KSR - 2026-08-26- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk the passing of Dolly Parton, eligibility for SEC players, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Guys, there's actually a ton of stuff to get to even on this Ask Anything Wednesday. We have a big Mark Mitchell news that could go, anyway, changes in UK football. And I have a giveaway, well, not a giveaway, a raffle that may be one of the cooler raffles we've ever done. But I think we have to start, Ryan, with the passing of Dolly Parton, which occurred yesterday around 2 o'clock and just tremendously sad. You know, now there's been 24 hours where people have all weighed in.

and, you know, I did yesterday on ESPN. But if you've listened to this show for a long time, Shannon, you and I have been talking about when she was going to pass for years, right? Yeah. How sad that was going to be. And that's, and I felt it yesterday. I mean, just tremendously sad. It happened at 2 o'clock. I was sitting in the Disney cafeteria.

And I found myself like starting to cry in the Disney cafeteria, which on your first. first day walking into a new building is not exactly what you want but and then i watched ryan my studio is right next to abc world news tonight yes and i watched them like go into they you know because they broke into programming and went live and i got to watch that process take place like when people running around and all that right but the reason they did yeah because it was it was it was breaking news. But the reason it was, I mean, how many musicians die and they're going to break into the broadcast for it?

Not many. But Dolly Parton is one because the most universally beloved figure in music and maybe the most universally beloved figure in culture. Very, very sad and just an absolutely tremendous human being. They don't make them better than Dolly Parton. And as the stories come out of all that she's done, but also things that she's done, but also things that she did that you didn't even know she had done. Ryan, it was just sad.

I was kind of bummed out all day. I can't. There are celebrity deaths that make you sad or maybe surprise you. But I think Dolly Parton, it's just different because it's people feel like they lost like one of their family. Well, when I heard the news yesterday, my thoughts actually went to you because you've even said before she made me the only celebrity you would ever cry over if they passed. I did.

I knew you were probably having a hard time. I did. And then, you know, you see that and you go, well, all right, I got to go on the air in an hour on a show that's not exactly Dolly Parton-centric. But I couldn't help it because, you know, born in East Tennessee, like my, almost my entire family, in Severeville. And, you know, I mean, everybody knows what she's done. But, like, I do feel, I've never met the woman. and I've seen her in concert like five times, but I always just sort of felt like she was almost extended family to us. And, you know, Drew, what I think is interesting is you have on this show, if you include Billy and Mario, like six people of different generations, different things.

But everybody on this show loves Dolly Parton. And probably everybody that works in our office loves Dolly Parton. And I would say everybody listening out there loves Dolly Parton. And in 2026, I'm not sure there's another person in the world that could get that explanation. I agree. We live in a time where, you know, there's a pretty big line drawn and people just judge people based on how they vote or what they think. But Dolly, both sides and pretty much everyone you can think of. Anyone I know, anyone you know, they're all in agreement.

And we're sad to hear about Dolly's passing and thought so much of her. She's just done, I mean, we know all the songs, but just so much. good in the world. I mean, we just got our first dolly book last week at the Franklin House. I'm new to the imagination line. I'm new. Just got the first one. I was going to ask you that. So you just got it. So just got it. We're a weekend. I knew about the imagination library, but I didn't realize, did you sign up at the hospital? Is that how it works? Yeah, we might have done when we got home. But yeah, shortly after she was born. And then, you know, it took a couple months to get rolling. We just got our first one. So I hope that continues because that's a very cool thing that

did for millions of people, and especially right here in Kentucky. She has sent 350 million books to kids over the course. I mean, think about that. 350 million books. She just decided to take a batch of money, Ryan, and just send books to kids just to do it. Like she can get anything out of it, right? Just to do it. Think about that for a minute.

I mean, that's an unbelievable gesture. And there are all these examples in her career of she spent $10 million to help rebuild this neighborhood. There was a story that came out yesterday that said there are southern high schools, rural high schools in the south, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, where Dolly anonymously has funded the high school bands for like the last 20 years. Wow. Just think about that. Just high schools that she had heard had a hard time having a band and paid for their uniforms, etc. Like, just stuff like that. I mean, who has got a bigger heart than that?

She was a queen. And then just these stories keep coming out of things she did to help children, help young adults. And she never, that's what's kind of crazy. She never even had a child. She was doing this out of the kindness of her heart because I have a person she is. And then, to put it another way, as a musical artist. Shannon, I want you to just think about as a musical artist. She was not just a great singer, although she was.

She could play, right? Like, she could play guitar. I mean, you're someone who understands music. When you combine her voice and her ability to pick, I mean, you know, a voice of an angel, but also somebody with a lot of musical talent playing a lot of instruments. Yeah, great musician, great singer. I love the fact that I have so much respect for her when she got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

She goes, I don't want to go in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without a rock and roll album. You love that. She actually went back. She recorded a bunch of classic rock songs. She did Stairway to Heaven. She did Free Bird and all these other great songs. So I always respected that about her music. I love that.

That's always been something that really mattered to you, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you always bring that up. And I think that's cool as well. You know, she grew up. She was famous as a young girl. I mean, she was put on local television in Tennessee on my mom sent me the name of the show.

It was called like the Kaz Walker Home Hour, okay? Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour that would play on Saturday mornings in Knoxville, Tennessee, Cas Walker, and he was the first person to put her on when she was like 10. and my mom and others would watch her in Knoxville, Tennessee on local television. What's amazing is my great-grandmother liked her, my grandmother, my mother, me, Shannon, if we had kids, I think they would have liked her too, right? You can't find anybody to say a bad word about her. You can't find anybody to do that.

And then what I like about her on a personal level is she accepted and treated people the way that I at least attempt to, which is she did not judge. She had fans and loved, I mean, she sang, you know, down home, Appalachian, deep Appalachian music. We will play some of it on this show. She also, however, had fans that were black, fans that were gay. She wrote the theme song to a movie about trans people, which I think a lot of people wouldn't think she would have done. She, you know, she, she was everything to everybody and didn't seem to make anybody mad, which, Ryan, who doesn't make people mad? She didn't make anyone mad ever

about anything. It's like you said, universally, there's, there's never been anybody like her before and will never be anybody like her in the future. Nobody would ever be to match what she was able to do in her life. And so I don't know, we were talking about Drew, who would be like that? We've talked about that over the years. don't think there'll be anybody i mean you got you got a handful of people that will be that have that sort of really high approval rating maybe like your willy nelson's but you know mire and i were talking about what musician will die in the future that would uh generate this maybe i mean they won't be universally beloved but maybe it'll be a big story when paul mccartney dies or stevie

wonder you know but but that true there aren't many are I can't, I mean, I can't think of any. No, not really. And the fact that she did so much, even like with the library, that's just introducing her to a whole new generation of people that don't just know her for music. I can't think of any. I mean, what was she, 80 years old to have a life that long with a pretty clean track of a kid that don't know of a controversy? No controversy. That's rare.

Wait, was there any controversy ever? I can't think of one. and also I'm still mesmerized by I still I don't know Shannon we never saw her husband Carl ever yeah he kind of

like it in the background he decided he never wanted to be public ever and so like Carl is a mystery the only pictures of me I saw when she died were like 50 years ago who could have be married to somebody that more famous

and no one know who they are that's a great question she seemed to keep everything very close to her. She did. Head of security was her nephew that made that announcement on social media. Oh, I didn't know. And that's another thing.

Like, I didn't even know she was sick, really. Yeah. I think I read once that maybe she had some. But, you know, how many people get to make their own death announcement nowadays? Not many. But that's, that's Dolly Parton. And so everybody that has, how many of us have been to Hollywood? Have any of you been to Hollywood?

Oh, yes. It's been by it. Yeah. It's a great little. amusement park. Yes. You can like ride roller coasters and they have good shows and stuff.

Yes. So it's very sad. I mean, I was very sad yesterday. It was fascinating to watch people like go into breaking news mode because it was literally right now.

I was the only person in the building it felt like and then all of a sudden what's the guy's name on ABC now? What's his name, Ryan? You know all these people. They're also new. I don't know him.

Is there David? David Muir? I think it was David Muir. And I saw David Muir running around with his makeup. And I was like, ooh, Shannon, that's that guy. I don't know his name, but his picture's on the wall right there. Did you already know before that?

Did you already know that something's about to happen? No, I saw it on Twitter. Okay. And then I think they, like, I think they, like, brought him in from somewhere. Right? I don't know that he was there. I don't know that. Like, do these guys live in a closet, like, next to the studio?

How did they get there so quick? I think, and I don't know this in his case, but I know from my ex-girlfriend that generally speaking, the big people, right? The people, they make sure someone is always on call of their big stars, right? Right. And if they are on call, they have to be ready, and I believe maybe within 30 minutes of the studio where they are, either where they live. So some of them have houses like out, but an apartment in the city, and when they're on breaking news, they have to be there. Does that make sense? That does, yeah. So I don't know where he was in that moment, but like they make it to where you have to be accessible to the studio.

Someone is always accessible to the studio within like 30 minutes. Yeah, probably the same with Weathermen as well, like when there's storms or something. Yeah, Ryan, you would know that. What do they do with Weathermen? They make sure, is somebody always on call? Somebody on the staff is there 24-7. all the time. Oh, there's somebody's in the building for you all.

Yes. Oh, that makes sense. Yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, rest in peace to Dolly Parton. We're obviously going to play the songs, the whole show,

859-280-2287. I was trying to think, is there a connection with Dolly and UK athletics ever? Because she was a Tennessee fan, so probably not, unfortunately. But I did wonder, did she ever end up at a game? It wouldn't have shocked me if one day she had ended up in a UK basketball game. I went looking yesterday. The best I could find is we named her a Kentucky Colonel just a few years ago, but nothing

UK-specific. Because of the book thing, right? Yeah, for part of that announcement. Yeah. By the way, she just was in Richmond for a concert, not that long ago, two or three years. That's where I saw her in Richmond once, and I believe I might have seen her in Berea,

I think, are the two most recent places I saw her. Do you remember the book you got for Avery? She would remember. I'll text her. I can't think of the name. We have a lot of books. I've done a lot of reading. She already got a phone.

I don't know if Avery should have a phone yet, but if she does, go ahead and text her. I think it was about a panda, maybe. Okay, yeah. Okay. Well, we'll ask Avery. 859-280, 2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. We're going to talk a lot about the Mark Mitchell situation.

It continues to be complicated. Got more complicated yesterday. And it's Ask Anything Wednesday. This is KSR. Behind every night spent me. making the kids lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pesto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all? And will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers? Get Bell Pure Fiber Internet with

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Follow by 9 to 5 Yeah, and probably the biggest for her. I mean, I will always love you. What's big for her? But then, like, it's iconic because of Whitney. So if you're just talking about a song that is just hers, this is probably the biggest one, right? Yeah, I would say so.

9 to 5. 9 to 5 before we get, what I was going to say, 9 to 5 was, was that the movie that was made first, then the song, or is the song? See, I thought it was the other way around, but then I saw a clip yesterday that said the movie was first,

and then they were filming the movie and the director goes, look, we need a theme and she did it that day. She wrote it on the set. Yeah, she wrote it on the set that night. She was just like, she just sat down and wrote it. Here's a stat I didn't know until yesterday. Think about this, guys. She wrote Jolene and I will always love you the same day. What?

I never knew that. Same day. I didn't need this. Can you, I mean, Drew, have you had a better day than you? that. Have you had any day where you were even in the ballpark of that productivity? No, really her life was made in 24 hours there. She could have never done anything else ever again and been fine. I mean, that's a heck of a day. And she did it in one day. Her two biggest song, Shannon, in one day. Imagine she did that like on a regular basis. She'd have more hits than the

don't forget it. That's pretty good creative day. Yeah. By the way, for those of those who are, of you, I'm sorry, I'm on a radio show, ma'am. They just came into the hotel room there. Shannon, in the middle of that. The housekeeper? For those of you, yeah, well, the young hotels. They just came in like, well, look, I'm on a radio. I mean, to be fair, you wouldn't expect to walk in a room and see someone on the radio. If you're on podcast, we're just going to be playing a lot of songs. I know you're not going to be able to hear them, but that's the way it goes. 859, 280, 2287. All right, so start Mark Mitchell, Drew. It's very complicated.

You may have to fill in some of this for me because even for me, this has been complicated following. The SEC comes out with a rule. It has like three parts about essentially pros are not going to be able to play. When I read the rule, my initial thought was okay. It doesn't look like any of the – this means Mark Mitchell's out. Will Mark Mitchell be able to challenge the SEC in court? That becomes the question in my mind. Then people start saying that –

Mitchell sign an Exhibit 10 contract, which is a specific type of NFL contract. Why is it Exhibit 10? Do you know what that is, Drew? What exhibit 10 means? What makes it? No, no, no, I do not. I'd never heard of an Exhibit 10 contract until yesterday. Yeah, I had it got it down here. I'd have to find. Oh, yeah. Okay, so it's a player, when a player signs a one-year minimum salary NBA contract that is not guaranteed and allows a team to secure a player's G-League rights if they are cut before the season starts. So if you're in a G-League and you get cut from that team, another team could pick you up. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess so that's what it means. So then the question was, is an exhibit 10 contracts, an NBA contract? And people were debating. And then we find out, this is so absurd that Mark Mitchell agreed to an exhibit 10 contract, Drew, but didn't sign it. This might be the opposite of the Tubby Smith facts. This is they throw the facts away. Agreed to the contract, didn't sign it. The rule from the SEC says signed a contract.

So, Drew, does that mean, do you read the rules as he can play? How do you see it? Yeah, there's stories from weeks ago before they've been popped up that said he had an exhibit 10 with the Nuggets, and now it's just agreed. I guess they shook hands, but didn't write on it. I think what it will come down. He didn't write his name. That might come down.

We might get to play because he lost his pin. He looked over it. He said, yes, I like this contract. No pen. Didn't get signed. I think it will ultimately come down to the SEC didn't really define being a pro. It's how they interpret playing in the summer league when you're not under contract for that team. Because that's what he did.

It was essentially, it was like a tryout more than I was on your roster. And it's kind of gray as to what the SEC will call Summer League. or even in Afari's case, just showing up to Green Bay trying to make a team. Because they weren't officially on the pro teams. What is a Fari situation? Did Afari sign a contract or not? He says no. It was more of a tryout for Green Bay, but I was never a Packer.

Okay. So does that mean when we see stories that so-and-so signed with the thing, Ryan, maybe they didn't sign? They just agreed to sign, but they never signed? there's such a gray area there so you bring a kid into camp you house him you feed him you give him all the training facilities they need

you put him in a roster in a uniform yet you don't that's legally he's not part of that team because he didn't sign that deal I don't think he appeared on the roster he was in mini camp that's the thing is it defy as minicamp defined as being a pro that's where it's not clear

you got up here on a roster it's crazy is what I read but what's amazing is how important this is for us I'm sure I'm sure people listening at home are like gosh that seems so nitpick but like this is the difference in having at least in basketball

in my opinion a final four contender or not is going to be whether or not my man took a pen to the paper or used e sign like Shannon the problem is I don't even know how to use e sign people send me E things I know but then they'll but then you have to register and they're like

and so what I try to do is when people ask me to e-sign, Shannon, I just try to put them off. Yeah, but then you got to sign eventually. Maybe not. Unless you're Mark Mitchell. Show me maybe you don't have to sign. I mean, when you bought that house, you had to sign a contract, didn't you? I didn't want to, but Brian made me.

Did you e-sign? Forced him to do it. Yeah, he e-signed. You did it, he signed. No, we went to that office, didn't we, and I signed all those papers? Yeah, but their initial contract, we did at e-signatures. Well, I think I agreed to e-signatures. Shannon. You Mitchell did. You Mitchell them. I think I'm Mark Mitchell.

That may still be somebody else. The previous owner's house. Maybe Bush Handen's wife still owns the house. Yeah. But this could be a huge difference. And then there is the, okay, let's say he signed it. What could, does the court order that Edwards in Lex and Louisville gave him, does that still apply? because in that order, it says something to the effect of the NCAA and the people who they do business with can't punish Mark Mitchell. Now, I don't, I'm not sure an injunction can cover the SEC if the SEC wasn't part of the case. So that's a whole other thing.

So this is very complicated. Bottom lines, Mitch are going to play? I don't know. I think it's completely up in the air. this moment. We'll take a break. Take calls right for this. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. This is my favorite Shannon of her songs. I still think it's the, well, I like her old

mountain songs the best, but of her popular songs, this is my favorite one. Yeah, here you come again for podcast listeners. Yeah. That's true. Sorry, I need to like note that. Here you come again because and then there I go we've talked about this many times on the show yeah but uh if I were doing the top 50 songs of my life this would certainly be on it I think this is uh absolutely beautiful mark Pope Drew gave dolly part in a UK jersey two years ago oh yeah did you know that I forgot about nine dash five nine dash five number nine dash five oh it was nine dash five yeah I think that's one he was in for that concert a few years ago I love it I forgot about that That's right.

9-5. Apparently people say that that's what people do with exhibit tens. They agree to them rhyme, but don't sign them. But again, that seems like such a random way to make it to, like, have his eligibility to be decided. The NCAA, I keep saying this, they should just let these guys play. These battles are stupid. What's going to end up playing is some of these courts, some of these schools are going to be able to take them. Some are not.

Here's my only worry. This is my biggest worry. about Mark Mitchell specifically. Part of what they're arguing in these courts or part of what they're implying is there's an antitrust part of this. Ryan, do you understand why there's an antitrust part of this? Explain it to me, please. Because college basketball is essentially a monopoly.

If you want to play college basketball, you have to play for the NCAA, right? So they're going to these courts and saying, look, when they do something that's against, that limits my client's rights, he has nowhere else to go. Does that make sense? Yes. What worries me about this SEC rule is, if every conference doesn't pass the rule,

then that won't be something he can argue. Right? So if, like, Conference USA does not have the same rule as the SEC, then courts could say, okay, you can't play in the SEC, but you could play in Conference USA. Does that make sense? Would that be a possibility?

Well, I think legally part of what hurts the NCAA in these cases is they basically have a monopoly over college basketball. It's the NCAA rules or the highway. And we in America do not, our laws are supposed to stop monopolies. But if a handful of conferences ban you, but the other ones don't, then the monopoly argument goes away. So it'll be interesting to see. did the ACC and Big 12, Drew, did they pass this rule? Not yet. I know the Big Ten and SEC did.

I don't think they had yet. No, I don't know if one of the others have. So like if the Big 12 doesn't pass it, then these courts may just say, well, you can't play in the SEC, but I guess you could play in the Big 12. So you can go play at Kansas if you wanted to right now. And think about Shannon, how angry our fans would be if Mark Mitchell can't play at Kentucky, but he could go play at Louisville. Yep, that's a possibility. It could happen. Very good possibility that happens.

So, you know, so that's a worry of mine because part of what makes Mark Mitchell's arguments in these courts strong is the antitrust part of it. And if other conferences let these kids play, then you lose that. So we'll see. Still a long way to go. Let's change the number. What percentage chance do you think Mark Mitchell plays in the first game, Drew? I took a big hit yesterday because the SEC seems hell-bent on fighting this. I'm going to take it down.

I think I was in the 70s. I'm going to say 49. 49. So just beneath 50. One thing they're doing that was kind of a curveball, I thought, if I'm understanding this correctly, is like they can't punish Mitchell if the court says he can plays, but they're now telling Kentucky and Mark Pope, we'll punish him. you if you play him and I think they're allowed to do that is my understanding so they're

just fighting it so much if lane kiffin had not taken these dudes from the draft this is all lane kiffin's fault right what percentage chance 15 15 yeah 15 I think it took a major hit and the SEC's going to fight it have you talked to somebody or that's just your inclination that's just my inclination. So that's no scoop. I always worry about you. You might have been talking to somebody that would know. No, I'll be honest with you. It's just my feeling that after that ruling's made yesterday by the SEC and the Big Ten, I took a big hit on his eligibility. All right, Shannon, where are you? I'll go 60%. See, I'm with Shannon. I'm still at 60. I think there's, there are so many ways he can still get it. I think the court order could still

conceivably. Look, the SEC, if they challenge Mark Mitchell, they're going to have to go see that judge in Louisville. And we've already won in front of that judge once. But the SEC ruling says it has to have happened back in April to be able to transfer to another school. The SEC does not

trump courts. The SEC can say whatever they want. If a court tells them the otherwise, they're going to have to do it. So, this probably still is going to ultimately come down to Judge Edwards in Louisville at some point. He's going to be the most popular guy in the state.

Dude, Judge Edwards, a Louisville fan will be, like, he, you can't buy him drinks. That might be bribery, although in Trump's world, I guess you can do whatever you want. But yes, you're right, Shannon. He might be the most popular person. Never even heard of the guy two weeks ago. Now everybody knows his name. Now everybody's going to know who he is. Who's next?

Willie. Willie, go ahead, Willie. Hey, good morning, fellas. Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I am splitting basketball season tickets with my family tonight. How would you rank the top six best games at home? Great question. Okay, let's see.

Drew, let's play this game. Will you pull the schedule up? Yeah. I'm going Louisville number one. Yeah, I think Louisville's number one because we don't play Florida at home. So have we played Florida at home, I would pick Florida. But let's just do a draft, me and you, Drew. You picked

Who gets first pick? I guess I'll give you first pick Since you spoke first So you get number one So then I guess I'm going next I'm still trying to pull it up Is Texas Homer away? Texas is on the road

That's at Texas Yep All right so we lose that You got Tennessee I got tennis Alabama Arkansas Auburn

Oh wait a minute I'm taking Arkansas Then if you're taking Louisville I'm taking Arkansas it's snake draft so I get another one so I'll take Oh it's snake And that's the way it goes This is what his family agreed to

I can't help it All right so I'm taking Arkansas I see who you got We didn't sign for a snake draft You said we agreed to I don't know right now You get to you get to you get to I don't You weren't there that day We had a snake dress

Oh okay I wasn't there the day I hate when I miss those days You sometimes you miss them You got a child Go ahead I understand I guess Alabama Brandon Garrison

Reunion game Yeah Auburn I can't say Auburn I will say It's not very good to be honest It's not I'm going to throw you a curveball here

Our good teams are on the road Yeah I am going with Manhattan The season opener You could be the first game of the year To see the new team Oh man you gave me a guy So now I'll get two

And then you get one more So I took Tennessee, Arkansas. You got Vandy, LSU. Yeah, I'm going to take... South Carolina. I'm going to take Auburn because it's on Saturday. And, man, this is not a good group, to be honest with you. Sacred Heart's still on the table.

Our home games, our home games stink. I guess Wichita State. I guess I'll take Auburn in Wichita State. You get one more, Drew. Was Vandy still available? Vandy's going to be good. It's a Saturday. I will take Vichita.

I will take Vandy. Be a tough game, honestly. There's our draft. I am shocked looking at it. We didn't even get the good SEC teams at home. We play Texas on the road. We play... Lord on the road.

So there you go, sir. Thank you very much. I guess that's it. I guess that's it. Man, we have a really, really terrible. We play all the worst SEC teams at home. You got Cal and Tennessee back to back in February. excuse me, one of those

I get to go to both of them. So I get to go to both because of the snake draft. That's true. That was a curveball there. Oh, you know what we didn't say? We didn't say Texas Tech. Would that matter to you, the exhibition game against a really good team? I'm still not okay from last year's exhibition experience.

Okay. All right. Who's next, Shannon? Kevin. Kevin, we got about a minute. Go ahead. Hey, long-time listener, first-time caller. Who are? What's up?

Hey, I was in the video of the Rapid Fire of Ryan's video, there's a little kid up in the left-hand corner. That's my son. We was in there shopping, getting some game day gear for football, upcoming season. And I don't know if y'all knows him or not, but when Mario zoomed in on him, he just kind of threw his hands up and just walked away. I like it. I did seem. I appreciate the call.

I would throw with Ryan's answers, I'd throw my hands up too. In my and Drew's video, we were wearing Shady Ray's. Drew, people giving us a hard time saying, why do you wear sunglasses inside? It's because we just walked in for 30 seconds to do it, right? Yeah, and our future's bright. That's right. Shady rays, why would I take them off? $200 sunglasses, but not nearly that expensive.

Premium is expensive brands, but also doesn't cost as much. Shady rays, we wear them all the time, polarized lenses that, cut glare. I have the new ones which are called, I don't know what they're called, but they're like color rush or whatever, and they're amazing. Clean classic, classic styles. Go to Shadyrays at Fritz Farm or Oxmoor Center or Shady rays.com and use my code KSR online 30% off all polarized sunglasses at Shady Rays. We'll take a break and be right back. Second hour, I'm going to give you a chance to win season football tickets on the second row. Whoa, my goodness. Second row, Shantz.

season tickets. That deserves a reaction from you, Shannon. You need a reaction. Let me try that again. Next hour, I'm going to give season football tickets on the second row. Oh, my God. I can't believe it. Whoa.

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I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, Tegi Sports Radio. Ryan, I like this song because it kind of makes me think of Sneedville, Tennessee, because my great-grandfather was an old-time preacher man. This is Dolly right here. I love that line

Because that really was like when I was a kid He preached hell so hot You could feel the heat I'm not saying that's the best way To get people to come to the Lord But it is what the way it is the way they do it They preach hell so hot that you can feel the heat That's a great line Ryan Lemon

That's mountain preaching right there I got my memory may be playing tricks I didn't she have a couple sisters that used to sing with her back in the day. I think so occasionally, but she also sang, you might be thinking when she sang with like Emmy Lou Harris and Linda Rodstadt, because they sang together a lot, and they're all famous. But she did sing with her family occasionally, I think.

You know, she became famous with Porter Wagner. I always liked this story. And she ended up leaving, deciding to go solo. He was very angry about that. Refused to speak to her. their relationship severed. And then he got into financial problems and he had no more money.

So Shannon, he sold his catalog, right? Because he had to find a way to get by. She bought his catalog anonymously, came and saw him while he was sick and gave it back to him for free. Oh, that's awesome. That's who dolly was as a person. How nice is that?

And like, they hadn't spoken in years. And then she did that. I will always love you. It was also written to him, I think, as like... I think you're exactly right. You're right about that. Yes, I think you are correct. 859-280-2287.

One person writes on Ask Anything Wednesday. Matt, I see all over my Facebook feed. People posting their first day of school pictures. I remember you always being a fan. I'm not a fan, Drew. I don't, you know, I mean, I'm glad for people to do it. But now I have it to where people just send me their kids first day of school pictures because they know I'm not really.

a fan and that's nice i'm glad people do it's how they mark the time the passage of time we didn't really do that when i was a kid but you know good for the people to have their their children and see them smiling sounds like if you just got a few more photos maybe you could flip no i don't need so people kept sending them to you are you going to do that are we going to have avery rose all the first days of school pictures oh of course got to we already did one do one a daycare or you got that one on my phone oh you already did you already did one of those. You already did it on Monday.

The new day. The new daycare. The new day. Yeah, today's school spirit day. I sent her wearing a t-shirt, way too big for her. But you know, you got to show your school spirit. How do you have school spirit day? I don't know. It's her third day.

I don't know, but she's showing her spirit. Got her fired up. I don't even know what the mascot is. They don't have a team. Well, they're just filling the spirit of the school, I guess. I don't know. I just, I got the email. Put a t-shirt on her.

What are you want from me? I'm just trying to follow orders. It's new to me. Me too. Are we supposed to have school spirit for daycares? Feels like you need a team. Didn't even know that was really a school. It's not even a, you know what?

It's not a school. It's not a school and they don't even have spirit. How can you have a school spirit day? Oh, look at her. She's got her little t-shirt on. Good all the spirit. So much spirit. Yeah, you got to do your first day pictures.

Stop. School spirit. Do they have a game on? Do they have, tell me. me they don't they don't have daycare graduation do they i don't know i don't know any of these things this is new to me i think we play friday she's lining up we got a game pep rally two o'clock be there pep rally all right i'll be at the pepard's most likely to pee your pants in class yeah class clown yeah class that's good the class cloud just screams at the top of her lungs

the entire time doing good who's next doing good go ahead Doing good. All right. Not there. Who's next? Dustin. Go ahead, Dustin. Good morning, gentlemen.

My ask anything Wednesday topic would be a little topical from last Thursday Thursday when you were talking about the barrier plots from the Facebook post. I am a health care provider in Western Kentucky. Shout out Western Kentucky. But have any of you all ever heard of alkaline hydrolysis? So this patient of mine explains he makes these holding tanks and comes. to find out the alkaline hydrolysis process is basically aqua cremation. So you are basically cremating the body.

It dissolves all the soft tissue, leaves the bones. They grind the bones up, and it's been presented to the family. It's like 20 to 30 percent more ash. And it's way more energy efficient, 95 percent water, 5 percent, the alkaline chemicals. And it's just a big new hot topic thing. I heard about this for the first time. Okay, hang on. I heard about this for the first time this weekend.

I had never heard about it. It's basically cremation by water. One of my buddies' wives was telling me about it. I think she said that's what she was going to do, was at this water cremation. You know, we talked about how it feels kind of weird to be like set on fire, Ryan. What do you think about a more natural water cremation? I'm hearing this for the first time, but to me it seems like a better alternative than, yeah, being cremated by fire. I would definitely be interested in that.

Do you think you would like that? Do you think you would like to water? But you now have a plot. Yes. So what are we going to put there, Ryan? So, yeah, I mean, which one am I to do? If I'm in charge. Yeah, both.

You got to tell me which one I'm supposed to do. Am I supposed to send you to Otwell or am I supposed to put you in water and like spin you? I guess I'm going to Otwell. Probably what's going to happen. All in one piece. On one piece for a while. All right. One more thing with that, Matt.

Okay. Go ahead. The gentleman had said that everywhere is that they've sold these holding tanks. They've gotten a call for a question about it or needing a part or something. And he said they've soaked one at the Texas, Mexican. border and he said never received a call one he said i know the mafia has bought it and has just taken and you know disposing of bodies uh his his theory all right i got i got to cut you off here i appreciate i appreciate the call but uh drew would you do that would you uh what do you think of the

water thing oh no i don't know i'm old school just typical flame it's all i need bones i'll go to flame water or do you you you want bones no i guess i want my bones to stay in the ground Yeah, okay. I just wondered. I mean, you guys are, yeah, I just wondered. Just in case I'm still alive, put a bell up there at the top too so I can ring it. Oh, is that? See, I can see that.

You want to be buried old school just in case they ever figure out a way to bring you back. That's right, yeah. Everyone's ringing that bell. Dig them up quick. You think that'd be the first thing they do when they find the lights? Let's get Shannon out of there. Get them the second row tickets. That'll happen.

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