2025-12-30- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Up Broadway in Lexington and invite you to celebrate New Year's Eve with Lexington's own Lee ken Berrall for two shows only on December thirty first then from Netflix is a Joke. Catch Ray Low January second and third, and January eighth through the tenth. Don't miss AGT finalist Aaron blyle More, tickets to all Comedy Up Broadway shows called eight five, nine, two seven to one joke, or visit Comedy Up Broadway dot com Comedy Off.

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Speaker 2: All right, good morning, and welcome to this Tuesday Morning editional Kentucky's Port Radio. It is Tuesday, December thirtieth, and we are live at Chaos Bar and Grill this morning. We already got a nice crowd of people who you know, kind of anxious to get out of the house. You know, been one of them. You've been stuck with your family for a couple of weeks. You gotta get out and do stuff. So, uh, good crowd here. We're gonna be here all day. A couple of special guests we want to tell you about. Also as always Connecting Port Radio sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called.

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Speaker 3: TJ and he will make them pay.

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Speaker 4: He will make them play. That's right.

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Speaker 2: We got our clarks pumplish out phone number eight five nine two eight h two to eight seven. That's a five nine two eight O. Cats also got the a vision glass Tex machine.

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 6: Oh? Oh boy? Here we go five O two seven thirty five thirty six eighty.

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Speaker 4: You nailed it.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 4: Thet'll give it up for.

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Speaker 3: I stayed at holiday and express little Grew Franklin.

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Speaker 2: So, uh, we got some special guests today, Drew. Look at him, sit beside us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a little a little different scenery for me today than just looking at you.

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Speaker 4: We know.

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Speaker 2: It went with Matt's not here, Shannon's not here, Billy's not here, Myrio's not here. Willie Colley Stein shows up. Let's give it up for Willy Collie Stein.

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Speaker 4: This morning he got up. You're going this morning? How is your holiday? Big man man?

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Speaker 5: Eighty seven degrees?

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Speaker 4: Where it was it was seventy one here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I went from Dallas right after Christmas, flew here and then got two gorgeous days, play some golf, me some me, some of my buddies, had some good food, and then in forty degrees Coohler the next day was crazy.

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Speaker 6: I mean, JHN, are your shocked that Willy walked and worked in some golf over the holiday.

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Speaker 2: Did he just say he plays golf?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 6: I just feel like my man is about to be on tour at the rate it seems he's playing these days.

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Speaker 5: You know, these days, these days I like to say, I'm on the lit tour, the lit to lit to to te's to t's. Yes, yes.

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Speaker 2: What is your handicap? Have you gotten pretty good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: The lowest I've got is like a six. And then I found that you don't win any money at being a six handicap.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 5: So I went on a hiatus of just trying to play golf and not keep scoring, and I got it up to like a ten now and I win, you know, I win. So I'm sitting at a really good spot.

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Speaker 3: Let's show how much you knows golf.

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Speaker 6: He already knows how to cook the handcape back a little bit when some tournaments.

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if it's saying, then my game's just not as tight as it used to be.

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Speaker 2: Now you've been spend a lot of time in liting. You hear a lot this summer. Are you this a place you're gonna find yourself spending more and more of your free time up here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if all goes well this year, well, my daughter gets someone with kindergarten. This is her first year a kindergarten, so we wanted to move back here, and then I just didn't want to move her in the middle of the year and kind of start all over. But I'm hoping by this summer that we we get a spot out here and can really start our trining training program and just obviously golf.

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Speaker 6: We've got a few courses around here, a couple of places I would love to have you showing how much he's got to focus on on dad life these days. Ryan, did you all have a good Christmas? Did you have to put some toys together? And are either one that does the family shopping?

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Speaker 5: I am not the one that does that. I'm the one that's like, can we just give them a bottle to play with or a stick?

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Speaker 4: Well, boys are easy.

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Speaker 2: Boys should give him a cardboard box, some tape. They're set for days days.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, they had a great Christmas. I'm sure they're already done playing with the toy that we got them. So it's always good.

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Speaker 2: Now, the last time you were on here, somebody did send me a message, I said, ask Lilly about his personal life. Because you have children we know and married where you what do you see for your future? Kind of already got in some of those answers. How many kids do you have?

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Speaker 5: Now? I got three? I got a h My oldest is my daughter Kendrick, she's five, will be six in July, and twin boys that will be three next what February?

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Speaker 6: February, I'm joining the girl dad team. In May, you got you got any you got any tips for me? Or in April? Man, when's the baby? Dude?

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Speaker 3: April?

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Speaker 6: You better get that right letter, be ready by April.

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Speaker 5: It's a great I don't know, man, It's a good feeling, like it makes you a little softer, a little mushyear and.

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Speaker 6: I'm already real soft. You'll you'll just be.

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Speaker 5: Like watching the TV show and next thing you know, you just start crying. You're like, what the hell am I crying for? But yeah, man, they just make you a little more in tune with with what's going on in your emotional side. So I would say, enjoy it until they get about five and then she turns like five to fifteen real quick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're like, what.

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Speaker 5: Just happened to my baby girl? Why are you even so mean to me?

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Speaker 2: So you're wanting to move up here? They'll go to school up here. All your kids are end up going to school here in Lexington.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I would love that. No, it's a plan. I'm definitely trying to get out here in this next year.

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Speaker 2: What about you said you want to get into your train training? Is that kind of your future? You see yourself doing that and get a facility here?

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Speaker 5: Yep? We working with d Mils honestly, And yeah, man, I had like a little academy, just like a starter. See what we could do, See what it'll be fun? Like is this something I really want to do every day? And bro, it was the most like gratifying thing watching like a kid get better in twenty minutes, like couldn't hold a ball and then after twenty five minutes he's hitting like three in a row. I was like, oh, I'll sit here for an hour and a half and watch you shoot the same shot until you can hit five in a row. And seeing like the dad kind of spark up after it in real time, seeing his son get better, was like, oh, yeah, this is fun. I could I could do this for a living, for sure.

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Speaker 6: We had Darius on a few weeks ago to talk about the Alumni Center kind of the same stuff. How you guys have went from you know, being the stars, so now training the next generation. Have you done a lot of work out there with some of the other you know, former players that seems to be a lot of them been back around and helping out with the youth around here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if you guys remember he was a manager of ours, Michael Stump when I was here. It was also my roommate at the lodge. But he's he's one of my partners in it. And so he lives in Indiana and got his own little group that he's training there for now, and then he plans on getting out here like then the next couple of months and really do it every day. And I'll just come in like for a week out of time every month and kind of put my stamp on it like that until I could get out here every day with them. But other than that, I hadn't got to really wean uh yeah, ween, like I just met him yesterday, but I seen him in there working when we was in there, and I was like, oh, you got a good clientele based like what you know. Help helped me out a little bit. Let's see what we can do together. So the next time I come in, Uh, we got a like academy at the end of July that we're going or in the January that we're doing again in like a day camp in summerset. So we got this, we got some things cooking.

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Speaker 2: So you got twin boys, they're probably end up going playing basketball. You see yourself coaching them in the future or just training them.

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Speaker 5: I would I would coach them, Yeah, I would coach them. It's so it's so tricky when you have kids, Like you don't necessarily want to coach or train your kids, right, But like, I don't know. I guess I'm in a little different spot where I wouldn't probably with anybody else to train them. But I don't know, there's it just depends on how they take it. You know. Some kids shut down when their parents try to tell them things, and then some respected and they understand what's going on. Like my daughter with golf, I can't tell her what to do. Used to that she loves to do it. She loves to like go out and play, but like I have to trick her into like doing what I want her to do. I'm telling you, bro, Like when we first started, she was really into these like we were in Italy and I would take her, She's probably like two or three. I would take her to go hit balls with me, and I would have to bribe her with these chocolate cover Oreos. Smart Okay, if you can hit five of them in a row, I'll give you a chocolate cover Orio.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I've had other athletes say the same thing. You know, obviously you guys know the game, but your kid responds better to somebody else.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And my son's one of them. Jack's he's a natural, like he already had like a good like I don't. I don't really have to show them basketball things, like their mother watches basketball all day long. So I'm like, you probably know they're gonna be hoopers. Let's like let them not be hoopers for their first ten years of their lives, because it's gonna be hoops when it gets down to the gritty of it. So I'll be trying to show them all types of other stuff, music, art, there they're very artistic kids. Man. They love coloring on my walls and chairs, and you.

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Speaker 3: Know it sounds like a young Willie that showed up.

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Speaker 5: I just let them. I'm like, you know what, we'll paint over it. It'll be all right. Let's see what you got going on.

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Speaker 6: I remember writing those blog posts about an artistic freshman Willie collige Stein showing.

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Speaker 5: Up on campus a skateboard.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, something about an apple and a tree there. We kid about the golf and how you're chasing a pro career, but you really are passionate about it, talking about taking your daughter. When did you get into that? Was it still when you were playing basketball? You mentioned a little bit in Italy there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, it was probably my last what three three years, and I had started it when I was here, actually right before I left. One of my best friend's mom is I mean phenomenal golfer teacher does the mental coaching. So she got me into it. She was like, hey, you should start golfing after your career. You can make a lot of money for it. And I was like, it's like okay, yeah, whatever. This was one I had the boot on, so I'm out there like eating balls with his boot and terrible for him, but it was fun. And then I went to Sacramento and we lived right by a driving range, and so it became like kind of a routine game days. We'd go there, hit balls, chill out and kind of helped me with my free throws. So then I started like feeling like this connection of tempo and like just being like in a serenity spot of I don't know, nothing matters in that moment, so I just kind of kept it going. We moved. I didn't pick up my clubs again, and so I moved to Texas and when I went to rehab, all we had was a putt and green. So we were out there chipping around putting and I was like, damn, this is kind of fun and there's like a camaraderie about it. And when I left there, my neighbors was like, hey man, do you golf? And I'm like, yeah, I got golf bust. We went kicked my ass and I was like, that's when the prob kicked in, right. I haven't competitive nature. I haven't stopped golfing since that day. It's been like, legit four years now, and I probably golf more than I don't golf.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard anybody say that that learning to play golf helped you your free and your free throw shooting by getting that same headspace. But I guess it is kind of the same.

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Speaker 5: It's the motion zone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you call it?

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Speaker 5: The motion zone?

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Speaker 4: What does that mean?

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Speaker 5: The tiger?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't even know about this, Yeah, the motion motion Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 5: It's like, I don't know, what if you ever felt yourself in a moment of here's a perfect example. You ever been driving around and you drove seven miles and you were like, how did I just drive seven miles? You're in the motion zone, like your body's just doing it, And then you realize that you were driving and stopping at stop lights and turning signals and like like but I don't even remember cognitively, like driving these last ten miles and stopping every time or somebody break check and like that's the mos zone.

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Speaker 6: Oh when I when I forget some of my golf rounds, A lot of was the twelve transfusions I had. But I guess I was maybe just in the zone. Okay, I don't do that while driving around town, just on the golf course.

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Speaker 5: Of course, of course, of course you're on the lid Tour.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: But it helped you. It did it helped your basketball?

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Speaker 5: It did? It did? It did? And I learned that from Steph. Honestly at that time, I was really watching stuff get down on the golf and I was like, there's gotta be some correlation to it. And Betty she actually that's my friend's mom. She actually came out to Sacramento and hooked me up to like Thursday's program that you're like you It trains you to get into the motion zone to shoot free throws, and it was like a very weird video game, but it was like it worked to help.

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Speaker 3: So how much we gotta get you in the motion zone? Right?

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Speaker 4: I know what, I'm kind of fascinated by this.

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Speaker 3: Think of this potential we could unlock.

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Speaker 2: You know, my my free throw shooting could have been dragged drastically improved. So how much did it improve, like do you know percentage wise or did it make a big jump or did it progressively get better as your years went on.

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Speaker 5: I would say that it progressively got better, but it probably was a big jump too. I mean, as a as a guy that got to shoot, you know, four times every three games, Like, I think that it's hard to kind of justify what your free throw percentage is. Like if I'm only getting five chances to shoot free throws and six games like and you missed two of them, you know you got a bad free throw percent is so like to me, it was the comfortability getting up to it of not thinking about I'm a bad free throw shooter. I'm a good free throw shooter. I'm just a free throw shooter. Just shoot the damn ball.

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Speaker 6: A friend of the program, Josh Hoeter, a PGA tour golfers, texting and about setting up some foursomes on the Lit Tour. We'll have to on the Lit Tour Willy to the test against a PGA pro if we can set that up. Yeah, he's listening right now. Maybe he gets in the moochin zone on tour.

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Speaker 5: Get him in some more. Here.

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Speaker 2: We've got Willi kalaich Stein here joining us. And we've got another special guest, Wukosh is driving around here somewhere. I think he's going to join us as also today and four Towers the the twin Towers coming in two seven footers and you and me, you're gonna take your portrait us. We'll take it. We'll take your phone calls as well. Today's your call. If you want to call and talk to Willy, ask him a question, he's here to answer your thoughts and he'll be here.

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Speaker 4: Tell what'd you say about eleven thirty?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Here eleven eleven thirty that's somewhere in there. Okay, all right, eight five nine two eight oh two to eighty seven. We're right back, Ryan Drew and Willie kleich Stein Here Ma's ports radio. All right, welcome back. You take a sports radio, Ryan Drew and Willie Colligstein this morning. Our phone lines are open. We got a couple of lines open right now. If you want to call and ask Willy a question. Eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven. That's say five nine to eight Oh cats Clark's pumber Shop phone number.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys saw the news or not. Kind of a sad day in Lexington.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, I already know what you're gonna say, Ryan, don't bring it up.

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Speaker 2: Tolly Hoe closing. Look, Casey's eyes lit up like what it hurts? It hurt closing. Tolly Hoe effective tomorrow is closing for good. It's been open since nineteen seventy one. Did you have some late night Well, of course, if you're a UK student or you've lived in Lexington and gone out late at night, somehow you ended up at tolly Ho.

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Speaker 6: Especially the basketball team, they didn't live too far away from uh the real spot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the og.

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Speaker 4: Well, they they like this.

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Speaker 2: They've moved around last couple of years, couldn't settle in a good spot. So finally, since closing their doors first time since nineteen seventy one, kind of a somber day in Lexington. I believe tomorrow will be drew when they shut their door for the last time.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'll admit I'm part of the problem.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been in many years.

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Speaker 6: Once they left limestone over there where you could just walk from the bars, I mean that became an event after the bar. I I mean you'd see people there at three in the morning. Next look up, suns coming up. You're still at tally Ho. So I admit I'm part of the people that didn't help keep it alive the last couple of years. It's been bouncing around here on Broadway. I feel like two or three locations, but man, so many fun memories of being in that place in college and even after college. I wish I had time to get one last hoburger, but I won't be able to make it over there. But anyone that went to UK, especially when it was at that limestone location for many many years, you've been in Tollyhill at least once and have fond memories there.

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Speaker 3: Willie included.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure, oh many nights some months I don't remember. I remember going in there, I don't remember leaving. What's your favorite? Like, what's your go to to get?

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Speaker 6: Looking back at my order that I would be getting at three thirty in the morning after drinking red Bulls and beer all night, I can't believe I would put it in my body. But I would get like the hoburger with cheddar tots, and then that wouldn't be enough, So of course I needed a milkshake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I might look up.

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Speaker 6: And see a pancake and suddenly start craving breakfast. So it was the most extreme orders that I would never get at normal time of day for a normal meal, but it was it was just give me all the calories. Also lots of just scenery, the.

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Speaker 4: People watching all the people watching.

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Speaker 6: Occasionally you'd get a fight, but most times people were happy in there. But honestly a lot of times it was like Kentucky basketball player sightings and there Willie, I'm sure you walked in many times and people have lost their minds because here comes the team walking in.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, it is great. I used to get the biscuits and gravy.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I forgot.

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Speaker 3: That was my side item.

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Speaker 5: With my on top.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you go at three in the morning after the bars, or when you wake up hungover from the night before. I go for breakfast and brunch the next day. That's I hate the I hate it that it's that it's disappearing. But you know, like I said, it's our own fault. You know, if we don't go, this is none as buses used to be.

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Speaker 6: I hate that it had to leave live just the prime location there the bars. Around my first year at UK, I lived right over here across the street at Royal X and I was at tolly Hoe Way too late one night, probably eating biscuits and gravy and Ramel Bradley was there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm new to lex and it's like my first time having a celebrity siding in town. So I had Ramel signed my napkin and I took it home to my roommate who was asleep, and gave it to him as a gift. I framed it, so we had a framed tolly Hoe napkin in our apartment at Royal X From Reel Bradley.

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Speaker 2: What are some of your fan interaction memories from tolly Hoe or being on campus? Like what some crazy things you signed or did or ran into somebody?

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Speaker 6: And remember we're on.

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Speaker 5: Radio, so radio, Yeah, you know, on campus, not too too much crezy, just a lot of pictures them signings get crazy though. When we went on them autograph tours, that was probably the coolest thing that I've been a part of. Just like pulling up to a random place I've never been in Kentucky and there's thousands of people waiting out, yeah, wrapped around the block. I'm like, Oh, this is this is crazy, this is what it's about. And then like genuinely like caring about each person that walks through, Like I think that was probably the coolest thing to me, was like really having like that thirty second interaction with the person coming through and they want to tell you everything in that thirty seconds, and you're just trying to hold it in there, Like, dude, I really like what you got going on. And person has me signed their.

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Speaker 2: Baby after you signed a baby, Dude.

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Speaker 5: I signed a baby, Dude. I didn't want to do it, but I had to do it just based off the movie, right. I'm like, yeah, I'll sign the baby, but I don't feel comfortable without signing your kid right now. And I had a couple of people get like my face tattooed on their times.

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Speaker 6: I was about to bring up I have pictures on my phone because guy came to our show he had it on his thigh too.

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Speaker 5: I had a girl she had it. It was the first one. She came in there, had showed it to me. I was blown away. She had me sign it. She came to the next signing like two days later and she had it like my signature tattooed on her. Then I was like, oh, you're cool. That's that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 6: Other than those tattoos that we remember and signing a baby. Any other crazy.

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Speaker 5: Stories, Oh man, there's probably a lot of them that.

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Speaker 6: Remember one of your teammates, wasn't there someone like licking Devin Booker's car.

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Speaker 3: That was weird was the liquor.

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Speaker 6: Liquor, it was your.

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Speaker 5: Car, Okay, I don't think they wanted to lick that Saturn man Saturn, Yeah, he had a nice little like what do you have a challenger or something like, Yeah, you know, look at the Childers a lot. I would rather look a challenger than a saddern view if you drove.

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Speaker 6: By the lodge right now. Not a lot of Saturns out there. Times have changed just a little bit. It's a it's a it's a nice new park a lot with some fancy vehicles. You you bummed about missing out on that era by a couple of years.

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Speaker 5: I think about it every day. I'm like, how how can I still get it? Yeah? How can I? The last why I started a golf brand, Like that's why I'm like trying to like come back out here and really work, because I mean it's just the opportunity to to really like especially for a brand standpoint, like there's not another place that the fans care about our well being like this place, and like they want to attach to the culture that you're bringing and you want them to be a part of your culture. So like coming back and doing what Dmills is doing and doing what I'm doing. I hope more guys like you see Aaron's coming back more. I hope more guys like realize like the opportunity of life after basketball here is booming, Like you can start businesses out here and you know you got a support like that that can be sustainable out here. And growing this culture is what it's about. Growing the cities what it's about. So That's where I've been at since I've entered my thirties. It's just like, how can I how can I make the community better, and how can I like give back to the to the youth.

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Speaker 2: He acts like he's an old man. He's in his thirties.

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Speaker 4: Do you hear that? Just sitting up?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 2: So all right, So well take a break, come back. Take some phone calls. Eighty five nine two eight oh two two eight seven. That's a Clark's pumpish out phone number. You want to call and ask Willy a question. If you ever saw Willy at tolly ho at three o'clock in the morning, what did Willy sign for you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we know, we want to hear some of that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, some stories I'm gonna say a girl in there and stream out the orders like I got a Swissburger for a rock star calling names the whole virgins.

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Speaker 3: You'd ring the bell?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wow, alright, P think I break, We'll come back.

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Speaker 4: Thank You's Ports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Thank you for the radio. We mentioned earlier that Matt, Shannon, Billy, and Mario all off this week with the holiday, so Ryan and Drew holding down.

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Speaker 3: The ford unacceptable that they did that to us.

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Speaker 2: Well, look who we got beside us though we got Willie h Stein did step in for him. Though, you know, upgrade. We definitely had an upgrade.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 2: I try to, I always forget. It sneaks up on me.

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Speaker 2: We're here at chaospar and Grill where tonight we've got quiz night tonight. Yeah right, Uh, you're gonna come and participate in a little quiz night tonight.

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Speaker 6: I'll try. I got pretty busy Tuesday, but I'll pop in and miss a few questions.

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Speaker 2: Great prizes, I don't know what they are.

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Speaker 6: Oh okay, well a great prize.

00:24:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure we can say they're great.

00:24:09
Speaker 6: Yeah. It's a good reason to come out. We've all been stuck inside like today. We have a great crowd in here. We all love our families, but sometimes we see too much of each other this time of the year, and you just need to get out of.

00:24:17
Speaker 2: You to get out out of the house a little bit, and so coming out to Casparn Grill and we appreciate how you people going out here this morning.

00:24:24
Speaker 6: We got some bowl games today too.

00:24:25
Speaker 4: We do have a couple of bowl games Tennessee.

00:24:27
Speaker 6: They're in our favorite.

00:24:28
Speaker 2: Bowl games see in Illinois.

00:24:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, they just played a basketball in Nashville a few weeks ago and now they're playing football.

00:24:34
Speaker 5: That's crazy.

00:24:35
Speaker 2: I want to ask you guys this a little situation here that because John Calla Perry is kind of right in the middle of it. North Texas football had a really good year for North Texas. They went to a bowl game, like one of their best seasons ever. But now like nearly their entire starter and starting union has entered the transfer portal. That's where the transfer portal is good. These guys maybe got under recruited out of high school, they have a good season in a mid major, then they get to gaby jump up to a major college. Well, some comments that cali Peri made like last summer, I think he made these like and during the summer saying that the transfer rule transfer portal is good, but you should be able to transfer for free. One time, but then after that, if you transfer again, you have to sit out a year. It's picked up some steam with this North Texas thing going on. Where do you sit on both topics? North Texas, the transfer, all the people that are bolting out of there, and what Cali Perry said.

00:25:31
Speaker 3: Well, I agree.

00:25:31
Speaker 6: I think everyone seems to agree. We just have utter chaos right now. And the NCAA, I don't know if you saw, gave a statement to Jeff Goodman yesterday about this NBA stuff and they're basically like, we can't do anything about it, like we need help, Like they're just getting sued left and right, and they've thrown their hands in there and basically admitted that they're not doing anything right now.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you.

00:25:50
Speaker 6: Saw it, but last night, your boy Cow went on a great rhint. I watched it twice. I was gonna make a note to play it here, but it's like nine minutes long. It would take up a whole segment. But I agreed with everything he said, and he was cooking. It was in a press conference and he's yelling about just how out of control it's gotten, and he's talking about how he didn't call him by name. But now we have Trenton Flowers, who has played in an NBA game this year, is talking about going back to college, and Kyl just lost it and I agree with everything he said. You know, he's actually you know, for some of the flawles cow has. I think his messaging and all this, he's been right on it. Make him the commissioner or put him in charge of this because he has the right attitude what you said. He he thinks you subell transfer once, yes, or if you have a coach leave that's a different circumstances. Otherwise, if you're transferring, sit out a year like he used to. And his big thing was if you ever entered the draft, I don't care if you're from even says it. I don't care if you're from Russia wherever. If you've entered the draft, no you cannot come back. That should just be an easy rule that has gotten lost and thrown out the window, and now no one is even trying to monitor or have any laws around this right now.

00:26:53
Speaker 4: Wellie, what do you think.

00:26:56
Speaker 5: I'm indifferent? Yeah, yeah, I'm in different because.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: You see it from a different perspective player.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if they're gonna let you come back and there's no rules, Like why should I want to come back? You know what I mean? I got eligibility, Like what's the stipulation on that, Like if you were if he's if he's already played a game, and it doesn't matter if I played five hundred games in there. It's like, if he can go back, why couldn't a guy like me go back? So that's when it gets tricky. When do you save their cutoff is for a kid to be able to go back into college and finish whatever he's got going on. But then there's a side of it too. It's like next man up, Like you got young kids that are trying to get on and get in that situation that you know, now there's no scholarships for him or there's no you know, spots that they could get to a better, you know, situation for themselves. So it's a tricky. It's it's definitely as Wild Wall West. But with Cal he kind of started that, like you were the one that wanted us to get paid all this time. Right now it's happening and I'll be seeing him talk about now the kind of like the other side of not liking that everybody getting paid, and it's like, probably, but it has always been the thing you always thought we should get paid. So like, now that you're actually having to divvy up money, it feels a little different that you have to pay these kids. But they're professional student athletes now, so it's just hard to like you said, the NC double A doesn't know what the hell they're doing, So how do you how do you navigate this, like even how do you begin to even think about how you's a It's a very confusing thing. Bro, It's like, I don't I don't know what you do.

00:28:30
Speaker 6: At this point, Cal's big thing was I'm not trying to take money out of mean in his pockets. He's like, I want them making money. But we've made it to where there's an incentive to go get an international guy because apparently there's no rules like if you play pro overseas now, but if you know, played in the NBA.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: That shouldn't be a difference.

00:28:46
Speaker 6: But he's like, now no one is getting high school kids, and it's taken away opportunities from that senior in high school and then with the transfer and everywhere, he's like, sure these guys make money in four years but it really is you. You've probably learned over the years of the NBA. You know, you see that big dollar amount, but that can go pretty quick. And these kids in the pro are in college right now that seems like a lot of money when they leave and they have no attachment to these schools. They're not getting a degree because they're transferring so much and they weren't good enough to go pro. They're learning the hard way that that that was just a quick, you know, quick paycheck while you're in college and you have nothing for your future set up, not a degree, not a school that appreciates you, not a town that appreciates you. Well. Willie mentions, you know what a good community you have where you can come back to Lexington and set stuff up, help kids. But these guys that are moving school to school, there's just no connection there.

00:29:33
Speaker 5: At school that you didn't build, no loyalty.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, you came by for a year.

00:29:35
Speaker 6: So that's Cal's big message, which it's just it's you know, he's saying he's pro kid, make your money, but also this system is taken away opportunities.

00:29:43
Speaker 5: And it's not the kids, it's the system. Like if the system's allowing me to do that. Why the hell would I not do that? Like, why wouldn't I go to the biggest bidder and transfer every year if this team's gonna give me more money. It's like, like you said, at the end of the day, I might not go to the league. I might not have a job set up getting the max amount of dollars you can for them to shoot up. I was playing. Now I would go six years. I'm going to like be a doctor, you.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: Know, like Chad Baker Mazarre.

00:30:10
Speaker 3: Well that's the thing.

00:30:11
Speaker 6: Most these guys aren't good enough to truly make it in the NBA, so they're cashing in, but they're getting that mindset that that's going to be there when they leave college and that phone's not ringing.

00:30:21
Speaker 5: It was like my whole thing that I wish that even like for myself, Like I was, I'm just now catching on to the financial literacy of things, and I blew through everything that I've ever had, so now I'm like working it back up and trying to do it the right way. But it's like with the guys now making so much money, they needed like these I think each school should teach them financial literacy and then make funds for them so they could put all their money together as a team and go get investment properties and start building portfolios of like some real financial literacy that cal was telling us about. Yeah, but when you don't have money and he's just telling you, like, this is what it should this is what it's going to be like when you leave here, and this is like save your money and put it in it is have two different financial people like checking each other and you're looking, but I don't know any of what you're talking about. It sounds great, though, it sounds amazing, But telling me what to do and showing me what to do is a lot different, especially at that level where you think you're gonna play forever. You think you're gonna get a hundred million dollar contract. You think, so it's like you're not even worried about it until you gotta worry about it and it's already too late. Like you don't like at this point, there's there's so much financial stuff that I have no idea about that. Now that I'm not in the NBA and I'm not getting a big check, I can't afford to pay a financial person to like do that anymore. So then once you stop paying them. Now it's all on you and you never did it before. I never paid a bill here in Kentucky, which is one of the biggest things that I hated that they didn't let us live off campus. So I never knew what a paying a bill was. I never knew what how to like.

00:31:57
Speaker 4: How to budget your money or anything.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: Like you don't learn that shit, bro So then like when you when you get thrown to the fire, I just I mean like it's like a I don't know. I get away from it, like I'm like, I literally have no idea what this even is. I'm looking at I'm just gonna put it to the corner and you put it to the corner. You put it to the corner, and you're next thing, you know, you're like, you know, yo, seventy grand on your house or something, and you're like, when did I owe that? Like what happened there?

00:32:24
Speaker 2: That is a good point, you know, U k's been. They do such a good job of educating the guys about how to talk to the media, how to handle themselves, but they need it now they're making money. Teach them some financial skills to learn how to handle this in big paycheck.

00:32:36
Speaker 5: You're seeing them in a way of like not telling us. I think that's the whole thing is Like, yes, in the league they tell you they have meetings about you know, financial stuff, but it's like one meeting for an hour right after practice in the beginning of the year. You're like, I don't want to listen to what the hell you guys got to say, Like I'm trying to go home and get ready for the next day. But there's a way that they should They should like entice you to want to learn it. Yeah, and the way they present it, you just don't want to learn it. You're like, why would I Like, I don't want to do that.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: These guys are making a lot of money though they need to learn.

00:33:08
Speaker 5: No, they have to learn it. Yeah, at this point now, Like if I was making that much money in school, I would have hoped that they would have at least told me about putting it up in you know, some sort of fun where it's making you know, every year you're getting fifteen thousand, twenty thousand off that you know, same thing. So, I mean that's that's the hard thing about it. Though. It's like, how do you teach financial literacy without it being a class or like you should make them take a financial literacy class. There should be some sort of they should do it in high school, honestly, Like, it just baffles me that, Like you get here and everything's paid for and somebody tells you where to go, and you're living off an alarm clock. And then when you leave here, that's different, you know what I mean. Now you're the alarm clock. Nobody's telling you where to go, nobody's telling you what to do, and you're like just totally lost. You're like, well, shit, I don't even know what to do.

00:33:59
Speaker 6: Where's the man measure to come pick up my laundry and watch this for me? And that's not unique to student athlete, not to nerd out on that, but like tex, stuff that gets everybody to you. I remember the first time I had to like what they take?

00:34:09
Speaker 3: How much of what you know?

00:34:11
Speaker 6: That's something that should be taught it not just even before college there, that's true, but it is a route awakening to the athletes who get that large sum at nineteen. I remember the first year.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: I did it at eighteen.

00:34:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember the first year of nil. There were some stories going around with some players some here, some of other places where it came April and they're like, oh, what on that money you gave me? I have to give some of that back now, and that money was gone. Yeah, that was a route awakening for a lot of a lot of people, probably still happening to two kids coming in guarantee it.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well take our break, come back, go back to the phone line. Got a couple of lines open eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven. It's a five nine two ol cats. Ryan Drew and Willy kley Stein will be right back. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. All right, Welcome back Kentakey's Ports Radio, Ryan Drew and Willie coley Stein and are putting on our brand new Willie kley Stein hats tell us about your little hot collection you got going on.

00:35:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, so we started. You know, obviously, I'm a big golfer, so I kind of got tired of wearing the normal golf brands, and I was like, I'm a fashion designer. I've always I've always liked, you know, designing art. So combining all three passions into one thing has been so fun to do. So and something like this, But when we talk about building community and starting like I want I'm trying to start a cult following with this this golf brand and so bringing these the UK color ways and like really getting it here, and I want to take over Kentucky first with everything that we do. And it just like, I don't know, it just looks so good. When you see somebody wearing it and you.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: Said you looked across the golf course recently and or some young man had one of your hats on.

00:35:57
Speaker 5: Broll, it was like the coolest feeling ever. I'm like, damn, what what brand is that?

00:36:02
Speaker 4: You know?

00:36:02
Speaker 5: At first you're like what is that? And you're like, oh, that's that's.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: My that's your stuff. So how can people order one? How can they get one?

00:36:09
Speaker 5: So right now they're at Kentucky Brandon. You can go online Kentucky Brandon dot com. They're on there typing Willie coley Stein and it should pop up. Or you can go into their store and golf headquarters and Jefferson County I think, or Jeffers Yeah in Louisville. Yeah, they have them in their stores. One this is putting them in their stores.

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Nice.

00:36:34
Speaker 5: I just got linked with Golf Exchange and Florence they're putting them in their store, So I'm just kind of trying to play them in their spots and whatnot and get the just normal, like blue collar people in them, and like flood our socials with like, you know, just random people wearing it, like nothing, no crazy marketing, no crazy, just word of mouth. I'm just trying to do a real old school gorilla style. I went out to Santa Con I think two weeks ago, were just out there hanging out with people in the snow, handing out hats and just really trying to build that community. Like I was talking about, I'm not.

00:37:10
Speaker 6: Just saying this because he's here. I mean I would lie to him if I didn't like him. But the first time I saw one of these on Instagram.

00:37:14
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, will those are cool?

00:37:16
Speaker 6: I literally jumped out at me like, oh.

00:37:18
Speaker 5: They do, man, they do. So we got you know, obviously, these are our first color ways that we got. We did a cream and red version and a black and red version for our very first ones. They sold out so quick, so we'd we like triple the order. The next time was like, I think they're very cool. Think they're gonna get off.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: Very cool now. Also, I want you to talk about before you get out of here.

00:37:39
Speaker 4: You've done a great thing.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: You've sponsored a young man here in town.

00:37:42
Speaker 4: Talk about that a little bit.

00:37:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, David, we we had a a mystery woman, I guess dm us. When we were doing our first week of skills of our brick House Skills Academy, She's like, you know, for the holidays, we want to sponsor a kid. Do you know anybody in mind? And I was like, absolutely not, I don't. I have no idea. So I reached out to another friend of mine here, which guy's probably know Cuba.

00:38:11
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Cuba.

00:38:13
Speaker 5: Coaching at that junior high. I was like, I got the perfect kid. Yeah yeah, same same thing, and so he, you know, he plugged us in with Dave and kid worked hard, man, and it was fun that it was fun to coach him for a couple of days. And man, he was just sliding around on the floor and couldn't do like he was athletic enough to do the drills that I really like wanted to do with them, but he was just sliding around. I'm like, bro, we gotta get you some shoes. So after the first workout we went to Dick's. I got him some new Hardens Bride orange things to you know, you've seen him pop right he got in there. His eyes lit up. He's like, well, we're orange and blue. I was like, man, these are.

00:38:48
Speaker 4: Your shoes, perfect, get them?

00:38:49
Speaker 5: And I got the looking at him, Bro, it's five degrees outside. I'm like, do you have a winter coat and he's like no. I'm like, let's get you a winter coat too. So the first thing puffer, Nike puffer jacket. Right when we pull up there, puts it on. I'm like, yeah, bro, that looks good. And look at the price tag. I'm like, yeah, that looks good. Man, you'll be a sponsor who cares, right, Yeah, might well need some socks too, Like everybody needs socks. So I got him like twenty four pair of socks white black. But by the end of it, I spent like six hundred bucks in there, and like I don't have six hundred bucks right, So I'm like I'm like at the checkout line and the bill comes up and I'm like, oh, my wife is gonna kill me. Transferred the money in there. I'm like, guy's gonna reward me for this? Man?

00:39:37
Speaker 4: Amen?

00:39:38
Speaker 5: Got him? Yeah? Amen? They feel good.

00:39:40
Speaker 2: Well, they posted some video of it. You can see the day you've got little Dave got emotional. Yeah one time, you know, because you stepped up and did some things for him that he would know never have a chance to own a pair of shoes like that, some hardens and get a winter coat when it's freezing outside right now. So God bless you man, a little great story.

00:39:57
Speaker 5: It touched me too, man, when he got emotional. I walk away for a little bit, like brod, don't do that to me. Yeah, yeah, it was. That's that's what it's about.

00:40:06
Speaker 6: Your sticker shock will wear off quickly that he'll remember that forever.

00:40:09
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what now you're gonna get it back tenfold. That's how I believe it.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: Like at the time, you've earned your wings, brother, no doubt about it. What we appreciate your hanging out with. I know you got a head out where you said you gotta going up north, going up to Florence for a golf thing.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: Marketing, right, marketing, getting the deal there and getting the hats out there, and yeah, I mean they got some big things playing us on. I'm hype about going out there and seeing what they got going on. Uh, we're gonna be in the Golf Expo from the fifth of the eighth out there, just networking and just keep on building it.

00:40:43
Speaker 2: So the hats are a Kentucky branded here in town yep, Golf Headquarters, Golf headquarters.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: Uh, there's a couple of other miscellaneous places around like in Trade on the levee Cincinnati. Oh yeah, uh and then a bars there. They got him going up like we're just trying to plug them and everything honestly, just so people see him. And uh, they officially dropped. They haven't even dropped on our website, said neither. I'm just trying to plug them in stores right now. Yeah, but after the New Year's we officially will drop. We have t shirts that we have with them too. Those will all officially drop on our MORTI go Off website and you can get down on my bio and stuff like that and you'll see it when when it's time, But as of now, you can get them at Kentucky Brandon dot com.

00:41:29
Speaker 3: Nice.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, man, Appreciate you man. Good good, catch up with you again. Happy holidays to you and your family, and we'll be looking forward to you. And then you move back to Lexington here in a couple.

00:41:39
Speaker 6: Of weeks, I want to get on the lit to her. Also a partner out there.

00:41:43
Speaker 2: No, all right, we're gon We're gonna play musical chairs. Willie Klakston getting ready to get up. Woo Kosh orbs gonna sit down. We come back, pair of seven footers on to days Kentucky's Ports Radio. So Ryan and Drew right back. Phone lines open eight five, nine to two to eight seven. This is Kentucky's Sports Radio.