Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
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We Rank Every Thanksgiving Side So You Don’t Have To
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The table is set, the takes are hot, and the bracket is ruthless. We kicked off with holiday power rankings and quickly slid into a 16-seed Thanksgiving sides tournament that delivered chaos, nostalgia, and one undeniable truth: mashed potatoes are the anchor of the American plate. From sweet potato casserole’s early exit to dinner rolls beating cornbread, and a scandalous upset where deviled eggs outlast mac and cheese, we argued with receipts—recipes, textures, and real-world presence on actual Thanksgiving tables.
Stuffing (or dressing, depending on your ZIP code) got a deep dive, including a sausage-sage-cornbread method that balances crispy edges with soft, savory centers. Cranberry sauce took the stand—jellied, ribbed-from-the-can slices versus whole berry—and simple seasoned green beans reminded everyone that not every side needs a casserole blanket. Dessert gave us the classic pie showdown, with pumpkin edging through to face the inevitable finals boss. In the end, potatoes took the crown, because they hold the turkey, carry the gravy, and make every bite better.
After the plates, we sprinted into sports. Coaching carousel whispers around Lane Kiffin, NIL-era realities, and the legacy math that keeps Urban Meyer mythology alive. This season’s college football parity got its due—no unbeatable giant, plenty of landmines, and betting lines that look too loud when injuries hit. Kentucky’s bowl path runs through a redshirt freshman growing up fast, while early college hoops check-ins for Louisville, Kentucky, and Ohio State prove November form is messy but meaningful. We even squeezed in a bathroom etiquette PSA you’ll remember in every public restroom and wrapped with wrestling nostalgia—Cena’s Raw, a Terry Funk salute, and plans to hit OVW live.
Pull up a chair, laugh with us, and weigh in on the bracket. Follow, share with a friend who has strong Thanksgiving opinions, and drop your must-have side in a review.
Back In The Studio
SPEAKER_05Three guys around the table. And by three guys, we're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent.
SPEAKER_02And just like our personalities, our opinions vary. And we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around.
SPEAKER_05Tips and tricks of everyday life. That that could be I got all of those. Yeah. Absolutely. All of them. So uh it's been a minute since we've had a uh a podcast. We've been off for a couple of weeks due to we've had some uh work things have gotten in the way. Uh we've been very busy, we've had some illness that's gotten in the way, unfortunately, but I think we're all at least 85%, right? Is that are you 85? I'm mostly 85. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, as far as how I feel fine.
SPEAKER_04Are you 85? I feel like six out of seven days. I do. And then you want to.
SPEAKER_02I feel fine. It's just you sound great.
SPEAKER_05You sound you sound undefeated, never lost.
SPEAKER_04I feel like I may have COVID right now, just being in its room.
SPEAKER_02I mean, again, I feel perfectly fine. I do you have on a mask? It's terrible. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I mean, they were good.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm gonna start leaving voice messages for everybody like this.
SPEAKER_04It sounds like you're the dick collector.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
Holiday Rankings And House Prep
SPEAKER_05Um, so so we've been, you know, we've been off for a couple of weeks, but we're back strong. And, you know, this is our third year of doing this. And that's hard to believe. Right? And so we've already hit Thanksgiving pretty hard a couple years in a row. We've had if you if you've never heard one of our Thanksgiving shows, go back and give them a listen.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, that's the that's the one where my nephew brought me the dressing. The ranch dressing on the plate.
SPEAKER_04What's wrong with that? I mean, look, look, if it's restaurant ranch, then I'm down. But if it's but if it's like out of the bottle, it ain't as good.
SPEAKER_02Uh one of Kansas's pretty good.
SPEAKER_05One of our listeners in the Chili's ranch, Drift. It's delicious. Beefs has the best. Uh, one of the one of our listeners in the great state, actually in the Commonwealth of Virginia, reached out and wanted to make sure that uh it all was well uh because we hadn't been on in a couple weeks, but we're back.
SPEAKER_04And well, I think we had a couple episodes, and I think Chris slipped in because his alarm clock or butler didn't go off or something like that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think that's what the listener had let us know. He wondered. Right.
SPEAKER_04I mean, we were here ready, but Chris didn't show up because I mean Jeeves, Jeeves didn't get jobs. Mommy, can you have Jeeves wake me up in the morning? Uh so uh I don't have one of those.
SPEAKER_05I am Jeeves. Exactly. Yeah. Didn't there used to be an internet thing called Ask Jeeves? Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's the very first engine ever made. And that's the reason why Chris makes all of his butlers name Jeeves. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04He liked it and he's like, What's your name? My name's Roger. Not anymore. It's Jeeves. Jeeves, my friend.
Launching The Thanksgiving Sides Bracket
SPEAKER_05So we're gonna start off with this episode, and we're gonna do a uh a little take on Thanksgiving. Uh thanks to our producer, Rick Mellon. Uh Thornton. Shout out. Where does Thanksgiving rank in holidays for you guys? Oh, it's way up there. Number one. It's number two for me. It's not number one for me. It's number two behind Christmas for me.
SPEAKER_02Number one for me because everybody takes time to enjoy everything about it without having to hurry up and rush and worry about presents and all that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's not number one for me. What what about you? It's probably it's in the top five. I think it's the lower half.
SPEAKER_02You remind me of an April Fool's kind of day.
SPEAKER_04I figured you would.
SPEAKER_05One is coming strong, though, Chris.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, that's my favorite. It's it's it's probably four or five for me. See, no pressure. It's just I think Thanksgiving's just great.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Christmas is one and one A and one B and one C. I mean, Christmas to me is I mean, you look around the house and you know.
SPEAKER_04Now, you came to my house last night. I did, and it's amazing. We have we have decorations up, and Chris was like, you do know Thanksgiving's next week, right?
SPEAKER_05Uh yeah. Wait till you see the dining room out there.
SPEAKER_02Um it's already set, the table's already set.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Carrie has embraced the uh I should say the Chris uh, you know, but it's the Ralph Lauren theme. Right. It's not Ralph Lauren buying stuff, but it's Ralph Lauren like plaid and stuff, I guess.
SPEAKER_02I I prefer the solo and the coronet stuff.
SPEAKER_05Well, here's what I can tell you. Well, extra value is what you get when you buy coronet 1970s jingle, baby.
SPEAKER_04So one thing your house has going for you is it's temperature-wise ready for Christmas.
SPEAKER_02In January and February.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I literally have on a pullover and I have on my blanket, and my hands are underneath my legs.
SPEAKER_02I am practically in a sleeping bag right now.
SPEAKER_05Well, I I do not have shorts on. I want it known. I have sweats and socks on.
SPEAKER_02And Santa Claus socks.
SPEAKER_05Uh it's Christmas time, baby. All right, hit it. Let's talk about Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_02Thanksgiving's next week. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I do like me some trip to fan.
SPEAKER_05All right, so what we're gonna do is we got a little And propofol. We got a little bracket challenge. We got a little bracket challenge. And uh the bracket challenge is Thanksgiving sides. So these are sides that are going. How many we got? 16? Uh looks like Is this from is this from producer? Two, four, six, eight. Yep, sixteen. All right. And uh matchup number one, we've got sweet potato casserole going up against mashed potatoes.
SPEAKER_04Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes suck. Not even this is this is like this is seriously like the 96th Kentucky basketball team against like Bridgeports. I'm sorry, basketball team.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I was I was equating that to candy corn, no, excuse me, circus peanuts versus gummy bears. I mean, come on. Uh uh it's mashed potatoes and it's not close.
SPEAKER_05Not even so. Let me let me throw in a little thing about this because sweet potato casserole done well is delicious.
SPEAKER_04What if we're talking, you know, if it's a sweet potato, it's out. No, no yams, no sweet potatoes.
SPEAKER_05What if it's instant mashed potatoes versus the best potatoes?
SPEAKER_04You give me potato flakes in a box, I can make them good. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I will agree pepper will kill everything. I will agree on good mashed potatoes, so we'll it's moving on.
SPEAKER_04I'll agree on microwave them up in one of them little plastic bowls. I don't even care.
SPEAKER_02All right. And by the way, those Bob Evans pre-made are really, really good.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Cornbread versus dinner rolls. All right, let me ask a question about cornbread. I need a little preference. Yep. Do you all like sweet cornbread? It depends what I'm eating. I agree. Or do you like like savory cornbread?
SPEAKER_02Fried pancake cornbread.
SPEAKER_05Sweet, sweet cornbread is undefeated, never lost.
SPEAKER_04Sweet cornbread's got its place, but it's got like it's like a cake at that point. Right. Now, I like old school cast iron skillet, savory, get that brown, crunchy edge on it. Okay. Cornbread with some pinto beans, or as we said in Floyd County, some soup beans. Yes. And and oh yeah, a little bit of seracraut in there. It ain't too bad either. So uh, but but for me, for Thanksgiving, I'm a dinner roll man. I'm not a cornbread man. Yep, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I've never had cornbread at Thanksgiving. It's always been dinner rolls.
SPEAKER_05Now I've had cornbread in the stuffing. I make a cornbread uh is it strict or drastic? It's dressing. Yeah. Darn it. Uh so but let me ask this question about cornbread, just you know, for fun. Are you jalapenos or no in cornbread?
SPEAKER_04Uh I can. Yeah. Like now. If I go with soup beans, yep. Yep.
SPEAKER_05I can rock some jalapenos. Chow chow on your soup beans. I think I think we're dinner rolls all day all night there.
SPEAKER_04Now, I love me some soup beans and cornbread. I do too. Yep. Yep. I agree. Have you ever put sauerkraut in them? No, that's new. You need to try that.
SPEAKER_05And I love it. That's a game changer right there. All right. I'm down. I'm down. All right. The next one is stuffing or dressing versus candied yams. I know where you guys are.
SPEAKER_02A yam is a sweet potato, I'm 100%.
SPEAKER_04Rick, we don't like sweet potatoes. I don't care if you put marshmallows on them.
SPEAKER_05I ain't eating them. All right. What kind of stuffing then? If I'm just, you know, we gotta be like it.
SPEAKER_02I like it where it's really soggy with a lot of sage and a lot of onion.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_02I mean in a casserole pan where you can shake it.
SPEAKER_04Now, see, this is where you and I'll disagree a little bit. And me as well. Uh I like my I like a little I like a little texture to it.
Mac And Cheese Vs Deviled Eggs
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Give give me give it to me a little bit dry. I need a little crunchiness on the outside.
unknownOh, I get that.
SPEAKER_04Um so so sometimes what we do is we do, we'll just use like stovetop and then I'll ball it up. That's good. And then, or, or while I'll leave it in a pan and I'll stick it in the hot oven and let it get crunchy on top. Oh, yeah. And then it's soft and crunchy. That's a good time.
SPEAKER_02Unpopular opinion. I think stovetop is fantastic. All right.
SPEAKER_05So I'm gonna I'm gonna. Hallie loves her stovetop stuff. Now I'll tell you how I make mine every every year. No, that's stuffing.
SPEAKER_02Dressing's different.
SPEAKER_05In a pan, saute the butter with the onion and the celery and all that. And um, but before I do that, I cook a pound of sage uh sausage. Yeah, okay, that's good stuff. And I set that off to the side, then I do the butter with the celery and the onion, and then after that's done, I um you know those bags of like the herb season stuffing? Dump that in a big thing, put the sausage in there, put the browned butter with the celery and the onion, some chicken stock, and then some well, I've already baked some cornbread, and I crumble up some corn cornbread in there. So it's a cornbread sage stuffing dressing, and then I bake it.
SPEAKER_04Oh see now, we we mostly just do stovetop, honestly. For Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we always have the old bread and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_05I I like making that one. So uh see, yeah, it's I like eating it. It's nothing. All right, next one. Oh man, this is a gonna be it's gonna be an interesting argument. Here we go.
SPEAKER_03No candy jams. No, or yams with marshmallows versus yams with no marshmallows. No, with sweet potato breads.
SPEAKER_05We got mac and cheese versus deviled eggs.
SPEAKER_04You will you will so is the question you can only have one basically?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, these are this is with this elimination now.
SPEAKER_02This is easy for me.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_02His will be mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Okay. But we don't have mac and cheese at Thanksgiving, but I would have mac and cheese at Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_04I don't eat deviled eggs. We do not eat mac and cheese. You know what? You know the only deviled egg I ain't eat? I ain't found it yet. Yep. Look. You know what's funny? Scrambled eggs, I can eat two or three. Deviled eggs, I can eat 30. A hundred. I can be like cool hand Luke.
SPEAKER_03I can eat 50 of them in an hour. You know, and for me on Thanksgiving, it's deviled eggs. Yep.
Cranberry Sauce Takes The Stand
SPEAKER_02You know, asparagus does this weird thing to me. Does deviled eggs do something strange to you? Nope.
SPEAKER_04Nope. Nope. But you know what it does? It makes me smile because they're delicious. They are delicious. I'm going deviled eggs, man.
SPEAKER_05Deviled eggs is moving on.
SPEAKER_04Terrible. You don't have mac and cheese at Christmas?
SPEAKER_05Or at Thanksgiving? We don't either. That's weird.
SPEAKER_04That's interesting, man. That's interesting. All right.
SPEAKER_05So the next one gravy versus cranberry sauce. For Thanksgiving. Yes. Cranberry sauce. You have to get rid of one. Cranberry sauce.
SPEAKER_04Gravy.
SPEAKER_05So you're keeping gravy, you're keeping cranberry sauce. I have never been a gravy guy. I gotta go cranberry sauce.
SPEAKER_04So now, here's the question. Yep. The commentary on cranberry sauce. Yep. Do you like it ribbed?
SPEAKER_00Do you like that shirt?
SPEAKER_04I did. I did like that shirt. Do you like it? The old school jelly cranberry sauce that looks like the can when you pull it out, or do you like or do you like the actual cranberry sauce?
SPEAKER_05Bring me the ribbed for pleasure. That's what I want. Uh look, out of that can when you slice it and it still looks like the can. Oh, yeah. Come on now.
SPEAKER_04That's that's Janie's favorite, is that can. Now, I'll I personally prefer the other one.
SPEAKER_05I the whole berry versus jellied. I'm I'm really an either or, but I really like that jelly.
SPEAKER_04Janie's the jelly, kind of the next one.
SPEAKER_02Do you have cranberry sauce? You like to get crazy? Yeah, we used to, yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Things could be different this year, but I understand they're different because I mean, you're not gonna have all the you're not gonna have all the servants there. I get it.
SPEAKER_03You're letting some of them go home for the holidays, right? That is the kindest thing I've ever heard you say. It's just the ones who live in other countries.
SPEAKER_05The ones that get furloughed. Supposedly, cranberry sauce is one of the easiest things that you can make. I've seen all these recipes. You've never made it.
SPEAKER_04Ever made it either. You know, I I get it at Kroger, though. Their daily's got a pretty good one. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Trader Joe's has a really good one, too.
SPEAKER_04You ever had the one at Kroger at Kroger? It's pretty good.
Greens, Beans, And Casserole Takes
SPEAKER_05All right. Green bean casserole versus roasted Brussels sprouts.
SPEAKER_02What does he eat in Florida?
SPEAKER_04Okay, first of all, I've never ate a Brussels sprout in my life. No, you know. I just had some last night. Janie and Cameron like them.
SPEAKER_02Do you know who's got the best Brussels sprouts? Neither one. Jeff Ruby's. Jeff Ruby's.
SPEAKER_04Never heard. We do get them at Jeff Ruby's. But I've never eaten one in my life. Oh, they're pretty good. But they look like little cabbages. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, there's no chance of meeting it. But for the purpose of this discussion, green bean casserole or I don't like green bean casserole.
SPEAKER_02I love green beans, but I don't like green bean casserole. I'm kind of shocked by this.
SPEAKER_05Well, we can we can I've just got to go green beans.
SPEAKER_04Green beans. We'll go green beans and call it a day. What do you mean? Allen's canned seasoned green beans. Unbelievable.
Pie Battles And Final Four
SPEAKER_05I mean, delicious. They're the fatty ones, too. All right. Now we're down into the pie section of the bracket. Ooh. Pumpkin pie versus apple pie. Pumpkin. Apple. I won't eat pumpkin. At Thanksgiving. I'm going pumpkin. I'm going pumpkin. My people like pumpkin. I love apple pie's my favorite dessert. But at Thanksgiving, I gotta go pumpkin. Yeah, I'm down. I'm all right with it. The bottom of the bracket. Pecan pie versus chocolate pie. Chocolate pie.
SPEAKER_04Pecan pie is my favorite pie that they make. Pecan pie. I gotta go with that. I call it pecan. Do you ever get it at Long John Silvers back in the day? When they had the little slices on it. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01I mean delicious.
SPEAKER_05The round of eight. The round of eight. Mashed potatoes versus dinner rolls. Mashed potatoes. Not close. Wow. Okay. We're not going to have it. What do you think? I'd go with a dinner roll just because you like yams. I need yeah, I'd need to sop up all the yam juice. You know what I'd do?
SPEAKER_04Look, I I gotta put my turkey in the mashed potatoes and bring it up.
SPEAKER_02You gotta, you know, if I knew it was that kind of party, you know what I'd have done.
SPEAKER_05All right.
SPEAKER_04Not let your servants off.
SPEAKER_05Stuffing versus deviled eggs.
SPEAKER_02Stuffing. Dressing.
SPEAKER_04Deviled eggs.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna go stuffing here. I gotta do double digs. And I love deviled eggs.
SPEAKER_04What you're telling me is if you just could eat one, you'd eat stuffing over deviled eggs.
SPEAKER_05My stuffing in particular that I just described.
SPEAKER_02You call it dressing or stuffing?
SPEAKER_05I I I call it. You're from Ohio. Yeah, OH. I o but it's dressing. But it's dressing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. I will allow it. So now we've got. Because nothing's beating mashed potatoes. I can tell you that right now. We've got cranberry, cranberry sauce versus green beans. Green beans. Green beans. Hands down. I'm with it. Okay, green beans moves on. I'd have gone cranberry sauce, but that's all right. Now down in the bottom, pumpkin pie versus pecan pie. For me, it's pecan pie.
SPEAKER_02I call it pecan, but what we normal people call it pumpkin all day long.
SPEAKER_04Pumpkin it is. What is the stuff in pecan pie that's underneath the layer of the pecan? Cornurus.
SPEAKER_05It's fantastic. It's like corn syrup and eggs.
SPEAKER_04You know what it is? Delicious diabetes. And look, it's totally worth it. Wilford Brimley loved it. I don't need the crust. I don't need the pecans, but whatever's in the middle, I need it.
SPEAKER_02You know what else you need? Insulin.
SPEAKER_05You ain't gonna believe it. We're down to the final four.
SPEAKER_04Hit it. Mashed potatoes.
Producer Visit And Live Recording Plans
SPEAKER_05Mashed potatoes versus stuffing. Oh. I'm still going to mash potatoes. I'll go mashed potatoes. Okay. Just to be contrary, I'm gonna go stuffing or doing it. You know what? Mashed potatoes are undefeated. Mashed potatoes are undefeated. They're in the finals. Versus we've got uh oh gosh. Pecan pie. Pecan pie. No, it's it's gravy. Is it gravy? No, they lost in the first round. It's uh green green beans.
SPEAKER_02Hamster, sweet potatoes.
SPEAKER_05It's green beans versus pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie. Green beans. Okay, pumpkin pie moves on to take on mashed potatoes.
SPEAKER_04There is no way if this was in Vegas, the odds would be I mean, the odds would be like 230 to 1 mashed potatoes. That's pretty fun.
SPEAKER_05That was that was pretty enjoyable.
SPEAKER_02So uh I just want to know what he eats at his house. What he eats brussels left with yams and sweet potatoes.
SPEAKER_05He told me that this came off of a television uh down in Florida tonight that they're the ones that put this out there. It wasn't the creation of producer Mellon.
SPEAKER_04Now, I just need to know I just need to know if he eats marshmallows on his yams when he eats them with his Brussels sprouts.
SPEAKER_05So I've got some news to share, boys. Uh Producer Mellon is going to be here on December Let's go! December 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th. Uh he'll be here in the house. In the studio. And we are going to do an episode and we're going to bring in the other mic over there, don't we? Yeah, I just have to plug it in.
SPEAKER_04Well, it won't do anything, but it'll be fine. It'll look good. He'll never know the difference.
SPEAKER_05Oh no, what's what's the dates? December 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th. I'll put that in my case.
SPEAKER_04Are you are you are are you gonna have your staff back on by then?
SPEAKER_05That's uh he gets in on a he gets on a on a Tuesday night, so I'm thinking the Thursday night would be a great time to do the podcast. So whatever that date is, Thursday, December the 12th ish, or when whenever 11th, 12th, something like that.
SPEAKER_04Let me look here. Hold on, please. Yes, it's the 11th is a Thursday.
SPEAKER_05We are taking him, by the way, to Jeff Ruby's in Louisville on Wednesday night.
SPEAKER_04Pretty good.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I have a choir concert at night.
SPEAKER_04On Wednesday or Thursday? Thursday.
SPEAKER_05What when's it over?
SPEAKER_04Uh probably 7 30. We could do a later episode.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_05All right.
SPEAKER_04So other other news. We've got looks like the first uh turn has tabled in college football. It has. It looks like uh James Franklin, for whatever reason, Virginia Tech thinks he's gonna be able to take him to the promised land, even though he couldn't do that with Penn State. He's the savior. Uh, but it looks like he's the guy.
SPEAKER_05He is. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER_04Umbelievable. But here's the real question. Yep. Lane Kiffin. LSU, Florida, or stays at Ole Miss.
SPEAKER_05You saw that thing I sent you all where his family went to both uh one day LSU and one day they went to Florida, and now Ole Miss wants some answers. So what do you think? I still think he's staying. But I think he stays. I may be wrong. What do you think's the better job? Between those three, LSU's the best job. I think so. Uh just just because of the, you know, look, there's nothing else. Uh the resources at LSU are geared towards football.
SPEAKER_02But he can stay at Old Miss and win nine games, ten games a year, be good to go. Be a hero at LSU if you don't win the championship.
SPEAKER_05He's he's an ego guy. That's it. He's if it were if it were me, I'd stay at Old Mess.
SPEAKER_04He's the coach, he's the coach that you hate if you're against him and you love if you have a spurrier.
SPEAKER_05He's Urban Meyer.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, same thing.
SPEAKER_02So let's say for Urban has a headache.
SPEAKER_05Well, let me say, Ur Urban supposedly went and talked to Penn State. Bullcrap. I don't believe it. I don't know if I believe it either, but supposedly the the rumor is that they asked him about NIL and he gave a terrible answer and they ruled him out.
SPEAKER_04There is no possibility. If Urban Meyer said, I want this job, yeah, then he's gotta have done things that are criminal for him not to get it.
Parity In College Football
SPEAKER_05To me, though, here's here's the thing. Seriously, Ur Urban Meyer is the rarity of rares in like uh uh the pressure cooker that is Ohio State, okay? Yeah, and we're gonna we're gonna equate it to UK basketball in just a second. Yeah, they're they're similar. Okay. So Urban Meyer was 7-0 against the rival. Okay, that's you know, they they would build a statue if he never coaches against Ohio State again. They there will be an Urban Meyer statue outside that stadium. Why on earth would you want to mess with that legacy? Um Rick Petino was very similar at UK, and it took a long time for UK fans to finally bring him back into the fold and tune like now there's a a high level of respect because he went and coached at the rival. Yeah, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and you just don't tarnish that the legacy. Yeah, him going to Boston, people could have got over that. Right. Yeah but when he went to Louisville, that did it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. So um college football continues on as the the greatest sport in the history of the planet. It's really good. It's you know, and this has been a fascinating year because there's parody. There isn't this there is no huge dominant team. I agree with that. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, you know, where it's been there those last several years, you could say pretty much one of those teams was going to be right there at the end. Um this year you can't really say that. You've got you know the old misses of the world. You got Texas AN, Indiana, you got Indiana, um, you know, Texas Tech has has had its run. Oregon again is knocking back on the door, even though they uh lost to Indiana. Um the SEC, no no one wants to step up and be the dominant team because there is finally a level of parity.
SPEAKER_04You know, Alabama you know, gets Alabama looked great for the last month and a half and then they get knocked off. They got knocked off of Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_05Yep. Uh Vandy, everyone, oh Vandy, Vandy, Vandy.
SPEAKER_04And then they've they've yeah. You know. So So does Kentucky get bowl eligible? They have to be they have to win at Vandy or win at Louisville. Are both of those games winnable? With the way Kentucky's been the last couple of weeks, I believe. Yes. Look, let me tell you what, the line for the Vany game opened at seven and a half. I sent you all a text, it got up to ten instantly. Yeah. With Kentucky's defense, that seems like a lot of points.
SPEAKER_05That's a lot of points. Kentucky's defense has looked good lately. Yeah. What do you think, Silent Bob?
SPEAKER_02I'm afraid to comment because every time every time I say something about Kentucky gonna win or lose or something like that, they do the opposite. So I'm just gonna say the end do not get bowl eligible.
SPEAKER_04Um As you guys know, I've said on here I think Mark Stoops would not be the coach at the end of this season.
SPEAKER_02He is one hundred sense coach this season.
SPEAKER_04I see no reason why they'll change the coach now at this point. So wild how the tables have turned on that. In in three weeks. Yeah. I mean, winning at Auburn and then just dismantling Florida and beating a team last week should have beat. Yep. Yep.
Kentucky Bowl Outlook And QB Growth
SPEAKER_02Um I mean Scotter Bowl made a big difference that we're thinking.
SPEAKER_05I think he's growing in in front of your eyes. I think that you know, I watched him play this past week.
SPEAKER_04I was impressed. He's he's he's a pretty good red shirt freshman quarterback. I mean, he's won freshman of the week in SEC for three straight weeks. Uh if I I saw I heard a thing on the radio because I couldn't watch part of the game this weekend that said he would be leading the SEC in passing percentage and touchdowns thrown from October 1st to now. Uh I mean they didn't have a throwing touchdown prior to that. That's that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Uh um he's probably gonna get some money this offseason. It's just whether Kentucky's gonna pay him or not. Because I mean he's showing he's can play. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05Uh he's a Kentucky boy too, right? Lexington.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's from Lexington.
SPEAKER_05He they will step up and pay him.
SPEAKER_04I think so. Yeah. Um I saw Western Hills this guy got in, got a tackle this weekend. J. J. J.B. Campbell, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Unfortunately, uh Fred Farrier, senior day, didn't get to play very much, and I was really disappointed in that. Yeah, he's he he's he struggled this season, honestly. Well, I had hoped to to see him get to play a little bit more than than he did. Um I I'd really hope the Stoops would play against Tennessee Tech. Play your seniors, man. He played around during the season, though. Oh, he didn't play on senior day. So I mean I saw him basically two, three snaps. So um you know, that would have been nice.
SPEAKER_04So who's Ohio State got this weekend?
SPEAKER_05All right, so Ohio State is home versus Rutgers, and Ohio State's got injury problems. The line's huge. Yeah, well, the Rutgers is gonna slow it down. Rutgers is gonna do every trick play known to man.
SPEAKER_04Are they gonna have the cojones to do what Kirby Smart did this weekend, which was score a touchdown against um why am I blanking on who Georgia Blake?
Big Ten Lines And Pac-12 Stakes
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah. Texas. Yeah, Texas. And then straighten onside kicks it and get it. Yeah, I'd say no. I I'd say, well, look, Rutgers is gonna Greg Shiano is the coach of Rutgers, used to be defensive coordinator of Ohio State, knows the Buckeyes well. Um every time we play Rutgers, uh, there's some shenanigans in terms of uh That line is 31 and a half. That's too many points. That's too many points because look, Jeremiah Smith may not play, Carnell Tate may not play. Do you know another line?
SPEAKER_04That's your two starting wide receivers that are both high first round picks. Another line in the Big Ten that I want your all's opinion on. USC at Oregon.
SPEAKER_05Oregon's gonna beat them as bad as they want to. That line's double digits. Seems like a lot. Yeah, I I look USC's had some success and all that this year. I'm I'm not convinced on Lincoln Riley. Oh, I'm not either. So that's the Pac-12 championship, basically. Basically. Pac-10, pack eight, whatever. Pac-12. Yeah, there's no pack left anymore.
SPEAKER_04So uh And we're in we're starting college basketball. Yep. Yep. Kentucky had a bad loss last week. They did. Uh getting beat by Louisville's never a good thing. Uh but Louisville played Louisville's played great. Lights out. Yep, Louisville played great. Um look, both those teams are gonna be good, and no, and nobody's gonna want to play either one of those teams in Mallory.
SPEAKER_05Now, I I would I watch that game thinking uh both these teams are fine. You know, it doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_04They'll be they'll both be fine. Ohio State. I know Chris don't like to talk positive about Louisville. End the sentence after talk period. Positive about Louisville.
SPEAKER_05When we go on a podcast, you would think that he would talk a little bit, but but Pat Kelsey's he's another one of those coaches.
SPEAKER_04You don't like him unless he's yours. Yep. And but I kind of like him. Yep. Yeah, does a nice job. And he's done a great job at Louisville.
Early College Hoops And Louisville-Kentucky
SPEAKER_05Ohio State had a big basketball win. I don't get to say that too often. Who did they came back and knocked off Notre Dame the other day by one point? Yeah. Uh I like that. One of those 64-63 kind of games. Yeah, 67, six or seven. Six, seven, six, seven, something like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I still don't know what that means. How tall was Julia serving? Six or seven. Six, seven. I still don't know what that means. Thanks two of us. Well.
SPEAKER_02You know, something I want to throw out there besides the grinded my gears thing.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Nobody seems to like the grind my gears because nobody relates to it. I got a bathroom etiquette thing I want to start throwing out there. The day, all day. When I walk into the bathroom, if you're in a stall and you're finishing, do me a favor, wait until I'm gone before you open the door to come out. Because I don't want to make eye contact with you. Stand over there, waste some more time, whatever, before you come out and wash your hands and leave. Because when I walk in, there's a good chance I will know you in that you're in there without me having to see you. Finish your business, wait until I'm done with my business, washing my hands and leave before. You open the stall door.
SPEAKER_04So I I so I have a couple things on that. Yeah. Okay. So first, I assume you're prefacing it by a guy's defecating in the bathroom. That is true. First of all, that never happens. Nope.
SPEAKER_02For you two anyway.
SPEAKER_04I am a home filled advantage kind of guy. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02For you two anyway, but for other people, I can't say that.
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SPEAKER_04Well, that's just wrong. First of all, zero percent chance I'm ever doing having that issue. Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_03I mean, even if I go on vacation, I'll wait a week.
SPEAKER_02But say there's somebody in there and I walk in, there's a good chance I can tell somebody's in there. Why do you want to come out and let me make eye contact with you and go, I know what you did. I can tell it.
SPEAKER_05So they're supposed to wait until what if you gotta go in there. What if they're a business? What if there's eight urinals and you have to wait till all eight are done?
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Bathroom Etiquette PSA
SPEAKER_02If I gotta go in there, listen, if I go into a stall, stall number two, and somebody comes in, I will stand there and I will just wait.
SPEAKER_04But you and I are both tall. You can see over the stall.
SPEAKER_02It's all squat down. I'll squat down.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so look, I have never this has never crossed my mind. This thing he's talking about. It's irritating.
SPEAKER_05I will wait until those craves. Now, can I quote Curly uh from City Slickers? You city folk, you worry about a lot of S, don't you?
SPEAKER_02You worry too much about that. I'm just telling you, I don't want to make eye contact with the person who got it just destroyed that bathroom.
SPEAKER_05Don't you want to make eye contact and be like, oh, nice job, pal. Way to take it up for the rest of us.
SPEAKER_03I'm just saying, if you're in the stall, stay in the stall until I'm gone.
SPEAKER_05There's two ways you can look at that glass. It's either half full or half empty.
SPEAKER_04That just never crossed my mind, honestly. I never thought about that either. Think about it. You can think about it. Just don't do it.
SPEAKER_02What channel is that come on, Raw? Come on tonight.
SPEAKER_05Netflix? Netflix. Netflix, 8 o'clock. So that's why we gotta wrap this up. Why? Why?
SPEAKER_02Why? Somebody tell them why we're wrapping it up.
SPEAKER_05Because Raw is going to be rock solid tonight.
SPEAKER_04It should be. Why? I have no faith in Triple H. I don't either. But why? Well, because we finally got Cena's last Raw. There you go. And it's in Madison Square Gardens, and all the big names are there. The best there ever was.
SPEAKER_05100%. 17 time champ. 18 now. Yeah. Oh, 18 if you count the intercontinental. That's right. I'm just counting the the world titles. But yeah.
SPEAKER_04I mean, they say it. Undefeated. Right. I mean, it's like Becky Lynch. She's the best, uh, she's the best female wrestler. Not just her saying it. Sports Illustrated said it. Sports Illustrated said it.
Wrestling Night, Cena, And Terry Funk Tribute
SPEAKER_05Bleacher Report said it. Yep. So can I can I give an imitation that I never get to give? I have never done this one for you guys. Yeah. This is my terrible Terry Funk when he was going to wrestle Hulk Hogan for the world title in 1985, okay? Tonight, when I see Hulk Hogan across the ring. This is 40 years ago.
SPEAKER_02Can you name the movie the Terry Funk was in and had a big role in?
SPEAKER_05Uh over over the the arm wrestling one or over the top. Not over the top. No, uh, no, I don't.
SPEAKER_02Roadhouse.
SPEAKER_05And I want a great tan for the cover of Sparks Illustrated.
SPEAKER_02But what they're the what? His brother wrestled too. They were the Funk brothers, right? Dory Funk was a funky like a monkey. But he was in um um Roadhouse. Roadhouse, yeah. I've seen it.
SPEAKER_03I'll fry him! Both of them. I'll fry him with my iron.
SPEAKER_05Terry Funk.
SPEAKER_04Oh may rest in peace. And for you, Freya the Slayer is in top 200 female female wrestlers of in wrestling right now.
SPEAKER_05I wish we could play the Bomb Chick of Wow Wow music for you. I know how much you appreciate her.
SPEAKER_02When are we gonna go see her in person again? I do want to go see Cash Daniel down at wrestling.
SPEAKER_05Oh, let's go.
SPEAKER_02I'm in.
SPEAKER_04OVW. It's it well, that's not in Lima because we're only like a month away. Three weeks. So you can go back. Three weeks. Let's go.
SPEAKER_05Three weeks and counting.
SPEAKER_02Pending everything is still clear.
SPEAKER_04Right. We we may have to go holiday shopping up there. Oh I'm down.
SPEAKER_05Hey, I was just in the great state of Ohio last week. Oh, H. Uh oh. It was beautiful. It's there. I saw that sandwich place you want to go to. Oh, I do want to go there.
