KSR - 2025-10-16- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

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on another beautiful fall day in Louis, well, not Louisville, in Lexington. You can come and see us for lunch. We've got a couple here already from Henry County, Kentucky. They said the best restaurant there is called Our Best. It's a good name for a restaurant in a county. If you're going to say, all right, what's the best restaurant in the county? It's in the name, right?

If I'm Googling where to eat there, I know exactly where I'm going. I'm going to go to the best one. So you can give the child of Clark's puppet shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-7-4 in this edition. by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call T.J. He'll make them pay. Come out and see us today. We've got, we're going to be here for lunch, and then tonight is Bingle Steelers. Adam Sandler is in town. Are you a big Adam Sandler fan? I like his movies. You know, might sing the Hanukkah song a little bit, but I won't be making my way over to Rupp.

I like him. You wouldn't even go to Rupp to see Adam Sandler. He's one of the biggest stars in America. Nothing to do, and you handed me tickets, I would go. but I mean I'm not going to go out of the way to go. Shannon, you were handing people tickets earlier this week, right? That's right. Yeah, a lot of people are excited to go to that show. Yeah, if I have to run to Louisville or I would go.

I love it. I'd love to hear him seeing Shannon Lunch Ladyland, right? So is that what he does? I mean, does he tell stories? No, I think he tells jokes, but then I do think, you know, he pulls out the guitar. I watched his special on Netflix, and he did jokes, and then at the end, saying about Chris Farley. Did you see that shit?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very sweet his song about Chris Farley. So do you think Adam Sandler can sell out Rupp? I don't think it's sold out, but I think he sells a lot of tickets. I mean, you know, selling out Rupp 20,000 for a comedy show is a lot. But I think he probably sold a lot of tickets. Yeah, I would expect a good crowd. He's also got a little bit of the, not that he needed it, but you got the happy Gilmore bump.

He's back, you know, he's never really left the news, but he helps a little. He's made, I think I was talking, maybe we did this on the air. He's worth $650 million. That's a lot of money for just a guy who did lunch lady land on Saturday Night Live. And dresses like he's worth $30,000. See, but that I appreciate. Chan and I appreciate his fashion sense. He's kind of like me.

You make some money still hoodies. He is a fellow member of the hoodie and shorts club. And not just any shorts. He'll wear a gym shorts. Yeah, I wear shorter shorts. Yeah, he's basketball shorts. And isn't that the dream to get yourself a job where you don't have to dress? Yeah, and it seems like he lives well beneath his means.

At least he does in his wardrobe. Exactly. That's me too. Save a lot of money in your wardrobe. You just get your hoodies. Well, 859-2802287. Ryan is gone today. It's me and Drew.

Billy's going to come join us. We had some miscommunication this morning, so he's got to come from the studio to here. So he'll join us. It'll be almost like NFL cover zero, or it's the news right here. Yeah, we talk to each other on the air seven days a week now, so what's new? What's another day? All right. So last night, we did trivia.

There's a lot of stuff I could ask you. But I do like to ask a couple of the questions to you all to see if you can get it. Shannon, I'll get them. All right. Well, first one was going to be a UK basketball questions. This is Porto. This can be harder than you think. Okay.

All right. From the Jamal Murray year. Okay, that's the year after 38 and 1. So Jamal Murray, Tyler Ullis, through the team where the tournament got canceled by COVID. Okay, Tyrese Maxie team. Yes. That is five UK basketball teams. This is pre-transfer portal era.

Kentucky had eight players during that time who played at Kentucky, who then left and went to another and played at a D-1 school. Eight players from the Jamal Murray team through the team that had their tournament canceled. Can you name the eight players who played at Kentucky, transfers, and then went and played at a D-1 school? Another D1 school. Quickly, I can do Johnny Juseng, Charles Matthews. Let me just go through.

Johnny Jusang, yes, that's one. Charles Matthews is two. Sasha Callais Jones. That's three. Five more. Shannon, feel free to jump in. Yeah. Feel free to contribute to the team, if you would like.

Trying to remember. That's three. Some of these are hard. One of them is fairly easy. You should be able to get, but a couple, you've got to go deep in the art. The only guys that left. I'm running low already. Who's on the team with Matthews?

Dante Allen? Dante Allen's after. That's the COVID team. Good guess, though, Shannon, Prattie. Yes. I don't have it. I don't either. Collectively, almost every team got at least four.

They probably had longer than 30 seconds. I think about it. But you all are experts. You're Kentucky. All right, Henry County, do you know one? Nobody got one? All right. As I tell you these, I'm disappointed no one got Marcus Lee.

Marcus Lee is a friend of the program. Yeah. And he went and played. Then Jamarle Baker. I should have gotten Jamarle. I'm still frustrated. They didn't play him in the Auburn game. Quaday Green.

Forgotten Cat? Yeah. Now, these are the two hard. Wait, hold on. When did Keon Brooks get here? Keon Brooks. He was after. Okay, carry on.

Ty, Winyard. Wow. Where did he even go? his bodyguard. He went to like Cal Poly or something. It was like Cal Poly Irvine Santa. Okay. And then finally, and this is one, Shannon, not one person in this restaurant got.

Not one person got this. Played at Kentucky, transferred and played in another D-1 school. Not one person out of the 33 teams we had here got Brad Caliperi. Oh. No one got Brad Caliper. If I were sitting here with five minutes, I probably would have gotten two more. I wouldn't have gotten Brad. I wouldn't have gotten Todd-winner.

Those are some deep cuts that never would have entered my brain. Okay. Let me do one more sports one. Okay. College basketball men's national championships. We know UCLA has 11. Tucky has eight. There are eight teams that have either two or three national champions.

Now, we know obviously Duke, Carolina, Kentucky, UCLA have more. But who has two? or three national champions. Do North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, you still a... So get past that group. Florida. Florida is one, Shannon.

Well done. Florida gets the first one. He gets the first one. There are eight of them. Louisville would be one. Louisville is one of them. That's exactly right. That's two.

They have three or two, depending on how you look at it. Michigan State has two. Now you're at three. Indiana? How about... Indiana has more. How about Villanova?

Villanova. Shannon is. killing it here. You all now have four of eight. Now I'm not running out. Now these next four are, I will grant you hard. You have to kind of go into the history books a little bit

to get these four. One of them is not that far from here. Anybody know? Henry County? Henry County did not win. Henry County is not adding a lot to the group, but that's okay. Cincinnati

that won a couple. NC State, Oklahoma State, which is that goes way back. Did Drew say Michigan State? He did, yes. And San Francisco. I wouldn't have gotten those last you had said you would not have gotten San Francisco. What year was that?

Cincinnati won, I think, back to back, didn't they, with Oscar Robertson, I believe, back in the day. I think they won back to back. One of them, I believe, Shannon, they won in Louisville. They won a national championship at Freedom Hall in Louisville. So there you go. There are other ones as well. Last one, this is a Kentucky-related one. What are the 10 by median income richest counties in Kentucky?

Oldham is number one. Look at Henry County. You know you don't like those Oldham County people. I understand that's close to your neighbor. Oldham County is the richest county in the state of Kentucky. Fayette. Fayette is not in the top ten. Really?

And the reason being median income is average. there are a lot of poor people in city. Same reason Jefferson County is also not in the top ten. So you're looking for places where most of the county has. I got another guess. Do you say bourbon? Bourbon is not one of the ten. Woodford.

Woodford is. Woodford is seven. I feel like this has got to be in the top ten. Shelby County. Shelby County is fifth. What did you say? Boone County is third. Yeah, I need those northern counties.

First, third, fifth, and seventh. Campbell County. is ninth so you all've gotten all the odd numbers you need two six four eight and ten i guess i'll guess uh Jefferson County with with Louis I already said Jefferson was not one of cities yeah no because now fay it was on the the list last year it dropped off Jefferson's never been on the list what else is up there by Cincinnati is what you say more of those left huh kenton county is not excuse me yes it is Kenton County's fourth there we go so we still don't have second second six eighth and tenth you all have done

a good job here this is a good set of guesses anybody have second i was going to say warren warren no warren second i'm going to have to give it up now so we don't have dead air spencer county okay right up there next to us shannon right next to bullet county that's right sixth place scott i was about to come out of my mouth right how do you not put georgetown there's more money in george i know more money and chicken fingers in georgetown than any other place in the world i listed our surrounding counties and didn't say Scott. You also didn't mention Jessamine County, just right there, eighth place. How many rich

people that are all of our coaches except Mark Pope, they all live there, and then 10th place. And I was shocked by this. Bullet County. Bullet County. We talk about drinking Mountain Dew, and they must drink Mountain Dew while sipping on Chardonnay

in Bullitt County. How about Bullitt County being 10th? Shannon's skewing those numbers, raising a little bit. All that money I got stashed away. Shannon took the average and screwed it up, didn't he? All right. So anyway, those were three of the trivia questions last night,

and you guys had you come, would not have done well as a team. Will you make everyone else do it in 30 seconds without being able to talk to their teammates? I do. I stand right on top of them and make them give the answer. On the spot, I felt like we did pretty well. Yeah, you can't have dead air. You did exactly. All right. Okay, so one of the things I want people if you get bored today to read,

I feel like, I think I've gone four to five years without praising the Herald leader three times. And I'm now going to do it for the third time this week. They're on a heater. They are on a heater. Mark Story and John Hale are on a heater. So they should get a big round of applause. You know, we did the NIL lecture series Monday night, me, Mark Story, and two people from out of town. The window 40 was great.

Really enjoyed it. And Mark's story told me during the thing, hey, we have some. stuff coming out about NIL. We had these long projects. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, one of the features came out today. And I highly recommend if you're a subscriber of the Herald Leader or if you just like want to do their $1 for a month thing or whatever, you should read the article that just came out. They basically did an idiot's guide. Billy, this is a signal you can come in here. I didn't just stand up for my health. I don't just stand up usually and walk around. There you go. Speaking of idiots

I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding he really did Shannon I stood up moved and then he just walked away and went in the other direction I thought you were making a passionate point

no no I was I wasn't standing up to preach they did an article basically NIL for idiots and they explained what it is how it's working what is happening at UK

how much of our money is going to each sport. Drew, I thought it was actually really brilliantly done, and they had a couple facts that I thought were interesting. Now, this is, the herald leader is saying sources tell them this. So this is not confirmed by the school, but I don't think they would write it unless they felt like it was right. They say that we are spending $22 million on our basketball program this year in players. For comparison's sake, Cala Perry's last NIL group was 4 million. Mark Popes was last year

10 million, and this year is 22 million. Now, they expect that number to go down next year. For reasons that are complicated, this group this year kind of got a crazy situation, because they got part Rev Share and part NIL, and it kind of exploded. They think that number will go down.

In the article, it says, that Kentucky might have the highest paid roster in the country. Then, in talking about RevShare, it says that SEC schools, most of them are going 75% football, 15% basketball, five women's basketball, five everything else. They said at Kentucky, it is 65% football, 10% less than the other schools, 25% basketball, 10% more than the other schools, and then women's and the other sports, five each. I think both of those sets of numbers are generally correct.

That 22 million is higher than I've heard, but I'm not going to say it's crazy. But what do you think about the fact that the rev share is 10% more for basketball here? Do you like that? And when you're judging Mark Stoops, is it worth considering that he might have 10% less of a salary, cap, for lack of a better term, than the other SEC teams. I actually like that they're doing it here in Kentucky so you don't let basketball slip when other schools. We've mentioned other schools are going to have advantages where football don't need as much, and you can't lose your grip on being the top program.

And even though football is slipping a little bit, they're not getting as much, that shouldn't be that big of a gap that you're not competitive. That should only be a couple of players. You're going to be at a little bit of a disadvantage, and people should know that, but you should still be able to field a pretty good team, because you're, even though you're 10% fewer than your opponent. I agree with you. If it was 30% for, okay, now, but that's only going to be a few guys.

And you can make that up in NIL. So they can make that up with private NIL stuff. But I did just think it was interesting. That's the first time in print by anyone. You know, Matt Norlander said earlier this year he thought Kentucky was spending around $20 million. I think we can now, that's now two sources saying it. I think we can kind of think Kentucky probably has either the highest paid or second to maybe St. John's or Michigan, highest paid roster in the country. Do you think that should figure in to the expectations of the team as we go into the year?

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Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever. you get your podcast. I hate this song more than anything, Shannon. This one. Well, I mean, it's just, this is the, again, you know, it's the kind of music that I hate. You can buy me a truck. Like, I just, I can't stand this. See, I think this is at least a notch above, like, rednecker than you, or he can't even beat a hook.

I mean, it's pretty, because it's, again, it's sort of the whole theme of, I, I don't want material things. You just buy me your truck. Like, who is it? Chris Jansen. Chris Jansy. I don't know who that is. We saw him perform a lot of at the convention. He performed this.

He performed at the Republican convention. I believe it was Republican. Yeah, he probably wasn't at the Democrat. If I were betting, I would say it was the Republican. That would have been surprising. Billy, thank you for coming. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Do you, uh, that you're going to have, since Ryan's not here, you're going to say, like, words incorrectly, inappropriate things?

Probably. I'll have a Ryanism or two, but I have my hoodie and shorts on, so I feel like I fit right in. You do. Everybody, if you get a chance this afternoon, just say a little prayer for Ryan. He's fine, but this is a tougher day for him. One person writes, Matt, fair or foul. Jalen, my daughter, and Billy's favorite kid caller, had a field trip to U of L today. She wore a Kentucky sweatshirt.

Is that fair or foul? Fair. What's the question? I mean, like, I think that's fan of the day material, right? What else are you going to wear? Yeah, you're not going to wear. I mean, I love it. Now, if it was a U of L person,

coming in here, that would be wrong for a child. But to go to U.S., I mean, we've got to get something on them because we're going to lose in football here in a few weeks. Yeah, we met the kid just a few weeks ago. The L's down when the, was it the mayor that went talked to him? That's exactly right. So I like these kids that are defending the front lines in Louisville Forest. These folks right here are from Kenton County, one of the ten richest counties.

You can see it in them. Look at all that wealth. Look at all that money. You can't hide money over here. And these folks are from Bath County, Billy, which is, of course, home of the meat shower. Oh, I've heard that story once or twice. Yes, where the vultures all vomited meat all over the town. So I hate that that's all I know about.

You have a lot of Amish people. That's only two things I know about Bath County. Meat Shower and Amish. I'm going to have to learn some more facts. Those are two pretty good facts. Name another county that had a meat shower. Billy Napier, coach at Florida, reports are that the boosters and the AD had a meeting, and they have already decided to fire.

so he is pre-fired but he has not been announced to be fired would you want to be pre-fired but then have to keep coaching on this one with billion apier i feel like he's been pre-fired for two years hasn't he's been on the hot seat since he's been there i think he has and not like kind of hot and he gets off of it it's just constantly hot underneath him so i'm not surprised this is happening i am surprised they're not just going to get it over with it feels like it's kind of rude to pre-fire somebody and there's the report said that the report said that there's talk that they might just wait till after Saturday and then fire him Sunday. Clearly they didn't want that out.

No. Yeah, that's awkward. That's like when the coach is leaving and he doesn't get to tell the players first and they all find out online. I mean, how do you look people in the eye after reports come out like that? Pre-firing? Yeah. Well, you know, the AD is Scott Strickland. But the reason this is partially important is, you know, Arkansas is looking for a coach.

Now Florida's looking for a coach. there's a decent chance. Auburn is very likely going to be looking for a coach. And there are people who think South Carolina might be looking for a coach. I think that would be surprising. But you get all these teams looking for coaches, you know, I have to say, Drew, it's not the most ideal time if we decide to make a change to be going up against Penn State, Virginia Tech, Florida, Arkansas,

Auburn. I mean, that's a lot of programs that it's not great for us to be competing with for a coach. And it's just going to keep going. As a coach leaves, opens another door, it's going to be a big carousel this year. It's not the best time for Kentucky to go shopping because there's going to be teams that have to get their fifth or sixth option this offseason. Yes.

And I'm worried Kentucky might be in that mix. My hope is that if we have to do it, because we have individual connections to John Summerall, to Will Stein at Oregon, to Brian Hartline at Ohio State, my hope would be that that helps you get one of them. I think, though, for anyone out there that thinks, well, Kentucky's going to go get a big name, I mean, Billy, we ain't going to get a big name over these schools. I mean, if Florida wants a big name, they'll get it more than we will, right?

Right, but if you're waiting for the perfect time, then you may be waiting for a while. It's never going to be perfect. You might. You mentioned Shane Beamer. I think people have linked him to the Virginia Tech job, obviously, with the Beamer in the past. But, I mean, regardless, it kind of comes down to that win total for me. You know, if they get to five, they probably retain them, if it's anything last. I think it's less.

I hope five would be the worst. Who's up next? Let's go to Clay. Clay, go ahead, Clay. Yes. Hello, can you hear me? Of course I can. Go ahead.

I just want to talk a little. Now I can't hear you. Florida. Don't have me on speaker. Okay, so here's the thing. Here's the thing. And this is, again, I probably have to remind people about this once a month. Don't have me on Bluetooth.

Don't have me on speaker. Because if you have me on Bluetooth, which is what you have, it's going to go in and out because your Bluetooth doesn't work. Now, do we have it on regular phone? Yes, sir. All right. Now, go ahead. All right.

I was going to say, I think a lot of, I could see Texas hopping in to this coaching if Steve Sarkeesian doesn't deliver the hardware. And I think everyone's just trying to get in on Cignetti. I mean, I think that's the big thing. Everyone thinks they have a shot with him. But the main reason I called was, you all were talking about yellow. the other day. I think he could be the wild card for this team

because there's no more perfect player to play that hybrid five. Like everyone's response to us last year with Amari was to play drop coverage because they knew he couldn't shoot that outside shot. You put a guy like yellowoutch out there that can maybe, it might take him time to respond to the American game and athleticism.

I appreciate the call. I agree, except can he guard anybody? because right now he can't guard one person on the floor. So we'll have to see if he gets better. We'll be right back. 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. I mean, Shannon, you know, like people, all right, this album was huge. Oh, my God. Like when we were in high school, everyone had this album. And it's so stupid. It's so stupid. People love it. I mean, he's singing about lunch.

and like Chris Farley But you can see Chris Farley dancing around During this video Yeah But everyone Chris Farley made it for me I mean without Chris Farley it's But did everyone had this little

CD or tape right when you were in college Or when you were in high school? Oh yeah I listened to it to almost fell apart I didn't have it I mean it's crazy to think about listening to a comedy Like tape And CD

But we did I had a couple of them Yeah Chris Rock He's like a little kid like a baby picture on the cover one? Yes, he had like two that were huge. Some of them had like prank calls. They were ridiculous.

Yeah, I miss the CDs, but, you know, a little younger than you. I mean, I watched Big Daddy a lot. Happy Gilmore was very influential, so he's. It was influential. Oh, yeah. To like your career path? To the golf game, yeah, no doubt. Billy was very, it's very influential to him.

859-9-28027. We were talking during the break, Drew, we might get three coaches fired or get our coach fired. A coach involved in these next four games is getting fired. I mean, we have three games where if we beat them, that coach is definitely getting fired. Steve Sarkeesian, Billy Napier, and Hugh Freeze. We win, they get fired. We win none of the games.

Our own guy may get fired. It's kind of interesting how that goes. I think it would be night night for all the ones you mentioned. Even though Sark still has them mathematically in the playoff, If he were to lose in Lexington this weekend, I think they pulled a plug on him, too. And how do you remember Arch Manning if he loses to Kentucky? No, if Arch Manning loses to Kentucky, this is a bust of a year. I mean, if we were to win Saturday, expect on Monday on first take they're talking about,

well, Arch Manning's a bus. He just lost to Kentucky. Which isn't really complimenting us. Texas fans are getting into town. We had some here last night for trivia. I mean, we are three days from the game, and there are already Texas fans landing. here. Well, I drive into end downtown every morning to come here, and you can just see them walking the sidewalks, getting their coffees coming out of the hotels. They're here.

You're doing the bourbon, the Keenland. That's all. They're in. They're all coming. You were saying you're very unconfident for this game Saturday. I said you thought we might get shut out. I actually don't think Texas's offense is going to beat us up too bad, but their defense is nasty. They give up 10 points a game. I mean, Oklahoma has a Hizman candidate and a good offense. and what they scored last week against Texas. I mean, he completely shot them out. So, as we've said many times, it's been two years since we've scored more than two touchdowns in a game,

and now we're facing one of the best defenses in the country. 859-2-8027. Indiana, Greg Doyle, you remember our good friend Greg Doyle. He's had a rough couple years in the national spotlight with some – I love Greg, but it seems like he does something – makes bad decisions. The Caitlin Clark question? The Caitlin Clark thing was bad.

and there have been others. He just hasn't been click. But I got to see him when Kentucky played Indiana, or excuse me, Tennessee up in Indianapolis last year at Sweet 16. But he did an article yesterday that said, Kurt Signetti, the Indiana football coach, why would he go to Penn State? He's already at, quote, an elite football school.

Yeah, I saw that. I'm going to do the love you vote with Greg also, but that is crazy. You're telling me if Florida, Penn State, heck, maybe Texas, all the jobs that are going to be over. If they called him and made him a priority, which he would be very high on everyone's list, he's going to say, no, I'm good in Bloomington. What's the definition of elite football school if Indiana gets in?

Seriously, are we an elite football school? He's got to be good for two years. One and a half. One and a half years. They still don't have anybody that goes to their games. I mean, I think they sold out this year was first. They didn't even sell out last year of the games. Their stadium is awful.

Like, is that all it takes? No. Any elite football schools have one good year? No, it doesn't, especially when you're running away from all the tough non-conference opponents on your schedule. They can't even play Louisville and finish their series because they're afraid they're going to lose. They did cancel their Louisville series, although, Shannon, we have to be careful making fun of that because one day we may be canceling our Louisville series. Maybe as soon as next year. That could end up happening soon, so I do think we have to be careful about that.

Yeah, I worry about that one, but Indiana and Joy Sigwise there because his phone's going to be ringing a lot this off season. Do you think that Do you think that Indiana situation is partially why people are even more frustrated with Stoops? Like I've made the view that when Jeff Brom went to Louisville and then took Vince, that put pressure on Stoops. But I think there is an argument that Indiana winning is like, well, if they can do it in Indiana, then why can't you do it here?

Indiana and Vandy at the same time, same year, seasons completely just skyrocketed up and you went the other directions. Two years ago, Missouri. And you're making excuses while it's like, well, they just did. They're doing it right in front of our eyes and they're even farther behind than we are at where they started. I mean, yes, Indiana, Missouri, and Vandy have had 10 win seasons in the last couple of years. Does the excuses part make you more upset about it?

Yes, it is not even just that other schools are good. It's that we're saying we don't have enough money, but then it's the things that are hurting us are like timeouts. Those don't cost any money. That's just you're not knowing how to use your timeout. Stuff like that, that has nothing to do with ponying up. If you get to a level when it's just crisp, everything's smooth, but you can't knock down Georgia, Alabama, then let's talk about money. But right now, let's maybe get in the end zone a couple times against just, or any team. And it doesn't even have to be 10 or 11 wins.

I mean, Mississippi State was a seller dweller, and they're even competent this year. So, I mean. Cellar dweller. Like that? I was going to add them to it. They stunk last year, and they're, what, four and two, and their losses are the top 15 teams. I want to read you something, Billy. One person writes, Matt, I want to be honest with you.

My wife is very anti-Billy. I used to be anti-Billy, but thanks to It's the News and Cover Zero, I've become more pro-Billy. Do you think the KSR audience as a whole is pro or anti-Billy? Well, considering every time I join you on KSR, we get this comment. Okay. Look at all these pro billies here. Because they're all in front of you. It's easier to say in front of me.

You've got a whole section of pro billies here. Well, the pre-show made a thousand episodes, so we must be doing something. First of all, congratulations to the pre-show. Had there a thousand. Thank you. Episode today, that's great. This is just my opinion. I think you have grown more likable as the years have gone.

No, no. You were so unlikable when you got here. Take this as a compliment, because I mean it. I've said this to you in some form in private. I think you have always been likable to me, but I think your on-air persona has become more likable over the last few years. I think you still have the moments where you can be rough around the edges, but I think you have become more. I mean that. I do.

I mean that. Well, thank you. Was I pretty unlikable those first couple years? Yeah, I do. I think that. But that's why I brought. you, that's why I brought you on, is I thought we needed sort of rehabilitation. You would make us look more likable.

We needed to have a foil. We needed to have somebody that the audience would get mad at sometimes. But I think you've actually slowly over time kind of won some of the audience over. I've had some setbacks. The children thing didn't help. And then Peter the dog recently. I don't think that was your biggest setback. Your biggest setback was Heather.

Yes. I was going to bring that up. That was your big, and I think the problem is you still don't think that was a set back. I'm going to keep my mouth shut on that one. Yeah, I think what hurts you is these don't happen often, but when they do and people are like, hey, Billy, we don't agree with that. You sometimes double down, which then just angers them even more. I think another thing, your confidence level, you have strong confidence.

And I think sometimes people are like, that scares people. Well, I think I got a little signet in me. I mean, Google me. You'll find out all you do. need to know what are they going to google it fun bogeys and bill actually yeah you get a little bogeys with billy i don't know i haven't googled myself in a while so i'm going to google him right now yeah i don't know that googling you is the right thing to do what's next shan let's go to denis google me i don't think you've earned the google me first thing comes up is a picture of him

with his thumbs up and his hey bel toss championship hey bell champion okay go ahead hey there what's up i uh how can you hold or how can we hold marks Stoops, our football program is giving 10% less than any other SEC school out there. Yes. So, yeah, Vanderbilt should be winning more football games in Kentucky. Okay, well, let me ask you a question. How much less? Okay, so let's do the math.

How much less money? Let's just assume that 10% number is correct. How much less money is that than the other teams are getting? I'm not for sure. Okay, well, it's $22 million, or $20.5 million. is the amount of rev share. It's $2 million. Now, let me just assume that they're not making that up from NIL.

I think they are probably. But let's just say they're not. Do you think $2 million is what causes the coaching mistakes at the end of the first half? It's $2 million why we can't get a quarterback that develops at all. It's $2 million why we make boneheaded decisions. It's $2 million why we have players going to, to the concession stand during games.

I mean, do you really think that is what causes those problems? No, but if I'm a coach in a recruiting battle for another high school football player, look, Kentucky won't even spend as much on football as the SEC does. Okay. And you talk about making money up. Kentucky basketball should be making the money up. Not the Kentucky football program. They're the ones that can get the donations.

So you would suggest that you would rather Kentucky basketball have less money to give it? Oh, yeah. Right, because the rest of SEC is paying what. If you're going to compete with the big dogs, you've got to give what everybody else in the SEC does. SEC's a football conference. If you want to make the money up,

make it up on the other end with the basketball. Now try to put a strangle hole in your football program. All right. Well, I appreciate the call. I would argue the $2 million, while important, is not the reason we haven't won a home SEC game in two and a half years. But do you find any validity to that argument? A little.

I mean, you don't want to be behind the eight ball and recruiting and building a team, but I think people are skipping over the fact that our basketball team could be severely behind if Duke and the Villanovas and the teams that don't have an SEC football team want to just go crazy. I mean, at the end of the day, we've got to protect a Ruppereen over there first. I mean, ultimately, I hate that the current system requires you to decide, but let's be real. Let's say we spend the exact same amount of money as Georgia and Alabama. Do you think we're going to beat Georgia and Alabama?

Not every year. I mean, you'll have some parity. I'm going to say the vast majority of years, no. So if we spend the exact same amount of money as the rest of the SEC to come in 12th instead of, of 15th, I'd rather have our basketball team compete for titles. That's me. But I don't agree with the premise. I don't agree with the fact that the $2 million, even if that's true, is why we're not good. We're not good because we have lost the way in discipline, in recruiting, in focus. That's why it is. We're not losing to Georgia on a last second play because they have a receiver

who beats our DB and catches it at the buzzer. We're not in these games. We didn't lose to South Carolina by 30 because they, of $2 million. We've had two ABC games. Both went to halftime laughing at Kentucky. They went to the studio and they were making jokes. That wasn't because we're two million behind. That's because we're dysfunctional. To Drew's point, it's timeouts.

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And other folks, you can come in for lunch. A couple things. This is DeAngelo. He passed away at the age of 51. Legendary song here, Shannon, from our era, Brown Sugar, you know, that's my version of it. Was you a big DeAngelo guy? Was this on your mixtape while you were mowing the lawn? I actually liked this song a lot.

Then he had a song, didn't he have a song where he was, like, naked? Yeah. Do you remember that? No. Music video. Untitled. How does it fit? Yeah, there was...

What a weird thing to ask. Oh, I had all the DeAngelo albums. Yeah, that one, that one was, it was kind of crazy to see on MTV because he was just like basically almost completely naked on your television. At like 3 o'clock in the afternoon, too. Yeah, I remember my grandmother, rest in peace to my lovely granny, Helen. She walked in one time when that video was on, and she goes, What is this trash?

You are watching on television. And I said, I didn't mean to. just watching TRL. Because I think she may have also been, like, worried I was, like, gay. You're watching it, too. Because it was a naked man on television. For anyone that doesn't know what we're talking about, it's a very seductive video, I would say. Yes, and they played it.

You're right, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on MTV. And now Backstreet Boys, it was just one of the ones. It was strange. I also want to give a shout-out and a salute and a rest in peace to Dickie Martin. Dickie Martin's one of the legendary. radio voices in the state of Kentucky. He called Ashland Tomcat basketball games for 50 years. Think about, or excuse me, 45 years.

No, I'm right. 50 years, started in 1975 to 2025, 50 years. I saw state championships. Same at Sweet 16 every year, passed away. When you're talking about media in Kentucky that had an impact, especially on the local level, Dickie Martin, is at the top of that list. So prayers to his family,

a true Kentucky media legend, Dickie Martin. And then finally, we put up a Twitter poll, is Billy likable? Okay. Yeah. So there are,

at this moment, it looks like there's 275 votes, is Billy likable? Only been six minutes of voting. Right now it stands 55 yes, 45 no. At this point, you are the majority likeable.

Well, there's already some really kind comments on the poll as well. I appreciate that. But I just retweeted, so let my audience get on there. Oh, you think of an audience different than mine? Yeah, let my fan base get on there. We'll bump those numbers up. I like this, Bill. You think there's a significant amount of people that follow you that don't follow us?

Yeah, I'd like to think so. I mean, I'm more than KSR. Oh, you're more than KSR. Oh, more than just KSR. Who are these people? That's a good question. John Short. Well. John Short follows me. The Western Kentucky fan base.

I keep it real on the tops, which, by the way, looked terrible the other night against FIU. You think you have a big, significant Western fan. I wouldn't say big, but, you know, we've got some fans. There's no doubt. Okay. One person writes Matt saying Billy is not likable is one of the most ironic things ever. The least likable person on the show by far is Matt. Oh, give yourself some credit.

Shannon's definitely the most least likely. I don't care. That's fine. I don't care if you like me or not. He's the most least like it. I never asked you to like me, so I don't really care if you like me or not. Yeah, I got stuck with you, Shadden. I'm sure there are people that don't think I'm like, well, I don't know why you would listen to a show that I host if you did not like me.

That would seem like to just be, you'd just be like, why you just hate on, you're just hating yourself and doing that? You hate listening to Tennessee postgame shows, right? No, no, not regularly. I just want to listen to them be sad. I think that's a little bit different. Zadarius Smith, Drew, retired from the NFL. He was Mark Stoop's first big guy that he brought into Kentucky. Played in the NFL for many years.

It was a pro bowler, I think twice. Three times. Three times. Great Kentucky player, kind of an underrated Kentucky player because he played on bad teams. But how about Zadarius? Great career. I love Big Zee. I remember when Stubbs first signed him, he was out of, what is that, East Mississippi

community college. He was out of the school that was on. Last chance you. So we're excited to have him. Then he panned out, had two great years with him here, and been keeping up with him as NFL career. I know he's been on four or five different teams, then kind of a surprise mid-year retirement.

But love Big Z. The original Big Z. The original Big Z. And then Jamal Mashpert has been hired by TNT Sports. He is going to do the studio show for their college basketball games. The studio, and they have Big 12 and Big East games. The studio show is going to be Jamal Mashburn, Jalen Rose, and Bruce Pearl. I actually think that'll be a pretty good show, Billy.

Yeah, Bruce Pearl be interesting. I mean, Jalen Rose and Bruce Pearl have been great TV guys over the years. Then you throw in Jamal Mashburn. And you left off friend of the program, Adam Lefko's hosting. And Adam. I won't miss an episode. I actually think that has a chance to be really good, don't you? I mean, Bruce Pearl for all his annoyance is a very good television personality.

Jailen Rose has been good. now Jamal. So we finally get a cat on this cover. Leftco does a good job, too. Yeah. And they got Weber. They got a big crew. I think that's a great crew.

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