KSR - 2024-07-08- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

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Not Matt Jones, but Matt Sack here joined with the Rupp to No Good crew here for Rupp to No Good Takeover Day on Kentucky Sports Radio. Happy Monday and Good Morning, everyone. Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. Like I said, I am Matt Sack joined here with the Ruff. up to no good crew. That includes Wildcats tongue who we called WT, Big Blue Bud, who we called Buddy, and 270 Bradley, Bradley, boys, welcome to Kentucky Sports Radio. We're trying to shake some of these early morning nerves off. WT, I feel like you've been the longest listener of KSR. How does the

feel to be on here? I'm shaking, but you know, we're having fun. This is wild. I've listened to KSR. I mean, I don't know if Matt wants to hear this, but I've been listening since I was a kid, and now I'm on here, so it's a kind of wild, a little full circle moment. It kind of is crazy. I don't feel qualified to be on here at all. We run a very silly little podcast called Rupp to No Good, and now we're on the biggest college sports platform in the world. It would kind of be like if, let's just say,

like the greatest college basketball program of all time, hired a coach that had never even won a tournament game. Could you imagine something like that ever happening? Are you comparing us to Mark Pope right now? Are we the Mark Pope of sports podcasts? Do you know what? I think that's the only possible way. We are the Mark Pope of Sports Podcasts. We didn't come up with that. It's just how it is. Bradley, how are you doing? Last time you were in Louisville, something a little interesting happened. You want to talk about it? Yeah, I'm doing great. I kind of agree with the remarks that everybody else has had about KSR and how important that it is and how inadequate that I feel being here. But yeah, last time that I was in Louisville is for the UK U of L. basketball game at the Yom Center. And I thought it would be hilarious if I wore a black suit and black tie,

because it was for certain that they were firing Kenny Payne after that game. So it was kind of like a funeral for the Kenny Payne era. But people didn't get the joke. So I'll post it a picture on Twitter or X. I don't know. I'm still going to call it Twitter. It's Twitter still. And I got a few very hateful comments, maybe a few death threats sprinkled in there and things like that.

One guy photoshopped my face on Job of the Hut. You know, it's nice, good, wholesome stuff. But yeah, hopefully this trip goes a little bit better than that. I hope it does for you too. You're dripped out once again. You're not on a full suit. But I want someone to take a picture of you. Where's Mario at?

We need to get his high-tech camera on you right now because you look awesome. Our last member of the podcast is Big Blue Bud. Buddy, how are you doing? Do you have a good 4th of July weekend? I'm doing good. I had a great 4th of July weekend. Didn't do a lot of fireworks. I just kind of chilled.

But people just shoot them off everywhere in Bowling Green where I'm at. And so, you know, that's always fun, giving it a good ride around. I've had a pretty good, like, morning two, for the most part. Started off, rougher than I expected. I don't know. We haven't told you guys this. Last night, we did dinner, 7 o'clock. Then we went and hung out by like 9 o'clock or so.

guess what we did one hour later when bradley and i left we split a hotel room guess what we did one hour after i'd love to know walthall house dinner at seven walthall house at 10 o'clock terrible idea terrible both of our stomachs in deep trouble one shared bathroom at the hotel horrible situation i don't know why we did it bradley had it worse than i did because he had chocolate milk and like chocolate covered pancakes he was just like going crazy on it and i was like at least I went with like, you know, orange juice. You can't, you can't just get a regular waffle. You got to spruce it up a little bit.

I don't even know why we ate. I wasn't hungry at all. We were just bored and we went to Waffle House and just like chowed down. That's the whole milk. That's the thing you do when you need to kill an hour. I guess. Let's go to Waffle House. I guess.

And then stayed up until once. And why did you let me get chocolate milk? Dude, I don't know. I told you. I told you and you wouldn't listen. I was like, your stomach's going to be all at a mess. And yeah, you didn't listen to me at all. You're like, I'll be fine.

Bradley, you're an adult. that time that he's like, why did you let me eat four Kroger hot dogs or four hot dogs at Kroger Field that time? Yeah, that was a bad choice as well. But speaking to hot dogs, July 4th, you had the Nathan's hot dog contest. And Sack, I know you're very passionate about Joey Chestnut not being in the field. Would you like to share? I would love to. So Patrick Bertoletti, I believe is his name. He ate 58 glizzies, and he is the champion this year. He did it. He gobbled 58 glizzies. And I could not believe just the general reaction from the public and on Twitter and everything.

Everyone was saying, well, Joey Chestnut wasn't in there, so it doesn't count. He's not the champion. Joey's still the Chestnut. Or he's still the goat. Joey is the Chestnut. Joey is the Chesnut. He still is the goat. I respect him.

He is the absolute best. If he did participate, he probably would have won. But he had every opportunity to participate. He sold out for some vegan glizzies. You know what? Patrick Bertoletti. is the champion. He is. The sport is bigger than any one person. I know Joey Chestnut is one of the all-time goats. No, it is not. This is more than just Nathan's eating the competition.

This has to do with America. This is Fourth of July. This is meat. This is not vegan. It is bigger than just Joey Chestnut. No. I mean, do you, would you watch the Nathan's hot dog game contest if it wasn't for Joey Chestnut? Would anyone care about this controversy if it wasn't for Joey Chestnut? No, he is the sport. First of all, are we going to call it a sport? Is that what it is? Yes, absolutely. I think it's a sport.

Yeah. I mean, Okay, fair. Definitely. Most sports do lose calories while playing, but it's still a sport, absolutely. All right, fair enough. Well, this sport was built by Joey Chestnut. It was an event before.

It is a sport. It is a national event because of Joey Chestnut. And I think he deserves the respect. And if he didn't participate, whatever reasons it was for, he is the goat, and we should recognize him as having the best hot dog eating day on July 4th this year. Yeah, and guys like Magic and Bird and Jordan help grow the game of NBA. We don't all watch the NBA if it isn't for them. They expanded the league to heights unimaginable.

But you know what? At some point, they retired. They do other things with their life. LeBron can win championships. Tim Duncan can win championships. Steph Curry can win championships. Do all of those not count because Jordan wasn't participating anymore? They count, but we can still recognize that when Jordan left the NBA for a couple years and other teams won the championship, Jordan was still the goat.

Like no one debated that he was like, oh, these guys are just as worthy champions. Like, no, Jordan was gone. And people recognize that Joey Chestnut was gone. That's the only reason why we're having this conversation is Joey Chestnut was gone. Joey Chestnut was gone. He's still the goat, but he didn't win. He had every opportunity to win. It's not like someone self-sabotaged him.

He could have participated. He sold out to be a vegan. I'm not going to apologize for it. But that's not, it's not a fair comparison because Jordan chose to retire. Bird chose to retire. The hot dog competition said, no, we don't want Joey Chestnut in it. That's what I thought happened. How dumb do you have to be to be like, hey, this guy's the absolute best of what he does.

We're just not going to let him participate. And the whole point that they did that is we don't want the competition to like be a sponsor of one of our greatest athletes. Well, guess what? Now you just gave your competition even more advertising dollars because you made a big deal about not inviting Joey Chesnut. And Joey Chesnut ate more hot dogs in half the time. Like he had a simultaneous live stream. I think it was one less, but it was still in half the time, which is crazy. He ate 57 hot dogs and the champion ate 58 in 10 minutes. Can you imagine been second place in that competition?

You've eaten like 49 hot dogs in five minutes, just doing that to your body just to not win, just to not be the guy. We're talking like Michael Phelps and like Katie Ladecki level swimming. It's like who's in here for second? Like Larry Bird walking into the three-point shootout, okay, which one of y'all is competing for second? That's what Joey Chestnut does every single year. And they're just like, no, we're good. Absolutely. And bring it back.

Please, please bring it back. Stop selling out for vegan hot dogs. Go compete and have everyone else just play for second place. There's no way you're making Joey the villain of this story. He's not the villain. I'm just not going to apologize from. Also, you said he ate 57 to 5 minutes. Were they vegan hot dogs?

No, I think they were regular hot dogs. No, they were vegan hot dogs. They were sponsored by impossible meat, wherever the companies called. Are vegan hot dogs easier to eat than regular hot dogs? I would say, absolutely. I've never had a vegan hot dogs. Have you? No, I haven't.

I mean, why would I ever do that to myself? That's what I'm saying. Well, how do you know that they're easier to eat? Or you're just all conjecture. I'd have to imagine, though, being plants. You know, how much more salad do you have to eat? to be full. Yeah, it's it's not necessarily that you eat, it's not necessarily that you eat the vegan hot dogs faster, but after you put 50 in your stomach, I feel like if it's just

lettuce hot dogs in your stomach, you're going to be able to eat more than if it was 50 beef fried. I don't think they're lettuce hot dogs. I'd have to imagine it's more of like a falafel situation, which is still a lot of food, but I mean, it has to be considerably easier. I do think we need to bring this back. We are on Kentucky Sports Radio, not Nathan's hot dog sports radio. So kind of keeping with the subject is, we'll go history all time. Kentucky athlete or coach, I'll throw in coaches there. Best hot dog eating champion, in your opinion. If it was Steakhouse, I would say Chin Coleman. But hot dogs, that's a harder one. I don't know. I'd have to imagine Dion Walker is given anybody a run for their money.

Or we had that fullback like 10 years ago taco meat. I think he could, like 10 pounds of taco meat. How many hot dogs could he put down? I mean, Corey Johnson, aka Poop Johnson, I mean, it's in the name. Like, he's built for the hot dog eating contest. Well, shout out Krogerfield hot dogs. Oh, if we're doing the competition with Krogerfield Hot Dogs, I don't think anyone's getting above.

six. I think people will peel over after six. Four is two more than anybody should eat. I learned from personal experience. You always do this to yourself. You always do this to yourself. I self-sabotage. I know I can't help it. I'm my own worst enemy. All right. How about basketball? Basketball. Maybe who on this team? Oh, who on this team? This team? That's harder. I don't know. Trent and Lowe gives me incredible, glissy, gobbling ability. You stop saying it like that. You said it four times. I've held my tongue. At this point, I'm just going to have to draw a line there. No more glizzy gobling as a term on the show. No more. You know, I have to feel like Amari Williams, a lot of times the big, tall, slender guys like

that just have crazy metabolisms. So those hot dogs are probably like digesting as he's chewing. So I feel like Amari Williams could probably put several. Well, the thing is Amari Williams British. Like there's no way he can handle that many hot dogs. Like that same thing with Kirk Crease. Like I'm sure Kerr's got the competitiveness to like stay in it. But he's Estonian. Like, there's no way he's handling a bunch of Nathan's hot dogs and surviving to tell the tale. Kerr would beat Joey Chestnut just out of spite. You'd trash talk while doing it while eating the hot dogs.

This man trash talks Luca Donchich. He would trash talk Joey Chestnut. Okay. He would do it. I think Otega O'Way is taking it. I think he's got that dog in him, literally. He's built for it. None of you all laughed at that joke.

That was elite content. I giggled. Thank you. Yeah, he gave you a good giggle. You get a chuckle. You get a chuckle. What if the great people at IHeart Studios were now each gave us a plate of like 100 hot dogs and 10 minutes to eat them? Us four.

That's what you think is winning. That's what you think is a hundred hot dogs? Well, you don't have to eat them all. But I'm just saying if you had the opportunity to eat them all, who do you think would eat the most of us for? Definitely not me. I'm on some new medication, which is an appetite suppressant as well. So I'm maybe getting through three and then I'm feeling awful about myself. I already had two meals in a row and I was not hungry for the second one.

I could not do hot dogs right now. In this particular time and place, if this was like we're starving and we do it, then I might put up a fight. I've surprised people before. If you can promise me no physical repercussions. We can't promise that at all. Okay. In a hypothetical scenario where I'm not held accountable for the things that I do.

You eat anyways, I'm finishing the plate. I mean, you're not. You're not finishing 100. I like to say it, though. The trick is you got to eat it with the buns, according to the competition. Not just the hot dogs with the buns. That's what really gets you. I'm not soaking them in water.

Like I know they say that makes them go easier, but that's disgusting. The texture would be horrible. If you were trying to do it in like a time frame or whatever. That's why you're not built like Joy Chestnut. I just can't do the soaking. You're not built like him. So Bradley, you set the bar at four hot dogs, Croeghield hot dogs.

I feel like I'm easily topping that personally. I think I'll get the five if I have to. my girlfriend and I Christina we once had a chicken nugget eating contest she had to eat eight before I ate 30 and I think we like tied so I know I have a very skinny frame I look like the number one

I'm like six four hundred and fifty five pounds but I can put away some hot dogs since I'm not allowed to use the word glizzy anymore Matt Sack's greatest enemy is a gust of wind he's got the thawn maker build yeah we'll eventually

move on from hot dogs we have a great show plan. We have Nate Sistina coming on here around 1030 to talk a little bit, the basketball tournament in this time at Kentucky. Also, we were looking out for the Kentucky branded tweet of the day. I already saw one come in from Vinnie Hardy. He said that the Rockets championships still counted when Michael Jordan was out for two years. And I completely agree, circling that all the way back. They counted, but it is universally recognized that it was not fully earned. I think that's what we're getting now. Not given. or not given.

You always bring it back. Yeah, Mickey Mouse, that's what you call it. It's a Mickey Mouse championship. It's a genuine championship. If Joey Chestnut was, like, discriminated against or he was sabotaged, I would understand it. He had every opportunity to compete. He did he, though? Did he have the opportunity?

Or did they say you're not allowed. They banned him from the competition. He did not have to take $3 million or whatever it was from a vegan hot dog. Would you turn down $3 million from a vegan hot dog company? I would not turn down to $3 million. But I would also. accept that I cannot compete in the Nathan's competition and I'm not the championship that year. I'm not the champion. And for $3 million, I would be okay with that. We're not saying that

Joey Chestnut is the champion. We're saying that he does that the guy who won doesn't deserve to win. It's the definition. It's the Mickey Mouse. Okay, when is Joey Chestnut supposed to eat the wings? That's coming. Oh yeah, the 200 bonus wings. It's wild. Is it a day? Two hundred, today is he eaten two hundred? Is it today? There's no, he's doing that four days after eating 58 hot I'll be such a fast turnaround. He's the goat. What can you say? He is.

Also, so we're looking for the Kentucky brand of the day. Also give us a call at 859-280-2287. And if Shannon, any of what we're saying is wrong, because we are very much so rookies at this, just yell at us and let us know what is correct. Yeah, I think you guys got it. Awesome. Awesome. So yeah, give us a call.

We really want to hear from you. We are going to hear from Nate Sistina Stoon. And, yeah, this is a great show. We have planned for you. Thank you so much for listening. We will take a quick break right here. And then we'll hear. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. We're back from you all. We are the Rup to No Good Crew. I am Matt Sack, joined by WT, Buddy, and Bradley, we just got done talking about some hot dogs in the 4th of July. Upcoming at 1030, we have Nate Sistina coming to join the show. I'm very excited to have them on.

I already know the first question I'm going to ask him. So when I was a freshman at the University of Kentucky, I did this thing where I wore a full Kentucky basketball uniform. I would camp out outside for like 10, 15 hours, however long it needed to be, for me to be the first person in line in the student section. And that's actually kind of how he blew up on Twitter. Matt Jones took a picture of me and a bunch of people started following me. So shout out Matt Jones for that. Really coming in clutch with us. But I'm going to ask him.

So when I was a freshman, Nate, that was his one year here at Kentucky. I'm going to ask him if he remembers me. WT, do you think he'll remember me? He's going to say he did? Absolutely not. There's no way he did. Just some random, like, tall skinny kid in the stands, like wearing it. Like he may say, he'll be like, oh, yeah, I remember me.

But he's not going to have any detail. No. What is a verification question? I could ask him. What was the one thing about you that was unique other than the jersey, which was that you never sat down, stood up the entire time no matter what the Rupperina crowd said? You're setting them up for a trap right here.

You're setting them up right now. Actually, yeah, we probably shouldn't be rude to Nate Sistina. He is doing us a favor by hopping off. I'm still going to ask him the question. And if he says, yes, he remembers me. I don't care if it's verified or not. It's going to be one of the happiest moments of my life because that means that the Kentucky basketball players recognizing me being a complete moron on the sideline.

I am very excited for the basketball tournament, though. I believe we have courtside tickets for that, don't we, Bradley? We do. Not court side, but they are very low, very close to the court. I will say, I know that Grant Darbyshire did notice me last year at the Vandy game going nuts whenever he checked in. I went down and got a picture with him, he was like, why? You know what?

What's the deal? I was like, man, you know, it's Grant Darby Shire. You did have a Grant Darbyshire jersey on, didn't you? Yeah, I did. And went nuts. And I think Chet White is his name. Oh, the photographer? Yeah, the...

He's really good. Yeah, he's great. He got a picture of me just going nuts. I look very fat in that picture. But that was really cool because we met Big Z, too, and Ray Welsh. Yeah, that was fine. That was a good time. My moment was asking Lance Ware if he heard us, or if he heard me scream during all the free throws at the Arkansas game when we went on the road to Bud Walton and then just like rip my vocal cords out, yelling on every single free 30.

He's like, oh yeah, we could hear you down there. Well, speaking of Big Z, we said we were going to bring it up. If the name kind of sounds familiar, you're like, oh, we're up to no good. Where have I heard that before? We and especially Buddy, were the guys behind the free Big Z billboard. So, buddy, if you want to take a second and talk kind of about that. Oh, just a cool moment and a cool thing that the fan base did more than like any one person or us as a group. It was the whole community kind of came together and raised $3,000 in a few hours to put that billboard up.

Free Big Z right outside the NCAA eligibility office. They had to see it every day for a month on their way into work. And it worked. They freed him. So, yeah, just good. We've had this conversation before, but this is the first time we're having this conversation from everybody. do we actually think that we did it? Was it us?

Actually, actually, I don't know. So here's the timeline for all of you who do not know. We raised the money for the billboard. The billboard goes up. I want to say it was like Saturday morning. And that was the Saturday night game that we played Georgia. That was his first game ever. Well, the billboard went up on like a Tuesday or Wednesday.

A Wednesday earlier in that week. So it was the next game. So literally the very first game following when the billboard was a in front of the NCAA headquarters was the first game that Big Z was eligible. So I think we could take 100% credit. I don't think it worked in the way that we wanted it to where people drove in and were reminded by it, be like,

oh, we should probably take care of that. I think that the media that picked it up, I mean, it was covered by KSR, it was covered by Lexington stations, was covered by local and Indianapolis. Well,

they did the segment on the broadcast. Yeah. Like during the game, they did a segment on it too. It was ESPN, bar stool, like all these, like it got national attention and the NCAA very famously does not want negative light, especially national media. So I think they're like, oh, we should probably make that billboard irrelevant and it worked. And we got the Georgia game where Big Z went off and then

he played the rest of the season. That was great. The behind the back pass. I mean, there's just no like the buildup to like that happening. And then they sent us the many billboards. And he got a billboards. I haven't given you guys the mini billboards. No, you haven't given it to us. Oh, I should have brought him this time. Cal got his though, didn't he? Yes. So Cal got his mini billboard, so he's got it somewhere. I met with Big Z after the Gonzaga game, which was a terrible game.

And we talked ball for a second. He said, all right, honestly, what do you think? You know what I mean? And so we talked about it for a minute. But I gave him his mini billboard and then one for Cal to give to Cal as well, which, you know, RIP. But maybe he still has that in a deep dark hole. That would be really funny if we get like one of those interviews. like with Cal in his office and you see the free Big Zeeville board at Arkansas.

That would actually be pretty soon. It'll never happen in Arkansas, but it would have been, you know, that was kind of the hope. Maybe it'll be there. Show up. We are in a little tricky situation where we kind of almost did become too good of, like, genuine friends with Big Z. We're like, when we were like freeing him, it's like, all right, this is great for Kentucky. But we kind of did become friends with him. And now he's playing with someone that's a conference rival now.

And obviously a rival with Kel being over there. But yeah, coming up, like we had said, Nate Sestina is going to join the show. We're very excited about that. We have some questions for him. We're going to talk to basketball tournament. And we have a long show still planned for us here. We're going to take one more break for right now.

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Here is Matt Sack with the Rup to No Good crew here for our Kentucky Sports Radio Takeover Day. and we actually have Nate Sistina on the air, former Kentucky men's basketball player and current La Familia basketball player for the TBT. Nate, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing great back in Lexington after an 10th of July with my family up in Emporia, so I'm excited to get locked in for this TVT. Awesome, we are so excited. We have lots of questions for you.

We're just so happy that you get to be back in Lexington and get to play in Rupp Arena another time. but before we get into that, I do have to ask you a personal question. So you're one year here at the University of Kentucky. There was a very goofy-looking kid that wore a full Kentucky basketball jersey, shorts into the jersey. He got in the front row of the student section every single game, and he stood the entire game and was one of the loudest people in Rupp Arena. Do you remember that goofy-looking kid? Well, it's actually funny because I spent a lot of time near the end of the bench,

remember, you know. So I think it's, I don't know what number, but I remember always seeing it and I always, I always nudged Rob Harris about it. Do you have any distinguishing feature that you remember about me? Because none of our, none of my podcast host here are going to believe you. They think you're just being nice and saying, oh, yeah, I remember you. But we need you to give a distinguishing feature. You don't have to.

You remember me. listen to him you don't have to no I'm trying see this is where I don't want to just I don't want to BS it but I'm I'm trying to like you're good you don't have to I remember there was there was there was always one kid that had a like a blue and white like long wig but I don't know if that was you oh no wrong kid yeah no we have Nate Sestina for a limited amount of time you want to spend the first two minutes with him asking about your own personal thing I sure do I'm on Kentucky Sports for you I'm going to do what I want but yeah anyways uh Nate we're super happy to have you on, super to have you back on the La Familia Squad.

Your season got cut short very unfortunately due to COVID. Do you feel like any just extra excitement or urgency or just like you feel like you get to do this one last time? Like you were only in Lexington. You only got one year of eligibility left. And of course it got cut short. How excited does it make you that you get one more opportunity here? I mean, that was probably the number one reason why, you know, why I came back. and after talking with Swani and, you know,

talk about everything we were going to do in the community. And he was like, dude, like, it's in Rupp Arena. That sealed a deal for me because, like, the opportunity to play in the TBT has presented itself each summer. And I was just like, man, I want to just enjoy my summer and just kind of relax. And then, you know, ease into my workouts. And he was like, hey, like, it's in Lexington at Rup. You know, you're playing on a Kentucky team.

Like, it doesn't get any better than that. So that, for me, it was kind of the deciding factor. well I know the fans are absolutely pumped to see you and the rest of the TBT squad but just kind of give the fans a little catch up I know a lot of fans are insane and can probably tell you exactly what you've been doing the last few years but just to kind of give

the fans a little bit of ketchup how have you been since 2020 what have you been up to where have you been playing and how's that been for you? I mean Big Blue Nation is crazy I love them they've been great the last couple years you know everybody does check in on you but I played in the G League in that bubble. Like it was during COVID, so it was kind of weird and random.

Like we were down at Disney for like three months. Actually, it was like two months. We played, you know, however many games in 25 days, 15 games. And then I ended up going to Israel for the rest of the season. So I was there from March to June. And then for three straight seasons, I was in Turkey. I kind of bounced around. I was on a team that had come up from the second division in my first year.

And we stayed in the first division, which is a big deal. And then the next year I played for Turk. telecom and I was in Euro Cup. We went to the finals in Euro Cup, lost to Grand Canaria. We finished first in Turkey that year and then lost in the semifinals of the playoffs, which really hurt. And then this past year, I was with Fennerbachie.

And for any big soccer fans, you guys know Fennerbachi, and honestly, for any big basketball fans, you guys know them too there, they're kind of like a powerhouse in Turkish basketball, but also in European basketball. And we made to the final four. we lost to Panza Nicos who ended up winning it. So losing sucks, but, you know, losing to the champions makes it a little bit better.

And then I just signed a two-year deal to go to Valencia in Spain. So I'll be heading out there in August, and then I'll come back next, you know, May and June. And then go back again. I congrats on signing that new contract. That's awesome. But I think you are being a little bit too humble. You're not just playing over there. I mean, I'm just looking at your stats here.

I mean, the last three years you've shot 45% from three, 45% from three, 45% from 3, 43% from 3, scoring like 10 points a game. So you're not just like over there having fun. Like you're over there contributing to winning and like put on a show for those Turkish fans. So I'm really cool to see a come back and give a little bit of that talent back to the TVT team. Absolutely. Well, I appreciate that. No, that's like my goal each year.

You know, I want to shoot 40% with, you know, with some good numbers and just I want to win more than anything. And that's another big reason why I join this TBT team. And these guys are 20 did an amazing job putting this team together. And, you know, you have some absolute monsters on this team. And when he called me, he was like, hey, like, you're a three-point specialist. Like, that's what we won out of your position. And I was like, there's one thing that I'm very confident in. And, you know, I put a lot of work in is being able to stretch the floor.

So this is an awesome opportunity for me to hopefully torch the nets and rep arena and, you know, redeem myself for losing the Tennessee again on senior day. Awesome. Nate, in your one year in Lexington, of course, being cut short and everything, but there were some awesome performances throughout that season, whole games as a team or individual player performances. Is there one in your mind that sticks out that's just like, you know, wow, I can't believe that I'm sitting here watching our team do this

or watching this guy, you know, go off in this way? I mean, you can go down the entire roster and talk about guys, but obviously for me, first thing I popped in my head was Tyrese Maxi, first day, Michigan State in the garden. And clearly it's worked for him. He's in an awesome position, you know, with the Sixers signed his extension.

A manual against Louisville when we played him at Rupp. And then, like, that one three, like I grabbed an offense rebound at the free throw line, kicked him in the corner, and then he, I don't even know if it touched the rim. and it just swish crowd goes crazy they were trying to call time out. Rets didn't even see them or hear

him. It was insanely loud in there. I can't remember who we were playing but Nick had like 24 and 14 or 24 and 12 or something like that and he just had like 10 dunks who was just on the rim the entire game. E.J. Montgomery had a big game. I think he had 28 or something

maybe in like November but then the last one was was Florida. You know, we Emmanuel fouled out, which was unbelievable because he never did. So, and for me, that was a game where I was like, all right, I got to be, and I got to be a big, big time, you know, veteran leader here, kind of corral the troops. And during timeouts, we listened to Coach Cal, we got onto the court. And I just, I tried my best to, you know, be a senior leader and talk to everybody. And we, we really just rallied and just kept chipping

away, kept chipping away. And ultimately ended up, E. E.J. tipped that ball in. And that's our, that's our last it, you know, of that season. That was just the icing on the cake. Unfortunately, the icing on the cake, but an awesome cap off to an amazing, amazing comeback. I love that season so much, dude. Literally just like so many things I say as you go through these games, I could think, just like riff off of literally every single one of them. What I did want to ask, this was, that Florida game was amazing. Last game of the season, unfortunately, the way it ended. But your last game at Rupp, the last time you played at Rupp, not to like throw this back in your face. This is tragic for all of us. Trust me.

but we lost to Tennessee in your last game at Rupp. You get to come back. I know, I know, I know. It's redemption season. Your first time playing in Rupp since then is you're going to be playing with La Famillion, the TBT team. What does that mean? Is that special in any way? Is that how you look at it or what?

Absolutely. Absolutely. And I'm good friends with Jordan Bowden. So he had played for Tennessee, and then he and I were teammates in the G League, and I've just maintained good contact with him. And that still just, that was like what we talked about during the Cheat League season in the bubble, just like how he got the best to me the last game. But I think Rupp Arena obviously is a special place.

There's no professional sports in Kentucky. So this is, like this is professional sports for the people here. And it's one of those opportunities where everybody can come back and watch. And, I mean, how cool is it that the TBT gets to come here and playing the best arena, best college arena like this is just a you know this is an awesome comeback for me to be able to come back and hopefully you know just sweep everybody and redeem myself here with repriena hopefully we don't have to play a Tennessee team otherwise I hope we beat the breaks off of them but it's just it's an awesome opportunity my family's all coming down so that's that's really really special for me

well now that we've gotten the not important questions out I do have a very important question There's a lot that we remember from that season. The thing I remember specifically with you is the absolute elite hair that you had on a daily basis wearing the Kentucky jersey. Can you walk us through your pregame hair routine? How are you getting it to look like that? Like how often you get a haircut? We have the best hair on Twitter, Matt Sack here, so maybe give them some pointers on how to make it look even better. Oh, wow.

All right. Well, that, I mean, I will gladly take any pointers. when I was here I was getting my I think I got my haircut every like three weeks maybe every two two and three weeks

I lived like I mean we lived at the lodge and I got my haircut cuts online I still go to Issa he's my he's my guy when I come back here he always takes care of me but I think I'm trying to think of like

when I was at Bucknell my hair was way longer on top so I like really slicked it back and used a lot of gel and all that And it's like, my forehead would just be like tree sap, dude. It was sticky and kind of nasty. So I was like, all right. When I got here, I trimmed my hair like on top.

I trimmed it down. And honestly, I just kind of would run some water through it, kind of like comb it over my fingers and then go work, like do the pregame stuff, start sweating, get all nasty. I come back in and I would just like wash it out and then just do the same thing. And then, you know, I don't know how. Like my hair is kind of like trained to just go that way. It's been like that since I got to Kentucky, and I kind of have had the same haircut. I grew my hair out a little bit during COVID, and I was like, what am I doing?

Madison loved it. She's like, I love your long hair. I was like, dude, I can't even stand this. I wake up. It's all over the place, you know. But, no, I mean, hopefully we get to be in our locker room again, and I'll go sit in my locker, and it'll bring back all those memories. But I might, I don't know, my hair's a little bit longer.

I might have to throw, I've got to find a better, a better hair product. So, Matt, if you could help me out there, let me know. It is a very ironic best hair on Twitter. None of us believe it. I cannot help you at all. I have a hat on at most of the times for that reason. We talked about extra motivation, winning one more time in Rupp Arena. Is there any little bit of you?

It's like, Madison has a national championship at the University of Kentucky. You didn't get to play in the tournament. You each have to have one each. You know what I'm saying? You need to tie that up this summer. I'm going to do my best. I trust me, we had like a little friend's get together

where we went down to Knoxville and just met up with some of her former teammates and Avery Skinner is, you know, playing in the Olympics with Team USA. So we're going through everybody's, you know, accolades and all this stuff. And I'm, damn, dude, I really don't have a championship here. And it's, and then, you know, it's the biggest what if.

And that's what I was like, well, if I had it. And everybody was like, oh, what if, what if? And I'm like, all right. So, you know, but I gave them some, They had a couple of bad losses that year. They lost, like, Indiana and Purdue and volleyball, so that was tough, but they ended up, obviously, winning a national championship. So she has that over me, and it's kind of like that last resort.

If she needs to pull it out, she will in, like, a sports argument. But then she swept every other award. Like, she was, you know, she was the best female athlete that season. So I was like, dude, I have nothing on you. Really, I don't. It's so I got to bring her down a notch sometimes. I remember watching that tournament during COVID and it was just like there was barely any sports on and the sports that were on were making me sad. But that season really helped me like keep my crazy Kentucky fandom alive and well.

Just watching them go through that tournament. But so the TBT in Lexington will be from July 19th to July 23rd. I know that we have a lot of fans already bought tickets. We have tickets. I'm sure the ticket sales will go up as we get closer to that date. But you have a lot of people listening right now that are going to be in Roperina, or maybe a lot of people that are thinking they might go or might not. What do you have to say to the BBN as we get closer to this TBT in Rapp Arena?

Do you have a message for them when they're there? Like, how do you want them to be? How many people you want to be there? Like you have the floor to talk to BBM. I mean, number one, first of foremost, this is the best fan base in college basketball. They're everywhere. I was in Ankara, Turkey, and there was. There's a guy and his family who are from right outside of Lexington that lives in Turkey now.

So I was at a game they had Kentucky shirts on, which is insane to me. I'm in the middle of Turkey and they're there. But no, I think people are starting to see that the Louisville fans are buying a whole bunch of tickets since like 3,600 tickets sold. And I'm like, dude, that's nothing for Kentucky fans. Like Rupp Arena holds how many thousands of people, 20,000 people. The record is like 8,000 people for a TBT game. like that would be the student section of a, you know, for us. I know that they're going to buy tickets.

They're going to pack this place out. Our hashtag for the team is pack rep out. That's our goal. You know, this is, we're putting together a team that, you know, is Kentucky basketball. And, you know, you don't get any better than that. You really don't. And it's an awesome opportunity for Kentucky basketball in the summer, which we don't always get. You know, and it's an exciting time for Kentucky basketball.

basketball, especially with Coach Pope coming in, a whole bunch of new energy, new team. And for us, it's an opportunity for us to go back and play in Rupp, which is a big reason why everybody's here, and hopefully to win this thing and bring another championship to Lexington. Yeah, that's awesome. Buddy, it sounds like we need to put up another billboard, hashtag pack Rupp out. I've had so many board requests. I've had so many billboard requests.

About a dollar for every billboard request I had. You'd be able to pay for another billboard. Yeah, we'd be able to put up at least one more. So, Nate, I really appreciate you coming on, taking the time and talking with all the big blue nature right now, because we know we all missed you so much. We're so happy we get to see you in Rupp Arena one last time. And on behalf of all four of us, we are going to do our best to pack Rupp out and be as loud as we can for you. So I really appreciate you coming on and taking the time, and good luck at this tournament.

Thank you guys, and thank you guys for having me on. It's been a lot of fun. Absolutely. Thank you so much. And thank you all for listening. We're going to take another quick break right here. It is rough to no good takeover day on Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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I love Nate. I love watching him play in Rupp Arena. Again, that team, it was my freshman year of college. It was my first full experience at the University of Kentucky inside Rupp Arena. I love getting him play. It sucks that his season got cut short due to COVID. I'm so happy that he gets to come back one more time. He mentioned that he got to play with a lot of really clutch players.

like Emmanuel quickly, Tyrese Maxi, Nick Richards, but he's going to get to play with the man, and this is the point where he always hits it. Aaron Harrison, I'm very excited for this roster. Who else do we have on this TBT roster? I mean, we're going to have a loaded roster. I mean, if you're wondering whether you're going to go to Reparina to watch this team or not,

the first thing you need to know, it's going to be coached by Tyler Ulyss. Like, that should be end all be all. You're going there. But other roster spots, we have James Young, Nate Sistine, obviously, Daniel Orton, the Harrison twins, Willie Colley Stein. We have Duran Lamb, Marquis T, Kellan Grady is going to be back, Reed Travis will be back, and Eric Bledsoe.

So, like, we're not just getting like a bunch of guys that maybe played 10 minutes a game that want to throw the Kentucky jersey back on. We're getting guys that contributed to championships, contributed to final fours back in Rupp Arena for one last time. So definitely pack Rup Arena. If we can pack for a press conference, we can pack it for the TBT. Yeah, I'm definitely hoping we get an insane Willie Colley-Stein poster just so we can get another Rock Oliver reaction. Will Rock Oliver be there? After the Dunk in Florida, you know the one I'm talking about.

He's just going crazy. We need another one. I mean, I don't even know who we're playing, but they're going to be outmatch for sure. I mean, we have a ton of NBA talent in our team. What's the deal with like, so I don't really know how this works. Do other schools get TBT teams? We play against those?

So anyone can build a roster of anybody. They have GMs. They build a roster. They submit and they get entered into the tournament. A lot of teams will do it based on colleges, but other teams will do it for other reasons. Louisville has one. Are we playing in Louisville? Not in the first couple rounds.

We might see them later in the tournament, though. Really quick, let's do a quick roundtable. Who do you think leads the team in scoring? Bradley, start with you. Definitely going Nate Sistina is going to lead the team in scoring. I'm going to go Calang Brady. You stole my pick. Are you kidding me?

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Telling Grady, I mean, grandpa's right there. Thank you so much for listening to Hour 1 of Kentucky Sports Radio. We're going to take calls in hour number two. This is Rupton Ogoode Takeover Day of Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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