KSR - 2025-05-05- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

Matt, Drew, Shannon, and Mario talk Travis Perry transferring to Ole Miss and more stories from the weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and click get started. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. One person says, Matt, I feel like you guys, when you go on the road, get a little giddy and silly. This is like that too. These are my favorite days. Well, I hope that's true. We'll be here again tomorrow, probably do this again, and then I'll be here Wednesday and Thursday. They'll be back and listening. I do think when we get out on the road and we don't have a crowd, in my opinion, these are our best shows. I don't know what everybody else thinks, but I think, Drew, these are our best shows. I completely agree. Part of it is I think I've slept three hours in two days, but also, when we're on the road, we spend every hour together leading up to it as opposed to we're just living

our lives and meet at the bar at 10 a.m. So we've been together all weekend. We have stories. There's a lot more to add. Yeah, I agree with that. And then, you know, traveling's fun, watching people in their different habitats. We were all talking about how last night, like, this is the only time we ever even know Shannon exists outside of these two hours or when we go on the road. It's the only time he speaks to us outside in public. So that helps. And Mario, you don't get to experience.

Like, this is your first time out this way, right? Yeah, first time in Arizona. Yeah. And you asked the Uber driver if there were going to be insects that were going to attack you. You meant scorpions. I met scorpions, spiders, centipers. centipedes. Did you think they were just like white centipedes?

You're scared of scented. You're scared of centipedes? But they're little. They look scary. Have you seen the big ones? The 100 legs? The human centipedes? Yeah.

The melanides? They're fast. These are videos that I see on TikTok in Arizona. Don't look that one up. As soon as we landed, your head was on a swivel looking for scorpions. Did you think they were like, did you think they're going to be like monsters?

You're going around that here? You asked him and said, like, are you going to be, are they going to come attack us? And we were like, we're staying at a resort, Mario. Like, do you think there are, you think there are scorpions running around? I was expecting to see a few, like, just crawling around. Okay. Well, well, you did not. All right.

So a couple, let's a couple of things here. First of all, Travis Perry picked Old Miss to go play basketball. First of all, how do you think he'll do there? To me, it's a very bizarre connection, but it's what I expected. I even said Ole Miss the moment he went to the portal, because I have on pretty good authority that Chris Beard absolutely loves him. What just makes that... Do you want to tell that one story or no?

Let's leave that one off the year. Okay. But it's just weird to me, and Travis is a great player, but Chris Beard is so defensive-minded. I mean, he really leans defense in his coaching, and that's Travis's flaw, so I don't know if maybe he sees that he can turn him into something. but other than knowing how close he was to Ole Miss

and his high school recruitment and how much Chris Beard likes him I wouldn't have think that would be the fit for him but obviously it worked out and a lot of people underestimate how close Oxford is to Western Kentucky I know a lot of people West Kentucky a lot of people go to Ole Miss I have several friends about as close as Lexington and in his high school recruitment proximity to Lyon County was big you could almost draw a radius around the schools he was considering

they're all drivable so it's sense and that's what I expected but the Chris Beard Travis Perry matchup seems weird to me just in how he coaches, but maybe he sees some official. You think he can be a starting successful point guard for an NCAA tournament SEC? Starting? Aline, no. I mean, he's going to play a lot of minutes. Part of it is they just needed him.

If you looked at what Ole Miss has going into the next year, they didn't have many people at the guard spots. So I think he'll play a lot, but I don't know if he'll be a starter. His role will be a lot different than it was at Kentucky. I don't know if he'll be a starter right away, maybe his junior season, but it depends on how much he develops from on this offseason and the next off season. So what happens if he scores 10 points a game next year? Like, are you think our fans will be?

I can see that. But do you think our fans will be upset? I thought you're going to give me a different scenario. What happens if he scores 20 against Kentucky and Ruff or something? And that could happen. That's a one-game scenario. What if he averages double digits at Ole Miss? What do you think our fan base's reaction?

I actually was a little dismal. And it was online, I was a little disappointed in the fan reaction to him in the portal. People act like he just sucked. I mean, he was a freshman that was asked to do way more than what he expected in his first year. Obviously, he's got flaws athletically and defensively. But the people are saying he's got to go to Bellarmine and Burry and he can't play at this level. I mean, get out of here with that nonsense. People were way too critical of him.

So I think there will be some shock if you play. plays really well to the people that tried to send him to D2 thinking he's that bad. And it was the boy just Ole Miss. He had phone calls from a lot of teams, including Florida, teams that played against him last year. So other coaches see his potential. He's not terrible. And he's going to be at Ole Miss.

He's going to be in a different role. Like when he was at Kentucky, he wasn't, you know, he was backup point guard. Yeah, I mean. Opportunity to play now. Do I think he's talented? Yes. Do I think he'll shoot better than he shot. sometimes this year, yes.

I don't know how he's going to play a defense in the SEC. I mean, go back, he played a major role against Alabama twice, and you saw the results. Now, Alabama's really good. Mark Sears really good, but I don't know how he's going to guard these people, and I don't know how that's going to get better. And I think that's why Mark Pope, I mean, Mark Pope, by taking Aberdeen, was telling you that he didn't think that could be Perry. I mean, I don't know.

Now, with that said, I wish the kid the best. I hope he goes down there and plays well. I do. I'm going to cheer him on except when he plays us. People say, well, are we going to cheer him on? Sometimes I don't cheer people on. But, like, I cheer a do on. I didn't cheer Arkansas on.

Like I cheered, I wanted Adieu, Z and Theero to play well. I want Travis to play well. And I don't even care if old miss is good, as long as we beat them. But the problems we saw last year, I don't know how they get better. I don't know how his defense is going to get better. I think he'll get a lot better. Again, he was not expected to play at all. But just defensively, I don't think he has the size, the athleticism.

That's something you can't just manifest. I do think he'll be a good contributor for him as time. He doesn't have the size. He doesn't have the speed. And he doesn't have the strength. Those things are not going to just appear. like Lamont Butler Think about Lamont Butler

versus him just as a defender Lamont Butler is taller He's bigger And he's quicker No that's why I'm saying I don't think he'll ever be the guy But he can be I mean there are plenty of guys that can't guard

I mean let's not forget John Calipari started Devin asked you at the university But we went to the NIT I mean that's my like That's what I'm saying though That's why I said That's what my question was very specific an NCAA tournament team in the SEC.

Do I think he could go start in the Big 12 or ACC? Maybe. The SEC, every point guard is going to be athletic. Every single one of them, even the bad teams, their point guards are going to be athletic. I think he'll be a good sixth man and a guy where there's games. You just can't play him and there's games where he can go in and play all the minutes and light him up. But he'll, I mean, he'll never be Lamont Butler or someone that has the size to guard. He's not known for defense.

That's not his thing. Like Mark Sears is a good example. He ain't really known for defense, but he's an offensive player. I see Travis Perry. You think Travis can score like Mark Sears? I'm not saying he can, but it's similar. That's his strength. Well, he also, one of the difficulties for him last year,

is he didn't shoot the ball as well as we had hoped. Now, I do think he can prove that. Like, I do think he can end up shooting better than he shot last year. And I think part of that was, like I said, he went in, expecting to be this. And suddenly they're like, all right, you're the primary ball handler for 30 minutes a game for a couple weeks. and that was just a lot to ask. That's what you got to be if you're going to be a point card. So he goes to Ole Miss.

What do we think he made? You think you got a million? I don't know what he was getting at Kentucky. I do. Well, I heard early in the process that there were schools that doubled me was getting at Kentucky. If he got a million, if he got a million, they more than doubled it. Yeah.

I don't know if he got a million. I know how bad Chris Beard wanted him. And more than doubled it. How about more than tripled it? I mean, that's why I'm very defensive of him, and I hope people remember him. It's still a Kentucky legend of what he did in high school. But people saying he just couldn't hang in Kentucky, didn't want it. If they offer you, no, you got to do it.

Three times of money in the minute, you have to do it. He should take no criticism for going. And also, I'm going to say UK should take no criticism for not matching. Okay. Sometimes both sides you win. You can't pay your 12th and 13th man that level of money, and that's what he was going to be. at Kentucky this year. So I don't think either side has anything to be wrong about.

And he's from Lyon County, Kentucky. Let's be honest. He's not going to go to the NBA and make millions. So you've got to get what you can get right now. And if they're going to triple your money and probably triple your playing time, that would be an easy decision for me. I don't care how many Kentucky posters I had my bed at some point you've got to look out for yourself.

So you got to do it. Who's up first, Shadham? Noah. Noah. Go ahead, Noah. Hey, guys. I got a question for all of you to answer. So hypothetical scenario.

If you were to go back to college, this is if we're playing for UK basketball, and you could pick any former player of any skill set that they've had and be able to play for four years to help enhance that skill set. I want to know which player you would be able to take, be able to use to enhance their skills for that year. No, wait a minute. You're saying to me, who would I want to be, or who does Kentucky need like next year? No, this is regardless of not for anything next year.

You were to go back into college. Play four years at Kentucky. Have a skill set of any former player that you want to be able to enhance that and go and based off of their just their college performance. Oh, I see. Okay. I would want to be, I appreciate the call, because I would want to be John Wall. Anthony Davis is better, but I would want to be John Wall because I would want to be fun.

I would want to be able to take dudes off the dribble. I'd want to be able to have a dance that the whole country does. I would want to be able to be able to have a dance that the whole country does. Swag. I would want to be, have the swag in this NIL era. John Wall would have made more money than Warren Buffett in the N.I.L. era. So if you asked me who would I want to be, especially in a four-year career, four years of John Wall, he'd be like, I mean, he'd be a superstar in the country. Give me John Wall.

What about you? I mean, I think John Wall is the answer everyone would have. I'll go a little different, and it's twisting the question a little bit. But I would love to have the tournament run that Aaron Harrison had and have those moments. That's not really what he asked. But to have that clutch gene, I'll say that. Yeah, that would be cool. To have those shots.

Because you could play those shots over and over your whole lot. I mean, there's not a better tournament run for anyone individually than any three game winner. That too. You'd have a twin and you'd be like, hey, we're experiencing this together, Shannon, right? Like you'd get to have a twin. That would be nice. I like that. What about you, Shannon?

Who would you want to be? I think Anthony Davis. In my lifetime, I don't think there's been a better overall player that Kentucky's had than Anthony Davis. Yeah, I agree. Now, you'd have to have a unibrow. Are you okay with that? Yeah, I'd be okay with that. Still playing in the league.

It'd be hard to find clothes to fit if you're that tall. Is that okay? That's a sacrifice I think I'd be willing to make. All right. So I'm John Wall, Drew's Aaron Harrison. Shannon is Anthony Davis. I already know who you're going to be. You're going to be.

You're going to be Tyler Ulyss. But where would you want to be short? I get to be amongst the regular people. Bob nine. And what on the floor that I can't do? Tallyoos can do everything. Shoot. S.

C. defensive player to year. So you'd want to be, okay, so we got. The height, tough. You're bleeding and you keep playing. But like, if you can be anybody, don't you want to be like? I would want to dunk, don't you want to be like my height? I would want to kind of dunk.

Because you're kind of a little shooting. Yeah, part of this is you were kind of a small point guard. Did you see a little Ulyss and yourself? I tried to be, but I wasn't as good as him. But, yeah, he was, uh, he, there's nothing on. I don't know for that he couldn't do. Okay. You know, you shoot.

I like that. Those are four different answers. I think they're four, like, very valid answers for very different reasons. So I can, I could respect that. I like that. I would want to dunk, though. Yeah, could Tyler dunk? I don't know that I ever remember him dunk.

I think I might have seen one of him doing off a lot. That's a good question. Who's the best Kentucky player ever who couldn't dunk? Richie Farmer. Sorry, Richie. I know you're listening. Richie Farmer. I said that way too fast.

Well, first of all, do you think Tyler Eulis could dunk? Because he's probably the. answer if he couldn't dunk. I feel like I saw a video where he barely gets a lob where he kind of just helps it in. Maybe like a lob practice. And Richie, couldn't dunk. And Richie, if you text me and say you could duck, I don't believe.

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women's sports. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. People writing in with who they'd want to be. Which like to hear some of the answers. One person says, I'd like to be Travis Ford. What would be cooler than being from Kentucky and playing here? And growing up in Madisonville. Fair enough. One person says, Matt, I want to be Devin Booker. He's way too good looking and girls were licking his car doors. It's true. It would be nice to go through life that good looking. If Ryan was here, he'd go, oh, no, he'd look at my life. That would have been Ryan's line right there. Devin Booker's a good pick.

Devin Booker's a good pick. One person says, Matt, I'd like to be Winni and Gabriel. That's the answer right there. Why? Why did they want to be winning Gabriel? Great player. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good, no other explanation.

Did he want to say Oscar? It's not the style you'd pick, but I mean. I feel like Oscar, though, probably his body would hurt after games. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like he played a style. that he probably needed to be in the ice bath a lot. It's a record-setting games. But people did love him.

I mean, fans absolutely adored him. You know, you go back. I mean, being Rex would have been pretty awesome back in his day. Oh, yeah. Being a young Rex Chapman would have been. Actually, Rex might be the answer because he had the game. He would have had the game and the off-the-court and the stories. I mean, Rex has.

Well, we know a couple of them. Rex has single-handedly the best story. in the history of Kentucky basketball. And if that man wants to sell books, that's the story. He needs to tell. He's another one. You've mentioned Wall making a lot of money. Rex's recruitment, he would have...

Yeah. He probably did. He probably did make a lot of money if we're being honest. He would have... Yeah, I think you could make an argument that Rex has... He's certainly the best story. Would you agree? Like, if we were to do the, okay, we could say whatever.

That's the best one. Yeah. Rex enjoyed his time as UK. Yeah. So, no, anybody, I'm trying to think, who else? I'll see what else people. One person says they'd like to be Nerlin's Noel. That's an interesting one.

Be very tall, it could block every shot. He's a career I wish could do over. I wish you could do his career over without the ACL. I think he would have been a beloved Kentucky player. I don't know what would have happened in the NBA. His skill set really did not translate to the modern NBA well because he couldn't shoot. but the Ole Miss game I will never forget. The Ole Miss game is a legendary game that's forgotten because he got hurt the next game.

Yeah. Four fouls and still managed to block, what was it, 11 shots, like seven of them were after he got his fourth foul. Yeah. Also, his recruitment was huge. We kind of got immune to John Caliperi getting recruits, but early on when he spun around in the chair and had the UK in the back of his head, that was an all-time Kentucky memory too. All right, we need to talk about something real quick, Shannon, before we go back to the phone. We learned something. Yeah.

What did you learn? You know, Billy had a birthday last week. Right. We already knew that. That's not what we learned. Yeah. No. Last Thursday.

I saw a picture. He had, they had a party for him. And we learned this weekend, Shannon, and I'm not going to reveal the sources, but we learned that Billy, there was a surprise party for him. And the people throwing it did not invite us because they didn't think we liked Billy. I knew about the surprise party after the fact. But, yeah, I wasn't invited either. So you weren't invited either. That was my question.

So you were not invited. No. Uh-uh. So none of us were invited. Which, by the way, is totally fine. Like, I can totally see having a surprise party and not inviting us. We're work friends. I get it.

We're work friends. I consider Billy a friend. But I get it. Like, you have different levels of friends in your life. Like sometimes I told, and then like you invite one of us, you probably have to invite all of us. Totally cool not being invited. But what I was told is they would have invited us, but quote, we don't think they like Billy.

Now, I mean, we need to dispel that myth. I love Billy. I think I like Billy. Perfectly fine. I consider him a friend. I would go to a surprise Billy. Was it his 30th birthday? Especially with a birthday party that's like important, like 30.

I would certainly go to that. Now, if they don't want to invite us, that's fine. But Shannon and I kind of feel bad that they, whoever, this was that through it didn't think we would like me see i didn't know that sort of wrinkles of the story i didn't know that they didn't think that we we didn't like billy i found out about the day before and that we weren't invited and i said i will absolutely go and then uh i found i was in louisville and it's not that i can't travel for billy but i legitimately could not drive to louisville back that day but i was in louisville that night i would have been so was shannon you and i

could have gone yeah again i just want billy to know and Billy's, you know, his posse of people. Like, we like you. We love Billy. Now, I give you a hard time, but it's for your own benefit. There are some Billy characteristics that need to be tweaked, okay, as we saw last year on the postgame show a couple times. But I like Billy. So I want to make a public, because I don't know who's throwing these Billy party.

but if you have Billy parties, if you would like us to go, I would go because I genuinely like Billy, and it makes me feel bad that he doesn't, or at least some people think we don't like him. I feel the same way. I actually planned to take Billy out for his birthday. We've been slammed this past week, but maybe Thursday in Owensboro, a little KSR overnight. Maybe we can have, it won't be a surprise party, but maybe we'll be there. Mario and I won't be there. Well, that will be a bad look.

But I will be there in Owensboro. I'll try to take Billy out. know he and I played golf before I like Billy I felt bad when I heard again not that we need to be included but if send him would you have gone I wouldn't bill like we don't like it I would have gone I would have definitely gone Mario you were with Billy I heard he got cut off on the drinks at Churchill Downs yeah they're calling him too Lily Billy is what they're calling too Lily Billy Billy okay that's good wait a minute he got he got cut off yeah he wasn't as bad as Daniel. Daniel's

Oh, we're throwing another person under the bus. Don't be throwing any other employees. Now you're throwing an off-air personality under the bus. We love Daniel. Don't mess with him. Daniel was off the rails. He kept us on the air today.

We already had a Daniel in here this morning. So don't. Mario, just anybody else? Mario, let's see. Ryan Lemon got astray. Livy Dunn got astray. Now, Daniel. So Billy got cut off.

He wasn't as bad. He was okay. David. Daniel was really bad. No, no, no. Leave it out of it. Daniel is not part of this conversation. Just keep it with Billy.

Me and Billy was hanging out. He wasn't as bad as Shannon is saying. He was okay. Too Lily. But he got, who cut him off? I didn't cut him off. I don't know. But somebody cut him off.

Was he just chatty? Was he loopy? Was he stumbling? Like what kind of bill? I will say, Billy, I will say Billy, if you look at the picture from Derby, Mario tweeted out a picture from Derby. Billy looks like a newspaper report. order from the 50s or like a 1920s paper boy you don't like his hat i like this little

hat billy looks like he should be out on the street going extra extra yankees yankees win in seven extra we've got a lot of uh impersonations from scott stella man up here today i got to pull up the pick tell me he does not look like a news boy that's what they call those things. Well, he was interviewing jockeys. Maybe he felt like he needed to... It's 151st derby. Maybe he wanted to go back in time.

I'm telling you, that's what he looked like. His derby outfit, it was a throwback, right? He was a throwback to win newspapers ruled the day. I'm sure he's listening. We love you, Billy. We'll already know it's world. We'll take a break and be right back here at Scottsdale. It's KSR.

T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J., he'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Yeah, there's no doubt we're giddy here. Someone asked me if you're on Ambien. I'm just talking about, first of all, the name two Lily Billy is a brilliant one chance. I mean, honestly, that should probably replace his two mimoses, but Two Lily Billy is a great name and also true.

And for people who are Matt, one person who writes, Matt, I've been listening to this show for 15 years. you've never made me laugh harder than when you said extra extra about Billy. Yeah, he's and seven. Mario laughed for the entire break. That laugh you're hearing right now has not stopped in the last five minutes. Yeah. Drew is usually the funny one of the group, but you really made me laugh. Well, I get in a good mood in these trips.

And also, I couldn't help when I saw Billy's, when I saw Billy's hat. He looked good. Wow. Wow. All right, so the Reds and Braves start a series tonight. Oh, yay. Yeah, both of our teams. Take it easy on us.

We're not doing well. We just lost a series to the nationals. Do you want to do like a little wager for these? Well, it's a big part of the bet gal I see on the it. We got a bet on it, and then I guess sit there and watch it together. I still don't know what we're doing, but yeah, we'll be gambling. Yeah, so neither of our teams are doing great right now. It's in Atlanta.

Oh, is it in Atlanta? I think so. I think so. I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure it is. Otherwise, I'd be hitting you up for those tickets for since now. So, yeah, it's not quite as exciting as when we thought both teams might be good. But that's okay.

I think we have a better record than you do, don't we? Yeah, we lost to the Rockies last week, which is, I didn't even know you could lose to the Rockies. I don't think that was allowed, but somehow the Braves managed to pull that off. But I'm not afraid to bet on my Braves. Whatever you want to do, I'm in. All right. We'll figure something out. We got a Brady Singer versus A.J. Smith Schaver tonight.

Brady Singer's been pretty good. Who's A.J. Smith Scha. Well, he's our starting pitcher. Braves are a favorite, a minus 148. Oh, wow, it's a big favorite. All right, well, give me the underdog. Yeah, actually, I think I like the Reds. We need to figure that out.

All right, so this gala tonight, we don't really know what it is. There's a red carpet, which we're apparently going to walk down. Great. We don't, I mean, literally, I don't know anyone that's going to be there but us, and I guess the barstool people. We were talking about we don't even really know all that many barstall people. I mean, I know Big Cat and PFT. I know Portnoy a little bit, but not well.

I guess I know Brandon Walker, but that's pretty much it for me. I don't really know any of the other guys. Do you? I know Dave and Big Cat decently well, barely know PFT. And as I told you golfing yesterday, we don't have to use names. I don't even like most of the other ones. Anyone not be careful they were. They didn't invite us out.

No, no, I mean like the far down the list. Not the people I would consider true bars. I love Big Cat in that group. But there's going to be a lot of them if we have to do small talk. I don't even know what we're going to say. Here's the thing, Shannon. We think this can go one of two ways. Either this will be like really fun.

Yeah. Like it's going to be a big gala and we'll meet random people and it's going to be really fun. Or it's going to be really awkward and it's just going to be Drew and Mario sitting at a table by herself. I think that's the way it's going to be. You got a mingle, though, you know. You got to have a... But this is like, like, it's like their thing. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, they're a whole group together. You're the guest of honor, though. And we're, but we're not the guest of honor. I'm not even sure they know we're here. Maybe they do. Somebody invited you. Well, draft kings invited us.

So, like, I mean, the draft king's people will be here, but that's almost like hanging out with the teachers at the prom or something. You know? I mean, at least you got invited. Billy wouldn't even invite you to it, so at least you're there. That's true. They invited this bill. They didn't invite the party.

Now, I did, I mean, I've never wore a swade jacket in my life. Swade. Yeah. Swade Cunningham. Do you saw it? Do you like it in Martin? It feels good. It feels good.

It does. Swade cutting to him. I've also never worn all black in my life. Well, you're not wearing all black until you find shoes. We got to do that by three blocks. You got to get some shoes. I need to all black. What are you wearing, Mario?

Some red. Who are you wearing? Some red, red and black, you know. You're blending with the carpet? Yeah. Yeah, I think red's going to look good with my skin, so I want to go with red, and something that pops a little bit. Okay. And what are you wearing?

I bought a new black suit. It's not a tuxedo, but it's a nice, it had a good price tag on it. All black suit, black tie, and I got some new patent leather black shoes that are really shiny. Because I feel like to, if you're going to be, it says black tie encouraged. I feel like I needed the shoes that really, really stand out. A little white pocket square to bring it all together, but all black and white. All right. Black and white.

Well, I mean, this is, you know, so we walk in, it's apparently, it's the Bet Gala. They say celebrities, athletes, I don't know where we fit into that. Radio's from Kentucky. Radio host from Kentucky. I do think there's a good chance, Shannon. It's just going to be us sitting at a table, like, by ourselves watching the games at the draft. because it's at the Draft King's Sportsbook. So it's like it's at a sports book.

So I kind of feel like, Shannon, I'm just going to be watching the, I don't know who plays tonight. What sports is about tonight? Yeah, but that can't be the main event. Is there an NBA on tonight? There's one NBA game, right? It's like Nick Celtics. Is it Nick Celtics?

Okay, so that'll probably be the thing they focus on the most. And one NHL game. Who's the NHL game? Panthers, Maple Leafs. Not quite as excited. So, so anyway, I, Shannon, I think it'll be fun just hanging out with these guys, but I kind of wonder if we're going to end up talking.

I'm sure Big Cat and PFT will come by and say hello. Yeah, you just use them to have them introduce you to a lot of people. Yeah, I'll say hello to Dave. And then. They're doing their own live stream. But they're doing their own live show. Jump in on it. Yeah, I don't think they're going to have us beyond that.

So I don't know. I do like, I like my team here. None of us are very shy. So I don't know that we'll just leave on the wall the whole night. Mario will be handing out his business card to people. Mario will end up on the live stream. Mario's going to end up hired by somebody else, Shannon. I would not be on a live stream.

He'll be networking and negotiating contracts. Yeah. We'll be fun. It'll be fun. We might have to work for it. We might have to go seek out the social interactions. I don't think they'll come to us, but we're going to have to get up. They said a number of influencers will be here.

Who do we think? I know one of them is that Sydney Thomas girl. I hope Livy Dunn's there. I hope so. Actually, that would be really awkward. I want to manifest Livy Dunn there. Yeah, that would be really awkward. That would be good.

I don't even, I'm getting old. I don't even know the hip TikTok influencers these days. But like, what would we even say? What about the guy that owns the horse? What if they come and say, here's Sidney Thomas. What do we even say? Hello, Sydney Thomas. Nice job at the Jake Paul five.

What do you know about trash? Travis Perry going over. I know what I know, and they're probably not interested in the same things. So that's the interview we do. Go through her. Travis Perry just transferred to Ole Miss. Going to be playing against Alabama. What do you think?

Mario, do you know who Sidney Thomas is? Yeah, she's at the Mike Tyson fight. There you go. Yeah. Well, now you know what we know. So you're just as ready as we are for that. I'm excited for the whole thing. It should be fun, though.

What about Breonna and chicken fry? Maybe she'll be there. I like Zach Bryan. I could ask her, what's Zach Brian like? I don't think she wants to talk about that. That's probably not the way I should start that in the action. I'm glad we practice now. That would have been a horrible way to do.

The worst. She would have just walked away from you. All right. Sorry, Brianna. What do you think about Trappist's Mary going to Ole Miss? I think that's our go-to line for everybody. Mario is going to do a lot of it. Maybe we'll do our own live stream.

What are you going to video? We can do some interviews. We could, I don't know. I think you need to be the one to do it. I'm going to be, I want to be in the background. I'm just going to, this is my night off. Okay. So you can be the star.

I'll film you if you want. All right, we can do that. Okay. I'm going to have a couple and have a good time. Yeah. Well, I'm sure it'll give us things to, I'm going to ride the way from yesterday. To say tomorrow. Newark Airport, by the way.

Did you see this announcement, Shannon? I thought this would be something you'd be particularly interested in. What is it? United Cut 35 flights to Newark Airport. And the former head of Air Force. Air traffic controls security at the Newark Airport says Newark Airport is not safe to fly into right now because we don't have enough air traffic controllers and it's too dangerous in this person's mind. And who's getting on that point? Well, first of all, I mean, that's a major, like if you fly United, it's the only way to get to New York pretty much.

I mean, that's, that is a major hub, Newark. would you I fly into Newark all the time because if you're staying on the lower side of Manhattan it's closer than if you fly to JFK or LaGuardia

and it's not an $80 Uber and it's much closer Yeah it's much closer So I fly to Newark all the time Knowing what this person says Even though still thousands of flights go in and out of all there Would you not fly

Because right now they say it's dangerous There's two other options There's JFK and LaGuardia, right? So I don't care if it is an $80 Uber. I would rather fly on the one that I feel more comfortable going to than Newark. I agree. I'm not someone that usually worries about this stuff, but if someone thinks it's that bad that they're like put it out in media,

I mean, this person had the job of being in charge of it and said right now it is not safe. That's what they say. Telling their own family not to fly. Yeah, telling their own family. I know, Matt, you're not getting on that plane. if the guy says that's not safe. Well, but it's just like that's the most convenient airport.

Well, I'll tell you what, it's not convenient going down and dying. That's not very convenient either. Well, it would make it eat. I mean, like, I wouldn't have to worry about missing my connection. But I, yeah, I don't know. I mean, like, United canceling, in two days, they cancel 35 flights, and that person says that. It does feel like somebody should go, well, wait a minute.

What's going on? Right? Because there's still flights coming in and out. Until something bad happens and then. Well, yeah, but I mean, it was awful if it happened after a warning. But, you know, they had a flight go down in D.C. Did it change anything? I think all they did was say helicopters couldn't fly as low anymore.

But I don't know. I will say that's like in 2025 to see to see that story in a major airport. I mean, Newark, for people who don't fly to New York, Newark is a major airport. Kind of a little bit scary. All right. This is supposed to be Stockton Mortgage, but he's not here. So you want to give it your best effort? Well, obviously, it is a great time to buy.

So if you are looking to either buy or sell, use Stockton Mortgage. They are growing with several locations around Kentucky. I don't have the exact number in front of me. What's an advantage of using Stockton Mortgage, Mario, over like another mortgage? Yeah, what is? No, I'm asking you. Stockton Mortgage, you know, they get the house. for you and you know

they don't get that they're really getting their money's for today they put you in a position to you know get the best out why would I want to use them over a different company you know they just you know they just they stand out like customer service in what ways they stand

out customer service is elite okay that was what Drew said but what do you what do you think what do I think about it I think I like that they've been here for so long they're a long running business yeah they're not a fly by night No, not at all. That's right.

And they're in the M-L-S. What Drew said. They play Miami, FC coming up. They also, you can call and talk to a real person. Yeah. Remember? They don't, they don't just, you get assigned the same person, you don't get a different person every time you call. And a great website.

Great website. You go to Stockton.com. St-O-C-T-O-N.com. The mortgage broker for you, it is Stockton. And they're growing, and it's a great time to buy. I think we already did better than Ron is most of the time. Well, he's usually fumbling over. over his phone to pull it up. Yeah, we'll take a break, be right back.

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Welcome back, final segment here. KSR, live in Scottsdale, we'll be again tomorrow. And Wednesday and Thursday, I'll be here. One person writes, Matt, you know Swade is a winter fabric. You are in Scottsdale in spring and summer. Swade probably wasn't the best choice. Well, you know what? What am I going to do about that?

It's too late in any black suit in Arizona. This time of year is a great idea, but we're doing it. But that's the dress. That's the event. Another person says it's the bat gala. You're supposed to wear suits that are bet themed. I don't even know what that means. I guess suits with money on them.

I don't know. Yeah, but like here's the problem with that. I thought about this. I'm sure there will be like barstool people wearing goofy suits. But, the problem is, what if we dressed up like that and nobody else did? I've been everybody be laughing at you. Right? Like we come to their event and we look like clowns and they're all in tuxedos.

Like, I'm taking the neutral response. That's a conversation starter, though. Yeah, let them be funny. Like, this is their event. So, like, if it was the KSR gala, they not could wear something goofy and it's like, well, it's his thing so he can do it. We're guests. So if we show up looking like clowns and nobody else looks like a clown, then we look ridiculous. So I'd much rather they be clowns and then we just look like normal people.

And then people go, well, they're just the. suits from draft kings and then we're fine. I've heard Big Cat talk about how they're dressing goofy, but we only have the invitation we were sent, and it says black tie encouraged, and I'm just going to follow with what that said. I just think it would be our spot to go crazy. If like three or four of them look absurd, and then people are like, that dude is in his 40s, and he's wearing that.

You know, I just don't want that to, I just don't want to be case. One person says, if you two are wearing black suits, Mario's wearing red, you all are going to look like Mario's security. That's fine. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that.

You can, if that's how it ends up being, then that's how it ends up being. My guys, man. Who's up next year? Kentucky Gasman. Kentucky Gasman. Kentucky Gasman. How are you?

Hey, man, have it going. What's up? Yeah. Hey, so I heard this story, and I heard this story, I'm not 100% sure I believe it, so I'm going to be through the fact-checked. So our guys,

in Georgetown, apparently he got out Thursday or Friday out of jail and I guess the way I understand it is he bet his full winning $70 million on sovereignty. Oh, I saw that. That was the

AI Facebook. You fell for a fake AI thing, I think, sir. Okay, well, I heard it on the radio on another station. I appreciate your time. I did see that there was a meme going around, but I I don't think that was real.

Yeah, I would. I mean, he clearly doesn't have the best judgment since he was in a bar fight. It's like non-zero chance that it's. I mean, it's one of those things that's plausible, you know. But I did see what they were talking about. I don't think that was real. Yeah, I don't think that was real either. Sovereignty winning, have you seen his handlers are saying that they might not do the preakness?

I'm going to say this, Shannon, I say this every year. it should be required. I agree. That unless the horse is hurt, they have to run in the prequist for the good of horse racing. Like it's like the Daytona 500. When you win the Daytona 500, they take your car. Presumably that's a really good car. But they take the car and put it in the museum.

And yeah, you lose your good car, but you know what? So what? You won the Daytona 500. If the horse is healthy, it should have to run in the preempt. And we mentioned how there's so much attention on the sport now. It hurts the Triple Crown moving forward if there's not the interest in can someone pull off the Triple Crown. There are horse people that say like it's two weeks is way too close to run a horse. Then I would say forget tradition.

You're going to have to move it back, right? You cannot have the Derby winner, Shannon, not in the Preakness. That just makes the pretenness irrelevant if you do that. Well, absolutely. And we've been doing this for how many years the horses have been fine running two weeks after the Derby? I can ask you a question, why do horses not get faster? Every other form of life, we've talked about. The best people to do it, do it now.

It's like the fastest sprinters now. The fastest swimmers, now. But horse racing, the times are not that much different than they were in the 50s. And the fastest race is still a horse in the 70s. Why don't horses get faster? Why is it every other sports entity? The times have gotten faster, but in horse racing, they really haven't. My probably dumb off-the-cuff answer here is we've had a lot of changes to our prep and our diet,

and they're just eating the same oats and grass and running the same circle they've been doing it for hundreds of years. We have a lot better training. We've learned a lot more of what we need to do to get to this point. But you don't think there are horse supplements and horses. Like horse diets? They don't have the, you know. Their oats have probably got a little better, but the end-day, horse is just a horse, you know? Not going to make a difference.

I mean, Bob Afford's got some creams and some things that probably help out a little bit. So you don't think they do wellness retreats? Again, I did not know I was going to be asked of this, so I've put zero thought into it, but that is my game show. People who know may know the answer. I don't understand why horses have not gotten faster. Draft Kings. We're going to the Draft Kings Barstool Gala tonight. If you'd like to join us betting on those things, we might tweet out some of our bets for tonight.

No, definitely. The Knicks play. I think the Nuggets play as well. So it's all going on tonight. You go to draftkings.com. Place your wagers. Maybe look for us. We'll put them out.

Draft Kings. DK.com download it. Use a code KSR. And you can make the bets we do tonight at the Barstool Gallo. Well, Shannon, we'll be back tomorrow. After our night out on the town here in Scottsdale, Monday night party this evening. Thank you folks very much for listening.

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