Speaker 1: Comedy Up Broadway in Lexington welcomes Mike Armstrong marks twenty
Speaker 1: seventh through the twenty ninth. Then it's the Lexington debut
Speaker 1: of Laurie kil martin April third through the fifth, and
Speaker 1: catch rising comedy stars Sam tallon April eleventh and twelfth.
Speaker 1: Comedy Up Broadway opened then downtown Lexington in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: and they're still bringing the best and stand up comedy
Speaker 1: to the area at thirty eight years later. Call eight
Speaker 1: five ninety two seven to one joke or visit Comedy
Speaker 1: Up Broadway dot com com off Broadway.
Speaker 2: Welcome into a new day on Kentucky Sports Radio Drew Palooza.
Speaker 2: We're calling it as I Drew Franklin. I'm hosting the
Speaker 2: show all week as Matt, Ryan, Shannon, and Mario all
Speaker 2: take vacations, separate vacations. Except for Ryan and Shannon. They're
Speaker 2: down there on the beach together, ailing each other up
Speaker 2: like we know they like to do doing. God knows
Speaker 2: what's going on down there in Panama City. But today
Speaker 2: I brought my dear friends from our KSR Rapid Reaction Crew.
Speaker 2: You see them after games on ksr's Utie Tube channel.
Speaker 2: The three of us. We used to do it indoors,
Speaker 2: but here lately you've seen us out in the elements
Speaker 2: after every game, doing our rapid reactions on the streets.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of fun doing it. It's me,
Speaker 2: Jack Pilgrim and Zach Gagan making his KSR radio debut,
Speaker 2: Dunbar's own Zach Gagan. Good to have you here. Zach
Speaker 2: and Jack had to bring you back after you had
Speaker 2: a hot hand yesterday. We're not nearly as chaotic as
Speaker 2: we were yesterday as we got started on yesterday's show.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that, but first let me tell
Speaker 2: you about TJ Smith, our sponsor. He's your personal injury
Speaker 2: lawyer to call, and if you call TJ he will
Speaker 2: absolutely make them pay. Today, we want to hear from
Speaker 2: you on the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line at eight
Speaker 2: five nine two eight h two two eight seven. I
Speaker 2: swear I'm gonna start getting the callers. We've been so
Speaker 2: busy here lately. Yesterday you know, we had Jayden calling
Speaker 2: in with a crying baby in the background, had a
Speaker 2: good interview with Tianni Key. But I still want to
Speaker 2: hear from the KSR listeners. I hope you out there
Speaker 2: you're out there. We've been getting good feedback so far
Speaker 2: through two days. We'll also get the Whiskey Thief Call
Speaker 2: of the day. And if you want to talk to Matt,
Speaker 2: he has the a vision auto glass text machine over
Speaker 2: in Amsterdam, where I have no idea what time of
Speaker 2: day it is, but he tweeted a picture of some
Speaker 2: beautiful tulips. Looks like he's having some good weather over
Speaker 2: there and having a good time. All those guys will
Speaker 2: be back on Monday before. Right now, you got Drew,
Speaker 2: Jack and Zach ready to talk a little ball. First,
Speaker 2: I got a shout out Monique here at Chaos Bar.
Speaker 2: I walk in and she's just got her hands covered
Speaker 2: an egg salad, which reminded me it's Master's Week par
Speaker 2: three tournament today and she has cooked up the Master
Speaker 2: special we have every year, the traditions from Augusta, and
Speaker 2: she made a sampler out of it. You get one
Speaker 2: pimental cheese slider, one pulled pork slider, and one egg
Speaker 2: salad slider. That's the three iconic sandwiches down at Augusta.
Speaker 2: So if you can't make it to Augusta, come to
Speaker 2: Chaos Bar today. I'm hanging around all afternoon, gonna get
Speaker 2: some par three on TV. We'll preview Augusta tomorrow and
Speaker 2: everything going on down at the Masters. But we got
Speaker 2: a lot of basketball going on and Jack, I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed. You've been here for ten minutes
Speaker 2: and there's not been a commitment yet. I thought you
Speaker 2: had a hot hand after yesterday long show. We got
Speaker 2: two hours. Okay, So that is that a teaser? Do
Speaker 2: I need to get the already?
Speaker 3: I just after the absolute hecnic miss the chaos of yesterday.
Speaker 3: I'm making no promises like this. This show could get
Speaker 3: off the rails in seconds. So just you know, I'm giddy.
Speaker 3: I'm excited now that we've taken a breath. That was
Speaker 3: pretty wild yesterday.
Speaker 2: How fun was that? I mean, you were, as I said,
Speaker 2: welcome to Kentucky Sports Radio. You were on the phone
Speaker 2: like I got to call you back, Call you back,
Speaker 2: I call you back. Well, we'll talk to you eleven.
Speaker 2: You were, you were working the phones there with the
Speaker 2: Quainton's family as he was on his way to rehab.
Speaker 2: He had committed five minutes before the show started, So
Speaker 2: Rick got to hit the Wandi Nana right away. We
Speaker 2: kind of broke the news. For anyone that didn't have
Speaker 2: their phone out on Twitter yesterday morning.
Speaker 3: It was stressful. It was a lot. We were very calm.
Speaker 3: I remember we walked in yesterday and you got You
Speaker 3: and Stephen were in the back, and I walked in
Speaker 3: and said, hey, I think we're about to get a
Speaker 3: Jaden Quentin's commitments. I don't know when it's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: but I'm feeling pretty darn good about this. And then
Speaker 3: I looked at my phone and it was like thirty
Speaker 3: seconds later we get the notification. It was like, oh crap, okay,
Speaker 3: show is all the plans that we had for the
Speaker 3: show completely thrown out. Let's let's you know, refocus, regroup.
Speaker 3: So it was it was a lot, and if you
Speaker 3: listen to that opening segment you could probably tell we
Speaker 3: were a little a little frazzled, if you will, and
Speaker 3: but I think we were recovered nicely.
Speaker 2: I stuttered through most of it. I think I got
Speaker 2: all of our ads wrong. But there was a lot
Speaker 2: going on. And Zach, you weren't here yesterday, but you
Speaker 2: cover it just as much as anyone else for ksr's
Speaker 2: website ks Board. I'll go ahead and get your thoughts
Speaker 2: on what happened yesterday. We'll just get right to it.
Speaker 2: Get this roster breakdown. There's even more portal movement to
Speaker 2: watch today. But what did you think of the addition
Speaker 2: of Quaintance and the time it dropped yesterday?
Speaker 4: Well, I kind of got a little bit of a
Speaker 4: hint just from Jack ahead of time to maybe be
Speaker 4: prepared about it, so I was getting ready to write
Speaker 4: posts about it, and then it just kind of happened.
Speaker 4: So I was scrambling myself while Jack was here having
Speaker 4: to get ready for the show. So I was trying
Speaker 4: to do all the stuff behind the scenes and get
Speaker 4: that ready. But it's it's a pretty massive land. It's
Speaker 4: the big fish that Pope has been wanting to reel
Speaker 4: in and fans have been wanting him to reil in,
Speaker 4: So it really is. It is kind of impressive and
Speaker 4: amazing that it happened within like twenty four hours. It
Speaker 4: felt like less than that, where it just all came
Speaker 4: together and now Jane Quaeman's is a cat again. Let's
Speaker 4: get right to it, Jack. You know, the just because
Speaker 4: Quainten's got added didn't mean it just stopped and the
Speaker 4: roster's done. I mean there's still people to watch. I
Speaker 4: know Yeats is a name a lot of people wanted.
Speaker 4: Others have emerged there, But sticking with the quaintance news
Speaker 4: has is there any trickle effect coming from that that
Speaker 4: could happen with UK's roster or anything we need to
Speaker 4: watch there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you get the portal season is just
Speaker 3: hilarious because you get the first, like you kind of
Speaker 3: just have to take it in waves. You get the first. Okay,
Speaker 3: the season just ended. Who is the guaranteed out? Kerkrisa
Speaker 3: was the name that you heard weeks weeks ago, months
Speaker 3: ago that Kerr would not be back.
Speaker 2: So that was like you.
Speaker 3: Felt confident saying, okay, let's just kind of we start
Speaker 3: without him and then just kind of make our way
Speaker 3: from there. They feel solid about bringing back the five
Speaker 3: guys that you know have remaining eligibility while kind of acknowledging, okay,
Speaker 3: if there were a couple of potential you know, wafflers,
Speaker 3: if you will, maybe one domino effect leading to another
Speaker 3: Braindon Garrison was one that you know popped up pretty
Speaker 3: regularly as a maybe likely you know, one foot in
Speaker 3: but you know, not necessarily not having one one extra
Speaker 3: foot foot out so that was one that you know,
Speaker 3: once the Jadan Quaintons news happened, there was some you know,
Speaker 3: some scuttle butt like throughout the afternoon and evening that
Speaker 3: that could be one that we could be keeping an
Speaker 3: eye on. I don't think anything's done. I don't think
Speaker 3: anything's finalized, but that is one that I just kind
Speaker 3: of have in the you know, my peripheral right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pope spoke very highly of Garrison throughout the end
Speaker 2: of the season, almost sounding like he's coming back, will
Speaker 2: be a big piece of this team. But if you're
Speaker 2: Brandon Garrison and you see Jayden Quainton's just got recruited,
Speaker 2: you do gotta wonder, you know, Zach maybe some writings
Speaker 2: on the wall. But of course he could stay, and
Speaker 2: I think they'll leave him. He'll be a big piece.
Speaker 2: But it's understandable Garrison does start looking around that Quaintance
Speaker 2: is now in the mix.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, there's still minutes to go around
Speaker 4: because the front court is still kind of the one
Speaker 4: area where they're not as deep as you know, they've
Speaker 4: got like eight or nine cards right now. It feels
Speaker 4: like a couple of guys can maybe slide down like
Speaker 4: Cam Williams or even Trent Noah. But there are ford
Speaker 4: front court minutes to go around, so it'll be interesting
Speaker 4: to see, if you know, Pope, there's the word going
Speaker 4: around as he wants to add another shooter. Is that
Speaker 4: a shooting guard? Is that a stretch shooting guy? So
Speaker 4: you know, maybe they're looking to add another piece of
Speaker 4: that front court too, and then then things maybe get
Speaker 4: a little bit crowded. So but as it's constructed right now,
Speaker 4: you can still see a path for Brandon Garrison to
Speaker 4: play big minutes. Just kind of depends, I guess on
Speaker 4: how Pope wants to spend these last one or two
Speaker 4: roster spots or however he ends up playing this out
Speaker 4: this offseason.
Speaker 2: Matt even broke his silence from the tulip farm yesterday
Speaker 2: to tweet about UK is still gonna add a shooter.
Speaker 2: Yates was a name we were watching. Felt good about
Speaker 2: that yesterday, but it seems throughout the afternoon Toidd's might
Speaker 2: have turned a little bit. He still had made a decision.
Speaker 2: But where do things stand with Wesley Yates, the USC
Speaker 2: shooting guard that hit the portal.
Speaker 3: It's been since the second he put his name in
Speaker 3: the portal, it's been Washington or Kentucky. I think there
Speaker 3: was a lot of optimism on both sides. Washington thought
Speaker 3: they had them, Kentucky thought they had him. But a
Speaker 3: lot of it had to do with what Quincy Pondexter,
Speaker 3: who found out he was his cousin like two years
Speaker 3: ago and now they're just the best of friends and
Speaker 3: following each other across the country. So yeah, that's how
Speaker 3: I found out, Like it was on the cold call
Speaker 3: where he offered a scholarship to Wesleyates. That's when they
Speaker 3: figured it out. Yeah, it was an article I read.
Speaker 3: That's how they figured it out. A cold call, A
Speaker 3: fascinating story. But I think Quincy's kind of leveraging that
Speaker 3: into getting back on the Washington staff and saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I got a potential draft pick coming with me if
Speaker 3: you bring me back to Washington. So it's complicated, and
Speaker 3: I think it got to the point where, you know,
Speaker 3: he's a very talented player, future draft pick comes with
Speaker 3: the price tag of a future draft pick. So I
Speaker 3: think it kind of got to the point where Washington's
Speaker 3: kind of gaining momentum as Kentucky's saying, okay, well, we
Speaker 3: have so many different names out there that we just
Speaker 3: need a shooter, like we don't. It doesn't have to
Speaker 3: be that shooter. We had just had one role to fill.
Speaker 3: And if it starts getting into a bit war, that's
Speaker 3: not necessarily something I'm in love with. So I think
Speaker 3: it is kind of trending toward fork in a fork
Speaker 3: in the road that is going the opposite direction there.
Speaker 3: But Lamar Wilkerson is a kid. Sam Houston state that
Speaker 3: that one's picking up as we speak, and that's one
Speaker 3: that I would keep an eye on. But again, there's
Speaker 3: two thousand names in the portal. If it's not that kid,
Speaker 3: and then it's not the next one, then it's gonna
Speaker 3: be the one after that. So you're in a really
Speaker 3: comfortable spot right now where you only have one real
Speaker 3: need to fill and then whatever happens with Garrison, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think you have five guys with returning eligibility. Anything
Speaker 3: could change on a dime, But but you know, you're
Speaker 3: in a really comfortable spot with where things are on
Speaker 3: the options you have.
Speaker 2: If it's not Yets, the Wilkerson name that popped up
Speaker 2: from Sam Houston, he shot forty four point five percent
Speaker 2: from three on several attempts. I think he hit like
Speaker 2: ninety on the season, shooting at that rate twenty one
Speaker 2: points a game, Zach, I wouldn't be mad if he
Speaker 2: wants to get in here shooting forty five percent from three,
Speaker 2: we'll take We'll fill that spot right now if he's ready.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think one more shooting guard is definitely that
Speaker 4: would be something that they could use that and to
Speaker 4: stretch for, Like if they can take another look at
Speaker 4: the Alvaro Vulgaris kid from Spain. We still don't know
Speaker 4: if he's in Spain or not out of Robert Morris.
Speaker 4: That kid like a six foot nine guy with a
Speaker 4: seven foot five wingspan, calling the octopus. That's like his
Speaker 4: Spanish nickname is. So what's the Spanish version of that?
Speaker 4: I couldn't. I would butcher it if i'd have to
Speaker 4: look poopo? Is that you could?
Speaker 3: You can?
Speaker 2: I could sit here all day and I would not
Speaker 2: have a clue what that is.
Speaker 4: So I think what's nice is Pope can really be
Speaker 4: he can start to get picky now and be patient.
Speaker 4: We still got thirteen days left that the portal is open,
Speaker 4: so you're still gonna get an influx of names going
Speaker 4: in over the next two weeks, so he can he
Speaker 4: can play his he can play things out and see, like,
Speaker 4: you know what, what does Brandon Garrison want to do?
Speaker 3: Poopole?
Speaker 5: There you go?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 2: Did you just pull that out of thin error?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he goes his nickname okay poopoctionary dot com and
Speaker 4: translated it. But yeah, so it's they definitely need one
Speaker 4: more shooter though. I think that's the one missing piece
Speaker 4: of this roster, whether it comes to the front quarter
Speaker 4: of the back court. I get think it just looking
Speaker 4: at the roster construction, if you can add another guy
Speaker 4: to the front cord that can shoot and stretch the
Speaker 4: floor a little bit, I think you're going to have
Speaker 4: almost like a complete perfect roster of what Pope is
Speaker 4: looking for. But with the unknowns of Brandon Garrison and
Speaker 4: then you know, other names can pop in and out
Speaker 4: like it's just the like Check said, it comes in waves.
Speaker 3: So do that again, El Poopo.
Speaker 2: It almost sounds like the Pope, El Popo.
Speaker 5: It fits.
Speaker 2: It kind of feels right, Am I hearing that correctly?
Speaker 3: If you say it quickly, Yeah, for sure, El poopo
Speaker 3: p u l p o.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hope and Spanish. A caller on Monday reported that
Speaker 2: El Poopo was Uh was back from Spain, and then
Speaker 2: I was quickly told that caller was incorrect. I gave
Speaker 2: the caller credit. I was like, well, you're reporting it,
Speaker 2: We're going with it. So it's everyone that listened on
Speaker 2: Monday and thought the Spaniard had arrived back state side
Speaker 2: because a KSR caller said it that is was factually incorrect.
Speaker 2: Not my apologies. You don't get to hear fact though,
Speaker 2: that is true. Facts are very optional. We do want
Speaker 2: to hear your facts, whether they're incorrect or correct. Eight
Speaker 2: five nine two a H two two eight seven. I
Speaker 2: saw if Dante Allen is in the portal. There's been
Speaker 2: no communication with Kentucky and Dante UH that I know of,
Speaker 2: and it's probably not realistic at all, But wouldn't that
Speaker 2: be wild? Just another Kentucky guy of this roster.
Speaker 3: I need a shooter. I'm good on one reunion and
Speaker 3: Jayden Quainton's fills fills that void pretty nicely. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: eligibility left unbelievable.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of former cats in the portal. UH.
Speaker 2: Someone on cas board last night wrote they wanted Jordan Burk's.
Speaker 3: Back on the reunions. I'm very good on I'm not.
Speaker 2: I mean, we wish all these guys well, Devin, ask
Speaker 2: you Cam Fletcher. Who else we got in the portal?
Speaker 2: I guess Big D found Bryce Hopkins. Yeah, we wish
Speaker 2: him well, but we don't need to do a complete reunion.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of a lot of them.
Speaker 2: Is A Has there been anything on DJ? He's sticking
Speaker 2: around in Arkansas. I know A dou entered the draft yesterday.
Speaker 2: I think he put out of players on the roster
Speaker 2: right now, do put out a whoop pig. I'm going
Speaker 2: to the NBA post. So good luck to a do
Speaker 2: Even though you know he did call the Hogs, I
Speaker 2: still have his soft for a Doe. I always liked him,
Speaker 2: so I hope he has a good career. But port
Speaker 2: a full of former cats. You don't want any of them? No, no,
Speaker 2: just we're good.
Speaker 3: We're good right where we are.
Speaker 2: So you say we're good right now right at a shooter,
Speaker 2: an unnamed shooter, call it Yates Wilgerson, whoever, someone to
Speaker 2: be named later, you're feeling good. That'd be thirteen players
Speaker 2: if they find shooting. Maybe it's the Alvaro Spaniard. Heck,
Speaker 2: maybe they add two, who knows, but you're feeling good
Speaker 2: about where things stand now. Lowe's likely running your point guard.
Speaker 2: We're assuming Otega always coming back. There's still not really
Speaker 2: been any buzz about that, but you know, it could
Speaker 2: just be the case he's coming back. Doesn't have to
Speaker 2: tell anyone you like the way the roster stands.
Speaker 3: If you can guarantee me that O take and I
Speaker 3: think there's still some real optimism about Otego coming back,
Speaker 3: if you can guarantee me that he can kind of
Speaker 3: be your your anchor in the middle there. Scoring wise,
Speaker 3: I think that's a contending roster. I think it's a
Speaker 3: very very good team that upgraded at a lot of positions,
Speaker 3: that upgraded in depth. I really don't if you again,
Speaker 3: as constructed as you know we're talking in this hypothetical,
Speaker 3: I think that team really doesn't have a single flaw
Speaker 3: that you can point out and go, ah, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if they have enough of this. I
Speaker 3: think that's a team that can content.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll keep talking basketball throughout the show. We
Speaker 2: got some other things. Our friend Billy Hobbs from True
Speaker 2: Blue Customs is here at KAOS Barr to listen to us.
Speaker 2: He makes all the sneakers for athletes, both college and pro.
Speaker 2: We're gonna bring him on at one point just ask him,
Speaker 2: how do you do that?
Speaker 5: How are you so talented?
Speaker 2: Number one fan? It's amazing, right, I got a pair
Speaker 2: of Taco Bell Jordan's from him that Abby got me
Speaker 2: from a birthday years ago. But I think that would
Speaker 2: be an interesting conversation. He only works with a lot
Speaker 2: of athletes here and how that goes Later in the show,
Speaker 2: Josh Hopkins is gonna call in. I believe he's in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 2: that's where he lives, but he's also out of shoot,
Speaker 2: so who knows he could be anywhere. But those are
Speaker 2: two guests today. And of course we have Zach here
Speaker 2: making his KSR radio debut, even though you've heard a
Speaker 2: lot from him on ksr's podcast, ksr's YouTube channel with
Speaker 2: the rapid reactions, and of course Jack from sources say
Speaker 2: you see these guys all the time. You even did
Speaker 2: a reaction yesterday for Jaden and Quainton, so everyone go
Speaker 2: check that out. You hadn't got enough content from those
Speaker 2: two here on the radio. But We'll take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back with lots more. This
Speaker 2: is KSR. Welcome back to KSR. Drew Franklin here hosting
Speaker 2: the show with my dear friends Jack Pilgrim and Zach Gagan.
Speaker 2: You know, I like to think of myself as a
Speaker 2: man of the people, But the last two days I've
Speaker 2: not been letting the people get on the phone lines
Speaker 2: here and talk on this show. We've been a little
Speaker 2: too busy. I have over programmed. So today I want
Speaker 2: to get a head start on the Clark's Pumping Shop
Speaker 2: phone line. Give us a call there at eight five
Speaker 2: nine two two two eight seven, and my guy Rick
Speaker 2: tells me we already have people on the line, so
Speaker 2: let's just get to our first caller. Got Andy up first, Andy,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling in.
Speaker 6: Hey, what's up, guys.
Speaker 5: How's it going?
Speaker 2: Andy's favorite Andy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, Jackson Robinson. I will say, my uh, most
Speaker 6: fondest memory of Jackson Robinson is not even Jackson Robinson
Speaker 6: doing anything in stuff as it's Jack and y'all on
Speaker 6: doing that podcast six hours untill fuller in the morning,
Speaker 6: wait on him to make the decision whether it goes
Speaker 6: pro or not. I'm kind of hoping we'd have a
Speaker 6: player at that time and get a repeat of that.
Speaker 6: But and my question is with the SEC right now.
Speaker 6: I know we've done a lot in the portal, but
Speaker 6: I've not really heard a lot of big movement with
Speaker 6: all the other teams in the SEC, knowing they've lost
Speaker 6: a lot of guys and the SEC having a big
Speaker 6: year like it did this last year, record breaking year?
Speaker 6: Do you think that we will have it a little
Speaker 6: easier next year than the SEC? From you know, two
Speaker 6: games a week competition? Will the SEC be all a
Speaker 6: little easier to power through next year than it was
Speaker 6: this year?
Speaker 2: I thank you, Andy, We appreciate the call. Always good
Speaker 2: to hear from you. I'll start with his first part
Speaker 2: of that jack You did a six hour marathon waiting
Speaker 2: on Jackson Robinson can't kind of came down to the
Speaker 2: deadline last summer. I think was Andy saying he wants
Speaker 2: you to do that again. I assume you'd rather not
Speaker 2: do a six hour YouTube stream, but you got through it.
Speaker 3: We got to the point where we were talking about
Speaker 3: whether or not we could be how many Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 3: we could bench press. So I think we decided at
Speaker 3: least two, maybe like two and a half Pat Kelsey's.
Speaker 3: It was was that at the time was we were
Speaker 3: trying to calculate what he weighed based on what his
Speaker 3: playing day playing weight, so you got to add, you know,
Speaker 3: fifteen twenty just for you know, age aging purposes. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think we decided to two and a half Pat Kelsey's.
Speaker 3: We could, we could ventures it was. It was the
Speaker 3: most ridiculous thing I've ever done doing doing this job,
Speaker 3: but by far so I hope it doesn't get to
Speaker 3: the point where we're stressing out over a last second
Speaker 3: decision in that way, like maybe it's like Otega that guy,
Speaker 3: Yeah has to It's kind of one of those types
Speaker 3: of deals, you know. I I love the ridiculous, ridiculousness,
Speaker 3: but I did not enjoy the gravity of what the
Speaker 3: decision meant.
Speaker 2: And the second part was the other sec rosters I
Speaker 2: haven't been completely dialed in and all of them. I know.
Speaker 2: Bruce was getting pretty desperate down at Auburn, which is
Speaker 2: why he tried to get Jaden Quaint's at the last
Speaker 2: minute hold that l Bruce also saw Bruce might be
Speaker 2: getting Chad Baker Mazarre back at age twenty six. How
Speaker 2: is this possible. We just made fun of him for
Speaker 2: a whole year about go get a job, and now
Speaker 2: he's putting out teasers saying he could return again for
Speaker 2: the Tigers. College sports are out of control. If we're
Speaker 2: have a twenty six year old playing for Auburn next year.
Speaker 4: He's got to get on his parents' insurance. Get off
Speaker 4: his parents' insurance this year. I think he turns twenty six,
Speaker 4: so that's why he needs a nil money to pay
Speaker 4: for Yeah, I guess eight insurance company a nice little
Speaker 4: nil do right there with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully the SEC isn't a stacked as it was
Speaker 2: last year. That was a pretty unique year, as we
Speaker 2: all know. Arkansas, I saw a tweet yesterday about how
Speaker 2: they haven't gotten anyone out of the portal yet. They
Speaker 2: do have a good freshman incoming class though DJ I
Speaker 2: guess coming back. Billy Rich been probably coming back, so
Speaker 2: they do have pieces. But I don't think Arkansas has
Speaker 2: added anyone, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're kind of building around Milik Thomas
Speaker 3: and Darius Acuff is kind of the you know, the
Speaker 3: next meat dangling on a stick for for that fan
Speaker 3: base and just that the next guys to get get
Speaker 3: him across the finish line. But yeah, a lot of
Speaker 3: you know, part of the reason why this was such
Speaker 3: a historic year in the SEC was was just the
Speaker 3: seniors and just the experience, the fifth and sixth year guys,
Speaker 3: the twelfth year guys, whatever, Chad Baker Mazzari is, you know,
Speaker 3: sticking around as long as they did. You know, you
Speaker 3: get the Walter Clayton's and you know a lot of
Speaker 3: seniors that kind of this was their last hurrah. And
Speaker 3: I don't think, you know, you'll never get another year
Speaker 3: like what we just got in the SEC. I mean
Speaker 3: that that was an all timer that will probably never
Speaker 3: be top when you get fourteen to sixteen teams in
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, so it's not gonna be as good.
Speaker 3: But I do think a big part of that is
Speaker 3: going to be all the experience leaving the conference, thank goodness.
Speaker 2: And maybe Kentuck' is the team that's making it good.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're the team everyone's watching in the final four.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's the case. Almost said Billy. Billy's right here
Speaker 2: sitting at table. He's not on the show yet. Rick,
Speaker 2: Who's up next?
Speaker 5: We have Dave up next?
Speaker 2: Dave, thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: In good morning fellas.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Drew, We're wonderful good.
Speaker 7: I could first fall fist buff here in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 7: I mean old Budys and Roperena, and congratulations on running
Speaker 7: the show. That's pretty good. Second thing is congratulations of
Speaker 7: Florida win the national title. Even though I don't like Fanning,
Speaker 7: it hurts come by my mouth. Congratulations to him least
Speaker 7: at the SEC. And one more thing, the sun shines
Speaker 7: on Kentucky Day. We've had a lot of bad weather
Speaker 7: and we need some good news. And Jaden Quainton's coming
Speaker 7: to Kentucky is phenomenal news. This kid's gonna make a
Speaker 7: big difference for a UK and I love it. And congratulations.
Speaker 7: I'll see in Reparenas next year again Drew, and go cats.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: We appreciate the call. Thanks for mentioning the flooding. I
Speaker 2: didn't get so much of that, but our hearts certainly
Speaker 2: go out to everyone having to deal with that around
Speaker 2: the state. Hopefully we're getting a little bit better on
Speaker 2: the other end of it. But I mean some of
Speaker 2: the scenes out of Louisville are beyond belief. And then
Speaker 2: one that sticks out just the place I've been so
Speaker 2: many times, Buffalo Trace being completely underwater. I know there's
Speaker 2: people with their homes and much smaller areas that are
Speaker 2: bad too, but something about seeing Buffalo Trace, the place
Speaker 2: I was at just a few weeks ago, it is
Speaker 2: in bad, bad shape. Same with a lot of recognizable
Speaker 2: places in Louisville. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Out in western Kentucky, where my girlfriend's from and her
Speaker 4: family is, they just keep getting relentlessly hit like over
Speaker 4: and over again. It feels like every so many months,
Speaker 4: some new storm, like new one hundred year storm hits
Speaker 4: every three months over there. And I had a friend
Speaker 4: as well who her sister saw like a house floating
Speaker 4: in the back creek. Well it was a creek and
Speaker 4: turned into a river essentially. And yeah, so there's been
Speaker 4: a lot of crazy stuff going around the state the
Speaker 4: last few days, but like you said, it actually is.
Speaker 4: Today's probably the nicest day. It feels like it's been
Speaker 4: in literally a whole week here in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Western Kentucky's that's where my heart is. It's
Speaker 2: been bad. And my aunt was gonna come visit earlier
Speaker 2: this week and she couldn't make the trip. So everyone
Speaker 2: stay safe and hopefully we get past this soon. Let's
Speaker 2: try to get one more in quickly. Rick, who's up next?
Speaker 2: Got John up next? Josh? Give us your your quick
Speaker 2: call here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, guys, I just had a question on the
Speaker 8: jade and acquaintance. I had always heard and maybe I'm mistaken
Speaker 8: that a full torn acl would take anywhere from eight
Speaker 8: to twelve months to completely heal before you can get
Speaker 8: back into playing sports again. Uh where, what's what's your
Speaker 8: als percentage that he that he'll be ready by September October?
Speaker 8: Thanks for taking my goal.
Speaker 2: All right, we appreciate the call. We're coming up against
Speaker 2: the hard break. Give a quick answer. I know yesterday
Speaker 2: said a slight tear and things have changed so much
Speaker 2: on that. He even said he's shooting for December at
Speaker 2: the latest yesterday straight out of his mouth. So I
Speaker 2: guess that's probably better than us giving a prediction there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doctors are pretty optimistic that he'll be early part
Speaker 3: of the season at some point.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a quick break and we
Speaker 2: come back. We're gonna talk about the sneaker business with
Speaker 2: Billy Hobbs from Trubue Customs. So it's not Matt Jones.
Speaker 2: I gotta get that. I gotta get that bump fixed there.
Speaker 2: We got to change that. I gotta keep correcting everyone.
Speaker 2: It's Drue Franklin here hosting KSR for the week while
Speaker 2: Matt is away. This segment coming up is brought to
Speaker 2: you by our friends at Commonwealth Causes. Big Blue Nation.
Speaker 2: Club Blue is calling on fans to raise a glass
Speaker 2: to commemorate the new era of men's basketball. Club Blue,
Speaker 2: the official NIL fundraising partner of UK, is teamed up
Speaker 2: with Bespoken Spirits to craft a special release, the limited
Speaker 2: edition Club Blue basketball bottle, featuring a bold, weeded Kentucky
Speaker 2: bourbon whiskey. Fewer than eight hundred individually numbered bottles have
Speaker 2: been produced, so this collectible won't be around for long.
Speaker 2: This is the perfect bottle for your bourbon or Kentucky memorabilia,
Speaker 2: and it's ideal for autographs. Limited edition Club Blue basketball
Speaker 2: bottles are now available at liquor barns across Kentucky while
Speaker 2: supplies last. Every bottles sold directly supports UK's NIL efforts,
Speaker 2: So pick one up today and show your pride for
Speaker 2: the Cats. We need those NIL efforts expensive time to
Speaker 2: be running the Kentucky show over there boys.
Speaker 3: Big fan of Club Blue, big fan of Club Blue.
Speaker 2: Everyone that does part of Club Blue. You probably helped
Speaker 2: to get Jayden Quainton yesterday. So good on you. I'm
Speaker 2: excited by our guest joining us now. Billy Hobbs, one
Speaker 2: of the most talented people you'll ever meet. If you
Speaker 2: ever see UK athletes and they're sneakers have been hand
Speaker 2: painted and customized, there's a good chance he did it.
Speaker 2: He runs True Blue Customs here in Laxnia and does
Speaker 2: shoes for college athletes. Pro athletes. Did something for me.
Speaker 2: I think you've done several for Matt. Billy. It's good
Speaker 2: to have you all with us today.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on, guys, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We want to hear a little bit about how this
Speaker 2: business works. Obviously you're very talented, but how did you decide,
Speaker 2: you know what, instead of just painting this or that,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into the sneaker world.
Speaker 5: You know, growing up, I was always into sneakers obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, I grew up in the Jordan one, Jordan Dude,
Speaker 5: Jordan three, you know, they all came out. So I
Speaker 5: was always into sneakers. I was always into art and
Speaker 5: then you know, fast forward, probably twenty five years later,
Speaker 5: my son started getting into sneakers. You know, he was
Speaker 5: like ten eleven years old. So I started doing customizations
Speaker 5: for him and his friends. And then it's snowballed. Man.
Speaker 5: It's a buddy of mine, a good friend of mine,
Speaker 5: Jamie Saugers. He mentioned, he's like, hey, man, you ought
Speaker 5: to do a restoration on these old Jordan's he had,
Speaker 5: and I was like, that's cool. So I did that
Speaker 5: and he was impressed with him, and he's like, you
Speaker 5: got to start a side hustle, started a little Instagram page.
Speaker 5: I'm like, whatever, okay. So you know, at the time,
Speaker 5: I was still working at PEPSI and I started doing
Speaker 5: stuff for like Alex Porter's reached out, and then Willie
Speaker 5: reached out. Actually, Tyler Eulis was the first one nice
Speaker 5: and I did a pair of Jordan's for Tyler and
Speaker 5: it was a crazy time. And then I think Willie
Speaker 5: wore those gold Jordan elevens I did, and he wore
Speaker 5: him in the first round of the NCAA tournament that
Speaker 5: year and uh dunked on the kid from Cincinnati and
Speaker 5: we've not seen it ever since. Yeah, and then I
Speaker 5: woke up the next morning and then it blown up,
Speaker 5: blown up, like my emails were overflowing. My you know,
Speaker 5: my Instagram following went from like two thousand to like
Speaker 5: ten thousand, and I was like, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 5: is like serious, you know. So you know, it's started
Speaker 5: snowballing from there and then here we are, you know,
Speaker 5: I quit my job a couple of years later, and
Speaker 5: now I do it full time.
Speaker 2: Now it's like a whole industry. But I remember you
Speaker 2: doing it way before anyone.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, and it was It's kind of it's
Speaker 5: kind of changed. The whole industry has kind of changed
Speaker 5: just over the last ten years. You know, it has
Speaker 5: its little fads, like with the Nike Roaschie run. You know,
Speaker 5: everybody had the Roachi's. I bet I painted five hundred
Speaker 5: of those one year. You know. It's like but now
Speaker 5: it's like I'm kind of getting into big orders, like
Speaker 5: team orders. I do a ton of that. I just
Speaker 5: shipped off like one hundred pairs for Providence University, huh
Speaker 5: for to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. We did that Bellerman.
Speaker 5: I've done further. Women's basketball team I do, like the
Speaker 5: whole team, like twenty thirty pairs for those for those
Speaker 5: girls and guys. So it's cool, you know, it's just
Speaker 5: kind of transitions into different aspects, and I'm starting to hire,
Speaker 5: you know, I've got a couple guys that you know,
Speaker 5: helped me here and there to kind of help me
Speaker 5: be able to do the cool stuff that I want
Speaker 5: to do, and then like the production stuff, somebody else
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 2: So didn you do the basketballs for Madness for the
Speaker 2: gold painted I remember getting close to one. I was like,
Speaker 2: I was allowed to touch it. Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 5: It's funny. They're actually down at Big Blue Delhi. I
Speaker 5: gave most of my guys Zach, Yeah, Zach he I
Speaker 5: did like four balls, and it was it's kind of
Speaker 5: embarrassing now I look back at the COVID ball. I
Speaker 5: put a mask on it.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing now I look back. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it was kind of cool, you know, to look back.
Speaker 5: I did like a gold ball. I think I did
Speaker 5: a blue ball one year, and then a white ball
Speaker 5: and not a gray I think. But I remember Tyler
Speaker 5: Hero used to complain about it because he's like, I
Speaker 5: can't chew with this bo because it was so slick.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he turned out all right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's all right. I think he's doing fine.
Speaker 2: You do a lot of the UK guys shoes. We
Speaker 2: see those all the time. But also I have seen
Speaker 2: you do a lot in Major League Baseball. Who's the
Speaker 2: highest profile athlete you'd say you've worked with?
Speaker 5: Honestly, probably I would say Albert pooh Holst was probably
Speaker 5: one of my favorites because, you know, growing up, like,
Speaker 5: I wasn't a Cardinals fan, you know, so I didn't
Speaker 5: really care about you know, pooh holes when he was there.
Speaker 5: And then you know, when he got traded out West
Speaker 5: and my son was into baseball, and you know, he
Speaker 5: kind of started liking him, and I was like, man,
Speaker 5: I like this dude. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 5: he was actually part of one of my agencies that
Speaker 5: I deal with and I do a lot of work
Speaker 5: for and I was fortunate enough to do cleats for
Speaker 5: him for like the last three years of his career.
Speaker 5: His last All Star Game he wore I did two
Speaker 5: pairs of cleats for him. He wore one in the
Speaker 5: home run derby and then the next night in the
Speaker 5: All Star Game, and I'm like, man, that's that's that's dope.
Speaker 5: You know, it's just his last All Star game, you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty cool. So, but that was probably one
Speaker 5: of the best.
Speaker 2: What's i'd say, like the wildest request you've ever gotten,
Speaker 2: where they'd be painting something other than shoes or something
Speaker 2: on the shoe.
Speaker 5: Or Honestly, I get I get crazy requests all the time,
Speaker 5: and a lot of times I'll try to turn away
Speaker 5: some of the stuff. I mean, I've had some crazy,
Speaker 5: like wild stuff people want. But actually, probably one of
Speaker 5: the craziest moments is not even something that's like cool
Speaker 5: on the show. It was just doing shoes for the Pope.
Speaker 5: I mean that was insane.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the actual pope, the one in the Vatican.
Speaker 5: Yes, the actually, yes, there's actually a pair of my
Speaker 5: shoes at the Vatican. Like, that's insane.
Speaker 2: I like that. And you said Poohols is the highest
Speaker 2: profile I'm actually gonna I'm gonna correct you there. I
Speaker 2: would say the pope has a slight Albert.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen the Pope's jumper yet or is bad
Speaker 5: at average or anything. But yeah, as far as far
Speaker 5: as celebrity, you know, status goes, that was kind of wild,
Speaker 5: you know, I was father. Jim Sitchko set that up
Speaker 5: and that was epic.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I woke up the next morning and it was going crazy. Everybody's,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, the Pope. The Pope got a pair
Speaker 5: of custom blazers. You know, so that was pretty dope.
Speaker 2: You don't have to name names, but is is it
Speaker 2: ever hard to deal with some of these athletes? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and if you want to name names, we'll completely throw
Speaker 2: them under the bus on the radio. I just didn't
Speaker 2: want to put you on the spot of that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Actually, you know, I'll start with saying a lot
Speaker 5: of the UK guys that go through here, even through
Speaker 5: you know, Cow's years. When I first started doing it
Speaker 5: for these guys, they were all great. I never really
Speaker 5: dealt with any you know. I mean, granted, you're dealing
Speaker 5: with eighteen year old kids. You know, I'm dealing with
Speaker 5: kids the age of you know, my son. You know,
Speaker 5: so I'm you know, we're full blown text message and
Speaker 5: then I'll get a noted text back, you know, like
Speaker 5: an emoji, and then like, okay, what you know, so
Speaker 5: I'm having to text my son what's this? Man? You know?
Speaker 5: What did PJ. Washington mean when he said so but uh,
Speaker 5: but yeah, they're all they've all been pretty cool. But
Speaker 5: like that, when you get into the like the major leagues, man,
Speaker 5: a lot of those guys, they'll send you ten pairs
Speaker 5: of cleats and they want them all last week. You
Speaker 5: know it's not but yeah, dealing with the agents and
Speaker 5: dealing with the players, it's a little different.
Speaker 2: So alright, you're a big guy into the UK vintage stuff.
Speaker 2: All three of us are too. I even noticed that's
Speaker 2: an electric sweater you're wearing right now. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what that is, but that's got to be authentic
Speaker 2: for some year.
Speaker 5: My mother in law lives with me right now. Okay,
Speaker 5: she h My my father in law passed several years
Speaker 5: ago and she moved in with us, so we have
Speaker 5: we we bought a house together. And uh, she's got
Speaker 5: mild case of dementia. But she didn't. You know, she
Speaker 5: has all of her old UK stuff and she used
Speaker 5: toll you know, she had pulled it out a couple
Speaker 5: of months ago and it was like, look at this.
Speaker 5: It's like, I think I can fit that. So I
Speaker 5: think I wore it to the Uh. I worked to
Speaker 5: the Arkansas game and then I haven't worked since.
Speaker 2: Okay, whenever mind, I don't like it to do more. Also,
Speaker 2: are those the new denim books on your face?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Well do you get a Did you get an advance
Speaker 2: on those? You've been a lottery?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I got them a little early, but they'll be out
Speaker 5: next week, I think. But yeah, that's this guy just
Speaker 5: flexing and having may I may wear donim, I may
Speaker 5: wear down them all summer, like I got my favorite jeans.
Speaker 2: Well, that was gonna be my next question of all
Speaker 2: the eras of vintage UK, You're like me, we want
Speaker 2: to see UK work more of that end is what's
Speaker 2: your favorite?
Speaker 5: Is it to dentim tonim Bro? Yeah? Like I remember,
Speaker 5: like ninety six was the first year, the first championship
Speaker 5: that I remember, you know, seventy eight I was alive,
Speaker 5: but you know, I don't remember it. But ninety six
Speaker 5: was just insane, you know. And I remember that the uniforms,
Speaker 5: it was just so crazy at the time. And I
Speaker 5: remember that night. I even told Coach Pope when I
Speaker 5: met him, I'm like, I blame you for me being
Speaker 5: a part of tearing down the light pole down at
Speaker 5: the front of line is ninety six, you know, I
Speaker 5: was like, you know, I blame you for that, but
Speaker 5: you know, it was good memories and I love that time.
Speaker 5: That was that was peak basketball for me. And then
Speaker 5: you know, I started working second shift in between there
Speaker 5: for a while and I didn't really get to keep
Speaker 5: up with it as much. And then when Cal got
Speaker 5: when Cal came, and you know Tubby of course. But
Speaker 5: you know, I've been a UK fan since I was
Speaker 5: just like you guys, you know, since I was born,
Speaker 5: and you know, there's nothing like it. It's it's crazy
Speaker 5: looking back. I had fifteen year old Billy would be like,
Speaker 5: you're crazy, dude. You're not doing painting shoes. What do
Speaker 5: you mean you're painting shoe shoes? And it's like it's
Speaker 5: kind of like a full circle moment, you know, meeting
Speaker 5: some of these like Kenny Walker. You know, Kenny reached
Speaker 5: out and I did some crocs, some crocks for him
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Custom crocs, Yes, I did.
Speaker 5: I did, come off to the show. Yeah, I did
Speaker 5: some crocs with him, Duncan and his uh Nicks, his
Speaker 5: Nick's uniform from the Dunk Contest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kenny Walker having custom crocs might be my favorite
Speaker 2: thing that will come out of the show this week
Speaker 2: that was dope. There is one story that went viral
Speaker 2: right as the tournament started this year that you were
Speaker 2: I guess I can dary a character in, but if
Speaker 2: everyone remembers Kobe Brao just showed up at a woman's
Speaker 2: house and knocked out our door and surprised her. And
Speaker 2: I think he actually started at your house. It was
Speaker 2: in your neighborhood. Walk us through what actually happened for
Speaker 2: Kobe Bray to just go door to door.
Speaker 5: This is great Kobe. Kobe had been to my house
Speaker 5: probably four or five times dropping shoes off, and he
Speaker 5: didn't really ever come in, and I always just walk
Speaker 5: outside and meet him in the driveway and we talked
Speaker 5: for a little bit. And my wife hadn't met him yet,
Speaker 5: and she was like, I really want to meet him.
Speaker 5: He's you know, he seems like a good kid. So
Speaker 5: he came over and I was like, here, let's go outside,
Speaker 5: and we met him by side and we're talking and
Speaker 5: a buddy of mine and Bill Huffman, he lives like
Speaker 5: in the court next to me, and I've coached against
Speaker 5: him like baseball. Our kids, you know, grew up playing together.
Speaker 5: And he turned around. He didn't know that it was
Speaker 5: even Kobe sitting there in his car, and he pulled
Speaker 5: up behind it to talk to me, and then Kobe
Speaker 5: was like, you want a picture? So Tracy, my wife,
Speaker 5: walks around and Kobe gets out and he's taking a
Speaker 5: selfie and Bill was like, oh my gosh, you've got
Speaker 5: to come here. And he came over and he took
Speaker 5: a selfie with him and he's like, I gotta ask
Speaker 5: you this. Can you go to my house real quick?
Speaker 5: Kobe was like listen. I was like crap, you know,
Speaker 5: he really went and you know, when.
Speaker 2: No hesitation at all, just yeah, where are we going?
Speaker 2: Following a stranger down the street.
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah. So he drove down there and uh went
Speaker 5: to went to his house and uh, Bill said, he
Speaker 5: hit out behind the behind the bushes, and Kobe went
Speaker 5: to the door and his wife, Debbie opened the door
Speaker 5: and she was like, oh my god, is that really
Speaker 5: you? You know? And uh, my wife and I waited outside
Speaker 5: until he came back out, and Kobe stopped and talked
Speaker 5: to us and he was like, man, that is so awesome,
Speaker 5: and I'm like you do you guys don't really get it,
Speaker 5: you know, like he'll have a place here forever, you know,
Speaker 5: like people in there and dear to people here, like
Speaker 5: Willie Willy was another one when he got when he
Speaker 5: came back for the TVT it was just like, Bro,
Speaker 5: you don't realize, man, Like you're in Sacramento walking around.
Speaker 5: Nobody cares, you know, just a seven foot back by
Speaker 5: uh basketball player, you know, like they see those guys
Speaker 5: all the time there. You know, it's a pro city,
Speaker 5: a pro athletes. You come here, you get off the
Speaker 5: plane and everybody's like, oh my gods, you're Willie call Stein.
Speaker 5: You know, like, dude, you can you know, you're You're like, God,
Speaker 5: here do you come here? And you can for real
Speaker 5: build a life here? Man. It's like people here love you.
Speaker 5: And I think Kobe's getting that and I think o'll
Speaker 5: Take is getting a little bit of that too, So
Speaker 5: he's you know, I think they understand. You know, they
Speaker 5: get here and there's the guys that they never dream
Speaker 5: they'd be at UK. You know these guys didn't you
Speaker 5: know tak and never thought he'd be here. He's just like, Wow,
Speaker 5: this is insane, man. That the fan base and how
Speaker 5: they kind of come out for everybody's awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope Otago. Always wondering around your neighborhood. Next season,
Speaker 2: he might be. Yeah, take it. Please go go parking
Speaker 2: Philly's driveway and go meet the neighbors. Thanks, thanks for
Speaker 2: hopping on. It was a fun conversation. Learn how the
Speaker 2: business s works, learn about how how the athletes get
Speaker 2: involved in the ones that are nice or nice and
Speaker 2: the ones that aren't.
Speaker 5: Art Yeah, and the Pope. Yeah, thanks for talking to
Speaker 5: Thank you guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Good to have you on. Appreciate a quick break. When
Speaker 2: we come back, We've got more more people on the line,
Speaker 2: more basketball talk. This is Drew, Jack and Zach on KSR.
Speaker 2: Welcome back into Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew Franklin here with
Speaker 2: Jack Pilgrim and Zach Gagan, making his KSR radio debut.
Speaker 2: You haven't fun so far, as Zach is this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the this beat of sweat that was on my
Speaker 4: back when I walked in is gone. So I'm comfortable
Speaker 4: now I've settled in.
Speaker 2: It's just us. I mean, we do rapid reactions out
Speaker 2: in the freezing cold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I am warmer actually compared during those because
Speaker 4: it's so cold, yeah, or the rain is hitting my head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I can't tell at that point, but.
Speaker 2: They can't control us here. We're allowed indoors. This is
Speaker 2: our place. Nobody can tell us what we can and
Speaker 2: can't do. So it's good to be indoors with you guys.
Speaker 2: Talking a little ball first, I have a little bit
Speaker 2: of a personal thing going on, personal announcement I want
Speaker 2: to make, and I'm I'm not embarrassed, but I feel
Speaker 2: like you are are gonna look at me like what
Speaker 2: have you gotten into?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I I will soon make my acting debut in a
Speaker 2: local production of Romeo and Juliet. Why are you laughing?
Speaker 2: I didn't even get through the sentence and you're laughing. Wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 2: I am in Romeo and Juliet. What is wrong with that?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: I feel like you don't think I've got the acting
Speaker 2: chops to pull that off.
Speaker 3: I didn't say that, I just okay, Well, when you're
Speaker 3: done laughing, is Abby gonna be your Juliet?
Speaker 2: I know I'm not Romeo. I actually I turned down
Speaker 2: for Romeo, but it's for charity.
Speaker 3: Are you the tree in the corner?
Speaker 2: No, I've got speaking roles. I have to speak. I
Speaker 2: have a costume fitting Friday at twelve thirty this is
Speaker 2: a big deal, but it's it's for charity. It's the
Speaker 2: Lexingdon Children's Theater. They caught me in a good time
Speaker 2: when they asked, because I was at home practicing my
Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman for Karaoke night in the SEC Tournament, which
Speaker 2: we didn't yet. But I was on my fourth watch
Speaker 2: of the Greatest Showman making sure I've perfected the moves,
Speaker 2: when out of nowhere, I get asked to be in
Speaker 2: Romeo and Juliet. It's coming up on April twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: I have my role, I have my script. I've not
Speaker 2: looked at either of those. But I'm Count Paris. Do
Speaker 2: y'all know anything about Count Paris? Before I start studying
Speaker 2: for Count Paris, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: I don't either.
Speaker 3: I'm my mind. I'm short circuiting right now. My mind
Speaker 3: is well, that's like three weeks. It's an Oh, are
Speaker 3: you aware of it?
Speaker 2: I've already missed the first rehearsal. They they did it during.
Speaker 2: It was on a morning, they did it during KSR.
Speaker 2: I can't be there before noon, so I'll get the
Speaker 2: next rehearsal. Like I said, I have a costume fitting
Speaker 2: coming up on Friday. That's why our friend Josh Hopkins
Speaker 2: is going to join us soon. He's gonna give me
Speaker 2: acting tips. But I did ask chat GPT about count
Speaker 2: in Paris. It sounds like I'm a wealthy, well connected
Speaker 2: person that is seen as a perfect match for Juliet.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm trying to get at trying to push
Speaker 2: Romo out of the way. I want to marry Juliet,
Speaker 2: but she doesn't love me back. I think maybe I
Speaker 2: propose at one point. I'm pretty sure I die a
Speaker 2: spoiler alert for people that don't know Juliette Kinck for
Speaker 2: a while. But I'll be honest, guys, I'm all nervous.
Speaker 2: I was excited to commit, but now it's here in
Speaker 2: front of me, and I don't really know what I'm
Speaker 2: getting myself into.
Speaker 3: I hope they continue to schedule these rehearsals during KSR,
Speaker 3: so you just go in and totally no idea what
Speaker 3: you're doing, and you just have to, you know, just
Speaker 3: just wing it.
Speaker 2: I felt bad missing the first it was it was
Speaker 2: a read through, you know. You see, like other people
Speaker 2: in my industry, actors, you know, they do like a
Speaker 2: table read and they're all just in their regular everyday
Speaker 2: close just reading off the paper. I missed that part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 4: So do you remember reading the book or watching the
Speaker 4: movie or anything. I watched the Uh, I think.
Speaker 5: I saw that one.
Speaker 2: I saw that one. It's also on my to do
Speaker 2: list to watch at some point before this comes up.
Speaker 4: I think that's more of the modernized version of the books.
Speaker 4: So it might not be a one to one comparison
Speaker 4: if you're trying to uh, if that's how you're trying
Speaker 4: to form your audition for but uh, I think that'll
Speaker 4: be uh that'll be a very unique Franklin experience. And
Speaker 4: I'm definitely gonna Can I buy a ticket?
Speaker 2: Is this? Oh? Yeah, sure? I never thought you'd ask
Speaker 2: you can, but it's it's for real. It is a
Speaker 2: fundraiser for the Lexident's Children Theater. We can make fun
Speaker 2: of me, but if they call it the curtain call.
Speaker 2: If you want to go, there's there's cocktails, there's a
Speaker 2: live action auction, not action and live action. There'll be
Speaker 2: lots of fun.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Lct on stage dot org is where you can buy
Speaker 2: tickets if you're interested in going. But it really is,
Speaker 2: it's needed. They have They do lots of stuff across
Speaker 2: the state. They tour a lot of teaching. UH. They
Speaker 2: got performances on their main stage throughout the year and
Speaker 2: in school theater residency, uh, school camps. And this is
Speaker 2: a big part of their fundraising for the year. And
Speaker 2: I'm a part of it. And I'm nervous, to be honest. Well,
Speaker 2: eighth grade. Eighth grade, I played a donkey in a
Speaker 2: midsommer Night's dream and I bombed. I think it got
Speaker 2: to my part and I'd forgotten. It didn't work out
Speaker 2: for yeah, but this one, this is a big deal.
Speaker 3: I will be there for the tragedy within the tragedy
Speaker 3: that is your performance.
Speaker 4: I've got faith and Drew you didn't do you know
Speaker 4: he's gonna nail it.
Speaker 3: What what if this is like his breakthrough where there's
Speaker 3: gonna be like one really important person in the audience
Speaker 3: that goes, oh Broadway. We were like, you're just you
Speaker 3: just disappear and you become world famous. You're already like
Speaker 3: you know, our famous, but like, imagine, just this is
Speaker 3: this is your shot to superstart up.
Speaker 2: I have gotten into Broadway lately. I went to Hamilton
Speaker 2: a few years ago. That's really good. I can almost
Speaker 2: do that start to finish, and I'm not gonna lie you.
Speaker 2: You say that maybe jokingly, part of me wants this
Speaker 2: to be the beginning of me taking over the big stage.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm a young well not young, but maybe the
Speaker 2: next Linn Manual Miranda is that his name?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, I got that going on for me. And like
Speaker 2: I said, Josh Hopkins is gonna join us in the
Speaker 2: second hour. We're gonna talk basketball with him, what he's
Speaker 2: got going on. He's actually in the middle of a
Speaker 2: shoot this week, maybe even today's. It's a nice him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna volunteer his time, but he's gonna give me
Speaker 2: some acting tips. But it is a serious event at
Speaker 2: the curtain call UH supporting the theater. It operates with
Speaker 2: UH its program needs and brings in an average of
Speaker 2: fifty thousand in donations a year. And that's a big night.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna go help out and hopefully not.
Speaker 4: Bum Will people be allowed to film your your performance?
Speaker 2: Sure? I hope he's no. No, we're four k We're
Speaker 2: not gonna be Steven.
Speaker 3: Is going to film this whole thing, and we're going
Speaker 3: to rapidly react to it out.
Speaker 4: I think we still do a rapid reaction outside Jamik.
Speaker 2: I regret bringing this up. I regret bringing this up.
Speaker 2: Someone did on case board say we should do a
Speaker 2: rapid reaction to today's show. That'd be like a rapid reaction.
Speaker 4: We should do pregame walking talks on our way here
Speaker 4: as well, like really do the whole And.
Speaker 2: This is I've over committed. Speaking of your walking talk,
Speaker 2: shout those out a little bit. You started that this year.
Speaker 2: It's when I'm on the pregame show. I only get
Speaker 2: to join you occasionally, but tell us about what you
Speaker 2: do before basketball games.
Speaker 4: Well, we started an undisclosed location that is relatively close
Speaker 4: to my house, but we just don't want people to
Speaker 4: know exactly where I live, so we try and keep
Speaker 4: it a little bit hush hushed there. But it's basically
Speaker 4: just Steven Peak walks backwards down High Street for about
Speaker 4: you know, half a mile, and it's me and Jack
Speaker 4: previewing the game while also ensuring Steven Stephen's safety and
Speaker 4: making sure that he doesn't run into traffic or slip
Speaker 4: on ice, which has happened almost happened multiple times. But yeah,
Speaker 4: so we started doing that this season. It's been a
Speaker 4: lot of fun. Me and Jack were doing We were
Speaker 4: doing our post game tiktoks for a little bit at
Speaker 4: the beginning of the season and then it got too
Speaker 4: cold to do all that. Those were fun where you
Speaker 4: just kind of talk around nonsense with people, the three
Speaker 4: hundred people on our TikTok, the KSR TikTok. So, but yeah,
Speaker 4: we've been really trying to up up our coverage from
Speaker 4: start to finish.
Speaker 3: I love the Columbia, Missouri experience when we did our
Speaker 3: walking talk where the hill was vertical, where I was
Speaker 3: trying to pretend I wasn't out of breath, and yeah,
Speaker 3: we're live on camera just so, Yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. We enjoy it.
Speaker 2: All. Right, Well, we come back more with Jack and
Speaker 2: Zach and we'll have Josh Hopkins to teach me how
Speaker 2: to act and when I should start looking at my
Speaker 2: script this this KSR. We'll be right back