July 8, 2024 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now
here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Not Matt Jones, but Matt Sack here joined with the
rep to No Good crew here for reugh 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 rough to No Good crew that includes Wildcat's Tongue
who we call WT, Big Blue Bud, who we called Buddy,
(01:00):
and two seven zero Bradley Smith who we just called
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 it feel to be on here?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm shaking, but you know, we're having fun. This is wild.
I've listened to KOSR. 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, little full circle moment.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It kind of is crazy. I don't feel qualified to
be on here at all. Like, we run a very
silly little podcast called Upton No Good and now we're
on the biggest college sports platform in like 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?
Like could you imagine something like that ever happening?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Are you comparing us to Mark Pope right now? Are
we the Mark Pope of sports podcasts?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Do you know what? I think that's the only possible
way we are the Mark Pope of sports podcast 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?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, I'm I'm doing great. And 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 Young Center, and I thought it
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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 posted a picture
on Twitter or X, I don't know. I'm still gonna
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call it Twitter Twitter, and I got a few very
hateful comments, maybe a few death threats sprinkled in there,
and nice and things like that. One guy photoshop 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.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I hope it does for you too. You're dripped out
once again. You're not in 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 Fourth of July weekend?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I'm doing good. I had a great Fourth of July weekend.
Didn't do a lot of fireworks. I just kind of chilled.
But there, you know, like people just shoot them off
everywhere and bowling green where I'm at, and so you know,
that's always fun.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Giving it a good ride around.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I've had a pretty good like morning two for the
most part, started off rougher than I expected.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
We haven't told you guys this last night. We did
dinner seven o'clock. Then we went and hung out by
like nine 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.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Waffle house at seven, waffle House at ten o'clock. Terrible idea, Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You can't you can't just get a regular waffle. You
gotta spruce it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't even know why we ate.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I wasn't hungry at all.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
We just we were just bored and we went to
waffle house here just like child down there.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's a whole mite you do when you need to
kill an hour.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I just go to waffle house, I guess, and then
stayed up till one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And why did you let me get chocolate milk?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
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 of a mess, and yeah, you didn't listen
to me. All You're like, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Fine, Bradley. You're an adult. You can make decisions.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Bradley, this is like that. This is that time that
he's like, why did you let me eat four Kroger
hot dogs? Or four hot dogs Kroger filled that time.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that was a bad choice as well. But speaking
of hot dogs, July fourth, you had the Nathan's hot
Dog contest and Sach I know you're very passionate about
Joey Chestnut not being in the field. Would you like
to share?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I would love to so. Patrick Bertoletti, I believe it
is his name. He ate fifty eight grizzies and he
is the champion this year.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
He did it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He gobbled fifty eight grizzies, 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 is
still the chestnut, or he's still the goat, the chestnut.
Joey is the chestnut. He still is. He is the goat.
I respect him. He is the absolute best. If he
did participate, he probably would have won. But he had
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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 this is more than just
Nathan's eating the competition. This has to do with in America.
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This is fourth of July. This is meat. This is
not vegan. It is bigger than just Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
That.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No, I mean, would you watch the Nathan's hot doogging
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 gonna
call it a sport? Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yes? Absolutely, I think it's a sport.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I mean, okay, fair definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Most sports do lose calories while playing, but it's still
a sport absolutely, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
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
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eating day on July fourth this year.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
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 championship. Steph curR
can win championships. Do all of those not count because
Jordan wasn't participating anymore?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They count? But we can still recognize that when Jordan
left the NBA for a couple of years and other
teams won the championship, Jordan was still the goat like
no one debated that. He was like, oh the like,
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
joe Chesnut was gone.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Joey chestnutt 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 gonna apologize
for it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's what I've How dumb do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You have to be to be like, hey, this guy's
the absolute best of what he does. We're just not
gonna let him participate.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And the whole point that they did that is was
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 Chesnutt.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And Joey Chestnutt ate more hot dogs and half the time,
like he had a simultaneous.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Live stream, it was one less, but it was still
in half the time, fifty seven hot dogs in the
champion eight fifty eight and ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Can you imagine second place in that competition? You've eaten
like forty nine hot dogs in five minutes, just doing
that to your body just to like.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not win, just to not I mean, we're talking like
Michael Phelps, like Katie Ledecki level swimming. It's like, who's
who's in here for second? Like Larry Bird walking into
the three point shootout? Okay, which one of y'all is
is competing for second? That's what Joey Chestnut does every
single year, and they're just like, eh, no, we're good.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Absolutely, and bring it back, please, please bring it back.
Stop selling out for vegan hot dogs, gold compete and
have everyone else just play for a second place.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's no way you're making Joey the villain of this story.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He's not the villain. I'm just not gonna apologize for him. Also,
you said he ate fifty seven to five minutes. Were
they vegan hot dogs?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think they were regular hot dogs?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, they were vegan hot dogs. They were. It was
sponsored by Impossible.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Where are in hot dogs easier to eat than regular
hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I would say absolutely.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I've never had a vegan have you?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I haven't. I mean, why would I ever do that
to myself?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
That's what I'm saying. Well, how do you know that
they're that they're easier to eat? Or just conjecture.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'd have to imagine they'll be in plants, you know
how much more salad. Do you have to eat to
be full?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
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 fifty 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.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I don't think they're let us 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.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I do think we need to bring this back. We
are on Kentucky Sports Radio, not Nathan's hot Dog Sports Radio.
Uh 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?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
If it was Steakhouse, I would say Chinn Coleman. But
hot dogs, that's a harder one.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'd have to imagine Dion Walker is giving anybody a
run for their money, or we had that full back
like ten years ago, taco meat. I think he can go.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh, that brings up.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Ten pounds of taco meat. How many hot dogs could
he put down?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean Corey Johnson aka Poop Johnson. I mean it's
in the name, like he's built for the hot dog
eating contest.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, shout out kroger Field hot Dogs.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Doing the contentition with Krogerfield hot Dogs. I don't think
anyone's getting above six. I think people will peel over six.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Four is two more than anybody should eat. I learned
from personal experience.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You always do this to yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You always do this self sabotage. I know I can't
help it. I'm my own worst enemy.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
All right, how about basketball? Basketball?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Maybe who on this team?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Who on this team?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
This team that's harder?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Trent Noah gives me incredible glizzy gobbling ability.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You stop saying it like that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You said that four times.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I've held my tongue. At this point, I'm just gonna
have to draw a line.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
There.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No more glizzy gobbling as a term on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No more.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, the thing is Amari Williams British, Like, there's no
way he can handle that many hot dogs. Like the
same thing with Kirk Krees, Like I'm sure Kerr's got
the competitiveness to like stay in it, but he's a Stonian, Like,
there's no way he's handling a bunch of Nathan's hot
dogs and surviving. To tell the tale, Kerr would.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Beat Joey Chestnut just out of spy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Trash talk while doing it while eating the hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Trash talks Luke at doncic he would trash talk Joey Chestnut, Okay,
you would do it.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I think otaga away it is taking it. I think
he's got that dog in him.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Literally, he's built for it.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
None of you all after that joke that was that
was a leak content.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I giggled, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, he gave you a good giggle.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You get a chuckle, You get a chuckle. What if
the great people at iHeart Studios right now each gave
us a plate of like one hundred hot dogs in
ten minutes to eat them us.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Four, that's what you think it was? One hundred hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, you don't have to eat them all. But I'm saying,
if you had the opportunity to eat them all, who
do you think would eat the most of us four?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
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.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
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.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Do, you eat anyways, I'm finishing the plate.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I mean, you're not finishing.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I like to say it, though.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The trick is you got to eat it with the buns.
According to the competition, it's not just the hot dogs
with the buns, and that that's a really good show.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Soaking them in water, like I know they say that
makes them go easier, but that's disgusting the texture.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
If you were trying to get it in like a
timeframe or whatever. That's why you're not built like Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just can't do the soaking. You're not built like him.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So, Bradley, you set the bar at four hot dogs
Grogerfield hot Dogs. I feel like I'm easily topping that. Personally.
I think i could get there 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 thirty, and I think we like tied. So I
know I have a very skinny frame. I look like
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the number one. I'm like six four one and fifty
five pounds. But I can put away some hot dogs.
Since I'm not allowed to use the word glizzy anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Matt Sack's greatest enemy is a Gusta wind.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, he's got the thorwn Maker build.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, we'll eventually move on from hot dogs. We have
a great show planned. We have Nate Sestina coming on
here around ten thirty to talk a little bit the
basketball tournament and his 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
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was out for two years, and I completely agree, circling
that all the way back.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
They counted, but it is universally recognized that they it
was not fully earned. I think that's what we're getting.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Not given, are not given, you always.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Bring it back.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, Mickey Mouse, that's what you call it. It's a
Mickey Mouse championship.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
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.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
He did not.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
They did he have the opportunity Did they say they
allowed banned him from.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
She did not have to take three million dollars or
whatever it was from a vegan which turned.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Down three million dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
From making good business decisions.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I would not turn down to three million dollars. 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 three million dollars. I would
be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
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 of a Mickey Mouse
champion chouse.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, when is Joey Chesunt supposed to eat the wings
that's coming?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Oh yeah, the two hundred bonus.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Today he's eating today.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
There's no he's doing that four days after eating fifty
eight hot fast Turnaround.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He's the goat? What can you say?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
He is?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Also, so we're looking for the Kentucky brand tweet of to day. Also,
give us a call at eight five nine two eight
oh two two eight seven 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.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, I think you guys got it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Awesome, awesome, So yeah, give us a call. We really
want to hear from you. Where we are going to
hear from Nate Cistina soon and uh 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 will hear back from you all.
We are the rough to Know Good crew. I am
Matt Sack, joined by WT Buddy and Bradley. We just
got done talking about some hot dogs in the fourth
(16:37):
of July. Upcoming at ten thirty, we have Nate Cistina
coming to join the show. I'm very excited to have
him on. I'm 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 ten fifteen hours, however long it
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needed to be for me to be the first person
in line in the student section. And it's actually kind
of probably 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 to
clutch with us. But I'm gonna ask him, so when
I was a freshman, Nate, that was his one year
here at Kentucky. I'm gonna ask him if he remembers me, WT,
do you think he'll remember me?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He's gonna say he did absolutely not. There's no way
he did. Just some random like tall skinny kid in
the stands like wearing a like. He may be like,
oh yeah, I remember, but he's not gonna have any detail.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
No, what is a verification question? I could ask him,
what was.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
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 Repperenda crowd said.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You're setting them up for a trap. Right here, y'all
are gonna you're setting.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Them up right Actually, yeah, we probably shouldn't be rooted.
He is doing us a favor by hopping.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm still gonna ask him the question, and if he
says yes he remembers me, I don't care if it's
verified or not. It's gonna be one of the happiest
moments of my life because that means that the Kentucky
basketball players recognizing me being complete. More on on the sideline,
I am very excited for the basketball tournament. Though I
believe we have court side tickets for that, don't we, Bradley.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We do not court sign but they are very low,
very close to the court. I will say I know
that Grant Derbyshire 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 it?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What's the deal?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And I was like, man, you know it's Grant Derbyshire.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You did have a Grant Derbyshire jersey on, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I did and went nuts and I think chat White
is his name.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Oh the photography, he's really good.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
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.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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 out every single free throw, and he's like, oh, yeah,
we could hear you.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Speaking of big Z, we said we were going to
bring it up if the name kind of sounds familiar
and you're like, oh, Reptano goodwhere 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.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, just a cool moment and a cool thing that
the fan base did more than like any one person
or us as as a group. It was the whole
community kind of came together and raised three thousand dollars
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.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
They freedom.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
So, yeah, just good.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
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?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Actually? Actually I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
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 win uhday, Windy Wednesday earlier in that week,
so it was the next game. So literally the very
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first game following when the billboard was erected in front
of the NCAA Headquarters was the first game that Big
Z was eligible, so I think we could take one credit.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I don't think it worked in the way that we
wanted it to, where people drove in and were reminded
by 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.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
The segment on the broadcast, Yeah, like during the game,
they did a segment on too.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
ESPN, Barstool, like all these like it got national attention
and the INN so Douba very famously does not want
negative light, especially national media. Yeah, so I think they're like, oh,
we should probably uh make that billboard irrelevant. And it
worked and we got the Georgia game where Big Z
went off and then uh he played the rest of
the season. That was great.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Behind the back pass, I mean, there's just no more
like the build up to like that happening, just of it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And then they sent us the many billboards and you
haven't given Oh I should have brought.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Him this time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Cal got his, though, didn't he Yes, so Cal got
his mini billboard, so he's got it. Somewhere.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I met with Big Z after the Gonzaga game, which
was a terrible game, and we talked Paul for a second.
He said, all right, honestly, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And so we we talked about it for a minute.
But I gave him his mini billboard and then won
for for Cal to give to Cal as well, which
you know, r ip, but maybe he still has that
in a deep dark hole.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That would be really funny if we get like one
of those interviews like with Call in his office and
you see the free Bigxy billboard at Arkansas. That would
actually be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
He'll never have it at Arkansas, but it would have been,
you know, that kind of the hope maybe it'll be
there show up.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
We are in a little tricky situation where we kind
of almost did become too good of like genuine friends
with Big Z, where 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 arrival with Kel being over there. But yeah, coming up,
like we had said, Natesstina is going to join the show.
(22:24):
We're very excited about that. We have some questions for him.
We're gonna talk to the basketball tournament, and we have
a long show still planned for us. Here we're gonna
take one more break for right now. Thank you for
listening up to No Good Takeover today and KSR.
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Speaker 2 (22:45):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Here is Matt Seck with the Rough to No Good
crew here for our Kentucky Sports Radio Takeover Day. And
we actually have Nate Cistina 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?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I'm doing great back in Lexington after and that so
fourth of July with my family up an IMPOORINGPA.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
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 Rapperina 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
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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 reperena.
Do you remember that goofy looking kid?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Well, it's actually funny because I spent a lot of
time near the end of the bench, so I remember
you know, so I think I think it's uh uh,
I don't know what number, but I remember always seeing it,
and I always I always nudge Rob Harris about it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Do you have any distinguishing feature that you remember about me?
Because none of them are None of my podcast hosts
here are gonna 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 that you don't
have to you remember me.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Don't listen and you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No, I'm trying to see this is where I don't
want to just I don't want to bes it, but
I'm I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
To, like, you're good you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh no, wrong, Yeah, I know we have. Nate's seen
it for a limited amount of time. You want to
spend the first two minutes with him asking about your
own personal thing?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I sure do. I'm on Kentucky Sports for you. I'm
gonna do what I want. But yeah, anyways, uh, Nate,
we're super happy to have you on, super to have
you back on the lap Amilia squad. Your season got
short to 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
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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?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I mean that was that was probably the number one
reason why you know why I came back and after
talking with Swanny and you know, talk about everything we
were going to do in the community, and he was like, dude,
that it's in rep arena, that sealed the deal for
me because like the opportunity to play in the TVT
has presented stuff each summer and I was just like, man,
I want to just enjoy my summer and just kind
of relax and then you know, eas into my workouts
(25:38):
and he was like, hey, like it's in Lexington at REP.
You know, you're playing on a Kentucky team. Like, it
doesn't get any better than that. So that for me
it was was kind of the deciding factor.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
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 catchup. How have you been since twenty twenty,
What have you been up to, where have you been playing,
and how's that been for you?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I mean, Big Blue Nation is crazy. I love them,
They've they've been great the last couple of 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's kind of kind of weird and random, Like
we were down in Disney for like three months. I
actually it was like two months. We played you know
how many games in twenty five days, fifteen games, and
(26:30):
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 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 EuroCup. We went
to the finals in EuroCup, lost to Grand Canaria. We
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finished first in Turkey that year and then lost in
the semi finals of the playoffs, which really hurt. And
then this past year I was with Fenerbacci and for
any you know, big soccer fans, you guys guys know Fenerbacci,
And honestly, for any big basketball fans, you guys know
them too. They're they're kind of like a powerhouse in
Turkish basketball but also in European basketball. And we made
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to the final four. We lost to Pantas and iikos
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 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. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
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 shot forty five percent from three, forty five percent
from three to forty three percent from three, scoring like
ten points a game. So you're not just like over
there having fun like over there, contributing to winning and
like put on a show for those Turkish fans. So
(27:55):
really cool to see UH come back and give a
little bit of that talent back to the tv T team.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Absolutely, I appreciate that, know I that's like my goalie yeer.
You know, I want to shoot forty percent with you know,
with some some good numbers and just I want to
win more than anything. And that's that's another big reason
why I joined this tv T team, Like, these guys
are twenty did an amazing job putting this team together,
and you know, you have some absolute monsters on this team.
And I when he called me, he was like, hey,
(28:22):
like you're a three point specialists, Like that's what we
won out of your position. And I was like, there's
one thing that I I'm very confident in and you
know I put a lot of work in is being
able to stress it forward. So this is an awesome
opportunity for me to hopefully Portinnettes and Reparena and you know,
redeem myself for losing to Tennessee again on senior Day.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So 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,
(29:01):
or watching this guy, you know, go off in this way.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I mean you can, you can go down the entire
roster and talk about guys, but obviously for me, first
thing it popped in my head was Tyrese Maxi first
day Michigan State in the garden, and clearly it's worked
for him. He's he's in an awesome position, you know,
with the Sixers sign and his extension a manual against
Louisville when we played him at REP and then like
(29:30):
that one three, I grabbed an offensive rebound at the
free throw line, kicked at him in the corner and
then he I don't even know if it touched the rim,
and it just swished. The crowd goes crazy. They were
trying to call time out. Refs didn't even see him
or hear him. It was insanely loud in there. I
can't remember who we were playing, but Nick had Nick
had like twenty four and fourteen or twenty four and
(29:51):
twelve or something like that, and he just had like
ten dunks. It was just on the rim the entire game.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
E J.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Montgomery had a big game. I think he had twenty
eight or something, maybe in like November. Uh, but you
like the And then the last one was was Florida.
You know, we Emmanual fouled out, which was unbelievable because
he never did so. And for me, that was the
game where I was like, all right, I gotta be
and I gotta be a big, big time, you know,
(30:18):
veteran leader here kind of corral the troops and during
timeouts we listened to coach Cali. We got onto the
court and I just I tried my best to you know,
be a senior leader and talked to everybody, and we
really just rallied and just kept chipping away, kept chipping away,
and ultimately ended up EJ tipped that ball in, and
that's our that's our last bucket. You know that season.
(30:39):
That was just the iicing on the cake. Unfortunately the
icing on the cake, but an awesome cap off to
an amazing, amazing comeback.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
I love that season so much, dude. I literally just
like so many things I say as you go through
these games, I could think and just like rip off
of literally every single one of them. What I did
want to ask this was that Florida Gain was amazing
last game of the season. Unfortunately the way it ended.
But your last game at roup, the last time you
played a REP. Not to like throw this back in
your face, this is tragic for all of us, trust me,
(31:07):
but we lost to Tennessee in your last game at
rop you got to come back and yeah, I know,
I know, I know it's redemption season. Your first time
playing in REP since then is you're gonna be playing
with Sla Familia on the tv T team.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
What does that?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Is that special in any way? Is it just kind
of is that how you look at.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It or or what?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Absolutely? Absolutely that like And I'm good friends with Jordan Bowden,
so he played for Yeah, he had played for Tennessee
and then he and our teammates in the G League
and I've just maintained good, good contact with him. And
that's still just that was like what we talked about
during the CHEA League season in the bubble, just like
how he you know, he got the best of me
(31:45):
the last game. But I think REP 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 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 called arena, Like this is just
(32:07):
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 reperene and
hopefully we don't have to play a Tennessee team otherwise.
I hope we beat the brakes 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.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Well, now that we've gotten the not important questions out,
I do have a very important question. There's a lot
of 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 were in the Kentucky Jersey.
Can you walk us through your your pregame hair routine?
(32:49):
How are you getting to look like that?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
How often you get in a haircut? Like we have
the best hair on Twitter, Matt Sack. Here's maybe give
them some pointers on how to make it look even better.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Oh wow, all right, Well that I mean I would
gladly take any pointers. When I was here, I was
getting my I think I got my hair cut 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 hair cut cuts on Lime. Issa
has been I still go to Issa. He's my He's
(33:20):
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 buck Now, 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 just like my forehead would just be like
tree sap.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
It was just 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 starts sweating getting
all nasty that I'd 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
(34:00):
my hair is kind of like trained to just go
that way. It's 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 for
hopefully we get to be in our locker room again
(34:21):
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 is a little bit longer. I might have
to throw I got to find a better hair product.
So Matt, if you could help me out there, let
me know it is.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
It is a very ironic best hair on Twitter, so
we 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 rapp 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.
(34:56):
You know what I'm saying. You need to tie that
up this summer.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best, I trust me.
We we had like a little friends 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 were
going through everybody's you know, accolades and all this stuff,
and I was like, dude, I really don't have a
championship here, and it's and then you know, it's the
(35:21):
biggest what if. And that's what I was like, well
if I had it, And everybody was like, whoa 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 that's she has that
over me, and it's it's kind of like that last
resort if she needs to pull it out, she will
(35:41):
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, So I
gotta I gotta, I gotta bring her down a notch. Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I remember watching that tournament during COVID and just like
there's barely any sports on and the sports that we're
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 TVT
in Lexington will be from July nineteenth to July twenty third.
(36:18):
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 gonna be in Reperena, 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 TVT in Reperena. Do you
(36:39):
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 BBN.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I mean number one versus foremost. This is the best
fan base in college basketball. They're everywhere. I was in
anchor A, Turkey and there was 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,
(37:08):
I think I think people are starting to see that
the Louisville fans are buying a whole bunch of tickets.
Sin It's like thirty six hundred tickets sold, and I'm like, dude,
that's nothing for Kentucky fans. Like rep Arena holds twenty
thousands of people, twenty thousand people. The record is like
eight thousand people for a TVT game. I was like,
that would be the student section of a you know,
(37:30):
for for us, some I know that they're gonna they're
gonna buy tickets, They're gonna pack this place out. Our
our hashtag for the team is packed Rubb pack rep Out. Uh,
that's our goal. You know, this is where we're putting
together a team that you know is Kentucky basketball. And
you know, you don't. You don't get any better than that,
you really don't. And it's an awesome opportunity for Kentucky
(37:50):
basketball in the summer, which we don't always get, you know,
And it's it's an exciting time for Kentucky basketball, especially
with Coach Pope coming in a whole bunch of new,
new energy, new team, and for us, it's an opportunity
for us to go back and play and rep which
is a big reason why everybody's here, and hopefully to
win this thing and bring another championship to Lexington.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah that's awesome, buddy. It sounds like we need to
put up another billboard hashtag pack up out.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I've had so many requests, so many billboard requests. About
a dollar for every billboard request I had, you'd.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Be able to pay for another billboard.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
So, Nate, I really appreciate you coming on, taking the
time and talking with all the big Blue NATU 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 rup out and be as loud as we can
for you. So I really appreciate you coming on and
taking the time and good luck this tournament.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Thank you guys, and thank you guys for having me on.
It's been it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Absolutely, Thank you so much and thank you all for listening.
We're going to take another quick break right here. It
is roughed to No Good Takeover Day on Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back into Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt Sack here with
the rep to No Good crew for rep To No
Good Takeover Day. We just got done talking with Nate Cstina.
(39:10):
We had a wonderful time. I love Nate. I love
watching him play in reperena again. That team. It was
my freshman year of college. It was my first like
full experience at the University of Kentucky inside reperina. 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. You mentioned that
he got to play with a lot of really clutch
players like Emanual Quickly, Tyrese Maxi, Nick Richards. But he's
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gonna 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 TVT roster?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I mean, we're gonna have a loaded roster. I mean,
if you're wondering whether you're gonna go to Reperina to
watch this team or not the first you need to
know it's gonna be coached by Tyler Eulss Like that
should be end all, be all you're going there. But
other roster spots, we have James Nazansteine obviously, Daniel Orton,
the Harrison Twins, Willye coley Stein, we have drawn Lamb
(40:06):
Marky's Tea, Kellen Grady's gonna be back, reed, Travis will
be back uh and Eric Bledsoe. It's like we're not
just getting like a bunch of guys that maybe played
ten minutes a game they want to throw the Kentucky
jersey back on. We're getting guys that contributed to championships,
contributed to final fours back in Rapperena for one last time.
So definitely pack Reperena. If we can pack for a
press conference, we can pack it for the tvt Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I'm definitely hoping we get an insane Willye coley Stein
poster just so we can get another Rock Oliver reaction. Well,
Oliver there the dunkin Florida, you know the one I'm
talking about. He's just a you know, going crazy. We
need another one.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I mean, who who? I don't even know who we're playing,
but it's gonna be why they're gonna be out matched
for sure. I mean, we have a ton of NBA
talent on our team.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
What's the deal with like so? So, I don't really
know how this works. Do other schools get TVT teams?
We play against those?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
So it's anyone can build a roster of anybody. They
they have GMS, they build a roster, they submit, and
they get injured into the tournament. A lot of teams
will do it based on colleges, but other teams will
do it for other reasons.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
So Louisville has one. Are we playing Louisville?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Not in the first couple rounds? We might see them
later in the tournament though.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Really quick, let's do a quick roundtable. Who do you
think leads the team in scoring? Probably start with.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
You definitely going, Nate Cistina is going to lead the
team in scoring.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I'm gonna go Kellen Grady, you stole my pick?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Are you kidding me? I'm gonna go. I mean, I'm
gonna go Willie cally Stein. I mean, I don't know
if anyone's catching up to that.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I'm taking dude. I don't care. I'm taking Grady anyways.
I don't care if you already.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Tell you you can back off of that. I'm standing
on business, Kellen Grady. I mean, Grandpa's right there.
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It would kind of be like, if let's just say,
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Like could you imagine something like that ever happening?
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Speaker 3 (01:49):
Do you know what? I think that's the only possible
way we are the Mark Pope of sports podcast 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?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, I'm I'm doing great. And 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 Young Center, and I thought it
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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 posted a picture
on Twitter or X, I don't know. I'm still gonna
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call it Twitter Twitter, and I got a few very
hateful comments, maybe a few death threats sprinkled in there,
and nice and things like that. One guy photoshop 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.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I hope it does for you too. You're dripped out
once again. You're not in 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 Fourth of July weekend?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I'm doing good. I had a great Fourth of July weekend.
Didn't do a lot of fireworks. I just kind of chilled.
But there, you know, like people just shoot them off
everywhere and bowling green where I'm at, and so you know,
that's always fun.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Giving it a good ride around.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I've had a pretty good like morning two for the
most part, started off rougher than I expected.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
We haven't told you guys this last night. We did
dinner seven o'clock. Then we went and hung out by
like nine 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.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Waffle house at seven, waffle House at ten o'clock. Terrible idea, Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You can't you can't just get a regular waffle. You
gotta spruce it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't even know why we ate.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I wasn't hungry at all.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
We just we were just bored and we went to
waffle house here just like child down there.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's a whole mite you do when you need to
kill an hour.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I just go to waffle house, I guess, and then
stayed up till one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And why did you let me get chocolate milk?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
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 of a mess, and yeah, you didn't listen
to me. All You're like, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Fine, Bradley. You're an adult. You can make decisions.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Bradley, this is like that. This is that time that
he's like, why did you let me eat four Kroger
hot dogs? Or four hot dogs Kroger filled that time.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that was a bad choice as well. But speaking
of hot dogs, July fourth, you had the Nathan's hot
Dog contest and Sach I know you're very passionate about
Joey Chestnut not being in the field. Would you like
to share?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I would love to so. Patrick Bertoletti, I believe it
is his name. He ate fifty eight grizzies and he
is the champion this year.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
He did it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He gobbled fifty eight grizzies, 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 is
still the chestnut, or he's still the goat, the chestnut.
Joey is the chestnut. He still is. He is the goat.
I respect him. He is the absolute best. If he
did participate, he probably would have won. But he had
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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 this is more than just
Nathan's eating the competition. This has to do with in America.
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This is fourth of July. This is meat. This is
not vegan. It is bigger than just Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
That.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No, I mean, would you watch the Nathan's hot doogging
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 gonna
call it a sport? Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yes? Absolutely, I think it's a sport.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I mean, okay, fair definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Most sports do lose calories while playing, but it's still
a sport absolutely, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
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
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eating day on July fourth this year.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
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 championship. Steph curR
can win championships. Do all of those not count because
Jordan wasn't participating anymore?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They count? But we can still recognize that when Jordan
left the NBA for a couple of years and other
teams won the championship, Jordan was still the goat like
no one debated that. He was like, oh the like,
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
joe Chesnut was gone.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Joey chestnutt 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 gonna apologize
for it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's what I've How dumb do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You have to be to be like, hey, this guy's
the absolute best of what he does. We're just not
gonna let him participate.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And the whole point that they did that is was
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 Chesnutt.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And Joey Chestnutt ate more hot dogs and half the time,
like he had a simultaneous.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Live stream, it was one less, but it was still
in half the time, fifty seven hot dogs in the
champion eight fifty eight and ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Can you imagine second place in that competition? You've eaten
like forty nine hot dogs in five minutes, just doing
that to your body just to like.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not win, just to not I mean, we're talking like
Michael Phelps, like Katie Ledecki level swimming. It's like, who's
who's in here for second? Like Larry Bird walking into
the three point shootout? Okay, which one of y'all is
is competing for second? That's what Joey Chestnut does every
single year, and they're just like, eh, no, we're good.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Absolutely, and bring it back, please, please bring it back.
Stop selling out for vegan hot dogs, gold compete and
have everyone else just play for a second place.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's no way you're making Joey the villain of this story.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He's not the villain. I'm just not gonna apologize for him. Also,
you said he ate fifty seven to five minutes. Were
they vegan hot dogs?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think they were regular hot dogs?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, they were vegan hot dogs. They were. It was
sponsored by Impossible.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Where are in hot dogs easier to eat than regular
hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I would say absolutely.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I've never had a vegan have you?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I haven't. I mean, why would I ever do that
to myself?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
That's what I'm saying. Well, how do you know that
they're that they're easier to eat? Or just conjecture.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'd have to imagine they'll be in plants, you know
how much more salad. Do you have to eat to
be full?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
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 fifty 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.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I don't think they're let us 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.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I do think we need to bring this back. We
are on Kentucky Sports Radio, not Nathan's hot Dog Sports Radio.
Uh 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?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
If it was Steakhouse, I would say Chinn Coleman. But
hot dogs, that's a harder one.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'd have to imagine Dion Walker is giving anybody a
run for their money, or we had that full back
like ten years ago, taco meat. I think he can go.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh, that brings up.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Ten pounds of taco meat. How many hot dogs could
he put down?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean Corey Johnson aka Poop Johnson. I mean it's
in the name, like he's built for the hot dog
eating contest.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, shout out kroger Field hot Dogs.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Doing the contentition with Krogerfield hot Dogs. I don't think
anyone's getting above six. I think people will peel over six.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Four is two more than anybody should eat. I learned
from personal experience.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You always do this to yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You always do this self sabotage. I know I can't
help it. I'm my own worst enemy.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
All right, how about basketball? Basketball?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Maybe who on this team?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Who on this team?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
This team that's harder?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Trent Noah gives me incredible glizzy gobbling ability.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You stop saying it like that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You said that four times.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I've held my tongue. At this point, I'm just gonna
have to draw a line.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
There.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No more glizzy gobbling as a term on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No more.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, the thing is Amari Williams British, Like, there's no
way he can handle that many hot dogs. Like the
same thing with Kirk Krees, Like I'm sure Kerr's got
the competitiveness to like stay in it, but he's a Stonian, Like,
there's no way he's handling a bunch of Nathan's hot
dogs and surviving. To tell the tale, Kerr would.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Beat Joey Chestnut just out of spy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Trash talk while doing it while eating the hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Trash talks Luke at doncic he would trash talk Joey Chestnut, Okay,
you would do it.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I think otaga away it is taking it. I think
he's got that dog in him.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Literally, he's built for it.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
None of you all after that joke that was that
was a leak content.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I giggled, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, he gave you a good giggle.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You get a chuckle, You get a chuckle. What if
the great people at iHeart Studios right now each gave
us a plate of like one hundred hot dogs in
ten minutes to eat them us.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Four, that's what you think it was? One hundred hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, you don't have to eat them all. But I'm saying,
if you had the opportunity to eat them all, who
do you think would eat the most of us four?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
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.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
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.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Do, you eat anyways, I'm finishing the plate.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I mean, you're not finishing.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I like to say it, though.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The trick is you got to eat it with the buns.
According to the competition, it's not just the hot dogs
with the buns, and that that's a really good show.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Soaking them in water, like I know they say that
makes them go easier, but that's disgusting the texture.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
If you were trying to get it in like a
timeframe or whatever. That's why you're not built like Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just can't do the soaking. You're not built like him.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So, Bradley, you set the bar at four hot dogs
Grogerfield hot Dogs. I feel like I'm easily topping that. Personally.
I think i could get there 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 thirty, and I think we like tied. So I
know I have a very skinny frame. I look like
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the number one. I'm like six four one and fifty
five pounds. But I can put away some hot dogs.
Since I'm not allowed to use the word glizzy anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Matt Sack's greatest enemy is a Gusta wind.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, he's got the thorwn Maker build.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, we'll eventually move on from hot dogs. We have
a great show planned. We have Nate Sestina coming on
here around ten thirty to talk a little bit the
basketball tournament and his 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
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was out for two years, and I completely agree, circling
that all the way back.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
They counted, but it is universally recognized that they it
was not fully earned. I think that's what we're getting.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Not given, are not given, you always.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Bring it back.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, Mickey Mouse, that's what you call it. It's a
Mickey Mouse championship.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
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.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
He did not.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
They did he have the opportunity Did they say they
allowed banned him from.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
She did not have to take three million dollars or
whatever it was from a vegan which turned.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Down three million dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
From making good business decisions.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I would not turn down to three million dollars. 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 three million dollars. I would
be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
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 of a Mickey Mouse
champion chouse.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, when is Joey Chesunt supposed to eat the wings
that's coming?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Oh yeah, the two hundred bonus.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Today he's eating today.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
There's no he's doing that four days after eating fifty
eight hot fast Turnaround.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He's the goat? What can you say?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
He is?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Also, so we're looking for the Kentucky brand tweet of to day. Also,
give us a call at eight five nine two eight
oh two two eight seven 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.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, I think you guys got it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Awesome, awesome, So yeah, give us a call. We really
want to hear from you. Where we are going to
hear from Nate Cistina soon and uh 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 will hear back from you all.
We are the rough to Know Good crew. I am
Matt Sack, joined by WT Buddy and Bradley. We just
got done talking about some hot dogs in the fourth
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of July. Upcoming at ten thirty, we have Nate Cistina
coming to join the show. I'm very excited to have
him on. I'm 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 ten fifteen hours, however long it
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needed to be for me to be the first person
in line in the student section. And it's actually kind
of probably 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 to
clutch with us. But I'm gonna ask him, so when
I was a freshman, Nate, that was his one year
here at Kentucky. I'm gonna ask him if he remembers me, WT,
do you think he'll remember me?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He's gonna say he did absolutely not. There's no way
he did. Just some random like tall skinny kid in
the stands like wearing a like. He may be like,
oh yeah, I remember, but he's not gonna have any detail.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
No, what is a verification question? I could ask him,
what was.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
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 Repperenda crowd said.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You're setting them up for a trap. Right here, y'all
are gonna you're setting.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Them up right Actually, yeah, we probably shouldn't be rooted.
He is doing us a favor by hopping.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm still gonna ask him the question, and if he
says yes he remembers me, I don't care if it's
verified or not. It's gonna be one of the happiest
moments of my life because that means that the Kentucky
basketball players recognizing me being complete. More on on the sideline,
I am very excited for the basketball tournament. Though I
believe we have court side tickets for that, don't we, Bradley.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We do not court sign but they are very low,
very close to the court. I will say I know
that Grant Derbyshire 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 it?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What's the deal?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And I was like, man, you know it's Grant Derbyshire.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You did have a Grant Derbyshire jersey on, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I did and went nuts and I think chat White
is his name.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Oh the photography, he's really good.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
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.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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 out every single free throw, and he's like, oh, yeah,
we could hear you.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Speaking of big Z, we said we were going to
bring it up if the name kind of sounds familiar
and you're like, oh, Reptano goodwhere 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.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, just a cool moment and a cool thing that
the fan base did more than like any one person
or us as as a group. It was the whole
community kind of came together and raised three thousand dollars
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.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
They freedom.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
So, yeah, just good.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
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?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Actually? Actually I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
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 win uhday, Windy Wednesday earlier in that week,
so it was the next game. So literally the very
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first game following when the billboard was erected in front
of the NCAA Headquarters was the first game that Big
Z was eligible, so I think we could take one credit.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I don't think it worked in the way that we
wanted it to, where people drove in and were reminded
by 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.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
The segment on the broadcast, Yeah, like during the game,
they did a segment on too.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
ESPN, Barstool, like all these like it got national attention
and the INN so Douba very famously does not want
negative light, especially national media. Yeah, so I think they're like, oh,
we should probably uh make that billboard irrelevant. And it
worked and we got the Georgia game where Big Z
went off and then uh he played the rest of
the season. That was great.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Behind the back pass, I mean, there's just no more
like the build up to like that happening, just of it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And then they sent us the many billboards and you
haven't given Oh I should have brought.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Him this time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Cal got his, though, didn't he Yes, so Cal got
his mini billboard, so he's got it. Somewhere.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I met with Big Z after the Gonzaga game, which
was a terrible game, and we talked Paul for a second.
He said, all right, honestly, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And so we we talked about it for a minute.
But I gave him his mini billboard and then won
for for Cal to give to Cal as well, which
you know, r ip, but maybe he still has that
in a deep dark hole.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That would be really funny if we get like one
of those interviews like with Call in his office and
you see the free Bigxy billboard at Arkansas. That would
actually be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
He'll never have it at Arkansas, but it would have been,
you know, that kind of the hope maybe it'll be
there show up.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
We are in a little tricky situation where we kind
of almost did become too good of like genuine friends
with Big Z, where 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 arrival with Kel being over there. But yeah, coming up,
like we had said, Natesstina is going to join the show.
(22:24):
We're very excited about that. We have some questions for him.
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Speaker 3 (22:47):
Here is Matt Seck with the Rough to No Good
crew here for our Kentucky Sports Radio Takeover Day. And
we actually have Nate Cistina 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?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I'm doing great back in Lexington after and that so
fourth of July with my family up an IMPOORINGPA.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
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 Rapperina 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
(23:33):
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 reperena.
Do you remember that goofy looking kid?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Well, it's actually funny because I spent a lot of
time near the end of the bench, so I remember
you know, so I think I think it's uh uh,
I don't know what number, but I remember always seeing it,
and I always I always nudge Rob Harris about it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Do you have any distinguishing feature that you remember about me?
Because none of them are None of my podcast hosts
here are gonna 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 that you don't
have to you remember me.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Don't listen and you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No, I'm trying to see this is where I don't
want to just I don't want to bes it, but
I'm I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
To, like, you're good you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh no, wrong, Yeah, I know we have. Nate's seen
it for a limited amount of time. You want to
spend the first two minutes with him asking about your
own personal thing?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I sure do. I'm on Kentucky Sports for you. I'm
gonna do what I want. But yeah, anyways, uh, Nate,
we're super happy to have you on, super to have
you back on the lap Amilia squad. Your season got
short to 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
(25:10):
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?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I mean that was that was probably the number one
reason why you know why I came back and after
talking with Swanny and you know, talk about everything we
were going to do in the community, and he was like, dude,
that it's in rep arena, that sealed the deal for
me because like the opportunity to play in the TVT
has presented stuff each summer and I was just like, man,
I want to just enjoy my summer and just kind
of relax and then you know, eas into my workouts
(25:38):
and he was like, hey, like it's in Lexington at REP.
You know, you're playing on a Kentucky team. Like, it
doesn't get any better than that. So that for me
it was was kind of the deciding factor.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
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 catchup. How have you been since twenty twenty,
What have you been up to, where have you been playing,
and how's that been for you?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I mean, Big Blue Nation is crazy. I love them,
They've they've been great the last couple of 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's kind of kind of weird and random, Like
we were down in Disney for like three months. I
actually it was like two months. We played you know
how many games in twenty five days, fifteen games, and
(26:30):
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 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 EuroCup. We went
to the finals in EuroCup, lost to Grand Canaria. We
(26:53):
finished first in Turkey that year and then lost in
the semi finals of the playoffs, which really hurt. And
then this past year I was with Fenerbacci and for
any you know, big soccer fans, you guys guys know Fenerbacci,
And honestly, for any big basketball fans, you guys know
them too. They're they're kind of like a powerhouse in
Turkish basketball but also in European basketball. And we made
(27:15):
to the final four. We lost to Pantas and iikos
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 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. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
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 shot forty five percent from three, forty five percent
from three to forty three percent from three, scoring like
ten points a game. So you're not just like over
there having fun like over there, contributing to winning and
like put on a show for those Turkish fans. So
(27:55):
really cool to see UH come back and give a
little bit of that talent back to the tv T team.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Absolutely, I appreciate that, know I that's like my goalie yeer.
You know, I want to shoot forty percent with you know,
with some some good numbers and just I want to
win more than anything. And that's that's another big reason
why I joined this tv T team, Like, these guys
are twenty did an amazing job putting this team together,
and you know, you have some absolute monsters on this team.
And I when he called me, he was like, hey,
(28:22):
like you're a three point specialists, Like that's what we
won out of your position. And I was like, there's
one thing that I I'm very confident in and you
know I put a lot of work in is being
able to stress it forward. So this is an awesome
opportunity for me to hopefully Portinnettes and Reparena and you know,
redeem myself for losing to Tennessee again on senior Day.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So 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,
(29:01):
or watching this guy, you know, go off in this way.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I mean you can, you can go down the entire
roster and talk about guys, but obviously for me, first
thing it popped in my head was Tyrese Maxi first
day Michigan State in the garden, and clearly it's worked
for him. He's he's in an awesome position, you know,
with the Sixers sign and his extension a manual against
Louisville when we played him at REP and then like
(29:30):
that one three, I grabbed an offensive rebound at the
free throw line, kicked at him in the corner and
then he I don't even know if it touched the rim,
and it just swished. The crowd goes crazy. They were
trying to call time out. Refs didn't even see him
or hear him. It was insanely loud in there. I
can't remember who we were playing, but Nick had Nick
had like twenty four and fourteen or twenty four and
(29:51):
twelve or something like that, and he just had like
ten dunks. It was just on the rim the entire game.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
E J.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Montgomery had a big game. I think he had twenty
eight or something, maybe in like November. Uh, but you
like the And then the last one was was Florida.
You know, we Emmanual fouled out, which was unbelievable because
he never did so. And for me, that was the
game where I was like, all right, I gotta be
and I gotta be a big, big time, you know,
(30:18):
veteran leader here kind of corral the troops and during
timeouts we listened to coach Cali. We got onto the
court and I just I tried my best to you know,
be a senior leader and talked to everybody, and we
really just rallied and just kept chipping away, kept chipping away,
and ultimately ended up EJ tipped that ball in, and
that's our that's our last bucket. You know that season.
(30:39):
That was just the iicing on the cake. Unfortunately the
icing on the cake, but an awesome cap off to
an amazing, amazing comeback.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
I love that season so much, dude. I literally just
like so many things I say as you go through
these games, I could think and just like rip off
of literally every single one of them. What I did
want to ask this was that Florida Gain was amazing
last game of the season. Unfortunately the way it ended.
But your last game at roup, the last time you
played a REP. Not to like throw this back in
your face, this is tragic for all of us, trust me,
(31:07):
but we lost to Tennessee in your last game at
rop you got to come back and yeah, I know,
I know, I know it's redemption season. Your first time
playing in REP since then is you're gonna be playing
with Sla Familia on the tv T team.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
What does that?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Is that special in any way? Is it just kind
of is that how you look at.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It or or what?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Absolutely? Absolutely that like And I'm good friends with Jordan Bowden,
so he played for Yeah, he had played for Tennessee
and then he and our teammates in the G League
and I've just maintained good, good contact with him. And
that's still just that was like what we talked about
during the CHEA League season in the bubble, just like
how he you know, he got the best of me
(31:45):
the last game. But I think REP 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 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 called arena, Like this is just
(32:07):
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 reperene and
hopefully we don't have to play a Tennessee team otherwise.
I hope we beat the brakes 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.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Well, now that we've gotten the not important questions out,
I do have a very important question. There's a lot
of 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 were in the Kentucky Jersey.
Can you walk us through your your pregame hair routine?
(32:49):
How are you getting to look like that?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
How often you get in a haircut? Like we have
the best hair on Twitter, Matt Sack. Here's maybe give
them some pointers on how to make it look even better.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Oh wow, all right, Well that I mean I would
gladly take any pointers. When I was here, I was
getting my I think I got my hair cut 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 hair cut cuts on Lime. Issa
has been I still go to Issa. He's my He's
(33:20):
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 buck Now, 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 just like my forehead would just be like
tree sap.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
It was just 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 starts sweating getting
all nasty that I'd 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
(34:00):
my hair is kind of like trained to just go
that way. It's 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 for
hopefully we get to be in our locker room again
(34:21):
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 is a little bit longer. I might have
to throw I got to find a better hair product.
So Matt, if you could help me out there, let
me know it is.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
It is a very ironic best hair on Twitter, so
we 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 rapp 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.
(34:56):
You know what I'm saying. You need to tie that
up this summer.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best, I trust me.
We we had like a little friends 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 were
going through everybody's you know, accolades and all this stuff,
and I was like, dude, I really don't have a
championship here, and it's and then you know, it's the
(35:21):
biggest what if. And that's what I was like, well
if I had it, And everybody was like, whoa 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 that's she has that
over me, and it's it's kind of like that last
resort if she needs to pull it out, she will
(35:41):
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, So I
gotta I gotta, I gotta bring her down a notch. Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I remember watching that tournament during COVID and just like
there's barely any sports on and the sports that we're
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 TVT
in Lexington will be from July nineteenth to July twenty third.
(36:18):
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 gonna be in Reperena, 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 TVT in Reperena. Do you
(36:39):
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 BBN.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I mean number one versus foremost. This is the best
fan base in college basketball. They're everywhere. I was in
anchor A, Turkey and there was 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,
(37:08):
I think I think people are starting to see that
the Louisville fans are buying a whole bunch of tickets.
Sin It's like thirty six hundred tickets sold, and I'm like, dude,
that's nothing for Kentucky fans. Like rep Arena holds twenty
thousands of people, twenty thousand people. The record is like
eight thousand people for a TVT game. I was like,
that would be the student section of a you know,
(37:30):
for for us, some I know that they're gonna they're
gonna buy tickets, They're gonna pack this place out. Our
our hashtag for the team is packed Rubb pack rep Out. Uh,
that's our goal. You know, this is where we're putting
together a team that you know is Kentucky basketball. And
you know, you don't. You don't get any better than that,
you really don't. And it's an awesome opportunity for Kentucky
(37:50):
basketball in the summer, which we don't always get, you know,
And it's it's an exciting time for Kentucky basketball, especially
with Coach Pope coming in a whole bunch of new,
new energy, new team, and for us, it's an opportunity
for us to go back and play and rep which
is a big reason why everybody's here, and hopefully to
win this thing and bring another championship to Lexington.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah that's awesome, buddy. It sounds like we need to
put up another billboard hashtag pack up out.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I've had so many requests, so many billboard requests. About
a dollar for every billboard request I had, you'd.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Be able to pay for another billboard.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
So, Nate, I really appreciate you coming on, taking the
time and talking with all the big Blue NATU 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 rup out and be as loud as we can
for you. So I really appreciate you coming on and
taking the time and good luck this tournament.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Thank you guys, and thank you guys for having me on.
It's been it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Absolutely, Thank you so much and thank you all for listening.
We're going to take another quick break right here. It
is roughed to No Good Takeover Day on Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back into Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt Sack here with
the rep to No Good crew for rep To No
Good Takeover Day. We just got done talking with Nate Cstina.
(39:10):
We had a wonderful time. I love Nate. I love
watching him play in reperena again. That team. It was
my freshman year of college. It was my first like
full experience at the University of Kentucky inside reperina. 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. You mentioned that
he got to play with a lot of really clutch
players like Emanual Quickly, Tyrese Maxi, Nick Richards. But he's
(39:34):
gonna 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 TVT roster?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I mean, we're gonna have a loaded roster. I mean,
if you're wondering whether you're gonna go to Reperina to
watch this team or not the first you need to
know it's gonna be coached by Tyler Eulss Like that
should be end all, be all you're going there. But
other roster spots, we have James Nazansteine obviously, Daniel Orton,
the Harrison Twins, Willye coley Stein, we have drawn Lamb
(40:06):
Marky's Tea, Kellen Grady's gonna be back, reed, Travis will
be back uh and Eric Bledsoe. It's like we're not
just getting like a bunch of guys that maybe played
ten minutes a game they want to throw the Kentucky
jersey back on. We're getting guys that contributed to championships,
contributed to final fours back in Rapperena for one last time.
So definitely pack Reperena. If we can pack for a
press conference, we can pack it for the tvt Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I'm definitely hoping we get an insane Willye coley Stein
poster just so we can get another Rock Oliver reaction. Well,
Oliver there the dunkin Florida, you know the one I'm
talking about. He's just a you know, going crazy. We
need another one.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I mean, who who? I don't even know who we're playing,
but it's gonna be why they're gonna be out matched
for sure. I mean, we have a ton of NBA
talent on our team.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
What's the deal with like so? So, I don't really
know how this works. Do other schools get TVT teams?
We play against those?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
So it's anyone can build a roster of anybody. They
they have GMS, they build a roster, they submit, and
they get injured into the tournament. A lot of teams
will do it based on colleges, but other teams will
do it for other reasons.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
So Louisville has one. Are we playing Louisville?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Not in the first couple rounds? We might see them
later in the tournament though.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Really quick, let's do a quick roundtable. Who do you
think leads the team in scoring? Probably start with.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
You definitely going, Nate Cistina is going to lead the
team in scoring.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I'm gonna go Kellen Grady, you stole my pick?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Are you kidding me? I'm gonna go. I mean, I'm
gonna go Willie cally Stein. I mean, I don't know
if anyone's catching up to that.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I'm taking dude. I don't care. I'm taking Grady anyways.
I don't care if you already.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Tell you you can back off of that. I'm standing
on business, Kellen Grady. I mean, Grandpa's right there.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Thank you so much for listening to our one of
Kentucky Sports Radio. We're gonna take calls and hour number two.
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