KSR - 2025-06-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

Matt, Ryan and Billy discuss the General Lee jumping the fountain in Somerset, UK football/basketball and the guys take your phone calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome, everyone. This is Kentucky Sports Radio Monday. June the 30th. I'm Matt Jones. We got Ryan Lemon in Lexington. We got Billy in studio. Drew and Shannon are both off. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-2-80-2287.

A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-745-25-4. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office we call T.J. I'll make them pay. It is, of course, Fourth of July week. The sort of parade of all of us taking our various vacations, Drew and Shannon, have this week. So it is Ryan and I, Billy actually coming into the, studio and Ryan there's a lot well actually there there's very little in sports going on which is going to lead us to talk about a lot of other stuff but good to be with you this morning yeah i've already had people tell us they they love these summer shows they can kind of feel it kind of leaning that way

and leaning towards yeah you're getting one today i mean this may be one of the most boring sports weekends that i can remember outside of one thing but for right now ryan my focus uh while it's on the show, I'm secondarily looking. You know, today, Ryan Lemon, you may not know this. Big Day in the Sneakerhead World. Oh, it is. June 30th. No, I don't know this.

Well, it's not June 30th. It's nothing about June 30th in particular. It's just today they are releasing the first ever Caitlin Clark shoe. Oh, really? Yes. By the way, Billy, I can barely hear Ryan if there's something we can do to turn him up or something like that. The first ever Caitlin Clark shoe is being released.

It was released at 10, so I'm in the draw. So at some point during this segment, if you hear a celebration, because it's not even about the shoe. I just feel like this will be one, be like, you know, she's like Michael Jordan. This will be like her first, this is like her Jordan won here coming out right now in the next few minutes. And being a sneakerhead like you are, you want that. You want to get this original shoe come out? Yeah, I think you wanted it. I appreciate you clearing that up.

Of course I want it. I think it would be good to have. So I don't think they released that many. So we'll find out here in a few minutes if I got it. Now, we could talk about the UK football got commitments. We could talk about UK basketball. Jasper Johnson's played a couple of the under 19 games. But I don't really want to start with any of that.

I've got to start with what happened in Somerset this weekend. Amen. Yes, we have to. In Somerset this weekend, they have to. they had, now they call it, what's it called? Is it called cruising? The cruise in? It's like the third Saturday and every month or the fourth Saturday and every month, something like that.

So they do this every month? They have the cruise in, but of course they don't have a big blowout celebration. Most people don't know what a cruise in is. So explain what that is. Like the guys that make the hot rod cars and the pimped out cars, they just kind of bring them all to Somerset one weekend throughout the summer. And they call it a cruise. and they just cruise up and down the street, and you just kind of sit and watch people's cars drive by.

It was just during the summer. Just during the summer thing. So I guess for this month's cruise in, they decided to bring in the General Lee to jump over the water fountain in the middle of town. And that feels like the kind of idea. Billy, it feels like the kind of idea you do when you've been drinking in Somerset. You know, why don't we get a car and why don't we jump it over?

over our fountain. I think it's a brilliant idea, although I would like to, I wish I knew the planning of how it ended up taking place. You know what I mean? Like, let's just jump a car over a fountain. Why don't we do that? Yeah, what was the why? I mean, I know a lot of people came out for it.

I mean, the Y cut was because it's awesome. Why did they do that exactly? The Y was because it's awesome. But I have a few questions about it that are important. But first of all, they do it. They get the general lead. Now, I don't know if that's, I'm going to assume. Ryan, it's not the official General Lee since it seems to now be destroyed.

So I'm going to just, I'm going to assume there's a lot of generalese. I guess they hired someone who knew how to operate a ramp and to go over it. And the video is insane and has gone mega viral. A guy, a Twitter account named like Carl Towns Van Zant, which by the way is a great Twitter account name. He had the video. I put it up on mine. It now, Ryan, has 22 million views on my Twitter. It has become, it is the second most popular tweet I've ever sent behind one I sent years ago on January 6th that had a video of the January 6th thing.

So it's the second most popular tweet I've ever had. And it's literally Somerset, Kentucky generally. It's gone all over the world. I have people, if you go look at that tweet, Ryan, and you look at the quotes. and the responses, there are responses in every language you can imagine. It has gone all over the world as this is a symbol of America in Somerset, Kentucky. You know, when we were down there doing our show and they were kind of telling us this was coming up, I envisioned it being great.

I didn't envision being that great. It's awesome. It goes through the water. I don't know that I envisioned exactly what they were going to do because they were very proud of it. Yes. But I guess I just couldn't really figure it out. So if you've seen the video, I'm sure at this point most people have,

car jumps the fountain. It got the jump 100% right. Like it looks, it got airborne. It goes through the fountain. Through the water, the blue water. The landing, I don't know if they totally, I can't imagine, Billy, that's how they wanted it to land. No. I cannot imagine that they wanted it to land.

on the ground, pieces of it coming off, and then hit into the barricades, and nearly killing a photographer in the process. I mean, I assume you've seen it, Billy, right? Yeah, I've seen it. But that's what makes it great. That's what makes it great is the landing and what happens after the jump. The fact that the photographer had to jump the fence to make sure he's okay. Yeah, I nearly took out a barrier and a photographer, but that's why everybody was, that's what made it special. You know, he jumps through the water and the water splatters.

So you don't think the jump made it special. You think the crash landing special. Yes. That's what we want to see. 35,000 people were there, Matt. Yeah. All right. There were 35,000 people I was going to ask that.

That's how many people were there? That's what they're estimating. 35,000 people all over place. And we had a front row seat if we wanted to go and none of us went. Well, I like the, I think I was good where I was with the video. But as someone who used to practice law, And sometimes, Billy, I look at things as, okay, where is your potential to get sued? The city of Somerset got away with one.

Okay? The city of Somerset got away with one. I cannot believe. Cannot believe there were people lining those streets. And what I especially can't believe is at the end of the runway, there were people like in the street. You know what I'm saying? Like if the brakes had fallen, it just went straight. There were people there.

Now, granted, there was a barrier, but who knows how well it would have worked. I am, listen, it was awesome. But, Billy, if you look at it, there's a lot that could have gone wrong right there. Yeah, if we had front row invitations, I would have taken it before the jump, not after. I mean, you had to be a little crazy to be back there. The people at the end of that jump, the people at the end of that jump were. hearty souls. I didn't win the draw, by the way.

Oh. Hope you got him. Well, they only, well, I mean, they don't tell you who got them. They're not like Bob in Frankfurt got them. They just say, you didn't get it. Yeah, bummer. Did you think they were going to tell me who in the world got the shoes all 13,000 people? Of course not, but if you got it, I'm hoping you got the right, the ticket to get the shoes.

But you asked me who got them. I said, I was hoping you got them. Oh, you hope, okay, got you. Well, anyway, so here's my question. I know there are listeners who were there. 859-280-2287. If you were at the event, I would like to hear from you. Was it as exciting as it looked on the camera?

And I'd like to know Billy about that photographer. I wouldn't like to know what he was thinking because he barely got out of the way. Like he gets out of the way. If you watch that video, A, what made him think he could be in the street right there? And B, does he feel like he escaped? Because he narrowly escaped. Yeah, I'd argue a lot of photographers have had professional athletes coming at him, but not the general Lee, right? I can't believe that he was over there.

I cannot believe that that guy, I'm sure he wanted a good shot. But, Ryan, I can't believe he was standing there because even if things go well, he still would have had a good chance of being hit. Yeah, because I don't think he was with the crew. The crew had their own photographers and stuff out, but they all had on black shirts. I don't think he was with them. You think that was just a dude? Just like a regular guy taking pictures?

Newspaper guy, like a local newspaper guy or something. So he's a local newspaper guy? On the other side of the barrier. Yeah. With the General Lee jumping the fountain. Some guy, sometimes people in the media jumped the barrier and go walk with Tiger Woods on a fairway. This guy jumped the barrier to hang out with General Lee crashing the end of the fence. is dangerous, I don't think, at all.

I think that was a very different, a very different level of danger. I will say, a fascinating thing. Now, are you, this is my question for you. It went all over the world. And by all over the world, I mean, I've seen Spanish, French,

I've seen Chinese characters like retweeting it, etc. Are you proud that to a lot of the world, this said, this happened in Kentucky. Ryan. yes because apparently this guy jumps like he's had like a dozen jumps in the general leave this is not like his first one but for whatever reason this one was for a while this one looks so cool going through

the water and kind of crashing at the end i love it i love it so you love that like for the world this is somerset kentucky all right why not what about you i kind of loved it too i don't know if it was the blue water fountain it was jumping over or just how it landed i just thought it perfectly encapsulated kentucky and somerset so yeah yeah the blue water was a great touch. Is it normally blue in Somerset? No. No, it wasn't that blue when we were down there. I'm sure they did it just for the jump. Well, that's, I

think the blue water actually, they should just keep that. And the blue water is a great touch. I thought one of you might say you were embarrassed. I wasn't embarrassed at all. No. I think it is very, well,

you know, there's a part of the whole generally, the Confederate flag things not my favorite, but it does harken back to the Dukes of Hazard. And so I get it, even though maybe I wouldn't have put that on there. But the idea of having the Dukes of Hazard car, jumping it over a fountain, 35,000 people coming out to see it and being as excited as they are. And then the crash landing plus the dude barely gets by.

I do think it is, Ryan, kind of definitively Kentucky in some ways. And so I actually think in some ways it more encapsulates what Kentucky is than, for instance, Bourbon or the Kentucky Derby. They're part of it. But there's a lot more of that in Kentucky than there is, you know, the race of kings at Churchill Downs. A lot of us grew up watching the Dukes of Hazard. It was a great TV show to watch. And I think that still pulls on our childhood heartstrings a little bit.

And you see the General Lee barreling down the street making a big jump coming to a crash landing. I'm like, yeah, man, I'm glad it was here. 859-280-2287. If you were at the event, you can either shoot a text, call or give me a text, 772-774-5-254. I will admit, when the people of Somerset said, hey, you ought to come back here in a couple weeks, we're jumping the General Lee over a fountain. I kind of rolled my eyes and I kind of thought, I don't know about that. I was wrong.

You guys were right. I should have been there. I'm with Billy. I don't think I would have said on the landing side of it, but I did think it was excellent. And to whoever took that video from the roof of that building in Somerset, that video is now, it's in the New York Post. It's on Barstool. But I think it's even like in People magazine, that video, which I'm. I saw from Carl Towns Van Zant, whoever it was that originally took it, because I think he said it was a friend of his, well done.

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So apparently, it was not, I guess, what, did they drive a Crown Vic? Is that what they drove on the show, Ryan? I never really watched the show because that was a little before my time. Is that what they drove on the show? I don't know. To me, it was still the generally, I don't know what the different models were. I really don't. I think they used to drive a Dodge Charger.

This was not that. This was not a Dodge Charger. Okay. So whatever they drove, they re put different. things on it. So they used a Ford LTD with car panels bought to make it look like a Dodge

charger. After it landed, do we, I mean, will you think they'll be able to use that car again? I mean, it was destroyed. Yeah, I think that's why they've got like five of them. And then what they told us, I think there's five of these cars that they use for these shows and jumps and things, but that one seemed to be probably totaled them. Well, I mean, I wonder

what it costs to get them because if you're going to destroy the car, they're going to have to rebuild it. So how much you think the city of Somerset paid for that? Like if you were to guess, because somebody will know the answer to this. Billy, how much you think they had to pay to do that? Yeah, I don't know.

I was going to guess like $15, $20,000. But it's got to be more than that because they've got to rebuild the car. Raymond. That car, just rebuilding the car is going to cost them, what, $10,000 or $15,000, right? Yeah, you probably right there's their hobby. You know, they probably don't have to put a lot of them.

Yeah, but this has also got to be a job. They're not just running around crashing cars for the fun of it. I mean, this is a business, right? So, I mean, I got to think it's more $30,000. Which is that a bargain for a city? I think Somerset's gotten $30,000 worth of publicity, right? Well, yes, Somerset, I think the population is like 12,000 people. They almost tripled it in one weekend.

So I think they're, the value of that is paid for it. $0.50 a person, and you get to have the car jump over the fountain in town, and you're good. One person writes, I'm waiting on the video of the cameraman who almost got ran over. He was filming, which means that has to be a heck of a shot. Yeah, I would like to see that. And I'd also like to be in his brain, Billy, to hear the moment that he went, uh-oh, this is not going exactly as I hoped. Hey, it could be a life-changing shot, though.

You know, I mean, this could be something that gets them noticed. It could be. The shoes are already gone, and they're already on the secondary market now for $360. So I don't know if they're going to be. Does it say how many they put out today? I think I saw it was going to be 13,000 total. But in my size, you know, it's probably like a thousand or less. You would think, though, with Caitlin, you think it would be Caitlin Clark.

They would put a zillion of them out, right? Because it's Caitlin Clark. Well, maybe that's like you said. You would think every little girl in the country that plays basketball would want it. Like you said, with the job. Jordan 1's, this first edition, maybe they want to make it so special. Now, maybe the second one they'll make more available to the public. That's probably their mindset, but it is, it's very strange to me that they do it.

859-280-2287. Before we get to anything else, also I have to talk about my Reds. Ryan, another series win against the Padres. Friday night almost had history. You and I both were listening to it and texting back and forth. Spencer Steer hits a home run in his first. first three at bats, which means he gets to come up for a fourth chance to get four home runs, doesn't end up doing it, and then Nick Martinez, eight no-hit innings, goes to the ninth

inning with a no-hitter. He had already thrown 110 pitches. I think his arm was about to fall off. He was basically lobbing it in the ninth inning. But they had to give him a chance to get it. He gives a hit, and it ends up they take him out of the game. But they win the game. But you don't see many games, Ryan, where they went into the ninth inning with you.

two chances at literally making history. For eight innings, both those guys were making a case for being a Hall of Famer. I mean, Spencer Steer just every time up and hitting a home run, Martinez, that's the most pitches he had ever thrown in his life, they said, and he was still out there trying to get that no-hitter. He averages, but they kept letting him go. I think the theory was, you know, Billy, he's old. He'll probably never get this chance again.

Let's just let him go until his arm falls off. Yeah, just throw him out there, see if he can complete it. But, you know, Reds, they're playing pretty well, Matt. You've got to be happy with them, right? Yeah, so then Saturday they're up 4 to 1, but then they get the bill pinfalls apart, lose 6'4, but then they reverse it yesterday. 2-1 going into the 9th. Ellie, his first step bat takes 11 pitches to kind of get their closer tired and then hit

after hit after hit, and they end up winning the game. So now they go to Boston this weekend. You know, we talked three weeks ago, I said, right, And they've got all these tough series back to back to back to back. They've won six of those seven series. Your Cardinals are the only series they've lost in that group. They got two more this weekend, Boston and Philly. And then it's the All-Star game.

So they, you know, and then the week after the All-Star game, they play seven games against the Rockies and the Marlins. So a chance to kind of take off if they can survive this week upcoming. Yeah, tough stretch. They had the Yankees, then the Padres, one of the best teams in the West, and then they're going to Boston and play them. They had Cleveland and they had Detroit, the best team in baseball. I mean, they had all these teams.

And they won all of those series except the Cardinals won. So, you know, Summer of Ellie, are you starting to believe yet? No, they're still behind the Cardinals. They're still behind the Brewers. They're in fourth place in their own division. They are, but they don't have to win the division. They need the Wild Cardinals. Well, they're two and a half.

They've got to leapfrog the Cardinals and Brewers then somehow. Well, you turn his microphone. Phone off. Billy, they have two and a half games behind on the Wild Card, and the other teams are. like the Mets are right now the wild card you got the Mets are the leader but they're still only three and a half games ahead of the red so everyone's bunched up billy we can we can completely do this yeah it's it's fun being over 500 in june going into july uh it doesn't happen a lot you know you

got that young pitcher i think pitching against boston tonight too well tonight yeah so again tonight chase burns the guy that uh had such a great debut he's pitching apparently against one of the best dudes in baseball, Billy. I guess his name is Garrett Crochet. Is that a person for Boston? I'm not sure. Crochet, though. That's an unfortunate last name.

Is that his name? Or is it Crotchet? Crozier? I'm not sure. I know you're talking about it, but I'm not sure I'm not sure I pronounce his last name. Well, it doesn't have an R. So I don't think it's Crozier.

So it's either crochet or I guess, Billy, I guess it could be Crotchett. I think for his sake. Let's hope it's that one. I'm going to assume it's crochet. I don't think somebody's going to name their kid Crotch it. But they pitch, so this dude, what a tough start to his career. Starts with the Yankees and then at Fenway against one of the best pitchers in baseball. Do what he's made of.

That's two of three. Every series, get two of three. Tonight's going to be a hard one. And what happened? Did Ellie throw up right before he hit the big hit last night or something? There was something we were talking about they threw up. I was against the Cardinals. Last week, right?

Yeah, against the Cardinals last week, he was so hot in St. Louis, he threw up, and then right after he threw up hit a home run. Yeah. No, what he did last night was, if you go look at the play, he scored on in the ninth, Billy, no one would have scored but Ellie on that play. Like, he took off, I mean, you have to go see it. He barely beat the throw, but you'd have to be one of the fastest people in sport. Anybody else would have gotten thrown out, but he was able to get in because of,

how fast he is. Who's next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. You were? Yes. Okay, well, tell me something about it. I never saw it. Did you see the car jump in the air? Yes. All right. All right, well, I appreciate it. I thought I'd get a little more info, but I will look at those pictures. Had to be a fun day in Somerset. We'll take a break. Be right back.

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. There are people writing me saying that these Caitlin Clark shoes are not her first signature one. They're her Kobe shoes. Her first signature one, Billy, will be worth more money. So there you go. Maybe that's why. So they're not out yet then. The signature ones?

Well, I mean, I think, I don't know why it takes so long. If I were them, I would have put out the shoes. Like, you knew she was going to be in the league. I would have put them out immediately. Absolutely. Which she was like at the top of her. But apparently the ones that are specific. specifically hers are not even done yet.

Wow. It reminds me of a weed abics. You need to strike when the iron's hot. You got to strike when the iron is hot. I mean, what was hotter than Caitlin Clark in the WMBA last year? Like nothing. If they put that out last year,

they'd have sold a million of them, you would think. And maybe they still will, but I would have wanted to do that quickly. I still don't have anybody who's told me how much they think Somerset paid for that. One person writes, there's never been a bigger bag filled or bag missed in history than Hazard not doing this event.

That's the truth. Oh, yeah. Hazard. The only thing that would have made this bigger, Billy, is if this had been in Hazard, right? How could you do, how could Hazard not have done that? You could have had the name thing? I mean, how could you not done it, Hazard? You're right.

Does Hazard adopt that, I mean, I know the show is in Hazard County, Georgia, right? I believe. which isn't a real place, I don't think. But has Hazard Kentucky... What are you doing? That was my fault. I know. Push the wrong button, my bad.

All right. Has Hazard Kentucky ever really embraced it, Ryan, over the years? Oh, I think they definitely embraced it. And most people think the show is Hazard Kentucky, not Hazard County, Georgia. But what have they done to embrace it? What have they done? I think the Lester P. Coltrane, he's from Kentucky, right? I think he's been there to like their parade or their...

hazard day or something. They've done something down there, but they've not done a jump over a fountain or anything like that. Well, they should have done this because it would have been a bigger deal. One person writes, Matt, all the UK basketball season ticket holders are getting calls this week, asking them to buy football tickets. Is that a bad sign? Well, it's not a good sign. I mean, maybe they do that every year.

I'm not sure. but I think when the Herald leader, because they always in like August, release the season ticket numbers, because I think it comes out in the mid-year report for UK, which is due maybe at the end of July or something like that, I think the number of season ticket sales, Ryan, is going to be shocking. It would not surprise me if the season ticket sale numbers are the lowest since before Stoops got here. Because remember when he got here, they sold a ton that first year.

and I could totally see it being the lowest number of the stoop's era. Do you agree? I totally agree. I mean, you know, it started to leak out little by little that season ticket sales are going horribly wrong, the wrong way. So I can see why they're maybe calling the basketball season ticket or trying to give them a deal, a package deal, something to try to buy some more football season tickets. Yeah, it may be the case they do that every year, so I don't know. But I've never seen that, and that would be probably a bad side. And any time you're trying to cold call people for season tickets, people who've never bought it,

that I think also is not the greatest sign in the world. Who's next, Billy? Let's go to Matt. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, what's up, guys? I was down in Somerset this weekend. I live down here just calling to tell you a little bit about the experience. Okay.

So I think 35,000 is probably a little exaggerated on the number. I'd say it's probably more around like 15 to 20,000. We were located right by the ramp and you could tell whenever it took off and it landed, it was obviously going to crash. So, you know, everybody started running in behind it and trying to see what was going on. It was definitely a spectacle of the day, but it was really, really cool. I own a small business down here in Somerset. The town was hopping since Thursday.

There was a bunch of people coming in. All the hotels were cool. So, I mean, I've got to give our local government out. the mayor down here. I think they did a great job with it because it did bring a lot of attention to our town and it really did help with the local businesses. Every little. That's good.

That's exactly what you want. Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly what you want. I mean, Alan Kack has been. Yeah, Alan Kekek, the mayor down there, you know, ran for governor a couple years ago. We met him when he did that and brought us down there. He's done a great job. I mean, listen, you certainly got attention.

There are people all over the world now that know Somerset. So probably the biggest news since Hal Rogers, right? Yeah, I grew up in Missouri, and I had friends from high school in Missouri that had messaged me. I live in Kentucky. He was like, were you anywhere close to that? And it's like, yeah, I was there. You know? So it definitely is a good experience in a hard town.

Yeah, appreciate to call. I mean, a little bit of a downer on how many, but people were there. But that's still very exciting. Who's next? Allie is next. Allie. Go ahead, Allie. By the way, it's Richie Farmer wrote to say it's Roscoe Coltrane, Ryan, not Lester.

Where did you get Lester? Like I said, Roscoe P. Coltrane. I think you did say Lester P. Coltrane. Oh. Where's his brother? Lester's a weird name just to come up with, though. Where do you get Lester? Who's next?

Allie is up. A dude's from Kentucky, I think, too, right? The actor that played him. Yeah. All the more reason you should know his name. Go ahead. Hey, guys. I'm the one who took that video.

Oh, that's your video. Yes, that's my video. That's your video. Okay, so how did Carl Towns-Vansant get it? They stole it. Now, Carl Towns-Fansant said this is my friend who took it. Are you not friends with him? No, I'm not friends with him.

Oh, wow, Billy. Not friends. with Carl Towns Van Zant. Okay, so you, so did you post it somewhere and then someone just yanked it from you? I posted it to my Facebook page and it went crazy. So, are you happy about the fact that, like, that video is literally in the New York Post and in the Washington Post today. Does that make you happy? Oh, that's totally cool.

I had Good Morning America called me or email me last night so I think it's going to be on there sometimes a week. Wait a good morning America emailed you. What did they say? Yes, brother. They just asked it.

What did they say, sister? Ask for permission to use it. Well, that's nice. So I sent them the original video. Most internet rogues like me didn't do that. So you got permission. That's cool.

So you have a video. I mean, just my version of it has been watched by 20, just to give you the latest numbers, because I want you to sense, this is your video. Just mine of it has 21 million views. I'm sitting here looking at another one that has 8 million views. The New York Post one has 2 million views. So you're looking at, I think I would say,

you probably are looking at 50 million people at least have viewed this. Well, add in that my Facebook page says that 9 million people has seen it from mine. Yeah. So 9 million from you, you add all these up. Let's just say conservatively, you shot a video that 50 million people saw. That's got to be kind of cool, right? Yeah, that's really cool. And when you took your phone out and did it, when you took your phone out and did it, you could have never imagined.

that would happen. Oh, no. I would have been happy with a couple of hundred of my friends saying, woo-hoo! Well, you got more than that saying woo-hoo. Well, way to go. I think it's the best angle. There are other angles that show the crash, etc.,

but I don't think there's any other angle that shows the entire experience as good as yours. So what's your name again? Oh, I appreciate it. Allie. Allie McGuire. Allie McGuire, congratulations. And was it an exciting day in Somerset? it was so exciting and i didn't even have to crash my car that's true that's how you know it's a good day

billy it was so exciting and i didn't even have to crash my car that's a good that's good that's a good lie all i did was shoot out my phone hey you're welcome thank you all right allie 50 million people i mean right now just on my clip billy 13000 retweets a hundred and eight and eight and eight and eight 87,000 likes, 21 million views, and 3,000 comments. That's a ton. Now, could she be salty at all? I mean, you can make money if you get enough views on tweets or TikToks. You know, was there an opportunity for her to make money there?

Here's the little secret. None of these things really pay very much. Like, I'm signed up for all the programs on all the various ones. A video like that. 50 million views? probably 150 bucks. Oh, that's less than I thought. Yeah, the idea, the way that people make money is like influencers or whatever,

you have to get brand ads or you have to be on like YouTube. YouTube videos can make a lot of money if you get enough traffic, et cetera. But when Musk first took over Twitter, there was like a month or two that they paid pretty good money, and now they don't. I don't really, TikTok, I don't use it enough to make a substantial amount of money, but I've heard the same thing's true there. Like the kid, you know the kid, Ryan, on TikTok who does the food reviews in Kentucky? His name's like crunch, you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, we looked at him one time. Yeah. Yeah. So he, his videos get millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of views, all of them. And he does like one a day. And I heard him on a video say that for the entire year, I think, Billy, made like $130,000, which is still really good money.

But when you consider how much traffic he gets and how many followers, it kind of gives you a sense of how hard it is to make money. I had heard TikTok paid a little less than the others, but YouTube, it sounds like, is the winner. YouTube, if you're trying to make money from it, YouTube is the best. But honestly, the way these people make money is they get brand ads. You know, somebody pays you to say, hey, look at this shirt. comes from Target or you know what I mean something like that that's actually how you make

real money I don't think you necessarily make real money from having the general league go flying through the air but that would be nice you didn't send me the ad so give me one to do right here I don't have them either so we'll have to do that next segment all right well you're going to take care of that 859-280 2287 tax machine is 772 7752524 we will take a break be right back the UK basketball team went to kings island this is Kentucky Sports Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened.

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859-280-2287. A couple quick things that are, well, sad from the weekend. Two sports figures passed away. First, D. Wayne Lucas. Probably the, you know, I would say,

probably the most important figure in horse racing of my lifetime, won multiple derbies, multiple triple crown events, 89 years old, was just in the derby, I believe, this year with another horse at 89. Ryan, I'd say you were, over the years when you were doing the derby every year, I'm sure you got to know DeWain Lucas. I did not. I'm sure you were sad to see his passing. Yeah, because he was like, you're right, like the godfather of a horse racing trainers. You know, everybody aspired to be De Wayne Lucas. And when he walked in the room, you knew it. He commanded your attention. He was a, well, I know he

just passed me. He was a crotchety old man late in his life, and people, though, respected that from him. They didn't, didn't he, didn't Bob Baffert, like, learn under him? I think so. I think he was. Baffert wasn't one of them, but he had many trainers that did. So Baffert was not one of them. No, but just respected him and released a nice note after that. Yeah, there's, I mean, there's no doubt that he is probably the most. I mean, Baffert has probably become the most known figure in the last 15 to 20 years. But you go to when I was a kid, when I was a kid and when you thought about horse racing, D. Wayne Lucas was who you thought of.

Absolutely. Was him. So, sad to see his passing. And then former Red and Pirate, Dave Parker, who was, I think, won the batting title in 77 and 78 was the MVP, I believe, one of those years. Part of the end of the Big Red Machine and then part of a Pirates team that ended up going to the World Series. You're a huge baseball guy. Dave Parker was late 70s, early 80s, as good as anybody in the sport.

He was, and he was like a mountain of a man. He was just a big human being. Six. Six. Six. One of the tallest players to ever be like a really good hitter in history. And the last game I went to at the Reds game, they wheeled him out in his wheelchair, and he got this great ovation, but it was so sad to see this mountainous huge man,

what his body had just given out on him. You know, there's also a great story about him. He apparently has hit the longest home run ever. He hit a home run over the fence, I think like in West Virginia, landed in a bed of a train, and the train took it to like Washington, D.C. before it stopped. That sounds like that doesn't sound real, Billy. Billy, that doesn't sound real. Billy, that sounds like the kind of story they tell you in like a fairy tale, right?

He hit the longest homerun ever. It went on a train and then the train went all the way to Turkey. It's the only kind of thing you would. Yeah. I want you to look that up. Billy, I need you to fact check. Okay. I believe it was Dave Parker.

Huntington, West Virginia, I think, where it was. No excuses. I don't want you to try to now somehow caveat. You have to see, Billy. Did Dave Parker hit all longest home run by hitting it on a train? in West Virginia that went somewhere else. I'll find it. Because I'm throwing the challenge plan.

That's a great story. This is a Ryan Lemon, old wives tale that in my opinion is unlikely to be true. Just what I'm going to say. Who's up next? Ian is next. Ian, go ahead, Eelot. Ian. Matt, today are these are the kind of shows I love so much.

I wanted to admonish Ryan for not knowing Roscoe Picoke-Train, I didn't have to because my childhood hero, Kentucky Wildcat, Richie Farmer did it for me. See, they're good. I'm going to go ahead. Yes, Richie made sure to correct it. That's right. I was going to call with a little bit of Bob and Jamestown trivia about the General Leaf for you.

You know, in 1979, when they made that show, that car was just a 10-year-old car. It was still a cool car, but it was just an old car. and now those are very expensive and they're really hard to come by. They only made so many of them. They destroyed like 300 plus of them when they made the show. So a few years ago, these guys that do these jumps figured out that they could take the Ford Crown Victoria, which was the police car that's been in the taxi that's been around for the past 20 years, and cut all the body panels off and then weld the replacement sheet metal that the companies make to restore those old Dodge.

chargers and weld that on to the to the crown victorias so you basically have a endless supply of general leaves that you can make from now till the end of time how much would it cost if you clearly seem to know about it if you wreck that car how much would it cost to make a new one about 30,000 dollars to do it right yeah so that's why i wonder what somerset play paid because or maybe they didn't think they would wreck the car because but to make that worthwhile i mean if you tell me it cost 30,000. Now we're up to like $50,000. Which, I'm not saying it's...

They know they destroy them every time. So they destroy them every time. So they know it will be destroyed. Yeah. Okay. The car actually like the... Okay. Yeah, no, I appreciate the call. That's interesting.

So they go in knowing it would be destroyed. I wonder what it feels like Billy to land. You know what I mean? It didn't look like it had a... It didn't feel like it had a... soft landing. There's not an airbag in the generally, I don't think. Well, the guy that did is.

I do want to give a shout out to, if you watch wrestlers or you watch OVW, you know Holly Hood, Haley Jay. Yes. Did you see she started part two of her career this weekend? She entered and is now one of those, you've seen the slap fighting? Yeah. Right. She entered it.

She won her first slap fighting match. No way. She knocked a woman out. I'm not, I will tell you, I'm not really into the slap fighting. I think it's a little, it's got to be bad. Brutal. For them. But I would say, if anybody's going to be good at it, she would be a person I can see being good at it.

But you can look online. She was in her first match, and Ryan, she knocked the woman out that she was up against. Like, knocked her out. we all fell in love with her from the show. And then when she came on the show and set with you for an hour, so I'm pulling for in this new adventure for her. Look up the video. I mean, I don't.

She's not that big. She's a little girl. She's not that big. Well, she's bulked up a little bit. Clearly she's been lifting weights. I could tell I saw a video with her. But nevertheless, you know, if there's something she's good at, I could see it be slapping because I saw her slapping people not in the ring.

Like, just out of anger. So clearly, so she won her first match. So congratulations to Haley J and her new line of work. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends.

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