KSR - 2024-07-15- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Myron Medcalf hosts with Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talking the latest UK sports news and Waffle House etiquette.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Back in the mix like Jiff, I'm Black Jones. It's been a minute. My name is Benin, I'm not in it. How are you fellas doing? It's been a while. How y'all doing? How's everybody doing in KS.R land? I missed you.

I was on vacation, so it's really, been a while you and I have been doing the show together Myron. Welcome back to the big chair, Big fella. Yeah, I appreciate Is everybody here? We have the whole crew in the mix. Yeah, Drew's here. Yeah, Drew's here. Drew, you need to see the video stream. Myron's got

his ESPN Mike Flagg bug there out today. So they put me, I was on on sportsmen like on ESPN radio, and it was on ESPN two simocast, so they gave me this whole TV set up. I was up at

3.30 in the morning. Oh, wow. Did four hours for that show, and now I'm here, and I'm excited. You know, it's good. I've been on vacation, so I feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things. It was fun to get away. I went down south. I told you all about the cookout.

Yes. I'll talk about that. I stopped in actually Paducah, Kentucky. Is that how you say it? Paducah, yeah. That's right. Yeah, what I hear you spent the night in Paducah, didn't you? Let me tell you something. There is a cracker barrel in Paducah, Kentucky.

that had the greatest pancakes I've ever had in my life. Whoa, but it's a pretty big, pretty big tape. I don't know. I don't know who's in the back. You know, I don't know who's handling the pancakes at the Cracker Bear and Paducah, but best pancakes I've ever had.

I mean, it was just, it was incredible. So went there, went to Memphis. I had never been to Graceland. Oh, yeah. First time I went to Graceland. Yeah. So, you know, my, my, my, One of my daughters became a big Elvis fan with the movies.

You know, what's the guy is? Austin Butler, is that the one, the dude who plays, I think Elvis in the first movie? And then there's another one, Priscilla, right? There's a second movie, I think. So she got really into these movies, so she wanted to go to Graceland. We went to Graceland. I had no idea that Elvis was that. Right?

I knew Elvis, the songs, and I knew the movies. I didn't realize he was. as gigantic as he was until I went down to Graceland. And now fellas, I got a problem, though. I keep doing an Elvis impersonation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

And people are telling me it's the worst they've ever heard, and that I should stop doing it. Let's hear it one more. Let's hear it again. Need to hear a little more just to get one more. Good judgment. Well, since my baby left me, I'm finding no place to quit. I don't know if I don't know if that's.

any good. Wow. That's great. It's a little bit of Elvis and Fat Albert mixed in together. Is that, is that Robert and Elvis? Okay. Okay.

The Elvis, you know what? I was trying to figure out what the other part of it was, but now you just told, people are telling me to stop doing it, though. I don't know what happened. I went to Graceland, and I can't stop. I don't know what to do. The Elvis impersonation is just in me now that I've been to Graceland.

Well, you know, maybe at Graceland, it's, maybe everybody's doing it. But now that you're back home, now you should do it every day. Yeah, work on it. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't want to rush the judgment. Let's hear it one more time. Let's get one more, one more, just to make sure we can hear it.

Very clear. Since my baby left me, I'm finding no place to do. Is that any beautiful? He's even got the little lip thing going and curling up a little bit there when he does it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is that any, I was told to stop by people close to me. No.

That it's becoming a problem. And that, you know, I don't know what happened. Again, I went to Graceland and it just, and then I'm thinking to myself, I don't know what this media world's going to be in the next decade. I may have to pivot to make money and to feed my family. What is the Black Elvis impersonated market like right now? Is it just me? Well, maybe you need, that's a new market to tap into right now.

I mean, I feel like I'd have a shot. Fellas, if I really worked on it and then it's like, I'm not going to tell people how I look. I'm just going to be an Elvis impersonator, and then you book me. You don't know that I'm black, and I just show up. And you're telling me, one way or the other is going to be a party, because nobody would expect it. And if I do it well, I feel like I could get some gigs. What do you all think?

I think there is no doubt that you've tapped into a new market that I see your second career taking off. But you've got to get, you got to know more than one song. You've done the same song a couple times. You get mixed in another song. Well, that's my problem, though. My problem is I don't know really any other songs, not that many songs, you know,

so I keep doing the same. Maybe, is that why they're telling me, Ryan, you think to stop is because I'm doing the same impersonation over and over again? Is that? Yeah, I can see your daughters maybe kind of getting on their nerves quite a bit when you're doing,

when dad's doing it every day all day long. So yeah, I'm mixing into something else into your repertoire. How about as we go throughout the show today, I'll play a new Elvis song each. You play a new one and I'll see if I can do it. Yeah. There we go.

That's perfect. Perfect. Okay. Yeah, because I think that might help. Black Elvis. I mean, I'm just saying, well, I just feel, I went down there and I don't realize, again, I didn't realize that grace. Have you all been to Graceland?

Yeah. We went together. We went together. Yeah, all of us went together as a group one time. And it didn't matter what time of day or what day. There are tour buses packed in that parking lot for Graceland. It is to think that he owned all of that. I think he bought Graceland at 22.

I think he was 22 years old when he bought it. To think that he was that big, that wealthy, that powerful is wild. And then the stuff he had, like he had a racquetball court in Graceland. I mean, he had like this sort of man cave set up, this ranch with his horses, the pool. And I was told when I was there, apparently people will jump the perimeter and just jump into the pool and go for a swim, knowing they're going to get kicked out, but just to be able to say they did it. I don't like the idea of that. I don't think you should be swimming in Elvis's pool personally.

You know what I mean? That's not cool to me. Completely agree. Completely agree. Graceland, though, did you go in the actual house store? It's all the living room and everything still staged and set up? The jungle room. I went to the house.

Yeah, the jungle room. Oh, man, I went into the house. Like, that's a whole. I got some great photos, man. Like, that's a whole thing. Again, to think about that 50 plus years ago, right? When he was living there, like, that just must have been. the spot.

Yeah, you know some stuff went down in that jungle room. I think some stuff went down to that whole property, right? I mean, like that is an interesting place. And it's a little, I don't know how you all feel about it, but there's a little horror film kind of element a little bit. You know, the grades are right there. You know, it's kind of dark in the house a little bit. So there was that moment of like, all right,

I'm glad I'm going during the daytime because I don't know if I want to be here as it's getting dark. But it's amazing. Did they allow you to go upstairs? Because when we went, they had it blocked off. And I'm going, what's going on upstairs? Like, what happened up there? You know?

So upstairs is blocked off. Yeah. Right? It's still blocked off. But I believe, is that where he passed? Like, I think he passed away in the bathroom up there. I think that's what happened to him. And if that's the case, I don't want to go upstairs, honestly.

Like, I don't know how y'all feel about ghost and spirits. And I don't mess around with that stuff. man. I don't want to get to a place like that if that's where he actually passed away. I don't know if I'd like that as much. But the whole property, man, the whole experience was just incredible. I do remember one thing they told us that the family still comes there for like Easter and Thanksgiving and celebrates. And I think that's why a lot of the upstairs is still their personal living space.

Yeah. Really? I know they still come there. Like I know it's still like used for sure But I didn't know they had like family Celebrations and gatherings there That's where they do their family reunion Like the one you just went to

Like the one you just did Yeah Let me try one I think I got one more Okay You ain't nothing but a hound dog There we go Is that okay?

I like it Yeah You're definitely got a little fat Albert in there though I think Shannon nailed it Okay but that's true That's fair There's some fat Albert in there But again

Think about my competition. All right. I'm not going against everybody. It's just the Black Elvis impersonator list. Can I be at the top of that? I'm not, I'm not sure. I think the Cracker Barrow and Paduca would gladly host your first conference, your first concert. Listen, if they have those pancakes, I'm there.

Those people were amazing. A whole family went there. We enjoyed it. We tore up that Cracker Barrel. And then we made our way to the cookout, to the family reunion. in Mississippi, I talked about the Waffle House some weeks ago, right?

We don't have one up here. Like we don't, literally, you got to go seven hours from where I live to get to a Waffle House. I don't get to go to Waffle House. So I don't know if I have Waffle House etiquette, you know what I mean? Because I think I caused an incident and I didn't mean to at the Waffle House.

So there's a jukebox at the Waffle House. Is this a thing? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, every one of them. Okay, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to play Cisco on the jukebox at the Waffle House in Tupelo, Mississippi at 9 a.m. on the Sunday. It shouldn't be an option. But that's my thing.

So, you know, I'm thinking, okay, there's a jukebox. So what, I get the waffle and I get a jukebox? I'm in heaven. Amen. You put in a dollar, you get five credits. I started playing my music, some 90s R&B. and there was a couple there this older black couple

and they gave me a look fellas that was sheer disappointment and they looked at me like why are you here Midwest man? Yeah. Is there for you guys

is there Waffle House etiquette that I don't know about? I don't know Waffle House. I didn't know they had etiquette there. I didn't know people abided by society's laws in a Waffle House. I was at what I thought. I went to my Waffle House.

house yesterday. And, you know, it's a skill to get the seats. You know, they don't take away. I don't have a waiting list. You don't have callhead seating. You got to eyeball them out, see who's about to get, wrap up and leave, and then kind of jump on it when that table opens up. Yeah, it's a free-for-all.

If you go to a Waffle House anytime after midnight, there's a good 75 to 80% chance. There's going to be a fight. Oh, yeah. I don't think there's any rules ready to get at a Waffle House. And that's my favorite time. I had a Sunday morning incident one time in Tennessee. Me and three of my best friends were on our way back from Nashville, stopped at Waffle House,

and there's a family behind us. Backtrack, our waitress, she was 150 years old. We loved her. It took her an hour to go pour a coffee and come back, which is fine. We were enjoying our time with her. But the guy behind us got mad. He's with his two kids that she was taking so long,

and he took the syrup pitcher and poured it all over the table, all over the booths. They threw their stuff on the floor and got up and left. And the four of us said, we don't fight. We don't know how to fight. But that's the first time of my life. We almost went outside and just beat that. This poor lady and that syrup was everywhere.

And you know how hard that had to work. A lot of customers, including us, helped clean it up. But I've never seen something so disrespectful in my life. Good on you to help clean it up. Amen. I hate when people do that kind of stuff, man. You know what I mean? Like just that reacting that way.

Like people get so spoiled. in situations, man, where they think everyone's supposed to wait on them hand and foot. Like, I see these people on planes who think they're flying private. And it's like, no, you're on Southwest, buddy. All right? We're going to get there when we get there. All right. Calm down.

I hate to hear stuff like that, man. I wish someone would have confronted those people because that's just wrong. Two young boys with them, too. Couldn't have been older than 10 or 12. Nice. Great example, right? Great example. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm sure it's worse at home. I hate that. I hate that kind of. stuff. But yeah, I didn't know, I mean, I've been to post midnight Waffle House and maybe that's where my etiquette comes from because I don't know you shouldn't play Montel Jordan at 9 a.m. in the Tupelo, Mississippi Waffle. I didn't know that that was a thing, but it felt like people were looking at me and they knew I wasn't from the South. That's the look I got. Yeah.

I got the look that was like, we know you're an outsider just based on how you're carrying yourself. How did you get to Cisco though? You know, the song most people know, Cisco, it is a little early on a Sunday for the thong song. Is that where you were playing in there for breakfast? Yeah. So I don't know if you'll notice. Did you unleash the dragon on all of them? I had to.

So like here's the thing. You know Cisco lives in Minnesota now. So like he lives up here now. Okay. You know, so it's like, you know, we claim Cisco. Okay. And I thought why not, why not liven up the mood a little bit? It felt a little, you know what I mean?

I was trying to bring in a little flavor. You know what I mean? I think they didn't like, I was so excited to be able to. Waffle House and I think maybe they thought that was a little much because I was really, really, you know, energized. So I don't think they wanted that as much. And then I'm playing Montel Jordan and Cisco. And then I had to get an order to go as well because my sister was like, go get something

for me while you're there. And the waitress kept coming up to me saying, hey, are you ready to put in that order to go? Are you ready to put in that order? No, no. I kept saying no. And then like the last minute, I'm like, hey, by the way, how about that order? And I think she was looking at me like,

I just told you eight different times to put in this order and now you're putting it in now. So I felt like they were happy when I left, fellas. I honestly do. And I hope I didn't mess up the Tupelo Waffle House because I want to go back. I just don't know how to add because I don't have one. That's my only crime.

I don't have Waffle Houses. I don't know what to do when I get there, fellas. That's it. Okay, when you come here next week, we're all going to the Georgetown Road Waffle House. All of us. I'll buy everybody's Waffle House. And we'll play Cisco.

And we'll play Cisco. Let's go. Whatever you want on the jukebox, Myron, you can do it. Okay. I want to do that. But is there, was I out of order for playing Cisco? Was Cisco too much? Was that why the couple was looking at me at 9 a.m. in the morning?

Was that? Why? What do you think it was? You hit on it. 9 o'clock in the morning. Probably the same people come there every day. It's the locals at 9 o'clock in the morning. And here come Mr. Minnesota walking in and playing all these jams on the jukebox, you know, peeing in our Cheerios here a little bit.

All these dumps like a truck truck all early in the morning on a Sunday. I just, I thought I was there to live in the mood. You know what I mean? Like I was basically like skipping into the Wi-Fi. I was just so energized and so happy. I said, hey, how's everybody? I actually did say, how's everybody doing? Maybe that was my first mistake because no one was talking to me and I opened like that.

So maybe that was just, I felt like they think I'm a little too. much for the Waffle House and I want to apologize to the Tupelo, Mississippi Woff House. I don't know any better, okay? I just don't know what to do with myself when I'm there, but I wasn't trying to, you know, mess things up, but I certainly felt like, why is this guy here, we've never seen you before, don't come in here messing up our Waffle House. It's right. These jams. Yeah.

Playing Cisco while I'm trying to have my morning coffee and it ain't going to fly in Tupelo, Mississippi. I don't know. Someone gave me some songs then. I could have taken requests. everybody can put their dollar in. I was the only one who did it. You know what I mean?

So is that on me? Or is that on people who just didn't want to tell me what they would like to hear on the jukebox at the Tupelo, Mississippi Walfa House? We'll be back after this. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending,

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Is this some more Elvis? Yeah. Suspicious minds. What is he saying? We can go on together? What is he saying? With suspicious minds. He's saying we can go on together with suspicious minds?

I think that's right. I think you're saying we can't go on. Ryan doesn't sound too confident. I think he's giving me fake Elvis. I think you're giving me fake Elvis lyrics, Ryan. I don't know if that's... Okay, I know this song. I've heard this song.

Give it a shot. We can go on together. What is? Special minds? Suspicious. Yeah. With suspicious minds? Is that what he's saying?

We can't go on together with suspicious minds. We can't go on together. We can go on together with suspicious minds. Okay, not bad. Not bad. You got to get that. You're hired. You're hired.

I feel like Drew is going to be honest. I feel like Ryan is just telling me what I want to hit. Drew, what do you think, honestly? What's the real? I think you have a bright future as an Elvis impersonator. However, it's not just the vocals, which I think you're very close to perfecting. You got to have the whole setup. That's true.

Can you wear a pompadour wig? You got to have the wig with the little pompadour up top. Can you pull that off? I can wear the wig. I don't know if my hamstrings can handle the dancing, though. Like, I mean, I, you know, I might have to do Elvis from a chair. You know, I might have to, like, they might have to bring out a chair and I do it from there maybe. But I'm not doing all the hip wave.

I can't do all that stuff. I'll pull my back. I'll mess my back up again. I can't risk that. But, I mean, amazing. Honestly, Grace, it was incredible to see everything that Elvis is. give me a call. Like, do you think my Elvis is that bad?

Be honest with me. I want people to be honest with me. I don't want people to just tell me what I want to hear. So I went to the Indiana Fever, Minnesota Links game last night. Nice. Caitlin Clark. Yeah, Caitlin Clark, you know, bunch of, it was a sellout crowd, mostly Iowa people. Sure.

So they were cheering for the Indiana fever, and it sounded like a home game. It was just, it was amazing, the environment. Shelle Reeve is the head coach of the Minnesota links. She's also the national team head coach. Caitlin Clark was left off that team. So I go to the pregame media and I ask Shell Reeve, hey, what do you think Caitlin Clark has to do in order to make future national teams? I wasn't even asking about this year.

I was just trying to get a sense of, hey, in the future, where do you see Caitlin Clark? And her response to me was, why the hell would I answer a national team question? I'm wearing links. and I'm the head coach of the national team, but I'm not the chair of the committee. Anybody want to venture into anything else? Was my question wrong?

Because people are telling me I shouldn't have asked her, asked her that question. I'm like, when do I ask the question then? I mean, that's my job as a reporter, but I didn't expect to respond like that. I thought she would say, yeah, Caitlin Clark has a bright future. I didn't understand why she responded that way.

Like you said, is she not the national coach? Well, if she is a national, then she needs to be ready to answer questions. about being a national coach. I don't think your question was out of line at all, at all. I agree with Ron. You're doing your job. That's a completely fair question to ask,

and I think they'd be prepared to answer it. Yeah. Obviously, that was a hot button topic for a long time, so you're trying to see, okay, what can she do to make it maybe in the future? There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, and it's weird to me because it's like, what do you think people are going to ask

when you get to Paris next week? You're going to get a million Caitlin Clark questions. If you like it or not, that will be the hot topic. They're going to talk about her on the broadcast. They're going to ask players about her. They're going to talk to you about her. It was just a weird response.

And then she was asked about the Iowa fans who were in the stands. And it sounded like a home crowd. And she said, I don't give two blanks about that. So I think maybe she was just a little bit on edge about maybe some of the attention that Caitlin Clark gets. But I just, Caitlin Clark is about to make sure everybody gets paid a ton more money. There's a bigger spotlight on the game. I get being like, yeah, she's a young player, she has to earn it, but she also got to acknowledge what she's done

just in the short time she's been in the WMBA. Yeah, do you think that game would have been sold out if she has not been playing in? And of course not. All those Iowa people came to see her. So listen, Myron, just be honest with this. Did you dump that coach at prom or something? Is there a history there with you and her?

No, no, no, that's no. There's no history at all. I think I just felt like it was weird to me because I thought it was a good question. And I'm like, when else would I ask the question? This was Caitlin Clark's first game in Minneapolis. All the Iowa people are there. When else do I say, hey, tell me about Caitlin Clark.

It was just, I thought it was an odd response. And then they went out in one, you know. Caitlin Clark played great in the fourth quarter. But people on Twitter have been losing their minds over this situation. And it's just, it shows you that we can't have an honest and reasonable conversation about Caitlin Clark because everybody's unhinged. And I just wish it wasn't that way. You know what I mean? I wish we could just have a good conversation.

conversation about this great young talent, right? Yeah, it seems like her reaction was a little bit still bitter from the loss. They just took it home in front of that crowd. That was not cheering for the home team. So did you go ahead and print? Did you go ahead and publish her comment? Oh, absolutely. That's his job.

It's one of the biggest stories on ESPN.com. I mean, there were reporters who were like, hey, we don't ask her that. I don't care what you ask. That's not me. I mean, I'm going to ask the question that I think everybody wants to know. about Caitlin Clark. I just thought it was a little odd that she responded that way because the truth is,

Caitlin Clark, even though she's not in Paris, it's going to be the biggest question. Listen, say what you want, but Cisco's a star. Maybe not at the Waffle House and Tupelo and 9 a Sunday, but other places. We'll be back. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear.

The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports slice brings you closer to the action. with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to SportsSlicse on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slic Life 12

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I'm doing this morning Eastern Radio show all week. We're getting Mark Stoops. I think Wednesday. Oh, nice. He's coming on our show. So that would be cool. Obviously, there's so much happening in the SEC. You know, the Texas Oklahoma editions,

a lot of talk about whether or not Georgia. is still the favorite. By the way, do you think Georgia or between Georgia and Texas, who do you think is the favor right now in the SEC? Who would you pick? I mean, you got to go with Georgia, I think, at this point, until somebody proves that they can knock them off.

They're still the king of the hill right now in the SEC. So definitely Georgia. I go Georgia, but Texas is right up there with them. And it's, well, I guess it can be exciting. Have both those teams on Kentucky's schedule. I think they could be one and two in the entire country. Yeah. Yeah, Kentucky's got them both this year, Myron.

They got Georgia at home and at Texas. Yeah, I think Georgia's going to Texas too. I mean, that just makes the SEC even tougher. You don't even need to add Texas in Oklahoma, and it's already a really strong lead. But with those two, my goodness, you know, how do you get to that gaunt? But I'm trying to figure out what to ask Mark Stoops,

like what questions I should present to Mark Stoops. So what's the number? You all want to give the number again? 859-280-2287. 859-9-2-80 Cats. 22-8-7. If you were host on ESPN radio this week like I am and you had Mark Stoops, what would you want to know from Mark Stoops?

So I'll go around the room here. Brian, what would you want to know from Mark Stubes going into this next season? Well, you know, their starting quarterback hasn't started a game, I don't think, and Brock Vandergriff. Starting running back, hasn't started here at Kentucky coming from Ohio State. So, you know, your two big time players have not ever put a uniform on again. But yet they've had good success with that one. Ray Davis came in and running back,

he immediately became a superstar here when he transferred here. So I guess my question I would ask him is is he starting to look into a little hair care product like I have? Because he and I both have the same problem where the older we get, the more hair we lose. Nick Roush, who works for KSR, asked Stoops to his face that same question last year.

He said, is it time to come home talking about his bald head because Roush is also bald? I couldn't believe he did it. I was standing behind. the camera and I had to pick my jaw off the carpet in Nashville. Hey, hey, listen, as somebody who has a growing bald spot at the top of my head, I've just decided I'm just shaving it all off.

Like, I'm not going to do the gradual, I see some of these people out here, like the gradual fight, and everybody knows they're losing the war, but they're still just holding on. Oh, yeah. I'm just not going to do that. I'm shaving it all off. As soon as this, you know, right now it's a spot,

But once it becomes like a puddle almost, you know what I mean? Like just it's right there and undeniable. I'm just going to shave it off. I'm not going to play that game. You know what I mean? I don't want to do that. See, I did the hair thing in the front where it keep it from being a crown, but now I got a yarmica.

I got the old yarmica right on top of my head. On the top. Yeah. Oh, yeah. While you were gone, Maher and asked about any, if we know anyone that's had the procedure and I had to let him know that you got the locks. I think, you know, me, Buzz Williams. There's a couple of us out there that have, you know,

did the thing when they take the hair from the back of your head and then plant it in the front of your head. So that's what I did. Yeah. You know, a lot of brothers, like not a lot, but some are, they're doing like the weave thing. Like, I know guys who are doing the whole fake, you know what I mean? You wouldn't even know the difference then there are guys in my barbershop who now do the fake colored beard. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

I've thought about. So one of my great, you know, secrets in life, I can't grow a beard. and I've never been able to grow a beard. You all won't believe this, but I'm being 100% honest. I've never shaved, ever. Whoa. I've never, I've never shaved.

Whoa. Now, granted, I go to the barbershop. I go to the barbershop and they'll trim my mustache, they'll shape my beard, but in terms of shape, I've never had to. Like, I can't, genetic, I can't grow a beard. You know what I mean? And I've always been jealous of people

who can grow, especially people who can grow, especially people can grow that thick beard. Yeah. Jealous. So then I've been toying with the idea of doing the whole fake beard thing, just going all out and just getting like a whole fake beard. But people are saying that would be too dramatic. What do you all think?

Is that too much? Or how would you all assist that? I've seen some of those recently on like TikTok where they've gone really bad. And it just looks so fake. We talked a few weeks ago about when the boozer colored his hair with Sharpie. Yes. If you can pull off the fake beard and it looks natural, good on you. But if it's wrong, it's way wrong and it's very obvious.

You know, that's the thing right now, though, the James Hardin beard, the ZZ top beard, you know. I did that during COVID. I don't recommend it. I'm jealous. There was like squirrels in there. We had to wear a mask and I'm trying to fold it over my Santa Claus beard. I don't recommend doing that. I want to experience that.

You know what I mean? I want to experience just that thick beard, man. Like I want to be able to shave every day. I wish I could. I just can't. I don't do it, man. And I'm jealous of people who do. So with Brock, though, the biggest thing is not his pedigree.

The biggest thing is the inexperience, right? Correct. You haven't seen enough of him. But highly, highly ranked out of high school, right? Big time prospect. And then he goes to, did he go to a couple of places? He was at Georgia. Was he anywhere else?

But Georgia? Or was he just? I think just Georgia, yeah. So, I mean, he's at Georgia where, you know, to me, if you're sitting, if you're like behind other players at a school like Georgia, that to me automatically means you could have been a starter at a lot of other places, right? You just chose to be at Georgia where you have a team that is 46 and 2 in its last 48 games, which is just a tremendous number that doesn't sound real.

But it sounds like with Brock, it's more of he doesn't have the game film to make you feel more confident. But I do think the pedigree is there, right? I mean, you have to be confident in that, I would think. Yeah, outside of being unproven, Kentucky fans are very excited about him. His dad is a very successful high school football coach. He's got a pedigree of knowing the game. On three had him as the fourth rated quarterback in his class. He was a five-star.

and we've talked to guys we know at Georgia that it said he just barely missed the job each year he was there so that's why Kentucky fans we're a tier below Georgia's so if we got a guy that was inches away from being their starter we're very excited to see what he can do here even though he doesn't have a lot of tape in college

Drew's right I think Carson Beck barely beat him out and then Carson Beck has now become one of the best quarterbacks in the game so that's how close he was to not only winning that job but proving to everybody how good he really is so I hope it happens now here at Kentucky Yeah, and I think five stars are different. You know what I mean?

Like the challenge with the portal to me is guys can mature and get better. But like where you start in just your whole genetic makeup, that signals your ceiling. And a five star is just so much different. Like you're an elite kind of talent. Like you have natural abilities that other guys don't have. So I'd rather have that, you know what I mean? and inexperience, then experience with a three-star foundation, if that makes sense, you know? And I think with Brock, that's what you're getting, a guy who clearly the ceiling is there,

just trying to figure out if he's going to reach that ceiling or not. And that's what I'll ask Mark Stoops about that. That's cool. Drew, you got anything that I should talk to Mark Stoops about? I'll get greedy. I'll give you three. I'll give you an offense one, a defense one, and one that will make the room uncomfortable. We'll start with offense.

I'm not in the green room with them, Drew. I'm not going to camp. I'm not on the sideline. It's a lot of... Shats him his game plan, too? You know, you want to know what... The first five plays of the first game? Well, since Ron Vandergriff,

Stoops has his sixth offensive coordinator since he's been at Kentucky. Been changing those a lot around here, so you could ask him about... Is that his fault, though? Is that his fault, though? Not necessarily. As I understand it, that's a good thing.

Like, he's losing them because they're good. Is that accurate? Well, it's about batting 500 on that. Some of them didn't exactly work out. Liam Cohen obviously goes to the bucks. It's been, Neil Brown's now head coach of West Virginia,

so some have been good, moved on, others it's just been a mutual parting of ways. But I mean, to have six in the time he's been here, that's quite a bit. He's defensively just Dion Walker is unlike anything we've had around Kentucky

outside of maybe Josh Allen, a little different building position, but defensively he's going to have all the All-American Awards and preseason accolades on that. So just getting anything from him about how Dionne has looked since the spring, because we haven't gotten much in Lexington and out of UK football.

They've been very quiet around here. And if you want to make him uncomfortable, he did flirt with Texas A&M in the offseason. And I think that's why he's been hibernating around here. We haven't seen much of them. That might be a good thing, but he will have to answer that question throughout the week at SEC Media Days. There's no running from that one down there.

And they're in Texas. Right now, right? It's just yesterday. Yeah. So, yeah. He's going to get that question this week down in Dallas, for sure. I mean, is that my first question, you think? Do I have to come out the gate and just get that off the table, right?

Do we just address the Texas A&M situation first and then move on from there to- If you're getting him while he's at SEC Media Day, he's like, hey, Mark, how's it filled to be in Texas down there? You like Texas? And just kind of just kind of ease your way into it. I feel like he'd hate me if I asked him that way. I think if I presented that way, he might not be a. fan. But I mean, you know, I mean, the reality, the problem with that deal was like the reports about how close it was to happening, right? Like, wasn't that the whole thing? Like, there was some saying it was very close or that it actually happened and then they kind of pulled the offer. So I guess I want to know the details of that situation. But does that change how you all see Mark Stoops in any way? Because he flirted with that job?

I have always said for years, it's a good thing when big powerhouse college football. football schools want our coach. That means things are going well here if somebody like Texas A&M wants our coach. You know what I mean? Like when Baylor came and took Guy Morris, I mean, when a big school comes after our whoever we have, that means things must be going pretty well. That makes sense, you know, to me. I would see it the same way.

It's like, you know, it says a lot about how good he's been. Yeah. Certainly that's a program that's trying to hit the reset button after all they've experienced. So that's kind of how I saw it. At the same time, you know, there is that sense of, okay, you know, you don't want to lose a good coach. And it makes you wonder if he has his eye on another job and he's thinking about, because the reality is it is so hard to be good at this level for an extended period of time. And no matter how good you are as a coach, unless you're Nick Sabin, unless you're one of those coaches, at some point you're going to hit that sort of downside. or you're going to fall short of what you had done a couple years ago.

It's just so hard, especially in that league, to stay at a particular level. So I would understand people being maybe uneasy about whether or not he's going to stick around and how he sees his future. So I would definitely ask him about that. We'll talk more about this and other things on the other side of the break. Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying,

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Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Back here on KSR, my MacCath filling in from Matt Jones with the whole crew. Some more Elvis. Went to Graceland. Incredible experience. The TBT, which I'll be attending next weekend, the basketball. tournament. Kentucky's alumni team is

called La Familia. They just released their official final roster. I just got the release. That team will

feature Kellan Grady. It's going to feature Aaron Harrison and Andrew Harrison, James Young, Willie Collie Stein,

Daniel Orton, Eric Bledso, Reed, Travis, Ron Lamb, Marcus Teague, were not available to play due the other obligations. Karam Cantor.

I think that's how you say his first name. Enos Cantor's younger brother is going to be on that team. Brennan Canada as well. I mean, big time prize, million dollar prize on the line. I think that Kentucky team has a shot for sure here in this TBT. It's going to be fun to watch. You all going to go to those games at all?

Yeah, I'm going to try. They had a like a scrimmage game Saturday night that Mario went to and of all the great players you just mentioned, Nate Sustina was the big star. He had 38 points because he looks like he's still in shape. I think that's the key. The guys that are still in shape are the ones that do the best. That's what it always comes down to

because, you know, the teams that have won it have not necessarily been guys who were the biggest stars in college or even the NBA. It's guys who just never stopped playing basketball. Because, I mean, most of these guys are, what's Willie Collie Stein? Is he mid-late 20s now, right? He might be 30 almost. He's 30.

He's 30. Zoom with him last week. He had some white hair in that beard. It's a little hard to see. Bro, Willie Colleystein is 30. How does that make you feel? My goodness. My goodness, he's 30. That's incredible to think about, man. That's just incredible to think about.

But you know, you're right. The TBT teams that win, it's not the star power. It's, you know, who are the guys who kept playing and never stopped? I mean, a bunch of these guys on this team made some NBA money. So I don't know how much basketball. ball they played, you know, after the NBA, if they went overseas or what. But it's still going to be fun.

It's still cool to see those guys out there. And it's cool to see fans, you know, obviously getting excited. I think they're playing at Rupp. If I'm not saying, I'm playing that Rupp. Yes, definitely. Yes. First game is Friday night. So I'm going to miss. So my plan originally, I was on my way to Lexington Friday for this.

I was going to TBT. I was going to talk to Mark Pope. Mark Pope is now going to Peach Jam. So I'm basically going to Peach Dam and like trying to track Mark Pope. Like it's like a wild goose chase. Like I don't know where he's going to be, but I don't try to track him down, talk to him about the upcoming season. So that'll be fun.

And then I'm going to make my way back to Lexington in time for that game on Sunday. I think it's a 3 o'clock game that a lot of familiar plays. And then I'll do KSR that morning on Monday and then I'll fly back home. So it's going to be a fun weekend with a lot of time. of Kentucky-related stuff for me. So I'm looking forward to it. KSR listeners should get excited because on Wednesday we're having the whole team on the show, every one of them.

Oh, really? We're going to have two players a segment, Ryan. They're going to be at the bar, KS Bar for a meet-and-grreet with us. Fans can come by and listen to meet them too, but we're going to talk to everybody on the team in a two-hour span. Who's the most popular player, like according to BBN on that list? It has to be Willie Collie Stein, right? Like he's probably.

Aaron Harrison hit some pretty important shots. The Harrison Twins and Willie Cully Stein probably for sure. I think. Coach Tyler Ulyss. Yeah. Tyler Uis, that's going to be big. I think if you want to talk about guys throughout recent college basketball history who were unfairly portrayed,

it's the Harrison Twins are at the top of that list. There's no doubt. Because if you go back, I mean, I followed that team. You guys obviously saw them. But like for the people who didn't watch. Watch them in the NCAA tournament, how important they were and the shots that they hit and the games that they saved. I remember that Notre Dame game where they hit those big shots. Like, you don't have the success that you had without those twos.

And I just think we talk about what they weren't too often nationally and not about what they were. And I think that's unfair to the Harrison twins who were really, to me, the stabilizing forces of those caliperi teams. they were more important than people realized. You're preaching to the choir here. We are all big Harrison Twins fans. They are the most successful back court in UK basketball history. They went to the final championship game in 2014, went 38 and 1 in 2015.

No other back court can match what they did back-to-back years, and they don't get enough credit for it. And we had Aaron on here two weeks ago to kind of go over some of those memories. And just when they announced that they were coming back for a second season, just that alone was insanity with how BBN reacted. We went live for a radio show. What would go like two extra hours?

We just stayed on the air to celebrate. We had the, what was it, the twins are coming back banner. I had that kind of Photoshop, whatever was going on in London. I don't remember exactly. But that banner was popular. It was on shirts.

And I mean, just them announcing return for sophomore year because that was so unique in the one and done with Cal. That was unlike anything BBN reacted to as far as player returns. Well, imagine how that compares to the Transfer Portal era. Like those guys knew what was coming the following year and the talent that was coming. Today, those guys would have transferred, right? Today, players in that situation, they'll go somewhere else.

They don't want to compete. To compete against a class with Carl Anthony Towns and those guys, I think says a lot about who they were for that program. They deserve more praise than they get. We'll be back after this. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite, unhumored me with Robert Smygle and friends, me and hilarious. various guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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