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May 15, 2026 11 mins

The UC defensive tackle and avid fisherman joined Mo as part of his 513 Day broadcast at UC.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Defensive lineman at the University of Cincinnati, twenty twenty six
first Team All Big Twelve performer Parkners.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Here, God's speaking into existence.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know what I'm saying, Gotta get to the chicken,
as Logan Wilson would say, gotta get to the chicken.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Man, They gotta get to the chicken. Is that what
he says.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
That's what he says. I'm gonna say, gotta get to
the chedda. You know the same thing, gotcha different people.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Very good.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now you're gonna get done talking to me, and then
you're gonna go to the FC Cincinnati game.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Right, Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
What are you gonna be doing there?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh? I'm gonna be there. You know what I'm saying.
Really watching to see Messi because you know he the
greatest in the world. What I'm yeah, yeah, he know
how to do a whole bunch of stuff though, like
he don't just be playing soccer. He like, you know
how to do Karate's Like when he be out there,
you know how to backflipp and everything. You know what
I'm saying. But i'ma be out there, you know what
I'm saying, showing love to the fans. Man, Okay, that's
what I love to do. Very good.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Uh, you're you're kind of one of the faces of
this program right now. Yes, if you think of, you know,
last year at this time we were talking about you know,
Dante Corleone and Jo Royer and Jake Golday and Jack
Thing are great players, terrific players. You're kind of in
that that role now with all those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Leaving, I don't know, man, you know that's first team,
all Big twelve and all American. I hope I be
half as good as them. Man. You guys, they they
for show left the legacy here, so you know it's
gonna be my goal to fill those shoes and just
to make sure the program's still on the right track.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
You're a holdover from the past couple of years.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
What is it like And I asked this of guys
who stay, What is it like welcoming so many new
teammates from other programs.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Or really just a lifelong connection because because every you're
not gonna be as close to every teammate, but some
teammates you was gonna bond with. So for the rest
of your life, you're gonna be able to call on him.
You're gonna be able to call on you.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I think it's a cool thing, you know, because y'all
build a brotherhood for a season essentially, and then it
lasts a lifetime. So you know, in a real world,
you're not gonna get that. So it's it's a blessing
that for real to be able to play football. Yeah,
he's blessed.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah you are, and you get you get a new
defensive coordinator and they what do you What do you
like about him?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
He just I like his personality. Man. People don't know.
He got a good personality. Man, So I mess with
coach Woodie and then I like the scheme he brought
for sure. Like you know what I'm saying, It plays
to everybody's strength. Like I haven't heard like not one
complaint everybody getting moved around to the position you want
to play, or that the position they making the most
plays in. So you know what I'm saying, How does

(02:28):
it play to your h I get the pass rush,
you know, right, it's it's essentially a four down for real,
So you know what I'm saying. So I'm on the
edge most of the time, or I might go over
the guard, or like ten percent of the time, I
might go out there a dog. Whatever they need me
to do. So whatever they need me to do, you know,

(02:49):
I'm gonna do it. You know what I'm saying. I'm
all for the team.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah. Do you I mean, do you like playing on
the edge? I mean you gonna have a preference.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, yes, sir, I prefer to be on the
edge at all times. But also I like I like
going in there three takes sometimes you know, when the
guards be slow, and you know what I'm saying, whoever
the matchup is, put me over that. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You're good either way.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, I'm good either way.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
What is what has the off season been like for you?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I lost a little weight, I had got trauma, you
know what I'm saying. So the off season has been
really consistency. If I had to say what the off
season be like, consistency. I just been staying consistent with
my routines and my body weight, and that's gonna allow
me to perform at a higher level when it comes
when we when we you're ready to play both Boston College,

(03:35):
whatever date that is, Yeah, that's just gonna be able
to That's gonna help me prevail.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Then, Yeah, lost ten pounds since the end of last season.
That's all Nico Palasti.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right, yes, sir, shout out to coach Nico Man. Now
I can take my shirt off beside the pool and now.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I can't do that nobody.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
When I take my shirt off, people they pack up
their stuff quickly as possible and get out of here.
For folks who don't know, because I know Nico, we
have Nico on our pregame show that we do on
radio every year, I cannot imagine there are many better
than him and what he does in all of college football.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Describe the offseason workout program like.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Obviously the best in the country, but obviously like that's
his workout, gonna be the hardest workout you ever do
in your life. Yeah, I truly believe that.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Do you think I could get through.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
One of them right now? Yeah? You could say the
warm up like I got you for the warm up.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Think I get through the warm up after that? Where
do you think I would struggle?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Like right after the warm up, I'm just gonna keep
it a buck with you, you know what I'm saying. Up.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Do you see like freshmen that come in and they
go through it and they're like, you know what, I'm
big tough.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm playing in the Big twelve.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
When they go through his workout program and they're like this,
maybe this isn't for.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Me, Hey it was me.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah I came in.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh yeah, you know what I'm saying. I'm a bit
big tough. But you know, I ain't cop out. Like
I never like once quitted a cop out. I always
kept going like, they don't tell her about you. So
you know, but everybody, you know, some people are gonna
you know what I'm saying, fold, but you you know,
everybody get to a point. When you get to your
breaking point, it's gonna tell whether you can go further.
So with what young guys went with, younger guys having teammates,

(05:09):
older teammates, they just helped them keep going, you know,
because we all went through the same stuff. So we
encourage them every day.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
You you were on a team last year, you're seven
and one, and then you know, things don't go the
right way. And so I've got to imagine that's for
those of you who are here in twenty twenty five,
there's there's some motivation there. What do you guys talk
about with each other? What do you talk about trying
to be better than you were in last season.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, obviously we all got to play better as a team,
you know, and then it just we we want to
win a championship, so our standard is high. So seven
and five obviously that won't what we wanted to be at,
so we just kept going. We're trying to get to
the Cheddar, like I said earlier, Man, So the Cheddar
is the championship. Yeah, just take the big twelve trophy.

(05:54):
Imagine it being some cheese. We like rats. Man, We're
trying to get to the chell.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
So do you think it would be cool if the
trophy was actually made out of No?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Absolutely not, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, very good as as you keep your mind on
the Cheddar. And because you got you got a little
down time here in the off season.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
What do you like to do? What I like to do?
I went back to the crib, like I was at
the crib like two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Was that back home?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, that's that's back. That's back of the apartments, right,
so you know I was back of apartments, but I was, uh,
we me and my stepdad we went fishing. I caught
like seventy fishing one day. I know you ain't never
done that in one in one second. One said we
was out there for like eight hours on a boat somewhere.
Yeah it was on a boat. I was in the lake. Yeah,

(06:42):
you know how I get. But then, like you know,
I was playing basketball some of my old high school teammates.
You know that's the cart of your right now, right,
you know I was up doing push up. Hey I'm decent.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Nobody says they're bad.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah I could. I could beat like a random person.
You know what I'm saying. But if you astley train
and stuff, I'm gonna let you have it. I'm gonna
put on my helm until you come out there and
see me out there. Yeah you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You know, I've never been fishing in my life. For real,
I've never been fishing in my life.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm disappointed.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, trust me, if the more you get to know me,
that the disappointments will just keep coming.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
So you go, how do you catch seventy fish on one?
You count?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
You might be funnier than me.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't know about that seventy fish? And then what
do you do with you throwing back? You know, we
said this cheedda.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's the cheta I've been talking about to Cheddar.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I gotta think with the current price of beef that
you could make top dollar on fish because people don't
want to pay as much for steak, so they'll buy fish.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
What kind of fish were talking about?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
See you lost me What I don't know all that.
All I know is went out there, we caught the fish,
We got to the cheddar, and we sold. You know,
they all asked all the questions. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I would just I'm thinking, like selling fish that you've
caught could be lucrative.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
You can make a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
What's that? What's lucrative?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'm well paying?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, I'm asking my professor that next year was you know,
I'm telling them, get me to run down on addictionary.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
You got the fish?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
No, none of that. I just catch them, you know
what I'm saying. Like, I go out there and get sacks.
They don't tell me to go coach or do all
the ashes stuff. I just go out there. You know, tackles.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, it's a fly fishing, uh the worm? Like, what's
your baby?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh? De bait? We use we use some crickets. You
know what I'm saying. Crickets, Yeah, the giants that jump
in the f you know what I'm saying. So we
use the crickets. We used about a hundred crickets, called
like seventy fish because you know you got to put
two on them on one hook. One ain't gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
How long does it take to catch seventy fish?

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Bout eight hours?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Eight hours?

Speaker 3 (08:39):
And that was a good day. So it's a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a bad day.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
If it's a bad day, you're gonna be out there
for like three days, you know what I'm saying. But
it took us like eight hours.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
You know, if you let's go fishing here in the Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
It ain't no fish I heard, for real. I don't
not that I know of. Last time I won fishing,
I called a baby fish. I threw my pole in
the water.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, that strikes me is something you don't want to
How much is a fishing pole cost?

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Probably like a hunt or something. I ain't a fishing man,
I am, but you're not a fish. I'm a fisherman.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I threw my nine iron into a lake once and
didn't get it back, and that it was.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
So that's that's that's like adult club. I ain't never
been golfing. I want to try golfing though this summer.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'll take you golfing. You take me fishing.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Oh like, I can't take you down here though.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, what goes? We're gonna trip. You mean, get your stepdad.
We'll go.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
We'll go down to Arkansas. Okay, yes, sir, we'll go
down to West Memphis. You're gonna take me golf and.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'll take you with. There's lots of golf courses.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Here, so like with the golfer stuff like you golf
for like, so, who were in the game at the end.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Whoever it's the lowest score, So whoever whoever swings the
club less than the other guy wins?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh so I just got a key swinging?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well yeah, whoever, whoever the lowest score? So every you
get a stroke every time you hit the ball. The
idea is to get the ball in the hole in
as few strokes as possible. Yes, sir, it's whoever's the
lowest score wins. Okay, and I never win, so the
chances are you never played, they'll still beat me.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
I don't know about it, all right, do all right?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
So we'll put it on the calendar. You got a
lot going on.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
We'll play golf, we'll go fishing, and it's gonna be
a great summer for both of us.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Absolutely, all right, first.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Team, all Big twelve, and you're gonna go get the
cheddar this season. I can't win, Yes, sir, will you?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Will you make sure you joined me on at least
one pregame show this year.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't know what the coach is gonna let me
on my own't know?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Man, we interview a player every week, Yes, y'all to
interview with me.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Man, that's crazy. I had enough ring around him. Man,
Well see, yeah, that's I just go. Hey, give me
the best they you know, you know Stipe, you've been
looking Pattons, But that's my guy. Man. He finally brought
me up to the light.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
You know, we'll bring him fishing too.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
He might. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, all right, very good, Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
It is twenty seven away from six o'clock. Johnny Ill,
part of Jared Calhoun's staff here at UC, is going
to join us next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports
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