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Speaker 3: Here's not Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: I am Drew Franklin filling in for Matt Jones on
Speaker 4: a very busy and exciting day for Big Blue Nation,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna get right to the man of the hour.
Speaker 4: He has been kind enough to call in on his
Speaker 4: busy morning. Here on KSR we have Jaden Quaintan's on
Speaker 4: the phone line. Jaden, thank you for calling in. And
Speaker 4: how does it feel to be a Cat for a
Speaker 4: second time?
Speaker 5: It feels good, you know, just getting back to the
Speaker 5: fan base, getting back in that environment. It feels good.
Speaker 4: You still considered, uh, Kentucky after the coaching change this
Speaker 4: time last year. What is it that you love so
Speaker 4: much about Kentucky and the Big Blue Nation that you've
Speaker 4: now committed again under two different eras of UK You
Speaker 4: seem to really like the place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, again, the fan base for Kentucky
Speaker 5: probably one of the best, probably is the best in
Speaker 5: college basketball period. And you know, the coach showed a
Speaker 5: lot of interest. He seemed like he genuinely we really
Speaker 5: want into their program. I feel like I fit well
Speaker 5: into their play style offense. I just thought it was
Speaker 5: pretty good for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and talking to Mark Pope and that fit the reports.
Speaker 4: You really seem like style of play. You just mentioned that,
Speaker 4: what's kind of Pope told you about how he'll use
Speaker 4: you and what it'll look like when you bounce back
Speaker 4: from injury and get back to action.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, you know, when I'm able to get back
Speaker 5: on the court, you know, they kind of will be
Speaker 5: able to play through me a little bit more. We'll
Speaker 5: be able to work on the permator a little bit more.
Speaker 5: You know, get to show off my playmaking ability more
Speaker 5: than I was able to do this year, be able
Speaker 5: to play down. He'll push the ball off the brake,
Speaker 5: you know, just work on my versatility more.
Speaker 4: I think we actually interrupted your rehab this morning. Again,
Speaker 4: thanks for calling us. So you got a lot of
Speaker 4: excited listeners happy to have you a part of Kentucky.
Speaker 3: How are things going.
Speaker 4: With the rehab and is there any kind of tomline
Speaker 4: or target date where you're really aiming to get back
Speaker 4: into getting up and down the court.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know how it's gonna go over really well.
Speaker 5: I've been ahead your schedule. You know, the scar is
Speaker 5: healing up well, getting a lot of swallowing down, getting
Speaker 5: my quas strengthened really well. So is been going good.
Speaker 5: We're aiming to get back around September, and yeah, he
Speaker 5: hasn't got well.
Speaker 3: Jade, and I appreciate you coming on with us, said
Speaker 3: Amari Williams. Obviously is a different style of play, and
Speaker 3: you know kind of fits the mold of what you
Speaker 3: you kind of are as a basketball player. How much
Speaker 3: of you watch what he did this season and kind
Speaker 3: of use that as a, you know, a potential measuring
Speaker 3: stick of what you could potentially do this upcoming season
Speaker 3: in Kentucky.
Speaker 5: I haven't been able to watch too much, but I
Speaker 5: feel like from what I was showing on the film,
Speaker 5: uh play somewhat similar. I feel like I'm gonna be
Speaker 5: able to kind of take over that that kind of
Speaker 5: role well and flourish and that kind of role.
Speaker 3: What did Mark Pope say and is what were those
Speaker 3: kind of early conversations with with him like and saying, hey, here,
Speaker 3: here's what you're going to be and and and how
Speaker 3: you're going to be used here in our system.
Speaker 5: Well, again, you know, they be able to play through
Speaker 5: me at the top of key to show off my
Speaker 5: offensive ability more, get to show off my shooting a
Speaker 5: little bit better, you know, playing the pick and roll,
Speaker 5: being able to get down hill, just playing a more
Speaker 5: open and faster paced offense.
Speaker 3: What fit well into that you know what what is
Speaker 3: playing for? You know, big Blue Nation and with the
Speaker 3: most passionate fan base in college basketball on a on
Speaker 3: a platform like the University of Kentucky. How do you
Speaker 3: think that's going to kind of elevate you know what
Speaker 3: you're trying to accomplish, and you know what a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of people kind of envision your your
Speaker 3: last season of college of basketball. What what is it
Speaker 3: about the Kentucky brand that that intrigues you?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's the biggest brand in college basketball.
Speaker 5: You know, they got the best fans in college basketball.
Speaker 5: Uh travel, Well, you know you can't go to Kentucky
Speaker 5: and not getting noticed. So I plan on doing big
Speaker 5: things here and I feel like this is the best
Speaker 5: station to do it.
Speaker 4: On last February, I think it might have been the
Speaker 4: Georgia game in Rop Arena. You were there, They brought
Speaker 4: you out at half court to a huge reception, gave
Speaker 4: every by a big wave. How did it feels that
Speaker 4: was kind of your first moment in front of Kentucky
Speaker 4: fans in a unique situation last season, and how exciting
Speaker 4: is it to get back out there in front of
Speaker 4: those fans again in rep Arena finally wearing the uniform next.
Speaker 5: Year, you know, so it's a great you know, see
Speaker 5: how how much loved the fans show. How again large
Speaker 5: arena is how big of a turn hot you did
Speaker 5: every time you know, you pop out there. So it's
Speaker 5: it's it's a great experience for sure.
Speaker 4: We've talked about your connection to Mark Pope. I know
Speaker 4: this all moves so quickly, but have you had any
Speaker 4: conversations with some of the players already on Kentucky's roster,
Speaker 4: any connections in the past with those guys, got to
Speaker 4: know any of them or heard from them, got any
Speaker 4: group tech started yet?
Speaker 5: Yeah, My god, Josha Johnson, he was a big part
Speaker 5: of you know, kind of help him lean folk Kentucky.
Speaker 5: He's been talking about how much he loved the environment,
Speaker 5: in the situation, in the fans and the coaching and
Speaker 5: just how he thought I'd be able to sit well
Speaker 5: into the system that they have going on here in
Speaker 5: the team that they're trying to build. So, my god,
Speaker 5: ask has helped me a lot and kind of getting
Speaker 5: here a.
Speaker 3: Jadeen, you know, obviously understanding the assignment in Lexington is
Speaker 3: very important for Mark Pope and and it's getting back
Speaker 3: to the final four winning a national championship? How important
Speaker 3: is that for you going into this season and you
Speaker 3: knowing the other pieces that that Pope has been able
Speaker 3: to assemble and the group that they're that he's he's
Speaker 3: been able to assemble, Is it fair to say that
Speaker 3: a national championship is on the table next season to Lexington? Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, winning is probably the most important thing
Speaker 5: to me, and I've been wanting to have a chance
Speaker 5: to compete. You know, I don't really like watching from
Speaker 5: the sidelines watching everybody else. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: in the tournament. We make the tournament this year, and
Speaker 5: I would look forward to, you know, having a real
Speaker 5: chance to win it next year. I feel like that's
Speaker 5: gonna be another really big particle on at Kentucky. So
Speaker 5: we have a real shot to win a national championship.
Speaker 3: I know fans will love to hear that. And obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, you got rehab to get to and we
Speaker 3: don't want to keep you too long, but you know
Speaker 3: what it what for fans that are not familiar with
Speaker 3: you or just trying to get you know, back used
Speaker 3: to you. Obviously you're an old friend, but now a
Speaker 3: new friend. For us as well. What can fans expect
Speaker 3: from Jayden Queens as a basketball player when you do
Speaker 3: make your way back to the floor.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna play hard and give them all every night.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna have the impact on the offensive end,
Speaker 5: defensive end of the ball. And you know I played
Speaker 5: a win every night. Every time I step on the floor,
Speaker 5: I played a win to impact the game. I'll rock
Speaker 5: in love.
Speaker 3: It, Jayden.
Speaker 4: We can't thank you enough for taking time out if
Speaker 4: you're extremely busy morning to join us here on KSR.
Speaker 4: I know our listeners loved it and appreciate it because
Speaker 4: we're very excited to have you back in big Blue
Speaker 4: Nation where you belong and we look forward to everything ahead.
Speaker 4: But thanks again for joining us and congratulations on making
Speaker 4: your commitment.
Speaker 5: Thanks appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk to you and Lexton.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to it, all right, guys, Steve, Yes, sir
Speaker 4: gocats there it was Jack, A good get Jack getting
Speaker 4: him on the phone. I can only imagine how hectic
Speaker 4: it has been around him this morning. You know it
Speaker 4: is a big portal target. It even sounded like was
Speaker 4: that Bruce Pearl in the background.
Speaker 3: I thought I heard Bruce when Jason was talking there.
Speaker 3: Bruce really isn't trying to visit him right now? Is
Speaker 3: he put in there? Uh?
Speaker 4: I know it was great to have him, and like
Speaker 4: I said, very exciting times for Kentucky. I remember that
Speaker 4: moment Rupperina when he got the big pop thought we
Speaker 4: thought we were gonna have him last year. You know,
Speaker 4: life's funny, It's got its twists and turns. But he's
Speaker 4: coming back home. Projected top ten pick in the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six draft, brings some much needed rent protection and
Speaker 4: it sounds like he's on a good timeline with the
Speaker 4: with the rehab on the aco.
Speaker 3: All I can focus on is National Championship talk man
Speaker 3: him talking about you know, you know, me and Jasper
Speaker 3: we've been talking a lot. We have big dreams of
Speaker 3: hanging banners and Lexington and it's like, oh, all right,
Speaker 3: can we I know the National Championship just finished up
Speaker 3: last night, but I'm ready to roll those balls out
Speaker 3: and took the season off.
Speaker 6: Maybe hungry for it watching the last night. Uh do
Speaker 6: you think you know, do you think Caliperry? Well, how
Speaker 6: does he feel about about this? I mean that was
Speaker 6: could have been one of his big pieces. Did he
Speaker 6: think that he was going to follow him to Arkansas
Speaker 6: last year? It's complicated.
Speaker 3: I think everybody just kind of knew, you know, it
Speaker 3: might just be a hard reset for everybody. Some would follow,
Speaker 3: some wouldn't. You know. Obviously the some did follow and
Speaker 3: some didn't. But I do know that it was really
Speaker 3: important for Jayden in those close to him, to you know,
Speaker 3: kind of make his own decision. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 3: after even after Cal left, there were initial conversations of hey,
Speaker 3: I would love to be a part of this. I know,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's complicated, it's you guys have a
Speaker 3: coaching search to do, but I would love to have
Speaker 3: some type of role in this. And it just didn't
Speaker 3: work out. You know, it needed a little break to
Speaker 3: know what they were missing with one another, and they
Speaker 3: were able to rEFInd each other again this offseason, and
Speaker 3: you know, Jayden was able to grow under his own terms,
Speaker 3: on his own timeline, and now we should be getting
Speaker 3: a more mature, you know, eighteen year old version of
Speaker 3: Jayden instead of you know, arriving on campus at sixteen
Speaker 3: like he did last last season. Arizona State. Love always
Speaker 3: finds a way works out, We got him, got him moere.
Speaker 4: He needs to be Steve. And I say this lovingly, respectfully.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes you can be a little bit of a
Speaker 4: doom's day or you know, you consider the worst case scenario.
Speaker 3: At times, not always, not always, but you know you can.
Speaker 4: You can have worries and you can be cautious about
Speaker 4: the state of Kentucky basketball. How do you feel, Let's
Speaker 4: just assume they have a shooter we don't know yet,
Speaker 4: still gotta go out and get one of those but
Speaker 4: unnamed shooter and the pieces they have now where is
Speaker 4: Steven peaks excitement heading into next season.
Speaker 6: First of all, from from two thousand and nine when
Speaker 6: Kyle got there to about twenty seventeen, I was very
Speaker 6: much optimistic, and you know, things started to happen in
Speaker 6: the last few years that and since I got to
Speaker 6: KSR that you know, made me a little bit more
Speaker 6: maybe protecting myself a little bit so I don't get
Speaker 6: too hurt.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 6: But I think with Jayden, you land a shooter, whether
Speaker 6: it's Yates or whoever else is in the portal, Dante
Speaker 6: Allen's in the portal, I.
Speaker 3: Mean that could be That's it. Running back. Call everybody home, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tucky lineup.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm real excited about this team. And I
Speaker 6: think what we saw with what Mark Pope and this
Speaker 6: staff was able to do with what they had. I mean,
Speaker 6: those were good. Those are good players. The last year
Speaker 6: we have a lot to talk about. There's a lot
Speaker 6: of talk last year about you know, this will be
Speaker 6: the least talented Mark Pope team. I mean then there
Speaker 6: was there were some really good players on that team.
Speaker 6: But now you look at this roster. You had a
Speaker 6: shooter like I'm dreaming. I'm dreaming big.
Speaker 3: I mean I see in your eyes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'm thinking like a return to our
Speaker 6: favorite city could be happening. That's the only No, We're
Speaker 6: not gonna be negative though, right We're gonna.
Speaker 4: Actually I actually have that city on my list of
Speaker 4: topics for later. And we still have to get your
Speaker 4: hot take on the basketball. It's really the only reason
Speaker 4: I called you in today was so you can just
Speaker 4: have your open mic about the Wilson basketball. We've been
Speaker 4: thrown off with the news and the updates. Obviously, we
Speaker 4: focused today on the two recent editions since they happened
Speaker 4: in the last twenty four hours, but Jack, I didn't
Speaker 4: have you on the air yesterday. Kentucky also added Jalen
Speaker 4: Low over the weekend. We haven't really had a chance
Speaker 4: to talk about him, I guess the third fourth transfer portal.
Speaker 3: Piece for Kentucky. How do you feel about him at
Speaker 3: point guard? He's different than than Lamont Butler. Obviously, Lamont
Speaker 3: was a defensive anchor and a guy that you just
Speaker 3: kind of say, hey, go to work and guard the
Speaker 3: other team's best player. And you know it's it's a
Speaker 3: different style, but more talented than Lamont Butler. I know
Speaker 3: it's gonna, you know, ruffle some feathers, but you're you're
Speaker 3: buying on the upside, knowing that, Okay, he's young, he's
Speaker 3: growing a couple more years left of eligibility. But this
Speaker 3: is a kid that produced at a high level for
Speaker 3: a very bad ACC team, but was an acc ACC
Speaker 3: member nonetheless, and you're kind of saying, if you can
Speaker 3: get him to you know, improve efficiency because the shots
Speaker 3: are going to be better because he has more talent
Speaker 3: around him, because you know he's not gonna be getting
Speaker 3: double teamed and and you know, have the other team's
Speaker 3: top defensive assignment of every single night. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: more of a balance and let him kind of get
Speaker 3: his game off more comfortably than he had to do
Speaker 3: last season played for Jeff Kple. So you you should
Speaker 3: be getting the best version of Jalen Lowe, who as
Speaker 3: an All Conference player as is, is a really, really,
Speaker 3: really talented piece. We still have so much more to
Speaker 3: get to.
Speaker 4: Like yesterday, I'm not even halfway through the topics I've
Speaker 4: written down. Like I said, Steven's got to talk about
Speaker 4: this basketball and these two travel everywhere together. I want
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Speaker 4: mentioned last night's championship game. So we'll take a break first.
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Speaker 4: on KSR. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. What a
Speaker 4: morning we're having here, guys. Drew Franklin, Jack Pilgrim, Steven Peak,
Speaker 4: Shad a Quaintance, Jiohnny Key, Phoenix Stevens. We're just having
Speaker 4: lots of fun as Kentucky Basketball's roster gets even better.
Speaker 4: A lot of the way too early rankings came out
Speaker 4: this morning, even before the Quaintans commitment. I think ESPN
Speaker 4: had Kentucky at six on three. Our company Steven's wearing
Speaker 4: the logo right now, had him at fourth. Some other
Speaker 4: top ten projections. All the naysayers just calmed down. We
Speaker 4: told you, relax, it's gonna be all right, and things
Speaker 4: are looking like they're panning out. Well, still got at
Speaker 4: a shooter, but Kentucky's in a great spot. On April
Speaker 4: Eighth's today, after the National Championship game, and we have
Speaker 4: not even mentioned that yet, so I guess we should
Speaker 4: run through it. It seems very irrelevant at the moment as
Speaker 4: we're excited about other things. But Florida did win a
Speaker 4: basketball game last night, the championship, their third. Looked like
Speaker 4: it was Houston's night for much of the game, especially
Speaker 4: in the first half. My Goodness restaurant Colin fouls much,
Speaker 4: which played into Houston's favor. Alex Condon looks like he
Speaker 4: wanted to be on the couch next to me. He
Speaker 4: wanted no part of that game. Early on, Walter Clayton
Speaker 4: couldn't score. I thought it was Houston's night, and then
Speaker 4: the things flipped late in the second half. Houston led
Speaker 4: by twelve at one point in the second half. Walter
Speaker 4: Clayton hit a three with about three minutes and fifteen
Speaker 4: seconds left to go, got a little momentum behind the Gators,
Speaker 4: and that's when things turned down the stretch. Houston with
Speaker 4: four turnovers on their last four possessions, including on the
Speaker 4: final possession. Calvin Sampson, this is your moment. I thought
Speaker 4: you were getting over the hump. I thought you were
Speaker 4: getting the ring, and Houston doesn't even get a shot off. Incredible. Guys,
Speaker 4: were you did you at least enjoy the outcome? Were
Speaker 4: you anti Florida pro Florida? How do we feel about
Speaker 4: how it played out?
Speaker 6: I was anti Florida. I'm anti every SEC team.
Speaker 3: I don't look.
Speaker 6: I want to go back to where Kentucky dominates the SEC.
Speaker 6: I know we can have some pride in our conference,
Speaker 6: but why, like I want to be the best team.
Speaker 3: I don't want.
Speaker 6: I don't Florida celebrating last night made me sick watching
Speaker 6: Todd Golden up there, you know. I mean, great youngest
Speaker 6: coach to win it. Good for him, but that you know,
Speaker 6: I didn't like it. I didn't like seeing he looked
Speaker 6: like he wanted to be a part of the team,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: He did look like a player.
Speaker 4: He was the one that lifted the trophy walk on
Speaker 4: or is that the coach or the coach's son?
Speaker 3: Who is that? Yeah?
Speaker 6: But you know, I was all for I was really
Speaker 6: just excited that Duke wasn't playing in it, and really
Speaker 6: that was the only thing that concerned me.
Speaker 4: But yeah, let's be honest, we all won. Before the
Speaker 4: championship game, when dude got eliminated. I lean your direction.
Speaker 4: I was more for Houston, who I had in my bracket.
Speaker 4: I didn't love Florida getting another one. You know, It's
Speaker 4: just they had their their little dynasty in two thousand
Speaker 4: and six, two thousand and seven. I wanted that to
Speaker 4: be the end of Florida basketball success. Golden's got him back.
Speaker 4: That wasn't a lot of fun to watch. But Houston
Speaker 4: with a big collapse, I mean, jack with forty five
Speaker 4: seconds left, we think they're going too for one and
Speaker 4: then they kind of hold the ball and end up
Speaker 4: turning over twice in the last thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: It was crushing, Like just seeing there's a kind of
Speaker 3: side by side you see the game happening, and you
Speaker 3: see just Kevin Samson on the bench and just watching
Speaker 3: it all unfold, and you could just see the doom
Speaker 3: in his eyes, like I thought this was it. I
Speaker 3: thought we had it. So that sucks. You know. Kelvin's
Speaker 3: a great guy all time with for Indiana basketball. Could
Speaker 3: you imagine if that guy stuck there and was able
Speaker 3: to build the same dynasty with the resources that he has, it,
Speaker 3: it would have it Indiana. That's why we can never
Speaker 3: you know, Indiana can go away forever. But I was
Speaker 3: rooting for him personally, while also kind of liking the
Speaker 3: novelty of like, hey, we hyped up the SEC as
Speaker 3: this all time juggernaut, having them kind of put the
Speaker 3: ultimate final stamp on it, Like hey, all time conference
Speaker 3: leads to a national champion and US being the first
Speaker 3: team to beat them. I kind of enjoy the.
Speaker 6: Two of the four last champions Kentucky's beaten in the
Speaker 6: regular season. Yeah, so that kind of part of it
Speaker 6: I was appreciating. But we were playing with house money.
Speaker 6: I mean, there was there was nothing that could have
Speaker 6: happened last night that would make me like, oh, you know,
Speaker 6: heart being heartbroken.
Speaker 3: The only thing that could have happened was Duke winning
Speaker 3: that game and then winning the national championship. I would
Speaker 3: have been really bummed out today, but very fortunately we
Speaker 3: don't have that opportunity. Yeah, that's why I was for Houston.
Speaker 3: We needed to crown them.
Speaker 4: They sent Tennessee home before a final four, and they
Speaker 4: eliminated Duke with one of the all time collapses in
Speaker 4: the semi final. That's why I just thought Houston deserved it.
Speaker 4: Some interesting facts that came out about it, you know,
Speaker 4: we're all looking at these kings and you need this.
Speaker 3: You need that.
Speaker 4: Florida did not have a top one hundred recruit on
Speaker 4: its roster, and neither team had a five star recruit,
Speaker 4: so pretty unique in uh in the roster building there
Speaker 4: shows that retaining players and finding the right fit and
Speaker 4: the portal can really pay off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean that's and that you look at, Uh you
Speaker 6: can bring Otega oh way back.
Speaker 3: I mean that that's huge.
Speaker 6: And you know, once this thing gets rolling, once you
Speaker 6: get Pope into his third or fourth year, because he's
Speaker 6: i think brought on a couple more sophomores, so you
Speaker 6: keep them. Uh yeah, roster continuity. What was Kentucky this
Speaker 6: past season?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: They were last Okay, so that's probably not good, right,
Speaker 6: considering all the injuries. And that's one thing too, the uh,
Speaker 6: the the injury stuff has to start tilting into our
Speaker 6: favor and it's got to happen it and and and
Speaker 6: you know, you look at the last several years there's
Speaker 6: been like key injuries. Let's like eventually that luck is
Speaker 6: going to swing our way.
Speaker 3: Right, we have the ultimate experiment. I mean, we have
Speaker 3: a guy with a torn a cl today and if
Speaker 3: he happens to go ahead of schedule and play in
Speaker 3: the season opener. I think, and you stays healthy throughout
Speaker 3: the course of the season. I think that's the perfect like,
Speaker 3: you know, finally getting you know, exercising those demons and
Speaker 3: getting back on track with the health.
Speaker 4: Steven you mentioned Otega oh Way, he was in one
Speaker 4: shining moment for approximately one point two seconds. We got
Speaker 4: like four frames of Otega. You know, I, like most people,
Speaker 4: stayed up waiting for one shining moment. That's how we
Speaker 4: officially closed the book on the ear. I really thought
Speaker 4: the Amari Coast to coast dunk was gonna make it.
Speaker 4: I even almost tweeted, get ready, We're getting the Amari
Speaker 4: dunk in one shining moment. Amari didn't get in there,
Speaker 4: but in the very beginning, I guess we got an
Speaker 4: oh way flesh. Was that other than you know, being
Speaker 4: in the background of some Tennessee shots, I believe that
Speaker 4: was our only UK.
Speaker 3: Andrew Carr was on the receiving end of a Tennessee poster,
Speaker 3: which I did not love seeing that, but at least
Speaker 3: it wasn't like past years where it's slow motion.
Speaker 4: Jack Goki and my good friend John Palumbo doing the
Speaker 4: surrender cobra with his hands on his head. So we're
Speaker 4: working our way back more into one shining moment.
Speaker 3: Stephen.
Speaker 4: As a videographer, I gotta ask, why does it take
Speaker 4: them so long?
Speaker 3: You know that most of that should have been edited.
Speaker 3: I feel that make us wait.
Speaker 4: You know, I keep I wanted to go watch Righteous
Speaker 4: jim Stones, but I gotta watch twenty minutes of post
Speaker 4: game to get to the best part.
Speaker 3: Of the night.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's an editing deal. I think that
Speaker 6: they they know that you're waiting for it, and they're
Speaker 6: getting in as many ads as they can. I mean,
Speaker 6: we have the official ladder of the NCAA. We got
Speaker 6: to talk about Werner, and then we got to get
Speaker 6: you know, the the AT and T halftime show presented
Speaker 6: by Burger King or whatever like they got. We have
Speaker 6: to get all of the ads in and then so
Speaker 6: but you can see like it's all edited. They added
Speaker 6: like three clips of the of the championship game and
Speaker 6: then the celebration at the end. I'm sure they took
Speaker 6: them about a minute.
Speaker 3: One cool thing.
Speaker 4: About the Florida celebration and you mentioned the ladder. Olivier
Speaker 4: Reu did cut down the nets again, mister seven foot nine,
Speaker 4: as we saw in Nashville without using the ladder. I'm
Speaker 4: still just fascinated about it.
Speaker 2: Guy.
Speaker 4: You know, he didn't play for Florida this year, but
Speaker 4: what a sight when he's up there. You know, everyone
Speaker 4: takes their climb, get their little piece, they wave. No,
Speaker 4: he just walks up, takes the scissors and cuts the
Speaker 4: flat footed.
Speaker 3: Is that an NIL violation because they have the deal
Speaker 3: with with the ladder, Like, do you think that the
Speaker 3: ladder company looks that it goes well, well, that's not
Speaker 3: what we signed up for.
Speaker 4: Get get your big button on that ladder and lean down.
Speaker 4: I think has a complaint there. I really think they do.
Speaker 4: We're getting excited about the rosters. So before we started
Speaker 4: the show, you were like, get me back on one
Speaker 4: shining moment. Are you confident that you know we got
Speaker 4: all the way this year for one point two seconds
Speaker 4: where we're gradually getting back Next year we're gonna be featured.
Speaker 6: I mean, it looks like you do have to make
Speaker 6: an Elite eight at least to get more than one highlight.
Speaker 6: Because I thought too the Amari Williams dunk against Troy
Speaker 6: had to be on there. How many times do you
Speaker 6: see a seven foot go coast to coast and get
Speaker 6: an and one dunk? I mean, but yeah, you gotta
Speaker 6: get you gotta get to the destination. You gotta get
Speaker 6: to Indianapolis next year if you want to be you know,
Speaker 6: you want to see a lot more those highlights and
Speaker 6: not be on the the other side of the Tennessee
Speaker 6: dunkin on.
Speaker 4: Us Overall, obviously I would have preferred if Kentucky were
Speaker 4: in the Final four, but those three games maybe one
Speaker 4: of my favorite Final four us to just sit and
Speaker 4: watch as a neutral observer. Other than hating Duke, I
Speaker 4: didn't really have strong feelings about any team, but the
Speaker 4: weekend really delivered, didn't you Jack.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves the Cinderella until you have to see them
Speaker 3: play a legitimate national championship contender and they lose by
Speaker 3: thirty in the next round, You're like, well, that was
Speaker 3: a waste of everybody's time. So there's a reason why
Speaker 3: they're won seeds. And they were the best teams all
Speaker 3: season long. That's why it was so hard when we
Speaker 3: were filling out the brackets to not pick them, As
Speaker 3: you know, it felt like you were trying to be
Speaker 3: cute when you didn't have the four number ones, because
Speaker 3: they were just that much better than the rest of
Speaker 3: the field. So it was the best, the best possible
Speaker 3: product we could have gotten.
Speaker 4: For our KSR listeners who are online and follow Ryan Lemon.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if he had gotten into
Speaker 4: the marks with Shannon the dude, but Ryan Sen's like
Speaker 4: one tweet a week, and last night he was just
Speaker 4: firing them off. I encourage everyone to go look at that.
Speaker 4: One of them has just said, I really got a pee.
Speaker 4: I mean said Shannon told me to go out there
Speaker 4: in the ocean. I mean, sounds like my guys are
Speaker 4: having a great time on vacation. I'm looking at about
Speaker 4: ten Ryan Lemon tweets during the game, and none of
Speaker 4: them are coherent, So check that out, follow Scoop. Looks
Speaker 4: like they're having a good time leaving me back here,
Speaker 4: and like I said, they might not have a job
Speaker 4: when they get back. We're just we've added three people
Speaker 4: to their roster since they've been gone. We had a
Speaker 4: good guest that tianni Key closed the book on the
Speaker 4: championship season, and when we come back, I'm gonna let
Speaker 4: Steven Peak tell you all about the worst basketball in
Speaker 4: the history of basketball, the Wilson Evo NXT. He hates
Speaker 4: it more than anything, and we're gonna let him cook
Speaker 4: after this break. This is KSR. Welcome back to KSR.
Speaker 4: Matt Jones is not here because we've already had babies
Speaker 4: and dogs. That is our whiskey Thief message board submission
Speaker 4: of the day. Not quite a call of the day,
Speaker 4: but we're going to ks board for that one from
Speaker 4: Fox Monk and Bam took that joke from him. He
Speaker 4: said with Matt out, babies are fair game. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna encourage you to call in with your babies, but
Speaker 4: it was a nice addition to the Jayden Quaintons interview.
Speaker 4: Really cool to hear from him on such an exciting day.
Speaker 4: But I'm here with Jack Pilgrim and Steven Peak without
Speaker 4: further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, We've talked about it many times.
Speaker 4: These stupid basketballs that are overinflated and they're bright orange.
Speaker 4: No one hates them more than Steven and Steven. I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna give you a tell us. Tell us your
Speaker 4: hatred goes back several years. You've done the stats, you
Speaker 4: have spreadsheets, you have videos. You'll randomly text me at
Speaker 4: three am on a Tuesday when you find new information
Speaker 4: about this stupid Wilson basketball. Tell our listeners why they
Speaker 4: should hate it too. You should hate it because Kobe
Speaker 4: Braya hates it. Jack Pilgrim interviewed him in the locker room.
Speaker 6: After he actually shot three for six, So it wasn't
Speaker 6: like he was making excuses and a win and a
Speaker 6: win over was that the Troy was after the Troy game?
Speaker 3: Was that after Illinois Troy? Troy? Okay?
Speaker 6: So he asked Kobe Bray if you haven't seen the interview,
Speaker 6: it's on our YouTube channel, and Kobe says, you have
Speaker 6: to change the way you shoot a little bit. And
Speaker 6: I almost threw the camera against the wall and ran
Speaker 6: out and found it NCAA.
Speaker 3: Why the camera got so shakey? Oh, I was shaking that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wanted our listeners to know Steven actually might do
Speaker 4: that at some point. He's not getting he came close to.
Speaker 3: Throw on that.
Speaker 6: Well, the thing is with first of all, why is
Speaker 6: it in college basketball you have different balls depending on
Speaker 6: where you That makes no sense to me. You don't
Speaker 6: do this in any other sport. You don't get to
Speaker 6: the World Series and they go, all right, we changed
Speaker 6: the seams on the baseball. It doesn't happen, all right,
Speaker 6: So like that's that's the first thing. But then these basketballs.
Speaker 6: And I talked to a guy who played at Watford.
Speaker 6: He has AH he's a shooting coach, Bobby Perez. He
Speaker 6: played with Fletcher McGee I think it was his name,
Speaker 6: who you know, didn't shoot very well against Kentucky, but
Speaker 6: one of the better shooters anyway.
Speaker 3: He's done a lot of.
Speaker 6: Studies also, and he's he's like trying to teach guys
Speaker 6: how to shoot. But he's like, these basketballs that they're using.
Speaker 6: For one, it's not that they're different. They they put
Speaker 6: extended range tech into this ball. Why we need a
Speaker 6: technology into a basketball? It does don't have to use
Speaker 6: a USBC to like do as it. There's our firmware
Speaker 6: update that needs to happen to the basketball. It means
Speaker 6: it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: But what he's saying is that the balls are too inflated,
Speaker 6: and he is noticing that guys are having trouble. It's
Speaker 6: not just with shooting, but it's with the ball. I mean,
Speaker 6: Severe Wheeler had one bounce over his head I mean,
Speaker 6: like there's one Davion Mits went back and watched the
Speaker 6: Saint Peter's game that he expects the ball to be
Speaker 6: back in his hand. Nope, it's not. It's bouncing over
Speaker 6: his hand. It's a turnover. This is something the NCAA
Speaker 6: really needs to fix it. I'm glad like Scott Van
Speaker 6: Pelt is now even talking about it. He said, it's
Speaker 6: like the like a game you play at a carnival
Speaker 6: where like the ball is over and plated and has
Speaker 6: there They've rigged the game. This is something I was
Speaker 6: kind of joking about a few years ago. Now I'm
Speaker 6: kind of I'm a little bit more serious.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 6: I think having everyone else say that this is a
Speaker 6: problem has sort of like made me like, all right,
Speaker 6: I can actually this is a real thing.
Speaker 3: Give me real takes off.
Speaker 4: You're a pioneer in this take. When I first met you,
Speaker 4: you're you know, the first thing I brought it up
Speaker 4: in an interview. Yeah, we interviewed Steven for the videographer position.
Speaker 4: Tyler and I and you know, we're going over as
Speaker 4: the resume. Oh cool, you went to Murray.
Speaker 3: That's neat.
Speaker 4: Oh you worked here? And He's like, hey, uh, can
Speaker 4: I talk about this basketball? And ever since I've known you,
Speaker 4: it's been a talking point. You're right, people are catching on.
Speaker 4: Some coaches have been out spoken about it.
Speaker 6: Matt Painter said that he he was interviewed in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three and he said, the ball is round, anybody
Speaker 6: can shoot it. Then they lose to Farley Dickinson who
Speaker 6: used the ball all year. And then the next interview
Speaker 6: I see with Matt Painter, he's saying, yeah, we gotta
Speaker 6: do something, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So like the coaches have talking Mark Fuse talked about it.
Speaker 6: Alabama players were asked about it, and it is it
Speaker 6: is something that you look at the shooting percentage of
Speaker 6: the last few final fours in national championship games, and
Speaker 6: throughout the tournament the shooting percentages dip wildly.
Speaker 3: Like what about last night.
Speaker 4: I know Houston's not a lights out team, but those
Speaker 4: two teams were combined over thirteen to start the game.
Speaker 4: Florida I think finishes twenty five percent, Houston twenty four percent.
Speaker 4: We blame in the ball. I mean, there was good defense,
Speaker 4: but those were some bad bricks last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and there was actually a researcher from Syracuse. Rodney
Speaker 6: Paul did do several studies and what he found was
Speaker 6: and it's kind of hard to quantify it because how
Speaker 6: do you say, Okay, that's shot went in what it
Speaker 6: had gone in if they used a different ball.
Speaker 3: So he said, it's a greater.
Speaker 6: Than one point advantage for whoever if you're using this
Speaker 6: ball has been used all year. But I'll tell you
Speaker 6: the other thing that is insane with all the technology
Speaker 6: we have, the NCAA is using a bounce test to
Speaker 6: determine if the ball is bouncy enough.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? What year is this?
Speaker 6: Like it's yeah, like it's not a deal, Like there
Speaker 6: isn't millions of dollars on the line here that there's not,
Speaker 6: especially with all the gambling and everything. So like there
Speaker 6: it feels like you can get you can get up.
Speaker 6: It's something that shows you what the PSI is. And
Speaker 6: that's the other thing that Bobby Press brought up to me.
Speaker 6: The PSI is seven to nine uh uh PSI. Well
Speaker 6: that's a pretty wide range actually, so if you go
Speaker 6: to the top end of that, it gets pretty bouncy.
Speaker 6: And like I told you, like when what you knew
Speaker 6: was spiked that ball I thought it might go through
Speaker 6: the Almodome.
Speaker 4: So like that is something. There's a good Isaac Huppery's
Speaker 4: moment last night the team.
Speaker 6: Can you believe that he got it? I mean, like
Speaker 6: and they still won the game, Like that could have
Speaker 6: been massive.
Speaker 4: I did, like as soon as I saw you, immediately texted,
Speaker 4: I'm surprised that balled in at the top of the
Speaker 4: Alumado And there was a good joke.
Speaker 3: There's our joke of the day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but this is something that I'm glad you know
Speaker 6: you have. Like I said, Scott Van Pelt, you've had
Speaker 6: several coaches finally speak out about it, and you know,
Speaker 6: a coach doesn't really want to say and a player
Speaker 6: doesn't want to say, I mean, the ball is the problem.
Speaker 6: So they're they're all kind of timid to talk about it,
Speaker 6: especially during the season. But uh, you know, raising awareness,
Speaker 6: that's that's that's what we're doing here, and we're gonna
Speaker 6: hopefully see a universal basketball in college basketball. It's it's
Speaker 6: absolutely ridiculous that depending on where you play, it depends
Speaker 6: on like the sponsorship you have. So all the Nike
Speaker 6: schools are using the Nike ball. If you're in an
Speaker 6: Adida school. I guess it's open in your contract because
Speaker 6: Louisville is using the Wilson evo. Uh, and then you
Speaker 6: have Kansas using the Wilson EVO, and that is an
Speaker 6: advantage going into the tournament. It didn't help Loveville very
Speaker 6: much this year. I don't know if you remember they
Speaker 6: were beating the first round. Yeah right here down the street, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: yeah crowd.
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, Yeah, a lot of seed and
Speaker 4: a favorite, right yeah.
Speaker 6: But they should have been a three seed, right, I
Speaker 6: mean they just got yeah, so uh you know that.
Speaker 6: But the ball is it is an issue. It does
Speaker 6: affect the game, of course it does. When you are
Speaker 6: shooting thousands of shots all season and you're calibrating, you know,
Speaker 6: you're using muscle memory in these tense moments and the
Speaker 6: most important games of your life. And they're like, here's
Speaker 6: the new equipment to play with. That's that's insane to me.
Speaker 6: All this stuff we're trying to do to benefit players.
Speaker 6: This is an easy fix. It's so easy, and we
Speaker 6: get nothing. It's you know, I know money is involved,
Speaker 6: but just make a universal ball man like it.
Speaker 3: One other league does this.
Speaker 4: You mentioned how the coaches and players are afraid to
Speaker 4: be too outspoken about it kind of would come off
Speaker 4: as an excuse. You are the official leader of this,
Speaker 4: Like what's next, You're gonna maybe like a five K
Speaker 4: you're talking about raising awareness? Do you go out stand
Speaker 4: outside arenas with a sign? Or you're gonna go to
Speaker 4: Indian Appoll You're not going there, But are you gonna
Speaker 4: petition the NCAA?
Speaker 3: I mean, how do we keep this movement going? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I just think I'm gonna I definitely.
Speaker 6: I think getting more players to talk about it will
Speaker 6: eventually lead to some change. I definitely think that that
Speaker 6: once people are realizing, because also the product is bad.
Speaker 6: I mean, I watched that Kentucky Florida game that was
Speaker 6: played in Ropperna one hundred and six to one hundred,
Speaker 6: both teams just shooting lights. I have a hot take
Speaker 6: about that game. That's one of the greatest games ever
Speaker 6: played in Arena.
Speaker 3: I mean, it just it was. It was a fun game.
Speaker 3: What did Pope say in the postgame press conference?
Speaker 6: If you didn't enjoy that and find a new profession
Speaker 6: or something like that, this is what he told the media. Uh,
Speaker 6: then you watched last night's game and Granted Houston's a
Speaker 6: great defensive team, but how many of those balls were
Speaker 6: just like big guys are having problems with it getting
Speaker 6: the ball to it does it goes, It bounces everywhere
Speaker 6: but in the basket, And so I think to have
Speaker 6: a better product, it would it would behoove the NCAA
Speaker 6: to you know, universal basketballs. Let's if we're doing the
Speaker 6: arc system, we're doing all this stuff to like perfect
Speaker 6: our shots, and then you're then you just give them
Speaker 6: a basketball that travels further. That doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 6: especially when they're advertising extended range tech. They're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: you can shoot it further, and I and you can
Speaker 6: and I don't. I know this might sound like I'm bragging,
Speaker 6: but I'm like the fifth or sixth best shooter in
Speaker 6: my Sunday night church.
Speaker 4: Oh listen ASR followers, No, you can ball you and Jack,
Speaker 4: Actually I had that on all this with topics.
Speaker 3: Let's kind of just transition to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you all go to all these games and you
Speaker 4: always leave the arena on a make k SR from
Speaker 4: most people don't know. We're usually the last ones to
Speaker 4: leave the building where, you know, working hard, it's always
Speaker 4: a late night and you all stay in these away arenas.
Speaker 4: I don't even know where you find a basketball, but
Speaker 4: you've put a video out there.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 4: You all get a shot up everywhere you go. I've
Speaker 4: participated in Nashville and a half court shot. Not bragging,
Speaker 4: but bragging, but uh, talk about why you all do that,
Speaker 4: how fun it is, and how hard it is to
Speaker 4: find a ball.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, because our job is very unseious, we understand that
Speaker 3: we're blessed to be in this position, to be working
Speaker 3: at KSR, to be covering the team as diehard Kentucky fans,
Speaker 3: and we like basketball. So when we're at these cool venues,
Speaker 3: we're like, hey, it'd be really cool to make a
Speaker 3: shot at one of these. So it just kind of
Speaker 3: became a thing. And yes, Steven will attest to this.
Speaker 3: We will look under bleachers, we will go up in
Speaker 3: the rafters, we will look everywhere for a steak a
Speaker 3: ball in. We I have where was that? Actually, I
Speaker 3: don't want to we don't want to say we haven't.
Speaker 3: We keep this going statutal limitations, but we we have
Speaker 3: stuck a ball in at one of the locations and
Speaker 3: we did use that ball for a shot. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's our favorite tradition and hopefully we can
Speaker 3: do that in Indianapolis at the Final four nexture because
Speaker 3: they kicked us off the floor. Uh this past this
Speaker 3: past cycle, sou not not big fans of the NC
Speaker 3: Double A and the March Madness. Gosh, man, they are
Speaker 3: the I've never seen anything so strict.
Speaker 6: It's like, I mean, seriously, it's like Fort Knox, Like
Speaker 6: you get down there on the court and they're like,
Speaker 6: you know that the nuclear codes right at mid court,
Speaker 6: Like it's it's crazy how strict they are. I mean,
Speaker 6: I got really streamed at pretty fiercely to get off.
Speaker 4: You and Mario get yelled at for even getting a
Speaker 4: drink of water at these things. I guess because you're
Speaker 4: both doing video you have a different they hate. But
Speaker 4: they will not let you anywhere. You go to all
Speaker 4: these games and you're working hard and you watch them
Speaker 4: in the back on a TV without sound because they
Speaker 4: won't even let you stick your head around the corner
Speaker 4: to look at the arenas.
Speaker 6: Where I saw the way game winner against the in
Speaker 6: the SEC tournament was like by myself behind the and
Speaker 6: they're like one of the darkest parts of the world
Speaker 6: was where that that area is for the SEC tournament.
Speaker 3: But yeah, finding a basketball we saw with flat basketballs, yeah,
Speaker 3: we we usually the that we find that are just
Speaker 3: kind of by themselves typically pretty flat. Part of the
Speaker 3: reason why we, you know, get some friendly rolls at
Speaker 3: some of our shots. But hey, hey, we we'll ignore
Speaker 3: that part.
Speaker 4: Steven's got that pure jumper. I meany can't get a
Speaker 4: shooter in the portal. I don't know your eligibility situation.
Speaker 6: I said, fifth or sixth best player in the Sunday
Speaker 6: Night Men's League, so they probably need to look look
Speaker 6: us with I said shooter.
Speaker 3: Actually I didn't say best player. I will say we
Speaker 3: played three on three the other day Stephen, me and
Speaker 3: a shout out Big Blue Drew and we cooked, I
Speaker 3: mean absolutely absolutely cooked. So just if you if you're
Speaker 3: looking for a pick up, pick up, guys, I know
Speaker 3: some folks, we're running out of time here.
Speaker 4: I still wanted to get a few travel tips from
Speaker 4: you all, and uh, you know, some of your favorite
Speaker 4: places around the SEC, maybe even across the country. I
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Speaker 4: already running out of time here, but I wanted to
Speaker 4: hear about some of your travel stories. We're just gonna
Speaker 4: play a little game. I'm gonna name a city or
Speaker 4: a place. We don't have time for a lengthy story,
Speaker 4: but if you got anything where you hate the place,
Speaker 4: have a memory fired away. I'm gonna start with my
Speaker 4: favorite place in the world because I've been there with Stephen. Jack,
Speaker 4: You've been there with Stephen Round one, New York City.
Speaker 6: Uh. Well, first the trip with Jack, we actually moved
Speaker 6: to a different hotel because I wasn't supposed to go.
Speaker 6: But then we decided, oar, we'll send Metal House, State,
Speaker 6: Big Game, CBS Sports Classic.
Speaker 3: We get there, this is this past season, past season.
Speaker 3: We get there. There's one king sized bed. I've done
Speaker 3: that with Matt. So yeah. So the first night I
Speaker 3: said we left because it was the Pineapple Suite. Initially, yeah,
Speaker 3: we were like, you know the vibe, I just don't
Speaker 3: know if it's you know, Pineapple. That's exactly why we
Speaker 3: we knew we had to. We didn't want to, you know,
Speaker 3: give off the wrong vit. Do we need to send
Speaker 3: you guys to HR you know, it's this is a
Speaker 3: business trip, So I I did. I supped on the
Speaker 3: floor the first night.
Speaker 6: And then Jack Jack had had like he just schedules
Speaker 6: flights at the most like I feel like inconvenient time.
Speaker 6: He's like, is there a three fifteen am flight? I
Speaker 6: can get on whatever? Because I don't think he slept,
Speaker 6: and then he just like did you even go to sleep?
Speaker 3: Like took a forty minute nap? There you got like
Speaker 3: buddy the elf. I got a nice forty minutes.
Speaker 4: That happened to me with Matt New York. And I
Speaker 4: just left and said I'll see you tomorrow. And I
Speaker 4: stayed out all night, even found a place that was
Speaker 4: like underground after hours to hang out with bartenders. The
Speaker 4: Irish bartender's just gotten off work, showed back up at
Speaker 4: seven am.
Speaker 3: It's all right, you stayed at night and Jack Dimpsey's
Speaker 3: at times they gave me the key. I got to
Speaker 3: be the only person there.
Speaker 6: But the other part was I think you were talking
Speaker 6: about the Zimbabwe Christmas. That was a different Steve and
Speaker 6: I had.
Speaker 4: Fun in New York as the UCLA game gave that
Speaker 4: workout that well, But we had fun otherwise, including I
Speaker 4: took him to Brooklyn to my friend Simba's apartment. He
Speaker 4: was having a Zimbabwe themed Christmas dinner with Zimbabwe and food.
Speaker 3: What did I eat? Caw something?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was actually gonna ask you, is kind of
Speaker 6: like beef jerky thing bill tongue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe some tongue that somlier there. I think I'm
Speaker 4: pronouncing that word right. The New a lot about wine.
Speaker 3: But when you go on.
Speaker 4: A KSR road trip, you know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 4: Did you think we would be celebrating Zimbabwe and Christmas?
Speaker 3: Actually it sounded pretty unbranded. I thought that kuffs exactly
Speaker 3: what I expected.
Speaker 4: Ye had a good good time of their good friends
Speaker 4: in of there. Let's keep moving on with the game.
Speaker 4: My least favorite place it started with My favorite. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go to my least favorite, Starkville, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: We went three days early because there was supposed to
Speaker 3: be an ice storm. There was no ice, so we
Speaker 3: just stayed three extra days in Starkville. One of the
Speaker 3: times we were leaving our hotel room, uh, we just
Speaker 3: hear this massive banging from the second second story. We're like, WHOA,
Speaker 3: something's going on. This woman, clearly the cleaning late crew
Speaker 3: was like frantically waving. We were like, she just found
Speaker 3: a dead body. We're we're staying at a hotel where
Speaker 3: they just found a dead body in this hotel, in
Speaker 3: this hotel room. So we run back inside. We go
Speaker 3: to the front desk. Hey, I think there's somebody dead
Speaker 3: ups there. Somebody should call a nine that one. Then
Speaker 3: the sweet cleaning lady comes down says, oh, I thought
Speaker 3: you were Austin, said, I'm not Austin. I don't think
Speaker 3: Stephen is Austin unless he goes by another name. But
Speaker 3: you recognize this from KSR YouTube. Yes, but yes, we
Speaker 3: avoided death in Starkville, but that didn't make me want
Speaker 3: to be there any longer anyway.
Speaker 4: Trying to think of some other unique places, Steven, you
Speaker 4: you went across the pond to London. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: another We lost that one, right, No, we beat Michigan. Oh,
Speaker 4: it's right, beat Michigan. Yeah, cow was mean to Tyller Thompson.
Speaker 4: I'm still mad about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Otherwise, Yeah, London was cool.
Speaker 6: I think what that did is it kind of just
Speaker 6: showed me how big big Blue Nation is. Because I
Speaker 6: was meeting Kentucky fans from Spain, from Italy, from uh
Speaker 6: they had. I had a long conversation with this kid
Speaker 6: who's a big Kentucky fan, never will go to Reparna,
Speaker 6: but he lives in England.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: I thought that was so cool because I think, like
Speaker 6: you live here in Kentucky, you just it's like it's
Speaker 6: our team. But then you're it's like, oh no, this
Speaker 6: is like international, like this is like the world's team.
Speaker 6: And so that was like a kind of an eye
Speaker 6: open experience to how big big Blue Nation is. And uh,
Speaker 6: you know, we have a guy Clint who's who's in Cyprus.
Speaker 6: I would still talk with him like they're The London
Speaker 6: trip was kind of an eye opening to, uh, you know,
Speaker 6: the reach that Kentucky basketball has a Williams there. I
Speaker 6: didn't see Bix. No, I did not any weed to Bix.
Speaker 6: But but I will say I just the food there.
Speaker 6: I you know, people talk about it. I don't I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't have a problem. I didn't problem with the
Speaker 6: I don't know why people hate on they have all
Speaker 6: the different cuisines that we have here.
Speaker 4: I don't we all have to get out of our
Speaker 4: a little comfort zone trying new things. Back to the
Speaker 4: sec How about uh Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a that's a Stephen story story. Can I
Speaker 3: hate on the place that? I mean we got? Okay? Well,
Speaker 3: all right, well BUCkies, Well I love BUCkies. I love them.
Speaker 3: I love what they're about.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, I I ate a was egg and cheese sandwich
Speaker 6: and that biscuit, and that ruined my night in tuscal Lousa.
Speaker 6: So I remember on the rapid reaction no no, And
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I think if Kentucky would have
Speaker 6: pulled that off about it would have helped a little bit.
Speaker 6: But that was that was a rough night.
Speaker 3: He was running to the bathroom into and Coleman Collis
Speaker 3: seemed vomiting everywhere. Yes, it was. It was horrible. Most
Speaker 3: of these travel stories backfired. It seems like a lot
Speaker 3: of negatives.
Speaker 6: I think of some centiment twist and a drink from
Speaker 6: Taco bell and and you were like a brand new person.
Speaker 4: All right, we run out of time. Jack, you want
Speaker 4: to come back tomorrow. You didn't get to half my topics.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what I do. Yeah, all right, we'll
Speaker 4: running back with Jack. Have Josh Hopkins join us. Uh,
Speaker 4: a few more other special guests. My guy Billy Hobbs
Speaker 4: from True Blue Customs might pop on. But thank you
Speaker 4: for listening today to a wild show. We'll be back
Speaker 4: tomorrow at KOs Bar and Grill with a lot more
Speaker 4: basketball talk. Thanks to Jack, Steven Phoenix, and tianni Key
Speaker 4: and Jayden Quainton. Today we had a great show. Talk
Speaker 4: to you tomorrow.