling up for some reason.

All right, here we go. There's no driver. It means of traffic. All right, so that's good. Like, the officer pulls up and he's like, there's no driver here. So the guy comes on the Bluetooth and he's like yeah your car pulled into oncoming traffic i would suggest that this company go to stillwater

immediately the money you could make for mike gundy if he does it a thousand times put him in one of these cars by the way do we think that maybe there's a chance if mike gundy is done it a thousand times and he's basically lived nowhere but still water that he's been pulled over before oh you know that's never got charged yeah wink wink yeah let's get you home coach wink wink come on we'll take you home That may or may not have happened in Lexington at one time, huh? Maybe a time of two. Why the pause? While the silence.

I was thinking which former coach are you talking about. Come on. You know who we're talking about. Billy G. Right? Yeah. Well, you know, with Jerry Tipton in yesterday, talking about the Eddie Sutton.

It could have been either one of those guys. I think I heard stories that had happened with Eddie more than once. Well, more than once is not a thousand. And the guy bragged about doing it a thousand times. What do you got on the text line there, Ryan? Oh, I got some good ones. First of all, somebody says, please tell Tom there is a radio shack in Maysville, Kentucky. All right.

Really? There's more than I thought. I actually looked it up. But what makes it fascinating is there used to be 8,000 radio shacks, literally, over 8,000. And now they're down to sub-300. So I'm not terribly surprised by that, but I was surprised that I saw it on the side of a two-lane road in Arkansas. Let me get you one more, a serious one from the aviation glass text machine. As Tom, I predict that universities will drop non-revenue generating sports down to club level that are not NCAA sanctioned.

Do you see that as what's coming? Yeah, absolutely. Because you still have the facilities in many ways. I'll give you a quick example. So I mentioned I was in Stillwater earlier this spring. Their softball team made it to the Women's College World Series. Their stadium is a dump, and they need a new stadium. However, in Oklahoma, their rival just built this incredible softball palace, like $50 million they spent on that thing.

You'd be an idiot to spend $50 million on a softball stadium if you're Oklahoma State because your revenue is shrinking. You're going to lose $20 million from your budget. You need to find a place to put it and find a place to drum up that $20 million. If you drop softball, which is a non-revenue sport and pair it with a men's sport to stay. title nine compliant, say, okay, you can still use a stadium. We'll make it a club sport. Just go do your thing. I think we're a lot closer than that, to that than people realize. Now, it would surprise some people which sports at which schools are revenue generating. LSU gymnastics generates revenue. There's a lot of softball programs that generate revenue.

Now, you maybe are going to have to cut back some of your spending. If old men's, Ole Miss Women's Basketball is losing $4 million a year, you're going to go there and say, hey, we're going to cut back the charters. We're going to cut back some of the spending to get you in a place that you're more compliant with the budget. We don't have to cut the sport. You just have to rein in some of the spending.

I just don't. I'm sure Sankey will talk about it next week. How these schools are supposed to become compliant with the budget when so much money is going to be diverted to just strictly and directly paying the athletes. I don't know what that answer is. You know, SEC media days next week, you're going? It's got the All-Star game in town, too, in Dallas. Oh, I didn't think about that.

A little side-by-side going on. I was planning to go, but now I can't make it. But I think that's going to be a fun one down there, in addition to all the news that will be going on. What day is the All-Star game? I should know that. Is it Wednesday, Thursday night? I also don't know that, but I know. Your Braves are sending three to Arlington.

Usually it's Tuesdays. There you go. Because Monday is the home run derby, and then you get the Tuesday All-Star game. So Leslie. There you go. That's a nice, nice double-dip. I'm not going.

No, I didn't go last year. I was on vacation. And since it's not in Hoover anymore, it's a little less convenient for me to get to. And I got nothing to do there. What am I going to do? Hang out. Drink free coffee?

Hang out. Go to the All-Star game? Do karaoke. I can do that anywhere. All right, we got one more break coming up. Ryan's going to lead the way with the topic of his choosing as we close out the first hour in KSR right after this. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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he I guess it was his wife, I think it was. He poured it down her backside and drank it as it came down the bar. In a restaurant. Yeah, not like it happened in their backyard and it was on video. This was in a restaurant.

But here's how it really made news. So some these Yahoo's decide to do this in some restaurant and their friend at the booth records it. And then it kind of goes viral. So her name is Mary Sweat. His name is Joe Boyette. Mary shows up to the police office, and she complains to the cops saying someone had leaked this video

and it's spreading like wildfire and social media. The police knew nothing of this. They weren't called that night. Once they saw the video, they arrested both of them for public indecency. Yeah. Yeah. Carmar. Be careful.

That's right. My favorite part is the restaurant, though, putting out a statement going, this does not reflect our values. Like what restaurant does have that value? Like, come on in, bring your margaritas in your funnel. Let's have a good time. Like, don't even have to make a statement if you're the restaurant. I thought he was the dumbest for doing it. I didn't know the part about her going to the police station.

I saw the video go viral. That is incredibly stupid. What does she think was going to happen in that scenario? We're going to help you find the person that leaked this video of you being. half naked in a public restaurant. It's another example of how we just get so hyper-focused on what we see on social media. The reality is like 2% of us are on there. Most people are completely unaware of what's happening.

So just shut up. Do we have any callers ready to go, Shannon? I got the phone lines open. We're just waiting for people to call. I have a question for you, Tom. You said you're going to make me have a topic? Yeah. There are a lot of great broadcasters out there.

I include you as one of them, sports broadcasts. I'm not even saying that. I include you in that group of guys that can do football, basketball, baseball, and another guy I think is pretty good is Joe Testatory. He has just signed a deal to do play-by-play for the W.W.E. Tom Hart. Is that something you want to add to your resume? Could you do play-by-play for W.W.?

Well, okay, truth tree here, just us talking. I literally texted Joe Tess's boss yesterday when I saw the news, and I said this is an absolute home run hired. Congrats, he's going to kill it. He's perfect for this role. He's so dramatic in the way he calls a game and builds up these moments and kind of lays low, and when it's the game is slow, and then fires all of his bullets when something dramatic has happened. I think he's perfect.

Ryan, I think you know me well enough. I'd do anything for a box. Well, Shannon, you and the Shannon the dude, Shannon already does color commentary for wrestling, for OVW wrestling. We could team up. We could be like J.R. and the King. You know, you got to start somewhere. So OVW is a good developmental territory. So maybe you start off going.

I'll send you my rates. Yeah, okay. If the owner can match it. Well, you think they'll give you a diet Coke and a bag of popcorn, I think, if you come to an OVW. The owner's on a 10-week European vacation. Surely he can afford it, not Tom Hart. Are we sure he's going to come back? Still up in the air.

We're hopeful. We're very hopeful. The Bulls didn't get him this week, so we're hopeful. Just get comfortable over there, Tom. Keep your Wednesdays open for the rest of the calendar year. I'm free through the fall on Wednesdays. I feel like you were going to ask something there a moment ago. Well, yes, I had a great question.

It was a little more fitting. with the past topic, but I was just going to ask Ryan the craziest thing he's ever done in a Mexican restaurant because I'm not convinced that couple has done anything as wild as Ryan. We were in a Mexican restaurant. And I don't like how quick you were to answer this. On Cinco de Mayo, and it was Kentucky Derby Day, and the entire electricity of the restaurant went out. And there's about 12 of us in there, and there's no electricity. So to keep us happy and keep us that they just kept serving us margaritas.

So yes, we brought in our... No funnel? We went out to the car, got our own boom box, set it down on the table, jam, dancing. We had the whole restaurant. It was glorious. It was a glorious evening. How many people, when the power went out and how many people said, you know, we better just shut it down and leave? Like, did everybody stay or only, like, the true part of your stuck around?

Once they started handing out free margaritas, everybody stayed, yes. I thought you were going to go with the time you had too many margaritas and had a foot race in a parking lot in foot. Oh, I forgot about that one. That's another one. Same restaurant. Did you win? My son beat me because I did a Pete Rose slide down the concrete sidewalk. Brutal.

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