KSR - 2025-03-20- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

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A Vigion Autoglass text machine 772-745254 in this edition sponsored by T.J. Smith-Lawfice. you call TJ. He'll make them pay. Here's what we're doing today. We are in a house in Milwaukee. I don't even know what part of town this is. What is this? The upper east side, I think it's said. Whatever. We're in northeast of the arena. We're in a part of town here in Milwaukee.

If you want to watch, we have a rare couple segments, Shannon, on video. Oh, Lario is streaming live from what, KSR the show? From the KSR the show Instagram accounts. If you don't follow us on Instagram, go to KSR the show. Mario's got this camera right here in my face for you to watch. Ryan Lemon, it's nice to see you this morning. I love this house. It's a massive house.

It's beautiful. But you could tell some stuff went down in this house and it's the heyday. All right. So we are, like I said, we're in this neighborhood in Milwaukee and we drove in here. It's the North Point neighborhood. North Point. So it's not the Upper East Side. We don't give the address.

We have the northeast side. Okay. North Point. All right. So North Point. It is a house that I think conservatively is 375. years old. We got it from Airbnb. It is, it's old, but it's nice. Like at one point, Shannon was clearly like a grand regal house. The governor of Wisconsin apparently lived here. It's three floors.

There are a million rooms, some of which have locks that you must have codes to get into. Ron and I are sleeping in those rooms. And we stayed there. We stayed there last night. We're going to be here the whole trip. And it's an interesting place. I mean, it's not, it's nice. it's also odd, may be haunted. Possible, former may not be haunted. Possibly.

Why do you think it's a bottle? I don't know. It just reminds me of them. It does have a lot of rooms. A lot of rooms. A lot of brothels? Just what I would imagine one to be, you know. It does have.

Hypothetically. That's an interesting point about how many rooms it has. Right. Because like for a size, it's a large house, but it feels like, I mean, it has like nine bedrooms and it has like seven bathrooms. And I hadn't thought of that as a possible. But I can see it. Well, you know, when we came in, it said six bedrooms and we can only find two.

And then we realized, you know, one door goes to a staircase, which goes to another room and it just keeps going and going and going. It's a mansion. And they named this place the embassy, which I find kind of odd. Because, like, I guess, I mean, there's no federal government in Wisconsin. So you wouldn't think there would be an embassy here. But it's very nice. We're close to some neighbors. It's where we're going to be for the next four days.

hard wood floors, kind of, it's like we're in a stately manner. It is. However, I keep waiting for another human to just walk out of one of these rooms in here. I actually, last night after Shannon and I watched Prices Right all night, I took the butcher knife from the kitchen and slept with it just in case. I had to switch bedrooms because you all were watching prices right until like two in the morning. We're trying to place our bids. We sucked at it. Yeah, we were.

Well, I mean, when you watch one from 2010, it may be hard to know the prices. That's the most obvious I've seen inflation is seeing prices right 15 years ago and what stuff Yeah, exactly. That's how you'll figure out what government does. So we're here. The NCAA tournament starts at 10, well, it starts in two hours. It starts for the next four days. We are very excited. We're going to watch some of the games here. Kentucky has their practices and their press conferences today. We're going to go there, Mario and Drew and I, and then we're going to be watching games. Then Kentucky plays tomorrow night. It's an exciting time of year. Now, we drove up here to Milwaukee yesterday, right? an adventurous drive, as the kids would say. I don't know if actually they would say that, but it was an adventurous drive. We've all seen storms kind of roll in. That storm that rolled in on us was eerie, man.

It was dark, and you could see the cloud spinning. It was kind of crazy. People had said, Shannon, like, oh, if you're driving in south of Chicago today, you know, you need to watch out. They have tornado watches and storms, and, you know, my view is it'll be fine. Right. It'll be fine until it's not. We'll watch for them.

Yeah, it'll be fine. Like, I'll see them. It'll miss us. I'm going to keep the sunroof up. I'm going to be fine. And then we were in, I think it was Dyer, Dyer, Illinois. So the traffic in Chicago was particularly bad. The Ways had us going off the main pass.

We were on like some secondary roads. And it had us in Dyer, Illinois, D-Y-E-R. And all of a sudden, our phones buzzed, and it says, tornado warning, Dyer, Illinois. I thought we were all going to die. And I literally was like, what are the chances? I mean, I don't even know how big Dyer, Illinois is. Look up how many people live in Dyer, Illinois.

It can't be that many people. Like a couple thousand, I would think. Max. Yeah, I mean, it can't be that many people. And we're in dire- 16,000. 16,000. So it's like, you know, when you get a tornado warning and you're there,

but we weren't anywhere we could pull off. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And we see it. It's not there. yet, but it's clear it's coming. It's coming.

And I can tell. I know this car. I know the people in it. Nerves started to hit the car. A little bit. I looked in the back. Mario looked very scared. And then I was like, we have to protect him.

This is our child. Yes. And we kind of outraced the storm. I drove fast. We got to like 15 minutes north. And then it hit. And apparently it hit Dyer, Illinois. I don't know if a tornado hit the ground,

but they had a massive storm. We hit a lot of. lot of rain, not the wind of the storm, but it is weird to get a tornado warning on your phone because warning, I think, means they've seen it. Yeah, it's been spotted. It's been spotted. To get a tornado warning on the phone and then you're like, oh, wait, this is where we are. Yeah, it was that loud noise and it was all five of our phones in a tiny car kind of startled all of us. You even turned down Willie's Roadhouse for a minute. I thought it was on Willie's Roadhouse, but it was not. Yeah, that was a bizarre scene. You know, Indiana, Illinois, it's so flat you can see for so far. We can

to see the storm brewing off in the distance and just slowly heading towards us and we had nowhere to go but keep driving north i was kind of looking behind me like is it behind us you know like when i was a kid my house got hit by a tornado so i've got a little bit of PTSD from that i didn't know that is that happened i think 96 97 so um i'm like seriously looking to see where can we pull off but we're like it's like we're in the movie twisters like it's just it's just a blank field so where are you going to go right so we speed up and if you've ever driven to chicago you know when you first get into that Chicago traffic, there's that spot, they call them an oasis,

right, as you're about to get into Chicago. So we pull off there, run inside, pouring rain, it's hail, and then Ryan gets in there and goes, I've lost my wallet. Which is a great ride and lemon move, Drew, because we haven't even gone anywhere. We've just been sitting in the car.

And think about if he didn't have his wallet. You can't get the credentials, can't get into a restaurant or bar, casino, there's a lot of casinos here, can't get in a casino, can't do anything. and he, I mean, he's the oldest one of us, and he's like, I've lost my, I've lost my wallet. Silver alert. Yeah.

Phone's going off. So it turns out you went outside. You had just dropped it in the parking lot of the oasis, and it was then drenched. How did you manage to do that? I think when we all jumped out of our van, you know, cops 911, we were all just jumping out. and running into the old... What is cops 9-1-1? You know, like when the cops pull over a van

and they open up all the doors and everybody just scatters. That's what you do when the cops pull you over? That's what we do in Otwell. So we were all scattering, and I guess at some point, when I scattered and jumped and started running, it just fell out of my front pocket.

Okay. And it was out in the middle of the parking lot. So now it's wet. So now you have that wet, gross money. Yeah, yeah. My favorite part of the whole thing was, Ryan goes, I lost my wallet. There's a good chance it would be in the parking lot.

He knew. And he knew it was. was probably sitting there in the parking lot getting poured on. And it was. But he was in no hurry to go get it. It was pouring down rain. So would you rather have lost your wallet? Oh, you know, wait until it stopped raining a little bit.

And I went out there. And then hope it's still there. Because if there's one thing, truck stops are where you feel the safest with your money. It's certainly where no one would take anything. Right, yeah. Right. A Chicago truck stop. I can't think of a better place to have your wallet just sitting on the ground.

But, you know, that's why we love Ryan. I mean, it would have just been a boring seven-hour drive. if we had to stop in an all-glass overpass to hide from a tornado and have Ryan run back outside to see his wallet floating down the parking lot. The other part of the trip, you know, because people seem to like to hear about the road trips. We, this car does not have satellite radio. You know, I don't, I try not to go on any long drive.

It doesn't have satellite radio. But Mario got this van very rudely did not get a satellite radio. So we had to listen to. And then my phone, we listened to like podcasts, but after a while, how many more podcasts can you listen to? Right. So we got close to Chicago, and I didn't, Delilah was on. Delilah, the love thing, right?

And, you know, I hate Delilah, not as a human, but I really hate that show. But I didn't realize she was Bay Shannon in Chicago. I didn't know what she was still on the air. I also didn't realize she was live because she was talking about the storms. Yeah. I always assumed that show was taped. I thought it was too. And if you're young, you don't know what Delilah is.

So Delia was like this old lady, and people call in and they're like, Delilah, my wife and I've been married for 73 years, and I love her. And so I want to dedicate Roar by Katie Perry because she makes me roar. And like that's the kind of thing, right? And then people call in and ask for advice. And I didn't realize how funny it could be to listen to that show with Shannon. who mocks everyone who calls in, who, like a guy called in, and he was like so serious. And he goes, Delilah, I've loved this woman for 23 years. I drive her home from work every single day.

And I want to tell her how much I love her. And I want to tell her that she's always complaining about men. And I always just want to tell her, if you just love me, I'd love you, no conditions asked. And I want her to know, Delilah, what do I do? Shannon was like, stop being. a loser. That show should be called Delilah talks to virgins because I don't think that any of those guys have ever been with a woman. First of all, I wanted to say to him, dude, you're in the friend's own. Right. Like, it's not happening. If you've driven her home from work for 23 straight

years and it hadn't happened, it ain't going to happen. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. Delilah, what do I do? He's like, Delilah, what do I do? And then Delilah gives the worst advice which goes, honey, wait five minutes because once she hears this, I think your problems will be solved. No, they won't. As if anybody's listening other than us and that poor guy to Delilah. First of all, you'd have to assume that woman was listening. Second, I think she'd be creeped out. Here she thought he was just giving her a ride home for 23 years.

And instead, he's like wanted her. So Shannon reacting to Delilah calls. I feel like needs to be its own show to me. Maybe that's not. Because these are very sincere people. Yeah. And Shannon has no sincerity in his life. It's so absurd that even that type of radio exists in the year 2025.

It's like, dude, if you feel that way, you can just pick up the phone and maybe text her, call her. He wanted to call Delilah. He was like, I don't know how to tell her that I love her after this. So you want Delilah to tell her for you? Man up, dude. What is wrong with you? The fact that he can't tell her is why, Drew, he's not getting her. Because he can't even say to her that he likes her.

I'm taking the other approach. I can't wait to listen to more Delilah. It kind of reminds me of like a Dave Ramsey people calling in with their problems, getting a little advice, but then she played some hits in between. I need the soundtrack to Delala too. So Delilah, maybe I recommend it now. I still think she's probably lame, but the idea of, as Shannon would say, Virgin's calling in and asking for love advice,

Ryan is actually kind of entertaining. I'm not going to lie. It was an all-time first for all of us to listen to Delilah, but as soon as the story came on, we all got, immediately got quiet. We were all hooked, man. We had to listen to the next story that came on. Who is the lamest person that can talk call in next?

Yeah. Anyway, but we're here in Milwaukee. That's your NCAA tournament preview. We go. 899-2-80-2287. Text machine is 772-7-7-4. We will take a break. You can keep it rolling during the break,

or do you just turn it off? See, they want the behind the scenes. Well, you can turn it back on on the second second. Get Ryan's shirt when you come back. We'll take a break. That shirt. Once again, doesn't fit. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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One person writes, Matt, did you know Delilah has 15 kids? Wow. You know, it's one thing. Like Elon Musk, I think he has like 14, but it's an easier job for him than it would be for her. 15. She just volunteered, the three of them were drug addicts last night, which I thought if I was one of her kids,

I'd be like, why are you saying that? I'm on the radio. But if she has 15, she's got 12 more, So I guess that's what Got experience, I guess. So she's got some advice to give. She just stayed pregnant? Or she adopted a lot of them.

Oh, that's probably right. Yeah, that's probably right. Yeah. Well, now you made me feel bad. Like, you're not sweet. That's very nice that you would do that. But 15's a lot. It is.

Also could be you're just talking about romance all day long and relationships you get home. It's just on your brain. I need some more kids. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well,

that's what you preach. I am once again going to say, Shannon answers Delilah calls. Great call. That should be a show or a TikTok account or something else. So Kentucky is here in Milwaukee. Ryan, we found out yesterday. Chris Beesmore put out this email that I guess went to someone.

Remember, Mark Pope said that he was going to pay for the gas money. Yes. If you would drive to Milwaukee and you had tickets. Now, my assumption was, yeah, that's a funny thing to say. I didn't really think he was going to do it. And then Paul Miller Ford did a thing where they gave away $100, $100 gas cards. And I was like, oh, that's nice. You know, use the official partner, do this, make sense.

But then I guess there were apparently people who just emailed UK and Mark Pope and said, can I have my gas money. So they took it seriously. They were like, all right, hey, man. You want to pay for the gas? By the way, why didn't we? I mean, we were coming. I didn't ask.

But now we see the email that he's actually, he actually responded and said his assistant, what's your VIMO will send you the gas money. By the way, you can't have a ninth grader through 12th grader because that would be illegal recruiting, which would be unfortunate if they did have one of those people. First of all, that's awesome. I have three reactions. One, that's awesome. Two, that's surprising.

Three, do you think you should have actually written Mark Pope and asked for the gas money? What do you think, Brian? First of all, if there's any coach in college basketball that would do it, he's the one guy that you know you can say, oh, yeah, Mark Pope will do something like that, bought the ice cream at Rupp, buying gas to the people that need it. I am surprised with you that people really like, okay, I'm going to email him. He's going to pay for my gas because he said so when he's coach's show.

And presumably now that I and others have put it out, Drew, other people are going to do it too. I think he's going to have to cut it off. I mean, that's like $100 a person or $80 a person. I mean, it's not cheap. Yeah, what's he get? 5.5 a year? I think he's taken home like less than a million now between ice cream and buying gas for fans.

He did a lot of stuff like this at BYU with fans, but I think he's just now realizing how many. I guess he had forgotten the power of Big Blue Nation here because he has gotten blown up with that. I think he was shocked by the ice cream move a few months ago too. Shannon, I know you wouldn't have done this. What, what, taking him up on or giving the money? I know you would have taken him up on it. You would not have given the money. That is correct.

I think this will probably be the last time he ever does this when he sees the final tab. You know, you talked about on the coaches show, and immediately the first person that wrote them was wanting them to buy a plane ticket from Florida. He said, I said gas money for cars, not for planes. People, people, you give them an actual, take a mile. That's exactly right. It is amazing to people. It's amazing to me how when you do something nice for people, and this is on a whole other level. Yeah.

But when you do something nice for people, gifts become expectations at some point, right? And we see this with tickets all the time. Like, we see this with tickets. Like, I'll give away tickets. And sometimes people will get very angry about either the way I give it to them. Like somebody would be like, well, I can't get it that way. Well, I don't have to, you know, I mean. We don't owe it to you.

Yeah, that's on you. But that's exactly right. So I do wonder. But then again, we don't know how many people he gave it to. How many people do you think emailed it? I mean, we'll find out probably in the press conference today. Somebody will ask him about it. But before it comes out, right, how many gas cards you think he ended up giving via email?

Because they should cut it off now because I'm sure he's giving. getting a ton. But how do we think you did it before that? I mean, first of all, for people to email, you've got to think you're an older, older generation. I don't think any young kids are going to email for gas. Oh, for $100 they would. Yeah, for $100. Send off one email for $100. But you're email him before you knew he was doing it.

You're like just going to email him to think he might. Right. What do you mean? No, he said he'd do it. Yeah. So you take it on your own. Mormon's no lie. But, you know, he says it on his radio show.

Like, okay, after the radio show, I'm going to email him. Do you think in your mind? Is that how people type? Yeah. I want to email him. Is that the Sally type? Like a spider? People my age and older, probably the only people that would, I think, email him.

So I don't know, I don't know if it'd be as high as we think it is. That email. How many do you think he was? Oh, I would say at least a couple of hundred, maybe 300. You think it's that maybe? Yeah. But whoever's running the email. Well, we know her name's on there.

She was busy yesterday then. Yeah, poor, poor, that poor girl. Yeah, you at least had to have a ticket. So that narrows it down quite a bit. So a lot of those people are probably. flying so I'm with Shannon I'd say a little under a thousand if you oh that's definitely under yeah yeah I mean that well I wondered if people if it was a thousand just for the record that might be like a hundred thousand dollars he'd have to pay so I I think so at 300

if they're all in the same car if people pull a fast man if you just had to show a ticket five people in the same vehicle I think it's gonna be a smaller number than you all think that's good I think it's gonna be like 80 or 100 like I just don't because I just don't think a lot of people would think to do it now after I put that after Chris and then I put that story out. Now I think they're going to get a lot. But I think, you know, at the moment, it's probably the case right that people are like, well, he's just being facetious. He's not really going to do it. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I think it would probably less than 100. That moment after the radio show that people really thought, okay, I'm going to email him and he's going to buy me a gas card.

But it is cool that he's doing it. Right. Like he's getting a lot of, uh, why are you close up on his nipples? Why are you doing that? That's what the people want. Oh, they want to see his shirt. Tray Mitchell lost to Oakland. That's not good, good mojo coming into the tournament. Yeah, that's a Trey Mitchell. He, that we lost to Oakland. Yeah.

We got a marker. I'll put a big X all over him. Well, no, because then that's rude. Oh, that's me. Not Trey. No, but that looks like,

if you put an X over Trey Mitchell, it looks like you hate it, which you don't. I don't. So then, I think, throwing one of the fireplaces here. You said during the break,

you've not bought a piece of clothing since when? Probably the 90s. 30 years ago. That I bought something for myself. Because you're at this point. I mean, people kid me about, Always wearing hoodies.

And that's true. But I do buy them. You're to the point that you only wear clothes people give you, right? Yeah, yeah. And I mean by people like strangers, not like just family. Like you only wear t-shirts that people come up to the bar and hand you. Yeah, I don't know if I own a t-shirt that I bought myself. And you wear a t-shirt almost every day.

That's good. You wear a shirt every day. I've got some UK stuff I'm going to wear this weekend that Dane gave me. So I didn't have to pay for that stuff. You're not like it's Valentine's. day and you want to look good for your date and you're like you know i know i know the three shirts he wears i could tell you exactly what they are they're like are they're button-ups they're tight he wears them all the way rolled down but you never had the urge like i should upgrade to look really nice for this

event when's the last time you've bought something new to like look good like i'm ryan lemon i'm like a hundred that i actually bought myself yeah i mean it's been probably 15 20 years maybe more than that you haven't surprised you woman and be like, look at this thing I got? No. What about like a new winter coat or, you know, new pair of shoes? I did buy a winter coat like a year ago. There we go.

But not a shirt, though. But you're still wearing a T-Mitchell T-shirt. I mean, he's been gone for a year. We still remember him fondly. I mean, we remember him. He seems fine, but like the day before the NCAA tournament starts, this is the shirt you're going with and it's a tray Mitchell shirt with Ryan's silhouette on it which makes no sense at all makes no sense it's true it's one of one first of all it's tray Mitchell spelled wrong

with with your picture that's so ridiculous so right so you're going to leave this on during the break so you can see the magic happen here all right and we'll take a break we'll preview Kentucky Troy next KSR welcome back techie sports radio here live in Milwaukee 859 280 2287 uh text machine 772, 7752.745254. One person writes, Matt, can I send Ryan some apparel? Do you have a mailing address? Send it to the bar. He'll wear it.

Just look it up online, put it to Ryan limit. But that's not encouraging him to go out and buy his own clothes. I agree. But if people want to give him stuff, what am I supposed to do? We told a story during the break that was just for the people online. So I'm sure that was something you all really enjoyed there on Instagram. Way to do that. At K.Y. Sports Radio.

You know, the tournament starts in Lexington here in, an hour and a half. Yeah, right. Louisville versus Creighton opens the tournament up. The cards start the whole thing off against the Blue Jays. So yesterday, Louisville was, or excuse me, Lexington was a buzz with sights and sounds of teams in Lexington. So here's what I heard. I heard that Auburn practiced at Sayre High School.

Which is crazy. That had to be. Overall, number one seed. Yeah, that was Josh Hopkins, right? Josh and his buddy, they went. Josh, a couple guys from Lexington. Sayer went to Auburn. Josh is a Kentucky fan, but a couple of those dudes are

Auburn fans. I don't know their names. What's their, what are their names? There's lots and there's some pals. There's Josh. Yeah. There's a big Sayer to Auburn pipeline. There is a Sayre to Auburn pipeline. There was a time where all the Auburn,

the Sayer people went to Auburn. So I think that's probably how they ended up there. Trancie had Tennessee practiced. And our friend Twain went to Trancy and Tennessee. So the Tennessee buses were parked in front of Transylvania. You can talk about one of making me vomit, seeing the Trancy having to host

Tennessee. Louisville practice at Lexington Catholic. I don't know how that got set up, but Louisville practiced at Lexington Catholic. And I'm sure the other schools did somewhere too. I'm sure Creighton was somewhere. Somebody said UCLA was also at Trancy later in the day. Okay. So I think Wofford was at Trancy too. Transi must have had a big day. Trancy was a big day at Trancy. This big day at Trancy. If you were at Trancy yesterday, you got to see a lot of good stuff. The Klov Beck Center was the place to be. They needed the bubble still out there at Trance. They could have practiced two teams at one time.

Now, another thing I find interesting about the host city, Shannon, is that, so they put the NCAA books eight hotels, right, for the teams. And they don't put any team in the same hotel. Right. So in order to even bid on the tournament, you have to have at least eight hotels that meet whatever their criteria is. And the way it works is, whatever they deem to be the nicest hotel, the top seat gets to get to them.

And then whatever they deem the worst hotel, the last seat gets to go to. So here's my question. Auburn was the one. They probably got in the nicest hotel. Somebody told me they saw them walking out of the Hilton. Yeah. Got be the Hilton to the Houghton downtown. I think they're at the Hyatt, Tennessee's at the Hilton.

Okay, so you got those. Alabama State is going to be the lowest. Where in Lexington do we think Alabama State State? Since they got the lowest of the hotels. Good question. Where do we think? Alabama State ended up. Maybe is there like a days in or a, uh, you think they put them in a days in?

What's the one? There's like a night's in, like K-N-I-G-H-S. Well, there's a motel out on Versailles Road that Max used to live in. Okay. Yeah. Did you know that? No. Did you know that?

No. That's how Max ended up living with me. He was staying in a hotel on Versailles Road. He came here on the show and he was like, hey, man, I was like, where do you live? And he was like, and he told me the hotel. And it was like just on Versailles Road. Oh. And I was like, what?

That's where you stay? He was like, yeah. He was like, that's where I stay. And I said, you can't live. Because it was, I'm not going to say, it was not nice. I was like, you can't live there. I said, you know, I got next to room, you can stay there. And that's how that all started.

That's how he ended up moving in. Because I didn't want him to live in just like a hourly motel. Hourly, probably hour. Well, you know, like any hotel that has a number in the name is a bad hotel, like a Super 8 or Motel 6. I'm sure they wouldn't put them there, but where do we think they put Alabama State? Somewhere with a free HBO sign out front. Yep. You know, there's a lot of options downtown, but I think they would get cut off before that.

You got the Marriott residents in, Hilton Hyatt. I don't think there's enough to get everybody. And some of those really nice ones don't, like, they say no because they want to, like, sell rooms at a high price. They're probably not going to be a 21C. So I'm sure a team is at Marriott Griffin Gate out there. That's probably right. One team was probably there. But, you know, they're at Beaumont.

They've got like three hotels or Hampton and two or three other ones right there. I'm going to go into the place. Yeah, that's exactly what. Isn't there a place out behind Joseph Beth bookstore? Yep. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I bet that's where they were.

That's one of them. A team there for sure. Lexington Green. Yeah, Lexington Green. So anyway, I just always find those little details kind of interesting. It is weird. You mentioned seeing the bus outside transit. The hotels, when I went through downtown yesterday, I saw Auburn, Louisville, Tennessee,

all parked in our beautiful downtown Lexington, and it didn't sit well with it. Well, Louisville's having their card march with their fans. right now. So somebody literally just sent me a picture of downtown Lexington of a huge throng of Louisville fans are marching through downtown Lexington. Does that not sit well with you? It does not. It does not.

When they had the big protest outside yesterday, I thought people were actually just protesting Louisville being in time. I've heard the guy that... Louisville, get out of here. I've heard the guy that likes to throw hands in his loafers at TBT's been cited around town too. So everyone wear your best... That's a dude that punched you in the face. Yeah, people have been sending me...

of him so be careful that guy's a loose cannon yeah for people who don't remember drew got punched in the faces it's more of uh this area but yeah he got me yeah it doesn't sit well with me that Tennessee fans Louisville fans are kind of taken over our town right now that just kind of doesn't sit well little fans should i mean they haven't had anything to be excited about in years so if they don't show up in Lexington i think that's what they're going to win that look on them i'm going crate and blue jays yeah it's a blue jays yeah it's a blue jay day ryan cogbrunner let's go so none of me i think Louisville wins do you think Louisville uh yeah i think I picked him in my my bracket. So yeah, I think Louisville wins this one.

I think Louisville probably wins too. 859, 280, 2287. All right, turn that off. I'm tired of you. All right. Can we do another behind the scenes next break? No, that's a lot of fun. Rick, who's up first? We got Doug up first.

Doug, go ahead, Doug. Hey, Matt. You hear me okay? Yes, go for it. All right. I just want to bring up something that I noticed watching these first four games is during hat time of each game, there's a commercial, and it shows an African-American family watching,

trying to watch ball games on an old TV, the father's up on the roof, and a raging snowstorm trying to fix the antenna. And the game they're trying to watch, well, it doesn't make any sense, but the teenage daughter is watching on a laptop. It's supposed to be said back in the 1980s. You can tell that she's watching a laptop,

the game is the game that you all referenced a few weeks ago, the Illinois Kentucky game at Illinois on Christmas Eve, 1983. Well, that's interesting. You wonder if that's like a... Yeah, it's an omen. Yeah, if it's an omen. Well, we'll see. I hope it's an omen because we could play Illinois here.

Yeah, we could. That's right. For sure. Yeah, yeah. I appreciate the call. So Xavier wins yesterday. Would you rather, if we assume we beat Troy, I know we have to keep saying that because we've lost twice in the last.

three years to a team like this, would you rather play Illinois? Would you rather play Xavier? Texas is gone. I'm actually kind of glad because I think Texas, I don't know. Trey Johnson can go off, although they don't play defense. But it's Illinois Xavier. They're very similar teams. They both bomb from three.

Do you have a preference who you'd want to play? Well, also we've talked a lot about Illinois could be a team that just gets lightning hot and get 15 three-pointers or something in a game. They can have a game when they only have two or three-pointers. I don't like that. I just feel like the odds are against us. That team would get hot. I'd rather take Xavier.

You want to play Xavier. Yeah, that was the first Xavier game I've watched all season last night, but I didn't see anything that really intimidated me. So I think if I had the choice between Illinois or Xavier, give me a Xavier. We did learn last night that Johnson on Xavier is a really good rebounder. No, Foster. Oh, Foster. I did a bet, a parlay where it was Trey Johnson scored 20, hit.

Texas win, which they were leading the whole game, and then they lost. And then Marcus Foster had to get six rebounds, which was cool to do until I was a guard. ended up with eight. He's good. He's good. I had it. It's just I lost the parlay because of Texas. But who would you rather play?

You know, I've thought Illinois this whole time, and I guess I still lean that way, but Xavier looks good in that comeback last night. Well, they had like 12 threes last night. Obviously, Texas was up big early, but once they turned it on, that looked like a scary team that I wouldn't really want to play either. I'll still say Illinois, but that Xavier bunch looked a lot better than I thought they were. I think I would slightly prefer Xavier because they don't, the teams that have given us trouble or teams are really athletic.

Illinois, I mean, neither of those teams is crazy athletic, but Illinois is probably a little bit more so. So I, but honestly, it's going to be pretty much the same game against either team. They're both going to play the same way. So good storyline, got Davian McKnight on Xavier, former Kentucky Mr. Basketball, and Orlando Antigua on the bench at Illinois. You're going to get Kentucky reunion. I have some confirmed hotels if we were. Go for it, yes. Auburn is at the New Marriott downtown.

That makes sense. So they did go to the New Marriott. That's the nicest. Creighton is at Griffin Gate. We named that. Okay. So they would have been fourth or fifth on the thing. Wofford is at the double tree.

Oh, they go down to Double Tree. Tennessee over at the Hilton. Okay. And those are the only four confirmations I have. Nobody got the Drury. So Wofford would have been the seventh highest. At the double tree. Where's the double tree?

Isn't it off Richmond Road? Oh, the double tree. They do give you a cookie, though. Yeah, they do give you a cookie, though. Like, I've stayed at that before. Back before I had a place here, I would often stay there because I could get a room for like $79. And the cookie, it's warm.

It's really good. Like a skillet cookie? No, but when you check in, you get a warm cookie at that Richmond Road double tree. So I think Wofford, they may come out with a quick step today. Yeah, or a belly full of cookies. Those cookies are good. Maybe slows them down. They had a lot of cookies.

They could walk over and get habachi. But they could get habachi right there. Good obachi place. If the double tree is seventh, then that's a pretty good list of hotels they got. I'm interested. I just poked myself on the eye. I'm interested to see who got eighth at Alabama State. I'm efforting.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of I Heart Women's Sports. All right, you know, we're doing the strong investigative work here on KSR, which is where are the teams staying in the hotels? Right. In Lexington. All right. So we have Auburn is at City Center. That is probably the nicest hotel in Lexington.

It's the newest one for sure downtown. Yes. Tennessee is at the Hilton. Okay. Okay. That would be probably second. Yeah. We never found out we're Louis.

Louisville is, right? UCLA is at the high attached to Rupp. So they have to leave the least. Yeah. The double tree is where Wofford is. Utah State got the Manchester. Oh, wow. Can't hide money. Wow. The Mormons kind of snuck in there and got like, that's kind of a fancy one, right? Well, there's a gym there. Lost Palm tonight on the room. Yeah, you go out to Lost Palm. If at 1 a.m. when their game is over, if Utah State wins, you might see some. stuff going, Shannon. Sneaky right there, sliding in and getting a nice...

So we don't know where Louisville. Who was at Griffin Gate? I haven't seen anybody yet at Griffin Gate. Somebody has to be at Griffin Gate. So we don't know where Louisville is. Or Alabama State. Or Alabama State. And for people who are asking me, I don't know where Kentucky is here.

Although they were here yesterday, and I did see a picture of they were practicing at University, or they were doing Walter or something at University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Okay. So they were, which is like right, I think it's actually just a few blocks from where we are, actually. I suspect all the fans are listening to us now driving up today. Kind of get here today. Yeah, so Kentucky, their press conference starts at 3 o'clock. You should be watching.

We'll probably stream it. Mario, maybe stream it on one of our, on something, and then they'll be on Kentucky Sports Radio the website. Their open practice is 345 to 425 or something like that. They don't let us film that, or at least in years past. I've had people yell at me for trying to film it, but we'll get what we can. Yeah, we don't want to get kicked out.

We have a history of that, especially at the FCC turn out. We do have a history. Who's up first? Oh, by the way, real quick, if you're in Lexington, bar opens here in nine minutes. You know, just come, you can come watch games all day. Yeah. We're going to probably have some fans of the other teams there as well. Mario was working on that all day, but also there's no better place in Lexington to watch games.

We got food. We got, well, food. Food. Food, drinks. What else do you want? Games? Games? Yeah, I don't know what else you could want. It's all there. Yeah, so it's all there. Who's up first?

Jordan is up first. Jordan, go ahead, Jordan. Hey, guys, you missed a name yesterday in the schools. Creighton's a first name. Creighton Abrams is the guy who the Abrams tank is named after. But also, Matt, I know with your new contract, you're going to have your own separate show. and I'm just here to tell you I think it would be a lot better

if it was Ryan and Shannon hosting their own Delilah-style loving way. Well, that can happen too. That can happen too. Don't worry. I mean, just because I have a show doesn't mean they can't have one as well. I'm going to negotiate my deal coming up. Yeah. Appreciate the call. Kentucky's staying at

the St. Kate Arts Hotel. Fancy. Sounds like a fancy, smancy place like the Manchester. It does sound nice. I'm looking at Louisville's send-off and it looks like the Hilton downtown, which is where I saw their bus. Somebody said they're also at the Hilton. I don't think they're allowed to have two at the same place.

But when I drove by, the buses were a park next to each other, Tennessee and Louisville, so maybe? Oh, maybe they're uniting against us. You think so? Like, our two rivals decide for we're coming together, like the, you know, mega powers? Yeah, but then, you know what happened to the mega powers? They explode. They exploded.

So eventually it's going to happen. Exactly right. Now, maybe is the Holt Holt Heldt, Lexington Green, it may also be a Hilton. Maybe. Maybe they put Louisville out there. Louisville's definitely at the downtown. I'm looking at the video. So maybe is Tennessee, the other Hilton maybe?

I don't know. So, yeah, we're at the St. Kate Arts Hotel in Milwaukee, Kentucky is. I'll give you a little bit about it. Okay. 4.7 stars. Yeah. Or 4.4 stars, 4.7 reviews. It is a boutique for local explorers and business travels that brings the finest in hospitality and art together as one.

That describes this team. Right? They're very boutiqueish. Is it Kate like K-A-T-E? or C-A-Y-T. This weekend it's C-A-Y-T. I think it's Kate. Sounds like we're kind of boozy at a little booty.

The first person who sent me that said U.K. is at the St. Kate Street, and I was thinking they were making a joke. Like, remember Kate on State? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How kind of good vibes here? And I was like, wow, because Kate on State was a thing many years ago in the UK world. Who's next?

J-Rock is next. Oh, J-Rock. How are you? Hey, what's up, y'all? First off, I just want y'all know your stories on these trips are always the best. But that reminds me, I pick up five-gallon buckets of detergent. I get like 500 at time, and I go to Chicago a lot, too. And the Delilah talk brought me back to one time I was going up there.

And this is how the call went. Hey, Delilah, first time, long time. She said, hoo-ha. And the guy said, I never really had a good luck with the women and all that. But listen to all these calls and all these stories and you giving people confidence, I finally got me a woman. And it's about five years ago. He said, I'm going to be a dad.

My sister's pregnant. I holler. See, I knew that's where that was going. I knew it when he started. That's where we were headed. He always got to take a shot. Barack Obama just released his bracket. I thought you could tell us what hotel he's in.

Barack Obama is staying at the Wyndon. Presidential suite. He's got three SEC. Duke winning the title, but the other three are SEC teams in the Final Four. He has Kentucky going to the Sweet 16. Does he? He has Kentucky going to Sweet 16 and us playing Illinois in the second round. We've already seen Texas get beat.

That's his team, though, by the way. He's an Illinois guy, so he just beating his team. I didn't think about that. You're right about that. We saw Texas already go down. Is there any concern that the SEC will underperform? You know, they've been such bragged on this whole season. I'm a little worried about that.

I'm a little worried about it. Because I think our top four teams are going to do really well. But our SEC performance is going to be judged by, you know, does Ole Miss beat North Carolina, right? Does Mississippi State beat Baylor? Yep. Do we beat Illinois? Like, like, the SEC is going to be judged, Shannon, by these middle teams. You know, Texas was at the very bottom of our league.

But that I do think, I think that Old Miss Carolina game is big. Mississippi State's big, you know. Arkansas. Arkansas. Kansas is big for the league. Vandy St. Mary. George, yeah. I mean, those.

are going to be the games, Shannon, where they decide whether or not we were worth it. Yep. And, you know, you had teams that got in that had six conference wins with Texas and Oklahoma. Does A&M get upset by Yale? You know, like that kind of thing. I'm a little concerned about that, that they may underperform because they were just put on a pedestal for so long and called the greatest conference ever. But it's not fair to criticize Texas because, what, Xavier came in like fourth in the big east, and Texas came in 14th. The fact that it was close, like Xavier should win, you know?

Texas probably wouldn't be here if they don't win that. double overtime tournament game. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't, you put our 14th best team against their fourth best team. Yeah, I mean, we may end up losing. They're still up 13 at one point. And if I said, do you SEC or the field to win, I'm going to take the SEC. Well, it's a great question because basically I only think there's six teams that can win,

four of them are SEC, and the other two are Duke in Houston. So the question, so if you give me SEC versus the field, I'm going to take the SEC, but I think it's a pretty close battle, to be honest with. you. So, what about Texas not giving Rodney Terry a night to sleep for a news comes out there letting him go? He didn't even get to the locker room before that was on Twitter. I mean, literally they broke.

He was being fired before he even did his press conference. It's like, man, I know he has a chicken place where they sell drugs, but it doesn't mean you can fire him right at the beginning of the show. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll come back. We are here in Milwaukee. Hour number two, getting ready for the NCAA tournaments. Kentucky Sports Radio.