KSR - 2025-06-04- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk king of the SEC in basketball, cleaning skyscraper windows, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Drew is on vacation for the next week and a half. We will be Sands Drew, which means it's a smaller group today. I got Ryan Lemon. I got Shannon, but we're all in three different places. Shannon, you had me a little worried when we started the show because you said with a minute and a half to go that we had no Ryan Lemon again. because he still didn't know how to run the board. And I was sitting there. I was actually going through.

I was taking the vibes of our caller from Heinemann yesterday. You remember our caller from Hyman? He sat in the garden and he tried to think of positive thoughts. And I said, okay, should I go sit on the floor there and try to think positive thoughts before Ryan is not on here? And then he found a way Shannon to get on right before it started. so I didn't have to use my not county meditation because he did find a way to get on the show.

You didn't have to run to a garden and sit there and meditate. We do have them. Because I was about to because it was one thing if he hadn't done it yesterday. But then if two days in a row, he had found a way to not be on, Shannon, then I think we were going to need the meditation. Unless he finds some random number that we need to call, you know, like yesterday with Dan Skirka. True. He built himself out yesterday.

But Dan Skirka, as good as Dan Skirka, is that's a one-day thing. It's not a two-day excuse. But he is on here. Ryan, I'm glad you found a way to get connected. Yeah, third day in a row, we've tried to get that studio set up. And I'm telling you, Billy's. Who's the we, by the way, Shannon? The we is he.

There's no one else there. Gus and I've been on the phone trying to set it up. I'm telling you, Billy's value, he's so valuable to this department. His stock keeps going up and up and up, because we cannot figure out how to get that studio set up. up. We. It's probably one button.

It's why one button. No doubt. One could argue, Shannon. I'm not going to argue it because I'm in my Heinemann meditation stage, right? But one could argue that if it didn't work yesterday, you might stay after yesterday until you got it to work, Shannon, so that you would know it would work the next day. That's what one could argue. That was a possibility that could have happened. That was a possibility.

And maybe I would suggest, since I'm going to be in that studio tomorrow, Shannon, maybe I was a suggestion. Jesse should do that for tomorrow. Just as a thing to say. Now, I was in Washington this weekend, and now I'm in New York. I'm coming back this afternoon. And I'm sitting here looking, Ryan, I'm probably on the 50th floor of this building. Okay. And I'm looking across the way.

It's an amazing view of the, I think that's the Hudson River. And there are all these, like, huge buildings everywhere. You know, who knows how many stories. I'm on the 50th and some of these tower over me. Let's just say 100 stories. And I don't know if it's because it's Wednesday or what, but a number of these buildings, like probably 10 of them have people washing windows right now, right?

And I'm sitting here looking. These people right in front of me, they're probably on the 65th floor outside the building, like hanging in one of those little machines, and there's 65 floors up washing the windows. And this one's probably 45 floors up. And I'm sitting here watching this, and I'm thinking to myself, I cannot imagine a job outside of being a lifeguard at a children's pool that I would hate worse than hanging from the sides of these buildings cleaning windows. Ryan, I would think it's got to be the most terrifying job on the planet, right?

Agreed. Those guys are nut jobs that are out there. If there's a big wind, Gus, come on there. I've seen them here. Well, they're not like float. These guys are not like floating. They're not like repelling. Like they're in a little cart that goes up and down.

No way. No way. Not a chance. Nope. Those guys are nut jobs. I don't think we need to disparage their character and call them nut jobs. Yeah, we need clean windows. It's an important job.

Do we really need to clean the windows on the 100th floor of a building? Yes. I mean, can you imagine if you didn't clean the window ever? Who cares? Filthy it would be. You wouldn't be able to see out of the window. The whole point of having a window is to see out of it. And if it's filthy, you wouldn't be able to do it, Shannon.

Right. Yeah, yeah. There's no way that I could do that. You know, that I'm afraid of heights. I don't want to be up in the air at all. And definitely not going to be up on the side of a skyscraper trying to clean the windows. How much do you think, like, that job, how much do you think it needs, you know, you need to be paid to do a job like that? Like there are certain jobs that I think the undesirability of them leads people to get paid a lot more.

It's like sanitation workers. They actually make, especially in some cities, really good money because, you know, people don't want to work with garbage. So a sanitation worker in some cities actually can do really well. Janet, would you consider a job like that to be like let's say I gave you one and a half times your salary of what you make right now? Okay. Okay. Yeah. And I told you for one and a half times the salary you're making right now,

your job is to go out and clean windows on skyscraper. Are you doing it? I would want to do it. I don't know. One point five times as much as you make. How? Oh, so $40,000 a year. Okay.

No, listen. You listeners, don't let him fool you. Okay, don't let him fool you. I know that Shannon's living the high life. How do you think he's got all those pumpkins in his? guard. Don't let him fool you. Those Amazon pumpkins. Yeah, I would.

I would want to do it. I don't know if I could, I guess I would have to do it if I signed on for the contract. One and a half times your salary. So you don't have to do the door dash or any of that stuff. One and a half times your salary, but you just have to clean these windows on the skyscrapers. I would love to do it. There's no way I could do it. I couldn't do it.

I could not do it. So Shannon's in. I've already signed Shannon for one and a half times. he's an easy negotiator. Ryan, two times your salary. No, you're playing in windows. Three times your salary. Higher.

All right, I'm done. He doesn't get it. He loses the offer, she. You get to do the job. I was going to go to five. Well, you're not getting it, although he's crazy. Well, now that I know that you're willing to. Hold on.

Hold on. Now that I know you're willing to go to two times. I'm not going to go to the second two times. This is why, Shannon. This is why I told you all years ago. you need to let me negotiate your radio contract. Mine's coming up. Because you all agree for too little.

Okay. Well, you're my guy. You're going to be my agent. I've got one coming up. Would you do it, Matt? Would you be out there hanging out on the side of a building, a hundred stories up in the air and cleaning windows? I mean, if you got me to, no, I would hate it.

But I think with any job that you would get to an amount of money where you would do it, well, not any job. But a lot of jobs, I think there's, for the people who do it, I do wonder if there's like a level of freedom to just being out by yourself in this little cart all day. You probably don't have anybody telling you what to do. Maybe somebody listening's done it. Maybe it's not even scary. Maybe you get used to it.

I don't know. But I'm sitting here watching these guys, literally as we're speaking. And I actually think it's pretty amazing. I think there's, I do wonder what they make because it's got to be, because you're right. If it's windy, it's going to blow back and forth. Yes. So, I don't know. Let me see. I'm going to try to look up and see exactly how much it is.

Okay, see if you can find out what they made. Okay. I'd be fascinated. I would say in New York, this is just a guess, but I would think in New York, because the cost of living is a lot higher here. I'd say they make between like $75,000 and $90,000. All right, I've already got an answer. This is my guess.

What is it? According to ZipRecruiter, I don't know if you trust that as a source or not. Yeah. It says they earn between $36,000. and $46,000. Oh, that ain't new. In New York City, no. First of all, I challenge that in New York City because minimum wage here is like $16.

However, salary ranges can vary widely based on factors like location, experience, and type of work. Some high-rise window cleaners, particularly in big cities with many skyscrapers, can earn over $80,000. There you go. That makes a lot more sense to me. I would think that that's about what you would make in a lot. place in a place like New York. In Lexington, I could see it being 40 or 45. But in New York, to be in these buildings, I would think you'd have to do it. Now, I also had another message that someone wanted to share. Someone from Middlesboro, Shannon wrote me, who is a friend of mine,

whose grandmother listens to the show. Okay, so I don't know his grandmother, but I have to think since this, a friend is in their 30s, the grandmother's probably got to be in the 80s or 90s. and she wrote her grandson because she wanted to pass on a message to you, Shannon, that she thought was very important to pass on to you, which I thought was very sweet. She wanted me to say to you, please tell Shannon that if he's growing pumpkins,

he has to be diligent, or the vines on the pumpkins will take over his yard and his neighbor's garden, and his neighbor will end up being mad. Pumpkin vines grow quick. quicker than Cudzu, as Matt knows what Cudzu can do. Please tell Shannon to watch the

pumpkin vines. So I'm now passing on that message that you need to be careful with the pumpkin vines. Thank you for that message. I will do what I can, but you know, I can't promise anything. I mean, his garden comes over on my property. I can't promise that my pumpkin vines might not go to his

property. Oh, wait a minute, you're not going to try to stop the pumpkin vines from going on his property? He didn't stop breaking ground. when he came over to my property. So I'm just saying, you know, pumpkin vines are going to vine. I bet there is, I don't know this because I don't still do this. But I bet there's law in Kentucky about whose fault it is if vines from one person's property get on to the other. I don't know what that law would be, but I would bet you that law exists as your unofficial legal counsel.

I would tell you to be careful with your vines. Like you can't just say, well, I can't help but my vines went over there. It could still be your responsibility. The good thing is, I've known this guy since I was a kid, so we are very friendly, very neighborly. You think he'll be friendly if your pumpkin vines take over his house? I mean, I'll give you an example. I didn't even ask for him to do this,

but I see him I ring doorbell camera yesterday, a big long extension cord going across my front yard. I'm like, what is that? I come home, he had trimmed my shrubbery in front of my house. Oh, that's very nice. So I'm like, you know, this guy's going to get mad if my vines go over to his property a little bit. So we're good. All right, we're as long as you're good.

I just wanted to make sure. So I'm passing that message on. Thank you. To you. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. We got the three of us. You can ask any question you want. We will reserve the right to not answer the worst ones.

But other than that, we will answer whatever else it is that you want to say. I saw an article yesterday that I want you to think about here, right? All right. The question was, is Kentucky still the king of back? basketball in the SEC. Obviously, you go throughout history since the 1940s. I went for a walk on Monday, and I walked past CCNY. You remember CCNY who Kentucky played for the national championship back in the 40s?

And CCNY, City College in New York, at one point, was one of the best college basketball program in the country. And then the gambling scandal that Kentucky got caught up in two, CC and Y basically shut down their program because of the scandal. And of course, have never been the same. And I had never seen that campus. And I was walking up in Harlem and I saw it. And I was like, wow, this is CCNY that I've heard about all the years.

But since the days of CCNY, Kentucky has been the king of SEC basketball. Do you still think, based on the last five years, where Alabama and Auburn and he's, even Tennessee and now Florida, have had the success they've had. Can we still today, historically, clearly, we're the king of the SEC, but can we today call ourselves the king of SEC basketball? I'm going to say today we can't.

We've not won an SEC tournament in what, six, seven years? We've not even been to the weekend of the SEC tournament in the last five years. We have won. The statistics are, Since 2018, we've won either the SEC regular season or the SEC tournament only once. So that's 14 possible titles in that period, and we have won. I don't think you can call us the king today then with what you just said. Shannon?

No. Can we still call ourselves the king of SEC basketball today? No, and I don't know who really can. I mean, you've had good teams. Like Alabama's been great. you know, Florida, Tennessee. I don't know that there's one dominant team that you would call the king of the SEC in college basketball. I think there's definitely a tier.

You may be right about that. I mean, I think Alabama's probably had the most consistent success in the last four or five years. But Auburn's been good. Tennessee's been good. Florida just won the national championship. And Florida's poised to be loaded again next year. Yeah, I don't know. That's a very good point.

There may not be a king. But I don't know that I had ever thought about it like that, that I'd ever thought about, you know, we still, we're still the most prominent program. We're still the historically best, and I don't think it's even close. But I do wonder if we can still call ourselves that. And one of, I think, Mark Pope's jobs is going to be we have to go reclaim that title. As good as the SEC was last year, it's not going to be nearly as good this year. Alabama's gotten worse. Auburn's gotten worse.

I think Tennessee's gotten worse. Florida and Kentucky should be the two best teams in the conference next year. But I do wonder, I do think it's something I hadn't thought about. I do think it might be an issue. We didn't like those signs that were up in the game, you know, blue blood marked out new blood. But to be honest. There may be some truth to that.

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It's nice to have the freedom to do a job where nobody bothers you. And when you clean someone's window, if they're looking out, they usually wave and are nice. Yeah, I didn't think about that. And you're looking in people's windows. You probably kind of see some cool stuff sometimes, don't you think? Some things you shouldn't be seeing. Things you don't want to see, you know. but people don't have their curtains drawn.

I bet those guys have pretty good stories. When they just pop onto somebody's window. I would think you'd have to send out like a memo. Like, hey, we're coming next week on Tuesday and 9 o'clock. Yeah, you're probably right about that. One person writes, Matt, my daughter graduated from CCNY eight years ago. You were way up there in Harlem. I thought it was a very cool area, but it's unlike anywhere else I'd ever been.

That's true. So I walked from 50th. So I walked from, you've been to New York, right? Yes. You know where 30 Rock is, right? Yes, you've been there. So I worked from 30 Rock to 145th in Linux, or what's now 145th of Malcolm X up in Harlem.

And it is unlike anywhere I've ever been. The street, which used to be called Linux Avenue, and I think now it's called Malcolm X Boulevard, is like awesome. I mean, food, restaurants, people everywhere. And this is in the middle of the afternoon or middle of evening on a Monday. But it was very cool. I'd never been up that way.

I just decided to go for a, you know, 13-mile walk a day. But I really liked it. You should go sometime. It's unlike the New York people who go visit Times Square, et cetera. It's unlike what you're used to. It's just a different kind of thing. So I've always wondered when you do that, Do you just kind of just pick some place to eat at random?

You really don't, can't research all these places. Yeah, I went to. There's a place up there that's famous. I think it's called Stella's. It's like they do soul food. And I wanted to go there. Yeah. So I walked up there at 2.30 or I don't know what it was.

I guess 4.30 or 5.30 in the afternoon there was a long line, but I waited and it was great. But yeah, I just, you know, I think the best way to discover a city is to walk it. And so I did that. And it was fun. Again, I would have never run into CC and Y if I hadn't done it, which is a good. I mean, that was the equivalent rhyme back in the day of Yukon as a basketball program. Many, you know, for a lot of our older listeners that remember that. I didn't even know it was still in existence, to be honest.

It's huge. The school's huge. Like it takes up four, five blocks of New York City. It's a huge city. I don't know about their sports teams anymore. Yeah. But, you know, one person writes, Matt, yes, we are still the king of the SEC.

It will take 25 years of Alabama, Auburn, or Florida being as good as we are to even come close. Do you agree with that, Ryan? Yeah, but we talked about are we king today at this moment. We are obviously the overall king of the SEC. We will be for a long time. But at this moment, I don't know if we can claim that title today. Would you say next to us, who's second?

Is it Florida? Even though historically, I mean, you go back in time, Florida basketball was irrelevant. But they do have three national championships, and nobody else in the SEC. I mean, who else in the SEC even has one? I mean, Arkansas has one. Tennessee doesn't even have a final four. They never even been to the final four. They never even been to a final four.

Auburn has one. They have a final four. One final four. Alabama has two or three maybe. Yeah. Does anyone else in the SEC even have Georgia, I think, has a final four, like in the 80s. Mississippi State went to the final four when we did it in 96. That's right.

Did LSU go? LSU's been a couple times. LSU went the year they beat us in 86. They went with Big Baby and Tim Thomas, or not Tim Thomas, well, whatever that guy's name was. But nobody's won a title but us in Florida. It's got to be Florida, right? Florida has three titles. It's got to be Florida. But that's crazy.

Because I think until Florida went to the and won their national championships, I think they only had, I think Norm Sloan went to the final four once, and then Billy went to one before he won it, I think once. But, yeah, it's probably Florida, which tells you how bad in some ways the history of the other programs in the SEC is. Who's up first? Jason. Jason. go ahead, Jason, it's Ask Anything Wednesday.

Go for it. Hi, Matt, good morning, guys. Well, since if Ask Anything Wednesday, I want to give, I want to, I would call this a hindsight hypothetical. It's one I've wondered about for a while, so I want to do what your thoughts on it are. So go back to, I guess, 2022, 2023 when DJ Wagner was a senior in high school. Yes. It was so highly recruited. Yeah.

What do you think the odds? do you think the odds that Calipari might still be at Kentucky and Kenny Payne been at Louisville if DJ had decided to go to Louisville? Well, Kenny would not be there, Ryan, because Kenny, I mean, no disrespect to him, although this is, I guess, disrespectful, but also true, he can't coach. I mean, he just won six games, so I don't think DJ Wagner would have changed anything for Kenny. would it have changed something for Kentucky? Let's say he doesn't come here.

That leads Rob Dillingham to have to start at point guard or Reed Shepard to start at point guard. Brian, do you think John Calgary is still the coach in that scenario? It's an interesting scenario to talk about because either one of those guys starting at point guard could have made a huge difference in a team that was really good to begin with. Maybe they could have made a bigger run in March. Maybe they could have gotten by Oakland with a better with a different point guard.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the DJ Wagner thing is interesting. I think the problems on that team were a lot deeper than DJ Wagner. I think it was just the overall. I think there was a lot of junk around the program. I don't think Cal was in a good headspace. So I think it's a lot. I don't think that would have changed Louisville's fate at all.

But it would be interesting to see if that had happened how we would have done that. Yes, yes, I agree. I don't know. It's a good question. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Did you hear the question?

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Is this a rapper? Is it supposed to be like a... I think he's a country music singer? No, it's not. Turn it up for something. second. Just turn it up for just a second. That's awful. All right. So that's the worst kind of music that exists. Anyway, during the last segment, I could hear somebody yelling outside the studio. And I'm like, what is that? I thought maybe it was Benetti yelling to somebody. But then it kept going on. So during

the break, I poked my head out at the studio and I hear somebody singing. And I go, well, who's that? And they said, Chase McDaniel. So that guy's performing in the Louisville studio right now? Yeah, yeah. He's singing to the salespeople right now. He's like in the salespeople. sales pit because we don't have like an auditorium like we used to at the other station so now it's just like an open so he's just in there like singing to the salespeople yeah i think he's a kentucky guy oh well then he's good like he's really good i got you flip automatically just because of where he's born well i mean i'm not going to be against the kentucky guy you know i don't like this kind of music but uh where's he from ryan we have to look it up but i think he's from like

how do you know that tucky i'm kind of I've heard of him. You've heard of him. Yeah. Yeah, they used to have back in the, for, when I first started working at our heart, one of the cool things, Shannon, you know this, is that singers would come by and just perform sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, famously, like, one of my first, in my first year working there, Cheryl Crow just showed up one day and started singing. And it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. She's singing like, are you strong enough to be my man? And it felt like she was just singing to me. and Terry Miners. And I was like, I feel like we are. At least I am.

I don't know about old man minors over there. But we used to have random celebrities just coming there. Like one day, Stifler's mom, Jennifer Coolidge is just walking through the hallways. Like that's Stifler's mom. Yeah, stuff like that doesn't happen anymore. But that was when we first started. That was cool. They would just have these artists.

Scotty McCready came in. I know one time in the Lexington building. Yeah, I mean, who's that? Who's Scotty McCreedy? He was a voice. I think he won the voice or something. or America's got talent. I don't feel like that's the same level of Cheryl Crow and Stifler's mom.

Yeah, Stoddy is really popular now. Okay. He, okay. Chase McDaniels from Greensburg, Kentucky. Oh, okay. That's home of the Dumas Walker, the Slawburger Fried and Bottleskee, right? Greensburg. Isn't that Greensburg?

Greensburg. Yeah, well, good for, uh... Our first caller today was from Greensburg, which is sort of odd timing, but, you know. Really? Yeah, because it's a green's a greener. It's a Greensburg caller and a Greensburg for four? Wait a minute. That's a little freaky.

Now that is a little freaky because that town's tiny. Yeah. Greensburg. Greensburg's taking over. Huh. Well, there you go. All right, 859-2802287. One person writes, Matt, we get the most people who come to our games when we're on the road to boo us.

That makes us the king of the SEC. Yeah, I mean, again, okay, so who won the last three national championships? UConn. Florida wins last year. I don't even know. Who won before UCon? Was it Baylor that won at the year before that, maybe? One of those years they did, yeah. Yeah, all right, so Baylor.

So let's just say Baylor, let's just take Baylor, Yukon, and Florida and just use those as an example. Those are the last three national title winners. Who's going to get more opponents to come see them on the road? Baylor, Yukon, and Florida, or Kentucky, Duke, and North Carolina? There's no doubt. It's going to be Kentucky, Kentucky, New Carolina. Duke and North Carolina.

So it just depends on what your definition is. But the same thing is true in football, right? Like, okay, so the Eagles and the Chiefs and the Bills, yeah, those are the best teams. But if the Cowboys come to town, it's the Cowboys, right? It's all about the brand. It's the brand of the Cowboys. It's the brand of the Yankees. And Kentucky and Duke and Carolina and then to a lesser extent, Kansas,

That, Ryan, that's the brand of college basketball. So it all just depends on what you mean by king. Yes, in that reference, they are without a doubt. One of the kings of basketball, I probably always will be. But at the moment today in the SEC, are they the king? Got to get to the weekend of the SEC tournament to get in that conversation. Yeah, you two need to get to the week. I may have mentioned this on this show.

I know I mentioned it on the ESPN. They had a stat of the most watched first round games of the last 10 years. in the NCAA tournament. And the top 10 games were all the same. They were either two powerhouse programs playing each other. So like this past year, Arkansas and Kansas, or it was Kentucky and Duke playing anybody. Right?

Kentucky, because that's what it is. Yep. See, it is either two brands play each other or just Kentucky and Duke playing anybody. That's what college basketball in some ways is. And Kentucky just has to make sure we stay on that plane. And I think Mark Pope is going to have us do it. Who's next?

Gabe. Gabe, go ahead, Gabe. So my ask anything Wednesday question is, have you guys could take any real petty thing and make it punishable by jail time? What would it be? And I'll give you an example. Because we've been talking the past couple weeks about the zipper merge.

The one that I don't hear anybody talk about is that situation. where you have like two lanes, one for a turn lane, one's a straight lane. The straight lane gets real backed up, and somebody drives all the way to the end of that empty turn lane and drives a cut back into the lane straight. So if you could, I think that's been possible by five to ten years in prison. So what do you guys think about that? Yeah, that's a good point. Anybody who would do that, Shannon, that would be a bad thing.

You'd be broadcasting from prison right now. That would be a bad thing to do. Well, yeah, all right, so I appreciate the call. I'm trying to think. I would say allowing your children to scream in a restaurant and not even attempting to get them to quiet down. I understand, Ryan, that there are times you can't control your children because they have a mind of their own, et cetera. But when I go to a place and somebody just lets their child scream or even worse, run around and like run into people's space.

And they don't even try. They kind of have a look of like, what are you going to do? I know people don't like what I say stuff like this. And they go, well, wait until you have kids. You got to at least try. And I feel the same way about people and their dogs. You know, if you let your dog, like, you know how many time? Shannon, somebody has a dog, like come up and start licking me.

And they're like, oh, it's friendly. Don't worry. But I don't want your dog. me either way. Like it's not, you know, but you know what I mean? They, they let their dog come up and slurp on you and then they say, oh, don't worry, he's friendly. I don't, I don't like him friendly or not. I don't need dog saliva on. For some reason, we give dogs and cats a pass. If it were like a big snake and somebody puts this on you and goes, oh, don't worry, he's friendly. He's friendly. Nobody would accept that. You would like, hell no, get that thing away from me,

you know? I mean, you're not going to let your chicken just peck on me. and then go, oh, don't worry, it's a nice chicken. But people seem to think that you want their dogs humping your leg. And I don't. So those would be the two things for me, Ryan. Is there something for you? People who let their dog poop in my front yard, I would probably put them punishable by death.

But don't you let your dogs, like, howl into the night? Why is that any different? Well, they go to sleep at night. They bark sometimes in the evening. But you have let your dogs, like, just, you've talked about it. You've just let them yelp and you leave them outside to, like, don't you do the same thing? We've gotten much better with the dogs that they've gotten older, so we, you know, try to bring them in. So he didn't deny that, by the way.

He acknowledged he does that. But the pooping thing, I would definitely, that definitely punish him by death. You come and poop in the yard. I think that is a crime, isn't it, to let your, like, if you don't clean up after your dog, isn't it? You can get a fine. You can get a fine, right? Definitely in an HOA neighborhood. That's for sure.

It's kind of the same thing we talked about the zipper merge, but the people at McDonald's that, like, don't do the zipper merge and kind of get in front of you in the line when they're supposed to wait for you, that should be punishable by death. So you don't like the zipper merge where it should be used. No, they don't take their turn. They don't take their turn. Like, they jump in front of you. They zip in front of you when it's your turn.

I don't know what you're talking about. You have somebody's talking about. You have people that change lanes in your McDonald's drive. drive-through? It's definitely happened, yes. Wow, but he's going to some anarchy, like, anarchy drive-thrues. What about you, Shannon? I was thinking really hard trying to figure one out, but there's, you know, like, when you go, like, let's say you're at, like, McDonald's, for instance, and there's somebody in front of you, and they can't figure out what they're trying to order, and they just stare in there, and they look at the menu, and they've been standing

there for 10 minutes, trying, you know, they could have figured it out by now, but now I'm behind this person. Yeah, I mean, it's the same, they got the same food to, you know, I mean, it's the same, they got the same food they've always had. It takes you 10 minutes to place an order. I'm like, figure it out already. You should already have this figured out before you get there. But yeah, that one drives me crazy.

I can totally go with that. When people sit there at the drive-thru and they'll go, I'd like a big back, but leave the tomato. It's like you are at McDonald's. You get what you get. This is not a have-it-your-way. Just order it. You know, that is, but I have my...

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But it's this kind of music, like modern country awfulness? Yeah, this is it. He's kind of got that like a country twang from the back of the day, that deep voice. You think this is not. This is like the stuff that's out now. This is terrible. that's why he's a big deal, I guess. Well, I got it.

85 million views on YouTube. This song has 85 million views. I feel like it's a lot. Yeah, that seems like a lot. Well, no, I mean, I grant you this stuff's popular as seen by the fact that that dude's playing to our office people right now. Like, I mean, that people like it. Bailey Zimmerman and all of those folks. I'm going to be seeing a lot of these people this weekend because I'm going to see a Mayfest with ESPN.

That's right. That's right. probably going to have to interview some of these people. So if you want to see me, Shannon grin and talk through my teeth, listen to me, interview some of these people Sunday morning. That's when you're at your best. What are you talking about? Yeah, so they're going to put us in whatever the fan fest area is.

So if you're in Nashville, you want to come by and say hello, Myron and I'll be there. I bought Myron a cowboy hat. I can't wait to see that. He's never been to anything country before. And then Sunday night, I'm very excited, Shannon, because I'm going to go see Zach Top. You should play him in the second hour. I want to kind of cleanse my palate from some of this stuff. On the Sunday show this past week, I never lie.

I heard Myron say you're the most cowboy person that he knows. Which is a bad sign for him. He said I was the most cowboy person he knows. And anyone who listens to this show knows, I'm like the least cowboy person that listens. Like every single person listening right now, Ryan, is more cowboy than I am. So Myron's in trouble, I think, at CMA fast. Well, you do have a hat.

That's a start. You got the hat. Yes, I do have a hat. Okay, so I sent you all the video of the soccer coach. Now, let me first of all say, I think we got, I think I got the town wrong, right? I think this guy is in Lexington. What it looks like. Yeah.

So this soccer guy, now, again, I'm not going to say his name in case, in case this name is wrong. but I get all indications that it is not. But just for my own like to save all of us. I'm not going to say his name in case this person's name. But this is a video that we were talking about yesterday that I thought was in Bardstown, but apparently is in Lexington. And it is a Lexington Youth Soccer.

What's the name of the team there? Ryan, I can't get it to pull up on my phone. Is it Turusco FC? To be honest, I'm not sure how to pronounce it. I think that's probably close. What's it spelled? T-I-B-U-R-O-N-E-S. Okay, yes.

T-B-R-O-N-E-S? T-I-B-U-R-O-N-E-S. Yes. T-B-R-O-N-E-S. I don't know. But it's apparently a Lexington under-13 soccer team. And this player, he's running, they're going for a ball, and one of the kids knocks the other kid down.

And this coach comes from the sidelines, and basically just chucks the kid who knocked the other one down. And then another father or someone, it looks like they run on the field and confront the coach. Yeah. Now that you've seen the video, should that guy, like, be arrested? I think you filed charges against that guy.

I think you give him a lifetime ban, not letting him coach ever again in the city. Because that's disgusting when you see it like that. I don't want to post the video, but if you go to the Lexington, if you go to Reddit to the Lexington, Page, Lexington, Kentucky. You can see the video.

I thought it was in Barts. I thought it was in Bartstown, but apparently this was in Lexington. Like last weekend, this past weekend. Shannon, you look at the video. Yeah, I'm watching it right now. Would you, not just banning from coaching, should a charge be filed against that guy? Yeah. I mean, this is a kid.

You said under 13, so let's say 12-year-old kid. And this coach or whoever he is takes both hands to this kid's face and pushes them down. you know, hits him in the head. The kid somehow ends up looks like he's okay, but he's running full steam, and that guy just takes his elbow or takes his arms and just hits him. Yeah. What makes a coach think they can do that? For 12-year-old soccer, they're 12 years old, man.

I definitely, I would file charge against that guy and never would. So you would. If it was your kid, you would file charges against this guy. I think I probably would. After you see it, it's disgusting. It really is. I am shocked. How is it that this is only on the Lexington Reddit page?

Like, how is this not a bigger story? I don't know. And the play that the kid was making didn't look like a dirty play. The other player fell down. He knocked the kid down. They're going to the ball and he knocked him down. It's a foul. But it's not, I wouldn't say it's dirty.

Would you, right? I mean, it's a foul, but like. It's a foul, but yeah, yeah, not a dirty play. Of course, I don't know soccer, but it didn't look like a dirty play to me. I just don't understand how this isn't a bigger story. How are we the only people that have talked about this? Well, maybe it's a good thing we are. He knocks a kid down.

Yeah, maybe it's a good thing we are talking about it to bring more attention to it. So maybe the local authorities will investigate it now. Well, unless this is not, I mean, I don't think the video was, why would you doctor a children's soccer video? I don't know. But it feels like to me, I'm shocked that the Tiburonez FC I guess it's a coach. Maybe it's a dad.

I'm not sure. I'm shocked this isn't a bigger thing because he nails a kid right in a face while they're playing soccer. Who's next? Janice. Janice. Go ahead, Janice. Yeah, Matt. I have a statement and a question.

The statement is my son teases me that I know more about you than I do about him. So I thought that's pretty funny. I'd say, well, I listen to him every day. Tell your son. Homemo. Tell your son you should call home more, and then you would know more about him. Right, right. And then my Ask Anything Wednesday question is, I'm heading to Dublin, Ireland, this September with some friends to catch the Pittsburgh Steelers game. Okay. And what is the one thing that you would say as an absolute must-be while I'm there?

Well, I mean, so I would make sure to give a couple days to go out into the Irish countryside. like Dublin's awesome, but, you know, if you were to come to America and you were to only, you should go to New York, but you were only to see New York, you wouldn't really know what America was like. Similarly, the Irish countryside is like the most, it's beautiful, beautiful, and the people are so nice, and it's just, it's, so I would make sure to, even if it's just a day tour, to go out into the Irish countryside. And then in Dublin, I'm sure you'll end up on the streets where all the Irish bars where they're playing music all day long. It's the most fun. And Irish people are the nicest people.

They're always in a social mood. And with the Steelers coming to town, everybody's going to be going crazy. But make sure to give yourself one day to get out of Dublin and to go out into the surrounding areas and look at the absolutely beautiful, like, green spaces in Ireland. There's no place else like it in the world. Well, thank you. All right, enjoy. Appreciate the call. 859-280, 27.

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